ANCESTORS OF FRANCIS WALKER
and
SARAH EFFIE VINTON KELLEY
Compiled by
JAMFS S. ELSTON
CHEDWATO SERVICE Burlington, Vermont 1964
TABLE OF CONT8NTf:.
r, ,· -;-)E:'1\T r 1: .~ .. J.L -", (. o n Jor:?S, lJc ro thy ALLER'l'ON, Isaac ~i.,LEY, Jcru1 of Taunton ASPINWALL, Williar11 KL~GSF.JRY, Joseph B.t\NGS, Edward KNIG liT, 1-1 ·!. lliam BEARSE, Augustine LIHCOLN, ':homas "The Miller~r BOLLES, Joseph LOMBARD, Thomas BOUBNE, Thomas MAR'rIN, Themas of' Marlborough BRADFORD, Gov. William 1~10~0N J George BREWST!IB, Elder Willian J,1QTJ8ALL, Ralp:1 CARPENTER, Alexander MT~1LLINS, l-Iilliam CASWELL, Rachel (Thomas) ONSTIIIB, :Mary (Frederick) COLLIER, William PADDOCK, Robert COOPER, George POPE, Thoreas COURTRIGHT, Jan Bastiaansen PRATT_, Joshua CROSSivfAN, John PRENCE, Gov. Thomas CUSHMAN, Robert RICHARI)3, Thomas DERBY, John RYDER, Sacuel DUNHPJ{l, John SR'\RS, Richard. DUNSTER, Mary Sil1MON3, I.,foses DYER, William of' Maine SNOW, Nicholas FAUNCE, John SPAR.1:\0W, Richard FREEMAN, Edmund STEVEIJS, Cj,7rrian GAGE, Thomas S1.1l.JRTEVAi'fi1, Samuel GOVE, John UPHAI-1, John GREENE, Thomas of Malden TJPSON, E::!..izabeth HALL, John VI!'-J""TON, J oh..."1. HAYFORD, William WAL.~, George of Tioga County> New York HILLS, Joseph WARREN, Richard IITNCKLEY, Samuel WA'l'ERMAN ., Robert HOBART, Edmund WILT.PJID, George
HOPKINS, Stephen WILLAP~ j S :Lmon HOWELLS, Morgan of Wel:~., 1-12-ine WOOD, Edward JENNEY, John WOODWABD, Nathaniel WRIGHT, Doro-thy and Edward
BATHSHA WRIGHT KELLEY
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JPSON SPRAGUE KELLEY SARAH E. VINTON KELLEY (his wife)
-1- INTRODUCTION
With :family Bible. records or: virtually their equivalent· in_:six di:frerent lines· of ancest·ors of--~about the titn.e of the Revolution of the families o:f Francis M. '.Walker and·Sarab Effie Vinton Kelley, it was interesting abou~ 1925 to trace the lineage of my wife and her s-i'sters- baclt to the Revolution in those lines. The Bible reco-rds are. of the families of Silas Wright, and John Kelley which are reproduced herei-n and -Elkanab Hinckley and. George ·Cooper..- There is nothing · · published on any-., of these -families. :. The · 11Vintori Memorial~• .from correspondence - ·-with persons living about· ·1858 when it was published:carried.the·:Abiathar Vin-·. ton line do'W?l to··about that time. His son-Samuel and his:.daugb.ter ~oda .were still living' in ·:1855. The:· book is quite rare. · ,- ·
--About 1895 ·a grand.s-on: of'- George Walker by personal knowledge-.:,ancr!·correspondence with other grandchildren and others and probably with various_.record.s compiled a· summary -of. the George Walker lines and later (.1943) this was published -in~-:··_· "History o:f Waverly, New York and Vicinity". by Ch~rles L. Albertson.. . In .195-4 I coordinated all the information I could find about the family for all branches ·_ in thirty-three (33) pages and distributed it ta about t-rJenty-five of the princ ipal genealogical libraries- in the country .as ·_'tGeorge·. vlalker··of NorthUillberland. County, Pennsylvania and Tioga c·ounty, New.:·Y-0rk. u _. None· of the Walker. accounts i·s where an··orai"nary searcher might be expected td find it.
The principal way much of this information is being preserved outside 0£ a little _ scatte~d among the descendants ·and a small amount "in the·. files:·.of the National · ~ociety- ·o:r the ·Daughters of the American Revolution is by tbese:-no:tes. So the principal reason· for publish-ing -this book.- is --to. preserve all the information and to obtain a wider distribution. - : - -: -· - There was no intimation -in.·-the family -that. there .-a1ight .be 'May:f],.ower. lineage· uri til nearly forty (40) years ago when Mr. F. A. Emmerton, a .ret;ire-d ,man t1i.th a fine genealogical library in Cleveland, Ohio became interested, discovered the . . . origin in Massachusetts of -Silas Wright and-traced the: lines- .back·--~to. ithe ·settle- ment· ·of .-_Massachusetts; espec-ially of Plymout-h~ ·. · Perhaps. ·.Mr;.
There: is an immense amount of -literature- about -sonie _:of these· families during _the _first one ·hundred (100):.years· here though in-~nearly everj li_ne-_.[technically :in eyery line] we run into unsolved -problems ~and in .various: cases d.Lsputed solu tions. It also seems worthwhile :to make available-~coordinated.•and condensed· ab stracts· of the most interesting facts. - There are;a t;ew whole·books· about such as Gov. Bradford and Elder Bre-wster and their families. There are .. a fair num- ber of geneaiogies about several of the families herein included and quite a num ber of' long accounts of up to several-dozenpages each.about a large:proportion of the_· earliest families, though none of t.hem carry the lineage here-in past the French:·and Indian War.· These are all invaluable- because they include so many. facts, · -inyolving in various cases the resu.l ts- o:f · original researeh. Very impor- . tantly many of them show the persons involved "in the light of· the times and_ cir cumstances in -which tl.iey lived. Some of the acc_ounts are too good to attempt -to improve on them, but most are deficient in some respect and. it seems worthwhile to present as consistent a review as possible of the most important facts of _._all the Walker-Kelley ancestors. -2-
Another reason for publication is to show as up-to-date corrections as I can find. Various lineages, especially those produced about 100 years ago, have been proven incorrect. Considerable research has been done since some of them were published. It is unnecessary to mention many of those found) but the most outstanding is the lineage of Richard Warren back to the Roman emperor Tiberius, 10 B.C. This is based on calling our Richard Warren who came on the !-18.yflower, who had daughters of almost marriageable age in 1620 as being the son of a Christopher who didn't even marry until 1613. A Dr. John W. Collins in 1854 discovered that Christopher had a son Richard who, it has since been determined was baptised in 1615, and with out kno1-,-ine; or investigating the dates and only on the identity of the name he con- veniently identified that Richard as ours. It ·would be interesting if one could thoroughly examine the validity of the previous 94 generations through Emperor Constantine, the Danes and the various English knights. The trouble is that ·when such errors in lineage are made, they are repeated by author after author, many times after the errors have been revealed by later publications. "The American Genealogist" has uncovered many such errors.
Although most of the material dealing with the period from 1620 to about 1740 has been correlated from previous accounts, nearly all that later than the French and Indian War has been assembled piecemeal from vital records, wills ✓ county and town histories) cemetery inscriptions, census records, .·Har and pension records, personal correspondence, the Bible records etc.
The existing genealogical literature about early Ne-w England is so extensive that it is with trepidation that one attempts to write anything along that line. I have a slight idea of the pitfalls that may be involved. I have very carefully tried to reflect any doubts expressed by any ·writers and in a fe·w cases to express my further personal doubts. But supposedly unquestioned facts in one writer may have been seriously questioned or- actually contradicted by a subsequent 1,-1riter uhose worl( I haven't seen.
I have attempted to cover as much as seemed-necessary in the family genealogies, printed and in a few cases in manuscript) in the Connecticut State Library, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Ne1-1 York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library, the Godfrey Library in Middletown; Connecticut, and the Orlando Public Library (-uhich includes the fine genealogical ·collection of Charles L. Albertson and the significant collection of the Florid.a Daughters of the American Revolution, thus together forming one of the best genealogical collections in Florida. About 35 years ago for cert;ain families, especially the Hincluey and Paddock, I worked in the Newberry Library in Chicago, the National Library in Washington of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the now dispersed library of the Institute of American Genealogy in Chicago. I have al·uays tried to l~eep such families in mind. in working in Boston, Albany, Worcest~r1 Newark etc. for the other genealogies I have published.
I have tried to cover., at least through the index:es, the "New England Historic and Genealogical Registern about 130 volumes, the nNew Yorlt Genealogical and Biograph ical Record'\ 94, the "Descendants of the Mayflo1-1er'\ 34., ~he"DAR Magazine", about 50;; the "American Genealogist", 39 and the "National Genealogical Quarterly", about 50. For the other genealogies I have published I have consulted various such series and very numerous books on New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island; Vir ginia and Kentucky. For the "Elston Family in America" I went through the indexes of more than 3,000 genealogies in the Connecticut Historical Society Library. I -~-_, wish I had the time and oppo~tunity for much more, especially in Massachusetts_ tov1n histories;, "in. the American· Antiquarian. Society Proceedings, the Utah Geneal.9g ical J-fa.gazine ,- · e.nd. the Bosten Transcript o.nd- Hartf6rd Times genealogical :pages, vrhi~h I _have consu.lted to a limited ,extent .. : · · ·
. : .. ~. . . . The index card.s o:f so~e libraries have many cross ref'erences, such as one might have a ca.rd under "Hills" re:ferri:::1.g to the aoccu.-rit about the Joseph Hills family in .the:.:-'~Vinton Memori~l" .·. The Newberry Lib:ra.rJ has ·the ,-1-hole side· of· -a huge roo1:t - filled with such refe.rences-~ Some:. of the very best and"· ·la.test accounts· tire in .' various boolts:>somewhat ·similar to this: that cover·i.a.11 that could- be f'omid ·about the .~.ncestors of one· person or a couple-., · .. :Tn ·general they are more exhausti--;e than can.b.~ include.d herein•. Some of these accou..11ts 'run up to 50 pages or more on ceri tain fu~ilies. In seve:ral instances such books include material on the ancestors· included herein. Some., but not all.; deal uith a certain :family and nallied fami lies·'!.~· Some of ·the best of'c:these are·, on the,... Brainerd,. B11llard, Dawes-Gates, Gus·.;_ til::l, .Neuhall, Randall, Small, Snow.-Estes; .Sw:.ft and ··waterman· families-~- The·:' great~ est num.ber o:f- ancestors :found common. to this' bbok and -another was 16 · in "A Family History Record-ing the Ancestry of Russell' Sno~1 Hitchcocl~" (1947) but the account·s· therein 11ere · so short that there did..11 ~t appear to be enough ·additional· material' tb what I already had when I discovered it as to :'i-,arrant even li·sting in each· of· the different accounts. o:r·course,.-,the':.boo1'i:.S I have actually listed are only a· :feu of those- I consulted;:·· About at .least.:: 50 ·settlers covered herein had basic· accouri;~s in "Pioneers of Massachusettc" by.~Pope, -~-but ·:this -is ri; sted as a ·reference·: only·· in_. general if it included material .not ·:foQvid, (elsewhere. . There are sim-ilarly many /' short notes on these :families ~in· nAnci·ent .... Land.marks- of Plymouth" by William T.: · :•·. Davis and most c.re at least mentioned in Savage's ''Genealogical Dictionary ·or· Nelf England". I have searched in several Massachusetts town histories and in some county histories, particul.arly· in Chemung,·· Chenango;' Dutchess, Putnam and Tioga., New York,. Brad:ford and·.Luzerne, P~nnsylva.·l'!-ia:-and Windham; Vermont.
'·' Many Americans have belonged to heredity and ·what raight be called patriotic so~ie ties in ·which part of the qualification··of. membership is descent f'rom ancestors in this country who served in some .war·/or who per.fanned real civic ·service. _A go~dly number df the ancestors inclu.de-.d· herein have fulfilied these· conditions. ·But be-·· fore mentioning any names, I would like to quote "tihat -I wrote about fifteen years ago in another connection about some of my ancestors. I wish only that I could bave expressed my thoughts better: "The . striking :point to r:ie is that there ·must be millions ·- tn this country ·1-1ho. uouldfind_a similar-.interesting lineage ·if ·they could only trace: it: The·'point•:.·. I ·want ·to emphasize most strong:!.y, ho,-1ever, is not holT f'ar back it: was· that--,your .:.. ancestors cane. ·co this country. Of :c:ourse, the ·further· back one' ·goes ··whether ·-:6:i: : _. this country or some other, the ::are interesting it is. The greater dif.:f"1 culty · :> of ma.king the search aclds to the zest, and the more pril:1itive the conditions of life, the greater the contrast with the p~esent arid so the more intriguing the material through ·which you have to search in order to find 1-lhat you want. It ·is interesting to disco:ver how far back in th.is· country your lines go if they d.o, but I am ·one of the st-rongest believers in that what should coun-t in judging any one is what they are-.and not ·where they came :froc1. I ad.mire far more any immigrant or anyone whos·e pare·nts or ·grandparents came from.· Italy, Czechoslovakia or Poland, or,..any other country who is leading as honorable o.nd 't-Torthwhile life as he· can ✓ than I do anyone ,-1ho is living on the reputation and perhaps the wealth o:f his ancestors. Whether one is of recent foreign origin :or one -whose :fore•ign origin happens to go back several ·generations, ·,1:b..a.t counts· in ·the last: analysis :tn r:,1y -4- estimation is hou much one strives to make the uorld a better place in which to live. Of course, recent immigrants might be able to trace their ancestors (in other countries) back similarly. In Europe, most of the□ 1-1ould.n 't find so much migration from generation to generation. They might even find more service in the different wars."
At least thirty-one of the ancestors have been used to·ua·rd qualify.ing :for member ship in the National Society of Daughters of Colonial Wurs (1958) and thirty-three for the Society of Colcn~al Daughters of the 17th Century (1932). Nearly fifty have been similarly used for either or both the Society of Colonial Wars or the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. These are noted in the individual ac counts.
The ones coming on the "Mayf'louer" ;-1ere: John Alden, Isaac Allerton., William Bradford, \'lilliam Bre1-1ster, Stephen Hopkins, Willi8.n Mullins and Richard Warren. Of these proof of the lineage from William Bradford has been accepted by the Society of Descendants of the iv!ay:flouer. He ,1as 2.n ancestor of Rebecca Freeman Waterman born 1736. She was also a. descendant with perfectly clear lineage back to Allerton, Brewster and Warren. The records aren't quite as clear on the others, but I can see no reasonable alternatives to the lineages given herein. No record has been found of the parentage of Elkanah Hinckley> Jr. Various searchers ha~e concluded that he was son of Elko.nab Hinckley> Sr. who 1~igrated to Putnam County) New York, he and his sons constituting the only Hi_-r1ckley family there. So there seems no alternative to Elka.nah, Jr. having been at least a grandson of Joshua who clearly goes back to Stephen Hopkins.
Also the record shows that Joseph Crossman married 24 November 1685 Sarah Alden. Eve:rJbody believes that she uas daughter o:f Joseph Alden though no record has been fo1..md. Again at least she ·uas grandd.aughter of John Alden llho of course brings in Willia.CT Mullins. Also the records in Taunton aren't as satisfactory as might be desired because the toun records ·were burned in 1830., but I can see no reasonable alternative to believing that it was our John Kelley '\-Tho married 26 March 1771 Eunice Lincoln daughter of David Lincoln and Deborah Crossman ·who is traced back to the Sarah Alden mentioned.
In several cases the men oi' the Mayflouer left their uives and children in England or Holland to come over later in the "Fortuneuor the "Anne". These ·who came on the "Mayflower" were Constance Hopkins; Priscilla !-1ullins, Mary (Norris) Allerton and Mary Allerton. Mrs. Alice M:ullins came also but 1:re don't knol, uhether she is Pris - cilla 's mother. Dorothy Bradford cc..me but died before the landins and she we.s not Willian Jr. 's mother.
Those who came on the nFortune" in 1621 l!ere Robert aruiuThomas Cushman, Thom.as Prence and :Moses Symons on (Simmons). Those ·uho came on the "Anne" in 1623 ·uere Eduard Bangs, Patience Brewster, John Faunce, John Jenney:; Mrs. Sarah (Cc.rey) Jenney, George Morton, Mrs. Julianna (Carpenter) Morton, Patience Morton; Mrs. Alice (Car pe;uter) Bradford, Nicholas Snou and Mrs. Elizabeth Warren. These lists are drawn off frou the lists of all passengers as summarized in Willison's "Saints and Strangers".
The only settlers included herein 11hom I found listed in the 11Winthrop -Fleet of 1630"by Charles E. Banks ·uere William Aspinwall 1-rith Elizabeth and Raiph Mousall (Rafe Mushell) with Alice, and in the "Jt.1.3.ry and John", apparently associated 11ith -5-.
the Fleet, Thomas Richards. John Hall may have come then also. In general most of those w~o came in 1630 and later went to Massachuset~s Bay Colony, but Morgan Howells, William Dyer and Joseph Bolles were among the. earliest settlers in· Maine. A few of the latter came to Plymouth. The Courtrights came to New Amster dam in 1663. Tradition says that George Walker came, very probab.ly to Pennsylvania in 174~, and ..•. Onstine, possibly Freq.erick, pro~ably_:came to Pennsylvania about the same time; The 0:nly.. later immigrant was George COOJ?.er from England who appear- ed in Tioga county, -.N~w Yo:r:-k probably just.after the. Revolution.' · . : . The following "Officers o:f the Old Colony and of the .Pilgrim Church" a.re ·al~-6 excerpted. from "Saints and $trangers ":... _ - ...... · Governors - William Brad:r9rd 1621-32, 35,· 37, .39-43, 45~57,.a:total of about_' 31 years., Thomas_. Prence -1634, 38 a~~-:-57"'."73,-- abqut 19 y~ars, and .: Thomas H;inclq.ey 1681-86 and 89~S)2._aoout 9. years,. the eocact periods depending on more ~etails. of exact. 9eginnings and endings_._ These total to _about 59 years~---. The Cqlony ~xisted-independently :only,---,
from, shall we say1 11 November 1620 to 1692 or about· 72 ·years· · (of which about 3 were taken over .by _Gqv. Andros who was ,_appointe.d by the crown)...... · . . _. . ._ . ·. . · .. .. . ·, _. Deputy Governor (post created in 1680) - Thomas Hi.nckiey i'68o,· William Braci~. ·. ford Jr•. 1682-86 and 89-92 •. :· . . . -. . .-·,· Assistant Governors (one in 162.l-23, incr~ased to, fi.ve ·_in 1624 and: seven .i~-: · 1633) Isaac Allerton 1621-ca 31.; R·ichard Warren 1624--28;. Stephen Hopkins. 1624, 32,-~;33~36_;. John Alden 1631-:-32; 33-.49, 51_~86;; William B.radford 1633-34, _36,.:-.38, .44;- William _Col-lier 1634--3.7, 39~51; ··54_~ 65; Thom.as Prence--1635,...37., 39~.57; John Jenney:.1637-40;: Edmund Free- ·man 1640-46; William;B~df'ord, J_r .. , -.1658~81; Thomas. Hin~µey-.165.~- 80 and John Freeman:1666-86 _and 89-92 .. ," · .. · . · :: ~- ...... , . Treasurers John Alden 1656-58 and__ Willi~m Bra.9-ford,_ Jr.·. 1680~_86::an4 89-92~--. Ruling· ·Elders William Brewste:r:-· 1609:"l43 -(Leydeµ and Plymouth)' an.cl.. Thomas- Cush- . .. man· 1649-91. . The o_ffice: :y-as vacaD:t the intervening. ye~rs:. so these two men:. were -tb_e:- only ones. to hold the ..:Office. . · ... · : · . . . : , .. The following list o·f those wbo:~s~_rved .a_s depu~ies in either. Plymputh or Massa- chusetts ·Bay I compiled from.:eve_ry sour.~~--:~- coaj..d fin9- .. ~·John.Aid-en:,· William As- - .. . •· .. pinwall, Edward ..Bangs, Thomas Bourne, William B~dfor~ ~r- :;· Jqhp __ B~dford., Isaac Cushman, John Dunham, Edmund Freeman, John Freeman,,Jopeph Hills,. Thomas Hinckley, . . .. , . . Edmund Hobart, John Jenney, Ralph ·Mousall, Zac~r.iah Pa~dock, S~m'Uel Ryder, Ricb- ard. Sears, Nicholas Snow, Mark Snow,_ Richard Sp~~row, Jo~ath~I}-S~arrow, John Up- ham, Joseph ·warren, Robert Waterman and Sim.on W-iµa.rd. ·; __:
·• In addition to these elected deputies and the other officers of Plymouth previous- ly mentioned, William Aspinwall served as the first secretary of Rhode Isalnd and Joseph Bolles was,appointed a Commissioner of Maine, and Isaac Allerton was elect ed by the c.ommonality "One .of Eight" Selectmen for counsel and advice with Director Kieft in New Amsterdam.
About 1627 new rather complicated arrangements wer~made ·whereby_ the Merchant Ad venturers in London who had financed the settlement o.f .Plymouth- agreed to surrender all their raghts in the colony for the sum of £1800 to be paid in annual instai1- ments of £200 (estimated by Willison to have the value in terms of· 1951 dollars of about $90;000), a tremendous debt for about·_ 180 people, men, women an_d children, dependent on a meagre corn crop and an erratic fu~ trade. To asst.1re the car~ing out of this agreement a monopoly in the colony's trade was granted to Alle~on; Bradford and Standish and five others they made.partners as _unde~takers; ..:.:~~wster, -6-
Winslo·u, Alden, Howland and Prence. By very great t:acrifice the debt was finally paid. Several writers praise these Undertakers very highly, saying it was of' un told value in the preservation and development of the colony. Five of them are included herein.
About 1637 seven men with their families, 49 individuals in all, moved from Ply mouth to Eastham. They included Edward Bangs, Thomas Prence and Nicholas Snow, accounting with their families for almost exactly half cf. the new settlement.
Of those who l:ere listed in 1643 in Plymouth as eligible for military service, ages 16 to 60., constituting;, one might say, those ·who might be expected to serve in event of war with the Indians, 15 of these ancestors ·uere from Plymouth itself, two from "Duxborrow", one from Scituate, four from Sand1-1ich., two from Marshfield, · three ~rom Yarmouth and six from Barnstable, besides Thomas Cassell from Taunton. ("New England Historic & Genealogical Register", 4, 256 ).
William Aspinwall, Robert Crossman and Thomas Richards were members of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston.
The following appeared in the 1936 list of Ancesto!s of Descendants of Colonial Clergy - William Brewster, Isaac Cushman and Robert Cush."Ilan.
King Philip's War was a desperate struggle in 1-1hich hundree1:s· lost t:heir lives · and several outlying settlements were completely devastated. Phineas Upham in the stonning o:f Fort Canonicus or the Great Sl1amp Fight was wounded so badly that -· he died in a few months. Major William Bradford ·was Com..1TI.ander of a Plymouth Com pany. "He often exposed himself to all its perils. At the Narragansett Fort Fight he received a bullet i.-lOund in his flesh ·which he carried for the rest of ·his life." John Freeman was a captain active in the war. Richard Sparrow as a first lieutenant in the fight and Cyprian Stevens was active in the war. Eliza beth Upson survived the fight ·when a very large force of Indians attacked Sudbury. Simon Willard led his men masterly in accomplishing the relief of Brookfield. Edward Wright is listed among the soldiers under Simon Willard November 30, 1675 and must have actually been in the fights near his home. A Samuel Lincoln is also similarly listed. One account says Samuel Hinckley also served in the ·war. Sever al of these ancestors lost their homes including Thomas Pope, one of ·whose daugh ters ·was killed with her husband. Thomas Gage lost three sons in one battle then and later one in the expedition agaist Port Royal and one in King William's War. William Dyer lost his home but escaped then but 1.1as killed and scalped. i~ 1689. Gov. Hinckley in 1675-6 was Commissioner for Plymouth in charge of their military forces against King Philip. Joseph Bolles'· home was burned by the Indians in 1657 and Robert Crossman had a son killed in King Philip 1 s War. These deaths and losses were just those I have noticed about these ancestors. It ·w-ould be an interesting investigation to make as to 1,1hether there· were other similar losses.
Those who served in the American Revolution included Samuel Hayford, Elkanah Hinck ley, Abiathar Vinton, George Walker and Silas Wright and there seems a good chance that David Lincoln did also.
Practically every man since the French and Indian War and most before ·were farmers. Most of the settlers who had had other occupations in England probably raised illost of the food for their facrilies here. Those who sojourned for a ·while in Holland had to resort to any work they could get there. Bradford ·was a fustian weaver -7-
.and Brewster at first a ribbon maker, though later he had ·a printing _pres_s )tnd tutored .university students in languages. Isaac Allerton here mainly engaged.in commerce and Stephen Hopkins also engaged in shipping. John Fr~emc;i:h ·among other thing~ ·imported hats and beavers from England.· One was an :importe·r of.brass. John Vinton was a worker in iron or forgeman. In one place_he was called a forger •. John Alden was originally hired as· a cooper. Robert· .Crossman was called the "Druin Maker11 of New England and he repaired guns and perhaps ·bther equipment for the soldiers. One "kept victualling or an ordinary". · Other b_ccupations · in
C?luded mason,- mechanic, housew.right 7 blacksmith, mil·ler, -shipwr.igh~, brewer's drayman, linen weaver, merchant and tanner.
The suprise to me v{as the number cf those who uere appointed surveyor· including Joseph_ Alden, -Edward Bangs, Joseph 'Bolles, Thomas Bourne, Edmun~ Freem?,n, John Freeman, Samuel Hinckley; Samuel Ryder, Nicholas Snow,• Richard Sparro,-i, Phirieas Upham, Joseph Warren, Samuel \-lillard and Nathaniel Woodward. · :Most -of these v1ere for minor jobs such as for roads or laying out town lines. Some I haven't 1i~ted were appointed to .divide up the· land, the amount o:f surveying ·involve·d not being indicated. But Nathan.iel Woodward, ·sometimes called mathematician, ran the l°ine between Plymouth and'. Ma$sachusetts: Bay .. in·--1638, also betwe·en 1'48.ssachusetts· a~d ·Conn~cticut and .was also ·on: the Merrimac survey. · Simon :Willard helped s:urvey· the Massachusetts line·. to. the· northern pa.rt. of "the :Merrimac, the monument vith his init~als (and- :other na.~es engraved on it) at. ·the ·outlet of Lake Winnepas~-µkee being intended to establish the claim of Massachusetts to- :the land· that ·rar north •
. One of' the .most interestip.g points ··.in this survey· is· what a large· propo_rt:ion· _of the contemporary history of Plymouth was· -written or associated with the·se men~ ·of co-µrse, _.·PY far the best·, covering after 1620 (and to some extent before that) to:-_about 1650 -was Gov. Bradford.rs· "Of Plimouth Plantation" which, however, was not pr~nted until 1856-when·the manuscript .was discovered in Fulham Palace near London. Willison remarks. that the year 1856 marks -:i.n · a -real sense, the beginn ing of -Pilgrim history. · The manuscript was missed·from··the Old South Church __ ;i.n Bost9n-after the evacuation by· the British during the ·Revolution. Moses C~ Tyler in nHistory. of American. Literature" llrote: ~ nHilliam Bradford deserves the .. pre~mipence of being·_ called the. ·"Father of American History". · .. . ·•• .. "G. Mourt 's Relation" published in· 1622 in England by George !v1orton:, though ·prob ably not much was really written by Morton, gives various pictures of the very earliest_years of the Colony~ ·Brad.ford's "Letter Book"- ·uhich:was similarly lost but part disGovered in Nova. S.cot.ia. in 1693 being used .as. urapping paper by a grocer, adds some details.... ·: ·rt ·was '.published in .1'Massachusetts Historical· Society Collections", Series. I, ·volumes 3·and· 4. Bradford's "Dialogues"· thro1-1 some light on the background. Gov. Hinckley 1 s· "Collected Papers·"· in Series III, "Massachu setts Historical Society Collections", volumes 5 and 7 and Series IV, volume 5, cover the last years of the colony. William Aspinwall was a recorder in Boston about 8 years .from 1644 and his reports are. printed in .uA Volume Relating: to· the Early History::•of Boston Containing: the Aspinwall Notarial ·Papers". I haven't attempted to investigate ho·w many., if any, of the records of the -several other town clerks: herein have been published... Nicholas·_ Snow· a.nd his son Mark were town clerks for 31 consecutive years ..
Nathaniel Morton himself' ·was not one of these ancestors, but he ·was son of George Morton and also he had use o:f Bradford's manuscr.-ipt "O:f Plimouth Plantati"on" :for his new 1?ook "New England Memorial~' published in 1669 (various reprints,- ·1.•1ith Sup- -8-
plement, 1669-92) which I suppose was the best history until Brad.ford's ·vras dis covered in 1856 and which extended tp.e history of' the colony to its late middle years. How little other real history there is :for this period there may be seen by studying the lists o:t contemporary sources in "Saints and Strangers".
Some of the more interesting observations about individuals may be mentioned. ·John Alden may have been ''one of seven well persons to care 'for the sick and dying in t}:iat :first terrible 11inter", when just~ about half of' the about 102 ,rho came on t:P,e · "Mayflower" died. vlhen the well had strength enough left after taking care of all the sick, they tried to cut do11n trees and build sor:1.e protection against the ·winter weather "t·lhich ·was so much more severe than they had previously experienced. One writer says that John Alden has probably had raore descend.ants than any other who came on that ship. The :first white child born in Ne11 England ~-1as his El; za beth. Henry Wadsworth Longfello,;.1 who wrote the poetic 11 Courtship of Miles Stan dish" 11as a descendant.
Isaac Allerton had wider contacts in shipping and trading than any other man in e·arly. Ne1-1 England. He made about seven voyages to England, traded along the New England Coast, was involved in t'uo trading posts in Maine, established business in New Amsterdam, even bought a plantation in V±rginia, traded with the West Indies, and died in New Ha"'1en, Connecticut. One book says he visited in his ship every knovm port on the Atlantic coast, besides Barbadoes, the Dutch West Indies, Spain, Portugal and England.
William Aspinwall was banished from Massachusetts Bay because he supported relig ious views contrary to the then official ones. It is very difficult for anyone now to understand the religious intolerance then) not only as to great dif':ferences in belie:f but as -to trivial di:fferences. Robert Cushman had been exco~~unicated) though soon reinstated, by the ecclesiastical court in Canterbury, England. Will iam Brewster had su:ffered in prison when trying to escape with others to Holland to secure some religious freedom and later for some time before sailing on the "Mayf'lowern had been hou_n.ded by King James and the Dutch authorities for having published in Holland books that displeased King James. One account says that John Crossman was banished from Massc.chusetts Bay for his criticism of the harsh treat ment the church meted out to the Quakers. Samuel Ryder was demoted for a while from his lieutenancy for favoring the Quakers.
Plymouth Colony under the influence of' Elder William Brewster and Gov. William Bradf'ord was considerably more liberal than Massachusetts Bay. They didn't burn nor hang any witches or hang any Quakers, though W'illison says that Gov. Thomas Prence was a leader in 1657 of the persecution there of the Quakers and Baptists. Comments are raade in several of' these. sketche·s abo11t· the_ comparatively liberal views of the men.
William Aspinl1all after expulsion from Massachusetts first became Secretary of Rhode Island which was organized by Roger Williams·uho had likewise been expelled for being a Baptist. Aspinwall may have spent some time in Connecticut and·fur ther west for after returning to Massachusetts he was sent. on an exploring party up the Delaware River to find the "Great Lake",.but the party was stopped by the Dutch and the Swedes.
Edward Bangs according to tradition l:as in charge o:f building the first ship in Plymouth. The lineage of Joseph Bolles, I understand, is considered proved back -9-
. to ~iz?._g Edward I ~nd to other_ early kings back into Saxon time;;, including Alfred the ~re~t. T.t;le conne~t-ion with these ancestors, however, depends.on D~liverance .Bolles h:a,virig been·.daughter 9f Samuel (son. of Joseph) ..· What very probab)..y is her baptismal ·record· does not give the names of he·r parents,· but Samuel·. apparently is the only Bolles in the country who could have been her father.
The only mention of any of these men going to college was that- William Brew·st;er spent probably abo"~t two years-at Cambridge University. He: published books ..·'·fn La.tin and knew at least Greek and Dutch. Gov. BraMor~ probably educated himself, possibly wi~h .the help of Brewster and kne1v La.tin, Greek ap.d:·Du~ch_~I?-d late in life, ·-~·stud:ied·Hebre~; s,o as to be able to read in.the·original-•just:wha.t·God had told his . people in that iang,iage! Both Brewster and: Bradf'ord. had unusual· 'libraries. The ·_·iormer left about 400 books, 60 in I.atin. One ·writer ·says· that· this w~s .undoubted ly the_ greatest accumulation of' exegetical litera.t·ure ·in~.'New Engl~ncf during its :fir~.t. quarte1· of· a century. Brad.ford's ·was. 275 · book.s in several. ~anguages. · 0otton Mather. said that he nwas skilled in Hist.cry.:, Ant-i.quity; Philosophy ··and The61ogy'."
. • 0 • • • • > •• J •; • .••~ T: • • •: ~ •~ ~. •: •~ • • • ... •• _. ' • .• • ' • • William Brewster was associated ·with the Queen's. ambas-sado~ viho··was:·'-sent to.the Low ·countries in 1:585 to help the Dutch in. the.ir. struggle ·,fith: the· Spanish. Later Brewster _pecame one of the 'principal sec,retaries:' in Londori·'.-and···"inust have been . ':i.tiform~d .concerning the rather confused. and. remarkab're . story of·· the····famous death warrant ·on Mary, . Queen of Scots, according.' ·to Hill's · "The Mayflower· ·Planters .of . Plymouth.'.' . . .·.--: .. : · ,:,: ...... • .. '·.· . .
.. .Rope rt" Cushmap was with Carver one of the principal negot ia:tol--s---to·r ~the·'. Pilgrims witb. the Merchant Adventurers and chartered the "Mayfl'ovter·"·. ··He'.:·,_ didn't. himself' come over until the following year in the "Fortune". \fuen that_ satled back in a .fe"!. .mo.~ths he .returned for further. negotiations ·but.:: the. ·ship_ wa·s··; captured l?Y priv- .. ~~e~-~
Will~am Collier and John Dunham. were on· the committee :rof:ip1yµibtttf:1· ·i:~ ··1643 to. ar range ·:ror the confed~rt?,tion of Mass. Bay, Plymouth, New '--~ve11<&nd Ha.rt.ford. . One writer says .that the ju:ti~prudence o:r the Colony·was-:es-tiecl~lly-'·fndebte'd to_Jos eph .Hills. When on.a com.m-itt.ee of· the Deputies he:'-·actu.a:tly ··c-6nip1ied•·:the codifi cation, prepared the copy in. his own· hand arid supe:rvised ·-the: .printing._ Fo·r his third wif'e he ··was married by.himself .. For·this ne was c-qps{de:rably· crt·ticized apd he was admonished by. the court. Gov. Hinck:le-y
Severa-1 writers, though I am not sure that a11 ·do,·-·agree·•:i1ith ·the the_o'ry that Stephen =Hopkins was in the· shipwreck of 1609 in the ·-'~Sea·'Adven:ture". which f'i:qally landed in Bermuda. After discord among the restles:s '.·fu.~1_1- there,· they we_re trie~. and found guilty of rebellion .but the ·governor pardoned_ him 8:rid __ th~y fitted· ~- a bark thai;, continued on -to Vi:rginia. · · .·. ·,
.. Stephen Hopkins was assigned the difficult job of ac·tual·ly· de?ling· -with the Indians, . ' .. .not only entertaining visitors in his home but it was· he vibe was sent on such trips as his with Squanto as a guide on the long trip through·the forest to negotiate witli Massasoit..
Tno~s ~rt~n lost .his- home in ··the Great Fire in London which destroye·d all the· -lO-
houses in London 'except a :fringe o:f houses on the northeast. Montgomery's nHis tory o:f England" which I studied in high school says: 'Evelyn a courtier who wit nessed it, wrote that it "was not be be outdone until the :final conf'lagration" •(meaning the end o:f the world).'
Zachery Paddock at one time had 48 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren. Zachery Ryder was the father of the :first white child born in Yannouth. Mrs. Richard Warren lived to see ·at least 75 great-grandchildren.
An abbreviated explanation of some dates may be of interest to those not familiar with the "Old Style" and the·"New Style" dates. In 46 B.C. the Romans adopted the Julian calendar under which-the calendar year, even with allowance for leap year every four yearsJ averaged 11 minutes 46 seconds longer than the solar year and the difference by 1582 to ten days. For instance the shortest and longest days and the soltices were of:f by.ten days. Then in some countries the calendar was reformed again by advancing the date by ten days and ommitting leap years in cen tury years exactly divisible by 400. England (and the colonies) didn't fully dis card the "Old Style"·completely until 1752 by which time the difference had become 11 days. Most of the double dates herein are taken from some author who sho~1ed both or in some cases 1-1here one author gives one and another the other. Unfort unately unless an author gives both dates or specifies which he is using, one doesn't kno1-1 which is correct. Otherwise one has to use 1-1hatever single date he finds. I found one case where apparently the author advanced the date 10 days where apparently his source had given it without specifying. Other double dates herein are where I have included dates from different authors where I couldn't determine which is correct.
The other calendar problem is that in the early days the new year began March 25. The standard procedure now is to give both the old year and the new on dates be fore March 25, such as 1620-1. Here again unless the date is clearly defined one doesn't know which is according to present reckoning.
It would seem impossible to fully appreciate the lives o:f these earliest settlers of New England without a broad understanding of the conditions under which they lived and the problems with ·which. they had to contend. It seems unnecessary to include here a bibliography because the ones already available are so good. An excellent _short list is that by David R. Proper in the n~1ayflower Quarterly" o:f August 1963 o:f 22 books. Brad:ford Smith in "Brc.d.:ford of Plymouth" includes a
"Selected Reading List" of about 100 books 1 a_nd George F. Willison in "Saints and Strangers" lists about 200 books and other sources.
The Kelley chart is a depart~re from the plan of the rest of the book as it goes considerably beyond covering the ancestors together with the names and dates of birth of their children. This includes the descendants o:f the ancestor, John Kelley, down to most of his great-grandchildren and even some of the latter's children. This information, it seems, should be preserved, but it isn't ·worth publishing separately. This is based largely on a large chart without dates compiled about 1930 from correspondence by Mrs. J. K. Harris o:f Cleveland. Many dates, some approximate, have been assembled from correspondence, books, cemetery inscriptions and the 1850 census record. The chart is believed to be essentially, though possibly not absolutely accurate, (mostly gathered from correspondence), but should be used principally as the basis for further investigation. It will furnish the people involved with a source of tracing their ancestry back to John -11-
Kelley, born September 6, 1775 and so connect up with the latter's ancestors.
To locate names included herein the individual accounts should be consulted i:f the surname to he investigated is included in the Table of Contents. The Index is intended to include every other name where the individual is related by marriage, including maiden names of ~omen) to the families, and other names very closely associated with the families. Names o:f military o:f:ficers, other civil officers, authors and names of books, names of those mentioned in real estate transactions etc. are not included.
James S. Elston
1964
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JOHN ALDEN
JOHN ALDEN came to ·Plymouth on the ''May:flowe_r" in 1.620 tho~gb. he was not· of. _;the .. Leyden. congregation. Bank's · "Topographical_ Dictionary" and "Ancestry of H.. E: GtistfuJT ,. I,~ -4~9 by Lester Gustin say he may~ have originalJ.;y come from Hap1ich:~·'_: .. county•Essex.,-England. Gov. Bradf'ord tells us: "John Ald~n._~-1~~ _hif~~- :f9r a· coqp:-er at South· Hampton where the __ ship victualled; and.. being a ~(?pe_f~-- Y.~:nige.,. --~,a~:. ~n:µ~h- ·: desired; but_-_:-4-~_ft __ .tq__ b.i§_ .. own. likin_g to go or stay_) when he .... ~a.tie ~er¢;· p\lt he:. : : ._·. stayed, and nia~ried: here." . There are var_ious acco:(L."1.ts· abt~\it.·. p.im; · incltidi_tjg Gustin, but ,.f'or convenience this wil~ follow partly nThe A.J._den. Geneiil.ogyn by Mrs~ · Charles ·L ... Alden in. the 0 1'Tew England Historic & Genealogical ~egis·ter_',':,. 51, · J+27. _(1897). ·and 2 362 which see for details · . · · .... _ ·.· · ···· · :. ·· ·· · · · · ·. · · · · 5 , , ...... · · ... · John "was. educated above the ··ayerage''·; :.: He wa.s·.-tb.~- talle'st: man in: :.~·he colony and -the youngest -signer of· the· Compa·ct arid .the· )..ast · survivor· of th6.se who signed. ·He was -born circa· 1599 a!-1-d died l? (22) _.S~ptember· l687 ·at Duxbu_ry. . _In. the "May~· flower Descendant" · are ~produced-·· three · 1ong···broadS4"des .. issued. bn hi~.. · dea. th__ {9; ~ 129-and.-193 and J4, 49):.··_The··settlemei1t··.of·his estate is als·o·given:·:in 3, .. 10. -~
He was one of twelve· of the· most· respons;ible·.-:me_n··\.,ho assumed thE!f. burden of I : the debt· incurred in England f9r the_ Coiony;_ So~e of his recor~:(_6:r service for··., the -Colony and part o:f.the eulogy·of:·_him_ given by·~·s.· Alden· (i'ri.cluding some of the quotations from Justin Winsor' Ef _."History of Duxburyn ) are: · "In 1633, · be was · chosen a member of the BoarsJ. of A~sist~nts to :the Governor, and __ cont.. inued with few· interruptions to hls· death.· He ·was not··a~sistant·•from lq4o·.~o 1656, and du:r~ . ing that, time. vias. Deputy f~om\Duxbury~ Iri" 1666 ~o _1687; h~. ~~s· ·rtrst on t_he Boa.rd of' -Assistants and: was· styl-ed "Deputy-:~Governo.r"; c.nd .'on him deyo_ive~ th~ ·duty of_ · presiding in the absence. of·--~he -~overnor; ·arid ori' these·.. occ-~sion~... he._ ruled _1-1ith .. · dignity· ··and perseverance~:'. i H9ld;lng o·ff'ices of: the :highest·. t:MXs~, ·.no· 'important. measure ,-1as proposed; or: :arl:f:\re~ponsi.cle agency 6rderea.'·· in 1-1h:ich he had npt a .. pa-rt. · He was often one ·:of th~··Counc'fl of War, many tim.e·s ._an· ~rbit·rator;. a Sur.:._, -veyor o:f lands f"or· th~·.:'Governm.~nt,·:·as well as for individ.~_l_s~=-and on several. important occasions. _;\las·. a.uthdri°zE:fd to ·act. ai •'Agent, or .. ·A ttb~~y for the Qolony. He was chosen Treasurer. in -165f?, and:·held tha~ off_ice;/:rbr ·-th:ree:'.·~~ees-sive years ... '" nin those days the ·sa.lary·-'··9·{ pubiic off'it!e.rs ·-iJas· very··'itjiall _a.nd a refusal to, serve 11as not--rec~ived .und~:r:· a· penalty o:f _: a·: fin~:·_· ·con~ta.n"t .. 4evot_ion to the. pub~ .. lie service scf ··'reduced··his:·'.estate I, that. the···court took· 'rtbtice 'or- it,'. and. vaiu-.· ing him so highly, they felt they could not a:fford to lose him.,_ .?:nd ·took imni~d- · . iate action~ u_ ._:_n.He'·~as. '.pq~ses~ed of 90und;~ jud.gme~f. / ~~~ o·f '~cl:~~~~~, 11hi¢h. though . not brilliant we~e.:.:.by ·no: ·inea.~s·' ·9rdinary: a~d. d~sp~tab~~:·_ i:~e~ :,ifiter~ ~ho mention· him, bear ample · testimony t6-~his industry; integrity .. a:nci exemplary piety, and he has been ;-epresented a~ a wort,hy and _useful qi.an, g.f gr~at:. h~ility J and emin~:11-t for the···sanctity·of ·hi.s' l:i.:fe~·,_. He was·'decided·; ardent;; resolute; an~·pe_rservering, indi.f:fe~rit '._ ~o- ~nger) .: :a···l;)oid· 8:Ild hardy· maij l ::._~ of incorruptible integrity) an . iron nerved Puritafi; --who c;ould hew down fore·¢ts· a~d. live on• crumbs;. _He ,fas a pur- itan, ·both in· tbeo:rf ·a.nd practice. n . ,_,_·.::_:·~ ...... :.. ·.·nFamilies of th~··Pilgrims: John A~den'l'.:oy··Hubert K• .'Shaw gives:__ _"~n _1 Story of a··Pilgr.im Fami+y' .. by:·Rev." John Alden'.;. 1890, ·-we·.-':rind (much of similar· praise and . then)· 1tte··wa.s prooably one of seven well.. 'i:>ersons le:t't at one time to care for the sick and dying in that first terrible winter.' --- There are two·rea.sons why the name of John Alden is particularly well kno,m. One is the :famous poem, tCourt ship of Myles Standish, 1 written by Henry Wadsworth Long~ellow, a descendant of Alden 1 s in the eighth generation. The other reason is that John Alden had, prob ably, the largest number o:f descendants as compared 11ith those of any other May flower Pilgrim." Accounts dif'fer somewhat of the different periods of' his various services. The patriotic society citations speak of' his being Acting Deputy Governor in 1664 and 1677- _ Gustin gives some of his mission to the trading post at-Augusta, Maine which culminated_ in a shooti~g affray in which two men 11ere killed, in which he didn't ac tually take part, but he was at first criticized as be was one of the leaders, but he was apparently cleared. He moved to Duxbury ca 1627. He married probably early in 1622 (the second or third wedding in the colony) Priscilla Mullins, daughter of' William and Alice. Priscilla died apparently in 1687 ~efore he died. Ancestor :for Society of Mayflower Descend.ants, Society o:f Colonial vlars and Mass achusetts So~ie:ty of Colonial Dames whose citations include also his service under Capt. Miles Standish in Duxbury in 1643. Children: Elizabeth b. 1623-4 (claimed by descendants to have been· "the first white woman born in Nei;-1 England" and reported in "New England Historic & Genealog ical Register" 47,90 as "Most diligent search fails to find another"), John ca 1626 (1622), Joseph after 22 May 1627 land distribution (Gustin gives 1624 frocr the death record), Sarah ca 1629, Jonathan ca 1633, Ruth 1634-5., Rebecca ca 1637, Priscilla, Zachariah perhaps ca 1641, l-1ary perhaps ca 1643 and David ca 1646 according to Mrs. Alden after extensive study o:f all l~inds of records. Gustin- and some. early writers do not include Rebecca, Priscilla and Zachariah. The Society of' Mayflower Descend ants does not recognize Zachariah as having been proven.
JOSEPH ALDEN was in Duxbury as freeman in 1657. His name appears on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643. "He served repeatedly on the 'Grand Inquests' un til 1685. He was one of the surveyors of highways." He had the land his father gave him in Bridge·water and in 1683 received o. grant on the north side of tol1n to wards Taunton. He died 8 February 1696-7.;, age 73- In his will _of 14 December 1696 he mentioned only his wife and three sons, but this do"esn't prove that he bad no daughters. Some other men with known daughters didn't mention them in their ,;,ills. Mrs. Alden quotes his will in the "Register", 52) 363, - her suggested explanation .about the lack of daughters being that he had provided for them at their marriages. He married Mary Simmons, daughter of Moses and Sarah) -probcbly ca 1657 (though one writer gives 1664). The children are as given by Mrs. Alden. He was formerly used as an ancestor for the Society of Colonial Wars for hisser vice in Capt. Myles Standish's Company in 1643, but this is no.longer considered quali:fication. Children: Isaac born before 1670, Joseph ca 1667, SQroh probably, Mercy prob ably, Elizabeth probably., John ca 1674 certainly and perhaps Mary. Shaw and an other writer noted include Hopestill. Shaw doesn't include Sarah.
