Ebook The Talmadge, Tallmadge and Talmage Genealogy, Being the Descendants of Thomas, Talmadge of Lynn, Massachusetts

There are a few remarks, some of which will be of interest to almost every reader, that the editor desires to make regard ing the scope and make-up of this genealogy. The genealogy proper consists of a record of the descendants of Thomas Tal madge or Talmage, who is said to have come to America in the ?eet with Governor Winthrop and three of whose sons — Wil liam, Thomas and Robert executed legal papers in Boston in 1640. In the appendix are the genealogies of a number of families living in the United States, some of which are probably descendants of the same ancestor common to all mentioned in the main book; the others, who trace their ancestries to neigh boring parts of England may be descended from a collateral relative of our common ancestor above referred to. In the first part of the book is given the general result of numerous researches by interested members of the family con cerning the family in England. It is shown that families bear ing our name holding positions of influence have resided in Suffolk County from the earliest Saxon times to the present day; that as early as 1500 A. The name appears in Hamp shire records and that these people are supposed to be a branch of the Suffolk family; and that prosperous members of the Hampshire family lived almost from their first appearance in the County at Newton Stacey, where John Talmadge, the brother of our ancestor Thomas, lived, previous to his death in 1640. Thus our early English ancestry is clearly indicated though no attempt is made to give the unbroken line of descent even back through the Hampshire to the Suffolk family as there are links where the evidence is doubtful.