THE ANCESTRY OF ABEL LUNT 1769-1806 OF NEWBURY, MASSACHUSETTS BY WALTER GOODWIN DAVIS PORTLAND, MAINE THE ANTHOENSEN PRESS 1968 THE ANCESTRY OF ABEL LUNT ;;,,'._I•·' ,·'.- . ,.: ,' .... ,. ;,;t\tri.1i/:,.,, _, .. '~~j, .. \';:: ··: ·. ~\,r)? \("\ff.,./ •t ► l ··~!e~t,;.:z .i : · 1 CONTENTS .. INTRODUCTION. vu I. LUNT, OF NEWBURY 1 II. CoxER, OF NEWBURY . 43 III. PETTINGILL, OF NEWBURY . 49 IV. INGERSOLL, OF SALEM . 61 V. NOYES, OF NEWBURY . 69 VI. CUTTING, OF NEWBURY • . 79 VII. ALLEN, OF SALISBURY . 89 VIII. GOODALE, OF SALISBURY . 99 IX. HAYWARD, OF BEVERLY . 109 X. DIXEY, OF BEVERLY • . 117 XI. MARCH, OF NEWBURY . • . • . 123 XII. FOLSOM, OF EXETER • . 139 XIII. GILMAN' OF EXETER . 151 XIV. ANGIER, OF CAMBRIDGE . 161 xv. BATT, OF BosTON . 173 XVI. ST. BARBE, OF SALISBURY, ENGLAND . 189 XVII. EAYNTON, OF WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND . 199 XVIII. WEARE alias BROWN, OF WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND . 249 INTRODUCTION THIS is the sixteen th and final hook in a series dealing with the ancestry of my great-great-grandparents. It is a relief to have accomplished a task which I have often regretted having begun and which I do not advise any one to undertake. Here is the re­ sult, however, of much labor and research for my kinsmen and fel­ low genealogists to study as much or as little as they choose. In several previous books I have acknowledged the aid of Miss Sybil Noyes in reading proof with an eye for additions and corrections as well as accuracy in printing. Miss Noyes has a personal interest in the present volume as she descends from sev­ eral of the families dealt with-once from Lunt, twice from Noyes, Ingersoll, Allen and Goodall and three times from Cutting. Severa.I years ago, finding serious errors in the printed Lunt genealogy, particularly in those branches which settled in Maine, Miss Noyes made a scholarly study of the early Lunts, using the documentary sources in the county registries which the author of the Lunt book seems to have ignored, and many of the results a.re included in the Lunt chapter which follows. Most of these New England families lived in Essex County, Massachusetts, always an advantage because of the finely pre­ served source material, while the Bayntons of Wiltshire and their maternal ancestors could fill a book devoted to them alone. W. G.D. Portland, Maine 1963 I LUNT, OF NEWBURY HENRY LUNT DANIEL LUNT HENRY LUNT ROBERT CoxER DANIEL LUNT HANNAH COKER MARY RICHARD PETTINGILL HENRY LUNT MATTHEW PETTINGILL RICHARD INGERSOLL J DANNA INGERSOLL MARY PETTINGILL NICHOLAS NOYES SARAH NOYES .r OHN Cu'l'TINO MARY CUTTING WILLIAM ALLEN ABEL LUNT JOSEPH ALLEN RICHARD GOODALE ANN GOODALE SAMUEL ALLEN NICHOLAS HAYWARD NEHEMIAH HAYWARD ROSE HOWARD ANNA DIXEY HuoH MARCH ABIGAIL ALLEN GEORGE MARCH JOUN MARCIi JOHN FOLSOM MARY FoLsoM MARY MARCH MARY GILMAN EDl\:lUND ANOU.:R CHRISTOI•RER BATT M.<1..1tv A NGIBa THE ANCESTRY OF ABEL LUNT LUNT Lunt and the closely related Lund are surnames derived from three place names, Lunt and Lund in county Lancaster and Lund in county York. They have a Scandinavian origin, the word lundr meaning grove or copse in Old Norse. A Ralph de la Lunde of Yorkshire occurs in the Pipe Roll of 1183, and there are other early examples in Norfolk and Suffolk.* The first attempt to find the English origin of Henry Lunt of Newbury, who came to New England in 1634, was made by my great-great-uncle George Lunt sometime before 1868 when he submitted to the New England Historical and Genealogical Re­ gister an article entitled "Abstracts of Ancient English Wills in the Name of Lunt," which was printed in volume XXII at page 232. Mr. Horatio Somerby, who made the search in Eng­ land, was not successful, hut he abstracted a series of wills which showed that the name Lunt, while very uncommon, was widely scattered at the emigration period. Between the years 1460 and 1540 there were four Lunt wills proved in co. Suffolk, one in 1566 in co. Es sex, and seven, 1568-1648, of Cheshire and Lancashire testators, in the registry at Chester. Since then the Lunts who have been interested in genealogy have believed it probable that the emigrant Henry Lunt was a Lancashire man. During the past year (1962) a clue has turned up which I think may very probably place Henry Lunt in an English par­ ish and give the name of his father although it doe_s not produce any information about his earlier ancestry. Lunt was a passen­ ger on the Mary and John which sailed from Southampton, a large number of his fellow passengers originating in Wiltshire and Hampshire, and it might be expected that he too was a na­ tive of that region. When an English genealogist, t who was ab­ stracting Noyes wills registered in those two counties for me, learned that I was interested in the family of Lunt, she sent me * Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, E. Eckwall, Oxford, 1940. t Mrs. V. Heddon of Iver, co. Buckingham. 