SARAH ALDEN married 29 November 1685 at Taunton Joseph Crossman as given by various writers. Though there is not absolute evidence that she was daught~r o:r Joseph, the evidence is in favor of this, though there is a possibility that she could have been daughter of either of his brothers 1 David and Zachariah, about whom very little is lmown. "Families of the Pilgrims: John Aldenu by H.K. Shau f'or the Massachusetts Society of ~'.!ayflower Descendants recognizes :four daughters and two sons (but no Sarah) of David, and as stated above he doesn't recognize Zachariah at all. -15-
ISAAC ALLERTON
ISAAC ALLERTON, a young tailor from London was married in the ~ta~uis;, Leyden, Holland, 4-November 16il to Mary Norris, maid from Newbury, co. Berks. "The· Brew ster Genealogy", _24, by Emma C.B. Jones (1908) says he was o:f the Alle~on·:family of Suffolk, England and w.as born 1585-6 as appears from a deposition in 1639 when he was "about 53 ". He ·t-ras of London before 1609. Bank·' s "Topograp~ical I?tctionary" 1957,' places _him from the parish of St. Andrews, Underscbaft, _. London; _:Possibly he was with__ the Pilgrims · in Amsterdam in 1610 according to -"Ma~lower·· Pl~ntet~ at _Ply .mouth -~ ",_-II:, -173, by Leon C. 'Hills· (1939);. uHis ·residence:-·was·:in the:~:fa.mous 'Pietex:ske~khof I among a little group o:f houses. built upon the· _:grounds :_o:f · the Robin son place.- _.It was. sometimes called 1 Groenepoort'". February'7, '161'~-
Allerton was the only ~1ayf'lower planter to become a resident of' New York. A tablet to his memory at No. 8 Peck Slip there calls him the "Father of Ne1:-7 Eng land commerce." He _is thought by some to have been at one time the ·wealthiest among the Pilgrims, but he died bankrupt ~1any pages about his operations are given in ,;History of the Allerton Family, 1585-1885" by Walter S. Allerton (1900). Much of the same appears in "Ancestry of H. E. Gustin and Julia L. Carlisle" by Lester Gustin. "He appeared in New Amsterdam in Februa:r.r 1639 and poss·~bly in the fall of 1638, thus being one of the first English settlers there. For 20 years he played a prominent and honorable part in the political and business life. u (Miss Jones) He became associated _:'in business 1-r.ith Govert Loockermans~ one o~ the leac.ing and most interesting f'igu.res in the history of those times." In 1644 he was wrecked at Scituate on the way to New Hampshire. Isaac J. Greenwood in '.'Allertons of New. England and V.irginia" "in "Nell England Historic and Genealogical Register," 44, 290 (1890) says that he "~·evidently resided some time in.New Am sterdam, for when an uprising of the Indians in the neighborhood was feared, and, _at the request ~f Director Kieft, the Commonality elected., 13 Sept'ember 1643, eight ,Selec-tmen for counsel and advice on public af:faires, Allerton was one o:f the num ber. Letters of' complaint ·uere then sent abroad .depicting the defenceless condi tion of the colony and prominent among those ·who obtained signatures to these doc .u11ents was Isaac Allerton. Denounced as a batch of libels and lies, the ex-Direc tor Kieft implored his successor Stuyvesant, 18 June 1647, that the Fiscal might prosecute the- offenders." "About this time Allerton moved back to New Haven (where Greenwood evidently _thinks he was previously), though still maintain~-ng a trading-house on Manhattan Island. Certainly in a deed of October 27, 1646, he calls himself a merchant of New Amsterdam, while in a bond to him Nov. 29, 1651, from Jonathan Brewster, be is styled "Isaack Allerton, Senior, of Newhaven, Merchant". -- July 9, 1651--we find 'Isaac Allerton of Suffolk, merchant,' a witness at Fort Nassau on the east bank of the South. (i.e. Delaware). River, to a free gift of land from certa~n Sachems to Director General Stuyvesant. -- A letter.of ·John Davenport of New Haven, dated 27·september 1654 mentions Mr. Allerton as being then on a voyage to Virgin ia. " (Greenwood ) It may be of some interest to note the land he o·wned in lol1er Manhattan. Miss Jones says: "In April 1647, Isaac Allerton purchased from one Philip de TI'UY the land lying between the high-way, now Pearl Street, and the.shore line of the_East River which was then l!est of the present location of Water Street. This strip which was probably not more than a fe1·1 feet in ·,.. ridth, extended. from the present location of Peck Slip southerly, nearly, if not quite, to where Fulton Street now is. At the upper end of this property, where it appears to have been the ·widest and where a small bay or cove ran into the land just north of it, he increased the width by filling in and building a wharf, and on this he erected a large building for a wha_rehouse., with a smaller ·one adjoining it on the west. 'for a _resi dence and from that t_ime on until long after his death 'Allerton' s buildings 1 ·were a prominent landmark in.the Dutch city. -- All the available evidence tends to prove that Allerton's buildings and wharf covered nearly the site now occupied by Nos. 6, 8, 10 and 12 Peck Slip." . "Seats in the Meeting House (in New Haven) liere ·assigned to him and his wife on March 10, 1646. -- He built himself a 'grand house on the Creek with four porches', the site of ·which on the corner of State and Fair Streets has been marked with a tablet and inscription by the New -Haven Colony Historical Society. The New Amsterdam re-cords show that he .maintained his business and residence there until his death-, the court records showing him to have been present in July, 1658. (Hills says he died between Febru?-ry 1 .and 12, 1658. Was this 1658-9?) (Transcript of --17-
~~e _w~ll and_ inventory a!e ~n "Ma.y:flo~er _D~E>C-~?da_~!.~'-,. ~, 155.-.:- -.~He hc;1,d- debts in ~arbado~s.,_ Delaware Bay b.'µd Vi~gini~) .-- Isaac... All~rton __con:t~P.-"4-~d to _h2.ye- intimate and· frd.endly· relat{oris ·with the· Massachusetts·-colonies af'ter leaving Plymouth:;··· a la_rge sh~re _of the tr- o:r the Pilgrims; Isaac Allerton" by H.K.Shaw says Johanna is believed to have come from Marblehead which was then a part of Salem, and that she died New Haven 14 May 1680. He and his family left Delfshaven, Holland in the Speedwell, but transferred to the May.flower, and he signed the Compact. Among his descendants have been Pres idents Zachery Taylor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. ("300 Colonial Ancestors and War Service" by Elizabeth M. Ri.x:ford _(1934 ). Sb.aw concludes :from W.S.Allerton that that writer gave a "reasonable indica tion that much o:f the adverse historical criticisra of Allerton may have stemmed from contemporary jealousies, sub-conscious but none-the-less potent because of Allerton's commercial· enterprise (and enterprises)" and adds: "The services which he rendered to the Colony have been justly appreciated by a few historians only --. It is hardly possible that any among the Colonists could have accomplished . all that Isaac Allerton did in London and it is not too much to say that the very existence of the Plymouth colony depended for a time ·.on the success of his n~go tiations there." _ Some of· the other accounts about him as in: "Americana", 33,283; "Descen dants of Edward Small - and Allied Families", 756-851, by Laura A.· W. Underhill (1954); "History of the Allerton Family in U.S., 1585-1885" by waiter S. Allen (1900); "Allerton Notes" by Edw. A. Hii.l, manuscript in the Connecticut Histor ical Society Library; and uAncestry of H.E. Gustin", 437 by Lester Gustin. Ancestor for Society of May:flower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars, and Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. Children by Mary: Bartholomew born ca 1612-14, returned from Plymouth to England ca 1627, Remember ca 1614, Mary ca June 1616, Sarah 1618, besides two who died infancy; and by Fear, - Isaac 1630? MARY ALLERTON married ca 1635-6 Elder Thomas Cushman, son of Deacon Robert. She wa$ the last survivor of the Mayflower. WILLIAM ASPINWALL . WILLIAM ASPINWALL, probably from the county of Lancaster, England, probably came to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the "Arabella" with Winthrop in 1630, the :first of .. the name here. (Bank's "Topographical Dictionary", 88 says he probably came from Manchester, Lancastershire. ) He settled f±rst at Charlestown_:a.nd was one of two deacons elected at the founding of the church there. By far the best account found is "The Aspinwall Genealogy·· - 1630-1901" by A.A.Aspinuall. The society soon removed to Boston, but he didn't go there until 1633. He took the oath of freeman 3 April 1632. In Boston he was elected a selectman in 1636 and 1637 and in 1637 a Deputy to the General Court. ·"When the religious excitement, caused by the 'Antinomian Heresy' broke out, large numbers of the new colony espoused the cause advocated by Mrs. Ann Hutch inson and her brother, Rev. Mr. Wheel·wrigbt. Among them was William Asp-inwall." For a sermon Mr. Wheelwright preached he was pronounced guilty of sedition and contempt. When Mr. Aspinwall '.drew up a petition ·which was signed by about 60 of the principal men of Boston, he was not only dismissed from the Court, but was 'disenfranchised 1 and banished :from the Colony. He "followed Rogers Williams to Rhode Island, and was one of 19 Aquidneck settlers who designed the- civil compact formed at Providence, March 7, 1638, and was chosen the first Secretary of the new Colony." "We, whose names are here unde:n-1ritten; do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick arid as he shall help, will submit· our. persons;· lives ~~~:_:e_st~t~~- unto our Lord Jesus· _Christ, ·the.'King and Lord of Lords .and :to all those perfect: and most-·absolute la·wes o:f out a piP..nace which was to sail· up the Dela:uare River so high as they coi;.ld go 1 . and then ·some of· the co::1pany under -the conduct of Mr. Williarn·A.spiriwall~; a Good artist, and· one .. irho had been in those·,··parts·to·pass·by s;,1a·ll' s·kiffs or· canoes up the river.as.far as- they e-ould~ They,11ere-prevented f'rom t;c.iii'g up.·the·Delaware. '"-J by 'the Dutcb_.and the ·S~rede-s." : · · · In 1651 he :·got himself ·into trouble· again a·nd -was dismissed. frot1 his· of'f'ices ·.and· fined;· tbeing- accused fcir charG-eing the Gou.rt and Jury· to goe ·agt la,1 and · . .conscience . landlord tenant. ' · Thie ·charge appears in· making.. the to pay rent• to·. t·he- · sO:. ridiculous that ·we wish 11e had ·his· side· of the case·. ·· · . Soon afterwards· he returned to England where on· 13-April, ··1662 he··t1as ·riving in. Chester. as a-ppearG :from a letter -he ·wrote. about giving· 1a:nd to his s:on. ·In -·.... London in · 1653 he published· .. n.a curious -religious ·worii: entitled 'A B·rief · Des:c~ip_'."' tion o:f the Fi:fth -Monarchy. or He .came to lvf.a.ssachusetts 11i th his uif'e, Elizabeth, and probably with Mary, believed undoubtedly his daughter. Savage, I, 70 says: nBy w. Elizabeth, some how sis. of Christopher Stanley., more prob. of his 1-1. Susanna, who bee. -u. of Lieut. \'lilliam Phillips." He returned to England apparently with his wile and four youngest children. At least no further trace of them appears here. He left no Aspinwall descend.ants (by that name) in this country~ unless Peter Aspinwall ·was his son. Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars and Massachusetts Society of' Colonial Dames, Member of Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. Children: Mary; Edward born 27 Sept .. 1630, d. 10 Oct. 1630; Hannah 25 ·Dec. 1631; Elizabeth 30 Sept. 1633; Samuel 30 Sept. 1635; Ethlanah 1 Mar. 1637 and Dorcas 14 February 1639. MARY ASPINWALL married 6 October 1658 John Gove of Cambridge, son of John. EDWARD BANGS ED~-tARD BANGS (Banges ), it has been accepted) according to nDawes-Gates An cestral Lines", II, 61 by Mary W. Ferris (1931) ·was son of John Bangs and Jane Chavis of Hempstead, co. Essex who were married 30 January 1586-7. John ·who died 16 Feb. 1631-2 in turn ·uas son of Richard. Edward was baptized 28 Octobe~ 1591 at Pan.field, co. Essex ·which checks in with his being 86 at time of his · will 19 Oct. 1677, exhibited 5 :Mar. 1677-8. Early writers such as "New· England 11 Historic and Genealogical Register , 8, 368, and the nHistory and Genealogy of the Bangs Family" by Dean_ Dudley (originally 1854 but neu edition 1896) say that he was a native of Chichester, co. Sussex and the latter includes a family tra dition that his family came from the Isle of Man, though he may have lived some time in Chichester. Miss Ferris says that the :..~gport of his bapt_ism at ~hichester is erroneous. Her book and Dudley include the ,-rill. He came to Plymouth in the "AnnT! in 1623, where 3 January 1627 he uas one of the surveyors appointed in a_full court as 'layers out' of a division of' 20 acres to each person;, the others appointed being William Bradford, Edward Winslow, John Ho~land, Francis Cook and Joshua Pratt. "He was thus at the outset of his public career, associated ·with the ablest and most highly esteemed men of the Colony11 (''Americana," 27, 128 (1933) which devotes seven pages to his career) On 1 July 1633 Capt. Miles Standish., Edward Bangs and eight. others were appointed to divide the meadow group in the bay, equally. In 1633 he was. a freeman and in 1631+-5-6 he served as one of the o.sses?ors. In 1636-8 he·was one of the "Great" (or Grand) Inquest svorn to enquire of all the abuses within t1e body of the Government. 11 In 1637 he ·was appointed ·with the Governor and Assistants and Stephen Hopkins to divide the meado1-1 lands. In 1638, 1640 and 1641 he was again one of the Great . Inquest. He was sometimes overseer of the guaro, against the Indians. · The Court, 1640-1, granted him Bo acres on condition that he.contribute 1/16 part toward building a bark of 40 to 60 tons burthen. He is said to have super- intended the building of the vessel, being a shipwright by trade. According to tradition it '\;·las the :first vessel built at Plymouth. In 1643 he was one of those listed there as able to bear arms. In 1644 he was again appointed-an appraiser of lands. In 1645 he ·was a 'freeman· of Nausett' .or Eastham of which he ·was the first· Treasurer which office he· filled for 20 years.. Having acq_uireri pos·session of the -grant of land from the Court and from the Indians, seven families nsaid to have been the most respectable in Plymouth" removed to Eastham in April 1644. These --21- apparently included Gov. Thqmas. Prence, Deacon John Doane) Richard Higgins.1 Nich olas Sno11.,. John Smalley; Josiah Cooke 1 and E.dward·Bangs. These with their families numbered .49 ,per.sons.. (Pratt's "History .. of F.a.stham,. · Wellfleet and Orleans") 'J!hey had a territory about 15 oJ_:Les in-:length and 2 1/2 miles in breadth., comprising _;-1hat are now the towns of _;Eastham, Wellf·le.et 1 Oreleans;· Harwich and Brewster. ·. Ed ··ward. was· Deputy to the General Court· in 1647; 50., ·,52, and 63-4 ... · In·:·1651-2 he··was surveyor of high·ways ~ · In lq54 he_· v1as · one of those appointed to lay · out a conven ient way from Sandwich to. Plymouth. Freeman I s "History .. of Cape Cod''-. _says that for ·mar.y .years he: .was ~gaged exten s:i.vely. in trade .. · It is.said that at·one time he was keeper of·.the public house. He and ·Nicholas Snow. and Richard ·Higgins were appointed in 1658 · "·f"or- the oversight and disposal of poor chil~ren. " In .1659:, · the military being required -to arm ·and equip fo1~ service . and three "troop horse" being .the ·proportion for Eastham.;; Gov. Thomas Prence and Edward Bangs each.agreed to :furnish .a man and a horse at.-:his . own expense for t·wo years.. He l73.S a selectman for ab·out t1-,o yea.rs about ·'1665. There· is ,some account of hi:n in "Cape· Cod Histor-.:r and Genealogy", 32 ana:·.29 (1917) Dudley said 'that Edward m?,rried a daughter of Robert Hicks. 'Because· ·the latter in his 1-;ill in 1645 and also _his ··widow,. Margaret, . in 1665 .mentioned- ·their g:tandson John Bangs;· Dudley .guessed that· Eduard married Lydia. :Miss .Ferri·s- :says Edwa.rd· marri~d 2d as.· early ·as- 1633-4 a daughter of· Robert Hic~:s;)· probably. ·Lydia and (3) · about· i635-7 Rebec·ca uho may have been daughter of Robert Hobart of Hingham. · The "Snow-Estes Ancestry_"_ ✓ .I, 175 by Miss ·Nora E. Snow gives. Lydia's ·immediate ances tors .. '" ~ncesto.r ·:ror -Society of"-···coio}ira.1 Wa.rs and Massachus.etts:. Society of" Colonial Parnes. ·. . Children: John born 1634; Sarah 1638; Rebecca ca 1636-7; Lydia 1637; Capt·. Jonathan ca 1640-1; Lieut. Joshua ca 1646; Hannc.h.:. Bethio.. 28 May 1650 and Apphia and .-Mercy,. twinR b REBECCA BANGS married 26 October 1654 Capt. Jonathan Sparro1-1, son of' Richard and Pandora. -AUGUSTINE BEARSE A.UGT)STINE O! AUSTIN,.l3EA~SE. (Beare, Bearce, Beirce, Beers·, Beeres., Beere) uas born ca i613. · According., to Bank·' s uTopogra.phical Dictionary" he ·was -f'rom ·Longstack, Hampshi;re. ~e · came to PlyJ1outh in- the .-.'~Confidence'·' of London 24 April 1638 '1-1hen 20. He wen~. to Barnstable in the- f.irst ·group· in 1639 and· had a lot in· the 11 :Eas·t Pa-rish". He.was 8:· f'reema:q 3·May __ 1653,. ·a. grand juror in 1653 and 1662 and a··sur veyor of hig1rw9'.ys · i~ -1674. He lTas a -,:fgrmer .· He is on record as being one of · the few set~lers against .who1~1 no· complaint was ever made. His first children we~e ·not baptized untii he joined the church i-n 1643. This was because of a local con- . ·t,.roversy abo~t::. infan.t.:- baptism .. but his .:first son vias carried t·wo r.1iles to the : ·c];lurch the a..a·y he was. born; all _:~~corcli.ng -to "Ances-cn of Thomas Chalraers :Brainerdn 32., by Dwight Brainerd-· (1948). _B:irth· records of the children are in the "Mayfiower Desc~ndant" 7 i,8·., 198 ✓ and there is. -some_ account of- the children and grandchildren in _1_'_Histo~J o.:f Cape. Godtt ✓ II;, ~97._;py: 16?1-2; Hester (Esther) 2 Oct. 1653 1 Lydia end of Septem~ber 1655; Rebecca 26 Sep tember 1657 and· James end of July 1~60. PRISCILIA BEARSE married 1660 Deacon John Hall Jr., son of John and probably Bethia Hall. JOSEPH BOLLES JOSEPH BOLLES 11 came from Osberton; Nottinghamshire to Winter Harbor near the mouth of the Saco River in Maine, about 161:-0; later., he :--er:ioved to Hells._ He belonged to one of the fe11 armorial families represented in New England, of who~a it is esti mated there ,-,ere less than fifty in number. -- The :family ams are 'azure· out of 1 three cups or., as many boars ' heo..ds- couped or'. - - On June 21, 1664 1 Joseph Bo1-1les ' was appointed by Ferdinando Gorges one of thirteen men of York County lrho ,1ere to be Deputies and Commissioners for the Goverru:-ient of the sd Province: Joseph Bolles also appears as Commissioner in Ys.rious legal instruments of 1651; 5~ ✓ 58,;, 59) 61., 62. He ·uas appointed in· 1653; 'clerk of the ,:,ri ts' .1 or to17n clerl~ of Wells. By the burning of his house J in 16:57 j a large volu:1e of to-wn records was destroyed. In 1655, he assisted in 'running the line' bet"1.•1een the tolms of Wells and Kittery. The-will of "Joseph Boolls of Wells in the County of yorkeshire> Gentle", dated September 16, 1678) ,1as presented November 1678.· -- The inventory of his estate was £842: 01: 06. His- wido11, Mary> born in March, 1624 1 we.s daughter to "Morgan Howells, of Cape Porpus ", !\lie; she was living in 1684, at Portsmouth., N. H. " --- all according to 11Descendants of Ed·ward Small of Ne1-1 England and Allied Families", III, 1289., by Lora A-. w·. Underhill. · Practically the same is in f1Genealogical and Per sonal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Massachusetts 'T ;· III, 15b.-3 by William R. Cutter, uhich also includes: ' 1He ·was both granter and grantee of ~umerous pieces of land. -- Various circu.-rnstances show that he 1-las a man of high character and -23_- standing, universally _respected and honored. -- In all cases where the.name is · :found written :by his ·o·wn h~nd, ·it. is spelied Bolles; but_ co.pyi~ts., recording- off'i cers, and others out of the family spell it capr~cioU$ly and in many dif':ferent. ·ways, as Bauls, Bowls, Boyels, Boals, .Boils, Bools, Booles, Bowalls. " . According.: to· Walter L. Sheppard· in "American Ancestry", ·37~ ·li4, Joseph was baptized 19 February 16o8, \-Tork.sop ,England, son of Thom.as of' Osberton and Eiiza.- . beth, daughter of ThoIIi.as· Perkins· of Fj.shlake, Yorks·. Mr. Sheppard then gives .the lineage back to 'King Ed11ard I of England. I am always. very suspic·ious ·. of .sucll · . long lineages,· but thi's ·is ir1; one of the very best genealogical public~tions.. It ·· ·: was based largely ·on ·that given . in °Supplement to Ances_tra.l Roots of '.-60 Colonists" by Rev. Frederick L. Weis, and tn his. "~gna _Charta Sure_ti~s t1, Lin~:. 82., ·and,: amend ment noted in hi~ ·"Amendments an~ ~orrec.~ia.ns ". Mr. She.ppard had. only on~. ·possible question and af'ter further search "he .·_cle'ared up this point _.and ··concluded that '_',the line tnay noi:.f be coils ide~ed proven". · ·. · . . ··_- ...... ~-: . . He suggested an.other l~:ne_to-King.Edward I, but.later f'ound.a-flaw in tha.t;· and explained it· iri '\American Ancestry,n- 38,._180. Be also then. considered as_ .. proven the other ~oyal _lineages suggested in "American Ancestrytt, . 37 J -·~ 115.,; t¢b~ugh these Stime· lines, Joseph Bov1l~s had. descents from .Robert' .of Glocester,: ·Reginald .q.e:--Dun s:tanville·, Constance de Beaumont, and Maud-of Brittany J all illegit~~~~~ chi.i.di;~n of Henry I; from William Longespee, illegitiraate- son of' Henry II; ~ro~ .Ric~~;rd_. · :fitzRoy and.Joan, ~rip.c·ess ·of \,lal~s,: illegitmate children of .King Jq~-:·a:q.q. frqm Edward Crouchbuck,'· Earl o:f Lancaster~ legitimate son of Henry .III~ ., :·t?O- we -~o:p.clude that these lineag~s o:f Joseph are proven.:, b~t · unfortunately. _:I; haven !t. -~9m:icl:,~s ·- satis ·:ractory proof as .. desired ·that our Deliverp.nGe wa,s his granddau~~er•. But ?{iss -.-Un derhill .says:. "She appeo.rs to ho.ve .been daughter of Samuei Bolles and wif'e Mary (Dyer) Bo.lles.• u _._·Everything p6:i,.nts to Joseph's son Samuel as father of Deliverance and there simply _doesn't appear to ·have be~n anybody·· else 1-1ho could ~ave been her grandfather than Joseph. I have looked for.J?~i~verance Bolies in. s~ve.ral hundred books on New England genealogy as uell as else-Hhere and the only other Deliverance I have found _was a q.aughter born 1722 of Jo,sep~ 7 .. son of Samuel, - · ~he thus being a ·niece. 9f ~he· next . generation o:f. our -Deliv~f~nce., (and one. bo1--n 1782. ) · .. · "it.would take considerable study to try ·to:ur1ravel the different possibiliti-es _of' josep~·r:s ·ancestry in England, back to. S.axo~· kings and .others.: · "Positive _Pedi grees ahd · Authorized Ancestry of New Englund~,~ - in 11 Ne11 England Historic & . Genea~· · logical Regi~te·r", 52, 185) by W"illiam ·S.; 'A.p.pleton give.s: TTBo~les, Joseph. From. Osberton. --:-. in. Vi~.itation of Nott_inghamsb~:i.re.. Arms· - . Evidence, ·uil.l of John. Bol.les _;_ 1665.·u'· · ·· ·· · · , · · · · · Followiri'g ·qne ·_-Line .as an· illustration from. irsupplement to Ancestral· Roots of Sixty Cqior:iiifts·*':;··.1.2, by Frederick L. Weis w~ hc.ve: .. · · : ·(1~e·-2·02)~_-42;··Joseph Bolles (or Bowles),.. b~pt. ·.at Worksop,· 19 Feb. 16o8 at Wfr!ter·Ha.rbor, Mai~e,. ·1640, and Wells, d. 1678; .m. Mary, prob. sister or dau. of Morgan .. Howell. --~. ·tr .. . ·. . (202,41) - ·Thomas Bolles, of Osberton, 1614; m. Elizabeth Perkins, dau. of ~oma.s . Perkins, o:f. Fishlake, Coun.~y York. " . Fro~ "Ance·stral Roots .of Sixty ;Colonists" by· the same author, ;•1e go bacl;.: . , Tc)'·: (202, 32) ,' Roger de Cliff'_o·:ra. b.- 1333 who is the· sarae .pl.a:t:J. as (Line 26, 32:) ·who: ·goes: bac·k :to. (2q.,26 y·_John, King·. of Engc.nd, born 1166 who is. the same as Ki.ng John. of. ··(Line ··1.,. 26,). so"n: __ of (25,) .Ki:p.g Henry II. born 11_3.2.-3, so~. o~ (24) Matilda-_, . w·idou of· Henry ·_v, _Emperor·· ·of G~nnany, .daughter :of (23) ~t_ilda o.f Scotland and . : .Henry· .I. born 1070;. ·-:- to (22). St~. ::Margaret of Scotlandj and ~lcolm .· I_II Canmope_.,: King Of Scots born· ro31·, son of'. (2°1) Edward, the Atheling, so~ 9f (20 ) .. :Ed.mu!ld II-, Irons_ide , . King of' .England, son.. of {19') Aethelred II, the Bede.less, son_. of (18-):i · Edgar· the Peaceful; son of (17) Edmund the Magni:ficent; son of (16) Edw~rd I,; t_he ·-24- Elder born 875_ son of (15) Alfred the Greut oorn 81.;.9;, uOne ~f the r;reatest men in h1 stoTy:, n -- to (13) Edbert bo:cE 775:, . the fi:1.'ct-. ::inG :.Jf all Engla.r:d, -- to (1) Cerdic, King (519-34) o:f the vlest Saxons. Other such lineages possibly cc:.n be traced in these books as well. as in nBarons of Magna Charta ". I have discovered t:uo points of· some interest not :found in any of the accounts n.entioned. A Joseph Bo11les landed at Boston :fro!:1 the "Speed.uell of London!! in 1656. One probably 1-1ouldn 't think of identifying hi:n c.- our Joseph if' his age, then 1~7:, 1--;~cn't the sai.a.e as ou::.... s. C1.J1.1.ld he have ~1nde a trip to England? ("Ne\; England His- 1 toric.. and Genealogical Register, ' I, 132). It may be noted that. as late as 1665 his brother John, of Clerken-:1ell, l-1idd.lesex, England made a bequest to hiri1. The other point is) that as the name, Deliverance;- is alnost unique there at that tise, if not actually so; it rather appears that the bap. 27 June 1697 at Marshfield, MassaclT1..1.setts may ,1ell ho.. "\:-e been our Deli~rerance uho :iarried ?4 !-1:uy 1733, as ?nd ~Tife Daniel Hayford boi--n ca 1690. C:I,I2.yflo1,;rer Descendant n 11.:, 37 ). The only church records -;_~~iere s-;;arted in October 1696. Perhaps a:fter being burnt out in i1aine by the Indians and nigrating to ·c1nrl~!s Islo..nd, tarrying a v7hile in Middleborough, Massachusetts and finally settli~G in Rochester, Massachusettc. Samuel tarried ·a while in M:arshfield, ·.::-hich ic alnost betueen Clark'~~ Island and 14iddleborough. Froi:1 the atlas it appe2.rs that :Marsh:field is loc2.ted fOl"'t.:.. railes from Pembroke 1~here Daniel Hayford lived. Various other places mentioned in the Hayford account are not far distant. Ancestor for Society of' Colonial H2..rs (1608-1678 Roya.l Cotuuissioner for :Maine and Depu-'cy to Ge11ero.l Court of Iviassachusetts) Children: Mary b. 7 August 1641:, Thomas 1 Dec. 161~4, Samuel 12 ~!arch 1646> Hannah_ 25 Nov. 1649, Elizabeth 15 Jan. 1652, Joseph 15 March 1654, Sarah 20 J2.n. 1657, andJ.-Iercy 11 A-0_g,71st 1661. (Names and dates of Joseph's family are from nis 01-;n hand~:riting in the ·wells to1:rn records ) S.Ai\filEL BOLLES married Iviary Dyer, daughter of Willian Dyer and Mary Ho--Jells. According to Mies Underhill y:In 1668, the inha-bitant~ o:f Wells t:;rs.nted to Samuel Bolles 300 acres of land, on c.ondition that he should 'inprove the same 11ithin a year. 1 One of his d.escen.clants states that 'after being burnt cut in 1 ✓1aine by the Indians., he mo ~.-ed fi:;,."st to Clark ts Island, in Boston H3.rbor 7 and ne;~t to Rochester, 1v1ascachusetts ,-1here he changed land 1:-!ith Samuel Hammond," 2.nd that 'his house uas about tiJO wiles from iv'Iattapoisett ·Village.' From a court record it o..ppears prob able that Samuel Bolles tarried for a time at Middleborough, before he f'irially settled in Rochester. n In her account of William Dyer, :Miss Underhill says that Mary ·was still living with her.father at Sheepscot in 1689 ·when another Indian uar broke out. Mary ts :father .1-1as filled and scalped in August 1689 and her bro ther _Christopher was killed by the'i11 in November. uin that second ·war ;;Tith the Indians, the to11n 1.,as entirely dest:coyed by fire) including the garrison; the in habitants 1-re:re taken a-r...-1ay by o. vessel sent fro:·.1 Boston. u "Samuel Bolles ·was 2. citizen of Rochester in 1712, 1-;hen the heirs of' Christo pher :Dyer conveyed to him, on June 10, their interest i~ the land, at Sheepscot. The next day, \!ith his \-1ife :Mar.1, he sold it to Rev. Henry- 11·lint of Cambridge for £30. · On December l, 1714 nsanuel Bouls, Senr -- ·of Rochester" divided .his fa.rr: amongst his three sons --. u '.the son Samuel may not have been of age in 1712 ·which is consistent "'i-1ith Deliverance being baptized in 1697. In 1723 Samuel uas a res ident of Bridge·uater. ~'As this deed of 1723 \las siened by Samuel Bolles alone, it is probable tho..t his uif'e 11as not the:-i li~✓-ing. He uas possibly living 1-1ith a daugh ter in Bridgeuater. There mo..y. have been dauc;r.J.ters in the family, yet no one appea1... s to be able to trace the1:1 ·,.:ith ce:.. tainty. tt -25- Children: - Joseph,- Samuel (both probably CTarried ca 1715), Jonathan and prob ably at_ -least l)eliverance..,. probably bapti~ed June 27, -1-697 at Marshf'ie_ld. ···• . DELIVERANCE BOLLES "a.ppears to have been dauGh,ter of Samuel Boll.es and-)-t.~ry (Dyer) .. Bolles" (Miss Underhill ) . THOMAS BOURNE · THOMAS BOURNE -(~urn.es.), draper, born Tenterden, co.-· Kent, England· ca- ·158i wis, bur ied. Green Harbor, Mar-shfield, Mass. 11 May 1664, -·age -83 •.. :·. He .marrie_d 1st" Elizabeth -••• born ca 159Q, buried_ ~rshf.ield 18 July_ 1_660, age· 70 and· .:2d ·Martha· .- ••• who . survived him according_ ·.:to the o"nly real ac_counts ·:round about··---him .• ~ tho~~ in . 11 The 11 Sno1,..:Estes Ancestry , r:,-·431~ (also II, 149)-·by Nora..E.-Sno-w... :(1939) and·.-in_ "Tp:e vlaterna.n Family_"_,_. I,-" 615 by ·nonald L. Jacobus. He-,-ras a· :freeman :of Plymou~h- 2 Jan. · :-- 1638, removed to.~Marshf'ield, _proprietor 1643/-:beputy to- the General ~Cour:t ~6.42-5 and Assistant ~o -~ov_. \r-Tinsiow 161~2-6. Ee· \·!aS surveyor -·-of- highway.s i;n: 16L:.7 _-?!,~d on a grand jury in 1648. He ··was ·one of the e"idest of the Marsh:field; settlers_._~nd uas one of_ the 11M~I). "pf. Kent'.'. His. hom.~ land9 adjoined the estates of his ~ons-in-law Josiah ~linsi9w a!!-d "i{Qbert. Waterman, to ·,1~on~_he· gave liberally of. his o~-m lands. He also wa_$ a· lar8e iana.· _o-fr~e.r in.···the s9u:itherri ?art of the colony~ ._:Miss Sno-~1 in- 11 ·cludes t11e- ~ssenc_~, o·:r. his :_will_ .. v~tch ·t·s. $.lsq · given in· the ni4ayf'lo'wer _Des-cendant , 16> 2 4: ·_ . _ _ . . : . .. -:. -. -:. ·. _. - · _. · .- -- - · · · - · .-:-Ancest9.r for --~_ GOV. WILLIAN~ BRADFORD .. GOV~.· WILLW-'1 BRADFORD :in "Encycl9pedia of American History", 679., .. -by Ric.hard E. Morris (1961) is partly_ ._described a:s· ne.lec~ed Governcir{1621) of· Plymouth Colony follo·wing-_ the dea~'ch of Johri Carver. Betueen 1622 · and i656 he was re-elected to the -Governors}?.ip· in e¥cry ye~r except in 1633:, 163~, 16:36., -1-638 and·· 1644, ~-,hen he served:: as Assi.stant. The _leading stateman of ·the Plynouth: Colony., he exercised (1632-56). broad.authority in govert1~u1ental and religious matters-~- Plymouth· Colony was placed on ; firm economic footing when Bradford. and other Fil.grim Fathers (in cluding five others covered herein - J .. s.-E. } assumed, (1627) the original .invest ment of the merchant adventurers .\•ih6- had :financed the· -settlement. Bradf"o~d took part j_n dra:fting (1636 ). the body·_ of· laws· that ·--erido1·1ed the office of. Governor with a q_uasi-constitution~l status. Although he· _believed· in maintaining tlie Plymouth Colony as a · s·eparate and cor;ipact jettlemen~,. Bradford -cooperated· in larger under takings sueh as the Pequot War and the New England Gonfederation/_: ~e began (ca 1630) writing his 1 History o:r Plimoth Plantation', cociplet.ing 1it.. iri- I:651-.. . It ·was 11 not published in full until 1856. · . · : :::;_. • ___ _ "The Rise of' American Ci~ilization", 159, by Charles 7~A •.: __ : Beard and--Ma:ry R. Beard- (1930) s~ys: "In. the field o:r historica.l .:uriting -more :·than in natural science '.· -- ..... : . .I-. -26- . l . -'- ., . :, , ..r.a • ., bl . . h . . . . p the A nerican co_on1.s v a.ia 1•rorK ial.r.: .. :y coupara e t-o ,:; __ eir C8::-:e~poraries 1.::1 ~urope. By B:cadf'ord' s amazin6 sto:.c-.r cf the Pi lgri:!1.S:, a bridge was built between the narro~; 1-1ork of' the monk and the ·c1... eatise of the scholar. Though Brad:ford saw_.the wonders of Providence in the events of every season, he told a tale that makes old. Plym outh sta:id out of the past like a scene at night· lli"1der the glare of Lightening. ' 1 :Moses C. Tyler in "History of American Literature" (1879) wrote: 'William Bradford deserve~ the pcreeminence of being called the Father of Anerican History." One boo:c devoted to hi~ and his sonJ William., is "Governor 1·lilliam Bradford and His Son :Major William Bradford" by James Shepard (1900 ). Another entire book a bout him. is "Bradford of Plymouth 11 including 338 pages, by Brad.ford Smi-:.h (1951) .. He writes that he con::3ulted h\llldreds cf books and articles and includes a !!Se lected Beading-Listu o:f ~bout 100 books. He covers not only the concrete histor ical facts but correlates them with the significance of' the tir.1es and even for· · the irifiuence of the colony on America:i history. But i~ a way one might say that the Governor's 'oi-rn book;, upich rll."1.S t.c 544 pages i~l the 1899 edition) printed un der· the direction of' the Commonwealth-> is largely about 4imsel-f because he -:-,as 30 ·intimately connected ·with the history of the times. He ~elates e·vents and deci sions so modestly/ hcY'i•1ever, that his influence on tb.emapparently is. grossly under stated. "Descendants o:f Governo1-- William Bradfonif'.. 645 pager:;;, by Ruth Gardine.r Hall. un der the auspices of the Bra_d.:ford Family Compact 7 (1951) is devoted;; after a brie:f bi·ography· of him, to data about the first five genera ti on_s of his descendants_ In general, I shall tr-J to avoid including herein many of the numerous euconiums from the literature; but only to give a few illust~ations and to contribute the thought that it see!:;.S to me th2t ~ore books {say in the Library· of Congress) have included so::nethi ng about him than about any o·Gher American Colonist before George Washington. Even thoug..11 there u1a~f possibly have been other governors of other ·.colonies that were more pro~inent or persons more influential for a period, I can think of' none that had so much influence for such a long period. Also did any of the most pro:ninent :·!1en lea,.re so 1::ar:.y descendants in this country to be interested in him? Of course various others 7 not themselves so influential., have had more descendants. Ivluch of Bradford Smith is devoted to proving the thesis: nThe pat tern of American de::1ocracy ·uas for::ned in the Old. Colony far more than at Massa chusetts Bay. Perhaps that is why Americans have instinctly elevated the fact and myth of Plymouth above that of' Jamestown or Boston. n The definitive short account of Bradford's ancestrJ is the nearly 40 page ac count by William Bradford Browne on "Ancestry- o:f the Brad.fords of Austerfieldw in the ''New England Historic and Genealogical Register:r, 83, 439-64 and 84J 5-17. (1929-30) of 1-1hich this is an extremely It of course 1 re- places the uRegister" article in 4, 42 by G.1-.I. Fessenden (1850 ). After about 22 pages deveoted to analysis or wills 1 church records and other English data, Mr. Bro·wne says: 11 The following pedigree sho·Hs the descent cf Gov. William Bracf·ord from the Peter LJ.'•adford, Senior, ,;1ho 1-ias taxed in the su-osidy (14 and 16 Henry VIII) of 1522-3-and 1524-5 and ;-1ho may have been the son of Robert Brad.f'ord(of Bentley in the pa:r:-ish of Arksey, co. York, born ca 1435). -- vH1ile s0E1.e of the identifications given may be probable rather than certain., any doubt that exists does not affect the ancestral line of Governor Bradfo:'"'d. u Peter born probably ca 1460, died ca-1542-3. His children given were: Peter born 1483 ·(dn.tes esti mated), John 1485., Robert 1487~ Katheryne 1489, Agnes 1491, ·George 14.94., Thomas 1496, William 1498, a daughter 1503 and Richard 1510. · Robert of Wellingley, in the parish of Tickhill, 20. York, di~d ca .1553, leaving by first 11ife --, William and by second wife· ~lizabeth --, - . Robert, Richard; John, Peter, Thomas> Hugh, Katheryne· and Alice. This William married (1) before 28_. ~ov.. 1552 :· anq. \n~:rrieo. ·(2) ·at. Harwo_rth,··_·.-c·o; . Nott-ingh~m:shire _: 19 October 1567·-Margaret Fox (daughter·· of William of ~rworth ). .He was ·-·left land ·by· his father ·in Bentiey and· We1:11rtgiey· and appare;o.tly:_:was the f::irst ,ot ... the Brad fords to settle in Austerfield· arid was called·. "'Willm Brad.furthe : of. Austerfelde" as early as 1557-8.· He· and Joh~ Hansen; the .two g:ra.ridfa_thers of_ Gov~ ;·Bra.df'ord, were about ·-1575 the· only inhabitants ·of Austerf'ieid who "!~re as·sessable in the subs-idy. ·w·1111am was buried 10-··January .1595-6. _·· 'His children by his _first wife were: . Alice, William, ··and Rob.ert bap. 25 Jun~ 1561 and ·by Margaret.:. _Eli.zabeth baptized ·16 ·July 1571.: ·. · · .- · · · · : · · . . . · · · · . -·-This William married at Austerfield 21 June ;I584 Alice Hanson·__ baptized 8 Dec. 1562, daughter of' John Hanson· an~i" Margaret Gressam._ Will~m _v(~S. buri,ed -15 July 0 1-591': and she married . (2) :23 ·September ·1593· Robert· Briggs having ·Agnes· ,~nd. _Rob.ert . .-·She was buried. 23 May 1597,. · William. and Alice_ had: ~rgaret baptized 8 March 1585-6, Alice 30 Nov_._ 1587 and· William··.· 19 March _1589-90_ ~t St. Helen's Cl;lapel, Austerf"ield. · .· · · · : · · · _· · · · · John" -Hah~;on had_- ma;rrie~ Margaret 23 Ju~y 1560 having: .. Alic~, George-, Robert) Catheran· and Joan~- John ·was bu;ried_ ?7 FeQruary 1601-2 .and .Margaret 31·:July 1603. '.. : . : :.. :,.) . . . ' . . . . ·· ... Gov. WILLIAM BRADFORD, after. of Freemen. He was one of the small group knot-,n as the Undertakers 7 ·who i:iere _given by the Freemen a monopoly of· offshore fishing and fur ttad_~ng · -in or~er to pay off their debt to the merchant adven:t.urers .who financed the Mayf·lo-wer_t s voy a:ge. It is true that we have never heard the Adventurer 1 s· side of the .. story, except i!1, their own letters that BraQ.for~ incorporated in his :History;· bu·;~. even ori their showing they treated the Pilgrims much as a loan shark treats-a r:3.n in fin~hcial difficulties; the more beaver and other coG1modities ·they sent to En·g...; __ land·, th~ .. -ui.ore the. debt grew. Finally it was .paid off in 1648. after Brad:ford~ Alden, $.~ap.d.Jsh·; ··and Prenc_e had. sold houses and large parcels · of land. to· 1:1ake up tne-.. oalance.:tt . . ·- · He·.·marr:i.ed 2d 14·{2~) :August 1623 Alice Carpenter, baptised 3 ·August ~:590_,' .. :.. Wrington (Wrenthan) near Bath, Somersetshire, England-' wido,-i of ·Edward Southworib and daughter of Alexander_ Carpenter q.v. She died·l6 (26) March 1670, age S-o~·'.; __ _ (This date illustrates . 0~1;e_· _·o.f the pitfalls of ge_nealogy. She apparently died 16 March Old Style or 26 March New Style as given.: in different accounts, but one writ.. ,r translated a March 26 he found as Old Style and translated it into ·5-6 April. She came ir. the Anne in 1623. She had a· strong p~rsonality, deep faith and was .. of great influence in the colony. She brought over two sons, Constant .and Tpomas South,;;.1orth. It has been said that William had the :first orphan's home in -New England because he had his own children, her children and their children and• several orphans of friends and several of his wife's relatives . . An:cestor Society o:f Mc.yflower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars and Massa chusetts Society of Colonial Dames, the citation_s including besides .the governor ship, Com..rn. ?f United Colonies., 1647--8 and President pf it 1649; 1656., Council_ o:f War including-President a~d Committee on Bou..~dary between Plymouth and Massacpu setts Bay, 1640. Children: by Dorothy - John ca 1618; by Alice -:- William b. 17 June 1624, Mercy before May 1627 and Joseph May 1630. MA.~OR WILLIAM: BRADFORD ~:as Capt. o:f 2. troop of' horse in 1659 and of the Council cf War 1657-8 and 1667 lJ!ajor Com.~ander-in-Chief of the Plymouth forces. In King Philips s · ·Jar he uOften exposed himself to all its perils. At the Narragansett. Fort fight he received a musket ball in his flesh, -;.,ihich he carried for the rest of his life. In that desperate midwinter encounter both parties foug.i.½.t for their very existence, nearly a thousand Indians fell a sacrifice and about 150 o~ the English ·were killed or i:rounded.. n He inherited a large estate from his father but moved to the nox·th side of Jones River in a section known as Stony Brook in Kingston. Different sources differ as to the offices or at least the names he held. and the dates (possibly partly due to the calendar question. ) Based large- ly on the patriotic society c;tations the following is a roug...½ suinmary: Deputy, ·165'""(; .Assistant 1658-81; Treasurer 1679-85; 89, 90-1; Deputy Governor of Plymouth 1682~6, 89-9~; one of Gov. Andros' Cou...~cil 1687 and Councillor of Province of i-fassachusetts 1692. One says Commissioner of the United Colonies 1682;. 84 and 86 and one Councillor 1698. · f'On 3 March 1639; Gov. William Bradford still held the Plymouth patent of 1639 in his own name. At a General Court, 1 December i640 Governor Brad.ford for himself and associates surrendered to the freemen of the colony all the patent lands with the exception of three tracts ,;hich he reserved for himself and old associates. ("New England Historic and Genealogical Register",112 1 7). nfirst, on Cape Cod - comprising probably whal, are now the towns of Eastham, Harwich, Chatham, Orleans, and Brewster. Second the present to1-1n of Dartmouth, Westport, the city of New Bedford -- and Little Compton. -- Third -- greater part of what was later Swansea and the to-.-:n of Rehoboth. This left these to·wns i;·!ithout title t(? thei.r lands. n r:4 June 1689 - At a general Court of Elections -- Ordered that the original patent· -- be committed to publique record. '1 ttThirty-five days after -- _his son and heir., Mo.jar William Br2.dford, _started issuing his quitclaim deeds to these towns. u -Very carefully prepared lists of those entitled to the lands· ,:-,ere in,.rolved of which those in Taunton, Swansea 7 Rehoboth, Little Compton and Dartmouth are given in °Early Rehoboth" I, 47 by Richard L .. Bowen (1945) He married ca 23 April 1650 Alice Richards born 16 June 1627, daughter of , Thomas Richards and Wealthian Loring. She died. l2 Dec. 167l and he married (2) 1673., :Mary, wido-:.-1 o:f ·Pastor Wis11ell of ~Duxbury (.Mrs. Hall gives as Mary Fitch .born 1643 while earlier ··writers said 1 id.entity unk1101vm' and (3) ca 1677 :Mary Atw9od, (daughter of Thomas Atwood and Sarah Iviasterson and widow of Rev. John Holmes) who died 6 January 1714-5. Will·iam' s ·will and inventory are given in "Ma~loi:•1er Descendant", 4, 145 2nd that of.Alice in 3) 144. He died 20 February 1703-4. Ancestor for Society of Colonial \·Jars and Massachusetts Society o:f Colonial Dames. -3i- ' _Children: by Alice - John b .. 20 Feb:rua-ry 1651-2, Wi~liam 11 March 1654~5;' 0 Thomas~ca-1657; Alice-·ca-.-l.659, Mercy·bap-. · 2-~ept~ l~60~ Hannah bpt. 9·May·1663, Meletiah 1 Nov. _:-1664, Sam.ue·l ca ·1668, Mary 1-669, Sarah 1671;. by Mary W:i:9·w~lf; - Joseph_l8 April 1675; -and by Mary-Holmes;•- Israel ca 1678/-Ephraim 1685;, David 1690·and Hezekiah 1692. Dates ·differ between accounts. These·are based principally on '~Families of ·Pilgrims" by -H. K. Shaw with some. help from. Mrs. Hall. MAJOR JOHN BRADFORD:was Capt.-o:f the Plyniout:h·Co. by 1705 and-Major ·of the Co. Regiment_·by 1710~ first Deputy f'rom Plymouth t~ ~eneral_Court i687; Deputy~·to Ge11:eral Court 1689-91, Selectman 1708-9, Re1;>resentative:·to Gene:ra.1.·court.·J:q~, 1695, 1705, 17o8, 1710 (according to Massachusetts Society 9f··-co1oniq.l Da:qies) and ,Representative to General ·As·sembly at Boston, ·1719,' according to Mrs-._- .Hall. _H;is ·home -was built ·ca -1674 and- was still standing rece·ntly·:·a little nqrtliwest . of K~gston Landing. He- inherited large tracts of land ·arid·:~gave .land :ror ·the minister's ·home~.cburch and-school·and 11 ~cres of wood.land:fo~ the· permciine·ri.t use. of the mintstry; He died 8 December 1736. He married 6-.J~nuary_l.674 ('·New England His·toric a~.d Genealogical ·Regi!s'ter", 4, 46 shdws 5 F~bruary arid. nearly all subs~quent ·accounts have ,_c:opied that -error.)· · ·Mercy War.fin\ (da1.igbter of Joseph Warren a_nct Priscilla- Faunce) ·born -23: ·september 1653 ~:1i th --whom he live·d . 62 years. · She died,March -1747. His will ·i's· given 1n u~yflower Desc_endant", ,• 20 · 133 · . •' . . . . '• . . . , , . . . Ancesto:r;. :for S0.ciety of -Colonial Wars ana.:··-Massachusetts s·o·c:iety of ·coion.ial Dames:• .- . Children: · .. John~'..25 ·.December· 1675·, -Alice :28 :January ·1677;-- Abfgaii .. _l-O·:·D~~m-· ber,-1679, .Mercy. -20- Dec •.·168i;--samue·i-23 Dec.· i683, Priscilla:·:to·~r:ch:.;i686 .. and William 15 April· 1688. · . MERC~Y BRADF9RD married· (1.)' 12 October 1708_ :Jonath_an Freeman, son of De~¢~n Thoma.s- Freeman· .and· .Rebecca Sparrow~ ELDER WILLIAM: BREWSTER ELDER ·w:ILLIAM. BREWSTER gave •his age ·in:·an afi'_id.aVit ·_:in Leyden 25 June, 160.9· ae 42. _:He. was _'. probably born in· Scrooby; -·-:Nottinghamshire, England. His :father', William- (married Prudence ~-- ) : "was ·appointed by Archbi~hop Sandys in _January 1575~6 receiver o:f. Scrooby-. and bailiff' of the ma'r1or= ·house, belonging to the : Archbishop,, ta have life te.r1ure of-·both offices. n Th~re -are· at_ least one good · account and a book devoted-· to· the Elder·1 s= life bes-ides numerous other· accounts of the .. fa.miJ_y~ .: ''William ·Brewster; His True Pos'ition ·:111.' Our Colonial Hi~tory" O by Lyman ·n •. ·--Brewster is in "Mayflower Descendant ,-- 4·, 100 Ct902) 1 Chief of the . Pil.grims or the ·Lif'e and Tim.es of· William Brewstern ·by. Rev; -·As~hel Steele (1~57) includes 416 pages. They should be read to appreci?te ~ow: much_ 'influence he had on,.the·:Plymouth_Colony., ·-A very good but condense~ account·ls -11 Early Generations of .the.Brewster·:.Family~'--.by Lucy H. Greenlaw, iri the -~'Ne·w Engiand.'Historic an~ _· Genealogical :-:Regi·steru, · 53, .:109 (1899 ). See aiso· "The-·Jir~w~t~r~denealogy" .. _ ·15-66 - 1907:: .(tv10(:·vclumes-) ·:.by E~ G. B •. Jones . (1908 )-; -··:an~. ~~Far+1ilie·s of the Pilgrims: Elder William/Brewstert_: :.by H~ · ·K. ··shaw. ···: · . · ·- He ·matriculated· a.t Peterhouse;- Cambridge ·university·:·3:~~e~:. ··1580,- but i.t. does not.:appear··that>he rem~ined there long enough to t~ke :his 'de~ree .. Gov·.. _B~a.9%.ord said. that Brewster knev Latin and some "Greek. Brewster knei:-i-' enough Latin ·to edit book$ in it·:,._ and to leave 62 Latin books-·- in ~his library at his death. -32- He ~;1ay ha-ve married soon after leaving the Univers-tty about l585-6 for Gov. Brad ford wrote of Brewster's hard life when he ·went to Leyden and that be had many children. Morton Dexter in "England and Holland of th~ Pilgrims" states that Brewster was a ribbon maker thers.:. H. K. Shaw guesses that he married ca l59l: Mary ••.• born ca 1569 ·who sor:ie ·writers have suggested -:-1as Mary Wentworth. · He .p~rhaps resided in the v.icinity-o:f·London for several years to be near the Courts and his many friends around Heneage House, Duke ts Pi.ace...... _ After. Antwerp .was seized by the Spaniards, Queen Elizabeth in 1585 decided to help the Dutch defend themselves and sent various high officials besides troops to Holland.· She appoi:1ted William Davison as her personal Ambassador to the Low Countries-·for the purpuse of forming a treaty with then. In some way, possibly on a visit of' Davison to Cambridge, Brewster met him and, _possibly because a good language student ·was needed on ·the staff in Holland, Brewster was chosen and be came affiliated with Davison both as a friend and aide to some degree up to the death of Davison in 1608. (Based on the very good acount about Brewster in "The .. Mayflower Planters at Plymouth -- '', II, 30, by Leon C. Hills.) So Brewster _k.-rie,-1_._-yarious of the high English officials in· Holland and perhaps had some part in all ._tlfe negotiations there. • Hills says: "That Bre·wster was a very useful · diplo~a:t :. in dif:ffcuit. -ti~e:s; associat~d with such men as Essex, Wals i1:1gham, Burghley., Sydney, Scindys and others seems to be amply endorsed by Brad~ord,. 1-~ho states that Davison 'found him so discreet and faithful, that he trusted him more tp~:r:i all the others who were around him, and employed him in all matters of great est trust and secrecy. He esteemed hi1!1 rather as a son -- and knowing his ·wisdom and .godliness--~ Re accompanied him when be 1-1as sent as ambassador by the Queen into the Low Coillltries; in the Earl of Leicester's time :1 bes ides -·other import?,nt af:faires of state} to receive possession of the cautionary towns, in token of which the keys of Flushing (Holland) were delivered to him.in her Majesty's name. Mr. Davison held them some time, handing them over to Mr. Brewster, who kept them under his pillow the first night. On his departure the Netherland honored Mr. Davison with a gold chain; he gave it into the keeping of Ivlr. Brewster, and when they arrived in England commanded him to wear it as they rode through the country, until they arrived at Court. ' 11 By 12 December 1586 Brewster was back in London elevated to one of the "Prin cipal Secretaries lf. George Cranmer, :friend of Sir Edwin Sandys o:f Scrooby Manor, Davison (mad~ Secretary of State) and Brewster lived through several months of ex citing his·cory making. Brewster ·vas more or less in daily attendance at Court. Much of the intrigue in the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, has never been cleared up, but apparently-Queen E~izabeth tried to shift much of the blame for the execution on Davison whom she then imprisoned in the Tnwer for two or three years. Probably Brewster helped Davison there (ac_cording to Hills) with food and other arrangements. Brewster must have been ·well informed concerning the rather confused and remarkable story of the famous death uarrant on Mary and he may have perfor::1ed. some service. ·Brewster's father died in the sur.imer of 1590, but apparently young William ·was in no hurry then to secure his father's Post at Scrooby. Later with the help of friends such as the Earl of Essex, he came into possession of it and Scrooby Manor at least by 1 April 1594 and· so continued :for ·13 years. The position at Scrooby was that of a uLiving" for a ngentleman". · The real work was probably delegated and he was probably engaged in· tutoring.' When ·he was cited before the High Court of Commission in Notts. December 1, 1607 he was described as ' 1vlilliam Bruster of Scrowbie, gen. n (Gen. meaning ngenerosasu or well-born). He lived there "In goo~ esteeme amongst his friends and ye gentlemen of those parts, especially the -33- .. godly aI?-Q. .religious:,_tt doing much- good ih.promoting,and furthering· religion." - ·_ His lea_ning was· probably Puritan, but he may ·not have been an active dissenter .bef'or~_.the· de~th of·_Q.ueen Elizabeth 24 March 1602-3. He attended St. :Wilf-red's near the old Manor Jio-u,se. · Bu~ King James I tolerated only>the form-- of religion· whtch he controll<=.d. ,_._This :forced.-· out ·o:f his uliving"- at Norwich Rev-~-- John Robin- ·• son, a fellow Camb-:r:-idge man. Brewster of'fered his Manor House a·s: a· 'place· to p:I:"each ar:i,d meet. . Befor~ 1607 the meetings were so- organized·- that the· king f'orced Brewster to resign his 1';Post". - Brewster sent his son William to Vir·ginia in 1607. Miss Greenlaw says: "The Pilgrims, attempting to remove to.·:Holland in the later · part of,.-1607, were_ t~prisq:r,ted at_ Boston. (England) through the treachery of the master of the ship. t:hat- was engaged .to _transport them. Brad.ford says that Brew~--: s.ter "was ye cheefe•:9:f t:P,qse -that-:-were taken at Boston, andrsuf':fered ye. greatesti• loss; and of ye seuen that were kept longst in· prison, and after botmd· ouer· t~ · · ye as sises. " Through -B~df.9rd also·, we .. learn. that Brewster,· -after:-he --reached. Holland, suff'ered many ~-rd.ships and spent most -of his means in· pro:V:i.ding ·:ror: · ... his 'many children'. He was not so_ well •fitted· as- the other ·Pilgrims -for· the·:·-. hard labor which became their lot, y~t- he·.bore his.· ·conditic>n cheerfully. - During· .th~ latter part of the -1:2 ye8:rs -.in Holland, he .inc-re·ased his ·.income: ·'J/e:ry ·much by __ .:te~ching and by the p~o:r.~ ts . of a printing-press-- wp~ch. :he; · by. the ·help of some friends J set up at .Leyden~ " .fts a te_ac_he:r:: of. ·1angllages. he set: ·up a' school "to ·which many genttern~n,.both Da_nes _and _Ge:r:man$_ _, resorte·d - - .. as ·they· had time from: other stud:i:es; ·some .of' them· being- Great~~ri-'s·- sons·.", ·. -._'. · . -- : · :: · . . ; Four volum~:s, two .. in .. La.tin .a~q.._ two_ in English have been.'. traced·.:·to ··hfs..::Pilgrim. Press :l,n· Choir Alley, Leyden, as early as.; 1616. An>.art.icle ·in "Mayf"lower- Descen~ d.ant", 23, 97, ·traces 19 titles_ (books_) -in all: to· the Pilgrim Press-. When Ki_ng · James_ discovered "that the Pilgriq1_ Pr~ss had_,·printed;_ ~-: the arguments :·against Episcopacy in the Volumes df David -Calderwood:, "Perth Assemblytt · and "De regimine: ecclesae Scoticanae brevis Pelatio~\; he was :furious and exerted every 1,ressure·L, ' to have the Pilgrir:i Press suppressed. · l'Brew~r (Bre,-rster' s partner}· was- impr:ts- ·· oned by the· town and pniversity, b_ut Brewst~r · removed his family and, goods. to _ London and was a hun1~4-:ma:t}._-for a year or more, by the·:University, by Sir· Dudiey· Carleton, the English amba~sador in Holland, and by Sir Robert·.waughton; the · · · Secretary of State-~ in: ~~gland. " nThe Brewster Boo kn, a verj old 'manusc~-ipt -·cor:i~ · taining records relating to· him and his · son Jonathan and· the lattef ':s -fatnily-~is :: printed in "Mayflower Descendant" ( volumes 1) 2 and 3) · · · · : · "At the end of. that time, ?for sundry and weightie and .'solid reasons' ,,.;hicht~- _ are duly set forth .in Bradford ts History, among. ·which_ ( 'and. -"tThich was: not tlie; ·.·.· · least') was a true missionary spirit, the church at Leyden resolved to···emigrate _. to Virginia. Brewster, the Elder of the Church; who l1ad been chosen to -that :_ ·.-·: office during the- Pilgrims T stay at ·Leyden, as 'desired by those chosen to go:.:: fir~t, to goe with them·,' 1-1~~l_e .Johp Robinson, the pastor, stayed ··uith the:· ma jority who should follow later. Thus it happened that ·we find Elder Brewster-; · his wife Mary and two young sons among the-passengers o:f- that now fa.mous·vessel, the 'Mayflo·wer'. At Plymouth Brewster bore an ~mportantf part in· establish-_. ing the Pilgrim republic, not shri;nk3::qg-:,from,:even the_ severest:\manual labor and '·when the church had no other minister-J. .-, ~e_;_ -taught t~,1ise -euery> ::iaboth.-· a:rtd · yt both 7 powerfully and profitably, to y:~ .- g:rea_t _c-9ptentment of ye bearers. " - · (M-is·s Green- law) __ , "Gov. Bradf'ord pays tribute to the character of his 'dear, & l'ouing ·. frlend) ' Elder William Brewster, in the following._words :. 'he wa.s: Patience came in the "A:ri.ne" and Wrestling. Neither William nor _Edwaxd are given ·by early ·wri-cers but are· given by Hilis (Wiliiam ·with a _question ma.r.k.) and. Ed-ward as probable by Miss Ferris.