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From: Bill Blackburn <>
Subject: Re: SISSON, TRIPP, CORNELL, LAWTON, RI
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:21:39 -0700


Are you Sisson researchers aware that the town of Mt. Shasta, CA was once
known as Sisson after early settlers ? I have an old history of the town,
if anyone thinks there is a connection.

Bill Blackburn
Mt. Shasta, CA

Don Cordell wrote:

> Hi Shirley
> You are so right, the Sisson's, Tripp's, etc were Quakers in RI and John
> Sisson and wife Rebecca Lawton, and their son John married Sybil
> Huddleston which is my line of research. I have some descendants then of
> John and Sybil's son George (b. 1 Dec 1753.
> There is a Sisson book in the Los Angeles Downtown Lib Genealogy Room,
> but I think it is also available on loan from Boston if your a
> subscriber to the New England Historical and Genealogical Soc. Register.
> I have some pages copied and there are links to the Cornell's, Tripps,
> and all the other major families in the Newport RI area. There are some
> 20 or more volumes of RI records that cover some of this family, but not
> enough to go out of your way to search. The Sisson book done in the late
> 1800's has so much more. Let me know what you have so far and I'll look
> and see if it connects with what little bit I have, I now live about 80
> miles from the LA Lib and haven't been there in years, but their
> collection is fantastic, and I got so much data from their collection of
> books. So many of those families ended up in Calif in the late 1800's
> and I guess those who migrated out here thought our library should have
> these books.
> Don Cordell
>
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