Ancestry of Edgar Worthington Hubbard – An Ahnentafel Book -
Including Hubbard, Jenison, Slack and French Families of Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts
Edgar W. Hubbard
by A. H. Gilbertson
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Table of Contents
Preface...... 6 Edgar Worthington Hubbard (1) ...... 7 Artemas Slack Hubbard (2) and Susan French Jenison (3) ...... 8 Reuben Hubbard (4) and Lucy Slack (5) ...... 12 Josiah Jenison (6) and Susanna French (7) ...... 17 Elnathan Hubbard (8) and Sybil Hubbard (9) ...... 20 William Slack (10) and Alice Woods (11) ...... 22 Abijah Jenison (12) and Mary Robinson (13)...... 24 Nathaniel French (14) and Susanna Brown (15) ...... 26 Joseph Hubbard (16) and Elizabeth Hollister (17) ...... 30 Timothy Hubbard (18) and Abiah Porter (19) ...... 32 William Slack Sr. (20) and Phebe Wood (21) ...... 34 Ebenezer Woods (22) and Eunice Boyden (23) ...... 36 Nathaniel Jenison (24) and Abigail Mead (25) ...... 38 Joseph Robinson (26) and Martha Hedge (27) ...... 42 Jonas French (28) and Hannah Page (29) ...... 46 Nathaniel Bowman Brown (30) and Abigail Page (31) ...... 50 John Hubbard (32) and Mary Phillips (33) ...... 53 Ephraim Hollister (34) and Elizabeth Green (35) ...... 54 Samuel Hubbard (36) and Martha Peck (37) ...... 55 Joseph Slack (40) and Rebecca Hathorne (41) ...... 57 (Probably) Josiah Wood (42) and Ruth Walker (43) ...... 58 Nathaniel Woods (44) and Alice French (45) ...... 60 Josiah Boyden (46) and Eunice Parker (47) ...... 61 Samuel Jennison (48) and Mary Stearns (49) ...... 64 Hopestill Mead (50) and Elizabeth Hastings (51) ...... 67 James Robinson (52) and Patience Ruggles (53) ...... 69 Elisha Hedge (54) and Martha Johnson (55) ...... 71 William French (56) and Joanna Hill (57) ...... 74 Nathaniel Page (58) and Hannah Blanchard (59) ...... 77 Daniel Brown (60) and Anne Bright (61) ...... 81 Joseph Hubbard (64) and Mary Porter (65) ...... 83
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John Hollister (68) and Sarah Goodrich (69) ...... 84 Samuel Hubbard Sr. (72) and Sarah Kirby (73) ...... 85 Paul Peck (74) and Elizabeth Bayse (75) ...... 86 ①William Slack (80) and Mary----- (81) ...... 87 (Probably) Josiah Wood Jr. (84) and Abigail Bacon (85) ...... 90 (Probably) John Walker (86) and Ruth Kendall (87) ...... 91 Nathaniel Woods (88) and Alice Goble (89) ...... 92 Samuel French (90) and Sarah Cummings (91) ...... 94 Jonathan Boyden (92) and Elizabeth Lakin (93) ...... 95 Samuel Parker (94) and Abigail Lakin (95) ...... 96 Samuel Jennison (96) and Judith Newcomb (97) ...... 98 Samuel Stearns (98) and Hannah Manning (99) ...... 100 David Mead (100) and Hannah Warren (101) ...... 102 John Hastings (102) and Abigail Hammond (103) ...... 103 Thomas Robinson (104) and Sarah Denison (105) ...... 105 Samuel Ruggles (106) and Martha Woodbridge (107) ...... 106 Samuel Hedge (108) and Grace Snow (109) ...... 108 Daniel Johnson (110) and Dorothy Lamb (111) ...... 110 William French (112) and Sarah Danforth (113) ...... 111 Samuel Hill (114) and Sarah Page (115) ...... 113 Nathaniel Page (116) and Susanna Lane (117) ...... 115 John Blanchard (118) and Mary Crosby (119) ...... 117 Joseph Brown (120) and Ruhamah Wellington (121) ...... 118 Nathaniel Bright (122) and Ann Bowman (123) ...... 120 ①George Hubbard (128) and Elizabeth Watts (129) ...... 121 ①Robert Porter (130) and Mary Scott (131) ...... 123 ①John Hollister (136) and Joanna Treat (137) ...... 125 ①William Goodrich (138) and Sarah Marvin (139) ...... 127 ①John Kirby (146) and Elizabeth (Hinds?) (147) ...... 129 ①Paul Peck (148) and Martha Hale (149) ...... 131 ①John Bayse (150) and Elizabeth ----- (151) ...... 132 (Probably) Josiah Wood (168) and Lydia Bacon (169) ...... 133 (Probably) Michael Bacon (170) and Sarah Richardson (171) ...... 134
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(Probably) Samuel Walker (172) and Sarah Read (173) ...... 136 (Probably) Thomas Kendall (174) and Ruth Blodgett (175) ...... 137 ①Samuel Woods (176) and Alice Rushton (177) ...... 138 Daniel Goble (178) and Hannah Brewer (179) ...... 139 ①Richard French (180) and Martha ----- (181) ...... 141 John Cummings (182) and Sarah Howlett (183) ...... 142 Thomas Boyden (184) and Martha Holden (185) ...... 143 ①William Lakin (186) and Lydia Brown (187) ...... 144 ①James Parker (188) and Elizabeth Long (189) ...... 146 ①John Lakin (190) and Mary Bacon (191) ...... 148 ①Robert Jennison (192) and Grace ----- (193) ...... 149 ①Francis Newcomb (194) and Rachel Brackett (195) ...... 151 ①Isaac Stearns (196) and Mary Barker (197) ...... 153 William Manning (198) and Dorothy ----- (199) ...... 154 ①Gabriel Mead (200) and Joanna (Frewin?) (201) ...... 156 Daniel Warren (202) and Mary Barron (203) ...... 158 ①Thomas Hastings (204) and Margaret Cheney (205) ...... 159 John Hammond (206) and Abigail Salter (207) ...... 161 ①Thomas Robinson (208) and Mary Coggan (209) ...... 163 Edward Denison (210) and Elizabeth Weld (211) ...... 165 Samuel Ruggles (212) and Hannah Fowle (213) ...... 167 ①John Woodbridge (214) and Mercy Dudley (215) ...... 169 Elisha Hedge (216) and Mary ----- (217) ...... 171 Jabez Snow (218) and Elizabeth ----- (219) ...... 173 John Johnson (220) and Deborah Ward (221) ...... 174 (Probably) Abiel Lamb (222) and Elizabeth Clark (223) ...... 175 Jacob French (224) and Mary Champney (225) ...... 176 Jonathan Danforth (226) and Elizabeth Poulter (227) ...... 178 Jonathan Hill (228) and Mary Hartwell (229) ...... 181 ①Nathaniel Page (230) and Joanna ----- (231) ...... 182 John Lane (234) and Susanna Whipple (235) ...... 183 Samuel Blanchard (236) and Hannah Daggett (237) ...... 185 Simon Crosby (238) and Rachel Brackett (239) ...... 188
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①John Brown (240) and Hester Makepeace (241) ...... 190 Benjamin Wellington (242) and Elizabeth Sweetman (243) ...... 192 Nathaniel Bright (244) and Mary Coolidge (245) ...... 193 Nathaniel Bowman (246) and Anne Barnard (247) ...... 195 Ninth Generation ...... 197 Tenth Generation ...... 223 Eleventh Generation...... 232 Here Lies: A Graveyard Guide ...... 233 Jenison Bible ...... 235 Brown Family Document ...... 239 First Arrivals ...... 240 Miscellaneous Facts and Superlatives ...... 242 What’s In a Name?...... 245 Probate Records ...... 246 Military Service ...... 248 1850 Census Information ...... 249 1860 Census Information ...... 251 1870 Census Information ...... 253 1880 Census Information ...... 255
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Preface
In 1990, I wrote a small book called Vermont Ancestors of Maud Lunette Hubbard. Maud was my grandmother, but I never knew her, as she died before I was born. I came to know something about her through my family history research. Since I had some original sources, especially a family Bible, I felt that my research could be helpful to others. I focused on her paternal ancestry, which includes families that migrated from Connecticut to Vermont (Hubbard), or Massachusetts to Vermont (Jenison, Slack, French, Brown, Woods, etc.). One major flaw in my 1990 book is that it did not include footnotes. Sources were listed, but only in a general sense. In this book, I have striven to provide the source for every fact.
The internet is both a blessing and a curse for those seeking to understand their family roots. The amount of information available online is astounding and provides a very convenient way to do research. However, there is a lot of misinformation as well. The ease of copying information has also meant that errors have been copied over and over. One of the reasons for wanting to publish my research is to dispel misinformation about the Hubbard family, in particular, which has persisted for many years.
I have decided to organize this book in “Ahnentafel” format. This means that, rather than including chapters on various surnames, each “chapter” is about one family (husband and wife with a list of their children), with links forward and backward in time. The numbering system is explained at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnentafel
The book begins with my great-grandfather, Maud’s father Edgar Worthington Hubbard, with successive sections going backwards in time.
I have not included all of Edgar’s known ancestors who lived at least part of their lives in America. However the earlier generations are included in a shorter form without as much detail. I consider this book to be a work in progress. I encourage people who may have corrections or additional information to contact me, and I will incorporate changes in future editions.
This book is copyrighted and intended for personal use only. You may download a copy for your own use, but you may not publish or redistribute this book or portions of it. If you are not sure about appropriate use of the material, please contact me.
Also, please contact me at [email protected] with any suggestions, corrections and questions. --A.H. Gilbertson
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Edgar Worthington Hubbard (1)
Edgar Worthington Hubbard was born 19 Sep 1853, in Ashburnham, Mass.1 He was the son of Artemas Slack Hubbard and Susan French Jenison. In 1869 he moved with his parents to Floyd, Ia. He married Lunette Rosanna Buel in Charles City, Iowa2, on 19 Sep 1875,3 his 22nd birthday. She was 18 years old.
Edgar learned the flour mill and woolen business in Massachusetts and operated a mill in Charles City, Ia. He may have lived in Rice's Mills, Ia., after his marriage. Later he operated a mill in Sauk Rapids, Minn., where his daughter Maud was born in 1884.
On 15 Nov 1884, the family moved to Clearwater, Minn.4, and on 1 Feb 1892 to Atwater where Edgar managed a flour mill for a Mr. Enge.5 On 1 Sep 1894, they moved again, to Pillsbury, Minn.6 For two years he was in partnership with Mr. Mattock in a woolen mill. In 1899 the Hubbards moved to Balaton, Minn. In November 1906 they moved to Rockford, Ill., where Edgar managed the Bartlett Flour and Grist Mill. He specialized in grinding graham flour. He was a good bookkeeper and a hard worker.
In 1918 Edgar and "Nettie" moved to Bladensburg, Md., to live with their daughter Maud and her husband Walter. There Edgar owned four cows and sold milk to neighbors. In April 1933 they moved to West Hyattsville. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Hyattsville, and was active in the Modern Woodmen of America. He died 14 Oct 1933, "following a general breakdown." He had been ill for four months. He is buried in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.7
Child:
Maud Lunette Hubbard, b. 4 Feb 1884, Sauk Rapids, Minn.; d. 23 Mar 1930, Bladensburg, Md.; m. Henry Walter Gilbertson, 22 Nov 1911, Rockford, Ill. She graduated in June 1903 from the Classical Academy, St. Paul, Minn., and in June 1911 from Rockford College, in Illinois. Five children.
1 Ashburnham Vital Records. His parents are listed as A. S. and Susan F. Hubbard. 2 Place of marriage from his obituary. 3 H. W. Gilbertson, The Gilbertson Family 1826-1966. 4 “Our Prehistoric Days,” notes by Maud Hubbard Gilbertson in a family photograph album. 5 Ibid. 6 Ibid. 7 Obituary; visit to cemetery. findagrave.com: Edgar Worthington Hubbard 7
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Artemas Slack Hubbard (2) and Susan French Jenison (3)
Artemas Slack Hubbard8 was born 3 Nov 1809, probably either in Plymouth,9 or in Strafford, Vt.10 He was the son of Reuben Hubbard and Lucy Slack.11 On 16 Jan 1834,12 he married Susan French Jenison. She was born 18 Dec 1815,13 in Shrewsbury, Vt., and was the daughter of Josiah Jenison and Susanna French.
Artemas and his wife moved to Hubbardston, Mass., by 1837,14 and to Ashburnham by 1841. Artemas was the manager of a poor house in Ashburnham at a salary of $225 a year. His duties were bookkeeping and buying supplies.15 According to the 1850 census he was a laborer.16
In 1869 Artemas and family moved to Floyd, Ia.17 He is listed on the 1870 census there as a farmer. Susan Jenison Hubbard died 7 Mar 1883,18 and she is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery,
8 His middle name was "Slack" according to Patricia Teff of Lansing, Ia. 9 Although the scrap of paper (see below) indicates Strafford, we know that Reuben Hubbard was living in Plymouth in 1810. 10 A scrap of paper, probably written by Maud Hubbard Gilbertson or Lunette Buel Hubbard, states "A. S. Hubbard your great-grandfather was born November 3rd 1809 Stafford [sic], Vermont." His death certificate also gives the date of birth as 3 Nov 1809, but does not give a place. 11 Day, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, lists a child named Artemas to these parents, but does not give a date of birth or middle name. If his middle name was indeed Slack, that would add weight to this assertion. On the 1810 census, Reuben does have two children listed with him under the age of 10. The vital records of Strafford, however, do not list him. H. W. Gilbertson lists Artemas S. Hubbard's father as Artemas L. Hubbard, but this is assumed to be an error. There are no Artemas Hubbards listed on the 1810 census in Vermont. According to the scrap of paper cited above, he was born in Strafford. We know that Reuben lived in Strafford, although he is listed in Plymouth on the 1810 census. H. W. Gilbertson states that the Hubbards were from Plymouth. 12 Bible record, marriages, in Artemas S. Hubbard's Bible. The Bible is dated 1835, and is in possession of Ray Grant of Portland, Ore 13 Ibid. 14 According to Patricia Teff, of Lansing, Ia., Harriet Buell Hubbard was born in Hubbardston. 15 Henry Walter Gilbertson, The Gilbertson Family 1826 to 1966 (1966). H. W. Gilbertson's source was an 1841 report, found in the courthouse of Worcester Co., Mass. It reads in part, "We were pleased with the manner in which Mr. Hubbard had kept his books, and was able to render an account of all his doing through the year, and being satisfied with his general management have employed him for another year at the stipulated price of 225 dollars." 16 1850 US census, Ashburnham, Mass, lists Artemas Hubbard, 43, laborer, 3000; Susan, 34; Harriet B., 13; Mary B. 11; Susan 8; Emily 5; Jennison 1. 17 Scrap of paper (opposite side), cited above: "Edgar Hubbard was born in Ashburnham, Mass, in Worcester Co., 19 Sep 1853, he moved west to Floyd Co. Iowa in 1869 and he met your grandmother Nettie Buell they were schoolmates." 18 Artemas S. Hubbard Bible record. 8
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Floyd, Ia.19 Sometime after that, Artemas came to live with his son Edgar. He died in Balaton, Minn., 29 Jan 1903,20 and is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Floyd, Ia.21
Children:22
1. (son, not named), b. 25 Feb 1835; d. 25 Feb 1835
2. George Jenison Hubbard, b. 4 Mar 1836, Hubbardston, Mass.;23 d. 7 May 1837
3. Harriet Buell Hubbard, b. 6 Sep 1837, Hubbardston, Mass.;24 d. 14 Feb 1880, Keithsburg, Ill.; m. James Lemuel Johnson, 25 Jul 1857, Walpole, N.H.25 Children: (1) Susan Emogene Johnson, b. 26 Aug 1859, Ashburnham, Mass.; d. 21 Jun 1939, Kamiah, Id.; m. (1st) Samuel Betchel; m. (2nd) Harry Walter Dorse (2) Mason Eugene Johnson, b. 23 May 1861, Ashburnham, Mass.; d. 30 Oct 1948, Norton, Mass.; m. Minnie Myctela Thomas.26 (3) Nellie Levona Johnson, b. 28 May 1865; d. 24 Jan 1898, Keithsburg, Ill.; m. Charles W. Fletcher (4) James Johnson, b. 18 Jul 1866; d. 27 Sep 1866, Montague, Mass. (5) James Melvin Johnson, b. about 1869; d. after 1940; m. Adeline Eudora Wright (6) Hattie Almira Johnson, b. 4 Nov 1871; d. 11 Sep 1952, Orange Co., Calif.; m. Frank E. Garrould
4. Mary Lorain Hubbard, b. 17 Sep 1839, Hubbardston;27 d. 19 Apr 1877, Baraboo, Wisc.; m. (1st) Charles Milton Whitney, who d. 1 Sep 1862 in the battle of Chantilly; m. (2nd), her first husband’s brother, Rev. Joseph Holbrook Whitney; bur. New Lisbon City Cemetery, New Lisbon, Wisc.28 Children: (1) Tyla Maria Whitney, b. 20 Oct 1859, Ashburnham, Mass.; d. after 1930; m. James H. Spencer (2) Charles McClellan Whitney, b. 18 Sep 1861; d. 19 Dec 1861
19 findagrave.com: Susan Jenison Hubbard 20 Death certificate. The cause of death was heart failure. His occupation is listed as "farmer." He had lived in Balaton for two years. 21 Visit to cemetery in 1990. findagrave.com: Artemas S. Hubbard 22 Dates of birth and death of children from Artemas S. Hubbard Bible record, unless otherwise noted. 23 Name from Bible record, place of birth from Hubbardston VR, p. 58. (Available online via google books.) 24 Bible record; for place of birth: Hubbardston VR, p. 58. 25 "New Hampshire, Marriages, 1720-1920," familysearch.org, also information from descendants of Harriet Hubbard Johnson. 26 On the 1930 census, he is listed as a Box Maker. 27 Bible record; for place of birth: Hubbardston VR, p. 58. 28 See http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Joseph_Holbrook_(1834-1916) 9
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5. Susan Amelia Hubbard, b. 18 Nov 1841, Hubbardston;29 d. 25 Jun 1856, Ashburnham, Mass.
