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Arrive in Boston. Check into hotel.
7:00 pm - Meet and Greet with refreshments at hotel, for all tour members.
8:00 am Travel to Plimoth Plantation: 137 Warren Avenue, Plymouth, MA 02360
For best GPS or internet mapping directions from Route 3, use 26 River Street, Plymouth, MA
9:30 am– Tour Plimoth Plantation
12:30 pm - Travel to Plymouth.
12:45 pm -Buy lunch in Plymouth.
1:45 pm – Meet at town square. Walk down Leyden Street to Plymouth Rock.
2:30 - Travel to Nook Road between Sandwich St. (3A) and Weston St. - the property of ancestors Stephen Tracy and Tryphosa Lee Tracy. If there is time, visit.
4:00 pm - Travel to the National Monument to the Forefathers, 71 Allerton St. formerly known as the Pilgrim Monument, for a group picture.
4:30 pm - Travel to Duxbury
6:30 pm - Have dinner in Duxbury
7:30 – Travel to Myles Standish Burial Ground Chestnut St at Pilgrim Byway, Duxbury- where Tryphosa Lee Tracy and the Partridges are probably buried. 15-minute stop at cemetery.
7:42 Sunset.
7:45 - Travel to Powder Point- Go East on Chestnut St., turn left on Washington St., right on Powder Point Ave., right on King Caesar Rd., left on Russell Road. Stop briefly.
Return to hotel. Continue on Russell Road, turn left on Powder Point Ave./Cedar St/St. George St.. Go north on 3A. Stop briefly before the bridge over the North River.
8:00 am - Travel to Dorchester. 6 min. drive.
10 Parish St., Dorchester, MA 02122 617-436-0527 15-minute stop.
https://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/Tour%20Bus%20Parking_updated%206_23_tcm3-12491.pdf – Drop-off and parking info.
9:00 am - Travel to Boston via Washington St. to the east side of Washington Street at Downtown Crossing, between Summer St and Franklin St. - the site of the fabric shop of ancestors Nathaniel and Elizabeth Wight Heaton, now occupied by the Millennial Tower. 14 min drive. 15 minute stop at Downtown Crossing.
9:30 am - Travel to the northwest corner of Tremont and Boylston Streets in Boston. 10 minute drive.
9:30 am – Bus to *Boston Public Garden Swan Boats - Charles St. between Boylston St and Beacon St. Drop off passengers.
10:30 am – Pick up tour group at Charles St. Travel to Boston Common Visitors’ Center – Tremont and West Street. Drop off tour group.
Enjoy 1.5 mile *Freedom Trail Walking Tour or *"Hop-on, Hop-off Bus Tour" of American History sites:
Buy lunch along the way,
And enjoy additional entertainment of your choice:
*Admission included with Go Boston Card.
Buy dinner in Boston
8:00 PM – Travel to hotel in Revere.
8:00 am - Travel to Malden.
8:20 am See the monument to our immigrant ancestor Joseph Hills Sr. at the corner of Main St. and Salem St.
8:50 Travel to Bell Rock Park – Where first church in Malden was built. Main St and Ellis St. Brief stop, but the passengers will not leave the bus.
9:10 Travel to Bell Rock Cemetery where ancestor Joseph Hills Jr is buried. – Medford St. and Green St. 30 Min stop at the cemetery.
9:40 am Travel to Lexington.
10:15 am- Hancock-Clarke House, 36 Hancock St, Lexington, MA 02420 (Park on Mass. Ave.)
11:15 am- Tavern 1 Bedford Street, Lexington. 781-862-5598 (Park on Mass. Ave.)
12:00 pm- Lunch in Lexington Center and free time to visit Visitor’s Center Diorama and the Old Belfry
1:00 pm- Tour of Lexington Battle Green
1:40 pm- Travel to Minute Man National Historic Park.
3:00 pm - Travel to Old North Bridge - Parking on Monument St.
3:45 pm – Pick up tour members at Old North Bridge Visitor’s Center, 174 Liberty St, Concord, MA. Travel back along Lexinton Rd.
4:00 Travel to Meriam’s Corner, terminus of the Battle Road trail and place where British regulars first came under fire as they retreated to Boston.
Continue to travel along Lexington Rd/ N. Great Rd. to the sites along the Battle Road. Stop briefly at:
4:30 Stop at Old Bedford Road. – Those who wish to do so may walk the battle trail to Bloody Angle and then past Hartwell Tavern, Hartwell House Site, Cpt William Smith House 1.4 miles – 30 minutes.