· Hills even gi:ves a b~ier _p.iography ·· o:t"._Ed.ward.: ··· PATIENCE~ BRE'WSTER married 5 Augus~--:i624· 'J.:'homas· Prence·... . . , :. : : ... ALEXANDER CARPENTER . • • ·, r . . . '.. . . • . • , ' c .) . . •. ALEXANDER CARPENTER, apparently _r.~-;,e·r came to ~ew Ep.glano..hims·elf but ·he.·cqn:trib- uted five daughters, ·all: of· who(· ma-~~ri_ed ··excep·_.,~. Mary 11ho" di!~d at .·Plymouth March 20, .1€)87., ·a·ged about Bo ·is -the-: _recqrds s.a:y:· "A Godly old maid never married.:-'.~;:. The '.pest account found 'is··_;ir{:T!A• Gen~alogical 'History of' 'the -Rehab.0th Branch ·_of. the Carpenter -Family" by Amos 13~-- 'Ca'J:_1~ent.er '(1898"). There is a hrief account in ''An cestry of' -H·. E. Gustin --n by :~:~ter;· Gust_i:µ. Va.:rious pooks give·. th~'. ancestry back about· eight -generations .:r hut· "Carpenter a.nd ·Allied Families'~ for Annie I. Carpen ter by American Historical Co. (1940) says later search seems to place much.of this earlier material in the realm of conjecture but_. it does give Alexander) born ca .·_1:590, · who,.removed ·to· Leyden, as-·· son of William ··of England...... ·. Surprisingly quite a bit of light (as well as a lot of questions) is thrown on this family by a geneal:ogica~ itepi in the "Hartford,. _9pµn.~ .1 Tim~s "; A7"477~-:" _,by M. K. S. and,.a;._re:ply- therefo by~13.L·~B. ···(Feb. 17, 1945)~ .. A.J.:;e,ia;p.·a~t-•·came ::rrom Wren~~~m or Wrington near Bath, Somersetshire, England. According to M.K.S. he witnessed a marriage in Amsterdam Dec. 16, 1600. He had been a member of the "Ancient Breth ern", the Separtist church (from London) of Francis Johnson in Amsterdam, but 'followed' says Goodwin, the Scrooby church of' Robinson to Leyden. His wife may possibly have been the Dillen (Dexter says D; lle) Carpenter who :witness:ed. the marriage Oct. 7,·.·i611 a.t·:·Leyde·ri of: Isaac Allert.on·.· M.K._S •. ·says.:.. ''In i938 Rev._: Arthur J. Hook, Re·ctor;· 'vlrir1k;t,bif ·Re,ctory, Bristol_, E~gland wrote. me a. list of baptism dates of·_ the fi~e:·Ca.niinter girls: Jone (or Jane) Aug.- ·2, 1590 (later::·. Alice); Ann ··oct. 1; 1592:" (later'· Jul.iana ); Apn~ (Agr1es) Dec .. 16, ·,·_ 1593.; _Mary Feb.- 6, 1595-7; Precylla (Priscilla r· sept. 3., 1598 ... The gir.ls. seem to have. tak~n other names than those of their baptis~-~:._. The:·handt1riting of the above is uncertain,.. though it appears ·to be Jone for the::.:'eldest. However; she became Alic~ an~ .married Edward Southworth at Leyden May 28;: :i613,.:and marrie9-_ {2)-.Gov. tlilli~m Bradford at . . . . • . ·,. If . ' ~-. ' ...... ,· Plymouth,-:Augtist·:r4, 1623. · . :.· .: :- _.,. •.. . : ·.... ·:·. ·.· ·. UGharles·:E.- Banks gave Julianna's.baptis_m a.af~·as Ma.r. 17., 1584 at .st. :James: Church,.: -·Ba·th -· :.:. - ·. · · Events of Garpente r's l.a:t.e: ~yea.rs are not known.; : he ~may .:have_ .re - turned>.to·Engla.nd.··(from Holland),- as did Souihworth and his wife Alice; also Mor ton and wife Julianna, 1-1ho were a:i-1 living in .L.ondon, Morton returning .t~er_e 1619 and Southwort-h:.-·earlier. ln 1644,··the mother c£\:rp_en.ter having lately:_died, .Gov~: Bradf"ord wrote-·Mafy at Wringtori ?inviting her ·fo ~ake her home with them :at Plym- outh .which she -did in 1645-6. u ·.,. · . · .. _·. :_ ·_ ._ ·_: . ·B. L.B. -~was-· ioath to agree 1-iith · the preCed~_h.g ·J3.bo11t _ju1"i~nna 's baptism. "It: is hard to·:believe that Dr. Banks·, a_ very reliabl¢.'_ ··genealogist _could:, ha~e been s:o in error. about the date and place of birth of· Jul_ianna Carpenter j he cou]_d haz:-dly have given.:·-a: dif.:r-erent date and church without foµrida_tion! .. Unf'c_:,rtunately :the records of St. ·,,James -0:f Bath are no~ available but· it: 1-1ould. seem Al~xander Carpenter must ·have li_ved in:=Bath· before· living in· Bristol .. · Did t_he ·Julianna re.corded in 1592 di:e young and the daughter Ann b. Wringtbn, 1592, ta.ie t};le:,siste_r's name? Julianna would be 28· at·.-'.marriage:·.ir she ,1as -~he Julianna born· 15$~~_;. note that in the marriage re_c:ord s.he is-'. called o::f ~ath; ~not· ~lrihgton." . ·.. '. -36-- "Leyden documents, translation of Dutch records, Book B~ , Folio 13. George Morton, Englishman from York, England, unmarrie~ and~ merchant accompanied by Thomas .Morton, his brother -- and Julian Carpenter, a single woman from Bath, accompanied by Alexander Carpenter her father and by Alice Carpenter her sister --- married in July 23, 1612." (See "Mayflower Descendant", 11, 193.) Children: According to Gustin and "The Mayflower Planters at Plymouth --" by Leon C. Hills,- Julianna (Julia Ann) born ca 1583-4; Agnes 1585 married Sam uel Fuller; Alice m. 1st Leyden, 28 May 1613, Edward Southworth, probably of Sturton le Steeple, having Constant and Thomas ("Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers :Brainerd", 81, by Dwight Brainerd (1948) says her family home was at Basset Lowe, England); Mary 1595 (Gustin gives i577, a misprint?); and Priscilla 1597 married William Wright. Hills says: 11 The :five Carp~nter sisters hold an -qnique and romantic position of honor among the first comers to New England. They were extraordinary; four of these sisters left the impr±nt of sterling character upon the descendants of' Bradford, Morton, Fuller and ,;fright, many of whom have been men of-note and ability." · JULIANNA CARPENTER married 23 July (2 August) 1612 George Morton, son of George. ALICE· CARPENTER married 2nd 14 (24) August _1623 as 2nd wife Gov. William Bradford., son of William Bradford and Alice Ranson RACHEL CASWELL RACHEL CASWELL (Casell, Casewell, Caswall), born supposedly ca 1740 at Easton or according to another account at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, at least. probably near Taunton, married as second wife (intentions) 21 January 1763,· Abiathar Vinton, born 18 September 1732. ("The Vinton Memorial"). I have searched considerably in vital records and histories of that section without further result. Of-course, possibly I have just missed the birth record, or possibly the trouble is that the Taunton records were burned about 1838. Quite -extensive analyses of some of the Caswell family are in "Ancestry of H. E. Gustin -- ."; 476-7 by Lester Gustin (1954), "Nicholas White Family, 1643-i900", 34 by Thomas J. Lathrop (1902) and in "Contributions Biographical, Genealogical and Historical", 36 by Ebenezer W. Pierce (1874). There ,J;n~y}:e something in Taun ton Families: Original Notes" of the Old Colony Historical Society, but I have not had a chance to see these. The principal other clue might be in the Christian names of Rachel rs children. These .are Abiathar, Tamar, Simeon, Hannah, Samuel, John and Rhoda. The first two names might ordinarily help, but they are outstanding Vinton names. The other names except Simeon wouldn't ordinarily in themselves be expected to help, but · there was a_ S.imebn Caswell baptized 19 January 1763 in Taunton, son of Job and Elizabeth who were married 12 August 1762. Thirty or more years ago I made a small chart of a section of the family which showed a Job, who married about the same time as Rachel. Unfortunately I have forgotten the source of my chart and as far as it goes Simeon had no sister Rachel. Job's father was Ebenezer., son of Samuel who was son of the pioneer Thomas Caswell. Thomas Caswell (Carswell, Coswell) is included here because he must have been ancestor, probably great grandfather of Rachel; even if the Job clue is mislead ing. Thomas was born probably in Somersetshire, England and died in Taunton be tween 15 March and 14 September 1697. He married Mary Sanderson, daughter of --37- John, a s:Llv~rsmit,h of Boston (accorA~p.g to·tbe-account found), but -on trying to learn mar~ _about _the latter; all I: _i oµnd was- ~bout Robert Sanderson~· · · - nAmerican9., rr· 22, 352 (American Historical Society.) says_ Richard Caswell, Esq. of London married :Mary Slany, daughter -crf Richard Slany ,- Es-q. of :East· Salop and among their children were Thomas and George. Thomas Caswell is believed to be a ~o~ (?:f. !{-; cha~d.. genealogical Query c8185 in the -"Hartford Times 1' April 4, 1963 · ·sa·ys that· Gustln and Babbit 1 s "Genealogyu ·give the story that Thomas married Mary, daughter_ of John Sanderson, and that a correspondent says~he was son· of Richard and asks proof of these statements_ An answer December 30, 1963 says that it was Thomas (2), not Thomas (1) who married a daughter of Robert Sanderson, and _•-:.i.v th3.t she ·.-:-as Sarah, not Mary. Someone made a mistake in the name and it has been perpetuated. The will of Thomas :of _?8 qe-pt"' 1691 does mention wife Mary, but no one has ever four:d proof of her identity. The statement of Richard being the tather of Thomas qiay have been found years -ago by a -s.e.archer of -··pa.fish .•ie'cords if:L.:London 1 but no one· sine~ li~·s. been able to .::f.i:qd. the: ·proof and ·i.intil they do, this should be cons~dered an iutere-~ting po~tsibility.~ '":Thomas was-:.one of ·tl;le . original purcha~ers, 6 June. 1668 o:f T:aUI).ton- ·Nor:th. Purchase, now· comp.rising· Eas·ton, -··and p~_rts 9f No:rtori _and Mans.field.-. Pqp~ ·says_ he wa~3':not an .-original· ;pu:rcha.se·r of ·Tatirlton' but ~a.s:_on the list in i643 of .t_hose able:·,t_o·bear arms.,· - _:· ,-:··. -·. ~ R9pert Sand~rson was a- go:J_.dsmitb ·and -partner of John·- Hall who minted the -:first coins· in Boston.. His. ~ife Mary died 20 June 1681 age: 74 and he ma-r-ried· 2ci' Eliza be·th •• _- who "died 15 o·ctober ·1695 age about 78 according_·to·-Pope:'s:::1'p{6nee:rs ·of 0 Mas·sa~buset.ts. - Robe.rt died 7 Octqber 1693 and his .will ttJ.entioned-:"h-is ·granddaugh ter·~cy Caswell. His w.idow's wiil-,:-me~"tior;is_ daughter~ Mary -Caswel-1·, also·Mary~- daught·er ·of' Thomas Lincoln ap.d also _..gr~_~dqaughter Mary Caswell. Th-i's.· is: -all v_ery corify$).. ng·and I paven't'..a.ny: :faciiit•i~_s.::to try_, to see whether I could :i.mt-a.vel any of: it·: · .. WILL!Afv1 COLLIER -. WILLIAM COLLIER. (Collye·r, Coll;~re) :was_--.bor~ in England b-e·fore· 1590 and was · one· :of· the. "Merchant Adyeriturers" :Of' London_._and .W$.S very. active in. support of the Plymc,uth · ·settlers and ·subscribed f:or spe.cial &id for .tnem · 15 Novembe·-r -1626. "New . England Historic &_ Genealogical Regi~ter", 9_5-, -130. speaks of him- as son of Abra- . ·ham~- · His brew-house was mentioned_. in.1631 and he :was an ·agent -for Mr.- John·-.:Shir ley. He came to "Plymouth _in 1633 in_ th~ "Mary ·.and John'-~ and became ·ci ;freeman :in 1633. He visited Boston in 1634 with Gov .. Brad.ford . ...-to-··consult :with- tbe·:author :(tie·s._· about the Hocking affair and ~is one of_ the re:ferees adJusting the: pa.rt;ne_r- ·ship-'.b·etv{een the English ~nd Plymouth propriet;ors ,in~.1641~;. He served as Governor's Assistant from 1634-7, 1639-51 and l654-65 ·and was a member of' the Council of War 1642 ·et seq. He- :was one of.. two corom:issioners ap pointed by Plymouth to form a conf'ederatio~ of the New England colonies in 1643. He took _the liberal side in the attempt _to establish religious toleration· in 1646. 11 He was cailed one o:f the "Old Comers. . He appears to have been the wealthiest ·. man in Duxbury. He came to Plymouth !'1ith four daughters artd._'._ra,ppre·ntic~s. -·He- was a tavern keeper. "Colonial Families 6:f America", 3, 132 (1928) says he was ·'born ca 1583, appointed with Capt. Mil.es_ Standi~h,. Jonathan Brewster, William Palmer· and Stephen Tracy to l.ay out a highway ~nd~~tbat his wife, Jane, was· living in · _· 1653 and 1659. He died probably ca lp7Q. __,_ _ · · _:_,-:_ There are short accounts about :_him in ~he "Brewster Genealogy", ·I, 26 by· Emma C.B. Jones (19o8), "The Mayflower Planters at Plymouth", 46, by Leon C. Hills, - -38- (1920), in "Pioneers of Plymouth" by Charles H. Pope (1900) and in "Genealogical and Biographical Records of American Fami1:,.ies: Representative Citizens" by States Historical Society (1930). · Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars Children: Rebecca born ··ca 1610; Mary ca 1614, Sarah ca 1615 and Elizabeth ca 1616 . .MARY COLLIER,married as 2nd wife 1 April 1635 or 1636 Gov. Thomas Prence. GEORGE COOPER .GEORGE COOPER was. a graduate of Oxford College, England according to "Presi dents, Soldiers and Statesmen", ·11, 1241 in our family.. It seems possible that :he _was the .George Cooper given in "Alumni Oxonienses, 1715-1886", Part I, 293 as "Cooper, George Henry, Is John Capps of Cheltenham; gent.Magdalen Coll. matric. · 1:-6 Oct., 1784; aged 18; demy 1784. 0 11 History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler Counties-,· New York", 329 (1879) says: "Master Cooper also taught school .'.(in Chemung) at~ very early date, in ·Israel Parshall's weaving room." _nOur County and ,Its People, a History of the Valley and County of Chemung from the c1·o·sipg Y~a:rs ·of the Eighteenth Century", (1892) says: nMaster Cooper was also a_pionee~ -scho.91 teacher and for a time taught a few scholars, fn Israel Par shall' s_ w_~aving room. A school was held in Jf~ster Cooper's house which was built on.land tra~ed tp Master Cooper by Thomas Burt .. The site is now on the Nelson 1 _·van Gosback _farm on the Wyncoop Creek road. rr The 'History of Waverly", 84, by ·tharles L. Albertson says: "The :first school near the present village o:f · Chemung was conducted by Master Cooper, an Englishman, father of George, well known for many years in the town. The school was kept in a part of a log house on the cross-road leading from James Owen's to Wynkoop Creek, on a part of the :farm now owned by Charles H.. Van Gaasbeck. }1aster Cooper purchased ten acres from Vine Baldwin, who was the original owner of the Manning farm. This land,was to be paid for in the education of Mr. Baldwin 1 s childre~. Mrs. Cooper was a weaver. The school and loom occupied one room for s~veral ·ye~rs; later, there was a log school house on the same road midway between Mast~r Cooper's and the river road." The first other trace of him is th~ 1800 census of Chemung when the reco~d shows besides himself two boys under 10, two girls under 10, one 10-16 and one woman 26-45. Very unfortunately record for males 16-26 and 26-45 is damaged or illegible (according to "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record", 59, 341 ). The 1810 census record shows one male uner 10, one 10-l6, qne 16-26 and one over 45, and females two under 10; two 10-16 and one 26-45. The family Bible record I copied about 1925 is: Family Register Names Births Deaths George Cooper Oct. 29., 1762 Feb. 3, 1821 Susannah Kortrite (his wife) July 19, 1765 Jan. 2, 1841 Children Deborah - Wed.: June 25, 1788 Phebe -. Tuesday. .. June 28, 1790 Roger C. - Sunday May 6, 1792 Sµsannah - Tnurs . Apr. 3, 1794 -39- Names . Births Deaths George Causey· - Mon. Sept. 5, 1796 Ma;rgaret . ~ Monday May 26, 1800 Maria - Sunday .. • · Oct-. 5, 1802 Willi.am K. - F.rfday July .3,. 1807 'May . " ' . , .; 13, 1827 - . -... . ' ...... MAR~ COOPER married 181~ Jqhn Walker, Chemung, son of George._,Walker_ and Mary Orist'ipe ( Ourst ine_). · -· JAN> BASTIAANSEN ( COURTRIGHT ) JA~ M,STiAANSE:N · (~ortrecht, ·Kortright, Ko-rtregt.i.t, Kort~J~i~, · Cortrech:t_, ... Col:1;,r~c,t_, .Cortregt, C "Families of Cortright, Dawson 7 Dupuy, Hubbard and All~ed: ·Fa.milie_s" by . Linw·ood H. Anthus (1941) . _.. ~ : · ·· ·.. · · ,,·-.! · . .. . ."The. Cortright and Webber_ Fam~-lies•: in America-'' ·by -Alic·e ·v. ·-·c·ortright . (1925) ... ;, ."History of. :.the V~n Kortry~_ks ~co-urtrights 11 :·by ·Dudley· V;. Courtright (1923 ) . "Courtright Genealogy" by M_rs ;,r .Pardon Head · · --~'Ancestors apd Descendants· .ct Rbeuben Courtrightt! by Pardon and Harriet Head (1915) .. . _· , ; ·· -~- · . . . . ' "Part_ial ·Geneaiogical .. Recoxd. of the Courtright Family't by Henry H. Court~ right (1899) . . . . · · .· .. · · "Genealogy and Family History of Central New York~' III, 1234-7 by William R. Cutt~;r (i912) . . . . ·-'~Co.j_qniai Famil-ie'? of the United States, V, 142u by George N. Macke_nsie We kn.ow pos·ittve.ly about Susannah- only tbe Bib1e record mentioned. However, . the other kno,wri·. ·_fa.cts about the f?,mily in Chemung and Tio·ga Counties, N~w York. may help·us.·_::.~cherriung was set off'. f'rom Tioga 22 March 1836 and Tioga from the original Montgo~ery 16 February 1791. The township of Chemung is in the fer til~ valley o'f the. Chemung (the largest river in that· section) nearest th~· present Tioga _County. . The. 1.790 census of' Chemung, Montgomery C9unty shows:. ' · · · : ~ •.. .• ... , -Males· over 16 Males under 16 Females · · ,• '{ . . . , . . .. . Cortright; John -- l O 1 Kortri~t, _J,9.~n · 2 · · 2 3 ·Kortrigh~:-· Sohn_.J,"r~ - •'; - : ,., -1 l 3· We· might guess that °f3us~nna.h 's .£ather was the John Kortright because George Cooper wasn't enumerated separately, so it appears that t~ey were i:Lving wii;h her father wit:q_ their two. year .:old daughter and their three days .old_ daught,er. ( if the census was taken. a$ of:" July. 1). The 1800 census ( "N. Y.. Genealogical · , and Biographical Record0,: 59, 34l) ·'shows Jane Kortright there over 45 with. on~ female 16~26, one male· 1_0~~5 and two··16-25 (with some o:f the age grouping il- -40- legible. But c:1e of the most significant °facts is that she was living then next to George Cooper's family. The tax list for 10 December 1799 of Chemung includes Jane Courtright .with .. house and lot valued at $347 and personal property of $86. ("History of Chemung·; Tioga, Toµipkins and Steuben Counties, N.Y.", 332). As Jane was born before 1755, by the census, and very probably before circa 1645, she mus~ have been the wife of one .of the older Johns. In the hope that it might help in some future i:p.ves ~ tigation, it might be noted that William Cortright of Chemung; 56, with wife Hannah; 53, of the 1850 census probably was a brother or more probably a nephew of Susannah. This appears because William gave names to four of his children the same as Susannah did (George 21, Deborah 17, William 9, and Mary (Marie) 24). His other children in 1850, at least those living at home, were John.19 and Elizabeth 27. It strikes me that Deborah -and George is a r~ther unusual 'combin ation of names and·must have been· Cooper·names.·· In fact from the·qui-:t,e extensive notes-I have made from the above mentioned end other books I have not·found·a single other Deborah or George Courtright. I·haveri't inves"tigated the 181o·to· 1840 censuses, either:federal or state. · ··· In the 1850 census, record was made of the· deaths within the past y~ar _·and it just happens that John Courtright., 78) born New York, who died ·in May is ·included. He very probably was a nephew of Susannah. Because the exact.date of birth of Susannah was so early, it seemed that a records must be in some·Dutch church, probably fairly near Port Jervis. I couldn't find it in either:Orange or UJ_s.ter County, New York and.wondered whether it had been in Walpack, New Jersey whe~e . some of the records were burned, or in Wayne, Pike or Monroe Counties, _·P~nn·syl.i'·: vania, somewhere along the Delaware River below Port Jervis, where the records,. I understand are very incomplete. I haven 1 t :fo~d it anywhere. Be:f'ore considering further the hiatus between the ·1mown and un~own lin~ages before Susaru1ah, we return to BASTIAAN VAN KORTRYK, a n~:tive· ·o:f the c~ty ·of . Kortryk in Flanders (Belgium) who migrated about 1615 to· Leerdam, Holland. He had Jan b·orn 1618 and Michiel born 1620. The latter had Reyer, Metje, Annatie and Bastiaan in Holland and Arfie in Harlem after he came to_ New Amsterdam, where according to Abbott he lived in Fordham, but a correspondent wroterne that Michiel returned to Holland. His children went by the name Mi_chiel_sen. JAN BASTIAANSE VAN KORTRYK born 1618, Leerdam, went _to Beest,_ near Leerdam, ·· married and later. came with his wife and :four children.in the "Spotted. Cow" in 1663 and had a bower;y ,on Staten Island, although he probably spent ~ost of his time in Harlem. His· children iri their land deals went ·by the name Jan.sen. Children: Cornelis (Corne·lius) born 1645; d.· 1689, ancest-or 'of the Ha:rlem Kortrichts (Abbott says his children were all c'alled Co'rnelissen); Hendrick born 1648; La_urens born 1651, aneestor of the· New Jersey Low, Lo·we·· and Louve_ families (derived from Laurensen); and ·Be·litje ·born 1659 who married Jacob Janse· Decker, one of the writer 1 s ancestors but by his second wife., Sarah Minthorn. HENDRICK JANSEN KORTRIGHr (in some deeds referred to as just Hendrick:Jansen) according to Abbott nt first styled himself as Hendrick Van·Beest, but later Hen drick Janse Van Kortright. He bought land near the Stuyvesant Bowery_ in New Am_;· sterdam 12 February 1669, but soon moved to Esopus ·(ribw Kingston.) He married 14 December 1672 Cetherine Hansen (born New. Amsterdam;daughter of Hans Webbe·r, "Master at Arms." .She.was also called 'Hanz, Jarise· and Jan.sen. Hendrick died 1741, age 93. He moved to Mombaccus (Rochester near Esopus.)' It has appeared to me that ·most if not all the later Courtrights mentioned. in the books· ·iisted were descendant~. of his.. . T.p.ey · spread south-:-1est -f:.-oo Kings-:.on througti Uts ter.\J.nd --- . Orange· Counties, New Yo-rk·end the New Jersey a·nd·Pennsylvania counties .-,~long "t:q~ .. Delawa.'re s·outh of Port Je.rvis. _Children:. Jnn_ baptized -~8 $eptember 167-4-, ·Annetje-1675-6, Hendrick 1675-7, Cornelis 3 ··Nov~ 1680, Geertje:_ 23 July 1682·, Arie.-18- May 1684, Lawrence ·24 June - 1688, J~cab· ?16 Oct. 1692, Jannetje 18 Nov. 1694, Pieter 4 Jan. 1697 and Cathryn 9 July 1699. It seems altogether probable that one of these boys was ancestor of Susannah. As to the hiatus, one genealogist suggested.that she might have been the daughter of Susannah Kittle w:to married 1762 Johannes Cortregt, but the latter's___ Susa_nnah 1 wasn_'t born until 1777- -("M·in~sink Valley··'Dut·ch Reformed--Church ·Rec"O:ri:ti·:="'· ) .. ;~ : · -.. _,_cf.9hn Co~-r-tr.ight ba_pti_~ed 1714 lived in Walpack, New ·Jersey -ahd·'.fu~:r:· Smith: fl~ld,~ Pennsylvania. .He _had several children from -1738·'.t-tf:1'754· including Major John born.·1738, but the la-tter was killed in the Battte-of·Wyoming. Though-Sus annah .isn'.t .. mentioned in th~ family,-Dudley V. Courtright after_ ·giving the ·ch;i.1- dreµ_ including two or three girls adds the .intrj._guing:. note: "I have heaI"9- my·- · m~ther te11· of' the fact that her grandparents had some -other children, sons and·_ daughters, both I think. - :;t am sure ·-there were daughters. but do .not ' remember· what she said the names were." · · . ·. · . Another Co.urtright, -Cornelius (from Delaware Co. , N. Y; ·according to "Histori.:.. cal Gazateer of Tioga C_o, •. , . N. Y. , 1795-1878'' .by W. B. Gay) settled in Candor, .. ·Tioga Co. but--he wa_~~'t born until -1776.- .. ("Bulletins of Families· of' Orange· c·o., ~. Y. and Sus_sex Cc;, .. , N•. J .• , " .. 68 by._William. J. Coulter (194i). . . .._ .· .. _. ,· :-.-.--- In view; of the fact· t~~t_. Su_sannah·.1 s: ..daughter Margaret· married J:6hri Walker,· · son of" Geo:r;-ge, one of.. th~. ~a-rlie_st settl-ers · of -Luzerne ·county,- Pa·_;,-:· i t·,-was· inter esting to note in one ··of the county histtories that there- ·were Courtrights__ :there early, but .i_n looking up· about· them ·_in .the .Courtright genealogies we. fina·----1ri ..- Abbott tha~'. the first _-me~ntioned there. were, ,of the same generation as ·Susanna~-~ _ -~ Cornelius-born 1764, .. _Hendri_ck.1771 and Johannis 1774,- sons·or·Benjamin-':t:t6.m. the present Pike- County~ Pennsyl.vanie. . . . . :-·,. : . . . T ·::_·_;~•: Abbott in one place has a John,whomarried Jane and had both·a sister·and~n aunt Susanna but he gives John (hif;> #139) married Jannetie l\1iddagh and had' chil~ dren born 1773-82._ His sister Su~_annah married .•.•. Spinkstead. · · ·.· · · · _; What at first looked- like the. oe~t clue about Jolin· is in ' tThe Courtright Gen ealogy" 38 by Mrs. Pardon -Head.· - Hendrick W-. Courtright b. 1721 had ~!os~s -:t,~p~ -_. tized 1749, Syivester l 75l, Daniel 1753, Gideeon 1756- :and· Hannah. Supposedly· the :following was son of Sylvester from Minisink, New York -- "John, ~ho iµ Noy. 13, 1788 was ~llotted land with Samuel Ransom and:others amounting. to ·24QOacres and known as lot No. 166 in Tioga Townshi·p, Tioga· County, New York. " ·. "Gideon · and Sylve9.ter Courtright and John Decker were among the first settlers in Tioga and Cp~l'.{l@g. ·counties. ana·--the history of -Tioga: County shows that Gideon Courtright and io'b:ii'.,_. bec_.k~r. ' constructed and. ·owned the "f'irst -ferry across the Susquehanna in the towri of.T.ioga before 1800." -~ut these·were·born too late to have been the father of Susannah) let alone of John whom I .sus-pect of having been her father. Tony, Gideon and David had families in Owego· in 1800. Mrs. Head said "suppos:ed ly" John was son of Sylvester. If' by any chance he· were not', but an older_man, perhaps even a brother, __ about, whom she didn't know, o:f Sylvester, he ·might have been father. of. Susannah~ .. At_ least it is very ·intriguing to· find a J"ohn_ gran:te~ a lot of land at exactly: the right. time within a few miles of· the J9hn I· ·suppos·~ was Susannah's father~ After all :Mrs. Head .is ver.1 vague· about d.utes and even:.' . . . , .. relationships in thi,s ;b:r;ap.ch~ . .· .. "Ne-w York in the ·Rev.olution·-as Colony and State" shows ned.!lY a sco~e. of -42- Courtrigbts (with different spellings) mostly from Ulster County. The only pen sion papers are for Laurence born Harlem 1758 and for William Courtright who mar- ried 1781. So the hiatus hasn't been bridged and the best I can say is that possibly. John and Jane were parents of Susannah Cburtright who married ca 1787 George Cooper. JOHN CROSSMAN JOHN CROSSMAN according to Savage's "Geaealogical Dictionary", I, 478, was one of the first purchasers of Taunton. "New England Historic and Genealogical Reg_is - ter", 57, 332 says: "Francis Baillies in 'Historical Memoir of.the Colony of New· Plymouth', 286, names John Crossman as one of the early proprietors of Taunton and was dead before 1675, leaving a son Robert." "Dr. Emory in 'History· of Taun ton', 737, says: "His name is not found in the list of 1643, 1659 or 1675; and that he is better known through his son Robert and his numerous descendants than through any prominence of his own." He did sign an order among the papers of the Ancient Iron Works, "Sept. ye 1, 1661." "The Shepard Genealogy" by Lowell S. Blaisdell (1952) says that he lived in Taunton and later in Dedham, and t.bat he was b~rn ca 1583 and died ca 1643 (which doesn't agree very well with the others. ) Different accounts and odds and ends -·one.that he may have left children in Eng land, one that he and his son came to Massachusetts 1637 or.9, and one that he was accused of blasphemy and banished from Massachusetts Bay. "Memoirs of the.Leonard, Thompson and Haskell Families" 279, by Caroline L. Goodenough (1928) says that John, father of Robert, married Joanna Thayer. Identical accounts in "Colonial Families o:f America", VI, 197 and XII, 375 (1932) are so different from the preceding that one almost wonders whether they are about tbe same man. This John was born ca 1588, county Somerset; was one of the Taunton purchasers and was banished from Massachusetts for criticism of the then harsh treatment of members of the Society _·.r Friends, joined the Quaker Col ony in Providence, Rhode Island, freeman there in 1673, on the grand jury in 1675 and died 26 Jan. 1688, Newport, a.ge about 100, his only child being Robert. Could it be that this writer traced him after banishment, or could the latest dates ap pertain to someone else, perhaps his grandson, John? I have no facilities for investigating, even if someone else has. ROBERT CROSSMAN was a townsman in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1642 according to Pope's "Pioneers of M:assachusetts." He was granted liberty to erect .a watermill in 1652 but declined. He married 25 (3), 1652 Sarah Kingsbury, (daughter of Joseph Kingsbury and Millicent Ames. ) Robert had been an apprentice of Joseph Kingsbury, house-:ir.ight. "A Pendulous Edition of Kingsbury Genealogy" by Rev. Addison Kingsbury (1901) says Robert had- been called .the "Drum Maker of New Eng-. land. " He removed to Taunton in 1651 and was largely employed in making and repairing arms. He filled ou~ Capt ·samuel Gallop's company for the Canadian. Expedition under Sir William Phipps in 1690. "Colonial Families in Americarr says Dedham contracted with him for building a mill at Wollmonuppoag, that a letter of his of 31 May 1687 to Lieut. ·George ·Macey about military af:fairs with his auto graph is still extant, and that 1 December 1690 he rendered an account of his work in out:fitting the Nova Scotia expedition uGeuealogy of the Kingsbury Family of Dedham, Mass .. '.' by John W. Dean in "New England Historic & Genealogical Register", .16, 338 gives the children. "Mayflower Descendant" 18, 168 gives copy of records of most of the children. Robert promised -43- to give Deceffi"'.J2.r 1687 to l11!artha Eatton of Bristol, wid. "she being forthwith to be my maried 1-1iffe" certain lands... : in Taunton.·· Inventory of h·is -e·state ·-was --ta.ken 11 27 Oct. 1692 ·( "Regis·ter , 62; 233 and 63, 130. ) Joseph had already died.~ His·· cbildren were provided for but Eil.eazer, Nathaniel and Thomas were not mentioned. The d;vision c~ the estate mentions Sar--ah Woodward, eldest daughter, Ma.ry-;{;ould 2nd. ·daughter, Elizabeth Hayward 3-:-,1 and Marcey Thresher, youngest. ·· -:. - : "Genealogy & History,"·- #6646, says he was a member of the Ancient and Hon orable Artillery Company of ·Boston. Ancestor for Colonial -·Daughters of 17th Century. Children: John b. 16 ?v!arch 1654, Mary 16 July 1655, Robert 3 August 1657, Joseph 25 April 1659, Nathaniel 7 August 1660 killed by Indians at Wrentham--8-:Mar. 1675-6, Eleazer.16 March :i,663~4, Elizabeth 2 May 1665, Samuel 25 July 1667, Mercy 20 !~arch 1669, 'l'homas 6 Oct-.·: :t67L and Susanna 14 February 1672-3. None of-:tne·- .accounts I found include a. 0Sarah ... ·- - - JOSEPH CROSSMAN rr..arried 24 November 1685 Sarah Alden ( "Taunton Vital Re cords") daugl1.ter o:f Joseph Alden and Mary Simmons. .He died before his father . . ":New England ·Historic & Genealogical Register,,, 38, 270 in an article on the Ancient Tron Works at Taunton includes a note: "Thomas Leonard (clarke of the Iron Works of Taunton) sr pray pay to Jos~ph Crossman on hundred of iron as mo·n ey & this shall be your discharge: this y 13th Janearae 1683, Hezekiah Hoar. (Taunton - 16a4) · Children: At least Joseph born ca 1690, Sarah, Mary 1691 and Lydia. JOSEPH CROSSY.AN of" _Bridgewater went to that part of the "North Purchase" which was later called Easton. He married 8 March 1716 Deborah Pratt, daughter of' ·Benajah and 1-iary Pratt. He probably married 2d Elizabeth Leonard, daughter of Josiah and widow of James Washburn. _("Memorial: ·Genealogical, Historical and Biographical of Solomon Leonard, 11 61 by :Manning· Leonard (1896) ). Joseph died 1776-7. Children: Joseph married February 18, 1747 Mary Cary; Deborah born ca 1727, Abigial _and Mary and perhaps others. DEBORAH CROSSMAN of Easton married 1 November 1750 (record in Norton) David Lincoln, son of Samuel and Hannah Lincoln. This material·after that about Robert, I received in essence from Mr. Emmerton about 1926 for whom see the preface.· I have just discovered that he put a query·in the "Boston Transcript," #3077, May 27, 1925 and he apparently received much help from the answer June 24, 1925 and from others there, - #8578 June 11, 1906, 641 June 9, 1909, 2452-Nov. 6, 1912 and 6560 Nov. 26, 1917. I have added some points to his record. ROBERT CUSHMAN ROBERT CUSHMAN who arrived with bis son, Thomas, in the "Fortune" in 1621 is believed in all probability by Mrs. Elizabeth French in "Genealogical Re search :Ln England"-in "New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 11 68, 184 (1914) to have been identical with Robert baptized 9 February 1577-8 at Rolven-· den, co. Kent; England, son of Thomas Couchman. For convenience this account is largely followed here though there are good genealogical a.c-counts in."Historical -44- and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans - The Descendants of Robert Cushman from the Year 1617 to 1855" by H. W. _Cushman; in "Cushman Genealogy and General History" by Alvah W. Burt (1942) which includes about 202 pages through Isaac; in '-'Ancestry of H. E. Gustin-Julia L. Carlisle 11 I, 431, by Lester Gustin; in 11Amer icana," 33, 276; in "History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters--", II, 180 (1941) by Leon C. Hills; in "Descendants of Edward Small ~ and Allied Fam ilies, n II, 669-755 by =Lora A. W. Underhill_· (1934) which is very good; and also in the "Register," 72, ·10, by James T. Cushman. (1918) There is also consider able light on hi~ serv-iGes to Plyreouth,. in "Saints and Strangers'.' by George F. Willison. The original name was spelled Cushman, Coachman, Couchman, Cutchman, Croch- - man and Churchman and in the Dutch records as Coetsman, Kousman, Kautzman. A Crocheman had children John died 1523/4, Thomas, Johane and Goddeley (probably). T.nis Thomas whose will was proved in 1524 was probably grandfather of Thomas . _born ca 1538 buried ~t Rol venden 14 February 1585-6. He married there 18 July 1568 -·Eliner (Ellen) Hubbard. In 1578 he deposed that he had lived there 12 years .and before that at Hawkhurst. His children were: Allys baptized 20, 1572, Sylvester· (daughter Sylvestra?) 30 October 1574, Robert 9 February 1577-8, Mar garet .25 · March 1582 and Henry 26 July 1584. . Robert Cushman, assuming the identity, the agent of the Leyden Pilgrims, was "in Canterbury, co. Kent in 1603 as servant to George Masters." He was pre sented 14 November 1603 by the church wardens of St. Andrews Parish, 'for that he doth say he will not come to his parish church, because he· cannot be edified and saith he can and will defend it by the word of God. ' Not doing the penance irnpose.d o;n. him by the ecclesiastical court, he was excommunicated 12 November 1604, but- on 28 June 1605 h~ appeared before the court and asked for absolution which was granted him on 7 July 1605 --. In the same year he became a freeman of Canterbury, the record of his admission describing him as Robert Couchman, 'Grosser', a freeman by apprenticeship to George Masters." "He married first, in the paris_h of St. Alphege, Canterbury 31 July 1606, Sara Reder--. Their son Thomas was baptized in the parish of St. Andrew, Can terbury 8 February 1607-8, this date serving to identify him with the Elder Thomas Cushman of the Plymouth Colony, who died 11 December 1691, "neare the end of 84th yeare of his life.,,, "Probably soon after the date of the baptism, Robert Cushman and his fam ily joined Rev. John Robinson's colony in Holland. When his wife Sarah died, is unknown (unless as Miss Underhill and Hills say - 11 October 1616,) but he married secondly at Leyden 5 June 1617, Mary (Clarke) Shingleton (Chingelton in the Dutch records), widow of Thomas of Sandwich, co. Kent, shoemaker -- (Robert) is then called a woolcomber." Mary had married 1st by license 28 Jan- uary 1610 at St. Mary Bred.-rnan 's, Canterbury. "In the autumn of 1617 -- he and John Carver (the first Governor of' Ply mouth) were chosen by their companions to go to England and negotiate with the Council for Virginia about a patent within the grant of the Virginia Company. His connection with the transfer of a part of the Leyden congregation to Ply mouth in New England is known from the writings of Bradford." From Gustin, Willison and "New Light on the Pilgrim Story" by Rev. Thomas Ma.son.and Rev. B. Nightingale we can fill in some details omitted above. When Cushman and Carver went to England to negotiate with the Virginia Company ann to apply to King James to grant them liberty of conscience in America everything went wrong. The Virginia Company was nearly bankrupt. King James and the bishops were suspicious about allowing any religious freedom.· ,When Brew~ter and Cush man. went to London in -1619 and tried to interest others in.:financing the p:r-oject, the~e_.was dissension among the -prospective Adventurers; ·some threaten.ing -~o . . w~:t~~_raw. Many o:f the Leyden Company were dissatisfied with two· of ·the provi~ sions in the proposed agreement which Cushman claimed he couldn 1't get eliminated. "Cushman remained three years on a very difficult and harassing a~~ignment. '' -·. "Ne~ :Ligbt_: on -the ·JPilgrim Story"·. sees :fit to emphas·ize that ·critici~m.: Of. course the.·_ques:tion. :fi ·extremely complex, but, af'ter reo._ding quite _a bit on~·it·, includ ing Bradford's account, it seems to me as if Cushman did as well as should have been realistically expected. It was therefore interesting to.find .in "-The May flowe~: an9, Her Log," 146 (1901) how Azel Ames ·assumed t:qe offensive <:1,S~i~st the cr:lt~s_-~ -~ "Robert Cushman - the London agent (for more tha~ ·_three· ye?-,_.rs) of the ~yq.e~ ..congregation, and in spite· of'_ the· w~ckedly unjust crit"ic;ism_, of Robins,on and o~hers incompetent to judge ·his acts, --·their prave, sagacious _and faithful ~e:rv~nt_-- properly heads the list (of Mayflower passengers). --·Tn.e course- of events.was his complete vindication, and impartial•history today pronounces ~im second to none in his. service to the·- Pilgrims ·and their undertaking. " -.. · Cushman and -Carver collected s-ubscriptions in England., made purchases -and prepared f'or the voyage. They chartered the Mayflower. As Assistant Governq~ : Cusllman started out _-w.ith the Mayf'lo:vier,_ he in the Speedwell, but--whel'l that b·oa_t: nearly sank frolll leaks·, he returned to E_ngland·,iith it, ,b\lt came the next yea~-- in the Fortune. When it sailed back in a·few months· with a_rich cargo, he re turned with it, but "she was .. captured by a French ·privat~er, and .t_aken tp ·u sma],.l ,.islanq. off' the· coast of Poitous, where her ·cargo \1as confis·cate~ ·-- to _t4e Pilg~fms·' great ·loss and the bla·sting o:f their hopes. Cushman and ali on board were robbed and imprisoned. 'With not a hat to their heads or a $hoe-to their feet\)tpey lived-·for weeks on 'lights, livers, and entr~ilst, as the long suf-. fering .deacon complained .. Strip.ped of almost everything having value, even of ...... tb~, _speet anc;Jt_Qr and some of her sail, the Fortune_ wa~ allowed to proceed_ and in time made h~r- way up the Thames." ·_-_· .. "Ee himsilf was busily engage·d in England in the a·ffaires of the ~olony dqwn. to his dea_tb.. which took place proba.b+y in· the summer· of 1625. Bradfo_rd' s . Hi5tory contains mp.ny letters.from- him and a ~ermon preachesl by_him at Pl~outh on the day before he sailed··for England -on "The Sin a.nd Panger of Self-Love; .. : . wus printed in London in.1.622," the first sermon.delivered in New England to be printed. His interesting essa.y on "The Lawfulness o:f Plantations" .is included in Mourt 's "Relation. " .He ·was u deacon from c.bOut !i609 until his death. · His. · will ·is given_··_1i1 ~'Mayflower Descendant; 11 4, 37. . Ancestor (formerly) for Mcssachusetts Society of Colonial Dames · (Acted as o..gent for the Plymouth Colony. Was mentioned with Edward Winslow.in .the Charter granted .to~ B_:lyrnouth planters; 1623-4), and· for Society of· Descendants of Colonial Clergy· (Preached at Plymouth 9 December 1621. ) ·· Children: by Sarah - Thomas bap. Canterbury 8 February 1607-8; besides two children buried in Leyden; und by M~ry, -_Sc.rah (though Miss Underhill is not sure which wife was the mother of Sarah~) ELDE·R THOMAS -CUSHMAN married ca 1635-6 Mo..ry A'i"ier_ton_ (daughter of Isnc.c A11·erton and Ma.ry Norris) born ca June 1616, died Novem~er· 28; 1699., the·_:lc.st survivor of those who ca.me on the Mo.vflo·wer" Tho1nr1s wo:s left by hi?: :fo.tt_jer on the latter's return to England on., the 11 Fortune "; -:-::Lth··· Gbv. _·Brc.dford who __ : ~aised and educated him.. From 1649 until his death· li (2i') December 1691 Thomas wo.s ruling elder at Plymouth, 42 years, a r:10s t unusuc..l period. Willison -46- . says he was "ver.r studious and solicitous for the peace & prosperity of the chµrch & ·to prevent & heale all breaches." He and Mary lived together for 55 years. He held various town offices. His will and inventory are in "Mayflower Descend.ant", 4, 37. Gustin devotea about 16 pages to him. About 1637 he moved to Jones River (now Kingston). ·. Child:ren: Thomas b. 16 Sept. 1637, Sarah 1641?, Lydia, Rev. Isaac 8 Feb. -1647-8, Deac. Elkanah 1 June 1651, Feare 20 June 1653, Eleazer 20 Feb. 1656-7 and Mary 1659_? Dates vary with the writer. REV. ISAAC CUSHMAN married ca 1675 Rebecca Rickard (born ca 1654, died Piymp ton 3 Sept. 1727.) according to the accou:p.ts in the "~egister", Davis and Hills, but ~...ary Rickard according to Gustin,. Burt and the Americana.(with the same dates.) All these give ber as daughter of Giles Rickard. "American Genealogist", 26, . 144-7;; however, says that nothing has been.found to connect her with a Rickard• .A writer about 1829 guessed her name as Rebecca Ric-kard and others -have copied that. But that 1-1riter's papers show -that he _had guesse_d .that, and wasn't himself convinced. Considerable circumstantial e·vidence points .to RE:becca Harlow. It rather appears that there even wasn't a Rebecca Rickard then. "Famiiies of the Pilgrims" by H.. K. Shaw :fo"r the Society of Mayflower Descendants, ·36, the "Snow Estes Ancestry'' by Nora E. Snow and the "Plymouth Records" in the "Mayflower Des- cendant'-' I, 210, all give just "Rebecca". . _ _ Isaac was selectman in 1685, 87-8, 92 and 94 and held ·various othe-r offices according to Miss Underhill and he was Deputy to the General.Court of Plymouth May 28, 1689, also June 3, 1690 and June 2, 1691., the last session before -union...... with Massachusetts Bay. When he was about 45, he decided to enter the ministry; · That he had- not then been a ruling elder was a drawback, but objections were· finally overcome and he ,1as ordained when about 50 and he was pastor in Plympton until his death 21 Oct. 1732. "He was a pious and godly man." In 1701 his salary was £35 a year and 1-1as increased until in 1728 it was ~5. His will is given :i..n "May flower Descendant", 17) 139. Some poems in memorium. are included in "Historical and Biographical Genealogy of Cushmans" by Henry W. Cushman. (1855). Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars, for Massachusetts Society of Colonial ~ames and for Society of Descend.ants of Colonial Clergy. Children: Isaac b. 15 November 1676, Rebekah 30 Nov. 1678, Mary 12 bet. _1682, Sarah 17 Apr. 1684, Ichabod 30 Oct. 1686 and Feare 10 Mar. i.689 ("Mayflower Des cendant, 1, 210") MARY CUSHMAN married 19 March 1702 Deacon Robert Waterman, son of Deacon. John Waterman and Ann Sturtevant. JOHN DERBY _JOHN DERBY (Darby, Dorby) of Plymouth and Yarmouth was grandson of Nicholas Derby of Askerswell, co~ Dorset,_ England and later of Ste.rthill in the par;ish of Burton-Bradstock in the same county ac~ording to the very ·.2xten.sivc and pains taking research by G.. Andrews Moriarty included in · "Genealogical Research in Eng land" in "New England Historic ·& Gene_alogical Register", 79, 431 (l925 ). -47~ Nicholas married Catherine·'-~: (probably···'.Buckler) who was liv:ing 28_ April. 1600 ·. but probably not living ·11 February 1606~~ He died 30 Octob·er 1599. He resided Askerwell in 11 Elizabeth. (1568~9) when };le wa~ entered in the Dorset.. Muster Ro.lls as: a bil+II18,n, but on 24 July 15"76 he purchase4. a lease ··of the farms bf Upper ·-_. · Sterthi11 and Nether Sterthili (Stirthill, Sturthi.11) for 99 years fro:n the :: feast of St. '.Michael 'the Archangel (29··sei>t. 1578). The inquisition post mortem o:f Nicholas Derby, gentleman, dated 19 ~Y 42 Elizabeth (1600) shows that at his death he was sei_zed in fee of a moiety· of· the ma.nor o·f Bryanspuddle, -co. Dorset, o:f lands in Sterthil:L, and .. of th~ capital D'.lessuage called the Free Chapel of St. Luke's at Stcrthtit, wit~ the -tithes pertaining tbere·to, anq. that he ·bad· GO:nyeyed . ' . . .. . = , ...... : I' ~ : • : :: \, f • ', certain life interests .to his ·sons. His ·children were: Christopher -baptized· =1571, Richard, Roger baptized 1576/_-:La.ur~;rtc'e and. Nicho'las_. . Christopher Derby·, of Sterthiil;· gentleman, died 20 January 1639-40. He· mar ried not later than 1607 Anne (or_.Agne~) s·ym.onds(who died ca May 1649), daughter of William Symonds of Lyme- Regis, co. Dorset and Axminste·r and Exeter; co. Devon who was born ca 1547 and buri~d. ±n:·Exet~f Cathedral 8 January 1634-5. He ~rried at St. Mary Magdalene's, Taunton;: ·co~ Somerset 14 Sept. 1571 Alice Moone. He was granted arms by Robert Cooke, ··c1arenc~9-ux, King-of-A:rms in 1587. In 1588 he as -a merchant subscribed £2.5 towards the de"f'ence of the country ·aga·inst .the Spanish. William Symonds was. one of ten c4ildrett of Thomas, pewte~er a:qd .merchant ..bo~'.ca 1524, buried at ·Sti·.Mary Magdaiene's··22 Octoiter·i572. ·Thomas· mar·~ied __ 2d Agnes ··Femell (daughter 6:f.::Richard ·of Taunton, goldsmith and- Johan Crow).··,·:-:--·,.:·. - :. Alice Moone had issue as· :given in the "Register", 80, 353 and ·365..:6~ :. She was buried in· Exeter Cathedral· 26 July 1628. She was daughter of Robert· Moone (Mohun) ~nd Margaret Hyd~. Robert acquired large wealth, bought the manors of' Loders-·Matrave-rs and Fleet, la:nds in Baunton · (Bothenharilpton·) and the manor of Maugerton, co. Dorset, and held land in Axminster that had been his ·father, Rich ard.1s, and four burgages in Bridport. He was searcher of the Port of Poole and a burgess in Parliament for Bridport i;n 1558. He had se_ven children and died Novem ber 14, 1580. His father Richard had died ca 1570, an old man and was buried in Bridpo_rt Church. . He ha_d be~n of Hawkchurch, co. Dorset in the ea".J;ly part of the reign of Henry VIII and held land in Axminster in 1529, was· granted.land then in Bridport and was bailiff ·ther~ in 27 a:nd 28 Henry VIII (1535-7). < ... : . , · Margaret Hyde born proqably ca 1523, died 1 December 1603 ·-was daughter __qf Stephen Hyde (Pedigree in the·· "Register", 8~f, 318). In· the chancel of the· ·chu_rch of the Holy Trinity, the parish chu:rch of Fleet, co. Dorset is a brass plate with a· ye-ry long La.tin inscriptio:n -·("R~.g~ste·r_'~, 81, 315) euloglzing her ("the most un fortunate parent of _17 children.)' John.,Hyd.e, fa:ther or_· Stephen received from· Sir Thomas Wryothes_ley, ·Garter King of· j~_rms~,--~-nd from ThoID:as Benol:te, _:Clarencieux King of Arms a grant of arms dated 22 De:c·.· ;_152.5 (Long desc.ription in French, p. 318. ) "Ancestry of H. E. Gustin - - " by i.es·t-e·r Gustin summarizes much of° this Engli~h . lineage as well as covering John Derby very well. These _lineages:. _are ___b~sed partly on "The Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1620" .("P1itJli¢~tio!J.,S o:f the Harle in Society," vol. 6, anno 1872; Tuckett ts nDeyonshire Pedigre·es'" ~. ·4oj .. and Hutchin• s "History of Dorset", 3, 238. ) . _; . . . . . ·. ·. : Christopher Derby; by purchase of his father. in 1583 and hife. :·_own in. i6oo seems to have come into possession o:f the whole· of the manor of Bfya:nspuddle .. On 10 .April 1632 he appeared before the King 1 s Commissioners a:t ~h~rbo;r~e_,.; _::co. D'?rset, and-excused himself for not compounding for knighthood on the·occa:s:i"on·_of -the·· -48- King's coronation by stating that he did not have at that time freehold lands of the value of £10 -- (for some of his land) he held-not as f~eehold lands btit only by virtue or a lease, dated 28 July, 18 Elizabeth (1576) for a term of years. A Chancery case in 1636 shows -that he bad been engaged with two sons in "the trade of mercery of linen_ drapery." His children were Christopher baptised 1607 in the Parish of All Hollows, Exeter, William born ca 16o8, John ca. 1610, Richard bap. 16 November 1613 in the Catholic Cathedral of St. Peter, Exeter, and Thomas bap. 1616 Burton-Brad.stock• Jqhn Derby born probably in the Parish of Burton-Brad.stock, Co. Dorset, ca 1610, died probably at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, between 4 October 1655 when he made complaint against Masshantampaine an Indian, and 22 February 1655-6 when the inventory of his estate was taken. He married Alice -- (probably Chipman) who survived him and she married (2) at Barnstable 4 Jan. 1658-9 as his 3rd wife Abraham Blush who died 7 September 1683, Alice surviving. It is conceivable that Alice _may have been a second wife of John, as his first two children, John and Ann, never came to Plymouth. John was granted land at Mounts Hill in Plymouth in 1637. In 1643 his name was on the list of those able to bear arms in Yarmouth ·and he was supervisor of highways there 1 July 1647. A short account in "The S-wift _Family," 72 by Katherine W,. Swi:ft (1955) includes some about his real estate transactions and about his estate. A longer account is in ''Ancestral and _Genee1_logical Notes", Series I, Vol. 2, 389 by Wm. H. Edwards. Children: probably remained in England John and Anna, born in New England Abraham_ ca 164o, Sarah ca 1642 and Mary ca 1644. uPandall and Allied Families" by Fr~nk A. Rand.all (1943) and Gustin add Elizabeth ca 1646, son died ·infancy, and Mathew Feb. 1649-50. Elizabeth married Thomas Lumbard 23 Dec. 1665. SARAH DERBY married Barnstable 1 December 1660 Jabez Lumbard (Lumbert), son . .of Bernard. JOHN DUNHAM JOHN DUNHAM was born at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, ca 1589, son of Thomas, born 1556, according to "Ancestry of H. E. Gustin -- " by Lester Gustin (1954 ) . The ancestry went back through Ralph born 1526., John born 1460 and Robert born .ca -i435_,. uThe Swi:ft Family, "by Kathercine W. Swift (1955) says: "His Dunham ancestors were for generations owners of large tracts of land near Scrooby and his kinsmen were zealous partisans of the established order and leaders in· .the attack against the Separatists." According to the "Dunham Genealogy - English and American Branches" by Isaac W. Dunham (1907) John in his youth poss·ibly was under_ th~ s_piritual guidance of Elder William Brewster and he might possibly have_be~n the John Good.man·of the early Massachusetts records, .but the latter point is 1:1entioned in the 11Mayflower Descendant", 23., 76, as an example of false Mayflo,-1er lineage attempts. According to "Notes on the.Dunham Family of Plymouth, Mass." in "American Genealogist," 30, 143j by Mrs. John E. Barclay nearly all the previous writers have included errors) soilletimes in more than one point. My first thought was to try to show all the different combinations of errors, but that is difficult. Most of them were originally in Dunham. ' The Royal Lineage of the Hamlins" by H.F. Andrews (1909) includes several of'the errors of the "Dunham Genealogy", such as: about John Goodlnan and Abigail Wood. The "Briggs Genealogy" I 1 884-7 by L.V.Briggs (1938), tried to correct some of them. Dunham claimed on the basis of' "Leyden Documents Relating to the ?11- grim Fathers" (1920) that he married 17 Octob_~r. 1619 to Susann~ Kenney (Keno). (Gustin and Hills give this as to Abiga.il-·Wood, .·Mrs·.-_l)~rclay~_-says·be must··fiave married .. Susanna ·Kenney·-by 1614 and further· that-: th$_rtf {~- _no :such .marriage -.~cord (she doesn't say marriage) -as· is· found._in:.Dunham. _.· Most· aii writers say that he ma.rri~~ (4) 22 Oct·6b.er 1622 Abigail Barlow (Bailliou or Ballion, daughter of Thomas and Ann, probably Huguenot refugees, though 011-e .9.+ ·:t:\-~~-~;brihg-:~.fri: Abiga_il Wood here. The record is, - "~ohn Dunham, widower 0f · Susanna; betrothed .to Aoiga.·11 Bar low 7 Oct .. ·1622 with witnesses her father and sister, Thomas and Anne Barlow mar ried Oct. 22, 1622." John was living 15 October 1622 in Zevenhuysen, a widower with three children. Briggs says further: "The·a.ccount ·or" him (before migration) as given in the "Dunham Genealogy" has not been proved by any,. examinations_ by.··the -~ut:hor or by the Vicar of Dunham-on~the-Trent, · or to be :found in:· t:b.~. pa_rish =recdrdi{-',-of_.-:-, Sc~ooby; but: we do' feei quite sure that he came f"rpm Dunham_:-O_p-the~Trent-~:: _Th:~ intere~-ting but :fanGi:ful account. of his: masqueradi'ng under the· name:-of:'.Johri/G¢od win of_. the Mayflower· company has been 'entirely disproved. by·.-the -'rec.ords fou.iid \ in Holland. " ...... · .. ·.. ,-·: _ . . : ·_: ___ .-., . He was in Ply'!lloutb ~s ea~ly' as· 1632 and probably much ~.arlier:;: ,·. He wa~' .. a linen weaver and also a cat·t1e· raiser.> He was· a· ·deacon_ from 1639 until. his -a.¢~th a_nd held many high offices. He died -2 -1~rch 1668-9, over.80. His will is ·g±~en also in "New· England Historic &·: qenea.logical · Regis.ter", 7, 178, and "in "Mayf'iower J)esce.nd.a.nt 1\ 17, 113. . . . ·,· · -·-· .: ~: . · '. ·, .. :_; .·,- .. .-· ,.-_-:..-· . ~·in 1643, when the union or .confeder.a-tiot1·was ef:fecte~ between the··:.Ply mouth, _Connecticut, Massa.chusetts and New ~-ira,ieri'_C_oionies, Jqhn Dunham, -:s-r/ ·was one of' the.committee :from ~lym.ou~h.: ---.Jurie~=i650 John Dunham;, Sr .. was. dhe of a committee consisting ··of Mr.__ Thomas. Prence, Mr.· Willi~in Collyarei Mr. Thomas Dimacke, Mr. James Cudworth, Mr. Josias Winslow, John Dunham, Sr., Mr'.. George Sou.le and Constant Southworth concern_ing. ·the Major pt of the CQurt to ord~r ad journments and. dissolution o:f the. General Courts and. the _making and repealing of laws. Reported that··_they remain unaltered., 'Ma·jist~te·s and Deputies to acte as one body' (Briggs). u '. In· 1652 he was one of the original purchasers of Dart mouth, apparently obta~ning :1/36 of the land apportioned. '!This. land -was pur chased of the Indians:· w_i th the conse.nt: of' Governor Prence and the· Council of· Plymouth. At this ·time the township of' _partmoutb inc·luded the p:r,esent··.townships of Dartmouth (known by th~· Indian name of -Acushnet), Westport, New Bedfo"rd:; a~d. Fairh~ven. The deed written _from the Indians to Capt. Myles Standish,-Wilt:ia'.ni Bradford, John Winslow, John_ Dunham and others· from Mass~soit, or Woosameg_uin, and his son Wamsutta _or Moanam, . calu.ed by the English.Ji. Alexander;,· :and· ·another· son of' Massasoit, Philip of_ Pokanoket., or Pometacom~ ·_ tor this the 36 v1hite pe_o.:.. ple paid to the Indians; 'Thi,rty yards of cloth·,-:-eight'·moose skins, f·i-fteen -··•--.: · axes, fifteen hoes, :fifteen pair of breeches.~ eight ·.b.lankets, two kettles, ::·one· cloak,· £2.,. in wampan; ·eight. pair of. stockings, eight· pair of. shoes, one iroY:i· pot_; and te:q shillings· ii:( 'otl?-er comoditie 1 ". · Johri Dunham ·acquired. other parce·1·s _o:f land. ·. -:~...... The children: and their :d.?.tes are taken from Mrs.·Barclay. Rills gives in general later .dates:, one by. ~s· mu_ch .?is !;lix years and includes a Benjami_n, born,·_ 1637. "New York: Genalogical'" & ·Biographical Record", 27, 94 (1896) -and ,Qus·t~n . give different dates. Swift and.Briggs give John born .1620._ Two b.ooks.:I haven't seen are: lfDunham Genealogy" by Chester. F.·.