Cleaning UP for history

Haddam Historical Society

Thankful Arnold House Museum

April 12, 2022

TAG SALE

May 21, 2022

8 am to 2 pm

Thankful Arnold House Museum

14 Hayden Hill Road, Haddam

The Haddam Historical Society and Thankful Arnold House Museum will participate in the Haddam Town Wide Tag Sale on Saturday, May 21, 2022.

The Haddam Historical society will participate in the Town Wide Tag Sale on May 22, 2021 from 8 am to 2 pm.

We are accepting donations starting on Monday, May 16 at the museum, so start looking around and set aside items for this important fundraiser. We are not accepting: Children’s toys (unless vintage), electronics, clothes, very large items including furniture.

Volunteers needed for set up on

Thursday, May 19 from 1 to 5

Friday, May 20 from 1 to 5

If you would like to volunteer at the Tag Sale for a three -hour shift

please call Lisa at 860-345-2400

Saturday, May 21, 2022

8 to 11 am

11 am to 2 pm

SAVE THE DATE

HADDAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING

MAY 19 AT 6:30 PM

Short business meeting followed by

Scovil Hoe Program!

Shad Museum Open for the Season!

Haddam Shad Museum, 212 Saybrook Road, Higganum, CT

The Haddam Shad Museum will be open on Sundays from 10 am to 3 pm from April 3, 2022 to June 12, 2022. The Shad Museum, founded by Dr. Joseph Zaientz of Haddam Neck, focuses on the importance of the Shad fishing industry to Haddam and the lower Connecticut River Valley. Housed in the former Bill Maynard Shad Shack, the museum features many important and unique artifacts related to this once important local industry and is the only museum in the country solely devoted to shad fishing.

Shad Museum directors, who are knowledgeable with both commercial and sport shad fishing will be available to answer questions. Appointments encourage at 860-345-2400. Masks suggested.

The museum is located at 212 Saybrook Road, Higganum, CT behind the gas station. Free admission.

Below is a photo of Bill Maynard's Shad Shack now the Haddam Shad Museum. Was located across Route 154 near where Middletown Rug is now.

A Week in the Life of an Early American Child

The Haddam Historical Society is excited to announce the return of its annual summer program, “A Week in the Life of an Early American Child,” offered for girls and boys ages 8-12. This year the program will take place Monday, June 20 – Friday, June 24, 2022 from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM.

Students will travel back in time to the year 1830 and spend the week with Mrs. Thankful Arnold and her family. All activities take place at the Thankful Arnold House Museum in Haddam, and they include caring for farm animals, crafting with wool and tin, making butter, baking, playing with Colonial toys and games, and even dancing! The fee is $139 for the five days with all materials and snacks included. Some scholarship funding is available.

For more information and registration, go to www.haddamhistory.org. For questions regarding the program or scholarship information, contact Sarah Neal, Education Coordinator, The Haddam Historical Society, at education@haddamhistory.org or call

860 345-2400.

Looking for relatives

We were recently contacted by a gentleman in Georgia hoping he could connect to distant cousins and family members who were related to many of the founding families of Haddam. He has started reaching out to relatives through DNA testing as well as traditional research methods.

If anyone is a Bailey, Brainerd, Brooks, Cone and so on……..feel free to contact him directly.

Below is the correspondence from Mr. Clark:

Greetings,

I've augmented your list of the 28 founders to show how they relate to my family tree.

If you use my GG GF's compact tree;

https://www.wikitree.com/treewidget/Clark-19245/5

then you will see all of the numbers like 80 and 81, 84 and 85, 128 and 129, 170 and 171. They are all grandparent in my tree. Then the others represent Aunts or Uncles to 64 Joseph Clark and 65, his wife Ruth Spencer

John & Lydia (Backus-69) Bailey-21142 ** 80 and 81

Daniel & Hannah (Spencer-235) Brainerd-6 ** 84 and 85

Thomas & Alice (Spencer-339) Shayler [Shaler-38] * Aunt Marah to 65 [same wife as below]

[Deacon] Thomas & Alice (Spencer-339) Brooks-164 * Aunt Marah to 65 [same wife as above]

William & Katherine (Bunce-27) Clark-1039 ** 128 and 129

Gerrard & Hannah (Hills [unknown-14882]) Spencer-165 **170 and 171

Daniel & Mehitable (Spencer-340) Cone-88 * Aunt Meh to 65

John & Rebecca (Hayward-156) Spencer-342 * Uncle John to 65

Joseph & Elizabeth (Spencer-712) Stannard-203 * Aunt Liz to 65

James & Elizabeth (Clarke-4502) Wells-418 * Aunt Liz to 64

And then the -numbers added to the last names are the profile id's from wikitree.

In generic alphabetical order they are;

Bailey-21142

Backus-69

Brainerd-6

Brooks-164

Bunce-27

Clark-1039

Clarke-4502

Cone-88

Hayward-156

Shayler or Shaler-38

Spencer-165

Spencer-235

Spencer-339

Spencer-340

Spencer-342

Spencer-712

Stannard-203

Hannah unknown-14882

Wells-418

I have an email in to one of the Spencer descendants. They have a group of about 7 yDNA testers as well.

I was mentioning, sticky DNA, an one of my finds is for Thankful "Bailey" Clark b 1766 < Jabez Bailey b 1730 < Ephraim Bailey b 1691 < John Bailey Jr b 1656 Hartford but they all lived in Haddam.

Anyone looking at GEDmatch could use my email to find several of my kits. They are all in the Clark line and could match. But the Bailey line is on Chr 6 between 125 mcM to 150 mcM on my Aunt Joyce Clark Luxton's kit ZM2910853. But please urge people to get in touch if they have an interest in the atDNA. I have too many kit numbers that I have collected to try and share.

Here is my contact information;

Ray T Clark

23 Montvale Dr.

Hoschton, Ga 30548

770-656-4220

raytclark@netzero.net

WHO REMEMBERS FIFTEEN MAPLES?

FOR BETTER OR WORSE?

Contact Lisa with information 860-345-2400 or director@haddamhistory.org

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