Love to hear your connections to our nation's founding. History whether happy or not it still happened and I treasure learning more about America's creation any chance I get. Keep it coming Linda
That is so amazing. Glad your great grandfather tried to save his friends. So awesome that at least someone stood up for them!! You have a right to be proud!!
I just have to tell you that I have been watching you for some time. My health is not good and my doctor has confirmed my worst fears. But those fears all drop away at the sound of your voice. I feel such a connection somehow and now I wonder if perhaps we are related generations ago. My grandmother seven generations ago purchased and eventually married an African prince sold as a slave. Their grandson Benjamin Banneker was commissioned by President Washington to lay out the city of Washington DC. It is an interesting story just like yours. I feel blessed to have found you and want you to know how much your TH-cam channel enriches what is left of my life.
Yes. .I so loved the video . It was pretty and interesting. How cool is it that you have such an amazing family history. Bet you so enjoy finding and learning about them. 💖
You are so great to share this kind of educational historical memoirs of your family. I only wish I had such a history. Inspired me to find out all about my own... you never know who you might have a history worth sharing about. Thanks again... LOVE your videos!
Excellent video !! I have such a love for Ancestry and enjoyed you sharing some of your history with us and all those beautiful homes from America's past. Thank you so much.
I so enjoyed this, especially the pictures of you and your 5th great grandfather. When my son was little I felt like he resembled no one in either family. Then I saw a picture of my paternal grandfather and his brothers and sisters as children. In the face of his brother, Jehu, was my son.
Linda, I am so glad to have found your channel. Your interests validate my own - specifically love of decorating your home in a style that is much more elegant than the country farmhouse I was copying, your love of gardening and nature, and even the way you push furniture around as you redecorate! I have been "thrifting" since I was a child going to the local Goodwill with my mother because it was the only place we could afford to buy anything, and I love that you show us what you found and where you have placed it in your home. Now when I go thrifting and am trying to decide whether or not to buy a particular item, I ask myself, "What would Linda do?" I am shamelessly coping your decorating style and finding it exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for being you.
Yes yes. I really enjoyed this tour so much. Isn’t it special that you know about your grandfathers and their history. I love hearing the information you give us on our guided tour.
Thank you for watching! I look forward to creating more videos like this since my husband and I both I have so many different towns to visit that ancestors lived in.
So beautiful. I haven't been to Salem since I was a teenager (I'm 71 now). I forgot how stunning the houses are. This is true Americana, witches and all! Thanks Linda, I needed that!
Hi Linda. I came across your lovely channel a few weeks ago. My son and dil moved to MA 2 years ago and recently bought their first home together in Salem. We are going to visit them in and I am so excited to see the beautiful sites that you’ve just showed us. Thank you for sharing the beauty as well as your family history.
What a blessing to know so much about your distant ancestors. I can only go back to my great-greats, the generation before my family came to the Great Lakes area from northern Europe in the late 1800s. Thank you for sharing 😊
I think some of us feel a deeper connection to the past and our ancestors. I'm my happiest when I am visiting places in Western NC where my ancestors lived. Lovely video. Thank you.
thank you Linda for the tour of your beautiful place you live in. I am from western australia so it is lovely to get a glimpse of your part of the world. I hope we get to travel overseas one day again
New England in summer is just the best! The homes are so beautiful! So glad I live here in New Hampshire (knowing summer will come makes the winter bearable, LOL)!
Thank you for the tour Linda. I love looking at all the beautiful New England homes. New England is one of the regions of our country that I haven’t had the opportunity to visit. It is currently on my bucket list and hopefully I will be able to visit some day. Your videos are a true inspiration. I’m so glad I found you on You Tube and I’ve enjoyed the journey of your new home renovation and its history. What a beautiful home you have! Keep up the good work Linda! I’m looking forward to viewing your upcoming videos to see what’s on your agenda next. As a dog lover, I thoroughly enjoy Willow’s adventures also. Thank you, Sharon from Pennsylvania
❤️ Massachusetts. So rich in history and the homes are beautiful. I took my daughter and her BFF to Salem this October. Thankfully we live in Connecticut so it’s close. Can’t wait to go back this summer.
So far 3 people have gone to the gallows 😁 You have such an amazing family history. I loved this video, one day I hope to visit your town. It is so beautiful.
I loved this video!! I grew up in Salem. I lived on Orange St. which is to the left of The Custom House. We lived at 83 Essex St. When the Custom House was closed, we would climb the fence and play in the grassy area (80's). A security guard caught us once and said as long as we don't hurt anything, we can play back there. We felt like we had a duty to protect it. The Salem, Common, Pickering/Derbys Wharf, The Willows, Down Town Salem, they were all our playground. I truly miss it!! My 9th Great-Grandfather was PHILIP McINTIRE. He was a Scottish highlander who was captured during the Battle of Dunbar (1650). Philip was sent to the Saugus Iron Works to work as an indentured servant. I got to visit the Saugus Iron Works when we were in town to visit a few yrs. ago (2016). I stood out front and very unexpectedly..cried. I felt amazed and gratefull for all of the obstacles my ancestors overcame for me to stand where I stood that day. I stood close to where my ancestor once lived and worked over 350 yrs. ago. Absolutely amazing to me. Thank you for sharing all of your beautiful videos. The New England style and places you share bring joy to my heart.
