Bart Saxbe is a family historian. His research interests are (1) nineteenth-century Ohio, and (2) colonial southeastern New England. The latter concentrates on the Bowen family of Rehoboth, Mass.; the Walling family of Providence Co., R.I., and the Innes/Ennis family of Block Island, R.I., and Kingston, N.Y. He is happy to receive correspondence concerning these families, but does not take clients.

Selected publications

Books

Thomas Saxbe (1810–1860) and His Descendants (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1980).

Johann Genning (1818–1898) and His Descendants: A Toledo Family (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1988).

Richard Bowen (1594?–1675) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and His Descendants, 4 vols. (Hope, R.I.: Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 2011–2017).

nine chapters in: Helen Schatvet Ullmann, Western Massachusetts Families in 1790 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013).

Articles in periodicals

“Listeria monocytogenes and Queen Anne,” Pediatrics 49 (Jan. 1972): 97–101.

“Battle of the Transits: The Toledo War,” Timeline [Ohio Historical Society] 4 (Oct.-Nov. 1987): 2–11.

“John³ Walling of Glocester, Rhode Island, and his Wife, Hope⁴ Orne,” The American Genealogist 71 (Apr. 1996): 65–75.

“Family Reconstruction by Filling the Inside Straight: Joseph Walling of Sussex County, New Jersey,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 85 (Jun. 1997): 94–115.

“Thomas² Walling and His Way with Women: Seventeenth-Century Misconduct as an Aid to Identification,” The American Genealogist 73 (Apr. 1998): 91–100.

“Four Fathers for William Ennis of Kingston: A Collective Review,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 129 (Oct. 1998): 227–38.

“Who Was the Mother of James² Paule (1657-1724) of Taunton, Massachusetts?” The American Genealogist 73 (Oct. 1998): 312–15.

“Nineteenth-Century Death Records: How Dependable Are They?” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 87 (Mar. 1999): 42–54.

“The Letter(s) of the Law in Early New England,” The American Genealogist 75 (Oct. 2000): 276.

“Who Were the Parents of Hezekiah⁴ Herendeen? A Mystery Three-Quarters Solved,” Rhode Island Roots 26 (Dec. 2000): 109–12.

“Historical ‘Truth,’ Clothed and Naked: The ‘Peculiar Ways’ of Judith (Bowen) (Freeman) Arnold,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 89 (Sept. 2001): 99–110.

“Historic Ancestor—Thomas Shepard,” The Genealogist 16 (Fall 2002): 163-165.

“The German Origins of the Kleinhans and Kiefer Families of Northampton Co., Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 42 (Fall–Winter 2002): 327–28.

“The Unknown Parents of Daniel⁵ Walling, Grandson of Daniel³ Hix and James³ Walling,” Rhode Island Roots 29 (Mar. 2003): 1–8.

“Elizabeth (Waldo) (Brackett) (?Parris) Walker of Ipswich, Chelmsford, Billerica, Braintree, and Bristol, Massachusetts,” New England Historic Genealogical Register 157 (Jul. 2003): 199–208.

“Enigmas #20: Did Sarah³ Hatch Marry Obadiah² Wheaton of Milton and Scituate, Massachusetts?” The American Genealogist 80 (Jan. 2005): 68–78.

“New Old Information about the Family of Richard¹ Bowen of Rehoboth, Massachusetts,” The American Genealogist 84 (Jan. 2010): 65–67.

“Twenty-One Jabez Bowens,” Rhode Island Roots 36 (Jun. 2010): 57–78.

“Questions of Supremacy: The Mechanicsburg Rescue,” Timeline [Ohio Historical Society] 30 (Apr.-Jun. 2013): 16–23.

“What’s in a Name? The Ancestry of Margaret (Reading) Snider (1794–1885) of New Jersey and Ohio,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 104 (June 2016): 139–153.

“‘One [Bowen] Corpse Too Many:’ Jonathan Bowen (1780-1814) of Barrington, Rhode Island,” Rhode Island Roots 42 (June 2016): 59–68.

“Building the Bird’s Nest: The Ancestry of John and Sarah (Briggs) Bowen,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 105 (March 2017): 57–74.

“A Phantom Marvel: Morrill Bowen (1799–1857) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts,” The American Genealogist 89 (April 2017): 107–111.

“George¹ Lane of Rye, and a Lane Line from Westchester County Westward,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 148 (April 2017): 111–128; 148 (July 2017): 203–214; 148 (Oct. 2017): 283–293, 309–311.

“Golddiggers of 1868: Bowen Claimants to the Jumel Estate: Part One,” Rhode Island Roots 43 (June 2017): 58–90; Part Two, 43 (Sept. 2017): 124–151; Part Three, 43 (Dec. 2017): 193–198.

“Thomas¹ Clifton and His Daughters: Proven, Probable, and Proposed,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 172 (Winter 2018): 5–14.

“Alice (____) Briggs, Down the Rabbit Hole with James N. Arnold,” Rhode Island Roots 44 (March 2018): 17–22.