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A HISTORY OF THE Dorchester Pope Family. 1634-1888. WITH SKETCHES OF OTHER POPES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, AND NOTES UPON SEVERAL INTERMARRYING FAMILIES, 0 CHARLES HENRY POPE, MllMBIUl N. E. HISTOalC GENIIALOGlCAl. SOCIETY. BOSTON~ MASS.: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, AT 79 FRANKLIN ST. 1888 PRESS OF L. BARTA & Co., BOSTON. BOSTON, MA88,,.... (~£P."/.,.. .w.;,.!' .. 190 L.. - f!cynduLdc ;-~,,__ a.ut ,,,,-Mrs. 0 ~. I - j)tt'"rrz-J (i'VU ;-k.Lf!· le a, ~ u1--(_,fl.,C./ cU!.,t,, u,_a,1,,~{a"-~ t L, Lt j-/ (y ~'--? L--y- a~ c/4-.t 7l~ ~~ -zup /r,//~//TJJUJ4y. a.&~ ,,l E kr1J-&1 1}U, ~L-U~ l 6-vl- ~-u _ r <,~ ?:~~L ~ I ~-{lu-,1 7~ _..l~ i allll :i1tft r~,~UL,vtA-, %tt. cz· -t~I;"'~::- /, ~ • I / CJf:z,-61 M, ~u_, PREFACE. IT was predicted of the Great Philanthropist, "He shall tum the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of children to their fathers." The writer seeks to contribute something toward the development of such mutual afiection between the members of the Pope Family. He has found his own heart tenderly drawn toward all whose names he has registered and whose biographies he has at tempted to write. The dead are his own, whose graves he has sought to strew with the tributes of love ; the living are his own, every one of whose careers he now watches with strong interest. He has given a large part of bis recreation hours and vacation time for eight years to the gathering of materials for the work ; written hundreds of letters ; examined a great many deeds and wills, town journals, church registers, and family records ; visited numerous persons and places, and pored over a large number of histories of towns and families ; and has gathered here the items and entries thus discovered. He has traced out each branch of the family as far and . as completely as possible, endeavoring to be impartial in the chroni cles of each, counting every member of the family worthy of honor. He has made a journey to England during the past summer, and brought home an extensive array of facts concerning the Pope Family, from the time of the Crusades down to the settlement of New England ; the chapter containing these records being the first connected account of the Pope Family throughout England ever com piled. Articles in the Appendix, upon the individuals of our name who were enrolled among the first settlers of America, will be found valuable, not only to persons who are of our Dorchester line, but to those descended from Joseph of Salem, Thomas of Plymouth, Thomas of Elizabeth, N. J., George of South Carolina, and Thoma!! of Virginia. In the Appendix there are also notes upon several pioneers of other names,-settlers in Dorchester, Braintree, etc.,-the ancestors of some of those who have blended their stock with our own. ill iv PREFACE. In 1862, "The Genealogy of a Portion of the Pope Family" was published, being an autobiography of Col. William Pope, of Boston, an honored member of our family (seep. 200), and a sketch of "His Ancestors and Descendants." Although we have gone back to original sources, instead of quoting from that volume ( except with reference to its author and a part of his family), yet we desire to pay a tribute of gratitude to Col. Pope for his creditable pioneering in the field in which we have the honor to follow. This work aims to furnish a complete genealogy of the Dorchester Popes, and such particulars of the Plymouth and Salem groups as will make this a good "Pope Book" for them, until some more extended genealogies of their branches may be composed. With deep consciousness of the imperfectness of his work, he commits it to the patient, forbearing consideration of the kindred. Thanks are hereby extended to all who have answered our letters of inquiry, giving names, dates, and other particulars; to the N. E. Historic-Genealogical Society, for access to its books and manu scripts ; to the registrars of deeds and wills in Suffolk, Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, B~stol and Worcester Counties, Mass., and York County, Maine; to the clerks in the manuscript room, at the Massa chusetts State House; to the clerks of many towns and cities ; to the authors of numerous town and family histories ; to the officials at the Probate office in Exeter, England, and the librarian of the Albert Museum there; to Mr. W. H. K. Wright, editor "Western Anti quary," Plymouth, Eng., and Mr. R. N. Worth, F. R. S., historian of that city ; to Mr. Edward Windeatte, of Tottness ; to the officials of the British Museum and Somerset House, London ; to Mr. Henry George, Bristol ; to Alfred Pope, Esq., the mayor of Dorchester; to Rev. C. $. Taylor, St Thomas, Bristol ; to Mr. Franklin Leonard Pope, of New York, and Dr. Henry Wheatland, president of the Essex Institute, Salem, whose valuable articles 9Ppear in our Appen dix; and to numerous other persons. And deep sense of indebted ness is felt toward many