What a wonderful story! Thank you so much for sharing. I agree, when I am following in the footsteps of my ancestors, I too feel very grateful. You taught me something! I did not know the Saugus Iron works were that old. I have never been there. Thanks for stopping by my channel!
Very nice tour . Love that area . I’m a South Shore girl . I’ve lived in many towns along this stretch of coastline . Now living in “ America’s Hometown “ of Plymouth . Thanks for sharing !
Oh my goodness I just love the video. You are so fortunate to have all this history. I have my ancestry back to the 1700s. A lot of my ancestors were Irish, Scottish and English they came to the United States and some settled in your area. I just love researching. I have never been to your area, but would love to visit some day thank you for the tour.
I live in Missouri (land locked) but have had the opportunity to visit many of the sites in the video; many wonderful memories. You are so lucky to be a native of the area. Loved the video, thanks for sharing 😊
Beautiful video! This is the sort of thing I did and I lived in New England and in Virginia. I lived in Williamsburg Virginia for four years. I lived in Groton Connecticut for four years. I loved going to old Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. We also loved Newport and Boston. In Williamsburg, we were part of the historic triangle with Yorktown in Jamestown. Among those in the plantations, I had a field day. I just wish we had had phones back in those days so I could’ve recorded all of it. Thank you for this video!🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Virginia is beautiful as is the other places you lived! I hope to get back to Williamsburg some day soon myself. I have not seen it for over 40 years. (OMG that make me sound and feel ancient LOL)
Thank you so much! I love these kind of videos! Please share more of Massachusetts and areas. I would love seeing even longer videos of the areas. Again, thank you!
My ancestor, Samuel Aborn, was also involved in the witch trials. He testified to the good character of Rebecca Nurse. Our family gradually migrated to Georgia but I am proud of my New England roots. Thanks for sharing.
I so enjoyed this video and you sharing your family's past. It's wonderful that you can walk where your ancestors walked so many years ago. They were such an integral part of the history here. Salem and Marblehead are beautiful towns.
I just found your channel. Lovely tour of the north shore. I've lived on the south shore my whole life but moved to the southcoast seven years ago, Mattapoisett. If you haven't visited our little coastal town you might enjoy a day trip here. Lots of history too.
I have to thank you for these videos. I use to live in Mass. as a child. I lived in AYRE. I don’t remember how to spell it, but it was close onto WARE mass. I just adore these.
Such a neat video. You're a Daughter of the American Revolution. I am too. My great +++++grandfather was a sniper for George Washington in the war. I've never been to Salem, but it is on my bucket list. Thank you for sharing!
I loved this Linda. My family was also involved in the Witch Trials. My 8th great grandfather was Deacon Edward Putnam Sr. Unlike your family who wrote a letter to ask to pardon John Proctor, Putnam examined the girls accused of witchcraft and agreed they were witches!! My family lived in Salem and surrounding towns for many years, and my Mother was actually born there as well in 1925. Thank you again!! I have told you before our ancestors must have known one another!! As a flight attendant for many years we went to Marblehead alot and I still have friends who live there. Such a fun town!!
Maybe our parents or families knew each other! My mom's brother and sister would have been born in the 20s and she and my uncle were born in the 30's in Salem.
@@newenglandfineliving hi again Linda. My Mother's family left very early on as her father's Seafood Restaurant failed in the early 30's due to the depression. But I do think our other ancestors crossed paths in many towns. On both of my grandmother's sides I go back, like you, to Plymouth, then to Middlesex County, North Shore, Haverhill (Hannah Emerson Duston, the famous Indian scalper) is my 8th great grandmother. My family were Wentworth's of NH and founded early Plantations and Towns in Maine in the early 1700's. Like you, I am fascinated by our Colonial History, and that is why I was drawn to your You Tube Channel. I am also obsessed with England and I am teaching British History this fall in Adult Ed classes. I would love to drive to your store in Peterborough when it opens. I have looked for it but I cannot find it yet. I lived in Cape Elizabeth, under the Lighthouse at Two lights for 32 years and I am now in Scarborough . I would move back to Massachusetts if my partner would consider it. I am a native of Belmont. Thank you for reading this long text Linda. I love your videos!! It would be lovely to meet you at some point.
It is so fun to see this video! My husband and I also have ancestors from New England. There is a family legend that Bray Wilkins accused his grand-daughter's husband of being a warlock because of a domestic issue. His son asked Bray to recant his accusation. That son was subsequently disowned. The grandson-in-law was hanged.
New England is so beautiful, and how wonderful that you are aware of your rich history. I have always wanted to visit Salem and surrounding areas, and now want to go more than ever. Thanks for an inspirational tour.
Even though I live in MA, I have never managed to make it to Salem or Marblehead, so I really enjoyed your tour. You have quite distinguished ancestry!