4:45 - Stop at parking area at N. Great Rd and Bradford Lane. – Those who wish to do so may walk this segment of the battle trail.
6:00 Pick up all walkers at parking area for Paul Revere Capture Site. 250 N Great Rd, Concord, MA 01742
Continue to travel along Lexington Rd/ N. Great Rd. to the other sites along the Battle Road. Stop briefly at:
6:30 pm – Buy dinner in Concord.
8:00 pm – Travel to hotel.
8:00 am - Travel to Watertown, MA. Via Rt. 2. 25 minute drive.
8:30 am Visit the Founders Monument at 20 Riverside St. and Watertown Square.15 min stop.
8:45 am Travel to the site of the property of ancestors John and Elinor Whitney, and their son, Jonathan, at Mt. Auburn Street and Common Street.
11:00 – Travel to Cambridge
12:00 Visit ancestors William and Mary Jarred Mann's property at the corner of Sparks and Huron streets. 15-minute stop.
2:45 - Travel to 105 Brattle St. – 3:00 Tour of the Vassall-Craigie House - - which was George Washington's headquarters, and later became the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House. (Tour needs to be confirmed - (617) 876-4491 – Garrett Cloer.)
4:30 pm – Travel to Franklin.
5:00 – Buy dinner in Franklin
6:30 – Travel to hotel
8:00 am - Travel to Dedham via Highway 1 to Highland St. to Lowder St
10:00 am Visit Jonathan Fairbanks and Grace Smith home - 511 East St, Dedham, MA 02026, at the corner of East Street and Eastern Avenue in Dedham - the oldest timber frame home in the US.
11:30 am Bus to Dedham Historical Society 612 High St., Dedham, MA 02026 to see the Metcalf Great Chair (1652) and chest.
12:00 – Buy lunch in Dedham.
12:30 - Travel to Village Ave. Cemetery, Village Ave. and Bullard St. Eat while visiting family graves, or while traveling.
If there is time, stop briefly at First Church Dedham/Allin Congregational Church 670 High St, Dedham, MA
If there is time, drive to Highland Cemetery, 40-56 Dedham St, Dover, MA 02030 to see the grave of Esther Mann Fisher (1696-1770)
1:15 Travel Rte. 109 to Medfield
2:15 Visit the Vine Lake Cemetery Main St. or North Meadow Rd and Dale St.
2:45 - Travel Rt 109 through Millis (originally part of Medfield)
3:30 - Travel Rt 109 to Medway (Main St to 126/Hartford Ave.)
4:00 Travel through Partridgetown (North Bellingham): Rt 126 to Farm Street, to Hartford Ave./Rt 126.
4:00 - Travel to Mendon– (Hartford Ave., right on Neck Hill Rd., left on George St. to Main St.) Stop at old cemetery at intersection of George St. and Main St. Possible burial place of Ferdinando Thayer, “whose property was on Providence St, a little south of the town center.”
The Thayers were from Mendon. (Ezekiel Johnson (1750-1808), probable biological father of our Ezekiel (1773-1848) was the son of Susannah Thayer)
5:45 Dinner Provided in Mendon
6:30 Travel to Bellingham (Hartford Ave. to Bellingham St. to Mendon St. to the Bellingham Town Common.)
7:30 pm - Travel to hotel.
8:30 – Travel to church at 91 Jordan Road, Franklin, Massachusetts 02038
9:00 – Attend church.
10:30 – Travel to Wrentham
11:10 Visit the Wrentham Center Cemetery Dedham St, Northeast of the Original Congregational Church.
11:45 - If there is time, travel to West Wrentham Cemetery West Street and Williams St.
12:15 - Travel to Franklin. Joseph Hills and Esther Ellis (Julia’s parents) were married in Franklin.
12:45 - Travel to Uncas Pond, 51 Florence St, Franklin, MA 02038. Across the pond to the south is the location where Jabez Hills Sr. (1727-1768) and Martha Metcalf Hills built their
house. Eat lunch by Franklin Rod and Gun Club. (Arrange permission at franklinrodandgun.org or (508) 528-2573.)
1:30 -When leaving Florence St., turn right on Summer St. Bus to see Elder Michael Metcalf (1687-1754) and Abial Colburn Metcalf’s property on Summer St. near King St. Then turn
right on King St. and left at Central St. Bus to Union St. Cemetery. 150 W Central St, Franklin, MA 02038
1:45 - Travel to Rehoboth – where Ezekiel’s mother, Bethiah Garnsey was born.
2:30- Make stops at as many of the following as there is time for:
(# Numbers refer to sites shown on the Rehoboth Map and Services Directory.)
