3 2 NAME Family Origins(R) for Windows
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5 2 CORP FormalSoft, Inc.
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12 2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
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14 1 NOTE (Peter Verthez) This is only a very small extract from the original file
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15 2 CONT For the full file, see http://www.axtellfamily.org/axgenea/axggedco.html
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17 1 NAME Daniel Gibson Axtell
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18 1 ADDR 1674 Westminster West Rd
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19 2 CONT Putney VT 05346
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21 1 _EMAIL daxtell@sover.net
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23 1 NAME Thomas /Axtell/
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27 1 NOTE son of William and Thomasine Axtell, was baptised in St. Peter's
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29 2 CONT Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England, January 26, 1619 (N.S.). His
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31 2 CONT died in 1638. He married Mary -- probably in 1638; two children were
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33 2 CONT them in England, and their baptism is recorded in St. Peter's. They
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35 2 CONT England as early as 1643, for in October of that year, Thomas
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36 2 CONC purchased five
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37 2 CONT acres of land in Sudbury, Massachusetts, of Edmond Rice, who himself
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39 2 CONT from Berkhamstead five years earlier. This land is described as "lying
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41 2 CONT south part of ye town-bounds, the southwest side lying to the commons
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43 2 CONT joined to the land of Edmond Rice, southward and northward to the
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45 2 CONT leading from Sudbury to Mr. Duston's farm." This is what is now
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47 2 CONT "The Five Paths." Thomas took the oath of fidelity July 8, 1645. He
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49 2 CONT March, 1646, and was buried the 8th of that month. The following is
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51 2 CONT inventory of Thomas Axtell of Sudbury, lately deceased,
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55 2 CONT His land and house 8£ 10s
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57 2 CONT Cattle 8£ 10s
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59 2 CONT Wearing apparel and bedding with his arms 10£
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61 2 CONT Brass and pewter 5£
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63 2 CONT Edmond Rice bought back the land, six acres, and dwelling house. This
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65 2 CONT near the spring.
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67 2 CONT The story told in those words is short, indeed, but we are
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69 2 CONT see what it stands for. The young Englishman was a soldier or at least
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70 2 CONT trained to arms; he was of strong puritanical leanings, like his
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72 2 CONT Daniel the regicide. With his wife and two little ones he followed his
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73 2 CONT neighbor across the sea to make his home in a frontier settlement of
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75 2 CONT England. Scarcely had he set up his rooftree in the wilderness when
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77 2 CONT and exposure struck him down.
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79 2 CONT With his last breath he leaves his little all for the helpless
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81 2 CONT his death bed. Mary, the widow of Thomas, appears to have married John
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82 2 CONT Maynard, a widower with a boy of eight, on June 16, 1646.
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84 2 DATE ABT 26 JAN 1619
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85 2 PLAC Berkhamstead, , Hertfordshire, England
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88 2 PLAC Sudbury, , MA
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91 1 NAME Daniel /Axtell/
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95 1 NOTE twin, probably unmarried.
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