This was so wonderful. I enjoyed seeing and listening to your family history. You do look like your great great great etc grand father. I love history and visiting historical places. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing! I’m going to Salem next month to visit my ancestral homestead and couldn’t be more excited. Your grandfather sounds like he was remarkable person and I definitely can see the resemblance!
Wonderful! If you don't mind me asking, what is your ancestral homestead? My husband is also a 12th generation New Englander and we keep meeting very distant relatives by asking. :-)
Linda Smith Davis - the Pickering house is the homestead and my ancestral grandfather John Pickering a carpenter from England built the home after moving there from England.
@@WeezyWeez1984 Thank you, unfortunately I had to cancel my August trip because I learned that the Pickering house would not be open for visitors due to COVID. When I found out they would be open in October, I booked Columbus Day weekend right away. I then found out we would have to quarantine for 14 days as we are traveling from PA and considered high risk. They say the third time is the charm so I’m counting on it for next year 😊 I do look forward to seeing Salem! Maybe even Rockport.
I loved the field trip! I have always been interested in the Salem witch-hunt, and also all the beautiful historic architecture. Please do more. Halloween/Fall would be great, thanks!
Scarlet Letter is one of my favorite books! Sad to think of all those wrongly accused and judged. The buildings are all so beautiful. You are lucky to live in such beauty!
Yes - more please! I really enjoyed your walk and talk and would like to see more of MA. I lived in CT for 10 years and miss New England. My mother was born in Braintree and have visited MA many times and love it. Would like to visit Salem and Marblehead some day - beautiful, quaint towns. Thank you, Linda.
You have a fascinating family history! The homes are beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I haven't been to Massachusetts but would love to visit.i enjoy history and beautiful homes!
Thank you for taking us along. What a rich history and what beautiful New England towns. Please do make more of these types of videos taking us along to see the beauty and history of New England.
I enjoyed your video so very much. We were there visiting last June and I loved the area, the homes, and learning about the history of the area. Thanks for sharing with us, again, I really enjoyed it. Xoxo 😘
So interesting! I was in Salem 1 yr ago for a wedding and visited many of these places - including the Hocus Pocus House! So glad I got to enjoy the town before COVID.
Just love taking your tours! We’ve been to MA a few times. Visited Brimfield and Old Sturbridge Village, and Boston. You know, some folks have a love and fascination for the west, like Colorado or California. Not me! I’ll go east every time! Originally from Chicago, but our home is Kentucky. Carry On!
Can I just say that I’ve noticed your videography and editing has gotten very smooth and professional looking! For a minute, I thought I was watching a show on the Smithsonian channel or Travel channel. 😁 This was an absolutely amazing video! Makes me wish I lived in New England even more than I have already wanted to. I’m so envious! In a good way of course.
I'm from south Louisiana but love everything New England and Witchcraft. I really enjoyed this tour and am planning a trip to Salem as soon as possible. I just found your channel today and have subscribed. Will be visiting frequently. Would love to see more like this. Thanks for sharing.
Linda, This I love..... so my family Robert Goodell came to America on the Ship Elizabeth from England in 1634. They owned 500 acres of land in Salam. So I am a Great Migration family member. I have combed the city of Salam and cemeteries looking for relatives. It is interesting that you said you imagined your relatives walking the streets. When I am in The Salam area.... I have this feeling... of home. (Not trying to sound creepy). My many times great Uncle is Samuel Sewell one of the witch trials judges who later wrote his repentance that can be found in the book ‘Salam Witch Judge’ by Eve LaPlante . I am the recipient of a family genealogy from 1634 to my generation. My family eventually migrated to Illinois in 1837. Please do more of these videos!
How exciting! Do you know if Samuel Sewell is connected to Fort Sewell in Marblehead at all? You do not sound creepy at all! I totally get it. Also, my father and my husband's father moved to this area from Canada and Connecticut, not realizing their families were in New England in the 1600's and they returned to their roots too! I think New England draws people back for sure!
Thank you for this tour, I enjoyed it very much. Love love love the old houses. I'm French Canadian, living in the province of Quebec but I'm sooo drawn to New England. There is something so heartwarming to me about it and I don't know why. I've visited Salem a few years back and on a different occasion, offered myself a week-end stay at Rockport, Mass for my 60th birthday (from me to me with love).
Thanks so much for sharing this tour! Have been to Salem several times - since 1988. Not able to make it this year unfortunately but love the the town. The homes there and in Marblehead are amazing! The port area with gardens reminds me of downtown Portsmouth NH. Thanks also for sharing your family history. So interesting- especially the witches! I always enjoy the historic homes when open to the public - so beautiful and so much history to share. Yes, would love to see more of this type of video interspersed with your others.
👍Enjoyed this video tour very much and you do resemble your relative in the picture. It is so interesting to hear someone's family's history. Thanks for sharing.
I really enjoyed your New England tour. It was so interesting to hear about some of your early family, who they were, what they did & where they lived. Thank You for taking us along for the journey!