faithful recorders and annalists of the past. But especially ought this page to record the great aid received from two individuals, viz. : Mr. William Blake Trask, of Dorchester, who has brought the treasures of his experience in genealogical research to aid our gropings and correct our blunders in many instances; and Col. Albert A. Pope, of Boston, who generously furnished the means for our English researches, advanced funds for publication, and permits us to date and distribute the book from his place of business. · CONTENTS. PAGJL CHAPTER I. CONCERNING THE TOWN OF DORCHESTER 9 CHAPTER II. CONCERNING ENGLISH POPES 18 CHAPTER III. THE DORCHESTER PIONEER, JOHN POPE, SENIOR , 44 CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND GENERATIONj PATIENCE1 (POPE) BLAKE CHAPTER V. THE SECOND GENERATION j }OHN1 POPE, JUNIOR 73 Cocks, Woodward, Munning, (Mony). CHAPTER VI. 1 THE THIRD GENERATION j SECTION 11 TH0111AS 91 SECTION 2, RALPH8 99 Hanis, Wilder, Pimer, Vinal, Wardwell. CHAPTER VII. THE FOURTH GENERATION; SECTION J, RALPH', JR• 111 SECTION 2, ELIJAH' • us SECTION 3, LAZARUS' 122 SECTION 4, EBENEZER' 124 Glover, Pike, Uttlefield, Balkum, Shed, Vinal, Williams, Collyer, 'Molton ('Morton), Jeffrey, Vose, Farrington, St. Medard, Marchant, Bisbee, Rawson, Belcher, Houghton. CHAPTER VIII. THE FIFTH GENERATION; SECTION A, DESCENDANTS OP RALPH\ JR, 129 SECTION B, DESCENDANTS OF LAzAaus' 140 SECTION C, DESCENDANTS OF EBENEZER4 144 Farrington, 'Mone, Cutter, lUcbards, Hunt, Wild, Washburn, Holbrook, Vose, Bond, Glover. vi CONTENTS. CHAPTER IX. THE SIXTH GENERATION; SECTION A 149 SECTION B 18o SECTION C 189 Atherton, Weeman, O'Brien, Hill, Beals, Mellish, Shepard, Noble, Ayres, Battles, Spear, Blaisdell, Nash, Elkins, French, Hussey, Lowell, Kettendorf, Newcomb, Briesler, Bass, Bisbee, Packard, Billing,, Sanborn, Fay, Metcalf, Smith, Littlefield, Jones, Barnard, Drake, Baker, Whitney, Glover, Martin, Hall, Nelson, Edwards, Reed. CHAPTER X. THE SEVENTH GENERATION; SECTION A 194 SECTION B :z27 West, Cushing, Davis, Pettigrove, McGregor, Foster, Hall, Faxon, Young, Waters, Pray, Bacheller, Wesselhoeft, Gowell, Deane, Drake, Sprague, West, Tilden, Seeley, Belcher, Boyden, Derby, Sloan, Greulich, Mace, Pratt, Brackett, Cushing, Hall, Brown, Howard, Beal, Loring, Cochrane, Gorham, Frye, Smith. CHAPTER XI. THE EIGHTH GENERATION; SECTION A • SECTION B Hurd, Carruth, Furber, Harrli, Hawley, Salmon, Frank, Cumner, Whiting, Dodge, Blanchard. CHAPTER XII. THE NINTH GENERATION; SECTION A SECTION B CHAPTER XIII. ADDENDA; REVOLUTIONARY NOTES, ETC. APPENDIX. A. NOTES UPON VARIOUS AMERICAN POPES 274 B. THE PLYMOUTH POPE FAMILY • 28o BY PllANXLlN LEONAllD POPE, C. JOSEPH POPE, OF SALEM 297 SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS 299 BY Dll, HENB.Y WBBATLAND, FVRTHER. REVOLUTIONARY NOTES 312 0. NOTES UPON INTERMARRYING AND RELATED FAMILIES, 314 Mellish, Talbot, Pumpelly, Pierce, Grenaway, Fry, Feuenden, Locke, Che11ey, Clarke, Blake, Simpson, White, Bird, Baker, Withington, Atherton, Clap, Ford, Bachiller, Smith, Tompson, Shepard, Thaxter. EXPLANATORY. THE FRONTISPIECE IS A HISTOR.ICAL PICTURE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE. It represents the" New Hospital in Plymouth," England, where Captain Roger Clap says he and his associates of the Dorchester church colony "kept a solemn Day of Fasting, spending it in Preaching and Praying; where that worthy Man of God, Mr. John White of Dorchester in Dorset was present, and Preached unto us the Word of God, in the fore part of the Day; and in the latter part of the Day, as the People did solemnly make Choice of and call those godly Ministers the Revd. Mr. John Warham and Mr. John Maverick to be their Officers, so also they did accept thereof, and expressed the same." This took place /Jefore March 20, 1629, on which the company set sail in "The Mary and John." It was the real organization of the body which, six weeks later, begun the first permanent settlement on Boston bay. This cut has been made fot this volume from a photograph taken some years ago for Mr. R. N. Worth's "History of Plymouth " (now out of print). The building was taken down in 1859- It was just about com pleted, but not occupied when the "Mary and John" passengers assembled in it. Two months later it was formally accepted by the town authorities. It was "The Hospital of Poor's Portion," i. e., a work-house. The shadow of St. Andrew's steeple fell upon it, but God's smile shone on the enter prise there inaugurated, fulfilling the pious motto chiselled over the main doorway of the building, "By God's helpe, through Christ." In the Pedigree Table, page 8, each Pope father is named, and his lineage and relationship shown, the attached figure marking bis generation. The story of himself and his family-so far as it has been made known to us is given in the chapter devoted to that generation, which may be found by reference to the Table of Contents, pages 3 and 4, where also the names of ions-in-law are noted.