DATA CONCERNING THE FAMILIES
-OF-
Bancroft, Bradstreet, Browne, Dudley. Emerson, Gamble, Goodridge, Gduld. Hartsnorne, Hobson, Kbmp, Kendall, Metea.lf, Nichols, l'arker, Poole, Sa:vtell, Wainwright, Woodman, etc., et.c.,
-IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA,
I 1277 TO 1906, A. D.
COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES
-BY-
THOMAS GAMBLE, JR.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Member of the New England Historic Genea.log1cal Society, Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, Society of Colonial Wars, and SociP.ty Son~ of the Revolution.
PRINTED FOR THE SU BSCRIBEKS, 1906.
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The Old Manse at Qroton, Mass., Erect~d for R.:v. nud/ey Rradstreet In 1106. The lean-to has give,,, way to the L, but the main structure remains as two centuries at,o. Lieut. JJudley Bradstreet was born here on March 12, 1108.
"If a man says that he does not care to know where his grandfather lived, what he did, and what were that grandfather's politics and religious creed,it can merely mean that he· is incflpable of taking interest in one of the most in. teresting.torms of human knowledge--the knowledge.oi the details of the past. "--The Spectator.
Those for whom this volume has been compiled are direct descendants of the sturdy, liberty-loving, Ood-fearing Puritan founders of Boston, Cambridge, Newbury, Ipswich, Watertown, Reading, Andover, Haverhill, Oroton, Lunen burg and other Massachusetts cities and towns. It has not been the endeavor to embrace a wide scope,but rather to pre pare concise biographical and genealogical data, that, while it might be of some broader interest, would be mo!e particu larly valuable to a few of those who trace their ancestry to the fountain sources of American life mentioned herein. With all their faults--and they do not appear so great when we consider the spirit of the times in which they Iived--the world can yet, with Whittier say, despite the sneers of some shlillow critics of today, "Thank Ood for the Puritans." THOnAS OAMBLE, JR.
THE PURITAN.
•'Th-e New England Puritans came to establish a firm, stable and Chris tian govern.ment, and they were far-seeing enough to know that such a na tion must have for its foundation stones Religion and Education."
The salvation of American character is due to the continual reassertion of the old Puritan spirit.-Bishop Henry Potter.
No one begins to understand America who does not appreciate its ear nestness and its ideaUsm. The old Puritan doctrine may have been modified, but the Puritan spirit still remains. In a. thousand ways it affects and per mEates the great mass of newcomers almost unawares,. It is a spirit to which men are of more moment than things; before which there shines always the ideal of a nation built upon righteousness.-Hon. Seth Low.
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CONTENTS.
FOR INDEX SEE PAGES 233 TO 239.
CHAPTER. PAGES.
THOMAS DUDLEY., Colonial Governor of Massachusetts ...... 1-28 JOSEPH DUDLEY, Royal Governor of Massachusetts 1702-14 ...... 29-40 SIMON BRADSTREET Colonial Governor of Massachusetts ...... 41-56 AfNE DUBLEY BRADSTREET., America's First Poetess (1612-1672) ...... 57-68 OLD BRADSTREET HOME, An.dover, Massachusetts .•...... 69-75 COL. DUDLEY BRA1'STREET, of Andover, Mass. (16~-1702) ...... 76-78 _RE,·. DUDLEY BRADSTREET, of Andover and Groton, Mass. (1678-1714) ... 79-82 LIEuT. DUDLEY BRADSTREET, of Groton, Mass. (1707-1750) ...... 83-86 THE WAINWRIGHT FAMILY, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Massachusetts . . 86-96 'fHE BROWNE FAMILY, of Tolethorpe Manor and Swan Hall, England, and Watertown, Massachusetts, ( 1330-1905) ...... 97-112 LIEUT. WII.LIAM LAKIN, of Groton, Mass. (1625-1700} ...... 113-11~ THE GoULD FAMILY IN ENGLAND AND EARLY MASSACHUSETl'S ...•...... 119-12~ 1.'JIE WOODMAN, STEVENS, GooORJDGE AND ADAMS FAMILES IN EARLY MAss. 130-138 THE METCALF FAMILY IN ENGLAND AND EARLY MASS.A,CHUSETTS ...... 139-143 POOLE-NICHOLS GENEALOGY ...... •••...... ••. 144-145 PARKER GEN''EA..IA:)(}.Y •••••••••••.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 146-153 TI!OM:AS KENDALL, of Lynn and Reading, Mass., and His Eight Daughters • 154-155 B~CROJT GEN'EA.IA:)(3,Y .•..•...... ••....••...... ••.. 156-157 HARTSHORNE GENEAWGY ..•...... •..•...... ••...... •...•.... 158 11HE KEMP FillILY, of Groton, Mass., and Gorham, M·aine, ( 1658-1905) l59-l 7i Tin SAWTELL i.~AYILY at Groton, Mass., (1655-1905) ...... 178-185 EMERSON GENEAI.OGY ...... 186-191 HEROIC EXPLOIT OF HANNAU DUSTON ...... 192-199 'l'HE GAMBLE FAMILY at Burton Overy, Eng., and in America ( 1277-1905) 202-221 1'HI~ HoBSO~ FAMILY at Great Glen, England ...... 222-231 GENEALOGICAL CHARTS. GENERAL CHART, America, 1630-1905, facing page 1. PEDIGREE OF BROWNE, England and America, 1330-1905 A. D., facing page 97
ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Old Man5€ at Groton. Mass...... - ...... ii. Seal of Go,·. Thomas Dudley ...... 1 .. Twin Brothers,., Stones Marking Boundaries Estates of Qoyernors Win- throp and Dudley' ...... 14 D1tdley Arms ...... 17 Memorial Tablet Entrance Old Roxbury, Mass.. Burial Ground ...... 20 FResimile Gov. Thomas Dudley's Signature ...... 22 Tomb of Governor Thomas Dudley ...... , ...... 24 lnsignia Gov. Thom·as Dudley Fam-ily A.:sociation ...... 25 Harding~tone Church, Northampton, England ...... 27
Seal of Governo•r Joseph Du1dley ...... 2!} Seal of Go"·· Simon Bradstreet ...... __ .. _ . _ ... ____ . _ . _ ...... 41 H<>·rbling Church, Lincolnshire, England ...... 42 The Bradstreet Arms ...... - ...... 4(; Portrait of Gov. Simon Bradstreet ...... 4B Bradstreet House at Salem ...... 5-1 F3csimile of Gov. S-imon Bradstreet"s Signature ...... _...... , 5ti Anne Dudley Bradstreet. an Ideal Portrait ...... uo Fac~imile of Letter from ..\nne Bradstreet to Her Son ...... tifi-67 Old Bradstreet Home at Andover. Mass...... _ ...... 70 Wai11 '\\·rigbt .~rms ...... St, Br c;wne Arms ...... US All Saints-· Church, Stamford. England ...... 100 Interior All Saints· Church ...... 1O:! Browne's Hosp:tal. Stamford. England ...... IO-! Swan Hall, Hawked.on, England ...... IOH Facsimile of Petition for Grant of Groton.. Mass...... l l ;> Fac-E-.imile Funeral Invitation John A. Parker ...... 1:!1 \ ,. c-c:dman .<\rms ...... I ;~o G?·ave of Jo3hua \\·00dman. Newbury. Ma ~s...... 1:tl Goodrich (Goodridge) Arn1s ...... 1 ;;-, M~ tcalf J\.rms ...... I ~11 F2c·simile Nlarria2;e Certiticate of John G. ParkE'r and Meh tahel Sawtel1 1-IS FH(·sirnile :Vlarriage Certiticat.€' Henry Faurn.:e, Sr.. and l\'lary Harky . . . . l .,P Page. F2csimile Marriage Certificate Henry Faunce and Mary A. Parker . . . . 151 F~csimHe Marriage Certificate Thomas Gamble and Mary A. E. Faunce .. J52 Facsimile Marriage Certificate Thomas Gamble, Jr., and Florence 0. Kil- ~trick ...... 153 Powder Horn Carried by Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., in Revolutionary War .. 165 Emei-son Arms ...... _ ...... 186 Emerson Graves at Marlboro, ·N. H...... 188 Monument to Hannah Duston., at Haver.hill, Mass.· ...... 194 Monument to Hannah Duston, at Concord, N. H ...... 196 Map of Gartree Hundred, Leicestershire, England ...... 203 Fa.csimUe Portion of Subsidy Roll of 1327 A. D. Showing Peter and It.ob- ert' Gamyl Paying Tax at Burton Overy., England ...... 204 FacsimHe of Portion of Record of Court of View of Frank Pledge, of 1501 A. D., showing Robert Gamull Fined ...... ••...... •.. 206 Facsimile of Will of Henry Gamble, of Burton Overy, August 13, 1582 .. 208 Chu1ch or St. Andrew, Burton OVery, England ...... 210 Facsimile of Naturalizati:on Paper or Thomas Gamble, 1815 A. D ....•.. 213 Tombstones of Gam,ble Family., Burton Overy, England ...... 221 St. Cuthbert's Ohureh, Great Glen, Leicestershire, England ...... 224 Tombstone of 'l'homas and Mary Hobson, Great Glen, England ...... 228 Old Hobson Home, Great Glen. England ...... 230 THOMAS DUDLEY, COLONIAL GOVERNOR OF rlASSACHUSE'I IS.
l'fhis brtefsketch was compiled from ··The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley," b,· Aue:ustine .Jones. A. M., L. L.B. (Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston. Mass. 1900. pp 4~), ai1. exhausUve study of the career of t.he second governor of the colony. The language ls largt"> ly that of Dr• .J ones,and some 1llustrattons are reprod.aced with h1s consenc.. Dr• .Jones is now a resident at Newton Highland~, Mass.-Tnomas Gamble. Jr.)
Hol\IAS DUDLEY was born at T X ortha1npton, Eugla:!d. 1n 1576. He wa~ the only son of Capt. Roger Dudley~ ,vho was killed in the bat tle of Ivry.in which, in 1690, Henry IV, of i--rance, gained a decided victor_y over Mayenne. This Capt. Roger Dudley h11d received his comm1ssion from Quee-n Eliza.beth, and was an ardent supporter of the Protest.a.at ca.use, as his dPscend an ts were afterwe.rd. He was a descendant of the first Baron Dud ley, wbo died in 1488, and was de- , scended fron1 the same ancestry as * SEAL 014"" GOV. 'l'J:1.V.M.A:-i, DUDLEY. John Dudlev. .. . Duke of Northum- berland, both brunches using the same eottt of arms. (S~e Adla.rd's ''The Sutton-Dudleys of England, and the Dudle_ys of M~~achusetts.") Capt. Roger Dndle~~ is accredited a~ being ... n. k1ns1nan of Sir Philip Sydney, who was contemporaneous with hiln, and whose 1nother was l\[ar~· Duclley, eld est daughter 0f .Jot.n Du(ltt.•y, Duke of :Sorthutnberland. rrhornas Dudle_y, his son, the subsequent Governor of l-las!"achuset.ts B:1.y Colony, lo~t his n1other at an early age., and his f,t-tber when he \\-·as
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* The Dudley arms! as shown on Governor Thomas Dudley's seal, attached to his will. The coat of arms o his son, Governor .Joseph Dudley who, while Uv1ng in England. lti\J.~-170-2, was Lieutenant Goveruor of the Isle of W'lght, and memt>er of Parliament for s~veral years, is given t,lsewhere Both show the 11011 rampant, with a crescent for differ ence. Tht, sa1ne arms were used b~· the two branches of the Dudley family, both desct-ud t'd from th~ first Baron Dudl~y. who died in 14..~.
l I> but fourteen. A year or two later hP beca.1ne page of Lord Cotnpton, after ward Earl of Northampton. When 21 years old he received a co1nmis sion fro1n Q.ueen Elizabeth for service in the Protestant cause in France, under Henry of Nhvarre~ under whom his father had done loyal service. The troop of which he was captain took p~rt in th~ siege of Amiens in 1697, and returned to Englana after the Edict of Nant~s was announced, in 15~8. About 1600 he was mar.·ied to Miss Dorthy Yorke, (born 1582), daughter of Edmond Yorke, Esq., of Uotto!l Eud. Northampt1on, their first child, Sam uel, being baptized at All Saints Church, Northa1npton, November 30. 1608. Mather described Dudley's wife, Dorthy Yorke, as a hgentlewoman, both of good estate and good extraction." For the next sixteen years, ( 1600-16) rrbo1na8 Dudley ,vas clerk or secretary to Sir Augustine Nicolls, .Judge of the Co1nn1on Plea.~, and then Cha.ncL.llor to the Prince of ·Wales. Judge Nicolls was a kinstna.n of Dud l~y's mother~ and throuJ?h this va lua.hle connect.ion h~ ~ecnred a thorough insight into the law. Shortly after the dc•uth of Judge Nicoll~ iu 1616 Dud l~v became ~teward t.o rl'heoplulul-1 Clinton, fourth Earl of Liucoln. at Se1n pringham, Lincolnshire, a hot bed of Pur1t.anlE,m, in which he ha.:I already been \\"di inoculated through Judge Nicolls and othe1s or his mother's kinsfolk. Dudley remained as ste,va.rd to the Earl of Lincoln until 162-1. rrhe est.ates wert:: heavily involved, but under his judiciou~ maus.ge'llent all claims were liquidat~d, uthe Earl and his estates sent on thair ,va.y rejoic ing," and yet, as Dudley wrote~ ~'He had R-11 tne time walkei in the integ rity of his heart before God." Dudley's relations with the Earl WPre so close, and of such a confidential DJ:\ture, that to hhn was entrusted thP. hp~o curing a 1natcb between the aaughter of Lord Saye and the Earl", which resulted in thetr marriage, she ~•provi11g a. great blessing to the whole fami ily, '' according to l\ilather. The household of the Ea.rt of Lincoln i~ dt:scribed as •la ve1 y bot b~ 2 IJ l\lansfeld for the recovery of the Palatinate, he isent for Dudley to come to London and make tht arrangements for the expedition, in which the Earl was to c-om1nand a_ regin1ent of foot anct two troops of horse. )Ir. Dudley dissuaded the Earl from taking any part in the ill-starred enterprhe. The next year ( 1626) the Earl resisted the forced loan den1anded by Charles I anct published and distributed an abridge1nent of the English statutes, of which Dudley, through his long n,cquaintance with the courts and law, was doubtless the cotnpiler. The Earl was seized and kept a close prison~r in t.he 'rower for some years as a result. At Sempringham. too, Dudley pro bably met Rogers Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, in whose expul• sion fron1 ~.lassachusetts he was subsequently to play so important a part: John Cotton; Hooker, the founder of Connecticut, and other figures pronunent in the early history of New England. uNoth1ng ot importance," says ~lather, "was done at Sempringhatn without Dudley." Here Dudley enjoyed the friendship and confidence of Lord Comi,ton, of Lord Saye, of r~aac Johnson, John Hu1nphreys, Hand a great number of the most emineut a.nd learned n1en of his time, who were fri~nds and associates with Crom well, Hampden ancl Pym." John Ha1upden. Winthrop and Dudley were the executors named in the will of Isaac Jobnson, the Earl of Lincoln's brother-in-law, which su~gests their int.imate relations. HW1th the advantage of great conn~ction, of wide and varied obsP.rva t1on in hfe, brimful of the best quality ot experience in every direction, in 111s riPEf mature age.'' Dudley joined the great move1nent of Puritans to the New World. So soo:i as he was assured that the Charter hs.d been secured and would go with the colony, he east in his lot with it, although then M years of a.ge and with five children, Samuel, the oldest, being then 20 years of age. Cro1uwell and Ha1npden, it has beeu claimed and disputed, had in tended uniting with the colony also, but were, fortunately tor England, de tained and never can1e. Mather says: ••\Vhen the enterprise for New England began to be set forth Mr. Dudley en1braced that opportunity and so resolved to leave England and travel over the SP.a into this dessert of A1nerica that there he n11ght w1t.h other nonconfor1nists enjoy his hbert; ( of worship) to t.hP- uhnost of what he desired." A royal charter was grant ed lla.rch 4, 1628 (29) i'r.corporating the Go,·ernor and Con1pany of l\Iassach usetts Bay. On Ma.rch 22, 1630~ four ships of the fleet sail,:.d fron1 South a1npton. On the Arbella, ot H50 tons, carrying 28 guns and 52 1nen, were the beautift1l Lally Arbella John~on, sister of the Earl of Lincoln, and her husband Isaac Johnson, Governor John \Vinthrop and two of his sons; Sir Rich~rd Saltonstall .. his three sons and two da.ughters; Rev. George Phil lips and wife, \Yillia.111 Coddington and wife, and Deputy Uovernor Thotnas ~ D l>udl<"'Y, with one ~011. ~atn nel, nnd four 1 ,vere within the walls of the ·'Great Hou.se ' of the colony. Ct)nstructed for a residence for defence, storage and public gatherings uot over large. But here and now, at the conclusion of the religious services, Governor ,vin t.hr')p, I>eputy Governor Dudley, Isaac Johnson. and John WIison, with 1uany others, both n1en and won1en~ put their na1nes to the following Cove nant: ·'In the na1ne of our Lord Jesus Christ. and in Obedience to His holy will and Divine Ordinance. ,ve, whosH names a1·e llereunder written, being by his n1o~t wise and good ProYidence brought together into this part of Amenca in the Ba.y of l\Iassach usetts, and desirous to unite ourselves into o.1e congr<~gation or Chnrch, under the Lord J e8us Christ, in such sort ns hP.co1neth all t.hose who1n He Ha.th Redeetned and 8a.nctified to Hitns~lf. do hercbr sole1nnly and religiously (as in Hi~ 1nost holy Presence) protn i:-;e and hind ourselYes to walk in all our ways accordi'lg to the Rule of th<:" Oospf-1.and in all sincere Conforn1ity to His holy Ordina.nc~i-;. and in n1utual Io,·e an •l ] ) '·partly out of dislike for the go\.,.frn1n~nt which restrained aPd punished their exc.. ~sses and partly through fear of fa1nine, ,. returned to Europe. HThe fortitude of the uthers," S9J s Jones. ~'was stupPndous i11 the face of starvation and death,without houses or homes,and winter rapidly approach ing, the n1erc1less ocean in front of the1n. and th~ unknown and n1s~terions forest bPhind -~-hem, their r:u1ks daily deci1nated by disease, and, last. of all, seeing the departure and ]e8ertion of a hundred at a time, in total disconr agetnent and disgust., of persons who had consecrated their lives to the en terprise, and who now lik~ cowa.rds were 1nadly seeking a place of retreat and 8afety ." 'fhere were left. by the end of October, 1630, of the five chief pro1notors but the Governor, Sir Ric.hard Saltonstall, and 1,honias DudlPy, and seveu others of the assistants. And of the people "'ho c,,me over with thetn, from the tilne of setting of sail in April until the Hece1nher f0Jlowin1r, t.here died, by estitnation, about two hundred at leasr,. '"Well, yet." ,vrote rrho1na.s Uudley, ·~they who survived were not dis cour~ged, hut bearing God's corrections "pith hu1nilitv, and trusting in His mercies.and considering ho\\.... after a lower ebb.He had raised up our neigh bor~ at Plymouth.'' Dudley, in 1635, sold his ho1ne in Cambridge. He then went ,vith his son-in-law. Simon Bradstreet, his son-in-law, Major-General Daniel I>eni son, and his oldest son, :3amuel, to Ipswich. Other citizens of Can1bridge went ,vith them. Dudley re1nained there only four years, and then remov ed to Roxbury, where he would be n~arer the seat of govern1nent,and there resided during the remainder of his life. This last change took place the year before h,e ,vas again governor, in 1640, which politieal office may have influenced some,vhat his ren1oval to Roxbury. Cotton Mather gives the reasons for this change, as follows: 44 The couutry soon found a need of his ,visdom to hfllp to strengthen them in that storm of trouble that began to arise hn1nediately after his ren1oval (to Ipswich in 1635) soas the necessitv of the government and in1portunlt.v of friends, enforced hitn to return back t·wo or three years after his going away. 'l.,he town he returned unto ,vas callHd Roxbury, ,vithin two 1niles of Boston, where he ,vas near at hand to be counseled ur advised with i11 any exigency; divers of which did presently appenr after his return; of hin1 it wa~ verified ,vhat the poet saict: \~irtue111 presentem odunus. sublata1n ex oculis quaerilnus 111- vitis. Hlt has also been sa1a that Dudley removed to Roxbury to pJace himself under the administrations of Eliot,the apostle to the Indian~. 'rheir houses were on opposite sid~s of the ~amt street, and they were associated in the sa1ne church. The Dudley ho1nestPad. contatning between iiv-e and six acre~, la.y behveen what are no,v ,vaslnngton and Bnrtlf->tt ~treets, on 6 D the south., and Roxbury street, on the north, extending tro1n Guild Row to Putnam street. The house aud hon1e of Dudley was on the sit.e long occu pied by the First Un1vP-rsahst Church. This was the house on ,vhich Dud ley in 1646 secured a perpetual tribute to the Roxbury Latin School, at its . foundation. The old man8ion was razed to the ground a few days after the battle of Bunker Hill, and its brick basement walls, factng north and east, made the angle of the work that was erecte.t by the Americans. ;3ome ill feeling for a titn~ existed between Governor Winthrop and Deputy Governor Dudley, growing of Winthrop's failure to adhere t,0 his promise as to the location of his housf>. Winthrop's assertion of preroga tives which ,vere not regarded as inherent in hiln under the charter. also for a, thne brought friction bet\\~een hitn and Dudley. In August, 1632, .Oud ley protested strongly before the Elder8 of t-he abuse or extension of author ity by ,vinthrop, 1n w·hich stand Dudley ,va.s subsequently sustained by the Elders. Winthrop afterwards wrote: uN ohvithstanding thod heat of conten tion which had been bt,tween the Uovernor and the JJeputy they ever after kept peace and good correspondiug together., in love and friendship." As Jones says, "they lived and wrought together sixteen more ev~ntful years in beat1t1ful harmony, w·ithout a record of strife or variance until Governor Winthrop died, in 1649. Their honor and renown is a part of the wealth and hel'ita.ge of their countrv. ,. On May 14, 1684:. Dudley ,vas chosen Governor u1 place of Winthrop, a.t. which time the capitol \\"as re111oved by him to Cambridge. Dudley was elP.cted by the political chdnge which elevated the freemen &s representa tiv1:1s and was in a measure a rehuke to "·1nthrop's evident inclination to assu1ne arbitrary power_in his own hands. In June, 1682, the General Court ordered that two hunared acres of land on the we~t side of the Charles river, over against the Ne,v 'fown. should be set aside ·~to enjoy to Thornes Dad• ley, Deputy Governor. to hhn and his heirs for ever." Dudley had contin ued in this office as Deputy until his elevation to th~ chief magistracy of the colony to succeed Winthrop. hit would be difficult to overesti1nate the great stanility and force of character which these two men contributed to t.his com1nonwealth. 1t.nd thence tlirectly t,0 the con1n1onwealt.h of Eng land." says JonP,~. "'Allow a.11 honor to John Cotton and the 111inisters in general, as an advisory force and guide to the 1n~aning of the Scrip~ures, and even oft.he law, a.nd yet the exeet1tive wisdotn was in the 1nagistra,t~s. to discern i.hP. right way and to walk and direct otl.ers t-0 "·a.lk therein wi~h . fidelity ,and a courage which could withstftnd thP annointed m1,11ster8 if rea son dictated that course,and tell the1n to keep their allotted pince and reign in their own bai1iw1ck. 'J'here ren1ained as early as !fl36, wt.en the eolony ; H was hut six ..vears old. onlv. three of that Court of A:--~istant:-- which n1tit on boa.rd nf the Arbella,~f arch 23.1629,thu last Conrt in En~land.which electf>d Dudley Deputy Governor. 'rheRe WP,re \\:rint.hrop~ Dndley, and bis i;;;on-in law Bradstreet, who was the last goveruor under the first eharttir in 1679, and was young and of less Wf'ight until the ancient worthies had aisappearPd. ,vinthrop went to his final rest in 1649.and Dudlt·y ~urYiYf>d him four years~ a.nd was governor again in 1650. But how these two inen tower in impor tance above all others in the col011v... Thevw were ~o constantlv.. in office.and so united and con1bined in the service of the co1nn1ou" ea Ith, that their labors and achievements are ah~olutely im,wparable. * * * * This eltction on May 14. 1634, wa~ an exceedingly important one. Dudlt>y up to this time had lived and labored always u1:..derthe shadow of \V1nthrop. He had been constantlv second· and ":inthrop first. But now he wc.s elevated by the ~mf frages of the peoplt above Winthrop in the governor:--hip. This indorse- 1nent by the people was of special in1portance to him, beean~e it was a vin dication of himself in his controvers.v with Winthrop. Tl1e Rev. Mr. Cot ton was an earnest supportt-r of Winthrop. The Rev_ ~Ir. Hooker, who did not cherish Cotton with great warn1th, was no douht on the ~ide of Dud ley. Both Hooker and H~ynP-s lived at Cambridge with DudlPy and w~re no doubt his friends and ~upporters And this !,an1e spirit behveen the ~atne persons continued u11til Hooker retired to Conn•~ctieut in 16a6 and Dudley to lp~wich in 1635. The Hutchinson and Roger ,villiam~ st.ru~gle in 1636 united th~ fa.ction~ against thf'U" conunon enemies and we hear noth ing n1ore about Ullplc~ai-.a.ntness and jtalou~ies uetwee,1 Winthrop and Dud ley." '·It is ,v~n to observe that Dm.lley believed with nil his heart 1n rota tion in office. '!,hey had esc-aped from a land of hereditary and one rnan power and had espoJsed the ~oYernment h~- the whole church going people who were believe~( to cnnta.L1 the virtue and intelhgence of thP. eom1nunit~:--, :n1d he was anxiou~ tnat they might not drift back into t.heir old way of of fic~ for life, which see1ned to be the idea of Cotton nnd also of \Vinthrop." Dudley was elected governor four tnue~. 111 1634, 1640, 16-15, and lft,i}O. 'l'he flr~t election ever held in Amenca hy the direct voice of tht-' peo l)le wa~ that held in 1631. HJt was held in t.hc old F1r~t :\le~t.ing Houst-,and the courteouH but deteate LO I> lian1s i~ rt=>prP~P.nted a.s lib(irty enlightening t'1e ,vorld, a.nd Dudley as a re strictI,·e. Roul-bou nd bigot. There is no quest.ion that DJ c-onfidenc~ 0 verywhere, drew emigrauts and made the other NP-w England eoloniPS possihlP-, and has bPen the generic 1nodel in a la.rge meai;;ure in the constru<•tion of AmPrican stat~s a.ncl of the genera.I government. itself. Roger ,Villi:nn~.whose great~st work was tt.e sEcuring of the pa.rlia1nentary char t.P: of Rhod~ I~land-not a satisfactory one-through the friendship of Harr.\· "'\Tane, the Enrl of Warwick, and oth~rs, was a kind-hea.rt.eq., good, PV ~n grrn.t man, but he cou Ll not endure restraint; he would not live even in cl 1 nrl"h liln1tat.ons which hf' had creat.f) '"rif"s. At the se~si1ln of 1636 'it wa8 ordPrt->d that the General Con rt should, trotn tilne to ti1n ..... as oc(•a~ion n,quired, elect. a certain number of mngis t.rc1t•·8 for life. It is thought that thi~ -~~tanding Council'~ was crei:tted to induc<" the uohility and e1ni11e.nt: peot'le of England to con1e to Ainerica.,and w:ls de~igned to open the wa.J· for enjoyment of titlt=-s of rnnk and nooility 11 D in t.hi~ c·01:11try. Tlic•l't' Wf•l'c· h1H ftu1r u1e111lwr~' or t Iii~ Sta1Hti11g,. CouucH for life, Vane. ,vinthrop, Dudley and Endicott. The institution was repugnant to i.he sentim':.>nts of the rna8s of 8et.tlers and they finally wre:-:b d froin it every se1n hla11ce of au tbority or pow,•r. A 11 the c.-ontroYer~y about. t hf; Standing Coundl, howe,·er, did not in the ln,;.;t. rrhe RUCCPeding- year (1638) ''"inthrnp and Dudley w·ere a.gain eJectPord northward, ··the ~aiJ governor to have lli~ twelve hundrP rn I> - . -~:>·~r~· -~~;;~.;r_.~ - ·.~---~- ··,. ·~-~,:~~·.... _~,'...."-••·-:~-'> ~ ' , ~~~_I~· - , r: ~ -_i\~. ~ ~""'-rt.•_· .-,~ -~-~- : ·ti,: '·:~- .,. ... -~-~·~ ~;·1~\~~~s. ·~ . ~· • . ·.. . . •:,,,,.;.: ;N •', ,er . ·• :, ,. -.,; -=', - - t -- - -,-.~· - 4 ~-- \ ~. ·;J~ .. ,. ~~~' ',~' 't !. "Two Brothers/' Stones on Concord River, Mass., 1narking Boundaries of Estates Granted Governors Winthrop and Dudley in 1633. rrho;;;e v·<·ry storws rPtnain in thfl t.own of Bedford, little c·hanged, and the Bedford Historical Society, in 1894, cut in large letters the name of ,vinthrop in the stone whicn ,vas, in 1638, next to his land, and in the ~a1ne 1nanner the 11a1ne oi Dudley in the other stone, with the sa1ne date, 1638. In Ills Journ~.l \\"inthrop says: HSo at the pince where the deputy's land was to begin, tlH~:a.-e were two great stones, which they called the •'rwo Brothers', 1n remembr~nce th~t they wer~ brothers by their children's mar riage, and did so brotherly a~ree, :lnd for that a IIttle creek near those stonPs was to part their lands." 'rhomas Dudley was elected gov~rnor fnr the second thne 1n 16-10. '""inthrop says: '"S01ne trouble there had been in 1nakin5 way for his elec tion and 1t wHs obtained with so1ne difficulty, for many of the elde:·s labor ed n1nch in it, fearing lest the long continuance of one tnan in the place should bring it to he for life, and in thne hereditary. Besides, this gen nernan (Dud le)•) ,vas a man ot approved wisdon1 anct goctlines~,a.nd of 1nuc.~h good service to the country, nnd therefore it ,vas hi~ due to share in ~uch honor and l>Pnefit a:-; the country had to be~tow." Sornething of the H,·ain potnp and glory of the ,vorld" wa~ retnined even among the Puritans. By order of the Gener lZi I> be paid 1n corn, cattle, fish~ or other commodities. at such rates a~ the Gen eral Court should fron1 thne to tin1e e~ta.bli~ll, but this applied only to debts co1~tracted before a certain date. Laws were passed for avoidi:ig fraudu lent conveyances and for the appointment. of rersons to take deeds. aud also that "all lands and heritages should be free fro1n all fines and licenses upon alienations, and from all heriots, wardships, liveries, prin1er seisins, year, day and waste, escheats, and forteitures, upon the death of par~nts, or an cestor~, be they natural, casual, or judicial." All versons of the age ·of 21, of right und(:rstanding, were e111powered to make their wills and testaments and other lawful aliena.tions of their lands and estates. Lowell says: "The ml:!n who gave every man a chance to beco1ne a land holder, who made the transfer of land easy, and put kuow!edge within the reach of alL have been call~d narrow minded, because they were intol ..-rant. But intolerant of what? Of what they beheved to be dangerous non~ense, which if l~ft free would destroy the last hope of civil and relig ious fre~don1." By this time (1640) 1t is estimated that twenty thousand Puritat1s had come into the ~olony. 'l,he great rebellion in England stopped this influx, and it is said that from that tin1e to the American revolutiOil more 1nen 1·e turned to England fr,nn An1erica. than came thence to this country. Bellingha1n succeeded Dudlty as Governor, and ,va~ in turn ~ucceP-d ed by Winthrop. In 1648 came the politicai contederation of the four prin cipal colonies of N e,v England~ following the suggestion u1acle by Ply1nout.h Colony. '1,1.e Governor, ~Ir. Dndley, his son-in-law Bradstre~t, Capt. Gib bons and Mr. Hawthorne were chosen by Ply1nouth to treat with Connecti cut, New Haven and Plym0uth about a confederacy, which has been de scribed, a.s the prototype and fir~t beginni:ig of t.he United States of A 1ner ica. rrhe Article~ of Conferation were subscribed to on May 9 bv the com missioners of three of the colonies, those of Plymouth sub~cribing a. little later. The colonies were represented by two persons fro1n each of them, and were equal in the confederacy in matters of voting. Massachusetts. though, was larger in population aucl wealth than all of the ot.l1er colonies; her n1ora.l influence had greater weight in directing the actions ot the con federacy tha.n that. of any other colony, a prestige ,vhich she n1a1ntainPd far down in the history of the republic. Winthrop was chosen first president, and again in 1645, while Tho1nas Dudley was also twice president. of the Confederacy, in 1647 and 1649, The eminence of these two rnen was recog nizect throughout the four colonies. Massachusetts, durl11g all that early forn1ative period fro1n 1630 to 1653, is the standara of substantial, finnly knit governme11t, obedient to tl:e majesty of la"~, of order and of ~upren1e rn D 010 .. N~ THE DUDLEY ARMS. ARl\iIS-01·. a hon ra.1npant, double-queued, azure. URES1,-A lion's head, erased. l\fO'l''l'O-N ,~c glad in. nee arcu. ( N Pithf>r by tht swore.I nor by the bow. li D n.uthoritv. :-,he laid th<' foundation of hP~ g-o~·<•rnnH•nt. 011 tit·r (•ha1 t<•r :u1d on the con1n1on L1 w of England, hut she recognized tlie irrt':-:.i~tilJle power of righteousness. of the h11?ber law as revpa.lfld in the Hol)· S ... riptur1>s, and sought alway~ to h~ guidPd b.Y those Pf-f!--Olls who werP 1no:-:t lt·arn.-d and best qua.hfied to guide her. uudley, n forP1no:-.t leader in till~ ideal 1net.hod of governn.,ent. posse~sf.d an undoulJt.ed ftt ith tlw t they werP building a per- 1nanent !--tructurf" which would he re1na.rkable for liberal politic.-al quali ties, 1ningled with a strong Christian elem~nt, which could not fail to be the gr(,a.test hlPs~ing to n1a.nkind. 'rhis ,Yas not a 1nere vision. It is quite evident that Massachus£:tts as a model of government in ~e,vEngland had a controlling influence in bringin!? order out of chaos, or prt serviug fro1n anarchy the settlernent~ about her. In 1643 Dudley's wife died. l\-lather says that '•~he ,vas a gentle woman whose extraction and estatt ,vere considerable." •·She had." says Dr. Jones, ••dnring all thei;;e struggles, fro1n the early part of the century to the day of her death been t.he comfort and loving co1npanion of Dudley. She had walked bv his side through it all and taken full share of th~ priva tions and suffering., which were a part of this great undertaking·" She wa.s the mother of five of his children. 'rhe mo~t that we know of th€ merits of this excellent won1an is found in her epitaph, ,vritten by hP.r distingu ish~d danght~r A nnP Br:histreet: AN EPITAPH On 1ny dear and ever hono11r1,d ~[oth,n·. 1\-IRS. DORTHY I>UULRY. ,vho dt->cea.~t>d llecetnlwr :!7, 16-!3, a.nit of lwr a.gt•, GI. Here l~-P~ . •.\ worthy l\[ntron of un~potted lift->, A loving l\lother anrl olwdient. wif~, A friendly Neighbor, p1t1fnl ·to poor. \Vhotn oft she fed, and clothed wit,h lwr :-.h>I'•~; 'I\-. servants wisely nwPful, hut yet. kind; And ns they did, RO they reward did fi11d. A true instructor of hPr Fn1n ily, 'J'he ,Yh ich ~he ordert=-d with dexterity. rrhe publick 1neet1ng~ ever did frequent, And in her closet constant hours she spent; Rehgious in all her words and ways; Preparing still for deat'1, till end of daye": Of all her Children, Children lived to see, Then dying, left a blessed 1nen1ory. 18 D Four 1nonths later Dudley 1nn.rrif>d 1\-[r~. Catha.rine Hackburn, widow of Sarnuel Hackburn. of Rox bur~-. It ·wa~ a custo1n of the ti1ne not to delay 1narriag~s for any prolonged tim~. Go,,.ernor \V1throp married his fourth wife within ei~ht n1ouths of the demise of his third. In 16!-l a ne"~ office wa.s created. DudlP.y wa.s then chosen sergeant- 1najor-general and given the sole co1nmand of the militia. His earh". 1nili- tary career and long experience in government. eminently qualified hitn for this po~ition. Great power was placed in his hand~. He had in the coun cils of war thP casting vote, also t.he power to itnpress all mat.erials and in ~tru1nents flt for war. His commission said: ~·But for the ordering and 1nana.g1ng of n.ny battle in tin1e of service, 1t is wholly left to yours~lf. Also yourself, together with the council of war. shall have power to make such whole~o1ne linYs. agreeable to the word of God. a.s you shall conceive to be nf'cessary fo1 the well ordering of your army." The following year, 1645, Dudley ~·ns chosen comn1lssioner to draft ia\\·s. He had assisted in creat• ing the Bodr of Liberties in 1641. and in forming the Articles of Confedera tion in 16-ta, and had b~en on most of the comn1ittees for con&tructing laws from the beginning of the colouv. In May of this year Dudley was again ~lected Governor. On Dece1nber ~, 1646, two hundred and sev.-nty acres of land were laid out for him near Dedham On May 26, 1647, Winthrop was chosen Governor, ·with Dudley as deputy gdvernor, Dudley also bP.ing co1nn11ssi'lner of the United Colonies. About this time the General Court. recogn i_~f>d the justice of at last allowing persons not church members, and therefore not free1nen. to sit on juri&s, hold ~inor town offices, and vote within certain limits for selectmen and on assess1nents, s?nce they were subject to the la.,vs equally with the treemao and had a chronic grievance respecting their rights and powers. This action was a prudent st~p toward univP-rsal AtnP-rican citizenship. In 16~7, too, a.s\·ste1n of free general pub lic instruction was instituted. Palfrey has said: "Since the seventeenth year of Massa.ehusetts, no child of hers has been able to say that to hnn poverty has closed the book of knowledge or the way to honor.'' ~loses Co1 t. said: 44 Unive-'"sa1 eclu 3ation seemed to t.hcn1 to be a. universal nAces sitv ." It wa .. ~ or:lered that in every township having- fifty householders, a t~achet shoullt be appointed ·•to teach ::t.ll such childr·en as shall resort. to hin1 to writt~ a.nd read, who~e wnges shall be pa.id tither t>y t.he pa.rents or n1a.l--ters pf ~uch children, or by the inhah1t.antR in general, hy way of sup ply. as t.he m~jor pn.rt oft.hose that. order the prudentials of the town sr1all appoint.. " It was also ordered that ,vhen a. to,vnship increa~ed to a, hun dred fa.1nilies a ~ra.nunar ~ehool, where La.tin and Greak Wf're taught., MEMORIAL TABLET AT ENTRANCE TO OLD ROXBURY, MASS., BURIAL GROUND. should be set up. Lord Macaulay, in the House of Commons in 1847, said of them: '·Those men illustrious forever in history, were the founders of the Comrnonwealth of Ma£sachusetts; but though their love ot freedom of conscience was illimitable and indestructible, they could see nothing ser vile or degrading in the principle that the state should take upon itself the charge of the education of the people.'' Jatnes Russell Lowell, says: '•As ·we trace events backward to their causes, we shall find it true also, that what 1nade our Revolution a foregone conclusion, was that act of the Gen f>ral Court, passed in May, 1647, which established the system of co1nmon schools." Prior to this Dudley had shown bis great interest in the cause of education. When the free school of Roxbury was e~ta.bhshed upon , agreement of the citizens, his name appeared at the head of the contract. Ellis say!-;: ,.rrhere is reason to suppose he drew the agreement for the free school and gave part of the lot on which the school stood. Hoth he and his dPscendants ma.de very large donations to the school," which still carries on its good work. As hae; been stated, Dudley was an overseer of Harvard college from its ineeption to the titne of his death. He was also ln the Gen eral Court which in 1642 provided that chlldr~n should have trades and edu cation 1n business, and be brought up with an occupahon, and making it the duty of selectmen to see to their training in industry if they were neg Jectt>d by parents or guardians. At the end ot 1647 there were thirty-three sett.led towns in Massa- chusetts, not including Plymouth, not yet annexed. Dudley was this year preside-nt of the Confederacy of the United Colonies, and until age impair ed his efficiency outranked all other memb~rs in importance in its councils. In May, 1648, Winthrop was again chosen governor wit.h Dudley as deputy governor. Winthrop died in March, 1649, and Dudley filled the office until the following election. Robert C. Winthrop, referring to this last election of Willthrop and his associates in _office, says, "pith great truthfulness: -~Winthrop. Dudley, Encti~ott, Bradst.reet, how much of the best history ot Mnssachusetts is connected with their nan1es. For length of service; for steadfastne~s,devotion to New England, whether in prosperity or adversity; for ability n.nd integrity; for moral and religious excellence-we 1nay '3earch the civil hh-;tory of the \;olony in vain ior a nobler quaternion than that. represented by the names ,vhich are thus closely grouped together in Gov ernor Winthrop's last entry of a Massachusetts election." Dr. Jones says of \Yinthrup and Ducllf\y: ~'They both entertained the same hnpo~sible ideal of governu1ent drawn fro1n thP- very orncles of God,bearing the snper seription, as the)'· uufliuclungly believed. ·of the all knowing God _and Father• of us nll. But while tlu:~y trusted too much Ill the lP.tt.er which :? l I.)· killeth tlH•y neverthele~s snrpa.i;.~t=-d a.II hf•fpre thf'lll in dHhl('ing fro1n thnt. ,·olunie of truth, t·ouple Dudley died Su:-iday night, Ju•y 31. 1653, and his funeral took place at Roxbury on the ~ixth of August following. He was in the 77th year of his age. HR wa.s buried 1n one of tht oldest cemeteries in New England at the corner of Washington and Eu!;tls streets, in Roxbury. On eiltering the cemetery the first to1nb that meets the eye, anct the one UP0!,1 the highest ground, is covered with an oval slab of white ma.rble, bearing the 1Jan1e of Dudley. In it were laid th~ re1nains ot GovPrnors Thomas and .Joseph Dudley, Chief Just.ice Paul Ducll~y and Col. William Dudley, a prou1inent poltt1cal leader of a century and a half ago. The original inscription plate is ~aid--to have bf-en of pewt.ar. nnd to have been ta.ken and run into bullets by the provincial solcti~rs ouring the sic.. ge of Boston. His second wife,Mrs. Catherine Dudley. ttnd eight of his children sur,·ived hhn. as follows: Rev. San1uel Dudlfly, Mrs. Anne Brad~treet,Mrs. Patience Dennison. Mrs. Sarah Pacey, ~nd Mrs. Pere~" Woolbridgf!, by his first wife. Dorothy; and Mrs. Deborah v:ad~, Governor Joseph Dudley and Paul Dudley, by his la~t wife, Cat.her1ne. He left, 1t seP1ns. the large~t estate 1n Roxbury. In his will he ~aid: "For 1ny soul, I con1n1end it. into the hands of 1ny God, in whom I have believNl, who,n I have loved, which he ha.th promfsed to receive ira Jesus Christ, 1ny Redet>n1P.r, and Saviour, with ,vhom I desire ever to be, lt•nving this testitnony behind tne, for the use and exa1nple of 1ny posterity, an 25 HDudlev." says Jone~, Hbelonged tQ that im1nP.diate age after the Biblt', ca1ne to the English common people. He was never blessed with the light of the •higher crit1ci'Sm,'but read the Bible in childlike simplicity and belief. He was a sincere, earnest C.ilv1n1st" THE YORKE FAMILY:-S1nce the publication of Dr. Jones' "Ltfe of Thon1as Dudley/' 1t has been ascertained from the parish rf)gisters thnt Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke were rnarried atllardingstone Uhurch, near Northa1npton, Englancl, an 11lustratlon of which is given herewith, on April 25~ 1603. Her parents, Edmonde and Katharyne Yorke,had been res ident at Cotton End, in that pc=trish, l)ut a brief period, their oldest son, and probably first child, Nathaniel, being baptized, as shown by the registers of the church,at Hardingstone on November 11.1580. As Dorothy, wife Jf rrho1nas :pudley, was 61 years old at her death at Roxbury, Mass., .on December 27, 16!3, she was born in 1682. and was also,doubtless,baptized at Harding~tone Church. Her father,Edmonde t orke, died at Cotton End in 1Rl5, and wa.s buried in the church yard at Harding~tone on February 14. His will dated November 14, 1614, was proved on the April 17, succeeding, at Northa1npton, and is folio 137, of Book 3, or the Indexed Serie:-; of Nort.l1- a1npton wills. rrhomas Dudley is nau1ed as one of the executors. and there are bequest.i;;, among others, to rrhomas and Dorothy (YorkP) Dudley'~ chil dren-!Samuel, fortv ~hil1ings and a. ~ilver spoon, anct Anne, a,ftPrwnrds wife of Sinton Bradstreet, twenty shilling-, .ind a silver i-.pnon, wl1ile Doro thy (Yorke) Dudley t"eceived as an heirlo,,n1 .. ,>ne gilt bole.,, Hc1.rd ingston e is a little village about one and a 11,uf mile from N ortha.1npton. rrhd church is a vArv 11.ncient structure. One of the few remaining Queen ELanor crosses is on the hi~hway between Nort.ha1npton an:l Hard1ng~tone. 'l'his branch of the Yorke fa1n1ly was probably resirlent at Cotton E,1d not over forty years, covering the period 1575 to 1615, th£, widow of Echnonde re1nov ine: to Northampton where she died in 1633, her nuncnpative w11J being proved at Northan1pton August 24, 1633.- Her re1nains were buried in thA graveyard oi .-\.11 Saints church, N orthfl.mptun. THE GOVERNOR THOMAS DUDLEY FAMILY ASSOCIA TION, ot which the insignia 1s giv,~n on page 25, was organized at Bnst-:on, Mass., 1n 1892, the first reunion being held at tha Revere House. 0'"' October 25, of that year, attended oy 237 of his descer:dants. On Dece1nber 30, 1893, a charter for the Association was o~ta1n~d-under the laws of Massachusetts. Annual reunions have sineA been held at Boston. rrhe me1nbership has greatly increased~ and the Dudley Association has taken front ra.uk a1nong the Fam1ly Associations of the U:Q1ted States. :26 liardingstone Church, near Northampton, England, where Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke were married April 25, J'°3. GOVERNO~ THOMl\S DUDLEY'S CHILD~EN. By his first wife, Dorothy Yorke, daughter of Edmonde and Kathe:i-ie Yorke, of Cotton End, Northampton, England, born 1582, died at Roxbury, Mass., December 27, 1643, Governor Dudley had the following cl1ildren: 1. Rev. Samuel, baptized at All Saints, Northampton, Eng., November 30, 1608; died at Exeter, N. H., February 10, 1683; married, 1st, in 1632, Mary Winthrop, daughter of Gov. John Winthrop; she died ia S1lisbury, Mass., April 12, 1643; married 2d, Mary Byley, in 1643; 3d, Elizabeth --- 2. Anne, born in England about 1612; married Gov. Simon Bra~lstre~t, about 1628; died at Andover, Mass., September 16, 1672. 3. Patience, married Major-General Daniel Denison, at Cambridge, Mass., died at Ipswich, :Mass., February 8, 1689-90. 4. Sarah; baptized at .Sempringham, Lincolnshire, England, July 23, 1620; married 1st, Major Benjamin Keayne; 2d, Thomas ( ?) Pacy; died 1659. 5. Mercy; born Sempringham, Lincolnshire, England, September 27, l;621; married Rev. John Woodbridge, of Newbury, Mass.; died at Newbury, July 1,. 1691. By his second wife, Catharine Dighton, widow of Mr. Samuel Hackburn, of Roxbury, whom he married April 14, 1644, and who died at Roxbury, Aug ust 29, 1671, Gov. Dudley had three children, as follows: 6. Deborah, born at Roxbury, Mass., February 27, 1645; married J::ma than Wade, ot Medford;- died November 1, 1683. 7. Governor Joseph, born at Roxbury, Mass., September 23, 1G47; died at Roxbury, April 2, 1720; married Rebecca Tyng, daughter of Judge Ed ward Tyng. She died September 21, 1722. 8. Paul, born Roxbury, Mass., September 8, 1650; married Mary Lever ett (born February 12, 1655), daughter of Governor John Leverett; merchant and collector of customs at Boston; died· December 1, 1681. :28 JOSEPH DUDLEY, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUsE'rrs, 17«n-14. * Joseph Dudley was born Sep tember 23, 1647. His father, Govern or Thomas Dudley, died July 31, 1653. The boy was reared by his father-ln law, Rev. Mr. Allin, of Dedham, ancl graduated at Harvard College in 1665. He was made a freeman in 1672. He studied theology under Increase Math er and was called to be his assistant, which he declined. It is probable that shortly afterwar-ds he studied law, as he could not have received his later appointments without legal knowledge. Dudley landed in Boston with his SEAL OF GOV. JOSEPH DUDLEY. commission as Governor of Massachu- ..______. setts, June 11, 1702, while a salute was being fired by the Centurion, man-of-war, which had brought him -~ . . across the ocean. It was the consummation of the ambition, of a lifetime. He had left his home in Roxbury in 1691, at the beginning of a self-imposed exile of ten years, at the age of forty-five. The twenty years previous he ha1 been in office, except. for twelve months while under arrest after Andros was deposed, nearly five months of which w~s spent in Boston gaol. This official station had included three years' membership in Massachu setts House of Deputies; nine years in the Court of Assistants of the col ony; four years' service as Massachusetts Commissioner in the Second Col onial Confederacy; eighteen months as agent of the colony in London and subsequent to the fall of Andros, short terms of office as Counsellor ailfl Chief Justice of New York and Deputy Governor of New Jersey. Twenty horsemen brought him to Boston from the Narraganset country, whither he had retired from the circuit on Long Island, where he was hold ing court when the people rose against the Andros government. He was lodged in gaol, but after thirteen weeks or confinement was released on *An oration delivered by James E. Odlin. Esq, of ~alem. Mass on the occasion of the un,•eillng of the portratt or Governor JoseJ,Jh Dud le~~ .at the ~tate House,Boston.Mass., June ~- 1002, and republished by consent. Dr. Au1.tust1ne Jones also Jrtves an excellent skt'tch of Joseph Dudley's Ufe and work in the appendix of his ·•Life_ of Thomas Dudl~y ." £10,000 bonds, owing to indisposition of health, with~ the privilege·,. of ~e3id ing at his house in Roxbury. This was on Saturday, July 13, 1GS9. and that night a mob of two or three hundred men, under the leadership of Searl~. a cooper, took Dudley from his house and brought him back; but as the keep· er of the gaol refused to receive him under such circumstances, they loclged him with his brother-in-law, Page. The mob was not content, and o:i the following Monday resolved to reincarcerate him; they- sou·ght. )lim at Page's house, and being refused admittance broke in the door and smashed the win- ·...... dows. Under the advice of Governor Bradstreet, for the sake of his family, who were secreting him, and to prevent breach of the peace, he went back to gaol voluntarily, Tuesday, July 16, accompanied by several gentlemea. No account of that day recites that, in all .this turmoil so fraught with danger, he showed the slightest personal fear. This popular discontent could not have been very deep-seated, as he re- . turned to Roxbury about a year later (January 24, 1691) and came and went unhindered until his dismissal from office in the colony of New York. This residence covered the period of the witchcraft persecutions, and hi3 old .friend, Stoughton, now temporarily alienated, presided at the trials. Dud ley seems to have left a i:nonopoly of the support of the prosecution to Cotton Mather, although he was present in court at least once during a witchcraft trial. That series of tragedies so merciless, cruel and stupid, i~jureJ the pop ular influence of both Cotton and Increase Mather, for the people would not suffer it at length, and the public mind was satisfied that great wrong bad been done; but it was not yet felt to the relief of their great antagJnist, as he went to England before the public excitement had subside5. In twq,years his: time seemed to come, f~r the genial, irascible Pi.1ipps die:1 in London. Sir Henry., Ashurst, the agent of the colony, found it ne~essary to introduce a bill into Parliament, reversing the attainder of Leisler and Milbourne, in order to show Dudley's connection with Leisler's conviction; Ashurst thought his design had not succeeded unless Dudley had appe:ued before the committee to oppose it, and argue that Leisler had been rightful ly punished. However that may be, chances otherwise so fair came to blight and Dudley went on in his service of John Cutts. This alliance, offensive and defensive, with Cutt!, existed for nine years and a half. Although a partnership, and in the end of greatest advantage to Dudley, as through it he obtained the governorship of Massachusetts, as already referred to, yet after all, he served John Cutts. He bottled his wine; ordered his co:1ches and 30 clothing;· attended to his financ1a1 matters; managed his politlcs in the Isle of Wight; acted in his stead as governor, with the title of lieutenant-gov ernor, -a.nd rank of colonel; was Mayor of Newton; member of Parliament (1700), and staked his advancement upon his patron's adventures in peace and in war. Cutts served in Ireland, notably at the battle of the Boyne, and in Flanders, winning eulogiums for his va101, and when at home clove to the throne of his sovereign. During some years of this service Richard Steele, of Spectator fame, was private secretary to Cutts and some fragment~ 01. corresponaence between Dudley and Steele h~ve been preserved. Dudley himself was the master of no mean literary style--the best of all his contemporaries in New England -totally different from the crabbed and learned pedantry of Cotton Mather. During these years he educated his son Paul at the Inner Temple, and at least one other son professionally in England, and sent· home substantial savings, which he. had made at his post. The letters to hi~.. wite are full ot tenderness, care for his financial affairs, solicitude for his children, and trust in God. All this while he was;· with single eye, serving for place. He desired to be Governor of Massachusetts; to be by royal appointment the successor of his father, :who had been fo~r times chosen Governor by the ultra-relig _ious, which was also the most democratic element in the colony. Governors were now appointed by the crown and the people could not elect. While he was in New England the only pathway to that s.eat lay across the ocean and back. His service in London, as agent of Massachusetts in 1681, laid ope:i to him this p!Lth by which the place could be won. All his succeeding expe rience confirmed his intuition and judgment. Shrewd, unswerving and cour ageous was the purpose that turned his feet to the Isle of Wight, that he n1ight win riches and power in his own Commonwealth, that governorship attained, we have evidence that his ambition was satisfied, and that his love for his native s11ores restrained him from accepting advantageous offers sent to tempt hin1 over the seas again. We are to consider how te conducted himself in his high office; how in the wrestle for power with the semi-Presbyters of Massachusetts he broke the back of his hierarchical opponents, one after another. They thought him wicked; we have th.eir estimates of his character and the record of h:s acts; and if we shall find too much dissemblance and a walk at fault in some de tails of pri\"ate life and public action, yet may we be fair e.:1ough to rec:::,g. nize his true worth and, his. services to Massachusetts. When Joseph Dudley, who in the decade last past had been Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Wight, member of Parliament for Newton, and col onel in Her Majesty's forces, leaving higher honors in the old cou'!ltry thau he was gaining in the new, came over as Governor in 1702, cha.ages had taken place. Increase Mather, once his enemy, now his friend and later to be again his foe, had after three years' service abroad for the colony, suc ceeding the fall of Andros, brought back a new charter, which the colony had accepted with face awry. The ultra-church party could no longer pre vent the use of the Book of Common Prayer in Boston. '!be Governor ap pointed by the crown could veto any bill, or the election of any Caunsellor. He also appointed all military officers and with the consent of the Council all Judges and all court officers. The Admiralty, the post office an-d the woods were under the control of the officers of the crown and the hateful naviga tion laws were to be enforced. tWi thin three years of the passage of any law the Queen could annul and o!ten did, at the very close of the term. • English law was the law of the land and appeals were allowed to the King In council. Church members no longer formed the electorate, and this may have reconciled many to the change. One great right, however, had been preserved; the colonial taxes could only be levied by the Governor, counch and representatives of the people assembled In General Court. For flfty-elght years under the first charter the people of Massachusetts had aimed at prac tical independence of the British crown and had maintained it. True, they had taxed non-freemen; had conducted public business by representatives; Inflicted capital punishment; created courts of justice and proved wills with• out authority to do any of these acts under their Instrument of government. But they had organized a State suitable for civilized men; had granted on the whole justice to all before the law; _had upheld the morals of the New Testament; fostered learning; subdued the wilderness and attained pros perity. Whatever the faults of the governing class in Massachusetts, num bering at this time one-fifth of the adult males, they had produced out of their immigrants a better, more prosperous and happier people than else where spoke the English tongue. They removed their corporation, without right, from England at the suggestion of Winthrop, who came over to con duct the affair. They were not sticklers for legality; they were not acting sentimentally in behalf of the natural rights of men in organizing a. govern ment, but in the divine right of some good men to eventuate the will of God in a human society. They knew there was a deposit of power over them still left in the British government. This protected them against interfer- ence from other nations. Theirs was the most audacious attempt of all modern history. Through powerful friends at home they hoped that one day they would be granted semi-independence similar to that enjoyed by Canada and Australia under the British crown in our time. Thomas Dudley was one of the men who led that forlorn hope out of England, de3igning not to give a home for the oppressed, but determined to cut out of the fore3ts a new State which should have the esse:itial powers of the government they bad known at home, but with a people more godly, humane and prosperous. It should be a State in short that should not know drunkenness, lust, oppre3sion, or any folly for that matter. Jo3eph Dudley, the son of such a father, came back from his exile on the side of the King, and was respectii.llly received by the public at whose hands he had suffered so many indignities. Let us not blame him too much. His political life had been