Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Michael Metcalf(e) the Dornix Weaver and Some Dedham Descendants

Michael Metcalf(e) the Dornix Weaver and Some Dedham Descendants

Metcalf, Michael French

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGenealogy & Heraldry

ISBN10: 1935052977
ISBN13: 9781935052975
Publisher: Genealogy House
Published: Mar 30 2023
Pages: 480
Weight: 2.43
Height: 1.30 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

Michael Metcalf(e), the Dornix Weaver, and Some Dedham Descendants

In 1637, Michael Metcalfe, a Puritan weaver of dornix cloth, emigrated with his family from Norfolk, England, to escape the wrath of the Anglican authorities. The book begins with the Metcalfe clan still in England, and traces their involvement in the political and religious issues of medieval times. When Michael immigrated to Dedham, Massachusetts, a nascent community outside of Boston, he joined the Puritan community rooted there. Three generations later, some of his descendants dispersed to Connecticut, Vermont, and beyond. After the Revolutionary War, the family branch followed in this book moved to Vermont and then down the Connecticut River, where prospects for a better life were abundant; later, they went to upstate New York before moving to St. Paul, Minnesota, gateway to the American West. In the early twentieth century, the family returned to the Boston area, where Michael's descendant, George Putnam Metcalf, joined with the Carter family, descendants of Thomas Carter, who was also a Puritan from England and had settled in Dedham at the same time as Michael Metcalfe. The story shows how these original families evolved into Yankee families, and how their relentless quest for better lives motivated the migration of their descendants.

Also from

Metcalf, Michael French

View All

Also in

Genealogy & Heraldry

View All