Edward Larkin of Rhode Island . Freeman of Newport 1655 and of Westerly 1664. The First Six Generations, by Elizabeth Brock Larkin (Saline, Mich. : McNaughton & Gunn, Inc., for Bruce D. Larkin, 2004). 

Arthur E. Larkin and Elizabeth B. Larkin began gathering material for this genealogy in the late 1960s, seeking records in county courthouses, town libraries, and historical societies in New England , New York , Ohio , Indiana , Michigan , and elsewhere, and in the National Archives.  Mrs. Larkin continued the research after her husband’s death in 1979, and had just finished the text at the time of her own unexpected death in April 2003. The book was brought to completion by Jane Fiske with the help of Bruce D. Larkin, John W. Fiske, and others.

The genealogy begins with Edward Larkin of Newport and Westerly , Rhode Island , whose origins in England are presently unknown; he was a contemporary of Edward Larkin of Charlestown , Massachusetts , but no link between the two has yet been found. Six generations of Larkins are treated here, and seventh-generation children are listed when known. Sources used include land and probate records, vital records, and histories of places and other families; the contributions of several other past researchers on specific lines have been incorporated into the whole, and, like everything else, thoroughly acknowledged in footnotes. Several transcribed documents appear in the text, and others are in a seven-part Appendix.

Maps and photographs of gravestones and documents are scattered throughout the book, and there are two portraits of individuals, one of them Arthur E. Larkin’s great-grandfather, John Edward Larkin, in Civil War uniform with his arm in a sling. There is an every-name index.

 

ISBN 0-9615790-4-8.  474 + xviii pages. 

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