spent in opposition to the popular party, that is, the ultra-church party, and ile had with him, we are told, all the children of the first Governors until the time of Andros· deposition. This was not strange, because the early Governors were n:.en of wealth drawn from the small landed gentry or their factors, and their sons sided with· wealth and tradition. They were unwill ing to make sacrifices in a war for independence which must terminate dis aslrously, especially as the patronage of peace was at their disposal. The great cloud upon Joseph Dudley's history is the part he played in the administration of Edmund Andros. For this he ca.n never hope to be forgiven in New England. Still we can understand his motives better than could his contemporaries. In a letter to Cotton Mather he make the "Apolo gia Pro Vita Sua" for that portion of his career. It i~ in brlef:-That when he went abroad in -1681 it was with a very sincere intention to serve and preserve the ancient charter, and he and b.is associates would have succeeded had not the magistrates sent a declaration that they would never submit, just as the negotiations were at a crisis. He had never been tainted with Papery, nor had he ever joined with the party of the Prince of York. He had never received a cent for, towards or concerning the dissolution of the charter. When he accepted the presidency of the council pre7ious to the coming of Andros, rather than to incur the displeasure of the King, both the Assembly and the people had held that he had acted justifiably. and the council, under his advice, had declared that taxe3 ought to b9 levied by the Assembly of the province. When Andros came the council yieldea their authority to him. as was provided in the instrument under which they had acted, and being continued in office contrary to their expectation, took the oath to serve under Andros without opportunity for delibe:rati ')n. Once in the office he opposed the grant of all lands by the council, except s:tch as were waste. holding that they had been given jurisdiction over such; he also opposed the laws interfering with travelers. He objectei to the l::>w rates fixed for the price of corn and recommended that taxe3 should be le'1ie:l by a full council, in which all the colonies should be representej_ T:1i:; state ment explains much that was criticized in Dudley's career. and it' he had maintained his first position in favor of colonial con~rol of t1xatbn. whe:i later Andros came over and had gone out of the governme!lt, rather tha:1 submit to being overruled, he would now require no vindica:ion. Such a course of action, however, was not so well understood then as it has come to be in these days of parliamentary government. Dudley was uniformly polite in his correspondence. ,When asking Fitz John Winthrop, as the Representati-ve of Connecticut in Queen Ann's war, to furnish troops to prevent Indian incursions on Hampden county. which served the Connecticut towns as a buffer from attack, although the argument was urgent, yet 1t was never threatening. Those letters seem to reflect a dignified spirit. Let no one fancy, however, that expostulation was the limit of his effort. He brought complaint against the colony of Conne:!ticut for its laches in that time of danger and the home authorities secured a quick ening of their zeal. Ashurst says he was prodding the English Qu1kers to bring memorials before the Lords of the Council, because of severe statutes in Connecticut against their sect, and Winthrop himself alleges D:idley was the source of the agitation maintained by Owenaco for lands take:i posses sion of by Connecticut beyond what was allowed by the grant. As a fighter 'he was both open and secret. He pursued Sir William Phipps in London and arrested him on sui_t, the vexation of which is thought to have caused Phipps's death. When Cooke, one of the most considerable men in point of wealth in the colony and one of those foremost in deposing Andros, and Dudley with him, was elected to the Council, shortly after Dud ley was appointed Governor, he used his veto power upon him and four others of this same ilk, though such power had never been but once resorte-1 to in the ten years of his predecessors under the new charter. He did this year after year, but in 1708 Oakes and his fellow Representative were beaten at the polls in Boston; and one by one his opponents were picked off from their party. A son of Samuel Sewall, in 1702, and a son of Wait Winthrop. In 1708, were married to two of his daughters. The first marriage gave him support where there was most feeling against him in the colony, and the 34 second where a hot attempt to displace him imperilled his position, it being the only real peril he had during his governorship. Each of these alliances had a far-reaching and yet a negative influence. Sir Henry Ashurst, the agent of the colony and in its pay, who fought Dudiey bitterly before his appointment and afterwards for years, was non plussed (1708) by the intelligence from America of .the marriage of John "\tVinthrop and Ann Dudley, and two years later Sir William Ashurst, Sir Henry's brother and successor as agent of the colony in England, also an old opponent, came to love whom he had hated. And strangely enough, Dudley's brethren by marriage,, Sewall and Win throp, though they disliked him, could not presumably owing to the inter n1arriage of their families, bring themselves to open revolt. Sewall furnishes the most interesting study; he had opposed Dudley while the latter was President of the council under Andros, and when, after the deposition of Andros, Dudley sought to be appointed Governor. Once Dudley was in office and in the heyday of his power, Sewall paved the way for proposals for the hand of Dudley's daughter in marriage to his own son. The correspondence of ~ewall to members of his family has been pre served and shows that both before and after this alliance of their houses Sewall was Dudley's enemy at heart and points to duplicity on Sewall's par~._ Nevertheless, when, in 1707, charge3 of illegally furnishing ammunition to the French and Indians in Nova Scotia are openly made and become the basis for representations to the throne and a praye:- for Dudley's removal, we find Sewall willing only to withdraw his vote given in council in the Gov ernor's support, for technical re3.sons, such as that the vote should have heen postponed, or that the Governor should not have been present when the matter was considered, and he is able to exonerate him of all except a 85 became known. This frontier, it was Dudley's design to throw upon Con r:ecticut, in the main, for its defence during this war. Connecticut languidly responded but was unwilling to provide a force for other operations, until late in the war she assisted in some of the expeditions against Canada. In 1703 Dudley obtained a force of one hundred Indiat1s, principally Ma hicans, and a few English, whom he kept many months. To all appeals dur ing the early years of the war Connecticut was dumb, but she helped garri son at different times Hadley, Deerfield, Westfield, and particularly Brook field. Partridge was in command, and many and interesting are his letters to Fitz John Winthrop. stating the military situation and asking constantly for help. One of the strange3t circumstances is the controversy that was waged hy Connecticut, at the same time the Indian War was being carried on, over the boundary lines of Enfield and Sudbury, etc. Turpentine was produced in these towns in considerable quantities; this was seized and the inhabi t ants of Massachusetts were arrested and carried to Hartford and placed in jail. Dudley's protests are dignified but firm, and he appeals to the patriotic spirit of :Winthrop not to press the controversy during the war. Dudley sometimes learned of descents about to be made through Albany. The In dians there were friendly with the English, but traded with the hostiles, giving them great prices for their furs and every kind of commodity, which ,toubtl~~s prolonged the war, but they often gave valuable lnform~tion of ,,roposed forays. Whether information came in this dire~Uon or from his scouts to the eastward, Dudley's method was to notify Partridge and Win throp and their garrisons in the exposed communities, holding re-enforce ments ready to march in support of the town attacked. Thls was notably ·• successful in beating off the enemy, as at Lancaster and Hatfield, in 1704. Defensive work of this kind furnishes the chief claim of Dudley to the prai!Je so fulsomely paid him by his enemies for his conduct in this war. ,···. _. Everywhere he was vigilant, resourceful and discriminating. True, he some limes gave false alarms, and \-Vinthrop resented the trouble to which Con neticut was put in mustering minute-men to meet a rumored advance of the ~n·emy, as shown in a letter dated May 27, 1707. "The late alarm made by your scout (frightened with Jack in the Lanthorne) put us to a great deal of trouble and £ 400, and he deserves to be cashiered and punished." Still Dudley maintained his courtesy and vigilant protection of a line of battle extending from Casco Bay through the woods to the Connecticut River and beyond. Dudley, howev~r, never forgot to assert his right to have the Connecticut militia under the orders of his oJticers and under the commissions of Massachusetts wherever they were operating under his authority, and more than one reference to such matters occurs in the correspondence of the time. He did not hesitate to enlist small bodies of Indians in Connecticut to fight under him to the eastward, when he could, and to complain of the housing of refugees of the fighting age who left the towns on the frontier and moved into Connecticut to escape the dangers of the situation. He compelled people living in exposed towns to continue their residences and fight for their hom~s against the savages, who mysteriously swarmed upon them out of the fast uesses of the woods. Raids were usually made in the summer, and the party starting out from Canada would break up into small bands, which would attack various towns at about the same time and rapidly retreat from the hastily recruited set tlers, who were aroused to pursuit. Hardly more than two raids were at tempted in any summer, and the attacks make In winter were few and pe culiarly fraught with hardship and terrible loss ot lite. Sometimes three hundred settlers would be killed in a single season. The French seemed to expect the English would be driven out of the frontier towns through sheer terror, if not by extermination, and this resulted in the Maine settlements, except at York, Berwick, Arowslck, Kittery and Wells (1714). Dudley saw plainly that attacks upon the seat of French power would be the m\lst effective blows to be struck, so while frequently sending troops into the ravaged parts and expeditions to Lakerwlnniplseogee, Norridgewock amt the ,Penobscot, he planned In 1707 an expedition against Port Royal, in whictl colonial troops alone were engaged and which, owing to the insubor dination of the men and, perchance, the incompetence of commanf'lers, was a pitiable failure. The General Court, doubtless inspired by him, sent an address to the Queen, March 31, 1709, praying for aid to an expedition for the conquest of Nova Scotia and Canada. This aid was promised (although deferred) the next year, but in 1710 thirty-six Tessels, partly of the royal navy, conveying four regiments of colonial troops and one regiment of royal marines, took Port Roy al and with it Nova Scotia, which has since remained a part of the British empire; this, the only successful large expedition of Dudley's administration, was followed the next year by the abortive expedition against Quebec, in which the fleet was cast upon the rocks of the St. Lawrence an-d one thou sand men drowned. In fitting this expedition out, Dudley showed great re- 88 sources in providing supplies at Boston, but his unfortunate impressement of pilots may have contributed to its disastrous close, as they proved ignorant of the St~ Lawrence. "Through all his terms of office he represented to Her Majesty by all the offites proper the unspeakable benefit to the British nation to have all the North America in Her Majesty's hands.'' At this time such a consummation was "the only hope of New England for peace, lasting and secure. But while both parties thus worked together under Dudley's leadership in the conduct of this wa·r, there was great friction in other matters. Dudley asked the colony to build a fort at Pemaquid on the Penobscot River. which was in the territory called Arcadia by the French and was also claimed by the English crown. The Massachusetts people held that this was so far beyond their settlements that they should not be called upon to raise the £20,000 necessary to re-establish it, nor be taxed to maintain it. Through out his administration, the Assembly was firm. Neither would they help pay for the fortifications in Portsmouth,. (Dudley was also Governor of New Hampshire at this time), the cost of which was inconsiderable and which they said Portsmouth was able to bear. They also refused to grant bim, or the Lieutenant-Governor. or the Judges,. salaries, being jealous of the right to raise money by vote of their Legislature, as then constituted. As one party served as a check upon the other, the more aristocratic counell generally sustaining Dudley, and the House of Deputies being array ed on the other side, we may well consider what each gave to the Common wealth. The popular party fostered the idea that the ,eople of Massachusetts - had a right to control the expenditures of the colony without dictation from abroad. This was guaranteed by their new charter and they held to it. It contained the germinal principle of the Revolution of 1776. If it had been yielded by the throne, we should still be under the British flag. lt also continued the Puritan influence on morals and life, which the world needed then and always will. It maintained the early New England traditions and formed the party of patriotism. On the other hand Dudley and his party contributed something of worth to posterity. They, through the in terference of the crown, compelled Massachusetts to accept religious tolera tion, generally called freedom of conscience. They fostered the liberal spirit in the churches and joined those who would break down Puritan narrowness. They revised the charter of Harvard College and made it the conservator of liberalism in religion. They more fully established English precedent and English law, the greatest of boons for any, civilization. These pos:tions may not balance each other, but both sides have weight. Dudley•s infl.ue.:ice on the whole was beneficial to ttle pe0ple of his time, and his character must be admitted to have been masterful. Dudley lived five years after his successor was appointe1, it would seem in honor and not without influence on public atiairs. He caught cold riding to Boston in his chariot, November 9, 1719, and died after a lingering Llness, April 2, 1720. His mind failed and he wandered away to the scene3 of his great struggles, the Isle of Wight, but he wanted to go home and would call for his hat and sword. They buried him with all the pomp they knew, two regiments of militia, two or three troops of horse, with the most noted men of the colony for his bearers, and all the countryside .. as spectators, out of ~lndows, and on fences and trees, like pigeons,'' while the bells of Boston tolled. A newspaper printed a fulsome eulogy. A minister, the pastor of his son Paul, one of the liberals of that day, eulogized him at Thursday lecture. He slept with his father in Roxbury, and the world went on and forgot him. He ls one of the enigmas of our history; religious in profession, careful in his life, he hounded Phipps to death, assisted in the condemnation of Leisler and l\'1ilbourne, dissembled, slaved, triumphed. He mastei-ed his opportunity and overcame astonishing obstacles. He loved his king better than his coun try, and yet he loved the Commonwealth so well that he gave up the Chief Justiceship of New York rather than leave her, gave up place and power in the Isle of Wight and in Parliament, that he might serve her, and refused allurements back to England that he might live within her borders. How strangely he served whom he loved, and no one can doubt that in his way he was true to Massachusetts; but with all the traditions of the Commonwealth upon us, we must say his way was not the best, great as were his services. 40 I SIMON BRADSTREET, I II COLONI,AL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSE'. ♦ l'S. * II ARMS: Argent, a greyhound pas sant gules, on a chief sable, three cres cents, or CREST: An arm in armour em bowed, the hand grasping a scimitar, all proper. MOTTO: Virtute et non vi. (By vlr• tue, not by strength.) These arms are shown on the seal of Governor Simon Bradstreet, attach ed to his will of 1697, on file at the Sutrolk probate office. Boston. Mass. They are also the arms used by the Baronets Bradstreet of Stacumni~ SEAL OF GOV. SIMON BRADSTREET, on his will 1001. Co. Kildare, Ireland, a baronetcy dat- .______. ing only to July 14, 1759, when Simon Bra«:lstreet was created a Baronet of Ireland, and continued the arms of the older brancll of the family in England and America. This Simon was the descendant of John Bradstreet, who in the time of Cromwell obtained grants of land in Blancheville Park, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The present seat of the Bradstreet family in Ireland is- Castilla, Clontarf, County Dublin. John Bradstreet, the founder of this branch of the family, is generally believed to have been the younger brother of Governor Simon Bradstreet. The official use of these arms by Governor Simon Bradstreet in America, sixty years before the creation of the baronetcy in Ireland, establishes the common origin of the two branches of the family, all the early members of which were staunch adherents of the Puritan cause and deeply in sympathy with Crom well. BAPTISMS: From the 4 Aprill, 1602, to the 24 Aprill next. Samwell, sonne of Simian Bradstreete, Septr. 19. *R,efereoce-.: uA1nerkan Heraldtca," Mathews ·•An1erican Armoury and Blue Book," Crozh.,r's ~-General Armoury of American Fan1il1es." ··The Heraldic Journal, Recording the Armorial .Beari~is and Genealogies of American Families." Burke's uPeerage and BaronetaJ,te," "The ,L'l,leW Engla11d Historic and Genealo!!lcal Register," .. Massachusetts Historical Collections,'• Ahbott's ~-History of Andover. Mass.", Bancroft's '"Riston· of thP- United Stutes," Moore's·· Men1oirs of American Go,·ernors," etc , etc. • 41 " .. " ' .· .. '. ..' .. , V l .. Horbling Church. LincolnshirP., Eng•• where Rev. Simon Bradstreet was Vicar, 159(,..1621. His son Simon, afterward Governor of Massachusetts, was baptized here March J8, J604. From the 24 day of April (torn) vnto the eyght of Aprill, 1604. Simon, sonne of Simon Bradstreet, March 18. l!rom (Lady Day) the 25 March, 1605 to the 25 March, 1606. March 9, Mercie, daughter of Simon Bradstreet. From the 25 March, 1606, to 25 March, 1607. Februarie 8, John sonne of Simon Bradstreete. These four extracts are found in the Bishop of Lincoln's transcripts of the records of the Horbling parish, in the county of Lincoln, England, and are signed by the vicar,. Rev. Simon Bradstreet. The earliest transcript of records found during his incumbency dates "from the 3 daie of October, 1596, vntil the 3 of the same in the year 1597 .'' It is signed "Symon Broadstreet, vicar ibm." Rev. Simon Bradstreet,. father of the future colonial governor of Massa chusetts, Mather and Hutchinson state, was .. the son of a Suffolk gentleman of fine estate.'' Rev. Simon Bradstreet was, under Dr. Laurence Chaderton, one of the earliest fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. This Dr. Chad erton was prebendary of Lincoln and one or the translators of the King James's Bible. When Emmanuel College was built by Sir Walter Mildway in 1584, Dr. Chaderton became its first master, and, as stated, Simon Bradstreet was among its first fellows. When Sir Walter Mildway came to Court after his creation of Emmanuel, Queen Elizabeth greeted him with the remark, "Sir- Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan foundation.'' Her surmise was well founded. Many of the staunchest of the early Puritans were either educated at Emmanuel or received inspiration through its scholars. Eliza beth Chaderton, daughter of its first master, was mother of Isaac Johnson, who was married to Lady Arbella, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Lincoln, and who, with Dudley, Bradstreet and others, founded the colony of Massachu .setts Bay as a refuge for Puritans. It was not unnatural that Rev. Simon Bradstreet should be found estab lished in a Lincolnshire parish. That county was one of the breeding places of Puritanism, and Rev. Simon Bradstreet was a non-conformist from the beginning, at home or abroad. He appears from the transcripts of the ear liest registers to have been the incumbent at Horbling from 1596 to 1621, or for twenty-five years. The record of his own funeral occurs in the transcript at Lincoln, running "from the 25 of March, 1620, vnto the 25 of March, 1621," as follows: "Simon Bradstreete, minister (Friday) Februarie 9." Only two wills of the name of Bradstreet are found in the calendar of Lincoln wills from 1500 to 1650, viz: Simon Bradstreet, of Horbling, 1621, and Margaret Bradstreet, of Horbling, his wife, in 1(;31; showing that this family was the only one of the name in the county of Lincoln, and that its residence in the county is covered by the term 1596 to 1631. Tha.t of Rev. Simon Bradstreet, recorded in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Lincoln, is as follows: "In the name of God, Amen. The xx day of December, 1620, I, Simon Bradstreete of Horblinge, in the County of Lincolne, mintster and preacher of God's worde, doe ordayne and make this my last will and testament in manner & forme following: fir.st I bequeathe my soule into the hands of Almightie GocL my faithfull Creator, and in Jesus Christe His Sonne, my Savior & Redeemer, and my bodie to the earth from whence it was taken, and my wordly goods I thus bestow: Item I give and bequeath to Samuell Bradstreete, my oldest sonne, xl s to be paide at the age of xxj ty yeares. I tern I give to Simon Bradstreete my· second sonne, XL s to be paid at age of xxj tie yeares as in aforesaid Item I give to John Bradstreete, my youngest sonne, xl s when he shall accomplish the age of xxj tie yeares as in aforesaid And my will is further that Margaret, my wife, shall have my house with the Close to the said house adjoyning and alsoe the medowe and all other things to the said house appertayning, wich I bought of one Richard Watson of North Rawceby, in the aforesaid County of Lincolne dureing her natural life. And further my will rs that after •her decease that the said house, medowe and all the appurtennces thereto belonging or apptayntnge shall be solde and the price thereof to be equallie devyed amongst my three sonnes if they then be all living, if not, to him or them that doth survive or live. Item I give tL the poore of Horblinge and Brigend x s, to be distributed according to the discrecon of my Supervisors. All the rest of my goods not given and not be queathed I give to Margaret my wife, whome I make my sole and only Execu tor of this my last will, And I desire _James Lambley, gentleman, Robert Taverner and Thomas Wright to be Supervisors of this my last will. ln witt ness whereof I have sette my hand & seale the day and yeare above writ ten-Simon Bradstreete--James Lambley, Robert Taverner, Thomas Wright." The will of Margaret Brad.street, widow of Rev. Simon Bradstreet,. on file in the District Registry at Lincoln, was proved at Boston, England, May 12, 1631, and is as follows: "Memorand, That Margarett Bradstreete of the p (ar)ishe of Horblinge, in the Countie of Lincoln, Widdowe (being of p{er)fect mind and memory and mindinge to make and declare her last Will and Testament did by word of mouth (in her the said Margarett Bradstreete her life time) make and declare her last Will and Testament nuncupative to the effect followtnge: 44 vizt, She did give unto her sonne John Bradstreete all her goods both move atJe and imoveable of what kind and condicion sover they be And they to remaine to and with the said John Bradstreete (meaninge the said John Bradstreet her the said Margarett's youngest sonne) after her the said Mar- 6arett"s decease as his owne proper goods (meaninge that she did will, give and bequeath to him the said John, her sonne, all and singular her goods whatsoever after her the said Margarett's decease) in the presence of Thomas Wright and the said John Bradstreete, her said sonne, And she the said Margaret Bradstreete after the makeinge and declareing of her said last Will and Testament nuncupative aforesaid did upon the day in which she died (she the said Margarett then lieinge sicke upon her bed) but of pfect mind and memory) ratitie, approve and confirme her said last Will and Tes• tament nuncupative aforesaid in all things to the effect abovesaid (addinge that the said John Bradstreete, her younger sonne, should have all her goods afler her decease except tenn pounds which was in the handes of her sonne Samuell and which she had formerly lent upon bond to the said Samuell and tenn pounds more which her sonne Symon had a bond from her for the pay ment iilereor wh1ch said ten pounds she the (sd) Margaret said he the said Symon must have yf he called for it according to the said bond (which she thought he never would) which said words she the said Margaret uttered at divers times before Mr. William Watson, the Minister here, and one Anne Wright, wife of Thomas Wright of Horblinge, aforesaid.'' Isaac John Greenwood in an article on "Governor Simon Bradstreet's Ancestry,'' in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1894, said: "If we may juage from what can be gathered in the Mss. of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, the family name of Bradstreet is of pure cockney origin, originating in Bread Street, that locality in the metropolis where was anciently established a bread market. Thus in 1273 Master Thomas de Bread Street, clerk, received the grant of a quit rent issuing from a tenement in the parish of All Hallows, Bread Str~t. His name also occurs as "De Bred strate,'' and "de Brad.s_trat," till iii' 1291 we find him rector of Tollesberry, Essex, acting as deputy of the Bishop , of London, for collec~ing from the neighboring church ·of Heybridge, the tenth· lately -granted King Edward I at Ely. In 1293 Walter de Bredstrete · received a tenement in the parish of All Hallows de Bredstrete, under the will of Peter; son of John de Long; and William de Bredstrate, bokeler, had a grant in 1243 of land in Wood Street, parish of St. Alphege." From the old London family of De Bredstrate came THE BRADSTREET ARMS. ARMS-Argent, a greyhound passa.nt gules, on a chief sable, three crescents, or, CREST-An arm 1n armour embowed, the hand grasping a scimitar, all proper.. MOTTO-Virtute et non vi. (By virtue, not by strength [ or force]). 46 the Suffolk family of Broadstreet or Bradstreet, from which Rev. Simon Brad street· descended. Many members of the family have dedicated themselves to tbe church, from the time of Thomas, rector of Tollesberry, to the present day. Rev. Simon's grandson, Simon, son of the Governor, was a prominent minister in the early days of Massachusetts, and among the descendants of Governor Bradstreet each generation has found many learned and devout clergymen, as well as brave, patriotic soldiers, and leading men in literature, at the bar, and in public and commercial life. Mercie, the only daughter of Rev. Simon Bradstreet,, died a few hours after birth. As the father's will shows, all three sons were living at his death. Of Samuel, the oldest, little additional is known. John, the young• est, born in February, 1607, is believed to be the John Bradstreet,. Esq., who, in the time of Cromwell obtained large grants of land in Blancheville Park, County Kilkenny, Ireland. His descendant, Simon Bradstreet, was created a baronet of Ireland on July 14, 1759. The arms of his descendant, Sir Si mon Bradstreet, Bart., of Stracumnie, County Kildare, Ireland, as given by Burke in his "Peerage and Baronet.age" are identical with the arms of Simon Bradstreet, the colonial governor of Massachusetts, and son of Rev. Simon Bradstreet of a period of nearly a century earlier, showing their common origin. Governor Bradstreet's arms, as shown on his seal, are given at the introduction to this sketch of his career, and are described as follows: Argent, a greyhound passant gules on a chief sable three crescents or Crest: An arm ln armor embowed, the hand grasping a scimetar, all ppr. Motto: Virtute et non vl. The future governor followed his father to Emmanuel College, and may have been destined for the church, but appears to have pursued his studies there but for one year. Moore says in his "Memoirs of American Governors" (1846): ''His capacity,. and the desire which his father expressed to give his son an education, induced Dr. Preston, an intimate friend of the elder Brad street, to interest himself in behalf of the son. He was thereupon entered at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in the capacity of governor to the young Lord Rich, son of the Earl of Warwick. (At this time he was about sixteen years of age.) This young nobleman, however, did not come to the univer sity, and a brother of the Earl of Lincoln,. of rather idle and dissipated hab- Alex Young's 44Chron1cles of the First Planters of Massachusetts," (Boston 1846) page 125, states that ~imon Bradstre~t took his degree of A. B. at Emmanuel Coliege, Cam bridge, in 16:00, and of A. M. in 1624. Investigation fails to show that Bradstreet was tn at tendance at Emmanuel beyond the year stated. 47 its, being then in college and claiming too' much of the time and attention of Bradstreet, he left the institution after about a year, and returned to the Earl of Lincoln.'' The death of his father in lG~0-21, though, may have bee:1 b.rgely responsible for Simon Bradstreet's withdrawal from Cambridge, and for the next eight years he is found assisting Thomas Dudley, then steward . .- to the Earl of Lincoln, at Sempringham. There, in 1G28, when twenty-four _years of age, probably in the Church of St. Andrew, he was married to Anne Dudley, then but sixteen years old. Subsequently Bradstreet acted as stew ard to the Dowager Countess of Warwick. Bradstreet early allied himself with the Puritans and the movement of Winthrop, Dudley and their associates to found a colony in A~erica. He was appointed an Assistant before the departure of the emigrants on the Arbella in 1630. He was doubtless the youngest of the officers, being but a few days past his twenty-sixth year when they sailed from Southamp~on. With Dudley, his father-in-law, he was one of the founders of Newtown, now Cambridge, in the spring of 1631, and remained a resident there for several ·:years. In 1639 the General Court granted him five hundred acres or land in Salem, "ip the next convenient place to Governor Endicott's farm.'' For a short time, too, he remained at Ipswich, removing thence to Andover as one of its first settlers in 1648 and its most distinguished and influential citizen. ... The Worshipful ~r. Simon Bradstreet'' he is often styled in the old re::or.Js, and his name heads t!he list of those designated as ''gentlemen.'' In addition to his duties as one of the colony's executive assistants, he was selectman from the inauguration of the town government of Andover until 1672. }fe was also the first Secretary of the Colony, and discharged the duties of that office from 1630 to 1644. In 1643 he was appointed one of -the Commis,sioners of the United Co_lonies, and served many years in that important office with the same fidelity to duty that marked his career through out. In 1653 he, with his colleagues, vigorously opposed making war on the -Dutch in New York and on the Indians, "and it was prevented by his steady and conscientious opposition and the decision of the General Court of Massa chusetts, though earnestly and strenuously urged by all the Commissioners of the other colonies." Moore's "Memoirs of American Governors," presents one of the most ·concise and intelligent sketches published of the oflicial work of Bradstreet. Moore says: -- "Mr. Bradstreet, although a strict Puritan in faith, and as decidedly op ·posed to all heresy and schism as his austere relative Dudley, was endowed with a different temper, and for the sake 'of pe:ice or with the hope of refor mation, could more readily excuse an offender. He seems to have been im bued with a spirit more gentle, and to have been influenced by a be~ter idea of religious freedom, than some of his associates in the colony. While the Antimonian controversy was pending he seems to have been i:1cli.1ed to more moderate measures than the exasperated magistrates and elders. When Anne Hutchinson was arraigned before Governor Winthrop, and during two days, in the presence of the whole authority in church and State unitej, maintai:c.e-1 her ground with a self possession and ability that came near carrying some of the judges in her favor, Mr. Bradstreet was for persuasion. rather than force. He remarked to Mrs. Hutchinson that she ought to forbear her meet ings, because they gave offence; and when she interposed a pie.a of con science, he replied that he was not against all women's meetings, and even considered them to be lawful, but still thought they should be avoide:i as· matters disturbing the public peace. "The rigorous discipline which the churches and magistrates enforced at this period, caused many to be publicly arraigned and punished for offences which would, at this day be deemed trivial and insignUlcant. To speak evil of rulers was an offence, and there · were numerous instances In which this bream. of order was punished with severity. Mr. Bradstreet on occasions of this description, frequently took ground in favor ot freedom of speech, and voted in opposition to the majority of magistrates, against presentments and ftnes 'for words spoken in contempt of government.' "In the same spirit, which was in advance of the age, when the witch craft delusion overspread the colony, he discountenanced the exce3se3 into which the government was betrayed. Brattle, in his account of this delu sion, makes honorable· mention of the •few men of understanding, judgment and piety, inferior to few, if any, 1n N ~w England, that do utterly condemn the proceedings and do freely deliver their judgment that these methods will utterly ruin and undo poor New England.' Among the first of these he names Mr. Bradstreet. "In 1650 Mr. Bradstreet was one of the commissiorlers assembled at Hartford to determine the long-c-o:ntroverted boundary line between the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (New York), and the English colony of New Haven. "The settlements which had been made at York and Kittery, Maine, under grants from Gorges, early attracted the notice of the government of Massa chusetts. They claimed the territory on the Pascataqua as contained within 50 the bounds of their charter. In 1651, availing themselves of the advantages presented by the dissensions among the people of those settlements, the gov ernment of Massachusetts appointed Mr. Bradstreet one of the commissioners to treat with the dissatisfied at York and Kittery, about coming under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. In the following year matters had been so far matured that on Mr. Bradstreet again appearing at Kittery, and summon ing the inhabitants to come in and acknowledge their subjection to Massa chusetts, they resolved to surrender, and signed an instrument of submission, which was soon after followed by a: similar submission of the people of York, Saco, Wells, etc. ''In June, 1654, we find Mr. Bradstreet active in a meeting at Ipswich, on the subject of ~reparing a refutation of certain calumnies, which had been forwarded to the Protector Cromwell against the General Court of Massachu setts. '"It was some months after the restoration of Charles II became known before he was proclaimed in · Massachusetts, although a loyal address was voted and forwarded in December, 1660. The colonists were alarmed as to . ' the consequences of the great revolutions in the parent State, and sinister reports of evil for a time kept ihe· public in a state of ·reverish anxiety. l:n May, 1661, the state of public affairs was brought before the General Court. . . Mr. Bradstreet was placed at the head of a committee 'to consider and debate such.. matters touching their patent rights· and privileges, and duty to His Majesty, as should to them seem proper:· This committee, after grave ·d.e liberation, embodied their ·report in an able State p1per, drawn up by Mr. Bradstreet, and adopted by the General Court in special session 10th ·June, 1 C61. This report declares in emphatic terms the rights and liberties of the colony, under the charter, followed by a declaration of allegiance, loyalty and duty to the king. •'The Massachusetts address to the king met a favorable ·reception, r.ot withstanding strong representations had been forwarded· aga;°inst the colony, growing out of the persecution of the Quakers and other rigorous measures. The royal mandamus soon put an end to this persecution and Massachu setts was summoned to answer complaints made against the government of the · colony. In this eme:-gency Mr. Bradstreet and· Mr. Norton were de- • spatched to England. They met with a favorable reception at court, and in answer to the address and petition of Massachusetts they were intrusted with a letter from the King, which promised a full pardon of political of fences and a confirmation of the ancient privileges of the colony, but coupled al with such conditions as created at once, in the midst of the g3ne:-al re~oici:ig at the prospect of pe:ice, a deep gloom throughout the colony. The requi3i tions of the King, in this instance, were in the highest degrea tolerant and enlightened, far beyond the scope of the most of the acts of his reign. Brad street and Norton understood the matter in this light, and so it was consid ered by the best friends of the colony in England. But the General Co art looked upon the King•s letter as requiring a surrender of their rights, whic:h they determined hastily to assent to. The ageats, who we:e supposei to have made unnecessary concessions, were now loaded with reproaches a:id evils which it could not have been in their power to avert, were laid to their charge. Mr. ·Norton, a faithful and honest man, who went reluctantly upon the embassy, could not bear up under the general reproach, but Mr. Brad street, conscious that he had in no way compromised the honor or rights of the colony, steadily defended his course, and advocated a dutiful compliance with the requisitions of the King as the best and only safe course. •Whea the royal commissioners arrived in 1665, Mr. Bradstreet was one of the few who counseled a quiet compliance and protested against the declaration of the General Court drawn up in answer to the demands of the commissioners. The sturdy democracy of the Puritans> however, forbade their yiel1ing an iota of what they conceived to be their chartered privileges, and they not only denounced the proceedings of the . commissioners, but prohibited any one from abetting or aiding them. If the course advised by Mr. a-adstreet might have been under the circumstances the more prudent and politic, that adopted by the colony was in fact more noble and better becoming a com munity of freemen. 0 In 1673 Mr. Bradstreet was chosen deputy governor and continued in that office, under repeated elections, until the death of Governor Leverett, in 1679. In May of that year Bradstreet was first chosen governor, at the age of seventy-six years, having previously been chosen an assistant for fifty years in succession. He was annually re-elected governor until May, 1686, when the charter was di.;~olved, and Joseph Dudley (Bradstreet's brother-in law), commenced his administration as President of New England. Dudley's commission as such from James II bore date the 8th October, 1685, and Mr. Bradstreet was the first of the seventeen counsellors named in the commis sion. The new President, on receiving his commission, waited upon Mr. Bradstreet at his home, the 14th Ma.y, 1686, but Mr. Bradstreet declined ac cepting the appointment, as did his son, Col. Dudley Bradstreet, also named as counsellor. (Hutchinson's History Colony of Massachusetts Bay.) "The tyranny of Andros, which followed the short rule of Joseph Dudley, bringing with it the most gloomy forebodings as to the future, nerved the arms of the people and knit their hearts in unison for ultimate resistance. The venerable Bradstreet, though verging on ninety years of age, was con sulted by the people and gave his advice as the Nestor of New England. In a letter which Hutchinson has preserved, on the subject of the arbitrary seizure of lands and contempt of title deeds by Andros, Governor Bradstreet stated with admirable clearness his opinion of the case, and maintained the rights of the people. "When the people of Boston, on the 18th of April, 1689, rose in arms, and the inhabitants from the surrounding country flocked in to the assistance of their brethren of the capital, Mr. Bradstreet and fourteen of the magis trates of 1686, addressed a message to Governor Andros, in the name of the people, demanding of him an immediate surrender of the government and fortifications. Andros with his council resisted and withdrew to the fort. 'Just then,' says Bancroft, ·the last governor of the colony, in office when the charter was abrogated, Simon Bradstreet, glorious with the dignity of fourscore yea.rs and seven, one of the early emigrants, a magistrate in 1630, whose experience connected the eldest generation with the new, drew near the town house, and was received by a great shout from the freemen. The old magistrates were reinstated, as a council of safety; the whole town arose in arms, with the most unanimous resolution that ever inspired a people, and a declaration, read from the balcony, defended the insurrection as a duty to God and the country.' 'We commit our enterprise,' it added, 'to Him who liears the cry of the oppressed, and advise all our neighbors, for whom we have thus ventured -ourselves, to joyn with us in prayers and all just actions f oT the defence of the land,' On Charlestown side a thousand soldiers crowdej together, and the multitude would have been larger if needed. The governor (Andros) vainly attempting to escape to the frigate, was, with his creatures, It was a solemn and affecting sight when this venerable patriarch took his seat in the chair of 1-1tate. Within his rememhrance, and eYen f;int-e his mature age, the site where now stood the populous town had been a wild and forest-covered peninsula. The pro Tlnce now so fertile and spotted with thriving villages, had ~en a desert. wilderness. He was surrounded by a shouting multitude, n1ost of whon1 had been born in the country which he bad helped to found. They were of one generation. aud he of another. As the old man looked upon th~m, an·1 beheld new faces everywhere, he must have ft-lt that it was now time for him to ~o. whither his brethren had gone before him. "Winthrop had been dead forty years. Endicott dit>d. a ver)· old man, in 1665. :-.tr Henr~· Vane wa~ be headed in London, at the beginning of the reign of Charles II. And Haynes, Dudley. Bel lingham and Lev-erett. who had been all Governors of Ma-isa,·husette. were now likewii-;.e in their graves Old Simon Bradstreet was the sole representative of that departed broth erhood. There was no other public man rema111tng to connect the ancient s~·stem of gov ernment and manners with the new s~·stem which was about to take its place. The era of the Puritan was now completed-Natban:it-J Hawthorn~ in ··Grandfuthe1·'s f'hatr. or True Stories from Histor~· filld Biograph~·:· · THE BRADSTREET HOUSE AT SALEM. 'l'he Bradstreet J::{ouse repre~ented on thi~ pa~e. repr ,du~ed from an old print, was torn down in 1750. It was built by Emanuel Downirig, the father ot Sir George Downing 1.'he jate of it.~ erection is not k11own, but it ,vas conveyed to his daughter, Anna, the wife of Captain Joseph Gardner, in 1656. Aftar th€ death of Uaptain Gardner, who was killed at the great s,vamp fight in the Narragansett War, in 1675, his wife n1arried Governor Silnon Bradstreet.anct thus the house became known as the Bradstreet Hr,use. Governor Bradstreet, the last of the Colonial Governors under the first charter, died here March 27, 1697. 54 compelled to seek protection by submission. Through the streets where he had first displayed his scarlet coat and arbitrary commission, he and his fel lows were marched to the town house and thence to prison. All the cry was against Andros and Randolph. The castle was taken,. the frigate was mas tered, the fortifications occupied." The people voted to re-assume the old charler; representatives were chosen, and Massachusetts again assembled in General Court, calling Bradstreet to the chair of State. "Mr. Bradstreet was annually re-elected Governor of Massachusetts and of New Hampshire under the union of those provinces,. until the arrival of Sir William Phipps, in May,. 1692, with a charter from William of Orange, which deprived the people of the right of choosing their chief magistrates. In this charter Simon Bradstreet was named as senior counsellor to the gov ernor. But the venerable old man, after more than a •half century of public service, now retired from office, and closed his eventful career at his Salem home, on the 27th March, 1G97, in the 95th year of his age. His great age is attributed by Mather to his temperate habits of life." The Assembly was in session on the day or hls death, and ..ln considera tion of the long and extraordinary service of Simon Bradstreet, late Gov ernor, voted one hundred pounds toward defraying the charges of his inter ment." They buried him in Salem, where his tomb may t>e seen in the old Charter street burying ground. The plates originally placed upon the tomb have--disappeared. On them were these inscriptions: .. SIMON BRADSTREET. Armiger, ex ordine .Senatoris in Colonia Massachusettensi ab anno 1630, usque ad annum 1673. Diende ad annum 1679, Vice Gubernator. Denique, ad annum lCSG, ejusdem coloniae, communi et constanti populi suffragio. "GUBERNATOR. Vir, judico, Lynceario praeditus; quem nee numna, nee honos allexit Regi:; auctoritatem, et populi libertatem, aequa lance libravit_ Religione cordatus, vita innocuus, mundum et vicet et deseruit, 27 die Martii, A. D. 1697, annoque Guliel: 3t IX. et AET. 94." ''He was a man," says Felt, "of deep discernment, whom neither wealth nor honor could allure from duty. He poised with an equal balance the authority of the King and the liberty of the people. Sincere in religion and pure in his life, he overcame and left the world.'' Governor Bradstreet's first wife, Anne Dudley Bradstreet. daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley, died on September 16, 1672, aged 60 years. In 1G75 he married Anna, the widow of Captain Joseph Gardner, who was killed at the great swamp fight with the Narragansett Indians. She was the sister of Sir George Downing, ambassador of Cromwell and Charles II to Holland. Governor Bradstreet's children, all by his first wife, were as follows: Dr. Samuel Bradstreet, married Mercy, daughter of William Tyng. Rev. Simon Bradstreet, married Lucy, daughter of Rev. John Woodbridge. Col. Dudley Bradstreet, marriej Ann, widow of Theodore Price. John Bradstreet, married Sarah, daughter of Rev. William Perkins. Dorothy Bradstreet, married Rev. Seaborn Cotton. Hannah Bradstreet, married Andrew Wiggins. Mercy Bradstreet, married Major Nathaniel Wade. Scores of their descendants have ~ccupied positions of prominence dur ing the intervening two centuries. Members of Congress, college professors, merc"'bants of high rank, artists, novelists, poets, officers in the army and navy have been proud to trace their ancestry to Governor Bradstreet. Most illustrious in the lines of peace have been Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wendell Phillips,· Richard Henry Dana, and Rev. William Ellery Channing, the noted divine. The accompanying portrait of Governor Bradstreet is a copy of the oil painting in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber, made especially for this work. In 1770 this painting was hanging in the Council room of the King street State House, but was moved to the State House on the- hill in 1798. It depicts Governor Bradstreet in the prime of life, and may have been painted about 1650. George, afterward Sir George, Downing, and his sister, Anna, the second wtfe of Governor Simon Bradstreet,were the children of EmanuP.l Downtng,the brother-in-J,e.w of Governor Winthrop. George Downing was one of the fl.r:o-t-class graduated from Harvard College, and prepared tor the ministry. RubsequentJy he sailed for the West Indies as chaplain of a vessel, thence going to England where he attached himself to Cromwell and became chaplain and 44scoutma.ster general" in his arn1y. In 1654 be married a sister of Viscount Morpeth, afterward EtJ.rl of Carlisle. Entering Parliament he attained prom inence in the diplomatic service under Cromwell, at Parts, and then as ambassador at The Hague. Upon the restoration of Charles II he changed front, was knighted by the King, and returned to the Hague as ambassador. Returning to England he re-entered Parliament and became a h~a.ding fl.gure in the Exchequer. He was the ortg1nator of the policy enforced in the famous navigation acts. The well-known Downing street, in Lon don, perpetuates his name, as does Downt ng College, at Cambridge, Eng., to which his fortune went three generations lat.er. . 56 I ~ ANNE DUDLEY BRADSTREET, ll II AMERICA'S FIRST POETESS. ( 161:2-16']2.) * II Anne Dudley Bradstreet was twenty-two years old when her husband, Simon Bradstreet, located at Ipswich. They had then been married six years. Frequently he was absent from his home on his official duties. Sev!' eral references to this appear in her poems, as ·•My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, my more, My joy, my magazine of earthly store, If we be one, as surely thou and 1, Eow stayest thou there, whilst I at Ipswich n~~·· In anot11er love missive to him she wrote: To lly Dear and Loving Husband:· "If ever two were one, then sure!7 we, If ever man were loved by wife. then thee: If ever wife was happy In a man, Compare 1with me, ye women·, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, Or all. the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor aught but love from thee gtve recompense. Thy love ls. isuch I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then while we live let's so persevere. That when we live no more, we live ever." That her family did not suffer from her literary work is ap11cs.rent from Cotton Mather's comment in his ''Magnalia." Although, as Mrs. Bradstreet wrote in her prologue, she was "Obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my hand a needle better fits," Mather wrote that as she had eight children, and "addressed herself par ticularly to their education, her reading, well stuffed with the facts of an cient history, was no trifle for the memory." In this she was like her father, Governor Thomas Dudley, described *References: Belen Campbell's ""Anne Bradstreet and Her Times";Luther Caldwell's HAn Account of Aune Brad.street,the Puritan Poetess"; Sarah Loring Bailey's ""Historical Sketches of Andover"; ••The Works of Anne Bradstreet." 57 "In books a prodigal, they ' say A living cyclopedia; Of histories of church and priest. A full compendium at least; A table talker, rich in sense. . And witty without wit's pretense. ., Says Col. Luther Caldwell in his .. Account of Anne Bradstreet, the Puri tan Poetess": ··According. to many able and learned men of her time, she was the most remarkable, level-headed and self-poised intellectual woman of the early co Conial times, and a Christian woman, devout and conscientious, of the loft- . ' iest J>uritan faith. In liberal ideas and toleration she was far ahead of. her cold . Puritan surroundings. At her death honors and laurels were heaped unsth;1tedly upon her name, and . laudatory sermons commemorative were preached in all the principal churches of tµe colony, funeral elegies and ad dresses, hours in length, were delivered according to the dearest and dreariest form of Puritan custom.. "Am~ng all these eulogies we call attention to that by Rev. John Norton, a nephew of Rev. John Nor.ton, minister of I_ps~ich, .and later of the First. C_hqrch of Bos.ton, which is a sa:r;nple . of many others. This was a poetic3:l effusion, and with headlines and blazing titles was published. as follows: ·''A FUNERAL ELEGY •'Upon that Pattern and Patron of Virtue, the ·truly pious, peerless & match less· Gentlewoman, MRS. ANNE BRADSTR~RT, right Panaretes•. ~irror of. her. Age, Glory of her Sex, Whose Heaven-born Soul, leaving its earthly S~rine, chose its native home, a.nd was taken to its Rest upon 16th Sept., 1672." Cotton Mather, Rev. John Rogers, for a time President of Harvard Col lege, Rev. Nathaniel Ward, Rev. John Cotton, of Boston, and others of the leading and most learned men of the colony, vied with each other in pay lng tribute to her as a woman of many Christian virtues, rare intellectual acquirements, and exceptional poetical abilities. The bulk of her poems are believed to have been written during the period the family had its home at Ipswich. It is said "The loneliness and craving of her Ipswich life forced her to composition as a relief, and the major part of her poems were written before she was thirty years of 111 the manuscrJpts of Rev. Samuel Bradstreet, under date of July 12, 1666, appears the following: 44 Whilst I was at New London my father1s house at Andover was burnt, when I lost my books and many of my clothes, to the value of £50 or £60 at least. 