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Download Issue PILGRIM HOPKINS HERITAGE SOCIETY ATLANTIC CROSSINGS ENGLAND ~ BERMUDA ~ JAMESTOWN ~ ENGLAND ~ PLYMOUTH Mayflower Sea Venture VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2 www.pilgrimhopkins.com DECEMBER 2013 The Maker/Macors and Hopkins by Judith Brister lively genealogical debate swirls Forum.” Recently developed DNA tools with that town, as were all of the A around the Maker or Macor family are, of course, game-changers in ascer- Makers on Cape Cod at that time; of Cape Cod, which married into many taining Native American ancestry. (2) the existence of no other Mary of the old, intertwined Cape families – The Hopkins/Maker Link Hopkins, either single or wid- including the Hopkins. Driving this Sticking with the paper trail and owed, has been discovered in that debate is circumstantial evidence point- circumstantial evidence, it is likely that region in 1714: (3) Bursel Maker, ing to the Makers’ Native American on 5 November, 1714, Mary Hopkins a son of this couple, witnessed the heritage. While this would raise few (born about 1692) of Harwich, Massa- 20 Jan. 1747 will of Judah Hop- eyebrows today, a 1705 Massachusetts chusetts, daughter of Stephen Hopkins kins, son of Stephen (Austin law, not repealed until 1843, banned and Mary Merrick, granddaughter of 1995,199-100). marriages between whites and Native Giles Hopkins and great grand-daughter This book indicates that John Maker Americans or blacks. of Pilgrim Stephen Hopkins, married was born about 1692, the son of James Despite this law, unions between John Maker. and Rachel ? Maker. He was admitted to whites and Native Americans (and Na- tive Americans who had inter-married with blacks) most likely did take place on Cape Cod in the early years, espe- cially when white settlers were a distinct minority population in the region. Due to fear of legal and social repercussions, it seems that inter-racial unions were rarely acknowledged as such. The sup- pression of this information from offi- cial records, and the reluctance to admit- ting to non-white ancestry long after the anti-miscegenation law had been re- pealed, made for incomplete records and local histories. In this context, discover- ing whether ancestors from this early period may have had mixed racial heri- tage has been hugely complicated. Nonetheless, some dogged descendants of possible inter-racial unions are begin- ning to tract their Native Americans lines. In their efforts, they are reaching out to cousins through books and arti- cles, as well as through on-line genea- The General Society of Mayflower the Brewster Church on 31 July, 1720, logical exchanges, such as “Gen Descendant’s “Silver” book on Stephen and all of John and Mary’s children Hopkins records this event cautiously, were baptized there, “the first four to- Also in this issue: however: gether on 21 Aug. 1720.” It notes that Governor’s Message ................. 2 No direct proof has been found John was a resident of the “Third Re- move” of Harwich in 1726, and finally, Rachel's MtDNA ...................... 4 that the wife of John Maker was this dau. of Stephen Hopkins: Membership Profile .................. 6 however, (1) Stephen Hopkins continued on page 3 PHHS Contest ............................ 7 moved to Harwich after 1694, and all of his children were associated ATLANTIC CROSSINGS Message from the Governor his last September the PHHS met in New Orleans. We using Family Tree DNA to do their DNA testing, T meet once a year and follow the meetings of the Gen- http://www.familytreedna.com/. The GSMD has a web- eral Society of Mayflower Descendants. Our next meeting site that includes the results for Y-DNA and for MtDNA will be scheduled during the weekend of 6-8 September of Mayflower Descendants. A new test by the same com- 2014 in Plymouth, MA. Save the date and join us if possi- pany, Family Finder, is now available. This test uses auto- ble. We will focus on election of officers. If anyone is inter- somal DNA which is inherited from both parents to within ested in becoming an officer, please contact the correspond- approximately the last 5 generations. If we carry DNA on ing secretary: [email protected] our Mayflower lineage it may connect us on the website. I I would like give a special welcome to our three new would like to encourage all the members to think about volunteers: Deon Mattson, Melissa Tricoli and Sarah DNA testing. Abanor. Great to have them join in and help the PHHS! For those of you interested in researching MtDNA Good progress is being made on our lineage page. please, see details in this issue on a fun contest. Kenneth Whittemore has entered all the data from the Planning is underway to visit Hopkins sites applications into a genealogy program and this was up- in England in the fall. Please contact me, loaded to our website in September. For those of you who [email protected], if you would like to turned in your applications, your lines should be on the learn about the trip. If there are enough