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So~IE DESCENDANTS OF STEPHEN LINCOLN of Wymondham, England EnwARD LARKIN from England THOMAS OLIVER of Bristol, England MICHAEL PEARCE of London, England ROBERT WHEATON of Swansea, Wales GEORGE BURRILL of Boston, England JOHN PORTER of Dorset, England JOHN A YER of Norwich, England and Notes of Related Families De genealogis nil nisi bonum Printed for \iVILLIAM ENSIGN LINCOLN PITTSBURGH, PENNA. BY lt4e ~nickei-hitrkei- f i-ess NE\V YORK 1930 Copyright, 1930 by William Ensign Lincoln Made in the United States of America IN MEMORY OF lVIY DEAR WIFE CONTENTS PAGE PAGE Preface 1 Wheaton from Robert Wheaton 200-211 GENEALOGIES Rivers 204 Lincoln from Stephen Burrill 207 Russell. 208 Lincoln . I 1-114 Emmons, Winthrop, Collier . 80 Waldo . 88 Porter from John Por- Stevens 91 Howland 92 ter . 212-285 Tucker, Tams, Duane, Pinck Estabrook . 224 ney, Hyrne, Haig, Ramsay, Stewart . 244 Tennent 97-111 Talbot 246 Williams . , , , Dickerman 250 O'Brien . 252 Larkin from Edward Hegeman . 262 Larkin . 115-161 Chaffee 263 Lamb . - 274 Consul Thomas Oliver Lar- Walker, Hammond 276 kin . 133 Jenna, Willard, Shumway 283 Oliver . 147 Bradish 149 Warren, "Mayflower" 150 Gould . 152 Ayer from Thomas, son Mason 156 of John Ayer 286-302 Pearce from Michael Chase . - 293 Pearce 162-170-200 Poland. 297 Mauran 182 Chadwick 188 Middlebrook 191 Excursus, Ante-Ameri- Congdon . 192 can Lineages 303-322 V The "lVIayflo-1,ver" There is no actual picture of the "J\1ayflower". This i1Iustration is from a photograph furnished by 1\-lr. A. S. Burbank, Plymouth, Mass., of a model made after careful research of vessels of the same size and period. It gives an approximately correct idea of the "Mayflower" of which William Pearce was captain nine voyages and of his other vessels, "P?,ragon ", "Anne", "Charity", "Jacob" and "Lyon"; of "Diligent" that brought over Stephen Lincoln, 1638; "Susan and Ellen", John Porter, 1635; "Fortune", 1621 (or "Anne", 1623), Henry Howland; "James", Thomas Dickerman, 1635; "Griffin", William Hammond's widow Elizabeth (Penn), 1634. These vessels had three masts; high stern and bow; were put together with wooden trenails; had no steering wheel, but ·a queer sort of two-story tiller; carried a small boat, "shallop ". The bo,vsprit pointed high and had under it a square sail with yards, dangerous in storms (see page 165). The larger sizes had on top of the bowsprit a little mast with a topsail sprit-sail. The short mast near the stern had a lateen sail with a long yard or boom slanting to the peak. There ,vas no way to reef but the square sails had a detachable "bonnet". There \Vas usually a figurehead at the bow. Smaller vessels had but two masts, each with a latecn sail, and had a howsprit with a square sail bclo,v. The record time across the Atlantic \Yas 23 days, and .stormy weather might make the voyage two or three times as long. 'Tu 'l'HE 0\VNER OF 1'HIS BOOK AND TO ·.A.NY OTHER WHO MAY GLANCE AT THIS PAGE: THIS collection of family genealogies was undertaken and has been printed in memory of my dear wife, Mary Porter Lincoln, born June 7, I 846, died March I 8, I 920. A copy is given to each one whose name is recorded in it and who is known to be living and whose address could be obtained. The original plan was a record of the immediate Porter and Lincoln lines in the shape of a few clipped together pages. If I had foreseen its growth and the amount of labor of hand and head in correspondence and in writing and re-writing, copying and re-copying, all in longhand,- I would have decided that it was a task too great for an octogenarian plus. And I suspect that it is a task finished, but only about half done. Yet no elaborate apology is needed, for every honest preface is an a pology. No gene alogy has ever been completed. And there are empty pages near the end waiting to be filled by any one who desires to do so. If from this book the newer generations come to know better what sort of men and women their ancestors were, and to receive an urge to emulate their sturdiness, thrift and piety, my time has been well spent. This word piety and many more of the sort were precious to our forefathers, but are distasteful to us today. If we can realize why, we ,viii become better acquainted with ourselves as well as with our ancestors. "\Vith such thoughts in mind I have tried I 2 TO T'HE RE... .