QUIZ

 

One of the features of our newsletter is a quiz, to test your knowledge of the Olmsted Family. The answer to the quiz is elsewhere in the newsletter. Contributions for future quizzes are welcome. Answers should be documented.

 

Quiz:

 

How was the settling of Sudbuy, Massachusetts, in the early 17th century relevant to the ancestry of Thankful BARNES?

 

Answer:

 

Six of Thankful’s great grandparents settled in Sudbury before 1650:

        Thomas and Jane (RUDDICK) GOODENOW in 1638

        John HOW (HOWE) and his wife, Mary,  before 1641

        John and Martha (BAKER) BENT in 1638.

 

References:

 

        “History of Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1638-1898”, by  Alfred Sereno Hudson, Sudbury Press, Sudbury, MA, 1898.

        Vital Records of Sudbury.

      “Goodenows; Who Originated in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1638 A.D.” by Theodore James Fleming Banvard, Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD, 1994.

 

In the next issue, I will print excerpts from Hudson.