Thanks for the wonderful tour. Brings back so many memories of my youth. I left the state over 40 years ago to live in various places in the South and Midwest. I grew up in Allston a section of Boston until my middle twenties and miss all the history and beauty this state has. My daughter was only 6 years old when we moved and she planned on taking a girl's trip this Fall to visit Salem/Rockport/Boston but Covid 19 had other plans. They have rebooked their trip for 2021. I am going to have her view your posting so she can enjoy also. Thanks for sharing.
I hope she has a wonderful trip in 2021! I'm not sure how the leaves will be this fall due to some odd weather, so it might have been for the best if leaf peeping was part of the trip. thank you for watching and sharing your story with me!
I really loved this video. I would like to see more! I see you said that you lived in Groton. My ancestors were early founders of that town. The Cadys. Thank you for sharing.
I really enjoyed watching your trip to Salem and Marblehead ~ it's so beautiful here in New England! My 7th Great Grandmother was Sarah Towne of the Salem Witch Hysteria ~ her sisters Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Esty along with her niece Susannah Martin were accused witches and met their untimely end ~ it's a beautiful town, but there is still so much sadness in it's history. I wonder if our family were friends way back then. . .love stopping by and visiting your channel! XXOO
I bet they knew or heard of each other! My husbands family is from the area too. We found out we are 8th cousins from out North Shore families were we both grew up
Linda Smith Davis - New England Fine Living It’s such a small world and that’s unbelievable that you are 8th cousins! Ancestry.com was such a wealth of information, I love learning about our past! ❤️
Thanks Linda for the tour. How wonderful for you to be able to know your relatives so far back and you can visit their homes and towns. Love to see more. Also loved the background music so calming.
What a delight! I adore Salem and enjoyed seeing the town in a different light. I will have to visit the other spots on my next trip. Thank you so much for this tour! :)
I just watched this. I love this video. I just found you last month. i would love to see more like this. But I've yet to see any of your videos I haven't enjoyed. Love them.
So interesting. I used to go to Salem every Halloween, to The Hawthorne Hotel for the Halloween party....even won a prize for best costume one year!!! I live in Rhode Island so I'm not that far away. Thanks for sharing all this information. So beautiful there🎃🍁🎃
That was wonderful! We lived out east for a total of 13 years. We are retired Air Force and our first duty station was Dover Delaware. Loved it then we went England UK then we went to New Jersey, I hated Jersey loved the shopping and some of the old towns and history but hated the state. Then we moved to Arkansas and retired here. I love it my husband misses the east coast. But your video brought me back out east in my memories. Thank you for sharing your history it was very interesting!!
Love to hear your connections to our nation's founding. History whether happy or not it still happened and I treasure learning more about America's creation any chance I get. Keep it coming Linda
That is so amazing. Glad your great grandfather tried to save his friends. So awesome that at least someone stood up for them!! You have a right to be proud!!
Linda, you are a true New Englander... this was a fun tour!
I just have to tell you that I have been watching you for some time. My health is not good and my doctor has confirmed my worst fears. But those fears all drop away at the sound of your voice. I feel such a connection somehow and now I wonder if perhaps we are related generations ago. My grandmother seven generations ago purchased and eventually married an African prince sold as a slave. Their grandson Benjamin Banneker was commissioned by President Washington to lay out the city of Washington DC. It is an interesting story just like yours. I feel blessed to have found you and want you to know how much your TH-cam channel enriches what is left of my life.
Yes. .I so loved the video . It was pretty and interesting. How cool is it that you have such an amazing family history. Bet you so enjoy finding and learning about them. 💖
Glad you enjoyed it and yes I do enjoy finding out information about family.
You are so great to share this kind of educational historical memoirs of your family. I only wish I had such a history. Inspired me to find out all about my own... you never know who you might have a history worth sharing about. Thanks again... LOVE your videos!
Excellent video !! I have such a love for Ancestry and enjoyed you sharing some of your history with us and all those beautiful homes from America's past. Thank you so much.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
I so enjoyed this, especially the pictures of you and your 5th great grandfather. When my son was little I felt like he resembled no one in either family. Then I saw a picture of my paternal grandfather and his brothers and sisters as children. In the face of his brother, Jehu, was my son.
So enjoyed the tour. One of our favorite things to do. We always look for trees and wonder what all they have SEEN. The colors always look so vivid.
Linda, I am so glad to have found your channel. Your interests validate my own - specifically love of decorating your home in a style that is much more elegant than the country farmhouse I was copying, your love of gardening and nature, and even the way you push furniture around as you redecorate! I have been "thrifting" since I was a child going to the local Goodwill with my mother because it was the only place we could afford to buy anything, and I love that you show us what you found and where you have placed it in your home. Now when I go thrifting and am trying to decide whether or not to buy a particular item, I ask myself, "What would Linda do?" I am shamelessly coping your decorating style and finding it exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for being you.
Yes yes. I really enjoyed this tour so much. Isn’t it special that you know about your grandfathers and their history. I love hearing the information you give us on our guided tour.
Thank you for watching! I look forward to creating more videos like this since my husband and I both I have so many different towns to visit that ancestors lived in.