\DER to print something more than a catalogue of names of born and died. 11ost of these family names take us back through New England to old England and in large proportion to her eastern counties. These ancestral lives are a part of ,vhat may fairly be called one of the most wonderful events in the history of the world,-the settlement of New England. This emigration, unlike others, was a voluntary one and with a different cause~ a moral one, '•freedom to worship God." This is the reason for the greatness and for the per manence of the influence today upon our country of a few handfuls of common English folks who some three hundred years ago left homes hallowed by ancestral centuries and crossed an ocean wider and stormier than it appears today, to land on a shore where life was impossible to their accus tomed habits of living. I must confess, though, that it puzzles me why honest men of a nation whose tradition is fair play were so slow, even after the time of Roger Williams, to see that their demand for their own religious freedom logically compelled their granting the same to others. Some of the family lines in this book are almost extinct. Probably the total number of the Lincoln, Larkin, Pearce, Wheaton, Porter, Ayer descendants living today is not only less in proportion to population, but may be less in total number than a hundred years or so ago. This has been termed New England's ''dying off at the top." What has been may be the prophecy of what will be. Are our fore fathers' lives to count by and by only for historic fame and for tradition of a bygone· age? Or have these lives left to our nation a spiritual beredity that will forever guide it? If these genealogies throw any light on such questions, this book is not worthless. The relation of a people's regard for genealogy upon its national duration is worth studying. There are two out standing examples. One is the survival of the Chinese people, without political coherence, yet most ancient of existing races, and ,vhose pagan religion is largely ancestral veneration. The Hebrew blessing seems to be the Heathen's reward-''Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days TO THE READER 3 may be long upon the land." The other example is the Jews. The Old Testament has some forty-five chapters with long lists of names, and m~ny more chapters are rec ords of family histories. Two of the New Testament gospels record the lineage of God's Son our Saviour. The careful preservation of ancestral records characteristic of the Jews is a part of their unique existence, a homeless race scattered over the world, yet more enduring and more separate_ than the nations who have ruled over and persecuted them. A curious instance of tribal persistence is that of the Rechabites who, according to the prophet Jeremiah, were never to be come extinct, because of regard to their ancestors. We the United States~re proud of ourselves, our unexampled rapidity of growth and of our place among the nations. The rising generation is lacking in one element of greatness and permanence-individual pride of family ancestry.~ What percentage of our young people can remember their great grandparents~ names? Not to mention theology, there is need of a more Pauline attitude toward our progenitors. Perhaps by and by we may be a homogeneous and finer people. Rosarians have used wild briars to perfect their strains, and God may be doing this for us. The distance between us and our fathers, a period of some three centuries, needs a better measuring unit than years. If they could step into our commonplace every day strenuous or lazy lives they would be astounded by unim aginable awe inspiring miracles on every hand. And what would we do if set down in the daily routine of our ancestors' lives, with families of ten to twenty children, each child with a biblical name, babes who could recite bible chapters from memory; sermons hours long and two or more on Lord's day; family prayers morning and night; and all with ''unfeigned faith,'' and well founded consciousness of God's immediate presence? Our increase of knowledge of God's works is astounding, unbelievable if ,ve could help believing. And this advance has been greater within our own lifetimes than in all the millenniums gone before. There has been no similar increase in our knowledge of God as portrayed by 4 TO THE READER our Saviour's life and ,vords in the four gospels. In this we are ''no better than our fathers," ~some pessimists ,vould say ,vorse. The Bible is the secret of our fathers' strength to do and of t½.eir lasting influence. The Bible is still the ''best seller," but what proportion of our people own a Bible, or if they do, how many open it once a year? I can never meet or speak to more than a minute fraction of the living descendants of the family lines herein.