6. Emily ("Emma") Jerusha Hubbard, b. 6 Nov 1844, Ashburnham, Mass.;30 d. 15 Nov 1902; m. Edward Nelson Marsh, 25 Jan 1868, Bremer, Ia.31
7. Ellen ("Nellie") Pamelia Hubbard, b. 26 Mar 1847, Ashburnham, Mass.;32 d. 19 Feb 1905, Charles City, Ia.; bur Oakwood Cem., Floyd, Ia.;33 m. George Rollins Shipley Children: (1) Lena Elizabeth Shipley, b. 10 Oct 1880, Floyd, Ia..; d. 3 Jun 1971, Hennepin Co., Minn.; bur. Evergreen Cem., Brainerd, Minn.;34 m. John Henry Thomas (2) Florence Frances Shipley, b. 18 Sep 1882; d. 7 Feb 1940; bur. Riverside Cem., Charles City, Ia.;35 m. William Levi Bubb; no children (3) Susan Shipley, b. 29 Jun 1886, Charles City, Ia.; d. 30 Nov 1979, Puyallup, Wash.; bur. Woodlawn Abbey;36 m. Francis William Gates
8. (Artemas) Jenison Hubbard, b. 25 Mar 1849, Ashburnham, Mass.;37 d. 1910; bur. Oakwood Cem., Floyd, Ia.;38 m. Barbara (Alward) Wilcox,39 2 Oct 187740 Children: (1) Ethel B. Hubbard, b. Mar 1879; d. 1963; m. (1st) Leo Lee Hayden;41 m. (2nd) John Fred Lerman (2) Roy Jenison Hubbard, b. 7 Jan 1884, Floyd, Ia.; d. 14 Jun 1961, Rockford, Ill., bur. West Union Cem., West Union, Ia.; m. Sylvia May Burrett
9. Chester Endelbert Hubbard, b. 4 Sep 1851, Ashburnham, Mass.; d. 21 Jan 1875; bur. Oakwood Cem.42
10. Edgar Worthington Hubbard, b. 19 Sep 1853; d. 14 Oct 1933; m. Lunette Rosanna Buel
29 Bible record; for place of birth: Hubbardston VR, p. 58. 30 Full name and date of birth from bible record; place of birth according to "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," familysearch.org. 31 "Iowa, Marriages, 1809-1992," familysearch.org. 32 Bible record for name and date of birth, for place of birth see: "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639- 1915” (familysearch.org). 33 findagrave.com: Ellen Shipley 34 findagrave.com: Lena Thomas 35 findagrave.com: Florence Bubb 36 findagrave.com: Susan Gates 37 Bible record for name and date of birth, for place of birth see: "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639- 1915” (familysearch.org). 38WPA Gravestone transcription gives 1910 as date of death, see findagrave.com: Artemas J. Hubbard 39 Her maiden name is unknown. She had a son, William Wilcox, by a previous marriage. Her first husband’s first name is also not known. 40 Marriage listed in Artemas S. Hubbard’s bible. 41 Apparently divorced. She had one daughter Ethel G. Hayden by this marriage. 42 findagrave.com: Chester E. Hubbard 10
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11. Herbert Leslie Hubbard, b. 29 Dec 1855; d. 12 Jan 1943, Rockford, Ill.;43 bur. Willwood Burial Park, Rockford, Ill.;44 m. (Sarah) Josephine Shipley; res. Rockford, Ill. Child: (1) Mabel Josephine Hubbard, b. 4 Dec 1878; d. 28 Oct 1914, Portland, Ore.45; bur. Wilhelm’s Portland Memorial Cem.;46 m. Edgar McLaren Swan, who died 23 Jun 1955; they had no children; he remarried and had children by his 2nd marriage.
43 Death date from database of Illinois death records online: http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/idphdeathsrch.html 44 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8360232 45 Portland Oregonian, 29 Oct 1914. 46 findagrave.com: Mabel Swan 11
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Reuben Hubbard (4) and Lucy Slack (5)
Reuben Hubbard was born in about 1773 or 1774 in Farmington, Conn.47 According to his death record, he was the son of Elnathan Hubbard. His mother was almost certainly Sybil Hubbard, although his death record gives her name as Lucy.
The discovery of his death record puts an end to a controversy about Reuben Hubbard’s origins. Edward Day's 1895 Hubbard genealogy lists Ephraim, Reuben, Elijah, Huldah, Jeremiah, and Luther as sons of Eleazur Hubbard and Huldah House.48 This conflicts with Donald Lines Jacobus' Hale House and Related Families. There was an Eleazur Hubbard in Vermont at the time but his wife's name was not Huldah and he never lived in Windsor County. Furthermore, the 1790 census lists him as having five daughters and no sons. Unfortunately, the errors of Day's genealogy have been copied by others.49
It is not known when Reuben moved to Vermont. He first appears on the census in Plymouth, Vt., 1810, living near Elijah Hubbard, and William Slack.50 Reuben's wife Lucy Slack51 was born 9 Sep 1787,52 in Windsor, Vt.53 She was the daughter of William Slack Jr. and Alice Woods.54 Lucy's first child, Horace, was born in 1803, when Lucy was only about 16 years old. Horace's death record shows him as having been born in Strafford. Reuben and his family may have lived in Strafford until about 1810, when they moved to Plymouth.
By 1814 the family returned to Strafford. They moved to Sharon in 1819 or 1820.55 In 1850 Reuben and Lucy were living with their son Horace in Sharon.56 Reuben and Lucy are found on
47 His death record in Worcester, Mass., gives age as 81 and place of birth, Farmington, Conn. The 1850 census, Sharon, Vt., and the 1855 Massachusetts state census also give his place of birth as Connecticut. 48 Edward Day, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History (1895), p. 218. "Elizur, b. 1746, d. Sep. 14, 1818, Captain in Rev. War, m. Huldah House of Plymouth, Vt., and had Ephraim b. 1770, Elijah b. 1775; Huldah, b. 1779; Jeremiah, b. 1781; Luther, b. 1783; and Reuben, b. In Windsor, Vt. 1771, m. 1797, Lucy Stack, rem. To Sharon, Vt., and had Horace, Lucinda, Danforth, Solon, Artemas, Lucy, Chester, Lorenzo, Pamelia, Susan, Charles who m. Mary Elizabeth Crawford and had 6 children, Sophronia and Martha." 49 Prior to the discovery of his death record, it had already been apparent that Reuben was probably the son of Elnathan, since Day lists Ephraim, Reuben, Elijah, Huldah, Jeremiah and Luther as siblings and it is known that Elnathan and Sybil had children named Ephraim, Elijah, Jeremiah, and Luther. Jane Hubbard of Jeffersonville, Vt., came to the same conclusion, after compiling an enormous amount of data on Vermont Hubbards. In 1987, she stated her conviction that Huldah House and Elizur Hubbard never existed, and that Ephraim, Elijah, Luther and Jeremiah were the children of Elnathan and Sybil. "The evidence for Reuben is unfortunately much less clear," she wrote, "but on the grounds of the dates and proximity I believe he belongs in this family. Letter from Jane R. Hubbard of Jeffersonville, VT, to Jan Schmidt, then of Cedar Hill, TX, dated 26 Jan 1987. 50 1810 census. Living so close together suggests a family relationship. 51 Death record of Horace Hubbard gives his mother’s maiden name as Lucy Slack. Also the History of Windsor County, Vt., states that Lucy Slack, daughter of William, married Reuben Hubbard. 52 From age at death, Vermont vital records. 53 Death record gives place of birth as Windsor. 54 Death record gives parents as William and Alice Slack. 55 From the fact that Chester was born in Strafford 22 Nov 1819, yet they appear on the census in 1820 in Sharon. 56 1850 census. 12
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the 1855 Massachusetts state census, living with their son Charles, and next to their son Lorenzo. He died 20 Jul 1855, in Worcester, Mass.57 After Reuben’s death, Lucy returned to Vermont, where she appears in Sharon on the 1860 census, living with Horace.58 She died 27 Apr 1863, in Sharon, Vt., of consumption, at age 75 years, 7 months and 18 days.59 Their burial locations are unknown. Children: 1. Horace Hubbard, b. 1803,60 Strafford; d. 29 May 1880, Sharon, Vt.;61 bur. Evergreen Cem., South Strafford, Vt.;62 m. Sarah ("Sally") Vesper, who d. 10 Feb 1880 in Sharon. Children: (1) Vesper Thomas Hubbard, b. 23 Apr 1833, Thetford, Vt.;63 d. 29 Sep 1886, Milwaukee, Wisc.;64 m. Ellen Snow, 5 Jun 1855, Strafford, Vt.65 (2) George W. Hubbard, b. Abt. 1841; living 1860 (3) Nelson C. Hubbard, b. Abt. 1849; living 1880; m. Judith M Roberts, 6 Nov 1876, Sharon, Vt.;66; possibly the Nelson Hubbard, divorced, who lived in Lowell, Mass., 1900 to 1920.
2. Lucy Hubbard, b. ca. 1806; d. 21 Jun 1834, Strafford, Vt.; bur. Kibling Cem.;67 m. 13 Mar 1827, in Sharon, Vt., George W. Vesper,68 who afterwards married her sister Children: (1) George Luman Vesper, b. 25 Jan 1828; d. 18 Dec 1850, Thetford, Vt.; bur. Sawnee Bean Cem.69 (2) Harry Vesper, b. 20 Feb 1830; d. 14 Nov 1886, Fall City, Wisc.; bur. Fall City Cem., Downsville, Wisc.;70 m. Mary Jane Owen. (3) Cyrel Vesper, b. 30 Jan 1832; d. 18 Apr 1904, Beaver Dam, Wisc.; bur. Oakwood Cem., Beaver Dam, Wisc.;71 m. (1st) Susan Owen; m. (2nd) Emma Jane Allen (4) Artemas Vesper, b. 19 Jan 1834; d. 27 Jun 1899, Oak Grove, Wisc.; bur. Oakwood Cem.;72 m Sarah Ann White 3. Artemas Slack Hubbard, b. 3 Nov 1809; d. 29 Jan 1903; m. Susan French Jenison
57 Massachusetts death record, image available online at familysearch.org. 58 1860 census. 59 Vermont vital records. 60 Gravestone . 61 Vermont vital records. His exact age is not given, he was 76 years old. He died of apoplexy. 62 findagrave.com: Horace Hubbard 63 Vermont Vital Records. 64 "Wisconsin, Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968,” available on familysearch.org. 65 Vermont Vital Records. 66 Vermont Vital records. 67 Vermont Vital Records, for both death date and cemetery. 68 Strafford VT Vital Records, Vol. 2, p. 321. This source states that Lucy was born in Sharon, VT 69 findagrave.com: George L. Vesper 70 findagrave.com: Harry Vesper 71 findagrave.com: Cyrel Vesper 72 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10177565 13
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4. Danforth Hubbard, b. 12 Sep 1812, Plymouth, Vt.;73 d. 31 Mar 1869, Sharon, Vt.;74 m. (1st) Unknown; m. (2nd) Almeda A Niles, 20 Mar 1844, Plainfield, Vt.;75 m. (3rd) Sarepta Annie Manning, 17 Mar 1851, Sharon, Vt.;76 m. (4th) Lucy Jane Huggett, 17 Nov 1853, Norwich, Vt.77 Lucy died 24 Nov 1871, in Norwich, Vt. Children, the first by an unknown wife; the others by Lucy Huggett: (1) William Hubbard, b. abt. 1838, d. 20 Mar 1862, Washington, D.C.; bur. US Soldier’s and Airmen’s Home78 (2?) James L Hubbard, b. abt. 1855; living 186079 (3) Jennie Louise Hubbard, b. 13 Apr 1855;80 d. 8 Dec 1928, Concord, N.H.; m. (1st) Byron W. Prescott, 4 May 1876;81 m. (2nd) Charles Alexander Sargent (4) Lucy E. Hubbard, b. 23 Aug 1856, Norwich, Vt.; d. 1912; m. Arthur Hutchinson. No children. In Colorado, Arthur operated a “burro brigade” used by tourists on trails to Pike’s Peak. They also organized and ran a home for the destitute near Denver. (5) Alice Mary Hubbard, b. 2 Aug 1858, Belmont, NY; d. 9 Sep 1895, Turnbridge, Vt.; m. Joseph Stearns Gay (6) Lorenzo Dow Hubbard, b. 28 May 1862, Chateguay, NY; d. 15 Oct 1922, Humboldt Co., Nev.; m. (1st) Jennie A. Monroe, 2 Jul 1891;82 m. (2nd) Myrtle Organ, 6 May 1903. His obituary calls him a “pioneer assayer” and “metallurgist” who came to Nevada about 1897.
5. Chester Hubbard, b. 22 Nov 1814, Strafford;83 m. Mary Ruggles Danforth in Hardwick, Mass.;84 moved to Kansas City, Mo. and then to Keokuk, Iowa, where he is said to have died in June or July 1861 (either 29 Jun 1861,85 or 3 Jul 186186 or 21 Jul 186187) Child: (1) Joseph Reuben Hubbard, b. 23 Nov 1846, Hardwick, Mass., d. 3 Mar 1921, Jackson Co., Mo.;88 m. Rose A. Jullien
6. Solon Hubbard,89 b. 28 Oct 1816, Strafford90
73 Death record (Vermont Vital records), gives place of birth as Plymouth, and age as 56 years, 6 months, 19 days. 74 Ibid. The cause of death was inflammation of the kidneys. 75 Vermont vital records. The wedding was in Plainfield, but the groom’s residence was given as Sharon, Vt. 76 Vermont Vital Records. 77 Vermont Vital records. The minister was Philip Chamberlin. No other information on the marriage record. 78 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32851516 79 Possibly a census error for Jennie Louise Hubbard, who is not found on the 1860 census. 80 History of Royalton, Vt. 81 Vermont Vital Records – Strafford, Vt. Jennie’s parents’ names are given in the marriage record. 82 Michigan marriage record. They were married in Ann Arbor. 83 Strafford VT Vital Records, Vol. 2, p. 321. 84 Marriage intention recorded 3 Feb 1844, Hardwick Vital Records, p. 194. 85 The Danforth Genealogy, (1902) p. 165. 86 The Southwestern Reporter, Vol. 86 (1905), p. 83. 87 Report of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, Vol. 218 (1909), p. 607. 88 Death certificate (available online). 89 It is possible that he was the Dr. Solon Hubbard who graduated from Dartmouth and lived in Cornwall, Conn. This Dr. Solon Hubbard was born in Vermont (according to census), was about the right age, and it’s not a common name. However, it doesn’t seem likely that Reuben Hubbard, a poor farmer, would have been able to send one of his sons to Dartmouth. See A History of Cornwall, Connecticut (1926) for Dr. Solon Hubbard. 90 Strafford VT Vital Records, Vol. 2, p. 321. 14
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7. Susan Hubbard, b. 13 Jun 1819, Strafford;91 said to have m. Isaac Barker, 11 Dec 1842, Sharon, Vt., but no proof has been found92 8. Pamelia Hubbard,93 b. 6 Dec 1820, Strafford; d. 10 May 1900, Oak Grove, Dodge Co., Wisc.; bur. Hyland Prairie Cem.; m. (1st) George W. Vesper, who d. Dec 1858; m. (2nd) Morgan L. Foote, who d. before 1880 Children: (1) Lucy Vesper, b. 1838; d. 17 Jan 1899, Chicago, Ill.; m. Charles Foote (2) Harriet Vesper, b. 5 Apr 1846; d. 25 Oct 1916; bur. York Center, Wisc.;94 m. Joseph Mitchell (3) Ellen Vesper, b. 27 May 1850; d. 8 Dec 1933; m. William Francis Gordon (4) George Luman Vesper, b. 1858; d. 3 Jul 1925; bur. Beaver Dam, Wisc.;95 m. Ella May Edmunds
9(?). Lucinda Hubbard96
10. Lorenzo D. Hubbard, b. 12 Apr 1824, Sharon, Vt.; d. 30 Jan 1891, Worcester, Mass.;97 bur. Hope Cem., Worcester, Mass.;98 m. Elizabeth Worthington, who was b. Aug 1833, and d. 2 Apr 1908;99 carpenter; res. Worcester, Mass. Child: (1) Jennie Isadora Hubbard, b. 21 Apr 1859, Worcester, d. 1916, m. Willie Merrick Hine, 25 Feb 1880, Worcester, Mass.100
11. Sophronia Hubbard, b. about 1826; d. 7 Mar 1837; bur. Kibling Cem., Strafford101
12. Charles Hubbard, b. Feb 1829; d. 3 Jun 1902, Worcester, Mass.;102 carpenter; res. Worcester, Mass; bur. Oakham Mass.;103 m. Mary Elizabeth Crawford, who was b. June 1832, in Mass., and d. 12 Oct 1912. Children: (1) Lucy Caroline Hubbard, b. 3 Jul 1854; d. 4 Jan 1920; m. Norman Elwyn Shedd (2) Charles L. Hubbard, b. 22 Sep 1854; d. 15 Jan 1855 (3) Emily (“Emma”) J. Hubbard, b. 22 May 1856, Pittsfield, Mass.; d. 1 Nov 1928, Worcester, Mass.; m. Solomon Stearns Flint
91 Ibid. 92 Cannot find this in Vermont Vital records. 93 Information on Pamelia and Lucy from Jan Schmidt of Alexandria, VA. 94 findagrave.com: Harriet Mitchell 95 findagrave.com: George Luman Vesper 96 Listed by Day as being part of this family, but no further information has been found. 97 His parents are given as Reuben & Lucy Vesper, place of birth Sharon, and age 66 years, 9 months and 18 days. 98 Information from Hope Cemetery. 99 Her death certificate. She was living at 24 Jackson St. in Worcester at the time of her death. 100 Massachusetts marriages on familysearch.org 101 Gravestone, Kibling Cem: "Sophronia dau. Of Reuben & Lucy Hubbard died March 7 1837 Aed. 11 yrs." 102 Death record. His death record does not give his parents’ names. He died of senile dementia. His age is given as 73 years and 4 months. 103 Death record. 15
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(4) Franklin “Frank” C. Hubbard, b. Abt. 1865, d. 15 Feb 1913, Oakham, Mass.;104 m. Addie S. Kempton
13(?). Martha A. Hubbard, b. abt. 1830105
104 "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915," available on Familysearch.org. 105 She is listed with Reuben and Lucy on the 1850 census, but no family relationship is given; she continued to live with Reuben and Lucy in 1855 (Massachusetts state census), and with Lucy in 1860 (Vermont).
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Josiah Jenison (6) and Susanna French (7)
Josiah Jenison106 was born 13 Feb 1778, probably in Barre, Mass.107 He was baptized 12 Apr 1778, at the First Church of Barre.108 He was the son of Abijah Jenison and Mary Robinson. Josiah bought property in Shrewsbury, Vt., in 1802. A picture of his house can be found in a history of Shrewsbury written by Dawn Hance. His house was valued at $150 in 1817. According to Hance, Josiah was an enlistee for the Battle of Plattsburgh, N.Y., (1814) under Capt. Robert Reed's company of militia.109
Josiah married Susanna French 2 Feb 1808.110 Their marriage intention was recorded on 25 Oct 1807, in Concord, Mass., as “Josiah Jenison of Shrewsbury, Vt. and Susanna French of Concord.”111
Susanna was born 12 Sep 1785, in Concord, and was the daughter of Nathaniel French and Susanna Brown.112 The Jenison family Bible has been passed down to family members,113 and is inscribed "The Property of Josiah and Susanna Jenison, Shrewsbury, Vt., August 24th 1830."114
In 1860 Josiah and Susannah lived in Shrewsbury with their son-in-law Lyman Bishop.115 Josiah Jenison died 4 Sep 1861.116 The house was sold to their daughter Amanda and her husband
106 His name is spelled “Jennison” in some records. 107 Bible record for date of birth (see below). Barre vital records does not list the birth, but his parents Abijah and Mary were married in Barre in 1771. 108 “Baptisms from the Records of the First Church of Barre, Mass., 1767-1831.”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 57, p. 414. 109 Dawn Hance, Shrewsbury, Vt., Our Town As It Was (1980), pp. 56, 73, 108, 212. 110 Bible record. The place of marriage was presumably Shrewsbury, Vt. 111 Concord Births, Marriages and Deaths; available on NEHGS web site. 112 Concord Births, Marriages and Deaths: Susanna French Daugr. of Nathl. French and Susanna his wife was Born September ye. 12 :1785 113 The Bible is currently owned by Anita Guenin. The page including the family record has long been separated from the Bible, and that page is in the possession of the author, with the plan of eventually donating to NEHGS. 114 Bible record, p. 957. 115 1860 US Census. He is listed as a farmer. 116 Bible record. 17
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Lyman Bishop, in 1866.117 Susanna died 1 Sep 1875, at age 89. They are buried in the Northam Cemetery, near North Shrewsbury.118
Children (born in Shrewsbury, Vt.):
1. Amanda Jenison, b. 21 Dec 1808; d. 16 May 1882, Pittsfield, Vt.;119 m. Lyman Bishop, 11 Oct 1832 Children (1): Nancy Ellen Bishop, b. 18 Feb 1837; d. 20 Mar 1905, Pittsfield, Vt., unm. (2) Henry Josiah Bishop, b. 23 Nov 1840; d. 9 Feb 1897, Pittsfield, Vt.; m. Sarah R. Howe, 24 Feb 1869, Stockbridge, Vt.