'The Lord gave and the Lord has taken, blessed be the name of the Lord.' Though my own loss of books ( and papers es pee.) was great and my father's far more, being a.bout £800, yet ye Lord was please.! gratiously many wayes to make up the same to us. It ls therefore good to trust in the Lord:· b.ge." It was not until her relative, Rev. John Woodbridge, urged upon her the importance and desirability of their publication," says Col. Caldwell, "that she consented. Mr. Woodbridge was about to return to England (1647) and to him was entrusted the copy. They were printed. and puo• lished in 1650 in London, Eng." "Ipswich," says Johnson, .. was peopled by men of good rank and qual• tty, many of them having the yearly revenue of large lands in Englan 61 By a Gentlewoman in those Parts. Printed in London for Stephen Bowtell at the si,;ne of thr, Bible in Popes Head-alley. The titlepages of the second and third editions are nearly alike, and ditier from the first edition in omitting ··The Tenth Muse,.'' and attributing the work to a Gentlewoman of New England. They also omit mentioning the Dialogue between Old England and New, which. however, is pri::ited within just the same. Mr. Ellis's volume follows the text, use of capital letters, and spellling of the second edition, which was printed in Boston in 1678; the third edition being altered somewhat, and conformed to more modem 1tyles of•its later date. 1758. The miscellaneous prose writings which, under the title of Religious }!;xperiences, and Occasional Pieces and Meditations, precede the pot~ms 1n the Ellis volume, are printed from a manuscript book which belonged to the author, and has been kept since her death as a precious relic by her de scendants. In size the book is about six by three and three-quarters inches. The covers are of common sheepskin, and bear evidence or time and use, as do the pages inside, yellow with age. The remnants of two small, brass clasps still adhere to the edges. Mrs. Bradstreet's handwriting was large and distinct. A facsimlle of the first leaf of the manuscript may be found between pages 46 and 47 of Ellis's edition; and the contents of the manu script book are there for the first time printed entire. Anne, second child and eldest daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Dudley, was born in 1612 or 1613, probably at Northampton,. England. Little ts known of her childhood or appearance; but she wrote: ~·At about six or seven years, I take it, I began to make conscience of my ways." This she evidently continued to do throughout her life. At the age of sixteen she married Simon Bradstreet; and two years later, on March 29, 1C30, sailea with husband and parents on the Arbella, one of four small vessels, leaving England at the same time for America, and arriving, after seventy days, on the shores of Mount Desert. The Arbella landed later at Salem, where John Endicott and two hundred colonists now weak and sick. had arrived a year before. Not liking Salem the new-comers explored the Charles and Mystic rivers, and the Dudley and Bradstreet families, among others, settle:l for ii while at Charlestown. There a church was formed, the covenant of which they signed. In 1634, they moved to Ipswich, and ten years after to North Andover, originally called Cochichewick. Mrs. Bradstreet has been described as .. of a courteous disposition. and known for her exact diligence in her place;" also, .. for discreet managing of her daily family occasions." The poems were said to be ·•the fruit but or some few hours, curtailed from her sleep and other refreshments.'' It is not difficult to imagin~e her amidst her numerous cares and experiences in family life, and on unusual oc~sions, as during the absence of her husband on his . mission to England; and at the burning of their house, later, her feelings sought expressions in meditation and verse. These were not wanting in originality of thought or expression; but they were contrary to what w~s expected of women, for in the prologue to her Four Elements F c wrc ·:- "'I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my hand a needle better tits. A poet's pen all scorn I should thus bring, For such despite they cast on women's wits. If what I do prove well, it won't advance; They'll say 1t•s stolen, or else it was by chance. _\fter other verses she continues: ·And, oh ye high-flown quills that soar the skies, And ever with your prey still catch your prais~. If e'er you deign these lowly lines your eyes, Give thyme or parsley wreath, I ask no ba:res. This mean and unrefined ore of mine Will make you glistening gold to shine." Her mature life and surroundings appear to have had little in them to encourage and gratify literary tastes or aspirations. Before coming to America, however, she bad opportunity for reading and culture. New books_ were appearing frequently in that era of literary pro gress, following the lives and writings of Spenser and of Sir Philip Sidney which she much admired, of Shakespeare and Cervantes, Bacon and Ben Jonson and other great thtnkers. Homer, Montaigne's Essays, and Plutarch's Lives had been translated. Dr~ Harvey had discovered the circulation of the blood. Buchanan, Latin historian and poet, and Sir Walter Raleigh, with his History of the World, written in his twelve yea.rs• imprisonment, gave fresb impeLus to the study of history, and thought in general was quickened. In 1Gll the common version of the Bible had bee!l published. Gloomy w·:-1:1ngs by Wither and Quarles, The Saint's Cordial, and numerous pam• phlets and tracts, were read by the Puritans. Governor Dudley, though op• posed to heresies, was intelligent in books, as well a3 an active business• 111an. Mrs. Bradstreet called him a Magazine of History, and her Guide and Instructor. However her works may be now considered, they were app~ecia e j in her day, as admiring tributes from England and in America testified. Com mendatory verses were written by people of worth and considerabl9 no:e. some in most laudatory terms, as one by Cotton Mather, and another b:; an unknown writer in England, beginning: ''"Nhat golden splendent star is this so bright; One thousand miles, twice-told, both day and night From the Orient first sprung, now from the West They shine. Her earliest known poem was written in 1632. Several other works, ~rrong them the Elegies to Sir Philip Sidney and Queen E1iz:ibeth, were written before 1643, when her mother died, aged sixty-one. Little is known of this mother, except that Thomas Dudley married a woman .. whose extract and estate were considerable.'' Her virtues are thus recorded by her daugh ter, in an Epitaph on "my dear and honored mother, Mrs. Ir-othy Dudley, who deceased December 27~ 1643.'' ·'A worthy matron of unspotted life, A loving mother and obedient wife; A friendly neighbor, pitiful to poor, Whom oft she fed and clothed with her slor6 To servants wisely awful, but yet kind, And as they did, so they reward did find; A true instructor of her family, The which she ordered with dexterity; She public meetings ever did frequent, ;\nd in her closet constant hours she spent: Religious in all her words and ways, Preparing still for death till end of days; Of all her children, children lived to see, Then, dying, left a blessed memory. In The Four Ages of Man our author puts, into Childhood, Youth., Middle Age, and Old Age, the individual thoughts and experiences natural to those stages of humanity. Her Four Seasons show a love and appreciation of Nature, its wonders and beauties, with a lively and healthy interest in its various kingdoms; also the influence upon all .by relations to the sun anct heavenly bodies, the constellations in their courses being dwelt upon. Poems in blank verse follow, and are guided by historical reading, particularly by Sir Walter Raleigh•s History of the World. Mr. Ellis thinks that The ~"our Elements, The Four Humors in :Man's Constitution, The Four Ages of Man, and The Four Seasons of the Year are really four parts of one entire poem; an ambitious undertaking, certainly, shortened, somewhat, it appears, as she wrote of it: 64 "But, 'fore I could accomplish my desire, My papers fell a prey to raging fire.'' Her Contemplations show imagination, poetic fancy, and religious fervor. 'Under the cooling shadow of a stately elm Close sat I, by a goodly river's side,- Where gliding streams the rocks did overwhelm,- A lonely place, with pleasures dignified; I, once that loved the shady woods so well, Now thought the rivers did the trees excel, And if the sun would ever shine, there would I dwell. An earlier verse reads thus: "I heard the merry grasshopper then sing, The black-clad cricket bear a second parti They kept one tune and played on the same strin_g, Seeming to glory in their little art." At~1ong her Meditations are these pithy sentences: .. Tl1e purest bread has the least bran; the purest honey, the least wax; 1_1.ie s~r. ~erest Christian, the least self-love. .. A ~hi~> tllat bears much sail and little or no ballast is easily overset; and tha.t n.t'1ll whose head hath great abiliti~s, and his heart little or no grace, is in danger of foundering." That she had true poetic feeling, the following blank verse attests: 0 And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet, retired solitude; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings_ 11lat, in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." - In her last verses, written in 1669, this is what she said: "A pilgrim I, on earth perplext, With sins, with cares and sorrows vext; By age and pains brought to decay, And my clay house mouldering a way; Oh, bow 1 long to be at rest, And soar on high among the blest.'' Three years later, on September 16, 1672, thts prayer was granted; though where her dust lies is uncertain. f·"►') fi6 RUlOGRIPH lfTifR fROM ANNf -DUDlf YBRRDSIRf ll 10 H(R SON SIMON BRADSTREET, MARCH 20, 1664. For iny dear sou nf? Simo!'? Bradstreet. Parent.s perpetuate their lines in their poste1 ity, and their maners in their imitation. Children do na.tur?tlly rather follow the failings than the vir tues of thPir pr~decessors.but I am persuaded better things of you.You onl.e desired me to leave something for yuu in writing that you might look upon when you should see me no more. I could think of nothing more flt for you, nor of more ease to my selfe, than these short meditations following. Su•~h as they a.re I bequeath to you: sn1all legacys are accepted by true friends, much more by dutiful children. I have avoydad incroach1ng upon others conceptions, because I would leave you nothing but myne owne. though in value they fail short of all 1n this kinde, yet I presume they will be better priz'd by you for the Author's sake. Tb~ Lord ble8se you with grace beer, and crown you with glory heerafter, that I may meet you with rejoyc111!!' at that great day of appearing, which is the contlnuall prayer of Your affecttonate mother, March 20, 1664. The meditations referred oo a.re short pithy paragraphs, as a. rule,em bodylng some mortl lesson. The following are fair• samples of then1 : A Rhip that beares much saile,and httle or no ballast,;s easily overset; and that man whose head hath great. abilities, and his heart httle or no grace, is in danger of foundenng. The finest bread hath tbe least bran; the purest honey, the lea.st wax; . an Sore labourers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawnie con sciences. It is a pleasant thing to behold the light, but sore P,yes are not able to look upon it; the pure in heart shall see God, but the defiled in conscience shall rather choose to be buried under rocks and mountains than to behold the presence of the Lamb. He tt1at walks among briars and thorns will be very carefull where he sets his foot. .A.nd he that passes through the wilderness of this world had need t'onder all his steps. 68 ~ THE OLD BRADSTREET HOME, I ~ AT ANDOVER, rlASS., ERECTED IN 166:7." II In the original North Parish at Andover, on the Haverhill and Boston :oad, stands an ancient house, around which cluster the associations of two • and a half centuries, and which is especially interesting and memorable as having been the home of the first woman-poet of America, Anne Dudley Bradstreet. It was . built probably about the year 1667 by the Hon. (after wards Deputy-Governor and Governor) Simon Bradstreet, and was his family residence and that of his son~ Col. Dudley Bradstreet, until the death of the latter in 1702. Old as it is, it had been preceded by another built many years earlier and deatroyed by fire July, 1666. The present house seems likely, with care, to last another half century at least. Its frame is massive, of heavy timbers; its walls lined with brick, and its enormous chimney, heavily buttressed, running up through the centre, snows tn the garret like a fortification. On the lawn in front are two venerable elm trees, supposed to be as old as the house itself. They are of remarkable size, vigor and beauty, though latterly (the branches of one are now nearly all dead) marred by the ravages of the canker-worm. Simon Bradstreet was one of the first settlers of Andover, as he had been one of the first settlers of Charlestown, Boston, Cambridge and Ips wich. When there were only eight towns in Essex county, before Andover was incorporated, and soon after the land had been bought of the Sagamore Cutshamacbe for £6 and a coat, this enterprising and far-seeing Puritan man of affairs brought hither his •family and in 1644 built the first mill on the Cochechevicke, near its junction with the Merrimac, in the district now crowded with the manufacturing industries of the city of Lawrence and the villages of Sutton~s and Steven's mills, North Andover. Anne Dudley, reared amid the refinements and elegancies of an English castle (her father, Governor Thomas Dudley, had been steward to the Earl of Lincoln), at the age of eighteen, having been then two years married, came with her husband, Simon Bradstreet, to seek a home in the "wilder ness of North America,'' They were of the party consisting of Governor ,vinthrop, Mr. Johnson and his wife, the lady Arbella, sister of the Earl of Lincoln, and other eminent colonists, who in June, 1630, landed at Salem. "'This arttcJe is reproduced b~· permission from Aarah Loring Bailey's ••Historical Sketcht1s of Andover." OLD BRADSTREET HOME AT ANDOVER, lYIASS., ERECTED J667. lfessrs. Dudley and Bradstreet, -after several removals, first from Salem to Charlestown, thence to Boston, settled at Cambridge, where Bradstreet built a house near the present site of the University book store. In 1635 Brad Ftreet had again removed to Ipswich. The hardships and privations of pio neer life told severely upon the delicate constitution of Anne Bradstreet, and though she did not, like the gentle lady Arbella, droop and die, she soon became a confirmed invalid, as she says: ··r fell into a lingering sick ness like a consumption, together with a lameness, which correction I saw the Lord sent to humble and try me and doe me good.'' At the time of her husband's removal to Andover, she was about thirty years of age, the mother of five children, to whom three more were afterward added. Of the little brood, she thus quaintly writes: "I had eight birds hatcht in one nest, Four ~ocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up with pain and care., Nor cost nor labor did I spare., Till at the last they felt their wing., Mounted the trees and learned to sing." She chronicles her devotion to her husband as follows: "If ever two were orie, then surety we; It ever man were loved by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can.'' The neighbors or Mistress Bradstreet looked with jealous eye upon her talent for verse-making and her ability to put her feelings into fin~ phrases: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who say my band a needle better tits." But the literati of her time regarded her as a prodigy. President Rog ers, of Harvard College, said that •·twiee drinking of the nectar of her lines" left him "weltering in delight." Edward Phillips, the nephew of Mil ton, speaks of her as '•the tenth muse sprung up in America," and John Norton says: '•Could Maro'a muse but hear her lively straih_ He would condemn his works to fire again/' Her poems were first published through the agency of bet urother-in la w, the Rev. John Woodbridge, first minister of the church in Andover. She seems to have written as a diversion from bodily suffering and a solace for the lack of society; also with a desire to leave something which would be of interest and value to her children after her death: 71 ·That being gone, you h~re may find What was your loveing mother's mind: Make use of what I leave in love, And God shall blesse you from above.'' The burning of her house in Andover was a great blow to Mrs. Brad street. For after her many movings and breakings up she had hoped to spend here the remnant of her days in peace and quiet. With the house perished treasures that money could not replace, a library of eight hundred Yolumes, , rare and costly books, family portraits and heirlooms, furniture of rich pattern brought from England; and, what was beyond price to the gen tle poet, store of tender and sacred associations. Undoubtedly new fashions and tine clothes found their way to Andove1 as soon as to any of the inland plantations, for the Bradstreet family main tain~ correspondence with the nobility of England, and Bradstreet, often sending, bad every facility for obtaining as elegant dress as the taste, good sense and religious principle of bis household would permit them to wear. Mrs. Bradstreet was a lady whose literary tastes kept her from inordinate rove of dress; and, moreover, she was in feeble health, and from principle also indisposed to great display. Still, the relics handed down in this family show that they had rich furniture and apparel. Mrs. Bradstreet's neighbors thought her too little interested in dress. They criticized her writings so much and said it would be more becomi~g in her to use the needle than to have her pen always in hand; but doubtless her daughters, on social occasions of importance, when visitors from out-of town-their connections,· ·th-e Dudleys, and their friends, the Winthrops, and the President of the College and other dignitarles--were guests, made no little display of elegant attire. Brocad~ and ruff, and lace, velvet, gold lace, point, buttons, were not wanting when the Puritan aristrocracy were gath ered to do honor to the wisdom of the magistrate, the genius of his poet wife, and the beauty and virtue of the daughters. Mr. Simon Bradstreet, when he went over to England in 1661, on his mission to the court of King Charles II., we may be sure, appeared in the presence of royalty in no home spun garb, and it is more than likely that he •:did not return without many a purchase or present of the fabrics of the old country for his family. Mrs. Bradstreet thus describes her·feelings at the time of the fire: "I, standing up, the light did spye, And to my God my heart did cry, To strengthen me in my distresse1 72 And not to leave me succourlesse rhen coming out beheld a space, The flames consume my dwelling place." She never quite liked the "newe house," although it was undoubtedly finer than the old one, and furnished with an elegance befitting the wealth and rank of its owner. Simon Bradstreet, honored citizen, exemplary Christian, kind husband, provided for his family an abundant home; took pride in his wife's poetical talent and satisfaction in her lines concerning the various occasions of his life; such, for instance, as his mission to England to propitiate Charles II. toward the colonies; cherished her tenderly; and when, after forty years or faithful devotion, she died, mourned her sincerely. Four years after her death, he, hale and hopeful at the age of seventy-three, married again; lived twenty-one years thereafter; served as deputy-governor six months and as governor thirteen years, with two years' interruption by the loss of the charter, and died in 1697 at the age of ninety-four. No trace of Anne Bradstreet's grave is to be found. She was probably iaid in the parish burying ground, whose moss-grown stones on the hillsid& can be seen from the windows of the Bradstreet house. All the monuments of her time have crumbled to dust, save only one broken tablet which serves to prove that this was the burial place of the first settlers. But though th·e gentlewoman lacks the memorial of .. storied urn or animated bust," her ''poems," as Cotton Mather remarks in the Magnalla, "divers times -printed, have afforded a monument for her memory beyond the stateliest marbles.'' Among her noted descendants may be mentioned William Ellery Channing, Oliver Wendell Holm-es, Wendell Phillips, Richard H. Dana. Dudley Bradstreet took his father's house and filled his father's place a~ a citizen of Andover, being selectman, ~olonel of militia and magistrate. Well it was for bis town and for the colonies that the magistrate·s office fell to a man inheriting the united qualities of Simon Bradstreet and Anne Dud ley, for largely to the compassion and courage of Dudley Bradstreet wa.s due the first check upon the fury of the witchcraft frenzy. He drew up and headed a testimonial and plea for some wretched women of Andover who had made confession of witchcraft .. by reason,'' as they afterward declared, ''of sudden surprisal, when exceedingly astonished and amazed and conster nated and affrighted even out of reason." He asserted> and with personal risk. his belief in their innocence. Then the cloud darkened over the Bradstreet house. The magl.stra~e ( Col. Dudley Bradstreet), was accused himself of having practiced witch craft, and thereby killed nine persons, and the man who for twenty years had gone in and out before the people. trusted and loved of all, was now forced by their clamors to flee from his home and hide himself from their fury. If the voices of the centuries could become audible in the old house, what agonized prayers and anguished partings would come borne on the night-wind of that dreadful past of the witchcraft delusion. Even more startling and terrifying would be the lifting of the veil on the scenes of the memorable March day of 1698, when the snow-bound house was suddenly invaded by forty savages and its inmates dragged out into the wintry air, to see their neighbors' homes in flames and the snow stained with the blood of their townspeople. Here again the gentle humanities of A.nne Bradstreet living in her son brought salvation; for an act of kindness, conferred by the magistrate some years before upon an Indian of the party, he and his family were spared a cruel death. They were carried about li.fty rods from the house and released unharmed. After the death of Col. Dudley Bradstreet, his house wa.s purchased for a residence by -the Rev. Thomas Barnard. the parsonage having been de stroyed by fire in 1707. Rev. John Barnard also lived here, and here proba• bly were born his sons, the Rev. Edward Barnard and the Rev. Thomas Barnard. During the half century which includes the French and Indian war, the Revolution and the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the Brad street house was occupied by the Rev. William Symmes, D. D. There was reared the first lawyer of Andover, William Symmes. Esq., J;on of the minister, who left his native town because of the censure of his townsmen for his conscientious change of convictions and action in advo cating the adoption of the Federal Constitution. • The Bradstreet house, after the death of Dr. Symmes, was purchased for a summer residence by Hon. John Norris, one of the associate founders 1f the Theological Seminary. A manuscript diary kept by Mrs. Norris, now in possession of one of her- descendants living in Salem, gives some pleas ant glimpses of the household ways of the manse those threescore sum mers ago: ''A deal of papering and painting and making of current jelly, and bottling of 'cyder,' and going to Haverhill, eight miles away, for a bar rel of flour, and picking raspberries 'on the South Parish Road,' and tea drlnkings, with such guests as Dr. Worcester, Dr. Pearson, Dr. Griffin, Dr. Woods; also, 'Mr. Spring, a student' of the Seminary, spends the night often 74 11.nd writes his sermons 'sitting by the keeping-room fire, the weather bei:ig cool.'' A few years later there were sermons of another school of thoology than that of Gardner Spring written in the keeping-room, when it was occu pied by the young Unitarian minister, the Rev. Bailey Loring (father of Dr. George B. Loring), who lived for a time with the family then owning the Bradstreet house, that of Mrs. Elizabeth Parks, the widow of Gen. Parks ~nd mother of Gorham Parks, Esq., counsellor-at-law, Waldoborough, Me. The next scene that rises to view in the tableaux of the centuries is the boarding school, the principal figure the school-master. "A man severe he was and stern to view, Master Simeon Putnam, the pedagogue of fifty yea.rs ago." The- neighbors say that the grass was worn smooth by the roadside, where he kept the idlers and dunces sitting to con their tasks, a spectacle to passers-by. The windows of the school-room bear marks of the youthft~i p!"opensity for rhyming, as follows: "Stranger, these tainted walls depart, Within are fetters to a freeman's heart! H 1·wo of "the boys" have left their autographs cut on the glass: Amos ~- Lawrence, Chandler Robbins. One of the sons of Master Putnam was Professor Putnam, of Dartmouth College, at the time of his death professor fleet of Andover Theological Seminary. Th.us the Bradstreet house has gathered to itself store of history and tra dition, and its rooms are shadowy with the forms of by-gone centuries. A veritable ghost is said once to have haunted it and made a frightful clatter tng in the chamber of a young negro servant; but we do not need its help to fill up our collection of portraits, or to start the question of spiritual manifestations; for as Mr. Longfellow, with the truth of poetry, assures us: ., All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harn:less phantoms on their errands glide With feet th~t make no sound upon the ttoors; We have no title-deeds to house or lands. Owners and occupants of earlier dates "{i'rom graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates." ' ! COL. DUDLEY BRADSTRERI', I II OF ANDOVER, rlASS., (1648-1702.)l- II ======:!I Colonel Dudley Bradstreet. son of Governor Eimon and Anne Dudley Bradstreet, and grandson of Gov. Thomas Dudley, was born at Andover, Mass., in 1648. On November 12, 1673, he married Ann, widow of Theodore Price, at Andover. Two children survived as a result of this union, Dudley Bradstreet and Margaret. As was to be expected, Dudley Bradstreet entered public life at an early ng~. When but twenty-two years old his name is found in the list of the se lectmen of Andover, and it is probable that even earlier than that he wa~ doing his measure of military duty. The town records of Andover show that he held· the office of selectman 1670-73, 1676, 1680-82, 1684-85; 1688-90, 1692-93, 1 C95-96. As town clerk he served his home place in 1C7C, 1694, 1C95-9C. The military records of the colony show that Dudley Bradstreet was Ueutenant of the militia 1677-80, captain 1680-93, major 1693-98, colonel 1698- 1702. It is quite probable that his military service began several years be fore he was chosen lieutenant, and that in all he was connected with the colonial military for not less than thirty-five years {1667-1702). In 1677 he was first elected a deputy or representative to the General Court of Massachusetts, and was re-elected a number of times, the records showing him a member of the legislative body of the colony In 1677, 1680-83, 1686, 1691-92, 1695, 1698-99. He was also a member of the Governor's Coun cil 1698-1702. He died at Andover on ~ovember 13, 1702. A number of interesting items relative to Col. Dudley Bradstreet are found in Sarah Loring Bailey's •'Historical Sketches of Andover,'' . from which the following are reproduced by permission: '•In 1678 Capt. Dudley Bradstreet was appointed by the General Court ·to joyne persons together in marriage at Andover one or both of whom be ing settled inhabitants there, & being published according to law.' "Among the first marriages at which he officiated was that of his sister, 'Mrs. ~rothy Bradstreet and Mr. Seaborn Cotton, June 14, 1654.' *References: Bailey's '"Historical Rketches of Andover", Town Records of Andover. Massachusetts Colonial Records. · "The title 'Mrs. was simply a form of respect, and had no reference to the marriage relation, a lady of high social standing, · whether married or single, being addressed as 'Mistress', or with the abbreviated form 'Mrs.' "How proposals of marriage were made and preliminaries settled in ;;~od socie~y, we learn from a statement of Simon Bradstreet in reference to the marriage of his daughter Mercy to Major Nathaniel Wade, of Medford, which took place 31st Oct., 1672: '' 'When Mr. Jonathan Wade, of Ipswich, first came to my house at An d over in ye yeare '72 to make a. motion of marriage betwixt his sonne Na thaniel and my daughter Mercy, he freely of himself told me what he would gi'" e to his sonne. After he came home hee told several of my friends & o~hers that hee had offered to give his son better than one thousand pounds nnu would not accept of it.' ··Notwithstanding these disagreements of the fathers at first, they finally ~aine to a mutually satisfactory arrangement of terms, and 'soe agreed that the young p'sons might p'cede in marriage, with both our consents, which they accordingly did.' "ln May, 1686, the colonial charter, so highly pnze~, was abrogated, Governor Bradstreet was superseded by a President appoint~d by the Crown, (Joseph Dudley, his wife•s half-brother), and a Council. Although appointed m~mbers of the President's Council, Ex-Governor Bradstreet and his son Dud ley Bradstreet declined to serve. In December the President was set aside and Sir Edmund Andros was appointed Governor of New England. The town of _\.ndover was not likely to cherish any warm regard for the usurper of t.he office so long held by its distinguislied townsman, the former Governor. Indeed, Dudley Bradstreet declined to collect the extortionate taxes assessed by order of the royal Governor, and was, therefore, imprisoned at Fort Hill. A glimpse of this first Andover rebel against royal tyranny, in his imprison~, ment, is given in the diary of Judge Sewall. He probably had not antici pated such summary measures, and he was of a temperament and disposition sensitive to wrong to feel keenly the injury. ·· '1C87. Wednesday, Sept. 28. This day went with Mr. Mather and vis ited Capt. Bradstreet, who was much distracted last night, but now pretty well; said he had not slept in several nights, being confined at Fort Hill.' "It was useless to hold out, and perhaps Bradstreet acted in the begin ning not so much from an unwillingness to collect the taxes as with a view to serve the wishes of his townsmen. They could hardly expe~t him indi vidually to suff'er t!)_ the extent of remaining in prison. He acknowledgej, -II as. indeed, he might truthfully, without sacrifice of principle, ·great impru dence and folly,' and giving bonds for one thousand pounds, was released.' ( Palfrey's History of New England.) ·'Col. Dudley Bradstreet evidently did not sympathize with the persecu tion of those suspected or accused of witchcraft, and as a result came under the ban of suspicion himself. Some of the accused were examined by him in his capacity as Justice, on August 10, 1692. He seemed to deprecate the necessity laid upon him, and to disclaim any judgment in the matter. He evidently, though humane and not so credulous as many in regard to the wild stories current, had not the determination and strength that character ized the minister, Mr. Dane. His letter to the magistrates and examiners, relating what action he took, is as follows: " 'Gentlemen: I thought it meet to give you tllis broken account, hoping that it may be of some service. I am wholly unacquainted with affairs of this nature, neither have the benefit of books for forms, etc., but being unad visedly entered upon service I am wholly unfit for, beg that my ignorance and ta111ngs may be as much covered as conveniently may be, which will ever be acknowledged by your poor and unworthy servant. I know not whether to make any returns. Bonds I have taken. The custos rotulorum I know not.' "A petition dated October 18, for the release from prison of many of the men, women and ehildren, confined on account of the witchc:raft delusion, did not contain the name of Dudley Bradstreet, the reason being that he was now under suspicion or aecusation (of witchcraft), bad fled the town, and was living secreted in hope the storm would blow over." The suspicions directed against him arose from his inability to ~onceal his sympathy with the un fortunates coming before him, and his evident desire to protect them as much as possible from the punishments being imposed upon them. On February 22, 1697-98, Col. Bradstreet's house was attacked by the 'Indians. An account of this event is given in the sketch of the old. Brad street home at Andover, together with further interesting allusions to Gov. Simon Bradstreet and his family. 7'8 r REV. DUDLEY BRADSTREB'l', 7 II oF ANDOVER AND GROTON, nAss., <1678-1714.>* II Rev. Dudley Bradstreet was the only son of Colonel Dudley an.cl Ann (Price) Bradstreet, of Andover, and the grandson of Governor Simon and Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet. He was born at Andover, Mass., on April 27. 1678, and graduated at Har Yard College in the class of 1698. He became the master of the grammar school in his native town, where he was teaching, as early as the year 1704, at a salary of forty pounds a year. H;is father, Col. Dudley Bradstreet. had also been master of this school until the authorities secured a permanent in <'t!mbe~r. It is highly probable that Rev. Dudley Bradstreet was still con nected with the sC'hooJ in this position wh~n be rer.Pi\"eti a call to the Gror.>n Church. His father having died at Andover on November 13, 1702, leaving his widow and two children, Dudley and Margaret, it is presumed that Dudley continued to live in that town, at the old homestead, for some months after accepting the Groton call, going back and forth on horseback for the Sab bath --services. .It is also not unlikely that he returned to Andover for a brief time after changing hi~ theological,. views. His grandmother, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the poetess, had little heart for the Puritan ecclesiastical system, and from her Dudley 2d may have inherited the leaning to the old church which eventually led. him to tum to it, sacrificing his prospects in America - for the sake of his convictions and doubtless bringing upon himself the op- probrium of his old friends as well as of his kinfolks. It was not until 1711 that Rev. Dudley~s tende:icy towards the 3:piscopal government and forms of service became so marked as to arouse attention. but it is probable that before then he was considering a change in his church affiliations and had well studied the persocal sacrifice that such a step entailed. Rev. Dudley Bradstreet married Mary Wainwright, at Andover, on May 4~ 1704. She was the daughter of Capt. Simon and Ann (Gi'.bert) Wain wri~ht, of Haverhill. They had three sons, as follows: *References: Town Records of Andover and Groton~ Mass.; Green's ""Groton Histor ical Series.'" 1, 17UG. Simon, born at Andover.. March ' Dudley, born at Groton, March 12, 1708. Samuel, born at Groton, 1711. Early in March, 1706, Dudley Bradstreet was preaching at Groton, al• though he was not ordained there until November 27, of the same year. At a town meeting at Groton, on April 9, 1706, the town voted to give Mr. Bradstreet, if he would settle there as its minister, one hundred and thirty pounds money, and thirty pounds in provisions at these rates: Indian corn. 2 shillings a bushel; rye, 3 shillings a bushel; wheat, 4 shilllngs a bushel: pork. 2 pence a pound: ox beef, 3 half pence a pound; cowbeet 1 · 1arding" a pound; peas, 3 shillings a bushel. A 13:ter meeting declared the town's intention of erecting him .. a good house of 38 foot long and 18 foot wide, and a leantow of 11 foot wide,. all the length of the house, and they will furnish it comfortably~ this house to be of 14 foot between joints," and also tha~~!~n would build a .. good letell barne" for him. The house built of under this agreement for Mr. Bradstreet's occupancy, is still standing and in a state or good preservation, situated on Hollis street, south· easterly of the old burying ground. The present measurements, Dr. Green states, conform very nearly to the dimensions given in the town records, but the lean-to has long since disappeared.· In the summer of 1712 Mr. Bradstreet was dismissed from his charge at Groton, presumably for his Episcopal tendencies, and soon afterward he went to England to apply for orders in the• Anglican church. It appears from a copy of the original document in Latin, made 1n a manuscript volume by President John Leverett, and now deposited among the archives of Harvard University, in the College .Library,. that he was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of London on April 18, 1714, a~d a priest one week later, on April, 25. He did not live to carry out what seems to have been his ambition, of returning to the colonies to assist in the establishment of the Church of England there. He was taken with small•pox and died the following month. Tidings of the death of Rev. Dudley Brad-street reached this country in the following summer. Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, of Massachusetts, wrote in his diary, under the date of August 5, 1714, when the ship arrived bring ing the news that "~r. Dudley Bradstreet quickly after he had received Or ders dy'd of the small Pocks." An allusion to Mr. Bradstreet is found in Wilkins Updike's .. Hist.Ory of the Episcopal Church in Narragansetts, Rhode Island" (page 450), where an abstract of the ·'Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" is given. It is there state *References: Town Records of Groton. Mass.; Green's ~~Groton Historical Series." was a resident of Lancaster, and presumably his company was made up of soldiers belonging ther~ and in Groton and neighborhood. ··In the New England Historical & Genealogical Register, for October 18,0, it is said that Dudley Bradstreet was commissioned at Louisburg b~ Governor Shirley, as Second Lieutenant, on October 2, 1745; and before thts time it is likely that he was holding a lower rank, perhaps that of Ensign. ... ilere is some reason to think that he was serving in the Commissary de• partment, perhaps as a non-commissioned officer. There are several entries in the diary which also bear out this supposition. ··The following extract, taken from Benjamin H. Hall's · History of East ~rn Vermont,' throws a little light on Lieut. Bradstreet's later career: •' 'More effectual measures for the defence of the country were taken at the beginning of the year 17 4 7, than had been adopted for some time pre vious. On the 17th of March, Governor Shirley presented to the General Court a message relative to the state of Fort Dummer and the Importance ot its position, and advised that it should be garrisoned with a larger force than was ordinarily stationed there. That b<> Bradstreet retained the charge of the fort for five months2 at the end Qf which time it was again placed in the care of its former commander.' "Near the end of July, 1748, Dudley Bradstreet belonged to a company or thirty-six men that for two days scouted in the neighborhood of Groton, un der the command of Capt. Thomas Tarb~ll. They were sent out by Major William Lawrence, of Groton, under orders rrom Col. Samuel Willard, or Lancaster, during an Indian alarm. .. This is the last trace of Lieutenant Bradstreet that I am able to find," continues Dr. Green. "Neither the town records nor the files of the Middlesex Registry of Probate give any hint or clew as to his later history; and the epita~s in the burying ground are equally silent. He disappears from view so completely that he may have died soon afterward. In the church rec ords between August 16, 1771, and September 9, 1774, there are allusions to a ·Widow Bradstreet,' probably his widow. "The diary is written in a clear and distinct hand, and shows that the author had received a better education than the average yeoman of that period, which is not surprising, as he was a lineal descendant of Governor Simon Bradstreet. The ink on the first page is so faded that the manu script for the most part is illegible, and only here and there can words be made out, but on the last page it is still good. Perhaps moisture or an ex posure to sunlight had wrought the change, or ·possibly another kind of ink· was used. On this account the printed copy begins with the second page of the journal, and opens at the time when Pepperell's forces w~re lying at anchor in the Gut of Canso, a place previously arranged by Governor Shirley as a rendezvous for the fleet. •'The expedition against Louisburg, all things consldere 85 THE WAINWRIGHT ARMS. ARMS-Oules, on a chevron azure, between two fleur-de-lis of tbe field. a lion, rampant, within a bordure, engralled, sable. CREST-A lion rampant, argent, holding an an cient axe, handle of the first, headed, or. 86 ! THE WAINWRIGHT FAMILv,7 II OF IP~Wl'-,H AND HAVERHILL, rlASS.* u Francis Wainwright, the first of the family in this country, Felt says in his history of Ipswich, came to Massachusetts about 1630, from Chelmsford, in Essex, England, and established himself at that place. He was a descend-. ant of the aneient family of Wainwrights> of Worcester and Chester coun ties, England, and the arms of that family appear on the tombstone of his son, and on legal documents signed l:>Y his early descendants. He appears to have been early at Charlestown, where he bought the estat~ of Robert: Moulton. · He sold this to Peter Garland and removed to Ipswich about a year later. probably 1637. When the Pequot war broke out in 1637, Francis Wainwright was among the first to ·volunteer, being then in the first flush· of young manhood. He distinguished himself for personal bravery during that conflict with the 111• dians. One of his heroic exploits which has· come down as a matter of his• torical record, is told of by Rev. Philip-Vincent in his ··True Relation of thb .. late battle fought in New England, beLween the English and S1lvages'' (sav- ages), published in the .. Colleci.ions of the Massachusetts Historical Socie... ty/' 3d series, Vol. 5, pages 40-41, as follows: ··A day of thanksgiving was solemnly celebrated f~r this happy success; the Pequotans now seeming nothing but a name, for not le.;s than seve11 hundred are slain or taken prisoners. Of the English are not slain in all above sixteen._ One occurrent I may- not forge.:.. 'J'he e~de.t\ors of private men are ever memorable in these beginnings; the meanest of the vulgar is not incapable of virtue, and consequently, neither of honor. Some actions of plebeians have elsewhere been taken for great achievement. A prett:Y sturdy youth of New Ipswich, going forth somewhat rashly to pursue the savages, shot off his musket after them till all his powder and shot wen; spent, which, they perceiving, re-assaulted him, thinking with their hatch ets to have knocked him in the head; but he so be3tirred himself with thb stock of his piece and after with the barrel, when that was broken, that he brought two of their heads to the army. His own desert, and the encour *References: Chase't- "History of Haverhill, Mass.," Fell's ·•History of Ipswich Mass.;·P..ecordsof the M~s;sachusetts Bay Colony, in office of Recretary ofComn1onwealth' Hoston, Mass., Official Town Records of Haverhill, Mass., 4 •American Heraldica," •4The Book of Family Crest:-,~'~ Crozier's ··General Ar1nor~- of An1erkan Fan1llies." agement of others, will not suffer him to be nameless. He is called Fran· eis Wainwright." For his services in this war Francis Wainwright got a• grant from Ipswich. He also served valorously against the Indians in 1645. .. __ This Francis Wainwright became a merchant of prominence. In 1GG4 he was corporal of Major Dennison's company. On May 31, 1671, he was admit ted as a freeman; that is, admitted to the full privileges of cit.lzenship, such as voting and holding office. His wife, Philippa, the daughter of George Sewall, of Hasted, Essex; England, fell heir to her father's estate there. which was collected for her by a relative. By her Francis had three sons. John, born Q>bout 1648; Simon, born about 1656, and Francis, born August 25, 1664, and five daughters, Sarah, Mary, Martha, Mehitabel and Elizabeth. His first wife died October 9, 1669, and he married Hannah While visiting at Salem he died suddenly on May 19, 1692. Felt says of him, that by ·hls diligence and sagacity in business he became a wealthy, useful and respected merchant. His widow subsequently married Daniel Epes, of Salem_ His descendants. Felt says, .. have long been among the most noted people of our country." His will, which is on file in the Suffolk registry, recorded Vol. XIII, 17, provided bequests for hi~ widow and chil dren, the daughters having married as follows: Mary, wife of Rev. Jeremiah Shepard; Martha, wife of Joseph Proctor; Mehitabel, wife of John Atwater; Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan Cogswell; Sarah, who had married Jacob Per kins, was not mentioned, but there was a bequest for her son, Francis Per kins. as well as for Francis and John, sons of John Wainwright. All three of the sons of Francis Wainwright became men of prominence in the early history of Massachusetts. Davis says that uror the next two generations his descendants formed a remarkable family, noted for its wealth, its military spirit, and the extraordinary number of Us college-bred men." Francis Wainwright, 2d, born August 25, 1664, of the Harvard College class of 1686, became colonel of the regiment, Representative to the Gen eral Court, Justice of the General Sessions Court, and held other public offices. He married Sarah •Whipple March 12, 1686, and had only three daughters living at the death of his wife on March 16, 1709, they being Sa rah, wife of Stephen Minot, of Boston; Elizabeth, and Lucy, who married Stephen Waldo, of Boston. His son John died in his eighteenth year. Fran cis 2d died August 3, 1711. His remains were interred in the graveyard of Ipswich. His is one of the four tombs there showing armorial bearings, dis playing the Wainwright arms borne by the family in England and America. The inscription on the large, flat stone is as follows: "Here lies entombed the body of Colonel Francis .Wainwright, Esq., who died August 3, 1111, aetatls 47, and his vertuous consort, Mrs. Sarah Wainwright, who died :March 16, ·1709, aetatis 38. With three of their youngest children, John. Francis and John, who died in their infancy.'' John Wainwright~ the oldest son of the first :Francis, was also colonel of the regiment and Representa:tive to the General Court, as well as Justice of the Sessions Cou{t, and a rich and prominent merchant. He man1ed. Elizabeth, daughter !"of _.William Norton, of Ipswich, on March 16, 1674. She was a kinswoman of Ann Downing, second wife • of Governor Bradstreet. At this time his father evidently gave or promised him a large part of hts· Ipswich estate, although it was not formally deeded to John until April 4, 1691. They had children as follows:.. Elizabeth, who married Addington . Davenport in November, 1698; Ann, who married Adam Winthrop; Lucy, who was married on September 15, 1703, to Paul_ Dudley, son of Governor Dudley, and afterwards Chief Justice and for many years one of the most distinguished men in the colony; Francis- 3d, of the Harvard College class· of 1707, who married Mary Dudley, daughter. of Governor Joseph Dudley, and John, born June 19, 1691, of the Harvard College class of ½fl1: Though John Wainwright 1st died as early as July 30, 1708, be left a very large es tate. His widow married Hon. Isaac Addington on November 19, 1713. His son, John Wainwright, of Ipswich, appears ln the 0 List of Esquires" 1n . 1736, as given in the Heraldic Journal, Vol. 1, page 18. Mary Dudley Waln wrlght, widow of Francis 3d, married Captain Joseph Atkins, who was born in Sandwich, Eng.• 1680, and after serving in the British navy and merchant service, came to America and settled at Newbury.. Numerous descendanta, are found of this marrlaa;e. Simon Wainwright, the second son of Francis Wainwright 1st, in whom the families for which this volume has been collated, are more especially Interested, was born a.t Ipswich, Mass., about 1656. He became the first merchant in Haverhill, Mass. Chase, In his history of that town, states that at the annual meeting in 1683 Francis Wainwright obtaineJ leave for his son, Simon, to settle in the town and use Umber to build him a house and a warehouse. This, says Chase, ts the first mention that can be found of a merchant or trader in Haverhill. Simon immediately removed to that town and rapidly became one of its foremost citizens. Two years later an agreement in regard to the keeping of a school is found, signed by the se lectmen, November 9, 1685, and among them ·•sim. Wainwright.'' He evi dently inherited his fa.ther's love for the military life, and is believed to have at once identified himself actively with the little force at Haverhill, becoming its captain. In the records of the town it appears that on July 30, 1694, a meeting was held to choose assessors, and •'Captain Simon Wainwright, Ensign John !White and Cornet Peter Ayer were duly chosen and sworn.'' This was the first board of assessors chosen by the town and establishes Simon Wainwright's right to the title of captain. Further r& cords of the town show that during the Indian troubles houses were set apart as garrisons or places of refuge, and among them that of "'Captain Wainwright,'' which stood on the site of the "'Emerson House,'' opposite the Winter Street Church of a century or more later, Captain Wainwright having bough-t a considerable plot, embracing this, on August 10, 1687. _ Captain Simon Wainwright was slain by the Indians, with fifteen oth, ers, In their attack on Haverhill on August 29, 1708. Chase says in his "History of Haverhill'': '"Another party went to the house of Captain Simon Wainwright, whom they killed at the first tire. The soldiers stationed in the chambers were preparing to defend the house till the last, when Mrs. Wainwright (nee Mary ·S_!!v,J:r) fearlessly unbarred the door and let them in. She spoke to the Indians kindly, waited upon them with seem-ing alacrity, and promises to procure •them whatever they desired. The enemy knew not what to make of this-the apparent cheerfulness with which they were received, and the kindness with which they were treated, was so dif ferent from what they expected to meet with, "that it seemed to paralyze their energies. They, however, demanded money of Mrs. Wainwright, and upon her retiring to bring it,' as she said, she fled with all her children, except one daughter who was taken prisoner, and were not afterward dis covered.•' This daughter was carried captive by the Indians to Canada. In 1710 her mother petitloned the General Court to redeem her. The following Is her petition: Haverhlll, 29th April, 1710. "To his Excellency, Joseph Dudley, Ca.ptain-Genera.l and Governor ln Chief, etc., etc., to the Honorable Council and General Assembly now m~: The petition of Mary Wainwright sheweth that, whereas my daughter hath been for a long time ln captivity with the French of Canada, and I have late reason to fear that her soul ls ln great danger If not already captivated and she brought to their way; therefore I humbly intreate your Excellency. that some care may be taken for her redemption before Canada be so en deared •to her that I shall never have my daughter more. Some are ready to say that there are so few captives in Canada that it is not worth whlle 00 to put the country to the charges for them; but I hope your Excellency, nor any other good, Judicious man, will think so; for St. James ha.s In structed us, as you may see, chapter 5:v, 20, 'Let him know that he which converteth ~.the sinner fA>m the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.' This is all I can do at present, I desire humbly to beg of God that He would direct the hearts of our rulers to do tha't which may be most for His glory and for the good of His poor, distressed creatures, and so I take leave to subscribe myself your most humble petitioner. "'WIDOW MARY WAINWRIGHT. "In the House of Representatives, read and recommended 12th June.'' To the early Puritans death tor their children seemed almost prefera ble tothelr conversion to Roman Catholicism. Several children carried cap tives from Massachusetts had been induced, during the years of their cap tivity, to become members of that taitli. It was this fact that led Mary ~ Wainwright to believe that the soul of her captive daughter was "in great di·nger." The colonial records in the office of the Secretary of the Common wealth, at Boston, do not show any one of the name of Wainwright in the list of captives returned to the General Court in 1710-11. The only captive in the list whose residence is given as HaverL · 1 is one Mary Silver. The child seized by the i11dia1Js at the burning of Haverll.~! in 1708 was evidently -- the child of Captain Simon Wainwright's third wife by her first marriage. The Secretary of the Commonwealth adds: .. An examination of the manu script collection failed to reveal any proof that the Mary Silver referred to was ever redeemed by any or the persons acting on hehalf of the Province for the recovery of Indian captives." ,. ••captain Wainwright," says Chase, ··was a high-minded and influential· citlzen. He was supposed to be very rich, and there is a tradition which states that he had a large chest tilled with dollars, and that he offered a man the whole If he would extract one of them with his fingers. The man 'pulled and tugged,' as our Informant said, with all his strength, but, alas, the thing was Impossible, and he was obliged to leave it., and be satisfied with only looking at the precious stuff. 1't was also said that he burled much of his money, and a part of the field south of Captain Nehemiah Em erson's house has been dug over, for the purpose of finding it. The large oak tree, near Little River, has been twice dug around for the same object., within the remembrance of many of our citizens (1861) but the tantalizing dream of the money diggers, it is believed, was never realized. !H Captain Wainwright died intestate. Cons'iderable monies were due blm from various parties, whicll the executors found difficulty in collecting, the documentary evidences of indebtedness having been destroyed in the burning of Haverhill at the time of his death. In the Massachusetts Ar chives, Vol. 17, page 257, appears the following petition for relief: "To His Excy. Joseph Dudley, esqr., Governr: The honble ye Council & House of Representatives of Her Majty's Province of the Massachtts Bay, in General Court Assembled. 24th Octobr: 1710. "The Petition of Stephen Sewall, Guardn to John Wainwright, Minor, onely Son of Capt. Simon Wainwright, late of Haverhill, deced on behalfe of the sd John· Wainwright, & others Concerned in the Estate of ye deced. "Humbly Shewetli, "That, Whereas, at the time of the Attack made upon the Town of Hav- · ···. .. . erhill by the French & Indians in the year 1708. Amongst other the Out- rages and Desolations then committed, The sd Captain Wainwright was slain & his house bum'd, with all his Books, most of his Bonds, Writings • Papers whereby the Petr, with Lt. Col. Saltonstal, Admlnrs, are made uncapable of Takeing the Ordinary Process of Law, for ye Obtaining & re covery of many well known, honest & just Debts of very Considerable Value, to the Extreem Loss & damage of the Orphants & others lnterestecl in the Estate. Some evil-minded Debtors, takelng Advantage thereof, to withhold what they justly Owe. Yor Petr therefore on hehalfe of ye sd Mtnor & others interested, humbly prays that your Excy & honours would please to Appoint, Two or more of the Justices of the Inferior Court within the County of Essex, or Such other persons as you may think fit, t-0 be Commissioners, with Power to Call before them all persons lndebfed to ·.•• the sd Estate, and to require & Administer an Oath to them, referring to ye Debts they respectively Owe, both as to Quantity and Specie of payment; The sd Commlssionrs to make Report or their doings therein from time to time to ·the Govr & Council That so ,the necessary further Directions may be given therein, as has formerly been done by this hon ble Court, in a Case of like nature, Or that Such other ways and Methods may be Directed as in yor Excy & Honours Wisdom shall be thought proper for Enabling the Adminrs ···to Demand & recover the just Debts Oweing to ye sd Estate. ·'And yor Petr shall ever pray, &c. ••sTEPHEN SEWALL. "Novr 9. 1710. "In Council:-Read and Ordered: That the Prayer or the Petcon be Granted, And- that the Justices of the Inferior Court within the County of Essex, or any two of them be Commissioned and Impowred to and for the Service therein mentionbd. Sent down for Concurrance. .. ISA. ADDINGTON, Seery. ''In the House of Representatives: Novr 11., 1710: Read & Concurred, the Admrs Paying tbe necessary Costs of those that shall be summoned. ••JOHN CLARK. Speaker.'' The town records of Haverhill, as furnished by Mr. William W. Rob erts, the City Clerk (1905), and other official sources, give the following in formation as to eaptain Simon Wainwright's three marriages and his chil dren: First marriage: Symon Wainwright and Sarah Gilbert, married Octo ber 6, 1681. (Diligent search has failed to bring to light any records posi tively determining the ancestry of Sarah Gilbert. Two or more early Gil bert families are found in Massachusetts from which she may llave de scended.) Children: (1) Sarah, bom at Rowley, July 17, 1682; married February 7, 1699, Charles Frost, oldest son of Charles Frost, member of the Provincial Coun cil of New Hampshire and Sergeant-Major of the Province of Maine; died June 5, 1714. They had ten children, eight of whom survived their mother, viz: Sarah, born November 6, 1699; Charles, born May 21, 1701; Mary, born September 18, 1702; Elizabeth, born December 21, ·1703; John, born February 9, 1704-05; Simon, born March 8, 1705-06; ; Abigail, born Novem ber 10, 1707, and died January 6, 1708; Mehitabel, born December 23._ 1709, and died M~rch 20, 1710; Abigail, born September 16, 1712, and Nicholas, born May 31, 1714. Charles Frost .subsequently married Jane, widow of Andrew Pepperell, brother of Sir William Pepperell. (2) Mehitabel, born at Rowley, January 24, 1G83-84, married March 25, 1702, to Richard Saltonstal, descendant (3d) of Sir Richard Saltonstal, proprietary patentee of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Connecticut. Their children were: Richard, born June 14, 1703, died 1753; Ward, born ~lay 21, 1705, died August 5, 1705; Nathaniel, born June 3, 1706; Elizabeth, born June 25, 1707. MehMabel Wainwright's father deeded her a considerable estate at Haverhill as her marriage portion in 1702 . .,,, (3) Elizabeth, born at Rowley, October 20, 1G85, married to Rev. Rob- ert Breck, of Marlboro, •·an able minister, a man of great learning in the original languages of the Bible, and in philosop~y, and also a man of great courage and prudence." -(Boston News-Letter.) Their son, Rev. Robert Breck 2d., born at Marlboro, July 25, 1713, graduated from Harvard with -honors in 1730; ordained pastor of Springfield, Mass., church in 1736, after the famous controversy arising from charges of unsoundness in faith pre ferred by Rev. Thomas Clap, afterward President of Yale. (4) Mary, born at Haverhill, January 4, 1686, marrie:l· to Rev. Dudiey • Bradstreet, grandson of Governor Simon Bradstreet, May ·4, 1704. Children: Simon, born at Andover,. March 1, 1706; Dudley, born at Groton,. March 12, l708; Samuel, torn at Groton, 1711. After the death of her husband at London, Eng., May 16, 1714, she returned to Groton. The town and church re~ords· of that place show the marriage on November 29, 1715, of Mary Bradstreet to John Parker. Inasmuch as there was no Bradstreet fam-ily In Groton except that of Rev. Dudley Bradstreet at that time, and there is no further reference to the widow, it is generally accepted that this was the second marriage of Mary (Wainwright) Bradstreet. This John. Parker an 96 ! THE BROWNE FAMILY,l l:,f Tolethorpe Manor and ~wan Hall,Eng.,and Watertown,rlass.