So beautiful. I haven't been to Salem since I was a teenager (I'm 71 now). I forgot how stunning the houses are. This is true Americana, witches and all! Thanks Linda, I needed that!
Hi Linda. I came across your lovely channel a few weeks ago. My son and dil moved to MA 2 years ago and recently bought their first home together in Salem. We are going to visit them in and I am so excited to see the beautiful sites that you’ve just showed us. Thank you for sharing the beauty as well as your family history.
What a blessing to know so much about your distant ancestors. I can only go back to my great-greats, the generation before my family came to the Great Lakes area from northern Europe in the late 1800s. Thank you for sharing 😊
I think some of us feel a deeper connection to the past and our ancestors. I'm my happiest when I am visiting places in Western NC where my ancestors lived. Lovely video. Thank you.
Well said!
thank you Linda for the tour of your beautiful place you live in. I am from western australia so it is lovely to get a glimpse of your part of the world. I hope we get to travel overseas one day again
New England in summer is just the best! The homes are so beautiful! So glad I live here in New Hampshire (knowing summer will come makes the winter bearable, LOL)!
I hear you! I must say, I do love autumn too and getting into the cozy vibe.
I love history. Especially old houses of New England. Thank you.
I love seeing all the old homes of New England. I have one too. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! If only old homes could tell their story!
I loved the tour. I’m first generation here. I live in Connecticut but would love to know my ancestors who lived in Europe.
Thank you for the tour Linda. I love looking at all the beautiful New England homes. New England is one of the regions of our country that I haven’t had the opportunity to visit. It is currently on my bucket list and hopefully I will be able to visit some day. Your videos are a true inspiration. I’m so glad I found you on You Tube and I’ve enjoyed the journey of your new home renovation and its history. What a beautiful home you have! Keep up the good work Linda! I’m looking forward to viewing your upcoming videos to see what’s on your agenda next. As a dog lover, I thoroughly enjoy Willow’s adventures also. Thank you, Sharon from Pennsylvania
I've never been to Massachusetts. Thanks for the tour.
❤️ Massachusetts. So rich in history and the homes are beautiful. I took my daughter and her BFF to Salem this October. Thankfully we live in Connecticut so it’s close. Can’t wait to go back this summer.
So far 3 people have gone to the gallows 😁 You have such an amazing family history. I loved this video, one day I hope to visit your town. It is so beautiful.
I loved this video!! I grew up in Salem. I lived on Orange St. which is to the left of The Custom House. We lived at 83 Essex St. When the Custom House was closed, we would climb the fence and play in the grassy area (80's). A security guard caught us once and said as long as we don't hurt anything, we can play back there. We felt like we had a duty to protect it. The Salem, Common, Pickering/Derbys Wharf, The Willows, Down Town Salem, they were all our playground. I truly miss it!! My 9th Great-Grandfather was PHILIP McINTIRE. He was a Scottish highlander who was captured during the Battle of Dunbar (1650). Philip was sent to the Saugus Iron Works to work as an indentured servant. I got to visit the Saugus Iron Works when we were in town to visit a few yrs. ago (2016). I stood out front and very unexpectedly..cried. I felt amazed and gratefull for all of the obstacles my ancestors overcame for me to stand where I stood that day. I stood close to where my ancestor once lived and worked over 350 yrs. ago. Absolutely amazing to me. Thank you for sharing all of your beautiful videos. The New England style and places you share bring joy to my heart.
What a wonderful story! Thank you so much for sharing. I agree, when I am following in the footsteps of my ancestors, I too feel very grateful. You taught me something! I did not know the Saugus Iron works were that old. I have never been there. Thanks for stopping by my channel!
How cool!! I love your hearing about your families history. :)
Very nice tour . Love that area . I’m a South Shore girl . I’ve lived in many towns along this stretch of coastline . Now living in “ America’s Hometown “ of Plymouth . Thanks for sharing !
What a wonderful area! I love driving along the South shore coast! Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much for the tour. It has been so many years since I have visited the area.
My pleasure! thank you for watching!
Oh my goodness I just love the video. You are so fortunate to have all this history. I have my ancestry back to the 1700s. A lot of my ancestors were Irish, Scottish and English they came to the United States and some settled in your area. I just love researching. I have never been to your area, but would love to visit some day thank you for the tour.
I live in Missouri (land locked) but have had the opportunity to visit many of the sites in the video; many wonderful memories. You are so lucky to be a native of the area. Loved the video, thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you for watching! There will be more walk and talk videos to come for sure!
Beautiful video! This is the sort of thing I did and I lived in New England and in Virginia. I lived in Williamsburg Virginia for four years. I lived in Groton Connecticut for four years. I loved going to old Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. We also loved Newport and Boston. In Williamsburg, we were part of the historic triangle with Yorktown in Jamestown. Among those in the plantations, I had a field day. I just wish we had had phones back in those days so I could’ve recorded all of it. Thank you for this video!🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Virginia is beautiful as is the other places you lived! I hope to get back to Williamsburg some day soon myself. I have not seen it for over 40 years. (OMG that make me sound and feel ancient LOL)
I love Salem! I've visited 3 times!