· Dunham, 160: :pages (1956). and "Geriealqg ical Notes on the Dunham Family of .New Englandn by Oli-V-er B .. Leonard. · Ancestor f'or Soc1ety of· Colonial Wars .{Deputy· from Plymouth to General -50- Court. 1639-40, 45-7, 49-50, 52-6, 59, 62 and 64). Children by Susanna: John ca 1615-6, Humility ca 1617-8, Thomas 1619-20; by Abigail: ca 1624 Samuel, Abigail ca 1626, Persis 1628-9 (most give baptism 1635); Jonathan 1631-2, Hannah 1633-4, Joseph 1635-6; Benajah 1638, and Daniel 1640-2 PERSIS DUNHAM married 29. November 1655 Benajah Pratt, son o:f Joshua and Bathsheba MARY DUNSTER MARY DUNSTER came f'rom the parish of Bury, c·o. ·Lancaster, England in the summer of 16-52 to Massachusett·s. and in the latter part of the year married as -· his third wife Simon Willard, as explained under ''Willard. "· After having had eight children by him and after.his death she married (2) 14 July 1680 Deacon Joseph Noyes of Sudbury, Massachusetts and died 28 Dec. 1715. After a tremendous amount of research by G. A. Moriarty as summarized in "New England Historic & Genealogical Register'\ -Bo, 92, (1926) Mary's ancestry has·been established for either three or four generations in the parish_of Bury, though her identity hasn't been detennined! This is because two Marys were born there about the same time and evidence hasn't been discovered as-to which came to Massachusetts. It doesn't clarify the explanation any to note that Simon Willard's second wife was Elizabeth Dunster (sister of Rev. Henry-Dunster, first president of Harvard) baptized· 26 April 1619 who married Sim.on in 1651 but died about six months later s.p., President-Dunster was brother o:f .. Robert born i605 who was :father of the Mary (A) below. To simplify the explanation I am assigning identifying letters (A and B) for the two Marys. After some thought the :following statement from the "Regis ter" will, I hope, be perfectiy clear, but I doubt that it ·would be understood by reading as fast as some· people now claim to be able· to read. Major Willard married (3) Mary "who was either the Mary Dunster (A) who· was baptized 5 Decem ber 1630, daughter of Robert Dunster and niece of Simon Willard's second wife, (Elizabeth Dunster) or the Mary Dunster (B) who was baptized 25 October ·1629, daughter of Henry Dunster, and second cousin of Simon Willard's second wife." Mary (A) was daughter of Robert of Tottingham and Beleholt in the parish of Bury, baptized 18 August 1605, buried 24 September 1644, married (1) -~-, buried 31 ·December 1634 and married (2) 27 September 1636 Alice Fletcher, his second cousin, baptised 24 June 1615 daughter of William Fletcher.and Alice Dunster. This Robert had seven children. He was son of Henry born ca 1580, buried 16 September 1646 who married (1) ca 1602 possibly Isabel -- buried 7 February 1633-4 and (2)· 4 December 1644 Joan Orpe) buried 19 September 1646. This Henry had 9 children by his first wife.including President Henry Dunster and Elizabeth, Willard 1 s second wife. This Henry was son of Robert born ca 1555, died 1599 married Jony (Scholes?) and had 3 children. · This Henry was son of Henry of Tottingham born ca 1530, d. 1592· married Elizabeth -- (Undswo,rth?) and had three children. · M8:ry (B) was daughter o:f Henry of Elton baptized 30 April 1592, _married 10 October 1615 Isabel Kaye buried 10 December 1638 and bad 9 children. This Henry was son -of' Henr-y born ca 1560 buried 16 Jan .. 1610-1, married Elizabeth - buried 8 April 1617 and had 7 children. This Henry was son of Henry of Totting- -51- ham born ca 15301 d. 1592 married Elizabeth -- and had 3 .. ch.il.dren as given_ previous ly •. He was great-grand.father of Ma:ry- (B) and great-gre~t; g;randfat~r of Mary .. (A.). In other words .Mary (B) was in the 3~·generation from•·this~He,;nry arid Mary (AJ,.iii-the fourt,h. -The names: of all: the children· ·referred to are given in the original- ~rti~le. "Ancestry of Cdl~ John ~- Stevens··ancl His Wife Frances Helen Miller", 36-42 by Mary L. Holman· (19~) gives a very good s·ummary- of these relationships, and forceful rea sons for believing.that Simon's third. wife· v1as Mary .(B)_ ... __ based targely on the names she ·ga.ve her --c-hildren. ·WILLIAM ·DYER WILLIAM DYER;· Es·q. was one· of ·eleven:" 1.iho took the ·oath o:f allegiance 5 Sept. 1665 in Sheepscot, -la~er renamed Dartmouth or_ New Dartmouth, Maine., when the te·rri tory was first ·organi·zed.- He was one of th~ee justices then. ·· He· ha~ acquired· l~d 11 February ·1662 ·on· Dyer's Neck on the east bank of Dyer's River on-~the west side or Sbeepscot River from the Sagamore- Indians· "Daniel" . and. ''Dic~··:~~wa~h-''·: a.:q.d he acquired more 29 March -1664 from· uMr. Robin Hood·, Sagamore"> -- a11··accqrding ~.C? 0 Genealogy of' Edward Small of Ne"t·t England and Allied Familiesu, III, 12·_57 py_··tqi:a,· A •. W. Under- hill.. ·. ·.··-· . . . · · _: ··· ··' . . ·-Iri King-· Philfp' s War n~n Augus~.-t676,_ the Indians· becamJ;·iaggr~~;:i;e, st~~ith ily killing some of the -most prominent ·men,·· c~pturing others,_ a·nd· destroying ai1 · who came· •in the:ir way. Sheeps·cot ·w~s abandoned·· by t:n.e Englis~\ ·who f'led tq_ the.. ·fort at Cape ·Newaggen, --now·:so-uthport; · tp.eir homes ·were burnt, their goods. left· behind. Those who sought refuge:at-·Cape Newaggen again were obliged to flee. u On the.ves sels and boats in the harbor "the 16th day of Au~t at night we set sail and left ·not one man;. woman or child behind~-n "The:_deposit.ion:. of'.. Esther Roberts. -- states that she· .:'very: well knew Mr·. 'William Dyer of Shipscot Father of Christopher and John . Dyer &.Mary Dyer who Married· to· Samuel Bowles -- ,· further states -- 'The sd_ William Dyer, Es·q. · -was ·,mending his. Garden: ·or Orchard Fe!}~·e when t,he ~ndians came & 1"'J1ocked him down which I saw and they killed :& ·scalped hi~ and 1:1ounded grieviously his sec ond Son· John Byer hut---he··Recove~d o:f .. his':wounds· ·'-·.:.·._, Ali three contemporary wit nesses agree in their depositions tha~ his SOA ChristoP.her was killed a few months later in the· same ·year, Or December···1689'~· 0 -· ·William was •killed--about August. On- -June:·10,1712. the oth~r- heirs "fbf "L9ve::·good.W~ll ·and af'fection that we have -- unto our .Loving;·Friend & Kinsma.n:.··samuel Bo.les·_:of Rochester in the County of Plymouth -- and Mary his Wife" uce>nveyed ··to said Boles all their right in 600 Acres -- situate in New Dartmouth alias Sheepscoat in the County of Cornwall" .and the ...... ; . ': ., ."' ...... - next day Samuel· ·deeded 1.t to Henry·-Flint. ···-- · Children: · Christopher born ca ~6~0, John ca 1648 and Mary MARY DYER married Joseph Bal~-~? son of' Thomas Boles and Elizabeth _rerkins ;JOHN-· ·FAUNCE JOlrn FAUNCE (Fance, Phance, Fans, Ff'an~) "Of the Plymouth Colony1 born.possi bly in Purlei@l, co. Essex about 1602 or 1610 died ·in Plymouth. 29 Novetnber.1653 or 1654 (different boo~_s ;g:i:ve different dates) according to Jarq,es F .. Faunce in "The Faunce Family" in "New England Historic & Genealogical· Register", 114, 11_5 .. (1960) which was :supplemented in. HThe Faunce Family:·.. ··Addenda _and Co~rect"ions·u :J:>Y Rachel ., .. : . . . . . -~ .. -52- E. Barclay in the "Register", 116, 188 (1962 ). Bank's Topographical Dictionary gives him as from Stow, Maris, Essex. "He joined the Pilgrims who, on or about 10 July 1623, sailed from England in the 140 ton ship, Anne, of London. He was not a member of' the origine.l Scrooby group, but ~;·~s a 'stranger' recruited by the merchant adventurers who financed the colony. -- On the same ship was Patience Morton, whose father, George Morton (1585-1624) ·was a merchant of' a well-to-do Roman Catholic .fam ily of Harworth, near Scrooby, who organized the Anne and Little James Company and died impoverished not long after landing. Also on board was her mother, Juliana Carpenter (1584-1665). -- In the year 1625 the Company of Adventurers, who had financed Plymouth Colony, largely deserted the Colony in regard to its supply and care as it had not been a profitable adventure." In 1627 Isaac Allerton arranged with them "an agreement by which the Adventurers sold to Allerton and such other planters as he designated all the rights ;n the enterprise." -- Faunce was one of the company called Purchasers and one "who agreed to transfer to a small group called .. the "Undertakers" all the rights of outside trade~ This was done so that the Undertakers might as~ume a more direct responsibility and see that the sums owing to the Adventurers were collected and paid. 11 Faunce was a freeman in 1633. He was on the list August .1643 of those able to bear arms. On 7 March 1653 a meeting of the Purchasers in Plymouth was held and it was· decided that land at Acoughcusse (Dartmouth) was to be given to 34 men, Faunce receiving one whole share. This was confirmed in 1654. He was·on a list-of inhabi tants in Plymouth 10 December 1646. In March 1651 "the names of those that have·in terest and proprieties in the to,-me land at Punckateesett over against Rood Iland11 were taken and Patience and John Faunce were listed. On 1 November 1647 he bought ;that lott that lyeth next to me at Eel River with the housing and fencing there ·about." He ·married ca 1631-3 Patience Morton, born Leyden 1616, died 1691, daughter of George Morton and Juliana Carpenter. Elder Thomas is said to have said that the graves of his parents were levelled and s01-m over to conceal them f'rom the Indians. Patience married (2) after 9 June 1666 Thomas Whitney, (having Thomas) who died near March 1673-4. She died 16 August 1691 age 77. Formerly ancestor for _Society of ·Colonial Wars (Member of Plymouth Company, 1643) Children: Priscilla b. 1634; Mary ca 1641; Patience ca .1643; Sarah 1645; Elder Thomas 1647; Elizabeth 23 March 1647-Bj Mercy 10 April 1651; Joseph 14 May 1653 and possibly John b. 1654 who died infancy. Hills, II, 121 gives birth dates of the first three as each 17 or 18 years later. PRISCILLA FAUNCE married ca 1651-3 Joseph Warren, son of Richard. EDMUND FREEMAN EDMUND FREEMAN was son of Edmund of Pulborough, co. Sussex, England yeoman (who was buried there 6 June 1623) and Alice Coles, (sister of George Coles of Am berly, co. Sussex) who was buried 14 February 1651-2, Reigate, Sussex, where she had been living with her daughter Alice and her husband John Beauchamp. There is considerable material on the family: "Freeman Genealogy" by Frederick Freeman (1875) "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines", II 349-64., by Mary W.. Ferris (1931) "Americana", XVIII, 451, (1940) "The Freemans - The Eastham Branch of the Sandwich Family" by Josiah Paine in "New England Historic & Genealogical Register", 20, 59 (1866) -53- "Genealogy . of Edmund Freeman of Sandwich and His First Wife Bennett- · Hod.sell, Daughter of John and Faith ·(Grat·wick) Hadsell by Mary E • Bates," (1930) · · -· "Gat~s and Allied Families 11 _"by Donald L. Jacobus "Genealogic~l Notes of Barnstables",385 by Rev.- C.F.Smith ·(1888) . "The Gustin-C.arlisle Family" by _Lester Gustin (1954) Dawes-Gates gives: "The immigrant Edmund was baptized July 25, 1596-:-(st:,-·. Mary's Church, Pulborough) and also_ his bro.thers and sisters: William bpt~ .. 1598; Alice April 15.:, 1601,; Eleanor Aug. 25,- 1603-' John Jan. 24, 1606-7;. and Elizabeth· Aug.· 27 i 1.609. · A i aw suit sbo~1s th?, t he 01-med land in Pulborough and Biilings hurst. He lived in the -latter place seven or. eight years after 1619 20.; -but by September .-1627 returned~-to Pulborough. The will of John Hodsell',. dated August - · 1, 1617_ probated Nov. 16) 1617 named his ·wi:fe· Faith-and daughte.rs El-i-za~th/ Bennett J Katherin~~• C.hrist.ian., his· son John and his wife's daughter~ . Faitrh Bacon.. .- Edmund settled -first at Saugus (Lynn) where he presented.·the ColGny--- .twenty· cors~Jcts or suits of plate _annor after his arrival in the .'·'Abigailn· w-ith·:.''h'l.s fam ily ·:tn 1635. He was a freeman in Plymouth 2 January 1637 and was in Duxbury a.-:.: ·: short t.i~ue.. He then with nine othe~s obtained permission ·to f.ound the first Eng lish·-_-town. .on the· Cape, his port~on being the largest. In .1643. he. i,as listed_'. __ $:·~--- .. ·being abie to bear ar.ns. He ·was Assistant. 1640-5.:, Member of ·.the· Council of· War 161i2··and Deputy to the General Court at Plymouth 1646. As Assistant he and · others held court for small cases in Yarmouth> Barnstable and Sand·wich.. He ·uas often on committees to view land, di vi~e and assign s:uch and· nm --bbu.Iids ·Y.:,.- He ·w2-s a man of_ la:rge busin~·ss· inte~ests, a .:nerc_hant in Sand1·1ich ..and also. a re.pt-e-sentati ve ·of a gfoup of London investors. · In 1639. on a ~rip to England he boue;ht · a c:)ns igr~::.:: :,:ient·. of hat$. and bea ve1--s. The · "Americana ~r aGiGle says:. he w.as pree:"1inently res- -· _:_ pected., always_ fix~~ in .his principles ✓ ~.decisiv~ in actior- qut qu.ie·t :e..ncl unol)tr·u~-: si ve·, a counsellor and leader 1-1i thout a~1bttious ends· in ·vi:-2 ...-1 j. · a man cf .. u...vioot:1pro -- -: :11fsing· ·integrity· and· $Ound· judg~~1ent and- .the sy.ietry of:"-.his cbo.racter ·furnished an; exc·e·11eni> ~xa:..ipTe lhat is 2. .rich legacy ·to his de·se;e_n4ar-ts;... .- .- -· · ·,. ECl.ITlurid ·married. (1) at Cow·field or Co~1fold,; co. Susse;: 16 ·June 1617 Bennett .:_._. Hod·sell baptized ca 1598 who _1·1as buried at Pulborough 12 A_pril 1630. · He married··•:::• (2) ca 1635 Mrs .. Elizabeth Perry(?) born.ca 1601, -::,1idou, who died at Sandw.ich 14 February 1675-6., age 76. Genealogica.l Item B-5678· in the "Hartford Times" of' Nov. 28., 1953 says he lnarried (2) Elizabeth Beauchaop born 1600; died 2., lh; 1675- 1676; possibly daughter of John Beauchamp of London who was. Edmund's· brother -in- law, one -of -the .Adventurers· who came _fo Plymouth and was one of those sharing the -,. desire to :found Sandwich· "to 1-1orship God and i'i1ake .money;•~ Could. Elizabeth ·Beau-··:·;") champ have been Elizabeth Perry? . A short. sunmary in -:the· ,,Mayflower -Planters:. at··-: -. Plymouth", II, 48, by Leon C.. Hills is coP..:fus ing.. . It gives· in· part t1-10 accounts)· \ one with some correct dates for the :fa:nily ·with another with roughly estimated dates and then it says that he married "Oct. 13, 1617 Elizabeth _Graveley · (?) ", He-rts., Eng. probably his 2d ·wife.' It vrouid_-·seem to ine that this · r.ius:t. :•have.· been from sry,.ne early guess that was superseded ~~- verification of the Bennett Hods·ell .·marriage. · -- ·., · His will of 21 June 1682 proved 2 November 16$2 and the . inventory are gi -✓en in the "Mayflower Descend.ant'~., 12, 248. ·· . , .. ,.... Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars and Massachusetts Socie-ty_ of: Colonial Dames. Children: Ali~e- baptized 4 April 1619) Edri1u~d 26 Nov.-. 1620, ·Be:h.n~tt 20 .Jan .... 1621; Elizabeth 1 (11) April 1624, Major John baptized 28 Jan. 1626-7~ Nathaniel 2 Sept. 1629. Only some of the accounts give Mary who mar:,:ried Edward Perry.·:· The 1866 account gives ~ossibly Cy12ella (Syciilae) born 1631 ~-{hQ,, I _suppose., ·has·.-·been discredited. -54- MAJOR JOHN FREEMAN came to Lynn in 1635 and later to Sand"":1; ch and married un doubtedly at Eastham 13 (14) February 1649-50 Mercy Prence, daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster. He lived in that part of Eastha~, now Orleans by June 1651. He was a grand juror) surveyor of highways in 1653,-selectman for ten years from 1663 1 Deputy 1654-66, Assistant to the Governor 1666-86 and 1689-91~ and judge 1692-5 on the first Court of ComL~on Pleas in Barnstable. He assisted in aud iting the books of the Treasurer of the Colony in 1662, 64; 73 and 74. He was a deacon for many years. August 1643 he was in the military company of Sandwich; ensign bearer of East ham company Oct. 1656, a member of the staff of Maj. Winslo·u, Lieut. before Oct. 1659-., crember of the Council of War, 1658, Capt. by 1675 and active in.King Philip 1 s War for which his descendants received a grant (in 1733) in Narragansett To1-mship) No. 7 (Gorham, Maine) and he was Major commanding the 3rd Barnstable Regt. in 1685. He died October 28, 1719 age 92 and Mercy 28 Sept. 1711, age 80. His will and in ventory are· given in· the "l~ayf'lower Descendant", 5 1 143. Tp.e "Register" article says that there ·were: few men in the Colony of his day who bore a better reputation. Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars and Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. Children: John born 2 February 1650, died infancy; John Dec. 1651?, Deacon Thomas Sept. 1653, Lieut. Edmund June 1657, i1ercy July 1659, William 1660-3.., Hannah 1663, Patience,. Prince 3 Feb. 1665-6, Nathaniel 20 March 1669 and Bennett 7 March 1670-1. . DEACON THOMAS FREEMAN married 31 December 1673 Rebecca Sparrow born 30 Oct. 1655, died Harwich 7 February 171~0, age 86 · (daughter of Jonathan Sparrow and Rebecca Bangs). He died 9 February 1715-6 at Harwich, now Brewster, where he settled about 1674 on land previously O\"med by his father. His will is in "Mayflower Descendant" 13,20. He was a ver-J prominent citizen and one of the petitioners for the tovm's incorporation. He was the first tovm clerk and one of the first selectmen and he helped found the first church in 1700 o:f which he was the :first deacon ("History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family" by D~an Dudley (1896). He ,-,as selectman 1702-10., clerk 1701-6, coroner and probably selectman and clerk earlier than 1700 for which there a.re no recE:>rds now. His sons, Thomas, Edmund and Joseph were also prominent · in their day. Ancestor for Colonial Daughte·rs of 17th Century. Children: Mercy born 30 October 1674, Thomas 11 October 1676, Jonathan 11 November 1678, Lieut. Joseph 10 February 1682-3, Prence 3 Jan. 1689-90, Hatsuld (Hatsel) 27 March 1691 and Rebecca 21 April 1694 according to Dudley. The "Regis ter" gives also Edmund 12 Oct. 1680, Joshua 7 March 1684 and Hannah 28 S~pt. 1687. There may be discrepancies in dates. JONATHAN FREEMAN married 12 October 1 708 ·Mercy Brad:f ord born 20 December 1681 daughter of Major John Bradford and Mercy Warren. Jonathan died 27 April 1714. His will is given in "Mayflower Descend.ant", 13, 20. She married (2) Harwich 10-0ct. 1717 Lieut. Isaac Cushman of Plympton, born 15 Nov. 1676.;; died 4 September 1727, son of Thomas Cushman and Rebecca ..• She died 27 June 1738 Children: Jonathan born 26 March 1709-10; Mercy b. 24 April 1711, Bradford 15 Aug. 1713, Ichabod 2 Aug. 1714. She had by Isaac; Fear 10 July 1718, Priscilla 12 Dec. 1719, Isaac 29 Sept. 1721 and Abigail 31 Dec. 1722~ . . MERCY FREEMAN married 12 June 1728 Thomas Wateri.Tian, ··soi1 of Deacon Robert Waterman and Mary Cushman. -55- THOMAS GAGE THOMAS ~GE born ca 1625; probably in England, mariner, is first mentioned in Yarmouth, Mass. in 1650 in con_11ection with the drowning of his year and· a ha.if old son i~ a ·well.. . He married probably before 1648 Joanna Kri.ight, daughter of' William and Elizabeth of Salem and Lynn.. He and another ·were charged in .165.5 ·uith p·ro:fan.-: ing the Lord's day by putting :forth to sea ·from Sandwich harbor on that day. He . took the "Oath of' fidelitie·" in 1657 and 1-ias a ta:: payer in Yarmouth in· l676 and _in tha:t part no1-r knovm as Dennis, the ta;: being especially "to!1ard the charges of' th~. late war" in v,:hich he lost three sons.. He died .in Harwich between the date of" his:._ will; June 30, 1695 and its probate ·August 5, 1695.. ·The 1-ri~l · i~ · given in. "Mayfl~~-ier Descend.ant", 24, -63. ·Some refe~ences are: ,. . , "Gage Families", 22,. W.M. Gage (192-2) "Pandall and Allied Families 11 326, by Frank A. Rap.d?,11_ (1943) "Gage9'."Shepard: A Family Record" by C.V-.-Gage and Edna S~ Gage (1961) "On ijew ·England Ancestry of Lymon J. Gage., Secretary in Pres.ident'. MtKinley~,s; . Cabinet" by Arthur E. Gage in "New England Historic~ & Genealogicaf· .. Re·gis.ter" 53., 201 -(1899) . · . -.. 11Gage Genealogy" ·mss. by Ella· May Lev1is (1924) . Children: John .born 1648, d. 1650; John, William ca 1651 ~nd Henry -~a 16557 all three killed in fight near. Seekonk 26 Mar. · 1676 in King Philip.'$. ·war~· Lieut. Thomas b. 1656, · slain in disastrous· expedition ·13 Aug~ 1707 agaipst· '·Port Ro~~~ Benjamin ca 1660; Adam.ca 1665,.went out·.-as a soldier-in King·WtlliaQ1's··war:·ror Cap.ada and "the-re·· slain in their Majesties service", and Moses i668 ·,;,i16 ·aiio ser_,;ed in the expedition in 1690 of Sir Willia1n Phipp·s·-against Cariaa.a.· · · · B.ENJAMIN GAGE married· 10 March 1684.Eliza.beth:,_·Lorabard ·b. Bar~stable,._Jtine lq6J·:: died 22 May 1746, daughter of.· Jabez- Lombard and Sarah Derby. · Benjamin settled ·at:::.·. Swan Point near his father's place. He died intestate 12 May.. ·1708, 1·eaving ,-iidow _. Eli.zabeth and five children. Their h-ouse was destroyed by fire ·before 1740.. Children: John, Matthew; Ebenezer, Thomas born ca 1690 and Joanna. ,.,.._ :• THOMAS GAGE born Yannouth r.iarried 13 October- 1726 Rebe·cca· :Rider (Ryder) (daugh:.. ter o:f Zachariah). born 5 Deceraber 1706; d. 19 Dec. ·1759~ age 53, a:pd had si:~ chil-_::_; dren at Yarmoutll.· They ·i.11oved to Southeast, Dutchess· Co.; New York· between .1741 a.her 1758. She ·was buried in the Sears Burial Ground there.· . (See under "Hin_cl~ey" aI?-d Paddoclc''. ) Poughlteepsie deeds include one to Thor;1as Gage of Dartmouth. :fro~1 Jonath~n Richardson of Bee km.an. 14 Oct.· 1763 in Great Nine Partners but as_ he appears l~te1~):.' · . :· .. this was apparently Thomas of the other· fa:nily there. There is considerable information available after search about_ his sons and · · their families) wuch in county hi-stories. - "Gage Families ir lists, with 1~any dates :1 · names of wives, and subsequent place-s of resident (after Dutches~ ·Co.) of about 29. grandsons. Very unfortunately it •ignores female descendants. Names of a f~1-; _grand~ daughters can be picked up from o\her.··sources. There were about·:15 Gage famili.~s in Southeast and vicinity in 1790 with: ·quite a number· of children. There are also a nUL1ber of wills and. other items after the Revolution. Ebenezef: acquired 32_ 3/4 .. acres of the estate of Sir.Henry Clinton confiscated durin·g the· Revolut~oii, ·Anthony 71 acres and Elihu 71 3/4 acres.· Moses and Mark also acg_uired'·:confiscated.' ·1ands. Ebenezer and George (Guage) bon1 Boston enlisted in the French and Indian War in the same company as Lieut. Philip Paddock ("New York Historical Society Proceed ings", 1891) Anthony, Elihu and M:art Gage are listed together near Nathan Paddock in the 23 Oct. 1779 ta;~ list of Southeast and Ebenezer and Sylvanus also in Southeast. -56- These, Thomas, Moses and a David uere on the ta:i~ list in 1777 in Philip's Patent. Mark and Moses served in the Revolution. Some members of both the Gage and Paddock families are buried in the same cemetery. There were a :few members of another Gage (Gaige frequently-) family in Dutch e·ss Co. about the--same time, ·especially about the time of the Revolution., ~ons and grandsons of William born 1700 Freetovm, Mass. who married 1723 Hann~ Davis. I found my first real inforwation about them in a Gage-Gaige· manuscript fonnerly in the library (since scattered) of the American Institute of' Genealogy _in Chicago. This listed the nine children of William: 'William b. 1 725; John 1726, Thoaia·i 1729;, Susannah 1731 m. Abiah Davis, Joseph 1734, Hannah 1736, Remembrance 1738, Sylvester 1741., David 1744 and Elizabeth 1747. The first two sigrated to Vermont but several of the rest lived in Dutchess Co., N. Y. This family is also given in uGage Families. In the year 1790 - in the census - most of these were grandsons in the to1-rn of Wash ington, with Sylvester in Rhinebeck•. This is explained to show that although there was this other Gage family, it seems quite distinct frow that of our Thomas living in Southeast. None of these sons was born early enough to have been the grandfather of Bathsheba Paddock born 1763. Although this Elizabeth might conceivably have been mother o:f Bathsheba, it is highly i;nprobable (married when 15?) and the only other girls possible in this family -::rere Hannah and Remembrance, but these seen so improb able (everything includ~ng residence considered) that I am dismissing it. We are looking for _a Gage girl who was mother o:f either Bathsheba Paddock or of Elkanah Hinckley b. 19 July 1759. The reasons against any of these in the case of Bathsheba are even stronger about Elkanah. Also none of the other names in this branch sug gest Bathsheba's childrens' names as they do so outstandingly in Thomas 1 s family. For a time after finding the Sears cemeterJ inscription about Joanna Waring who was about the same age as Joanna Gage, I wondered if Joanna Gage had married John Waring, but later I found that his wif'e was Joanna Smith of Norwalk, Connect icut. ( "A Short History· ·of the Warings," 16 by R. M:. \-laring (1898). For reasons already implied and other better ones, I am convinced that Joa~~a Gage was mother of either Elkanah Hinckley, Jr. or his wife Bathsheba Paddock., but I haven't found any clues as to which. This couple named one son Elkanah Gage (b. 1792), their daughter Florinda naned one son Elkanah Gage (b. 1812) and their grand son John named one Elkanah Gage (b. 1855). Either Thomas Gage, born 1712, or his daughter Joanna must have been an outstanding person. Also this couple named their first daughter Rebecca (born 1782), apparently after Joanna's mother. As explained lll1:der "Hinckley", this couple chose names f'or their children that are otherwise very dissioilar to those of any of their known relatives. Of course., we don'_t l:Jl01·7 who Bathsheba's father was or what he na:ned his other children. Children: Elihu b. 27 February l 726-7;died 1802, married Grace Pickett (1736- 1814); Anthony born 16 March 1728-9 married 19 September 1752 Ann Sears born 1733 Moses born 9 April 1732; -d. 1812 Yates Co.) N. Y. married Sarah Buckbee ("History and Directory of Yates Co., N.Y." 236, S. C. Cleveland, 1873) and "History of Yates Co.", 358 by L. C. Aldridge, 1892). Ebenezer born 9 August 1734, d. 1803 De Ruy- ter, Madison Co., New York married Grissel Elwell (1742-1816) (nHistory of Chenango and Madison Counties, New Yorku 607, Joseph H. Smith, 1880) Joanna or Johanna born 12 May 1738 (according to this thesis, married either Elk.anah Hinckley, Sr. or the father of Bathsheba Paddock). George born 9 July 1740, d. 1806 Pittsto·wn; Ne1-1 York married Redding, Connecticut 1763 Sarah Adams. Mark, born probably Southeast. ·- 57 - _ JOHN GOVE ·JOHN GOVE born Englq.nd 16)4 mar!ied ca 1625 probably Sarah Mott ·born London 16)1. They ti ved in East Smi thfield7 Sweden Court.. London where ··};ie w.as·. a_ d~aler in brass a:.::cording .to "History and Genealogy or the American Family of Gove", 9, · by William· H. Gove. .Bank's "T,opographical· Dictionary" gives two possible extra hints:··. St.··Giles, Cripple Gate, London.and St. Nicholas Aeon_,· ·London He married (2) probably "Mary, dau .. of· Edmund Sale :and Eliza.beth Gifford of Chesham, · co. Bucks~"-England.,, · But· "Genealogy. and :s;_~tory" Item 14, _B92;, March· 1953·,_. ·says·:,· 11A John Gove 1604-1647/8 by w. variously giyen as Mary Sale, Ma_ry ·shard & Sarah Mott-, :had Ed-ward, b. London whose b. yeai. i;3 \rariously gi.ve.n·f'rom °163-J--40. He--:· paid taxes to the English crown fro~n midsummer of 1646 to ~11idsurTu11:er· :of 1647 and immediately ·afterwards with his wife and . three ch. etnigra ted · L-0 Mass. , settling in Charlestown'·': whe~e for ten pounds · he. bought a hou~e :fro~n · Ed~in· Larkin, turner, 29 Sept. 1647. He died there 28 Feb. 1647-8. His will proved ·. DEACON JOHN GOVE born London,. turner, ·live~ in Charlestown and Cambridge, Mass. where he was a constable, tithing man and ~~con of the -church for many-, years. He married (1) Mary .Aspinwall 6 Oct. 1658/ daughter of William and El.iz abeth, according to Gove. Mary united with: the ··chmch··1 March 1661 and died ·14 November 1676. . . . . ~- .· ' · · .. John married (2) 15 Mar~h 1677 Mary Wo~d"rard {Woodhead?) born·· 1644 ·arid died 11 .September 1700 and he married (3) 2 ·December 1700. widow EI{zabeth Waldron for·· merly of Boston. . She died 24 Nove~ber .1704 and h~: 24 December 17cr4~·-·._ John's will in the 11 Gove Book" begins: ..:"tn·:-t}~e name· o:f. GodJ Amen;· this twentieth and-·-e·ighth · : · day of August in ye year of ···our ·Lora.· on~ ._.t.housa·n·d. .. s·even hundred ·and four~-arid in< ..-·. the third year of ye reign-·o:f our 80,vereign Lady ·Que.en Anne over En_gl2.nd, · I, John ., Gove of Cambridge in the _County of Middlesex within Her Majestie~ ·Province of· ·: Massachusetts Bay in New England., Turner, being by the mercy of ·Joel. in;·t:)erfect : memory .though weak in body --·;" · · · : · Ancestor fo~ S_ociety of Colonial Daught~_r$ of l 7~h C~ntt.ry (Cc':·~stable / ·cam~ bridge, 1667, Selectman 1671, 1684, 1690, 1697') Children: Mary born 14 Sept. 1_659, John 21 _Sept. 1660, A~~pinwall and I:a-tr.:.an- iel·; twins 2 Oct. 1661, James bap. 3 Dec. lq63,'··Natl1.a,niei b. 4 A1?-gust 1667, Jena than 19 Jan .. 1678, John ca i68o, Jonathan -3· ~a-y 1682. and ·s~rah ?f.Y~ugus·t 1686. Aspinwall Genealogy - 1630-1901 by A.A. Aspiti~-,a.11 (1901) _g:ives a· Natr.:3.niel 13 Nov.:· 1662 instead o:f 2 October 1661. ! ·• ·· NATHANIEL GOVE born in Cambridge, settled in Lebanon, Conn. ca 1690 and prob ably removed to Coventry, Conn. where he died Jan. or February 1752. He married (1) Mary Wood.bead (Mary Holmes?) and (2) before 1708 Sarah .. • • . who survived him. He had a considerable estate, this according to Gove. "American Genealogist", 15, 83 says a Nathaniel Gove, now an i~abitant of Lebanon on 29 March 1743 testified that in 1693 he bad begun to board at Capt. Arthur ffenner 1 s house in Providence and lived there 11 or 12 years. Nathaniel's will of 8 Jan. 1752 and papers I found in the Connecticut State ·Library. He mentions his wife Sarah, son Nathaniel and dau. Mary Stevens (her name by 2d marriage) of Marlborough, Mass. The ·will was exhibited 22 Feb. 1751-2. The ubills of mortality" there show Nathaniel's death (the son's?) Dec. 1763 and "widow Gove's" Sept. 1786. This Nathaniel's will was recorded 22 Jan. 1765, the estate being insolvent. See under "Thomas Martin." . A Nathaniel Gove, probably this man, was assigned Nov. 18, 1691-2 in the gar rison o:f the West Regiment of Middlesex to Marlborough ("New England Historic and Genealogical Register", 43,372.) Children: Mary b. Jan. 1690 and Nathaniel b. 11 May 1708 bap. 13 May 1722, in First Church of Lebanon. MARY GOVE married 31 Jan. 1710-1 Thomas, son of Thomas and Jane Martin. THOMAS GREENE of MALDEN THOMAS GREENE wa·s born possibly Leicestershire, England about 1600 (1606), "The first record in which.bis name appears, so as to identify him is 1653 when his youngest daughter Dorcas. was born. Yet he doubtless came many years before, prob ably 1635 or 1636. We are inclined to the opinion that he lived in.Ipswich·or Rox bury tili l-649 or 1650 and then removed to Malden .. He certain1y·· 1ived in Malden as early as Oct. 28, 1651 when his wife Elizabeth and daughter of the same name signed 11 a petition to the General Court,rr all according to the "Vinton Memorial , 394 by John A. Vinton (1858). The other accounts found about him are practically the same. "The Snow-Estes Ancestryu, II, 225 by Nora E. · Snow (1939) · · "The Ancestry of H. E.Gustin -- ", I, 168 by ·Lest(=r Gustin (1954) "The Record of My Ancestry", 54, by Charles L. Newhall (1899) . uA Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Thomas Green(e) of Malden" by Samuel S. Greene (1858) on which most of the others are based Bestdes quite a number of others by the name of Greene, there_ was even another Tbomus Gr~ene of approximately the same age in Middlesex County .. · Our ancestor was called Thomas, Senior, his son·Thomas Junior and the third Thomas without any suf'fix. Thomas had 63 acres in the north part ·of the town which is now Melrose, part of which remained: in the. hands of his descendants until at least 1858 (the date the basic part of this account originated.) He was a_selectman at least in 1653 and 1659 and on the grand jury of Middlesex Co. several times.· Hem. (l)·Elizabeth --, mother of all his children who died 22 August 1658 and (2) 5 September 1659 Frances Cook, widow of Richard Cook vho died 14 October 1658 and previously of Isaac Wheeler. She had had children by both previous husbands. Thoma~ died 19 December 1667. Ancestor for Colonial Daughters of 17th Century {Selectman Malden 1653, 1658-9) Children: Elizabeth ca ·1628, .Thomas ca 1630, Capt. and Deacon John 1632, Mary ca 163_3, Capt. William 1635, Lieut .. Henry 1638, Samuel March 1645, Hannah ca 1647, Martha 1650 and Dorcas 1 May 1653. CAPT. THOMAS GREENE, (Trumpeter Greene) married ca 1653 Rebecca Hills baptized Malden 20 April 1634, daughter of Joseph Hills and Rose Clarke (not Dunster). He was a fanner in Malden and was admitted freeman 31 May 1670. He died 13 Feb. 1671-2 (will -59- proved 2 April 1672, though one writer said he died 15 April 1674) and Rebecca 6 June 1674. Ancestor· ~or Society of Colonial Wars (Trumpeter, Malden c·p.·.) .-. Children:· ·Rebecca born 1654, Thomas Feb. 1655-6, Hannah i6 .. bct. 165~, d. 25 March 1659.-;-:Hannah· 24 Feb. 1659-60 and Capt. Samuel 5 Oct. 1670. _·. · ·... :. .. ·HANNAH GREENE -~rried 26 August 1677 John Vinton, sop of -'i.;hn . .·~.· .. ::. !. : :· ,: ...... ·_ .. ·_ .... _... ·_. _. - . . . . . :· ·- :. -. . .. CAPr. SAMUEL GRE~·married 5 October 1692 Elizabeth Upham;~-~elj._~y~cCt.o be dau. of Lieut.· Phineas Upham: ·and Ruth Wood. He resided in Malden urrt.1.i·~ab.o:u~ .1717 when he removed to Leicester. That part of the town occupied by hiqi :'-~rid bis r~latives beca.me·:~kn.owri ·as Greenville. "At the first recorded meeting of .the- __ iµha"bitants., he was chosen its first selectman, mdderator; first assess9r:_.~nd__ ;gra.n,4. :Jur.or and he cont1.nued ·to· hold of~ices of trust and responsibility a~~_-;long,_~-as_.'. ;he_. \ive4: He eariy became a proprietor of ·tlie:. town, and was one of g.~·-··co:npi"itt~:e. ,of :·prc;p,:rietors, in·· l 722-3 -;to,: ielect the half which sh~uld be conveyed tcS· .. the .. :S:e~t{1e·~s~ -~~-:-~o. _convey the sa-ine. · This he did in 1724 --~- .. : He erecte·d a grist m.JlT a:iid-the· _··ri.r~::t ...~:awmill • • • . • . •. • I • • • o • : • .J •' ,._.J '••" • • upon~ the::s-ite ·upon which the·mflls· ih Greenville now st8.n4~. ·rn,.17~7 lie.. ~~s_..the owner ·o:r ·929: acres in the town. -· He was the first captain· of the first·· military company raised in the town. " ( "Historical Sketches of the Tq_wn_ .o;f .. ,Le:i-C.~~ter", 366 by Emory wa·shburn (1860 ). He died 2· Jan. 1735-6 and his wife.. probq.)?ly· ··ip.1761. : •· • .,•• : • • • J • Ancestor for Massachusetts_. Society of Colonial Dames ·- ·. .- .. -:· ...... : ,. ~-.- : Children:· Elizabeth. b_. 4. April 1693 (according to coi.mty·:··1:~c:9rds:~§it: East Cam b-riage:; · but -1695 accordin.g· to Maiden~· .rec.ords), Rebecca 4 April 1:695.;·{~-c~Q~rding to one·::record.:but 1693 -·?-ccording to ·a"±1other), Ruth ca 1697~ Thomas'·1691, Lyd.-ia·, Bar- sheby (Barsheba), Abigail and Any:. {Ahna ). - ....- - :"'•-~,--.·· !_-:":"\!"~~\- . · LYDIA GREENE married ·30 Apri1. ·17;2.3 in Malden,· her cov.sin_ AP.~~;t.b~°i( Vinton, son of -J-obn Vinton and Hannah Gre.ene. . . ---· ···· -·- ·· .... -· ... .•. ··~· ·.. -·· :: ~- --· - . · ·JOHN HALL. of Yarmouth ~ I • .- "!" ~ _: . • . ~ " . JOHN HALL· ca:me:, probably in Win~h:rop 's fleet from Coventry, W~~ckshire, to Charlestown;Mass. He was thep probably _about 21. His name is :ijo. _·_1_9_.·on the list of charter membe:r;s of the First Church of Charlesto"tin at organizati"pn· 30 .-:July 1630. When that church moved· fo Boston in.-1632,.. ·_lq ¢~n and their. wives -an4' three unmarried men·· form~d. a "iiew church·· in Charlestown, . ~p.cltiding ___ John and_ Beth:ia. Ha).i_•. ~.: He became a freeman·: 14 May 1634. ·. There· is little doubt but that be. ,~as in Barnstable in 16!+0. He was listed ther~ in_ 1643 as_ ~ble to bear arms. __ H~ _was _constap_l:~,:-;tl;le;re in 1647, surveyor/· :df- highways in Yarmoi.rth· ·in 1653. and oii the grand·. inquest- ·1657 and 1664. "He was a man of eminently distinguished moral worth, we are told and of religious character. ("Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts", p. 1886, _.. py ,Willi~n+ :·R. Cutter. ) In 1653 or earlier he was in the part of Yarmouth which ~ia:s· ~s·et Off ·:tn.1693 as Dennis. It is believed that he had 12_ ~ans out._no __ daughte:r-$, b-µt .. we.JmoyJ:_Of. on~.y 10.. :His will mentions eight. we· ba·ve ·_1:;-irth~·ri_cqrq._s· ·,c;>_f __ o'.r,ily-:.tw{)_. ·:- 1ive: ·.were pr.obably children qf Bethio., the others of .E~iz~beth .>·:~-;':all_. a;cd·ord,irig ..t·o:-. ~1Tbe Ha:~1s· :·-of New England - Genealog ical and Biogtapllical~~:, : .?il 'by·· p_avid .B--.. , ~~ll : (1803 ).j: 1 The. -Cape God _Historical and Genealogtcal Libra.fy / 'No/ __. 67. i_~ .: ..a.n · ~:tt;,_fci~ .. ~.Q.r;i_·-_-_the ''Halis. of ·Yarmouth;, (1913) gives Elizabeth q.ied 1. Feb~ - l@._3: ,~:~cf J 61;1~ --~3:\July, .i69q. _ _ _. A "Hartford Times". genealogical :i.tem, B-6347, 10 July 1954, says: John m.. · (2) Elizabeth Learned and "The Swift Farriily", 26 by Katherine W. Swift (1955) says he -60-· married Elizabeth daughter of William Learned of Charlestown. "Ancestry of Thomas Chambers Brainerd", 141 by Dwight Brainerd, (~948), however, convincingly demon strates that the-re were· two John Halls in Charlestown early. This man had children there and then·more in Barnstable while the second man was having children in Charlestown, almost in alternate years with this man. It seems ridiculous to think that there was only one man who moved back and forth so much. Also, if there were only one John, his first son must have died young and the John born in Charlestown 25 September 1645 would have married when about 15. Also, his year of birth would not have checked with his age ·at death. "It would require a paranoiac to reconcile these dates" if there were ·not two.Johns. Cutter indicates that family traditio~ says that he was born in Wales, but other articles ignore this, perhaps ·on purpose. It appears that each of the seemingly possible fathers of Bathsheba Paddock was a grandson of Zachariah Paddock and Bethia Hall. Even if the seemingly improb able unknown father was grandson of Robert, it is noted that even Robert married a granddaughter, Martha, of John Hall. Although there were seven of these Paddock brothers born ca 1670, sons of Zachariah Paddock and Deborah Sears, Zachariah and Robert were the only ones whose descend.ants moved from Cape Cod to Putnam County, New York. Ancestor for Society of Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century (served in the.Pequot War of 1637) Children: John b. 13 May 1638, Samuel, Shebar 19 Jan. 1639--40, Joseph baptized ·3 July 1642, Benjamin 14 July 1644 d. infancy, Nathaniel 8 Feb. 1645-6, Gershom, 5 Mar. 1647-8, William 8 June 1651, Benjamin 29 May 1653 and Elisha 1655. Miss Swift gives John b. 25 Sept. 1645, apparently the other John's son. DEACON JOHN HALL was deacon in Yarmouth and Dennis and died 14(24) Oct. 1710 age 73. ·He married 1660 Priscilla Bearse b. 10 March 1643 (daughter of Austin (or Augustine) Bearse of Barnstable) who died 30 March 1712, age 68. He was deacon and selectman in 1685. Children: Joseph 29 Sept. 1663, John 1666, dau. 15 Nov. 1668 (probably Bethia), Priscilla 1668 died infancy, Priscilla Feb. 1671 married John Paddock, Esther (Hester) last week of April 1672, Mary 1 March 1673-4, Martha 24 May 1676 married 6 March 1701/2 Robert Paddock, Nathaniel 15 Sept. 1678, Experience Dec. 1683 and Bashua 1682. Apparently ·neither book mentioned Bethia, though she could well have been the one unnamed at baptism. The "Thatche_r Genealogy", 820 identi fies "Bethia Hall, first wd.fe of Zachariah Paddock born Nov. 15, 1668. She died 8 March 1707-10, age 41, daughter of John Hall (b. 1637, d. Oct. 24, 1710) . . BETHIA.HALL married Zachariah Paddock, son of Zachariah Paddock and Deborah Sears. W-ILLIAM HAYFORD WILLIAM HAFFUT was the ancestor of all the Hayford family of New England, Otis Hayford, the author of "History of the Hayford Family, 1100-1900" (1901) con cluded efter "long and diligent search and a very thorough examination o_f all the records available" (p. 19). uA tradition exists in the Hayford family, widely ex tended in its several branches, as handed down through many generations 'that our race sprung from three brothers who came over from England or H9lland in the days of the early settlement of the Plymouth Colony'; that one of these ·brothers went to sea and never returned; and that one changed the· manner of spelling." Savage 1 s -61- "Genealogical Die:t_ionary",- 2, 328~ says: ''William Haffut,·given by M~. c·offin, nNew· Engla.nd •His·toric and G~neal.ogical ~egis-ter," 6, 34.;, as a~e 48 i~ 1668 --· Early .resident of. Es·sex and.· old Norlo_lk._" . . Mr. Hayford f·ou.l'ld Nathan Haford who -carne on .. the "Planter11 in 1635 age· 16- about . -whom he found no ·othe_r· .. req.ord:, .a~ he- concluded that ·this· vJas the brother who went · ·to sea .. ··He aiso f9und Sam-uel Heffor4 _.i;n_,_Roxbury v-lhO came in 1640, ·age 1.7, .whom . · he ·believed· returned t.o Engiand in. 1952-60: and. probably left .. no- descendants here. : · He founa:.·no- furthe·r inf'o'rma.tion ·about Wi:lliam .. but believed him. ·fa;tber of Joh_n. ·· This gehe(alogy -is· ·v~ry: unorganized· ·iogi~~ll;y~ Rir instance a· short summary about Daniel·, a son of Joh~, is started .. on page·. 22. · This ·is~- followed by considerable mixed: nii:sceila.neous · mat'erial and_ finally on. -page --;80;, anoth·er· short summary a~otit -Daniel:· is· rea.ch.ed~-- There·· is considerable repitit.ion. _:_ . John of Braintree spelled his name H~i:ford~ . His children·- -later in I?hxbury . spelled·it Hefo:t-~f, Heiforq., Hearford, and-ijay;ford·and·later--in Pemb~o·k~;and Mid~ -dleb_oro·;, Hayford: and one: grandson Hafford,..·< Wb..ile. spelled··generai,l-y -Ha.yf'br.d aft~r early-· in :the 18th . century, it. °\~ai. long prqnounced .as though. wri ttep:$,e.f~.a.; ___ : -~- - ·Hayford ·says _that all these· in t11e differe_nt_. _places were soai~lly :a.nd financially . connected :a.s members of. one family ar1:d n9 ·g.oubt were descendants -of· ·ance·s·tor~ John, ·often moving :fro'm ·one of .these to1-1ns -to another and often o·wning mutual_,_interests in the same ,prope~y. . :__ : --~ ~~l :.a;:.,·. . - JOHN HEIFORD of Braintree married 8 April 1678-9 (Braintree Records, 719) Abigail Albins of Bridgewater. He was probably much older than she and might have been previously married. He appears to,bave witnessed a deed 6 April 1667 (Suff"olk Deeds, Lib. 386-7). He probably died 17o8 as "Cap~_. Thomas bo't ~ lot of land, June 1709 l,9-te:J_y occupied by John Heiford" ("Registertf, 49, 175) and in · '1'710. Nathaniel Thoma~ o:f,-M~rshfie~ld sold land to Abigail; •widow of John Ha.eif'ord. The bi-rtl:is··"o:r _Abiga.'i+., John and Edwa-rd are· in the "Braintree To·wn Recor.ds. n_. ·tn I• . • < • • • . < ~ ' • • • , , • • • • ' Sept-. 1900·' a- re cord.. =wa~ found: in the Bos.ton Public Libra:t-,1 giving John 1 s marriage and SAJ.\fflEL HAYFORD married _Plympton (1) 31 January 1754 Rebecc·a Freem~ln ~.a term.an (daughter bf Thomas Waterman, and .l"'.lercy Freeman) ·who died Hanover 9 August 1768 and 2d ·when of .Hanovej. 27(26) Nov. 1768 Diadama Bishop ·of· Ha_p.over and (3) 1 March 1776 ·{Ha;r:-d"iick) Bat?·sh-eba Tinkh?,m of Halifax., who May 3;: I-783 m?,rried Samuel Worl< of Leicester.. Th~se... r~·cords an~: those -o·f the children come ·fro:a dif:ferent source·s, . . ~ . . ..,, ' -62- :from the 11 Hayford Genealogy", "_Pem,bro~e Vital Records", "Plympton Vital Records", ."Halifax Vital Records", · "New England 1Iistoric and Genealogical Register", 49, "History· o:f the First Congregational Church, Hanover" and Paige's "History of Hardwick," some from one and some f'rom·the other, with duplication in- some cases. Paige says, 277: "Soldiers -- others who perf'ormed one or more terms of ser vice, under captains who were not residents of' Hardwick, to wit -- Samuel Hayford -- ." "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution", VII, 558, includes: "Samuel Hayford, Greenwich {also given Hardwick), Private, Capt. Samuel Kil ton's Co., Col. John Patterson's (26th) regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted April 26, 1775; service 3 mos. 12 days; also, company return (probably Oct~ 1775); also, order for bounty coat or its equi va·1ent in money dated Camp No. 3, Charlestown, Oct. 27, 1775." Children: Deliverance bapt. 24 Nov. 1754 (A Deliverance, daughter of Samuel died Pembroke, 14 March 1758 and·another Deliverance daughter of Samuel died Jan. 1759), Abigail 18 January 1756, Anne born 3 June 1759, baptized 13 July 1760, Mercy Freeman b. 14 Nov., bapt. 19 Dec. 1762, Rebecca 9- Sept. 1764 and Molly Water man 5 June 1768, d. 13 Nov. 1768. By Diadema he had 4 August 1769 Molly Waterman. Ancestor for S.A.R. and D.A.R. (Lineage number 151,244 through Chloe - 1774- 1859.) MERCY FREEMAN HAYFORD of Hardwick married 15 Feb. 1781 Silas Wright, son of James Wright and Patience Martin. JOSEPH HILLS Capt. JOSEPH HILLS (Hilles) was born in the parish of Great Burstead, Biller icay, county Essex, bapt. 3 March 1602, son of George Hill, linen draper who mar ried .13 October 1596 Mary Symonds of Billericay (widow of.William Symonds) under the general license of the Bishop of London. Not later than March 1632 Joseph moved to Malden, Eng. In 1638 he was "undertaker" (that is, a stock holder) in the "Susan and Ellen" and arrived in Massachusetts on it July 17 and settled in Charlestown in that part that became Malden, where he was active in public· affairs and selectman in 1644. In 1646 he was Malden's first deputy and-the only one un til 1664. About 1664 he moved to Newbury where he was Representative in 1667 and Assistant several years. He served on many important committees and was the· lead- ing member of the General Court in 1648 on the codification of the laws of the Colony, - ail according to the uHills Family in America: William Hills" by W. S. and Thom.as Hills (1906), the most complete account found. Shorter notes are in "Ancestry of H.E.Gustin -- and Julia L. Carlisle," by Lester Gustin, I, 175-83, Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts", 230, and "The Vin ton Memorial", 459, by John A. Vinton (1858 ). There is considerable material in the "History of Malden, 1633-1785" by D. B.-Cory (1899 ). The · "Snow-Estes Ancestry" I,"234 by Nora E. Snow, (1939) says Joseph actually compiled the laws, prepared copy f'or the printer in his o,;-m handwritin·g and supervised the printing for which be received 500 acres on the Nashua River in New Hampshire and remission of taxes in his old age. He was Assistant several years, equivalent to the present Coun cillor and Senator. For many years he was Capt. of the Malden Colonial forces and first leader of the Malden Training Band. "He was one of the few la1,,yers of the Colony, and to him the jurisprudence of the Colony is said to have been es pecially indebted, -- His name often occurs in legal proceedings. The Groton petition, May·l6, 1656, to the General Court is in his handwriting." Accounts about him are also in "Evans and Allied Families",· 25, in very expensive form by the American Historical Co. for Marion R. Evans, and lesser accounts in "Genealog- -63- ical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern.Massachu setts", II, 905 by William R. Cutter (19o8) ·and also .. 'in th~ similar book :for the state o:r Massachusetts~ III, 1732 (1910 ). · · .. . .. In 1645 he ·was t:he: ·f'irst man on a committee~'to ··s_e.t out lots to the settlers of Nashaway plantacon ° ,. · a:n4 In 1_648, be ·was f.irst o:f. ~- comrni ttee of :four to change the location of the hi_ghway b~tween.Winneseme·t and.Redd~ng. In 1650 he was second .. of a committee o:f _whom .tJ;te Governor was __ chairman to 4ra.'·w · up instructions for the Massachusetts delegates_ ·to a gathering where tl;le "commissioners of' all the colloneys shall meet." In 1653 he was one of a committee of.six to consider the question "If the Vnited Collonyes haue power by the articles of Agreement -- to engage Collonyes in warre." In 1654 with Capts. Hat-rthorne and Johnson and the treasurer of the Col-· ony.he was appointed to frame a reply to the home government which had demanded ex-~ planation of certain acts. Three_ times in 1650., 1653, and 1661 he ·was on a com- 1 mittee to audit the treasurer's accounts. ·' .... A notebook containing many of his business memoranda from 1627 ,nearly to his death 5 February 1687-8 is in possession of the N~w England Historic and Genealog ical Society. He became tot~lly blind in 1678. His will is given-in ,,New England Historic & Genealogical Register" 8; 309 and by"_ Miss Snow. .. He married 1st Great Burstead 22 July 1924 ·Rose Clarke (Claerk) who died 24 March 1650-1 and he mafried 2d 24 June.1651 Hannah Smith (widow of Edward Mellows) wbo died ca 1655 and 3d 16 Jan. 1655-6 Helen (Elline or Eleanor) {daughter of Hugh Atkinson o:f Kendall, Westmoreland co., England) who died 6 Jan_ 1663 and 4th 8 Mar. 1664-5 at NewburyJ Anne (Ann)(widow ·of Henry Lund) born ca 1621. Vinton said that he married 1st Rose Dunster, sister of Henry pµnster, President of Harvard but this was written over 100 years ago be:fore much ·sub"~_equent research. It was seriously questioned in the "Register", 49, 146 (1895 ). For his third wife he ·was married by himself for which he was ad.rnonished by· .t,he Q·ounty Court and fined £5. Ancestor for Massachusetts Society :.of_-·Colc:qia·1 Dames (Deputy to General Court for Malden 1647 (Speaker), 1650-6, _+96q-Jt; for Newb:ury 1667, 9. Capt. of Malden Company. ) · · ·· · · Children: Mary bap. 13 Nov. 1625, Elizabeth 21 Oct. 1627;·-Joseph .2 August 1629, James 6 March 1631, all a_t Great Burstead; at r-1:alden, Erigland John 21 March 1632, Rebecca 20 April 1634, Steven (Stephen) l .May 1636, Sarah 14 August 1637; Gershom born Charlestown 27 July 1639, Mehitable 1 January 1640~1; by Hannah Sgt. Samuel July 1652, Nathaniel 19 Dec. 1653, a daughter perhaps who married ...... Blanchard and Hannah; by He'ien; Deborah March 1656-7 and Abigail 6 Oct. 1658. Var- ious of the children died young. Vinton also gives a Wait (Wayte) living at time of father's will 1687 and mentioned in it but frequently sons-in-law were called sons in wills and Mary married John Wait. REBECCA HILLS married ca 1653 Thomas Greene, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Greene. SAMUEL HINCKLEY SAMUEL HINCKLEY, the American ancestor may have been descended from Sir John de Hinckley of 1280) lord of the manor of Stoke and Ashton in England. But there are many missing~ .links in such lineage. An article in nNew England Historic and Genealogical Register", 65, 287, 314; 68, 186 and 75, 238 shows probable descent from John Henkele of Leneham co. KentJ whose will., ·written in Latin., of 5 January 1483-4, proved 17 March 1483-4, names sons John, Robert and Thomas~ daughter A~ne and wife Margaret. (Archdeaconry of Canterbury, vol. 3) 495 )~ This John was prob- -64- ably father of John o:f Leneham ·who was overseer of his brother Robert ts will of 1522. This John was probably father·of John Hynckleye of Harrietsham (adjacent to Leneham) whose will was 1577. He married probably 1st Johane bur. 23 Jan. 1563-4 and 2d 3 July 1570 Aves Elles. He was probably father of Robert Hincltley who married 1st Elizabeth bu. 2 Nov. 1574 and 2d 10 Feb. 1574-5 Katherine Leese, probably ·widow of' Thomas Leese. They had about ele~en children including Samuel baptized 25 May 1589. Samuel came to Plymouth in the "Hercules of Sandwich" with his wife and ·four children about March 1634-5. There are numerous accounts about him and the children but none carry many generations: "Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families", II, 30-48 11 New England Historic & Genealogical Register", 13, 208-10 and preceding refer ences. "Barnstable, Three Centuries of Cape Cod Families," 180, D.J. Trayser (1939) "Ancestry of H. E. Gustin ·-- and Julia Carlisle - Gustin Family", II, 1067 by Lester Gustin (1954) "Colonial Families of America", 27, 88 "The History of Cape Cod. The Annals of Barnstable County and Its Several Towns, I, 343, 655, by Frederick Freeman (1854) uAncestry of Samuel Hinckley and Some of His Descendants", C. E.. Sennet "Ancestry of' Henry B. Smith, Frederick S. Smith and Horatio S Smith", V. 137 by Henry· S. Monroe. "The Farwell Family", II, 441 by John·D. Farwell "Ancestors .of Amyntas Shawn., 36 by Josephine C. Frost (1920) "Ancestry and Descendants of William Curtis of Marcellus, N.Y. ", 100, by Mrs. Larissa E. Steele (1912) Gives all children of Samuel and of Gov. Thomas. "Hinckley Heritage and History", 30 by E. Charles Hinckley "Guiteras, Wardwell and Allied Families, Ameri~an Historical Society . (1926) ''Ance~tors -. Samuel Hinckley and Descendants" by Charles M. Sinnett The "Register" says Samuel married 6 May 1617 Sarah Soule., ba.p. 8 June 1600, daughter of Thomas Soule (Soole) who married i6 October 1598 Mary Iddenden (Parish Register of Hawkhurst, co. Kent.) Thomas Soule was probably son of, John who mar ried 21 Jan. 1565·-6 at Hawkhurst Marie Whitfield but proof has not been found. ~ary. iddenden' s. father was John of Cranbrook, tailor who married Christian Mercer 26 Sept. 1569. ("Register", 68, 187) · Samuel settled at Scituate., Massachusetts at least as early as 16 August 1635 until in October 1639 they went with the major part of Rev. John Lathrop's church and congregation to the grant of the Indian territory of Mattacheese which had been obtained for them under the name of Barnstable where he lived until his death 31 October 1662. Sarah died 18 August 1656 and he married 2d after 16 Dec. 1657 Bridget Bodfish (widow of Robert of Sandwich) ,rho survived him. His ·will is in "Mayflower Descendant", 12, 203. The estate was divided between the three sons, the daughters having had their portio~s on marriage. Samuel's name frequently occurs on the records as juror, surveyor of hig..~ ways, and as one of the grantees of the lands of Suckinesset. He was honest, in dustrious and prudent and left a personal estate of £162 and real estate to his sons. In Freeman he is described "as having been a very prominent man in public o:ffice. "· The fact that he was twice indicted for nentertaining strangers" indicates that he-belonged to the liberal party. He had been a dissenter in England though in order to escape from there he had been obliged to swear 14 March 1734-5 that he "conformed to the orG.er and discipline of the church. u He served in Lieut. Thomas -65- Dimack's Company of Barnstable in 1643. Ancestor fo·r .Society of Colon1al ·Wars. Children:_ Thomas ("Parish Re·gister of Hawkhurst" "1619 - Ma·rch .19. Thorri.a?_ sonne of Samuell Hincle, 11 1619-20, ,,Register", €13, 186), Susannah,- safah~ 22 _N_ov~'--1629 ("American-Genealogist", 31, 215), Mary; -Elizabeth bap. -Sci:tuate 6 Sept-~mber:·_,1635, five children who died infancy, Samuel·b-. Barnstable ?4 July'l·642 ·a.nd__ ~ris_ig~-_John, b. 24 (26) May 1644~ - -- ·. - GOV. THOMAS HINCKLEY is first ment-:i.oned as ··sitar of Trini'ty ~ollege;;,pµiversity of Cambridge ( uNew England Historic- & Genealogi-c?