* I For over SQven centuries the family of Browne has been located at Stamford, in the county of Lincoln, or at Tolethorpe Manor, in the county of Rutland, two miles from Stamford. When Tolethorpe Manor became the principal seat of the family is not known, but in 1376, or the 50th year of Edward III, the records show that Sir Thomas de Burton, Kt., by deed, dated on the Saturday next after the feast of St. Martin, the Bishop, conveyed to John Browne, of Stamford, Esq., all his lands, tenements, etc., included in Tolethorpe Manor, in the parish of Little Casterton, county Rutland. Whether John Browne took possession of the property and made it at once his country seat is not established. In the 5th year of Henry VII (1589), a fine was levied between Christopher Browne, great-great-grandson of this John Browne, and others, plaintiffs, against Thomas BurtoR and Margaret, his wife, deforcients of a moiety of ":te Manor of Tolethorpe, and tenements, with the appurtenances. From this period, at least, and probably a much earlier time, Tolethorpe Manor became the principal seat of the Brownes, they being referred to as .. of Stamford and 1.~olethorpe Manor." John Browne, Esq., who purchased the Manor from Sir Thomas Burton was born, doubtless, at or near Stamford, about 1330. He was probably, like several of his descendants, a merchant of that borough, dealing in England's great staple of '!001, in which large means were acquired. He became a man of prominence as well as of wealth. In 1376 and 1377, he is found Alderman of Stamford, that is. the town's chief magistrate, there being no Mayor until the time of Charles II. No record appears as to his death or will. He was succeeded by his son, John Browne, whose son, John Browne 3d. is founu at Stamford in the closing years of the 14th and first half of the 15th century. He was a .. merchant of the staple of Calais," say the old records. The merchants of the staple were the first and most ancient, says a writer on the subject, and were so called from their exporting the staple wares of the kingdom. The king's staple was established in cert:1.in town:s. and certain goods set forth by law could not be exported without first being brought to these towns and rated and charged with the duty payable to tht *References: Court records at Lincoln and London, Eng., Parish records at Hawke don, Eng., Bond's .. Genealogies of the Fatnilies and Descendants of the Earlv ~ettlers of Watertown, Mass:'; Edn1ondson's '"Heraldr~···, ·•A1nerka11 Heraldica", etc., ete., THE BROWNE ARMS. ARMS-First and fourth quarters. Per bend.argent and sable, three n1ascles, in benri connter changed; second and third, sable, thre~ mallets, argent, two and one. CREST-A stork's head, couoed arid nowed at t.t1e neck, between two wings expanded. argeut. MOTTO-Apprendre a mourir. (Learn how to die.) 98 king. The grower of wool contented himself at first with the sale of his output at his own door, or at the next town. Thence arose a class of men who bought it from him and became a medium between the grower and the foreign cloth merchants. In 1319 their company had a legal form of corpo ration, and was the oldest mercantile trading body in Englan-d., as well as one of the most powerful. Edward II ordained for the better colleciing of duty on wool that the staple for it should be a certain town in the Nether lands, and Antwerp was fixed upon. The staple was afterwards successive ly removed to St. Omer's, Bruges, Brussels, Louvain, Mecklin and Calala. and finally, in the latter part of the 14th century, to Westminster and thence to Staple Inn, in Holborn. But for many years after wool merchants are found referred to as "merchants of tile staple of Calais.'' ··rn the Middle Ages;· says Rev. Edward L. Cutts in his ··scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages,'' ··the pursuit of commerce held a higher and more honorable place in the esteem of all classes than it does with us. The upper classes were themselves engaged in trade in various ways. No blemen and bishops, abbots and convents., nay, kings themselves. in the 14th and 15th centuries, had ships which traded for their profit with· foreign countries. In the 13th century the Cistercian monks had become the grea.t est wool merchants of the Kingdom. In the 15th century Edward IV carriect on a considerable commerce for his own p_rotit. A considerable number or the ·traders of the 14th and 15th centuries were cadets of good families. The leading men of the trading class stood side by side with the leading men of other classes. They were consulted by the king on the affairs or the kingdom, were employed with bishops and nobles on foreign embassies, - were themselves ennobled. Several of the gr.aatest families of the king- dom were established in this way. The chiefs of the trading communitie~ were men of better education, deeper knowledge of political affairs, wider experience of the world, than most of their countrymen. Many of them were of the 'gentlemen' class by birth and breeding, men of perfect self respect aud high public spirit." ''Monuments remaining to this day keep alive the memory of great mer chants which would otherwise have perished. Hundreds of churches yet bear traces ·ot the munificence of these mediaeval traders. The noble churches which still exist in what are now comparatively small places 1:i Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Su~olk are mementoes of the merchants of the staple who lived in those eastern counties. At least from the early part of the 14th century, the mediaeval traders earned great wealth and spent lt munificently, possessed considerable political influence, and occupie1 a11 All Saints Church. Stamford., 8agland, erected by John Browne, prior to 1442. Steeple erected by his soa Wm. Browne prior to 1489. 100 honorable social position beside the military and ecclesiastical orders.'' John Browne 3d was one of the leading merchants of Stamford and ranked among its wealthiest and most influential citizens. In 1414, 1422 and 1427 he was Alderman of the borough. Out of his inherited and accu mulated means he erected the Church of All Hallows, or All Saints. now over five hundred years old, but which still remains one of the principal ornaments and most historic edifices of Stamford. It is described as a large, well-proportioned structure, consisting of a nave, two aisles, and two chancels, one of which is at the end of the south aisle, and other answer ing to the nave. John Browne 3d died July 26, 1442, and was buried in the church his munificence had built. His widow, Margery, died November 22, 14G0, and was buried by his side. A brass plate in the wall, under one or the windows. with an inscription in Latin, is a memorial to the founder of the church. William Browne, his older son, succeeded to the estates of John Browne 3d. He was also a wool merchant, and like his father and great-grandfather, a man of standing in the arena of public as well as of mercantile life. In 1435, 1444, 1449, 1460, 1466 and 1470 he was Alderman of Stamford, while in 14G7, 1475, 1483, 1486, he was Sheriff of the County of Rutland, and proba blr Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1478. He completed his father's work on All Saint's Church by the erection of its beautiful steeple at his own expease, and in addition founded Browne's Hospital, a noted institution still floudsh il:1g at Stamford. Established before Columbus had conceived his lctea of a western voyage to the Indies, this charity yet continues its work of alle viation and bids !air to remain one of Stamfo:-d's permane::it ins~itutions. The building erected by William Browne"s liberality is one of the most an ~ient structures in Stamford. All-Saint's Church and Browne's Hospital have indissolubly connected the name of the Brown family with that of the city whare they are first found seated. William Browne died in 1489. His will, dated February 17, 1489, was proved May 2, of that year, by Margaret Browne, his widow, the daughter of John Stoke, of Warmington, Northampton, who was the sole executor, and is on record at London with that of his widow who died the same ye~:i.r. He directed that he should be "buried within the Chapell of Our Lady O'J. the South side within the Church of Alhalowes in the markett side of Stamford aforseid before my seete between the water and the wall there." His wife was buried by his side. Where formerly stood the altar there is a figure of this WiJ!iam Browne, and one of his wife, in brass o:i. marble. These mem orials, and the brass to John Browne 3d, are shown in the accomp1nring 101 lnterJor of All Saints Church, Stamford, England, showing 16th Century Brass Memorials to the Brownes. illustrations of the interior of All-Saint's Church. But one child appears to have been born to William and Margaret Browne, their daughter Elizabeth, who married Sir John Elms, Kt. John Browne 4th, junior brother of William Browne, was also a leading citizen of Stamford, being Alderman in 1448, 1453, 1462. He died between 14G2 and 1470, and was buried in All-Saint's, his wife, Agnes, being laid by bis side on her death in 1470. In the absence of male heirs ~o his brother, ,villiam Browne, this John Browne·s son, Christopher Browne, succeeded to Tolethorpe Manor. Lik:e other wealthy merchants of the day, he sup ported Edward IV against Warwick and in 1480 the arms and crest given elsewhere ,vere granted him by that monarch. He became an active sup porLer of Henry Tudor in the troublous times that came upon the realm with the seizing of- ihe crown by Richard III. He is believed to have been a party to the first unsuccessful attempt by that prince, afterward Henry V fl, against Richard in 1483, and on its failure to have fled to France. Re turning with Henry on his second strolrn for the crown of England, Chris topher Browne fought with him at Bosworth Field, on August 22, 1485. His services were not overlooked. He is found serving as Sheriff of Rutland county in the 8th and lGth years of the reign of Henry VII, 1492 and 1500, ancl in the first year of Henry VIII, 1509. Henry VIII, too, signally honored his memory and the services rendered his father, by issuing a patent "on the -·cth day of July, in the 18th year of his reign'' (1527) to Christopher_ l1rowne·s eldest son, Francis Browne, of counsel to Lady Margaret Beau fort. mother of Henry VII. authorizing Francis Browne to appear with ht!S head covered in the presence of the king, his heirs, and successors. and all ~re:it lords of the realm. Christopher Browne died about 1518, his will, dated 151G, being provea :it Lincoln. Februarr 8, 1518-19. He expressed a desire to be .. buried lll the Church of St. Thomas the l\1artyr within the Cllurch of All Halows. Stam ford:' beside his first wife Grace, the daughter and heir or Joh:i Pi=icbbecli:. Esq., of the County of Lincoln. He had thrice n1arried, his second wife bt~ !r.g Agnes Bedingfield. of Norfolk, and his third wife Elizabeth. ·•The Pedigree of Browne. of Rtamford, Tolethorpe, etc", in Hill's "History of thl~ Hund rt>d of Gurtree•', Leicestershire, Eng .• gives arms: ··Three mallets argent. Crest.on a \\TP:tth nrgent and sable, a stork's hend couped and the neck nowed gules, bt"hn.•en two wi n~s displayed.'~ "American Heraldica" gives this crest and the motto ·•Appn~n• drt• mourir'" ( Learn how to die,, with arms ••per bend argent and sable tlll'ee nuts clt!s in lwnd. (·ounter<"hanged", and states that the famil~? of .Browne received two totall~· differ ent grants of arm.:;, the older one being the ·•three n1alle.ts argent'•; Crozier gives the •·three 1nascles;' etc. as the arins; Edmondson's ··Heraldry'' says: Browne of Suffolk, sable three mallets argent, two and one; Browne. Le~·son. in Suffolk. per bend argent and snblt> thrPe nu1.scles in bend counterchunged; crest. a demi-stork with wings ex-pandPd. i,roper. tl1e iwck nowed." The compiler of the pedigree in Bond's Watertown. gives tiw arms: ··suhle, three nutllets argent. quartering ppr hend. argent and snhlt:>. threP -mascl,•:-: bendwn:n; (·ounten·hangecl." with sanw l'r<'st as oth~rs. Browne's flospltal, at Stamford, England, erected by William Browne, prior to 1489. The Francis Browne referred to, Christopher's son by his first wife, succeeded to Tolethorpe Manor. From him the property descended through eif;ht generations to Mary Browne, who, in 1793, married the 3d Earl of Pomfret, who in her right became lord of the Manors of Tolethorpe and Lit tle Casterton. -One of the most noted descendants of Francis Browne was Rev. Robert Browne, who organized the first Separatist church in England, and was for some years the leading spirit in the movement against the Church of England, his rallying cry being the well-known .. Reformation without tarrying for any.'' Only the family connection with Lord Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth's great prime m-inister, saved him from the gallows at a time when some other less pugnacious reformers were so disposed · The will of Francis Browne, of Tolethorpe,oldest son of Christopher Rrowne lst,dated March l, lt.M Henry VIII, proved May 16, 1542, by Anthony Browne, is on flle at London. It •~aves to his widow •• Heatrys" rents from lands in Tolethor1>e and Little Ca-,terton; and to younger sons the income arising from lands and t4'mements in Kirton in Holland. Co. Liacotn,and fron1 lands in Toletborpe nnd Little Casterton,tbe main portion of the estate going to the older;.t son Anthony. He desired to be buried ••with my wife Covell at Little Uasterton if I d~·e at ToJthorpe,and if I dye at London,then to be buried with 1ny graund father, John of Pynchbecke, in Grayes Inne in St. Andrew the appostell in Holburne." Etobert Browne was '"rightworshipful extraction," for his grandfather had received a ch1t.rter from Henry VIII and his Parlian1ent, ""giving him leave to put on his cap in the presencE'! of the king or his heirs, or any lord spiritual or temporal in the land, and not to put 1t off but for his own ease and pleasure." Robert wa.s near kinsman to Lord Burleigh. bis preaehing wa~ characterized by the marvellous boldness with which he repron~d the Precislani•ml of the Establishment, iti,z corrupt ceremonies aud its lordly pretenttons. Hopkins' ··Th~ Puritans During the Reigns of Eel ward VI and Q,ue~n Elizabeth." Vol.:? pages ~-5. · ;,, ' ~ ..;- . . ·,,,;},\, ;,,· . ('. ~· -l~ ;~'.'tf, . }} ,.. ·/ :\:~/i:{/?:!t1,,.~ Swan Hall, flawkedon, Suffolk, Bngland. part of the building which remains, does not give one any idea of its former extent. I succeeded in producing a sketch (reproduced herewith) which will afford an almost perfect idea of the building as it was originally. I found an old lady at Hawkedon, wh6 resided at the Hall at the time when the pr~cipal porti(?n of it was demolished, and she remembers -particularly that it was precisely like Thurston Hall, w-hich is in the neighborhood and retain~ all of its original features. From this Hall I finished my sketch. The old lady spoke of the elegant stained glass window in the grand hall, a small portion of which, when Swan Hall was partly demolished, was transferred to the chancel window of the church, and also of the elaborate carved work, both within and without, not a vestige of which remains except the beams on the front end. She l>elieved a portion of it was taken to Charity Hal!, S\>me miles distant." This Christopher Hrowne, of Swan Hall, died in 1538. His will, dated May 27, 1531, was proved at Bury St. Edmunds, July 3, 1538. His property is thus described and bequeathed in his will: -1 gyve anti bequethe to Anne my wyef, all that my tenement wtth the appurten'.nces lying in the pi'che (par.!shes) of Hawkedon and Somenon, callyd the Deene, and all that tenement with thappurten'nces called Swaynes. to have and to hold the sa.yde ij (2) Tenements callyd the Deene & Swaynes, with all their appurtenances to the sayde Anne during hyr lyef withoute any impeachment of wast, and after the deceese of the sayde Anne, all the sayde ij Tenements with all ther appurten'nces to remayne to Robrt Browne, my sonne, and to the heyres male of his body." }"'or the lack of such issue, the will provided, these estates were to go to his (Christopher's) son Christo pher (XStofer) ·Browne and his heirs male, and for lack of such issue then to his son Thomas and his heirs male; and for th€. lack of such issue then to "go to my heirs and assigns forever.'' Bequests of money were made to the sons mentioned, Robert, Christopher and Thomas, and to his daughters Eliz abeth, Margaret and Agnes, and to his godson (grandson) Christopher Browne. The will was witnessed by Robert Browne, filius et heres testoris; Robert Checkley, clericus (minister of Hawkedon)~ Thomas Hy'on, Johnes Cawston. His son Christopher's (3d) will is dated November 24, 1568, and was proved at Bury St. Edmunds, May 31, 1574. It makes no mention of his wife, who was probably deceased. He gives legacies in money to his son Thomas, daughter Joan Bayley, his godsons (grandsons) Ambrose and William Bayle, sons of Thomas Bayle, and to his son Robert Browne he gives "the lease of my fearme in as large and ampple manner as I hav it," and also all the rest 107 ,_ of his estate, real and personal, and appointed him executor. Neither "The Deans" nor .. The SwansH is mentioned in this will. His elder brother, Robert, was still living and in possession, but without heirs male, so that Christopher's oldest son, Thomas, was heir presumptive to "The Deans" and .. The Swans'' under his grandfather's will. His older son Thomas, being thus amply provided for, accounts for Christopher 3d making his younger son Robert principal legatee and executor of his own estate. The will of this Thomas Browne, older son of Christopher 3d, -is dated December 22, 1590, and was proved at Bury St. Edmunds, January 26, 1591, he having died and been buried at Hawkedon on December 23, 1590. He had inherited '•The Deans'' and .. The Swans" on the death of his uncle Robert, and beqlleathed them as follows: ··To Johan, my wife, my house wherein I dwell, with all the outhouses thereto belonginge, called and known by the name of the Deanes & Swaines with all the lands, meadowe, and pasture thereto belonginge, during her naturall life, upon this condicon following, viz.: that (she) shall bringe up my children and paye all my debts, and kepe my howses in good and suffi cient reprac'ons, and make no stripe or waste upon the grounds or of any Wood or Timber growinge in and uppon the same, and after the decease of the saide Johan my wife, I give all the saide howse and howses, lands, meadowe, and pasture, with the app'tences to my five sons, viz., to John, Richard, Thomas, Ambrose and Abraham, and their heirs, to be equally dt vided between and amongst them, or so many of them as shall be then liv inge, by and at the discression of iiij ( 4) discrete and wise men to be chosen by the p'sons (parsons) of Hawedon & Som'ton then beinge." A bequest in money was also made to his daughter Sarah. As the children were all minors at tne time of their father's death, it is probable that the family remained at Swan Hall for some years, the sale and partition of the properties being deferred under the will until the death of their mother. Two of these sons of Thomas Browne, of Swan Hall, were among the earliest settlers of Massachusetts. Richard Browne, the elder, who was born at Hawkedon in 1575-76, located in London when a young man, attached himself to the cause of the Puritans, and became ruling elder of the separatist church in that city, the members of which suffered much from persecution, and to the relief of whom he devoted considerable of his means. His brother Abraham had also early attached himself to the re formation movement. The two brothers are believed to have migrated to Massachusetts Bay together in 1630, probably coming out with Winthrop In the first fleet. In October, 1630, four months after the arrival of Winthrop~ 108 .Edmund Browne is supposed to have arrived in Massachusetts on June r,, 1638, and lived flrst at Plyn1outh, and then at Sudbury, as proprietor and minister, in 1689,when the town received its name. He died June 22, 1678, without issue, leavtng bequests to Harvard College, the town of Sudbury and his kinsmen, including John .Browne, of Bury St. Ed- 1nunds. Suffolk, England. He was doubtless kinsman of the Brownes of this chapter. Hawkedonis about nine miles northwest of Sudbury,both in Suffolk. Richard Browne made application for admission as a freeman of the colony, having established himself as one of the first settlers of Watertown, and on May 18, 1631, his application was granted. He was the ruling elder of the first church established at Watertown. Abraham, his brother, had been admitted a freeman two months prior to this, on March 6, 1631, having also established his home at Watertown. Their oldest brother, John,. remained at Hawkedon, being buried there on May 5, 1616, but his son John, bap tized at Hawkedon October 11, 1601, perhaps induced by the solicitations of his uncles, emigrated to America and arrived at Watertown September 16, 1632, was admitted a freeman September 3, 1634, and died in June, 1636. It is doubtful if he left any descendants. Both Richard and Abraham Browne had married in England and brought their families with them. By his wife Lydia, Abraham had six children, as follows: 1. Sarah, born in England, married George Parkhurst, Jr., December 16, 1643. 2. Mary, born probably in England, married John Lewis, of Charles town, April 10. 1650. 3. Lydia, born in Watertown, March 22, 1632-33, married Lieut. Wil liam._ Lakin, of Groton, Mass., a sketch of whom follows. For the descend ants of these this volume has been compuea. ' 4_. Jonathan, born at Watertown, October 15, 1635. 5. Hannah, born Watertown, March 1, 1638-39, died March 15, same year. 6. Abraham, born Watertown, March 6, 1639-40, married Mary Dl:x, February 5, 1662-63, -died 1667. Inventory of estate filed September 28, 1667. In his "Genealogies of the · Families and Descendants of the Early Set• tiers of Watertown,'' Dr. Henry Bond wrote at length of Abraham Browne and\-ilis connection with the infant days of the colony. He says: '·Abraham Browne was the land surveyor, and, as is manifest from the recofds, in the early municipal transactions of the town he received import• ant appointments, and trnsts more numerous than were conferred upon an1 · other person. No t vuo men were more respected and confided in than h" and his relative, Richard Browne. The records of the town do not em brace the transactions of the first four years after the settlement. They commence in 1634, extend to November 28, 1643, when there occurs a hia tus of four years, and recommence November 8, 1647. Abraham Browne wa.s selectman from 1636 to 1643, inclusive. In 1634 he was appointed, in conjunction with Robert Seeley, to survey all the lots that are granted, and 109 they were also appointed conservators of timber trees, none to be cut down without their assent. In 1635 he was one of the seven freemen appointed to divide eveiy-_ man .. his property" of meadow and upland, that is plough able, and the rest to lie common. In the same year, he was appointed, with John Warren, to lay out all the highways, and to see that they are repaired. Also to survey the lots granted by the selectmen. In 1638, ordered that 'all lots both of freemen and foreigners, shall be measured and bounded by Abraham Browne, who shall give a note of each survey to be enrolled in the town books.' In the same year he and Thomas Bartlett were appointed to measure and lay out the remote meadows, according to their best judgments. He was also appointed, with four others, to lay out the farms as they are ordered, and they were authorized to include any rock or swamp in any survey, not counting it in the number of acres. In 1639, the highway from Dorchester Field to the Flats, as Abraham Browne laid it out, was confirmed forever; atso, the highway leading from Robert Jennison's to the river, be twixt the lands of John Barnard and Jeremiah Norcross, together with about half an acre of land on the river for the landing of goods, was ordered to remain forever, as laid out by Abraham Browne April 30~ 1639; also that when Abraham Browne shall lay out any whole squadron of the great lots, they to whom the land belongs shall make him present pay. In 1640 Abra ham Browne was directed to survey the subdivisions of the Hither and Fur ther Plains, and the next yea.r (1641) he was directed to do the same; also, it 'Was ordered that he have 4:d tb.e acre for surveying the two plains and the remote meadows; also, he was empowered, 1643, to warn trespassers on public timber, and to have one-fourth of the fines. October 7, 1641, the General Court of the colony appointed him one of the committee for laying out the one thousand acres of land granted to the Artillery Company. at its first organlzation. ''The Court Records of Middlesex County show that on October 1, 1650P tile will and inventory of Abraham Browne were accepted at court. And an order of the court made October 6, 1691, respecting the final settlement of hfa estate, recites of him as 'deceased in the year 1650.' T-hese dates indi cate the year of his decease, though there are some circumstances that fa vor the belief that he died between the close of 1643 and 1648. The latest mention of his name in the town records is on November 28, 1643, which ts the latest date previous to the before mentioned hiatus of four years. It is, therefore, unknown When his public services terminated. As his name does not occur in the record between November 8, 1647, when they recom mence, .and .i650, the supposed date of his decease, it is probable that ill- llO health or bodily infirmity had compelled him to withdraw from his very large participat,.\on in public business. "No original will of Abraham Browne has been discovered, but in the tiles of the County Court for 1670 is found the following, which, by the con cluding certificate, purports to be a copy of it. 'The last Will and Testa ment of Abraham Browne, of Watertown, dec'd: being of good and perfect memory, but Weake, as is witnessed by us whose names are here under written. Impr.: after the decease of his wife, he gave and bequeath~d unto his two sonnes, Jonathan and Abraham Browne, his house and lands; but giving liberty to his wife, that if shee had need shee might sell some parcells of it. Also he gave and bequeathed unto his two daughters, Sarah Browne and Mary Browne, each of them one ewe sheep, having each of them one before, as was testified. The rest of his goods and estate he gave unto Lydea, his wife, making her his sole executrix to perform thls. his Will and Testament. Witnesses, Richard Browne, John Whitney. Entered out of the original on file, with the Register, at Cambridge, in the County or Midd., in New England, and is a true coppie, being comnared and examined by Thomas Danforth, Recorder. "This instrument resembles a synopsis more than a literal copy of an original will. It is not improbable that it was a nuncupative will, and the above a copy of the declaration by the witnesses of its provisions. '!There was much delay and probably some difficulty in settling his es tate, and the settlement seems to have been made finally In entire disre gard of the provisions of the will. On the 6th October, 1691, the Court or dered the parties concerned in the estate of Abraham Browne, of Watertown, deceased in the year 1650, be sent for, to attend the adjournment of the Court, in order to a settlement of said estate; and they appointed a com mittee consisting of John Ward, Jonathan Remington and Thomas Green wood, to make proposals for said settlement. The claimants were: (1) The heirs of Jonathan Browne, deceased, the eldest son; (2) George Woodward, in 1."ight of his wife, ·only daughter of Abraham Jr., deceased; (3) John Park hurst, son of one of the daughters of said Abraham Browne, senr.: ( 4) The heirs of Isaac Lewis, deceased, who were children of another daughter or said Abraham Browne; (5) William Lakin in right of his wife, Lydia, young est daughter of said Abraham Hrowne. .. Owing, as they said, to a change in the government of the Colony, bv the coming over of a new charter, the committee did not report until Jan uary 22, 1693-94. They assigned 2-6 (a double portion) of the estate to the heirs ---of Jonathan, and the other 4-6 to the other four claimants. At the 111 same time they recommended that these four claimants should sell their shal"-e.::i to Abraham Browne, eldest son of Jonathan, deceased, who was then ready to purchase; and in that manner the estate was settled. "It appears from the schedule of possessions that, besides a pond of one aere, eleven lots of land were granted to· Abraham Browne, the town sur veyor, and that previous to 1642 he had purchased four other lots amounting to 39 acres, one of which, a 30 acre lot in the Great Dividends, had been granted to his nephew, John Browne. Two of the lots granted to him were homestalls. The first, upon which he probably settled at first, contained 10 acres. and was at the east of Mount Auburn. His second homestall of 28 acres, to whicn he is ,supposed to have removed very early, was bounded on the east by the way to the Little Plain (now Howard street); north by Sud burx road (now Main street), south by the way to Beaver Plains, sometimes called the way hetwixt lots (now Pleasant street), west by his own land. Two other lots granted to him, one of 10 acres, and the other of 6 acres, were contiguou.:; to ttiis homestall on the west, and in the schedule of 1642 they were deen1ed part of tne homestall, which was then enrolled as 40 acres. He must have purchased other a.rljoining lands not long afterwards, as in the final settlement of his estate in 1691, his homestall contained 60 acres. The C(lmmittee appointetl by the court to settle the estate made an inventory hl 1694 of lands only, amounting to £187, viz.: Homestall, 60 acres, £100; re mota meadow, 10 acres, .£12; salt marsh, 4 acres, £20; farm land.. 107 acres, £45; on Charles river, 10 2.cres, £10. His widow had sold several }r)t3 of land left by him." 112 I LIEUTENANT WILLIAM LAKIN, I IL OF GROTON, MASS., (1625-1700.)* II William Lakin, an early Puritan, was born in England in 1581. He re moved to Massachusetts Bay Colony abOut 1645, and settled at Reading. He removed to Groton on its founding in 1655~ and died there December 10, 1672, aged 91 yea.rs. With him from England came his daughter-in-law and her second hus band. William Martin, and her two sons by her first husband, William and John Lakin. Among the original petitioners for the Groton plantation and among its first settlers were these two grandsons of William Lakin. The brothers, William and John, had each a twenty-acre right as original proprietors of the town. ..Durtng tne earltest history or Groton;~ says Dr. Green in his ··Groton Historical Series," .. their names appear frequently in the affairs of the town, and they seem both to have taken a prominent part in civil and ecclesiastical matters. From these two militia officers are descended the numerous family of Lakins in Groton and wide neighborhood." Lieutenant William Lakin, Jr., was born in England about 1625. He married Lydia, third child of Abraham and Lydia Browne, Watertown, Mass. On May 11, 1670, he was admitted by the General Court to the free dom of the Colony, and on October 15, 167~, he wa.s appointed by the Gov ~rnor and Council -as Lieutenant of the Groton Military Company, having previously served in it as private and ensign. He died at Groton, February 22. 1700. He had four children, so far as known: Jonathan, born at Read ing, June 28, 1661; William, born May, 1666, married Elizabeth Robinson, at ~helmsford, January 4:, 1685; Abraham, born September 11, 1667; Elizabeth, born January 8, 1669. Abraham Lakin, son of Lieutenant William Lakin, had four children: *R.eferences: Butler's ••History of Groton, Mass.," Green's "'Groton Historical Ser ie~,'' Green's ••Groton Dur-ing the Indian Wars," Recordsoftb.e Massachusetts Bay Colony, office of Secretary of the Connuonwealth, .Boston,Mass.; Groton Town and Church Records. "James Parker, of Groaten, hnving had the care of the military company there for severall yea res, ls appointed & ordert>d to he their lelftenna11t and W .Larkin( Lakin. to be e 1signe to the said company there."-Manuscript records of the General Court of Mass achusetts, session beginning May 6, 1673. "The n11litary of Groaten being destitut of military ofl.cer~, The Court Judgeth it meet to choose and appoint JamP-s Parker to be their Captane, Wm. Lakin to be leiften nant, & Nathaniel Lawrence to be their ensigne. "-Manuscript records of the General Court of Massachusetts, session beginning October 15, 167:-l. Abraham, born December 15, 1701; Abigail, born April 9, 1704; Ebenezer, born July 19, 1707; Samuel, born April 6, 1713. This branch of the Lakin family became extinct in the male line. Abigail, daughter of Abraham, married Lieut~nant Dudley Bradstreet, at Groton, April 20, 1727. John Lakin, brother of Lieutenant William Lakin, married Mary, daugh ter of Michael Bacon, of Woburn, :Mass. He w~s appointed by the Governor and Council as Ensign of the Groton Military Company, on July 13, 1689, having seen previous service with that organization. His children were: Sarah, born February 4, 1661; William, born 1664, died 1672; Abigail, born January 13, 1666-67; Joseph, born April 14, 1670; Benjamin, born November 6, 1672. His descendants are numerous and have married into a large num ber of New England families. A dozen or more of his descendants holding the family name fought in the Continental army in companies from Groton and vicinity, and in the French and Indian war and other struggles prior to that several of the Lakins appear among the soldiers fighting for the pro vince or colony. The town of Groton, among the original proprietors and first settlers of which were the Lakins and Sawtells, lies in the nor.th western part of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, says Dr. Green in his "Groton Historical Series." The town is indebted for its name, he continues, to Deane Winthrop, a son of Governor John Winthrop, and one of the petitioners for its incor poration. He was born at Groton, in the County of Suffolk, England, on March 16, 1622-3, and the love of his native place prompted him to perpet uate its name in New England. The original grant of the township was made in the spring of 1655, and gave to the proprietors a tract of land ~ight miles square; though subse quently thi-s was changed by the General Court (the Legislature of Massa chusetts) so that its shape varied somewhat from the first plan. It com prised all of what is now Groton and Ayer, nearly all of Pepperell and Shirley, large parts of Dunstable and Littleton, and -smaller parts of Har vard and Westford in Massachusetts, and small portions of Hollis and Cotton Mather, in his ""Magnalia" says:OnJuly Zl (1694,in King-William's War) about break of day, Groton felt some surprizing blows from the Indian Hatchets. They began their attacks at the house of one Lieut.Lakin, the outskirts of the town,but met with a re pulse there, and lost one of their crew. Nevertheless, in other parts of that plantation, when the good people had been so tired out as to lay down their military watch there were more than twenty persons killed, and more than a dozen carried awav. ." ' On June 10, 1646, William Lakin gave his step father William Martin a receipt for twenty pounds, ~-in full payment and satisfaction of a Iegasie given to me by my owne ffather William Lakin, of Reding in England," showing that the family was ori!rtnallv seated at Reading,England. Wm. Lakin may have been twent~·-one years old on this date. 114 Facsimile of the Petition to the General Court of Massachusetts, in 16.5.5. for the Grant of the Plantation of Groton. Original in possession of the New England Htstoric Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass. John Lakin's si~nature is evidently autographic, corresponding exactly with his signature on other lega1 documents. 115 Nashua in New Hampshire. The present shape of the town is very irreg uJar, and nearly all of the original boundary lines have been changed. The earliest refere nee to the town on any map is found in the Rev. William Hubbard's "Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England,n a work published at Boston in the spring of 1677, and in Lon don, Eng., during the same year under a different title. The map was the first one cut in New England and of course done in a crude manner. The towns assaulted by the Indians in Philip's War are indicated by figures, and at that time these places were attracting some attention, both here and in the mother country. There were two petitions for the plantation of Groton, Dr. Green con tinues, of which one was headed by Mr. Deane Winthrop, and the other by Lieutenant William Martin (stepfather of William and John Lakin). The first one is not known to be in existence, but a contemporaneous copy of the second is in the possession of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The signatures vary in the style of handwriting, but they do not appear to be autographs, and may have been written by the same person. The answer to the petition is given on the third page of the paper, and signed by Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony, which fact ·renders it probable that this is the petition actually presented to the General Court as the original one, after it hc!d been copied by a skilful penman. The grant of the plantation was made by the Court of Assistants on May 25, 1655-as appears by this document-though subject to the consent of the House of Deputies, which was given, in all probability, on the same day. In the absence of other evidence this may be considered the date of the incorporation, which is. not found mentioned elsewhere. The petition is as follows: "To the honored Generall Courte asembled at Boston, the humble pe tition of vs whose names ar here vnder written humbly shoeth "That where as youre petioners by a prouidence of god haue beene brought ouer in to this wildernes and liued longe here in: and being sum thing straightned for that where by subsistance in an ordinarie waie or gods prouidence is to be had, and Con-siddering the alowance that god giues to the sunes of men .t.or such an ende: youre petioners request there fore is that you would be pleased to grant v.s a place for a plantation vpon the Riuer that runes from Nashaway in to merimake at a place or a boute a place Caled petaupaukett and waubansconcett, and youre petioners shall pray for youre happy prosedings. 116 WILLIAM MARTIN, RICHARD BLOOD, JOHN WITT, V''ILLIAM LAKIN, RICHARD HA UEN. TIMOTHY COOPER. JOHN LAKIN. JOHN BLOOD. MATHU FARRINGTON, ROBERT BLOOD. The answer of the General Court to the petition was favorable, and was ~c:i follows: "In Ansr to both theise peticons The Court Judgeth it meete to graunt the peticoners eight miles square in the place desired to make a Comfort able plantacon, wch henceforth shall be Called Groaten, formerly knowne by the name of Petapawage: that Mr. Damforth, of Cambridge, wth such as he shall Asossiate to him, shall and hereby is desired to lay it out with all Convenjent speede that so no Incouragement may be wanting to the Peticoners for a speedy procuring of a godly minister amongst them. Provided that none shall enjoy any part or porcon of that land by guift from the selectmen of that place, but such who shall build howses on theire lotts so given them once wthin eighteene months from the tjme of the s-ayd Towne's laying out or Towne's graunt to such persons; and for the prsent Mr. Deane !Winthrop, Mr. Jno. Tinker, Mr. Tho: Hinckley, Dolor Davis, Wm. Martin Mathew ffarington, John Witt and Timothy Couper are Appointed the selectmen for the sayd Towne of Groaten for one two yeares from the tjme it is Iayd out, to lay out and dispose of par ticular lotts not exceeding twenty acres to each howse Iott, And to Order the prudentiall affaires of the place at the end of which tjme other select men shall be chosen and Appointed in theire roomes: the selectmen of Groaton giving Mr. Danforth such sattisfaction for his service & paines as they & he shall Agree: "The magis-ts haue past this wth reference to the Consent of theire bretheren the deputs hereto. ••EDWARD RAWSON, Secretary. "25 of May, 1655. "The Deputies Consent hereto. ..WILLIAM TORREY, C. Cleric.'' "The daily life of the founders of Massachusetts would be to us now full of interest," says Dr. Green, "but unfortunately little is known in re- 117 gard to it. The early settlers were a pious folk, and believed in the literal interpretation of .the Scriptures. They worked hard during six days of the week and kept Sunday with rigid exactness. The clearing of the for ests and the breaking up of land, left little leisure for the use of pen and paper; and letter-writing, as we understand it, was not generally prac ticed. They lived at a time when printing was not common and post offices were unknown. Their lives were one ceaseless struggle for exist ence, and there was no time or opportunity to cultivate those graces now considered so essential. Religion was with them a living, ever-present power; and in that channel went out all those energies which with us find outlet in many -different directions. These considerations should modify the opinions commonly held in regard to the Puritan fathers." 118 THE GOULD• FAMILY, I IN ENGLAND AND EARLY MAbSACHUSETfS.* 1. THOMAS GOOLD, of Bovington, parish of Hemel Hempstead, Hertsfordshlre, England, (about twenty-four mtles northwest of u:,ndon)._ born about 1455; died at Bovlngton, 1520; will proved September 28, 1520, In Archdeaconry Court of Huntington, but now at Peterborough. Wife Jo han co-executrix. 2. RICHARD GOOLD. son or Thomas Goold, bOrn at Bovtngton about 1479, died 1531 at Stoke Mandeville, Bucks, about twelve mtles from Bo vington. 1Wlll dated April 25, 1531, proved October 11; tha.t of his wife. Joan Golde, dated January 12, 1536-37, proved February 7. 3. THOMAS GOOLDE, son of Richard and Joan, born at Bovlngton about 1500. Married Allee ---.. Named tn his fathers will, but not In his mother's, although she made bequests to each of hls (then) seven chll dren. 4. RICHARD GOLD, son of Thomas and Allee, born &t Stoke Kande- vtlle, Bucks, about 1530. Married Jane, widow of ____ Weeden. In his will he mentioned sons Henry a.nd Richard. 5. RICHARD GOULD, son of. Richard and Jane, born about 1553, ls recorded as of Bovlngton, In the Parish register of Chesham, Bucks, in 1604, being then deceased at that place. 6. ZACCHEUS GOULD, son or Richard, born 1589, resident at Hemel Hempstead, Herts, and later at Great Mlssenden, Bucks, where he was a• sessed ln 1629. Came to New England about 1638, probably llved for a brief time at Weymouth, Mass., and then at Lynn, but finally established himself at Ipswich (Topsfield) where he died ln 1668. By wife Phoebe, who died September 20, 1663, he had ftve children. 7. JOHN GOULD, son of Zaccheus and Phoebe, born at Hemel Hemp stead, Herts, England, June 10, 1635, brought to Massachusetts by his father about 1638, married Sarah Baker, at Topsfield, ·Mass., October 12, 1660, died at Topsfield, January 26, 1709-10. Served ln '"Three County Troop'' in King *References: ~~Family of Zaccb.eus Gould, of Topsfleld, Mass.,n by Benj. Apthorp Gould; Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, office Secretary of Commonwealth, Boston, Mass.; Revolutionary Records, office of Adjutant General, Boston, Mass.; Town Records of Topsfield, Watertown. Lunenburg, Newbury and Groton, Mass.; Cuntngham's '"Genealogy of Lunenburg, Mass." 119 Philip's War; was Ensign in 1679, Lieutenant in 1684, Captain in 1693. Se lectman of Topsfield fifteen years between 1663 and 1702, and also served as Representative in the General Court of Massachusetts. His wife was · the daughter of John Baker, of Norwich, Norfolk, England, who came to Boston in 1637 in the "Rose of Yarmouth,'' with three children and four servants. She was born at Ipswich, Mass., March 9, 1641, died Topsfield, :anua.ry 20. 1708~9.. · 8. THOMAS GOULD, son of John and Sarah (Baker) Gould, born at Topsfield, ¥ass., February 14, 1666, died there June 29, 1752. Married Mary Yates, of Harwich, Mass., December 2, 1700; 2d, Mary, widow of Joseph Stanley, and daughter of Timothy Dorman, of Boxford, January 13, 1728-29. 9. JACOB GOULD, son of Thomas and Mary (Yates) Gould, born at Topsfield, Mass., January 16, 1703; married at Topsfield, February 4, 1731, Dorothy Goodridge, who was born at Newbury, Mass., ln 1706, a descendant of William _and Margaret Goodrich, or Goodridge, of Watertown, Mass., in 1636. .Jacob Gould an~ wife removed from Topsfield~ to Lunenburg. Mass.• about 1730, ·and settled on the Groton road. He was school committeeman In 1738, i 752, 1754-55, 1757-59, selectman in 1764, 17 66-67, private tn Capt. Tom Wilder's Company, Col. Joseph Wilder's Regiment, in the expedition that marched to the relief or Fort William Henry in 1757. Continued in aervlce until 1759 (French and Indian War), afterward captain of militia. He died at Lunenburg July 16, 1787; his widow died there March 23, 1801, aged 95 years. They had four daughters and four sons. Their sixth child and third son. 10. ELIJAH GOULD, born at Lunenburg, Mass., August 8, 1743, mar ried at Lunenburg, February 26, 1767, Eunice Patch, who was born at Llttl~ ton 1n 1741. Private in Capt. Job Cushing's Company, Col. Jonathan Ward's R-eglment, under enlistment of April 28, 1775; continued in Conti nental Army and sergeant in Capt. Jonathan Sibley's Company, Colonel Luke Drury's Regiment; in July, 1781. (See Muster Rolls of Mass. Revolutionary Troops). Their fourth child a.nd third daughter. 11. EUN~CE GOULD, born at Lunenburg, Mass., December 21, 1773; died at Watertown, Mass., in 1846; married ,to Elisha Parker, Jr., at Lnnori.burg, March 19, 1793. He died at Lunenburg,' February 12, 1813. Thev had ten children. Their second child and first son. 12. JOHN G. PARKER, born at Lunenburg, Mass., March 13, 1795, married Mehitabel (Hitty) Sawtell, of Groton, Mass., at Surrey, N. H., on September 18, 1814. They separated two years after marriage, ha vtng had but one child. Subsequently John G. Parker married Mary •Mann, having 120 ~• /u,j (11111 time/&~~~- l~O ~~ $o,w'4tdfl#I~ a~,,. ae«d., #II u~, afo'11et>1e. '"" ~$tit, ,;,,:14,e1~ al/""' t/ e/&e,. Pbilad~lpbia, October 14, 1835. Fae sin1ile of funeral invitation. At this ttme (188.5) it was customary to deliver funeral invitations to the relatives and friends of the deceased. . .John Gould Parker's name was changed by decree of Court to John A. Parker about 18"25. The death notice appearing in the Dally United States Gazette (now North American) of Philadelphia, on Oct. 15,183.5, was: •· Died Vw' ednesda~· the 14th suddenly, Mr.John A. Parker in the 41st year of his age." 121 had his middle name changed to A. He located at Philadelphia, Pa., where he died October 14, 1835. A facsimile of the funeral invitation at that time delivered by hand, is given herewith. 13. MARY A. THAYER PARKER, only child of John G. and Mehita bel (Sawtell) Parker, born at Keene, N. H., May 12, 1815; married at Phil adelphia, Pa., May 11, 1835, to Henry Faunce; died at Philadelphia, May 12, 1884. Their daughter 14. MARY A. E. FAUNCE, born at Philadelphia, Pa., August 5, 1839; rr11rried at Philadelphia, April 30, 1857, to Thomas Gamble; died at Phila delp-hia, June 28, 1875. Their son 15. THOMAS GAMBLE, JR., born at Richmond, Va, March lG, 18G8; married at Savannah, Ga., May 15, 1890, Florence 0. Kilpatricl{, daughter of .John T. and Ella (Rebarer) Kilpatrick. Their children: 16. HELEN GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., August 27, 1892. THOMAS WELDON GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., April 1, 1895. ALMA MARIE GAMBLE. born at Savannah. Ga.. July 28. 1898: died at Atlanta, Ga., August 21, 1899. WILLIAM MYERS GAMBLE, bo_c;1 at Savannah, Ga., April 14, 1902. (:F"or other descendants, see main charts published ·herewith.) The following sketches are taken from ''The Family of Zaccheus G~uld, of Topsfield," by Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Lynn, 1895; "The Ancestry of Priscilla Baker," by Willia·m S. Appleton, Cambridge, 1870; with a few addi tional notes from the .. Massachusetts Archives." ZACCHEUS GOULD, 1589-1668. The immediate influences which brought Zaccheus Gould to New Eng land are not revealed by any sources of information available, nor yet tht, date of his arrival, nor the vessel in which he came; but it seems evident that his brother Jeremy, who was eight years older, preceded him by nor less than a year, for the latter is found in Rhode Island in 1638, while hls first residence appears to have been at Weymouth, Mass. The absence of any record of baptism of Priscilla and John, the youngest two children of Zaccheus Gould, while the baptisms of their three elder sisters are upon the registers at Hemel Hempstead, England, is explained by the removal of the family from Hemel Hepstead to Great Missenden, and the subsequent loss of the records of that church, previous to 1678. The earliest records of Zaccbeus found in this country indicate his pres ence at Weymouth. In 1639 Jeremy Gould sold land in Weymouth to Zac iheus Gould. His residence at Weymouth appears to have been brief, although the earliest indication of his establishment at what was afterwards Topsfield is found in th~ action in 1644 upon his petition to the General Court of Mas sachusetts for- a village to be incorporated in that part of Ipswich where he dwelt. Furthermore, his son-in-law, John Wildes, testified in 1665, that "about twenty-one years before, ,William Paine sold land to Zaccheus Goul<1 where his house now stands.'' At this place he lived and died, and from his only son John a vast number of descendants have sprung, who are to be found in every part of our land, and may trace their origin to Topsfield. During the years between 1639 and 16-14 Zaccheus appears to have dwelt at Lynn, and in 1640 he owned a mill on the Saugus river. In October, 1640, Zaccheus Gould for himself and all other husbandmen in the county petitioned the General Court that they and their servants be exempted from ordinary trainings in seed time,, hay time and harvest. This petition was effectual. By the law of 1637 the appointment of eight days' training was left to the discretion of the officers. The Court of October 7, 1640. to which Mr. Gould's petition was brought. ordered that two trainings should be at the end of May or beginning of June, and six from the middle of October to the middle of March. Zaccheus Gould was, in the first half of 1644, already resident in what was then Ipswich. There he petitioned the colonial government at a date not now precisely known, for that portion of Ipswich to be set off: as a vil lage by itself. This petition was granted M:ay 29, 1644, on which day was ordered as follows: .. Upon Zaccheus Gould's petition, it is conceived to be for the general good and very convenient that there should be a villag" about that farm, and that the town of Ipswich should further them therein." The village still remained, however. a precinct of Ipswich for more than six years. But later, at a session of the General Court, held at Boston, October 18, 1650: .. In inswer to the request of Zaccheus Gould and William Howard, of Topsfield, the Court doth grant that Topsfield shall henceforth be a town, and have power within themselves to order all civil affairs. as other towns have:' T-he name of Zaccheus Gould appears frequently on the various court and town records as plaintiff, defendant or witness in those litigious days. The indications are convincing that he enjoyed the respect and esteem of the community, although the temporary controversy with the Topsfield church requires some conjecture for its adequate €Xplanation. In 1651 he took the oath of fidelity, on September 30. but he never became a .. freeman" of the colony, for which position it was necessary for him to become a member of the church. On April 24, 1656, he was arraigned before the Ipswich Court for ab sence from meeting on the Lord's clay. Zaccheus Gould was evidently a recalcitrant in rel~ious matters. In 1659 a notable incident occurred. He was presented, on March 29, at the Ipswich Court, for disturbance in public worship at the time of singing the psalm. He is said to have ··sat down on the end of the table about which the minister and scribe sat, with his hat full on his head and his back to ward the rest. Although spoken to by the minister and others, be altered not his posture. He spoke audibly w-hen the minister was preaching." The Massachusets Bay Colonial Records of November 12, 1659, show that on that day a fine of £3 was Imposed upon Zaccheus Gould for enter taining Quakers. That Zaccheus was born in 1589 appears from the record of a deposi tion made by him at Salem Court, March 26, 1661, stating that he was then seventy-two years old. His death must have occurred between March 30 and November 13, 1G68~ tor on the former of these dates he acknowledged the conveyance of land to Thomas Perkins, and on the latter there is a record of the division of .. the Common, or Salem, side of the river'' (now Middleton), in which it is stated that he was dead. Rev. Daniel Gould writes: •·1 was informed by my father. when very young, that his father and grandfather, etc., were buried ln the pasture then belonging to Capt. Thomas Baker, behind the house now owned by Dr. John Merriam, and perhaps many of the ancient inhabitants of the town are bur ied there, as it was near the meeting house in those days, for 1t then stood on the burying ground.'' T-his description of the pa.sture agrees sufficiently with the site of the present cemetery, or land now annexed to it. In 1868 two large boulders stood together in this ground, which were indicated by tradition as marking the burial places of Zaccheus Gould and his wife, Phoebe. These have since then been removeci. Zaccheus Gould became probably the largest land owner in the region, his property, at the time of his death, being estimated at not less than three thousand acres, extending over a large tract in what was then known as Rowley Village, but which was incorporated as a separate town, under the name of Boxford, some seventen years after his death. It has already been stated that Zaccheus Gould never registered him self as a ''freeman'' of the colony, to become which it was necessary to be a member of the church, but that he took the oath of fidelity in 1651. Hts 124 son, John, became a freeman in 1665, about five years after his marriage. From various indications Zaccheus Gould seems to have been a man of ex ceptional liberality in his theological ideas, maintaining friendly relations with Quakers and Baptists. although both were proscrited. We now know that the Quaker, Daniel Gould, from Newport, was his guest, although heavy penalties were attached to .. harboring" Quakers. The children of Zaccheus and Phebe Gould were as follows: (1) Phebe, baptized at Hemel Hempstead, September 27, 1620, married Deacon Thomas Perkins, of Topsfield, about 1 G40. She was living in 1691. (2) :Mary, baptized at Hemel Hempstead, December 19, 1621; married John Redington, of Topsfield. (3) Martha, baptized at Hemel Hempstead, June 15, 1G23; marriea John Newmarch, of Ipswich; died 1699. ( 4) Priscilla, married John Wildes; died 1663. (5) John, born June 10-21, 1635; married Sarah Baker October 12, lGG0; died .January 26, 1709-10. JOHN GOULD. Hi35-1710. John Gould, the only son of Zaccheus and Phebe Gould, was Selectman of Topsfield, in 1663, when he was twenty-eight years old; also in f~·.rteen subsequent years, the latest being in 1702, at the age of sixty-seven.. The earliest public records of him are found at the Ipswic No one could he<·ome a freeman and baye the privilege of voting unless he was a nwml>er of some <·hurc~ :und under the Puritm~ s~·stem membership in a ehureh meant that one had shown visible evidence of <·onvers10n and change of heart. and had been al' cPptell b~· some congregation. In 1634 Wh('ll the <·olony l Massachmwtts Ha~·> 11 umbert>d about four thousand, there were onl~· about three hundred and flft~· freemen, and in lti70. when the population nun1bered about twenty-five thousand.there were only about eleven hundred freemen. As n general rule, out of en-'r~- four or five male adults onh· one was a frt-eman. The exan1ination into the rPligious experienee of a candidate was \~t>r,· se,·erP. n.nd on]~· a small part of the inhabitants could pass it.