Priscilla Eaton Gumina was born and raised in New Hampshire, with roots in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Quebec. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Class of 1980, with a major in English, and earned her Master’s degree in Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University Graduate School of Education in 1981. She then pursued a career in higher education administration, working at Stanford University, Boston College, and the University of Rochester. Her interest in genealogy was inspired by her aunt, Annie Eaton, who seemingly out of the blue, delivered a box of Bible records, deeds, wills, and books to her college dorm room in the fall of 1976. Ten years later, Priscilla began compiling her family history, and then turned to writing genealogical articles. For more than twenty years, Priscilla (writing under her maiden name of Priscilla Eaton) has published extensively and frequently in many of the most respected genealogical journals, including The Genealogist, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The American Genealogist, American Ancestors, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, The Essex Genealogist, and The New Hampshire Genealogical Record, as well as several dozen articles over the years in The Maine Genealogist, where she serves as a Contributing Editor. In 2020 Priscilla published The Littlefield Genealogy: Descendants of Edmund Littlefield of Wells, Maine, Through Six Generations. This study of the family of a Great Migration immigrant to New England was awarded the Donald Lines Jacobus Award from the ASG. Priscilla lives in Rochester, New York with her husband, Gregory.

Books:

The Bragdon Genealogy: Descendants of Arthur Bragdon of York, Maine, Through Seven Generations, expected publication in 2023 by the Maine Genealogical Society.

The Littlefield Genealogy: Descendants of Edmund Littlefield of Wells, Maine, Through Six Generations, 2 vols. (Waterville, Maine: Maine Genealogical Society, 2020).

Articles:

“Thomas Burnside of Northumberland, New Hampshire,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Fall 2024.

“Peter and Nancy (Ford) Ripley, Early Settlers of Fairport, New York,” (with Ian Watson) New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, April 2024.

“Untangling the Shermans of Early Essex County, New York,” (with Valerie Harris) The Genealogist, Spring 2024.

“John Greenleaf Whittier’s ‘How the Women Went from Dover: 1662’ — The Genealogy of a Poem,” New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Fall 2023.

“Daughters of Liberty in 1774 Nottingham, New Hampshire,” The Genealogist, Spring 2023.

“Samuel and Jotham Nute, Settlers of Nute’s Ridge, Milton, New Hampshire,” New Hampshire Genealogical Record, February 2023.

“The Allard Family of Yamaska, Quebec and Champlain, New York, From Cultivateurs to Canal Boat Captains,” Lifelines, Journal of the Northern New York American Canadian Genealogical Society, February 2023.

“Mary (Pettengill) Granger and the Berwick Sponge Cake,” The Maine Genealogist, November 2022.

“Which Thomas Perkins of Arundel: Sr., Jr., 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, Capt., Ensign, or Esq.?” The Maine Genealogist, 44(Aug. 2022):111–125.

“George Darrow of Castine, Maine, and Canaan, New York: Philanderer, Bigamist, or Both?” The Maine Genealogist 44(May 2022):69–80.

“The 1773 Marblehead Smallpox Epidemic: Relationships Among the First Victims,” The Genealogist 36(Spring 2022):36–44.

“The Research Takes a Detour: The Amaziah Noble Family of Kennebunk, Maine,” (with Joseph C. Anderson II) The Maine Genealogist 44(Feb. 2022):25–33.

“The Funeral of Rhoda Littlefield of Frankfort, Maine,” (with Valerie Harris) The Maine Genealogist 43(Feb. 2021):25–32.

“Recollections of ‘Aunt Rachel’ Establish the Family of William Littlefield of Frankfort, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 43(Feb. 2021):33–38.

“Dr. Augustin Thompson, Maine’s Moxie Man,” The Maine Genealogist 42(Nov. 2020): 158–62.

“A Tale of Adultery in 1721: The Case of Abigail Morgan of Arundel, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 42(May 2020):69–81.

“Bathsheba Was Right: A 1724 Maine Case of Bastardy,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 174(Winter 2020):68–81.

“Paul Dudley of York, Maine: Tavern Keeper and ‘High Son’ of Liberty,” The Genealogist 34 (Fall 2020):171–90.

“Who was Brother Joseph’s Daughter, a 1703 Captive from Maine?” American Ancestors 21(Spring 2020):58–59.

“Littlefield-Eaton Family Relationships in New Hampshire and Maine: Evidence from Recently Discovered Civil War Era Letters,” The Genealogist 33(Fall 2019):258–71.

“Lighthouse Keepers of Goat Island, Cape Porpoise, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 41(Aug. 2019):117–26.

“The Sinful and Sorry James Nute of Dover, New Hampshire: His Sons and His Supposed Daughters,” The Genealogist 33(Spring 2019):118-35.