responses, details website. Kenneth has also provided us with membership will be in the June newsletter. information. California has the most PHHS members, Warmest holiday greeting to you and your family. while twelve States have no PHHS members. The General Society of Mayflower Descendants is Susan Abanor, Governor PHHS Attendees at the 2013 PHHS meeting in New Orleans, LA were (from left): Ren Cushing , Kenneth Whittemore, Harold Woolley, Rick Denham, Muriel Cushing, Susan Abanor. Irene Harvey (not shown). New PHHS Volunteers Two Secretaries New Plaque Team Leader The duties of secretary for the PHHS will be divided Starting in January Melissa Tricoli will be our new into corresponding and recording secretary. The corre- Plaque Team Leader. sponding secretary will do all the member contact and the Deon and Melissa are daughters of Kenneth Whittemore, recording secretary will handle the membership informa- our steadfast secretary and historian. Sarah is the daughter tion. These two positions will be filled by Deon Mattson as of Susan Abanor, Governor and Harold Woolley, sometime Corresponding Secretary and Sarah Abanor as Recording secretary pro tem and great supporter of the PHHS. Secretary. Deon is a new PHHS member and Sarah is a Welcome to our new volunteers and thank you for charter member of the PHHS. helping our wonderful society! PAGE 2 VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2 Reproduced with permission from from with permission Lani Reproduced Maker/Macors and Hopkins Indian, we only From page 1 have to look at his descendants’ pic- states that no probate records have been found for John or tures, such as that of Mary Maker in Barnstable Co. Hezekiah Nickerson The “Third Remove” was a school district lying “eastward in this book, and and southward of the Brewster meeting house.” Mary Hop- note his definite kins’ brothers Samuel, Stephen, Judah, Nathaniel and Joseph Indian characteris- also lived in this neighborhood in 1726 (her father Stephen tics. Several other pictures of his de- had died in 1718). Residing in the “Fourth Remove” (now - Gail Nickerson Gail Nickerson East Brewster) were Benjamin Maker and the “Widow scendants have Maker” (Paine 1937, 378). shown the same The “Silver” book lists the nine children of John and Mary definite Indian (Hopkins) Maker as: Peleg (bp. 21 Aug. 1720); Thankful (b. traits…” (Nickerson 25 May 1716); Mary (b. 13 July 1718); Jonathan (b. 13 June 1970, 19). 1720; bp. 21 Aug. 1720); Elizabeth (b. 22 June 1722); Joshua Whether or not the (b. 16 Sept. 1725), who married Zerviah Covell in 1754 and rest of their case on the Native American Thankful Doane in 1763; Bursel (b. 6 Dec. 1727 (also called Capt. Hezekiah Eldridge Nickerson (1816- “Buzzel or Bussell); David (b. 26 July 1731), who probably origins of James Maker holds up, pic- 1871) had two lines to Rachel (?) Maker: married Phebe ?, and Hannah (b. 11 Dec. 1734). 1. Henry, Silas Nickerson, Jane, James Maker tures in this book of Other mentions of the Maker/Macor family in the Ply- Jr., Rachel (?) Maker; 2. Henry, Silas, Silas th mouth Colony Records, and in widely-referenced 19 century both Hezekiah Nicker- Nickerson, Lydia Maker, Rachel (?) Maker and early 20th century Cape Cod histories, including those by son (1816-1871) and Frederick Freeman, Simeon Deyo, Josiah Paine and C.W. his wife Mehitable Crosby (1816-1892) do show clear Native Swift, will be explored below. It is a more recent source, how- American traits. Interestingly, Mehitable’s unnamed grand- ever, which most emphatically makes the case that both the mother and wife of Enoch Crosby, according to this source, father-in-law and the mother-in-law of Mary Hopkins – James was also a Native American (Nickerson 1970, 3). and Rachel Maker – were Native Americans. …and counter claims Nickerson claims Countering the view of the above family history, Nicker- In their family history and genealogy, From Pilgrims and son Family Association member and Dennis historian Burton Indians To Kings and Indentures Servants, brothers Clinton El- N. Derick, in his article “James Maker, Non-Indian,” cites wood Nickerson and Vernon Roscoe Nickerson, and their cous- numerous records and early Cape Cod histories that have con- ins, brothers James Elwin Nickerson and Leighton Ainsworth vinced him that James Maker was not a Native American. Nickerson, cite “ancient family tradition” to claim that the first Derick traces records on James Maker, who lived in Yar- James Maker was probably born in the Elizabeth Islands, and mouth, Chatham, Eastham and Harwich, from his early years was a Native American. They in fact embrace this heritage, and when he had his share of trouble with the law. The Plymouth offer the following explanation for the Maker surname: Colony Records first mention him on October 29, 1668, when “Let every man be answerable to his MAKER and to his he and Edward Crowell, most likely still minors (given the date MAKER alone for his thoughts in Religious Maters”.
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