-"Men. Wonwn and Mannf'rs of Colonial Times··. n~· 8ydney George Fisher. early emigrants from England to America, anr. which are kept at the Sta~t Paper Office, London, we read thus: r•Aprill 8th, 1637. The examinaction of John Baker, borne in Norwich in Norffolct~e. Grocar, aged 39 yeres, and EUzabeth his wife agej 31 yearea with 3 Children; Elizabeth, John and Thomas, and 4 Sarvants, Marey A1- xarson, aged 24 yeares, Anne Alxarson, aged 20 yeare3, Bridgett Boulle aged 32 yeares and Samuell Arres aged 11 yeares ar all de3iroues to goe for Charles Towne in New England ther to inhabitt and remaine." This John Baker, father of John Gould's wife, is believed to have been the grandson of Richard Baker, Alderman of Norwich, who died in 1589. On August 15, 1628, he (John Baker) was admitted a citizen of Norwich. The christentng of his three oldest children is recorded in the register of the parish of St. Peter's, Mancroft, Norwich. His son Thomas. John Gould's brother-in-law, became a man of prominence. He married Priscilla, daughter of Deput:Y· Governor Samuel Symonds, and bec~me Lieutenant, Captain, Deputy to the Genera.I court, etc. John Gould was a man of p1:ominence in the community throughout hts life, and few names are more frequently met with than his, in the records of his town, county and courts. A vigorous, undismayed maintenance of his opinions, a sturdy independence and an unselfish public spirit are mani fest throughout his career, which was characterized by a strong sense or justice, zeal for the welfare of the community, and sincere devotion to th~ spirit of liberty in church and state. One of his early important enterprises related to the celebr3.te1 iro"> works of Rowley Village. The iron works proved an unsuccessful venture, pecuniarlly, and were abandoned after about a half dozen years. In 1675-76 be took part in the Narragansett campaign, enlisting in the! "Three County 'troop,' under Cap~ Hutchinson, and again under Capt Wheeler. (Mass. Archlv"es, Vo1. 68, page 73.) Three years later his independence of character had evidently brought him into conflict with the powers-that-be. On March 1, 1679, a petition from the inhabitants of Topsfield to the Governor and Council was preaented, asking for the "restoration of freedom and co·mmisston of our chief officet; Ensign John Gould.'' The petition was granted on March 26, 1679_ During the years immediately following the Narragansett Indian War the colonists of New England had become profoundly agi~ated by the polit· ical changes in the mother country. rrhey were in general patient u.nde1 the new government quite as long as patience remained a virtue. John Gould was less forbearing than most of his fellow citizens, a trait inherited 126 from his father. Although then holding only a lieutenant's commission, h~ commanded the Topsfield company of militia, in which were included the. men from Rowley Village, which had, less than a year before, been incorpo• rated as the town of Boxford. He seems to have been outspoken and con: paratively unreserved in the expression of his views, and the discipllne oi Dudley and Randolph was speedily brought to bear upon him. John Apple ton, of Ipswich, a man of prominence in that town, was imprisoned and mulcted for his strenuous utterance of patriotic sentiments. But the most noted case was that of Capt. John Gould, which is mentioned with others by Thomas Hutchinson in his history: "'Case of John Gould, charged with treason, 5th day of August, 1686": and further, on or about the 11th day of July, John Gould, •·did say and ut ter these malicious, treasonable and seditious words following, viz.: That he was under another Government, and had sworn to another Government, and did not know this Government, and this is manifest contempt of His Majesty•s laws and Government here in New England," etc. But the old patriot appears to have been brought to nominal submission at last, for he ultimately signed a petition for release, in which is an ex pression of sorrow "for the idle words he uttered." It was then decreed as follows: ·•By the President and Council of His Majesty's Territory of New England: "Upon reading the petition of John Gould, and considering the povertr of bis fan1ily, it was ordered, "Tha.t upon the payment of Fifty Pounds in money, and cbarg~~ o~ P··o~ ecution, the remain_der of his tine be respited, and he be released from his imprisonment, he giving bonds for his good behaviour, according to order of Court. ED. RANDOLPH, Secretary." "August 25~ 1686.'' The bill of-•costs amounted to £10, s. 1, and the bond was for £.100. In 1689 he was re-elected selectman, as he had been in 1686, and in 1690 and afterwards, he was chosen the Deputy of Topsfield to the General Coun. In 1693 his name appears on a petition to the Governor and General Court, and reads "John Gould, Capt." On November 22, 1G94, he petitioned the Governor and Council at Bos ton to be reimbursed for colors and drums for a company "then (May, 1684) and now under my command," for which he paid out of his own money; also for services as drummer of his son. "This noble old patriarch,'' says Benjamin Apthorp Gould, "continued to fill offices of honor and trust throughout his life, the last official record concerning him being with reference to his purchase of ammunition for the town in 1706. During fifteen years he was one of the three selectmen, and was three times chosen deputy or representative to the General Court. The Rev. Daniel Gould says of him: .. His literary qualifications were good; he wrote a very good hand in the fashion of the day in which he lived.''' He died January 26, 1710, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, leaving the reputation of an honorable. public spirited and religious man, morally as well as physically brave, and of sterling integrity. His extensive landed estate was divided among his five sons, and most of it long remained in the possession of their posterity. The division ap pears to have been made by him during his lifetime. John, the eldest son, succeeded his father in the old homestead, where his grandfather Zaccheus had built the original blockhouse in 1664 to defend the inhabitants against the depredations of the Indians. The children of John and Sarah (Baker) Gould were: (1) John, born December 1, 1662; married Phebe French in 1684; '1iec'l 1724. (2) Sarah, born December 18, 1664; married Joseph Bixby, Jr., iL 1682; died in 1723. (3) Thomas, born February 14, 1666; married Mary Yates, in 1700; 2d, the widow Mary Stanley, in 1729; died in 1752. (4) Samuel, born March 9, 1669-70; married Margaret Stone in 1697: died in 1724. (5) Zaccheus, born March 26, 1672; married Elizabeth Curtice, in li02: died In 1739. (6) Priscilla, born November 2, 1674; married John Curtice, Jr., in 1695; died in 1715. (7) Joseph, born August 24, 1677; married Priscilla Perkins, in 1712-3; died in 1753. (8) Mary, born June 16, 1681, died May 11, 1689. The children of Thomas and Mary l Yates) Gould were as follows: Thomas, born September 4, 1701; married Mary Gould, in 1731; died in 1771. Jacob, born January n;, 1702-03; married Dorothy Goodridge, February 4, 1731; died in 1787. * *Jan.21, 1728: .Jacob Gould and three others were Yoted ··a certain truck of Common Lands of a boute ten or twelve acres L~•ing adjoyning to mulplus falls for Co1n-eneanee to Build a saw mill or mills. within twelve months after this tinw."-Proprietors· H.ecords of the Town of Lunenburg. Mass. *Sept. 5. 17~. was surve~·ed for Jacob Gould ••Claimer House Lott No. 4ti. the f'ontents of which ls 49 acres".-Proprtetors' Records of the Town of Lunenburg. Mass. Deborah, born November 17, 1704; died January 30, 1706. Deborah, born September ~. 1707; married Joseph Page, in 1730; died in 1767. Simon, born March 8, 170S-10; married Jane Palmer, in 1740; died in 1808. Mercy, born January 17, 1711-12; married Nathaniel Page, in 1733; died in 1785. Yates, born March 24, 1713-14; died August 11, 1736; unmarried. Benjamin, born May 29. 1716; married Esther Pierce, in 1739; died in 1746. Nathaniel, born November 9, 1718; unmarried; killed by Indians at ''No. 4," now Charlestown, N. H., November 14. 1747. Jacob Gould, second son of Thomas Gould, as shown in the genealogical statement preceding, served in the French and Indian War, and was after ward captain Of militia. His son, Elijah Gould, served in the Continental army during the greater part. if not alt of the revolutionary war. THE WOODMAN ARMS. ARMS-Argent, a chevron sable, between three escallops, gules. CREST-A buck's head erased, pruoer. 180 r W oodmant Stevens, <;:i-oodridge and Adams GENEALOGICAL STATEMENT-. 1. EDWARD WOODMAN, of Wiltshire, England, located at Newbury, Mass., in 1G35, with bis wife Joanna, as one of the original grantees. Dep uty to the General Court 1'636, 1637, 1639, 1643, 1659, 1660, 1664, 1670; ap pointed by General Court as Lieutenant of the Newbury Company, March 17, 1G37; died prior to 1694. 2. JOSHUA WOODMAN, son of Edward and Joanna, born at Newbury, Mass., in 1G3G, teing tirst male child of English parentage born there; mar ried Elizabeth Stevens, daughter of Capt. John Stevens, of Newbury and An d-over. Mass .. January 22. 1666; died at Newbury, M~y 30, 1703. 3. MEHITABEL WOODMAN, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Ste vens) Woodman, born at Newbury, Mass.-, September 20, 1667; married Philip Goodridge, son of Jeremiah and Mary (Adams) Goodridge, of New bury, April 16, 1700; died at Lunenburg, Mass., February 24, 1755. Her husband, Lieutenant Philip Goodridge, was born at Newbury, November 23. 1GG9. His parents were married at Newbury, November 15, 1660. His grandparents were William Goodrich (afterwards spelled Goodridge), who died at Watertown, Mass., in 1647, and Margaret, his wife, who sul>seque"J~. ly married John H_ull, of Newbury, where she died February 3, 1683. 4. DOROTHY GOODRIDGE, daughter of Philip and Mehitabel C\Vood man) Goodridge, born at Newbury, March 4, 1712; married Jacob Gould, at Topstield, February 4, 1731; died at Lunenburg, Mass., March 23, 1801. (For continuation see Gould Genealogy, beginning with Elijah Gould, on page 110. The town of Newbury, Mass., was settled and incorporated by English families in 1G35. They had stopped the previous winter in Ipswich, and In :May removed to the north bank of what is now the Parker ri ;;er. named 1u honor of the first minister, Rev. Thomas Parker. This first se~tlement was *HRferenl"e~: Coffin's ""Descendants of Edward Woodman." Records of the Massu d1usetts Bay Colon~·,offlce of ~ecretary of Con11nonwealth,Boston.Mass.;8ava~e's ·•Genea• loo-icul Dictionary of the Early Settlers of New England.'' ·•The Adams Fami1y ." b~· A. N. Adam~; Baile~·•s ·•Historical Sketches of Ando,·er. Mass.," Town and Chur~h Re(•ords of Newbury~ AndoYer. \Vate-rtown and Lunenhuri.t, Mtiss. l~l around what is now the wwer Green, and mostly at the south of Oldtown Hill There they remained until 1646, when, after an agitation of some four years, most of the settlers removed about three miles northward for more room and to be nearer to the Merrimack river, where opportunities were better for any commercial enterprises they might have in prospect. They took down their meeting house and set it up again at the "New Town," near where have stood since four other meeting houses of the old First Parish. The centre of population was tending northward, and a later date was at the "Port," now Newburyport, and along the shore of the Mer rimack. Newbury's 30,000 acres remained under Its own control for about 130 years, or up to 1764, when an area of 640 acres was incorporated as Newburybort, taking in the commercial centre and leaving Newbury almost exclusively a farming community. West Newbury was set off as a separate town in 1819. The old town still enclosed three sides of Newburyport and still held all the ship building portions and some of the best residential portions. In 1851 . these were adeled to and serveel to make Newburyport a city. Newbury is now a farming town, with good lands. "Of the ninety-one grantees who settled Newbury," says Joshua Coffin in his "List of some of the descendants of Edward Woodward," "fifteen were entitled to the appellation of 'Mr.' One of these fifteen was Mr. Ed ward Woodman. He was a man of influence, decision and energy, and op posed with great zeal the attempt made by the Rev. Thomas Parker to change the mode of church government from Congregationalism to some thing like Presbyterianism." The Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the office of the Sec retary of State at Boston, show that Edward Woodman was Deputy to the General Court from Newbury in 1636, 1637, 1639, 1643., 1659, 1660, 1664, 1670. On April 2, 1641, he was appointed by the General Court to "order small causes at Newbury." On March 22, 1650, the General Court, "upon the re quest of the town of Newbery,'' "appoynted Edward -Woodman to end small causes there, accordinge to law.'' The extent of Edward Woodman's military services is not known. The colonial records show that on March 17, 1637, the General Court elected him "leiftenant at Neweberry.'' Other positions of trust were held by him. Among his other commis sions was one "to see people marry,'' of which in 1681 he thus speaks: "An unprofitable commission; I quickly laid aside the worke, which has cost me many a bottle of sacke and liquor, where friends and acquaintances have been concerned." He and his wife, Joanna, were living in February, 1687- 132 Urave of Joshua Woodman, born Newbury, Mass., /636, died Newbury 1103. First male child of English parentage born there. 88. She was then 75. He died prior to 1694. Joshua Woodman, the third son of Edward and Joanna, and the first male child or English parentage born at Newbury, was born in 1636. He married Elizabeth Stevens, at Newbury, January 23, 1666. She died in 1714, he having died eleven years previously. He was burled in the old cemetery at Newbury. On the stone above his grave, an illustration or which is given herewith, is this tnsertptlon: Here lies ye body or Mr. JOSHUA WOODMAN. Who died May ye 30th. 1703, aged 67 years; ttrst man child bome 1n Newbury. and second lntured 1n this place. Eltzabeth Stevens, the wtte or Joshua Woodman, was the daughter of Captain John and Eltzabeth Stevens, who, Savage says In his "Genealogi cal Dictionary,.. probably · came in the •·contldence,, from Southampton in 1638, John being then 31 years old, and having Uved at Caversham~ tn County Oxford, England, not far rrom Reading, in Berks. He located ftrst at Newbury, where he was made ,. freeman of the colony May 16, 1642, but subsequently removed to Andover, where his name appears tn the earliest book of town records as a rreeholder. He was a man of substantial prop erty interests and his sons were men or prominence In the community. one of them, Lieutenant John Stevens, being ltllled at Casko, March 6, 1689, another, Benjamin, appearing in the records as Captain. "The name was widely known ln colonial ttmes,'' says Bailey's .. Historical Sketches of Andover," by the brilliant reputation of Rev. Joseph Stevens, grandson of John Stevens. tbe first settler." John Stevens died at Andover, April 11,, 1662, his widow dying May 1, 1694, aged 80 years. As there ls no record of their marriage In the colonial records of Newbury, it ls probable they were married in England. ''Of all the tombstones erected to the first householders, one alone re mains, that In memory of John Stevens," says Batley's work on Andover. "Its broken stone bas been reset tn a granite tablet. Its Inscription ls as follows: 184 "'Here lyes burled The Body or Mr. John Stevens, Who deceased ye 11 Day of Aprll, 1662, 1n ye 57 year of his age. "The stone ts quaintly carved and ornamented.'. An idea of the house, estate, and style of living of John Stevens may be obtained from the following court record: "An Invento.ry of the goods and Chattels of John Stevens of Andover Deceased emprized by George Abbot, Richard Barker, Nathan Parker. Nicho las Noyes, the 28th of April Anno 166l ulmp.. His wearing Apparell. 5 'Jt. In the hall, two beds with tllei.. lurniture. It. One chest and foure boxes. It. Eight payre of s·heets, foure Bolster cases and three payr-e of plllow-beeres. It. Three ta.ble cloatbes7 1 dozen of Napkins with other sleight Thlnga. "It. One brasse Pott, foure small Kettels one Skillett, a Scummer & warming pan. It. One Iron Pott, an iron posnett, two payre of pott hooks, two trammels, a spitt, a pay.re of tonges & tire pan, a payre or Cob-irons w,th a smoothing iron & a trevett. "It. Six pewter platters, two brazers, two porrengers, foure drlnken cuppes, a salt-seller, a chamber-pott, a dozen & half of. spoones a latten pan. It. A table board & foure chayres, two cushens two dozen of trench ers, half a dozen dishea. "It. A muskett, oorslett & head piece a sword, cutlass a.nd halberd. It. A bible with other books. It. In the Leanto--Barrels, wheeles, with other lumber. It. In the Chamber-beddiag. It. Wheate, twenty Bush ells, Indian com, ten bushells. It. A bridle & saddle & pommel. Longfellow says: ••The pewter plates on the dresser, • Caught and reflected the flames as shteld2 of armies the sunshine." Allee .Morse Earle says in her work on "Customs and Fashiomz in Old-New England'': ••The time when our country was settled was the era when pewter had begun to take the place of woodenware.'' The flrst articles of pewter in America were brought from England. From the E'!o.rllest wtlls of the colony down to the close of the eighteenth century we ff.nd articles of pewter mentioned, and from them can make out quite a list of articles, at ff.rst rare~ but that became the pro~rtyof slmostevery New England family later. The smaller pewter articles were hung on hooks tn front of the dresser that stood by the kitchen wall while the plates and platters stood in rows on the dresser shelves. Dingy pewter was con~ sidered a disgrace. Addison Rays: ''The eye of the mistress made the pewter shine.'' A Vlrgtnia housekeeper wrote in 1728: "A good housekeeper may be known by her bright pewter." A set of pewter platters, plates and dishes was called a "garnish" of pewt-er and was a source of great pride to the colonial housewife and her daugh~rs of revolutionary days. A .. garnish" was a favorite wedding present.-From "In the HomP-s of Our Ances tors" ln ''The Connecticut .Magazine,'' of January 1906. IS.5 It. Two flitches of Bacon. It. Baggs. It. Jflax & yarne. It. Old Tubbs with other lumber. It. Sawes, Axes, ploughes, with other working tooles. It. Eight oxen. It. Six cows. It. A heifer & two yearlings. It. Three calves. It. Swine. It. A colt & an asse. It. A horse. It. One s·tocke of bees. It. One carte, sleads, yoakes, chaines, plowes, plow-irons, ropes &c. "It. House, barnes, upland & meadow and come upon ye grounde. "The inventories of ,the two cUizens, John Osgood and John Stevens_ are interesting to study,'' says Bailey's "'Historical Sketches of Andover," "not only for the Idea which they give of the amount of property owned by the rich citizens of ancient Andover, bu-t also for the picture they present or the style of living of ·thait time, the household furniture and farm imple ments. Some of -the names of utensils are now unfamiliar in New England households, but they were those in nse in the old counitry, and often occur in the English classics of that period. An 'iron possnet' was a sort of por ringer; 'cob-Irons' were andirons, with a round ball at the t.op; a 'trevett' was a 'three-footed stand,' probably to accompany the smoothing iron-a flat-Iron stand, in modem parlance; a 'latten-pan' was a pan made of latten, a sort of tin; 'trenchers' were wooden plates, which were in common use for the table. Wooden plates and pew•ter platters, or dishes, pewter drink ing cups and spoons, no knives and forks, are what constituted the table furniture of the ·well-ito-do farmers of North Andover in 1650-1660. The quantity of military outfit ls noticeable: ·sword, cutlass, halberd, head-piece, corslet' (an outfit for a knight of the middle ages), also a musket, but all only costing two pounds." Mehitabel, or as it is often spelled tn t~e old records, Mehetabel, daugh ter of Joshua and Elizabeth (Stevens) Woodman, was born at Newbury, September 20, 1667. On April 16, 1700, she was married to Phlllp, after wards Lieutenant Goodridge, whose aunt, Mary Goodridge, had married her uncle, Edward Woodman, Jr., in 1653. The Goodridges were early established in Massachusetts. William Goodrich, the first settler, ts believed to have been the brother of John. and to have come t.o this country with him from Bury ·St. Edmunds, Eng. William settled at Watertown, where he died in 1647, an inventory of his estate being filed, dated April 3, of that year. John ts regarded as the John Guttering, who was admitted a freeman in May, 1642, and soon after re- 136 GOODRICH 187 moved to Connecticut, becoming the progenitor of the Goodrich family cl that State. Margaret, the widow of William Goodrich, or Watertown, marrie<1 John Hull, of Newbury, and removed to that place with her children. In the Watertown records the name is spelled Goodrich, but in the Newbury records it appears as Goodridge, which has been retained by the famtly since. Margaret died at Newbury, February 3. 1G83. Her children :me.r ried at Newbury. Jeremiah, son of William and Margaret Goodridge, was born ln Water town, Mass., )Jarch 6, 1637-8. On November 15, 1660, he married Mary Adams, daughter of Robert and Eleanor Adams, of Newbury. Their son, Philip, born at Newbury, November 23, 1669, married Mehitabel Woodman, as stated. They removed to Lunenburg, ?.lass., where Philip is referred to as "Lieutenant.'' He died there on January 16, 1728-9, and his widow, Mehitabel, on February 24, 1755. Their daughter, Dorothy, as given In the genealogical statement7 married Jacob Gould, a member of another old Massachusetts family. Mary Adams, who was married to Jeremiah Goodridge, was also the descendant of one of the first settlers of the .. Old Bay State." She was born at Newbury in 1643. Robert Adams, her father, was born in Devonshire, Eng land, and ls found located at Newbury in 1640, with his wife, Eleanor, who died June 12, 1677. He died October 12, 1682, aged 81 years. In a recently published history or .. The Adams Family," by A. N. Adams, lt ls stated th&t Robert first located at Ipswich In 1635 with his wife, Eleanor (Wilmot) Adams. He resided In Salem In 1638-9, and removed to Newbury In 1640. He acquired a large farm there and other valuable property. ·He was ad mitted a freeholder on March 27, 1660, which gave him an Interest ln all the common lands of the town. 4 • 0n November 4, 1719, the General Court of Massachusetts, at the request of a num ber of gentlemen, made a grant to them of this te1ritory (that of Lunenburg, including what is now Fitchburg), for a valuable cons1d.,.ration.,,-Whitney's History of WorcE>ster County, Mass. At that time Lunenburg was a frontier town of six miles square. ··Tbe Proprietors' Records of the Town of Lunenburg, Mass .• including Fitchburg and a portion of Ashby", were published by the City of Fitchburg. in 1897,ln one volume. They show that on April 10, 17~, shortly after the death of Philip Goodridge, there was laid out for his heirs 120 acres and 127 rods of the third division of the township; on November 19, 1734, there was laid out for his heirs 104 acres of the fourth division. and on March 16, 1736, there was laid out for his heirs OOacres to make up what wa,; wanting in the second division in the fourth part of Lunenburg. Philip Goodrldge's descendants, Lieut. Philip Goodridge, Capt. Ben jamin Goodridge, and Simon Goodrige were among the most prominent ct~izens of that section for the next century after his death, 1730-1830. 188 ! THE METCALF FAMILYl II IN ENGLAND AND EARLY MAbSACHUSETfS.* II "The most probable derivation of the name of Metcalf," says Mr. Isaac Metcalf in his "Metcalf Genealogy,'' published in 1898, "is that in Craven, twelve miles southeast of Dent, are three hills, or a small mountain with three peaks, now called the Pennegent Hills, but long ago known as the Three Ca.Ives. A. D. 1278 (Edward I) it isr,-co1dt·dthat Adam de Medekalf; that is, Adam of the middle calf, was killed by one Steynebrigge in single combat. The prefix mede is derived from the German mitte, Saxon midd, English middle. This Adam of Metcalf in 1278 was the eighth in descent from the original Dane Arkefrith, who came to England in 1016 with King Canute, who gave him lands in northwest Yorkshire, and made him Lord of Dent, Sedbury and Askrigg, names still to be round on the maps or York shire." It is said that thi! Danish succession can be traced in an unbroken line from Arkefrith to the present time. Mr. Isaac Me~calf states that Wil liam Mainrod Metcalf, Esq., of York, Eng., born in 1839, claims to be the . thirty-ninth in regular descent from Arkefrith. The descendants of the Metcalfs of early Massachusetts, however, are only interested in the first fourteen generations, as set forth by him, which are as follows: 1. Arkefrith. 2. Arkell, Lord of Dent.. etc. 3. Gospatrick. 4. Dolfl.n. 5. William. 6. Richard. 7. Adam, 1252 A. D. 8. Adam, 1278 A. D.~ called Medcalfe. 9. Adam Medcalfe, of Baynbridge. 10. Adam Medcalfe. or Thornbon. 11. Richard Metcalf, of Baynbridge. 12. Thomas Metcalf. of Baynbridge. *References: u.Metcalf Genealogy". by I,;;aac Metcalf; Eaton's HGenealogical History of the Town of Reading". Cunn1ngbam•s HGenealogy of Lunenburg, Mass," (Manuscript in office Town Clerk); Official Town Records of Lynn, Reading, Lunenburg, Mass., and Surrey and Keene, N H. 139 THE METCALF ARMS. ARMS-Argent,, three calves passant. sable. CREST-A satyr affronte, proper, with a girdle of o~k leaves round his loins, vert, holding in the dexter hand over the right shoulcter a spiked clnb or morning star, or. (According to the Harle1an Manuscripts, these arms were granted in 1483, the creEt 1n 1487.) 140 13. John Metcalf, married Alice of lreby. 14. James Metcalf, of Nappa, in Wensleydale. From Brian Metcalf, of Beare Park, the third son of James, of Nappa (or Nappay), the fourteenth in line from Arkefrlth, are descended those American families who trace their ancestry to the first Metcalf among the Puritan settlers of Massachusetts. This Brian Metcalf married Joanna of Boughton. Their sons were Richard, Nicholas and Rogers. The coat of arms of _these Yorkshire Metcalfs was everywhere: ··Argent, three calves passant, sable'', with different quarterings in different branch es of the family. "Our original ancestor in America,'' Mr. Isaac Metcalf states In his exhaustive work on the family, ··was Mitchael Metcalf, the dornix or embroidery weaver of Norwich. He and the Metcalfs of Norwich, Tatter ford and vicinity, in Norfolk county, were immediately descended from the lletcalfs of Beare Park and Nappa Hall in northern Yorkshire." The earnest records extant or the parish or Tatterrord are copies ln the registry of ,the Archdeaconry. of Norfolk and commence about 1560. Under 158,5 appears the baptism of Leonard, son of Leonard Metcalf, and under date of June 17, 1587, that of -Michael, son of Leonard Metcalf, which con firms tbe American records that Michael Metcalf, the first settler of the fam ily In America, was born at Tatterrord, Norfolk county, and baptized there June 17, 1587. His father, Rev. Leonard Metcalf, was rector of Tatterford pariah. No clue has ever been found as to the family name of his wife, the mother of Michael. Michael Metcalf was married on October 13, 1616, to Sarah Ellwyn, who was born at Heigham, England, on June 17, 1593. She was the daughter of Thomas Ellwyn. born 1564, died 1648, and Elizabeth, his wife. Their child ren, all born ln England, were Michael, who died young, Mary (or Marcy), Michael, John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Martha, Thomas, Ann (also called Joanna), Jane and Rebeka. Aft.er losing his property by a star chamber fine, Michael Metcalf, who had become a devoted Puritan. decided to emigrate to America to escape further religious persecution. He accordingly sailed from Ipswich in the ehip "John and Dorothy", Capt. Wm. Andrews, on April 6, 1637, with eight children and a servant. Elizabeth, daughter of Michael and Sarah (Ellwyn) Metcalf, was born ln England October 4, 1626. On September 13. 1648, she was married to Lieut. Thomas Bancroft, or Reading, Mass. From this marriage sprang many 141 American families of to-day. The line of descent of those families for whom this volume has been compiled is as follows: 1. MICHAEL METCALF, son of Rev. Leonard Metcalf, rector of ·Tat terford, Norfolk county, England, baptized at Tatterford church June 17, 1587. Married October 13, 1616, to Sarah Ellwyn, (daughter of Thomas Ell wyn, born 1564, died 1648, and Elizabeth, his wife), who was born at Heig ham, Norfolk county, June 17, 1593. He removed to America and settled at Deaham. Mass., with his family 1n 1637. 2. ELIZABETH METCALF, daughter of Micha.el and Sarah. (Ellwyn) Metcalf, born in England October 4, 1626; · married September 13, 1648, to Lieutenant Thomas. Bancroft, of Reading, Mass. 3. CAPT. EBENEZER BANCROFT, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Met calf) Bancroft, born April 25, 1667, married Abigail Eaton, May 19, 1692, died at Lynn 1717. 4. ABIGAIL BANCROFT, daughter of Ebenezer and Abagatl (Ea.ton) Bancroft, born Lynn, Mass., November 9, 1696, married John Hartshorne, July 26, 1721, at Reading. 5. JOHN HARTSHORNE,--:son of John and Abigail (Bancroft) Harts horne, born at Reading, Mass., April 12, 1722, married Susanna Nichols, No vember 9, 17 49, at Reading. 6. MEHITABEL HARTSHORNE, daughter of John and Susanna (Nich ols) Hartshorne, born at Reading, August 5, 1753; died at Lunenburg, Mass., ·March 6, 1826, married Elisha Parker, September 24, 1771 at Reading. 7. ELISHA PARKER. JR., son of EUsha and Mebita.bel (Hartshorne) Parker, born at Lunenburg, Mass., April 30, 1773; died Lunenburg, February 12, 1813; married Eunice Gould, March 19, 1793, at Lunenburg. 8. JOHN GOULD•PARKER, son of Elisha and Eunice (Gould) Parker, born at' Lunenburg, March 13, 1795; died Phtladelphla, Pa., October 14, 1835: married Mehltabel (Hitty) • Sawtell, of Groton, Mass., September 18, 1814, at Surrey, N. H. 9. MARY A. THAYER PARKER, daughter of John G. and Mehltabel - (Sawtell) Parker, borne Keene, N. H., May 12, 1815; died Philadelphia, Pa., May 12, 1884; married Henry Faunce, of Philadelphia, May 11, 1835, at Phil adelphia. 10. MARY A. E. FAUNCE, daughter of Henry and Mary A. Thayer (Parker) Faunce, born at Philadelphia, August 5, 1839; died at Philadelphia, June 28, 1875; mamed Thomas Gamble, April 30, 1867, at Philadelphia. 11. THOMAS GAMBLE, Jr., son of Thomas and Mary A. E. (Faunce) Gamble, born at Richmond, Va., March 16, 1868; married at Savannah, Ga.. 142 Kay 15, 1890, to Florence o. Kilpatrick, daugnter of John T. and Ella Kll patrlck. 12. HEl,EN GAHBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., August 27, 1892. THOMAS WELDON GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., April 1, 1895. ALMA MARIE GAMBLE, born a.t Savannah, Ga., July 28, 1898: dled at Atlanta, Ga., August 21, 1899. . WILLIAM MYERS GAMBLE, bOrn at Savannah, Ga., April 14, 1902. (For other descendants see main charts published herewith.) 148 ! POOLE-NICHOLS GENEALOGY: ! II _JI 1. JOHN POOLE emigrated from England in 1630 or 1631; found lo cated at New Town, afterward Cambridge, Mass., in 1632; removed thence to Lynn, and finally to Reading, Mass., of which town he was one of the earliest and the wealthiest settler. He built the first grist mill, thE: first .saw-mill, and the first fulling mill at Reading, and became a large landowner there. His wife Margaret died in 1662, and he died in 1667. His estate was divided between his son, Jonathan, and his grandson, John. 2. JONATHAN POOLE, son of John and Margaret Poole, born at Cam bridge, Mass., in 1634, died at Reading, Mass., in 1678. Succeeded his father on the original homestead and was large landowner. Appointed quartermas ter of troops under command of Ed ward Hutchinson, by General Court of Massachusetts, on May 31, 1671; appointed Comet, i. e., the commissioned officer carrying the standard, of the Three County Troop, under Captain Ed ward Hutchinson, by the General Court, on May 27, 167 4; appointed Captain of the Reading Military Company, by the General Court, on May 23, 1677. Deputy to the General Court from Reading in 1677. 3. MARY POOLE, daughter or Jonathan and Judith Poole, born at ileauing, November 14, 1662; died at Reading, July 8, 1711; married at Read ing, uctober 9, 1680, to James Nichols, who was born at Reading in 1658 a.nd Jied at Reading ln 1745. He was the son of Richard Nichols, who located a,t Ipswich, and removed thence to Reading, where he died in 167 4. 4. EBENEZER NICHOLS, son of James and Mary (Poole) Nichols, b~rn at Reading in 1703, married Susanna ----. Sentinel under Col. Eleazer Tyng, in August-September, 1722, and in Capt. Blanchard's Company of volunteers, August-October, 1725. Colonel of Regiment in 1757-59. Dep uty _ron: Reading to the General Court of Massachusetts for nine terms, 1752, .175J, 1754, 1757, 1762t 1763, 1764, 1765, 1767. 5. SUSANNA NICHOLS, daughter of Ebenezer and Susanna Nichols, born at Reading in 1729; married John Hartshorne at Reading, November 9, 1749. John Hartshorne was born at Reading April 12, 1722. (See Harts horne Genealogy). *References: Paige's History of Cambridge. Mass.;' Eaton's •·Genealogical History of the Town of Reading," Records of the Massachusetts .tsay Colony, office Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston, Mass.; Town &€cords of Reading, Lunenburg, Grotou, .Mass.,aud Keene and Surrey, N. H. 144 6. MEHITABEliHARTSHORNE, daughter of John and Susanna (Nich ols) Hartshorne, born at Reading, August 5, 1753; died at Lunenburg, Mass., March G, 1826; married Elisha Parker, at Reading, September 24, 1771. He was born at Reading July 21, 1749, and died at Lunenburg, No vember 9, 1823. (Se~ Parker Genealogy.) 7. ELISHA PARKER, JR., son of Elisha and Mehitabel (Hartshorne) Parker, born at. Lunenburg, Mass., April 30, 1773; died at Lunenburg, Feb ruary 12, 1813; married Eunice Oould, at Lunenburg, March 19, 1793. (S·ee Gould Genealogy.) 8. JOHN G. PARKER, son of Elisha and Eunice (Gould) Parker, born at Lunenburg, March 13, 1795; married Mehitabel (Hitty) Sawtell, of Gro ton, Mass., at Surrey, N. H., on September 18, 1814. They separated two years after marriage, having had but one child. Subsequently John G. Par ke1 married Mary Maiin. He located at Philadelphia where he died October 14, 1835. 9. MARY A. THAYER PARKER, only child of John G. and Mebitabel (Sawtell) Parker, born at Keene, N. H., May 12, 1815; married at Phlladel phla, Pa., to Henry Faunce, May 11, 1835; died a.t Philadelphia May 12, 1884. 10. MARY A. E. FAUNCE, daughter of Henry and Mary A. Thayer (Parker) Faunce, born at Philadelphia, Pa., August 5, 1839; married ·at Phil adelphia, April 30, 1857, to Thomas Gamble; died at Philadelphia, June 28, 1875. 11. THOMAS GAMBLE, JR., son of Thomas and Mary A. E. (Faunce) Gamble, born at Richmond, Va., Karch 16, 1868; married at Savannah, Ga., May 15, 1890, to F_lorence O. Ktlpatrick, daughter of John ':f. and Ella. (Re l,arer) Kilpatrick. 12. ·HELEN GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., August 27, 1892. THOMAS WELDON GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., April 1, 1895. ALMA MARIE GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., July 28, 1898; died at Atlanta, Ga., August 21, 1899. WILLIAM MYERS GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., April 14, 1902. (For other descendants see rr1ain charts published herewith.) (For ~ther descendants, see main charts published herewith.) IJARKER GENEALOGY.* 1. THOMAS PARKER, generally referred to as '"Deacon" Parker, came over from England in the "Susan Ellen'' 1n 1635, at the age of 30; stoppea first at Lynn, Mass.; was a freeman of the colony in 1637. Hts wife's name was Amy. He died at Reading, Mass., August 12, 1683, aged 78, and his widow died January 15, 1690. 2. JOHN PARKER, sergeant, son of Deacon Thomas and Amy Parker, born about 1640-45, died at Reading, February 21, 1699. Married, 1st, No vember 13, 1667, at Cambridge, Mass., Hannah, daughter of Deacon Thomas Kendall; she died In 1689; married, 2d, Thankful ---, on January 28, 1690. His brother, Hannantah, was deputy to the General Court, lieutenant of the Reading Military Company, and was great grandfather of Captain John Par ker, who ~mmanded the Americans at the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, whose grandson was Rev. Theodore Parker, the noted Unitarian divine. 3. JOHN PARKER, son of John and Hannah (Kendall) Parker, born at Reading, December 16, 1668; married Elizabeth ---, J\lly 15, 1691; she died May 11, 1731; he died January 4, 1741. 4. BENJAMIN PARKER, son of John and Elizabeth Parker, born at Reading, April 9, 1703; married to Sarah Foster, April 8, 1726, by Rev. Dan iel Putnam; died October 16, 1741. 5. BENJAMIN PARKER, !On of Benjamin and Sarah (Foster) Parker, born at Reading, January 30, 1727; married Sarah --- 6. ELISHA PARKER, son of Benjamin and Sarah Parker, born at Read ing, July 21, 1749; married Me1'11tatiel Hartshorne, daughter of John and Su sannah (Nichols) Hartshorne, at Reading, September 24, 1771, by Rev. Thomas Havens; private in Capt. John Abbott's Company, Col. Ward's Reg- - *References: Eaton's "Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Mass,, Revol utionary Records in office Adjutant General, Boston, Mass.; Cunningham's "Genealogy of Lunenburg, Mass.," Town kecords of Groton, Mas~., Keene and Surrey, N. H. Ea.ch minister was elected by his flock and his authority came solely from the vote of the congregation. To all other churches except the one which electro him he was a layman. There was a. great deal of work connected wt th a Puritan church, and at flrst ea.ch one had a pastor whose duty it was to exhort, and a teacher who explained doctrine. but gradually this distinction wore a.way ,and there were two pastors,who were often called the elders; and bestdes these there were ruling elders and teaching elders, who had charge of the discipline, and deacons who managed the om,iness affairs.-"'Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times", by Sydney George Fisher.- ---- iment, Mass. Continental Troops, in 1780; died at Lunenburg, Mass., to which town he and family had removed, on November 9, 1823. 7. ELISHA PARKER, Jtt., son of Elisha and Mehltabel (Hartshorne) Parker, born Lunenburg, Mass., April 30, 1773; died Lunenburg, February 12, 1813; married to Eunice Gould, at Lunenburg, March 19, 1793. 8. JOHN GOULD PARKER, son of Elisha and Eunice {Gould) Parker, born at Lunenburg, Mass., March 13, 1795; died at Philadelphia, Pa., Octo ber 14, 1835; married, 1st, Mehitabel (Hitty) • Sawtell, of Groton, Mass., at '3urrey, N. H., September 18, 1814; separated after two years, and married, %d, Mary Mann. His first wife married, 2d, Caleb Emerson,. of Keene, N. H. (previously of Marlboro, N. H.), at Keene, N. H., :March 28, 1819, and died at Keene. May 4. 1850. 9. MARY A. THAYER PARKER, only child of John G. and Mehttabel (Sawtell) Parker, born at Keene, N.. H., May 12, 1815; married to Henry Faunce, of Philadelphia, Pa., at Philadelphia, May 11, 1835; died at Phila- delphia, May 12, 1884. 10. MARY A. E. FAUNCE, daughter of Henry and Mary A. Thayer (Parker) Faunce, born at Philadelphia, August 5, 1839; married to Thomas Gamble, at Philadelphia, April 30, 1857; died at Philadelphia, June 28, 1876. 11. THOMAS GAMBLE, JR., son of Thomas and Mary A. (Faunce) Gamble, born at Richmond, Va., March 16, 1868; married to Florence 0. Kll patrick, at Savannah, Ga., May 15, 1890. 12. HELEN GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., August 27. 1892. THOMAS WELDON GAMBLE, born at Savannah. Ga., April 1, 1895. - ALMA MARIE GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., July 28, 1898; dle4 at Atlanta, Ga., August 21, 1899. WILLIA~ MYERS GAMBLE, born at Savannah, Ga., Aprll 14, 1902. (For other descendants see main charts publlshed herewith.) (For other descendants, see main charts published herewith.) u, . i I . j' . ' -----·-·-··•·~-- .. ' Certificate of n1arriage of John G. Parker and ~Iehita.bel Sawtell, at Surrey, N. H .. Septen1her 18, 1814. Rev. Perley Howe was pastor ot the Surrey Church 1795-1837. Asabfll HarYey was town clerk for a nun1ber of vears. '!1he addresses of tlle contracting parties were given as Keene, N. H., as it was their purpose to locate there. CI'l'Y OF KEENE, OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK, KEENE, N. H., March 8, 1905. I, Frank H. Whitcomb, City Clerk of Keene, hereby certify that the records of th is city ,of which I have the lawful custody and possession.show that Mary A. Thayer Parlu~r, daughter of John G. Parker and Mehitabel h1s wife. was born 111 Keene, May 12, 1816. ~ /4-~ ":&?:::-__~~ ~a-_,.,_ -~ ~ ~~~/4-_ ~ t/4 ~- "71tr ~ ~ ~z#~ Ci[,,...:,.,d'. ~---/.,. _ _',,-L ~... ~ -eC:= ~ -",f dc +,e •.., ~ IZ.az;;. v/etu;t:: LA~. ~/4 l..r:'11-,~et..AL -"' • ,..µ'41 •7' THE PHILADELPHIA P . .E. CITY MISSION, ~'2S,L a~& Old St. Paul's Episcop~.l Church. on S nnh ·rhir~ ~t .• PhihtdPlphia, is now u:;ed ( 1905) as headquart.ers of t.hP Philnd ... Ipliia. Prot.estant Episcopal Uity Mls~ion. which is the cu~todia.n of the old church rt~cor 100 -- ~ 6~~.i4ll~~~~1'A,~AiliiMM~~~A- • ttfJitJ a~~ti•"s Wt.te.• tt Ma!! tto"e~ra. /!/Jal rd ~a; (?II, d, F ,/c_,,-U~ tk?UJ ~~ /c98T. .A-. ~~ eqQ/nd J¥vK7~ ~~~,e ~ ~Net4 ~~9'~ Given under my hand 1hi1 1 ,-r.;., of ~/r., e,.A/'~ Anno Domini, J83r.~.. /A ~ / / I~ ''""ialN of lht GcMptl. Certificate of M11rriage of Henry Faunce and Mary A. 'rhayer Pa.rker, daughter of John G. and ""'"""""'"''"''"'"'""'"""'"'"""'"'""""".Mehltabel ( Sawtell) Parker. ~ . ;TlwJ ?L-..-_/~ p (¢~ ..._ - ~ ~ anu1 ~~ ~#~-<.//~- ✓~ \.,...., ~ / '-'t.l wew 6y, me united in (he 6omb of BAB.BIA.GE on, ~7 11,. _____ g&_, _____ tky o/··-·····-·~···-····-·-- in //,,e, ~ o-/ owi S!oul (mC lliouJOJJld ctjld ltnndwd aud~~:...d~- con/oinl-atly lo {lie ()11,di"nancc of rod and (lu law, of ,1w cfftalc of tl'en-rw"ilvanta. ¢!//7~~- Jlliaislrr of t~r QDosprl. (:]·~ This 111arnage took place at the Baptist Ch nrch on Eightli street, above Green, Philadelphia. The marnage notice in th•➔ Philadelphia Public Ledger reads: "On 11 hursdHV evening, April 30th, by the Rev. J. F. Kennard, Mr. ,.l.1ho1nas Gan1ble to Miss Mary A., second daughter of the late Henry Faunce, both of this city. [Boston and New Han1pshire paperR please copy.]'' Mary A. E. Faunce was baptized at the Baptist chapel, Eleventh and Wood streets, P11ilactAlphia. by the Rev. J. r11_ Ward, December 2, 1855, bt:ing then in her seventee!!th year. • f ,< ;, ' 'Y ' ,, , . , " ~ , . ~ rM} ·;': "'J ·~ :_,,.!"w,, J~ :ti BJ, • '>-.; ¼·:::-- %~ :'.)~'j.,, • ,, .... -...;:.. Y/1$5, .. -:1 . _-_ _ > ~-_-·-.""~v:::tii,t HAM~ToN,-a;;*r,s"i.i·e·,~.7~/ :-:·:~-jl~~~~,- t --~ ,· •• •• rilj~,~t:~ '{_'¥•>·f''1: ; /cr>1,k1' ""'!''~Ju,,,,.,,. . ,,, ,. '. d ., •. ,,.- .. :if.. ,. :f~ ><~.::":~~ •· E: C1t::-rHnN •, c ◊P.t.',ll'-:i\f.?Y: ~·Q:l'\ 'Jtced~o SM kl c:c:,,,.,.,.r t-< Ar't f;r-t tt.;.f., ~ :>t, --:· · -~·•',. t j/j.: .. .,. ·-. J1i.~ -i~::;~-j,. 1.. ~--d ·: .. ·.it;?:.✓. . • /. --~ J,;:;;;: ~ _,./·. ~ ~~~_:, __ :__ ; .... :... -~~~j!~~~~~\~:~~;~;°!~~•~•~~~~~~~fW~~j ! THOMAS KENDALLl I of Lynn and Reading, Mass., (1639-81 ), and his Eight Daugbter:;JI Elizabeth Kendall, born Lynn, Mass., 1642; married at Reading, in 1658. to John Eaton. Hannah · Kendall, born at Reading, Mass., 1656; married at Reading, November 13, 1667, to Sergt. John Parker. To these two daughters of Thomas Kendall, one of the original set tlers of Reading, Mass., the descendants qf John Gould Parker and Mehita l>el Sawtell., his wife, trace their ancestry. On September 21, 1771, Mehitabel Hartshorne was married at Reading to Elisha Parker. In thei-r marriage the descendants of these two daugh ters of Deacon Thomas Kendall were united, Mehttabel Hartshorne being de scended in the fifth generation from John and Elizabeth (Kendall) Eaton, and Elisha Parker in the fourth generation from John and Hannah (Ken dall) Parker. The Kendall family in America, the 0 Amertcan Family Antiquary," (Vol. 2), states., was founded by two brothers, Francis and Thomas Kendall, who were born in England a.nd emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony prior to 1640. Francis settled ln Woburn, then called Charlestown village. Thomas located at Lynn, where he was married about 1639 to Rebecca -, who died July 17, 1703, aged 85 years. About 1653 Thomas Kendall removed to Reading, Mass. He was made deac~n of the church there, was recog nized as a man of high religious character. He died at that place July 22, 1681. Francis married Mary Tidd at Woburn on December 24, 1644. She died ln 1705, and he in 1708. He had four sons and five daughters. Thom as, his brother, had eight daughters who arrived at maturity. "The descendants of these pious Puritans," says .. American Family An tiquary,'' "have spread themselves., during a period of two and a half cen turies, over the length and breadth of this country as pioneers and settlers., waking the forests and plains from their long sleep, and, with their coun- From 1640 New England received no immigrants until 1820, wnen the modern immi gration of Irish and French Canadians began. -In that period from 1640 to 18"10, her popu lation, being of the same race and reJigion, became very homogenous and united. and tn ereased by the natural method of birttis at a more rapid rate than it has increased in mod ern times with the aid of all of the foreigners that have been poured upon the country. In that period previous to 1820 New Englanders not only fl.lled up their own limits and be eame the leading aection of the union, but also over1lowed into New York and the West. '~ Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times", by Sydney George Fisher.. • trymen, joining far distant places with iron bands,. which thu~ became bands of fellowship; by commerce and agriculture helping to make this the greatest among nations of the earth. Some were eminent divines, distin guished lawyers, jurists and statesmen, journalists, authors and travelers.'' ''Thomas Kendall," says Eaton's· "History of the Town of Reading," --was deacon and selectman for many years, and a very influential citizen. His children were Elizabeth, born 1642, and married 1658, John Eaton; Re becca, born 1644, and married 1665 James Boutwell; Mary, boni. 1647, and married 1664 Abraham Bryant; Hannah, born 1650, and married 1667 John Parker; Sarah, born and died 1652; Sarah 2nd; born 1653, and married Samuel Dunton; Abigail, born 1655, · and married Johri Nichols; Susanna, born 1658, and married Nathaniel Goodwin; Tabitha, born 1660, and married John Pearson, and Thomasio born 1663 and died 1664. Deacon Kendall had no son that lived to adult age, and his name has long since disappeared from our municipal records; yet perhaps there is no one of the first set tlers that can be pointed out, whose blood7 through his eight· daughters di verging, has come down to us through so many families;. and still flows in the veins of so many of the present population of ·the town." : "These daughters of Thomas Kendall, in order to preserve their maid en name among their posterity,'' says "A Memorial. to Joseph Kendall,'' "directed, each of them, when married, that her first born son. should have the given name Kendall, prefixed to his surname; as Kendall Pierson. Ken dall Eaton, etc., which gave occasion to the following lines respecting thest daughters in a poem written by Lillie Eaton, of South Reading. In men tioning the venerable matron, their mother, he observes: " 'She had ten daughters, and each one. When ,mar-ried, christened her first son Kendall; and thus we may infer Why 'tis these names so oft cccur.' As a matter of fact and not poetry, there were but eight wha t~o1~ this means of perpetuating the family name. "Rebecca · Kendall, widow of Dec. Thomas Kendall. dye1 July 17, 1703, Aged 85 years. Here lyeth the ·mother of ten' who had 175 · grand and great-grand-children.'' Lillie Eaton, referring to this memorial inscription, s1.ys: ·• 'Mother of ten' signifies the mother of ten children, of whom nine were d'.:l ughJe·.:-s and one a son who died young. Of the daughters, one diej yo:1ng, and the oth er eight married into the fatnHies of the first sett.le!'s of the town of ne1ct lng.'' too ~BANCROFT GENEALOGY:! II · _jl ~:======° 1. JOHN BA;NCR01FT, married in England, prior to 1622, removed to Massachusetts and located at Lynn with his wife, Jane, where he died in 1637. 2. LIEUTENANT THOMAS BANCROFT, son of John and Jane Ban croft, born in England in 1622; married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Mt chael Bacon of Dedham, no issue; 2nd, Elizabeth, daughter of Mi chael and Sarah Metcalf, in 1648; had bought land and built a house in Lynn (now .Lynnfield), and later at Rea.ding, where he was proba>bly resi dent at time of second marriage. Served against the Narragansett Ind-ians. On Octo.ber 15, 1679, the General Court granted hi·s petition to be relieved from his position as. Ensign, on the ground that he had been Ensign for many years, and was then laboring und·er indisposition of body. On July 12, 1689, he was con.firmed Lieutenant of the Foot Company of Lynn. He died at Lynn, August 19, 1691. 3. CAPTAIN EBENEZER BANCROFT, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Metcalf) Bancroft, born Lynn, April 25, 1667; married Abigail Eaton, at Lynn, May 19, 169-2; died at Lynnfield in 1717. :His brother, Thomas Ban croft, was the great-great-grandfather of the historian, George Bancroft. He was an officer in King Philip's War. 4. ABIGAIL BANCROFT, daughter of. Ebenezer and Abigail (Eaton) Bancroft, born at Lynn, November 9, 1696; married to John Hartshorn~ at Reading, July 26, 1 721. 5. JOHN HARTSHORNE, JR., son of John and .A;bigail {Bancroft) Hartshorne, born at Reading, April 12, 1722; married at Rea.ding, Novem ber 9, 17 49, Susanna Nichols. (See Poole-Nichols' Genealogy). The date of his death does not appear in the town records. 6. MEHITABEL HARTSHORNE, daughter of John and Susanna (Nichols) Hartshorne, born at Reading~ August 5, 1753; married at Read ing, September 24, 1771, to Elisha Parker; d'ied at Lunenburg, Mass., March 6, 1826. *References: 44 History of Lyll.n," by Lewis; Records of the Massachusetts Bay Col ony, office Secretary of the Commonwealth, Bostol!,_~Mass.; Town records of Lynn, Read ing, Lunenburg, Groton, Mass., Surrey and Keene,~. H. 156 BANCROFT FAMILY. I<~roru data furnished by Mr. John M. Bancroft. of Bloomfield. N .•J •• and obtained from other sources, the following additional lntorm.ation hns been prepared: Thomas Bancroft was born in England, probably in Derbyshire,in 16:t'l. He married, 1st, at Dedham, Mass., January Sl, 1647. A.lice .. daughter of Michael Bacon, who died Jan uary 29, 1648, without living tssue;n1arried ~d, at De.dham,September 15,(13), 1648,Elizabeth, daughter of Michael and ~a.rah (Ellwyn) Metcalf, who was born at Jk:Ufur-. England, October 4, 162tl, and died at Lynnfield, Mass.,.May 1,1711. She was dismissed from the church at Dedham to that at Reading October 2~, 166-l. Their daughter Elizabeth married .r oseph Browne and was the ancestress of Gen. Joseph Browne, of the Revolutionary army. Tbomas Bancroft was the owner of real estate at Dedham until October :!8, 16.52, when he disposed of his holdings there and moved to the Ticinity of Reading. In 1670he located at-what ts now Lynnfield. In a surrey DJade by Thomas Gardner,in 1660, the old Bancroft place, ln the township of Lynn, is referred to as ••the place they call Ensign Bancroft's", showin.g bis early connection with the military of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was relieved from this office of ensign (page 156) Oetober 15, 1679, on the grounds oflongservtce and poor health. He had probably 1-erved as ensign for a quarter of a century. He died August 19, 1601, and was buried at Reading. (now Wakefield), Mass. His gravestont- bears this inscription: MEMENTO MORI. FlTGIT HORA. HERE LI"ETH THE BODY 014' LT. THOMAS RANCRO.li'T, . AGED 69 YJ Mr. John .M. Bancroft. who has gone exhaustiyely into the subject, points out that Lieut. Thomas Bancroft was not the son· of John and Jane Bancroft, of Lynn, as claimed by some Lynn publications. but w5:s probabl~· their nephew and the son of Ralph, brother of John. In one of the volumes of the Essex Institute ColJectione. containing sketches of the pedigrees of early members of the Lynnfield church, in that of the Bancrofts no reference is made to .John and Jane as in any wise connected with Thomas .•\.s these sketches were prepared at an early date it would have been known to their compiler had Thomas bPen a son of John. Hon. George Bancroft, the historian, was also probably con Yinced of this• In the 44 Ancestry of John Davis and Eliza Bancroft"', the latter the sister or the historian, which was prepared and publii;hed by Hon. Horace Dayis. of San Fran cisco, when a member ~f Congress. and during the life time of ueorge Bancroft, John and .Jane are not considered as the parents of Thomas . .From the researches of J. l-\ enry Lea, Esq., in the English records, and those of Mr. Bancroft as well, the following appears to be the English ancestry of Thomas Bancroft: _. 1 ~ -Bancroft, of Che Baston Barro"·, or Rwark~ston, County of Derby; relict living in 1557,and legatee of lands in Barrow b)· will of her son Ralph.of Chellaston,Derby. date<)Aprtl 21, 1~7. 2" .Joh~ Bancroft. of Chellaston; son of aho,·e, married Margaret Hollingsworth cor Harynworth); wUl dated May 11, 15~; proyed at Lichfield. January 24, 1557. "Will refers to "my boys und~r21. To my oldest son <.Ralph) the Hall I now dwell in; to my second son the oYer house; to my third son part of the land in fiwarston ( Swarkeston ), he paying his fourth brother xv 11.'' His personalty was appraised at £150-9-0. S Ralph Bancroft, elde~t son of above; married Alice--; living in loll alid then administrator of his brother WiJliam, of South Cave,-..,Yorks. 4 Thomas Bancroft, son of aboYe. of ~warkeston; mar1:led Rebecca--; will dated October 13~ 1626; probated at Lichfield, October 11, 1627; buried at Swarkeston; widow living in 1627, but buried at Swarkeston -before !689. ProYistons of will: •4To my wife four pounds yearly out of land in Swarkeston; to "Ralph (2d son) house in Swarkeston,then oc cupied by oldest son John (who emigrated to Lynn); to Thomas (third !->OD and poet) 40 ·shillings yearly; minor bequests to fervants. etc .. residue to four children." .Personalty inventoried at £275-17-2. 5 lialph Bancroft, son of aboYe. 6 Thomas Bancroft, born probably at Swarkeston. in 1622. emigrated to N~w Eng land and located at Dedham, etc. In a volume of poems, HTwo Books of Epigran1n1es and Epitaphs", (London. 16&1),by Thomas Bancroft, brother of John and .Halpb. he refers to John in these lines: "You sold your land the lighter hl·nce to go To foreign coasts~ ~·et (Fate would haye it soJ Vid ne'er New England reach, but went with them That journey toward New Jerusalem." As Mr. LEa says (New England H. & G. Register, .January, 1002): ·•In view of tht: facts we may safely neglect the poetic license of the elegist who makes his brother die upon the passage instead of shortly after hls arrival on our shores." 7. ELISHA PARKER, JR., son of Elisha and Mehitabel (Hartshorne) Parker, born at Lunenburg, Mass., April 30, 1773; died at Lunenburg, Feb ruary 12, 1813; married Eunice Gould, at Lunenburg, March 19, 1793. (See Gould Genealogy~) 8. JOHN GOULD PARKER, son of Elisha and Eunice (Gould) Parker. born at Lunenburg, Mass., March 13, 1795; died at Philadelphia, Pa., Octo• ber 14, 1835; married, 1st, Mehltabel (Hltty) Sawtell, of Groton, Mass., at Surrey, N. H., September 18, 1814; separated after two years. and married, 2d, Mary Mann. His first wife married, 2d, Caleb Emerson, of Keene. N. H. (previously of Marlboro, N. H.), at Keene,· N. H., March 28, 1819, and died at Keene, May 4. 