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Click on the link above to download and view a file showing nineteen generations of ancestors of Elsie Louise Stoddard, daughter of Daniel Webster Stoddard and Sarah Elizabeth Allen born on 16 April 1884 in North Scituate, Massachusetts.
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Peregrine White, son of William White and Susannah Fuller was born on 19 December 1620 in Provincetown, Massachusetts aboard The Mayflower. Peregrine White was granted land as “first of the English that was borne in these ptes.”
Gideon Young fought in the Revolutionary War (service as private in the 6th regiment, Massachusetts Line, under Captain Wattles and Col. Calvin Smith) which qualified Elsie Louise Stoddard membership in the organization, “Daughters of the Revolution of 1776,” back in the 1930s. That organization thought itself superior to the Daughters of the American Revolution due the DR’s stricter membership requirements.
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My old high school, Quincy High School will be the set for a new movie starring Kevin James
Quincy High School in 1980
By Jack Encarnacao
QUINCY —The city has reached an agreement with Columbia Pictures to rent out the old Quincy High School building for a movie shoot.
The interior of the vacant school, which is next to the new high school on Coddington Street, will be the setting for scenes that are tentatively scheduled to be filmed starting next month, said Christopher Walker, a spokesman for Mayor Thomas Koch.
The deal, signed by Koch and Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. of California, calls for the city to receive $80,000 in rental fees for use of the old high school from February 2 until August 26.Walker said Koch will earmark the $80,000 to benefit the school department’s music program.
A separate term of the deal allows Columbia to rent additional city property at a rate of $3,333 per day.The agreement includes a term that requires Columbia to provide the city evidence that it’s secured no less than $1 million in general liability insurance for the shoot. It also bars any party to the agreement from claiming damages.
Built in 1922, the old high school was targeted by the city for demolition this summer. It’s not yet clear if those plans will have to change, Walker said, because it’s not clear when the crew will be finished shooting in the building.
According to the agreement, the movie to be filmed is titled “Here Comes The Boom.”Movie industry media have tied that title to a movie that will star the comic actor Kevin James. James has shot several movies in Massachusetts, including scenes for the sleeper hit “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree.
James said in an interview last year that he’s scheduled to start work on a movie about a high school teacher who moonlights as a professional fighter in an effort to save the school’s music program.
The shoot would not be the first time Quincy has provided the backdrop to a Hollywood production.
Scenes for the Boston-based films “Gone Baby Gone” and “The Departed” were shot in the city’s quarries and shipyard. In 2009, Actor Ben Affleck shot scenes for “The Company Men” on a residential street in Quincy Point.
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