For those who aren’t familiar with Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker, they will provide you with “hints” from their vast collection of databases to assist you in finding your ancestors.  As more information is integrated into their collection, new hints are generated for everyone in your database, not just those you are currently working on.

This morning I was blessed with some additional information for my Sarah Ireland ancestors.  For starters, more information was uncovered for Sarah’s great-grandparents, William and Elizabeth Quincy Smith.

• Reverend William Smith was born on January 29, 1706 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  He married Elizabeth Quincy on August 3, 1740 in Weymouth, Massachusetts.  He passed away on September 17, 1783 in Weymouth at the age of 77.
• Elizabeth Quincy Smith was born in 1721 in Braintree, Massachusetts to Colonel John Quincy and Elizabeth Norton Quincy. She preceded her husband in death on October 1, 1775 in Weymouth at the age of 54.

Elizabeth’s line was extended several generations, going back to the Plymouth Colony.  Once I make an initial pass through my initial tree, extensively studying both the Plymouth Colony and the New Haven (CT) settlement will be near the top of my list of things to do.

• Elizabeth’s father, Colonel John Quincy, was born July 21, 1689 in Boston to Daniel and Anna Shepard Quincy.  He married Elizabeth Norton in 1715 in Massachusetts and died at the age of 78 on July 13, 1767.  A location wasn’t provided.
• Elizabeth Norton Quincy was born to Reverend John Norton and Mary Mason Norton on March 15, 1695 in Hingham, Massachusetts.  She died in 1769 at the age of 74.

• Daniel Quincy was born Boston on February 7, 1650.  He married Anna Shepard on November 9, 1682 and died on August 10, 1690.
• Anna Shepard Quincy was born in 1663 in Massachusetts.  No information has been collected on her death at this time.
• Reverend John Norton was born in 1651 in Massachusetts.  He married Mary Mason on November 29, 1678 and died on October 3, 1716.  He was the second minister of Hingham and is reportedly buried in the Tomb of the Three Ministers in Hingham.
• Very little is known about Mary Mason.  She was born in 1651 and died in 1740.

On the other side of Sarah Ireland’s family, additional information was discovered regarding her 2nd-great-grandparents, Nathaniel and Mary Bunnell.  Nathaniel married Mary Searing in 1690.  She was born in 1672 in New Jersey.  Also unearthed was that Nathaniel’s mother, Susanna Whitehead Bunnell, died on February 13, 1733 in Elizabeth, NJ.

Updated related Pedigree Charts:  Sarah Ireland, Captain Nathaniel Bonnell, Colonel John Quincy and Elizabeth Norton.