“Mainers ‘Round the Horn: Six Maine Members of the Suffolk and California Mutual Trading Company,” The Maine Genealogist 40(Nov. 2018):163–76).

“The Revolutionary War Pension File of Private Jonathan Knox (Nocks) of Berwick, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 40(Aug. 2018):148–58.

“Witchcraft in 1725 Maine: A Case of Slander,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 172(Spring 2018):107–20.

“The Storer Garrison of Wells and Its Owners: The Storer and Pope Families,” The Maine Genealogist 40(May 2018):82–96.

“Lafayette Stopped Here: Genealogies of the General’s American Hosts in Maine,” The Genealogist 32(Fall 2018):181–98.

“The Pierce Family of Kittery, Maine, and Their ‘Scandelous Defamations,” The Maine Genealogist 39(Nov. 2017):157–66.

“Wells Soldiers of Company 1, First Maine Cavalry,” The Maine Genealogist 39(Feb. 2017):3–24.

“Maine’s Last Witchcraft-Related Case: A Family Affair,” The Maine Genealogist 39 (May 2017):81–92.

“The Barque Isidore of Kennebunk, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 38 (May 2016): 66–80. ‘

“The Descendants of Walter/Hans and Elizabeth (Forrest) Dalzell of Londonderry, Ireland, and Wells, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 36 (Nov. 2014):157–72.

“Descendants of Pendleton Fletcher of Fletcher’s Neck, Winter Harbor, and Biddeford, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 35(Aug. 2013):123–39, (Nov. 2013): 187–92.

“Nineteenth-Century Records of the First and Second Congregational Churches of Wells, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 35 (Feb. 2013):29–40, (May 2013):93–96, (Aug. 2013):140–44, (Nov. 2013):187–92; 36 (Feb. 2014):37–46, (May 2014):90–96; (Aug. 2014): 142–44, (Nov. 2014):191-92; 37 (Feb. 2015):45–48, (May 2015):60–66.

“The Early Descendants of Adrian’ Frye of Frye’s Point, Kittery, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 34(Feb. 2012):17–27, (May 2012):67–78, (Aug. 2012):123–30, (Nov. 2012):181-85.

“The Descendants of Nathan Lord of Kittery and Berwick, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 33(Feb. 2011):3–20, (May 2011):71–88, (Aug. 2011):132–42.

“The English Origin of Nathan’ Lord of Kittery, Maine: With an Account of the Conley Family of Cranbrook, Kent, England, and the Ancestry of Abraham Conley of Kittery,” (with Joseph C. Anderson II) The American Genealogist 84(April 2010):81–94.

“The Maxwell Family of Scotch Hill, Ogunquit, and Wells, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 32(May 2010):77–90, (Aug. 2010):115–30, (Nov. 2010):184–90.

“Children Without Parents: A Puzzling Entry in the Wells, Maine, Town Records, The Family of Captain John Hatch” (with Gerri Yerkes) The Maine Genealogist 31(May 2009):27–34.

“The Family of Captain John Bourne of Wells and Kennebunk, Maine: Ships and Shipwrights,” The Maine Genealogist 31(Feb. 2009):25–41.

“The Family of Joseph Hobbs of Berwick and Wells, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 29(Aug. 2007):120–32, (Nov. 2007):174–86.

“Descendants of Captain Joshua Bragdon (1743–1792) of Wells, Maine, The Maine Genealogist 28(Aug. 2006):99–116, (Nov. 2006):175–85.

“The Obligation of Lemuel Richardson Jr. of Farmington, New Hampshire,” (with Marcia Rines Kothman) The New Hampshire Genealogical Record 22(April 2005: 49–60.

“The Worn Entry in Master Tate’s Diary: Sarah (Roberts) (Hall) (Cushing) Lord of Somersworth, New Hampshire, and Berwick, Maine,” (with Lennard Lemmon) The Maine Genealogist 26(May 2004):65–72.

“The Two Joseph Russells of Waterboro and Alfred, Maine,” (with Frederick R. Boyle) The American Genealogist 79 26(Jan./April 2004):135–53.

“The Family and Ancestry of Elisha Hatch of Wells, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 26(Feb. 2004):3–14.

“Descendants of William Eaton of Wells, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 24(Aug. 2002):122–34, (Nov. 2002):174–85); 25 (Feb. 2003):31–42.

“Catherine, Wife of Samuel Yeaton of the Isles of Shoals and Falmouth, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 23(Aug. 2001):113–15.

“The Ancestry of Margaret (Williams) Littlefield of Wells, Maine,” The Maine Genealogist 23(May 2001):70–72.