-t~- Re··gister.'~~>--i.()3 ;. 36}. ·· .#~ _came to Scituate _and Barnstable with his paren~s and m.arr-ied·_ ~- (7) 1~1:.1· !4aFy'"' ~~sna·rq.s. (d.au. of Thomas Richards and Wealthian. Loring) ·w·ho - died 24·'· June 1659.. . ;H~ ma fried .1 '( 2) 16 ·March 1659-:60 Mary (Smith) Glover, widow-of Nathaniel· Glover·'.of_))6:t~h~s~er·: Her. g~ndson, Rev. Thomas Pierce said "she was. the only ·child or ·Mr:_·- Quart~rniaster--·(John) Smith by his 1st wife (lvlary Rider) formerly of Lancas~i:;re in England_ anq.. _afterviards of Dorc_hester in New England ;;._;_ was born in 1630 (July 20) (at.·Foxteth ··near Liver pool) -- New England in April 1635 -- She married :Mr. Natha111 G:J_ove_r, ~on of ye Honb John Glove:r, _esq. -of said Dorcchester ·by who!Il she· had _Nathanie·l an:ci.Ann~.·u· , "Mrs. Iv!ary Hinckley is represented to have been very beauti:f-µ,l 'in perso.n ·arid the most ~ccomplished; and intelligent ·woman in-the Colony.;•_ She di~cf~25f·jU:1y··_1703; age 73. In the "Registe;r", I, 92 is an extract :from Mr. Prince'-~- ··n~·q:urna:i;'~:~-' ·giving _ the long poem written by Gov. Hinckley on-·her death (when he was ··85) 4:rid>also an interesting account written in 1703. He died 25 April 1705(6).- '· His i1i11· and the inventory are given in the "Mayflower Descendant," 5., 237.. . __ :'' ,,_., ... -~ ..,, -The s1).mm.~ries o:f· his o:f:ficia·1 positibns -avail&ble to me differ _,a.~:.:~b_-.: Children: by Mary Richards - Mary b. 3 August 1644, Sarah 4 November 1646, _ . Melatiah 25 Nov. 1648, Hannah 15 April 1650(1), Samuel, 14 Feb. 1652-3, Thomas 5 Dec. 1654, Bathshua 15 May 1657, and Mehitable 24 March 1658-9; by Mary Smith - Admire 28 Jan. 1660-1, Ebenezer 22 Feb. 1661-2, Mercy (Mary") 31 ·Jan. 1662-3, Exper- ience 28 Feb. 1664, John 9 June 1667, Abigail 8 April 1669, Thankful 20 August 1671) Ebenezer 23 Sept. 1673 and Reliance 15 Dec. 1675. SAMUEL HINCKLEY received the greater part of bis father's "great lot", probably a part of the tract at West Barnstable known as "the timb.er lands." He married_ ·13 November 1676 Sarah Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope and Sarah Jenney of Sandwich. He died 19 March 1697 and she married (2) 17 August 1698 Thomas Huckins, Jr. Samuel ts family lived remote from the principal settlements and had few advantages for obtain ing. an education. After his. death they removed to Harwich and some members afterward to Maine. One account says he was a soldier in King Philip's War and one of the grantees of Gorham, Maine. His will is in "Mayflower Descendantn, 10., 11. King Philip's War. Children: Marcy (Mary) b. 22 July 1678, Mehitable 28 Dec .. 1679, Thomas 19 March 1680-1., Seth 16 Apr. 1683, Samuel 24 Sept. 1684, Elnathan 8 Sept. 1686, Job. 16 Feb. 1687-8, Shubel l May 1690, Mercy 11 Jan. 1692-3> Josiah 24 Jan. 1694-5, Elnathan 29 December 1697. THOMAS HINCKLEY married Mercy.•.• {might possibly have been Prince), lived in Harwich and died 1710 - administration granted to his widow 11 October 1710. She married 2d William Crosoy of Harwich~ Children: Joshua born 29 March 1707 and Thomas 11 March 1708-9 who moved from Harwich 1755 with his children - one son Seth to Barre •having descend.ants there and in several Western states and another son having descendants in New York, Indiana, and Illinois. JOSHUA HINCKLEY married 31 March 1726 Lydia Snow (daughter of Thomas Snow and Lydia (Sears) Hamblin) by whom he had ten children in Harwich. He was dismissed from the First Church to the church in Oblong, Dutchess County, New York in 1753. The Oblong -vzas a strip a few miles wide that stretched about 40 miles that was claimed by both Connecticut and New York until awarded to New York about 1730. "1756 Aug. 1st Dismissed from This Chh to ye Chh in or near Oblong under ye care _-67- of Rev. Mr Kniblow, Thos. Crosbey, -_Lydia Hinkley y~- wife of Joshua & Rebekah Hopkins wife of Jonathap"-:("Mayflower Descendant", _10; 134) ..Southeast (now -Fulton).·where __ Joshua move¢i was in the part that 12 Jan. 18i2 was. separated into Putnam County .. "Mayflower Descendant", 21, 133, includes among unrecorded Barnstable deeds: "On 11 Nov. 1757 J_oshua Hinckley of a Place Ca_lled and known by ye name of Oblong ·iti ye Government of -N~w Yo_rk, Yeoman and·Thoma.s .:Hinckley o:f Harwich in ye County-.of Barn stable ~- Yeoman, _for 12 s. 'lawf'ul money paid by Benjc3:min Coll-in' -- of Truro, ··sold to said· --- .·all that one parcel of woodland Lying in Truro being in our. right and in t_e~st iri r _Third Lot ·Lying on .ye-_South Side of Pamet •River So Called .. ".-.·_ Signed only by Thomas Hinckley.. . . . - . About 1924 I v~sited .in Wa-terbucy, Connecticut, Dr. Walter F~- Hincltley (see lfHistory o:f W~terbury, Connecticut,.. III, 852" _.by Joseph_ J\nde.rs.on, 1898.)-, ··born 1847 who had a notebook. on the Hinckleys on which I- understood -·be had started work as early as 1880, :from which I copied much of the inf._orrna:i~ __ion:-~s .to •wi-ve.s and children with dates· given herewith down to and including th~- Gh:ildren.o:f ... Elkanah, Jr. I don't know whether he bad other .lines also and it now _appt=ars :that h_e: might· :have obtained this froni "B-an+stable Families," He did, however,i::b.~ve·_: __s_ome· additional notes such as "Mr. Newton Reed o:r America Union, Dutchess Co •. writ~s ·_Sept.-. --27'., 1879 that he- has noticed the re·cords left by :Mr. Knibloe and _said 'am.9ng- f'ugiti.v:e; pieces-,of paper I find autographs of Elka.nab Hinckley,_ Joshua ·Hinckley, .-';Bhomas ·_Hinckley , I have personally searched (though not as thoroughly as I wish I could have) will, deed and mortgage records in Carmel and Poughkeepsie (where the oldest re cords would be) uithout real result. There are no Vital Statistics records and I have .been unable to find a s;ngle Hincltley cemetery inscription. The family was probably very poor and it also rather appears that most, if not all, moved further west just after 1800 (unless possibly Josiah 'from New York City', referred to in "Landmarks of' Albany Co.", 289 (1897) might have been of this branch. ) I have consulted numerous genealogies and other genealogical publications, including all cross references I found in genealogical libraries in Chicago, New York and Hart ford, including the "Boston Transcript Index." I am including here every point found about the Putnam County branch. Besides Elkanah, 1-1-3 (one man, one boy under 16 and 3 femaaes), Joshua 1-1-2, John 1-4-5 and Thomas 1-1-2 appea~ed in the 1790 census in Frederickstown and in Southeast. In the 1800 census there Thomas and Joshua Hinckley appeared with wives, the latter with four children . . There was at least one and possibly more than one different Hinckley branch in Connecticut, then, but because Southeast was practically on the Connecticut border, one or more of our family might have enlisted in Connecticut in the Revo lution. "The Record of the Connecticut Men in the Revolution" includes·among var ious others, Joshua and Thomas who might possibly have been sons or grandsons o_f Joshua-. In "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State" appeared besides G_er shom, Gershom Jr. and Paul froni Albany County, Joseph and Rheuben ·from the_ Dutchess Co. 3rd Regt. a·nd Thomas in a Line Regiment (no county name specif_ied} and Joshua in a Line Art. Regiment not identified. - Elkanah served in the same regiment as Nathan Paddock. Children: given· in "Mayflower Descendant", 8, 220 and 9, 208 - Thomas born 4 March 1726-7, died April 1813 married 1748 Betsey D. Coster or De Costa and had Josiah,· Lucy, Joshua and Benjamin; Joshua 15 August 1728; Josiah 5 May 1730; Ellrenah 1 July 1732; Nathan 1 June 1734 married Mercy Snow and had Mark Snow born 20 May 1763; Lidea 1 Apr. 1736, married Barzillai King 23 March 1758; Ruth 2 Feb.· 1738 married 23 March 1758 Josiah Parish; Isaac 5 Febii.lary 1740 (3); ·Benjamin 8 June 1744, d. 24 May ·1824 married Dinah •... and had, all born in Truro - Solompn, · Thankful and Dorcas; and Rheuben 9 April 1749~ Which of Joshua's children went· to Putnam County? ELKA.NAH HINCKLEY'S birth record at Southeast, 19 July 1759 is one of the ex tremely few records that survived the fire that consumed the town hall at Brewster. ("History of Putnam County" 416, by William S. Pelletreu and also in "History of Putnam Countyu by W. J. ·Blake, 290 (1849 ). The only other similar Hinckley record was Joshua born March 11, 1775 (Blake 1899). I know of no absolutely real proof that Elkanah was son of Elkn.nah (born 1732) · though this seems by far most plausible. Dr. Hinckley 1 s notes indicated at first that he wasn·\t, sure, but a notation had been added that Elkanah was sori of Elkanah, as if in some way he had sett~ed his doubts. In any event it isn 1 t too essential from our viewpoint of_ tracing the lin eage. There is absolutely no re~sonable doubt but that he was grandson of Joshua. It appears that not all of Joshua's sons went to Putnam County. It isn't conceiv able that both Elkanahs served in the Revolution, though this doesn't seem probable. The "Archives of New Yorktt lists the war services: Hinckly., Elkany Priv. Field's·Regt. · Col. Barnum Hinkley., Elkanah Corp. " " Col. Dyckman Hinkley, Elkany Corp. Dubois Regt. Col. Lee "New York in the Revolution", 78 includes him in the Levies, Col. Lewis Dubois (the captains of this·· regiment including at various times Joshua Barnum, Benjamin Dubois and Thomas Lee; p. 140 as in Dutchess Co. Mil. 2 Regt., Col. Abraham Brinck- erhoff a~d page 146 as in Dutchess Co., 6th Regt., Col. Morri~ Graham. A copy of an affidavit of A.F.J. V9-n La.er, N.Y. State-·Archivist has been includ ed in D.A.R. membership applications to the effect that "Cert1ficate··of.. Treasurer, · -Vo1. 9, 25, i~ the State Library shows that Elkany Hinckley received certificate ·for £.l.-7s. #42,090 bearing interest from 11 :June 1779· for service as private under Capt •. Asa ·Ba.mum in Cai. John Field 1 s Reg.. of militia of Pa:wlings pr~ciric':t\ · Dutchess Co~;; als·o··voiurne 8, 38 Elkanah Hinckly as corp.·· in sariie regiment under Capt. Joseph Dyc-~ari ·certificate #37, 732 (int. from 1 July 1780) and Volume 6, 10 ·-11 Elkany. Hinckl_ey ·as .corporal received certificate 25, 860. & 25,918 (int. from·:-Jl.. Jt?:lY: ..and 31 ·Oct. 1"780) under Capt ..Thomas ~e. in Col. Lewis regiment·· of Levies_~ .- ;Elka.bah' s rec~rd app.ear·s·· in "D.A. R·. Lineage Books n, 82, 83, lOJ and 151. nD A.·R> Rhode· Isl- and Pe_ns:i.on R·~cords".·, 4 s.ho.w.s that .Arthur. Aylesworth of Chenango Co. seryed with Thomas Evans and·. Elkanah Hinckley i~ New York. He served under Capt.· 1:>'ier·ce, Col. Morehouse. He ·was married .January ·1777 by a Pawl.ing-.Baptist minister~~: .. Gould he have had anything ·to do with Elkanah rn9ving to Chenango County? . ·.. ·· .. : · ··: .. · . - -·In a··1etter·to me o.f 22 December 1924 Adolphus Gustavus Hinckley of·Los Angeles gave me, without a~y-hints from me, a brief-history of the Hinckiey lineage from Samuel through both.Elkanahs without sugges~ing any doubt about it. U~til just a few days before sending this :for publication.I didn't attach any speci~1--·signi:ft- 1 -cari~e to this, ·b1:1t n~w I notice ~n .the ~eview of "The Barnstable Patr~6"t ' _' in the "·N2w York -Genealogical an<;l Biographical _Record", 19, 136, · (1888). that ·1?,e -w~s inter ested ·,especially in genealogical and historical work and at least f'urni'~ped the. wood·..:cuts f'or .. ·"Tiie Barnstable Pat.riot," so it appears that he probably gave real attention to this lineage_ apd appare'.ntiy. h~d satisfied himself that Elkariah was · son-of' Elkan.ah·. He ~ven gaye the addit-ional information ·that in politics· Elkanah was a. Je.ff'ersop.ian :Democrat-,- and traced ·the family of Thomas -Gage Hinc.kley. as sum- marized herein. · _.:. · · · . _· · · "Genealogic~l ·Miscellany, . N. J .. '-', volume_. 3, 14 by Kate '11'. Bu~hanon, · presented by the Watc~ Tower Chapter, D.A.. R. Mapl~wgod, New Jers.ey gives from a·n·· old Bible the names a-~d· d~tes o:f birth _of Elkan~h 's _family: · - .. ··· "Elkanah Hinckley b. July 18, _1759 Bathsheba ·his wife '.b. Nov~-~- 3{~), · 1763 Date Died Date· Iv1arried.·.::f' :_· ··'..·Married Rebec~a h. May_l, 1783 Spring 1849 'Hilliam Kirtland Rachel b.· June 9, ·1786 . . .·Nov. 23, :1861 Aug. 21, 1810 /:Talcdt s.· ·coo:k Samuel Watrous b. ··Sept. 11,: 'l 788 · Ma~. 28, 1844 Jan. 1::>0, 1821 Eunice ThoT.as Florinda b. De~-;. i1··, .. 1789 · Jan. 27 ;: 1811 · · Samuel Vinton Thomas G(age.}· May:·.13, 1792 Oct~· 26,: l874 June· 7, 1815 Betsy Fitch (i'791~-185o_}; . . . p .t Richard· (Spellmani)- Sept. J_l:, 1795 Sally B. b. May 22, 1800 Esther b. Apr. 2-5, 1803 From Dr~. Hinckley's notes·:·knd other sources th~-.qther· data above about ·them'·1$ added. Dr. Hinckley said that ::five were born ~n~_P-µtnam.·.county.;'· one in Otsego ana.-~ two in Chenango. '. n.Elkanah· was. b_ti;ried· :in a field .. b~tween two mounds left by pine trees·on the east s':ide'of_ the. ro.ad.froill,Betsburg.to_-Perch.Porid·Hill iri the tbwn·o:f Colesville,· :Broome County a·tk:>ut 1~. 'rods from ~-he -_Chena_ngq. Gounty · ·line no1~ (1925) · ·· owned by Alton Te·rry~ floririda -· ~~s buri~d in ... tlle llnivers.al.ist Cemete·cy- in Af~ori'. tt. Elkanah riamed his ch'ildren ·very peculiarly, it-._s~e .. mr to me,, in twcf respects·~-- .. Although I haven't studieci"··the qu~stion enough to haye an .authoritative ·o-pi:nio:ti_/ J;t seems to me that reiati vely :few. 2bildren before 18,00 were· :given middle natnes ,···at·· ·.. · least such as other people's surnames. All his :-,boys andL apparently one ·ot·- the--girls -70- had such names. As appears herein under "Gage" I am convinced that Joanna Gage was mother of' either· Elkanah or l3at,hsheba. But I have searched everywhere I could that seemed to offer any hope ?,n9- haven· 1 t found any better reason for Watrous and Spellman than that Elkanah, Sr. may poss ibly have served in the French and Indian War with Samuel Waterhouse and Samuel Spellman. A Samuel Waterhouse, age 20, porn Connecticut .enlisted in New York Apr. 24, 1759 ("New York Colonial Records", 210), but I don't find in what company o;r even that Elkanah was in such service. There was a Waterhouse or Watrous includ ing several Samuels in Connecticut mainly around Saybrook at that time. (Col. Barber Index Conn. Vital Records). Also a John Waterhouse, surgeon's mate in that war, petitioned May 8, 1765 for a grant of 2,000 acres in New. York. ("Cal. of Land Papers", 362). I found no will nor deed of any Watrous in Dutchess Co., including Putnam before. 1825, but I did find that Samuel Watrous was a witness 30 August 1795 to the will of Peter Cline of Amenia. ("New York Genealogical and Historical Record", 60, 381) Also Joseph ---of Avon, New York married 1789 Sarah Waterous, born 1772 (daughter of Samuel and Mary of Duanesburg.) ("Genealogical Record of the Pioneer Families of Avon, New York" 187, by Person) There was no Watrous in the 1777 tax list of Philip's Patent. As to Spellman, Samuel born· Middletown, Connecticut 15 February 1716 was Private in Capt. John Slapp~s Company, enlisted in the pay of the Province of New York 4 July 1755 for the expedition into Canada. He also served in the expedition ~gainst Nova Scotia. ("Spellman Genealogy", 113 by Fannie C. -W. Barbour and nColonial Ser. Vol. I, Muster Rolls - State of New York", pp. 661, 695, 699, 712 and 731), but he returned to Connecticut and no· connection with Elkanah appears. He had a son Sam uel born 7 January 1'739-40 who served in the 7th Regiment Connecticut Line, 1 Jan. 1777 recruited· in Fairfield and neighboring counties (which might include Dutchess, New York and went into camp the following September at Camp Peekskill (not too far :from Southeast. ) He died before the Battle of Monmouth. ("Connecticut in the Rev olution", 226, 501) No Hinckleys or Paddocks or Gages are mentioned in the nspell man Genealogy." There was no Spellman on the 1777 tax list of Philip's Patent, nor any deed records found for any. As appears under nGage", Elkanah had a son, a grandson and a great-grandson each with a middle name of Gage Thomas Gage Hinckley married Betsy Fitch (daughter of Elijah Fitch and Betsy Elliott) born 12 February 1799. They had nine children, born in Coventry7 Chenango County before they moved on un emigrant train to near Payson, Illinois. After she died 14 September 1850, he sold, married again and settled in Richfield, Illinois where he died 26 October 1874. His son, Record Wilbur,. born 2 April 1819, married 20 March 1842 Harriet Selina Jones born 29 October 1820 Bridge·· port, Connec.ticut, daughter of Jonathan Jones and Esther Robinson. They had Thad eus Wilbur, Theodore Douglas, Walter Fitch, Richard Wellington, Raphael Edward, Robert Pike, Adolphus Gustavus and Cora Esther. He died 2 November 1895 and she died 1885. The other peculiarity in the names of Elkanah's children is that aside from the typical Gage names (Rebecca, Rachel and Thomas) no first names are the same as any Hinckley names we know in Dutchess County, and none (except Sarah, one of the most common names anyway) agrees with any of the numerous Paddocks we know of Dutchess -Co. Of course we don't know the names of any of the brothers or sisters of either Elkanah, Jr. or Bathsheba, if any. I have searched numerous genealogies not only for the surnames mentioned and those of the men and women:whom Elkanah's children married, but also some of the common family nameR of Southeast such as Crosby, Chapman, Crane and Howes, in the hope that some such book might have included some desired otherwise unpublished relationships. The only New York Hinckley for whom there.are Revolutionary War pension papers -71- was Joshua. !secured photostats and they are very puzzling. Various points are unexplained. He named various battle~· in ·which he took p~rt ~ including Bunker . Rill· (1775) and Yorktown:, but tbrqugbout·be said he entered the army ·in 1776 .. --He was born 19 Sept: 1757, Frederickstown, --ma:r~ied Southeast 12 March .1787 (1785 in another s.tatement) &ira.h Maybee and after the war lived in New Jerse.y .. f'or a while. In .1818· on pension application he· was ·in Phelps, Ontari:o ·county, New York an~- .i-n 1820 ·in Seneca County. · -On 15 April 1846 his ·widow Sarah· ·s\iore -that he died 26·- February 18·28, both~·a.a.tes being give~ not ·only _in Arabic numerals, but .written.-:·. out ·and she marrie&!:'26 April 1832 William Goiitd. But ·on 2 _May ·1839· he ·applied.·_ for pension from· ·ovid,, Seneca Co. He bad _lived 20 yea·rs_ ih ·H~ctor, Tqmpkins· ca·. A charitable explanation· would ·be either that ;:;be -~a:.s ·so ·ol ...... , . FLORINDA HINCKLEY married 27 January 1811.-Samuel Vinton, son of Abiathar Vinton and Rachel Caswell . . EDMUND HOBABT (Hubbard, Hubberd,<-Hubbe~) born:· ~a 1574;~ rri;~fri~4.·_~7 ·septe~ber 1600:Margaret.'De-wey at Hingham, co.:. Nbr:f.ol:k; England a.'cc.ordin:g ·_·t~··q1a_ren~e A.· . : · :Torrey .. in (~dmund Hobart of. Hingham;-' Mas·s-. :'.· ~l} UAmeri~a.ri 'Genealogist",. 27, ·95,· (1951). "The :family name in England was Hubbard;: -~- not Hdb~r:t;·; ___ The name became Hobart in New England. n The ltBallard Genealqgy'!'/ 275_;· "by_ '·Malco:im' G•.. Dodge says that Edmund :was ·sori::of He.nry·and Dorothy (Ball) Hubba~d :o:f .-Ctit~96u!'· B9-_nk's· "Topographical Dictionarylf .gives two re:f~renc·es· for the· or·ig:in··.in England ·-.-· Hingham-·and ·Finborough Magna., Suffolk.· · · · Edmund came to Massachusetts in 1633 in the ship "Elizabeth Bonaventure"- with his wif'e and child:teri' Josh~, Rebecca ~n~ Sarah and his se.rvant Henry Gibbs ..and settled in. Charlestomi,. Massachusetts.. Eainu_nd became a membe~ qf. the Charles town church 19 August 1633 and Joshua and Rebecc~. soon af'terwa_rds. Margaret; Ed- mund's. wife·, · is not mentioned· •-in the church.- the:r~ .. o:r' in ··the town records .. , . He married 2d 10- October 1634- Sarah Oakley ./~idcA1 of the Rev~ John Lyford. They.removed to Bare (Bear) Cove;· now Hingham,· in:·september °1635-. She was 53 years old ·in 1639. He took- the f:reema:n·' s oath 4·-March 163·4 and soon after was appointed constable ... September 19, • 1637- -he· 'was on·the Grand Jury and in 1638; 1639 and 1641 he wa-s a '·'Commissioner to·try·-stna_ll causes.n, ·He·-was Representative of Hingham in 1639, ·_ 49 and 42. ·She·· died· 23 June 1649.:·and he ~ March 1645-6. Rev~. Peter H_obnrt called _.·him· . ."Ff;lther Hubbeard n in the· de-a th re·cora.~ :_ in °)1is diary.. . . . -A.n article in. 'fAmeri'cana "; • 36~ 481 . .(1942}- doesrt 1 t 'seem to ·inspire much confi dence in itself 1 especiall.y about the ·children~ •··It g:i. ves Edmund and Peter as twins born 1804, that Rebecca married Ralph Smith, omits Aliqe, Antho~y and Edward rind lists Sarah.before Joshua, and has none of the English dates. It say~ his wife -72- died in Engiand. It gives a lineage in England back to John in 1389 which was of a family with which Edmund was probably distantly connected. "The Hobart Family in America" - 12 Generations" by Dorothy M. Titus (1943) doesn't give much addi tional. It includes children Mary born probably 1608, Mehitable probably 1610, and Elizabeth ·1612. L. S. Hobart includes these but omits Nazareth, Edward and Anthony in ''William Hobart, His Ancestors and Descendants n (1886). "Colonial Fam- ilies in America", VI, 192 and XII, 369 are identical with Hobart. "Ancestors o:r James Wickham and his wife Cora Prudence Billard", 54, by Josephine C. Frost (1935) includes some of this. "1,000 Years of Hubbard History:1866-1895" by Edward W. Day, (1895) includes some but includes various errors, - i.e. the mother of the children died 1641; his 2nd wife was Ann; Rebecca was born ca 1598, Sarah ca 1600 and Naza reth before 1600. · Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars and Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames (Deputy to General Court 1639, 40, 42, 44) Children: Nazareth bap. 7 June 1601, Edmund 16 Jan. 1602-3, Rev. Peter 13 Oct. 1604, Thomas 23 Feb. 1605-6, Alice 22 Mar. 1606-7, Anthony 8 Oct. 1609, Edward 4 Nov. 1610, Rebecca 29 Dec. 1611, Capt. Joshua 9 Oct. 1614, and Sarah 26 Dec 1617. REBECCA HOBART, it is believed, became the third wife of Edward Bangs soon after he removed to Hingham, Massachusetts. STEPHEN HOPKINS STEPHEN HOPKINS according to "The Mayflower Planters at Plymouth -- ", 116, by Leon C. Hills {l920) ( which will be partly followed here ) "was a many sided character. He and Miles Standish had seyeral points in common, and they were close friends. In fact Standish was executor of Stephen Hopkins' will. -- One historian describes him as a man of weight in the Colony. 'He was intelligent, robust, en terprising, practical, quick to see the point, and fe_rtile in expedients, but a bit touchy and not at all adverse to a set-to with anybody who -crossed:-his path. ' (The 'Pilgrims' by Noble, 181, (1907-)" - , There are several accounts about him: 11 "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines , II, 443--51 by Mary W. Ferris (1931) "Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogyn, #63 (1913-5) "Stephen Hopkins and His Descendants" by _George E. Bowman in. uMayflower Des- cendants TT, 5, 47 . "Genealogical and Ancestral Notes", 197 by Wm. H. Edwards "Stephen Hopkins and Some of His Descendants" by Timothy Hopkins in "New Eng land Historic & Genealogical Register", 102, 46 (1948) "He resided in ·London for some time, and was a ·merchant with· s·ome means, and a staunch 'Separtist', which kept him on the defensive· with the authorities. Some writers claim that he was a greatgrand~on of Stephen Hopkins, Fellow and Professor .in King's College, 1532 and Rector of Norfolk, 1551, and that his parents were Nicholas Hopkins and Mary Poole, sister of Sir Giles Poole. The church register of St. Mary's., Matfellon (Whitechapel, London) records the marriage of a Stephen Hopkins to Elizabeth Fisher., Feb. 19, 1617-8. (If this were the same man) it places him in the parish on the highroad entering London at Aldgate, near which Bradford, Carver, Cushman and Southworth lived in or near Heneage House, Aldgate ward". The uRegister" articles raises question about the place of-marriage being probable. He was born ca 1580. Possibly it was he who was baptized 29 October 1581 in Wortley, parish of Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. A 1963 article in "American -73- Genealogist", 39, 97 on "Hopkins Family of Wortley, Gloucestershire" by Ralph D.. Phil_ips says that further ~esearch _;is needed-- but he then be°lieved that ··his\ ~mater· ial furnished the background for considering -that Stephen was brother o-i··:Robe·rt . of· London and s.o son -_of Stephen of the Wortley family.· On page ·95· he also· calls.· attention to Cb~rle-s E. Banks in· '~be English Ancestr:-:f a;nd Homes. :of the. Pilgrii'n . Fathers", 61 (1929) giving· reasons for thinking that· the Mayf"lowe":r:· Stephen w~s the Stephen of-· Virginia_ .ahd also the · orie- who marr;i_ed. February 1617 -8 Eli~abeth Fish~r. Mrs. ~erris- agrees with the Elizabeth-·Fisher··mar;riage. ·A· later>arti.cle.: by Ph~~~ps (39; 170) s~ys later investigat:ion---·s-eems··to pla·ce _Robe~t, sugge_sted brother of Stephen as of a younger g·erte:ration, probab°ly at ).east ·25 ·years. :/ounger., and whi.le . not absolutely disproving •his ·rormer ·sugge~t-~ on, a~ _lees·t. p1_a;.~es :\n?.~~f __ _-:· doubt on it. · · · - ..:. :_ '., · ... · · ·-- · ·· · · · · Hill.s. als.o agrees with an earlier ·:' 1Registerff- ·art:Lcie,°~33~ ·.:306/ thai(~argued ~hat it was this Stephen. -who· had visited. on previous·' ·occ·as ions the Vi~ginJi ·_colony.~ .-. "In one ins~;a.ce-.-on May 15,. 1.609.. the Ship 'The Se'a Adventure' -~ ·rt -·~v1_as. i~terid.ed· . to make Virginia by way of the:Bennuda Islands. -- ·.A severe· :sto·rm w~e.ck~d. .·tli~. good ship -- on the treacherous: ,coast of··Ber!nuda. Stephen immediately ma.de: hµnse°lf. u,~_e- ful. · Among other _4uties. he was chosen to read the--\Psalrns on S~day;· fo:f ·.i_t ;is ·re.--; 1 corded that he 'h~d-zy1J.,1Ch' knowledge of'· Scripture· ·a·nd ··coulq reason 'well the:i;-eip. . -·~.::. .The restless· souls :h~d a meeting but it was marked with discord. Stephen Fi:6p~in~--. was- a ringleader and outspoken in his opinion. --· Stephen together with.his _assoc-: iates 1,-1as tried anq. found guilty of rebellion.· ___: The Governor pardoned him~._-;_;_ _A·.: bark was·_.fitt_~d .up_ apd the company continued the voyage· to_ Virginia. -- Stephen ·,.-~_:,. returned to.: England·. Prob.ably while· a small merchant in Londoti, he· became closely· ,• ~-- -· .. affiliated with the 'Merchant Adventurers', that famou~ group 9~- _English bu$~ness men who ·were activ~ly ellgaged ·1n promoting the settlement··of···the· Virginia· ·coionies, and most of them were 'Separtists', or, at least, in sympathy with that 'movement'." 1 He came to Plymouth on the uMayflower' with his wife J Elizabeth, and Constance and Giles, children of a :first wife, name unknown, aria•· Damaris, also born in Eng land and Oceanus, born on the voyage, and with two servants. He signed the. Compact. "He became one of the 'wealthiest' planters df New P~yinouth, and, in addition tc much land, many cattle .. and other pos:sessions, he ;1pp-ears · to have run a general sto_17e ~f tavern. He built the first wharf in· New Plymouth and was financially interes.te~ in_ shipping. His servic~s were called upon quite frequently in dealings. uith th,e ··· Indians. He seemed to un,derstand their ways and lan.g-qage, and _had· no :fea·r of the111. At one time it became essential :for·the Colony to negotiate with Massasoit~ Ste~hen with: an Indian named Squanto .a·s a ·guide,· was sent through the forest to $ee him. No. timid man would have undertaken that job. -- He was a member. of the exploring _._ . . . .· . -·· parties, especially the Third Expedition, which started out on We~nesday, Decem~~=r:,: lo;; 1620 (N. S. ) , to locate the place for settlement.--· When Sam(?S~t came to P.ly~ ._:,_.· mo~th to welcome .tbe· Pilgrims he was· 1odged overnight at Steph.en 1·s_}1ou_se. ·--- wne~ .. the messepger of Canonicus brought- the snake skin' £ull of arro1-1s t? Plymouth, Stal)d-: ish and Hopkins had charge of him7 -Stephen acting ,·as interpreter_,.:. t1hi~}?. :was his us - ual job: -- His.cattle and lands after -a· time sprea.d•into what 1.s ·now.Kingston and Ya:rmou-c. . h " He was Assistant to ,the Governor 1633---6 and was one o.f about a dozen men who rendered such great service to the Colony by assuming the debts of the colony. A full · historJ of his record appears in a booklet by James W.. Howes in. the "Ya_rmouth . . ·.,. Register" in 1915 and a similar· booklet ·.by. Josiah Pa_ine; "The -noty-Dot·eri Family'/., · 8, by Ethan A. Doty (1897) add$ that he was a tanner or leather maker._ Herbert .. K. · Shaw -in· -''-Families o.f the Pilgri::as - Stephen Hopk1:ns "- -s_urnmariz·es_ some· of his a_c.tiv- . ities." He was one of the 58 'purchasers·' 1n· 164Q~- ahd: in 1643. when _the. relations . ; ~. ' with the Indians became strained and war appeared. imminent he was one of s1.x men ·.. , -74- named by the town of Plymouth to serve on a joint committee or council of war. The records show that he rendered much public service on various committees, as tax as sessor and as juryman. He was also involved in many legal actions, both as plain tiff and defendant, and freq~ently helped in settlement of estates." George F. Willison in "Saints and Strangers" (1945) gives a summary on page 441 that includes his being of Wotten-under-Edge, his being condemned to death for leading the mutiny in Bermuda, 1609-10, his being joined to Capt. Myles Standish 'four counsel and advice' on the.First Discovery, being only one of the passengers with any knowledge of the New World, his being Assistant Governor 1633-6 and prob ably 1624-32, frequently in conflict with the authorities in later years. He died ·between 6 June 1644 and 1 7 July 1644. Ancestor for Society of Mayf'lower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars, and Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames (In the uFirst Encounter" with the Indians at Great Meadow Creek, 1620, Member under arms under Capt. Myles St_andish, 1621 Council of War for. Plymouth, 1642. Volunteer in Pequot War)_ Children: Constance or Constantia born ca 1605, Giles o~ Gyles ca 1607, Damaris, Oceanus 1620 on the Mayflower, Caleb ca 1623, Deborah 1622-5, Damarai~ ca 1627, Ruth and Elizabeth. Some writers ignore the second Damaris. They might claim that descendants of Damaris who married Jacob Cooke would be eligible :for membership in the Society of Descendants of the Mayflower. The official list (see Shaw) gives the Mayflower Damaris as dying young. Bowman gives a six page argument why the seco~d must have been born about 1622 {dates differ somewhat because estimated) and that the Mayflower Damaris died soon after arrival and left no descendants. CONSTANCE HOPKINS married prior to May 22, 1627 Nicholas Snow MORGAN HOWELLS of Wells, Maine MORGAN HOWELLS beGame a freeman 5 July 1653 at Cape Porpoise when he was sworn in at Wells (1'New England Historic and Genealogical Register", 3, 193). According to Court Records of the Province of Maine 6 March 1636 Will Scadlock started an ac count of debt against him and the next day he retaliated with an account of trespass. "Morgan Howells came over with Richard Vines among the earliest planters and from the association of his narae with law suits, as found in the court records, it appears that h_e was a man who proposed to defend what he considered to be his right. His seat was near that of Scadlock. He became prominent in the affairs of Cape Porpoise where he was living in 1653. (¥Saco Velley Settlements and Families", 101 by G. T. Ridlon (1895) He bequeathed in his will, probated 1679, all his property to Mary Dyer and made her executrix from which it is believed she was his daughter. ("Com pendium of American· Genealogy", VII, 758 by Fredera.ck A. Virkus) This ancestor was discovered just before going to press without time for further investigation. Children: .Probably only Mary who married William lrJer. JOHN JENNEY JOHN JENNEY (Jennings), brewer's drayman of Norwich, England but more recently of Rotterdam married at Leyden, Holland, September 5 (November 1) 1614 Sarah Carey . of Moncksoon, co. Essex, England, lived for a while in Rotterdam, then· came to Ply mouth, Massachusetts in the "Little James" in 1623 with his wife and three children (Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts", 258 and "Ancestry of H.E.Gustin--", II, 1119 by Lester Gustin, 1954). His wife and Samuel, Abigail and Sarah had shares in the cattle distribution in 1627. In 1626-7 he. was one of the p1:1rchasers ·of':.:.-the -Engiish Mer chants,. interests in the: Colony. ' He became a freema._n in 1633 and. in- 163li'°-Francis . : Coo-ke,. John Jenney anci five· oth~rs. were appointed .'.'_for laying··out of higbway1t· _in Plymouth. ("Descendants ... of Ed~a:rd Small;_and A-llied_-Families.", .644 by Lora··A. -µnder• _,hill, 1934, 23.-pages)~_-·.Jan. 5, 1635-·6 John Je_nne:y--was on a committee of seven "to . assiste .ye Gouer & Counsell, to· sett sh~ch. rates on. goods to be sould & labourers for .their hire· as should be mee_t~ _& juste.·" He became Governor's Assistant in 1635 and· for.seven years. Iri 1636 he was Deacon. In 1638 he made one of his many voy ages to· England. _· ·I~ 1636 he was. _granted "libertie to erect a· mill for grinding and beating. of c·orne ··upon · the b:z:9ok at Pli~oth. 11 I~ · 1641-2 he was among tho·se au thorized by the Ge:r.i.e-ra.l Court ·to, .grant la.rids in .Plymouth. He ·\ias. Deputy from _Ply mouth to the ·General· Court in 164-1-2. He was on the list in 1643 ·of :·those able to _bear arms. -"Saints and ~Strangers", 236; by George F. Willison quotes anoth~r writer as calling him ".a godlie though otherwise a .. plaine ·man, yet singular ·-for publicness of spirit.:"· His wili was date.d 28 December ·1643 and ,inventory was ta.ken 25 May 1644 (given in "Mayflower Descendant", 6, -169) :.His _widow continued the ·.corn mill and later Mistress Jenney was one of the first proprietors o:f Dartmouth·· and- moved there. In 1657 her· ·name ,·wa_s on the list of those havir:ig an interest "in the· Townes land at · . Punckateesett over.. ag?,inst Road. Ilaridu, later known as. Little· Compton. Her will given in "Mayflower· Descendant_", 8, 171 was .. probated 18.August 1655. -A- photograph of their m.arriage··record is in _10, 129. _ .... - For this couple being ances~'6~s of. bqth P~e~Icierit --Frankl.in . .. ·. SARAH :JENNEY married 19 (29}·Mriy i.646 as ·2nd. -wife Thomas Pope . . . ~ . . . . . {"• .. · :.:... .. DOROTHY. JONES DOROTHY JONES married co.. 1635 Richard Sears. He and Anthony Thatch~r-married sist-ers, Doro·thy and Elizabeth Jones of' Dinder,_ -county Somerset, England whose bro- . ther was Richard Jones of Dorchester. ( uThatcher Genealogy by 'John ·p. · Totten (1910) and "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmer~ B~inerd" by pwight Brainerd· (1948) · JOHN KELLEY of Taunton, Massachuse.tts - JOHN KELLEY, the· first .·:rn America. of this Kelley family; was a co.rp_enter and. joiner by trade and had cha;rge o:f' .the-=.building of many noted bui'ldings in n.nd a.round Taunton, Massachusetts. Under date of July 24, 1904, Alpha Kelley, son of' John Kelley and Bathsha. Wr~ght., wrote that .his father, gro.nd.f'ather, and great grand:father were ·each named John Ketley. The first_ John Kell~y came from London,' and.. res.idea. in Taunton, Massachusetts. The th±rd John Kelley, father of Alpha Kelley above noted, visited the old hc;,use•in Taunton when Alpha was a small.boy. John Kelley., the 20.., married Nancy_Lincoln, ~nd al~hough he ~annot remember the exact.relationship Aip~a Kelley remembers his grandfather.claimeo. relationship with Abra.ham Lincoln and even told of the degree of. relationship. that .. existed. Li_zzie Hall Smith, daughter _of·:_- . ' Eliza Kelley Hall, remembers in her mother's family, family heirlooms of the· Linco·lns. The third John Kel~ey had a brother who settled in Rutland, . Vermont arid later in -~ Michigan .. Mrs. L.· D. Valkeriburg wrote December 31, 1924: :nwe have an old oil· paint-- -ing of Nancy Lincoln Kelley's da~ghter and it resembled Old Abe very much. " JOHN KELLEY is mentioned in a letter of James·M. Lincoln under date of May 2, 1911, as Secretary of the Lincoln Historical Society written from Wareham, Mass. He says: 11 1 find on· a roster of Capt. Joseph Hall's Company in the French and Ind ian War, 1757, the name of John Kelley, but do not find it on any of the Revolu tionary War records. I then found on the Norton records that John Kelley and Eunice Lincoln declared their intentions of marriage Feb. 25, 1771. The fact that no further record is found in any of the Taunton or Norton records I think they· must have left here shortly after their marriage."_ "Col. William Snow, a grand.son ·- of John Kelley and Nancy Lincoln Kelley was a member of Congress and personally -- acquainted with Abraham Lincoln. He told me [George A. Smith] of conversation with.Lincoln in which they reached conclusively the degree which existed between them." - · I am afraid that they were a little optimistic, although it now appears that both families are de·scended from some of the earliest settlers of Taunton. But the Lincoln genealogies say that Abraham Lincoln was descended from an immigrant Samuel and this other family was from Thomas, "the miller". See under "Lincoln". John Kelley's intention of marriage record is found in the _"Norton Vital Records" 263~ and 273, in which the spellings are "Killey" and "Eunice". I have just re ce·ntly discovered the marriage record in "Vital Records of Taunton", II, 272: nJohn Kelley and Unice Lincoln, both of Norton, March 26, 1771 in Norton" with a notation· that this was from a 'private record from an old record book by John God frey and George Godfrey, both justices ·of the_peace, in the.possession -- (1928) of Charles God:rrey Washburn of Taunton." It seems certain that this ancestor's real name was Eunice instead of Nancy. Absolutely no trace of the "Nancy" has been found in the family after considerable research except the above notes and none earlier than the note quoted from the 80- year old man 133 years after the marriage in question. Could he, and perhaps the family; in thinking about Abraham Lincoln connection, have become so impressed with the name 'Nancy Hanks Lincoln' that over the years, the name "Nancy" seemed the natural one? How long, if any, before 1904 the family had thought of this name doesn't appear. The name in the marriage record was even spelled slightly different from that in the intentions. Perhaps much of the difficulty is due to the-fact that the Taunton records were burned in 1838 and only indirect records are-available for the prior period. Evidently the present books were not available to Mr. James- M. Lincoln in 1911. But of those that exist as far as I have found out there is no other than these that even approaches any record of a John Kelley in the 18th century there. The date of birth of Eunice and her marriage are very appropriate indeed. I could find nothing printed about any Nancy Lincoln that could have been involved. Norton is next to Taunton and the tradition as given ~e was that his father built 'houses in and around Taunton'. John Kelley's wife ·Bathsha Kelley had a niece, Eunice Hayford Wri&-~t. It appears that if I had thought it best, I could have suppressed all this about Nancy, but I wanted to tell the whole story. The only actual record about which I have been able to learn about the first John is the record in the Bristol County Register of deeds that he was grantee July 7, 1734, June 5, 1736, March 7, ·1736-7 and January 1,1745-6 and grantor June 5, 1735, · February 12, 1736-7 and Ma'rch 30, 1737. John Kelley is listed in the Vermont 1790 census, 54, as residing in Somerset, Windham County, with three sons under 16 and five females in the family. 11 The first settlement in Somerset was made by Daniel Rice, in June 1776, -- In 1779 the settlement was increased by the arrival of Zera Palmer, John Kelly and others and. in 1791 the population had increased to 111 souls .. " ("County Gazateer & Busi ness Directory of Windham County, Vermont - i724-1884", 304 Hamilton Child). "John Kellyu was a constable in:1808, 1812 and 1816. (:"Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines", -77- Mrs. Mary W. Ferris., II, 531) Whether he-·was the:·father or son doesn't appear. Mrs. Constantia Smith had_ an old notebook which says.·:: '\JJchn-Kel:ley had a brother Barnard, sisters, Cloe, Olive and.Clara. She.married. a Gates, had a son Silas Gates, then married a Whitney." Constant.ia also had•-pictures of Bathsha Wright and Jason Sprague Kelley. Mrs. Lizzie Smith told me that "Clara Kelley Gates moved to Silver Lake and had a son Silas. Constantia.,· when._about 19, took care of her a while. One of the sisters, perhaps Cloe, married Co1.·· Snow at Oneonta.': Military Service - French and Indian Wars. JOHN J\E~J;,EY., ._ tbe third, Mrs. Smith also said nwas a· great Bi:ble .:"schoia:r-?·· a well to-do ~n, · who haq.: -tau.ght · s ~nging school. . His brother, Barnard/--::got-:::·-Jonn-:-to sign notes in::-,$QID;e~·sc4em~ .... ·Barnard skipped and John had to pay~ - · He·:.'started West __ with goods or.i a ..;lµm.ber wagon and two horses. on· putting up at the ·11a:-l:f~way house; of':fi- . cers a_ttached ·_his -remaining goods while still in- Vermont,:. 11 T.i·7.zfe :also ha·a::·tne --f'~l lowi~g notice, ~~Alpha J. Kel-ley, so.n o:f John and Bathsha {Wright)- :-Kel.ley·-~its ·born(-in Somerset, now West Dover, December 1, 1823. His·parents·moved to·c-a.mbrtdge,·New York when he was but six years old and there he first attended school." John Kelley was bu_~ied, in the _13~ptist _cemetery in Afton about 1859. Bathsha died ·F~,. :.•-6, 1870. ·. From- the ::fly leaf of t_he Ne~ Testament printed 1803 (by Thoma-s-···E-. T.~·-And.:rews) · · · ~n.~cripti:on: -"For th~ f'amily of ·John Kelley:from the · · · . Win~am County Bible Society, 1827" John Kelley _·was married _to .·Bath$ha Wright february 3d 1802··moved to Somerset ?) .-.... :--·: .·. . . . the. . lo ( ·- .· . . .. Ba:bary'~-},;as ~-q~ fe~ruary -ls~~ 1803 (Died Oct .. 15j 1823) th 11 Wright _WS:~ ;Ba~ Apri.l i5 ,:L804 - c.:" • · · July -30,- 1847 Bathsha _yas. ~o~ f~brµary _24th_- 1806- Nancy .wa5:. Born. Septemb~r.·_2: .1807. _. .. · · Aug •. - 1.6, 1878- Erastu~. vlas Born ri~cerp.~_er, ;9~¥ ) .. 809 ~-. Fanna was Born November 25 1811 rr Feb. 27, 1885 John ._was- Born Apri-1 l.8 t.: 1814 _ rt Sept. ·28, 1858 Jos.iah N.. was· Jun-€ .14th . 181.6 • · .. · Born.:. -.. th. -. . Josiah, N.•. Dyed. December 7 · · 18.16- Jason. ,S ..wa-s·· Born De-cember _12,. 1$.18: rr Apri-1 ·15., 1,902 Eliza Ann- ~a.·s .Bom October 6th 1831. ·.. Alpha ·was Born ~une. ( ?) 19 ;. :1823- .( 1 ) ·. On a blank page besides· sqm~: other scribbling, appears "Eliza· Ann Kelley~~- and· "Somerset." - At. the bottom of _the_ frontispiece, almost illegible appears a.ppa.rent_ly "Emma was ~orn·_N--" ~ith the date- so illegible that it.isn't apparent whether··tnis - might be another child of this family, or one of some later family. The deaths were,. of course, not in the record .. JASON SPRAGUE KELLEY'S obituary notice about April· 12, --1902 -in the "Afton E'n- · terprise" confirms some of the following information and says that he was well known and respected, that his parents moved to South Bainbridge now Afton, when he was 12 and that he had lived there until 20 ye~rs previously when he had moved to Colesville. Besides children it mentions as relatives Mrs. Arthur Youngs of Nor wich, Mr .. and Mrs. Floyd Wylie of North Colesville, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fairchild of Oneonta and Mrs. R. E. Taylor of Lanesboro. We find, apparently from the family Bible: Born: Jason Sprague Kelley, in Sornmerset, Vermont, December 12th, 1818 Sara_E. Vinton, In So. Bainbridge (now Afton, N.Y.) November 25, 1826 -78- Married: In So. Bainbridge, on Tuesday.October 30, 1849 by Rev. B.. S. Hobbs Mr. Jason S. Kelley to Sarah E. Vinton -· both of the former place Practically all this account is taken from one I compiled about 1930, except the third paragraph, the part of the chart about the grandchildren of Bathsha Wright and their descendants, and some data on Alva Hall's family. I have taken . from "A Record _of·· Pierce Gage and His Descendants", 20 by George H. Gage (1894). Perhaps tlie incentive to· investigate th~. family originated in "The Vinton Memorial" 202 by John A. Vinton· (1_858). · F·or the. record more details are gi veh about the · children than for non-ancestors of the Walker family: Rhoda Elizabeth b. 5 March 1853; d. Feb. 1923; married Afton, -1872, Osborn Ebenezer '.Landers b. 9 October 1849; d. 12 Oct. 1933, Braintree, Massachusetts, son of Joseph Landers born 6 July 1790 and Miranda Chase. Joseph, the first white child born in Afton was son of Ebenezer who:..zµarried 1780 Olive Osborn. Ebenezer born 3 November 1758, probably Sharon, Connecti.cut,. served· in the Revolution in 1777 and 1781, later moved to Lenox, Mass. and in 1787 in the dead of winter made the trip with his wife and children with oxen and sleds to Unadilla, New York from which they carried what they could on their backs to Afton, later making trips back to Unadilla for the rest of' their things. They bad Polly, Thomas, Stephen (about · age 2 on that trip), Joseph, Nancy, Isaiah, Hiram and.Solomon. Ebenezer died 14 February 1846 and Olive 27 August 1851. ("History of Chenango and Madison Counties, New Yorkn, 136, James H. Smith, 1880) Joseph and Miranda had thirteen or fourteen children. Rhoda and Osborn later lived in eastern Massachusetts, Danvers and South Dart mouth.. They had (1) Anna Lee born 8 April 1873, married 20 March 1889 Frank Hoyt born 23 October 1866 Afton, died 1939 and (2) adopted 1904 Howard Dow Landers born 21 August 1898 Manchester, Mass., who married 11 Ju_rie 1927 New· Bed:ford, M~ss- *. achusetts Kitty Poulton born 8 December 1903 Blackburn, England, daughter of John Thomas Poulton and Alice Ann Thomas. Anna Lee died March 10, 1964. Nora (Delila Senora in the uMemorial") born 5 June 1855; died age 90, married Stowell Greene and had son Stowell S. They lived in Philadelphia. Sprague born ca 1856 when of Val+onia Springs, New York, married Bainbridge 9 Februar-J 1909 by Rev. G. E. ·Van Woert, Jennie Huyck of' Deposit, New York. SARAH EFFIE VINTON KELLEY born 2 February 185.8; married 10 October 1874 Francis M:. ·walker, son of John Walker and Margaret Cooper. -79- JOIII' :ntJ.EY ot 'faunton, l(aaz. (3) P.DIILY OJl .JOBI' DLUY 'b. 6 Sept. 1775 (see text) :sart,ara 2-1-0:,-io-15-2:, Vrigb.t lf.-15-0II, J.uceba 9-5-27.._,_22-50 · { ..,.,0-lf.7 • Wallace lf.11.--,7 m Sarah Wll.tred. a Ville-a Faulae7-Loui&e.VinUred., 'Ru th Sarah Ann Vud Louise Tow:nsem .lt-34120 Ra.ttie • Ra,-ond Sherwan V1U'ord -Augustine V. 7~28-28- Vin~n 2-22-6:, a Augusta :Bald.win :ea thaha 2-2.li--Q6 Oraaaua 7-l9-3o-2-3l-65 {Jesaie ll-22-63 •88 • u-8-25 • 9-11-60 Isadora Tan • 1-1-94 J. I:. - no ch1ldeen iflllard Kiee Ia•ee 12-6-3~-17-64 Harris - 1912 bp 7•29-02 l'ree:man Orestes 9-8-311- {Ectvi.n R .. :m. l'.Rilda 7-21-15 Sarah Sluce Mary- Cone JfaI7 10-1.3-16 Jason W. 8-16-38 • Allarett l'egus - Hugh f Harvey and Ethel Ab1da'! 24 m Rose Burdick no children Wright 26 m. X. Martin fFa:raa·m l!.O.Ald.r1dge · 1xa1Ftha Barbara 30*82 m Geo. JI. {Lilie m Will Kclutt Clayton .ranc,7 9-2-01 Qhe}J!l:1.n 2)*03 Jlfate 11. -- Welsh - lfred & Chas Chaplin -S-16-78 a Bath.aha• Elville lla1r- Frank 1ll Anna-• Reuben Dean child 03-93 Banc7 38 11 Alonzo Far.mm. Ella 111. John XcRae Ru.by & Mal'J' Frank Geoi-ge 11. Liszie Munson - Alleen m J'oel Stub Pannie Jf.l • n,irord D. Jfaude • Wm La.vaon 5 ch1l.dren{.. •ea 1n SJllith Florence m B. G• .JohnaOn . 4 children Index Kellie• J8.llles Xcielle7 - Jfargaret Lonile'1 m Alanson Stewart -Wright & Fred Erastus George 12-9-29 (Pa. ) - ( Jl'ett1e George F:r.eaan- 37 • Emma Davis - {Vest) Alm n1.za • Sopronus? Hinman - no children Pa.nn7 11-25-11 Sophia 42*15 m David Shalr - itta • --- Robertson - 1'8.nny *2-27-85 • Aaa James B. 4-5 m. F4.1th Abbott fOhar~s .. James, Jennie, Addie, Louis,: Pixlez 10-01 or S • .R:1.rDaan llrank - all m · (Pittsley) ·Johnson l-25-48*3-27-22 f:Leonard 11-25-78 • 10-16-06 Kellie Waa·son • • 9-29-70 Elizabeth Flea- lJiellie l0-28-82*12-31-25 • Charles Gurnsle7 ing 5-20..:53-S-J.2-33 Saxa Se-,mou:r 50 m. .Sarah .De:meree - llay m C11ttord Shaw Asa • Eila Sant'ord- . Enin, Leland, BaJraOnd & Albert John 4-l-14-tl-9-28-58 { Gecrge 11 llu7 Ann Holton 1'rank Josiah •· 6-llf..-16*12-7-16 · Jason Sprague - aee text "Cleon Sarah ,-11-48•50 rGeorge A.. 9-25-15 111 1-27-94 Gord.on 00nstant1a 4-22-50* llinnie Vyl1e 8-25-72*43 tDoria 5-is-26 m 10-24--71 Pred C. 9-4-79 m. Gussie Lord - Ja7 L. naa Ann 10-6-21•11-23-91 Adelbert G$)Odn.Oupt Goldie m 2-4-14 Llewellyn • 6-2-47 Alfth !!I! 8-_6-19 4-23-48*10-25-11 m D.. Van Talken.bet-g George Adelbert •11.Jf.-90 10-3-16 Eugene Smith Dl (2) Rollin Pratt { Lena Alberta Clara 3-.2-5~12-28-72 • 12-17-71 W111:1s Aylesworth ~-6~12~50 - no children George 7-8-54 m Elvie Wilcc.x ~-16-62 - no children Lizzie,6-18-60"'7-28-35 {Xssi& ll-l0-871f9-9-62 Robert • 3-lb-82 Fred Smith. • 9-5-11 Frank Chittenden Ruth a 1-6-09 Blal Loclalood 3-23-88*2-20-54 Alva J. 9-22-62*10-26-26 • lQ-8-84 - Harry Hattie Van lautghton 10-11-63 Alpha J. 12-4-23 lll Kar, Charles m. Jfargaret Thompson - Everett, Charles, 111nnie Adams Elmer m Ella Haveey { Elsie- a l'red. Parsons , i -L iI :.. ;': I ... ... .,, ··.•. . ,. . ..._ . .- . JOSEPH KINGSBURY JOSEPH KINGSBURY born England married···there: Miii'icent Ames (Eames) and came to New England in 1628 acco!d,ing to "A Pendulous .Edition of.. Kingsbury -~~alogyl', 13, by.Rev .. Addis-on ·Kingsbury .{19oi-)·. ·_The "''+'be Genealogy_.of_ the Kiqg~J>ury:s- dr · .. Dedham-7 Massachusetts"- by John W:;. ··Dean· iµ ~"~w England.. Historic &:Gen~alogj.caJ.. ·-'· 11 Register , 16,· 338 (1862) _conte·nte.~. ,its~'.J_J· ·w1.th s·a.y"ing_ .th~t · he .s_et:tled _,at D~qha.m: 0 11 as ea·rly as 1637, that hi:s: wi:fe wa:-s ;_:_ Millicerit . ~ho &ppeared to .ye: church. a ten~· der-hea.rted soule, full of fee.res··& tempt~tiop.J5, · but tiuly ·breat~ing af_~er.:Cwi.~t who wa·s ad..rn.itted ~a· the·::Dedham chutch,. 24 Apri;J-- 1639.'.',~- th~t, he_- ¥as .:~idmJtted .to. :~ that cburch 9 ·AJ?ril 1641 and a fre~etnan of the colony 2 June 1641 ....~ He --0.iecl: 1676· prior to June 1, ·· his wife Millicent survi yi~g-~ "Genealogy. of t_he Descend.a~~-~-: of. 11 Henry Kin&,sbury of Ipswich and Haverhilr ~ 83, by :F\ 'J.,. Kip.gsbUTy and,.Mar- SARAH. KINGSBURY married ~5 May·· 1652 Robert Crossman of Taunton. WILLIAM KNIGHT. WILLIAM KNIGHT may have been the man of that name in Bank's "Topographical Dictionary" as from Binfield, Berks. He was in Salem, Massachusetts in 1636, was a juryman at Lynn and a proprietor and freeman in 1638 and a constable in 1647. According to the testimony·of Martha Williams and John Porter he was a mason and had a house in -England "plastered on the outside with plaster of Pelis" and had an estate there and liberty of killing deer and rabbits in certain parts and his son John returned to England in the time of the~civil wars. William had been a deacon of a dissenting congregation and came over with Hathorn and others for en joying liberty of conscience leaving his estate. Savage discounts some of the stories. He died 5 March 1655-6. His ·will mentions his wife Elizabeth, John, Francis, Anne, ~annah and John and Nathaniel Ballard and after these specific legacies, any residue. is to go to his four children by his last wife, Elizabeth, with his eldest son Jacob to have a double portion. His widow married 2d 29 March 1656 Allen Breed of Lynn. Savage says William had four children by a first wife. "Randall and Allied Families", 331 by Frank A. Randall (1943) gives much of this, saying he married 2nd 28 March 1656 Elizabeth who, "says Farmer, quoting Lewis, bore him the next .four named," but says that Savage says that the records are too scanty to be reliable. -82- Children: John, Francis, Joanna, Mary, Anne and by Elizabeth Hannah, Daniel and Elizabeth. JOANNA KNIGHT born England married probably in Salem before 1648 Thomas Gage. THOMAS LINCOLN ("The Miller") THOMAS LINCOLN was one of four or the same name in Hingham, Massachusetts very early••. Thomas the weaver, Thomas the husbandman, Thomas the cooper a~d Thomas the miller. For the descent of Eunice Lincoln from the last mentioned, I have relied largely on·an investigation of a Cleveland., Ohio genealogist, Mr .. Emmerton in 1925, who after retirement· enjoyed vorking on such problems for friends. There are some helpful hints in the "Mayflower Descendant", 18, 168. The difficulty is that the Taunton records were burned about 1838. The Vital Records published were recon structed from early records that had also been reported to Plymouth, from records ·of surrounding towns, from private records, cemetery inscriptions, and various other sources. Just before sending this book to the printer I have discovered where -Mr. Emmerton received much help. He put Query #3077 in the "Boston Transcript" May 27, 19?5, the ~nswe·r to which on June 24, 1925 furnished the basis for this part of his outline. ·There is, however, a surprisingly good but brief account of Thomas, the miller in "Histo.ry of Hingham", III, 20 (1893) as follows: "Thomas Lincoln, the miller; distinguished from the other three Thomases who early settled in Hingham by his vocation of 'miller' came from old England to New England in 1635 and July 3, 1636, had a house-lot of five acres granted him on what-is now South near Main Street. Other lots were also granted him for planting purposes.· He probably brought with him from England two or three children; and be for 1650 removed from here with his family to Taunton, Massachusetts where December 10, 1665, he married for his second wife Elizabeth Street, probably the widow of Francis Street. Tradition says that he erected at Taunton the old grist-mill, where, in 1675 King Philip and his chiefs met the pioneers of the place for a peace ful interview; and that at a later period his sons John and Samuel conveyed the old mill property to Robert Crossman.· Whether there is any record to verify this state ment about the old grist-mill or not, it is undoubtedly true that he continued in the same vocation that he had previously followed. In his will of 28 August 1683, he called himself 'eighty years of age or thereabouts'. Will proved 5 March foll owing." Some of this is repeated in the "Gustin-Carlisle Genealogy", II., 684-96 by Lester Gustin (1954) and in "Stephen Lincoln of Oakham, Mass. His Ancestry and Descendants", 5, by John E. Morris (1895). l1Hartford Times" Query #77€f3, Nov. 9, 1940 says he married 2d Elizabeth Andrews, widow of (1) Thomas Harvey and (2) of Francis Street. His will was made in Taunton, but he died in Hingham. Other books don't seem to help much such as "Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln" by J. H. Lea and J. R. Hutchinson (1909); "History of the Lincoln Family: Descendants of Samuel Lincoln" by Waldo Lincoln (1923); "The Lincolns of Hingham, England and some of the Descend ants", "Some Descendants ·of Stephen Lincoln" by W.E.Lincoln (1930); "The Lincoln Family and Branches of Wareham, Mass." by James M. Lincoln (1899); "Notes on Lin coln Families o:f Massachusetts" by Solomon Linc·o1n {1865) and others. A Samuel Lincolne from Hingham ~as in Capt. Johnson's Co., 10 Dec. 1675 and a Samuel Lin colne, presumably the same man in Capt. Johnson 1 ·s Co. 29 February 1675-6 in King Philip's War. ("Ne\'.