7:00 - Travel to Hotel.
8:00 – Travel to Upton – Rt 140
9:30 - Travel to Grafton.
10:45 - Travel Rt 122 to Uxbridge. Ezekiel Johnson was born here.
12:30 Buy lunch in Uxbridge
1:30 - Travel through Douglas. Hartford Ave to Main St.
Bethiah’s family was warned out of town. Jonathan King and Bethiah Garnsey were married here.
2:00 Travel to New London, CT via I 395
3:30 Check into hotel
4:30 pm Travel to Ye Town’s Antientest Cemetery -Hempstead St. and Bristol St. - Ceremony to add new plaque to damaged marker and dedicate Bethiah Garnsey's grave.
7:00 pm – Buy Dinner in New London
8:30 pm – Travel back to hotel
Part 1 ends. People leaving took the train home from New London on Tuesday morning.
New London Union Train Station - 27 Water Street
8:00 am - Travel through Pawling, Dutchess County, New York where Ezekiel Johnson married his cousin, Lois Thayer. (2 hrs, 9 min, from New London)
10:10 Travel to Kortright, NY. Old Rt. 55 to Rt 55 to Taconic St. Parkway to Rt. 82 to Rt 9 to Rt. 23/Claverack Rd. (4 hrs and 28 minutes from New London to Kortright).
12:40 - Visit property donated by Ezekiel Johnson, son of Isaac & Susannah Johnson, for a cemetery. Off Rt 12 and North Rd. at Doonan’s Corner. 35 min. stop
1:15 Travel to Oneonta – by the Susquehanna River. –30 minute drive.Buy lunch in Oneonta. – Eat while traveling
2:15 - Travel to Seneca Falls, New York,
Church History Presentations on the bus.
5:30 - Visit the Peter and Mary Whitmer farm, 1451 Aunkst Rd, Waterloo, NY 13165 – Reservations made.
6:30 – Travel to Geneva, NY
6:45 - Buy dinner in Geneva, NY. – Eat on the Bus.
7:30 - Travel to Palmyra, N.Y. area.
8:00 am - Travel to 843 Stafford Road, Palmyra, New York 14522.
8:30--Walk through the Sacred Grove and enjoy--it is always open.
9:00-- Visit the Smith Farm Visitor’s Center
VCHCumorah@ldschurch.org 315-597-1671 hillcumorahvcbus@gmail.com
Take a 45 min. tour of Smith log home, frame home, etc.
10:00-- Travel out to see the Martin Harris home (no tour given just a couple of signs) 2095 Maple Ave., Palmyra, New York 1452
11:00--Grandin Printing Press 45 min tour 217 East Main Street, Palmyra, New York
Buy lunch in Palmyra. Eat on the bus.
1:00-- Travel to the top of Hill Cumorah and if any extra time go inside the Visitor Center at Hill Cumorah
1:30 - Travel to Pomfret, New York – birthplace of 9 Johnson children. (2 hrs. 30 min trip.)
4:00 pm - Stop for half an hour on Spoden Rd. by Canadaway Creek on turnout just past gated road on the Right.
4:30 pm - Continue South on Spoden St.. Turn Right on Darby Switch Rd.
5:00 pm - Continue on Rt 610/County Touring Rte 73 to Webster St.
5:45 pm - Take County Touring Rte 73 to Barker Commons on Main St. in Fredonia. Pictures at Pomfret City office at 11 Day St. Fredonia
6:00 pm – Buy Dinner in Fredonia. Eat on the bus.
6:30 pm - Bus departs for Mentor, Ohio. Ezekiel Johnson lived in Mentor.
9:00 pm – Check into hotel. in Kirtland/Mentor, Ohio.
8:00 am – Bus to the to the Johnson House, and hillside graves near the Visitor Center
9:30 LDS Visitor Center – (440) 256-9805 7800 Kirtland-Chardon Rd, Kirtland, OH
11:00 – Travel to the Morley Farm 8605 Chillicothe Rd, Mentor, OH
12:30 Buy lunch in Kirtland. (or lots of places in Mentor)
1:30 pm - Bus to the Kirtland Temple Visitor’s Center, 9076 Chillicothe Rd, Kirtland, OH 44094 Tour Fee $165. kirtlandtemple.org
2:00 pm - Reservation - Tour of the Kirtland Temple - 9020 Chillicothe Rd, Kirtland, OH 44094
4:00 pm – Travel to the John Johnson House
Return to hotel for the night.
Travel to Cleveland Hopkins Airport
End of Tour - Leave for home on individual schedules.