They filmed bits of Hocus Pocus in Pioneer Village too! I admire how much you know about your ancestors!
Thank you so much! I love these kind of videos! Please share more of Massachusetts and areas. I would love seeing even longer videos of the areas. Again, thank you!
My ancestor, Samuel Aborn, was also involved in the witch trials. He testified to the good character of Rebecca Nurse. Our family gradually migrated to Georgia but I am proud of my New England roots. Thanks for sharing.
My friend Carla is a GG+ of Rebecca Nurse. So cool!
I have never been to this part of the country. So beautiful!! Thanks for sharing.💜
I enjoy your videos so much! It’s a rainy, gloomy day here in Sandwich….but a perfect time to sit back and watch what you are up to. Thank you!
I so enjoyed this video and you sharing your family's past. It's wonderful that you can walk where your ancestors walked so many years ago. They were such an integral part of the history here. Salem and Marblehead are beautiful towns.
I just found your channel. Lovely tour of the north shore. I've lived on the south shore my whole life but moved to the southcoast seven years ago, Mattapoisett. If you haven't visited our little coastal town you might enjoy a day trip here. Lots of history too.
I have to thank you for these videos. I use to live in Mass. as a child. I lived in AYRE. I don’t remember how to spell it, but it was close onto WARE mass. I just adore these.
Such a neat video. You're a Daughter of the American Revolution. I am too. My great +++++grandfather was a sniper for George Washington in the war. I've never been to Salem, but it is on my bucket list. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for taking us along with you....so much fun!
You are so welcome!
I loved this Linda. My family was also involved in the Witch Trials. My 8th great grandfather was Deacon Edward Putnam Sr. Unlike your family who wrote a letter to ask to pardon John Proctor, Putnam examined the girls accused of witchcraft and agreed they were witches!! My family lived in Salem and surrounding towns for many years, and my Mother was actually born there as well in 1925. Thank you again!! I have told you before our ancestors must have known one another!! As a flight attendant for many years we went to Marblehead alot and I still have friends who live there. Such a fun town!!
Maybe our parents or families knew each other! My mom's brother and sister would have been born in the 20s and she and my uncle were born in the 30's in Salem.
@@newenglandfineliving hi again Linda. My Mother's family left very early on as her father's Seafood Restaurant failed in the early 30's due to the depression. But I do think our other ancestors crossed paths in many towns. On both of my grandmother's sides I go back, like you, to Plymouth, then to Middlesex County, North Shore, Haverhill (Hannah Emerson Duston, the famous Indian scalper) is my 8th great grandmother. My family were Wentworth's of NH and founded early Plantations and Towns in Maine in the early 1700's. Like you, I am fascinated by our Colonial History, and that is why I was drawn to your You Tube Channel. I am also obsessed with England and I am teaching British History this fall in Adult Ed classes. I would love to drive to your store in Peterborough when it opens. I have looked for it but I cannot find it yet. I lived in Cape Elizabeth, under the Lighthouse at Two lights for 32 years and I am now in Scarborough . I would move back to Massachusetts if my partner would consider it. I am a native of Belmont. Thank you for reading this long text Linda. I love your videos!! It would be lovely to meet you at some point.
It is so fun to see this video! My husband and I also have ancestors from New England. There is a family legend that Bray Wilkins accused his grand-daughter's husband of being a warlock because of a domestic issue. His son asked Bray to recant his accusation. That son was subsequently disowned. The grandson-in-law was hanged.
How wonderful that you know your history that far back. Thank you for sharing 💕
Thanks for watching!
New England is so beautiful, and how wonderful that you are aware of your rich history. I have always wanted to visit Salem and surrounding areas, and now want to go more than ever. Thanks for an inspirational tour.
You are welcome! It is a wonderful place to visit.
Even though I live in MA, I have never managed to make it to Salem or Marblehead, so I really enjoyed your tour. You have quite distinguished ancestry!
This was so wonderful. I enjoyed seeing and listening to your family history. You do look like your great great great etc grand father. I love history and visiting historical places. Thanks for sharing this.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing! I’m going to Salem next month to visit my ancestral homestead and couldn’t be more excited. Your grandfather sounds like he was remarkable person and I definitely can see the resemblance!
Wonderful! If you don't mind me asking, what is your ancestral homestead? My husband is also a 12th generation New Englander and we keep meeting very distant relatives by asking. :-)
Linda Smith Davis - the Pickering house is the homestead and my ancestral grandfather John Pickering a carpenter from England built the home after moving there from England.
Hoping you had an amazing visit. 😊
@@WeezyWeez1984 Thank you, unfortunately I had to cancel my August trip because I learned that the Pickering house would not be open for visitors due to COVID. When I found out they would be open in October, I booked Columbus Day weekend right away. I then found out we would have to quarantine for 14 days as we are traveling from PA and considered high risk. They say the third time is the charm so I’m counting on it for next year 😊 I do look forward to seeing Salem! Maybe even Rockport.
@@Jennifer2791 awe, so sorry to hear that. Yes, third time should be a charm.
