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We are offering autographed copies of Dr. William Paquette's new two volume history "Bryant Cartwright, Sr. and His Descendants from Nantucket Island, Rhode Island, and New York and Points North, South, and West 1715-2025" for $90 each set (plus $10 shipping unless picked up at the museum). The $90 Includes a one-year individual membership (ordinarily $20) in the Allegany County Historical Society! The two volume set will soon sell for $160 on the internet! To order, please contact us at alleganychs@gmail.com.
Historian, Dr. William Paquette, proudly announces that after three years of research and a year of writing, his newest book, Bryant Cartwright, Sr. and His Descendants from Nantucket Island, Rhode Island, and New York and Points North, South, and West 1715-2025, will be published June 2026 by New Dominion Press. This publication will be in two volumes numbering 1,523 pages with 153 photographs, 4,721 documented biographies, three appendices, and two indexes.
Edward Cartwright was a Sabbatarian Christian who believed that the Lord’s Day was Saturday, not Sunday. He emigrated from England in the 17th century and settled in Massachusetts. His grandson from his second marriage, Bryant Cartwright, Sr., moved to Nantucket Island and later Rhode Island. Bryant Cartwright’s descendants continued to move westward into New York State settling in the Albany area and in Allegany County. Over time Cartwrights intermarried into local Allegany County families settling in all of the County’s Townships. Cartwright descendants lived in all fifty United States, in five Canadian Provinces, and in Australia. Cartwrights founded Cartwright, Wisconsin, now New Auburn and were among the earliest settlers of Salem, Oregon. The book’s three Appendices pay tribute to the Cartwrights of Allen and Granger Townships, to the Hann Homestead in Andover where Hann family members intermarried with Cartwrights, and to Andover’s Silk Mills where a number of Cartwright families worked. Some of the families Cartwrights married into include: Baldwin, Clair, Clark, Comstock, Davis, Emerson, Fish, Green, Hann, Hardy, Howland, Jones, Lee, Loftis, Luther, Millard, Muckey, Phillips, Proctor, Schuyler, Smith, Thomas, Whitney, and York.
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