1850. 9. MARY A. THAYER PARKER, only child of John G. and Mehltabel (Sawtell) Parker, born at Keene, N. H., May 12, 1815; married at Philadel phia, Pa., to Henry Faunce, May 11, urns; died at Philadelphia May 12, 1884. 10. MARY A. E. FAUNCE, daughter of Henry and Mary A. Thayer (Parker) Faunce, born at Phlladelphta, Pa., August 5, 1839; married at PhU adelphia, April 30, 1857, to Thomas Gamble; died at Philadelphia, June 28, 1875. 11. THOMAS GAMBLE, JR., son of Thomas and Mary A. E. (Faunce) Gamble, born at Richmond, Va., March 16, 1868; married at Savannah. Ga., May 1:5, 1890, to Florence 0. ltnpatrick, daughter of John T. and Ella (Re barer) Kilpatrick. 12. HELEN GAMBLE, born at Savannah. Ga., August 27, 1892. THOMAS WELDON GAMBLE. born at Savannah, Ga., April 1,. 1895. ALMA MARIE GAMBLE. born at Savannah, Ga., .July 28, 1898; died at Atlanta, Ga., August 21, 1899. WILLIAM MYERS GAMBLE, born at S3.vannah. na.. April 14, 19()~. (For other descendants see main charts published he~ewi .. h.) 15, I I I HARTSHORNE GENEALOGY. u I • __J 1. THOMAS HARTSHORNE, an early ~nglish Puritan, was one or the tirst settlers of Reading, Mass. Tbe earliest records of that town show that he was a freeman there in 1648, and later one of the selectmen. In a division of the lands he was granted five acres of n1eadow land. Later, the town records of February 14, 1658, show, in a subdivision of the upland north of the Ipswich river, ;1ow the town of North Reading, formerly part of Reading, he received 73 acres. In February, 1666, he was appointed surveyor for the highway for the west side of the town. He married, first. Susannah 1c. ' • , who died in 1659; second, Sarah,. wid~w of William Lamson, of Ipswich. 2. TIMOTHY HARTSHORNE, son of Thomas and Sarah Hartshorne, was born at Reading, Mass.. February 23, 1661; died there May 5, 1738; ruarrled at Reading, December 26, 1685. Martha Eaton, born Reading, Feb ruary 21, 1668, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kendall) Eaton,*w·ho were married at Reading, in 1C58. (Elizabeth Kendall• was the daughter of Dea- con Thomas Kendall). 3. JOHN HARTSHORNE, son of Timothy and Martha (Eaton) Harts horne, born at Reading, Septem·ber 20, 1698; married at Reading, July 26, 1721, Abigail Bancroft. ("See Baneroft Genealogy). The date of his death does not appear in the town records. 4. JOHN HA!RTSHORiNE. JR., son of John and Abigail ( Bancroft) Hartshorne, born at Reading, April 12, 1722; married at Reading, Novem ber 9, 1749, Susanna Nichols. (See Poole-Nichols' Genealogy). T-he date of his death does not appear in the town records. 5. MEHITABEL HARTSHORNE, daughter of John and Susanna (Nichols) Hartshorne. born at Reading, August 5. 1753; married at Read ing, September 24, 1771, to Elisha Parker; died at Lunenburg, Mass., March 6, 1826. (For continuation see Parker Genealogy. beginning Elisha Parker, Jr.). *Martha Eaton's father. John Eaton. was the son. of \\'Ulhun tu1d Marthu Etttou. ttnd was probably born at Watertown. Mass. Hts father,\\ llllam Eaton,removt-d from "\\·ater town to Readlnsr;, Mass. He was a freeman of Reading in ltS.5a. He died at that phwt> 1n 1678, and bis widow. Martha. died there In 1680. His brother. .Jontts Ettton, wtts ttlso fl fret- nian tn Reading tu rn.~~ and ft seltwtman there. d~·tn~ tn 167'4. ADDITIONAL EATON DATA. "\\'Uliam Eaton, born in England about 1605,niarried Martha Jenkins,of St&ple,Kent, about 1683. He was a husbandman at Staple, where his elder children were born and two or three of then1 buried. On June 9, 1687, with his wife, three children and a servant, he took passage on the "Elizabeth and Ann" for America, and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was made a freeman in 16.53, and moved to Reading, Mass., where he dit.-d .May 18, l6T3, leaving property il1'ventoried at £427'. bis will being dated ~eptember 26, 1672,and his wife .Martha being executrix. His oldest son, John, born at~aple, England, December !..I(), 1635; married Eliz~beth Kendall, daughter of Thomas and zabeth Kendall (see page 154) on March 8, 165«. He ~ died May 2.5, lt>~ Their daughter, .Abigail Eaton, born Reading August 7, 1577, married Ebenezer Bancroft, ( page 156) on May 19, 1692. Another daughter, Martha, married Tim othy Hartshorne, llecen1ber 26, 1~.5. (Page 158). The marriage of their son, John Hart shorne, to Abigail Bancroft, daugb te-r of Ebe-nezer and Ah1ga1l (Eaton) Bancroft, was ac l·ordlngl;y one of first cousins. The Jenkins family of Staplt>, Kent. were of "\\"elsh origin. Guppy states in his ·• J:lomes of.Family Names" thn.t the ••isolated appearance of this famlly name in Kent ts so1newhat remarkable." In lAfl.5 John Eaton's mln:lst~r's tax was £ls Sd 3. H~ ownt>d one of the fifty-nine houses built at Reading in 1667. Prior to 1686 the town purchased of the Indians the terri tory of Reading for £10, but 1t had not been paid for. An assessment was ma.de and .John Eaton paid £..5s 1. In 1688 a subscription for a new meet111g house was takPn and he gave £8. In 1002 he was one of the drawE-rs of land on the west side of the town. ~ T HE ~ E Mp F AM I Ly tl II OF o~oToN, MASS., AND ooRHAn, MAIJ"E, (1658-1905).* 1. SAMUEL KEM·P (e·), found located at Billerica, Mass., in 1658; kinsman of Edward Kempe, who was located at Dedham. Mass .. in 1639; married Sarah Foster at Billerica, May 23. 1662; removed to Groton, Mass., in 1668. 2. SAMUEL KEMP, son of Samuel and Sarah (Foster) Kemp, born at Billerica. February 23, 1662-3; mem1ber of garrison at G1oton ia 1C91: mar ried Susanna ---- (probably Lawrence). 3. SAM·UIDL KEMP, son of Samuel and Susanna Kemp, barn at Gro ton, between 1680-90; married Sarah Lacey at Andover. Mass., February 12, 1713. 4. EBENEZER KEMP, son of Samuel and Sarah (Lacey) Kemp, born at Groton, April, 1729; served in French and Indian War; married. Mary •Bradstreet at Westford, Mass., October 31, 17 49. 5. EBENEZER KEMP, JR., son of Ebenezer and Mary • ( Brajstreet) Kemp, born at Groton, January 11, 1750; n1arried Relief Phillips, of Gro ton, August 31, 1773; .served in Continental Army, 17~5-77; remo. eJ tJ Maine, 1782; died at Gorham, Me., in 1833. (For descendants see following sketch of Kemp fan1ily): 5. HANNAH KEM·P, daughter of Ebenezer and :\'lary ( Bra Jstre~t) Kemp, born at Groton,- August 17, 17G2; married Joseph Sawtell. of Gro~on, February 22, 1788; died at Groton, Decem,ber 21, 1814. 6. MEHIT ABEL (HITTY) SAWTELL, daughter of above. b~Jrn Gro- ton, April 24, 1793; died Keene, N. H., May 4, 1850; married to .John Gould Parker, of Lunenburg, Mass., at Surrey, N. H., September 18, 1814; only child by first marriage, Mary A. Thayer Parker. born Kee~e. May 12, 1815: married, second, Caleb E-merson :\larch 28. 1819. ( See 3ketch of E-merson family). ' . MARY A. THAYER PARKER. only child of .Jo'1n G. and Me~it3.1:el (Sawtell) Parker, born at Keene. N. H .. May 12, 1K15: m3rti9d to He:1r:: Faunce, of Philadelphia. Pa., at Philadelphia. :way 11. 1 ~:tfi: rl ~f.. ~1 at p;1 i~a delphia, May 12, 1884. *Rt--ft>rPm·t•s: ·• His tor~· of Bil lt•rh-a. Muss.:· hy Rt>,·. Ht•nr~· .\.. Hazt•n; ·•His ton· of Gro ton. Muss.:• Irv Butl~r; GrPt>ll's --<.rot on Historh-ul f-;t>rit>s.'· ··Hroton Durfn,r thP · Rt>Yolu t ion:· and ··Gi·oton Du ri n~ tlw Indian \\"a rs .. ;Town :rn<•or The exact time of the arrival of the first of the Kemp. or Kempe, fam ily in America has not been ascertained, beyond the fact that the original emigrants came to Massachusetts in the e3rly influx of English Pnritans. Robert Kempe was among the reaidents at Dedham, Mass., in 1639. Edward Kempe is also found located at Dedham in that year, and was made a freeman, that is, a voting citizen, on March 13, of that year. He was probably brother of Robert Kempe. It is likely that he had then been in the colony one or more years. He removed to Wenham, and thence to Chelmsford (165'5), and died there December 17, 1688. In his will he men tioned his daughter, Esther, wife of Samuel Foster, her son, Samuel Foster, and his kinsman, Samuel Kemp, of Groton, Mass. For three generations the Kemps and Fosters are found inter-marrying. This Samuel Kemp, the first of the family at Groton, is found located at Billerica, Mass., in 1658, and had doubtless been in the colony for some years prior to that time. He received a grant of land at Billerica in that year, which he sold in 1668 to Thomas Ross,. removing in the early part of the year to Groton. On May 23, 1662, while resident at Billerica, he mar ried Sarah Foster. At Billerica two children were born to them,. Samuel, on February 23, 1662-63; Abigail, on March 27, 1664-65, who married James Blood, at Groton, on December 20, 1686. This Abigail and her family suf fered from depredations of the llndians probaibly more than any other family in Groton or vicinity. Her husband (James Blood) was killed by the In dians on September 13, 1692. She then married Enoch Lawrence, who was severely wounded by the savages on July 27, 1694. Her daughter married John Shattuck. who, with their son, John Shattuck, Jr.. was killed by the Indians May 8, 1709. This daughter's uncle. William Longley, wife and five children, were killed by the Indians July 27, 1694, and three others of their children carried into captivity. Isaac Lakin, who married Abigail's grand daughter, Eliza;beth Shattuck, was also wounded by the Indians in the Love well fight, on May 8, 1725. Other more distant kin were also slain during the same period, 1692-1725. Twenty-five of this and closely connected fam- iJies were killed. injured or carried away captives during the~e thirty-three years. At Groton, three, and perhaps more, children .blessed the union of Sam uel and Sarah (Foster) Kemp. Caleb Butler in his ''History of the Town of Groton," published at Boston, in 1848, gives the following as the births of their c'hildren at that -place: Jonathan, ,born April 6, 1668; Mehitabel, born January 4, 1673 (Green gives it June 4); ,Bethiah, ·born May 9, 1683. Bethiah married John Spencer on 1Novembe5, 12, 1719. /.JJ~~ The time of the death of Samuel .lfe8.ter and ·Sarah his wife, does not appear on the Groton town records. From them all of the Kemps and kin dred families who trace their origin to Groton have descended. Samuel Kemp 2d, born at Billerica, l\lass., February 23. 1662 G3, was one of the garrison at Groton under Lieut. William Lakin, in 1691-92, his name appearing in ,the list in the account of the •·settlement of the Garrisons in the West Regiment of Middlesex." Whom he married does not appear, be yond the fact that her given name was Susannah. nor does the birth dat~ of their son Samuel, which was probably between 1680-90, as this Samuel Kemp, the third of the name in the colony, was married at Andover, Mass. on -February 12, 1713, to Sarah Lacey, of that place. This S·arah Lacey was born at Andover on October 1, 1G8G. She wa~ the daughter of Lawrence Lacey and Mary Foster, who were married at An dover, August 5, 1673. Her father, Lawrence Lacey, was of Norman origin. According to "American Ancestry" the Laceys migrated from Normandy to England at the time of. or just prior to, the Commonwealth. Later they passed over to the North or Ireland, and from there they came to New England. Lawrence Lacey took the oath of allegiance at Andover, February 11, 1678. His wife, Mary Foster, was born at Andover July 9, 1652. She was the daughter of Andrew and Ann Foster. Hea father, Andre\\, was bon1 in England in 1579, and died at Andover in 1685, at t;iie remarkable agt, unless the records are in error, of 106 years. * The Lacey family, with whicn the Kem,ps became allied by this mar riage of Samuel Kemp 3d and Sarah Lacey, were especially unfortunate ' during the witchcraft frenzy of 1692. Lawrence Lace:y•s foreign origin ma:r. in some degree, have been responsible for this. He, -Sa vage·s "Genealo· *Andrew Fo--tt'r. the first.as it seems.of many of this namt> in Ando,·er.dled 168.5.aged to6~or thereabouts His \\111 lea,·es to his •·deare and loving wife. Aun Foster. the use & sole lthert:·r of li\'1ng ln that end of my house I now Un~ in:• This aged woman ended her days in Salem jall.undercondemnatiou for witehcraft. Abraham Foster.son of the abo,•e. had e"tates in the southwest part of the town. and either from him or bis father, Foster's Pond proba.bh· r~~eh·ed its name. A deed dated 17':21, signed Abratia.111 Fostor• .JunJ.or con ,·eys land on "the southerly ~ide of Foster~::: Pond. from tht- ••great Rltlg and ~e<.ilng me-dow sud lo Sod line to a litt~I Bro,,k thttt R,11H into fo,ostt'r 1,.101Hl.""-Ba.llt>,·'s ·•Hi~torl- '"nl Skt>t<•ht-~ of .\.ndoYt>r:· ' )Iii gical Dictionary of the Early Settlers of New England" state~. ··was "the first person she aftlict' as poor Elizabeth Johnson was driven to confess m this sad delusion:· In the height of the strange craze, Lawrence's mother in-law, Ann Foster, his wife, Mary, and hi-s daughter, Mary, were all either persuaded or forced to confess that they had been led into the practice or witchcraft. Ann Foster, Bailey's ·•Historical Sketches of Andover" states. ended her days in the Salem jail under condemnation of death for witch craft. t Mary (Foster) Lacey, her daughter and Lawrence's wife, was also found guilty and condemned, but t•he frenzy abated in time to save her ana she was among those released from custody when re3.son re-asserted its sway. She died at Andover. June 18, 1707. The children of SAMUEL AN-D SARAH (LACEY) KEMP. all born at Groton, were: (1) Sarah, born October 9, 1713. (2) Samuel 4th. born April 1:1. 171G; married Elizabeth Gibson Febru ary 2. 1736-37. ( 3) William, born April 20., 1718; married Patience Nutting November 11, 1740. ( 4, Susanna, born May 14, 1720; married William Parker. March 30, 173G. Their son, '\Villiam Parker, served under Captains Lawrence and Wes son in the movement against Canada in 1758. (5) David, born September :10, 1722; married Hannah Sawtell. Janu ary 5. 17 43-44. (6) Esther. born October 9, 1725; married Zachariah Wilthe. or Wltbe. July 21, 17 4:8. Her husband served in the expedition against Crown Polnt in Capt. Reed's Company in 1755. (7) Ebenezer Kemp, born April 1729; married Mary • Bradstreet, at Westford, Mass., October 31, 1749. Samuel Kemp 4th, sometimes referred to as 3d, was among those who enlisted in Capt. William Lawrence·s Company, in 1746, in King George's War, when an attack on Boston was threatened by the French fleet under tln former times no sect or religion and no <·Jass of Jife htt IM the Duke d' An ville. He also served in 17 48. under Capt. Thomas Tarbell, on scouting service against the Indians. He had nine children. Joseph, his first son, born at Groton January 15, 1737, is found serving under Capt. Thomas Lawrence and Capt. Ephraim Wesson, in Col. Ebenezer Nichol's Regiment, in the movement in 1758 for the reduction of Canada. Samuel Kemp 5th, his second son, born August 1, 1743. married ~lizabeth Kezer, of Shirley, Mass., June 6, 1770, and served in Captain Farwell's Co., Col onel Prescott's Regiment, in 1775, captain Haskell's Co., Colonel Prescott's Regiment, and Captain Fitch's Co., Colonel Brewer's Regiment, ia 1776-77. Jonas Kemp, third son of Samuel Kemp 4th, born July 27, 1760, served In Captain Thomas Hovey's Co., Colonel Nathan Tyler's Regiment, in 1779. Ebenezer Kemp, the seventh and last child born to Samuel and Sarah . (Lacey) Kemp, and brother of Samuel 4th, was a ··bayonet man" in the movement against Nova Scotia, in the French and Indian War, In 1755. serving in Captain James Prescott·s Co., under Lieutenant Colonel John Winslow. On October 31. 1749, as stated, he married Mary Bradstreet, daughter of Lieutenant Dudley and Abigail (Lakin) Brad;:;rreat, at West .ford, Mass. (See Bradstreet and Lakin articles.) The children of EBENIEZER A·ND MA:RY • (BRADSTREET') KEMP, according to Butler's "History of Groton,·· were as followi:,. (l) Ebenezer, Jr., born January 11, 1750; married Relief Phillips Aug ust 31, 1773; died at Gorham. Maine, in 1833. (2) Abigail, born July 28, 1751; married to David Smirh, of Shrewsbury, April 23. 1781. (3) William, born September Z, 1753. ( 4) Dudley Bradstreet, born April 21, 1754. (5) Molly, born November 23, 1756; married to Ne:1emia.b GoulJ, March 9, 1773. He was the son of Nehemiah and Esther ·oould, and was born at Groton, January 13, 1752. His father was slain by the Indians in the fight at the Half Way Brook, between Crown Point and Fort Edward, in 1758. (6) Sin1eon, born September 28, 1758; married Tryphe!1h Parker, May 6, 1784. (7) Lydia, born July 4. 17GO; married to Joseph \Vetherbee. November 4, 1784. ( 8) Hannah, born August 17, 1762 (baptized No,·em·ber G, 1 j(;3, accord ing to the church records); married to Joseph Sawtell, February 22, i i88; died December 21, 1814. For descendants see Sawtell article. (9) Oliver, born June 27, 1765; married Lydia Blood April 12. 1790: drowned in Lake Champlain in 1811. ltiH ·(10) Ann. baptized July 13, 1766. Among the first minute !nen to respond to the call at the breaking out of hostilities with the mother country in 1775 were Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., and several of his kinsmen. In Captain Henry Farwell's Company of minute men, in Colonel •William Prescott's Regiment, the 10th of the Con tinental Army, who marched from Groton on the eventful April 19, 1775, for Cambridge, were Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., Samuel Kemp, Jr., Ephraim Kemp and William Kemp. while in Captain David Sawtell's Company was David Kemp, Jr. Ebenezer Kemp. Jr., his cousin David Kemp, Jr., (son of David and Hannah (Sawtell) Kemp), and perhaps others of the family from Groton, fought at Bunker Hill, on June 17, 1775, and David was reported among the slain by Captain Joshua Parker, in whose company he appears to have been serving on that day. He had not been killed, though. but taken pris oner by the British, and a later report included him as among those dying tn the Jall ln Boston, where the Amertcan prisoners were conflned. As a matter of fact, he was carried to Hallfax. With thirteen others he escaped from that plaee, but was recaptured, and held prisoner until June~ 1776. By a singular error his name appears on the Bunker Hill tabJ.ets as one of those slain on that battle field. In November, 1775, EJbenezer Kemp. Jr., is found still in Captain Far well's Company, Colonel Prescott's Regiment. at Sewell's Point. He con, tinued in the patriot service during 1776 and 1777, if not during later years. It is known that he was in camp at Valley Forge during the fearful winter of 1777-78, and while there was detailed to assist in the making of shoes for his barefoot comrades, whose blood stained the snows of the Pennsyl vania hills. His brother, William, served in Captain Warren's Company, Colonel Brook's Regiment, in 1776, and enlisted in 1777 for three years ser vice in Captain Lakin's Company, Colonel John Robinson's Regiment.; hls brother, Dudley, served in Captain Foster's Company of Artillery, Colonel Gridley's Regiment, and hls brother, Simeon, also served in the Massachu setts Continental Troops in 1779-80. Only one out of the five sons of Eben• ezer and Mary (Bradstreet) Kemp failed to bear arms in the patriot cause, and he was Oliver, who was only ten years old when the Revolution began. Among others of their cousins who fought in the American armr at thl~ time were Hezekiah, Phineas, Abel, Jonas, Asa and Calvin Kemp. Four teen in all from the Kemp family are known to have served in the Conti nental army. In the French and Indian War, in addition to Ebenzer, Sr., and Joseph Kemp, there were serving from Groton Jabez, John, Oliver, / . .:i\:::::·.-·::: 1 . '\"1:J\}{itlll~t i~:ylXf!tlk}\W§P::t1'1:;j·'{;J,. ;'i/ •ilk ------'---~- Powder /lorn carried by Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., In the Revolutlon•ry War; now propert,,ol Mr. Charles e. Kemp, East Otlstleld, Me. Hezekiah and Phineas Kemp. So much inclined appear the Kemps to have been to resort to arms t·hat in the Shay Rebellion, in 1787, Joel, Joseph, Asa, E:phraim and Oliver Kemp are found in the list of those who resisted what they considered unjust taxes and laws and were subsequently par doned for their participation in the uprising. In Green's .. Groton Historical Series," Vol. 4, pages 386-88. appears the following: "Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., the eldest child of his father's family, born on January 11, 1750, was married on August 31, 1773, to Relief Phillips, of Groton, and they had seven children. In the year 1782 he and his wife re moved to Otisfield, Maine, with two children, who had been born at Groton. A deed for land given July 10, 1784, by Jonas Prescott, of Groton, is still in existence which conveyed to him at his new home• a lot of a hundred acres. After living at Otisfield for a few years, Mr. Kemp removed to Gorham, but not to the farm where he spent ·his last days, which was bought in 1794, the deed bearing date three years later. This farm has re mained ,continuously .in ,possession of the famrily. On •this homestead Mary Bradstreet Kem,p passed the declining years of her life, and was buried in t:he neigh'bor·ing cemetery. Six generations of Kem.ps ha~e lived on this spot, covering a period of 110 years. ··Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., was a mem:ber of Captain Henry Farwell's Com pany of ·minute men that ,marched to Cambridge from Groton on the mem orable nineteenth of April; an1i under a later enlistment he belonged to the same company and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, where he was severely 'injured. The tradition in the family is that he -had his b~~ dislocated when he was taken prisoner by Vhe British; ·but immediiate••• afterward he managed to escape, holbbling otI, it is said, by the aid of Ge-:.> eral Warren ·s gun, which, l>eiJng better than his own, he picked up a.fter Warren fell. He was in ffll.e army in the year 1777, and his Jescendants have his ,powder horn bearing ·his initials and that date. This horn pre· viously had been carried by W.Uliam Lunnon, wbo made it February 1, 1776, according to his inscription, and cut upon it a plan _of Brookline Fort, where he was stationed during the siege of Boston. The canteen used by Mr. Kemp throughout the Revolution, and 'bearing on one side the initials E. K., can still be seen at the old homestead, which is now owned by Augustus F. Kem:p, his great-grandson. Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., was often heard to say that his family had 1bear steak for dinner every Sunday during his first years at Otisfield, which would seem to give him high rank among the ihun,ters and trappers of that early period. His descendants are now lti6 scattered through the towns of Gorham, Otisfield and Windham and other places in Maine, and a few have wandered to distant States. .. Mr. Kemp died in 1833, aged 83 years, and his wile died 1before 1800 .. The old Kemp homestead, was built as early as 1790~ near Gorham, Maine, and has been continuously occupied by the descendants of Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., since his purchase of 1t in 1794. \Vben the old home was first occupied by hi-m Indians and wild beast:s prowled about its doors; Maine was but a district, sparsely inhaibiited, and ,for many years aner bear and other game were killed nea-r by. 'l'he old home bids fair to stand for an other century or more, an object of interest to the descendants of the hardy pioneers of Maine'.s early days. The chlld.ren of EBEN·E·ZER and RELIEF (PHILLIPS) KEMP were a~ follows: (1) Elijah, 1born at Groton, probably in October or Nov·ember, 1777; died at Gorham, Maine, October 7, 1846. (2) Sttbmit, ·born at Groton; publishment of marriage to Josiah Clark, of Gorham, Maine, on September 30, 1797. (3) Relief, born prabably at Otisfield, Maine; married to John Brown, of Gray, Maine, on May 3, 1807. { 4) Mary, born proba:bly at Otisfield; married to Levi Kn.ight, of \Vina ham, Maine. (5) Ebenezer, 3d, born at Gorham, March 14, 1785; married to Eunice Allen, of Windham, and supposed to have been lost in a storm on the Great Lakes. (6) David, born ·brabably at Gorham, in 1793; man-ied Anna Humphrey, of Gray, on October 21, 1819; died July 5, 1853. (7) .Jonathan, ·born at Gorham; ir.arried Martha Humphrey, siste:- or his brother's wife, on May 26. 1825; died January 7, 1857. DESCENDANTS OF JOHN AND RELIEF (KEMP) BROWN, who were married May a, 1807: (1) Elijah Brown, born January 7. 1810; marr:ett Harriet N. Hawkes, of Wind:ham, Maine, May 3. urn5. He dietl Novew. ber 8, 1852; his widow l4'ebruary 19, 1875. Children: (a) Elmira H. Brown, born January 30, 1836; mar ried Edmund Green of Gorham. Maine, August ia, 1857. Children: George W. Green, born September 2G. 1859, de ceased; Wi'lliam E. Green. ·born May 2:-1, lSGl, mar:·ied; Harriet E. Green, born May 6, 1864, married Daniel Berry, of Cornish, iM'aine, October 24, 1900; James H. Green, ·born April 26, 1870, unmarrieJ 1905. tb) An,na Maria Brown, born January 10, 1838; mar· ried Frank Jrish, November 19, 1859. Children: (1) l4"'red M. lrtsh, born June 8, 1860; -married Lizzie E. Web'b January, 1887; no issue. (2) l (1) Oharles J. Bragdon, •born February 8, 1870; married Maud Hildreth Dudley, of Gard.iner, Maine, .January 24, 1900. Child: 'Henry Edward Bragdon, born Decem'ber 7, 1900. (2) Annie E. Bragdon, born April 26, 1872. (3) Ida Alice Bragdon. born Mareh 29, 1879; mar ried George M. Allen, of Windham, Maine, December 7, 1904. (f) Frank H. Brown, born .kpril 22, 1849; married El len A. Anderson December 26, 1870. Child: Flora Eva Brown, ·born 14... ebruary 8, 1872. (g) George Warren Brown, born August 11, 1851; mar ried Phoebe Knight 1874. Children: Roy, Rogers, Edit.ll. Florence and Ralph Brown. ( 2) Relief Brown, died in childhood, at Raymond, Maine. (3) John Brown, Jr., born lt,ebruary 26, 1813; married -Mlrtam Goold, or Windham, Maine, Decem·ber 6, 1849, at Portland, Maine; died April 24, 1890. Children (a) Lizzie Gool~ Brown, born Windham, Me , Novem ber 15,. 1850; married Ctlarles E. Jordan, of Portland, Me., December 2, 1871. Children: Alfred Filmore Jordan, born November 22, 1872, -d:led July 31, 1875; Alfred Huston Jor dan, born ,November 7, 18,6; married Pearl Watson, of Portland, June 5, 1901; died April 2, 1904, without Issue. {lb) Fred James Brown, :born Windham, Me.,. May 19, 1852; married Marcia E. Sim,pson, of Portland, Me., July 31, 1884; no ;ssue. (c) Annie M11liktn Brown, 1born Windham, Me., De cember 20,. 1853; married George H. Jordan, of Portland, Me., July 21. 1873. Children: tl) lfred Brown Jordan, born A:pril 21,. 1874; ma.r ried Helen Freeman Moses, of PorLland, Me., July 3, 1901. Ohild: Leroy .Moses Jordan, -born December 10, 1902. (2) Florence Miriam Jordan, born Nov. 30, 1875; married William Henry Morton, of Portland, Me., Aug ust 22, 1900. Children: Henry Jordan Morton, born December 12, 1901; Edwin Dwight Morton, born Octo ber 4. 1903. l 3) Carl Ashton Jordan, born May 18, 1884; un marr1ea. DESCENDANTS OF EBENEZER (3D) AND EUNlCE (ALLEN) KEMP, who were married June 6, 1808. ( 1) Mary A. Kemp, born Novem•ber 7, 1808; married Eben• ezer Johnson at Portland, Me., in 1837; died at Portland. Sep tember 29, 1877. Children: Eunice and Ellen. died young. (2) Hannah Kemp, born March 15, 1810; married Isaac Kil- born. Children, six in number, all of whom died young, except Margaret Kilborn. born December 2, 1843; died February 11, 1872. (3) Andrew A. Kemp, born November 17, 1812: married Eliza A. Elwell, July 4, 1832; died October, 1833. Child: (a) Charles E. Kem,p, b->rn February 2, 1833; married Sarah Gilman; now living, 1905, at Livermore Falls, Me. (4) Relief Kemp, born January 4, 1814; marrled James Hol lingswortll; no issue. ( 5) Albigail Kemp, born January 3, 1817; married Stephen Lowell, at Falmouth; died OCtober 5, 1840, a.t Windham, Me. Children: (a) onarles H. LOweu, born A,pril 29, 1834, at Wind- ham; married Lizzie Prescott; living, 1905, in Portland, Me. (b) Al'bert Lowell, born at Windham, 1836; member Company A, First Maine Regiment Cavalry in Civil War; died October 23, 1863, in Windham. (6) John E. Kemp, born January 4, 1819; married Esther El· der, of Windham; died fatl of 1900. Children: (a) Etta J. Kemp, born Novem:ber 19, 1849; married George Harmon, August 20, 1871, at Wlindha.m; living, 1905. Child: Orlando C. Harmon, born December 25, 1886, at Wind:ham. ( b) John A. Kem·p, married Etta Black June 8, 1879; living, 1905. (7) Jeremiah H. Kemp, •born August 24, 1823; married Caro line Jones; died April 23, 1901, at ·Windham. Chtildren: (a) William W. Kemp, born December 25, 1846: mar ried Ada Elder June, 1867, at Portland, Me., living, 1905. Child: Allee L. Kemp, born May 4, 1868; married George S. McKenney, Novem·ber 25, 1896, at Portland, Me. ( b) Emma C. Kem,p, born April, 1849; married George 170 Tatro, of Portland, Me.; living, 1905. Child: Mabel Ta.tro, born April, 1870; married J. E. M. Bigelow, of Boston, Mass. (c) Junius Kemp, born January, 1851; died infant. (8) Ellen J. Kemp, born August 6, 1829; married Alden Lowell November, 1853; died July 9, 1869, at Windham, Maine. Child: (a) Clarence E. Lowell, born September 12, 1857; married Martha E. Libby July 3, 1880, at Windham, Me. (9) Samuel R. Kemp, born June 13, 1831; married Lucretia Allen June 1, 1857; died April 2, 1903, at Windham, Me. Chil dren: (a) Melvin W. Kemp, born February 8, 1858, at Wind ham, Me.; living, 1905; married Maria A. Brown May 8, 1887, at Raymond; s·he dled July 8, 1892. One son, Mel vin M. Kemp, born May 30, -1889. (b) Irving W. Kemp, born July 18, 1861, at Windham, Me.; living, 1905; married Lizzie J. Stevens April 14, 1897, at Westbrook, Me. She died April 22, 1905. (c) George H .. K-emp, born November 6, 1863; unmarried. (d) Alice J. Kemp, born April 29, 1868; living, 1905; married George J. Katon April 14, 1900. Daughter, Doris 0., ~om October 20. 1902. DEJ3CEN·DAm'S OF DAVID AND A1NNA (HUMPHREY) KEMP, who were married October 21. 1819. (1) Julia Ann Kemp, born iMarch 3, 1820; married Ephraim Holt, of Portland, Me., Decem-ber 27, 1835; died March 9, 1852. One son: (a) Ephraim E. Holt, living, 1905, ln Weir City, Kan sas; married; no children. (2) Willis Bradstreet Kemp, born January 23, 1822; married Elizabeth Prince Fellows, of Augusta, .Me., A,prll 15, 1849; died April 14, 1892; his widow died May 15, 1898. Children: (a) George Clinton Kemp, born December 27, 1849; married Ellen C. Peck, of Manchester, N. H., December !71 23, 1872. Children: Bertha Leona Kemp, born December 24, 1873; Frederick George Bradstreet Kem.P, born April 15, 1878; Phineas Arthur Kemp, born March 15, 1884. (b) Sarah Colburn Kemp, born August 19, 1851 un- married. (c) 1Willis 1Brad-street Kemp, born April 27, 1853; unmarried. (d) ~nna Humphrey Kemp, born August 16, 1855; married George William Clark, of Hiram, Me., November 13, 1883. No issue. (e) Augustus Fellows Kemp, born January 13, 1857; unmarried. (f) Lucy Elizabeth Kem·p, born April 6, 1859; married Benjamin Franklin Irish, of Gorham, Me., February 12, 1881. Children: Clyde Harold Irish. born March 2. 1883: Percy Clifford Irish, born September 7, 1886; Ralph Willis Irish, born June 22, 1891; Leigh Fellows Irish, born June 5, 1901. (g) Jessie Benton Kemp, born September 11, 1862; unmarried. (h) Eda Marion Kemp, born July 8, 1865; unmarried. All the children of David and Anna (Humphrey) Kemp were born at Gorham., Maine. (3) Israel Humphrey Kemp, born January 20, 1824; married A-manda Frank, of Gray, Me.-, Novem'ber 20, 1853; died March 2, 1902; his wife died July, 1858. Child: Lena Kemp, born Febru ary 25, 1856; married Charles E. Babb, of Gorham, Me., October, 1880. ( 4) Sarah Maria Kemp, born January 11, 1826; married Robert Dodge, of Londonderry, N. H., November 29, 1846; died in Wisconsin, July 13, 1860. Chil'1ren: (a) Lizzie Adelia Dodge, born at Porter, Me., April 7, 1848; married Edwin C. Newbury, November 10, 1870; residing, 1905, at .Mitchell. South Dakota. Children: (1) Carles Earle Newbury, married Jessie E. Fulford, of Ful ton, N. Y., May, 1900; (2) Gertrude G. Newbury, deceased. 172 (b) Celia Melissa Dodge, married Sereno Dodge, at Bloomington, Ill., January 20, 1873; residing, 1905, at Sol diers Grove, Wisconsin. Children: (1) Winnifred May Dodge, born Oetober 13, 1873; married W·m. R. Munroe, at Cadott, June 27, 1897; (2) Winfield M. Dodge, born Oc tober 28, 1875; married Minnie Wacker, September 11, 1902; (3) Charles Dodge, born April 1, 1878; died Septem ber 16, 1878; (4) Nellie Roberta Dodge, bom February 28, 1880; married L. S. Smith May 19, 1903 ; ( 5) Alice Will tnina Dodge, born November 28, 1883. ( c) Clinton M. Dodge, married Loretta Claypoole, Sep tember 24, 1873; residing, 1905, at Benton, Kansas. Chil dren: (1) George Clinton Dodge, born August 21, 1874; (2) William Robert Dodge, born April 5, 1877; married Amelia Rynaker -March, 1901. Child: Frederick Clinton Dodge, born January 2. 1904; residing, 1905, Pueblo, Col.; (3) Charlotte Dodge, born June 27, 1880; married William Maxwell June 25, 1899. Chlld: Mildred F. Maxwell, born September 30, 1900; ( 4) Francis Earle Dodge, born Feb ruary 10, 1885; (5} Albert Ephraim Dodge, born January 24. 1888. (d) Anna Roberta Dodge, born February 18, 1855; married Almarin Nottingham November 20, 1873; resid ing, 1905, La.wrence, Kansas. Children: (1) Almarln Not tlng~am, -born June 13, 1875; died July 14, 1876; (2) Rob ert Elsworth Nottingham, born September 23, 1876; died November 12, 1878; (3) Jonathan Earle Nottingham, born December 12, 1878; married Mary Ellen Lane, December 24, 1901. Children: Emma Roberta Nottingham, born January 20, 1903; Mary Ellen Nottingham, born June 5, 1904; (4) -Avon Roberg Nottingham, born May 5, 1882; (5) IrdeM Nottingham, born November 11, 1884; died March 30, 1885; ( 6) Daisy Adell Nottingham, born August 31, 1886; (7) Vesta Irene Nottingham, born January 26, 1889; (8) Harold Emmett -Nottingham, born October 7, 1892; (9) Sadie Alda Nottingham, ·born :May 30, 1896. ( e) Sarah French Dodge, born ,September 18, 1857, at Liberty Prairie, Wis.; married Hortensius Nelson Drake, at Benton, Kan., November 17, 1874; residing, 1905, at ITd Wautoma, Wis. Children: (1) Mertie May Drake. born at Benton, Kan., Decem·ber 19, 1875; married Charles Earl Walters, of Chicago, April 10, 1902; residing, 1905, Mil waukee, Wis.; (2) Vesta Estelle Drake, born at Benton, Kan., February 23, 1878; married Emery A. Weeks, of Wautoma, Wis., -September 25, 1900. (5) George Clinton Kemp, born June 11, 1828; died October 19, 1846. (6) Lucius Sidney Kemp, rbom July 13, 1831; married Susa.n Klinefelter, of Dane county, Wisconsin, June 25, 1854; veterinary surgeon, 8th IlMnois cavalry, 1861-64; living at Crescent, Okla homa, and celebrated golden anniversary of wedding June 25, 1904. Children: (a) Charles F. Kemp, born March 16, 1856; married Louise Soehren, of Davenport, Iowa, on March 21, 1883. Children: Lelah May Kemp, born March 24, 1884, at Rein• beck, Iowa; married Emmett Palmer Barton, September 29, 1902, at Mulhall, Okla.; Leona Susan Kemp, born Oc tober 4, 1885, at Reinbeck, Iowa; Hallie Byrd Kemp, bom Septemrber 29, 1887, at Reinbeck; Grace Kemp, born Feb ruary 27, 1890, at Reinbeck; Russell Sidney Kemp, born February 21, 1892, at Mulhall, Okla.; Arthur Fremont Kemp, born November 2, 1895, at Mulhall; Irene Kemp, born De cebzer 11. 1903. at 'Mulhall. (b) Fred C. Kemp, born February 1, 1859; married Lizzie Mae 'Morris, of. Ridgway, Ouray county, Col., De cember 31, 1895. Cblid: Myrl Kemp, born at Ridgway, Col., September 7, 1897. ( c) 'Ethel S. Kemp, born March 7, 1862; married Allen David Cramer, of Reinbeck, Iowa, October 28, 1884. Chil dren: Ralph Harold Cramer, born November 5, 1885, at Rein·beck, Iowa; Austa D. Cramer, born June 26, 1890, at Reinbeck; -Melba Maud Cramer, born October 19, 1896, at Reinbeck. ( d) Allee M. Kemp, born February 20, 1865; married Charles E. ·Minor, of M-ason City, Ill., November 13, 1890. Child: IPercy Aldridge Minor, ;born June 14, 1893, at Mul hall, Okla. 174 ( e) Daisy B. Kemp, born October 17, 1867 ; married WHliam T. Lewis, of Dallas, Texas, February 14, 1892. Child: Elijah T. Lewis, born November 21, 1892, at Mul• hall, Okla. (f) Susie M. Kemp, born February 1, 1870; married Howard A. Holt, of Winfield, Kansas, December 12, 1888. Children: Alice Mabel Holt, born July 29, 1890, at Arkan sas City, Kan.; •Morris Kemp Holt, born October 28, 1893, at Arkansas City, Kan.; Agnes Susan Holt, born May 21, 1896, at Purcell, Indian Territory; Lelah May Holt, born October 11, 1899, at Purcell, I. T.; Howard Allen Holt, born May 8, 1902, at Purcell, I. T. (g) Mary F. Kemp, born May 3. 1872; married Wal ter H. 1Matthews, of Winslow, Me., August 22, 1892. Chil dren: ·Franklin Dunlbar Matthews, born October 27, 1893, at Mulhall, Okla.; Ruth Matthews, born October 24, 1896, at Mulhall; Roy Clifton Matthews, born February 10, 1899, at Mulhall. (•h) Grace I. Kemp, born September 25, 1874; married Charles W. Blakeslee, of Sturgis, Michigan, November 13, 1890. Children: Opal Francis Blakeslee, born December 12, 1892, at Malta, Col.; Helen Marte Blakeslee, born De cember 23, 1894, at Standard, Okla.; Elsie Irene Blakes lee, born September 26, 1898, at Standard, Okla.; Lawrence Lee Blakeslee, born January 16, 1901, at Newett, Colorado. - (i) Lucius S. Kem,p, Jr., born September 19, 1877; married Elva B. McPeek, of Standard, Okla., December 31, 1902. Ohild: William Wayne Kemp, born January 31, 1905, Standard, Okla. Dm:JOENDAN·'ftS OF JONATHAN A·ND MARTHA (HUM·PHREY) KE>MP, who were married May 267 1825. (1) Martha Ann Kem·p, born September 2, 1826; died No vember 25. 1851. (2) Caroline Colendo Kemp, born August 23, 1828; died June 30. 1848. (3) Charles Emery Kemp, born August 15, 1830; married 175 Sibyl Jane Wardwell July 19, 1856. Children: (a) z. WUlis Kemp, born Otisfield, Me., April 12. 1857; married Lillian Mary Boyn-ton, December 24, 1885, at Nor way, Me. Children: Ida Boynton Kemp, born November 28, 1886, at Fairhaven, Mass.; Charles Willis Kemp, born April 10, 1888, at Fairhaven, ·Mass.; Marion Tabor Kemp, born March 31, 1900, at Marion, Mass.; Sybil Marguerite Kemp, born September 26, 1901, at Marion, Mass.; Alice Bowdoin Kemp, born January 2, 1897, at Springfield, Mass.; Ralph Bradstreet Kem-p, born August 13, 1899, at Springfield, .Mass.; Ruth Hancock Kemp, born SeI)tem·ber 5, 1902, at Kingston. N. H. (b) •Martha Humphrey Kemp, born October 31, 1858; died October 10. 1872. (c) Maurice Clinton Kemp, born February 17, 1861; married Hannah Francis Corson ·May 14. 1896; Child: Lena Marie Kemp, born March 6, 1899. (d) Oscar Emery Kemp, =born January 26, 18«i5; mar ried •Nancy M. Scott January 5, 1903. Child: Ruth Marie Kem·p, born December. 1903. (e), Lewis Lyman Kemp, born A1pril 2, 1870; married Allee M. Shorey Oetober 10, 1900. Children: Chilton La tham Kemp, born July 24, 1901; Marjorie Allee Kemp, born A;prll 2. 1903. (f) Bertron Charles Kemp, born June 11, 1872; mar ried Margaret E. Fraser, June 11, 1900. (g) Walter Emery- Kemp, born August 16, 1874, mar ried Minnie B. Winship September 5, 1899, who ( 4) Albert Newell Kemp, born August 2, 1832; married Sa rah E. Wardwell July l 1Z, 1857, at Otisfield, l}fe.; died January 17, 1883. His widow died April 13, 1905 Children: (a) Ida ·M'elvina Kemp, born March 13, 1858; died Ju ly 17. 1882. (b) Jonathan Kemp, born January 24, 1860; married Aldora E. Winship December 25, 1890, who died April, 176 1904. Children: Alberta Winship Kemp, born August 22, 1894; Minnie Belle Kemp, born July 9, 1897. (c) Sidney Herman Kemp, born January 28, 1862; died August 26, 1865. (d) Betsey Kemp, born April 16, 1864; unmarried. (e) Esther IDliza-beth Kemp, born May 10, 1866; died March 31. 1869. (f) Sidney Herman Kemp, born November 11, 1872; unmarried. (g) Annette Wardwell Kemp, born September 30, 1874; married Fred Leroy Pottle, of Lovell, Me., May 10, 1894. Children: John Kemp Pottle, born July 5,, 1895; Fred .Albert Pottle, born August 3, 1897; Moulton A. Pot tle, born November 28, 1899; Reginald S. Pottle, bom June 29, 1902; Nellie E. Pottle, ·born June 4, 1904. (h) Harry Emerson Kemp, born July 24, 1877; mar ried, at .Worcester, Mass., M•arch 1, 1900, Blanche L. Leach. Child: Bernlce Lillian Kemp, born January 30, 1901. ------(5) Mary Jane Kemp, born March 6, 1843; died 1853. (8) Julia Elizabetb Kemp, born June 23, 1846; died July 19, 1871. 1'11 ITHE -7 u ?A WTELL FAMILY tu I AT GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS.* _JI (1) RICHARD SAWTELL, an early Engli.3h Puritan, l:>cated at Watei- town, Mass., prior to 1636; one of original proprie ors and firs~ se~i.lers or Groton, Mass., 1655; died Watertown, August 21, 1694. (2) ZACHkRlkH SAWTELL, son of Richard and Elizabeth Sawtell, one of the original -proprietors and first settlers of Groton, •Mass.; born Watertown, about 1641; died at Groton, 1701. (3) ~AOHIA.RI.AfH SrAWTIELL 2d, son of above, born at Groton, about 1670; died at Groton in 1716. (Inventory of eatate tiled at Probace Coun, September 13. 1716). . (4) ZAIOH1ARFAH -SAtWtTELL 3d, &0n of above, .born at Grot~'ii~ l.G~ Qe; - married Mercy ----; died at Groton, October 2, 1737. ( Wiil tiled Octo ber 27a 1737). 5) ~ ZACH,ARIAiH s·AWTELL 4bh, son of above; born at Groton, Nf>- a <.. /7/G ve r J8, 1899", died at Groton, November 5, 1752; married Abigail Biga- by, of Westford, Mass., September 11, 1733; served in Captain Willia;m Lawrence's Company in King George's War. (6) JOSEPH 1S.A!W'TtilI.J,, son of above, born at Groton, July 28, 1,38; served ln Captain Lawrence's and Captain Wesson's Compaaies, Colonel Nichols' Regiment, in movement against Canada, in 1758. (French and in dian War); married Lydia Jenkins, or Groton, M-ay 29~ 1760; died in March, 1822. (7) JOSENi SA1W'TELL, 2d., son of above, born at Groton, 1764; died Groton, March 21, 1842; married Hanna,h, Kemp, of Groton, Feb ruary 22, 1788; served in Continental Army, in Captain Hovey's and Cap tain Drury's Companies, in 1780-81, when sixt *n years of age. (8) MEHITABEL (HITTY), SAWTELL, daughter of above. born Gro ton, April 24, 1793; died Keene, N. H., May 4, 1850; married to John Gould Parker, of Lunenburg, Mass., at Surrey, N. H., September 18, 1814; only child by first marriage, Mary A. Thayer Parker, born Keene, May 12, 1815; married, second, Caleb Emerson March 28, 1819. ( See sk~tch of Emerson family). *References: Green's •·Groton Historical Series," ··Groton During the Etevolution ,. ••Groton During the Indian Wars''; Town and Church Records of Groton, Mass., etc. ' 178 (9) MARY A. THAYER PARKER, daughter of above, born at Keene, N. H., May 12, 1815; died Philadelphia, Pa., May 12, 1884; married to Henry Faunce, of F"'niladelphia, May 11, 1835. (10) MARY A. E. FAUNICE, daughter of above, born Philadelphia, Pa., August 5, 1839; died Philadelphia, June 28, 1875; married to Thomas Gam ble, of Philadelphia, April 30, 1857. (11) THOMAS GAlMBl.JE, Jr., born Richmond, Va., March 16, 186~; married Florence 0. Kilpatrick, Savannah, Ga., May 15, 1890. (For additional details see Dudley-Bradstreet, Gamble, Emerson, Gould and other genealogical statements.) Richard Sawtell,. an early English Puritan, was a proprietor of Watertown, Mass., in 1636-37; was one ot the first proprietors and original settlers of Groton, Mass., in 1655, and t-he town clerk for the first three years after its organization in 1662, 1663 and 1664. His children, accord ing to Bond, were probably all oom at Watertown, although only a :few of their births are recorded there. The name, as is quite common with family names in the old records, is found at first variously spelled, Sawtel, Sau tel, Sautle, Saretell and Sawtell, the last form, however, being the one generally used and adhered to by his Groton descendants. He had doubt less married in England prior to his departure for America. All that is known of his wife is that her name was Elizabeth. as shown in his will. After the burning of Groton by the Indians 1n the spring of 1676, In King Phil tp's War, Richard Sawtell returned to Watertown, where he died August 21, 1694. He had doubtless resumed his residence at Groton. though, i:f only for a few years prior to this, as his name appears among the heads of families living in the town in 1680, soon after its re-settle ment. As an original proprietor he had a twenty-acre right at G-roton, his son, Jonathan, who died July 6, 1690, a five acre right, and his son Zecha riah a ten acre right. * In Richard Sawtell's will, dated M1f 16, 1692, on *Massachusetts life was altogether in towns, and the same system perYaded all tht rest of ~ew England. It grew out of the natural conditions and the necessity of protec tion from the Indians. The farms were small, and the farmers could easily live in a vil lage and go out from it to till their flelds. One of the laws forbade any one to live more than a mile from the meeting-house, and the reason for this law was probably partly re ligious and partlv military. For the same reason. large tracts of •wild land were at ftrst se1doin sold to individuals. A company would buy a tract, establish a village and town ship, and portion out the land Every man had his town lot and his farm lot,with certain rights in the common. .Massachusetts developed and spread herself into the wilderness hv means of these village communities. Each town was an instance of pure democracy, and the system increased the activity of mind and the united feeling of the people. The legislature of the province was composed of representatives of tne~e towns. In the early days. esi:,ecially in the country districts, the minister often had his musket by him in the pulplt,the congregation had their weapons in the pew",aud armed sentinels watch Ad outside -HMen, Won1en, and Manners in Colonial Times." 179 file, with others of the family, at the Probate Registry for Middlesex coun ty at East Cambridge, Mass., he mentions, as stated, his wife, EUzabeth, who died October 18, 1694, and his nine children, only three of whom, Oba diah, Jonathan and Zachariah, estaiblished their homes at Groton and reared their families there. His son, Zachariah, who was born at Watertown, Mass., about the year 1644, died intestate in 1701, and on August 18, 1701, Josiah Parker, of Cam bridge, was appointed adminlstrator of the estate. This Zachariah ·s lands at Groton were made a matter of record by John Morse on November 1~. 1670., as follows: "The Lands of Zachery Sawtell: '"His Uplands. His house-lot, ·with the additions, fifty acres, more or less., bounded south with the lands of Jonathan Crispe, partly west with the lands of Joseph Morsse, and on all other poynts with the towne's hie way and common. "1. His Medows. In Rock M-edow,. foure acres, more or less, bounded south with the medow of Nathaniell Lawrance, north with John Barron, east and west the towne's 11plands. "2. In •Halfe Moon Medow, two acre and -a halfe, more or lesse, bound ed westerly with the medow of Enosh Lawrance, easterly with the hyeway that goe over to the iland, southerly by the iland, and northerly by the towne's uplands. "3. Near the hawtrees, two acres., more or less, bounded round with the swamp and town uplands. "4. 1In ·Pretty Medow, two acres and a halfe, more or lesse, bounded ea.at by the medow of Jonathan Morsse, and on all other poynts by the towne's uplands. "Revised, compared and confirmed by the Sellect men, accordtng to the order of the towne.'' Zachariah Sawtell, 2d, a son of this Zachariah, and Anna, his wife. died in 1716, ills<> intestate, and on November 21, 1716, his son, Zachariah Sawtell 3d., was appointed ad·ministrator of the estate. An inventory of the estate was taken by Jonathan Lawrence, Nathaniel Woods and Thomas Tarbell, on September 13, 1716, and filed in the Registry of Probate, show ing his house lot, valued at 20 pounds, a piece of meadow at "Pritey meadow," the No. 4 item of his father's estatea valued at 3 pounds, and another piece of meadow at a place called .. Sawtell's Paches/' valued at 2 pouncts, 10 shillings. Zachariah Sawtell 3d, son of this Zachariah, died October 2, 1737, and his will was filed October 27, 1737, his son Zachariah ( 4th), being appointed executor on March 14~ 1738. The will of Zachariah 3d, contains many items that to-day appear unique and amusing as well as interesting. The follow Ing is an official copy furnished by Mr. W. E. Rogers. the Register for Mid dlesex county (1905}: '"In the name of God Amen: The Fourteenth day of march Anno que Domini: 1731-32: I Zachariah Sawtell of groton in the County of middle sex in rhe province of the massachusetts bay in New england, yeoman, being weak in •body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God: therefore calling un.to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it i~ appointed for all men to dy do make & ordain this my Last will & testament that is to say principally & first of all I give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of god that gave it & my body I Recommend to the earth to be buried in decent christian Buriall at the descretion of my executor: nothing doubting but that at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of god: & as touching su-0h worldly estate wherewith lt hath pleased god to ;bless me tn this life, I give demise & Disoose of the Same in the following manner & torm: - "Imprimis I give & bequeath to my well beloved wife mercy Sawtell the best bed & the furniture belonging to it also I give unto my wife after my Debts are paid the one half of my movable estate within doors & with out doors (except the Cyder cask) to be hers & at her dispose as she shall see cause: Also I give to my wife during the time she shall continue my wlddow one fire Room & as much cellar room as she need.eth: Also I order my executor to pay to my wife out of my estate yearly & e~"ery ye'tr Dur Ing her remaining my widdow: Eight bushell of Indian corn two ·b11shell of rye two bushell of malt one hundred pound of good pork one Bg,rrell of Cyder Six bush ell of winter apples: likewise I order my Executor to keep and maintain for my wife during sd tearm one cow -& two sheep winter & Summer as his own: also I give my wife the Liberty of my orchard to get yearly what •Sumer fruit she wanteth for her own use: Als0 I order & Oblige my Executor to constantly find my wife convenient fire wood during sd tearm of her remaining ,my widdow: also to find for my wife during sd tearm half a bushell of salt yearly and in sickness, doctors, nurse_, and other things as need shall require. "Item: I give & bequeath to my Daughters Mary Bl'lncharrl an.rl Su sannah Gilson or their heirs twenty pounds in passible mony, viz.: ten pounds apeice to be paid by my executor. within two years after my De cease: !Kl •·rtem: I give & bequeath to my Daughters Sarah & Anna & Elizabeth: ten pounds apeice in passtble money to be paid by my executor within three years after my Decease, & as for my Sons David & Daniell Sawtell I be stow nothing on them in this my Last will and testament Because I already (have) given them by deed what l designed them for their parts &: por tions out of my estate therefore I do hereby- debarr them or theirs for ever coming for any further part :hereof. '"Item: I give & Bequeath to my grandson Zachariah Gilson Five pounds passible money to be paid by my Executor when he comes to the age of twenty-one years: ··1tem: I give & bequeath to my Son Zachiariah Sawtell whom I like wise constitute & Ordain my sole executor to this my Last will & testament (he or his heirs executors Administs Doing performing paying & fulfilling all the forementioned Dutys & ,bequeaths) my homestlll houseings or chards all my Lands & moveables not heretofore Disposed of by deed nor given before In this Instrument by him freely to be possessed & injoyed: Ra.ttiefieing & confirming this & no other to be my Last Will & Testament: In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand & seall the day above written:'' The will was signed in the presence of "Eleazer Nutting, S'amll Tarbell and Joseph Jewett" as witnesses and letters of administration were granted to the son Zaehariah on November 29, 1737. This Zachariah Sawtell, 4th, son of Zachariadl and •Mercy Sawtell, was born at Groton on 'Novem·ber 18, 1699, and died at Groton November 5, 1752. On September 11, 1733, he was married to Abigail Bigsby, of Westford, Mass., at that place by Rev. WU lard Hall. In King George's War he appears among the soldiers enlisted at Groton for a short service, being in Captain William Lawrence's Company. His son, Joseph Sawtell 1st, was ·born at Groton on July 28, 1738. Zach ariah Sawtell 4:th died intestate and on May 4, 1753, his widow, .A!bigail, was appointed administrator of his estate. On January 22, 1756, the widow mar ried Joshua Nevers, of Groton. Prior to this, though, on September 6, 1754, Samuel Tarbell (Tarbal) had been appointed guardian for her two sons ,by Zachariah Sawtell, Joseph and Asa, at their own election, they being upward of fourteen years of age. Another son, Zachariah, 1born De cem ber 1, 1734, may have also been living at this time. The bond of guar dianship on file at East Cambridge is as follows: "Know all Men ,by these Presents, That we, Samuel Tarbal Gentleman and Abel Lawrence yeoman both of Groton in the County of Middlesex In the province of the Massachusetts Bay in ·New England. •· Are holden and stand firmly Bound and Oibliged unto Samuel Danforth Esqr his Successors or Assigns, in t•he full Sum of Three hundred Pounds, in Lawful Money of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, to be paid unto the said Samuel Danforth, his successors or Assigns~ in the uuice of Judge or the Probate of Wills, and for Granting Letters of Administration on the Estates of Persons Deceased, in the said County of Middlesex, To the true .Paymt,nt wnereot, we JOlntly and severally bind ourselves, ana our sever~1 and respective Heirs, Executors and Administrators, firmly by these Pres ents; Sealed with our Seals. Dated the Sixth Day of September: Anno Domini 1754. "The Condition of this Obligation is such, That if the above bounded Samuel Tarbel Nominated and Allowed to be Guardian unto Joseph & Asa {at their own Election) both Minors upwards of fourteen years of age, Chil dren of Zachariah Sawtell late of Groton in the County of Middlesex De ceased, shall and do well and truly perform and discharge the Trust and Offi-ce of Guaraian unto the said Minors, and that in and by all Things ac cording to Law; and shall renJer a plain and true Aecom pt of his said Guardianship upon oath, and all and singular such Estate as shall come to his Hands and Possession by Virtue thereof, and of the Profits and Improve ments of the same, so far as the Guardianship or Joseph & Asa i at their own election), both Minors upwards of fourteen years of Age, Children ot Zachariah Sawtell, late of Groton in the Co&nty of Middlesex Deceased is, on this sixth day of September A. D. 1754 Granted (·by the Judge of Probate for said County) to Samuel Tarbal of Groton aforesaid Gentlem. who gives Bond in the Sum of three huntlred pouns with Abel Lawrence of said Groton yeoman, Surety for the t'aithful Discharge of said Trust. Attest Andw: Bordman, Spel. Regr. Joseph Sawtell, becoming enthused with the military spirit so pre,·a lent at that time, and appreciating the needs of the colony for soldiers at such a critical hour, "by consent of his guardian Saml. Tarbell" as the of ficial military records show it, enlisted and served in a company of foot under Capt. Thomas Lawrence, from March 13 to July 30. 175S, and then under Capt. Ephraim Wesson to November 30, in the movement for the re duction of Canada, '"in a regl?D,ent raised in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, whereof Ebenezer Nichols, Esq., is Colonel." ( French and Indian War). On May 29, 1760, he was married to Lydia Jenkins, of Gro~on, at that place. On the Groton church records her name appears under date of October 4, 1761, among "Those that own the Covenant" Joseph Sawtell 1st died at Groton ·1n March, 1822, aged 84 years. The church record_ at Groton shows the following baptisms of the cbll- ,lren of JOSEPH AND LYDIA (JENKINS) SAWTELL: Zachariah, October 4, 1761. Joseph, June 17, 1764. Jesse, April 5, 1767. Lydia. February 28, 1773, married Robert Wilkinson, of West• ford. February 16, 1795. Lot, July 28, 1776. Lucy, January 11, 1778. Joseph Sawtell 2nd, their son, was born at Groton, itlay ~. 1764; (bap tized June, 17); and died there on March 21, 1842. He was married to Han nah Kemp, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (-Bradstreet) Kemp, and a lineal descendant of Governors Dudley and Bradstreet, at Groton, on February 22, 1788, by Rev. 