2. Mary Malvina Jenison, b. 6 Jun 1810; d. 23 May 1906; m. Rev. Cyrus Prindle, 26 Jan 1833; he was a Methodist minister and well-known abolitionist; he died 1 Dec 1885, Cleveland, Ohio; they are both buried in the Lake View Cemetery there.120 Children (1) Homer Edgar Prindle, b. 31 Aug 1839; d. 3 May 1923, Cleveland, Oh.; bur. Lake View Cem.121 m. Joanna Edelle Noakes (2) John Quincy Adams Prindle, b. 9 Apr 1842; d. 15 Apr 1907, Fargo, N.D.; bur. Lake View Cem.;122 m. (1st) Martha Elizabeth Lewis; m. (2nd) Sarah Doolittle (3) Frances Martha Prindle, b. 27 May 1844; d. 8 Jul 1937, Washington, D.C.; bur. Arlington National Cem.;123 m. George Truesdell
3. Lucinda Jenison, b. 7 Mar 1813; d. 26 May 1813124
4. Nancy English Jenison, b. 27 Mar 1814; d. 18 Apr 1910, Pittsfield, Vt.;125 m. Lorenzo D. Barnes, 16 Nov 1841 Children (1) Arminda Ann Barns, b. 4 Jul 1845; d. 21 Oct 1846 (2) Livonia Cornelia Barns, b. 28 Aug 1848; d. 6 Feb 1891, Boston, Mass.; m. Julius M. Ranney
5. Susanna French Jenison, b. 18 Dec 1816; d. 7 Mar 1883; m. Artemas Slack Hubbard
6. George Jenison, b. 12 Feb 1819; d. 7 Jul 1827126
117 Hance. 118 Gravestone. I visited the cemetery in about 1991. findagrave.com: Josiah Jenison 119 Vermont Vital Records, accessed via familysearch.org. She died of pneumonia. 120 findagrave.com: Mary Prindle 121 findagrave.com: Homer E. Prindle 122 findagrave.com: John A Prindle 123 findagrave.com: Frances M. Truesdell 124 Dates of birth and death from Jenison Bible record. 125 Vermont vital records, accessed via familysearch.org. She died of apoplexy. 126 Dates of birth and death from Jenison Bible record. 18
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7. Jerusha Jenison, b. 26 Feb 1822; d. 21 Feb 1823127
8. Jerusha Wise Jenison, b. 7 May 1824; d. 4 Oct 1901, Pittsfield, Vt.;128 m. Columbia Graves, 4 Mar 1849; he was born 29 May 1820 and died 27 Sep 1865; bur. Shrewsbury, Vt. Children (1): (Luna) Ellen Graves, b. 10 Jan 1846; d. 2 Feb 1927, Detroit, Mich.; bur. Oak Grove Cem., La Crosse, Wisc.;129 m. Henry Hewett White (2) Jerusha Emily Graves; b. 7 Dec 1848; d. 18 Aug 1911, Elgin, Ill.; m. Leander Davidson (3) Leona Eveline Graves, b. 24 Aug 1849; d. 24 Feb 1937, Pittsford, Vt.; m. Lucius C. Fuller (4) Luther Graves, b. 9 Aug 1851; d. 29 Feb 1852 (5) Eldora (“Dora”) Marie Graves, b. 30 Nov 1852; d. 29 Apr 1941, West Chicago, Ill.; bur. Oakwood Cem.;130 m. Frank Field (6) George Luther Graves, b. 10 Feb 1861; d. 20 Sep 1884 (7) Mary Amelia Graves, b. 19 Jan 1864, Shrewsbury, Vt.; d. Jun. 18, 1887, Pittsfield, Vt.; m. Horace Wilson. She died of Bright’s Disease. No children.
127 Dates of birth and death from Jenison Bible record. 128 Vermont Vital Records. She died of cancer of the stomach. The death record can be found online via familysearch.org, however it is incorrectly indexed under the name “Jerusha Jenison Growes.” 129 findagrave.com: Luna White 130 findagrave.com: Dora Field 19
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Elnathan Hubbard (8) and Sybil Hubbard (9)
Elnathan Hubbard was born 3 Feb 1740/1, in Middletown, Conn.131 He was the son of Joseph Hubbard and Elizabeth Hollister. He married Sybil Hubbard 10 Jun 1761, in Middletown.132 She was born in 1742, the daughter of Timothy Hubbard and Abiah Porter.
Elnathan was in Windsor County, Vt., by 1781, when his name appears on a payroll of Capt. Savage's Company of Militia. The men marched 42 miles in March of that year.133 He served as Corporal at the Siege of Boston, January-March 1776, in Capt. Selah Heart's 3rd Company (Capt. Heart of Farmington), Col. Wolcott's Regiment.134 Elnathan also served in the army in Connecticut.135
Elnathan is listed on the 1790 census in Windsor, Vt.136 On the 1800 census in Windsor he is listed with a son aged 10-16 and a daughter aged 26-45 (probably Jeremiah and Huldah). He apparently lived there for the rest of his life. The last time that Elnathan's name appears on a deed is 17 May 1809.137 His death, in Windsor, is recorded in the 10 Feb 1810, edition of Spooner’s Vermont Journal.138 Sybil deeded land to Jeremiah in 1818.139 Sybil’s death was recorded in the 16 Apr 1831 edition of the Brattleboro Messenger: “In Windsor…Mrs. Sybil Hubbard, aged 88.” Their burial locations are unknown.
Children:
1. Ephraim Hubbard,140 b. 5 Oct 1761, Middletown, Conn.; d. before 1850?; he probably is the Ephraim who married Lydia Pearson
2(?). Ebenezer Hubbard, b. 20 Dec 1764 or 1766, Farmington, Conn.; he may have been a twin of Elijah's or the birth record could be a mistake
131 Barbour Collection, see http://dunhamwilcox.net/barbour/middletown_barbour_h2.htm 132 Ibid. 133 Goodrich, John E., The State of Vermont: Rolls of the soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783 (1904), p. 351. 134 The Record of Conn. Men in the Military and Naval Service during the Rev. War, 1775-1783, Henry P. Johnston, ed. (1889). 135 According to Dorothy Hubbard: There is reference to Elnathan in the Pension Application of Martin Hooker (S9919 on Fold3.com). Hooker was a resident of Farmington, CT during the War. He describes three call-ups of the Militia in Farmington. He named all the officers in each call-up, and Elnathan Hubbard was included each time, first as Orderly Sergeant, then the last two times as Ensign. 136 His name is spelled “Hibbard.” With him are 9 other family members – 5 males under 16, 2 females, and 2 other males over 16. 137 Windsor deeds, vol. 9, p. 356. 138 The notice says he was at age 65, which is incorrect. However, it seems certain that it is the right Elnathan Hubbard, since there is no record of anyone else by that name living in Windsor County at the time. 139 Windsor deeds, vol., 11, p. 544. 140 Information on Ephraim Hubbard from Celeste Fox of Golden, Colo. 20
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3. Elijah Hubbard,141 b. 24 Dec 1766, Farmington, Conn.; d. 25 May 1859, Granville, Vt.;142 m. (1st) 6 Mar 1788, Mariam Amsden, who d. 7 Jan 1794; m. (2nd) Hannah Clark, who d. 12 Mar 1864
4. Luther Hubbard, b. 20 Jan 1768, Farmington, Conn.; m. 1 Aug 1797, Polly Lamphire, Reading, Vt.
5. Reuben Hubbard, b. abt. 1773; d. 20 Jul 1855; m. Lucy Slack
6. Huldah Hubbard,143 probably the Huldah Hubbard who m. Silas Hale, 28 Apr 1802, in Windsor144
7. Jeremiah Hubbard, b. 25 Feb 1785, Windsor, Vt.; d. 20 Jul 1866;145 m. (1st) Nancy Hubbard, 6 Dec 1810; she d. 1856; she was the daughter of Watts and Lois Hubbard; they are buried in Old South Burying Ground in Windsor;146 m. (2nd) Salome -----
141 For Elijah and his descendants, see Blanche B. Bryant, Genealogical Records of the Founders and Early Settlers of Plymouth Vt, (1967). Bryant is incorrect concerning Elijah's parents -- she apparently merely copied this misinformation from Day's Hubbard genealogy. 142 Vermont Vital records. His age, death date, and place of birth and death from his death record 143 Listed by Day as sister of Ephraim, Elijah, Jeremiah, Luther and Reuben. 144 Vermont Vital Records. 145 Gravestone. 146 findagrave.com: Jeremiah Hubbard. 21
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William Slack (10) and Alice Woods (11)
William Slack was born 22 Oct 1751, in Wilmington, Mass.147 He was the son of William Slack Sr. and Phebe Wood. He married Alice Woods 16 Jun 1774, in Fitchburg, Mass.148 At the time of his marriage, he was living in Leominster and she lived in Fitchburg.149 Alice was born 23 Apr 1753, in Groton, Mass., the daughter of Col. Ebenezer Woods and Eunice Boyden.150
It is not known when William and Alice moved to Vermont, but they were apparently in Windsor by 1785.151
William was in the Revolutionary War and received a pension. He first enlisted, in April 1775, in Capt. Burt’s Company, Col. Whitcomb’s Massachusetts regiment. 152 He again enlisted on 1 Jan 1776, and was a private, serving for one year in Capt. Morse’s company, Col. William Prescott’s regiment, in Gen. Sullivan’s Brigade in the Massachusetts Line. He was discharged in New York state. Apparently he had also served before that time, but the pension papers are difficult to read. He applied for the pension in April 1818, and was living in Strafford, Vermont, at the time.
In a statement made July 1820, he says he is 68 years old, and cites his poor circumstances, stating that he has “half an acre of land, old small house and old barn, one cow and a small amount of household furniture.” He goes on to say, “my occupation has been farming and shoemaking, but by old age and infirmities I am (unable) to pursue my occupation to procure a comfortable support for myself and family. My wife Alice Slack is 67 years of age, for many years has been sick and unable to labor.”153
William Slack died 10 Apr 1832, in Strafford, Vt.154 Alice died 26 Jan 1833, also in Strafford.155 They are buried in the Kibling Cemetery near Strafford.156
147 Wilmington Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths, from 1730 to 1898, p. 71. 148 Vital Records of Fitchburg Mass. to 1859 : “William Slack Junr of Leominfter was married to Allice Wood of Fitchburg June 16th 1774 by the Reverend John Payson Joseph Fox Town Clerk” 149 Ibid. 150 According to Strafford Vital Records, Vol 5 (1984-85), p. 156. For the Woods family, see New England Historical & Genealogical Register, January 1910, p. 34; October 1909, p. 318. 151 According to Jan Schmidt, "William Slack was elected as one of the surveyors of highways for the Town of Windsor in 1786 and was on the tax roll for the West Parish in 1785." 152 History of the town of Grafton, Vermont (1954), p. 14. 153 Pension papers. In 1820, William was 68 and Alice 67. 154 Vermont Vital Records. His age is given as 79. 155 Vermont Vital Records. 156 I visited the cemetery many years ago. There is a single gravestone for both. William is said to have been 79 years old and Alice (spelled "Alis" on gravestone) 78 years old. This does not quite fit with their actual ages which were 80 and 79. findagrave.com: William Slack Jr. and findagrave.com: Alice Slack 22
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Children:
1. Millicent Slack, b. 19 Apr 1775, Leominster, Mass.;157 d. 22 Dec 1820, Strafford, Vt.;158 m. Josiah Kendall, who d. 6 May 1843; both are bur. Kibling Cem., Strafford, Vt.
2. William Slack,159 b. 13 Nov 1777, Windsor, Vt.; d. 20 Feb 1855, Norwich, Vt.;160 bur. Hillside Cem., Norwich, Vt.;161 m. Hannah Taylor, 3 Mar 1801
3. Joseph Slack, d. Enfield, N.H.; m. Polly Woodbury, 19 Dec 1808;162 he was a Shaker163
4. Jotham Slack, d. in the west164
5. Henry Slack, d. Hartford, Vt., m. Rebecca Fletcher165
6. Lucy Slack, b. 19 Sep 1787; d. 27 Apr 1863; m. Reuben Hubbard
7. Ebenezer Slack, b. Abt. 1795; d. 25 Oct 1867; m. (1st) Abigail Chamberlain, 17 Dec 1814;166 m. (2nd) Harriet (Taylor) Finney, widow of Newman Finney
157 Leominster Town Records, available via Ancestry.com: “Millicent Slack daughter of William Slack and Alice Slack born at Leominster April 19th 1775.” 158 Vermont Vital Records. Her death record calls her “Milley”. 159 History of Windsor Co., Vermont (1891), by Lewis Aldrich & Frank Holmes, p. 961. 160 Vermont Vital Records. 161 findagrave.com: William Slack III 162 Vermont Vital Records, Bridgewater, Vt. 163 History of Windsor Co., Vermont, p. 961. 164 Ibid. No further record has been found. 165 Ibid. 166 Vermont Vital Records. They were married in Strafford, Vt. The record does not give his parents names. 23
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Abijah Jenison (12) and Mary Robinson (13)
Abijah Jenison was born 19 Nov 1747, probably in Weston, Mass.167 He was the son of Nathaniel Jenison and Abigail Mead. He was baptized in Weston on 21 Dec 1747:
Decr. --21. [1747] Abijah Son of Nathanl. & Abigail Jennison. baptis'd at yr. House (Sevl. prest.) by reason of ye diffty. of bringg it out.168
His last name was sometimes spelled “Jennison.” He lived in Weston until at least 1769, when he was included in a tax list.169 His father Nathaniel died in Barre, Mass., in 1769, and it’s possible he moved there following his death.
He married Mary Robinson, 26 Nov 1771, in Barre.170 She was born 3 Jun 1754, in Barre,171 and was the daughter of Joseph Robinson and Martha Hedge.
Abijah Jenison was in the Revolutionary War. According to DAR records, he was a private in Col. John Rand's Regiment at West Point in 1780.172
He is listed on the 1790 and 1800 census living in Shrewsbury, Vt. He died 16 May 1830,173 probably in Vermont, but the location is not known and no death record or gravestone has been found. Mary died 12 Jul 1830.174
Children:175
1. Brooks Jenison, b. 14 May 1773
2. Samuel Jenison, b. 16 Dec 1774; d. 5 Feb 1818, Cranston, R.I.;176 m. Betsey Wise,177 who died in Oct 1838 in R.I.178
167 Bible record, in Bible owned by Josiah and Susanna Jenison, dated 1830, p. 958. 168 Town of Weston, Births, Deaths and Marriages 1707-1850. 169 Town of Weston : the tax lists, 1757-1827, p. 54. He lived on the north side of town. 170 Ibid. For place: Barre vital records, p. 160. 171 Barre vital records, p. 77. 172 DAR #575144. 173 Bible record, p. 960. 174 Ibid. I do not know the place of death, and can’t find him on the 1820 or 1830 census. 175 All births from Bible record, p. 958. Also in the Bible record, p. 957, are the marriages of Samuel to Betsey Wise; Josiah to Susanna French; Polly to Daniel Brown; Lemmuel to Sally Sanderson; and Minot R. to Sally Lockwood. 176 Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, p., 306: “Jennison, Samuel, at Cranston, suddenly, 5 Feb 1818.” Also, Providence Patriot, issue of 2/7/1818: “In Cranston, on Thursday evening last, suddenly, Mr. Samuel Jennison.” (available via America’s Historical Newspapers.) 177 The marriage is from the Jenison Bible record – but also: Sameul Gennison m. Betsey Wise, 9 Nov 1800, was recorded in Providence, R.I. 178 Her grave was supposedly moved to the Ephraim Whipple lot, Smithfield, according to the R.I. Historical Society. 24
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3. Abijah Jenison, b. 11 Aug 1776
4. Josiah Jenison, b. 13 Feb 1778; d. 4 Sep 1861; m. Susanna French
5. Polly Jenison, b. 30 Aug 1779; d. 21 Aug 1862; m. Daniel Brown; res. Ann Arbor, Mich.
6. Lemuel Jenison, b. 3 Jun 1783; d. 24 Sep 1837;179 Jenison,180 Mich.; m. Sarah (“Sally”) Sanderson, Mar 1807; they are both buried in the Jenison Cemetery in Jenison, Mich.;181 he had first settled in Canton, N.Y., where he as a “a highly esteemed citizen and successful businessman”182
7. Minet Ripley Jenison, b. 13 Nov 1792; bapt. 24 Mar 1793, Barre, Mass.;183 d. 5 Jun 1870, Canton, N.Y.;184 m. (1st) Sally Lockwood, who died in 1842; m (2nd) Miriam -----; he was a judge in St. Lawrence Co., N.Y.;185 he may have been born as “Minot”
179 Gravestone. 180 The town of Jenison, Mich., was named after his son, Luman Jenison. See http://ottawa.migenweb.net/biographies/1893/jenison.html 181 findagrave.com: Lemuel Jenison 182 http://www.georgetown-mi.gov/minutes/tbminutes/T2009/tb090928/jhasept2009.pdf 183 “Baptisms in the First Church of Barre,” The New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1904, p. 59. 184 Cemetery inscription: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ny/canton_ny_cem.htm 185 http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/gates-curtis/our-county-and-its-people-a-memorial-record-of-st- lawrence-county-new-york-tru/page-24-our-county-and-its-people-a-memorial-record-of-st-lawrence-county-new- york-tru.shtml 25
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Nathaniel French (14) and Susanna Brown (15)
Nathaniel French was born 11 Apr 1760, in Billerica, Mass.186 He was the son of Jonas French and Hannah Page. On 11 Sep 1783, he married his first cousin Susanna Brown, in Concord.187 The marriage was performed by Ezra Ripley. A Bible record states that she was born 24 Oct 1765.188 Susanna was the daughter of Nathaniel Bowman Brown and Abigail Page.
Another scrap of paper handed down through the family also shows her birth date:
It is not known when Nathaniel moved to Vermont. He was not the Nathaniel French who was in Dummerstown, Grafton County, by 1771.189 He was probably still living in Concord, Mass., in 1790.
Susanna (Brown) French died 13 Nov 1828.190 Some sources say that he was the Nathaniel French who married Matilda Farwell in 1829, but this is doubtful.191 He died 30 Nov 1834,192 and is buried in the Middletown Cemetery in Grafton, Vt.193
186 Billerica vital records, p. 85. 187 Concord Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths, (Henceforth: Concord Vital Records), p. 254. The marriage is recorded as follows: "Nathaniel French of Concord and Susanna Brown of Luningbur was Married by the Revd Ezra Ripley 11 Sep 1783." 188 Bible of Josiah Jenison and Susanna French, dated 1830, page 958; henceforth "Bible record." 189 See Gazetteer and business directory of Windham County, Vt., 1724-1884, p. 177. 190 Bible record, page 960. 191 It is doubtful because Concord Vital Records states that “Nathaniel French husband of Matilda F. died December — 1834 — 77 yrs..” While the date of death is close, the age is off by 3 years. In addition, if he did not die in Concord the record would have stated that fact. The marriage record of Nathaniel and Matilda, also in Concord Vital Records, states: “Nathaniel French and Matilda Farwell, both of Concord, were married by Rev. Dr. Ezra Ripley, Septr. 6th, 1829. Note, it appears that Matilda remarried in 1835: “Isaiah Prescott & Matilda French both of Concord were married by Rev. Dr. Ripley May 19th, 1835.” 192 Bible record, page 960; also gravestone. 193 From a listing found in the DAR. Also, photograph of gravestone. 26
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His gravestone inscription194 reads:
NATHANIEL FRENCH Died Nov 29 1834 A patriot of the Revolution A.E. 74
According to his Revolutionary war pension papers, he stated that he enlisted, in June 1777, for about six months, in Capt. Joshua Parker’s company of Westford, in Col. Robertson’s regiment. In early 1778, he enlisted as a blacksmith under Capt. Eaton, Col. Baldwin’s regiment, at Albany. Finally in about April 1780, serving nine months as a private in Capt. Pierce and Capt. Michael G. Houdin’s companies, in Col. Timothy Bigelow’s Massachusetts regiment. His pension was granted in March 1818, when he was 58 years old, and a resident of Concord. In 1820, he referred to his wife and fourteen living children, and he was still living in Concord.
