Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.

Gorton and his family moved to Plymouth.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan moved with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old.

On April 28 he moved to Los Angeles where he had family and remained there until May when, suspected by local Union authorities, he evaded arrest and joined the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles as a private, leaving Warner's Ranch May 27.

Van Vogt's father, a lawyer, moved his family several times and his son found these moves difficult, remarking in later life:

Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

" On April 10, 1833, the family moved to Philadelphia, where Alcott ran a day school.

Alcott persuaded them to come to the United States with him ; Lane and his son moved into the Alcott house and helped with family chores.

He quit the project and moved to a nearby Shaker family with his son.

In January 1844, Alcott moved his family to Still River, a village within Harvard but, on March 1, 1845, the family returned to Concord to live in a home they named " The Hillside " ( later renamed " The Wayside " by Nathaniel Hawthorne ).

The Alcott family put The Hillside up for rent and moved to Boston.

Alcott and his family moved back to Concord after 1857, where he and his family lived in the Orchard House until 1877.

In 1836, the family moved to a larger house in Edgar Street ( opposite Reid's Park ), following the demand for more heavy damask from which his father, William Carnegie, benefited.

When Aalto was 5 years old, the family moved to Alajärvi, and from there to Jyväskylä in Central Finland.

Later the family moved to the country's capital Kabul where his father served as a colonel in the Afghan Army.

He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

The family moved to France in 1818 where the brothers received a careful scientific education.

Four months after the death of Mihdí the family moved from the prison to the House of ` Abbúd.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was able to arrange for houses to be rented for the family, the family later moved to the Mansion of Bahjí around 1879 when an epidemic caused the inhabitants to flee.

Emily Smith had strong family ties to Chelsea, which centered around the church, in which her family took an active role.

* An American Family ( 1973, PBS ) An episode of the reality TV series An American Family was mostly filmed at the Hotel Chelsea while family member Lance Loud lived there.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

Alger began attending the Chelsea Grammar School in 1842, but by December 1844 his father's financial troubles had increased considerably and, in search of a better salary, he moved his family to Marlborough, Massachusetts, an agricultural town 25 miles west of Boston.

Lady Antonia Fraser lives in the London district of Holland Park, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, south of Notting Hill Gate, in the Fraser family home, where she still writes in her fourth-floor study.

Soon after Philip's birth the family moved to Hans Road, Chelsea, where he received his first piano lessons and attended a nearby kindergarten.

* Made in Chelsea extra Michael Fraser has family connections to Coleraine and would often spend holidays in the town and indeed continues to do so.

The show is set ( but was not produced ) in San Francisco and revolves around teenager Raven Baxter, played by Raven-Symoné, her friends Eddie ( Orlando Brown ) and Chelsea ( Anneliese van der Pol ), and her family members focusing on brother Cory ( Kyle Massey ).

Despite a seven-decade career as a writer, he had died impoverished after many years living in the Chelsea District of Manhattan ; Long's fans contributed over $ 3000 to have his name engraved upon the tombstone of his family plot.

Vilas was born in Chelsea, Vermont, and moved to Madison, Wisconsin, with his family in 1851.

Freefolk is also home to Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants, a family run Nursery whose displays have won ten gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show in recent years.

In 1993, Shimizu and the town of Chelsea, Michigan began a sister city exchange program, where groups of 7th and 8th graders from Chelsea visit Japan and stay with a host family for just under two weeks.

He and his family settled in Chelsea, Massachusetts, where his father, Edward Holyoke Jr., had a farm.

In her early years, Jagger and her family lived on London's fashionable Cheyne Walk in Chelsea.

A prodigy, he was a society portrait painter and thanks to family connections, a prominent fixture of the " swinging London " social scene of the 1960s, specifically of what became known as the " Chelsea Set.

However Bates would not let it rest, by causing more controversy which he was well known for now, by upsetting many Chelsea fans, friends and family of Harding in 1997 by calling him a vile man, just a year after his premature death.

Wendell Phillips ( 1811-1884 ), from a prominent Massachusetts family, in his teens was converted under the preaching of Lyman Beecher.

The family home was in an area known as Spindle Hill, and his father, Joseph Alcox, traced his ancestry to colonial-era settlers in eastern Massachusetts.

Capp and his family lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard during the entire Vietnam War protest era.

Ben Franklin's mother, Abiah Folger, was born into a Puritan family among those that fled to Massachusetts to establish a purified Congregationalist Christianity in New England, when King Charles I of England began persecuting Puritans.

Other well-known Coolidges, architect Charles Allerton Coolidge, General Charles Austin Coolidge, and diplomat Archibald Cary Coolidge among them, were descended from branches of the family that had remained in Massachusetts.

His family is from The Berkshires area of western Massachusetts, where he currently lives.

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.

Originally from Massachusetts, William Wright had been a Baptist minister, but he later joined his wife's family in the Unitarian faith.

The family moved to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1870 for William to minister a small congregation.

Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers and his ancestor John Hawks had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630.

Later he went to the prestigious preparatory school Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, where he was admitted based on family connections.

The Quincy family name was pronounced, as is the name of the city in Massachusetts where Adams was born.

Tombs of Presidents John Adams ( left ) and John Quincy Adams ( right ) and their wives, in a family crypt beneath the United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts | United First Parish Church

* 1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.

In 1840, after several setbacks with the school, the Alcott family moved to a cottage on of land, situated along the Sudbury River in Concord, Massachusetts.

The family lived for a time in Northampton, Massachusetts, where, according to his autobiography, Sennett first got the idea to go on stage after seeing a vaudeville show.

* 1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

DNA information, made public in July 2008, that has been obtained from Ekaterinburg and repeatedly subject to independent testing by laboratories such as the University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA, and reveals that the final two missing Romanov remains are indeed authentic and that the entire Romanov family housed in the Ipatiev House, Ekaterinburg were executed in the early hours of 17 July 1918.

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

* 1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.

In 1826, when she was six years old, the Anthony family moved from Massachusetts to Battenville, New York.

Colonel Ephraim Williams was an officer in the Massachusetts militia and a member of a prominent landowning family.

* September – John Spofford originator and forefather of the decedents of Spofford family arrives in Boston harbor by way of the ship " john of london " and is one of the first people to establish Rowely, Essex County, Massachusetts.