'Daniel Chaplin. When he was sixteen years old he enlisted ln the Continental Army, serving in 1780-81 in Capt. Hovey's Company, Col. Tyler's Regiment, and Ca-pt. Drury's Company, Col. Turner's Regiment. of Massachusetts Troops. In 1840 he was one of the Revolutionary penaloaera of the United States. This Joseph Sawtell 2d is sometimes referred to in the local records as Joseph 3rd, to distinguish him from an older Joseph Sawtell, probably a kinsman, who appears from the Boston Evening Mer cantile Journal to have died at Groton in December, 1844, aged 93 years (born 1751). He was not apparently a native of Groton, but lived at tllat place while Joseph Sawtell and bis son were ,both alive. Joseph Sawtell 2nd was buried, as his ancestors had been since the early days of the colony, in the old ground at Groton. The official records of Groton, as furnished by. Mr. Appleton H. Torrey,, Town Clerk, (1905) show the births of the following children of Joseph and Hannah (Kemp) Sawtell, all bom at Groton: Aaron, born April 28. 1791; baptized June 12. Hitty ( Mehitabel}, born April 24, 1793; baptized May 5. (Mar ried John Gould Parker, of Lunenburg, Mass., at Surrey, N. H., September 18, 1814). Matilda, born March 11, 1795; baptized July 6. Hannah, born August 4, 1798; baptized September 23. Lucy, born November -, 1800; baptized April 12. John, born -September 4, 1803; baptized May, 27, 1804. (Mar ried Sarah Bennett, of cambridge, Mass., March 18P 1824). Hannah Kemp Sawtell, the wife of Joseph, died at Groton. December 21, 1814. IM-t Obadiah and Jonathan Sawtell, who- also lived at Groton with their fath er, the ordginal Richard Sawtell, left descendants. From Obadiah sprang the Sartwells, of Charleston, New Hampshire. Obadiah Sawtell, one of lhe first Obad-iah's descendants, was an early settler of that town, to which he removed about 17 40. ,He was taken prisoner 1by the Indians May 24, 17 46, and held captive until August 20, 1747, and finally met his death at their hands June 17, 1749, being shot down while ploughing in his field. On June 22, 1738, one hundred acres of land was granted to Josiah Sar tell, in consideration of his having been a ··soldier in the services of the Province for sundry years, and was in divers fights against the Indian ene my, wherein many of them were slain, and he himself was wounded in some of the engagements." In 171>9 David Sartwell, of Groton, petitioned for three pounds, the value of the gun lost by his son .A:bel, who "went forth with the expedition against Canada the last year, was in an engage ment with the enem.v and killed." In the Indian wars, among the names of soldiers from Groton are A·bel Sawtell, David Sawtell, David Sawtell, Jr., Ephraim Sawtell, Sergt. Heze,. kiah Saw-tell, Jonathan Sawtell, Joseph St1,wtell, Josiah ;Sawtell, Moses Saw tell, Nathaniel Sawtell, Obadiah Sa.wtel!, Richard Sawtell, Samuel Sawtell, Zachariah Sawtell, all descendants of the original Richard Sawtell, while in the Revolutionary troops from Groton appear the names of John Sartall, Lieut. Elna than Sartell, Capt. Josiah Sartell ( or Sawtell),. Michael Sartell, Sergt. Nathaniel Sartell (Sawtell), Samuel Sartell, Benjamin Sartel, Abel Sawtell, Benjamin Sawtell, Edward D. Sawtell, Ephraim Sawtell, Lieut. Hezekiah Sawtell, Capt. John Sawtell, Jonas Sawtell, Joseph Sawtell, Rich ard Sa wtell. THE EMERSON ARMS. ARMS-Per f~ss indented or and vert, on a bend eugra.iled azure, three hons passant or. CRESrr-A demi•lion rampant vert,bezantee.hold- 1ng In dexter paw a batt.le-axe. shaft gules, betlded or. I I EMERSON GENEALOGY.* I I I Arms and crest granted to Ralf" Emerson, of Foxton. county Palatine. of Durham, England, by Thomas Wall, Garter Principle King of Arms, Henry VIII., 26. Arms: Per fess indented or and vert, on a bend engralled azure. three lions passant or. Crest: A demi-lion rampant vert, bezantee, holding in dexter paw a battle-axe, shaft gules, headed or. These arms were authenticated by Charles H. Athiel, Richard Herald of Arms, CoUege of Arms,. London, June 28, 1897. 1. THOM.A.S EMIDRSON, born before 1540; resident of Great Dunmo•. Essex, England, seven miles from Bishop~s Stortford. Probably son ot Ralf of Foxton, who receiv~ above arms -in 1535. These arms appear on the grave stone of this Thomas Emerson's great-grandson, Nathaniel Emer son,t who was baptized at Bishop's Stortford, July 18, 1630, and was buried ln the Ipswich, Mass., cemetery in 1712, identifying, with other records. the family In America with Ralf Emerson, of Foxton, England. 2. ROBERT EMERSON, son of a·bove, baptized at St. lllchael·s Church, Btabop'a Stortford, 1561; buried at Bishop's Stortford. {Hants), January 8, 1620. 3. THOMAS EMERSON, son of above, born at Bishop's Stortford, July 26, 1684; married Ellz&beth Brewster, at Bishop's Stortford, July 1, 1611. (It has been surmised, but never proved, that she was the daughter of the famous Elder Brewster). t. ROBERT EMERSON, son ot Thomas and Elizabeth (Br~wster) Emer son, and brother of the Na.thanlel Emerson referred to above; baptized at Bishop's Stortford, May 24. 1612; died at Haverhill. Mass., June 25, 1694. ••Richardus fl.I Emerlcl,"from the writs of Parliament of the 18th century,is perhaps the earliest, and as tt were, embryonic form of the name In England at a time when mod ern surnames were in a process of formation. It was the son of Emery, a patronymic In troduced In England by Normans, according to Bardsley, from the continent~ where as Amerlc, Emerlc, Almerlc, .A.lmartc, Elmertc, it bad a wide and early use, and where in the Italian form of Amerigo It has given-a name to the new world. Emery's son becam, Em merlson~Emmerson, Emberson, Imerson, and most widely, Emerson.-··Emerson Fam ily," by JSenJamln Kendall Emerson. +Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famoua Amf!rfoan t>ssayist and ~t. wat. a d~sctmdant of tbta Nathaniel Emf!nion. E~non Orave• In the Marlboro, N. II. Ce meter}', An early Puritan, he removed to Massachusetts Bay Colony. and is found located at Rowley In 1655, removing thence to Haverhill, where he became a freema.n of the Colony April 29, 1668. Married 3d (previous marriages no issue).. at Rowley, Mass., November 4, 1658, Ann Grant, daughter of Thomas a.nd Jane Grant, who emigrated from England to Boston in 1638, and then removed to Rowley. Ann (Grant) Emerson was drowned July 28, 1718. 6. STEPHEN EMERSON, son of Robert and Ann (Grant) Emerson, bom at Haverhill, Mass., December 17, 1674; remoYed to Pennacook, now Concord. N. H .. in 1720; married Elizabeth Dust.on (or Durston)t, at Haver htn, December 27. 1698. She was the daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Emerson)* Duston, who were married at Haverhill. December 3, 1677, and waa born at that place May 7, 1680. Her father, Thomas Duston, a soldier of King Philip's War (1676L was the son- of Thomas Du~'"on, who emigrat ed from St. Colomb, Cornwall, in 1633. at the age of 30. Her mother, Han nah Emerson Duston, born at Haverhill, December, 23, 1657, was the famous heroine or tbe Haverblll massacre or 16,1. (See account rauowing). 6. STEPHEN EMERSON, son of Stephen and Elizabeth , DustonJ Emerson. born at Haverhill, February 23, 1701; married Hannah Marden, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Rande) Marden. who was born at Rye, N. H., in 1716. They were resident at Hampstead, N. H., which was cut otT trnm Haverhill, Mass .• ln 1741, and removed ,thence to Weare, N. H ... about 17G2. w her~ he died. 7. CALEB EMERSON, son of Stephen and Hannah (Marde:i) Emerson. born at Hampstead, N. H., about 1741 (See ·•History of Congregational Church of Hampstead, N.- H.,.. Bemis .. History of Marlboro. N. H., .. and "New Hamp- tTbis name at the preKent time ts written ,·arious ways. It was ortgtually written Durston, and was changed to J>uston about the time of the above menttoraed Thomas Dus ton. Thts ls shown, not- only by our to\\~n records, but by Duston's petition to the General court, in .June. 1697. In the heading of his petition, which Is not tn his own handwriting) t.he name ts written Durston, and it ts so written In the subsequent proceedings on tlie petition. But his signature to the petition is -•Du(r)stan,'.' (or perhaps .IJu(r)stnn). The let ter ••r" must have bef'\n interpolated :,ubsequent to his first signing the petition, and w~ think It most probable that it was done by Du~ton himself, so as to make his signature agree \\1th tLe name as given tn the heading of the petition. We have adopted Duston lu tlie work. because it ts so written. in a.lmoi;.t eve~· instanee. tn our Town Reeords.--Chase•s ••History of Haverhill, Ma~s.,, *Hanuah Emerson, who was married to Thomas Duston, was the daughter ofMi(>bael Emerson. who married Hannah Webster da.ughter of .John Webster, of Newbury, Mass .. tn 1657. Michael Emerson. according to the Memorials of thP Mauach usetts Society of the Cincinnati, settled at Haverhill In 1652. He was probably the grandson of Alexander Emerson, of ~erby, County of Lincoln, England, yeoman who died April 10, 1604. His wUl proved February 10, 1605, n1entions his sons, Michael, Robert, Thomas and John, all oi whom are found among the earliest settlers of Essex CounthY' Mass. No connection has ever been found between this Emerson family and that of T omas Emerson of Bishop's ~tortford,although two of their branches were united in the marriage of Ste__phen Emerson u.nd Eltza.ooth Duston. A"' with many other old New England families. the EmersoJUJ gave many to th~ Revolutionary cause. Of Capt-. N~hemtah ·Emerson, great grandson of Mich ael and Hannah ( Webster) Emerson, Washington said: '"He was a brave offleer, a good disciplinarian, and never lost his temper:• He restdoo on the old homeMtead at Ba\"erblll until ht~ dt"lt.th in 1882. shire Provincial Papers''). Married Abigail French, at Hampstead, Novem ber 3, 1763. Died at Marlboro, N. H., April 15, 1811. Served in Capt. Hez& ldah Hutchinson's Co., of Volunteers, and in Col. Welch's Regiment Conti nental Army. 1777-78. 8. CALEB• EMERSON, son of Caleb and Abigail (French) Emerson. born at Hampstead, N. H., January 14, 1784; served in Col. Benedict's Regt., of Volunteers, (N. Y.). 1812-13; married, 1st, Mary H. Farnsworth, at Marl boro, N. H., July 23, 1813, wbo died at Keene, N. H., September 13, 1818. (Children: George W. Emerson, born March 3, 1814, who married and left issue, and Charles French Emerson, born May 14, 1817, married 1st Henri etta Franklln, 2d Sarah A. Norton, February 20, 1852, and died at Oregon, Ill., October 6, 1891, leaving issue); 2d Mehitabel (Hitty)• Sawtell, daugh ter of Joseph and Hannah (Kemp) Sawtell, at Keene, N. H., March 28, 1819. (Mehitabel Sawtell, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Kemp) Sawtell, oorn Groton, Mass., April 24, 1793, married 1st John Gould Parker, of Lun enburg, Mass., at Surrey, N. H., September 18, 1814. They separated after two years, having had but one cbild, Mary A. Thayer Parker, born Keene, N. H .. May 12, 1815, and Mehitabel resumed her maiden name.) She died at Keene, May 4, 1850; Caleb Emerson at Keene, Mareh 24, 1852. CHILDREN OF CALEB AND MEHITA:BEL (SAWTELL) EMERSON. (9) \\;-:tlliam H. Emerson, born January 6, 1820; married Elizabeth At kins; died August, 1854:. (9) Henrietta M. Emerson, born June 4, 1821; married Albion B. Pink ham, April 6, 1848; died without issue, April, 1866, at Boston, Mass. (9) Daniel D. Emerson, born March 11, 1823; married Lucretia Knox. Septem·ber 5. 1846, died at Vera Cruz. Mexico. (9) Sarah .A.. Emerson, born April 5, 1825; died Boston, Mass., August 14, 1904; married, 1st, George T. Cleary (born Halifax, N. s., January 6, 1822; died Boston, Mass., July 9, 1862). at Boston, January 1, 1849: 2d, David S. Knight, June 11, 1866; (9) Almira S. Emerson, born July 31, 1827; died November 5, 1844. (9) Caleb F. Emerson, born August 14, 1829. (9) Hannah F. Emerson, born January 15, 1832; died March 11, 1833. (9) Hannah Frances Emerson, born February 16, 1836; living, 1905, at Worcester, Mass.; married Edwin S. Bigelow, at Bellow's Falls, Vt., March 28, 1852; 2d, Nelson Baldwin, May 26, 1869, he dying at Worcester, Novem ber 20, 1893. Children: (10) Ellzabeth F. Bigelow, born at Keene. N. H., mo April 10, 1853; married William Gildard, at Plainfield, Conn., July 23, 1871; died at Plainfield, February 18, 1872; (10) Frederick E. Bigelow, born at Keene, July 4, 1855~ died May 5, 1862; (10) Henrietta. F. Bigelow, born at Keene, February 26, l 859; married Eugene Petersilea. at Boston·, November 27, 1879; died March 16, 1895, at Townsend Harbor, Mass. (9) Albert AlonzC) Emerson, born April 14, 1837; married Clara Doloff'; died at. Quincy, Mass. Son, William, died in infanc:r; daughter, Carrie La dora, born Quincy, M'~ss., living, 1905. (All children of Caleb and Mehitabel (Sawt.ell) Emerson were born at Keene, N. H.} DE3CENDANTR OF QEORGE T. AND -SARAH (EMERSON) CI~EARY. (10) George Edward Cleary, born Boston, Mass., Sept. iG, 1849: died Sept. 28, 1872. Married Sept. 28, 1871. to Clara A. Warren. (10) Charles H. Cleary, born Boston Oct. 18. 1851; died Boston. Ocr. 20, 1880; unmarried. (10) Frederick Franklin Cleary, born Boston, June 12, 1853; diej Bos ton August 20, 1~55. -(10) Emma Almira Cleary, born Boston, February 12, 1856; died Wol laston, :Wass., May 1, 1892; married to Ozro .M. Whiaier, at Boston, Mass., Octo. 19, 1876: Their children were: (11) Ola Pauline W•hlttier, born Boston, July 22, 1877; married Edward F. Brown, at Wollaston. Sept. 28, 1898. with children as follows: (12)) Homer Whittier Brown, born Wollaston, April 18, 1900; (12) Edward Eugene Brown, born Wollaston, August 17, 1902; (11) Joseph Emerson Whittier, born Wol laston, June 18. 1883. (10) AUce mlizabeth Cleary, born Boston, April 19, 1858; married to Newell 0. P~rke..-, at Boston, Sept. 1, 1881: Ohildren: ( 11) Waldo E!llerson Parker, born Boston, Janua1·y 31, 1883, dieJ March 13, 1885; (11) Ethel Pauline Parker, horn cambridge, Mass., August 31, 1884. (10) A1t.hur ,valter Cleary, born Boston, July 13, 1860; died Boston, November 2(). 1863. ( 10) Fr~nk Edmund Cleary, born Boston, Mass., April 23, 1862; mar ried Mary J Burgess, at Cambridge, Mass., Novemb~r 19, 1 S:>O. Children: (11) Marion Frances Cleary, born ·Brighton, Mass., Sept. 5, lS~H; (11) Mil dred BurgesSl ClP.ary, born Brighton, January 5, 1893. THE HEROIC EXPLOIT OF HANNAH DUSTON. ' Two mouum~nts, one at Haverhill, Mass.. the other at Concord, N. H., perpetuate th~ memory of one of the most heroic exploits narrated in the early annals 'lf New England. They tell the story of the deed of Mrs. Hannah Dustnn, of Haverhill, who, seized and made captive with ber six days-old -babe a11d marched many miles through the wildernes.3 in her en feebled state, finally made her escape by tomahawking and scalping her Indian capto~ at night. It was on March 15, 1697, that the massacre a,t Haverhill occurred. The first house ati ti.eked by the -Indians was that of Thomas Duston, the hus band of ·Hannah. "Of this attack and the heroic exploits of Duston and his wife," says Cl1ase's ··History of Haverhill,~· .. there have been various ac counts publish"d. and traditions handed down which, though agreeing in the main. disaj!ree somewhat in detail. Of them all_ we think the account gtven by Rev. Cotton Mather, in his .. Magnalia," is the most reliable. Mather heard t.he story directly from the lips of Mrs. Duston, when she was in Boston, jloon after her return from captivity, and published it very soon after. The following is bis version, taken from the '·Magnalia;· Lou don edition of 1702: .. On March \5, 1697, the salvages made a descent upon the skirts 'lf Haverhill, murdf\ring and captivating about thirty-nine persons, and burn ing about a half dozen houses. In this broil, one Hannah Duston, having lain in about a week, attended with her nurse, Mary Neff, a body of terri ble Indians drew near unto the house where she lay, with designs to carry on their bloody devastations. Her husband hastened from his employ ments abroad unto the relief of his distressed family; and first bidding seven of his eight children (which were from two to seventeen years of age) to get awa) as fast as they could unto some garrison in the town, he went in to inform his wife of the horrible distress come upon them. 'Ere she could get up, the fierce Indians were got so near, that utiterly despair ing to do her any :.::,ervice, be ran out after his children; resolving that 'Jll the horse which he had with him, he would ride away with that which be should in this extremeity find his affections to pitch most upon, and leave the rest unto the care of the divine providence. He overtook his children about forty rods from his door; but then such was the agony of bis paren tal affections, that he found it impossible for him to distinguish any one of them from the rest; whereupon he took up a courageous resolution to live and die with them all. A party of Indians came up with him; and now though they fired at him, and he fired at them, yet he manfully kept at the rear of his little army of unarmed children, while they marched off with the pace of a child of five years old; until, by the singular providence of God, he arrived safe with them all unto a place of safety about a mile or two from his house. But his house must in the meantime have more dis mal tragedies acted at it. The nurse, trying to escape with the new-born infant, fell into the hands of the formidable salvages; and those furious tawnies coming into the house bid poor Mrs. Duston to rise immediately. Full of astonishment she did so; and sitting down in the chimney with an heart full of most fearful expectation, she saw the raging dragons rifle all that they could carry away, and set the house on tire. About nineteen or twenty Indians now led these away, with about half a score other English captives; but e'er they had gone many steps, they dash'd out the brains of the infant against a tree; and several of the other captives, as they begc.i.u to tire in the sad journey, were soon sent unto their long home; the sal vages would presently bury their hatchets in their brains, and leave their carcasses on nhe ground for t-he birds and bea$ts to feed upon. However, Mrs. Duston (with her nurse) notwithstanding her present conditi-on, travelled that night a.bout a dozen mlles, and then kept up with their new masters in a long travel of an hundred and fifty miles, more or less, within a few days-- ensuing, without any sensible damage in their health from the hard ships of their travel, their lodging, their diet. and their many otner diffi culties. "These two ~r women were now in the hands of those whose tender mercies are cruelties; but the good God who hath all hea:rts in His own hands beard the sighs of these prisoners, and gave them to find uuexpecteJ favour from the master who hath laid claim unto them. That Indian faru lly consisted of twelve persons; two stout men, three women and seven children, and for the shame of many an English family, that has the char acter of prayerless upon it, I must now publish· what these poor women assure me. 'Tis this: In obedience to the instructions which the French have given them, they (the Indians) would have prayers in their family no less than thrice every day; in the morning, at noon, and in the even ing; nor would they ordinarily let their children eat or sleep, without first saying their prayers. Indeed the idolators were like the rest of thetr whiter brethren persecutors, and would not endure that these poor women should retire to their English prayers. if they could hinder them. Never theless the poor women had nothing but fervent prayers to make their Monument In City Hall Park, /layerhlll, Mass., to the Memory of Hannah Duston. lives comfortable or tolerable; and by being daily sent out upon business, they had oportunities, together and asunder, to do like another Hannah, in pouring out their souls before the Lord. Nor did their praying friends among ourselves forbear to pour out supplications for them. Now they could not observe it without some wonder, that their Indian master some times when he saw them dejected, would say unto them, 'What n~ed you trouble yourself? If your God will have you delivered, you shall be so.· And it seems our God would have it so to be. This Indian family was now travelling with these two ~aptive women (and an English youth taken from Worcester a year and a half before) unto a rendezvous of salvage::s, which they call a town, somewhere beyond Penacook; and they still told these poor women that when they came to this town they must be stript, and scourged, and run the gauntlet through the whole army of Indians. They said this was the fashion when the captives first came to a town; and they derided some of the faint-hearted E1J1glish, which they said faint ed and swoon'd away under the torments of this discipline. But on April 30, while they were yet, it may be, about an hundred and fifty n1i!es from the Indian town, a little before break of day, when the whole crew was in a dead sleep, one of these women took up a resolution to intimate the ac tion of Jael upon Sisterla; and ·being where she had not her own life secure:l by any law unto her, she thought she was not forbidden by any law to take awar the life of the murderers, by whom her child ha:l bee:i batchered. She heartened the nurse and the youth to assist h.er in this enterprise; and all furnishing themselves with hatchets for this purpose, they strucli such home blows upon the heads of their sleeping oppre.5sors, that e·er they could any of them struggle into any effectual resistance, at. the feet of these poor prisoners they bowed, the~· fell, they lay down; at their feet they bowed, they fell; where they" bowed, there they fell down dead. 0-:1ly one squaw escaped sorely wounded from them in the dark: and one boy. whom they reserved asleep, intending to bring him awa~- wLh them. sud denly waked and scuttled away from this desolation. But cutting on' the scalps of the ten wretches. they came off, an-ct recei,•e1 fifty po~uds from the General Assembly of the province, as a recompense of their actio71: besides which, they received many presents of congratulation from their more private friends: but none gave ·em a greater taste of bounty than Colonel Nicholson, the Governor of Maryland, who hearing of their action. sent ·em a very generous token of his favour:· After recovering from the fatigues of the journey, lfrs. Dusto~ a'ld her two companions, accompanied by Mr. Duston, star~ed for Bosto~, whe:-e rnr, ~lonu1nen t In ll1Ptnory of Hall na h Dust.on f'rPcted at Concord, X. H., by the States of ~fassachusetts and :N°Pw Ha1npshirt->. This monu1nent. is of Co.1cord granite. The design ,vas hy ,v11- lian1 Andrews, of Lowell. l\lass. rrhe t(\tal hc•ight is i:i fef't. rl'hP stiltue of Mrs. Duston is 7! feet high. they arrived on the 21st of April. Soon after their arrival Duston pre sented a petition to the General Assembly, then in session, for recompense for the loss of hi& estate. The petition of Duston "Vas read in the House of Representatives June 8th, 1697, when it •was 0 voted, that the above namej Thomas Duston, in behalf of his wife, shall be allowed & pai-0. out of the publick Treasury Twenty-five pounds; & ·Mary Neff the sum of Twelve pounds Ten sb.illing:.s, and the young man (named Lenerson) concerned in the same action the like sum ot Twelve pounds Ten Shillings."' Hannah Duston was the daughter of Michael and Hannah (Webster) Emerson, and the eldest of 15 children. She was born Decemoer 23, 1657, and was married to Thomas Duston December 3, 1677, by whom she had 13 children: Hannah, born August 22, 1678; Elizabeth, born May i, 1680; Thomas, born January 5, 1683; Nathaniel, born May 16, 1685; Sarah, born July 4, 1688; Abigail, born October -, 1690; Jonathan.· born January 15, 1691-2; Timothy, llx>rn September 14, 1694. Besides these they had Mary, born November 4, 1681, died Oct 18, 1696; John, born February 2, 1686, died January 28, 1690; Mehitable, (twin sister to Timothy, died December 16, 1694, and Martha. (the babe killed), born March 15, 1697. They af terwards had Lydia, born October 4, 1698. The time of her death and also that of her husband, is uncertain. There is a tradition, entitled to credit, that· Mrs. Duston survived her husband some years, and after his death went to reside with her son Jonathan, who lived on the southwest part of the original Duston farm. Thomas Duston was living in March, 1729. Chase's History of Haverhill says: '"The favorite saying ot an esteemed - friend, that the true heroes are not always those who receive the most applause, seems to us to be specially applicable to the case of Thomas and Hannah Duston. In every version of the story which has met our eye, or ear, Thomas Duston has been made to occupy a subordinate posi tion to that of bis wife. Indeed, in many cases. his name, and his heroic defense of his children, would seem to have been introduced merely to identify the wife and mother, and to add an accessory coloring to the picture of her exploit. But, when placed side by side with his, the exploit of his wife, extraordinary as it certainly was, seems to us as the light of the moon to the brilliant rays of the sun. "Hannah Duston, to escape from a cruel captivity,-not from death, not from violation even,-( the Indians seldom killed, and never violated their female prisoners, when once captured. They were either sold to the French or kept for ransom). and to revenge the death of her child; with two strong arms to assist her, courageously planned the destruction, and boldly attacked, twelve sleeping savages, seven of whom were children, and but two or whom were men. 1t was not with her a question of lire and death, but of liberty and revenge. ··Thomas Duston, with the question of life and de.Hh fur himself, auct a. cruel captivity for his children, distinctly before him, heroically staked .ais lite for his children~ It was a · fa ... her's love.. that nerved his arm, and :iot revenge. * * -:i- -:i- * * ··we regret that we are unable to trace more fully the history of this :ieroic ruan. ( The following is from Mirick: "Thomas Duston was a man Jf considerable ingenuity, and tradition says that he had a ·vast deal of mother wit;· that he possessed unshaken courage, and th.e purest and loft iest feelings of affection, cannot be doubted. It 1s said that he made his own almanacks, and furthermore, that he always made them on rainy days. How true this is, we will not attempt to say. He had a grandson, Joshua, who was said to have been his counterpart. He took it once into his head to weave a bed quilt, and succeeded in making an excellent one, consisting of as many colors as Joseph's coat. This curious relic is now possessed by his descendants.) The name first appears in our town re cords among those who built cottages between the years 1669 and 1675; next we find it in a deed from Thomas Duston to Peter Green, in 1675-6; then a1nong the soldiers in King Philip's War, (August, 16,G); then in the list of cottages built between January, 1675, and February, 1677; then the marriage of Thomas Duston and Hannah Emerson, in December, 1677; and f then we find, among the names of those who built cottages between Feb- ruary, 1677, and January, 1679, that .. Thomas Duston, 2d.'' The name ts tirst found in the record of our town. meetings, under date of June 13, 1682." .. After the assault on Haverhill in March, 1697, the most vigorous measures were taken to prevent, if possible, another similar bloody massa cre; guards were stationed in many of the houses, and the brick house or Thomas Duston that had been partly finished the year previous, but had not been occupied, was ordered to be garrisoned. The following is a copy of the order to Mr. Duston, when apointed to command it: (Mrs. Duston had not yet returned from her captivity.) "To Thomas Dustin, upon the settlement of garrisons. Aprtl 5, 1696-7. You being appointed master of the garrison at your house, you are hereby in his Maj's (Majesty's) name, required to see that a good watch is kept at your garrison both by night and by day, by those persons hereafter named who are to be un<1er your commana anu n1:spection in building or repairing your garrison; and if any persons refuse or neglect their duty, you are accordingly required to make return of the same, under your hand, to the Committee of Militia in Haverhill. The persons appointed are as followeth: Josiah Heath, sen., Josiah Heath, jun.. Joseph Bradley, John Heath, Joseph Kingsbury and Thomas Kingsbury. ··By order of the Committee of Militia. ..SAMUEL AYER, Capt. "Mr. Duston was, for the times, largely engaged in brick-making. The )Usiness, however, was attended with no little danger. on account of the ti.dians~ who were almost continually lurking in the vicinity, watching an ..>pportunity for a successful attack. The clay-pits were only a short dis tance from the garrison, but the enemy were so bold that a tile of soldiers constantly guarded those who brought the clay from the pits to the yard near the house. where it was made into brick." ··in March, 1856, the Duston Monument Association was incorporated, by special act of the legislature. On the first day of June, 1861, a handsome re1.onument of Italian marble, five feet square and twenty-four feet high, resting upon a base of granite, was erected by the Association. The Asso ciation had previously purchased the site of the house from which Hannah IJuston was taken by the Indians, and on this the monument referred to was·- erected. This monument was afterwards removed. Another more elaborate one now stands on the square in front of the Haverhill High School. At Concord, N. H., stands another and more be-autiful monun1ent to Mrs. Duston, erected bj· the States of Massachuse~ts and New Ha.mp• shire. mu ' ADDITIONAL DAT A. PART II. G A M B L E -- H O B S O N . I II The family name of Gamble had its origin in the old Danish-Saxon name of Gamel or Gamyl, of Northern England. The Gamels held consid erable land in Northumbria, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in the eleventh e£antury, and are found opposing the conquest by William of Normandy, bHing later dispossessed by him of their hoidings. Bearers of the name crop out in the succeeding two centuries in several of the adjacent north e:n and northeastern counties. The first of the name of record in Leicestershire appears in the thir teenth century. In 1277 A. D., "a virgate* of land at Stoughton" (about tl1ree miles from Burton Overy), .. belonging to Amicia, the daughter of Ketibu, was held by John Gamul, on his part claiming a right to depasture . . one horse and tive averiae and giving up a demand of one-quarter of wheat." The first of the family of record at Burton Overy, t Hundred of Gartree, which lies eight miles southeast of Leicester, appears fifty years later. Robert Gamyl (sometimes spelled Gamel or Gamul), is found resident at Burton Overy and a landowner there in 1327, vide Exchequer Lay Subsidy Roll for the County of Leicester, 1 Edward III .. in Public Record Office, London. tt As he was then e\tidently a man of family he was probably born prior to 1290. He and John. of Stoughton, were doubtless the descendants of William Gamel, a burgess of Leicester in C. 1253, one of the jury in the Inquisition for the Origin of Gable Pence and Bridge Silver (Henry III, 37) and one of those mentioned as assessed.., in the schedule of payments made *A virgate. or;:n1rdland. was mmall~· uhout fort~· acres. tln ancient writings called Burtone. Burton Novere~-. and Burton O\·er~·. is situnted tu a valley. on a brook which rises in Frisb~·. near Galby. It Is about 11ilw miJes from' Leicester. In the Itinerary of 12:.)() A. D. Burto,1. Glen, Norton and :-ltretton an~wered as one village. The Hundred of Gartree, in which it is situated. forms the southeastern por tion of the County of Leicester. Mr. Rouse supposes the word Gartree derived from Garbe. or Gerbe, a sheaf, and Treet, fine wheat. this side of Lekestershire l>eing e.xceedinfl~· rich ground. Yielding great increase of corn of all kinds in great abundance. and anoroinv many good and large sheep pastures.breeding sheep to that size and goodness that neithe'r Lemster nor Cotswold can exceed them.-"'Histor~· of the Hundred of Ga.rtr('.-. Leke~ter shlre," by John H. Hill. t+The Public Record Office, London, c-ontains the principal records of the Kingdom. wb.Jch, formerly located in many offl.ees. are now, ·with few exceptions. to be found here. The Lay Subsidies and Clerical Subsidies gh·e the chief inhabitants of eYen· parish who ~Id taxes. They are arranged under counties and hundreds and date from Edward I.-P. Fancourt Hodgson. Clerk of Herald0 s College. A !\!.\P of f;-1RTRE lll:'.'VDRED j',,....\ C'.,~- 1'1'-', ) ):,", : I ---·-- ~,;_ \,_ A C ,. . t .,. I E Tht> Hnnctred of <-ittrtrt't• forms tht> i,;outh.-astt>rn portion of the Count~· of Lt>kester; it is of a triangular figure. whose thrt>t> sides average ttbout se'\·tmteen miles in length. The name is suppost-d to ht> cterh·t>rhe, tt sheaf, H,llcl TrP-et. flnt> wht>at. Heproductioll from the SubsidJ Roll of 1327 A. D., ~howin~ RobPrt. tt11d PetPr Ga-1n~d Pa.ving the rrax at Hnrtou Ovl·ry. Photographed fro1n the Onginal Roll iu t.he Publl.c Ht.,cord Office, London, Ellg. at Leicester for the Redemption of Pontage and Gable Pence Taxeg in that year. Tbis William Gamel, of Leicester; John Gamul, of Stoughton; Rob ert Ga1nyl, of Burton Overy, and Peter, brother of Robert, are the only ones of the name appearing in the records of that period now preserved. Fron1 the time of t•beir· appearance in Leicestershire the name becomes more frequent, the spelling varying, Gamel, Gamul, Gamyl and Gambull, being the usual forms: sometimes two or more of them in the same docu ments, until a;bout 1500 it crystallized into Gam1ble in the wills, etc., then of record, continuing as such from then on. At Burton Overy one branch of the family remained. from about 1300 until 1849. ROBERT GAMBLE, a descendant of this Robert Gamyl. was born at Burton Overy, about 14,5. The tirst mention found of him is in a very darna;;cd r~card a! the Cot!rt nf the ViPw of Frank Pledgex- (in the Public Record Office at London), he-ld for Burton Overy and other places at Stoughlo:i, in May. A. D., 1501 (lGth Henry VII). Under the head Burt01;~-, o,·ery the !dngle entry i~ to the effect that Robert Gamull did not attend and was consequently fined 2 J>ence. This is the only other early roll ft>r Burton Overy preserved at the Public Record Office, all others having ap parently perished.. Reproductions of photographs, made in Lonclon. are :;hen herewirh or th1s section of the Roll of 1501, and of that section of the Roll of 1327 re la ting to Robert Gamy 1, the first of the family established at Burton Overy. This ROBERT GAMBLE ( of 1501), as his name was sig:ped to his will. and in the proving ot the ~ame, died at Burton Overy in February, 15:-t~. His will was proverl at the Leicester Re&ist.ry. and bears the date of Feb ruary s. of that year. In it he rlirects that his body shall be buried in the 0hnrch-yarrl of Saint Andrew, tof Burton Noverie, ·{Overy). where his an cestors and descendants, over a period of sif centurie-;, lie. He leaves small legacies to his son~,. Robert, John and William. his daughter. Eleanor, and sa:-·s: "My wife to enjoy my house at Glen (about two miles from Ilurton Overy), "( 'ourt of tht> Vit>W wa:,; a <'ou 1·t of R1>cord ht->ld in ab u1HlrNI ,lord:--hi p or 1na11or lwforP t lw stl'Wa nl of tl1t• ltet. Fran I.;: PlPclgP was a µh• tTl.lP 1·hun·h. dt> *Mu:, :11. lt\.i~. ~'rnnl'is ~PP "'I ~ ~;."\.v.,,•,.:.:..-1 - WILL OF ffENR Y aA.MB LE, AU(iUST U, J.582 :!OS rection. And for my worl(lly goods af t er this manner I distribute them: First nnto my sonne John Gamble I give tenn pounde of goo cl & la wfull mony three ewes and twoo lambes. Unto my sonne Willm I give tenn pounde tluee sheepe & two lambs. Unto my sonne Richard I give t enn poumle & a ewe & a lambE,. Unto Robert. my sonne I give tenn vomHls and a ewe & a lan1b. Unto my Daughter 3Jlizabeth I g{ ve tenn pounds & . ~ all the lynnen that slt~ bath alreadie that was her mothers. Unto my Daugh t r Katterin I give tenn · pounds and a pair of flaxen shetes. Un.to my Daughtr Ann I give tenn pounde. Unto my wife .Margarett I give thirtie pounde. Unto my chil yt ( that) my wife now beareth in her wombe T giv0. t.enn vounde. Un to my sonne Francis whom. I make exe cutor of this my last Will I give the le:1ze of m~· howse & all my goodsmov ahle & unmovable whatsoevr and to en ter thereof when he comer.11 to ye age of foorteene yeares & in the meane tyrne my wife to occupie all things & dis cl1arge all things for him & in his he half c•. 11orovr I will y t if the said F·rancis depart this life before he come to foor tene years yt t, hen my child yt my wife now goeth with if it be a sonne have my farme & all my goods nnbequetherl as J:i'rancis shoulcl have had, but if it be a Daughtr rhen· betwixt it & my wife. Also my will is yt these portions yt I have given to m,\· aforsaiil childre:1 be payd them when the~· come to ye age of one & twentie & to my Danghtrs at the day of their marriage if 1 hey mar rie hefore one & twentie & if God call for any of them before they have re• cPived their portion ,\·t then ,\·t portion equally to be flev,\·clell among the rest. Also if any of rn,\· children whom I lean= wt (with) my wife he cons(ranecl nppon ST. A 1VVI?EW'S CHURCI-J, BURTON OVERY, LEICESTEN.SHIRE, £NOLAND. ml'lawfnll usage or for prferment, to goe from their rnothr yt then I leave it at re cliscreton of Mr. Baile, .John Inetch er & William Blunte to mge ( manage) what they shall have at their departinge. Finally I give unto my rnayct Margarett a ewe & a lambe. The son. William, referred to. held lands in Great and Little Stretton. in 1611, '·as of the honor of Winton." The son John, at his death in lG0G, left lands at Burton Overy, with dwelling house an· 80Il, THOMAS GAMBJ .. E, was baptized lhere November 17, lGl l, married Maria ...... ; his son. vVILLIAM GAMBLE, born at Burton Overy about 1G50, died there in 1 G77, his will being filed in April, 1G78. His widow survived him. His son, THOMAiS -GA1MBLE, was baptized at St. Andrew's Church, Burton Ove rr, March 18, 1676; buried November 1::1, 1759, his will, elated November 1, 1759, being proved April 21, 1760. He was twice n1arried, to Elizabeth Gr-ant on Ootober 9, 1701, she dying in 1720, and to Mary Rowe on January 27, 1728, she dying October 20, 1759. The poll book of 1719 showed him to he a realty owner at that time. His son, \VILLIAM GAMBLE, uaptized at St. Andrew's church, B,uton Overy, January 27, 1739, died May 2:-L 1,8~~- His will was pro\ eel May :n, 17:-;;::_ He married Anne Newton. of Hougl1ton,~ a few mile;:; from Burton Overy, oa December -l-. 1764, she dying on .January 21, 1780, ageJ ::.:-1 years. A ne:1r kinsman of this vVillihrn Gamble \Vas parish clerk at Houghton fur more than tifty years, cl ring there in 1 ,CL Acconling· to rht> poll book of 1,";"5. \\'il1hm Garnb:e\; freeh(.ld al U11r r1m Overy al that time consiste(l of two huus~•::; and a l10nw.-;:e~uL To hi::-; \Yilliam he lefc his dwelling huuse and land at D ,. I' . l >1 1 Q '. e .. '" LJ ·" • .1 y !. .,• • Tlli.-; ~•>ll clie 1l at the age of 21. in 17~7, unmarrie:l, a:r,l the h,)llle~;~;.Hl th2:1 v,·<:'',t tHough ton, a.ndt.•ntly ('H l l<•d l1 oukton, Hoh to1w, Houl to1w H ngister whkh l)(igln;in I7fi3. is t>n lt•rPd tlwdt>ath of a parish ('lprk IUllllPd Han1hlt', who lwlwtu111s l'Pllll'tH' *ln tlw majorit~· of tht> pla<·Ps in LPkt> ..;t,,rshin• wlwn· familh~s of(}amhlt-s Wt>l"t> l N A'l1L'RAIJIZATION PAPER OF 'J'HOl\tfAS GA:\-fBLE, li-,8ned l>y Court of General Quarter SesRions at Phila delpl1rn, Pa., on E·epten1bt>r 19, 1815. 'I ht> parehrnent sheet was cut up alld used as a Kite's tail in 1834, then cl1sapJJearNl and was lounc'. in 1HC4 behind an old fa111Ily portrait where 1t had bet:ln concealed seventy year!-,:. 1, 184G, aml buried in the Bud S.t reE't ground. ( Fur tle~cendant s see "Chil dren of Thomas and Philinah (Deal) Gaml>le.") WlLLIAM GAMBLE, born at Burton OverY, March 9, 1800; married Eliza \\rilson, at Philadelphia, October 21, 1832; died at Philadelphia, in 187 5. Children: ( l) \Villiam Hob~on Gamble, born Philadelphia, August 15, I~:J:J, married hmma C. GohlsmiLh, Seplember 19, lSGO; die,l Camden. N. J .. .July 5, 189G. Children: (a) Elbm Gaml>le, born January 8, UHi2; married Sam uel M. Williams, :.Vl'arch 3, 1887; children: Florence Gam ble \Villiams, born July :n, 1S92; Samuel Monroe Williams, ( l>) Florence I. Gan1ble, born January 1-1, 1SG4; mar ried Frank D. Shingle, June 8, 1887; child: Emma C. G. Shingle, born March 2, 1888. (c) ,William Oliver Gamble, born November 27. 18GG: died June 28, 18,:L ( 2) Joseph vVilson Garn hle, born Philadelphia, 1 ~ms; <1ie1l 1uly 12, 1862. Un Annie E. Gamble, born January 28, 1S41; married .John C. Aschenbach, .Jun·e 25, 1868. Children: (a) Joseph W. Aschenbach, born April 8, urn~. (b) Bessie E, Aschenbach, born March 28, 1872; mar ried Harris W. Paul, October 2, 1895; died June 25, 1898: child: Clifford Paul, born June 9, 1898. (c) Carrie H. Aschenbach~ born December 14, 1875. ( 4) Henry W. Gamble, born Noveml>er 25, 1843; marriecl Kate Brintzinghoffer, Jan nary 20, 1870. Children: (a) Mary B. Garn ble, born June , , 1873; n1arriecl Harry Pennypacker. April 5, 1899: children: H. Raymond Pennypacker, born March 10. 1902: Frank Cary Penny packer. born September 15, 190:3. (b) Annie E. Gamble, born June 27, 1878. (c) Charles B. Gamble, born November 20, 1891. MARY GAMBLE, born at Burton Overy. December 19, 1801. Married. 1st, Peter Douglass; 2d, James Heiss, of Philadelphia. Probably no livin~ descendants. ELIZABJ;:TH GAl\fBLE, born at Burton OverY, March 3, 180:~. Died at Philadelphia in July, 1889. .Married 10 George Summers, ~:who was born at Philadelphia in 1799 and died there in 1870. Children: t l) Ann Walraven Snmn1ers, born November 22, 1824; married George w. Nickels: died December 28, 1899. (2) George W. Summers, born August 4, 1S2G; married Jane Val Van Throvan. in 1847. ( 3) William Gamble Summers, horn Noveu1ber 10, 18:.:8; married Katherine Gouldy ( -1) Sarah CaLherine Summers, born December 24. 183~ ~ rnarri0d Charles Macalvah• Rawlings, in JannarY, 1859. Living at Philadelphia in 1905. Cnild: (a) Florence Mable Ra wlin~s. horn February 4. 18G:!; married George Herbert Bnrpee, or U t lea, N. Y ., Seprem lJer 18, 1885; no issue. ( fl) Elizabeth Summers, rwin si.~ter of Sarah C., <1iecl in·fant. ( G) Philip Lafayed e Summers, born :\larch 29, 18~1,; clleJ unmarried. (7) Elizal>er.h Gamble Summers, horn Dece:nber ~5. 1S3S; die-cl unmarried. ( S) ~lary Heiss Summers. h:)rn Jnne 1 i. 1841 ; died u::mar riert. ======------·==== SHtUH'P 'ot· Hans) (ieorgt~ Sununers (Rou11ner in Gt->r1nn.n). the aneestor of the Sum mers famil:v. with his wife Elizahethund ehlldren-.Tohannes(.John ),HHn~ Mnrtin,G-eorge, Peter. n net Mn,rgareth~t Elizabeth-arrived in Philu.clPlphla from Germany on Reptember :!:!. l7ll:!. on the ship ••Rrothers". Capt. \VUliam Muir. Philip and Henr~·. two ot,her of theii· l'hildren, arrived at Phila CHILI>Rl◄~N OF rl'HO:\[A~ A~I> PHILINAH (DEAL\ GAl\i[HLE, OF PHI L.-\DEl.iPHlA, PA THOMAS GAMBLE, born at Burton Overy, Leicestershire, England, January 4, 1799. Died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 1, 1845. PHILINAH DEAL, born Philadelphia, Pa .. in 1800. Died Philadelphia, Pa., May, 1878. Daughter of Mrs. Deal, nee Frowart, born at Philadelphia In 1775. Married at Philadelphia, Pa .. January 24, Hil X. Children as follows: all born at Philadelphia, Pa.: WILLIAM GAMHL,E. born April ~~. 1 S1 ~). Married Anna Maria Harten stine. Die,l October 22. 1 X94. Chilrlren: ( l) Eliza.beth Ua,rnhlL• 1 Lur11 Felil'Ual'y '.W, 18-11; 1narried to .Jolin·\Valt~r Hastillgs, .July lf>, 1858; no living issue. (i) .. A.nna. l.\laria UamblPi horn Ap11l 6,1H47;rnarried to David H uwell, October 10, l~H3. (Ot,!Jer is~ue \Villia.m and An11a :VI aria ( Hartenst.int-') Ua1nhl1! died 1 nf all t!--.) THOMAS GAMBLE, born August :::, 1~~1. Died an infant. CATH.ERINE, GAMBLE, born February 23, 1823. Married Joseph Shep erla. Died June 18, 1879. (J osepb Sheperla served in Baxler's Zoua ves, Co. K, 72 Regt. Penna. Volunteers, 1862-65_ His son, .Joseph, served in 1st Regt. Penna. Volunteers, 1861-63; and in Hancock's Corps 1864-65.) ROBERT GAMBLE, born July 10, 1825. Married Elizabeth Wise, June 9, 1845. Served in Civil War in Third Delaware VolnnteerR. Living in 1905. Son Henry served in 95th Regt., Penna VuiuuLtcL5. ELIZABETH GAMBLE, born January :W, 1828. Married 1st John J. Melchor, in 184G. 2nd John Van B. Hahn, of Norristown, Pa., on Octol>er 12, 1852. Died April 2, 1891. Children: ll) John Melchor, born Noveml>er 4, 1847; assumeu name oi' stepfather and known from childhood as John Hahn. .:\'larried, 1st, Helen Faunce, April, 18G8, who died July 21, 1888; 2d, Mary Meehan, October 5, Hrn~. Living, 1905, in \Vashington, D. C. Children: i a) Charles Hahn. lrnrn .June, 1 Siu; married Pauline \Veber, February_ 1893; child, Arthur Hahn. (b) Frank Hahn, born July, l~i~~; married Susi~ \Veber. (c) Helen Hahn, lwrn Octouer, 1~75. (d) John Hahn, uorn October, 187s; married Gertrrnle Faunce, June. 1901. le) Raymond Hahn. horn .June 27>, 18~)5. (~) Lillie Hahn, lJOrn ~lay, 1 s3·,-: 1 •J ,: ,I • -,Y"'\ "l ,.. "?•; ("\ ' lU'--' "'-, ,J.1,,.J,4.A., .... J...... - .. \Villiam B. Fulmor, October Hi, 1905. ( b) .John W. Gamble, born February ( Other issue died infants.) (:n William Wecker I~· Gamble. born Richmond. Va .. .;:i.n- nary 10, 18G5: marriecl Ern·estine Bourrilion, Augusi.. 12. 1 b8(;. Child: Samuel A. Gamble. bl,,tn: :\l'arch I, 1 ~rn 5. (Other is:; u e died infants). ( 4) Thomas Gamble, .Jr., born Richmond. Va.. .March Hi. l 868; married Florence 0. Kilpatrick,t Savannah, Ga., May 15, 1890. Children: - t WYNN F AMILY-.Tohn Wynn, fwqut.,ntl~· speJled Wynne, was horn in Hnneock <'.ounty, Georgia, about 17!10. Owing to tlw loss of family reC'ords it has not bet•n possible to securP nny nceurnte duta as his pnrPnts beyond the fa('t thnt tlw;v had probably lwen resiclent in Georgia for some years prior to his birth In 1815 he married Mitr;v ~'-. Brewer, who was born at, or near Eatonton, G-1t., in 1800. Ht-> located nt- Eatonton nnd bPeame u merchant and a plnnter. He died at that place in 1825, his widow surviving until Mareh 1. !84R, when she died in Henry County. Oc>orgin, where lwr son, Dr ..James A. C. \Vn1n. who is still living (HK>5) at Wynn's Mill, hncl mnde his home. Mnrthu A. W~·nn, thefr second ehild, born 1821. was married at lwr home near Eatonton to Thomas 8. Kilpatriek, of Macon, Ga, who died nt Columbus. Ha., in 1~61. _She dif'd at Anniston. Aln., in Mnr<'h.18{)1, 1tnd wus huriPd at (;oltnnhus, Ga. KILPATRICK FAMILY-This 'I'l10mns S. Kilpatriek,who mnrrierotlH1 1·s. HP l<><·ntc•d nt Savannnh, Gt:>orgia. and he<"a.nw u plnnt<·r. removing from Havannnh to Bibi> County. 1w:1r lWacon, GPorg-ia. His is tht1 onlv miu-riagl,; of a Kilpatri<'l{ in tlw offki111 r(•eords of Havann:i h ( Chatham County) 1,1io to 1890,and no r(1 eord app1-1ars of nny dl1 ath. will or administration of a Kilpatrkk dur ing tht• ('ntirP Jwrio (a) Helen Gamble. born Savannah, Ga., August 27. 1892. (b) Thomas Weldon Gamble, born Savannah, Ga., April 1, 1895. (c) Aln1a Marie Gamble, born Savannah, Ga., July 28. 1898; died Atlanta, Ga., August 21, 1899. (d) William Myers Gamble, born Savannah, Ga., April 14, 1902. 1 5) Alma Gamble, born Indianapolis, Incl., March 15. lSil; married Duane Secor, :Vlarch 22, 1892. Children: (a) Lottie Secor, born ~lar 14, 1~97. ( b) Carrie F. Secor. born May ll. 18~{)_ ( Other issue died infants.) (G) \Valter H. Gamble, diert infant. (7) Laura M'. Gamble, died infant. An1ongst old Cheshire names now rare 111 the county is that of Ga1nuJ. 'l'he Gamnh-; wer~ 1na.yors of Chester during the 15th and 17th centnnes 'l'~--.omas Ga.n1ble was vicar of Wroxha1n,1'-iorfolk Countv. in 1719.-"Hotnes of Fan1ily Nan1es in Grea.t Britain", by H.B. Gupp.v. Outsida of Leicestershire and its borders, the name of Ga1nble and its earlier variations is rare tn the old rt--cords, or even at the present time. An Irish bra.nch fro1n the Engli8h ~tock. probabl~- t.ransplanted in the time ot Eliza.beth or Cro1nwell, has for its anns "Azure, a fleur-de-Iis, or," and for its erest HA Ron1a.n soldier in full cm,t,ume, proper," w11ile ct.nother c ... est u~~d by a branch of the fan1 ily is" A cra.ne, in its heak a rose, stalked ancl leaved, proper." ··The l\1ount. Desert Widow. A Genealogy of the Uam b le Fa.rn1ly", by Greenleaf and Jonatha.n P. Cilley. published in the Knox Count,y, Maine, Historical and Genealogical l\iTagazine, begiHning- Vol. l, No. J, Nov. 1895, dea.l5- with this Irish branch. It. states that 1'hon1as Gan1ble. rl'ho1nas be ing probably the tno!o;t connnon forf-'na.rne in hoth branches, also sometnnes spelled Garnbell,rmdded and died in the North of Ireland,probably in Derry County. Burke gives the coat ot a.rn1R and creRt tir8t above 1nentioned. He nu\.rried lvla.rgaret ScoU., and tradition relates that Gen. Winfi11ld Scott was a relative of l\Iarga.reL Four of theit· chil.dret1 e1ni.grated to America, viz: Archiba,ld Ga.n1ble, whn 1narned l\tlrs. Isabella Galloway 1n 17!2, and who dh,ct soon aftP.r his a.rnval. his widow heco1ning ""l'he ,vidow of Mt. Des ert"; 'l11101na.; Ua.rnble. who settled in Virginia.. and evidently became the pr\)gen itor of the Southern branch; Mary Gamble, who q1a,rrie Fro111 1JBP of the~e original PtnigTants fl'Olll Irela.11d tlnubt.l<-'s:-- eatnt\ 'l'ho111as Oa.1nble, who clie The fo1low1ng are the inscriptions on tom L>stones in the gra ve-.rard of Saint Andrew's church, Burton Overy, Leicestershire, England. the tiv~ stones being in a row close by the church: COME OF YE MY BLESSEL: CHILDREN FATHER In Memory ot Mary, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Gamble, who died .January 4, l 79!:l, in the ::M year of her age. To the memory of WILLIAM, the son of Wll-'LIAM anu ANN GAMBL:B~ who departed this life on the 15th day of .July, 1787. Sacred to the memory or WlLLlAM GAMBLE. He died 23d day of May, 1783. Aged 43 years. Here lie tihe remains of ANN GAMBLE, the wife of WILLIAM GAMBLE. She died the 21st of January, 1780, aged 34 years. Also or GEORG-E. their Son, who dieg the 23d of February, 1779, in his infancy. Sacred to the memory of .JOHN GAMBLE~ who departed this life June 29. 1849. Aged 75 years. Also of MAI:.Y. wife of JOHN GAM- BLE. who died February 18. 1847. Aged 76 years. The Mary mentioned on the first stone was the child of Thomas (and Elizabeth Hobson) Ga,mble who emigrated to the United States. The Wil liam Gamble on the third and A:nn Gamble on the fourth stone, were his t'ather and mother, and the John Gam:ble on the fifth stone was his •brother. " ~11~:-_ 1i~tc,, ... ,C . • , . :tt:;t_::/ : • ;'"'v • Ton1hstone~ of Utimble F11milJ', ~t. Andrew's Church }7ard, Burton Overy, Leicestershire. II THE HOBSON FAMILY ,7 ri AT OREA'f OLEN, LEICESTERSHIRE, ENOLANO. u The Hobsons have been long settled in Leicester and the adjointng counties of Lincoln and Derby. The first of the Leicestershire family on record, so far as discovered, was a ,.rhomas Hopson, of Leicester, who was admitted into the Gild Merchant, that is, he became a Freeman of the JJorough, during the mayoralty of John Parsons in 1479-80. (Leicester Cor poration Hall Book.) Of him nothing further is recorded. Tn the reign of HPnry VHl f8.:mil!es of the !!ame a:f Habsc!! at Great Glen, a few miles out from Leicester, and the village of Kilby, close by; John Hobson, of Kilby, died in or about the year 1545. His will is the earliest will of a Hobson preserved at the Leicester Registry. By its terms he directed that his body be buried in the church-yard of Mary Magdalen, in Kilby. He died a devout Catholic, leaving legacies to the Cathedral church of Lincoln, the "hye altar of Kilby,'' bread to the cotta~ ers there, and directed that a "trentall of masses" were to be celebrated for the health of his soul and the souls of all Christian people. His wife, Agne::;, was the residuary legatee and sole executrix. The first of the Hobsons of Great Glen on record was Robert Hobson, senior, lJorn about 1490, who died, and if his wishes were carried out, was buried in the church-yard of St. Cuthbert, at Great Glen-,t about June, 1554. Tbe names of Thomas and Robert are of frequent recurrence in the suc ceerling generations of the famil:v. From thi.s Robert descended several branches of the family, some of which are still represented, lJut none now at Great Glen, where the last representative died in 1872, without issue, the old homestead of this junior branch then passing into other hands after t.wo hundred years of occupancy by the Hobsons. The senior branch of the family, as far as the records show, passed through seven generations a.t Great Glen, while, as shown on the accompanying genealogical chart, \Villiam, the head of the junior branch, in which those for whom this com pilation is made are especially interested, was a descendant of the fourth +Glenn, anciently cailed Glen .Magna, nnd also writtt:~n G·lf'n, Ulen Martel from its forn1er lords, is situntPd about, six miles from Leicester. The earliest register 'tiegi ns in Ul87. The church is dedicated to St.. Cuthbert, consisting of an embattled tower, co~1tain ing flve bells, a nave, chancel, north aisle and poreh. In the northeast window .being Yen· old,and as Burton suppm;ed about the tirne of Henry III (l2lti-72 A. D1 Wt->rt' tlw nrms ,;f sevPrnl f.nmilies.-Hill"s '"History of tlw Hundred of OartrPP." generation there. This junior branch was carried along through eleven gen erations in all at Great Glen. Robert Hobson, the first of the name at Great Glen, died there about June, 1554. Inasmuch as he then had nine living children and grandchildren by one or more of them, as shown by bequests in his will to them, he was doubtless born between 1480 and 1500. It is quite probable that he was the son of the Thomas Hobson (or Hopson), the freeman of the Borough of Leicester of 1479. This Robert Robson's will, dated February 24, 1550, was proved at Leicester, June 20, 1554. He was a farmer and his stock, implements of husbandry, etc., were left to his son Thomas, with small legacies to a number of others, the residue of his personal estate and ef fects to his wife, Alice. Hi~ so!!., Thom.H~; horn i)robably between 1520-30, who appears to have been his only son, died at Great Glen in 1570. His will, dated March 28, 1570, was proved at Leicester on April 24. In it he provided that his wife, Alice, should have his farm for the bringing up of his children, there being three sons, Robert, William and Rowland, and four daughters, until his eldest son, Robert, should reach the age of twenty-two, when "my wife shall depte ( depart) from & geve unto mr sonne, Roberte, my said farme & howsse, wch (which) I do geve unto him with thre ( 3) yea.rd land (about 80 acres) and all ye aptenaces {appurtenance.::;) thereto belonge set, lyinge & being wthin the felde & towne of Glen Magna (Great Glen) unto him & his eayres (heirs), males of his body lawfully begocten:· To this son Robert he also bequeathed considerable stock and the tools of ag riculture on the farm. To Alice, his wife, was left. ··one crorte & howse'' and "one yeard land," altogether probably about 4:0 acres, during her nat ural life, and at her death to revert to the olde3t son. Robert. Outside of 'lhe personalty, his total estate apears to have been two farms, embracing about 120 acres, with their dwellings and other bnilrlings, which eventually became the property of his son Robert. This Robert Hobson, the third generation of the family at Gre:.lt Glen, born about 1550, appears among the landowners taxed at that place in 1co:t (Leicestershire Lay Subsidy l~oll, 1 James I.) Afterward he appear:::; as a resident of Earl Shilton, not far off. where he cliecl in lG:25. He douhtle8s acquired some estate at that place also. as his son is found a property owner there, as well as at Great Glen. Robert Hobson·s will, dated No vomber 9, 1G25, was proved at Leicester on .January 24, lti2G. After a num ber of small bequests to his children. grandchildren anrt the poor, t lle resi due of his estate was bequeathed to his youn~er son. William. St. Cuthbert's Church, Great Glen, Leicester5hire, England. Thomas Hobson, his oldest son, born about 1580, a freeholder at Great Glen in 1G30, died there in 1664. His will was dated April 21, 1664, and was proved at Leicester on September 30 of that year. He also desired to be buried in the church-yard at Great Glen, and appointed Thomas Hob son, his grandson (his son Robert's heiq, and Ann Hobson, the widow of his son Robert, to be the executors. To this grandson, Thomas Hobson, he gave three yardlands, "ye great close & ye great orcharde, also Bothey's close,·~ his n10veable goods and 10 pounds. To Ann Hobson, the widow of his son Robert, and Ann, her daughter, he left other lands. the extent and location of which aT'e not stated. To Robert Hobson, his son Robert's second son, he left "my estate at Earl Shilton." The extent of the estate at Earl Shilton is also not stated. At Great Glen it was eighty or more This Thomas Hobson, who died in 1664, had two sons, Robert and Willian1. The older son, Robert, born about lG08, died during his father's life, his will, dated January 13. 