I have no idea why anyone would want to follw this if I only post once every two month.  Anyway, I have more to say about geneaology.  I went to a great seminar in Nampa in October and learned all kinds of good stuff about Roots Magic and how it works and interacts with Ancestry.com and Family Search.  I LOVE IT!!!!  The seminar was sponsored by the LDS Church with the staff mainly coming from BYU Idaho.  If you access byuidaho.edu/familyhistory you can get copies of the outlines each instructor used for their class.  It is all free and all user friendly.  Please help yourselves. 
I also went to Bellevue, Idaho with my mom and my cousin and scanned lots of pictures and love letters, and documents that my cousin's mom has.  I am thrilled with today's technology and how it is all there to help with family history.  I have long believed that God gave us the internet so we could do this fascinating work.  I LOVE IT!!!!  And lamps, I love lamps!!! :)

Govenor Winthrop Sargent Jr.

Sargent was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College before the Revolution. He spent some time at sea, as captain of a merchantman owned by his father. He enlisted in Gridley's Regiment of Massachusetts Artillery on July 7, 1775 as a lieutenant, and later that year was promoted to captain lieutenant of Knox's Regiment, Continental Artillery, on December 10. He was with his guns at the siege of Boston, as well as the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He was promoted to captain in the 3rd Continental Artillery on January 1, 1777, and brevetted major on August 25, 1783.

In 1786, he helped to survey the Seven Ranges, the first lands laid out under the Land Ordinance of 1785. With inside knowledge of the area, he went on to form the Ohio Company of Associates, was an important shareholder in the Scioto Company, and as of 1787, secretary of the Ohio Company.

Sargent was appointed by the Congress of the Confederation as the first Secretary of the Northwest Territory, a post second in importance only to the governor, Arthur St. Clair. He took up his post in 1788, and in 1789 he married Roewena Tupper, a daughter of Gen. Benjamin Tupper, at the settlement of Marietta in the first marriage ceremony held under the laws of the Northwest Territory. Like St. Clair, Sargent would function in both civil and military capacities; he was wounded twice at St. Clair's Defeat, on November 4, 1791.[2] He also served in the Indian wars of 1794-5 and became adjutant general.[4] On August 15, 1796, he would, as Acting Governor, proclaim the establishment of Wayne County, the first American government in what is now Michigan.

President John Adams then appointed Sargent the first Governor of the Mississippi Territory, effective from May 7, 1798 to May 25, 1801. His last entry as Northwest Territory's secretary was on May 31, 1798; he arrived at Natchez on August 6, but due to illness was unable to assume his post until August 16.

Sargent was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Philosophical Society, an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati as a delegate from Massachusetts, and published, with Benjamin B. Smith, Papers Relative to Certain American Antiquities (Philadelphia, 1796), and “Boston,” a poem (Boston, 1803).

Being a Federalist, Sargent was dismissed from his position as territorial governor in 1801 by incoming president Thomas Jefferson. Sargent took up life in the private sector as a planter in Natchez. He died in 1820 in New Orleans.

The above referenced material on Govenor Sargent was downloaded from Wikipedia.  I put no other claim of authenticiy upon it.

His is my 5th great grandfather on my Montgomery side.  I like that he was dismissed by Thomas Jefferson only because I enjoy not liking John Adams.

Hello and Welcome

This is an attempt to compile over twenty-five years of research on my Family Tree into one location with links to websites and physical locations of the facts, hearsay and suppositions that make up a family story.  I have learned after all this time, that many things that are written can be just as incorrect as passing a phrase around a circle of people to see what comes out the other end.  But I have also learned that I am related to about half the population of these here United States.  I think that America has been here long enough that we have established our own nationality with bloodlines, as well as beliefs, desires, and birth advantages. 

I have garnered enough information in my own tree to take the next jump in my research that I have had as a goal for a goodly length of time.  I am joining the Daughters of the American Revolution, hoping that I can set a personal best by proving over 40 direct ancestors as participants in that momentous event.  I have three so far - so it is just a matter of time.   Maybe another 25 years, who knows.

It has been my pleasure to work with many distant family members over the years and I wish to take this opportunity to thank all of you for all your assistance with this project.  I also hope that my descendents will take advantage of this work to help them understand where they came from and why they are who they are.

I have not found anyone (so far) that is incredibly famous, or who has achieved something that has effected all mankind.  I have found people that are humble, hardworking, honest, family oriented, religious, and willing to die for what they believe in.  They have served in the military, worked their farms, raised their families and improved their local and national administrations by participating at many levels.  It is an admirable family tree and I hope that you as an investigator find the same satisfaction from this work as I have.

When I get done with the 40 veterans of the Revolutionary War, I am crossing the Atlantic.  Bon Voyage!!!