The Pied cow : the Chadbourne Family Association newsletter
(Online Content)

Semi-Annual

Roughly semiannual.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (summer 1983) -

Editor: George Freeman Sanborn, Jr.; Nancy Maze; Ted Chadbourne; Kitty Chadbourne.

Publication was suspended in 1998.

The Chadbourne Family Association Web site includes indexes.

Some issues were misnumbered.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Chadbourne (and variant spellings) families who descended from William Chadbourne (b. 1582) of Tamworth, England. He and his wife, Elizabeth Sparry married in 1609. William left England in 1634, on the ship "The Pied Cow," and landed at Cow Cove, in South Berwick, Maine. His sons, William Jr. and Humphrey, and his daughter, Patience also came to America. Patience married Thomas Spencer. William and his family lived in, and helped build many towns in the Piscatauqua River area. They lived in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island in the 1600-1700s. During the 1800s, some descendants moved to Canada, and to Arizona, California, Iowa, Maine, Oregon, Texas, and Wisconsin. Later families also lived in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec (Canada), Australia, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, Monaco, Russia, and in Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and elsewhere. Some have African American bloodlines. Some have American Indian bloodlines.

"The Pied Cow : the Chadbourn Family Association newsletter" vol. 1 no. 1 (summer 1983) - vol. 15 no. 2 (winter 1999/spring 2000) and index are also available on CD-ROM no. 806. All back issues may be viewed on the Chadbourne Family Association's Web site.

The Chadbourne Family Association was formed in 1982, at Bethel, Maine. It was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the State of Maine in January 1983, with its headquarters in North Waterborough, Maine. Membership, back issues in PDF format, and other information is available on their Web site.

A cumulative index is found on the CD version with a collection of back issues of the newsletters.