tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post3370281328683287325..comments2024-03-17T16:32:51.970-04:00Comments on Vast Public Indifference: Thanksgiving Dinner With the MarstonsCDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14390048358391513711noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-71602712658782396462013-04-20T18:43:40.138-04:002013-04-20T18:43:40.138-04:00John Marston and Elizabeth Greenwood are direct an...John Marston and Elizabeth Greenwood are direct ancestors of my husband's. Would be most interested if you could share genealogy of this family; do you have it posted on net?Gracenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-71138020346817324242010-09-03T12:10:12.833-04:002010-09-03T12:10:12.833-04:00John Marston was baptized in the First Church of S...John Marston was baptized in the First Church of Salem, so I guess the family were regular old Congregationalists. I have not yet found their church in Boston. For such a large family, they skate pretty lightly over the official record books — I'm having trouble finding birth and marriage records for them.Caitlin GD Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317897772288904474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462946535883846881.post-32119084935100946292010-09-02T16:00:07.856-04:002010-09-02T16:00:07.856-04:00Royall Tyler's somewhat autobiographical novel...Royall Tyler's somewhat autobiographical novel <i>The Bay Boy</i> (not published until <i>The Prose of Royall Tyler</i> in the 1970s) also contains a lavish description of Thanksgiving dinner before the Revolution. But he also drew a contrast between that Puritan holiday and an Anglican Christmas. <br /><br />The Greenwood family was Anglican, as I recall. (Which fits with the uncle's appointment up in Nova Scotia.) And the Marstons?J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.com