Your lovely, soothing voice taking us on a this historical journey makes it not only personable but very inviting-witches et al‼️ Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much!
This is one of my favorite video’s. 💗Sending hugs, prayers and kindness 💕👍🏼🙏🏼
Kaye Carter Mature Woman Daily Dose I totally agree. Loved this video!
Thank you! I hope to create more that are similar.
I loved the field trip! I have always been interested in the Salem witch-hunt, and also all the beautiful historic architecture. Please do more. Halloween/Fall would be great, thanks!
Thank you, I sure will!
Wonderful! Love seeing these views again. Our son and daughter in love live in Salem and work in Marblehead! Love to go as often as we can.
Scarlet Letter is one of my favorite books! Sad to think of all those wrongly accused and judged. The buildings are all so beautiful. You are lucky to live in such beauty!
I have not read it in such a long time. I think I will on one of my future vacations.
Native Massachusetts person here, now living in Florida. I loved seeing your video and the memories it triggered.
I'm glad you liked it Doreen! Any particular towns you might want to see in the future to trigger a few more memories?
Beautiful tour! I hope to see it in person someday. On my bucket list!
Yes - more please! I really enjoyed your walk and talk and would like to see more of MA. I lived in CT for 10 years and miss New England. My mother was born in Braintree and have visited MA many times and love it. Would like to visit Salem and Marblehead some day - beautiful, quaint towns. Thank you, Linda.
More to come I promise! Thank you for watching!
You have a fascinating family history! The homes are beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I haven't been to Massachusetts but would love to visit.i enjoy history and beautiful homes!
Thanks for watching! Maybe you will be able to visit one day!
Thank you for taking us along. What a rich history and what beautiful New England towns. Please do make more of these types of videos taking us along to see the beauty and history of New England.
Thank you! Will do!
I enjoyed your video so very much. We were there visiting last June and I loved the area, the homes, and learning about the history of the area. Thanks for sharing with us, again, I really enjoyed it. Xoxo 😘
Thank you!!!!! If you ever return, you know who to call!!!! Hope your house hunting is going well!
So interesting! I was in Salem 1 yr ago for a wedding and visited many of these places - including the Hocus Pocus House! So glad I got to enjoy the town before COVID.
Just love taking your tours! We’ve been to MA a few times. Visited Brimfield and Old Sturbridge Village, and Boston. You know, some folks have a love and fascination for the west, like Colorado or California. Not me! I’ll go east every time! Originally from Chicago, but our home is Kentucky. Carry On!
I'm so glad you like them! I will be creating more for sure!
Beautiful, I love New England
Thank you for watching!
Can I just say that I’ve noticed your videography and editing has gotten very smooth and professional looking! For a minute, I thought I was watching a show on the Smithsonian channel or Travel channel. 😁 This was an absolutely amazing video! Makes me wish I lived in New England even more than I have already wanted to. I’m so envious! In a good way of course.
Wow, you just made my day! thank you so very much!
Linda Smith Davis - New England Fine Living You’re welcome!! I’m loving your videos! Keep ‘em coming!
Definitely love this video and all your videos. Thank you 😊
Thank you! You are so welcome!
I'm from south Louisiana but love everything New England and Witchcraft. I really enjoyed this tour and am planning a trip to Salem as soon as possible. I just found your channel today and have subscribed. Will be visiting frequently. Would love to see more like this. Thanks for sharing.
Linda, This I love..... so my family Robert Goodell came to America on the Ship Elizabeth from England in 1634. They owned 500 acres of land in Salam. So I am a Great Migration family member. I have combed the city of Salam and cemeteries looking for relatives. It is interesting that you said you imagined your relatives walking the streets. When I am in The Salam area.... I have this feeling... of home. (Not trying to sound creepy).
My many times great Uncle is Samuel Sewell one of the witch trials judges who later wrote his repentance that can be found in the book ‘Salam Witch Judge’ by Eve LaPlante . I am the recipient of a family genealogy from 1634 to my generation.
My family eventually migrated to Illinois in 1837.
Please do more of these videos!
How exciting! Do you know if Samuel Sewell is connected to Fort Sewell in Marblehead at all? You do not sound creepy at all! I totally get it. Also, my father and my husband's father moved to this area from Canada and Connecticut, not realizing their families were in New England in the 1600's and they returned to their roots too! I think New England draws people back for sure!
This is delightful! Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Love this since unable to visit in person. Next best thing ! I hope one day to visit that area I'll put it on my bucket list.
Thank you for this tour, I enjoyed it very much. Love love love the old houses. I'm French Canadian, living in the province of Quebec but I'm sooo drawn to New England. There is something so heartwarming to me about it and I don't know why. I've visited Salem a few years back and on a different occasion, offered myself a week-end stay at Rockport, Mass for my 60th birthday (from me to me with love).
One side of my family is French Canadian by way of New England. Maybe you have deep roots here too!
Second time watching this one. Can't believe it has been 3 years!