1G58, being proved at Leicester on Novem ber 22. 1660. He left his lands in Great Glen, the extent of which is not known, to his eldest son, The nrns Hobson, when twenty-one years of age. Thomas Hobson. Gent., *the oldtst. son of this Robert, and the sixth generation at Great Glen, t>orn there about 1649, died on May 11, 1719. Administration on his estate was granted orr June 4. 1719, to his son Thomas. This son, Thomas Hobson. Gent,. (seventh generation), born 1679, appears among the freeholders at Great Glen in 1719. the year of his father's death. He died, unmarried, on April 15, 1750. His will, dated Oc tober 20, 17 49, proved April 23, 1750, left the whole of his real estate at Great Glen and elsewhere to his sister, Catharine, wife of Robert Haymes, B:sq., of Kibworth Beauchamp, together with his personalty. This Catharine (Hobson) Haymes died without issue in 175G, and the old Hobson estate, which had been held for six generations, covering over two hundred years, was left by her t.o her ··son-in-law·· (step-son), Robert Haymes, as follows: "To my son-in-law. Robert Haymes, all my messuages, cottages, lands and tenements in Great Glen. and all my messuages, conages, closes, lands, tenements, etc.. in Great. Wigston." The old house at Great Glen, occu pied by this senior branch of the Hobson family, which stood in what 1s still known as "Robson's Close." was pulled down a'mut. 1780, when one of the Haymes family erected a commodious mansion, still standing on the *In gngland SJWl'itt<:ally any man ah()\"P tlw Stl('ial rank ofyeu111:i11. ln a mon• limirt•d st•nsP. n 1na n who. without a tit le. ht•a rs H <·oat of arms. or whost> fllH'(• .._tors han· Jwt>n frt•P• rn,. n .- ( 't:•n t II r.,· l>i<-ti01rn r,,·. site, but recently passed out of tl1at. family. which disposed of its holdings al>out. two years ago (1903) to Mr. Robert Rowley. JUNIOR BRANCH OF THE FAMILY. Returning to William Hobson ( fifth generation), the junior son or Thomas Hobson, who died in 16G4, it is found that he was born about 1610, and died in 1682. Administration on his effects was granted to his wife. Grace, on May 19, 1682. His son, Thomas Hobson (sixth generation), born about 1647, was a freeholder at Great Glen in 1719, and died there in April, 1727. He is believed to have married Elizabeth Stockdale, daughter of the vicar of Great Glen. Under the date of May 2, 1681. there is found in the "Allegation Book" at Leicester a notice of the intention to rnarrr of "Hobson et Stockdale." His will, dated April 5, was pr·:>Ye l at I eicester. April 11. J 7i7. He left to his grandson, Thomas Hobson, ··only son of my late son, William Hobson. of Great Glen, yeoman,*dece:.1~·ecl." a third pa:-t of a yardland, with the appurtenances, lying in the upper end, or north end, of Great Glen. His deceased son, Wllliam Hobson ( seve"'.l th genera tion), to whom he refers, was born about 1680, and died in December, 1712, ( buried December 27). He was married to Mary Smith. of Mowsley, i· in 1710, and administration was granted to h~r on January L2, 171 :~. Their only child, Thomas Hobson ( eighth generation), was baptize i at Gre·1t Glen on April 21, 1712. He married Mary Linthwaitet on NoYeml,e:- 13, *In earl;\· wills, etc, rnany of the Ga,n1bl~s n.nd H ohsons al't:' fl\ferrP.d to 11,s ~•pou1Pn. ~\ yeoman, in old English law, aC"corcling to Blackstone, was one haying free laud of fort,· ~billings by the yenr,(previousl~· flve nobles ,who ·was thereby qualified to sern•on jurfos. vote for knights of thf' sh.ire, and do i~n:v otl1er act for whieh the law required one who wn:,; "probus et legalis hmno.' ''.\. earn of Janel, or a ploughland, was in ancient tinws of thP yeurl:v value of flve noble~. and this was the living of a yeomnn". sass GuJllim's Display of Heralclr)·. A ploughlan t'The n1arringP lkt·ns1· l>ond at L1·kt'SU--r giY<'s tht:>S("' d1·tails: ··n,,, ..,rnl>c._•r Hi. lito. \\'il liam Hobson. a baehelor ugt'd nbout t8, Grt>Ht GlPnn: Mnry R111ith,spim;t1•r. :1g1'cl 2~. Mow!- le,·."\\'illia111 Robson's widow n1H1Th.. d a sf>l" *Bella.n1y is a na.n1e that ha.s long been P~tablishet1 in Nottinghamshir~ (which ailjoinR Leicestershire on the north). It occurred in the adjacent county of Ca.mbridge,1n the reiq;n of Edward I,and at present 1s to bt> found in J:fan ts. In the list of freeholders of N otts in 1698 occur!-. the uarne of Bel~ larny; t-he BPllamys, of whom there were several 1n the i1st, liYfd then in East Retford, Notts, and in other places in the county. and Bellamy is still an Ea.st Retford nan1e.-·~Homes of Fami1y Names in Great, Britain.•~ by Henry Br.:>ngnam Guppy ( 1890). The Bellamy fa1nily appears 1n Leices tershire 1n the latter half of the seventePnth century, a branch of the Not.ts fa.1nily. Gu~ry did not in l891i find the na.1ne PXisting to any extent in Lei cPster count.y ·rht) crPst of the Bellamy fa.mily of Notts is given as "An ann couped. habited. sable; cuffed. argent.; bold1ng in the hand, proper, a :.;cPptre, or, sn n11vu n trct by a crescent, a.rgn1t." 'l'h t1 8Alla.1nys Wt>l'P I ong located at Gren t. Stret.ton and LPicester, 1 n LPiees tPndli rP. John Bel lanl)!. :,;;on of John Re !lan1y. of St-n~tton Ma gr. a, h usb~u Hl nrn.n. was ad mi tt«-><.1 n fl'ePm an of LPiCP.st,er, .June 28, !701. Ric hard B<'-'l la1ny, fat.her of Ann Bellatny Hobson. and grandfather of ElizahPth Hoh.:on Oarnhle,wns horn t.hPrP. in 1703. According to Hill's "H1stor,y of thP Hnndrfld of Gart.rf>e 11 he is huriP.<1 in the churchvard o~ St.. GilP:--, Great :StrPtton, on h1..; tombstone being this inscription: ···Hert., liP.t.h the bod.v of Richa.r was <·hu,·chwanhm of Stret.ton l\ifagrrn. fort,v-fonr yp;--t.J's." B,v hi~ will pr:,v Pd J11nP- 8 1771,this Ric ha.rd Hella1n,· 1~,ft. h iF-; la.nd!-i a1, Rarsl>v to hi9 ~011 .John Ke.Ila.my. to his son~ Charle..::, ThonHt,s, ,v·illiam and .Jos,:ph onP hundred pou1Hb N-l.,"h, to his son John th1rtv po1111d~, to his dau~hter Ann (wtfP of 'J1110111as Hob..;on) one hundred pounds, t.lie l't~~idut-> of est.atP. to his widnw. '·Here lieth tlH! Body of '"l1lwn1as Hobson. \Vho J)ppartt>d this Life tht~ 25th Day of August. 17H2, ag-ed f)O Year~." "Here lieth the Body or l\Iary Hnh~on. tile wifP of Thoinas Hobson, \Vho devartPd this LifP, the 10th of .June, 170-l-. AgPd -11 YPar~."' six pounds each, these three annuities being a lien on his residence and several closes or grounds situated at Great Glen, embracing in all about fifty-nine acres, which were left to his oldest son, Thomas Hobson, his heirs and assigns forever. All of his "household goods, furniture. plate, linen, china, books, wearing apparel, brewing vessels, dairy utensils and provisions,'' were given to h-is wife and daughter, Johanna. All other per sonalty was directed sold by his administrators and the proceeds, with the funds and securities on hand, and monies due him, to be held in trust for his three younger sons, , Richard, Joseph and James. By a codicil his son, John, was left all his· interest in another tarm rented at Great Glen. As customary, the value of. the freehold was not appraised, but that of his personalty was placed at about $.2,800. His realty was probably of the v.alue o! abo1_1t ~;ooo !)Onnds ($40.-000). His widow, Ann (Bellamy) Hobson, was buried at .Great Glen, January 20, 1815. The daughter, Elizabeth, as stated, had emigrated with her hus:band, Thomas Gamble. the year before the death of her father, and located at Philadelphia, Pa. Her brother, Thomas ( tenth generation), who inherited the old homestead, was born in 1775., married Ann Harrison on October 2, 1796, and died · December 11, 1826, his wife surviving him and dying on February 13, 1851. The will of this Thomas Hobson is dated October 4, 1826. He left the dwelling house, with lands adjoining of about sixty acres: to his son, Thomas; to his wife, Ann, an annuity of 20 pounds, paya ble out of this real estate, and to her all of bis books~ household goods, furniture, plate, etc. He also mentioned his sons, William, Josiah and .John, and his daughter, Sarah, to whom small legacies were made. His will was proved November 21, 1827, and the personalty was appraised at between 550 and 600 pounds. His son, Thomas Hobson, the eleventh generation and the last of the line at Great Glen, was born in 1800,. and died there December 25, 1872. He was married, but left no issue, h.is wife dying in 18G8. His will was dated six days before his death, and was proved February 7, 1873. His personal estate was appraised at nearly 4,000 pounds ($20,000). By the terms of his will it was disposed of among his brothers and nephews and nieces, none of whom were resident at Great Glen. It is pre3umed thaL be disposed of the real estate left him by his father to the Haymes family, who subsequently sold it to the present holder, although this Thomas Hou son continued to occupy the old homestead until his de:1th in 1872. Old Hobson Home, Oreat Ulen, Leicestershire, England, Erected /ty Thomas Hobson, in 1174, on farm inherited from his father In 1762. OrlginaUy three stories high, third story removed about 1888. The old Hobson home, of which an illustration is given herewith, stands about two hundred yards from the turnpike road running from Great Glen to Leicester, and about seven hundred yards from St. Cuth bert's church. It and the outbuildings were built in 177 4 by Thomas Hob son, father of Elizabeth (Hobson) Gamble, on the land inherited from his father in 1762; and was originally a three-story brick structure, with the out-buildings of the same material. The present owner of the property some sevell'teen years ago removed the third story of the building and oc cupies a large modern dwelling nearby, erected by one of the Haymes fam ily some thirty years ago. In the brick work over one of the entrances to a stable in the yard are the letters T. A. H. and the date 177 4, the ini tials of Thomas and Ann Hobson and the date of the erection of the house. In the church and yard of St. Cuthbert are a number of monumental in- scriptions to members of the Hobson family. Compiled from official sources by Henry Hartopp, Leicester, England,nem ber British Record Society and Leicestershire Architectural and Archreologi cal Society. I ADDITION AL DAT A. I INDEX. Adam., Mary 138, Robert and Eleanor 138, 210. Addington, Isaac 89. Allen, Eunice Hi7, Hm, George M. 168, Lucretia 171. Anderson, Ellen A. 168. Arnold, George W. 217. Aschenbach, Bessie E. 214; Carrie H. 214, John C. 214. J,c-seph W. 214. Atkins, Joseph 89. Atwater, John 88. Babb, Charles E. 172. Bacon, Elizabeth 156, Michael 15tL Baker, John 12{5, Sarah l H)~ Sidney Hines i I~, Tnoma.s i~o Baldwin, Nel,son 190. Bancroft, Abigail 142, 156, 158, Ebeneze:r 142, 15fi, Genealogy 156, .157, George 156, John 156, Thomas 141, lf>6, 240. Barton, Emmet P. 174. Bellamy Family, 227. Berry, Daniel Hi8. Bigelow, Edwin S. 190, Elizabeth F. ]!)0. Henrietta F. nw., J. E. M. 171. Bigsby, Abigail 178, 1H2 Bixby, Joseph, Jr. 128. Black. Etta 170. Blakeslee. Charles W. l i ;,. Blood, Jam-es ltiO, Lydia 108. Bourrilion, Ernestine :218. Boutwell, James 155. Bradstreet. Arms, 46; Annie Dudley, Sketch o.f, 57-61, Children of Rev. Dudley and Mary ( \Vain wright, 04, Children Governor .Simon and Anne (Dudley) 56, Col. Dudley, Sketch of, 76-78, Rev. Dudley, Sketch of, 79- 82, Lieut. Dudley, Sketch of, 83-85, Origin of name, 46-47, Mary, 159, 162, Hi3, Margaret, 44, 45, Old ,Andover Home, Sketch of. 69-75, Simon, Bart., 41, 47, Sim·on, Sketch of Governor, 4l-5G. Rev. Simon, 42, 43, 44. ( See Chart.) Bragdon, Annie E. 1 H8. Charles J. 1 HR, Edward P. M. 168, Ida Alice 108. Breck, ReY. Robert n3, fl4. Brewster. Elizaheth 187. Brintzinghoffer. Kate, 21-i. Brown. Annie .M. l us, Annie Milllkin urn. Edward E. Ul1, E-dward F. 191, Edward H. 1G8. Elijah 107. Elizabeth P. lliK, Elmira H. lfl7, Frank H. lli8, Fred J. 1HD, George Warren H:m. Homer \Y. l!H, John lfi7. John Jr HHl, Lizzie G. 1GB, Maria A. 171. Browne Arm,3, !l8. Browne Family of Stamford, Tolethorpe Manor, swan Hall, and Watertown, M~ss., 97-112. ( See Oharts). Browne, Abraham, of Swan Hall, Eng.. and Watertown, Mass., Sketch of, l0B-112, children of. 109. Browne, ,of Toleth'Orpe Manor, Christopher 103, John !-)7, H9, 101, 10:3, Wil liam 101. Browne, Francis, Counsel to Mother of Henry VII. 10:3, Mary. wi:e of Earl of Pomfret, 105, Rev. Robert, the Reformer, 105. Brcwne, of Swan Hill. Christopher l0fi-08, Thom.as 108, Richard 108. Rob- ert 107, 108. Burgess, Mary J. 191. Burnham, Clara E. 1 fi8. Burpee, George Herbert 215. Bryant, Abra.haru 155. Cave, Th,r;mas 22G. Claypoole, Loretta 17 a Clark, Jonah 67. Cleary, Alice Elizabeth 191, Arthur \V. 11,,, Charles H. 191, Em.ma Almira 191, Frank Edmund 191. Frederick F. UH, George T. 190, 191, Marion F. 191, Mildred B. 191. ( See Browne Chart). Cogswell, Jonathan 88. Coi,son, Hannah F. 176. Cramer, Allen D. 17 4, Ralph H. l 7 4. Curtice, Elizabeth 128, John Jr. 128. Davenport. Addington 89. Deal, Ph'ilinah 214~ 216. Dix, Miary 109. Dodg-e, Alice W. 173, Albert Ephraim 173. Anna Rooerta 173, Celia M. 173, Charles 173, Charlotte 173, Clinton M. 173, Frances Earle 173, George Clinton 173. Lizzie Adelia 172, Nellie Roberta 173, Robert 172. Sarah French 173, Sereno 173, \Vinifred May 173, Winfield M. 1 i3. William Robert 173. Doloff, Clara 191. Downing, Ann 56, 89, Sir George 56. ·Dr·ake, Hortensius N. 173, Mertie May 17 4, Vesta Estelle 17-1:. Dudley Arms, 1 7. Dudley, ·Sketch of Go-v. Joseph 29-40, Paul 89, 95. 96, Mary 89, ?~i .... u·u 1-:Iil dreth 168, Gov. T 1homay, .Sketch of. 1-26. -children of 28, Gov. Thomas Dudley Family Assn. 2~ Dunton, Samuel 155. Duston, Elizabeth 189. Hannah 189, Heroic Exploit of Hannan, 1H2-99, Thomas 189, 198, 199. Eaton, Abigail 142, 156, John 154, 155, lfi8, Jonas 158. Martha l 5R Wil liam 158. Eld·er, Ada 170, Esther 170. r Elwell. Eliza A. 170- 234 Ellwyn, Sarah 141, Thomas 141. Em,erson Arms. 186. Em-erson, Almira S. 190, Albert Alonzo HJ0, Caleb 147, 157, 15~, 178, 189, 190, Caleb F. 190, Carrie Ladora 191, Chiarle.s F. 190, Daniel D. 190, Gen ealogy 187-91, George W. 190, Hannah 189, Hannaih F. 190. H·enrietta M. 190, Nathaniel 187, Nehemiah 189, Ralf of Foxton 187, Ralph Waldo 187, Robert 187, Sarah A. I no, Stephen 189, T·homas 187, Willi·am H. 190. Epes, Daniel 88. Farnsworth, Mary H. 190. Faunce,MaryA. E. 122, 142. 145, 147, 157, urn. 170, 21H, Gertrude 217, Helen 217, Henry 142, 145, 147, 157, 159, 17H. ( See Charts). Fellows, Elizabeth Prince 171. Foste-r, Andrew lt.1, ..\-nn HH, lo2, M•ary 161, 162, Samuel 160. Sarah 146, 159. Frank, Amanda 172. F:r:is·er, M~rgaret E. 17H. French, Abigail HH), Edith B. 17H, PhoBbe 128. Frost. Charl€s n:3. Fulford, J ess,ie E. 17 2. Fulmor, William B. 218. Gamble Family at Burton Overy, Lei<>estershire, England, 202-219. , See Chart). Gamble, Alm1a Marie 21H, Alma. 219, Ann 212, Anne 207. Anni€ E. 214, Anna M'aria 217, Charles B. 214, Charlotte 216, Catharine 217, Edward Boyle 218, Eliza ·214. Elizabeth 215, 217, Elizabeth Ball, 207, Elizabeth Hobson iH>, 227, 2:n. Elsie 218, Em,eline P. 217, Florence I. 214, Francis 211, Har.ry 218. Helen, 122, 143, 145, 147, 157, 219, Henry 207, 211, Henry Vi. 214, John 212, 220, J-ohn \V. 218, Joseph 216, Joseph Kirk 216, Johanna 216, Mary 212, 214, 220, Mary B. 214, Ralph 218, Robert 205, 217, Samuel A. 218, Thomas 122, 145, 147, 157, 160, 179, 211, 212, 215, 218, 220, 227, 228, Thomas., Jr. 122. 142, 145, 147, 157, 160, 179, 218, Thomas Weldon 122, 143, 145, 147, 157, 219, William 211, 214, 216, 220, William Hobson 214, \\iilliam Myers 122. 143, 145. 147. 16,. 219, \Villiam \Veckerly 218 ( See Charts) . Gamel, William 202. Gamul, John 202. Gamull, Robert 205. Gamyl. Robert and Peter 202. Gardner. Anna Downing 5fi. Gilbe.rt, Sarah 9:3, H4. Gilson, Elizabeth 102. Goldsm•ith. Emma C. 214. Gildard, William HH. Goodwin, Nathaniel 15:'5, 157. Goodrich (Goodridge) Arms 1:-37, Dorothy 120, 12A, 1:n. 138, grants of Jana to Philip at Lunenburg 138, Jeremiah 1 :38. John 136, Margaret 138, Wil liam 136. Gould Family in England and Early Massachusetts, Sketch of, 119-29. Gould, Elijah 120, Eunice 120, 142, 145, 147, 157, Jacnb 120, land grants to Jacob 128, John l 19, 120, 125, 129, Nehemiah 163, Richard 119, Thomas 119, 120, 129, 13'0, Z-accheus 119, 122-25. ( See Chart). Greenwood Ella 218. Green, Edmund 167, Harriet E. 168, James H. 168, ,villiam E. 167. Groton, Mru2:s., Founding of, 114-18. Gurney, Fred F. 168. Hahn, Charle,s 217, Frank 217, Helen 217, John 217, John Van B. 217. Lillie 217, Riaymond 217. Hallowell, Charles E. 218, Didamiia H. 218. Harroun, George 170. Hartshorne Genealogy 158, .John 142, 156, 158, John Jr. 15G, 158, M'ehitabet 142, 144, 145, l 46, 15H, 158, Thomas 158, Timothy 158. Hawkes, Harriet N. 167 Haymes, Robert 225 Heiss, James 214. Hobson Family at Great Glen, Leicestershire, England, 222-31. ( See Ghart). Hobson, Ca;th'arine 225, Elizabetih 212, 227, John 222~ 227, Robert 222. 223, Thomas 212, 222, 223, 226, 227, 229, 231, William 222, 226. 227. ( See Chart). Holt, Ephraim 171, Ephraim E. 171, Howard A. 175. Howell David 217. Humphrey, Ann 167, 171., Martha 167.,.17.S Irish, Bf:njamin F. 172, Frank 168, Fred H. 168, Howard F. 168. Ida Anna 168, Martha E. 168. Jenkins, Lyaia l 78, 183. Jones, Caroline, 170. Jordan, Alfred Huston 169, Carl A£hton 169, Charles E. 169, Florente M-iriam 169, Fred Brown 169, G€org.e H. 169. Kemp ( e) Family in Massachusetts and .Maine, 159-177. ( See Charts). Kemp, Abigail 163, 170, Albert Newell 176, Alic~ J. 171, Alice L. 170, Alice M. 17 4, An-d-rew A. 170, Anne Humphrey 172, Annette Wardell 177, Au gustus Fellows 172, Be.rtha Leona 172, Bertron Charles 176, Caroline C. 175, Charles Emery 175, Charles F. 174. Daisy B. 175, David 162, 167, David, Jr .. 164, 171, Dudley Bradstreet 163, Ebenezer 159, 162, 163, 164, Ebenezer, .Jr. 16~, 164, Hlfl. 1 Gi. Ebenezer, 3rd. l 67, Hrn, Eda .Marion 172, Elijah 167, Ellen J. 171, Emma C. 170, Ephraim 164, E·sther 167, Ethel S. 174, Etta J. 170, Fred C. 17--1-, Frederick George 172, George Clinton 171, Ge,orge H. 171, Grace I. 175. Hallie Byrd 174, Hannah 159,163, 169, 178, 184, Harry Emerson 177. Israel Humphrey 172, Irving W. 171, Jeremiah H. 170, Jesse Benton 172, Jo.hn A. 170, Jane E. 170, Jonathan 176, Jonas lH3. Julia Ann 171, Lelah M. 174, Lena 172, L-eona SuS'an 174, Lewis Ly man 17(:i, Lucius Sidney 174, Lucius Sidney, Jr. 175, Lucy Elizbaeth li2, Lydia 163, Martha A. 1 ifi, Martha H. 17fl, Mary 167, Mary A. 169, Mary F. 175, Maurice Clinton 17H, Melvin W. 171, Molly Hrn, Oliver 1n:1, Oscar IDm~ry 176, Phineas Arthur 172, Relief 167, 170, Robert 160, Samuel 159, 160, 161, 162, Samuel, Jr. 164, Samuel R. 171, Sarah Colburn 172, Sarah Maria 172, Simeon 163, -Sidney H. 177, Submit 167, Susanna 162, Susie l\f. 175, \Valter Emery 176, \-Villiam 162, 163, 164, WilUam W. 170, Willis Bradstreet 171, Willis Bradstreet, Jr. 172, Z. Willis 176. (See Charts). KEndall, Sketch of Thomas and His Daughters, 154-55. Kezer, Elizabeth 163. Kilborn, Irs-aac 170. KHpatrick Family, :Zl8, Florence 0. 143, 145, 147, 157, 160, 218. Knight, David S. HJO, Levi 167, Phoebe 169. L,acey, Lawren~e 161, Sarah 159, 162. Lakin, Sketeh of Lieutenant William 113-18, ChBdrne of, 113. Lakin, Abigail 82, 114, Abraham 11:1, 114. Isaac 160, John 114, Willla.m 10~, 111. Lane, M·ary Ellen 173. U wr€nce, Enoch I tiU. Leach, Blanche L. 177. William T. 175. Lewis, John 109. Libby, Martha E. 171. Linthw-aite, Mary 226. Longley, WUHam 160. Lowell, Albert 170, Alden 171, Charles H. 170. Clarence E. 1i 1, Stevnen 170. Mann, Mary 147. Marden, Hannah 189. Matthews, W:alter H. 175 Maxwell, William 173. Mt:-ehan, M:ary 217. Melchor, John J. 217. Metcalf Family in England and Early Massachu~etts, S-Ketcn or 139-42, de- riv·ation or name 139. Metcalf, Elizabeth 142, 156, Leonard 141, Mkhael 141. l4·~ Min-or, Charles E. 174. Min:ot, Stephen 88. Morton, William Henry 169. Moses. Helen Freeman 169. Munroe, \Villiam R. 1 73. McKenney, Geo. S. 170. McPeek. Elva B. 175. Needham, Francis 207. Newbury, Corlos Earle l i2, Edwin C. 172. Newmarch, John 125. Newton, Anne 211. Nichols, Ebenezer 144, J6:l. James 144, John lfifi, Richard 144, SuS'a.nna 142. 144, 156, 158. Norton Elizabeth 8H. Nottingham, Almarin 173, Avon Roberg 173, Daisy Adele 173, Jona.than Earle 173, Sadie- Alden 173, Vesta Irene 173. Nuttin_g, P~tience 162. Page, Jos~ph 129, Nathaniel 12~. P~lmer, J1ane 129. Parker, Benjamin 146, Elisha 142, 145, 146, 147, 156, 158, Elisha, Jr. 120, 143, 14·5, 147, 157, .Ethel Pauline 191, Geanology 146-47, Jo·hn 94, 146, 154, John Gould 120, 121, 142, 145, 147, 157, 178, Hannah 146, Mary A. Thayer 122, 142, 145, 147, 157, 159, 178, 179, 190, Newell 0. 101, Thomas 146, T,ryphenla 163. William 162. (See Charts). Parkhur.st, George, J·r. 109, John 111, Paul Clifford 214. Harris w. 214. Patch, Eunice 120. Pearson, John 155. Peck, Ellen C. 171. Pennypacker, Harry 214. Pe.rkins, Francis 88, Jacob 8-8, Priscilla 128, Thomas 125. Petersilea, Eugeue 191. P.billip,s, Relief 159, 163, 167. Pierce, Ann 94, Esther 129. Pinkham. Albion B. 190. Poole-Nic:hols Genealogy 144-45. Poole, John 144, :MO, Jonathan 144, Mary 14,. Pottle, F•red Leroy 177. Prescott, Lizzie 170. Procter, J1oseph 88. Rawlings, Charles Mcilvain 215, Florence Mabel 2U,. Redford, Hannah 94. Redington, John 125. Robinson, Elizabeth 113. Rowe, Mary 211. Rynaker, Amelia 173. Saltonstall, Richard ~a. Sawtell Family at Groton, Mass., 178-85. Sawtell, Aaron 185, Hannah 185, Jessie 184, John 161, 185, Jonathan 185, Joseph 159, 163, 178, 182, 183, 184, Lot 184, Lucy 184, 185, Lydia 184, Matilda 185, Mehitabel 120, 142, 145, 147, 157, 159, 178, 185, 190, Obadiah 185, Richard 178, 179, Zachariah 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 184. ( See Charts). Scott, Nancy M. 176. Seco•r, Duane 2H}, Carrie F. 219, Lottie 219. Sewall, Philippa, 88, Steph~n 92. Shattuck, John 160. S·hepard, J eremiab 88. Sheperla, Joseph 217. Shingle, Emma C. G. 214, F 1·2-nk D. 21. Shorey, Alice M. 176. Silver, Mary 90, 94. Simpson, Marcia E. 169. Smith, David 163, L. S. 173, Mary 226. Soehren, Louise 17 4. Starke, Margaret 211. Stevens, Elizabeth 131, 134, John 131, 134, 135, 136, ~40, Lizzie J. 171. Stockdale, Elizabeth 226. Stor..e, Margar•~t 128. Summers Family. Arrival in America and Revolutionary .Services, 21&. Summ·ers, Ann Walraven 215, George 215, George W. 215. Sarah Catherine 215, vVm. Gamble 215. Tatro, George 171, Mabel 171. Tyler, Job 82. \Yacker, Minnie 173. Wainwright Arms, ~W. Wainwright Fa1nily, Skekh of, 87-9H. "\\-·ainwright, Elizabeth 9:~, Francis 87, 88, 89, !l5, John 88, 89, 9-l, Lucy H5, ~ti, Mary ·rn. <'Si, ~4, ~5. Iviehitaoei i13, Sarah 93, Si1uuu 8~ 39, 90, Sl. '1Valdo, Stephen 88. \Valr-aven, Joseph 212. w·a1ter:s, Charles Earl l 74. \Vardell, Sarah E. 17H, Sibyl J. 17H. Webb, Lizzie E. H,8. Weber, Pauline 217., Susie 217. \Vebster, Hannah 18!l. Jf)hn, 189, 240 \\'eckerly, Frank T. 217, Harry C. 217, Mary E. 217, Philinah 21~ William M. 217. ,Veeks, Emory A. 174. Wetherbee. Joseph Hi:1 Whipple. Sarah 88. \Vhittier, Joseph Emerson l!ll., Ozro M. 1n1. \\'llkinson, Robert 184. Williams, Florence G. 214, Samuel Monroe 214. ·wuson, Eliza 214. Wilthe, Zachariah 162. Winship, Aldora E. 17G, Frank E. lu8, Minnie B. 176. \Vinthrop, Adam, 89. Wolf, Ella 218. \Voodman Arm·s, 130. \Voodman, Edward 131, 132. Joshua 1:11, 1:12, Mebitabel 1:H. Woodward, George 111. Wynn (e) Family, 218. Yates. Mary 120, 128, 12B, 1:10. Yorke Family, ~n. \Vill of Edrnonde ~fl. II II ADDITION AL DATA. II ~======11 Referring to John Steven~. of Newbury and Andover, Mass. (see pages UH and 135) \Va.!ter Kendall Watkins,in notes on the emigrants from Read ing, Eng., and vicinity. in the New England Historical and Genealogical ReJi~ter for Januarj!, 1906, says: •·'ro evade the ship money tax a large emigration set in to New England. In the ~pring of t638 a band of emi grants was forn1ed in the neighboring parts of the counties of Berks, W1Jts, Hampshire and Oxford. ~'rhe List of the names ot the passengers intendt. d for New Englana. 1n the good slnpp,the Con1idence,of London.of 200 tonnes, John .Toh~on, mast.Pr. and this by virtue of Lord 'rreasnrers warrant of the 11th ot April, 1638" shows that '•John Stephens, of Newbury, husband1nan, was from Caversham, Oxfordshire, just across the 'l'ha1nes fr'1m Reacting. With hiln was his r.;rother Wilham. '.rhe family is an old one there,anct at tained some pron1i:1ence 111 later· da.ys. In the 17th c(:/ntury they held the farm of ~Aldw1nn's 'l'enants' and in the last century Mr. John Stephens, of Caversham Rise, was a benefactor to the poor ~y a bequest. In the parish church of St. Pet.er ( originally N onnan) the east window is a memorial to lun1." John Webster, grandfather of H ~nnah (Emerson) Duston ( see footnote page 18~) e1nigtated from Ipswich. ~uffolk, Eng .. to Ipswich, Mass,, where he was 1nade free1nan in 1635. Robert. Adarns (see page lli8) was born at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire , Eng., in 1602. Rev. Hiram Franc.is Fairbanks, of Milwaukee, Wis., in an article on the English ancestry of Henry Ada.ins of B1·a1ntree, in the N. E. H. & G. R., July 1905, reportR the foll)wing from the parish record of ut tery St. l\ia,ry: ~'1602-December-Rob~rt, the sone of Peter Adan1s, was baptized the xxiith day.,, Savage says he died October 12, 1682, aged 80. Genealogies now Hl compilation as reported by the New England His torical and Genealogical Register. include the follow 1ng: 'l'hon1as Bancroft, of Lynnfield, Mass., by John M. Bancroft, Bloorn tield, N. J. Eaton, all lines, by Bev. A. W. H. Eaton, New York City . .l\!Iichael En1erson, of Haverhill, Ma.ss., by Dr Charles Burleigh~ Mai den, Mass. rrhe Poole Fatnily, by Murray Edward Poole. Tbis includes the de scendants of John Poole, who settled at Cambridge, Mass., in 1632, re1nov ing thence to Lynn, aftenvards ca1lect Reading. Several of this name were arnong the ol'igi11al settlers at Jan1estown, Va.,Boston,Dorchester and other New England points. :rn1 :'.241 ffl 243 244 245 ~xe.c-utiu-.e ®f!i&.e ~ att.a:-uualr, Qia. 16;.erm-itu J}ltll! .e~~ JM:..al!.O-X" THOMAS GAM e LE, J1t. SECfU.:TA~V Bost on, iria:.-a.1 • I ar,1 fa:ndinf~ to the ~r. E. Ji. G. Society, tr1rour:l1 .:,·ou, copy of wo.rk of Pam.ily na.ta. The edition is one hundred copi;.~s, clot}1 ·hound $5.00. Tl1c 11ulk. of tl1e edition hau bcnn pln,ccd, but-, ir1,'.,rc are a fev.J copios o~ hand for any one dooiring aamc. ,rery respectfully, "--£') ~· ~ .. ,,-~~ L------~/~a~ o.--~ 247 248 THE FOLLOWING CHARTS ARE REPRODUCED IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY APPEAR IN THE PRECEDING VOLUME. GENEALOGICAL STA TEMENT =AMERICAt 1630 to 1905 A. D. -4lPREHom:· ~ M(1-JRI~ ~ THE BROWNE ARMS THE WOODMAN. ARMS THE GOODRICH ARMS THE DUDLEY ARMS THE BRADSTREET ARMS THE WAINWRIGHT ARMS THE METCALF ARMS D- OIIIA, b. ■ ICHAE I THO ■ AS-DDIDTHY 1SIMO• 811D - ■ IIIAIET. FR A IC I S-IINILIPPA & I I A NA ■ -LYDII. W I L L I A M- ■ a ■ aAREl'. =IAIAH JONI l'ODLl.-••••a•n. 1 T N D ■ A 1-l ■ Y,d.Read ltUDLI.Y, b. YORKE,dau. S 191:EET, one of d. Horbling, WAl ■ WRIIIHT, I EWA LL. ••oWIIE. son in EnglaadUl 80DDRICH, of d. Newbary, _METCALF, son ELLWYI, :r-emoTed from d. Reading, PARKER, b. in ing, Mau., Nozthampton, of Edmonde the first Fellows Eng., May, of the Wainright dau. of George of Thoma& 1613. Bury St. Ed- Mass., Fe6ni- of Rt'T. Leonard dau.o!Thomas England to Mas- Ma••·, in England i:o 1605; January 15, mund'a, SttHollc, ary 1683, Metcalf, rector of Ellwyn (b. Eng., 1576; de- and Katha:ryn of Em!llanuel Col- 1631 ; nun- :family of Wor- Sewall, of Browne, of Swan 3, aachWldtS in 1630 1662. emigrated to Mas- 1690. scmdant of tint Yorke, of Cot lege, Cambridge cupatin will cater and Chester Hastcd,Essez, Hall, Hawked.011, Eng.; remOTed to ha Ting m.ir- Tatterfotd, Nor- 1564,d.1648} or 1631; located sa.chuetts in the Baron Dudley; ton End, University, Eng.; prondBoston, counties, Eng.; England. Suffollc,Eng. (and W_ ate rt own, ried 2d John folk, Eng,, and and Elizabeth, at Cambridge in "Susan Ellen" Ma.sa.,aboutl641; Hull, of that descend.act of the his wife ; b. captain of E11glish Northampton, Tic:ardHmbling, Eng.,May12, :mno"Ted to Ips- 0 1632; remOTed to in 1635, locating troop under Henry Eng.; b. 1582; Lincolnshire, 1631. wich, Mass.,about ~hg;i~~~: e !_ d. Warertown, place. MetcalflofBeare Heigham, Lynn, a~d then fust at Lynn, then cf Nan.ne, by m, Harding 1596-1621 ; an 1630; soldier in Browne, of Stam• 1647 (inTentory Park and Nappa. Norfolk Co., toReading,Mass.; at Reading; free- filed April 3). Hall, Yorlcshitt:; Eng.,J11nel7, d. commission from stone Chun:h, early non-con the Pequot Indian ford, Lincoln, and commission Reading, in man. of the Colony Tatterlord 1593. Qti.eeu Elizabeth, near Nonh- formist clergy- War, 1637; ad- TolethorpeManor, theGene:ral Family name sub t.pt. 1667. in 1637; d. Read- 1597-98; secre-- ampton, April man, at o~e time mitted a freeman Rutland County, u Lieutena sequently spelled church, Jnne 17, ing August · 12, 1587; m. October tary to Sir Angus- 25, 1603; d. pnacliing abroad of ColonyMay31, Sheriff of Rutland Much 17,. Goodrich and 1683. tine Nkoll, kins- Roxbury, at Middleburg; d. 1671; early mer- County 1492, Goodridge, latter 13, 1616;":removed JONATHAN- UDITH. manofhismother, Mass., De- Horbling, Febru- chant of prom- 1500, 1509); re :t'I.)~ ~- form prevailing in t-o Dedham, POOLE, b. Cam- 1600-16; steward cember 27, ary, 1621 ( buried inence; d. Salem, moved to Water eralCourt of La• some branches. Mass., 1637. bridge, Mass., 1634; appainted ' J O H N-HANNAH toEarlofLincoln, 1643. February 9); will Mass., May 19, town, Mass., ~~·1J~. q uartermut:er by PARKER, b; KENDALL, 1618-24 ; one of dated December 1692. 1630 ; admitted Reading, Mass., b. Reading, freeman of tlie 1643, 1~: ELIZABETH-THOM AS General Court of foundc:s of Mas- 20, 1620, recorded JER~ MARY about1640-45; m. Mass., 1656; Colony March 6, 1660;4664, ltc,l;_.. METCALF, b.in BANCROIT, Massachusetts, sach u selts Bay in Consistory GOODRIDGE, ADAMS,d.a.u. Ca m bridge, dau.ofThomas SIMON WAIN-- A R A H 1631; d. Water d. Newburyafiy,1t b. Watertown, of Robert and England October b. in England May 31, 1671; Colony in 1630; Court of Bisbop WRIGHT,blps- GILBERT, Mass., Novem- Kendall, who Deputy-Governor of Lincoln. town 1650. 1690. _ . Mass., March 6, Eleanor (Wil- 4, 1626; m. Sep in 1022,sonof appointed O?met wich,Mass.,about m. October 6, of Three County ber 13, 1667; d. emigrated of Colony 16)0- 1637-8; m. at mot) Adams; tember 13, 1648; John and Jane Reading, Febru- from England 1656;removedto 1681; d. d. May 1, 1711. Bancrofi, who Troop, by Genenl 33,1636-40,1641- Newbury, No- b. Ncwbary, a.ry 21, 1699. about 1635 Haverhill, Mass., HaTerhill, LY DI A-WILL I AM J uft.=ELIZABETH vember 15, 1660; Mass., 1643. removed to Court, May 27, 44,1647-S0;Gov- O t,:H Served in· Indian and settled at 1683, as first mer- April 18,1688. STEVENS, Massachusetts 1674; appointed ernor of Colony BROWNE, LAKIN, Jr., b. wooJpt-[AN;4-,F after mother's re- Her father-was w:us. His brother, Lynn, Mass., cbant, located 0 niovaltoNewbnry bominDevon about 1635; Captain of Read- 1634-35,1640-41, b. Water- in England (prob- Lieut. Hannaniah where he was there ; Captain of town, resided at ing Military Com- 1645-46,1650-51; Mass., ablyReading), the family name shirt, Eng., in Parlcer, g."g. married in localmilitaryfon:e; ma1e~fE . of Newbw-y Lynnfield pany, by General "lf3S Major-Genl.com-• Ma:i-ch 22, 1625; i-emovedto ~~~~:;---· t:~ i~;::: appears in all 1601, a.nd father of Capt. 1639 to Re- slain by Indians re::ords a.s Good- located at Ips (Lynn) and Court, May 23, mandingColony's 1632-33. Reading, Mass., lish ;·xen.t ;!_-_ ·.aud Andover, John Parlcer,who bee ca-, inattaclconHa.ver- about 1645; one bom ; •. Mass. Capt. ri~e, whileWater- wkh, Ma.ss., Re ad i ng, 1677; Deputy" to forces; overseer of hill, August 29, comm anded who d. Read Harvard C.ollege of first settlers Newb Ja · ~- Stevens was town n-cords give in 1635, re- Mass.; d. General Court, 1708. ary 2 · bom in Eng- Lynn, August from Reading, in Americans at ing, July 17, 1636-1652 ; d. and original pro the originalspell- moving to battle of Lexing- 1703; Thomas Roi:bu:ry, Mass., prietors of Groton, ing of Goodrich. Saleminl638, 19, 1691; ser 1677. Ted agii.inst ton, April 19, Kendall d. July 31, 1652. Mass., in 1655 ; fo~~ .:f ' . :i~~1:5~ and to New 1775, and whose Reading July admitted to free • Cal'trsha.m, bury in 1640; Narragansett grandson wa.s 22, 1681. dom of Colony by Oxfo1d, to admitted ttee Indians i En MARY POOLE,TI A M E s b. Reading, NICHOLS, ReT. Theodore ~neral Court, Massac.hUStJtts holduatNew sign for many : ANNE DUDLEY, dau. of Thomas an-! SIMON BRADSTREET, b Mass., NoTember b. Reading, P:uker, the noted Dorothy (Y,:,rke) Dudley; b. Northampton, Horbling, Lincolnshire, Eng., in 1638; made bury, March yean 'Until re• ,----' ~:m~~ne!i67~. 14, 1662 ; m. Mass.,in.1658; Unitaria.n divine. Eng., 1612; m. 1628; fust American poetess; March, 1604; Cambridge Uni- freeman of the 27, 1660; d. lieved by ~n Reading, October d. Rea.ding, in first edition of her works published at London, versify", 1620; stewud to Count- GoTernor a.nd Colony at Newbury, eral Court 9, 1680; d. R~d- !745 ; son of Eng., 1640; d. Andover, Mass., September essofWarwick; chosen Assistant ABIGAIL.=A B RAH A M Genetal Comt as Newbury,May October 15, 3 JOHN -PAR -E L I Z A - 16,, 16"{2; ?ong -most notred descen~nts Judge of Court of ~lony of LAKIN, b. Lie'Ut. of.Groton 16, 1642 - d ?:st;, bhe; .::~ 1679;commis ing,July8, 1711. Richard Nichols, who KER,t:cReadmgJBETH, m. Andover,.April having died sione:d Lieut. Mass., December Jnly 15, 1691; Olivei- Holmes! Wen~ell Phillips,. Mass. BaYJ_ l~~ located at Ips ,Wen' 11, 1662. Junel2,1677. of the Foot 16,1668;d.Read- d. Januuy 4, ~- f! !W!BH. j wich, remov ~;d 'J~~ . ~.£, 1A-._. Company of ing, January 4, 1741. ·· -United Colonies;..wi.; __ ; · ~s bs/•b= ing thence to Lynn,Julyl2, 1741. ~7_:-9"1:"!_emor Mass. ~.ay <;:olo~y. I 1689. Reading, WOOD-=PHILIP GOODRIDGE, b. New- where he died 1677; -~: ~;ut.-~t I 11nlbTi' ~.151:-:NJKMTN 'AR AH N:;;;,:U:ry~ PARKER, b. FOSTER !!.,!~':,: t.i9~nenburg, Mass., January 16, -B!~=r. Reading", Mass., dau.ofSamuJ SUSANNA.:...... BENEZER April 9, 1703; m. and Sarah SAMUEL KEMP (or Kempe), emigi-ated from Engl.and b.:e•M~. ril ~I~~OLS'. Reading, April 8, {Robe:rts)Fas- to Massachusetts about 1650; located Billerica, Mass., 26, , d. N2t,;:d.; Reading, ter, who were in 1658; m. Sarah Foster, of Andover, Mass., daughter JACOB GOULD, b. Topsfield, Lyn d, in Mw~ ~16, 1741. m. Reading, 1717{homhis Centinel under ~ DUDLEY BRADSTREET, b. Andover,- NN PRICE, widow of Theo-- of Andrew and Ann Foster, of Andover, May 23, 1662; Mass., January 16, 1703; removed Mass.,inl701. removed to Groton, Mass., in 1668. ~o Lunenburg, Mass., 1730; served brother Col. Elea2er Her mother, Mass., 1648; Selectman of Andover, 1670-73, dore Price, of Andover, Mass.; Tyng,in 1722; 1676, 1680-82, 1684-85, 1688-90, 1692-93, m. Andover, November 12, 1n Capt. Thomas Wilder's Co., Col. Thomas des Sa.rah Roberts, cended the his 5erl'edinCapt. 1695-96; Lieut. of Militia, 1677-80; Captain, 1673. Joseph Wilder's Regt., 1757-59; was dau. of torian George Blanchard's 1680-93; Major, 1693-98; Colonel, 1698- afterwards Captain of Militia· d Abraham Bancroft). Company of 1702; Deputy" (Representative) to General SAMUEL KEMP, son of Samnel and Sarah (Foster) Lunenburg, July 16, 1787. ' H~ Roberts, of Kemp, b. Billerica, Mass., February 23, 1663; m, was son of Thomas a.nd Mazy Voluntee:s, in Gloucrst:erand Court of Musachusetts, 1677, 1680-83, 1686, 1725; Colonel Susanna - about 1685 ; one of garrison at Groton, (Yates) Gould, and grandson of Marblehead., 1691-92, 1695, 1698-99; member of Gover- JOHl-l HARTS--ABIGAIL of Regiment in nor's Council, 1098-1702; d. Andover, No- Mass., nndu Lieut. Wm. La.kin, in 1691-92: Capt. John Gould, who was b. at HORNE, b. Rea.ding, BANCROFT, M=. Hemel Hempstead, Herts, Eng., 1757-59;Dep- Tember }J, 1702. Mass., September 20, b . L y n n , 11ty-to General and brought to Massachusetts· by 1698; son of T"imotby Mass., No- his father, Zacheus Gould, in 1638. Court from 5 BENJAMIN- ARAH. I. and Martha (Eaton), Tem bei- 9, Reading in • DUDLEY BRADSTREET, only son Cot-MARY WAINWRIGHT, SAMUEL KEMP, son of Samuel and Snsanna Kemp, Hartshorne, who were 1696;m.Read- PARKER, b. 1752, 1753, Reading, Mass., Dudley Bradstreet, b. AndoYer, Mass., April b. Ha.Vel'hill, Mass., Janu- b. Groton, Mass., 1685-90; m. Sarah Lacey, Andover, m. Reading, Mass., De- ing, Mau., 1754, 1757, Mass., February 12, 1713. She was bom Andover, January 30, 1727. 27, 1678; graduated Hanard College, 1698; azy 4, 1686; m. AndOTer, ::11: tb;68.5n~~: Ju1y 26, 1121. 1762, 1763, GAMBLE AND HOBSON FAMILIES, ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 1480 to 1905 A. D. R?BERT HOBSON, of Great Glen, Leic-::stershire, Eng., b. about 1490; d. Gi-eat Glen about 1554; will dated February 24, 1550; proved at Leicester, June 20, 1554; m. Alice-; widow living 1554. HENRY GAMBLE, b. Burton Ov"lil ~-.. ,Eng., about 1480 · d Burton 0v F b 'MEHITABEL (HI'ITY) SAW-- OHN GoULD PARKERII b Gamy!, resident at Burton n..-- in 13 t , SubsidT Lay Roll ~t R-~ "'YOffi, eLornuyd • 15E47 i )a descendant of Robert 1 ...,,=; t 'C'4.i:,u,.. .•• , Public .... uiu ce, n on, ng .. TEL~, b. Groton, Ma.ss., April Lunenburg, Mass., March 13" 24, lr93;_m. lstJohn G. Parker, 1795; d. Philidelphia.,""J'a., 0ct0: I 8 4 83 THOMAS HOBSON, of Great Glen; d. 1570; will" dated March 28, 1570; proved at Leicester April ~;~• ~rat!·•a:e:=~~ ; ~ • o; ~~naa~u:=1'3f~ ~ 24, 1570; m. Alice - ; widow living 1570. ' Overy -hod m. 2d Caleb Emerson, of Marl.., John A. Parker. RJCHhAa~1ff~BLE, son of ~enrj.lJlir6,pl'u:rJoa.· about 1505; d. Burton Overy prior to 1560· m. Elizabeth Ball 1 60 • ...... ucingprDl'edatLeiccster4~.f1. • , ., · in borough, N. H., Keene, N. H., Matth 28, 1819; d. Keene, N. H., May 4, 1850. ROBE~T HOB~ON, b .. Great Glen about 1550; landowner there in 1603, as per tax roll; afterwards of r------~~------' faa;~:1l~~~•l~~estersb1re, where he d. 1625; will dated. November 9, 1625; proved at Leicester, HENRY GAMBLE, b. Burton Overy abo~ of Richa.n::l. and Elizabeth {Ball) Gamble· m. Margaret Starke, Februa.,nr 4, 1575 ., d. Burton Overy, A11gust, 1582; will P•~ September 22, 1582. ' ·J THOMf,.S HOBSON, _b. Great Glen about 1580; freeholder there in 1630; d. 1664; will dated April FRANCIS GAMBLE, son of Henry and M&.U9""(Sbc-lce) Gamble, ha.pt. Burton Overy, December lS, 1580. 21, 1664 ; proved at Leicester, September 30, 1664; m. Anne - ; widow living 1664. I THOMAS GAMBLE, son of Francis~ .Jaiton Overy, NoTember 17, 1611 ; m. Maria __ WILLIAM HOBSON, b. Great Glen a.bout 1610; d. 1682; administration granted at Leicester May 19, 1682, to his relict, Grace. ' I 1 ~~i~ !_MM~MB~, SOD of Tho~~ b. Burton Overy, 1650; d. Burton Overy, 1!177; will filed at Leicester, April, I I THOMAS HOBSON, b. Great Glen abont 1647; d. April, 1727 (bur. April 10); will dated April 5 t MARY A. THAYER PAR-=HENRY FAUNCE, b. Philadel 1727; proved at Leicester, April 11, 1727; m. Elizabeth -. · ' KER, on.ly child of John Gould phla, Pa., March 1, 1813; d. and Mehltabel {Sawtell) Parker, Philadelphia, Apnl 14, 1852; b. Keene, N. H., May 12, 1815; son of Henry Faunce descendant 18·35 ~-d~deJ:~: 1f~~la:n~ WILJAM HOBSON, b. G~t'Glen about 1680; m. Mary Sm.ith, of Mowsley'; Lei~, in"17l0; ~iy ~: :~ ~$a~~:t d. December, 1712 (bur. D«ember 27); administration granted January 12, 1713, to l'llidow. • 1884. Mary Harl.CT, b. l"hiw:id.phia, Sep . 1. tember .14, 1773. wJ,o. - -...... uc11J,"l'lrrf"J.l"J,--ir.n.. ELIZABbHHobson, bapt. Gre.atHOBSON, Stretton, dau~of-:. · .. , --' Bellamy}=r'HOMAlzr -- GAMBLE,· SOD of Wm. and Anne (Newton} Gamble 11 7 1773; d. Philadelphia, Pa., Norembef 292 ' ~:rt~~ ~• ! ne , 17f2 i m .. Great Glen·, Leicestershire: I ::~- 9 1 nat~ti~n ~;:~~ ~~dJtcie:~ i~~i~:1 THOMAS HOBSON, of Great Glen, sometime of Great Stretton, bapt. Great Glen, April 20, 1747; I Philadelphia, September 19, 1815; d. Philadelphia after 1820. ' m. Ann Bella.my, dau. of Richard and Elizabeth Bellamy, of Great Stretton, Leicestershire., January 10, THOMAS GAMBLE, b. Burton ~~799;-PHILINAH DEAL ( 1771; d. end of Mu-ch or early April, 181:.. {bur. April 2), a.t Gi-eat Glen; will dated April 13, 1810; m. Philadelphia., Pa., January 24, l~y 1, b. Philadelphia ) d~u. nee Frowart. who was proved at Leicester, May 12, 1811; widow bur. Great Glen, January 20, 1815, aged 63. Her father I 1775 ;~1:· feal, 1845. ' May, • ' • · P 1a, 1800; d. Philadelphia, b. 1703: d. June 3, 1771 ; was churchwarden of Great Stretton forty-four years. 1878 Hob1on Family Record compiled by Henry Hartopp, of Leicester. Eni-., Member of the British Rei;ord Society a.nd the Leicestenhire Ar-chitectura.l and Arch,u,ol0pcal Society. 11 I THC?MAS GAMBLE, JR., , I · WILLIAM W. GAMBLE b 1 'EDWARD B. GlMBLE b b. Richmond, Va., March 10 Ricbmond,_Va., January 10, 1865 i "H ARRY GAMBLE,I b. Phila. COMPILED 1868; :m. Florence 0. Kilpatrick' Richmond, Va., Sept. 15, 1861 : ~-, Bo:milion, August delphia, Pa., September 24 1858. Savannah, Ga., Ma_v 15, 1890. • 1!;6est1ne llisJ~lla Greenwood, October 31; m. Ella Wolf, January 10' 1882 '. from Official Colonial, Town, Church and Court Records, Family Papers, Town Histories, and !~iladelphia, Pa., October 20'. I__ I I__ I fg 9 Other Sources of Authoritative Information in the United States and England 1 I__J ~HELEN GAMBLE, b. Savan 10 I SAMUEL A. GAMBLE, b. BY nah, Ga., August 27, 1892. ~~:l:SIE GAMBLE, b. Oct. 16, 1 March 7, 1905 (otber issue d. I ''TH0MAS WELDON GAM young). 1'lRALPH GAMBLE, b. Pbila. THOMAS GAMBLE, JR., f8~f• b. Savannah, Ga., April 1, '" JOHN W. GAMBLE, b. Feb. ?-eipbia, l'a., _Oct. 5, 1887 (other 22, 1901 (other issued. young). 1 ISSue d. young) . Member of New England Historic Genealogical Society; Gov. Thomas Dudley Family Associa ~ ALMA MARIE GAMBLE b Savannah, Ga., July 28, 1898; d. Atlanta, Ga., August 21, 1899. tion; Society of the Colonial Wars; and Society of Sons of the Revolution. ltWILLIAM MYERS GAM BLE, b. Savannah, Ga., April 14 1902. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 1905. Pedigree of Browne, England America, 1330 to 1905 A.D. 1 JOHN BROWNE= _Boru abou~ 133~ ; of the Borough of Stamford, Co. Lincoln, Esq., Ald=an e., Chief Compiled from M:tgismte: until the tlme of Cha:rles II. no Mayor] of Stamford in 1376 and 1377 I the 50th ycu of Edward III. (A. D. 1376) SU' Thom~ de Burton, Knl., by deed conveyed to :i all bis Entries in The Herald's College, Official Pedigrees, Court and Parisb Hegisters in la:1ds, tenements, etc., of the Ma.nor of Tolcthorpe, Parish of Little Casterton, Co. R .and, rw::i miles north of Stamford. Toiethorpe Manor subsequently became the principal seat of t • Browne En&land, and from Colonial, Town, Church and Court Records, family Papers, and family. Other Authoritative Sources in America, by 'JOHN BROWNE, OF STAMFORD, ESQ.= THOMAS GAMBLE, Jr., Member of ~JOHN BROWNE,of Stamford, - MARGERY,d. Nov. 21, 1460: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, The Governor Thomas Dudley Family Draper, Merchant of the Staple of Caws, Alderman of Stam• buried in All Saints' Church ford in 1414, 1422 and 14Z7. Died July 26, 1442. Buried in Association, Society of the Colonial Wars, and Sons of the Revolution. the Chu~ of All Saints', Stamford, one of the principal orna· ments of Stamfcrd, which was built at hisexpense. {San..nn.ab, Ga., 1905.) I "WILLIAM BROWNE, of Stall!ford, Esq. - ~ARGARET, dau. o John Stoke, of Will dated 17 Feb., 1488•89; died 1489. Buried in St. Maty's Wano1ngton, Co. Northawf :Jn, Esq., and one ~JO!N BROW1'!°E, of Stamford,F.sq.,- AGNES, d. in 1470, buried Cha'Del. in All Saints" Church. Was a '' Men:hant of the Staple of the sisters, and in h•r ;-,.,. ,..,.. "-..l• of Thomu ~~. Alderman 1n 1448, 1453, 1462; by side of her husband. of C'abis," Alderman of Stamford in 1435, 1444, 1449, 1460, Stoke, clerk, who died 11th of ~enry VII. (1496). died ~ 1-462 and 1470; buried in 1466, .470; Sheriff of Co. Rutland in 1467, 1475, 1483, 1486, Her will dated 1489, proved : t89•90. She was All Sam.ts" Church. and pr.;,bably of Linco1Il5bin: in 1478. Founder of Browne's burled by side of her husband. ~~; i~~emif~:~~i:iiSai';~t ~is S:Un;:.g. •ELIZABETH, dau. and GRACE, dau. and 1eir of Jo - icHRISTOPHER BROWNE of Sta f rd, Lin I - Jeir, M. Sir John Elms, II . I Pinchbeck, of Co. Li:r ?CJln, _Esq., and of_ Tol.etborpe, Co, Rutland, Esq. of Ru~: of AGNES, ~11. JOHN, AGNE$, m. int. Sb:n« EDWARD. ELIZABETH, endowed 20th Ed. IV. 1st wife). landshire, 8th and 16th Henry VIL (1492 and 1500) field Co ~ng. Ww. Waryn, of m. Wm. Cook. Okeham. ------and 1st _Henry VIII. (1509). He came O'f'er from (2d orlolk Dil N!'I el anu 1,,ur1q t. Ont .-utff. a ■ 4 IN cnst, r f"rance wilh Henry VII. and assisted him against Richard rle i · ... trUW 19 QrlalQN, t. HIO ~ an..... III., for_w~ Henry VIII. on 6tb day July, 18th Unrd IT.). Dlt,-rt 1hwtar DlrN Ulltl 'FRANCIS BROWNE,-MARGARET, dau. of se:mce wu Ml'N 11 n Artier Uk. of Tolethorpe, Esq. Will, Robert Matthew, of Bnden, !~:in: ~~~e;.= =-m:7•:oth:r~r;:i~ 1------J .544. Co. North.am on VIL! a patent exempting him from holding the office of "ANTHCNY BROWNE,=DOROTHY, dau. of Wm. WILLIAM. ~i!i=~•i::~=:,g::ifn;,pi;::: ofTolethorpt.Esq, I Botdor(orButler),ofWood- ~nd successon,dc. Thatpartofthearmawhichappeu ,------,-----,,---'--..:h,11:::;-,.,.eo:;.·..:Hertfoni, Knt. ~!:rofi~-~~:~~• ~~:~.~~ J I I 111 1·------.------="""""=~rn~~~~ ~i.~el:1tf~'b~HMACK- PHILIP ~~Ef%~JL ri~~::~. t~::,~E~~-~:~· 5. ~ ~:~:i.~t~~l:a~~~NNE. t~i:~:-~. r------. 1525. !~;!~th~f ~nn~'.' ;!d ~~~fRINE, 0 0 ~~=~l ~~ ::!'ns.~c:!~!:, To~~o1:;, i!f_OWNE, T~o~Q:!-k!;, i{~~ of England; orga• Sir Wm. Cecil an adio1n1ng par. shes of Somerton and ~:rlep~~ ~1:trd ~:~~h!f Hawkedon. Wi~datedMay27,1531, ) = nds 3 1° CHRISTOPHE~ELIZABETH, dau. of Sir E,tngNI, n::1~.. ~.s,.8m0-, ~-----~ Queen Elizabeth. rs;a~ at Bury ~:t. Edmu ' July • BROWNE, of Tole- Edward Harrington, Bart. 0 • .. ,..., thorpe.,_Esq~.--~ prisonedthirty-two } tiwes in six years, ANTHON1T~L~:K~ ,, ~eOB~!i~s !~W:~ B~g,ffN~~ ~T ~w!nHH~. 11 ED WA R -ELIZABETH, dau. of :10::e ~r~~ \ j "Swan Hall." Died Will dated Nov. 24, 1568, ~~~~~-, o~. ~o~~~ ~n~~::;gn~n~!w ~: ~r:~;b i~ f:~~x EDMUND=f#irt ANNE=WM. :i:;u~i~ef ~=~e:r :~egl~t ~;7_ St. Edmunds, 27, 1719. Ryhal!; d. May 3, 11oi. anrl body return'-"J. _ HOBMAN Browne, 1531,descended to Established JO!H", I to Thomas Browne, so:i Ch11rch. Died .._,. BRIDG:ET=HENRY of Robert's brotherCbris- 1630. COOKE topher. o~,~74~IE BROWNE,Ji~P~,~~ o:~7~;· I u THOMAS TROLLOPE BROWNE,=HARRIOT, dau. Robert Need· Esq. Assumed name of Browne, in absence ham, Esq. • THOMAS BROWNE, of Swan-jJOAN. ROBEr.T. bu..=ANNE. JOANTTHOMAS Hall. Will dated De:. 22, 1590, June 7, 1 ~. Prin. , BAYLYE, of male descendants of Edward Browne, his p?OTed at Bury St. Edmunds,Jany, cipal heir f Christo. d. 1559. granC.father. Died 1767. 26, 1591. Buried Dec. 23, 1590. Will prorided that " The Dei.ns " pher Bro "'·--,-'-----, AMBROSE, and- ''The S,n.~.'' or ''Swan. I I u MA1'T :8:R.OWNB,=~t. Ho~. GEO. TEIY'.{"lR, 3d Earl of Poni&et, who I WILLIAM. Hall.,'' with ANN BRIDGET, HENRY, ,...... 1"7 11 11 u JONATHAN LAKIN, b. Reading, II ABRAHAM LAKIN I b. Reading, WILLIAM LAKIN, b. Groton,= ELIZABETH ROBINSON. ABRAHAM LAKIN, b. Groton,=ABIGAIL - 11 ELIZABETH LAKIN, b. Groton, Mus., J11ne ZS, 1661. Man., Jan. 10, 1663.64-; d. infant. Mass., May, 1666; m. Chelmsford, Mass., Mass., Sept. 11, 1667. \ , Mass., Jan. 8, 1669. Died young. Jan. 4, 1685. No male issue. I It ABRAHAM LAKIN 1 1, SAMUEL LAKIN b. Groton, Mus., Dec. 15, b. Groton. Ma.a.• Aprli 1701. 6, 1713. 11 ABIGAIL BRAD· 11 MARY BRADSTREET,-EBENEZER. KEMP, IOD of Samuel and Suah 13 ANN BR.ADSTRJ ~.:=SAMUEL HOBART. 13 LUCY BRADSTREET,:=JNO. PRATT. 13 SARAH BRAD· u HANNAH BRAD· STREET, b. Groton, Mass., b. Groton, Mus., Aug. 7, 1730; (Lacey) Kemp, b. Groton, Mass., April, 1729; d. b. Groton, Mus., Ma] 18, b. Groton, Mus., April 8, STREET, b.Groton, Mass., STREET, b. Groton, Mass., June 27, 1728; d. 1745. d. White Red, Me., 1825; m. Groton about 1791. Sened in Capt. James Pres• 1735; m. March 26, 1'1~5. 1738; m. Feb. 26, 1756. Sept. 26, 1740. August 13, 1743. Westford, Mass., Oct. 31, 1749. cott's Co., Lt.·Col. John Winslow's Battalion in French and Indian War. Delcendant of Saml. Kemp, who aettled at Billaica, Mass., prior to 1658 and nmond to Groton in 1668. 1 1 1 "EBENEZER KEMP,Jr.,b.Gro--RELIEF E uLYDIA KEMP,:=J O S E P H "ABIGAIL=D A V I D -'llANNAH KEMP,1-JOSEPH SAWTELL, b Groton, May 8, ' WILLIAM, b. Sept. 2, 1753. " OLIVER K.EMP,==LYDIA ton, Mus., Jan. 11, 1750; m. August PHILLIPS, b. Groton, Mus., WETHERBEE. KEMP, b. SMITH, of b Groton, Mass., Aug. 1764; d. Groton, Man:h21, 1842; descend· b. Groton, Mass., J1me BLOOD. 31, 1773, Groton; serYed. in Groton b. Groton, Jnly 4, 1760; m. Groton,Mass., Shrn-sbury, 17, 1762 ; m. Groton ant of Richard Sawtell, an early English ~i~r b~N~~rt1 i½sk:~: 27, 176S; m. April 12, companies in Continental Army in Mass. Nov. 4, 1784. July 28, 1751; Mass. Feb. 22, 1788; d. Groton Puritan, who located at Watertown, Mass, Nehemiah Gould, Mu. 9, 1773. 1790; drowned. in Lake battle of Bunker Hill and other engage- m. April 23, Dec 21, 1814 pnor to 1636 and WU one of original prop. SIMEON, b. Sept. 28, 1758, m. Champlain in 1811. ments of the RnolutiollUJ War; re- 1781. netors and first settlers of Groton in 1655 Tryphen.ia Parker, May 6, 1784. mO""fed to distrid. of Maine in 1782; d. Sened. in Continental Army lD Capt. Hony's ANN, bapt. July 13, 1766. Gorham Me. 1833. and Capt Drnry's Cos 1780•81 at age of 16. 1 I I I I I 15 15 1 I-,. NA" ]ONA- 1 ELIJAH nsUBMIT URELIEF MARY 1iEBENE• ''DAVI N - CALEBEMERSOtt- ~MEHITABEI -JOHN GOULD PARKER, b.=MARY llMAT[LDA ,. HANNAH u LU C Y I) JO ?IN "AARON KEMP, b. KEMP, mar. KEMP, b. KEMP, b. ZERKEMP, KEMP, b. HUMPH· THAN son of Lieut.Caleba1d (HlITY) SAWTELL, Lunenburg, Mass .. March 13, MANN. SAWTELL, SAWTELL, SAWTELL, SAWTELL, SAWTELL, Ncrv., 1777; d. Sept.30,1797, Otisfidd, Me.; Otisfi.dd, Me.; b. Gorham, Gorhaw, Me., REY,ofGray, KEMP, b. Abigail (French) Emel• b. Groton, Mass., April 1795; d. Phila., Pa., Oct. 14, b. March 11, b. Aug,.i.st 4, bapt.Apn112, b. Sept. 4, b. April 28, Gorham, Me., to Josiah Clark m. May 3, m.Levi.Knight Ma.inc ; m. 1793; m. Oct. Me. Gorham, Me.; son, b. Hampstea.l, Z4, 1793; d. Keene, 1835. Lineal descendant of Zachens 1795. 179!L 1801. 1803; m.Sarab 1791. 1 Oct. 7 I 1846. 1807,toJohn of Windhaw, Eunice Allen, 21, 1819; d. m. Martha N.H., Jan.14, 173-< ; N.H.,May4,1850;m. Gould, wbo emigrated to Mass. Bennett Mar. Brown, of Me. of Windham, July 5, 1853. Humphrey, o1 d. Keene, N. H., Man"h Surrey, N.H., Sept. 18, from Bucks Co., England, in 1638, 18, 1824. Gray, Me. Me., June 6, Gray, Me., in 24, 1852. Descend.aat 1814; sepanted.aftertwo and of Capt. Edward Woodman, of 1808;d.1852. 1825; d.1857. of Robert Emerson, ,f years and married 2d, Ne-wbw-y, Mass. (1635), Capt. ,----,------r==-=;~-----'-,-----,1 Bilhops Stortford, E1111• CalebEmerson,ofKeene, John Poole, of Cambridge, Mus. 1 II 1 14 3 11 JUL I A ' WILL I ELIZABETH ISRAEL HSARAHMARIA ' GEORGE LUCIUSSIDNEY ~~~~~ : !!u'.g~~N~YJ\~•r!t g;, ~~~,~~7)~a.::\!ter~~= ~-N~~~!: ~~~~:Et! ;:LIL~~:. ~~:p: ~!-~f;tit:r~; Keene March ZS 1819. inalaettlersofMassachusetts. ii1:i.or ~-~f~y\t~r; ill~:::2~:ira~i- Me., March 3, ham, Me., Jan. of Angusta, b. Godia.m, m. Robert Dodge, Gorham, Me., m. Susan Klinefelter, ,_e:::..:c==="----' 1820; m.Eph· 23,1822;m.April Me. Me., Ja.n. 20, of Londonderry, N. Ju-a.ell, 1828; of Wiaconsin, June 11 MARY A. THAYER-HENRY FAUNCE, b. Phila., nim Holt, of 15, 1849; d.Apnl 1824; m. Am· H., N01'. 29, 1846; d. Oct. 19, 25, 1854, Ii-ring ia. PARKER, dan. of John,Pa., March 1, 1813; d. Phila. Portland,Me., 14, 1892. anda Trask,of d. W.-consin, lea•• 1846. Wilconsi.n in 1904, G. and Mehitabel {Sa..-. April 14, 1852. Hi:s father, Henry Dec.27,1835; Gny, Me., ingfi-n: children in ha-ring nine chilchen tell) Parker, b. Keene, Fauaoe, b. Phila. May 8, 1770; m. d. March 9, NO"l".10,1853. that State, all mar• then. thing, all mar• N. H., May 12, 1815; Mary Harley at St. Paul's Episcopal 1852. riedandwitb.familie:s ried tu, Phil&., Pa., May Church, Phila., May 16, 1791; ,------,---'-----r-----,------,------, 11, 1835; d. Phila., Pa., waa descendant of the Fannces of 12 1884 nd "GJRGE CLIN• 11 SARAH COL- 11 WILL IS 11 ANNA HUMPH- 11 AUGUSTUS 11 LUCY I ELIZA- May ' • early New Engla history. TON.KEMP,b.Gor- BURN KEMP, BRADSTREET REYXEMP,b.Gor- FELLOWS BETH KEMP, b. "ham, Me., Dec. 27, b. Gorllam, Me., KEMP, b Gor· )lam, Me., Aug. 16, KEMP, b. Gor· Gcnham, Me., April 1849; m.Ellen Peck, Aq;. 19, 1851; ham, Me., April 1855; m Geo. Wm. ham, Me., Jan. 6, 1859; m.. Bell]. of Manc:heater, N. uma.nied. 27, 18S3; un• Oark,ofCambe:rb.nd 13, 1857; tsD• Fnnklin. lr!ah, of "!...,. • ~ z:a, 1A"7"l ..., • .,...;.,.i 1.-m. ~- !"-. 1."1, _....,,;~. r.--- v-. V~. i ---' I H DANIEL EM. H SAR.AH EM· 11 ,-- 11 11 I EORGE T. "ALONZO •• HENRI· FRAJrcrs 1~ EM· 11 WM. HENRi· ERSON, b. Keene, ERSON, b. Keene, HENRIE'ITA M. ANNA S. FAUNCE, b. Pbila., Pa., 11 MARY A. EUZA :=THOMAS GAMBLE, h • .Phila., Pa., Jan. CL;EARY, b. EMEB.SON, ETTA EM• ERSON, b Kee.;e, N. l"AUNCE b.Pbiw.,Pa., FAUNCE, b. Phil&., Jan. 22, 1849; m. 1st Theodore H. Halifax, N. S., b.Keent, N. ERSON,died H.,Feb.16,1836;:lmug .Aug, 13, I.Ml; m. 1st Pa., Sept. 1, 1836; m. BETH FAUNCE, 25, 1833, 1iYing 1905. Son of Tbom..u fs~·•m~~ fs25~·d, A~: Yeager,Julyl3,1865; 2d.Edwin B.Gil. b. Phil.a., Pa., Aug. Gamble, b. Burb'.ln OTery, Leic::eaterabir, Eng- Knm:,Sept.5, 1846; Maa., Ang. 14, 18~~~: rliug~o •ue without issue. Geo. W. Pahner, Jaa. 6, body, Jan. 10, 1871. 5, 1839; m. Pbila., land, Jan. -4, 1799, reDlOTed. to Phil.a., Pa., ~!. f90~;~i. ~~{ ~~ r~; E2ti~:, :o;~: 1856; d. Feb. 18, 1859; d. Ven C:r:w:, Ma. 1904; m. Bostora, Pa., April 30, 1857; 1810, d. Phila., Pa., July 1, 184S, and July 9, 1862. Bigelow,March.Z8,1~2; man, Feb, '!4, 1870. nolil'Ull issue. Maa.,Jaa.1, 1&49. 11 MARY ELIZABETH GILBODY d. Phil■., Pa., June PhilinU Deal, b. Pbila., 1800, d. Phila., May, ~.~=Baldwin, Mi,. 28, 1875. 1878, who were married at Phila. Jan. 24-, b. Dec_. 5, 1874; m. Sept. 25, 1900: to Philip Nash. 1818. 11 11 GEORGE CHARLES u FRED F. 11 EMMA AL. 11 A L I C E 11 ARTHUR 11 FRANK ED· 11 HARRY GAMBLE, b. 11 EDWARD :S. GAMBLE, "WILLIAM W. uTHOMA FLORENCE ED WA R D H.CLEARY, CLEARY, b, MIRA CLEARY, ELIZABETH W.CLEARY, MUNDCLEARY, l"bila., Pa., Sept. ::4, 1858; b. Richmond, Va., Sept. 15, " ALMA GAMBLE, b. llWALTERH. CLEARY,b.Bc,s. b. Boston Boston,Mus,, b. Bolton, Mass., CLEARY, b. b. Boston, b. Boston, Mass., GAMBLE, b. Rlcl,;. GAMBLE, Jr., 0. KILPAT• Indianapolia, Ind., Much LAURA M. m. Ella Wolf, JantO, 1882; mond, Va., Jan. 10, toa, Mass., Sept. Mass.,Oct.18, ]11l1el2,1853, Feb.12, 1856; m. 1 d. Phila. Oct 20 ;892. ~-1 h~i8~ Greenwooo, b. Rkhmond,Va., RICK, b. 15, 1871; m. Duane Secor, Died infants. 26, 1849; m. Clara 1851 ; d. Oct. d. Aug. 20, Ozra M Whlttier =!{i~s; ~60;·i~J!!: ~ ~·- i~~!: 1 1865; m. Ernestine :Boll?• Man:h 16, 1868 ; Sa...h., Ga., March 22, 1892. A. Warren, Sept. 20, 1880, UD· 1855. Oct. 19,.1876; d'. m. Newell 0. 20, 1863. Nov. 19, 1890. I rilion, Aug. 12, 1886. m.San.nuah,Ga., Jan. 6, 1870. 28, 1871; d. Sept. manied. Wollaston, Mass., p,.,,~. Sept. 19 RALPH GAl-BLE, 19 ELSIE !AMBLE, May15, 1890. I " LOTTIE SECOR, b. ZS, 1872. May 1, 1892. 1,1881. ~ b. Phila., Pa.,:ct.5, b. Oct. 16, 1884; m. 11 SAM)EL A. '.l.887 (othe:r ~ died Wm. B. Fnlmor, May 14, 1897. GAMBLE, b. 11 CARRIE F. SECOR, infants). 1905. March 7, 1905. 19 b. May 11, 1899. 18 JOHN W ., b. Feb. 18 OLA PAULINE JOSEPH EMERSON WHIT· 1 (Other iMue died u MARION ~MILDRED 22, 1901. {Other issu~ died in WHIITIER, b. Boston, TIER, b Wollaston, Mass., June FRANCIS hURGESS infants.) fants.) 18, 1883. (Other is:o;ue died in• Mass., July 22, 1871; CLEARY, b. CLEARY, b. £ants.) m. Edward F. Brown, Brigbton,Mass., Brighmi,Mass., I I Sept. 28, 1898; children: Sept. 5, 1891. Jan. 5, 1893. n HELEN GAMBLE, 11 THOMAS WEL. 19 ALMA MARIE i,WILLIAM MYERS Hom.er Whittier, b. Wol• b. Savannah, Ga.,Aug. DON GAMBLE, b. GAMBLE, b. Savan. GAMBLE, b. Sann• laston, April 18, 1900; 27, 1892. Savannah, Ga., April nah, Ga., July 28, nah, Ga., April 14, Edward Eugene, b. Aug. 1, 1895. 1898; d. Atlanta, 1902. 17, 1902. u WALDO EMERSON PARKER, u ETHEL PAULINE PARKER, Ga., Aug. 21, 1899. b. Boston,Jan. 31, 1883; d. March 13, b. Cambridge, Ma5S., Aug. 31, 1884 1885.