4 The Ancestry of Abel Lunt some notes which she had made for an English client, taken from the Bishops' Transcripts of the diocese of Salisbury. They con­ cerned Lunts living in the parish of South Marston, near High­ worth, co. Wilts, lying close to the Berkshire border. They looked so promising that the South Marston register, which be­ gins with the year 1539, was examined with the following results. There are no Lunt entries until the year 1607, so it is obvious that the family was not of long standing in the parish, and the last Lunt entry found was in 1639, the examination having been carried to the year 1 721. THOMAS LUNT is first mentioned in the parish register of ~C?uth Marston, Wiltshire, in 1607 when he had a daughter baptized. The name of his wife does not appear. We may guess that he was born about 1584 in some other parish, possibly far distant. He was buried in South Marston on July 8, 162'7 (both register and transcript). The various probate courts of the diocese of Salis­ bury contain no Lunt documents except for the will of a fifteenth­ century priest, all of whose legatees were fellow clerics. Children: i. KATHERINE, possibly born before her parents came to South Marston; married on Jan. 10, 1629, Thomas Smith, the only Lunt marriage recorded in that parish. ii. SusANNA_, daughter of Thomas Luntt, bapt. Dec. 8, 1607 (both regis­ ter and transcript) ; buried (Susan) May 23, 1608. iii. SUZAN, daughter of Thomas Luntte, buried Nov. 19, 1609 (both regis­ ter and tr,anscript). iv. HERCULES, son of Thomas Lunt, bapt. July 8, 1609; buried July 17, 1609. v. WILLIAM, son of Thomas Lunt, bapt. July 8, 1610. (sic); buried Oct. 24, 1609. vi. HENRY, son of Thomas Lunte, bapt. Dec. 21, 1610 {register and transcript). The register contains no farther record of this boy. He would have been sixteen when his father died in July, 1627, and twenty-three when the Mary and John sailed for New Eng­ land in 1634. Two of the Mary and John's passengers were Robert and Thomas Savory of Highworth, close to South Marston. The theory that Henry Lunt of South Marston was the emigrant and ancestor of the American family certainly deserves serious con­ sideration. vii. EDm, daughter of Thomas Lunt, bapt. Feb. 1, 1613. On Jan. 16, 1639, "Thomas the Sonne of Edy Lunt" was baptized, apparently il­ legitimate. This is the last Lunt entry in the South Marston regis­ ter. In 1677 a Thomas Lunt married in Newbury, Massachusetts, Opportunity Hoppin on June 17. No other record of him, before this or afterward, has been found in New England. Opportunity Hoppin was a daughter of Stephen Hoppin of Dorchester and Roxbury who had died in 1677, and there is no known reason that she should have been in Newbury. Was Thomas Lunt "the Sonne of Edy Lunt" who, if he emigrated, would have been likely to have Lunt, of Newbury 5 gone to Newbury where his uncle had lived and where he had cousins? This is, of course, pure conjecture.* viii. JoH.AN, daughter of Thomas Lunt, bapt. June 26, 1617. 1. HENRY LuNT was presumably born about the year 1610. On March 24, 1633/4, he took the Oath of Supremacy and Al­ legiance at Southampton in England and embarked on the Mary and John of London, Robert Sayres, master, for the voyage to New England. His fellow passengers were mostly Wiltshire and Hampshire men, many of them influenced to emigrate by three Puritan parsons, Mr. Woodbridge, Mr. Parker and Mr. Noyes, who also made this voyage. On landing most of the ship's com­ pany went to Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and from there proceeded a few miles up the coast to a tidal river, later named for Mr. Parker, and founded the village which be­ came the town of Newbury. Lunt married about 1638 a girl named Anne whose surname has not been found. She survived him when he died on July 10, 1662, and married on March 8, 1664 (5?), Mr. Joseph Hills whom she also survived upon his death in Newbury on February 5, 1687/8. Anne gave her age as "about 50" in a deposition of 1671, when she testified that her late husband, Henry Lunt, had paid Mrs. Miller 20s. a year for four cows which had belonged to Mrs. Elizabeth Lowle, and 58 in 1678/9. She was, therefore, born about 1620.t Henry took the Freeman's Oath on May 2, 1638, before which he must have joined the Newbury church.