~ England Historic and Genealogical RegisterH, 39, 76-7 ). I don't ~Y}OW whether the other Lincoln families the.re then had Samuels of appropriate age. -83- Children: all by first wife in Hingham; Thomas, baptized Feb. 1637-8, Samuel b. Feb. 1637-8, Mary 6 Oct. 1642 and Sarah 14 Dec. 1645; and probably John born in England. · · · SAMUEL LINCOLN (Lincon) lived in Taunton and married Catherine according to the ·"History". Children: probably b. Taunton, Samuel b. 1 June 1664, Hanri..a.h 24_March 1665-61 Tams.on 27 Oct. 1667, Elizabe1h 24 April 1669, Ebenezer 15 Oct. 1673, Rachel 16 Sept. 16_77, John 15 Sept. 1·679; Thomas Sept. 1683 and Daniel 1685. ~ SAMUEL- LINCOLN d. 10 May 1738, age 75., married Elizabeth· Woodward (daughter of Nathaniel Woodward) who was living· in 1722 b:ut dead by 1733. ("Nathaniel Wood ward of Boston" in "New England Historic and Ge·nealogical. Register", 51, 173., · 1897. ) - Children: At least Samuel born ca 1690. -SAMUEL- ·LINCOLN died 13 June 1760 in 70th year, married Hannah. . . . • Did she marry 2nd 5 December 1765 Lewis White ('!Norton Vital Records")? Chi1:dren: Elijah b. 17 Sept. 1717, · Sam-µ.el 17 May 1720·, d. -1-741-; -- Dinah. 6 Feb. 1722 ari~·:David 15 Sept. 1727. .. ., .. DAVID LINCOL.1--V died "July 20, 1822, ae 94 yrs. 9 mos. 23 d. " (~ 1Taunton Vital Records-Deaths", 132) "Norton Vital Recordsn, 273 gives married "Lincoln, David {int.' Linkon) and.Deborah· Crossman, (Int. Crosman) of Easton, Nov. 1, 1750. in Easton-.. .· In the 1790 census he was -in Norton-· living with· another man over 16 and three f'eniales·. Deborah died -March 11,_ _1~05, age 77. -,There seems- a fair chance that ·Dav-ld served in the Revolution. "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sa:i.16:ts -of the Revoluti~nary War", volum.e 9, lists .six groups of servfces - one ·David :from Hingham, ·two from Taunton, two with to"t,.;n not specified and one_ from Nortori:- I assu.rne that rriilita.ry,records didn't identify the ~en too clearly and that,-.for instance, the t~-,o from :Taunton may have _been _·ror the same man, the··pe:riods gfvencf services· not overlapping. Nevertheless it seems very .. probable that the one from Norton was our David. · Children: David 28 April 1751, Eunice 3 Jan. 1753, Deborah 16 June 1759,-. Sile~~-~---·'7- April 1761, Abigail 18 Sept. 1763 ·and. Abijah 24 Dec._ -- J_754~ ·_ .. EUNICE ·-LINCOLN- married 26 ·Mar:ch 1771 in :Norton John Kelley fo·r··wJ;iom s·ee under Kelley. .. ~ . . THOMAS ·LOMBARD THOMAS LUMBARD (Lumbe·rt., ·Lumbart ;' Lumbort, ·. Lumbard, Lamba·rd, Lumber) .came with- his sort .B.e.rnard and two other children - ,. , in 1630. In the riMar.1 and John", .and settled· fi~s;t-; 0 in-.iDorchester 'where he became ··a' freeman 18 May 1631.- He was. in- Scituate a. few years and by 1639 the· court record in Barnstable shows: "Thom. Lumbert is allowed to keep --ttictualling, or an ordinary, for entertainment of strangers and to draw wines," according to one of the best accounts, that_ in "Ancestry of ·H .. E. Gust-in·~ -- ..rr J .. t, ·557 by Lester Gustin (1954 ). · His will of 23 __ March 1662-3, exhibited 7 March 1664 mentions his wife Joyce, and his children except Thomas and the possible Jemima. His will is given in "Mayflower Descendant" -84- 16, 124 and in "Rand.all and Allied Families '1, 332 by Frank A. Randall. The· 1att:er adds that Thomas was born in Tenterden, co. Kent about 1610 and married Jqyce ~- about 1630, and that he moved to Mattacbeese (Barnstable) with Rev. John Lathrop who_ .. mentioned a "Feast at brother Lumberds" in 1639. Charles E. Banks, a reliable authority, however, in his "Topographical Dictionary" (1957) says Bernard came from Thorcombe, Dorsetshire. Other accounts are in Freeman's uHistory of Cape Cod", 330; "New England-Historic and Genealogical Register", 3, 272 and 12, 249; "Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy", No~ 54 (1912), "The Lumbert or Lombard Family'' by Amos Otis and No. 76, "The Lombard.$ of' Truro-" by Shebnah Rich (1912); 11Early Lombards" by Albert E. Lombard and "Powers--Banks Ancestry" by William H. Powers. "The Swift Family", 48, by Katherine K. Swift (1955) says that Thomas must have been nearly 50 in 1630. "Genealogical and Ancestral Notes", Series I, Volume 2 by William H. Edwards gives Thomas born ca 158-, died 1664; Bernard ·ca 16o8 (age 23 in 1631) died- ca 1667-and Thomas ca 1633 married 1665 Elizabeth Derby The early -writers were ·confused as to whether Barnard was son or brother of' this Thomas. In fact, Freeman points this out. But apparently every_recent ~riter f'ound except Pandall agrees with the presentation here. · Children: Bernard, born ca 16o8, Joshua, Caleb before 1636, Margaret married 1648 Ed-ward Coleman, Joseph 1638, Jede.diah baptized 19·sept. 1641, Benjamin Aug. 1643. Gustin• adds···Thomas and probably Jemima who married 1661 Joseph Benjamin. Randall says undoubtedly Thomas Jr. was the oldest·son. BERNARD LOMBARD appeared in Dorchester in 1630, in Scituate in 1634 and Barn stable in 1639 where in 1660 he was appointed by a Colony committee to lay out · lands granted to the inhabitants of Eastham and in 1665.to lay out 100 acres in Chatham allowed William Nickerson and in 1667 was one .of -a·-· committee to lay out lands in Succamesset. In 1664 he was one of seven in town called "Mr. u_ "Gen ealogy and History11 #10,723, November 15, 1945 asks who married him; "Could she have been a daughter. of William Clark, died ca 1668 of Yarmouth? Bernard refers to the latter several times as 'Father Clark'". See "Mayflower Descendantrr, 5;17. Ancestor for Society of Colonial Daughters of·l7th Century (Bernard 1608-1664, Ensign Military Co. Barnstable 1653) · Children: Thomas ca 1635, Mary bap. 8 Oct. 1637, Martha 3 Nov. 1639, Jabez 4 July 1641 (or 1 July 1642) according to Gustin. Edwards also gives Abraham, Abigail and Jemima. Writers dif'fer, not only.about dates but even about the names of the first two generations. JABEZ LOMBARD married 1 Dec. 1660 Sarah Derby, born ca 1642, daughter of Martha according to Gustin though most Lombard accounts don't attempt to identify her. However, "New England Historic and Genealogical Register", 79, 441 gives her with·-· out any question as daughter of John who may have had a first wife, but whose sec ond wife was Alice .•.. Could Martha have been the first? Children: Son born 18 February 1661-2, died same day, Elizabeth born June 1663, Mary April 1666, Bernard April 1668, John April 1670, Mathew 28 August l672, ~1ehit able Sept .. 1674, Abigail April 1677, Nathaniel 1 August 1679 and Hepthsibah· De·c. 1681. ELIZABETH LOMBARD married 10 March 1684 Benjamin Gage, son, of Thomas Gage and Joanna Knight. THOMAS .MA.RTI.N of Marlborough "THOMAS MARTIN: was one·· of' the proprietors of the Ocko(oca)ngansett Plantation and his name is borne on the list in 1693 to whom land was granted", ac~ording to the "History of Marlborough, .Mass·.. ", 412, by Charles·-Hudson (1862·). ·- He ·probably had three children wit);l him there; -- (1)-Mary, (2) Adam and (3)-Thoma·s .. ·:.." Ap->: · parently it was he who was "Tho:nas Martin and wife Jane of Marlborough petition to settle there lost their home in London by the great fire (2 Sept. 1666) -- had friends in this country and in Marlborough where he was encouraged to set up his trade by being furnished with hides, etc ..'.' (1675), Middlesex Files,. N~~ 26, (15) ("New Eng.land Historic. & Genealogi-cal Register"}, 39, 27. · ~e· 0 Re-gi.st,er'· includes other references about him, _;·:-36, 191 under-- "Taxes under:·Gov>·Andros· (from the ·Jeffries ~a.mily Papers). - Marlborough's Inuoice 'in the· -y~a.r~:168.81r:11J.·-:~: -·--~ _ eluding "Thomas Martin for. persons and estates· 7s 2d. "; and 4J, '372 U-TJ.de* tte;.a:rri•;.~'-. son. in the West Regiment of Middlesex· - Marborough, 18 March,: 169.1.:.·2 11 by ·1sa~c W~' · Hammo;p. .. (1889) includes Thonias l-.18.rtin and his son and·- Nathaniel: Gove·. - The ~ index . of An~estqr& of the· Society of' Colonial Wars gives Thomas Marl1if' of Marblehead as. one of _the ;soldiers -assigned to Iv1arlborough in October 1675. .. · ·.- · · · · : ·· -- · _We migl:lt wonder :whether we bad found a clue to his parents; as :fr6m···a· will in 1662 it· app.ear.s . tba.t a Thomas had as mother Bethia Martyn ("Register·, 47, 260 ). · On 265 Samu~l.SiJlesby's·will.of'.1650 mentions his sister, Bethia,·wife:of Edward Martain- of .NQrth&mpton,(EnglandYand'ber children.Thomas Martin and John Martine. Page _266 mentions· _,th~. nun-:cupative will of Thomas Sillseby of W. Thurrock in c-o~ ~ssex- ·8 S~pt. 1653- mentioning B:ethia:. Martin and her children. · Our Thomas left England af~er :the great :fire of 1666;·: - Thomas Sr. died 13 November 1701 ("Marl- . b~rough Vital Records"):•. An· inq_uiry.-in the "Register"; 102, G3-8, as~:about Thomas Martin died-Nov. ·13, :-1701,. :Marlboro, Massachusetts and about his father~ Tho~s Martin married Mary Rice, .daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Moore) Rice. But :"Bulla~d and Allied Families u, 113 by Vail W. Pritchard. (1930) ~ays that this Mazy Ri~e married· Thomas Brigham. _ Se.ve_ral Ma:rtin genealogie·s _are about entirely dif':ferent families. Mili~ary service in Marlborough .. Children: Mary, Apam · and Thomas·;. THOMAS ?.fARTIN married 31 Jai::r~_ 1710-11 Mary Gove (Goue), daughter of: Nathaniel Gove -~~9-: Mary Woodhead (Holmes?:)~ ("Marlborough ·vital Records, 283). He· died 4 Oct,ober 1729. at -Ma-~lborougb and ·she married ·(2) Rutland 24 Jan. 1732 Simo·n Stevens· _(son of- Cyprian.Steven$.} -(who had married 1st l~ary Wilder of Lancaster,_. Mass~),. having Lucy born_8 November.1733. "Ancestry of Col. John H. Stevens and Frances H•. Miller", by Mary.- L-. · -Holman (1948) includes a note- about Simon Stevens marrying (2) Mary (Gove) Martin: o:r· Marlborough born· 1690, died 21 March 1775, aged 85; daugh ter of --- and Mary .(Holmes) .Gove and wido1•T of Thomas Martin whom she·_ ma·r·ried ·{n · Marlborough 31 January 1710-11. In 1724 she was of Plainfield, Conn. " Her wili of 25. June 1772 mentioned seven dau'ghters, - Huldab Witherby, Patience Hunt of Hard wick ,Patienc~·J:P,arried_2d John Hunt, Mary Stevens, Dorothy Rice, Sarah RiS!e, Phebe Brigham and Lucy Barnard. Miss Holman goes on to say that it was told that Macy·-. Holmes (mother of Mary (Gove)· (Martin) Stevens) was seeing- friends off to New Eng-· land_· .from England and was carried to sea in the ship, that records fail to_ ·sub- · stantiate this and it is po$sible that the adventure fell to Mary her.self·.. But as I understaI3:d PATIENCE Mt\RI'IN married 31 January 1732-3 James Wright of Rutland,· son of Capt. Samuel Wright- and Mary Stevens ( "Marlborough Vital Records", 283). GEORGE MORTON GEOfilE MORTON, Jr. according to "New England Historic and Genealogical Regis ter", 111, €13, is said to have been a merchant from Ha(r)worth, Notts· and to have 11 come ·from Auster:field near Scrooby Manor, York.shire. ,,Ancestry of H. E. Gu~tin - - , II, 1106 by Lester Gustin (1954) says George was born ca 1581 and was son of George Morton (who married Catherine Bown of a well-to~do Catholic family at Harworth,-a few.miles up the Ryton from Scrooby) who had George, Robert and Thomas. Willison in "Saints and Strangers" says George was from Harworth and born ca 1585. "The · Morton Family Tree" by John N. Norton (1947) says he was baptised 18 February 1598 in· hi~ 18th year. They say he was a merchant at Austerlield and lived at Bayltry near Scrooby Manor. This and Gustin include his lineage back through George, An thony, Robert, Charles, Nicholas, Robert Jr., Robert, Charles, Robert Jr., and . Robert to Thomas, Secretary to King Edward III. "Morton Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi P. Morton", 13, ·by J. G. ~ach (1894) says poss- ibly he was a member of Brewster's church. Anyway he early joined the Pilgrims at Leyden and served in some official capacity for them before coining to Massachusetts. One writer quotes. that he was "the financial agent in London f'or Plymouth Colony." He came over in the nAnne n in 1623 with his ·wife and five children~ He died Ju...11.e 1624 in Plymouth. Leach expresses the opinion that Morton's cha.·ra.cter and attain ments were such that if he had lived as long as his contemporaries, he would have filled a conspicuous place in the life of the Colony. nAmericana ", XXXIII, 271 · adds little. Other sources are "The Morton Genealogy" by S.C.Wade, "George Mo_rton of Plymouth Colony and Some of His Descend.ants: by John K. Allen (1908) ·and_ "The Morton Family Tree" by Chauncey Morton and Betsey Pike (1947). As it was, however, his place in history depends on the publication by him in London of what has been known as "Mourt's Relations", but entitled "A Relation or Journall of the Beginnings and Proceedings of the English Plantation, Settled at PJ.ymouth in·New England -- ", London, 1622." Although this appeared under the name of q. •.Mourt,. it was written, some think, by Bradford and Edward Winslow.· "This re lat1on may justly be termed the first historJ of New England and is composed qf_ letters and journals from the chief colonists of Plymouth, either addressed or en~ .. trusted to George Morton, whose authorship in the work is possibly limited to.the preface. -- The Relation itself is full of valuable information and still c·ontinu~s ·an_authority." _ 11 11 . The Memorial thus chronicles his decease: "Mr. George Morton wa~ a pious,. gracious servant of God, and very faithful in whatsoever public.employment he was trusted withal, an unfeigned well-willer, and according to his sphere and condition a suitable promoter of the common good and growth of the plantation of New-Plymouth; laboring to still the discontents that sometimes wou:I.d arise amongst some spirits, by occasion of the difficulties of these new beginnings." · · It is interesting to note in connection with how much: of the Plymouth history about which we know was written by ancestors covered in this (my) book (Bradford, George Morton, Gov. Thomas Hinckley and William Aspinwall) that George Morton's son, Nathaniel, in his "New England Memorial 11 which he published in 1669 preserved what for many years was the chief source of the infonn~tion about Plymouth conta&ned in Bra.ciford' s lost -manuscript which 1-1e _use_d _before i ~ ~as lost. . µat~n~e1·· was:-~9.rqught up arid . trained by Bradford. · · · . _ . ___ . _ Willison says tha:t Ge·o-rge Mo_rton organiz·ed· thEf Anne and Li.ttle James .·c.om.p8.ny and died impove·rished- not long after l~nding, his brother-in-law ··Bradford .proyiding for his f'amily. · · _<· · · · Gust"in says George had· a first wife by whom he had George. He married 2d at Leyden, Holland, 23 July (2 August_) 1612 Julianna Carpenter, daughter of' Alexander as e.:-~lairied UJlder "Carpenter"; She married 2d "Manassah Kempton,: -Esq , _a. member of the first and other assemblies· of the Co_lony. 11 ·She died at Plymoutll 18. February 1665 in the :81st year o:f her age,': ~nd· ·is mentioned in the Town }:l~Gords ·.:·~·s_.ia "faith- ful servant of God". -· ···::_ ...... ··. ·- · -- , . ·· 7 Ancestor for }fa-ssacbusetts Soc·iety 9f Colonial. Dames (9-ne.. of°_'·tbe:. Historic ·, ~·. . . .. Founders of' Plymouth Colony.)- . Children: George. born· 1609-10 ~nd_ by Julianna·,··• Nathaniel- b;orri. 'ca -1613·, Patience ca 1615, John 16i6-17 and Sarah 16+7-8.;1 all at Leyden and Ephraim· born on the -.. ''Anne" 1623. . PATIENCE MORTON married: ca 1631-3 John Faunce, a· feilow passenger on. the nAnn n. RALPH ~MOUSALL ... . .- . -DEACON RALPH"--MOUSALL d,i'rrie f"rom Eng_la.nd;'"probab"ly·•Lohd_on, t~o _Boston ·in .i630 .. ·- - • ...... • • . - ! • • . -· with Winthrop's fleet., listed as Rafe Mus4ell, he being No. 72 ·and .his ui:fe l¼.lic~- No.; 73 ·in the list of members: of -the :first church there .. He ·Has adr.1._itted ~reer.2an 18 May· 1631. He-. was one of -the fo1inders of the church in Charlesto-;-rn, and a ·Rep resentative to the General Court .. in f636, 37 and 38, but being a sympathize:r_ w·ith Hutchinson· and Wheelwright in thei"r ·-views · he was · ejected 6 September_ 1638, . yet, by keeping g_uiet he recovered his reputat1.o:n ·an~ -d~ed 30 April 1657-,· .He was -on. the first board of ·seleCtmen in 1634. In 1655, upon· request of the in.riabitants·, .Rich: ard Russell, Ralph Mousall and Thomas _Lynde were· appointed by t_p.e General Court to uend small causes - -. -· His widow died in 1667. " (The Record of. My Ancestry"., 162-, by Charles I. Newhal-1 : (1899 ). Practically the same. is in :"The Geriealogi_e~ a~d Estates of' Charlesto,-in·, · 1629-1818'~:, 688' by Thomas ;B. wyinan, 1879 ). · "The· Winthrop. Fleet of 1630", 62 by Charles ·E. Banks (1961) says that iri 1663 he deposed he.was· 67, and that he d-ied 27· November 1665. This doesn't seem to" check with the -30 ·. April 1657- date or -Jith- his will of ·April i3, proved 23 June, 1657. . Ancestor for Society -0f: Co.loti-i~l-. Wars ( -- 1657) Charlestown., . Represent?,tive to General Court, 1636-8), (also 1651 and 1656, - National Soc;:iety Daughters of Colonial Wars}. · -- :: · :: · :. • · · ·'_ · · _. _ · . Childre·n: John born ca 1630,··Thomas ·baptized 25 Mayl632, ~1ary, Ruth ~pd Elizabeth. - RUTH MOUSALL married .. Edward Wood of' Cha.riesto1,1n. WILLIAM MULLINS · · . .. ·' . ti I' WILLIAM ~rJLLINS signed the Co:npact 'on t:q.f; Mayi'lo\1er · 11 0 h.·,, rl e'"' Harbor 21 Feb. (3 Mar.-) 1621 ·of "the sickness , preswnably \.,1,.. C::. - - v L. Alden in the "Alden Genealogyn in nNew _England Historic -88- ister", 51, 428 (1897) says; '-'It is supposed that the ~1olines were Walloons, or French Hugu~not_s., for Baird 1 s 'History of the Huguenot Emigration to America,, I, 158 says: 'William ·Molines -- and Philip De la Noye .and others remained in Leyden.' That is. WAen the French Huguenots 'went to Guiana'. But I am inclined to think ~hat" ~ither Wi+liam Mullines, or his wife Alice was.English, for after this they went to England and joined the Pilgrims there. They embarked in the 'Speedwell', but in the re-adjustment of the passengers after the ship 'Speed- well' gave out we find him in the Mayflower. " 11 11 The Register , 86, 238 (1932) ·says that it ha.s been repeatedly affirmed that be was a Huguenot named Molynes. "This may or may not be so, and that he was a Huguenot or of Huguenot ancestry still remains to be proved The names · of bis parents are unknown and about all that is known about his origin is that he was from Dorking, co. Surrey. The name Molynes is Anglo..;.Norman quite as much as it is French." A "Hartford Times" genealogical item B-75o8, 9 Apr. 1955 gives "Mullins-Molyneau.x-Molines-"Brief History of Molines or Molyneaux ·.Family" (1906) by Nellie Z .. R. Molyneaux: 1William Molines (Mullins) of May ··flower 1620 was on son c:f John Molyneau.."'{ and wife Joane -- 'John Molyneaux was a descendant of English nobility and royalty; see John S. Wurts: Magna ChartaJ Part VII, p. 2198-9 and preceding volumes." On looking this up we find that that Wurts seems honest: "John Molyneux married Joan who died 1565, assumed by Nellie Zada Rice Molyneux, in her 'History of Molines or Molyneux Families' (1904) to have been parents of William Mullins." Was William 55 years or more old when he came on the Mayflower? Another nTimes 0 item B-7913, Sept. 17, 1955 attempts to correct the pr~- . ceding: "The discovery ~t Somerset House, London by Mr. Henry F. Waters of Salem, Mass. of what is evidently the nuncupative will of William Mullins proves impor tant. It shows Mr. Mullins not to have been of the Leyden congregation as has been claimed but a well-to-do merchant of Dorking in Surrey -- He proves the statements of Dr. Baird, Mrs. Austin and Dr. Griffen to be in error. This does not give the ancestry of William Mullins nor of his wife but does correct old errors .. " Bank's "Topographical Dictionary" gives two possibilities, Dorking and Stoke, near Guilford, Surrey. "The Mayflower Planters at Plymouth--", 213, by Leori C. Hills (1920) says "He was a wealthy rMerchant Adventurer' and it is understood invested over £500 in the company. Just before his death he sent for Carver and made a verbal will to witnesses·. -- The will is given .in the ttRegister", 42, 6?,; i.n "May flower Descendant", 1, 230, as well as in Hills. Besides his wife, Joseph and Priscilla, it mentions his daughter Sarah Blunden who remained in England and son William who came later. 'Allsoe if my sonne William will come to Virginia (meaning Plymouth ) , I give my share of land. ' u Hills tells of a tenement of Darking Manor William held in 1622, with in some ~ay a charge, which had been sold in 1619 before he sailed.. He was born in Surrey co., perhaps Darking. Other re:ferences are: ttAncestors of Amyntas Shaw and his wife Lucy Tufts Williams" by Josephine C. Frost (1920) and "An cestry of H. E. Gustin and Jul~a L. Carlisle" 453 by Lester Gustin .. "The May flower and Her Log", 179, by Anzel Ames (1902) says William must have been 40 years old or more when he sailed and that he was not a French Huguenot. William, Alice 21 Feb. 1621 and Joseph early in 1621 all died the first winter here when about half those who came died. Ancestor for Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars and formerly Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. Children: William, Sarah, Priscilla b. ca 1602 and Joseph died when six. PRISCILIA MULLINS married probably between 1 June 1621 and early part of 1623 John Alden. -89- MARY ONSTINE. MARY :ONSTINE·. ($r Oustine:,: Ours_tine,. Orstinc )( lna:rried~ as :-his ··second~:wife;:qe·orge Walker, probably at Salem, Pa. ca 1783.. A rash guess is that her father might····have been Frederick who was assessed on 300 acres in Wyoming township, Northumberland Co., Pa. about the time of the Revolution. He was the only other of the name found in a search of quite a number o:f the .. "Pe·nnsylvania Archives", he being included in the Third Series, volume 19, 685. He remained there such a short time that I didn't find anything ~po~t .·him..·in the county histories of that ·sect:ion: ·when- looking for h:i;m anq. Geqrge .-W~lker •.- The best chan1:!e• of :further dis•cove~ry about·· him woul:d~ seetn to. ;be-- :amo:r;ig.. t.l;le ~.T:ec.oro.s of the Germans -who .. ea.me to Pennsylvania:· a boot ·1750. · · Tb.is Frede~:ick __ was_ :olq enough to own land then,.. s·d he may ·.have· been \~ithe~ :t-ather or a: broth~~ qf ~ry-.·.. ,:.·~-- . .-. · ·· ': • ··: .. :·. · · ···/ .· _<.:.• . ·.:.:·:.:: ::f:.· ~-:~: ·.::•~.: .. .. ·severa_l inqui:r~es :.b.ave. been··.·prihted in ·the: 1'-D .• '.A~:~R. inag-cfzi:ne':' '.abbtlt!Jthe Walkers and ()_ns.tJnes;:. · Tli.~~-e give that s·h~_ was .bbrn: 17'52 ·and" died~·-(1..5 A,pr11· :181;5:-'at Nichols, New Y9rk., .._ On~ ·.. ~ays that .she had a· brother Freder.ic.k. .': Jacob Walke! (son of George) born c~. 17'J.6 -~~~t:·_t9.: Canada about 1812, very probably :Ontario. The· Onstines also went to Canada, whether directly from Pennsylvania or from:-New York st_ate-·not ap·- pearing..~ _: -·.: -. . . · · ··· · .. · · ·.·' Most: J.. igh~. ~'S thrown -on the family by ·, ~'History· of Lo'raine: County/ Ohio",· 3·26, (1879) .bY::· W'i4.l).t;1,~9n Bros. · "The Oustines.,· father. Frederick·,: and seven sons, Dan iel,~. Fre:4"er~c.k,:-:·G~_orge, Henry, John, Michael and Philip, arrived ·at about the sarn~ time .. a~·. t·h:e-; '?-boye-·: (1815) named settlers. They came- into Amherst township r'rom . BuffE;3.io::,-b.µ~,. we~. originally from Canada.. They left that -country to avoid impres ~ sion int9: ~ :.E~irmy· and abandoned a property ·of .considerable value. Several of ·t~·~ son~--wen-t;. it:it9 .t.h~ Unite.a. States army, and •in consideration or· their s·ervices the .famil.y was: grant~d by Congress. a tract of land. lying in the north-west part· of ·the· town$l:rip._:-, .:r~ .c.qn~isted of 900 a:cres. The Oustine family bur.ring ground is upon . a ~·andy:~ knoll -~.t: the end.· o:f · a rocky ridge ~:·+. u · , .···=:··.-,·,D~.t)..R. M ROBERT PADDOCK ROBERr PADDOCK is included herein because, despite the fact that we haven't . been abl~ to identify the father of Bathsheba Paddock born 8 November 1763, it is evident that she was a descendant of Robert and of his son Zachariah and very prob ably of the latter's son Zachariah (13). The numbers used in this account agree with those in the chart and were taken from those used by Mr. Innes. Getty who pre pared a manuscript Paddock Genealogy now in the New York Genealogical and Biograph ical Society Library. In a letter to me May 30, 1953 he said that "the problems that beset us in Putnam Co. (N:Y.) have frustrated our efforts to publish the Pad dock Genealogy." He couldn't place our Bathsheba. The data herein found on her came from D.A.R. sources. According to tradition Robert was of Welsh descent, but there is no proof of· this. Bank 1 s "Topographical Dictionary" gives him as from Ham High, Somersetshire, England. He was of Plymouth, Mass~ in 1634 and probably had come some -years earl ier. He moved to Duxbury by 1639-40 where he was a smith ("Americana", 18, . 448 and ~~Colonial Families of America", 9, 625 ). He was on a list in August 1643 of men able to bear arms and was constable in 1646 in Plymouth. There are various short accounts of the early members of the family. Some material is in "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd", 219, by Dwight Brainerd. There is absolutely no evi dence that he came on the Mayflower, even as a minor, as some early writers claimed. A long explanation by Mrs. John Barclay in "Notes on the Palmer Family11 .in "~merican Genealogist", 32, 39 explains how Mary was the "Young" widow (parentage unknown, of' William Palmer Sr., who died between 7 and 13 November 1637) who mar ried between 1644 and 1646 Robert Paddock who died 25 July 1650. She married.3d Thomas Roberts- 24 March 1650. I suppose this· was 1650-1. Ancestor f'or National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars. Children: Robert born ca 1634, George, Zachariah 20 (30) March 1636-7, Mary 10 March 1638, Alice 7 March 1640, daughter 1641, John 1 April- 1643 and Susanna· ca 1645. . ZACHARIAH PADDOCK died Yannouth 1 May 1727. He was Deputy to the General Court at Plymouth from Barnstable in 1706-8. He married Yannouth September 1659 Deborah Sears (daughter of Richard Sears and Dorothy Jones)·born Yarmouth Sept. 1639 who died 17 August 1732. They lived together for 68 years and at one time they had 48 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren of whom.30 were-~rom· their second son. Zachariah 'obtained the character of a righteous man and his wife, now 88 years old, is well, and reported for her good worksr fro~ an account of his decease in the "New England Weekly Journal" of 5 June 1727. Children: Icabod born 2 Feb. 1661-2, Zachariah 14 April 1664, No. Dennis, Elizabeth 1 ...~ugust 1666, Capt. John 5 May 1669, Robert l 7 Jan. 1670-1, Joseph 12 Sept. 1674, Nathaniel 22 Sept. 1677, Capt. Jud.ah 15 Sept. 1681 (nMayflower Des cendant", 3, 247 and Freeman's "Cape Cod", 2, 214 ). ZACHARIAH PADDOCK died Yarmouth (part now called North Dennis-) 8 April 1717-8, age 54. He married (1) ca 1686 Betbiab Hall born probably 15 November 1668 Seit- -91-· uate, (d.augh~e.r of John Hull and Priscilla Beerse) who died 8 March .1707-8. He-·· married 2d 29 July 1708 Mary (Hedges·} Thatcher born March 1671, widow .:of :neacon ·. Jo~iah Thatcher and dc..ughter o~ Elisha Hedges ~nd Surah Lathrop. His.sons ·James, ·Peter, John and David went just after· 1740 _to _the Oblong, New York, .a· strip of · · land on the border of Connecticut and New York ·and· cle.imed f'or a long:~t.ime- by· both. Chiidren: ~y :Bethici: · !en.bod b-~ 16 J-µne 1687, __Deborah 2 April. 1689, · E•lizabeth 11 February.. 1690-1, Zachariah· 1◊"Nov. -~692·, Jc.mes ·:24 _Dec. 169~~ Peter, 27 May 1697, Bethia 25 May_ 1699, Mery 10.J·u1y 1701·;·__ J9hn ?l Mn_y 1703, I;)cl.vid 12 Aug.<1705, Pris cilla 29_ Feb. 1707; by Mn.ry: Hannah b~-~-•:15 Blake (1899). "Those appearing to have been in_ Fredericksburg Pree., then includ ing Southeast, and Philipstown in 1747 who were freeholders or occupied land as tenants included David and Thomas" (Idem 329). -"The early settlers of this local ity were principally from Cape Cod and comprised numerous representatives of the families of Hall, Crosby, Doane, Paddock and Foster and those with whom they inter- -married. The pioneers came about 1740 and before 1745 they-built a log meeting house about a mile east of Dyckman's Station on the Harlem Railroad. -- .The old Sears Burying Ground, so called --. Here lie ·the early settlers, the Crosbys; Sears, Paddocks, Fosters, Bangs, Gages and Halls, all among those who planted this little ··colony in 'New York Province' ("New _York Genealogical and Biographical Re cord", 32, 213 ). "Timothy Shaw in 1767 made affidavit that he had been acquainted with all the settlements that had been made within the last 25 years in the Upper Philips Pat ent· and when he first became acquainted there the: f ollo-wing persons were s·ettled thereon -- James, Peter and David Paddock --- ." (Dutchess-Putnam Co. Historyn, 82). Other Paddock references in the same book are on 105, 126, 128, 162 and 249. John Paddock was witness to a will in 1749 in Dutchess County and Benjamin in Beekman Precinct. ("N. Y. Calendar of Wills", by Berthold Fernow, 105, 215 (1896). The call to Mr. Knibloe to be preacher in 1757 in the Gilead Church of Phil ippi was signed by John Paddock -- Thomas Hinckley, Jr. and Elkanah Hinckley (Idem 170). The 1777 tax list included David, Jonathan, Nathan, Silas, Thomas, Zach-· ariah, Seth and Seth Jr. (Idem 91). Philip (136) was the most prominent man considered here, at least as rar as the records have been found. He was Lieut. in 1758 ("Col. Records N. Y. Hist. Re ports, Col. Ser., 108, 1896") John also enlisted 26 April 1760, age 16, laborer, b. Dutchess Co. (260). ·· Mr. Getty's manuscript includes all Paddocks on the tax lists there from 1742 to 1771. In 1741-2 are David and James, in 1743-4 are also John, Jr. and John of· Beekman, in 1745-6 also Peter and Thomas and in 1: 749 a~_so Jonathan. The list from 1753-to 1757 is David, John, Jonathan, Peter, Philip, Seth, Silas, Thomas, Zachariah, and Zachariah Jr. ·navid Jr. and James were added in 1758._ Whether Philip died a bout 1757 or what else happened doesn't appear. No new ones were added be~ore 1764. All are accounted for on the chart. The ~ist of those who served in the Revolution from Dutchess County doesn't seem to help, - Benjamin, Daniel, David, Henry, Isaac, John, Jonathan, Judah, ~athan, Nathaniel, Peter, Seth, Seth Jr., Silas, Stephen, Thomas and William. 0 ( New York in the Revolution as Colony and State") Jonathan of Fredericktown (including Southeast) was made Captain in 1775 ("New Yor;k Genealogical and Biograph ical Record", 60, 183 .. More than one of the same name may have served, especially Davids and Peters. These lists and references call attention to another complication because they include a few from another Paddock family. Mr. Getty wrote that John and Oliver, sons of John Paddock and Deborah Hilliard moved from Rhode Island-to the Beekman· precinct about 1744. But in general there doesn't appear to be much confusion be tween the two family groups. T"ne 1790 census includes about 24 Paddock families in Dutchess County, - about 100 individual besides the parents in each family. The Paddock born Dutchess County who seems to have stirred up most genealogical interest is David born 27 April 1753, died Wisconsin, married 1774 Mary Williams, served in the Revolution, had nine brothers and sisters: "Boston Transcript", 7942, May 22, 1905; "Hartford T~mes", C-3817 Nov. 28, 1959 and C-7070 May 28, 1962; "Magazine of American Genealogy 22, 152; D.A .. R. Lineage Books; and possibly "Por-· trait and Biographical Record of Kankakee County, Illinois", 650 and 715 (1893). Of interest.also has been Henry born November 10, 1751 (a cousin of David) men- -93- tioned in "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record", 111, 151 and in "Gen ealogy and Family History o:f Central New York", I, 236 by William R. Cutter which gives his father in error as Zachariah (133). (Mr. Getty criticized me for referr ing to such an unreliable source.) I had only disjointed notes on the Beekman Paddock family until I studied Mr. Getty's manuscript which outlines most of the whole family from John (8)(brother of our Zachariah (4)) at least to the Revolution. Just which of them went to Dutchess County isn 1 t clear but Oliver (102), John (103) and appaTently William (104) did. John (8) had Mary, Martha, Deborah, David, John (35) and James (36). John (35) had Anna, Oliver (102), John (103), William (104), Rebecca and Benjamin. James (36) had Mary, Joseph and John. Oliver (102) had Ruth, Benjamin, Deborah and William born 1755. John (103) bad John born 1739, Henry 1751 as above, Job 1754, Peter 1757, Deborah and Lewis. William (104) had Daniel 1745, David 1753 as above, Jonathan 1759, Isaac, James 1763, Peter 1763, John 1765, Solomon 1768, Judah and Deborah. Probably all except the two are approximate dates. I have secured photostats of the four War of the Revolution pension papers; from New York, but they don't seem to help about Bathsheba's father; - John of Camillus, New York,son of William (104); Peter of Jefferson County, New York, son of John (103) and Henry of Oneida County, New York, son of John (103), - all of the Beekman family and Sarah, widow of Nathan (171) of my chart. Mr. Getty's letter to me said that the only Bathsheba of whom he had record was daughter of Joseph Paddock and his third wife Elizabeth Mayo. For many years I had an unsigned letter which said that this Bathsheba was born 29 January 1743, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Paddock and married 9 December 1763 Enoch Crane. This letter states that it· was based on the records of James F. Hubbell (of Utica, New York). Joseph Paddock was born 12 April 1674, son of Zachariah (4). Until almost ready to send this to the printer I have disregarded this family entirely because I have seen nothing to the effect that Joseph or any of his family went to Dutchess County and every Paddock in that county before 1760 apparently has been placed. Now after noting that it says that Enoch Crane went to live near Brewster, New York, I wrote to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society to see whether Mr. Getty 1 s notes might indicate that this Bathsheba had any brothers who might have gone to New York or whether there were any names in any of this family from which our Bathsheba might have secured her children 1 s names. The Society very kindly furnished me with a copy of the notes about Joseph's descendants (past 1800 in some instances), but not the slightest suggestion of any connection appears. This draft for the genealogy didn't include this Bathsheba so the only chance appears to be that he had heard about her so late~or had secured so little infonnation that he didn't include it in his finished draft. The only chil dren he gave for this Joseph were Eliphalet, Seth, Margaret and Alice. If our Bathsheba was by any possibility granddaughter or great-grandaughter of this Joseph, this would eliminate Zachariah (13) and Bethia Hall from the list of her ancestors (but not Za.chariah(4). BATHSHEBA PADDOCK born 8 November 1763 married ca 1782 Elkanah Hinckley, believed son of Elkanah. -94- PADDOCK (4) 47 Icabod 1687 133 Zachariah 1719 4511- Sacbariah 47 1800. 1744 ~55 llbmnd ~9 50 Zachari&h~1§92 Deborah Freeman 11-57 Prinoe 56 12 Iolia1'od • 1716 22-03 ~59 lieaac 61 1661 Eli.Zabeth Hovea 135 Silas(!) 24 • Xathaniel Ji.8 2 ltobert 169lf, 46 Abiah Russ { Conn. 136 Phil1J! 25 * 141 Isaac 38 * 51 Jaaes 1694-1761 • 1719 Rebecca { 4 girls :, George Chapman 1697-77 52 Peter 1697-60 lJf.7 Thom.as 22-99 •·-*3 ~ no children • 1720 Sarah 116w~s 'Chapman 2,-78 • 79 1n will 13 Zachariah 1695-1776 Sarah Peck 33-22 1664-1717 • 149 Jonathan 26-93 • t·494 Pe:ter d 1760 :Bethia Rall Kary Crane 26-05 Will give~ • 1708 Kary- J'· only dau 1ch Jledges Fl.etc r 154 James 17:,0 • 512 Ebenezer 55 John 170,-ca .Al.Jaeda Brown 513 Jamea 1776 • J.i28 514 Zelotes Martha Hopldns 51; Darl.4 516 John ca 1771 156 John 17)6* 157 Zachariah-39 dint~? 62_ DRT1d 1734 - 93 • {,_.l ·Pet.er 1763 15 John 1669 •. 62 Xiriu Belden - 511-2 JUies 1768 1717-8. l74Jl.-1823 lf..Zachariah 1691t- Pria 166 Anthonz 1736* { 1636-1727 cilla llal.l 56 DaTid 05-ca 170 Foster Jf.5-74 • Anthony 1767 • 1659 1772 • 1727 - Ruhanna Jlar'shall Deborah Kary Foster m 1l'allZ1ne h,mond Seara 16:,9. 1709 171 llathan ·ca 48 • 69 {. 7 gi?'ls 1732 Sarah Wallace 52 Kathan 87 172 Isaac killed 1n Rev. * 59 Anthony 1710 itnmarried 71 Robert 03 m 40 211 John 41 • 66 Zeruiah Ruth Fletcher Page • ca 1770 Vermont ~O?lll. a: Vt. El1Zabeth Eastman 214 Zenea ca 51 m Euni-ce 16 Robert 70 Eastu.n m 01 Martha WllliaJa 51 Hall 76 2i5 Zachariah ·ca 28 Seth 53 (Kar.tUJWb, ? Za-chariah m m Hannah Seal"les John 54 Chatham, Elizabeth Birdseye Smith Saauel 58 Kans:tie 1d , 218 David 37 d. 1.nr.? Corm. 72 Seth 04 m 27 220 Seth 46 m. Abigail -[ Ruth 72 Xero)' Iickerson 221 Stephen 51 m • 3 5 Zeru.1.ah S Rebecca Grit:f-en Storrs m 44 Ruth 222 Judah 53 17 Joseph 1674 Arnold 18 Xathani-el 1177 19 Judah 1681 8 John -95- THOMAS POPE THOMAS POPE is thought to have been in Plymouth, Massachusetts by 1631 and to have been 67 years old in 1675. Such reco~~ as exist show that "be was a man of positive character and of some consideratioriLin the community. His promptness in resenting real or fancied injury, and his independent expressions of personal opin io~,- --~~-- -t-:na.n~~-d!ice ·caused him to be arra.i.gned before the. ma:g,~:~t~te~ of -New Plymouth, and rio -~oub_t:- -u~t1ma.tely. led to· his removal to Dartmo.uth;,. :-w:~·:re · he· pa~sed the last ten year~ .,qf -hJs::).d::fe'~ 'ci'~-cord:ing ·to "Genealo_gy o:f 'J;'h.9mas.~:~P6p~~---of..·:.i;>;l~ol!·f4~ 1 by Frank.Tin·.: L .. ~~pe in: -~~-N_e]-1:: 'En~1and~-Historic· and Genealogi~~t-. R~'j;iste.,r".-, .. : 'l:i2,~--. ¼~5::.-1-(1$88). · Other •. genealogi.~-$- are:::~'Genealogy of° Thomas Pope· (1608-1683.). and Jfis: Descendants~' by_Mrs. Dora Wordep.-,-.:Wnl~~-F •. Iangwo·rthy and Mrs·.· Blanche Burch "{i917); T'A-· .. )Iistq~ __ of the. Dorc];.le~.t-~:r:-.fop_e . .-Family,·· 1634-1888·, ,~ by C. H·. Pope. (1888 )';··'·and· "Pip_peer .. Po_pes, 1627- 1937u __ by~-~~li~•.:.P. Sutherl~gq. (1938). . . -~- ::. ·. ·,·._·. . ·. ·.· . . ·. . .. He: was. t~xed 9 · shillings in- 1632-J and 1-78.S . g~ntea.·, i':i. V~: ac'i-es. i!;!.··.163-6 •. Ju..YJ.e 7, 1637 h~- .. yo~~t.eered to go ur1der nMr. Prence" on ap. · exp~di ticii .:against the;' Pequots. · July 28, __ 163.7 be was. married-by Gcv. Winslow to·· ✓Ann·_.Fa.fiowei.7··· {da~ght~~ _Qf Gabriel and Catherine Fallcrwell) of Piymouth who ·didn 1 t ·1i,ie_ ver-.1·19n.g. ·He-_was:~:.on.the list·. of August 1643 of "The .names of ail the males that are· able_. t0 be8:re: · a~~s~- :from XVI years to ·60 years with seue:ra.11 Towne Sh"1pps." He ·??-S ~hosen co~~abl~ .-4. J11.;._-.ie 1645. In 1646 he was in Yarmouth. May 7 9 ( 29), i646: he rriarr:ied· ·at. Pl;ymout·h Sarah J en!1ey, daughter of John Jenney and Sarah Carey. He . was chose11:. sur-v~yor:- .of·.: ~tgp~?,ys . July 1648 and .June 1651.· In ·1652 and in 1656 he ·wa:s -l' JOSHUA PRATI' JOSHUA PRATT came to.Massachusetts in the "Ami" in 1623 according to Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary" and Davis' "Ancient I.and.marks of Plymouth u, both old ·books, but George F. Willison in "Saints and Strangers", 446 (1945) says Joshua arrived in a sh:allop ·:rrom the .:fishing boat rsparrow' early in 1623_ "bringing seven: men (including Joshua and his brot~er Phineas) who joined those sent out by Weston on the 'Charity' ~nd 'S:wan 1 and went north with them to found Wessagusset." He was a freeman in 1633 and constabie and messenger 1 January 1633-4. He was in Dart mouth in 1652 at·a division of stock. He married Bathsheba..... His will and inventory were exhibited at Court 6 October 1656 ( 0 New England Historic and Genea logical Register",. 5, 338) .. The inventory was £J.8 lls 3d. Pope says Bathsheba married (2) 29 August: 1667 John Dogged. "Ancestry of H.E. Gustin --", II, 1113-6, by· Le·ster Gustin (1952) gives much the same. "Compendium of American Genealogy", VII, 875 which didn't·require proof o:f everything it included, says he married ca 1630 Bathsheba Fay. . Children: Hannah, Benajah and Jonathan BENAJAH PRATT was in Plymouth in 1654 and married 29 Novembe:r: -1655 Per$is Dunham, believed daughter of John Dunham a~d Abigail Barlow. He ·died 1682, the inventory o:f his estate being 6 May 1682, the settlement naming six sons·, but no daughters. ("Plymouth County Wills,"4: pt. 2, 12-13) She married(~) August 1683 Jonathan Shaw ~ho died 1701, she and her son, Jonathan Shaw being administrators. · Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars and National Society Daughters of c·olon ial Wars (1632-1682 Plymouth. Served under Commander Warren. South and North com- panies, 1669) . Children: Abigail b. 21 November 1657, John, Joseph, Benajah and-Eleazer ·BENAJAH PRATT married Mary ..•.• Children: Mary b. 1695, Sarah 1697, Deborah 1698, Priscilla 1701 and Abigail 1703 .. DEBOPAH PRAIJ:T married 8 March 1716 Joseph Crossman, son of Joseph Crossman and Sarah Alden. GOV. THOMAS PRENCE. GOV. THOMAS PRENCE was son of Thomas, carriage maker who resided in All Saints, Barking, London who ma.de his will 31 July 1630, proved 14 August 1630, providing.for his daughters Katherine and Rebecca and son Thomas 11 Now remayninge in New England," according to one of the good accounts of the family, that in "A Historical Sketch of Thomas Prencen by Anna. C. Kingsbury and W. E. Nickerson (1924). Bank's "Topographi cal Dict~oriary" gives him from All Hollows, Barking,.London and Stepney, London. The "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines", II, 683-94 by Mary L. Ferris (1931) gives the father, Thomas, as o:f Lechlade, co. Gloucester and that Thomas was probably born there 1600-01. Other accounts are: "The Br~wster Genealogy", 21, by Emma C. R'! Jones (19o8); "Mayflower Planters", 47 by Leon C. Hills; "Saints and Strangers" by George F. Willison {1945) and r'Colonial Families of America", III, -130 (1928) -97- Gov. Thoµias Prenc~. ca~e O"'fer in the second ship, the Fortune·, in November 1621, lived in Plymouth and married (1) 5 August 1624 Pat.ience Brews·ter (dau.ghter-·'.of Eld.er William and Mary Brewster) of' Duxbury, the ninth marriage in the Colony. They were in_ DuxJ:?ury in 1632 where .. -Pa-tience died _in 1634· cf pestilent.· fever~ He was-:"on the ·list dt those able to bear arms ·in 1643. . . ·· ._. -. .- : ><· · ·· His civil and military services are given by the Society of Colonial Wars and the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames as; Assistant, Plymouth Col. 1632, 35- 37, 39-56; Treasurer 1637; Member of· _Cow.icil•·_.Qf. War and went forth against the Pe quot Indians, 1637; Governor 1634-38; 57--72; Commissioner for United Colonies 1645, 50, 53-54, 56-5E}, ~l""'.63, 72;:• President. -of the· Board .-1661, · 72 .. Dates iiT'·other ac counts'· ~ry s_om~what .. ~'Dawe·s-~ateslr gives him on· the .. Council of War also ·in·:-,1-0J.2::.r 43, .46,_:·57 .. 5ff·and.67, during . .tbe last _four terms.being president.of it.· · - ··· ~:_: ·· .M:tss Kingsbury and .Mr ..Nickers9n expil:itn how: rsaac Allerton. obtained release;•'. in Erigla.~d 'f'roni the :indebte.dness to. the .Adventurers who· f'inanced the Mayf'lower by·•·. arra.~ging :for the assimiption· of a debt to them of .£1,800 ($90,000 in. 195:0>accorditig to Willison)' by .Wiiiiam Brewster, Miles Standish, .Isaac.Allerton, ..Edvard Winslow, · William.Brad.ford, John-How:land, John.Alden and Thomas Prence· and f'our other :rri-erias. So Tho~~ when but 27 pledged himself -ar:id hj.s fortune with the leading spirits of the c;olpny .: : "Th~se. 12 men. bravely took ·up·oii. their·-shoulders- the·.·burden. of.. the· debt of the ·c·o1ony ~ ~r · Mi&s Ferris says: "With a. handful- o:f ·others .he. carried for about~·:. 20 years an almost· ·unbelievable burden_ of financial respons.ib.il-ity of. ·the colony-~'>·, from about 1627 to its. ultimate payment. ~n 1645,. It· also. includes "that.·he' was a:_;·. 1 W(=.l_come addition~ to Plymout:q · ' l;)eing higpJ.y:_moral,. ·educated.,. -di'gni:ffed and well-to db: t:q.9-µgh non-Pilgril!l . and ind~ed_ pro-:-PUr:~tan and stricter:J.n·.· religious.:.tn.atters. than the teaders themselves_".. :.. He was an unusuai ~n, a man of great. usefulness ·and· ab11- ity, a.man :feariess in m~_king ._s.te~ de.cis-i.on$ :yet prone to show. mercy., but, ,.·in- the. l_i:ght of today a man of :·~intolerance. in- rel.igion·" ~:-:-~ .. '. ·H.e was .·a_;_1eader,. Willison says-~ ii.( the persecution in 1657- of Baptists _and Quakers.·thougn Plymouth was. much more · lenient than Massachusetti Bay. . ~--- ,__ = .. ·, . · · "Thomas Prence, . Es quire Govr: of the Juri.sdiction o:f New: Plymouth :Died· the ·29th of March, 1673 (in Plymouth) and.was_ Interreq.·'the-..·8tn·of April·follo:wing; afte·r··hee had served.God in the office of Govr:. sixteen yeares ·or·nea1.~e·:thereunto;-he-finished his. course in.the 7.3 yeare of his life; he: -w.a-s.:·a worthy Gentleman very p•ious; and veiy able_ :for his of'fic~, and faithful in __ llhe. ·Discharge thereof, studi·ous ~ of -peace, a welwiller fo all that feared God;. and a terr.our. to -the wicked; his Death was mu·ch lamented, and his body honourably bu_ryed -att Plymouth the· Day and yeare -a.bove·men~ sioned" (Plym. Col. B.M.B. p •. 39) ·. His will a:nd the inventory are given.·-in n:May~ flow~r ne·s cendant", 3, 203. . .. · · His :fann at" Nauset (Eastham) of whi_ch he···w~s one of tpe·se·ven:founde.rs in.·1644 was extens.iv:e embracing some 200 acres _of. the. ..Pf=St_ land. He ·.was · one of.: -the -lessees of the Kennebec trade in 1649 and 1655-6, served. :as a Commissioner to;.Ke·nnebet{ in 1653 and in 1656 the Court allowed-. him six- pound$ _'.'for goeing .vnto K:ennebe'ck~" He bas been credited ·with, being promine.nt in the :.~5:tablishment of' .the ·free puhli-c school. He married (2) 1 April 1635 or 6 Mary Collier, called daughter of William Col lier of Duxbury,. (3) before 8 Dec ...l.662-_.Mrs .. A·pphia . (Quicke }_·-:Freeman;:· wido,i of Sam-_ ue1· ·Freeman and (4) between 26 Feb. 1665-6 and 1 Aug·. 1668· Mrs.· Mary Howes, widow of Thomas of Yarmouth. She died 9 Dec. 1695 . . .Ancestor for Society of Co~onial .. W?,rs an.4 .. Mq.s-'sa.:chusetts. Socie.ty of Colo"nial D~mes. · Children: 0 by Patience - Thomas who returned to England,·Rebecca before 22 Mo.y. · 1627, Mercy ca 1631, Hannah b. before 1635; by Mary - Jane 1 Nov. 1637, Mary, Sarah 1643-6, Elizabeth and Judith. Hannah was not our ancestor but married (2) as 2nd wife Jonathan Sparrow, son of Richard and Pandora Sparrow. MERCY PRENCE married 13 (14) February 1649-50 Major John Freeman, son of' Ed mund Freeman and Bennett Hod.sell. JANE PRENCE married as 2d wife 9 Jan. 1660-1 Mark Snow, son of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins. THOMAS RICHARDS THOMAS RICHARDS, gentleman, armiger and merchant, probably came from East Bagborough, Dorchester, b. ca 1590. He was undoubtedly a man of standing and con sideration in the mother country according to "A Genealogical Register.of the Des cendants of Several Ancient Puritans", III, 3 by.Rev. Abner Morse (1861) and "An cestry of Henry B. Smith, Frederick S. -Smith and Horatio S. Smith" by Henry .S. Mun roe. Bank's "Topographical Dictionary" (1957) gives him as coming on the "Mary and John" from Somersetshire. "The Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd", 240 by Dwight .Brainerd (1948) also gives him as coming on the "Mary and John". · He came with his wife, Welthian Loring and five children 1630 and was one of the original proprietors of Dorchester where he became a large landowner·_ and was se - lectman in 1633. In 1639 he moved to Weymouth where he had a mill wit~ Henry.Wal tham. He became freeman 13 May 1640. At one time in 1640 he was iri E~gland. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. of Boston in 1648. . A "Hartford Times" genealogical item, C-1588, 8 Jan. 1962 gives various ref- erences including: (1) "The Tracy Genealogy" by Sherman Tracy which says Welthean Loring was sister of Deacon Loring b. at Axminster, Devonshire, Eng.; (2) Bank's "Planters of the Commonwealth" says she came from Pitminster, Somerset; and (3)" "Americans of Gentle Birth and Their Ancestors" by Pittman which says that the Lor ings. belonged to the family of Sir Nigel Loring of Chalgrave, co. Bedford, 1344, one of the Knights of the Garter, but the names of the parents of Thomas and his sister Welthean haven't been found. A short account is in "Ancestors of' Am.ynta.s Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams ,t, 29, by Josephine C. Frost (1920). '..One daugh . ter married a governor and another the son of a governor. · Thomas Richards' will of 17 December 1650 was proved in_Weymouth 28 January 1650~1. His widow soon moved to Boston where her will of 3 July 1679 was proved 4 November 1679, in which she left legacies to her 27 Bradford, Hinckley, Hunt and Richards grandchildren. Their wills are given in "Mayflower Descendanttt, 9, 89 and th~t of Thomas in "New England Historic and Genealogical Register", 7; 232. For this couple being ancestors of both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General Douglas MacArthur, see under uPopeu. . . Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars. He was member of· the Ancient and Hon- curable Artillery Company of Boston. ·Children: John b. ca 1620, Mary ca 1621, Alice 16 ~une 1627, James ca 1631, Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, Ann and Hannah ... ALICE RICHARDS married ca 23 April ·1650 William Bradford, son of Gov. Will- iam Bradford. and Alice Caroenter.~ MARY RICHARDS married 4 (7) December 1641 Gov. Thomas Hinckley, . son of Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soule. -99- ·SAMUEL RYDER Lieut. SAMUEL RYDER (Rider) b ~ 1601 is · first me:it.ioned in Plymouth. i.7. ~a.riuar.f ...:, 1638-9 when he was going ·to Yarmouth acqording· to "Prelimi'na:cy· Ma~eri'al :if:ir ?-·c}e_~~ ealogy of the Rider-Ryder Family in· the···U~S." by Fremont· Rider. (1959} .. ·He served on a jury in 164i· and was on the list in· 1643 o·f those· able to ·bea;r ai:ms·. 10 ,Oct. 1643· he was one of a committee to choose a place for ::i. fort at Y~rmouth and:to for tify.·.it. He was '.a surveyor of hi&11ways q June 1649. · He .was Deputy f~rom. Yarmouth 6 April -1653jto :confer with deputies from other towns about the dangers 6f war be tween England and Holland.. He was called "Serg:" April. 1653 and. _n1t. u of a mili- · tar-.r company at ··Yarmouth .9 June 1653. Probably because ·he favored the Quakers he was put out · or· office soon after 1653- ·arid.. ordered. to bear arms as a common soldier 11 but in 1658 he was res-torea.··~to lieutenant ~- rank. He was surveyor of highw~ys. 3 June ·1656· and.signed the oath· of'.fidelity·in 1657. He was on a grand jury 3 June 1657 and 2 Oct. 1658··a member o:f the Cotµici:l: of War:. Oct. ·1659 he wa~ on a jury on inquest ·at Yarmouth. He· was constable l· June 1663 and surveyor of highways 5 .. June 1666~ In 1676· he was one of three makers of a rate tovtard the ·Gharge o:f the late war. . He died.. between· 20 November and 9 December' 1679 and his j.;iftf Arine, ) .. 4 . December 1695 at Plymouth. · · : · · . : Before -coming· to Mas·s~¢husett_s he had lived. for a time in Northam~to~, · England. Othe·r references, include': . 11Library of Cc.pe · Cod Histor.r and Genealogy,ft 66 (1912-_3), "The· Swift FamiJ..yf'/:' by· Ka-t·herine W. Swift· (1955), "Rider-Ryde·r Notes",· ~"~yf'io~~r 11 Descendant , <11, 49 ·and· Ri;sier in~ludes ·.'·"King Pniiip 's War", nPlymout~ tb.p~'lrk.s" and "Clevetand FutililY". · If-. r-: understood ·Wi'llia.m R. Cutter correctly in "Genealog ical and Personal Menioi·rs. ·Relating ··to the:.~um.ilies .. of Boston C~no. Eo.s·tern~ Mc.ssachu setts '", III, 1668 (19o8 )" he gives Sri.muel as:· inc.::rried 1656 Siro.h; dcughter o~ Robert a.nd Mo.ry (Wc.rren) Bartlett.· .. This· uppec.rs to have be:en tJ1!=. ·son·. Samuel. ·:.:Ancestor for· Massachusetts· Soeiety ··of •c:6-1011.i:b.l:. Pc.rri~s. ·(Lieut·. of Ycirmouth. Co., 16 53-) . .·. . . . - ;_-, ...... Children: Samuel b. cu· lt530, Znchari2~h _q-ti_:· :;I.63'&,· ·John co.. ·1·044, .Jo~eph cew 1644, Mury·· eo.-1647, -Elizabeth· cri :ip4?, Benje.min _.1'64?: ihd.'J'Q.ne 164J : · . · · · · · · • . . ·. ...'· .•· •, :·~.. i ...::, --... • ·•·.. ... ,· .•:.·.: • ~··.-. ;;: ~·.!_ ZACHARIAH RIDER ( mchcry) ·was given. c:. s pee ial gro.nt of ).nr.:~; l:?$co. ~?e.. he: -~.;cs t!-:;.e father :of the -f'irst: :wh.ite bby -oorn in Ynnnouth. · (So.vo.ge) .-.in·~:1678... he '\•tris.:·~:. ·rreemo.n I , ~ • , • and in 1679 he was on the gro.nd jury-.. His will given in ":Mayf'lower De's·certd-int"' 11, 53 wo.s proved 1 Mo.rch 1685-6. He had been _severely ~-:ounded by dJ,schc:1--ge of c.. gun in practice- at: tro.inirig. · · He married M~ry · ~ ;;~•-~ who mo.r:ried · ·{?). :20 April 1692 E_d-. ward Sturges.. She died· 169$·. · '· · ... -~·~:~-: .. ~:.:::..~·-:~· :... ·:· ·· · · Children:. Zachc.rio.h ··167? , John ~~7?, ·:Mary 167? o.n·d t}:lr~~<··auu~hte~s not no.med in his will. ZA.CHARIA.H .RIDER (Ztichc.ry'-)".died 10· August 1737. He :probo.bly married 19 Nov .. 1705 Abigail.Vincent though Rider'sriys· tha.t another source says Abigail Eldridge. Children: Rebecca. 170~, Zacharia.h 170? . . . .. REBECCA RIDER married 13 October ·1726 Thomas Gage, son of' ·Benj?,min 'Gage and Elizabeth Lombard. RICHARD SEARS RICHARD SEA.RS (Sares) was probably born ca 1612. His strange pedigree guessed at, if not invented, about 100 years ago has been proved mythical, as is also the -100- Knyvett, accepted by Savage. "Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd", 257, by Dwight Brainerd (1948) speaks o:f the strange pedigree concocted in 1845 by Hora tio G. Somerly which Rev. Edmund H. Sears included 'innocently 1 in "Pictures o:f the Olden Time" (1857) and which was castigated in great detail ·by Samuel Pearce in "New England Historic and Genealogica·1 Register", 40, 261 (1886). Various other accounts o:f the :family- are also suspect such as "The History of Cape Cod", I,137, and II, 591·by Frederic Freeman who fell for the whole fabrication. William R. -Cutter's "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Massachu setts", 2, 596 follows this discredited line, including even the fictitious-Knyvet line· back to William the Conqueror. · Richard is first found on the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 when he was assessed nine shillings in corn at six shillings per bushel. He soon crossed over to Marblehead wpich was then part of Salem and was taxed 11 January 1637-8. On 15 October 1638 he was granted four acres "where he had formerly plantedtt which im plies that he then had a :family. In 1639 he went with the party to Cape Cod which settled upon a·tract of land which the Indians called Mattakeese, to which they gave the name Yarmouth. He settled at Quivet Neck between Quivet and Sursuit creeks where Debcxra·h was born, perhaps the second white child born there·. In 1643 he was on the list of "Inhabitants of Yarmouthbetween the ages of 16 and· 60, lia ble to bear arms" and 3 June 1652 he·was upropounded to take up Freedom and 7 June 1653 Richard Sares "took oath of Fidellyte at Plimouth~" He was. chosen G.rand Jury- _man 7 June 1652 and Constable 6 June 1660, and 3 Ju...