My grandmothers many times great grandfather went to Salem in the 1630s but moved to Boston before the trials
I L O V E D All your family history ‼️🇺🇸 AMAZING linage ❤️🤍💙 TY ❤️ for taking us along❤️🤍💙🇺🇸
Beautiful video... I love traveling via your videos. Your attention to detail is greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much for sharing this tour! Have been to Salem several times - since 1988. Not able to make it this year unfortunately but love the the town. The homes there and in Marblehead are amazing! The port area with gardens reminds me of downtown Portsmouth NH. Thanks also for sharing your family history. So interesting- especially the witches! I always enjoy the historic homes when open to the public - so beautiful and so much history to share. Yes, would love to see more of this type of video interspersed with your others.
Thank you! Yes, I absolutely plan on adding more like this to my channel. I travel too much out and about not to!
Thank you for taking us on this journey and sharing your history.
My pleasure!
Loved it! Please make a fall video tour.
Oh for sure!!!! That's my favorite time of the year!
👍Enjoyed this video tour very much and you do resemble your relative in the picture. It is so interesting to hear someone's family's history. Thanks for sharing.
I really enjoyed your New England tour. It was so interesting to hear about some of your early family, who they were, what they did & where they lived. Thank You for taking us along for the journey!
Thank you so much! I will be sharing more with some other ancestors and their towns.
Love the history, love that you know about your family!
I have just discovered your youtube videos... I love your style and your personal history that is tied to an area I love so much!
Thanks for sharing. This is so absolutly beautiful. I have to make planes to visit this area. And I would love to see more videos like that.
Fascinating! You're so fortunate to be able to trace your family back so far.
It has taken so many years, but I do enjoy it!
Thanks for the wonderful tour. Brings back so many memories of my youth. I left the state over 40 years ago to live in various places in the South and Midwest. I grew up in Allston a section of Boston until my middle twenties and miss all the history and beauty this state has. My daughter was only 6 years old when we moved and she planned on taking a girl's trip this Fall to visit Salem/Rockport/Boston but Covid 19 had other plans. They have rebooked their trip for 2021. I am going to have her view your posting so she can enjoy also. Thanks for sharing.
I hope she has a wonderful trip in 2021! I'm not sure how the leaves will be this fall due to some odd weather, so it might have been for the best if leaf peeping was part of the trip. thank you for watching and sharing your story with me!
Thank you so much for sharing, I love the history! Would like to hear more of your stories as well 😁
I loved this tour, what a beautiful place to live🦋
It really is! Thank you for watching!
I really loved this video. I would like to see more! I see you said that you lived in Groton. My ancestors were early founders of that town. The Cadys. Thank you for sharing.
Loved touring the towns! Fascinating family history and you sure do resemble your ancestor! Thanks for taking us along:).
Thanks for watching!
I really enjoyed watching your trip to Salem and Marblehead ~ it's so beautiful here in New England! My 7th Great Grandmother was Sarah Towne of the Salem Witch Hysteria ~ her sisters Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Esty along with her niece Susannah Martin were accused witches and met their untimely end ~ it's a beautiful town, but there is still so much sadness in it's history. I wonder if our family were friends way back then. . .love stopping by and visiting your channel! XXOO
I bet they knew or heard of each other! My husbands family is from the area too. We found out we are 8th cousins from out North Shore families were we both grew up
Linda Smith Davis - New England Fine Living It’s such a small world and that’s unbelievable that you are 8th cousins! Ancestry.com was such a wealth of information, I love learning about our past! ❤️
Linda I enjoyed this so much! Thank you for the tour!!!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
This was wonderful! Thank you!🌸
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Linda for the tour. How wonderful for you to be able to know your relatives so far back and you can visit their homes and towns. Love to see more. Also loved the background music so calming.
Thank and you are so welcome!
What a delight! I adore Salem and enjoyed seeing the town in a different light. I will have to visit the other spots on my next trip. Thank you so much for this tour! :)
You're welcome!
I just watched this. I love this video. I just found you last month. i would love to see more like this. But I've yet to see any of your videos I haven't enjoyed. Love them.
I enjoyed your tour very much. Thank out for sharing. 🙏🏼
Yes yes please thank you
LOVED IT! Yes, do more like this, please. But, keep on doing your life style videos.
You got it! More to come!
Such a beautiful place to take an early walk Linda. Love the history tid bits.
Hi Janet! Thank you so much for watching! Hugs.
Love this video Linda absolutely one of your best, thank you much keep up the good work.
Lovely. Thanks for sharing
So interesting. I used to go to Salem every Halloween, to The Hawthorne Hotel for the Halloween party....even won a prize for best costume one year!!! I live in Rhode Island so I'm not that far away. Thanks for sharing all this information. So beautiful there🎃🍁🎃
That was wonderful! We lived out east for a total of 13 years. We are retired Air Force and our first duty station was Dover Delaware. Loved it then we went England UK then we went to New Jersey, I hated Jersey loved the shopping and some of the old towns and history but hated the state. Then we moved to Arkansas and retired here. I love it my husband misses the east coast. But your video brought me back out east in my memories. Thank you for sharing your history it was very interesting!!
I hope to get to England someday too! Thank you for watching Julie!