According to a DAR application, he served as a private in the Revolutionary war under Captain Hancock for six months in 1780. Records show he was 5 ft., 3 in. tall and had a light complexion. He also served under Joseph Hosmer in 1780,195 and he may also have been in the War of 1812.196
A letter written from Nathaniel French to his son Leander, in February 1834, is among the collections of the Concord Antiquarian Society.197 His signature is shown below:
Children:198
194 Photograph of gravestone. findagrave.com: Nathaniel French 195 DAR application of Hermia Maynard Kniskern (#100184) dated 1913. 196 I believe there is an 1812 marker by his gravestone. 197 See http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/fin_aids/CAS.htm The catalog number is: CAS D-200.26 . The collection also includes a letter from Leander French to an uncle, and two letters from Susan Jenison to brothers. 198 Birth dates from Bible record, page 958. 27
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1. Nathaniel French, b. 26 Jun 1784; d. 1 Sep 1849;199 m. (1st?) Rachel Baldwin;200 m. (2nd) Zoah (or Zoe) French201
2. Susanna French, b. 12 Sep 1785; d. 1 Sep 1875; m. Josiah Jenison
3. Jonas French, b. 7 Jun 1787; d. 10 Apr 1793; bur. Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord202
4. Lucinda French, b. 8 Nov 1789; d. 28 Nov 1870; m. Kiah Maynard; lived in 1870 in Fairhaven, Vt.203
5. Nancy French, b. 5 Dec 1791; d. 31 May 1823, Brighton, Mass.;204 m. John English
6. Jonas French, b. 9 Dec 1793, Concord, Mass.; d. 11 Aug 1830;205 m. (1st) Sally Jones, 4 Nov 1819, Boston; m. (2nd) Lois Rich, 9 Dec 1821, Boston
7. Daniel French, b. 21 Dec 1795; d. 14 May 1874, New York City; bur Green-Wood Cem.;206 m. (1st) Anna Clipman; m. (2nd) Eliza Jane Bell, 31 Oct 1840, Portsmouth, N.H.; according to his obituary, he was “a prominent member of the Association for improving the Condition of the Poor for the past thirty years, and was Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Ninth Ward at the time of his death.”207
8. Jerusha French, b. 5 Mar 1798; d. Mar 24, 1879, Newton, Mass.;208 m. (1st) James Wise, 1815, Concord; m. (2nd) Alexander Hopkins, 21 Mar 1841, Boston
199 Bible record. 200 This marriage is according to the DAR application cited above. However, the marriage is recorded 13 Aug 1811, in Baltimore, Md. Although it seems odd for Nathaniel of Massachusetts to be married in Maryland, it can’t be ruled out – perhaps he was serving in the War of 1812. 201 There is a record of Nathaniel French m. Zoa French, 22 Jun 1830, in the Concord VR, which says Nathaniel Jr. (of Washington) and Zoah French. Also, another record says 1 Jun 1830, in Washington, DC, via familysearch.org (with image). Could Nathaniel have been a soldier stationed in Washington, D.C.? The marriage to Zoah is also stated in the DAR Application. 202 findagrave.com: Jonas French 203 1870 census. Her husband Kiah was living in 1860. Ancestry.com has misindexed his name as “Uriah.” 204 Mass. vital records index (ancestry.com). Also, Boston Independent Chronicle & Patriot, 4 Jun 1823: “In Brighton, Mrs. Nancy English, widow of the late John English, aged 31.” 205 Bible record of Josiah Jenison. 206 findagrave.com: Daniel French 207 New York Herald, 16 May 1874. 208 Death record found via ancestry.com; place of internment given as “Newton Cemetery; also, Boston Herald, 25 Mar 1879: “ At Newton, March 24, Jerusha Hopkins, relict of Alexander Hopkins of Boston, 81 yrs 19 ds. Funeral services at the home of her son-in-law, Wesley Barber, Mount Ida, Newton, on Wednesday…” 28
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9. Lydia French, b. 19 Jun 1800; d. 23 Jul 1830, Mt. Holly, Vt.;209 bur. Packer Cem.;210 m. Rev. Jeriel Andrews
10. Erastus French, b. 11 Apr 1802; d. 22 Dec 1856, Mt. Holly, Vt.;211 m. Mira Olds
11. Anthony French, b. 19 Jul 1804, Concord, Mass.; d. 3 Jan 1881, Alton, Ill.; bur. Alton Cem.;212 m. Eveline Pitts, 27 May 1828, W.Va.;213 according to his obituary, he moved to Alton, Ill., about 10 years before his death214
12. Sophronia French, b. 6 Oct 1806; d. 26 Aug 1894, Natick, Mass.;215 m. Aaron Davis
13. James Harvey French, b. 11 Sep 1808; d. 21 Aug 1843, New York, N.Y.;216 m Mercy Whitney Houghton, 4 Apr 1829 in Concord; apparently no children; she died 4 Oct 1874
14. Leander French, b. 15 Jun 1810, Concord, Mass.; d. 17 May 1893, Natick, Mass.;217 bur. Dell Park Cem., Natick, Mass;218 m. (1st) Harriet Flint; m. (2nd) Susan Walcott; he was a tinsmith
15. Diana French, b. 18 Sep 1813, Concord, Mass.; d. 31 May 1891, Chicago, Ill.;219 m. Harum Merrill
209 Vermont Vital Records. 210 findagrave.com: Lydia Andrews 211 Vermont Vital Records. He was buried in the Old Cemetery in Mechanicsville. 212 findagrave.com: Anthony French 213 Which was, of course, part of Virginia at that time. See obituary in Alton Daily Telegraph, cited below. 214 Alton Daily Telegraph, 4 Jan 1881. He died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Homer Stanford. “Deceased was s sufferer for twenty years with inflammatory rheumatism which kept him confined to the house the greater part of the time. His protracted sufferings were born with patience and fortitude.” 215 Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, available on Familysearch.org 216 "New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952,” available on FamilySearch.org; see also Ancestry.com. New York, Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection), in which he is called Col. James H. French, and his age is given as 35. 217 Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, available on Familysearch.org. 218 findagrave.com: Leander French 219 Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1922," available on FamilySearch.org. She died of influenza. 29
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Joseph Hubbard (16) and Elizabeth Hollister (17)
Joseph Hubbard was born 21 Mar 1703/4, in Middletown, Conn.220 He was the son of John Hubbard and Mary Phillips. He married Elizabeth Hollister, of Glastonbury, 29 Aug 1728, in Middletown.221 She was born 23 Feb 1709[/10?], in Glastonbury,222 the daughter of Ephraim Hollister and Elizabeth Green.223
Elizabeth died in Middletown, 1 Feb 1785, at the age of 75, and is buried in the Old Farm Hill Cemetery there.224 Joseph died 2 Jan 1789, in Middletown, and is also buried in the Old Farm Hill Cemetery, in Middletown, Conn.225 He did not leave a will. Administration of his estate was granted to his son Capt. Joseph Hubbard. In 1792 a court paper stated that Joseph had “no personal estate to discharge,” and permission was sought to sell his real estate. Payments were made to Manoah Hubbard and Eliphatet Hubbard. It is likely that other heirs had already received their share.226
Children, born in Middletown, Conn.
1. Elizabeth Hubbard, b. 12 Jan 1729/30; m. Samuel Doolittle227
2. Dorcas Hubbard, b. 21 Sep 1731
3. Joseph Hubbard, b. 25 Dec 1732; d. 23 Oct 1816; bur. Old Farm Hill Cem.;228m. (1st) Elizabeth -----; m. (2nd) Mercy -----
4. Priscilla Hubbard, b. 16 Oct 1735; m. Ebenezer Roberts
5. Ephraim Hubbard, b. 7 Nov 1737; d. 16 May 1751
6. Manoah Hubbard, b. 14 Aug 1739; d. 7 Sep 1801; bur. Old Farm Hill Cem.;229 m. Hannah Woodward
220 Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House, and Related Families, p. 630. 221 Barbour Collection, see http://dunhamwilcox.net/barbour/middletown_barbour_h2.htm 222 Barbour collection of Conn. Vital Records. 223 Hale, House, and Related Families, p. 630. 224 findagrave.com: Elizabeth Hubbard 225.findagrave.com: Joseph Hubbard 226 Middletown Probate District, Case #1868, viewed through ancestry.com. 227 It is said that of their 11 children, 7 served in the Revolutionary War. http://dunhamwilcox.net/town_hist/doolittle.htm 228 findagrave.com: Joseph Hubbard Jr. 229 findagrave.com: Manoah Hubbard 30
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7. Elnathan Hubbard, b. 3 Feb 1740/41; d. 10 Feb 1810; m. Sybil Hubbard
8. Ashabel Hubbard, b. 20 Sep 1743; d. 10 Mar 1744
9. Hannah Hubbard, b. 23 Jan 1745
10. Eliphet Hubbard, b. 10 Sep 1748; m. Abigail Johnson
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Timothy Hubbard (18) and Abiah Porter (19)
Timothy Hubbard was the son of Samuel Hubbard and Martha Peck. According to One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, he was born 15 Dec 1707.230 However, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, for Middletown, only gives 15 Dec 170_,231 the last digit apparently being unreadable in the original records. Timothy and Abiah Porter were married 29 Jan 2321735/6, in Middletown, Conn.233 They are listed as members of the Kensington Congregational Church, in 1756.234
They moved to Middletown, Vt., by 1784, where Timothy is listed as among the first members of the church there, in the fall of 1784.235 Abiah died 9 Jul 1800, in her 86th year, and Timothy died 3 Oct 1804, in his 97th year. They are buried in Middletown Springs, Vt.236
Abiah died "in her 86th year," so she must have been born in 1714 or 1715. Nothing is known about her ancestry.
Children, born in Middletown, Conn:237
1. Roswell Hubbard, b. 19 Oct 1736
2. Selah Hubbard, b. 18 Sep 1738
3. Huldah Hubbard, b. 14 Apr 1741; d. 17 Jan 1822, Middletown Springs, Vt.;238 m. Joseph Spaulding
4. Sybil Hubbard, b. 1742; d. Apr 1831; m. Elnathan Hubbard
230 Day, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History. 231 http://dunhamwilcox.net/barbour/middletown_barbour_h2.htm 232 If she died in her 86th year she was 85 years old at the time of her death. 233 Ibid. Note: Day states that this Timothy married Betsy Leonard. However, no such marriage is included in the Barbour collection of Conn. VR. According to Day, Timothy and Betsey had a son Timothy born in 1732, who married 1st Abigail Deming, and 2nd, Letitia Beckley. No such marriage record of Timothy Hubbard and Betsey Leonard is found. A record of Timothy Hubbard m. Abigail Deming is found in Newington, Conn., 1 Oct 1772. This Timothy is likely to be the son of Timothy and Abiah, born in 1749, not 1732. I conclude that Day is wrong about the marriage to Betsey Leonard, which is unsupported by any original records. 234 Two Hundredth Anniversary, Kensington Congregational Church (1912), p. 109; available via google books. The fact that they were included on a list of members in 1756 doesn’t mean that they were not members earlier than that time. 235 Barnes Frisbie, The History of Middletown, Vermont (1867), p. 89. 236 findagrave.com: Timothy Hubbard. 237 All births from "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," available from familysearch.org. Sybil’s birth record only gives the year, and is spelled as “Sibbell.” 238 findagrave.com: Huldah Spaulding 32
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5. Esther Hubbard, b. 1 Oct 1744
6. Martha Hubbard, b. 9 Dec 1746
7. Timothy Hubbard, b. 23 May 1749; probably the Timothy Hubbard who m. (1st) Abigail Deming; m. (2nd) Mehitable Beckly, in Newington, Conn.
8. Lucia Hubbard, b. 8 May 1751
9. Jesse Hubbard, b. 4 Feb 1752/3; d. 6 Nov 1827, Middletown Springs, Vt.;239 m. Mary Codner
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William Slack Sr. (20) and Phebe Wood (21)
William Slack was born 2 Mar 1726, in Lynn, Mass.240 He was the son of Joseph Slack and Rebecca Hathorne. His first wife was Phebe Wood,241 not Phebe Kimball, as was stated in the 1930 Slack genealogy and repeated elsewhere.242 Phebe may have been the daughter of Josiah Wood and Ruth Walker, of Woburn.243 The intention of marriage of William Slack and Phebe Wood, “both of Woburn,” is recorded 3 Feb 1749.244
William married Esther Kendall, 17 Mar 1761, in Wilmington, Mass.245 William moved to Jaffery, N.H., and then to Thomlinson (now Grafton) Vt., where he was killed by a falling tree. His widow subsequently married Nathaniel Davis.246
William was in Jaffrey in May 1780, when he is listed among the members of the church there, at the time of its incorporation.247
William was in Grafton by at least 1784, when he the town constable was commanded:
"Forthwith to warn out of the said town of Thomlinson, William Slack and Mrs. Slack, his wife, and Olive Slack and Kimball Slack and John Slack and his youngest son not knowing his name now, residing in the above said town to depart forthwith out of the Town aforesaid."248
Apparently he did not leave as on 22 Sep 1790, it was recorded that:
"I, William Slack of Thomlinson, do give or release to my son Rhuben Kimball, two years of his time, that the said Rhuben Kimball shall have liberty to trade and work for himself, also shall have the steers that he ernt and received the summer past and 2 sheep."249
240 Lynn vital records, p. 372. 241 John Sumner Wood, Wood Family Index (1966). Also, p. 158 & p. 184 Woburn Record of Marriage Intentions: "Wm Slack and Phebe Wood, both of Woburn, 3 Feb 1749." 242 William S. Slack, The Slack Family (1930), p. 165. Blanche Brown Bryant, Genealogical Records of the Founders and Early Settlers of Plymouth, Vermont (1967), p. 347, also says Phebe Kimball, but it is likely that she was merely copying from The Slack Family. 243 William R. Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (1908), p. 978, has Phebe Wood, born 23 Apr 1729, married William Clark. Is it possible that William Slack was intended? Cutter’s works were notoriously unreliable. Cutter also stated that Josiah Wood’s wife was Ruth Peabody, but Descendants of Samuel Walker, in New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1903), states she was Ruth Walker. 244 Woburn marriage intentions, p. 158. 245 Wilmington Vital Records, p. 182. 246 Slack, The Slack Family, p. 165. 247 Daniel B. Cutter, History of the Town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire (1881), p. 73. 248 History of the town of Grafton, Vermont (1954), p. 14. 249 Ibid., pp. 13-14. 34
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William is also listed on the 1790 census in Thomlinson.250
Children, by Phebe Wood:
1. William Slack, b. 22 Oct 1751; d. 10 Apr 1832; m. Alice Woods
2. Joseph Slack, b. 25 Jun 1754; d. 15 Oct 1756251
3. Jesse Slack, b. 1 May 1756; m. (1St) Elizabeth Burke; m. (2nd) Betsey Burnham; lived in Windsor, Vt.
4. Joseph Slack, b. 17 Feb 1757; d. 15 Nov 1838, Albany, VT; m. Jerusha Fairman, May 1781, Killingsby, Conn. He was in the Revolutionary War, and his widow received a pension.
Children, by Esther Kendall:252
5. Phebe Slack, b. 3 Jun 1764, Marlboro, Mass.; d. 22 Sep 1858, Wallingford, Vt.; bur. East Clarendon Cem., Vt.;253 m. (1st) Charles Headle; m. (2nd) Rev. Asa Green
6. Oliver Slack, bapt. 10 Jun 1766, Marlboro, Mass.; settled in Western New York; probably the Oliver Slack who was in the War of 1812 and d. 25 Feb 1847, bur. Sanford Corners Cem., Calcium, Jefferson Co., N.Y.254
7. Joel Slack, bapt. 18 Sep 1768; d. 14 Oct 1845, Plymouth, Vt., bur. Five Corners Cemetery;255 m. Lydia March
8. Reuben Kimball Slack, b. about 1771, said to have "died by accident in early life";256 However an 1860 probate record exists for Reuben K. Slack of Windsor, Vt.
9. John Slack, bapt. 30 Oct 1774, Leominster, Mass.; d. 15 Oct 1850; bur. Summer Hill Cem., Springfield, Vt.;257 m. Sally Taylor
250 1790 census. 251 According to Timothy Slack of New York City. However the death does not appear in Massachusetts vital records. 252 See Blanche Brown Bryant, Genealogical Records of the Founders and Early Settlers of Plymouth, Vermont, for descendants by Esther Kendall. 253 findagrave.com: Phebe Green 254 See http://www.nnygenealogy.com/pages/military/war_1812_burial.php?page=17&burialid=11236 255 findagrave.com: Joel Slack 256 Slack, The Slack Family, p. 165. 257 findagrave.com: John Slack 35
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10. Levi Slack, b. 30 May 1780, Jaffrey, N.H.; d. 30 Aug 1875, Plymouth, Vt; m. Mary Spafford
Ebenezer Woods (22) and Eunice Boyden (23)
Col. Ebenezer Woods was born 19 Dec 1728, in Groton, Mass., and was the son of Nathaniel and Alice (French) Woods.258 He married Eunice Boyden, 25 Jun 1752, in Pepperell, Mass. She was born in Groton, 22 May 1733, and was the daughter of Josiah Boyden and Eunice Parker.259
Ebenezer Woods was a lieutenant in Captain Burt's Company, Colonel Whitcomb's Regiment, in Massachusetts. He was in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was also a captain in Vermont in 1781, and was a colonel in the Vermont Militia.260 He was living in Windsor, Vt., in 1780.261
There was a Col. Ebenezer Wood who was among the proprietors of Woodbury, Vt., and for whom that town was named. However it is probably not the same Ebenezer Woods.
