A Violent Man John Baker was a volatile troublemaker who emigrated from England with his family to the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the beginning of the Great Migration in 1630. What’s notable is that he moved around constantly: Charlestown, MA (1630), Newbury, MA (1637-38), York, ME (1639), Boston, MA (1641-42), Dover, NH (1643), York, ME (1646), Dover, NH (1647-50), Wells, ME (1653), Cape...
Izjaslav Ingvareych VK541
Some of my ancient ancestors were Norse traders and raiders that explored and settled in an area near the Baltic Sea in what is now Russia and the Ukraine. After a few generations of intermarriage with the native Slavic tribes, they became known as the “Rus.” Prince Izjaslav Ingvarevych of Dorogobuzh The individual with whom I share a genetic link was a man named Izjaslav Ingvarevych (Izjaslav...