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John Putnam (b.1580), son of Nicholas, married Priscilla Gould and emigrated from England to Salem, Massachusetts. Jeremiah S. Putnam (1797/1799-1877), a direct descendant in the ninth generation, married widow Ruth (Sewall) Thornton in York, Maine. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York and elsewhere. Includes Putnam or Puttenham ancestral lineage to 1086 A.D.
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The dramatic story of a colonial town's experience of and response to communal catastrophe.
The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story's greatest objective was to fashion a national jurisprudence that would carry the American people into the modern age without losing those values.