Eunice died in Windsor, Vt., in June 1813, according to the following death notice in The Yankee:
In Windsor, Vt., Mrs. Eunice Woods, wife of Col. Eben. W., aged 80.262
Ebenezer Woods died in Windsor, on 11 Feb 1814:
In this town the 11th inst. Col. EBENEZER WOODS, aged 85.263
Children:
1. Alice Woods, b. 23 Apr 1753, Groton; d. 26 Jan 1833; m. William Slack
2. child, b. 26 May 1755, Groton; d. 4 Jun 1755
3. Eunice Woods, b. 23 Jun 1756, Pepperell
258 Henry E. Woods, "The Woods Family of Groton, Mass.," New England Historical & Genealogical Register, vol. 64 (1910), p. 42 259 Ibid. 260 DAR application of Eugenia Schofield; #500153+459, dated 20 Jul 1970. 261 Woods, NEHGR, vol. 64, p. 42. Note, the NEHGR article merely says “He served as lieutenant in the Revolutionary war and later was styled colonel.” 262 The Yankee (published in Boston, Mass.), issue of 13 Jun 1813, available in America’s Historical Newspapers collection. 263 Vermont Republican (published in Windsor, Vt.), issue of 28 Feb 1814, page 3. Available through GenealogyBank.com. 36
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4. Joseph Woods, b. 2 Nov 1758, Pepperell; living in Vt. in 1832
5. John Woods,264 b. 28 Oct 1761, Pepperell; d. 21 Oct 1810, Windsor, Vt.; m. Abigail Ely
6. Daniel Woods, b. 16 Apr 1764, Pepperell; d. 25 Mar 1842, Windsor, Vt.; m. (1st) Ruhanna Ely, 6 Sep 1783, Windsor, Vt.;265 m. (2nd) Esther Lincoln
7. Lucy Woods, b. 29 Nov 1766, Pepperell; d. 19 Apr 1861, Randolph, Vt.; m. Samuel Smith; lived in Windsor, Vt.266
8. Ebenezer Woods, b. 18 Apr 1769, Pepperell; d. 9 Dec 1843, Waterford, Vt.;267 bur. Passumpsic Cem., Waterford;268 m. at Groton, Sarah Farwell
9. Oliver Woods, b. 6 May 1771, Fitchburg, Mass.
10. Mary “Polly” Woods, b. 13 Nov 1773, Fitchburg, Mass.;m. Ephraim Nutting Jr.
264 For information on John and Daniel, see NEHGR, vol. 64, p. 206. Note that both John and Daniel had daughters named Lucy. 265 Vermont Vital Records. 266 See Henry E. Perkins, A new edition of the record of the family of Roswell Smith (1921), p. 38. 267 Vermont Vital Records. His parents are given as Col. Ebenezer Woods and Eunice Boyden Woods. 268 findagrave.com: Ebenezer Woods Jr. 37
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Nathaniel Jenison (24) and Abigail Mead (25)
Nathaniel Jenison (or Jennison) was born 5 Apr 1709, in Watertown, Mass.269 He was the son of Samuel Jennison and Mary Stearns. He married Abigail Mead, 23 Oct 1729, in Watertown.270 She was baptized 30 Aug 1713, in Lexington, Mass., the daughter of Hopestill Mead and Elizabeth Hastings.271
Nathaniel Jenison resided in Watertown, Weston and Barre, Mass. He apparently did not move to Barre until after 1764, since in his will he calls himself “of Weston.” He seems to have been a large landowner in Barre. He died there 18 May 1769.272
Nathaniel left a will, dated 4 Jul 1764, transcribed as follows:
In the Name of God, Amen. The Fourth Day of July in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty four. I Nathaniel Jenison of Weston in the County of Middlesex and Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, yeoman, being in good health of Body and of disposing mind and memory, thanks be given to God for it. Yet calling to Mind the mortality of my Body and knowing it is appointed to all Men once to die, do make and ordain this, my last will and Testament, that is to say principally and above all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it; and my Body I recommend to Earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the Discretion of my Executors, nothing doubting but at the general Reformation I shall revive the Same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate to herewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following Manner, that is to say after my Debts are fully paid and funeral Charges defrayed. Imprimis. To my well beloved wife Abigail Jenison I give & bequeath the Improvement of one half of my real Estate in Weston viz the one half the Lands, the East half of my dwelling house, my old Barn, and also two Cows, one horse; and also one half my house hold furniture and Utensils within Doors all these I bequeath to sd Abigail, so long as she remains my widow: But, in Case she marries, my will is that at marriage she receive from my Executor thirteen pounds Six shillings & Eight pence, and give an Aquittance to my whole Estate ----- Item. To my beloved son Josiah Jenison I give and bequeath Five shillings, he having been advanced by his Grand Father Mead’s Estate which might have come to the above sd Abigail, his Mother ----. Item. To my beloved daughter Elizabeth Jones wife of Ezra Jones of Rutland District273 I bequeath Five Shillings, she having received considerable out of my Estate before ----
269 Watertown Record, 2st Book and Supplement of Births, Deaths and Marriages (1900), p. 38. Henceforth: Watertown Records, 2nd Book. 270 Watertown Records, 2nd Book, p. 86. They were married by Seth Storer. 271 Lexington, Mass., Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths to 1 Jan 1898 (1898), p. 46. Also note: Hopestill Mead's will mentions daughter Abigail Jenison and grandson Josiah Jenison. 272 Vital Records of Barre, Mass., to the end of the Year 1849 (1903), p. 250. The record is based on a gravestone record, but if buried next to his wife, the gravestone is no longer standing. 273 Rutland District was the name for Barre, Mass., at the time. 38
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Item. To my beloved daughter Mary Mendall, wife of Noah Mendall of Rutland District I bequeath Five Shillings, she having received considerable out of my Estate before ---- Item To my beloved daughter Abigail Parker wife of Andrew Parker of Rutland District I bequeath three Pounds, she having received Twenty six Pounds, Thirteen Shillings & four pence from her brother Josiah Jenison paid out of their Grandfather Mead’s Estate. Item To my beloved Daughter Sarah Jenison I bequeath Twenty pounds to be paid at the end of one full year after my decease to be paid by my Executor yet to be mentioned, she having received considerable out of my Estate, in Special Privileges, etc. Item To my beloved Daughter Anna wife of Edward Clark of Rutland District I bequeath eight Pounds, she having received part of her portion before, and the sd Eight pounds to be paid to her at the end of one full year after my decease by my Executor hereafter to be named Item To my beloved Daughter Eunice Jenison I bequeath Twenty Pounds to be paid to her at the end of one full year after my decease by my Executor hereafter to be named .Item I bequeath to my three daughters Sarah, Anna & Eunice the other half of my household Furniture & Utensils not given to my wife as above to be equally divided among them at my Decease Item To my beloved son Abijah Jenison I give and bequeath Fifty three pounds, six Shillings and Eight Pence to be paid to him at the age of twenty one years by my Executor hereafter to be named Item to my beloved son Hopestill Jenison I give and bequeath Fifty three pounds, six Shillings and Eight Pence to be paid to him at the age of twenty one years by my Executor hereafter to be named Item it is my will that if either of these two last mentioned sons viz Abijah or Hopestill shall die before they come to the year of twenty one the survivor possess and enjoy as his own proper estate what is found herein willed to the deceased Item To these my two sons viz Abijah and Hopestill I bequeath all my wearing apparel of whatever kind. Item it is my will, that half of the household Furniture which I have given to my wife as above, at her marriage or otherwise at her Decease, be equally divided among my children. Item – to my beloved son Nathaniel Jenison whom I likewise constitute make and ordain my Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, I give and bequeath, all my Estate, both Real and Personal in Weston or else where consisting of Lands, Buildings and the like – excepting what has been particularly mentioned and disposed of above to him and to his heirs and assigns forever he paying, as has been mentioned, my just Debts and defraying my funeral Charges - And I do hereby revoke , and disannul all & every other former Testaments, Will, Legacies, & Bequests & Executors by me in any way before named wills and bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day and year above written.
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Signature of Nathaniel Jenison
Signed, sealed , published pronounced And declared by the sd Nathaniel Jenison as his last Will & Testament274
His widow Abigail is buried in the Adams Cemetery, in Barre Plains, Mass. She died 12 Apr 1801, in Barre, at age 89.275
Epitaph:
In memory of Mrs. Abigail Jenison wife of Mr. Nathaniel Jenison Died April 12th, 1801 AEt 89.
In glory, Christ unites the just No distant graves divide their dust. When friends depart or where their graves do fall, It matters not. To die in Christ is all.
Children:276
1. Josiah Jenison, b. 22 Jan 1729/30, Watertown, Mass.; m. Mary Tidd;277 involved in Shays' Rebellion of 1786;278 moved to Vermont; d. Peacham, Vt
2. Elizabeth Jenison, b. 1731; d. 25 Aug 1820; m. Ezra Jones279
274Witnessed by Samuel Woodward, Ephraim Woolfson(?) and Samuel Baldwin. 275 Gravestone. I visited the cemetery in the summer of 1994. findagrave.com: Abigail Jenison 276 Except for the first two, births or baptisms from Weston VR. 277 Lexington Vital Records. The marriage date was 12 Feb 1756. 278 He was involved in Shay’s Rebellion according to John A. Vinton, The Giles Memorial (1864), p. 240. See also John Noble, A Few Notes on the Shays Rebellion (1903), p. 9, where he is called Josiah Jennison Jr., of Spencer. 279 Intent was recorded in Weston VR, of Ezra Jones and “Elisabeth Janison,” 25 Mar 1749, vol. 1, p. 66. 40
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3. Nathaniel Jenison, b. 5 Dec 1732; bapt. 10 Dec 1732, Weston; m. (1st) Mrs. Isabel Caldwell, 28 Mar 1769, in Barre;280 m. (2nd) Mehitable Shirley; said to have been wealthy;281 he was indicted in 1781 for assaulting a slave, Quork Walker, and found guilty282 - the case became famous and William Cushing wrote a pamphlet on the subject. No children.
4. Mary Jenison, b. 27 Mar 1735, Weston; m. (1st) Francis Low; m. (2nd) Noah Mendall; moved to Staten Island, N.Y.
5. Abigail Jenison, b. 21 Apr 1737, Weston; d. 25 Oct 1785, Barre, Mass.; m. Andrew Parker
6. Sarah Jenison, b. 21 Apr 1737, Weston; (twin), probably she was the Sarah Jenison who m. Nathaniel Smith, 11 Mar 1772, Barre283
7. Anna Jenison, b. 4 Jul 1739, Weston; m. Edward Clark, 30 Sep 1762, Barre, Mass.
8. Eunice Jenison, b. 10 Feb 1741/2, Weston; d. 11 May 1828; bur. Buckminster Cem., Barre, Mass.; 284m. Dr. Ephraim Brooks, 24 Dec 1765285
9. Abijah Jenison, b. 19 Nov 1747; d. 16 May 1830; m. Mary Robinson
10. Hopestill Jenison, b. 2 Sep 1751, Weston; d. 1 Oct 1840?;286 m. Relief Fletcher, 16 Dec 1773, in Barre, Mass.;287 he served in the Revolutionary War288
280 Barre VR. The record does not indicate that Isabel was previously married. 281 Giles Memorial, p. 240. 282 See Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, p. 295. Also see New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1898), p. 193. 283 According to the Giles Memorial, “one of the daus. of Nathaniel Jennison is said to have m. (second wife) ----- Smith; a large, stout woman, weighing over 300 pounds, her husband equal in weight.” 284 findagrave.com: Eunice Brooks 285 Barre VR. She is called “Mrs. Eunice Jenison.” According to the Giles Memorial, she m. Josiah Priest, 1 Dec 1758; however, she is called Eunice Jenison in her father’s will (1764), no mention being made of her being married. 286 I have not been able to find a reliable source for his death date. 287 Barre Vital Records. 288 Sons of the American Revolution membership application #53682 available at Ancestry.com 41
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Joseph Robinson (26) and Martha Hedge (27)
Joseph Robinson was born 13 Sep 1727, in Rochester, Mass.289 He was the son of James Robinson and Patience Ruggles.290 He married Martha Hedge 7 Jul 1753. The marriage is recorded both in Boston and in Hardwick, Mass. She was born in about 1738,291 probably in Shrewsbury, Mass., and was the daughter of Elisha Hedge and Martha Johnson.292
Joseph was a private in Capt. James Harlow's Company, Col. Ezra Woods Regiment of Massachusetts Militia in the Revolutionary War. He served from June to November 1778. He was also in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment with Col. William Shepard, from July 8 to 8 Dec 1780.293 He lived in Barre, Mass., and died there 16 Dec 1814. Martha died 23 Nov 1809, also in Barre.294 He and his wife are buried in the Barre Plains Cemetery,295 which is also known as the Adams Cemetery.
Gravestone of Joseph Robinson Gravestone of Martha (Hedge) Robinson
289 Lucius Paige, History of Hardwick, Mass. (1883), p. 471; the birth is not listed in the Rochester vital records. 290 Ibid. See also Ellery B. Crane, ed., Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester Co., Mass. (1907),Vol. 1, p. 486. 291 From age on gravestone. 292 Paige, History of Hardwick, Mass, p. 396. Reasons for her inclusion as a child of Elisha Hedge are given here. 293 DAR Application #86090, of Anna Houck Pierson 294 Death notice, which says she died the 22nd. 295 Barre, MA, Cemetery Records. Also, findagrave.com: Joseph Robinson and findagrave.com: Martha Robinson
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Joseph’s tombstone has the epitaph:
Erected In memory of MR. JOSEPH ROBINSON who died December 16th 1814 Aged 87 Years ----- My head and stay is tak'n away And I am left alone. My parents dear who were so near, Are tak'n away and gone
Martha’s tombstone has the epitaph:
In Memory of Mrs Martha Robinson wife of Mr Joseph Robinson who died Nov 23 1809 Aet 71 ----- It breaks my heart, tis hard to part With her who was so kind....
Joseph left a will dated 6 Mar 1814, the executors being named as Samuel Lee Jr., and Rebeckah Gates, according to a newspaper notice.296 (However, the will itself calls Rebecca a “single woman” and does not give her surname.) His will mentions sons Lemuel, Levi, James, and Joseph, daughters Mary (wife of Abijah Jennison), Dorothy (wife of Daniel Rood), Martha (wife of Daniel Wintworth), Lydia (wife of Benjamin Rice), Elizabeth (wife of Timothy Chafin), and daughter Rebecca “a single woman.” Also mentioned are grandsons Joseph and Sabra, children of his son Lemuel. In a codicil, he also mentions granddaughter Rebecca Chafin.297
Children:298
296 Notice to Executors in Massachusetts Spy, 18 Feb 1815. 297 Worcester Co. Probate #50883, retrieved via Ancestry.com. 298 Births from Barrie Vital Records, unless otherwise indicated. 43
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1. Mary Robinson, b. 3 Jun 1754; d. 12 Jul 1830; m. Abijah Jenison
2. Dorothy Robinson, b. 23 Feb 1756; d. 24 Nov 181[7?], Pittsford, N.Y.; m. Dr. Daniel Rood,299 who was in the Rev. War; bur. Pioneer Burying Ground, Pittsford, N.Y.300
3. Lemuel Robinson, b. 4 Jan 1758; d. 20 Aug 1823, in Exeter, N.Y.;301 m. Comfort Pike;302 in Rev. War
4. Martha Robinson, b. 23 Nov 1759;303 m. Daniel Wentworth304
5. Samuel Hedge Robinson, b. 25 Jan 1761; prob. d. before 1814 (not mentioned in his father’s will) m. Abigail Ripley305
6. Elisha Robinson, b. 19 Jan 1763;306 d. 31 May 1805, Barre307
7. Levi Robinson, bapt. 20 May 1770;308 d. 20 Jul 1825; bur. Osgood Hill Cem., Westford, Vt.;309 m. (1st) Annis Stone; m. (2nd) Elizabeth “Betsey” Nye;310 settled in Westford, Vt.311
8. James Robinson312
9. Lydia Robinson, bapt. 9 Aug 1772;313 m. Benjamin Rice314
10. Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Robinson, bapt. 17 Apr 1774;315 d. Jan. 27, 1853, Lincoln, Vt; bur. Lee Cem.;316 m. Timothy Chaffin317
299 Barre vital records (VR), date: 27 Mar 1777. 300 http://mcnygenealogy.com/cem/oldpitt.htm also findagrave.com: Dorothy Rood Dorothy’s tombstone is not legible. An earlier transcription stated she died in 1811, however, I believe this must have been an error. She is mentioned in her father’s will, and thus would have been alive in 1814. In addition, the transcription stated that she died in her 61st year, which would put the date at 1816 or 1817. 301 findagrave.com: Lemuel Robinson 302 Barre vital records, date: 6 Jul 1780 303 Barre vital records (which says “1760” but notes “perhaps 1759” 304 Barre vital records, date: 11 Nov 1780. He is called “of Stoughton.” 305 Barre vital records, the date of marriage was 26 Nov 1786. 306 Barre vital records, in which he is called “Elishua” 307 findagrave.com: Elisha Robinson . 308 Barre Congregational Church records 309 findagrave.com: Levi Robinson 310 Barre vital records. Date: 20 Sep 1798. Marriage took place in Hardwick. 311 See Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, p. 486. 312 James is mentioned in his father’s will, but no other records have been found. 313 Barre Congregational Church records. 314 Barre vital records, date: 11 Jun 1792. He is called “of Saltash.” 315 Barre Congregational Church records. 316 findagrave.com: Betsey Chaffin 317 According to History of Hardwick. 44
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11. Rebecca Robinson, bapt. 14 Apr 1776;318 m. Thomas Gates, 10 Apr 1796, but is called a “single woman” in her father’s will319
12. Joseph Robinson, bapt. 30 Nov 1777320
13. Sarah Robinson, bapt. 27 May 1781;321 not mentioned in father’s will
318 Barre Congregational Church records. 319 Barre VR : Rebecca Robinson married Thomas Gates 10 Apr 1796. However, he must have left her a widow, because her father Joseph Robinson’s will, dated 1814, calls her a “single woman.” 320 Barre Congregational Church records. 321 Ibid.
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Jonas French (28) and Hannah Page (29)
Jonas French was born 18 Mar 1731/2, in Billerica.322 He was the son of William French and Joanna Hill. He married Hannah Page, 5 Jan 1758, in Bedford.323 She was born 15 May 1736, in Bedford, Mass., and was the daughter of Nathaniel Page and Hannah Blanchard.324 The will of Nathaniel Page mentions daughter Hannah French and grandson Nathaniel French. Jonas and Hannah were second cousins.
In May 1779, Jonas was on the list of those who the town of Billerica called upon “to provide for the families of those persons who are Gone out of this town into the Continental Army.”325
Hannah died 2 Apr 1793, in Billerica, at age 56.326 Her death was noted in the American Apollo newspaper, the issue of April 12th: “At Billerica, Mrs. French, AEt 57, wife of Mr. Jonas French.”327
Jonas died 9 Feb 1801, in Billerica.328 The executors of his estate were Jonathan Heald of Carlisle, and Nathaniel French of Concord.329 Hannah and Jonas are both buried in the Old South Cemetery.330
Gravestone of Jonas French Gravestone of Hannah (Page) French (photo by Bill Boyington) (photo by Bill Boyington)
322 Billerica vital records, p. 83. Also, Blaine Whipple, History and Genealogy of Elder John Whipple (2003), p. 70. 323 Bedford vital records, p. 77. The marriage is recorded both in Billerica and in Bedford, but says "in Bedford." 324 Bedford vital records, p. 42. For ancestors of Hannah Blanchard, see Descendants and Ancestors of Edwin Bond Blanchard (1949). 325 Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica (1883), p. 242. 326 Billerica vital records, p. 362. 327 American Apollo, accessed through America’s Historical Newspapers. AEt 57 means she was in her 57th year. 328 Billerica vital records, p. 362. 329 Columbian Centinel, notice to heirs, 25 Mar 1801, (see America’s Historical Newspapers online collection) 330 Billerica vital records, p. 362; also photographs of gravestones.
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The inscriptions are:
IN Memory of Mr. Jonas French who died February 9th 1801 Aged 69.