~e 1662 Richard Saeres was chosen Representative to the General Court at Plymouth, - all according to• the best accotL.---it fo-µnd, that in "The Descen~nts o:f Richard Sares (Sears)"· by. Samuel P. May.· (1890). Richard .ma.rrie_d ca 1635 Dorothy Jones though some early writer_s thought that· he· marri~d. Dorothy Thatcher, because Richard's will gave· rise to the assumption that Dorothy was a Thatcher, but it is now accepted that·she was a sister of An thony Thatcher's second wife, Elizabeth Jones. They had a brother Richard Jones who came from Dinder, England in 1635 and settled in Dorchester. Richard Sears di-ed Yarmouth 26 August 1676 and "Goody Sares was buried 19 March 1678-9. tr Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars (1590-1676, Member of' Yarmouth Company, _ Lieut. under William Palmer. Deputy to Plymouth Court) [This date of birth seems too early - J.S.E.] Children: Capt. Paul b. ca 1637-8~ Lieut. Silas ca. 1638 and Deborah baptized 14 Sept. 1639. CAPT. PAUL SEARS b. probably Marblehead d. Yarmouth-20 Feb. 1707-8, married there 1658 Deborah Willard (daughter of .George) baptized Scituate 14 Sept .. 1645, according to "The Mayflower Planters", 66, by Leon C. Hills. Was she about 13 at marriage? She died 13 May 1721. Her mother was ·perhaps Dorothy Dunster. Paul held a commission as captain in the militia. He made a claim ·for a horse lost in the Narragansett War. He was an original proprietor of Harwich between Bound and Stony Brooks, known as the Wing purchase. He left property valued at £467 03 03. •· Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars (Capt. Massachusetts Militia in Narra gansett War; gave money to help defray expenses of King Philip's War) and Massachu setts Society of Colonial Dames. Children: Mercy b. 3 July 1659, Bethia 3 Jan. 1661-2, Samuel Jan. 1663-4, Lydia (?) 24 Oct. 1666, Paul 15 June 1669, Mary(?) 24 Oct. 1672, Ann 27 Mar. 1675, John 1677-8, Richard 1680-1, Daniel 1682-3 according to nThe Mayflo·wer Planters at Plymouth --" by Leon C. Hills (1920) -101- -DEBORAH" SEA.RS married Yarmouth 1659 Zachariah Paddock,-- son of. :Bo.9ert LYDIA SEARS- married Eleazer Hamble (son of James. o:f Harwich) ·b-: ·12 April -1668, -died ca 1697. She married (2) Thomas Snow.. son of Mark Snow ·and· Jane _Prence. · MOSES SIJvn.IONS MOSES-· SIMMONS according to the ."Gust~n~arl~?:ie J\tices~ry" _;t:., 456 _~y )~ster Gustin (1954) waF Mos·es- Symons on· or SinioiiZoon, ·\,a -~hitd of one· _-t~t was· . in com munion· with the Dutch Church at Leyden who; jqined the> Pilgrim church ·-there 11 and arr~ ved in Plymouth _in 1621 in. the nFortune" wit~ · 111s -wi:fe . He received g~n~s in Plymouth in 1623 and 1627, 4o· acres in Duxbury·'in 1638 and·a' grant at Bridge water in 1645, and was one of the original proprie'to±s_o:f Middlebo:ro in.1662 and of Dartmouth, now New Bed:ford. He was ~axed in Dmch1lrY in 1633 and lived.there until his death. Some books give-his death as 169i··and otbers·as ·_1689, probably 1:>ecause his will was executed 17 June 1689 and :filed 15 September'-1691 .. · ~t names the five youngest children and the names of· -~he husbands . of _the th:ree daughters. He omits mention of }:lis wife; _'son Moses ~nq. daughter Rebecca 1:1ho ·apparently had died. ~ii a deed dated- 30 ]?ece~ber 1674 Moses Simmons quit_..;.claimE;:d ?-11 pis pur- :chases · o:r ·lands at _nNamasket~;a.r:i.d places adjacent, granted-'by_~pe·'c_olony.of New - Englandf _unto the first qomers, whereqf I, the: said :Meses Simmdns :e.. m· one'~ ._to John Soule of Duxbury in ·con·sideration of· a marriage heretofqre":cohsumat~d be.:. ·- tween John-Soule and my eldest daughter Rebecca."- _. He served :6:n Wir:i.6us::toJri :com mittees and was a member of' the Duxbury military company in 1643·~:., · ·· · --: : :,·::.~· :_ · G~11 W. fritchard in "Bullard and Allied Families~',. ?45; ·-·{i93Q) ·g:r6isl:.y un derstates the··--·q_ueEiti-oris involved. "There 'is much con:fusi.on 1n ·the-·rec·ords ·o:f .. his name as his· son·and grandson each named Moses as amorig>the early·-ramiliei'. "·--;~:This a~d'--~wo other· fairly_ recent ac_'counts seem to·· me, (witho'ut :_-fa~ili~_:t~s_ ~ f9r-~8:riginal investigation) tq be ·best. In. general they agree very· well,_ propably · not ~b~ing · independent. ~es ides · Prttqhard these are: "History of the Simmons· Family fr6m ·Moses Simmons-Symonson 11 by· Lorenzo A •. Simmons (1930) ·and.· ·"Ancestry of John Sim- 11 mons , 9, by Henry S. Rowe (1933 ) .· · . · , I am at first.following these and then'explain how;··1f I understand him cor rectly, Gustin introduces two.more of the sanie.nanie at·the same period.- This trio give Moses, · ·whom I shall call the "key tnan" :as marrying abo-ut i63·2 .$a.rah (who most writers think.was Sarah Cha.ndler,··but·there is no proof) and had (ages guessed· at by Rowe): Rebecca _b. - ca 1635·, Moses I!. ca 1640, John ca 16~2, Mary ca 1644 m. Joseph Alden, Aaron ca 1646, E°iizabetl_l ca 1648 and Sarah_ ca 1~50-~: -~e 1 11 "key Moses" in hfs will mentions his d.aughte:r' Mary, wife· of Joseph Alde~~- _·_. ___ · .Th.e son Moses Jr .. (II) died late 1676 or. early 1677, married -· . - . . . i...... J'atiep.ce. . - -.. . . . -_B·a':t--. - . fl ·stow.· _.He :sold ·1and "sometimes the .land of my father Moses ·Si$ripns. ~f--~9µ.rtow , which ·-sale was acknowlec;lged 4 s·eptember 1664 by Pa.tiente .._ ·Ro~~ ::gives ~ti~ii, _sp.il dren: Moses III baptized 10 Jan. 1666, d. 1690 on expedition· to Canada; ·Jphri._.;_b_ 5 Marc;h 1667, Sarah 3 July 1670, Aaron 4 Aug.- 1672,--Jo~ ~4- Oct. 1:-674;_ ~~d-~Patience i8 March 1675. · · · ·- · · · . ' -· . ·• · - ~.: · · ~- ..:~ -_ ..,: '. · · • • .•; • • • • • • • - " ...,. ., o. •· :• •• ' I "' • ·, · I . · ' I . . • ; .- ., . ~ : Then comes Gust·in, ·whom I have respected for_ other··acco~ts·-.of·.ot!'iet··tatn.:i;- lies and introduces his Moses Jr; with exactly the s·ame family·~·a.ata;:~:inciuding wife Sarah, as the above ukey Moses", but gives ~i-qi as the son of Mose~, shall we say the additional Moses Sr., to whom he assigns· the- preceding biographical material (other than his family) and gives this Moses Sr. (the fourth Moses) as having a family, wife Sarah and children Moses Jr. (our 11 key Moses") and Thomas -102- who was living in Scituate be:fore 1647 ·who had Moses and Aaron, thus making a :fifth Moses. {This arrangement is consistent with the comparatively old Davis, "Land marks o:f Plymout~", 245, who gave Moses as having Moses and Thomas; and Moses, son o:f the above, with wife Sarah and John, Aaron, Mary who married Joseph Alden, Elizabeth and Sarah.· Rowe said that he had made a 40-year study and been unable to connect Thomas with Moses. :iMayflower Planters at Plymouth --" II, 207 by Leon C. Hall, gives a Moses, most similar to Gustin's Sr. with children Moses (?), Thomas and Sarah married Joseph Alden, and "there may have been other children." Hills is the only one who places Mary who married Joseph Alden as sister of Moses who ·married Sarah (our "key Moses") instead of his daughter. . . As implied previously I would like to :follow Gustin, but this raises some questions. As the contemporary Pilgrims in Leyden spoke of Moses as a child (also reported in "Saints and Strange_rs~ , 444 by George F. Willison) and as various writers agree that he married about 1632, it seems· as if he might have been born about 1600, and that this.must have been our "key Moses". Willison calls him a French speaking Walloon but others seem to consider him -as Dutch. One writer even suggested that perhaps his :father was Willem Simonszoon - Van der Wilde, but the rejoinder was that under the Dutch system the son of' vlill- . iam would have been Willemsen instead of Simonson .. Gustin is the only one found giving the immigrant (his Moses, our Moses, Sr.) as coming with a wife, though Hills says probably with wife. But.Bank's, based on "Good News :from New England" says that the. immigrant may have even been a minor. The fact that he received only one acre in the land distribution o:f 1623 proves· that he had no wife or children th~n. Rowe says that this proves that his marr- .. iage was af'ter 1623. . Leonard says: "One record says that h~ had a son Moses, Jr., who married a certain Sarah of' Duxbury - surname unknown-· and that Sarah and Moses, Jr. were ·the parents. of Mary Simmons, who became the wife of Joseph Alden. -- Goodwin, historian, however, asserts .that Mary Simmons was "the daughter of Moses Simmons, the Pilgrim" and from a comparison of the dates I am c_onvinced that Goodwin is · right, and that if .there were such a person as Moses Jr., he.is a myth as far a·s our ancestry is concerned." Leonard reaches the trio's conclusion though appar- ently without much knowledge of all the complications. · An even more intr.iguing question is raised because whichever· Moses Sarah married, if she were a daughter of Roger Chandler. as has been suggested (some writers add 'or Edmund I), this involves descent. f.rom one who came on the "May. :flQwer" :for his marriage is recorded at Leyden. 1'27 July 1615 of Roger Chandler clothworker from Colchester and Isabella Tgiltron from Canterbury." Rev. Henry M. Dexter by chance recognized her as Isabella Chilton who was baptized at St. Paul's Cathedral, Canterbury 15 January 1586-7, daughter of.James Chilton of the Mayflower. The records are so scarce that the Society of the Mayflower Descen dants doesn't recognize any such lineage as proven. Neither "Probable Identity .of Daughters of Roger Chandler of Duxbury" in "American Genealogist", 27,· 1 by· Frederick C. Warren (1951) nor "Descendants of Roger Chandler of' Concord, Mass. 1658", 5, by C. H. Chandler show any such proof. . Formerly ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars (Member of Dux~ury Military Company, 1643) and ancestor of Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century. (one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, Mass. 165q.) SARAH SIMMONS married Joseph Alden -103- NICHOIAS SNOW NI~HOIAS SNOW according to "Th0 Ance~try of'-Thc~nnas Chalme~· Brainerd", 272 by-Dwight Brainerd (1948) and "American·Genealogist", 14,.229 is believed to;haye been· son ·of Nicholas $nowe and· Elizabeth- Rowles-~~\-1les) of' ·Ratliff who. we·re 'rhar ried 9 Y.LB.y 1599 at St. Dunstans;·· Stepney, Middlesex, near London and ·that· he was baptized:··at _St._ ,Leonard's, Shoreditch, London., .25 Jan. 1599-1600~·. "Geneal.ogical and·Anc·estral Notes", 351 by Wm. H. E~wards (1957) ·says that he may have been_ .. · gra_ndson_ of. Nicholaus Sno-:1 ap.d- Katherina Harwoode who were married 10 May 1559- Ba~k 's 0 Topographical· Dictiona.rJ"; 111, however, gives hir.1 as from. Hoxtori~. Mid-·_ 1 dlesex~ "Saints and Strang~rs' ; 450, by George r. Willison (1945) f'ollO\lS -Bank's· and says·.:that he was born.ca 1605 .. Possibly Haxton isn't very far fro~_i?_tepney. He came to Plymouth on the riAnne" in 1623, was_ on the tax.·.list 2 January 1633, freeman in 1633, and ·was listed as among thcs e able to bear anns August 1643. He removed to Nauset (Eastham) in 1645 ·with six other families (49 persons) founding it. He surveyed roads and to~rn lands. .Accou..rits differ as to just when some of the tenns of his offices were. For 16 years after 1646 he ·was to-;.-in clerk. ''The Library of Cape Cod Histor:y· a·nd'Genea.logy"·,33;7 says Nicholas was Depu.t.y to 1 the Colony Court in 1648, 50., 52 and 57; Selectma~ 1668; 71., 72;- 74 and 75: .and ',. held other offices. "New England.Historic·and Genealogical Register", 47., ~1-Qj.r M.L.T. Alden says he was ohe ·of Gov~· Prence's Assistants. He die.d a_t Ea:stham· 15 November ;J-676. ··II:l:5 will is given. in the i:Regist~r!1 47,: :82: :Jn~:-PThe-- Mi:.yf'low MARK SNOW according to the "Register" article ·was a ''man .of' large ~sefulness 11 11 and influence. When the Select Courts n were established in 1679 he was one of three com.~issioned to hold court in Eastham. He was~ Deputy for six years frqm 1675 and selectman for 18 years from 1667 and. town ~ler}<.: ±'or 15.. years fron 1663. He and his father were town clerks for 31 consecutive yee.rs . He died between 23 November 1694 and 9 January 1694-5. His will is in the. T!Register", 47, 85. ~~- .· married (1) 18 January 1654-5 Anne Cooke (daughter of Josiah Cooke ar.:d El:.ze.beth ·. Ring) who died 25 July 1656 and (2) 9 January 1660-1 Ja:u2 Prence .'(dau. of Gov. Thomas Prence · and .M:ary Col 7 ier) b. 1 Nov.. 1637., Du.xbury., who d-ied Har.-Jich rJ.Y or June 1712. · - '1\Jo· r , r ?,-; :.-NI ; C n~ Children: by Anne - Anne b. 7 July 1656; by Jane ~ M5.I;J ·. 3 ''J l v. .LOv.;_ _, .i.'...... 1.- olas 6 Dec. 1663, Elizabeth 9 May 1666, Thomas 6 A~g. 1668, Sarah 10 May 1671, -104- Prence 22 May 1674, Elizabeth 22 June 1676 and Hannah 16 Sept. 1679 THOMAS SNOW married (1) 8 Feb. 1692 Yarmouth, Hannah Sears, born Eastham Dec. 1672 (daughter of Lieut. Silas and Anna Sears)" who died before 30 Sept. 1706 when he married (2) Lydia (Sears) Hamblen b. 24 Oct. 1666 Yarmouth ( daughter of Paul Sears and Deborah Willard) and widow o:f Eleazer Hamblen. (son of James Hamb len of Harwich b. 12 April 1668, died 1697) Thomas lived to at least 1732 and Lydia· to 1748 (nRegister", 49,. 71). ·_ - . Children: according to "Colonial Families", IV, 476, (1914), Elizabeth 25 Oct. 1693 at Eastham; and at Harwi~h, Mary 16 May 1696, Josiah 27 Jan. 1699-1700, Ebenezer·14 Feb. 1700-1, Hannah 21 March 1702-3, Lydia 24 July 1707, Thomas·15 June 1709, Aaron 15 Feb. 1710-1 and Ruth 23 Feb. -1712-3. LYDIA SNOW married 31 March 1726 Joshua Hinckley, son of Thomas and Mercy Hinckley. RICHARD SPARROW RICHARD SPARROW was in Plymouth with his wife Pandora, and son as early as 1632. In 1640 he was appointed to view the meadows and from 1640 to 1653 he was surveyor of highways at least seven times~ He was constable in 1640-1. In 1640- 58 he was on 28 different juries, also on five grand juries ·and two coroner juries. In 1639 they took as apprentice for nine years Mary Moorecock and they also took Elizabetb Hopkins, daughter of Stephen, after the latter's death in 1644. Richard won several legal suits. He was Deputy to the General Court from Ea9tham in 1653 and 1655-6. He died January 8, 1660-1 and his widow soon moved to East Orlecns, all according to "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines", II, 76~ by Mary W. Ferris (1931). His will is given in uMayf'lower Descendant", 12, 57. "The Mayflower.Planters--" by Leon C. Hills has a short account. Civil Service; Deputy ~o General Court. Child: only known - Jonathan b. ca 1631 CAPT. JONATHAN SPARROW b. in England was constable in Plymouth in 1656 and took the :freeman's oath in 1667 according to "History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family" by Dean Dudley (1896). In 1662 he was appointed by the Court one of a committee to take an invoice of the liquors, gunpowder, shot and lead that is brought into this government. In 1665 he was appointed school master. He was Deacon of the church, Deputy 19 times from 1668 to 1686, selectman at Eastham at least ten times from 1671 to 1686, a member of the Council of War in 1681, 85 and 89 and Representative to the Massachusetts General Court at Boston at least eight times from 1689 to 1702. In 1690-1 he was Associate Judge or Magistrate .. He had served on petit, grand andrcoroner juries and on many committees for various ser vices such as auditing the Colony's assets, outfitting the Eastham soldiers for an impending Indian campaign in 1690 and adjusting the accounts resulting from such o.n expedition. He was raised from ensign on 4 Oct. 1675 and in King Philip 1 s War served in the great Narragansett fight 19 Dec. 1675 as First Lieut. of Capt. John Gorham's Co., it being the 2nd company in the Plymouth Co. Battalion under Major William Bradford in the forces of the United Colonies of Mass., Conn. and Plymouth.· He was Captain in 1677 and in 1689 which po.sition he· held until his death.: For his King Philip's War service his heirs received shares in the Narragansett Township -105- No. 7 ,_ now Gorhaµi_, Maine. · He ·owned much land, mostly near Eastham but inc,luding some in Taunton:--_- He···a.ied · 21- March 1706-7. . He married.. (1) 2·6 or 28- October 1654 Rebecca Bangs, daughter 9f Edward and Rebecca, and (2) between 1667 and 1671 Hannap (Prence) l'1ayo, daughter of.Gov. Thomas Prence and Patience Bre,;-1ster and widow of Nathaniel Mayo_ a;id .(_3.)-_ 23 Novem ber 1698 Sarah {Lewis) Cobb, daughter of' George Lewis and.widow of' James Cobb. · _ .!··_Ge<;>rge. E. Bqwman in the- ~'Mayflower Descendant", 14, 193, on "Qapt .. Jonathan Sparrow's Wives and Their Children" (1912) goes to great length to ident:i..fy the children and their respective mothers (as given here), exposing the serious errors i_n ~,:be. "Brewster Genealogy" by E. C .B. Jones · (1908) and by Davi.d Hamblen in ffNew Engiand Historic and Genealogical Registert';· ·-1, 280, where a Mary and an Apthia are also included "in a very careless error. u Ancestor for Society for Colonial_Wars ~nd Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. >·: -.:" .:~ .'. · · · · ·... Children by Rebecca: Rebecca b. 30 October 1655, John 2 November 1656, Pris cilla 13 Feb. 1658., Lydia and Elizabeth· after 19 November 1660 and ~on~-~han 9 ·July 1665;_ probably by Hannah-, but evide~ce not ·co~clusive, Richard.17 March 1669-70·, d. __ inf~ncy,. and by Hannah: - Patience b~fore 25 October_ 1675 and Richard ca .1675. . . . ~...... ~ •' . . . . . ': I. ~ECCA SPARROW married 31 December 1673 Tho~as _Free~~n, son of Major John Freeman and .~ercy Prence • · . · CYPRIAN STEVENS CYPRIAN STEVENS · (Stephens, ·steevens) wis born ca 1650 and died Lancaster·, .:. Mass. 1720-2 according to the best _account of the family I have f'ound·,- ~. that in· rrA:ncest-ry of Col. John R. Stevens and His vlife Frances H. Miller" by Mary L. H61- man (1948), which· says that "it has·been_ stated that Thomas,_ Cyprian and Mary Stevens were children o:f Col. Thomas Stevens of Devonshire, but that-is erroneous. He probably. came· from Essex, not far from Bock_ing. ·cyprian was a b_lacksmith who went first to Concord and later to Lancaster·. ·He was _better edu.cat~d than. the average... He received iand gra·nts in Lancaster, e.·nd later bought: µio.re of the In dians. In 1673 he bought land of his: ·-father-in-law "in Nonacoicut, i now-Ayer, and· moved the:r:-e. In 1678 he ,:,as attorney fo_r Henry Willard and in 1682-7 Clerk of the Writs .....In· a case· in· 1681 he was called CiporU;s· Steevens ~ ... ·. 11 · '·'History of the Town of ·La.ricaste·r, Mass. ,. 155 :tY. Abijah P. Marvin (1879) says that the Middlesex Court in April 1682 convicte·d him of "selling ·strong. drink" to the I_nd~an$·. He was fined 2Q_ shillings· money·' -~nd to. pay :c~st~ to two Indian . : witn~sses, t~ree. shillings. In 1690, apparently at the_ t~e o:r .. the expedition to Canada; as constable,. he allowed a priso_ne~ to e~Ga.pe, was. -arraJgne¢i. and convicted, Q:Ut he ·soon -fulfilled his warrant and was discharged· on' paying c_osts . The "Histo:cy of' Holland, Mass.'', 660 by Rev. Martin Lovering (1955 ). ·with a: short account con tains two err.ors - ·his being son of Thomas and his ·wife's ·mother· be~~g si'ster o:f· ·_: .. ~ 11 President Dunster. (See under ''Willard ) :. . . He was -in. charge of the garrison house, in 1.675 in Lancaster, ·.s~ryed in. King··_ Philip 's War.and later,_in 1676 at Groton ·under Capt. Thomas. Wheele.r and.at La.ncas~ ter in 1704 under Ensign Peter Joslin. ·when the inhabitants at Lancaster were··.·. - forced to :flee from the Indians in 1676, Cyprian went to Rumney Marsh (now Chelsea). In a distribution of Indian captives put. out as s~rvants in.1676 Cyprian Stevens of Rumney Marsh, late:· o:f Lancaster~ reeeived a six-y~ar-old boy, the son of Nabant/t of Chaunakonkonon. -106- He married (1) at Lancaster 22 January 1671-2 Mary Willard b. Concord 7 Sept. 1653 (daughter of Maj. Simon Willard and Mary Dunster).· ~he d. ca 1685 and he married (2) before 9 December 1693 Ruth .•• who died before 1720. He died 1720-2. Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars. Children: Mary b. 22 Nov. 1672, Dorothy ca 1675, Simon 13 August 1675, Eliza.beth 1681 and Joseph 1683. Simon married (2) 24 January 1732 May (Gove) Martin, q.v. MARY STEVENS married ca 1695 Samuel-Wright, son of Edward Wright and Hannah Upson (Axtell sometimes given in error) .. SAMUEL STURTEVANT . SAMUEL STURTEVANT b om in England, was in Plymouth, Mass. as early as Nov. 1640, planted land on shares in 1641, was on the list of those able to bear a~s in 1643, bought land in 1643, was a town officer and died October 1669, age ca .45. He married Ann ... according to Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts" and to Davis in "Landmarks of Plymouth", 255, wh-ich also gives the .children. His will also mentions his son-in-law John Waterman. Ann married (2) at Braintree 21 Sept. 1675 John Bass who died there 12 Sept. 1716 in his 84th year, whose first wife had been Ruth Alden, daughter of John and Priscilla Alden. In most instances a special account of a man or family includes considerable not given in the above authors, but in this case the only acco:unt found, that in "Snow-Estes Ancestry", I, 152 by Nora E. Snow (1939) includes.little more e~cept that he had been no doubt a resident of Rochester, England before coming to Ply mouth and that he lived on the "Cotton Farm 11 in Plymouth. It gives his will, his children and the settlement of_his estate and this eulogy: "To the one who looks down the long vista of the ages as it is revealed in the light of history, there appears from generation to generation a recurrence of family characteris tics that were strong in the family ~ine hundreds of years befor~. In the race of sturdy Sturtevants the same quiet energy, self-reliance, regard for truth, belie·f in the ultimate triumph of right, and the tendency to individual think ing have prevailed in every generation." As a person living now ·is perhaps in the ninth generation from Samuel and so had 512 ancestors of his generation, except for intennarriages, one wonders if many of his other ancestors didn't also have the same fine characteristics. Samuel's will of 1 August 1669 is also given in "New England Historic & Genealogical Register", 7, 180 and 55, 73 and in "The Mayflower Descendant" 18, 188. "The Waterman Family", I, 680 by Donald L. Jacobus and "Ancestors of' Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams 11, 64, by Josephine C. Frost (1900 )"!P also cover some of the family. Ancestor for Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century (Member of the Plymouth Military Company, 1643) Children: Ann b. 4 June 1648, John 17 October 1650, d. 30 Oct. 1650, Mary · 7 Dec. 1651, Samuel 19 April 1653 or 4, Hannah 4 Sept. 1656, John 6 Sept. 1656, Lydia 13 Dec. 1660, James ll Feb. 1663-4 an~Joseph 16 July 1666 (child expected 1 August 1669) ANN STURTEVANT married 7 December.1665 Deacon John Waterman, son of Robert Waterman and Elizabeth Bourne." -1D7- ·· JOHN UPK4Jvf DEACON.JOHN UPHAM (Uppam, Uphame, Uppum, Uppom) ·was born ca -~1.597...:1600 in the parish of Bic~on, co. Devon; England. This account is based·largely ~nth~ "Upham.Genealogy -Descendants o:f John Upham", by F.k~ Upham (1892y·-with-:·s_qm.e · ·· corrections and additions :fr.om the "Dawes-Gates· ..A-ti'cestral- 'Lines" bY;.Ma;ri ·w~ _, ... · ·. Fe.rris (1931), the usnow-Estes Ancestry-", II, 276 by: ·Nora· E. Smaw .. {i93'9). an .. . Deacon .J.'sistEfr' 6~-:~Elizaheth,) One 'author · says John was·· at -~eter, 11 miles northwest o:f Bicton:'for·s·ome months~ :·.H~· :~r- · rive.~ .in Ma.~.s~cb:u~e-t-ts- in 1635 ."t•tith :his: .. :v1:if"e:, -~tnre.e,:.·;cni·ldreri and appaje.ntly a sister and sta·yed at Wess.aguscu.s which was then--inc~c,i-pora.ted a·s WeYrrlouth 2 .Sept-; 1635, when it was made a plantation with the privilege of Deputy to t_he General Court. He was a~itted a .freeman the. ·s-ame ·a.ay .as-,·-Hull •s~ Company .. Three fac tions. ea.c~.:~~'?·se·_:~~ man for_.rieputy, John Upharn·.:by::th~ LIEUT. PHINEAS UPHAM married 14 April~- 1658 Ruth,.·Wd-od',::·beli~y.ed} .. t·~: 1Je_·-~di:i;~gh ter of Ed·ward of' Charlestown. She died. 18 Jt:t:nua-ry 1696..:7•,: .;f3.ge:•t·6o. _rn· ·1673. he . surveyed the road from Cambridge to Malden and l:ie·cause· o:f·'. his ··tabcir ~- · tr~v-~~;- -~nd. activity in .furthering the settlement of vlorcester ', ·he ,~a.s: allo·tted·- 50 acres : there.·. In June 1675 he was on jury duty in Charle=stovin. · ·He -·settle·cf 4Q· mii~s in the wilderness ~est -of Malden and was one of the. earliest!"•is-~ltlers' ·tn. w·orc·ester County. He was Lieut. by Sept. 1675 on a march to the Nipmuck country with Capt. Gorham. When the Indians began to attack the outlying settlements in King Philipts War his f'amily returned to his old home. There is an account o:f him in nHistory of -lo8- Ma.lden", 320 by D. P. Cory (1898) Several accounts devote several pages to his letters about the war situation. There is also an accoun.t in "New England Histor ic and Genealogical Register", 43, 349. One account Sa"ifs: The forces met the Indians in battle Dec. 19, 1675~ In this fight known as the stortrJ.ing of Fort Canonic-us or the Battle of the Great Swamp Fight, he was mortally wounded, and with the other wounded men was carried to Wickford from the field of battle. He was sent to Rhode Island January 6, 1675-6 and later tq his home in Malden. The march from Rhode Island is called the Hungry March. There was much su:ffering from lack of food and horses were killed and eaten along the way. In Oct 1676 he died. The General Court made a special appropriation to pay the cost of his long illness and gave the widow 10£ as she was left with seven·small children to. support. -- The government was not unmindful of his great sacrifice and put testimony .upon the record of his long and good service to the country. 11 The article says he married Ruth Wood, widow of Edward, but he married Edward's daughter Ruth. · · Ancestor for Socie_ty of Colonial Wars .and Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dam.es (Lieut. in Capt. Wayte 's Co. , · King· Philip's War, Lieut. 4th Mass. Co. under Capt. Isaac Johnson in the Great Swamp Fight, 1675. When Capt. Johnson was shot, took command until wounded.) Children: Phineas b. 22 May 1659, Nathaniel b. 1661, Ruth 1664, John 1666, Elizabeth, Thomas 1668 and Richard 1675. ELI~ErH UPHAM married 5 Oct. 1692 Samuel Green, ·son of Thomas Green and Rebecca Hills. The "Vinton Memorial", 399, is-obviously wrong in stating that Elizabeth who married Samuel Green was granddaughter of this Phineas ins.tead of daughter. ELIZABETH UPSON ELIZA.BETH (UPSON) married ca 1635-7 ---- Upson and had Hannah ca 1637-9, ac 11 cording to "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines , I, 639 by Mary W. Ferris, the only real account found, but it includes numerous references to verify the statements it makes. There is also the somewhat similar "Bullard and Allied Families", 95 by Edgar J. Bullard (~930). She lost her husband by 1639 and married (2) before Feb. 1639-40 Hugh Griffin of Sudbury, the first town clerk there, by whom she had four children be~ore he died 21 June 1656. Then she married (3) as 3d wife Philemon Whale of SudburyJ 9 Nov. 1657 for an account of whom see Miss Ferris, I,- 666. He died 24 February 1675-6. Elizabeth lived through the Indian attack of probably 1000 warriors· led by King Philip himself on Sudbury 21 April 1676, and later "Widd. Whad.e" estimated her loss in the attack ~t 24£ ($180 1951 dollars.) Edward Wright's loss ·was £100. She · died 8 November 1688. HANNAH UPSON born probably Boston or Sudbury was under 21 in :March ·1656 and died at Sudbury 1_8 May 17o8 at about age 70. She married there 18 June 1659 Ed-· ward Wright. Her name "has in printed statements been·taken in vain an·amazi~g number of times, making her appear as Hannah Axtell. This is because at her mar riage she was recorded as Epson and someone unfamiliar with the early handwriting had rendered that as Axtell and other writers have copied and recopied the error. -109- JOHN VINTON .· JOHN VINTON·was the ancestor of all bearing the name in the United·St~tes {unless. someone c·ame over· scores of years later) was the conclusion of' John--Adams Vinton,~ author 9f "The Vinton Memorial - A Genealogy of .. the Descendants of John ViI?-tori o_-r ·. ·tynn, 1648 --."". We are very fortunate in having a book publisheq. as early as :X:858 based on intensive ·research of the early Massachusetts records •and _includ~~g written notes made in 1823 from answers to inquiries_ of his ·.grandfather, · ·•.·Josiah Vint(?n_, born in i755, ...; a man "of' intelligence and integ~tty_" about his ancestors and rel~tives ..._ · The book contains 16... pages of preface about the name in England, France and New England-:and. 10 more pages about the family tradition of Huguenot descent and conditi~ns in-France _that may have-led to emigration from ·~ranee, :f_ir~t to England and_ of John· later to Massachusetts. Alth9ugh .there hasn 1 t any docume:ntary evidence of such· _or.igin•:-been found, the ci~cumstc3:r:itial. ev iQ.enc~ is of the strongest _k).nd, acc.ording to 0 Ancestry of H.E.Gustin -- .",. l43 · by Lester Gustin (1954) . which includes the OJ+_ly other s11IOmary -account I: have· . . . . - - ...... found o;f our branch of the .family. This rathe~ app~ars to have been based on.. ::The Memorial;'"' . . . . . ·- . _ ·. \Johri· probably W~S born not far from 1620 and he' probably came ove·:r b_~f,ore 1643 and _liv~d _at first in. iynn, though_ h~ wasn ~t even mentiope~ .~efore .. _1648, when from ·the ·county. r~cord in the ·o:rfice _(18.5~) ·.·o~ ~he City Cle~k-::9~:.·~le~ ~-•':it:_,?:~• found that his ·:ri:rst child was born. ··---He·-~· c.bnnecte-4 in som~ ytaY, _w~th .:~h~L•J:;ron Works there. He may not have been a member o:r' the Congregationa'i Church so there wouldn't ba·ve .l;>een many records. N:o v.ital statistics record.s..,;·exis:~: fo~; .Lynn be fore· 1675 and tbe ·town business rec.o.rds don't beg-in_;_until 17°66-7-~-"> '.I11~:- s_ituation in Malden is even ~orse as tbpse previous to 1700 except for a f'eir scraps :f.ollow ing ·1678 have -been lost. "His fore.ign descent may. have occas.ion~a-:)so~e-::_inconven- . ience, some dis.9:dvantage, which might not .exist at a later perio~. -The connec .. tion of his f'aniily with the· :family Q.:f Joseph Hills - would indicate that he was : a r~.spectable man. · ·· · - · · · · · It· is probable that h<;:, did not attain~·an advanced age and there is some reason· to believe that his .··-f~mily moved to :Malden about 1676. Th~ record_pf' 11 his· daughter Sarah born by Ann, h;is wi:feu seems to· indicate that she_ ~vas hts second wife.· Ch~rles A._ Torr~y says that his_ first wife was Eleanor.-~ -;Both John and Ann·. died 3 August. 1664 {in New Haven) according to Gustin (See. "_New England Histori~· and Genealogical Register",. 85, 109 which says -that his wife,'. wa~. given erroneously as Elinor. ) · - . . . . . ·.·:: -. -..:.-.: Ancestor for Huguenot Society . . . Children:·. Eleanor :i;,·~ May 1648, John 2 Mar¢h.1650, "William last. of\_April- 1652, · Blaise· (Blaze) 22 April ·1654, Ann 4 April 1656~ Elizabeth Jan. 1657-8--31nd ~arah 16 Sept. 1662. . ... ~ ~ .. .:_,_·., :: ' JOHN.VINTON died 1J··~OV~"l727·~·- -·He :\vas married Malden by Rey. ~i.~hael Wig glesworth~26'August 1677 ·to Hannah Green born 24 Feb. 1659-60 (daughte~--9f.Thomas Green and·R~becca Hills) who died 1741, .age 82. He moved from Lynn app~rently about 1675 to Malden where they lived until 1695, when they:bought severa,:J,. pieces of pnoperty in -·Woburn. He was a w~rker· in iron, a "forgeman", and may _hav~ -been employed :tn the Lynn Iron Works which were in that part of ~ynn which -is now the town of Saugus, a town.now lying betweeB Lynn and Malden. In a ~eed in -~709 he was ·a "f'orger" ..,' He· was a man of' c·apacity and energy, as appears from the proper ty he acqu~red~ an9-.the position he heid in society. The Vinton .fam~~y in this c9tlntry-are ~~a-rly all .his descend.an.ts." In :fact Mr. Vinton could trace no des- -110- cendants from his two brothers. After removal to Woburn he "seems to have devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. Three of his sons were black.smiths, succeeding him in his original _ occupation, though all of them united with this .employment that of husbandry.TT Though thought to have been principally of Woburn after moving there, he was called "of Braintree" in three deeds in l 709. After John 's death Hannah lived in Braintree with her son Thomas. Children: John· b·orn ca 1680, Hannah 26 Jan. 1681-2, Rebecca 26 March 1683, Th·omas 31 Jan. 1686-7, Mary 20 Aug. 1689, died infancy, Mary 2 Jan. 1692-3, Samuel 3 May 1695, all.in :Malden and Abiathar 10 May .1700 Woburn. ABIATHAR VINTON of Woburn was married 30 April 1723 in Malden by Rev. Jos- eph Emerson to his cousin, Lydia Green, daughter of Samuel Green and Elizabeth Upham. He was a blacksmith. For a short time afterwards they lived in Brain tree, but in 1726 he was in Leicester where he resided until his death in 1740. Lydia 1J1S.rried (2) 15 January 1746 Samuel Stower of Leicester. There are short accounts in "Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester", 406 by M. · Emory Wash burn (1860) and in "History of Hadley and Family Genealogies", 143 by Sylvester Judd. ·children: Lydia b. 29 March 1724 Braintree, Hannah 2 May 1726, Tamar 16 May 1728, Elizabeth 31 May 1730, Abiathar 18 Sept. 1732, John 3 May 1735 and Samuel ca i737, all in Leicester. ABIATHAR VINTON married (1) 14 _April 1757 Rhoda Wheelock of the "Country . Gore", i.e. of Charlton and (2) ·when of Eas.ton (int. 21 Jan. 1763 Charlton) Rachel Caswell b. supposedly ca 1740 at Easton or according to another account at Bridgewater; arid (3) 1788 widow Sa.rah Smith of Granby. He resided several years in Charlton which adjoins Leicester. About 1772 he moved to Granby, for merly a part o~ South Hadley. He died after 1800. "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailo:r:-s in the War of the Revolutionn, XVI, 341 gives: Vinton, Abiather, Granby. Private, Capt. John Cowls' Co., Col. Wood bridge's Regt., which marched Apr. 20, 1775, in response to the alarm of Apr. 19, 1775; left service April 30, 1775; service 11 days; reported returned home; also Capt. Phineas Smith's Co., Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's Regt.; service 4 days; company marched on an alarm at Bennington, Aug. 17, 1777." "The Memorial" adds "Travel 44 mi'les" on the last a.lann. Ancestor for D.A.R. and S.A.R. Children: born at Charlton, Abiathar 20 May 1764, Tamar 30 July 1766, Sim. eon 17 Nov. 1766 and Hannah 25 Jan. 1771 and born at Granby, Samuel 17 May 1773, John, Simeon 25 Feb. 1776 and Rhoda 4 Sept. 1778. SAMUEL VINTON married 27 Jan. 1811 Florinda Hinckley (Lorinda in 1850 cen 11 sus record) b. · 13 December l 791 ( according to both the Vinton Memorial fl and the Hinckley pension records), daughter of Elkanah Hinckley and Bathsheba Paddock, both originally of Southeast, now Putnam County, N.Y. He was a farmer in Granby, Mass. until 1803 when he moved to Coventry, Chenango County, N.Y. whence he re moved in 1825 to South Bainbridge nearby where he died 23 May 1856 (1860 accord ing to gravestone). Children: born in Coventry John Hinckley 29 April 1812, d. 29 Nov. 1870, Almira 5 Apr. 1815, Bathsheba Ann 1 De~. 1817, Elk.anah Gage 5 Jan. 1821, d. 23 July 1853; and Rachel Rosette 2 May 1823 and born So. Bainbridge Sarah Esther 25 Nov. 1826; Rhoda Elizabeth 5 June 1829 and Samuel Finley 1 March 1832, first ~111- Gousin of Samuel Finley Vinton, one of the leaders O'f the o+d Whig-paity and member of Congress for twenty -·years from Ohio. · -SARAH ESTHER·. VINTON marr~ed 30 ~ctober ·i849 Jason ~pra~e Kelley,._ ·s_.9;n of . John Kelley and Bathsheba Wright. . .: "· ; . : · GEORGE ·WALKER of- TIOOA QOUN1J:Y,. tTE\-l YO~ . ; . . .,.. .. _ , GEQRGE vJALKER, the immigrant-, spelled -Walger· or Va.~_ge_!- ✓- hu-t a~W.?-Y$ Walker. by_ tl;le- :immigrant -- probably came over fn ·th~ ship n·Priscii~a '_t -- . land.i'ng: at_:.-, P_hila~lphia Sept. 11, 1749 from Rotterdam, wtth h}.s f~}h~r_ Jo_hn la;cob ;wai"ther;~ Tra~i-ti-on.:infonns .·us that he came· from Holland to·AmericB:-~in l.749 ~hen.h~-_-was,. __.· nine years of age with his parents and half brothers -and s·is:te_rs ,: __):ie b~;i.ng. th~._ onl:f child of a second marriage, " all according to the best ·pr_intecf .':1,_CCO~t of the family_· from "History of Waverly, N Y. and Vicinityt1 by Cha:·rles__ L> .. -A~bertson (19~3.). _·. [To digress a little it was after this author that.~ ~1+~ --oi~J;.~tj.do) i)i'lor ... · . ido. Public· __ Library -:11here I have done considerable of t"he work_-for·_th:Ls.·,.book, _ was- named-..--He presented to it many of the ge~e&logical books -:ther~ _-.- ':£~~·-_Flor~ id.a State DAR Library is also :there so that· it is considered one of-~:-the·'·_best. '. genealogical libraries in -the state.] . _. - ,.. ._ .. :.. ,._: -_- __ .. Tn_e -John Jacob Walther note looks sus'p:ic_iously, ~hough :riot ~neces·s2i~-ly, ,-.--· as if' it were taken without much proof of' cb'i-14icti6n :r"rom T~c.6~ l~c\ipn of; ·tJpwa.rd of. 30;_000 Names of Germans, Swiss, Dutch, -'Frencl-i- an~:-ptf1~-~ !m~ig:r~~ts ~r1 .:Penn-- sylvania, l 727-l776u by I; Daniel Rupp, 197 . ( ±na.~x by-··11.,.--'V ~ :Koger') ___ -;_--, Va;J?ious . 1 Wa~ke,r_, names .of immigtc.nts in "Pennsylvania· Archi\-es, t_T_., ·:tr, 1 7 and:··:tri._ ,-,T Pe~sy1-... van-ia _G:ennan Pione·ers.1' . in·, Vol. XLII of "Proceedings ·of: Pehnsylvarj:i.a ::ct~:rnian... ff . , .· . ' . . '. , , : . . , , ; . . . Society _:·by-Ralph-·B:. Strassburger and William ·3·_. · Hinke don 1 t seem to_ -t3i:v~ any ..cll.les.: .. , . Th.ey.-, include· Georg Walker 16 Sept. 1751, Jerg. Mic.kel" Wa.lcker 5·_- Sept·. 175l; -- Jonann ~ichael.:Walker ~5 Sep::t. 17~9, Jop·ann ~acob Walther ·t1 Sept_~_ :1749, Johann J9-cob Walch;?,_· 20 Sept. l ?41~- John- ·Ja~ob-Walter·-- 7· Oct. 1749 ~no._. Georg_ .- , , . Wacker_-l-5th:7?:e-r; 1749.- I assume that George himsei:f·wouldn 1 t be nc;med_ on any __ lis-t (which was~_:recording oaths) if he ·~-1ere ·only a_ boy 611 arriving. . - . • • • • • • i. ~ - The mcterial for ·_Albertson and· most other available infora;tation wa$ gath:".. • ered :for -~ey,eral years around 1895 before he died ·by George 1·lo.lker '.s gra.µ9-5on,..- _; ._ Zephron Flower Walker, and continued by the latte·r's son, Nathaniel Flow~p Walker,- who furnished me this additional ·information· e,bout 25 years .ago_. There. 11 had beqn short accounts in "History of Bradford County, Pezjnsyivania , 259,· by H. C. Bradsley (1891) and in nour Country and Its People - A Memo~ial His-. tory of Tioga County, New Y-)rk,, by Leroy W. Kingnw.n; 768, __ and in 11Genealogical and Family History of Northern Pennsylvania ", 726 by John_ 1-l. Jordan_ (1913) .. The ''History of Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wyoming ·Counties,· Pennsylvanip._" ,_. (1880) adds Iittle. · · · · · __ · · · I~ -1954 I coordinated and consolidated ·these· accounts togethe~· · w~th.,1-rili; census, cemetery records and personal-'. infonnation from the' :family into'_ ~).1(}.eor·ge· Walker ·of Northumberland C·ounty;;: Pennsylvania an_d Tioga Co-qnty) Nei:-, Yo'rkl'_,: a hectographed account of·_ 33 page·s -e.nd· distributed it to· about 25 of.-J,h~. pi'"'inci pal genealogical- libraries of the country~ Later I found a book ·tor -~,hich I had looked but not happened to find in Ne1; York, Chicago an~ Hart:fo-1~d ~ ,- : . l fou:1d it in the National D.A .R. Library· ·in Washington. No't-~ l fi~ci- i:t,, ~n _the· )?iiblic _ . Library in Orlando mentioned above.· It is the .,,Genealogy of the~-J'oh:i;iion-Tozer. Family and Historical Sketches n by Emily E J .-- Tilden. rt· ir:cl'ud.~s- :co-~1-~ idere.bit2 -112- additional material, but nearly all on late members of the family in the West. I find 30 differences in dates (counting year dates and day of month separately; between it and Albertson. I imagine the latter has fewer errors. Two rather extended genealogical inquiries in the "DAR Magazine", 53, 744 and 54, 418 add very little. "Pennsylvania Archives", 3d Series, 25, 340 shows that George Walker (Walger in the Vulgate) purchased 17 September 1774 from the state 300 acres on the Nescopeck Creek in Northumberland County, now Luzerne Co. "History of' Luzerne Co., Pa. "6o8 by H. C. Bra.dsley (1893) under Nescopeck Town ship says: "It is believed that the first settler in what is now Nescopeck Town ship was George Walker in 1786, settled near the old-time Benjamin Evans' grist mill. Walker made improvements and commenced to build a mill, but the 'pumpkin flood' o:f that "year w~shed everything away. About the same time a family sett led on the Michael Rab~r farm. The whole family we~e massacred. George Walker, soon after the massacre left the county and it is supposed went west where he could have more room. " Other·"Pennsylvania Archives" records show his taxes for Wyoming Township, Northumberland County (now Wilkesbarre) in 1778-80 (III, 19, 432; for Augusta Township, Northumberland Co., 1783-4 (III, 19, 548) (400 acres, 2 horses, 2 cat tle); for Catawissa township George Walger, 1785 (1,000 acres, 3 Horses, 3 cat tle) {III, 19, 641) and also for there 1786 (sawmill, 916 ac-res, 3 horses and 3 cattle) (III, 19, 652). Northumberland Co. originally included nearly all the northern part of__ t.he state, 26 later counties. In 1786 Luzerne received part of Wyoming. · ca·:tawissa was taken off Augusta in 1785. · The 1790 census of Luzerne County· shows him as head of the family of one other male over 16, six boys under· 16 and three females .. "Our Country and Its People-A Memorial" says that "George Walker (Walger}, a German, was settled in 1774_ near the mouth of Nescopeck Creek in Northumber land, now Luzerne County, Pennsylvania -- owned a farm and soon thereafter built a log gristmill. It is said that he was a soldier in the militia defending Wyo ming at the 'massacre' July 3, 1778. About 1780 he moved to Salem, Pennsylvania and owned land and a_nother grist mill which burned. 11 My previous article at tempts to explain the different locations, all fairly close to each other~ Per haps he was t~xed on some land after he had moved elsewhere. An interesting point is that his land probably eventually proved tobe very valuable anthracite coal land. When he sold his Nescopeck land June 4, 1793 he was of "Salem Town ship" (Sunbury Deed Book, I, 195). On leaving Salem for New York State he had to propel his "Durham boat" {by men pushing the boat ·with setting poles) 140 miles up the Susquehanna. His household goods and his wife and seven children ranging in age from one .to 15. were sent that way and his stock by trail by the overland route He came to a stop near Owego, Tioga County, New York at what is known as Ellistown ·where he remained a short time. He then bought Patent No. 2, 213 acres in Nichols and later Patent No. 1 of 362 acres between the first purchase and the state lin~ now Litch:fi~ld .. Here.he cleared the land, built a saw mill and other build ings, erected a still house· and made and sold whiskey. He prospered and aoout 1800 bought 513 acres north of the present village of Waverly where he built a gristmill on the Cayuta Creek which was operated for upwards of· 100 years and known as the Walker Mill, believed to have_been the first building in Factory- ville. . uHistorical Gazateer of Tioga County, New York", 1785-1888 by W.B.Gay says under Nichols: "The f'irst permanent settler in town was probably Samuel Coryell. -- He· found there·, however, several of these irregular settlers that -113- are commonly found on new land. A~ong the$e we find the names of Mills, Ellis, Pierce and Walker. -- Only George Walker oecame a permanent settle.·r. H On_ page 283 we f'ind·: "Willard, . son of Jonathan Hunt, married Ma-ry, daughter·· of George Walker~-- _The_ latter came from Sunbury, Pennsylvania and located ~t Factoryville. · ·He bought 500 acres of land at that place and then· came on the •river and·pur chased ~ mile ~~-square. The homestead __ is the -Kiff fann ori the roa~ one mile from the state line.·" . . 11 • Nort.herri Pennsylvania" says George was born ca 1740.·- ·· ,-,T~dition has it that he was of a colony of Germ.ans that removed from central 'New York, near the source of the··susq_uehanna River (this sounds highly_im:probab1e··to·me - J.·s.E.·) and settled -in· cept~l Pennsylvania _near Nescopeck, where he ·bought 400 acres of' la_na- ·on wh-ich he erected a gristmill which ·was soon .after destroyed by a _ flood~ · ·He i·s·· ·next: foun9- 1.~ Salem -- where he purchased a tract qf ·W_i•ll:iam Gray of -Philadelphia~ and he.re also- erected a gristmill which in a few years was like wise destroyed~ -- Dur_ing_ this time his wife died and he- :remarried -~n ··1787_ or 1788.· _:.:_ (In·New York) he settled on what was known as. the Isaac.Raymo-:ad farm·_. in Ellis town, about two miles _east·. of Waverly, and: later ·purchased 480· :~:cres pf Ellis to~1n, -about· :two. ·mi_les .east and driven to America by persecution. . . :· J·. · .: . •· ~- · • --- - · •·•. • · • · His se.rvices in_ the. Revolution may -b~- those . listed: in the·:'. ;_'Perinsylw.riJa·· _:_ Archives u, :Fifth Series, 6, 116 which say~~··under county:·-of Ctimber1an~;- ."'Geb*ge . Walker in a class roll of all the white male· inhabitants of·:-dapt.· Daniet ·Clap sad.dle 's Company of First Battalion of Cumberland -·county Militia,' July ·ye 28, 1781." Third Series, 23, 784 says : "Capt. James Horrell' s . Co. of'' Ei"ghth · Ba ttal ion o"f Cumberland Co. Militia commanded- by George Ellet:, .-Majo:r; ;- fn · servfce of Northumberland-.-Gounty -·- · ;includes Geo·rge-Walker and. Hugh :Walker. · :·The same •infor• mation- is in 5, 573 and also in Muster Rolls· of the. American---Revolution', 235~6 .. Non-e of the other county and similar his•tories I- have been··able to find in various of the ·best genealogical libraries adds anything es·serttia.l The follow ing include little other additional than that George: .Walker first settled _on land· purchased of Mr. Ellis; that he erected the first gris't.mill. •in 1800 on Cay uta Creek; and that Elias Walker built th~ first tavern: "History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler Co~ties, N.Y." (1879.:); '-'An Outline Histocy· of Tiog~ and Brad.ford Counties in Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga; Tompkins 0 and.-· Schuyler in New York by Township, Vila.ages, Boroughs and Cities ; "Gazateer nnd Business Directory of Broome and Tioga Counties;; N.Y. 1872-3" by Hamilton· Child; and "Historical Gaza teer of Tioga County, .New. York" by W. B. · Gay.· There are· several references to Samuel Walker who t~ught the first school in Chemung -114- and who was later killed by the Indians. It is important to note that he was not· of George's family and that there w~re other Walkers somewhere near George's residences, both in Luzerne County and in Tioga County ·who were not related to him unless some of them were his half-brothers about whom we kI1ow nothing The· omitted section in the long account quoted hereinafter under Francis says: "His :father had three brothers in the Revolutionar-_y- ·war, one of whom was l{illed in the Wyoming Massacre. This may possibly be a clue to the half-brothers of the grandfather of Francis. He married (1) ca 1773 -- who died at Nescopeck ca 1780. In 1925 Nathan Walker wrote that he thought her name was Lydia. He.married (2) in 1783 at Salem, Mary Curtime ("History of Waverly") or Onstine or Oustine, as the name appears elsewhere, b. 1752, died Nichols, New York April 15., 1815. He died April 16, 1812. My previous article included· his complete will. An abstract · o:f it is in "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record", 57, 385. Ancestor for D:A.R. and S.A.R., several memberships have been approved ( "Linf;age Books 11 126, 141., 143 and 144). · .: · Children: Peter born ca 1774, Jacob 1776 (1778) went to Canada about 1812, Daniel 1778, Girl who married . . . Reap, Elizebeth · 1784, Henry Sept 23, 1786, Samuel Sept 16, 1788, Mary Oct .. 29, 1789, Elias July 15, 1792, George March 5, 1795 and John May 8, 1798. · JOHN WALKER inherited 153 acres of the homestead and sold it and bought in ·Chemung, New York about 1822 He married 1816 Margaret Cooper born May 26, 1800, daughter of George Cooper and· Susannah Courtright. John d. Nov. 2,1859 and Margaret February 3, 1877 . Children: Susan born May 8, 1817, George W. Mar. 22, 1820, Esther 1824, Mary I. (J) 1829, Martha M. Jan. 2, 1831, John P. June 23 (8), 1833, Emeline (Emelissa) Aug. 8, 1837, Francis M. Aug. 28., 1839 and Thom.as c.· Oct.·20, 1841. FRANCIS M. WALKER married Oct. 18, 1874 Lanesboro., Pennsylvania Sarah Effie Vinton Kelley-born February 2, 1858 Afton, New York, died March 24, 1927 Elmi~a, New York, daughter of Jason Sprague Kelley and Sarah Esther Vinton. nPresidents, Soldiers, Statesmen", Vol. II, page 1241, H .. H.Hardesty,pub lisher (1895) includes: "Was born August 28, 1841 ("History of Waverly" based on infonnation furnished by Francis M. Walker in 1895 and also his pension re port ·and his tombstone show 1839) on the same fann his mother was born and died· on in Chemung County, New York; his father John Walker and.his mother Margaret (Cooper) are-deceased. Oct. 18, 1874, he was united in wedlock at Lanesboro, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania to .(Sarah) Effie V(inton) Kelley. She was b·orn February 21 (2), 1858 in Afton., Chenango County, New York of parents, Jason and Sarah (Vinton) Kelley, the former living, the later deceased. They have had four children, Lena, Edwin, Bessie and Blanche. Comrade Walker was a farmer when he decided to take up arms in defence of his assailed country June 17, 1862 and was enrolled at Elmira, New York when 19 years old in Co., n,· 107th Nev1 York V.I~ 3d Brig:.. 1st Div., 12th A.C.; he was enrolled as a priv ate and rose to the rank'of Corp., Aug. 13, 1862, Sergt. Sept. 1862, Ord. · Sergt. Sept. 1863 and 2nd Lieut. Mar. 17, 1865. March ~9 at the battle of Ben tonville, his shoulder was broken by an ammunition wagon tipping over, killing two ·of the occupants; he was treated in company quarters. March 1864, he was furloughed for twenty days to recruit and retuxnad to command at end of time. He was captured at Ch~:t:QW, S.. C. by Wade Hampton 1 s com..,nand; was heid three -days· and escaped; he was detailed to do provost duty at Div. Hd. Qtrs. from February -115- to March 18, 1865. He also took active part 1.;-ith his regiqient in the. battles_ o:f , . I Antietam, ·Ch~nc_ellorsville:., :.Gettysburg," Resaca, Cassvil~e, Dallas.,. ~Iew .. Hope· Church, Pine Knolb, Kenesaw 1-.1t., Peach Tree Creek,.At~anta, Siege q:f.Atlanta, >·· Saunders ville, Averysboro, Rockham, Bentonville, and num.¢rous other engagement$:. He was granted an honorable discharge· June 18, 1-865 at ·Elmira_,.· £few. Xor~. Com- .. -~ rade Walker was given a medal--by the State of Ne~ York for meritorious s·eryice . a.t the_ Battle -of Gettysburg,;i .being the· only man in his township. having one.· __ His.·mat~rn~l grandfather was a graduate(·,o:r· Oxford College, England and taught:> the. s9hoo1 ·in this township when "it. wa.-s·. still a part of Tioga··c.qurity . (1790:.95.).• ··: -~- Co~de .W.a.lke.r~s ances·tors we·re :Huguenots and :·were driven .to-America b·y-~pe.r~ .. secution; he has been sheriff of a county in t-1issi$.S:ippi by .appoir1:tmerit from the governor for nine -months; J. :of P_. ''in·~:Mississippi, supervi~or one --t~.rm and -con"!".~. stable.. ' 1 He i$ •1isted as sergeant 'iri Co~ :D., ·107 N.Y. regiment. fn·uour Cduntry._ _. and Its People .• A History of the Valley and County of Chemung from.the.Closing Years of the- _Eighteenth Century," 228, which_ also· says:· .The· :liist"ory of the . regiment is a very brillant one.. It was in so~e _. bf the bloodiest arid most de;-··,. cisi-ve engageme_nts .in the war; notably at· AntJetani~ Chancellorsville and G~t.tys.·~ burg-. It participated ; n the. famous march to th~· sea and was. held in the high- . . . . . est esteem by General Sherman. ·It served nearly three years, being mustered. out of se·rvice at Elmira on June· ·5, 1865. He died ~1a~ch 2, 1902. ; · Children: John I. b. Afton> New ·York, d._ infancy; Lena~- C_};lemung, d._ 27 August Rocky. River, Ohio; Franci~ Edwin:, d. ·Elizabeth H. and Blanche 1943 . 1900, ...... M. RICHARD WARREN ., RICHARD WARREN was a direct descend.ant in th~ 95th ge_ne:ra~ion of. the· Rome..n 11 Em.porer, Ttberius ,-. B .-C. 10 according· to .·1t300 Colqnia:i·: Ances·-t·or$ ·:.and. War Service , 314 by Elizabeth M•. Rixford (1 934}._. _Be·r°ore going into detaiis __ .about this re- · . markable lineage, we might notice that as· far as I Gan und~rsta.'nd this,. it. in volves him. himself having children about the tim~, :,if not before his parents were married a_nd also: on the basis· that he· married a· _widow_· ~lizabetp Marsh, Richara_ died even befor~ his wife entered ·into her first marriage.". . l_n . other words, the.re is•a discrepancy of· a fu11·genera_tion ... _ We first lqok :at· ?,_brief abstract of the "lineage'~ .by generations·: · .. · . · "The Order of': the· Firs 0 Crusade The Rorrta.n-Norman ·Line t·o Richard Warren 1 Tiberi:us ,_ B.C. 10 . 2 Drusus ;:. m. _Antonia., daughte-r · of Ma-re-Antony:· 3· Claudius, -·Roman ·Emporer A .. D~ ·41 to 16 Constantine to 11 Hilderus 12 Hilda; married Frada, King of the· Danes to 22 Goom Eddkaj married Ethelred to 26 Gonorra; married Baldric Teu.tonicus 27 Niece ~f Gonorra; married Nicholas ·de Bocq_u,eville (Was descent through a niece treated the same as through a· da1-i.ghter?) · · -116- to . 