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.

The Wright family struggled financially in Weymouth and returned to Spring Green, Wisconsin, where the supportive Lloyd Jones clan could help William find employment.

His father was pastor of Franklin Road Baptist Church in Weymouth but moved his family to Boston in 1730 and subsequently became a merchant there.

Rose was also a friend of King George III and his family who stayed with him a number of times at his house " Cuffnells " in Lyndhurst, on their way to summer holidays at Weymouth.

Originally established as a side project from Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club comprised a loose aggregation of musicians, sound engineers, and artists of the Compass Point All Stars family, including Tina Weymouth's sisters and guitarist Adrian Belew, the latter of whom toured with Weymouth and Frantz in the expanded version of Talking Heads in 1980 and 1981.

" The following year Amelia temporarily recovered enough to join her family at Weymouth, where she doted upon her niece Princess Charlotte of Wales.

Born into a wealthy family ( his great-uncle was a money-lender in Ireland ), Damer was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Weymouth in 1741 at the age of 21.

Shields was born and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts in an Irish Catholic family.

The second child of this family was a daughter Frances ( wed Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth ), and in 1657 the third was a son named Heneage, born January 11, 1657.

The 49th returned from the war in Canada in July 1815 and almost immediately marched from Weymouth where they discarded their battered campaign clothing for new scarlet coats, neat white breeches, black shako and gaiters, and took over the duties of guarding such members of the Royal family who were in residence there.

Weymouth is supposed to have been named in honour of the previous settlement of the Strickland family from Weymouth, Massachusetts.

The community of New France, approximately 10 to 15 miles inland from Weymouth, was founded by the Stehelin family who came from France in 1892.

He was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and then moved with his family to Canterbury, Connecticut.

Oldfield, writing early in the 19th century, stated that at that time the Marquess of Bath nominated one member and John Palmer the other ; both were former MPs for the City ( the Marquess having sat under the title Viscount Weymouth ), but neither was still in the Commons — each had a family member sitting in their stead as MP for Bath.

Over the next four decades various members of the Sisson family ( descendant's of Samuel Mearne ) endeavoured to sell the collection on numerous occasions to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, the Bodleian Library, Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, Frederick, Prince of Wales, the Radcliffe Library in Oxford and the antiquary and book collector " Honest Tom " Martin, but in each case the potential purchasers were put off by the high price asked.

The town stands on the river Wylye, and on the Somerset and Weymouth railway, near Salisbury plain, 4 miles SE by E of Warminster ; was known, to the Saxons, as Hegtredesbiryg ; took afterwards the names of Haresbury, Haseberie, and Heightsbury ; is now commonly called Hatchbury ; was, in the time of Stephen, the residence of the Empress Maud ; was, in 1766, nearly all destroyed by fire, and afterwards rebuilt ; consists now chiefly of a single street ; possesses interest to tourists as the central point of a region abounding in British, Roman, Saxon, and Danish remains ; and gives the title of Baron to the family of A ' Court.

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.

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.

The family moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1892, and Bush graduated from Chelsea High School in 1909.

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.