IN Memory of Mrs. Hannah French wife of Mr. Jonas French who died April ye 2 1793 In the 57 year of his age. my friends dry up your tears I must lie here till Christ appears.331
Jonas French left a will, which mentions sons Nathaniel, Reuben, William, Thomas & Ziba French; Daughters Hannah Heald, and Susanna Jacquith. It is reproduced in full here:332
In the name of God amen. The Twentieth Day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Ninety Nine. I Jonas French of Billerica in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman, being in health & of a sound & disposing mind & memory (thanks to God there for) calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed to all men once to Die: do make & ordain this my last will & testament. And I herein recommend my soul to God that gave it, my Body I recommend to the Dust to be buried at the discretion of my Executors. And touching such Estate that it is has pleased God to bless me with I give, devise & dispose of in manner following. Imprimis. My Will is that my just Debts and funeral charges be paid out of my personal Estate by my Executors Item. I give to my son Nathaniel French and to his heirs & assigns forever one hundred & six Dollers & sixty six cents to be paid him in one year after my Decease which with the ninety three Dollars & thirty three cents he has already had out of my Estate shall be his full portion out of my Real Estate. Item. I give to my son Reuben French and to his heirs and assigns forever all my Lands and buildings in Billerica together with nine acres of land in Tewksbury, my pew in Billerica meeting house and my horse stable also standing near said house but on the following conditions (viz)
331 Photographs of gravestones: findagrave.com: Jonas French and findagrave.com: Hannah French 332 Middlesex Co. Mass. Probate #8502, available online to NEHGS members. 47
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provided he the said Reuben shall pay the several legacys herein mentioned to his brothers & sisters in one year after my decease or give them security to their acceptance so as to clear my Executors and on his failed or neglect my Executors shall have leave & are herein authorized to sell so much of my said lands as to pay said Legacys and charges (?) thereon. Item. I give to my son William French and to his heirs & assigns forever one hundred Dollars to be paid him in one year after my Decease. Item. I give to my son Thomas French & to his heirs & assigns forever two hundred Dollars to be paid to him in one year after my Decease. Item. I give to my son Ziba French & to his heirs & assigns forever two hundred Dollars to be paid to him in one year after my Decease. Item. I give to my Daughter Hannah Heald & to her heirs & assigns forever thirty three Dollars to be paid to him in one year after my Decease. Item. I give to my Daughter Susanna Jaquith & to her heirs & assigns forever one hundred Dollars to be paid to him in one year after my Decease. Item. My wearing apparel I give to be equally divided between my sons and all the residue of my estate of whatever sort or kind that I shall remain after the payment of my Debts, funeral charges & the settle of my Estate I order to be divided between all my children in the following manner (viz) my Daughters to have half as much to each share as to each son . Item. I constitute my son in law Jonathan Heald Esqr. and my son Nathaniel French to be my Executors of this my last Will & Testament and I do disavow & disallow all other or former Wills, Testaments & Bequests, ratifying this & only this. Signed, sealed published & pronounced to be my last will in presence of Isaac Stearns Silas Heald Jonas French Nathan Haywood Samuel Lovjoy
Children:333
1. Jonas French, b. 18 Sep 1758; d. 4 Oct 1775; bur. Old South Cemetery, Billerica334
2. Nathaniel French, b. 11 Apr 1760; d. 29 Nov 1834; m. Susanna Brown
3. Reuben French, b. 18 Oct 1761; d. 13 Dec 1847, Springfield, Mass.;335 m. Abigail Farmer, 12 Mar 1789, Billerica; she died 3 Nov 1845, in Springfield336
4. William French, b. 29 Apr 1765; d. 28 Oct 1841, buried Grafton, Vt.;337 m. Rebecca Marshall
333 Billerica VR for births. 334 See http://www.billericalibrary.org/main/genealogy/cemetery/south_d.htm 335 Massachusetts Spy, 22 Dec 1847. He was said to have been formerly “of Concord” and was 86 years old. 336 Springfield Republican, 6 Nov 1845. 337 findagrave.com: William French 48
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5. Hannah French, b. 23 Jan 1768; d. 3 Aug 1859; m. Capt. Jonathan Heald; bur. Green Cem., Carlisle, Mass.338
6. Thomas French, b. 24 Sep 1770; living in 1801 (mentioned in probate of Jonas French)
7. Ziba French, b. 9 Jun 1773; d. 17 Feb 1805, “on his passage from the West Indies”;339 he is called a mariner, of Billerica, in the probate records of his father Jonas French
8. Susanna French, b. 25 Oct 1775; d. 12 Jul 1854; m. Joseph Jaquith, who d. 9 Apr 1829; both are bur. Old South Cemetery, Billerica340
338 findagrave.com: Hannah Heald 339 Boston Independent Chronicle, 2 May 1805. The death notice gives his age as 32. 340 findagrave.com: Susanna Jaquith 49
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Nathaniel Bowman Brown (30) and Abigail Page (31)
Nathaniel Bowman Brown was born 1 Jul 1737, in Lexington, Mass. He was the son of Daniel Brown and Anne Bright.341 He was known by his middle name, Bowman. He married Abigail Page, 7 Feb 1765, in Bedford, Mass.342 She was born 5 Sep 1745, in Bedford, the daughter of Cornet Nathaniel Page and his wife Hannah Blanchard.343 They moved to Lunenburg, Mass., in 1772, and became the fourth settlers of Plymouth, Vt., in about 1789.344
He was in the Revolutionary War and was commissioned 2nd lieutenant on 23 Mar 1776, in Capt. Joseph Bellow's Company, Col. Abijah Stearn's Regiment, known as the 8th Worcester Co. He served in the northern campaign from 1776 to 1777 and fought in the Battle of Bennington.345 There, according to family tradition, he assumed command of the company, his superior officer having been killed or disabled. The flintlock gun which Bowman Brown used was later given to President Calvin Coolidge. The first town meetings in Plymouth, Vt., were held in Bowman's house.346 His wife Abigail died 5 Aug 1799, in Plymouth, and Bowman died 30 Jul 1806, in Plymouth. They are buried in the Plymouth Notch Cemetery.347 There is a ski trail named after him.348
341 Lexington, Mass. Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths to 1 Jan 1898. 342 Ibid. “Bowman, of Lex., m., in Bedford, Abigail Page, of Bedford, Feb. 7, 1865.” 343 Bedford Vital records, in which her parents are listed as Nathaniel Page Jr. and Hannah. Also, A. E. Brown, History of the town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, p. 26, which gives Hannah’s maiden name as Blanchard. 344 Blanche Brown Bryant, The progenitors and descendants of Thomas Page Brown and Sarah (Sally) Parker (1938), p. 2. 345 Blanche Brown Bryant , Genealogical Records of the Founders & Early Settlers of Plymouth, Vt. (1967). 346 Ibid, p. 33. 347 Visit to cemetery, and findagrave.com: Nathaniel Bowman Brown and findagrave.com: Abigail Brown 348 http://www.hawkresort.com/winter/xcadvanced.html 50
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Gravestones of Abigail and Bowman Brown (photo by the author)
Children:
1. Susanna Brown, b. 24 Oct 1765; d. 13 Nov 1828; m. Nathaniel French349
2. Abigail Brown, bapt. 26 Apr 1767; m. Robert Bishop
3. Nathaniel Brown, bapt. 26 Mar 1769, Bedford, Mass; d. 28 Apr 1834; m. Ruth Lane; moved to Plymouth, Mass., July 1814
4. Anna (Nancy) Brown, bapt. 3 Feb 1771; m. Samuel Cook, 20 Mar 1793, in Plymouth, Vt.350
5. Hannah Brown, d. in Michigan, unm.
6. Daniel Liberty Brown, b. 17 Nov 1775; d. 11 Mar 1857, Ann Arbor, Mich.; m. Polly Jenison
349 That Susanna married Nathaniel French is known from a scrap of paper passed down through my family. It reads: "Nathaniel Bowman Brown was born July 16th 1737 and died July 30th 1806. He was married January 1765 to Abigail Page who was born September 5th 1745 and died Aug 8th 1799, they had 10 children. Susanna, Abigail, Nathaniel, Anna, Daniel, Hannah, Thomas, Joseph, Ruhamah, and Mary. Susanna Brown was born October 24th 1765. She was married 11 Sep 1783 to Nathaniel French..." 350 Vermont vital records. Note that Blanche Brown Bryant's books erroneously state that Susanna Brown married Samuel Cook. Bryant copied this error from Brown's genealogy of early Bedford families. 51
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7. Thomas Page Brown, b. 20 Oct 1779, Lunenburg, Mass.; d. 14 Aug 1839, Plymouth, Vt.; m. Sarah (Sally) Parker; both are buried in Plymouth Notch Cem.351
8. Joseph Brown, b. 24 Jan 1782; d. 26 Aug 1858; m. (1st) Betsey Wright; m. (2nd) Rachel Fitch
9. Ruhannah Brown, b. 17 Jan 1784; d. 14 Jul 1863, West Fairlee, Vt.; m. Daniel Bassett
10. Polly Brown, b. 1787; d. 1886; m. (1st) Moses Fitch; m. (2nd) Ebenezer Brown; settled in Michigan; bur. Pine Tree Cem., Corunna, Shiawassee Co., Mich.352
351 findagrave.com: Thomas Page Brown 352 findagrave.com: Polly Brown 52
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John Hubbard (32) and Mary Phillips (33)
John Hubbard was born 30 Jul 1678 in Middletown, Conn.,353 the son of Joseph Hubbard and Mary Porter. He married Mary Phillips in 10 Feb 1702/03. Her ancestry is not known. Based on her age at death, she was born in about 1677.
John died in Middletown, 2 Jan 1726/7, and is buried in the Old Farm Hill Cemetery there.354 He died intestate, but detailed probate records exist, naming his heirs and his bequests to them.355 His children are named as: Joseph, eldest son; John, second son; Nathan, third son; Daniel, fourth son; Solomon, youngest son; Abigail, eldest daughter; Mary, second daughter; and Hannah, youngest daughter. His wife Mary was also mentioned. Widow Mary died 21 Oct 1736, at age 59, and is also buried in the Old Farm Hill Cemetery.356
Children:
1. Joseph Hubbard, b. 21 Mar 1703/4, d. 2 Jan 1789; m. Elizabeth Hollister
2. John Hubbard, b. 13 Aug 1705; d. 24 Mar 1775; bur. Riverside Cem., Middletown357
3. Abigail Hubbard, b. 9 Apr 1707;358 d. 24 Dec 1752; m. (1st) Stephen Blake, 11 Jan 1732/3; m. (2nd) Henry Johnson, 30 Jan 1704/5
4. Nathan Hubbard, b. 4 May 1709; d. 18 May 1788, Sandisfield, Mass.; bur. Sandisfield Center Cem.;359 m. (1st) Lydia Judd; m. (2nd) Mary Hough
5. Daniel Hubbard, b. 16 Jul 1710; 360m. Susannah Spencer, 5 Jun 1735
6. Hannah Hubbard, b. 13 Jul 1711; d. 10 Jul 1714
7. Mary Hubbard, b. 20 Sep 1713
8. Solomon Hubbard, b. 20 Aug 1715;361 d. 1760, in French & Indian War; m. Jemima Barnes
9. Hannah Hubbard, b. 8 Aug 1718
353 Connecticut Town Birth Records (Barbour Collection): son of “Joseph and Mary” based on “LR1.” 354 findagrave.com: John Hubbard 355 Harford Probate District #2945, available via ancestry.com. 356 findagrave.com: Mary Hubbard 357 findagrave.com: John Hubbard Jr. 358 According to Barbour collection of VR; however, probate record says she was born 8 Apr. 359 findagrave.com: Nathan Hubbard 360 According to Barbour collection of VR; however, probate record says she was born 15 Jul. 361 Probate papers for John Hubbard give the birth dates of his children. 53
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Ephraim Hollister (34) and Elizabeth Green (35)
Ephraim Hollister was born 15 Mar 1683/4, in Wethersfield, Conn., the son of John Hollister and Sarah Goodrich.
He married Elizabeth Green, 1 Apr 1707, in Glastonbury.362 She was the daughter of Tobias Green363 and Mary -----. He married, second, Elizabeth Crowfoot, who was born 14 Aug 1693, the daughter of Joseph and Margaret (-----) Crowfoot.
The inventory of Ephraim’s estate was taken on 29 Jun 1733, and on 3 Jul 1733, administration was granted to Elizabeth Hollister, widow, with Josiah Hollister, surety Josiah was appointed guardian to Ephraim, aged 10 on 14 Apr 1735, and on 22 Mar 1749/50, Hill Hollister, 19, chose Timothy Porter Jr. for guardian.364
Children:
1. Ephraim Hollister, b. 1 Jan 1708/9; d. 5 Jan 1708/9
2. Elizabeth Hollister, b. 23 Feb 1709/10; d. 1 Feb 1785; m. Joseph Hubbard
3. Zephaniah Hollister, b. abt. 1715; d. 28 May 1749, Glastonbury; bur. Green Cem.;365 m. Ruth Riley
4. Sarah Hollister, b. abt. 1717; d. 10 Apr 1784; bur. Ledge Cem., Berlin, Conn.;366 m. Elisha Bronson
5. Jennet Hollister, b. abt. 1723; d. 17 Mar 1785; bur. Green Cem.;367 m. Hosea Fox
6. Ephraim Hollister, b. abt. Jan 1725; d. 3 Mar 1804, bur. Maple Cem., Berlin, Conn.;368 m (1st) Rachel Porter; m. (2nd) Anna (-----) Beckley
7. Hill Hollister, b. abt. 1730; living 1750
362 Barbour collection of Conn. Vital Records. The record says, “Ephraim [Holister] m. Elizabeth Green, d. Tobias, Apr. 1, 1707.” 363 Despite the somewhat unusual name, I have been able to find no further information on Tobias Green. 364 Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, (1952), p. 630. 365 findagrave.com: Zephaniah Hollister 366 findagrave.com: Sarah Brownson 367 findagrave.com: Jenet Fox 368 findagrave.com: Ephraim Hollister Jr. 54
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Samuel Hubbard (36) and Martha Peck (37)
Samuel Hubbard was born 27 Mar 1677/8, in Middletown, Conn.,369 the son of Samuel Hubbard and Sarah Kirby. He married Martha Peck, daughter of Paul Peck and Elizabeth Bayse (or Baisie), born about 1678.
Samuel died 19 May 1745, in Berlin, Conn.370 Martha died in 19 Oct 1752, in her 75th year, and is buried in the Maple Cemetery, Berlin, Conn.371
Samuel’s will:
I, Samuel HUBBARD, Sen., of Kensington, in the Township of Middletown, do make this my last will and testament: I give to my wife Martha HUBBARD forever 1/3 part of my personal estate, and the use and improvement of 1/3 part of my real estate during her natural (life). Further, I give pecularly to my wife one featherbed and furniture, with one great brass kettle, and all the linen, and one certain great puter platter, besides her thirds. To my eldest son now living, Samuel HUBBARD, I give, besides what I have hertofore given him by deed of gift, one parcell of land I bought of John GILBERT, near to Matabesick River, bounded as follows: East upon the river, south upon his own land, north upon Henry JOHNSON, and west upon a highway. To my second son, Timothy HUBBARD, besides what I have already given him, I give him one certain parcell of land bounded as follows: Near Henry JOHNSON's, butteing east on a highway, west upon a run of watter or brook, south upon John SAGE & Samuel HUBBARD, and north upon Henry JOHNSON. Further, I give to him a certain parcell of land lying in my houselott, bounded as follows: South on a highway, north upon George HUBBARD, east upon his brother Samuel HUBBARD, and west upon Stony Swamp Brook. Further I give him one certain parcell of land lying partly upon the ledge and partly upon low land or swamp, bounded as follows: South upon a highway, north upon George HUBBARD, east upon a fence now standing in my mowing land, and west extending half across the ledge. Further, I give him the fruit of 25 apple trees for the term of 15 years standing upon the north end of my orchard. To my third son Watts HUBBARD, I give one certain parcell of land bounded south upon a highway, north upon George HUBBARD, east upon Stony Swamp Brook, and west upon a fence now standing abbuting upon his brother Timothy, with the dwelling house and barn standing upon the sd land. Further, I give to him one certain parcel of land bounded as follows: east upon the country road, west upon Lt. Isaac NORTON, north upon Nathaniel EDWARDS and south upon John HINSDALE. To my grandson William HUBBARD, the only son of my son William HUBBARD, decd., I give, besides what I gave to my son his father in his lifetime, a certain parcel of land near to his dwelling house, bounded as follows: West upon an highway, south upon John SAGE his land, north upon Samuel HUBBARD, Jr., and Henry JOHNSON, and east upon the 2nd fence now standing, which sd. land is part upland and part swamp. Unto my daughter Sarah, the wife of Joseph FRANCIS, and unto her heirs forever, I give one certain parcel of land bounded as follows: East upon William HUBBARD, south upon John SAGE, west upon Timothy HUBBARD and north upon Henry JOHNSON. Unto my grandson Matthew COLE, his heirs and assigns forever, I give £5 money, old tenour. All the rest of my person estate I give to my three sons, Samuel, Timothy and Watt, to be equally divided among them, and appoint my wife and my son Watts executors.372
Children:
1. William Hubbard, bapt. 9 Mar 1702; d. 31 Aug 1736
369 Barbour Collection of Conn. Vital Records. 370 Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, p 257. See also Lucius Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, Conn., p. 328 371 findagrave.com: Martha Hubbard 372 Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records: Hartford District 1729-1750, pp. 418-19. 55
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2. Sarah Hubbard, bapt. 29 Jan 1702; m. Joseph Francis
3. Samuel Hubbard, bapt. 16 Dec 1705; d. 1777, Farmington, Conn.; m. Joanna Judd
4. Timothy Hubbard, b. 1707; bapt. 14 Mar 1707/8; d. 3 Oct 1804; m. Abiah Porter
5. Ruth Hubbard, b. 3 Apr 1710; d. 25 Jun 1735; m. Matthew Cole
6. Watts Hubbard, b. 14 May 1714; d. 10 Mar 1802, Windsor, Vt.; bur. Old South Church Cem., Windsor, Vt.;373 m. Mary Stanley
7. Thomas Hubbard, b. 14 May 1714; d. 1 Dec 1742374
373 findagrave.com: Watts Hubbard 374 Barbour collection – which calls him “twin with Waite” 56
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Joseph Slack (40) and Rebecca Hathorne (41)
Joseph Slack was born in about 1694, probably in Attleboro, Mass. He was the son of William Slack and Mary -----. He married Rebecca Hathorne, 7 Mar 1716/7, in Lynn, Mass.375 Her ancestry has not been determined. A theory that she was Rebecca (Stocker) Hathorne is not borne out by the probate records of Ebenezer Stocker.376
In June 1719, Joseph and Rebecca were warned out of Lynn, and ordered to return to Attleboro, "where they properly belong."377 He was still in Lynn in September 1722, when he is mentioned again in the town records,378 and had children born in Lynn up until May 1729.
Children: 1. Joseph Slack, b. 29 Jan 1717, Attleboro; m. Sarah Provender
2. Martha Slack,379 b. 25 Sep 1723 (twin), Lynn
3. Mary Slack, b. 25 Sep 1723 (twin), Lynn
4. William Slack, b. 2 Mar 1726, Lynn; m. (1st) Phebe Wood; m. (2nd) Esther Kendall
5. John Slack, b. 16 May 1729, Lynn; m. Esther Baldwin
375 William S. Slack, The Slack Family (1930), p. 159. Also Lynn Vital Records: Marriages, p. 174 – her name is spelled “Rebeckah.” 376 Donna Slack checked the Hathorne family and found no women named Rebecca at that time. She came to the conclusion that Rebecca may have been a widow, and found a Rebecca Stocker who married John Hathorne in about 1711 (The marriage intention was recorded 10 Nov 1711 in Lynn.) No children were recorded for this marriage, and it was conjectured that John died soon and Rebecca remarried Joseph Slack. Rebecca Stocker was born 29 Jul 1687, in Lynn, the daughter of Ebenezer Stocker and Sarah Marshall. Ebenezer Stocker died 2 Nov 1704, in Lynn. His probate records (online via NEHGS) first show Rebecca as unmarried, then as Rebecca Hathorne, and finally as Rebecca Hodson or Hudson. This would indicate that Rebecca remarried, not Joseph Slack, but someone named Hodson or Hudson. 377 Lynn Historical Society, Records of the Town Meetings of Lyn, 1717-1730 (1960), pp. 17-18. "Whereas the Selectmen of Lyn are informed that on or about the 20th Day of June last past 1719 Joseph Slack & Rebeckah his wife came into the Town of Lynn & came from the Town of Attleborough where they properly belong and had their residence. Wherefore at a meeting of the Selectmen of Lyn July 28th 1719: you are appointed forthwith to warn the said Joseph Slack & Rebeckah his wife to depart with their family out of sd Town of Lyn or they shall be proseeded with as the Law directs..." Apparently they did not leave as three more children of theirs were born in Lynn. 378 Records of the Town Meetings of Lyn, 1717-1730 (1960), p. 45. 379 A Martha Slack married Samuel Hatch, 24 May 1745, but she is called “of Weymouth.” 57
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(Probably) Josiah Wood (42) and Ruth Walker (43)
I believe it is very likely that Josiah and Ruth were indeed the parents of Phebe (Wood) Slack.
