John Pulsipher

John Pulsipher was born 8 Jul 1749 O.S. (19 Jul 1749 N.S.) in Pomfret, Conn. He married Elizabeth Dutton in 1791-92 at the age of about 42. They were the parents of seven sons and three daughters, including their fifth son Zerah Pulsipher. He was buried in Rockingham, Vermont in July, 1827. Of his father, Zerah said:"My father was absolute in his family government, kind and affectionate to all his friends. His common practice was to make a feast once in a year and invite some of the poorest people that werein the town and semed to take pleasure in their company. I lived with him twenty five years and never knew him to turn a beggar away empty."
"...I have often heard my father say that the signs of Christ's second coming was often seen and that he would come before many years should pass away. And if he did not live to see it, likely his children would."
"In the fall of that season [1814] there were the most extraordinary Northern Lights that I had ever saw, it was the cause of many speculative notions among the people bu my father said it was the signs of the last days and of Christ's second coming. I regarded my father's remarks as specimens of good sense."

Quotes from Pulsipher Family History Book, Terry/Nora Lund, SLC, 1953, pp. 11-12.
Thanks to John Pratt for granting permission to re-post this.

Are my husband and I related?

One of the first things I did after we were married (and a bit before, although I was afraid to look), was to see if my husband and I are related.  I was relieved to see that as far as I can tell, we are not.  Of course we are both descended from Noah, and our lines are bound to cross several times after that.  But I haven't found out where yet.

But as I have been digging through my husband's history, I have found a common relation.  Have a look at the pedigree of Ann Alger on this site:

http://www.johnpratt.com/gen/7/1.ped.html

John Alger is my husband's first cousin four times removed on his Hancock line.
Sarah Pulsipher is my great-great-great-great aunt on my Laub line.
(What does that make us?  Two people in love with a common relation.)

There is a comment on the marriage in one of the histories that I ran across, that I can't find now, about how the Pulsiphers and Hancocks were good friends in the early days of the church.  They rejoiced in the marriage of John Alger and Sarah Pulsipher because it linked their families together, "never to be separated again".

When I search the family histories, I have been mostly eager to find connections going back in time, but these early saints were thinking about their posterity.  It is amazing to me that none of our four parents are related, and yet, through my marriage, these early saints who knew each other so well become linked together.  Many of them, like the Hancocks and Pulsiphers, have been linked together for a long time, and yet, 164 years later, the link has grown even stronger through the eternal marriage of my husband and I.

Close friends may, in the future, become linked to you through the marriages of your children, grandchildren, or other descendants.

Every temple marriage and sealing creates and strengthens family dynasties.

The hearts of the fathers also turn to the children.