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Excerpt from The Doings at the First National Gathering of Thurstons at Newburyport, Mass: June 24, 25, 1885
Those only deserve to be remembered by posterity who treasure up the history of their ancestry. Burke.
The Thurston name began to appear in this country at about 163 5, and a settle ment is known to have been made in Newbury, Mass., in 1638.
Great efforts have been made to trace the records, both in this country and in England, and get the connection of families, by Rev. James Thurston of Mass., Charles Myrick Thurston of Rhode Island, Frederick George Thurston of Brook lyn, N. Y., Rev. David Thurston of Maine, and Samuel David Thurston of Cam den, O., who have all passed away, and more recently by Hon. Ariel Standish Thurston of Elmira, N. Y., and others.
The result of these researches was placed in the hands of Brown Thurston of Portland, Me., who, after spending several years in increasing, maturing, and col lating, published the Thurston Genealogies, 600 pages, in 1880. The effect of this has been to greatly increase the interest felt in the whole matter, and a strong desire on the part of many to pursue it still further, and perfect the records.
There has never been any united effort, such as many families have very success fully adopted, to further this end, and now it is proposed to hold a Thurston Gath ering at Newburyport, Mass., on Wednesday, June 24, 1885. This is the nearest available place, and but a few miles from the spot where 24 Nov. 1638, there was granted unto Daniel Thurston an house lot on the Neck, over the great river, of four acres, next to John Osgood.
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