Josiah Wood III. was born 31 Aug 1687, in Woburn, Mass., the son of Josiah Wood Jr. and Abigail Bacon.380
He married Ruth Walker, in Woburn in 1710.381 She was born 4 Dec 1692, the daughter of John Walker and Ruth Kendall.382 The records of Middlesex County Probate court, in 1736, record that Ruth Wood “the wife” and John Wood “the eldest son of Josiah Wood of Woburn” declared that “Josiah Wood, by the Providence of God, is become non compos mentis, and so wanting of understanding as to be incapable of providing for himself or managing his affairs.” Ruth and her son were thus appointed guardians of Josiah Wood, who was only 49 years old at the time.383
Josiah died 4 Jan 1753, in Woburn.384 Ruth, as the “wife of Mr. Josiah Wood” died in Mar 1752.385
Children, born in Woburn:
1. Josiah Wood, b. 23 Apr 1711; d. 17 Feb 1729/30, “s. of Josiah”
2. John Wood, b. 27 Nov 1713; perhaps the John Wood who died in Woburn 29 Apr 1752; m. Esther Johnson, 21 Oct 1736
3. Joseph Wood, b. 29 Dec 1715
4. Edward Wood, b. 11 Feb 1718
5. Ruth Wood, b. 24 Feb 1720; m. Benjamin Nutting, 3 Mar 1742
6. Solomon Wood, b. 23 Feb 1722; m. Martha Johnson, 20 Sep 1752, Woburn
7. Susanna Wood, b. 6 Mar 1724; possibly m. Nathan Reed
380 Woburn Record of Births, p. 280. The record does not give Abigail’s maiden name. However there is a marriage record for Josiah Wood and Abigail Bacon in Woburn. 381 Woburn Record of Marriages, p. 291. The printed record only gives the year, perhaps the original was illegible. 382 Arthur Loring and William Cutter,“Samuel Walker of Woburn, Mass., and Some of His Descendants,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 57 (1903), pp. 354-55. 383 Middlesex Probate #25489, available online to NEHGS members. See also: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wood-2130 384 Woburn Record of Deaths, p. 210. He is called “Mr. Josiah, s. of -----.” 385 Ibid. 58
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8. Mary Wood, b. 29 Mar 1726; m. George Reed, 26 Mar 1746
9. Phebe Wood, b. 23 Apr 1729; she was probably the Phebe Wood who m. William Slack
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Nathaniel Woods (44) and Alice French (45)
Sgt. Nathaniel Woods was born 18 Oct 1694, in Groton, Mass., the son of Nathaniel Woods and Alice Goble.386
He married three times. His first wife was Alice French. There is no marriage record, but her brother Jonathan French, who had no children, mentioned in his will Oliver Woods, son of his sister Alice.387
Alice was born 20 Nov 1699, in Dunstable, Mass., the daughter of Samuel French and Sarah Cummings.388 His second wife Ruth separated from him in 1748 but returned and was living in 1758. He married, third, Mary (-----) Erwin, widow of John Erwin of Groton, 2 Dec 1762, in Groton.389 She separated from him in February 1763 but returned before the following December.
In 1725, Nathaniel was a sergeant in Lovewell's campaign, in command of the fort erected at Ossipee Pond. He died intestate in July 1766, in Pepperell, Mass.390 His estate was administered by his son Ebenezer Woods, administration being granted 3 Dec 1767. Joseph Whitney, Isaac Woods and Henry Woods were appointed to take an inventory in Dec 1766.391
Children, by his first wife Alice French, born in Groton:
1. Daniel Woods, b. 10 Dec 1726
2. Ebenezer Woods, b. 19 Dec 1729; d. 11 Feb 1814; m. Eunice Boyden
3. Oliver Woods, b. 20 Sep 1730; d. 22 Feb 1799; bur. Old Dunstable Cem., Nashua, N.H.;392 m. Sarah -----
4. Nathaniel Woods, b. 3 Jun 1732; d. 1776; m. Alice Parker
5. John Woods, b. 1 Jul 1734; d. 7 Aug 1756, Pepperell; m. Jerusha Smith
386 Groton VR: “Nathaniall, s. Nathaniell and Alles, October 19, 1694.” 387 Hillsborough N.H. probate cited in NEHGR 64:42 (see below). 388 Dunstable VR: “Alis French the daughter of Samuill and Sarath French was born the 20th of November 1699.” 389 Groton VR p. 189. The record says “Mary Erwin” and does not indicate that she was a widow. 390 Henry E. Woods, "The Woods Family of Groton, Mass.," New England Historical & Genealogical Register, vol. 64 (1910), p. 37. However there is a record in Pepperell VR for a Nathaniel Woods who died 1 Nov 1766 at age 74, of “nervous fever.” (This is based on a church record.) 391 Middlesex Probate #25513. 392 findagrave.com: Oliver Woods 60
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Josiah Boyden (46) and Eunice Parker (47)
Josiah Boyden was born 21 Sep 1701, in Groton, Mass.,393 the son of Jonathan Boyden and Elizabeth Lakin. He married Eunice Parker, 7 Jan 1729/30, in Groton.394 She was born in Groton, 11 Mar 1705, the daughter of Samuel Parker and Abigail Lakin.395 Josiah and Eunice were second cousins, both being great-grandchildren of William Lakin.
Eunice died 1 Jan 1745, in Groton.396 Josiah married Jane Read, 12 Apr 1749, in Westford.397 Josiah died 17 Oct 1772, in Groton.398 Josiah and his first wife Eunice are buried in the Old Cemetery in Groton.399
Gravestone of Josiah Boyden Gravestone of Eunice (Parker) Boyden
Their gravestone inscriptions are as follows: Memento mori Memento Mori Here lies the Here lies the Body of MrJosiah Body of Mrs Eunice Boyden, who departed Boyden wife of Mr this Life Octr Josiah Boyden, who 17th 1772. in ye 72d departed this Life year of his age. Janry 1st 1745. Age Also 8 of his Children 5 37 years401
393 Groton VR. “The son of Jonathan and Elizabeth.” 394 Groton VR. 395 Wallace Boyden, Merrill Boyden, Amos Boyden, Thomas Boyden and Descendants (1901), p. 16. For Eunice’s birth, see also: Caleb Butler, History of the Town of Groton (1848), p. 422; also Groton VR. 396 Groton VR, also gravestone. 397 Groton VR. The marriage is also recorded in Westford. 398 Groton VR, also gravestone. 399 findagrave.com: Josiah Boyden and findagrave.com: Eunice Boyden 401 Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Massachusetts (1878), p. 15 61
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sons & 3 daughters all lyeing near this place.400
Josiah left a will, in which he gave his wife Jane, besides widow’s thirds, “my young Mare & all the personal Estate she brought to me at our marriage,” also a black cow, “and my servant man” (name hard to read) “during his Natural Life, & the sum of Fifty two pounds, six shillings and eight pence.” Also mentioned were sons Josiah, John, Jonathan, and Samuel; and daughters Jane Boyden, Eunice Woods (wife of Ebenezer Woods), and Sarah Boyden.402
Signature of Josiah Boyden Children, by his first wife Eunice Parker, born in Groton:403
1. John Boyden, b. 28 Feb 1731;404 d. young
2. Eunice Boyden, b. 22 May 1733; d. Jun 1813; m. Ebenezer Woods
3. Josiah Boyden, b. 22 May 1734; d. 13 Oct 1822, Conway, Mass.; bur. Howland Cem.;405 m. Sarah Nutting, 10 May 1759406
4. John Boyden, b. 12 Jan 1735; d. 10 Oct 1819, Deerfield, Mass.;407 m. (1st) Sarah Frye; m. (2nd) Esther Gilmore
5. Mary Boyden, b. 2 Sep 1740; not mentioned in father’s will
6. Jonathan Boyden, b. 6 Dec 1741; d. 1833, Brown, Twp., Ind.; m. (1st) Elizabeth Sawtelle, 15 Nov 1769;408 m. 2nd, Rebecca -----; he was a minuteman at the Lexington Alarm409
400 Samuel Green, Epitaphs From the Old Burying Ground in Groton, Mass., p. 56. 402 Middlesex Probate #2387. The name of his “servant” is hard to read, it seems like “Furry” but could be “Harry.” 403 Groton VR. 404 Could be either 1730/1 or 1731/2. 405 findagrave.com: Josiah Boyden Jr. 406 Groton VR. 407 Deerfield VR. Conway VR says he died in Deerfield, and he was “found dead in his bed” apparently visiting his son Frederick. 408 Ibid. 409 DAR Lineage Book #61. 62
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Children, by his second wife Jane Read, born in Groton:410
7. Samuel Boyden, b. 25 May 1751; d. 23 Nov 1780; bur. Old Cemetery, Groton;411 m. 26 Jan 1775, Molly Sawtelle
8. Sarah Boyden, b. 14 Nov 1752; m. (1st) William Dalrymple Jr., 28 May 1778;412 m. (2nd) Joseph Keyes, 19 Apr 1786413
9. Jane Boyden, b. 24 Jul 1754; d. 26 Mar 1828;414 unm.
410 Groton VR. 411 findagrave.com: Samuel Boyden 412 Groton VR, spelled “Derumple”. 413 Ibid. 414 Groton VR. 63
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Samuel Jennison (48) and Mary Stearns (49)
Samuel Jenison Jr. was born in Watertown, Mass., 12 Oct 1673,415 the son of Samuel Jenison Sr. and Judith Newcomb. He married Mary Stearns, 2 Nov 1699, in Watertown.416 She was the daughter of Samuel Stearns and Hannah Manning, and was born 5 Apr 1679, in Watertown417 Samuel Jenison died in Watertown, 2 Dec 1730.418 He is buried in the Arlington Street Cemetery in Watertown.419
His gravestone reads:
Here lyes buried Ye Body of Mr. SAMUEL JENISON, who Departed this Life Decembr 2nd 1730 Aged 57 years. Mark ye Perfect Man, and Behold ye Upright for ye End of that Man is Peace.420
Gravestone of Samuel Jennison (Photo by Bill Boyington)
He died intestate. His widow died before 20 Sep 1753 when her “widow’s thirds” portion” of Samuel’s estate was settled. A further record dated 24 Mar 1755 lists his heirs as: Samuel Jenison, William Jenison’s heirs, Nathaniel Jenison, John Jenison, Hannah Goddard, Lydia White’s heirs, Abigail Hubbard, Mercy Prentice, Eunice Wilder’s heirs, and Mary Gerrish “Decd.’421
Children:
415 Watertown Record, 1st Book and Supplement of Births, Deaths and Marriages (1894), p. 37. 416 Ibid., p. 11. They were married by Henry Gibbs. 417 Avis Van Wagenen, Genealogy and memoirs of Isaac Stearns and his descendants, pp. 27-29. 418 John Adams Vinton, The Giles Memorial (1864), p. 240; Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass. (1860), pp. 454-455. 419 findagrave.com: Samuel Jennison . 420 Giles Memorial. See also William T. Harris, Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Watertown (1869). 421 Middlesex Co. Mass. Probate #12587, available online to NEHGS members. 64
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1. Mary Jennison, b. 17 Aug 1700; d. before 24 Mar 1755;422 m. John Gerrish, 8 Nov 1733, Watertown, Mass.423
2. Hannah Jennison, b. 17 Jul 1702, d. 10 Dec 1777, bur. Old Burial Ground, Worcester, Mass.;424 m. (1st) Jonathan Stone; m. (2nd) John Goddard
3. Samuel Jennison, 26 Sep 1704; living in Mar 1755;425 m. Abigail Holden, 13 Feb 1733, Watertown426
4. Rev. William Jennison, b. 9 Feb 1706/7, d. 1 Apr 1750, Watertown, Mass.; m. Abigail Lindall; Harvard graduate (1724); bur. Arlington St. Cem., Watertown;427 some of his sermons can be found at the American Antiquarian Society.428 “For some reason, now unknown, his people were disaffected with him; and, Sept. 13, 1736, he asked and received a dismission from his pastoral charge.” After that time, he sometimes was a “temporary supply,” but never had his own congregation. He also taught school in Worcester.429
5. Nathaniel Jennison, b. 5 Apr 1709; d. 18 May 1769; m. Abigail Mead
6. John Jennison, b. 19 Feb 1710/11; possibly d. 1752; Lunenburg, Mass.;430 m. Mary Hubbard
7. Lydia Jennison, b. 2 Apr 1712; d. 28 Mar 1749, bur. Old Cem., Mansfield, Mass.;431 m Rev. Ebenezer White
422 Said to have d. 4 Dec 1777; but no source can be found. When her father’s estate was settled, probate papers dated 24 Mar 1755 list her as “Dec’d.” She apparently died between 29 Sep 1753 and 24 Mar 1755. 423 Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988. 424 findagrave.com: Hannah Goddard 425 Said to have died 1 Apr 1750, but no source has been found. Probate records for his father Samuel Jennison list him as an heir in Mar 1755, and there is no mention of him having died at that time (as there was for some of this siblings.) 426 Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988. 427 findagrave.com: Rev. William Jennison 428 http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Findingaids/jennison_family.pdf 429 “Brief Memoirs and Notices of Prince’s Subscribers”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 7, p. 71. See also: James Flint, Two Discourses Delivered on Taking Leave of the Old Church of the East Society in Salem (1845), pp. 10-11 (available via google books), which includes a letter written by Rev. William Jennison asking for his dismissal. He writes, “When I consider the great and long uneasiness and dissatisfaction you have labored under (for which I am heartily sorry) I despair of being reinstated in your love and affection…” 430 Bond’s Watertown states that an inventory of his estate was made 27 Nov 1751. However, this is in error, the date of the inventory was 27 Nov 1752. However, ascertaining John’s death date confused by the settlement of his father Samuel’s estate. A document dated 24 Mar 1755 lists John as an heir without stating that he was deceased, as it states about William, Lydia, Eunice and Mary. 431 findagrave.com: Lydia White 65
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8. Abigail Jennison, b. 22 Apr 1715; apparently living in Mar 1755; m. Jonathan Hubbard, 24 Sep 1739, Lunenburg, Mass.;432 res. Charlestown, N.H.
9. Mercy Jennison, b. 11 Mar 1717/8; d. 26 Oct 1756; bur. Old Settlers Burial Yard, Lancaster, Mass.;433 m. Dr. Stanton Prentice
10. Sarah Jennison, b. 17 Aug 1720; d. 23 Nov 1720; bur. Arlington St. Cem., Watertown434
11. Eunice Jennison, b. Feb 1721/2; d. 17 Feb 1750, Lancaster, Mass.; bur. Old Common Burial Ground, Lancaster, Mass.;435 m. David Wilder436
432 "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910," accessed via familysearch.org. 433 findagrave.com: Mercy Prentice 434 Sarah JENISON, Dau'tr of Mr. Samu'el & Mrs Mary JENISON Aged 3 Mo & 6 Ds Dec'd Nov'br 23rd 1720. See: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/watertown_cem1.htm 435 findagrave.com: Eunice Wilder 436 Earlier genealogies have mixed her up with her cousin Eunice Jennison (daughter of Peter Jennison and Jane Goulding) who married Joshua Richardson. Besides the probate papers of Samuel Jennison, see also The American Genealogist Vol. 53:99-100, which shows that Joseph Brooks’ will mentions the children of his daughter-in-law Eunice Richardson. Joseph Brooks was the second husband of Jane (Goulding) Jennison. 66
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Hopestill Mead (50) and Elizabeth Hastings (51)
Hopestill Mead was born 4 Jan 1680/1, in Billerica, Mass.437 He was the son of David Mead and Hannah Warren. He married Elizabeth Hastings, 22 Aug 1707, in Watertown.438 She was baptized 4 Dec 1687, in Watertown,439 and was the daughter of John Hastings and Abigail Hammond.