31-17 William de Warrene, 1st Earl o~ Warrenj married Gundreda (No. 77) through various Earls, etc. to 93 William of Devon, married Alice Mable 94 Christopher of Scrooby; married Alice Webb 95 . Richard Wa.rren of the Mayflower; married Elizabeth Marsh References: The Ancestral Lines of Richard Warren, from the Frankish Charle magne Line; the Salian_Franks; the Northmen. and Saxons; the Charlemagne-Italian Line; the Capetian-German·Line; the Russian-Turkish Line; the Nonnan Dukes; the Flanders Line; ·and the Scotch Line; Chart compiled by Howard K. James. ("Jim Leavitt Productions"), third edition, 1932." This lineage is also given in 'iContributio:qs: Biqgraphical, Genealogical and Historical", 296 by Ebeneze~ W. Pe:L:r;-ce . (1874) in Colonial Families of the U.S. and various other places • . Part of the explanation of the e-rror is given in 11 Richard Warren of' the May:flower and Some of his Descendants" by Mrs. W. A~ Roebling in "New England Historic and Genealogical Register", 55, 70 published in 1901, the only Warren genealogy I have happened to see. It seems that Dr. John Collins Warren in 1854. published a Warren Genealogy. He jumped to the concl~sion that because Richard of' the Ma.vfloweru had the same name as another. Richard mentioned in the "1620 Visitation.of' Devonn they were identic~l. The otper Richa:r;-d (who f'or_brevity I shall call -Richard, Jr., married Eltzabeth Ivat (Juatt, Jew~tt), daughter of •••• Ivat and widow of •••• Marsh. "At the time when that book (the Genealogy) was published it was not unusual to assume connection with English families on evidence as slight as similarity of names. Modern critical resear~bes_pave over thrown many such assumptions." From a lat.er (1872) edition of' the "Devonshire Visitation" it appeared witb the statement that this Warren pedigree had been inserted. ·by a later hand. "Christopher Warren married Alice Webb 15 June 1613. -- _Richard, ~he third son o:f Christopher Warren (i.e. Richard, Jr., the one with.the remarkable lineage) was baptized at Sydenham Damrell, 13 August-1615 and was five.years young~r than.:.his wif~ ,Mrs. Elizabeth Marsh, who was not licensed to marry her first husband until 1629. The license reads: 'Marsh, Francis, gent. of Stepney, bachelo-r, 26, and.Elizabeth Ivatt of St. Buttoph, Aldgate, spinster, 15, daugh- . ter of Oliver Ivatt, deceased -- at Westham, Essex 20 August 1629'" Thus, he:r first marriage was one year after Richard Warren of the Mayflower had died (1628). Of' the comparatively few of the "Hartford Timesu genealogical items I have seen three repeat this explanation .- A-2422., May 8, 1943; A-6926 Dec. 7 > 1946 and 7161 July 20, 1940. The latter em12has·izas that even the :father, Chris - topher, of Richard, Jr. didnrt marry Alice Webb (June 15, 1613) until_just seven years before Richard of the Mayflower, then the f'at];er of nearly marriageable daughters, set sail on the Mayflower. Item A-2422 calls attention to 11 The May flower Planters at Plymouth", 150 by Leon C. Hills (1920) which says, without comment, that Richard of the Mayflower married before 1611 Elizabeth March, widow of Jouat Pratt born 1583 (?) (instead of Elizabeth Ivat marrying Francis March). Even if this is true (the 1629 marriage being of an entireJ_.y different coµple·of 1 the following generation) it wouldn't affect the error in the "Lineage ' , because Richard of the Mayflower on this assumption married before 1611 and this before his pretended father, Christopher who married 1613. Hill's statement is fairly late, but whether or not he has solve~ the prob lem of who was the mother of his daughte·:rs I am in no position: to judge·. "Timesn article B-6904, 30 Oct. 1954 says: "Mrs. · Elizabeth Warren who came on the "Anne" -117-. 11 -.-;ras frobably• hi:s· seccn~ w_ife and not the· mother of his five daughters-·. ': A ·t;·orn in England, Nathaniel ca 1624-5 and Joseph born before May 1627 (date of cattle divis ion). JOSEPH WARREN was enrolled in the Plymouth militia in 1643, was surveyor of highways in·l651-2, 1662-3, 1613-4 and 1685; a member of the Council of War df the Colony 1675; representative to the General Court :from 1681 to 1686 and se lectman 1686-8. As an "ancient freeman of Taunton", he received a grant of land from the Colony, 3 June 1682. He had an interest in the Punck.ateesett lands and ·he had grants at Manomett Ponds 27 October 1682, Agawan 5 June 1677 and Eel River 4 August 1679- He also devised lands at Middleboro and Bridge water. He married 1651-3 Priscilla Faunce (daughter of John Faunce and Patience Morton) born ca 1633 who died 15 May 1707. He died 4 May 1689. _ Ancestor Society·of Colonial Wars and Massachusetts Society o:f Colonial Dames. · Children: Mercy b. 23 Sept. 1653, Abigail 15 March 1655, Joseph 8 January _1657, Patience 15 March 1660, Elizabet~ 15 August 1662 and Benjamin 8 JanuarJ 1670. MERCY WARREN married 6 January 1674 ( "New England Historic and Genealogical ·Register", 4, 46, showed 5 February and nearly all subsequent accounts have copied·that error), John (not William 0£ the 1901 genealogy) Brad:rord, son of Major William Bradford and Alice Richards. ROBERT WATERMAN ROBERT WATERMAN, yeoman, born England, removed from Plymouth, Massachusetts to Marshfield where he married 11 December 1638 Elizabeth Bourne, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Bourne. He was freeman 7 March 1642-3, proprietor 1643, member of military company at Ma.rshf'ield 1643 and Deputy to the General Court of the Colony 1643 to 1650 except 1645. He died 10 December. 1652 and she mar-· ried (2) 1653 Thomas Tilden (son of Nathaniel and Lydia Tilden) baptized Ton terden, England 19 January 1618-9 by whom she had two boys who died infancy and Lydia born 26 April 1658. Elizabeth was buried 12 December 1663 and Thomas Tilden married (2) 24 January 1665 Mary Holmes. Practically all the important information about the early members of the: family is in "The Waterman Family'' by Donald L. Jacobus, ,nlth9ugh there· is some in uSnow-Estes -Ancestry", II, 145 by Nora E. Snow (1939). Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars and Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames. Children: Joseph born ca 1639-40, d. young; Deacon-John 19 April 1642~ Thomas 30 Nov. 1644, Joseph ca 1650, Robert ca 1652 and Elizabeth (Miss Snow, but Hills in "Mayflower Planters at Plymouth" gives Joseph as 1643. DEACON JOHN WATERM:AN born Marshfield but settled in Plymouth where he mar ried 7 December 1665 Ann(a) Sturtevant (daughter of Samuel and Ann Sturtevant) born Plymouth 4 June 1647 or B, died 9 February 1719-20 at Plympton, the eastern part of Plymouth ·which had been separated in 1695. John moved back to Marsh field in 1685, sold land there in 1687 and then moved back to Plymouth in 1687. He was a freeman 20 May 1670, served on juries in 1671, 1689 and 1690 and on a coroner's jury in 1675. He was ordained a deacon 27 November 1698. He was a ship carpenter. He died 14 September 1718. A "Hartford Times" item B-8459, -119- Nov. 26, 1955 says· he lived.in Marshfield, Plympton and Warwick, Rhode Island. Children: Samuel b. 16 Oct. 1666, Elizabeth 15 Jan._ 1668-9, Anna 18 Oct. 1671; Lydia 9 May 1678~ Deacon Robert 9 Feb. 1681-2 a~d Capt. John 22 or 23 September 1685. · · · . ·DEACON ROBERT· WATERMAN .died Halifax 16 Jan. 1649-50, mnrri~d (1:) Plympton. 19 March 1702 Mary Cushman b. Plymouth 12 o·ctober·1682, dieq._ ~lymptqn· 13 ~rch 1722-3, daughter of Rev. Isaac Cushman and Reb~cca --;· .~rried "(2J 5. Deceni.ber 1723. Plymouth, -Elizabeth Cushman b. 17 January 1685-6, _d'ie_d 13 MarGh- 1724-5, daughter of Elkanah Cushman and Martha Cooke; married (3) t8 June 1727 Abigail Dingley, b. 16 July 1637,;, d. Halifax 28 Nov. 1771,. d.aus.titer of,. Jo,sia.h Dingley and Elizabeth ·Newton~·:. - · ·· ·' · · ·· · ·· .. Children by l~ry: Isaac b. 10 or 11 Ma:( .1703, Josiah 5 March 1705-6, Thomas Oct. 1707> Rebecca 9 Oct. 171Q, Robert 2 March 1712-3, Mary 25 February 1715-6) Samuel 11 August 1718 and Anna· 6 March 1720-1; and by Abigail at Hali fax, Abigail 5 March 1728-9, died infancy. THOMAS WATERMAN died Plympton: 22 Av.gust ·1789/ m'.a.rri~d t'h~re·:_,12 J\u:ie 1728 Me·rcy Freeman b .. Harr.-:ich 24· April 1711; died 1759-62·, daugh~e~. ·of Jonathan Freeman and Mercy Bradford; married (2) Ply--rnpton 5 ·January 1762-3 Jbai)na born 15-June 1719, d. Plympt?n 18 Augu~t 1761.i, ·.iaughter:·of I_ch~bod Pa.d,dock_.and Joanne Faunce and widow o:f Lemuel Harlow; 2.n 1.i•r:1arried .(3) King~~on·1. August 1765 Lydia born Plymouth·lOJune 1714, died.Hnlifa:k 3·Apri1·178t~, da~ghter of John Faunce and Lydia Cooke, and -~1idow of K0enezcr Washburn .. T~_omas r~. ~ill mentions the children of his daughter uRebecca Heford 1 ·aec 'd." - ... - . Children: Jonathan b;. 17 December 1730, Abigail 16-May 1733,· Rebecc~ 19 April 1736,-'Marcey (148.ry) 10 June 1739, Thome.s 28 July l 742~ Pris.cilla _22 April 1745 and Freeman 16 July 1748 .. REBECCA WATERMAN married Plympton 31 Jan. 1754 Samuel Ha~ord, son of Dan iel Hayford and De·liverance {Bowles) Boles. GEORGE WILT.ARD ·· ·'.- ·GEORGE :W'ILLA.RD was brother of Simon q. v. for what has been .·found· about his ancestry and his being born in Horsemonden) county Kent, 4 December 1614. He took the oath· of' allegiance 1 February 1638-9 in Scitu.ate. He was.· among those between 16 and 60 in 1643 who .... ,ere able to bear arms. Very short. ··accour;i.ts. . . . are -in:·_ . _ 1:Willard- Memorial - Life and Times of Major Simon· Willard", 99 ~y _J9sepb 'Willard: (1858, reprinted i913) · . : .·,:.: · "Willard-Peabody Genealogyn by Eugene W. Montgom~ry (1915) . _ · , · . 11Genealogical and Ance·stral Notes"; Series I, volume 2 by-Wm. H.· ;Edwards : (1957) . . . ·"Our Ancestors 11 by :.Jo.ni~s ·H. Roberts; Mss. in Connecticut State .Library "The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth" by Samuel P. May (1890) June 1 1 1641 he was arrc..·{gried before the General· Court for his /outspok.en. '6):-it icism of' the church as to'bapt'ism·of infants and 1..:as fined but later... r~lea.sed. · Very little is known about 'him~ · He may have moved to Maryland. At ~east Deb orah and Daniel lived there ··:for a time but returned to Ne-r.-i England.· There is -120 reason to believe that his wife was Dorothy Dunster, daughter of Henry Dunster of Baleholt near Bury, England according to May, but among the nine children of the latter there was no Dorothy as given after a tremendous amolli~t of research pre sented-- in "New ·England Historic & G~nealogical Register", 80, 92 (1920) nor was there any Dorothy Dunster of that generation given for any of his relatives. George apparently left no descendants in the male line. See under "Dunster." Ancestor for Society of Colonial Wars Children: Deborah and Daniel ·baptisted 14 September 1645 .after the, church had agreed to baptism according to the views of the group of the members of which George wes one; and Joshua 2 November 1645. · DEBORAH WILI.ARD married 1658 Paul Sears, son o:f .uRichard Sears, the pilgrim" SIMON WILIARD. ·slMoN-wILIARD was born Horsemonden, co. Kent, England. Other accounts besides those listed und~r his brother George include: . "Willard Genealogy - Sequel to the Willard Memorial", 4, by Joseph Willard, C.W. Walker and Charles M. Walker (1915) 1 ' Gene·a1ogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Familles of Boston and Eastern Massachuse_tts" IV, 1733 by William R. Cutter (19o8) uHeroic Willards of '76", 8 by James A. Phelps (1917) "Hall Ancestry.", 55. by Charles S. Hall (1896) ''Willard-Bradley Memoirs" -oy Henry K. Willard (1925) "Bullard and Allied Families", 262 by Edgar J. Bullard "Ancestry of Col. John H. Stevens and His Wi:fe Frances Helen Miller", 29-35 by___ Mary L. Holman(1948) : "Fifty Puritan Ancestors -1628-1660 Genealogical Notes", 143 by El.izabeth T. Nash (1902) This account follows somewhat He~r.1 K. Willard and Edgar J. Bullard which is - very similar. . Simon's great-grandfather was Richard Willard o:f Brenchley, co. Kent, yeoman, whose will proved 24 October 1558 named sons Robert, Alexander, George, Richard, Andrew, Simon, Thomas and William and daughters Alice and Agnes. Richard's son Symon Willarde born ca 1534 of Gowtburst, co. Kent in his will proved 26 February 1584 named his wife Elizabeth and thei~ children Thomas, Richard, Thomasine and another daughter who married Mr. Baldy or Bolde. Elizabeth was buried at Hors mondon 12 April 1587. · Richard Willard, yeoman, married ca 1587 Catherine who died 11 March 1597-8. He married (2) 1598 Margery who died 12 December 1608 and (3) 7 (17) Jan. 1610 Jean Morebread who died 25 February 1616 a few days after him. He had Mary ca 1589, Thomas baptized 6 May 1593, Elizabeth 5 June 1594-5, Margery 6 · November · 1602, Richard, Simon 7 April 1605, Catherine 30 August 1607, Edward 21 March 1611-2, John 3 March 1612-3, and George 4 Dec. 1614. (dates in different books differ). Several children died very young. Richard's will was proved 8 March 1616, given in the !egistry of the Consistory Court .of the Lord Bishop of Roches ter. Simon married (1) Mary Sharpe, baptized 16 Oct. 1614 (daughter of Henry Sharpe_ and Jane Ffeyled) who came to America with him with one or two children (accounts differing) in 1634 a:fter he had sold his land in Kent. He married (2) 1651 Eliz abeth Dunster baptized 26 April 1619 (sister of Henry Dunster, the fir$t president -121- . of Harvard) who died within a few months and he married (3) ca 1652 Mary Dunster either a .niece baptized 5 December 1630-of Elizabeth or a· second cousin.baptized 25 October 1629 as explained under "Dunster. " Edgar J. Bullard gives ra.ther con vincing reasons based largely on the names Mary gave her children for believing it was .the second Mary. One accou.'11.t igno~es the second marriage_. Mary died 28 December 1715 age 75 after having married (2) 14 July 1680 Deacon Joseph Noye~ of Sudbury who_ died .16 Novemoer 1717.. Most accounts seen apparently involve·_ errors about s·imon 's Dunster wives. - . . ·Simon .had a grant of 100 acres 4 Aug. 1634 in Cambridge on the west side- of the Charle:s River. '·:He immediately identified hims·e_lf with the p:r:inciples .and views of ·his Puritan associate·s in Church and Commonwealth.· On 2 September 1635 a grant of land six miles square was made by the General-Cou~ to_Mr. Bulkeley and Simon Willard and about 12 more-families. The place was called Concord." Upon the organization of the town he was chosen Clerk _of the Writs and s.o .con ti_nued for ·19 years, according to ·K. F. Willard. Cutter says he -was the first Deputy-to the General Court elected in Decembe·r 1636 and served every ·year _until 1654 except 1643-8, and the "Willard Genealogy-sequel TT that he perform.~d: eminent services on committees (usually chainnan) to who~ were referred controv~rsi;es. between the town and certain groups of indiv:iduals and questions abo~"t-.bound.a.ries of towns. 0 The second year he was appointed Surveyor of Arms, having b~_en. _a c·apta.1n in ·England. His ·first commission- in the Colony ~as that o:f Lieut.enant-.Commanda.nt. He and Major-General. Gibbons, ,with some 20 :m_en under this :contrqi,...... ·were. ·sent by .Gov. John Winthrop,- .Sr. to Connecticut with instructions to take po;:;sessio_n of the place ·and erect buildings." He was made Captain: in ..1646 .and in .:1653 Major ·.of Middlesex, second in rank only to· ~the ·Commander-in~.Ch~ef. of the -.Coiony.4: " .. He led an expedition agai-nst the Narragansetts in i654-5 ... · · . ·. · · · "He was employed by the government in various trans-actions. with. the Indians . . . ar:id was associated with Apostle·Eliot and Major G:ookins in their friendly mis- . . sions. · When a company was fonned to encourage trade in furs with the Indians, he was entrusted with the. superintendence. The Indians -~bout Concord_·chose ·him "to record and keep in writing'' what they had in general_ agreed upon···t.ouching their religion and civil government. Passaconaway,·th~.chief sachem of.the Merrimacs, requested that the Apostle Eliot and the 1 worshipful Major_ Willard' would live near his people to teach them. u · _ . "He was one· of a Committee chosen by the,General Court to consider the sub ject of supplies. -- Simon Willard held o_ffice. of_ Surveyor, ·an~- in _-1652, he and Capt. Edward Johnson were the- joint commissioners to find the m_ost -r.iortherly part of the Merrimac River.· An interesting memorial o:f .the su!vey ~-,as the first sculptured inscription of the Mas.sachusetts _co_lonists. : In the very--~ pot· which the- commissioners established as the mo.st northerly line of the· patent --~- at. a point where Lake Winnipiseogee discharges its waters into the Upper Merrimac -- (Inscription includes 'SW' or· Simon's initials.). Massachuset.ts_ w:as ~stablishing her claim to a wider jurisdiction covering the whole part of the ·v1estern part of Maine. 11 In 1654 he became Assistant or membe-r of the higher branch of the legislature and served for 22 years, and was deputed to hold court in Hampton and Salisbury in 1666 and in Dover and York in 1675- He -removed to Laneas-te;r_ about 1660, being importuned· by the inhabitants to come and instruct them ~in muni~_ipal .af faires. There he lived by the Nashua River until 1670-1 when he moved, to Groton where in December 1673 he beca:me -Chairman, of the Board of Selectmen ... He also · had a fine farm at Still River, _now Harvard. He lived in G:roton unt1.i. the de- -122- struction of the town by the Indians when his family fled for refuge to the old er ··settlements and his house was destroyed. He died Charlestown 24 April 1676. When King Philip I s War began ·h~ at 70 was su"IlIIloned from the Court over which he vas presiding to lead the Middlesex Militia, and went to the relief of Brookfield._ "Increase Mather writes: 'In the very nick of opportunity, God sent that worthy Major Willard, who with forty and eight men set upon the In dians and caused them to turn their backs.' Baillies in his 'History of the Plymouth Colony' states, that Major Willard _'so silently and skillfully managed his approach, that he was perceived by the garrison before he was discovered by the Indians." He was cashiered for disobedience of orders in marching to the relief of Brookfield August 4, 1675.' -- There is doubt as to whether he was really cashiered. Official documents s-how that he was Commander of the Middle sex regiment until his death. 11 Another writer says that the story is ''too ab surd for contradiction". Pritchard says that he was. active in· military- life for 40 years. An extended eulogy about .":Major Simon Willard and His -Men'! by Rev. George H. Badge appears in nNew.England Historic & Genealogical Register" 38, 217. The list of soldiers included a Samuel Greene 24 August 1676 and Ed ward Wright 30 November 1675. Cutter says he was one of the most conspicuous and honored men of his day. H.K. Willard says: "He was a stalwart Puritan, a consciencious, religious man, a man of sound and enlightened understanding, and a man of-brave and enduring .spirit. He held important trusts as legislator, judge, and military c~mmander until his death. He possessed a mild and affectionate nature, shown in his friendly bearing towards the Indian and in his loving re_gard of his fellowmen." · "Major Willard received a number of grants of land, making in all between .four and five thousand acres, exclusive of his rights to subsequent division in lands of Lancaster. The towns of Acton, Stow; Rutland and part of Groton are on lands granted to him. After his death his children received a grant of 1,000 acres in payment of money that was due Major Willard from the Indians. In 1686, a tract of· 12 m Iles, afterwards the tovmship of Rutland, was conveyed by the Indian proprietor to Henry and Benjamin., sons of_ Major Willard. There is a ~ablet to his memory in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral and also a Tab~· let in the parish church in which he was bqptized. Ancestor for Society·or Colonial Wars and Massachusetts Society of Col onial Dames. Children: It is believed that he had 9 children by Mary Sharpe and 8 by Mary Dunster - Mary ca 1631, Elizabeth died infancy, Elizabeth ca 1632, Dorothy ca 1635, Josiah ca 1637, Samuel 31·January 1639-40, Sarah 27 June or 24 J1:1-ly 1642, Abovehope 30 October 1646, Simon 23 November 1649, Mary 7 September 1653, Henry 4 June 1655, John 12 Feb. 1656-7, Daniel 29 December 1658, Joseph 4 Jan. 1660-1, Benjamin 1664-5, Hannah 6 Oct. 1666 and Jonathan 14 December 1669. MARY Wil.TARD married 22 January 1671 Cyprian Stevens ED\'7ARD WOOD "EDWARD WOOD joined. the church in Charlestown, Mass. 30d 1 m. 1640 and his wife Ruth a little later. He was a 1642. He died there Nov. 27, 1642.'t ("The Record of' My Ance~try", 161, by Charles L. Newhall, (1899-). "The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown", II," 1_044,- by Thom.as B. Wyman (1879) says Ruth married yl. Shea:f. I assume ~that this e~rly guess has been supplanted.- ·Pope's '·'Pioneers o~ Plymouth" says he was a baker. · "American Genealogist," 20, 101 -(1954), the latest reference .says: "Dr. G. L. How~ in Vol. 21, 123-33 presents a strong circumstantial case for the con cltµ;ion that Thomas· Wood: o:f- Rowley, Mass-. and bis__ !)rother were· sons of Edward Wood. _It seems reasonably certain that Edward had a daughter_ Ruth who married 14 April 1658 Phineas ·Upnam of Malden." "New England Hist9ric arid Genealogical Regis-ter":, 99, ·77- states-· that "Ruth, wife of Edward Wood died 29 .. (6) 1642!'. and according to the "Boston Transcript"-, Jilly· 9; 1923, L.W.L. Ans. No. 8789 says: "Ruth2 Wood, daughter of' Edward was taken into the house of her grandfather, Ralph Mousall., _at the time of' her parents'· deaths iri 1642, when she was apout 1 five years··· oid."," ·and reared as his own daughter. ' This is :further explained in the uRegister" article. . Children: Ruth. and Tabitha baptized 30 May 1641 and probably ·Thomas · .. --~ (: RUI'H WOOD.·married 14 April 1658 Phineas Upria.m, son of ·John Upham and Elizabeth Slade NATHANIEL:woonwARD NATHANIEL WOODWARD of Boston was assigned a lot there November 1635, ac cording to Theron R. Woodward in:C"Natha.niel Woodwa:rif• of' Boston, and Some of His Descendants" in "New England Historic & Genealogical Register", 51,. 1.69 Ci897). He-_:was.-admitt_ed· freema11·17 April 1637~- He was sometimes _called ~themati.6:i.an and ·was a carpenter .as·. well as surveyor·. Iri 1638 he was emp'loyed to· run the line .between ··Plymouth and Massachusetts 'Bay colonies; als6 between ·Massachusetts and Con;nect-icut ~. Afte_rwa;rds he was sent ·on··the· Me.rrimac Survey.·: _:_·September 6~ 1638 Goodman·. Woodward and .:others were ordered to '-lay ·out the.. s·outhernmost ·part,. of. Charles River and als.o'. to lay out line ·north ·of Merrimack. On °lb Oct.ober _ . 1638 Nathaniel Woodward, ·mathematician and others _reported td the Court ·a_~_ Bos.-:,·. ton- on the southerly survey. · ·June. 2, f641 he and three others were· ·ordered ~to .. :: "lay out the south line,- or any three o:f .. them, so long' as Goodman·:woodv,:a~ bee -··: one, also empowered to treat with the Indians, ,. e-tc. " June 4, 1642 -h~. and_. others 1 were .ordered to "set dovm the bounds· of Charlestowne· an NATHANIEL WOODWARD was dead by 5 March 1722. He wus sentenced by the court June 1671 for speaking abusive words against Mr. Shove, pastor of the church at Taunton, to sit in stocks during the pleasure of the Court which was accordingly perfo:rmed. Children: Elizabeth, James and Ezekiel, all living in 1722. ELIZABETH WOODWARD married Samuel Lincoln, son of Samuel. DOROTHY AND EDWARD WRIGHT DOROTHY WRIGHT, probably widow, came with a child or t·wo in time to become one of the earliest grantees and original settlers of Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1638-9. A nine page account, including numerous references to authorities about her and her family is included in "Dawes-Gates Ancestry", I, 678 by Mary W. Fer ris which says: "It must have demanded rare courage and executive ability us well as material means, to establish herself 2.nd small children in a new commun ity in this new world. She was given a house lot of six acres" and at subsequent divisions 2, 4, 3 acres and as 'widow Rite' 8 1/2 acres. She married (2) 10 Mar. 1642 John Blanford who had lost his wife Mary and had five children by him. He died 23 October 1687 when his will mentions his nson-in-law" Edward Wright. Then she moved to Marlborough to live with a twice-married daughter, Sarah Blanford (Keys ) Maynard. There as "old Widdow Dori thai Blanford" she died 1 March 1703 when she must have been in her nineties. The genealogy further says: nThere are more misstatements relative to this family than almost any other of early days, for our Dorothy is erroneously as signed a husband she never had, a castle in England (Castle Browick, Warwick?) and a son "Edward of Concord" who really sold that castle, but that man was not our Edward who lived only in Sudbury. Through a misreading of the early Script Edward is frequently recorded as having married Hannah Axtell (Thomas) instead of Hannah Upson. But what is really worse he is repeatedly shown in print as having three wives instead of but one and as being the composite of three con temporaneous men of that name, himself, the above mentioned Edward of Concord and an Edward of Boston .. There is also a short account in "Americana", 34, 656. Children: Edward born ca 1630-5 and probably Samuel born ca 1637-8, be sides her five Blanford children including Stephen and Sarah. -l25- CAPI'. EDWARD WRIGHT spent his entire .life in Sudbury where he died 7 Au~_t 1703. He marri.ed 18 June 1659 Hannah Upson (Ewon in. the· record). In· 1674 he was appointed one of' three fence viewers empowered to· en£orce·thef~-~quirements on the_ ·property owners. The · genealogy devotes pages to the;_ Indian attacks on Sudbury, Marlborough and adjacent territory during King Philip 1:s···.wa.r·. uit is generally conceded that Edward of Sudbury _served in the -militia h iri tl;lat · waz:- •. "~e cQl.ild not have failed of service in Apri•1-1.{?76 when Sudbury -was· .i-a_ttacked, and . which at that time lost heavily by fire and plundering o:f Ind-lans·/11 Various towns lost men, killed or captured. On Feb. 1, 1675-6 "Thomas Eames,_ ~<;)~_-in-[La:w of John Blanford -- home was burned, his wife Mary. (~:lanford) and five -ch·il~~eri wer~.. slain and-f'our· others were carried away _into captivity. On Februa-ry-10 half of La.nc·as~ ter was burned and 42 persons were killed or taken captive-;-,oh Feb·niary. 21 Med:~ .. ·.. : . ford lost 15 or 16 persons and 50 houses. On March 10 Sudbury'. lost-··;se-veral :lives and: 9n March 13 Groton lost 40 or 50 houses, and several· l:tves ~ L.-~ :Orr:jvJar"c~h. 26 .. - Marlborough. was attacked ..;._ 13 homes, 11 barns and their-beloved:meeting house . were "burned, fences -destroyed, fruit trees hacked and peeled and·.. ca:tt~e ki~led .. or maimed.· ':. The town was practically wiped c;>ut later:-___ ." . (Long··acco,;mt of fight- ing and losses nearby) 11As a r~sult of thes~_-heavy ·losses·, -34' nieif·di:Sudbury__, . ~ including Edward.-Wright, his step-fathe_r John Blanford and Joseph: Mcxire signec{ _a - petition to·:the. General' Court" fc;ir-_ some· -relief:--·--· They appended a. J:::is:{: o:f 33 "S\ld- · bury. residents:. who had· suf:fered· losses totalling .£2, 707 by the Sudbury :fight· of.. April 21 and. among- these· were Edw~rd. Wright £J.00 and John Blanford £ip.~ (Wi+li-·· son in trying··to--evaluate· pounds. iri ··the first few decades of the coionie~ ~sed. . a factor of about 75 to obtain the relative value in tenns o:f i95i \-:doi~ars·. ) _ (In an artic1=.e- about .USimon Willard and His Men'' by Rev. George .H•-~: $.odge in the "New England Historic & Geneaiogical ..Register~', ·.38, 217 Edward Wr~gbt _· is li_sted. among the soldiers 30 November 1675.) Edwa.rd ·was Lieut. in·--'i678 ·and possibly·· it was in:the 1690 campaign In K_ing.Williamts :War in Gov. Phip'pst·· :tutile expe"'." . dition -to take· Quebec that" he a~qui.re-d ·t,11e title of Capt. As ·some: }fompe_ns~tion · soldie:r:-s y.ears· -later received land grants, men from Sudbury in ~ 741; after. most of the soldiers themselves had died, the Sudbury-Canada grant ··\J?ich was ~n. tp~ -> vic.ip.it-y·_>of Jay and Canton, Maine. So Samuel received land for: the seryice ·of · his ·:rcither .. -Edward died 7 Au~t 1703:and Hanna_h:18 May 17o8) .. ,. . Ancest.or for S-ociety· of Coioniai Wa.'rs an~t Massachusetts Society ·or Co_lqniaJ._ Dames. : . . . · · . .- . ... _· · _ · _Children: -Hannah .born 9 Jan. 1660-1, Dorothy .20 Oct. 1662, Sarah 17 J~n~ .. :: .- 1664-5)" Mary 2 ·Jan." ··1·666~-7, Elizabeth 6._.March 1668..;_9, Samuel 9 April _1670;:·.Al:?i,~· · gail 15 Sept. 1672, -Etizabeth probably 1674-5; Edward 18 March 1677 and Martha .. 25 Dec. 1681.· · · ·· · · CAPI'. SAMUEL WRIGHT of' Sudbury. married ca 169.5 ·Mary Stevens, da-µghtet 9£ ··. Cyprian Stevens and Mary Willard of' Lancastet. · _: He-·1-tas one of the prop°:r~i.ei'.:,.o.rs·.· o:f Rutland and one o:f ·the_ cotJmlittee to ma:q_age -its affairs and moderatof o:f-::th~:. first town meeting in Jurie· 1722, town clerk,- selectman, assessor, etc~--, d~a.con .. for 20 years, evidently the principal man in Rutland in its earliest --~ay~_ (·"Co_l lections of' the Worcester Society of Antiqui~ies", VII, _;79) -In 173t· after t.~~ incorpora.tion of the county ·:wa·~~ in the• service of the ·provi1ice being in .comm~d of· military scouts· gua.r~ing ·. the· town, and watc-hing for In.9-i~ns, and, untii_~::t;,he_ peace ·o:f 1726 he wa:s·-. busily.- :em:.. . -126- ployed in similar .duties." In 1724 he was captain. Several of his letters_ and reports are in the article. Three of these appear also in the "History of Wor cester", 51 by_ William Lincoln (1862). He died 15 January 1739-40, Rutland and she there 16 May. _1739. Ancestor for Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames Children: Cyprian born ca 1699, James ca 1701-2, Mary 10 February 1703-4, Dorothy 7 March 1706, Abigail 19 Feb. 17o8, Isabell 3 Feb. 1710, William 22 Dec. 1712 and probably Hannah. DEACON JAMES WRIGHT "dee' d July ye 7th, 1754 in the 51st year of his age" according to the oldest stone in the burying ground according to the "History of the Connecticut Valley, Mass.", I, 539 by Louis H. Everts (18.79) under "Green-wich Hampshire". Oct··. 31, ·1745 "the sum of 50 s. old tenor, was voted to James Wright for "Victuals and lodging provided at. the raising of the (Congregational) meeting house'". "1750, 5 Sept. he b0.ught lot No. 1 sold for taxes for £32 and No. 17 for £120. In Nov. 1765 the c9mmittee appointed·to locate a school reported 'in the north part near Widow Wright 's house,. '" Both Rutland and Marlborough Vital Records give his marri~ge as of Rutland 31 Jan._1732-3 in Marlborough to Patience Martyn. "Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly", V, 18, says that James was son of Capt. Samuel Wright, Indian scout) clerk, selectman, assessor, justice, surveyor, landlo!d, deacon, Capt. of the militia and 1ived at the tavern farm of the village of Rutland and had ·a-hand in all the affairs of' the town .. '~ Patience married (2) 26 December 1765 as his 2_nd wife John Hunt, tavern keeper and farmer at Hardw_ick, b. 1711, 1-1ho died of smallpox 1778. · Her will o:f 28 October 178~, ·. proved 1784,. mentions Silas and enough of her other children to positively identify her a~d them. "Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt", 64, by H.B.Wyma.n (1862-3)_gives·the marriage of John Hunt of Hardwick, son of Isaac,_with Patience Wrigh~ and gives his children by his first.marriage. He had none by Patience. . . "The Newton.Genealogy"-, 214, by Richard Newton (1915) and Paige's "History of Hardwick", 544 give data ~bout some of her children, including the marriage and first child of Silas and considerable about Thomas Martin Wright, including his capture 9 August 1780 w:Lth John Newton and Prince Haske.11, by the Indians. in Barnard, Vermont where he had moved recently, and taken captive to.Montreal, and his escape the same :fall (or the next spring).· f'Richard Newton of Sudbury" by Rey·. W~ M. Newton (54 pp., 1912) also gives an account ·of.this raid. After the •raid his wife, Elizabeth Newton, sister of his ·companion in captivity re-: turned on horseback to Hardwick where her second child was soon born. This story is also a tradition in our family, though it is vague enough not to.be sure whether it was a brother of Silas or some direct ancestor. Silas named one son Josiah Newton ·Wright-~··_·- Mrs. Lizzie Lockwood (See under nKelley") wrote me on 25 January 1926: "At the ·burning of Royalton the Indians passed through and took Wright off to Canada. He was gone 18 months or such a matter but got away and came back home. . ··Children: James b. 24 Feb. 1733-4, d. 8 April 1735, Elizabeth 12 Nov. 1735, Mary 2 May 1737, James 5 April 1739, Martin 27 March 1740, d. 10 Aug. 1741, Patience 28 June 1743, Thomas Martin ca 1751, Silas 22 May 1752 and Huldah. SIIAS WRIGHT born either.Rutland or Hardwick is first mentioned as enlist ing from Hardwick in the Revolution. Rather complete information was given in a letter 10 April 1925 from the Bureau of Pensions, Dept. of Interior, signed by Wilder S. Metcalf, Commissioner, which says: -127- "I have to advise you that from the pB.pers in the Revolutionar-.:r War pen sion claim W-6592, it appears that Silas Wright was born May 22, 1752, place not stated. He enlisted in April 1775 and served nine months as private in Captain Dagget 1 s Company, Colonel Ebenezer Larned 1 s Mass. Regiment. Soon after this, he enlisted and served one year in Capt. John Shepherd's Co., Col. Porterrs Mass. Regt. Immediately after, he enlisted and served three years in Capt. Dan iel Shay's Co., Col. Ru:fus Putnam rs Regt. n "He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, while a resident of Bainbridge, Chenango County, N. Y. He died May 27, 1828. Soldier married in January 1781 at Hardwick, Worcester County, Mass. Mercy Hayford, she was born Nov. 14, 1763. At the time of marriage they lived at said Hardwick. She was allowed pension on her application executed October 17, 1838, while liv ing at Bath., Steuben County, New York. She moved about 1840, with her son, Jos iah N. who was born about 1794 to Covington, Tioga Co., Pa. where she died short ly before Dec. 1862, exact date not stated. There was also a son Erastus, aged 51 years in 1838. -- 11 t'Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17, 959 gives: "Wright, Silas, Hardwick, List of men raised to serve in the Continental Army for 6th (2nd Hardwick) Co. as returned by Capt. Denison Robinson to James Converse, Col. 4th Worcester Cd; .Regt. Benj. Warner '"s brigade dated Hardwick May 28, 1778 residence Hardwick, engaged for town of Hardwick, joined Capt. Dan iel Shay's Co., Col. Rufus Putnam's Regt. term three years to expire April 1781, also private Capt. Shay's Co., Col. Putnam's (5th) Regt., Continental Army pay accounts for service April 3, 1778 to December 1779." In a list of' Revolutionary War pensions for Chenango Co., N.Y. in "Senate Documents, Pension Roll, 1st Session, 21st Congress, Vol. XIII - 1833-4,n Silas Wright is given as a private, allowance 96, received 855.48, service in Mass. line, pensioned Apr., 21, 1818 from Apr. 7, 1818, age 75." Various DAR Lineage books, including 31, 41, 44, 47, 51, etc. show membership based on his record.. Paige's "History of Hardwick", 276, lists him as serving from Hardwick. In the first DAR application record the last name of Mercy Freeman Hayford was dropped. "Hardwick Vital Records", 189, shows his marriage: "Hayford (See Heaford) Mercy and Silas Wright, Feb. 15, l 78lj c. r." "Vermont Historical Gaza teer", V, 338, u_rider Dover includes among early settlers (first in 1779), but dates not given - !!Silas Wright 11 and 339: "The fourth (birth) was Alpha, son to Silas and Mary (Mercy) Wrrght, born July 27, 1783 and that at the town meeting March 10, 1·789 in Wardsborough South District Silas Wright was chosen a tithingman. On 669 under Wardsborcugh under "Free man's Roll, 1796, it includes Silas Wright and that at the first annual meeting March 14, 1786 he was elected highway surveyor. On 339 we find: "The early sett lers of this town experienced many hardships and privations in their newly select ed homes. They lived in log houses and erected temporary shelters for their stock which were but poor apologies for barns during the long cold winters which fol lowed. But they were men and women of strong constitutions, possessed of a de termined and iron will for whom toil and privations only served to call forth greater efforts on their parts to make their homes com.f'ortable and leave to their posterity an example of prudent thrift) sterling integrity and manly in telligence." In the 1 790 census Silas Wright was in Wardsborough, Windham County, with three males under 16 and two females. "History of Chenango and Madison Counties, N.Y.rr, 141, James H. Smith (1880) says: ' 10ther early settlers were -- Silas Wright came in fron1 Vermont and settled ...... ·: .. •' . ---- I L' . I ,~ . -1 ,·· ·; ... ) • r, / ,, I • I ~ I .i•',/ .... 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' -...... -...... - ~-- -~ ... ., . '""~ ··~··•... -, ...,._.,..,:- -~ ...... ,....-:~~- ... ".' ··:·-·., .. -·-• ..... , .. ,.._ .. ·.-::,.•'•' ·-.· ...... _.,. ... _ -.·. :-· .. .•_!_' .•..:./i:•~-1~:~?."~:•~1!':'T~~~~-:~;~,~~.-:-::-;-,-:::7:~,.,•,·~,;._¥_,.,,-:-,v:•:-¥,C:~•-••.,• .. •--,.~•·•••.••-:""t!~:•-· on the site of the vi:llage of Afton. He b.ought of ~vid Ch~rch .. ~~'-•~;:P?-_a:p~;J19us_e. which the latter.had erected on the site of· l).r. James B. Cook's __ res_-i~e_~'~,._,~nd-, lived there ·until his· death, May 27, 1827, age 75. · He ·was a farme·r and ·lumber man. His ·sons ·were' Alpheus and Josiah, the former of. whom married Sophia Messer ea-u of· Otego {tb}.. s· · is an error. p. 138" sayt~g Rbod.a. Kelsey married Alpheus is ~orrec~. -!,.:~s,~E< )_·f3,_nd: the latter Rhoda, daught"er of' He_th. Kelsey~ .a.~g-~_ wh~::·j~intly .. b'liilt ·. a-n<~/ kep~ . for·::s~v~~al years -~be Sullivan_ House ip the village_~ ~~r-:~f~9Jli_.;· . Both subsequent1y·'~qio...,~d-· to. the Chemung. ;River co:untry and died there. He·~·hao.. · one daught1ei"- wh?: m~rriid a man named Kelley·; ·who is als; dead." Page 138,.adds ·that they'·.-·bullt ·the Sull.~van House in 1823 and kept it for 15 or 20 years. Mrs. Lizzie Lo~k.wood · als_c, ·wfote January 1926: "Mercy Freeman was a cripple through some hurt and used. to live in the fi:rst Tavern built,._.in ~ft.on, -,~i9--:•.h~r~~WQ~k::"~a~ round the house one kp.ee in .chair ~f)crv:ed ·-a~ound ... After __ her. husband_::.q.ie.d. l'!.hQ ~ :i$:: ·i • ...... - ..· .. =~ r-. •• .. •• • .·,. . •• • :· ..• - \ • . • :. •, ··- .. '·· • . .. • '. • . . •·· buried·:·on· East Side Cemetery she eithe·r went to ·Penn. visiting or to live, was taken sick and died down there. She drew a pension. u ., ._.The graves.toq.~ ~~in. ~-he . · East Side Cemetery in Afton gives him as died·Ma.y·•27;~·-1827; age 75 years. (Grave marked as RevolutioD:8,cy soldier) _ . .1 . . .. , .· ·:· .·.'.~: .. ::~:::: ~::_. __ .•. .:.:·~- ·_'-~ . ·., -~- -· · .· We ba:ie ·four :alriiost i°liegib·i~ (very ···::ra'ded) sheets from an account bqo~.--pf .: .. ·: Silas in which he listed a very few items, perhaps a half a dozen a year, of money due him or owed by him from 1795 to 1800. A · few of the most interesting items are: (these due him) Nov. '95 Bringing a plow and an ax helve(?) from Hardwick 0-12-6 Febr. " to One Days Work myself & oxen (john Remp*) 0- 3-6 " " to one Days Work myself & horse & Plow 0- 4-6 to Work my Boy & Horse 0- 3-9 my plow one day 0- 1-0 May 1800 for my oxen and Alpha (Enoch Cheney) 0- 1-4 for my oxen and Erastus (note almost 13 years old) 0- 0-9 for myself and oxen half a Day 0- 2-6 for Alpha one Day 0- 2-0 Feb.1800 for keeping a Colt six weeks 0- 6-0 Others mentioned were Wm. Gragg*, Reuben (probably Dean*), John Haskel, Beche? and Samuel Miller. The ones with asterisks I found in the 1800 census. We also have photostats of the New Testament (Edinburgh-MDCCXCIV) birth records of his children. Bathsha Wright Was Born August 9 1781 Alpha Wright Was Born July the 27 1783 Erastus Wright Was Born June the 17 1787 Josiah Newton Wright Was Born May the 4th 1790 Far.na? Wright Was Born June 14 1795 (In entirely different handwriting, probably years later- John Kelley born 1775) In the Vermont vital records in Montpelier I found the same records for the boys but no records for the girls. The family record as far as learned from the Lineage and other books and correspondenc~ about 1925 with several descendants is: -130- Bathsha (1781~1869).m. John Kelley (1775-1859) - see under Kelley Alpheus· (Alpha) m. Bhodann Kelsey (ca 1800-22 Mar. 1821) - Afton, etc. (Clair 1852 (Eunice Hayford (1841-1907) (Harriet m-. Tbos . C ( m. Wm. Jonathan Colegrove ( . .Saunders Erastus (1787-1858) ( (1821-1893) {Lydia·m~ Willis Lewis m. Lydia Wheeler (Alpha (1814-1888) m. 1835 (Nellie m. Rich. D. Gallagher b~ 1789 { Juliaette Langley (1818-1898) (Charlotte (1836-1916) m. 1856 ( Wm. F. Morrison (1831-1901) (Frances E. (1846) m. . . . ( Jonathan N. Wise Josiah Newton m. Sophia Mesereau - Afton, etc. Fannie m. Ashel Parmeley ·- Elyria, Ohia - Myita Parmeley - Mrs. Geo. Ingersoll Silas ancestor for D.A.R. and S.A.R. BArHSHA WRIGHT married 3 February 1812 John Kelley, son of John Kelley and Eunice Lincoln. -INDEX.... --- ABBOTT, Edi th -_.~elley Chart COLEGROVE, Clair, Eunice, Harriet, Lydia, William ADAMS.,._ .Mary - Kelley Cnart J. - Silas Wright ·· sarah - Ga'ge - COLES, Alice, George - Edmund Freeman ALBINS, Abigail - H~y,ford COLLIER, Mary, William - Pren~e ALDEN,.-:~ Ruth_ - .. Sturtevant-_. CONE., Mary A. - Kelley Chart ALDRIDGE, Emma·, H. G~ .:. JCe_lley Chart CONSTANTINE, Emperor - Wa_rren AMES, M~ll1cent - Kingsbury COOK, Frances, Richard - Greene ANDREWS, Elizabeth - Lincoln. Rachel, Talcott - Elkanah- Hinckley ATKI,Sc;)N, ~l~_an9-r, Helen, Hugh - Hill_s COOKE, A~a~ Elizabeth, Josiah - Snow ATWOOD·: Mary, . Sarah, Thomas. - . Bradford Damaris, Jacob - Hopkins AXTELL, Hannaµ_~: Thomas - Upson and Wright Joh.~, Sarah. - Warren . AYLESWORTH, Clara,·· Wili1s· - Kelley Chart Lydia·- Thomas Waterman BACON, Faith - Edmund Freeman Martha - Robert Waterman BAILLIOU,, Abigail - Dunham COSTER, Betsey D. - Joshua Hinckley BALDWIN, Augusta - Kelley.Chart CRANE, Bathsheba, Enoch, ~~ry - Paddock_ Chart. BALL, Dorothy - Hobart. CROSBY, Thomas - Thomas Hinckley BALLARD, Nathaniel·_ Knight CROUCHBACK, Edward - Bolles. BARLOW, Abigail, Anne, Thomas - Dunham CROWE, Jo-ha-n .~ Derby. BARNARP, .. Lucy -:- Martin CUSHMAN, •,Eliz·a-beth, El_ka~ah, .Mart}?.a - Robt. . Wa. terrnaf:l, BARSTO~f. Patience - Simmons·. Isaac, Mercy, Rel;>,ec~a, Thomas - Jona than. fre_~man BARTLETT, Me~cy, Robert, Sa.rah . ~ R~er DAVIS, Emma - Kelley Chart BASS, Ann., Jqh,n, Ruth .... S_turtevant Hannah , Gc1;:g_~: . . BASTIAANSEN, Jan_~ Courtright DAVISON,:. W1-ll1a.JI1 - Brew.s ter . BEAtJ°CHAMP, Ai:1.c~, Elizabeth, John, - Edm. Freeman DEAN~ Abida? ,' -Ba;b-ara ~-. Ba thsha ~- -Emma,. -Fannie_; .. Lonile?, ...... ~ ~ . . ' : ...... ' .. , . BENJAMIN, Jemima, Joseph - Lombard Marion, Martha, Nancy, Reuben, Rose,-W~1ght· - BISHOP, Diadema - Hayford...... Kelle_y Chart BLANFORD, Dorothy, : John·, Mary, S~rah - Dor. W.rigl').t DeCOSTA, Betsey - Jos_hua Hinckley. Bµ.TNDEN, ~arah -. Mullins DEMAREE~ Sara~ - Keller Chart BLUSH' Abraham,·. Alice ~- Derby . DERBY, Elizabeth - Lombard BODFISH, B~i~~~t> R9bert -_S. Hinckley. DEWEY, Margaret - Hobart __ BOWES, Cornelia, John - qov. Bradford DINGLEY, Abigail, Elizabeth, J~sial?,. - Robt. · Wa term~n BOWN, Catherine - Morton DOGGED, Ba thshaba, John - Pratt.- BREED, Allen, Elizabeth - Knight DUSTANVILLE, Reginaid:- d~ _-: .B?lle~ - . BREWSTER, Fear, Mary, William - A,llerton. DUNSTER, Dorothy - Sear~ ~nd George Willard Patience - Sp~rrow Henry, Rose - Hills BRIGGS, Agnes, Alice, Robert - Goy. Bradford EAMES, Millicent - Kingsbury BRIGHAM, Mary, Phebe, Thomas - Martin EASTMAN, Elizabeth, Eunice - PQddock Chart BROWN, AJ.,m.eda - Paddock Chart_ . . EATTON, Martha - Crossmnn BUCKBEE,'·sarah ~- Gage . EDWARD I, King - Bolles BUCKLER, Catherine - Derby ELDRIDGE, Abig~il - Ryder BURCH, Lucy - Joshua Hinckley ELLES, Aves - Sam 1 1 Hinckley BURDICK, Rose - Kelley Chart . ELLIOTT, Betsey - Elk&nah Hinckley CAREY, Sarah - Jenney ELWELL, Grissel - Gag.e CHAMPLIN, Sarbara, Charles, Fred, George, Lillie; .EVANS, Elizabeth - Warren · Ma.te :._: Kell~y Ch~rt ·· FAIRCHILD, Anna, Bathsha, Elville, Frank Kelley CHANDLER, Edmund, ~oger, Sarah - Simmons Chart CHAPMAN 1 Mary I :Rebecca - Padd~ck. Chart Frank - J. S. Kelley CHASE,, Ann, Stephen .. - Joshua Hinckley FALLOWELL, Ann, Co. therine, Gabrj_el ... Pope Miranda - J. S. ·Kelley FARNUM, Alonzo, Ella, N2ncy - Kelley Chart CHAVIS, Jane - Bangs ... )11AUKEY, Willi2.m - Kelley Ch2rt CHENEY, Enoch - Silas 'Wright . .FAUNCE, Joanne, John, Lydi:i - "Thomas Waterm~n CHILTON, Isabella~ '.James.-· Simmons FAY, Bathsheba - Pratt . . . CHIPMAN JI Alice - D~rby· FEMELL, Agnes, Johan, Richard_- Derby CHITTENDEN, Essie, Frank, Robert, Ruth - Kelley FFEYLDE, Jane - Simon Willard , Chart FISHER, Elizabeth - Hopk:Lns _ .. CHURCHILL, Premier - Warren· FITCH, Betsey, Elija·h - Eilc.ir.i.o.h_ Hi~ckley CLARK~_ William .- Lombard . Mary - Major Bradford. -_ ...... CLARKE ~ Mary - Cusbm~n FITZ ROY, Richard ._ Boi'les_.·_ . Rose ~ Hills FLEMMING, Elizabeth - Kel~ey.Chart . . . . COBB, Jam~s, ·sarah -~ Sp~rrow· FLETCHER, Alice, Wi_lliam. - Dunster COLEMAN, EdNard, Margaret -- Lombard Mary, Ruth - Paddock Chart FOSTER, Mary - Paddock Chart HUYCK, Jennie - J.S.Kelley FOX, Margaret, William - Gov. Bradf"ord HYANNO, John, Mary - Bearse PRAHCIS, Ann - Kingsbury HYDE, John, Margaret, Stephen - Derby FREEMAN, Apphia, Samuel - Prence IDDENDEN, Christian, John, Mary - Samuel Hinckley Deborah - Paddock Chart IHYANNOUGH, Sachem - Bearse FULLER, Agnes, Samuel - Carpenter IVATT, Elizabeth, Oliver - Warren GALLAGHER, Nellie, Richard - Silas Wright JACKSON, Edmund, Margaret, Mary, Samuel - Woodward GATES, Clara, Silas - John Kelley JANSSEN, Hendrick - Courtright GIFPORD, Elizabeth - Gove JEROME, Jennie - Warren GLOCESTER, Robert of - Bolles JEWETT, Elizabeth - Warren GLOVER, Ann, John, Mary, Nathaniel - Gov. Hinckley JOHNSON, Barbara, Burton, Douglas, Florence, Helen, GOODMAN, John - Dunham Marion - Kelley Chart GOODNOUGH, Adelbert, Cleon, Constantia, Doris, Fred,JONES, Esther, Harriet, Jonathan - Hinckley George, Goldie, Gordon, Gussie, Jay, Minnie - JORDAN, Margriet - Warren Kelley Chart JUATT, Elizabeth - Warren GOULD, Mary - Crossman KAYE, Isabel - Dunster William - Elkanah Hinckley KELSEY, Rhodann - Silas Wright GREGG, William - Silas Wright KEMPrON, Johanna, Manassah - Morton GRAVELY?. Elizabeth - Edmund Freeman KENNEY (KENO) - Dunham GREEN, Delilah (Nora), Stowell - J.S. Kelley KEYS, Sarah - Dorothy Wright GRESSAM, Margaret - Gov. Bradf"ord· KING, Barsilla, Ebenezer, Lydia - Joshua Hinckley GRIFFEN, Elizabeth, Hugh - Upson KIRTLAND, Rebecca - William Elkanah Hinckley Rebecca - Paddock Chart KITTEL, Susannah - Courtright GURNSLEY, Charles, Nellie - Kell~y Chart .. LANDERS, Anna Lee, Ebenezer, Hiram, Howard, Isaiah, HALL, Alva, Alvah, Clara, Eliza Ann, Constantia, Joseph, Kit1;y, Maranda. Nancy, Olive, Osborn, Elvie, George, Harry, Hattie, Lizzie, Sarah - Polly, Rhoda, Solomon, Stephen, Thomas - J.S. . Kelley ·chart Kelley Bethia, Martha, Priscilla - Paddock Chart LANGLEY, Juliette - Silas Wright HAMBLEN, Eleazer, James, Lydia - Sears LATHROP, Sarah - Zachariah Paddock HANSEN, Alice, Catherine, George, Joan, John, LAWSON, Beatrice, Dorothy, Gwendolyn, Maude, Nellie, Margaret, Robert - Gov. Bradford William (2) - Kelley Chart Catherine - Courtright LEESE, Katherine, Thomas -- Samuel Hinckley HARLOW, Joanna, -Lemuel - Waterman LEONARD, Elizabeth, Josiah - Crossman Rebecca - Cushman Elizabeth, William - Hall HARRIS, Jessie, J.K. - Kelley Chart LEWIS, George, Sarah - Sparrow · HARVEY, El.izabeth, Thomas - Lincoln· Lydia, William - Silas Wright HARWOOD, Katherina - Snow LOCKWOOD, Hial, Lizzie, Kelley Chart HASKEL, John - Wright LONGSPEE, William - Bolles HAVERY, Ella - Kelley Chart LORD, Gussie - Kelley Chart HAYWOOD, Elizabeth - Crossman LORING, Deacon, Sir Nigel, Thomas, we·a1 thean HEDGES, Elisha, Mary, Sarah - Zachariah Paddock Richards HENRY, I, II and III, King - Bolles. LUMBARD, Elizabeth - Derby HICKS, Lydia, Margaret, Robert - Bangs LUND, Anne, Henry - Hills HILLIARD, Deborah - Paddock LYFORD, John, Sarah - Hobart HINMAN, Ann Eliza, Sopronus? Kelley Chart MABLE,·Alice - Warren HODSELL, Bennett, Christian, Elizabeth, Faith, John,MacARTHUR, Gen. Douglas - Jenney, Pope, Richards and - Edmund Freeman Warren HOLLAND, Angell, Katherine - Upham MANSFIELD, John, Mary,·· Robert - Warren HOLMES, John, Mary - Maj or Bradford MARSH, Elizabeth, Francis - Warren Mary? - Gove and Martin MARSHALL, Ruhanna - Paddock Chart Mary - Prence MARTIN, M. - Kelley Chart Mary - Robert Waterman MARY, Queen of Scots - Brewster HOLTON, Mary'.- Kelley Chart MASTERSON, Sarah - Major William BradCord HOPKINS, Elizabeth, Stephen - Sparrow MAY, Cornelia, Dorothy, Henry, John - Gov. Bradford Jonathan, Rebecca - Joshua Hinckley MAYBEE, Sarah - Elkanah Hinckley Martha - Paddock Chart· MAYNARD, Sarah - Dorothy Wright HOWES, Elizabeth, Sarah - Paddock Chart MAYO, Elizabeth - Paddock Mary, Thomas - Prence Hannah, Nathaniel - Sparrow HOYT, Anna Lee , Frank - J. S. Kelley McNELLEY, James, Margaret, Nellie - Kelley Chart HUBBARD, Elinor - Robert Cushman McNUTT, Clayton, Lillie,Will - Kelley Chart HUCKINS, Sarah, Thomas - Samuel Hinc_kley McRAE, Ella, John, Mary, Ruby - Kelley Chart HUNT, Elizabeth, Ephraim, Samuel - Pope MELLOWS, Edward, Hannah - Hills Isaac, John, Patience - Martin & Edward Wright MERCER, Christian - Samuel Hinckley MERRICK, Rebecca, William - Snow ROWLES, Elizabeth - Snow MESEREAU, Sophia - Silas Wright RUSS, Ab·iah :. - ·Paddock. Chart ·- ~- MIDDAGH, Jannettie - Courtright SALE, Edmund, Elizabeth, Mary. - Go-ve MILLER, Samuel - Silas Wright SANDERSON, John, Mary·,. Robert, ·Saran - Caswell · MITCHELL, Jacob, Susannah - Pope SANFORD, Ella - Kelley Chart MOLINES - MULLINS SAUNDERS, Harriet, Thomas - Sila~Wright MOLYNEAUX, Joan - Mullins SCHOLES?, Jony - Dunster· ' · MOONE, Alice, Margaret, Richard, Robert - Derby SEARS, .·,Anh ... :G"age ·: : . · ·. ;_; MOORE, Elizabeth - Martin Anna, Hannah, Silas - Snow MOREHEAD, Jean - Simon Willard SHARD, Mary - Gove MORRISON, Charlotte, William - Silas Wright SHARPE, Henry, Jane , Mary - Simon: Willaru . - MOTT, Sarah - Gove SHAW, Clif'f'ord, David, Etta, Mary·, Sophi-a ~: Kelley MUNSON, Lizzie - Kelley Chart Chart ·.. · · : . : NEGUS, Amarett - Kelley Chart SHERMAN, Hattie, Raymond, W1l·ford :~: Ke1ley--Chart NEWCOMB, Zerviah - Bearse SHINGLETON, Mary, Thomas, Rober-t: ~ Robert· .Cu:Shman -- NEWTON, Elizabeth - Robert Waterman SLADE, Elizabeth - John Upham Elizabeth, John, Richard - Wright SLUCE, Sarah - Ke1ley-Cruirt · .. NICKERBON, Mercy - Paddock Chart SMITH, Alf'ord, Alleen, Constantia-, Ess-ie ,· Eug~ne ·• -· NORRIS, Mary - Allerton Fanny, Florence, Frank,·•-:Fi-ed ,.·George, · Liz:z1e-~··-'. ?~OYES, Joseph, Mary - Dunster Maude-~ Nellie· -~ Kelley Char.t·'. · OAKLEY, Sarah - Hobart .Hannah - Hills ORPE, Joan - Dunster Hanna, S. B. - Paddock Chart .. _. · OSBORN, Olive - J.S.Kelley Joan, Joanna. Quartermaster1--.:-· Gage.:= PADDOCK, Ichabod, Joanna, Joanne - Thomas Waterman John, Mary - Hobart PAGE, Zeruiah - Paddock Chart Ralph, Rebecca - Hobart PALMER, Mary, William - Paddock Sarah - Abiathar Vinton PARISH, Josiah, Ruth - Joshua Hinckley SNOW, Cloe, Col. - Kelley · PARMELEY, Ashel, Myeta - Silas Wright Mercy - Joshua Hinckley PARSONS, Elsie, Fred - Kelley Chart Nicholas - Bangs · · PECK, Sarah - Paddock Chart SOULE, John, Marie, Mary, Sarah~·:Th:omas·-:..:samue-1- PERKINS, Elizabeth, Thomas - Bolles Hinckley PERRY, Elizabeth - Edmund Freeman John, Rebecca - Simm.on~ PICKETT, Grace - Gage SOUTHWORTH, Alice, Co:w:i.-stant, Edward, Thomas - PIERCE, Thomas - Gov. Hinckley Carpenter -.·,.· - .·.':. PIXLEY, Addie, Albert, Ann Eliza, Asa, Charles, SPARROW, Hannah, Jonathan,· Pandora _::Prence< Edith, Elizabeth, Ella, Emma, Erwin, Fanny, SPELLMAN, Samuel - Elkanah Hinckley ,.. ·· . Frank, George, James, Jennie, Johnson, Leland, SPINKSTEAD, Susanna - Courtright - · . . Leonard, Louis, Mary, Nellie, Raymond, Ruth, STANLEY, Christopher, Elizabeth,· Susanna·· - -Aspinwall Sarah, Saxa, Sophia - Kelley Chart STARKS, Alleen, Noel - Kelley Chart . , .... POOLE, Mary, Sir Giles - Hopkins STEVENS, Lucy, Mary~- :s1mon - ·· Mat'tin- POULTON, Alice, John, Kitty - J.S.Kelley STEWART, Alanson, Fred,. Loniie·~. Wright-~ -Kell~:X- ~~~~~ PRATT, Goldie, Rollin - Kelley Chart STORES, Zaruiah - Paddock Chart.; : · · Elizabeth, Jouat - Warren STOWER, Lydia, Samuel - Abiathar Vinton PRENCE, Hannah, Patience, Thomas - Sparrow STREET, Elizabeth, Francis - Lineol:rt ·· PRINCE, Mercy - Thomas Hinckley STURGES, Edward, Mary - Ryder .-_ ·.: · · ·· QUICK, Apphia - Prence SYMONDS, Agnes, Alice, Ann, Thomas,·W1111am ~ Derby RAWLES, Elizabeth - Snow Mary, William - Hills· -:: . RAYMOND, Tamsine - Paddock Chart TAYLOR, R. E. --~)S;.Kel-tey REDER, Sarah - Cushman Zachery - Alle-I't-<;;ri: ~and -Brewster RICE, Amarett, Augusta, Augustine, Bathsha, Edwin, TGILTRON, Isabella - Simmons Ethel, Freeman, Harvey, Hugh, Jason, Jessie, THATCHER, Anthony, Elizabeth - Jone:s Isadora, Mary, Orsamus, Rilda, Sarah, Vinton, Josiah, Mary - Zachariah·. Padci"ock Willard - Kelley Chart THAYER, Joanna - Crossman Dorothy, Elizabeth, Henry, Mary, Sarah - Martin THOMAS, Alice, John - J.S.Kelley RICKARD, Giles, Mary, Rebecca - Cushman Eunice - Elkanah Hinckley RIDER, Mary - Gov. Hinckley THOMPSON, Margaret - Kelley Chart RING, Elizabeth - Mark Sanow THRESHER, Marcey - Crossman ROBERTS, Esther - Dyer TIBERIUS, Emperor - Warren Mary, Thomas - Robert Paddock TILDEN, Elizabeth, Lydia, Mary, Nathaniel, Thomas - ROBERTSON, Etta, Fanny - Kelley Chart Robert Waterman ROBINSON, Esther - Elkanah Hinckley Thomas - Bourne ROOSEVELT, Franklin D., Allerton, Jenney, Pope, TINKHAM, Bathsheba - Hayford Richards and Warren TOWNSEND, Sarah - Kelley Chart TREADWELL, Jonathan, Sally - Elka.nab Hinckley URDSWORTH, Ei1zabeth - Dunster VAN BF,EST, Hendrickt - Courtright VAN KORTREGIC- Courtright . VAN NAHEE, Isadora - Kelley Chart VAN HAUGHTON, Hattie - Kelley Chart VANVALKENBURG, George, Goldie, Lena, Llewellyn - · Kelly Chart VIHCEHT, Abigail - Ryder WAIT; J®n, .Mary - Hills . WALDRON, Elizabeth - Gove WALLACE,- Sarah~_ Paddoc~ Chart WARD, Sarah - Kelley Chart_. WARING, Johanna, John - Gage WARREN, Mercy- Ryder WASHBURH,-Ebenezer, Lydia - Waterman Elizabeth, James - Crossman WASON, Nellie - Kelley Chart WATERHOUSE, John, Mary, Samuel, Sarah ... Elkanah Hinckley WEBB, Elizabeth - Warren Elizabeth, Mary, Richard - Upham WEBBB~, Hans - Courtright WEBSTER, Anne - Hayford WELSH- - Kelley Chart WEN'l'WORTH, Mary - Brewster WHALE, Elizabeth, Philemon - Upson WHEELER, Fr_ances,. Isaac - Green LJdia - Silas Wright WHEELOCK, Rhoda - Vinton WHITE, Hannah, Lewis -_Lincoln WHI'r.FIELD, Marie - Samuel.Hinckley WHITING, Patience, Thomas - Faunce WILCOX, Elvie• lCelley Chart WILDER, Mary - Martin WILLARD, Ma_ry - Dunster WILLIAMS, Mary - Paddock WINSLOW, Josiah - Bourne WISE, Fran~e~., Jonathan - Silas Wright WISWELL, Mary - Major Bradfo:ro WITHEHBY, Huldah - Martin WOOD, Abigail - Dunham WOODHEAD , Mary - ~ve WOODWARD, Mary . - Gove Sarah - Crossman WORK, Bathsheba, Samuel - Hayford WRIGHT, Priscilla, William - Carpenter WYLIE, Esther, John - Elkanah Hinckley Floyd - J.S.Kelley Maude - Kelley Chart YOUNGS, Arthur - J. S. Kelley