Hopestill Mead was admitted to the Lexington Church 12 Sep 1742. Though he probably lived within the limits of Waltham, Mass., his associations were with Lexington.440
His will, dated 7 Aug 1750, mentions wife Elizabeth, kinsman Benjamin Hastings, daughter Abigail Jennison and grandson Josiah Jennison. He makes kinsman Joshua Mead of Waltham (his nephew) executor. He was unable to sign his name.441
He died, probably in Lexington, 9 Aug 1750, at age 69.442 He is buried in the old cemetery in Lexington, with the following epitaph on his gravestone:
Here lies buried The Body of Mr Hopestill Mead Who Departed This Life August Ye 9 AD 1750 In the 69 Year of his Age.443
437 Vital records of Billerica, Mass., to the year 1850. “Hopestill Meades,” the son of “David and Hanna.” 438 Watertown VR: “Hopeftill (sic) Meads and Elizebeth (sic) Hastings Both of Watertowne wer Joyned In marriage the 22d: of August 1707. by Mr: Samll: Angier minister in Watertowne.” See also: Charles Hudson, Genealogical Register of Lexington Families (1868), p. 135. 439 Watertown VR: “Ye 4th of December [1687] I baptized a child of John Haftings, viz Elizabeth he had formerly owned ye Covt.” 440 Genealogical Register of Lexington Families, p. 135. 441 Middlesex Co. Mass. Probate #14919, available online to NEHGS members. 442 His death was recorded in Lexington. It is possible it was in Waltham, though. 443 Lexington epitaphs. Also findagrave.com: Hopestill Mead 67
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Gravestone of Hopestill Mead (photo by Bill Boyington) Child:
1. Abigail Mead, bapt. 30 Aug 1713; d. 12 Apr 1801; m. Nathaniel Jenison
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James Robinson (52) and Patience Ruggles (53)
James Robinson was born 15 Mar 1689/90, in Roxbury, Mass. 444 He was the son of Thomas Robinson and Sarah Denison.445 He married Patience Ruggles, 6 Jun 1711, in Boston.446 She was born 9 Nov 1689, in Roxbury,447 the daughter of Capt. Samuel Ruggles and Martha Woodbridge.448
James Robinson was a housewright. He inherited the family homestead on Washington Street, in Boston, which he sold 7 Feb 1711/ 2. He then bought a house on the south side of Boylston St., selling that 12 Apr 1714. At that time, he moved to Rochester, Mass., where his wife's brother, Rev. Timothy Ruggles, was minister. In 1757 he moved to a farm in Hardwick. His residence there was on the road to Ware, about two miles from the Common. He died in March 1762, according to his gravestone, before 11 Mar 1762, when his will was proved. His widow Patience died in January 1768, apparently in Hardwick.449 They are both buried in the Old Cemetery in Hardwick.450
Children:
1. James Robinson, b. 1 Mar 1711/2, Boston; d. 21 May 1790, Hardwick, Mass.;451 bur. Hardwick Central Cem.;452 m.(1st) Mary Haskell; m. (2nd) Elizabeth Smith, 3 Jul 1739, Hardwick, Mass.453
2. Thomas Robinson, b. 15 Sep 1713, Rochester; d. 16 Dec 1713; he was baptized by Samuel Sewall, “Baptiseth Thomas Robinson, great Grand-son of Mr. John Woodbridge, by his daughter Martha Ruggles”454
3. Samuel Robinson, b. 1 Nov 1715, Rochester;455 d. Mar 1784; m. Elizabeth Doty, 20 Oct 1737, Rochester, Mass.456
444 Roxbury Vital Records (VR): James, Thomas and Sarah, 15 Mar 1689-90. 445 Lucius Robinson Paige, History of Hardwick, Mass. (1883), p. 471. 446 Marriages in Boston, 1700-1809 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org,). “James Robinson of Boston & Patience Ruggles of Roxbury Married on 6 Jun 1711.” 447 Roxbury VR: Patience, Samuel and Martha, 9 Nov 1689. 448 For the Ruggles family, see History of Hardwick, p. 480. For the Woodbridge family, see New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 32 (1878). Martha (Woodbridge) Ruggles was the granddaughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. 449 Hardwick VR, p. 319. History of Hardwick, Mass, p. 471. 450 findagrave.com: James Robinson and findagrave.com: Patience Robinson 451 Hardwick VR, p. 319. 452 findagrave.com: James Robinson Jr. 453 Hardwick VR, p. 233. 454 Mass. Historical Society, Diary of Samuel Sewall, p. 398. 455 Rochester VR, p. 252 (under “Roberson.”) 456 Rochester VR, p. 259. 69
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4. Thomas Robinson, b. 20 Apr 1718, Rochester;457 d. 4 (or 5) Jan 1802, Hardwick, Mass.;458 m. Mary Warner459
5. Sarah Robinson, b. 9 Jul 1720; m. Ebenezer Spooner, 29 Jan 1745, Rochester, Mass.460
6. Dorothy Robinson, b. 10 Mar 1722/3, Rochester;461 d. 25 Sep 1810, Rochester; m. (1st) David Jackson Peckham, 27 Oct 1743;462 m. (2nd) Maj. Elnathan Haskell, 26 Nov 1749, Rochester, Mass.463
7. Denison Robinson, b. 16 Jul 1725, Hardwick; d. 25 Nov 1803, Rochester; m. Martha Perry, 12 Oct 1752, in Sandwich, Mass.;464 he may have m. 2nd Millicent Cutler465
8. Joseph Robinson, b. 13 Sep 1727; d. 16 Dec 1814; m. Martha Hedge
9. Hannah Robinson, b. 16 Nov 1730; d. 10 Oct 1819, Bernardston; m. Benjamin Green, 31 Aug 1764, Hardwick, Mass.466
457 Rochester VR, p. 252 (under “Robenson.”) 458 Hardwick VR, p. 320. 459 Intent recorded 15 Sep 1744: Hardwick VR, p. 234. 460 Rochester VR, p. 259. 461 Rochester VR, p. 252 (under “Robenson.”) 462 Rochester VR, p. 235, 259. 463 Rochester VR, p. 234. 464 Rochester VR, p. 239, 259. 465 Recorded in Hardwick VR, p. 163, int. 10 Apr 1769. 466 Hardwick VR, p. 183. 70
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Elisha Hedge (54) and Martha Johnson (55)
Elisha Hedge was born 4 Feb 1705/6, in Eastham, Mass. He was the son of Samuel Hedge and Grace Snow.467 He married Martha Johnson, 30 Apr 1728, in Shrewsbury.468 She was born 6 Oct 1702, in Shrewsbury, and was the daughter of Daniel Johnson and Dorothy Lamb.469
Elisha married, second, Betty (Brigham) Stratton, 3 Dec 1765, in Marlboro.470 She was born in Marlboro, 15 Nov 1719, and was the daughter of Jotham and Abigail Brigham and the widow of Jonathan Stratton. According to the History of Hardwick, Betty “appears to have left him, before his death, and returned to her former home.”471
Elisha was a tailor in Boston in 1726/7. 472 He was admitted to the Shrewsbury Church from the New North Church in Boston in 1736, and moved to Worcester by 1740. He bought 280 acres of land in Hardwick in 1745 and a year later 300 more acres adjoining New Rutland (now Barre), “lying on both sides of Moose Brook.”473 He was in Marlboro from 1766 to 1769, but returned to Hardwick. “In various documents he is styled tailor, 1745; shop-keeper, 1761; trader, 1765; and gentlemen, 1767. He also served as commissary in the French War, 1755.”474 He died in Barre.475 The estate of Elisha Hedge was administered by Samuel H. Robinson in January 1789.476, 477
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467 Mrs. Charles L. Alden, “Snow Genealogy,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1897), p. 207. 468 Boston VR: “Elisha Hedge of Boston & Martha Johnson of Shrewsbury Married By Job Cushing, Min. on 30 Apr 1728” 469 Mrs. Elwood Kimball, “The Solomon Johnson Family,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1912), p. 236. 470 Marlborough VR, p. 264. 471 History of Hardwick, p. 396. 472 John Austin, Mayflower Pilgrim Family Genealogies Through Five Generations (Volume 6) (1995), p. 334. 473 History of Hardwick. 474 Ibid 475 Ibid. 476 Austin, Mayflower Pilgrim Family Genealogies, Vol 6, p. 334. 477 A memorial in Findagrave.com states he is buried in W. Main St. Cem., Shrewsbury, but I am skeptical of this. 478 Massachusetts Spy, 5 May 1791. 71
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Children, by his first wife Martha Johnson:
1. Elisha Hedge, b. 14 Feb 1728, Boston;479 d. unknown;480 m. Deliverance Stearns, 25 Dec 1750, in Worcester, Mass.481
2. Josiah Hedge, b. 15 Jun 1730, Shrewsbury, Mass.;482 d. 6 Jun 1733, Shrewsbury483
3. Samuel Hedge, b. 9 May 1732, Shrewsbury;484 d. Sep 1760, in French & Indian war
4. Lemuel Hedge, b. 7 Jul 1734, Shrewsbury;485 d. 15 Oct 1777; bur. Warwick Cem.;486 m. Sarah White; grad. Harvard in 1759; he was the first minister of Warwick; shortly before his death he was taken into custody by a mob due to his tory beliefs487
5. Mary Hedge, b. 15 Feb 1735/6, Shrewsbury488
6. Martha Hedge (see note below), b. abt. 1738; d. 12 Apr 1809; m. Joseph Robinson
NOTE: John Austin’s 1995 Five Generation Mayflower project book on the descendants of Stephen Hopkins places a question mark beside Martha’s name, presumably because there is no birth record or other primary evidence. However, there is considerable circumstantial evidence, which I find compelling, as follows:
• Elisha Hedge lived in both Hardwick and Barre, Mass., as did the family of Joseph Robinson. There were no other Hedge families living in either Hardwick or Barre at that time. • Samuel H. Robinson, son of Joseph Robinson and Martha Hedge, was the administrator of Elisha Hedge’s estate. This is perhaps the most compelling argument, as unrelated persons did not ordinarily act as administrators of an estate. • Since Elisha Hedge’s wife was named Martha, it is reasonable that he would have a daughter named after her. • Joseph and Martha (Hedge) Robinson had a son Elisha Robinson. The name “Elisha” is not common and had not occurred previously in any of Joseph Robinson’s ancestors or immediate relatives. Similarly, Joseph and Martha had a son Lemuel
479 "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," accessed via familysearch.org. It is not clear whether the year is 1727/8 or 1728/9. 480 Said to have d. 26 Dec 1777 in Hardwick, but not listed in Hardwick VR. 481 Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988. 482 Shrewsbury VR, see http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Shrewsbury/BirthsH.shtml. 483 Shrewsbury VR, see http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Shrewsbury/DeathsH.shtml 484 Shrewsbury VR, see http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Shrewsbury/BirthsH.shtml. 485 Shrewsbury VR. 486 findagrave.com: Lemuel Hedge 487 See American Quarterly Register, vol. 13-14 (1841), available from Google Books. 488 Shrewsbury VR, see http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Shrewsbury/BirthsH.shtml. 72
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Robinson, and Elisha and Martha (Johnson) Hedge had a son Lemuel Hedge. Such naming patterns would be hard to explain as mere chance. • In addition, the History of Hardwick lists Martha Hedge as Elisha’s daughter.489
It should also be noted that the Mayflower Society accepts that Martha (Hedge) Robinson was the daughter of Elisha Hedge and Martha Johnson.
489 Of course, such a source is not infallible; however, being written in 1883 it is quite possible that some living relatives or others in Hardwick at the time had knowledge of Martha (Hedge) Robinson’s parents’ names. 73
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William French (56) and Joanna Hill (57)
Lt. William French was born 25 Jan 1700/1, in Billerica, Mass.490 He was the son of William French and Sarah Danforth. He married Joanna Hill, 22 Mar 1726/7, in Billerica.491 She was born 6 Apr 1707, in Billerica,492 and died 17 Jan 1769, in Billerica.493 She was the daughter of Samuel Hill and Sarah Page. He married, as his second wife, Mehitable (Lovejoy) Mooar, 27 Nov 1770.494 She was the widow of Timothy Mooar, of Andover. William died 9 Apr 1776, in Billerica.495 He and his first wife Joanna are buried in the Old South Cemetery.496
Gravestone of William French Gravestone of Joanna (Hill) French (photo by Bill Boyington) (photo by Bill Boyington)
Their inscriptions are as follows:
Memento mori Memento mori Here lies the Here lies Body of Lieut. Buried the Body of William French Mrs. Joanna French who departed Wife of Dea. William this Life April French who 9th 1776 Departed this Life In the 76th January 17th 1769 Year of in the 62nd Year his age. of her age.
He left a will, dated 16 Jul 1774. His bequests in detail were:
490 Billerica vital records, p. 86. 491 Ibid., p. 259. 492 Ibid., p. 99. 493 Ibid., p. 362. 494 Billerica vital records, p. 259. 495 Ibid., p. 364. 496 findagrave.com: William French and findagrave.com: Joanna French 74
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I do give & bequeath unto Mehitable, my well beloved wife to her & to her heirs forever the whole of my personal Estate & Household movables which she brought to me at the time of our Intermarriage, also I give unto her the use of the three Lower Rooms of the East End of my Dwelling house and Sufficient letter(?) room and yard room about the House & use of the well During her living in the Sd house but not to Let Sd house to any person. Also I give unto my said wife five pounds six shillings & eight pence Lawful money to be paid her annually by my executor during her natural Life for her Dower, but if she shall Chuse to take the improvement of one third of my Real Estate & her right in my personal Estate for her Dower it is my will that she shall have & Enjoy the same , and wheras I have given my son Jonas French a deed of sale of the one half of all my Lands & Buildings in Billerica aforesaid both in Quantity & Quality, my will is & I give unto the said Jonas & to his Heirs & Assigns for ever, the other half of my Real Estate Lying in Sd town both Lands & buildings, the Sd Lands butted & bounded as the Same is Described in the Sd Recited Deed or as it may be Butted and Bounded in the Records of Sd Town, together with my pew in the meetinghouse in Billerica aforesd, he the said Jonas paying the aforesaid sums & such Legacys as I shall after order. I give unto my four Grand children the sons of my son Asa French Decd, to Asa, Joshua, Joseph & Benjamin thirty-three pounds six Shillings & eight pence Lawful money to be Equally Divided between them – I give unto the Children of my daughter Joanna Abbot Deceased – To Lydia, Joanna & Dorcas Twenty pounds Lawful money to be Equally Divided between my sd Grand Children – I give unto my Daughter Lydia Page Twenty Pounds Lawful Money. I give unto William my Grandson & to his Heirs and Assigns forever all such Lands as have been or Shall be granted to me by the General Court of this province as Compensation for the Loss of my land in Townshend by the Runing New Hampshire Line. My will is & I give unto my son Jonas all my wearing apparel. My will is that the personal Estate I shall leave at the Time of my Decease shall be Equally Divided among my Heirs Finally I order my sd son Jonas to pay all the aforesaid Legacys in Two Years after my Decease & the Decease of my wife, whome I constitute my Sole Executor of this my Last Will & Testament.
William French's signature, from his will
Probate records also indicate that after his death, his widow returned to live in Andover. She died 18 Sep 1786, at age 78.497
497 George Mooar, Mooar (Moors) Genealogy: Abraham Mooar of Andover, and His Descendants (1901), p. 11-12. 75
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Children, born in Billerica:498
1. William French, b. 19 Mar 1727/8; d. 20 Jan 1764, Billerica;499 m. Sarah Richardson
2. Joanna French, b. 27 Nov 1729; d. 20 Aug 1768; bur. Old South Cemetery, Billerica;500 m. Oliver Abbot
3. Joseph French, b. 11 Nov 1730; d. 21 Nov 1730, Billerica501
4. Jonas French, b. 18 Mar 1731/2; d. 9 Feb 1801; m. Hannah Page
5. Lucy French, b. 20 Oct 1734, d. 18 May 1735, Billerica502
6. Lucy French, b. 3 Apr 1736; d. 17 Sep 1736, Billerica503
7. Asa French, b. 6 May 1738; d. before 1776; m. Hannah Richardson; his children were placed under the guardianship of Christopher Page
8. Joel French, b. 19 Aug 1740; d. 23 Nov 1740, Billerica504
9. Rachel French, b. 10 Oct 1741; d. 18 Jan 1774; bur. Old South Cemetery, Billerica505
10. Lydia French, b. 30 Mar 1744; m. ----- Page; it is very likely that she m. Christopher Page, and d. 20 Feb 1808, at age 64, with no children506
11. Hannah French, b. 11 Jan 1746/7; d. 11 Jun 1749507
498 All births in Billerica Vital Records. 499 Billerica VR. The record says son of William and Joanna. 500 findagrave.com: Joanna Abbot 501 Billerica VR 502 Ibid. 503 Ibid. 504 Ibid. 505 BillericaVR; also findagrave.com: Rachel French. 506 Brown’s History of Bedford claims that Lydia Jaquith married Christopher Page. However, I have found no proof that such a Lydia Jaquith existed. Lydia Page is mentioned in William French’s will, and the age on Lydia Page’s gravestone would be consistent with the birth date of Lydia French. 507 Billerica VR. 76
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Nathaniel Page (58) and Hannah Blanchard (59)
Nathaniel Page was born 4 Sep 1703, recorded in Billerica, Mass., but probably in what is now Bedford, Mass.508 He was the son of Nathaniel Page Jr. and Susanna Lane. Like his father, he was known as "Cornet"509 Nathaniel Page.
He married Hannah Blanchard in about 1729. She was almost certainly the daughter of John Blanchard and Mary Crosby, born 24 Oct 1704 in Billerica.510 If so, she had a brother named David and a sister Abigail, which fits in with the fact that Hannah (Blanchard) Page had a son David and a daughter Abigail.511
Nathaniel Page died 6 Apr 1779, in Bedford.512 His wife Hannah died 7 Sep 1763.513 Her tombstone states that she died at age 59 -- if she was the daughter of John Blanchard she would have actually been almost seven weeks short of 59 years old. She and Nathaniel are buried in the Old Burying Ground at Bedford. The Page homestead in Bedford was included in an episode of “This Old House” on PBS TV, and is said to have been built in 1720.514
Gravestone of Nathaniel Page (photo by Bill Boyington) Gravestone of Hannah Page (photo by Bill Boyington)
Her tombstone reads:
508 Billerica VR. Bedford was not incorporated until 1729. 509 Bedford VR based on gravestone. 510 Billerica VR. There is no further record of this Hannah Blanchard in the Billerica Vital Records. 511 See Descendants and Ancestors of Edwin Bond Blanchard, 1949. 512 Bedford VR, p. 132, also gravestone. findagrave.com: Nathaniel Page Jr. 513 Gravestone. findagrave.com: Hannah Page 514 See http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tv/house-project/overview/0,,20496798,00.html. It seems likely that this Nathaniel Page lived in this house. 77
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Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. HANNAH PAGE, Wife to Mr. NATHANIEL PAGE, Who Departed this Life September 7th, 1763. Aged 59 Years
His tombstone reads:
Memento mori IN Memory Of Cornat NATHANIEL PAGE Junr. , who departed this Life April ye 6th 1779: In the 77th Year of his age Death from all death has set us free; and will our gain for ever be; Death loosed the rusty chain of woe; to let the mournful captives free.515
His will includes the following bequests:
Item. I give & Bequeath unto my son Thomas Page & to his heirs forever, my right in my Pew in Bedford meeting House, and also my Estate in Old England and my walking Staff; and also thirty acres of Land East of his Dwelling House, below his Garden, adjoining to his own Land, part mowing Land, part plow Land, and part Wood Land. Item. I give & Bequeath unto my son William Page & to his heirs forever, all the Land that I own that adjoins to his own Land, also my (r?)iver meadow & Lot, & also my pine Hill(?) Lot, adjoining to Jonathan Lawrence’s Land to the Road. Item. I give & Bequeath unto my son David Page & to his heirs forever, all my Buildings, with thirty Acres of Land lying South, East & North of his own Land, whereon the said Buildings stand; and also my Clock & Clock case. Item. I give & Bequeath unto my daughter Hannah French and to her heirs forever, my Silver Cup, and one Silver Spoon; and also Fifty-Eight pounds Lawful money, to be paid in one year after my Decease; with the one half of my House Hold goods, not particularly Disposed of, as part & to be taken out of the said Fifty Eight pounds before mentioned as they shall be apprized. Item. I give & Bequeath unto my daughter Abigail Brown and to her heirs forever, Sixty-five pounds Lawful money to be paid in one year after my Decease with the one half of my House Hold goods, not particularly Disposed of, as part & to be taken out of the said Sixty Five pounds before mentioned as they shall be apprized. Item. I give & Bequeath unto my Grandson Nathaniel French and to his heirs forever, the Three Fifths of a Hundred Acre Lot, which I own at New Salem.
515 Abram Brown, History of the Town of Bedford, p. 88. 78
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Item. I give & bequeath unto my sons Thomas Page & David Page & to their heirs forever, all the remainder of my Lands, not Disposed of, to be Equally divided between them – and my will is that all my wearing apparel, and all the remainder of my personal Estate, not before particularly Disposed of, shall be Equally Divided between my three Sons or their heirs, Thomas Page, William Page, and David Page, and my will is that my three sons the said Tho. Page, William Page & David Page or their heirs should bear an equal proportion in paying all my Just Debts, funeral Charges, and the Legacies mentioned in this my Last Will & Testament. And I do constitute & appoint my three sons Thomas Page, William Page & David Page to be Executors of this my Last Will & Testament…
Children:
1. Nathaniel Page, b. 22 May 1729, Billerica;516 d. 26 Mar 1750/1, bur. Old Burying Ground Bedford, Mass.517
2. Thomas Page, b. 5 May 1733, Bedford;518 d. 21 Jul 1809; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford, Mass.;519 m. Anna Merriam, 1 Jan 1756, in Lexington520
3. Hannah Page, b. 15 May 1736, Bedford; d. 2 Apr 1793; m. Jonas French
4. William Page, b. 19 Feb 1737/8;521 d. 10 Feb 1812, bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford, Mass.;522 m. Patte Hill, 8 Dec 1763, in Billerica;523 served in Rev. War
5. David Page, b. 4 Apr 1740;524 d. 11 Jan 1819;525 bur. Middlebury, Cem., Middlebury, Vt.;526 m. -----;527 called "King David" on account of his "lordly manner and adherence to the continental costume."528
6. Susanna Page, b. 22 Jan 1742/3, d. 26 Jan 1772; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford;529 unmarried
516 Billerica VR. He is called the son of Nathaniel Page Jr. and Hannah. 517 findagrave.com: Nathaniel Page d. 1750/1 518 Bedford VR, p. 43 519 Findagrave.com (no photo) and Bedford Vital Records. 520 Bedford VR, p. 92. 521 Bedford VR, p. 43 522 Findagrave.com 523 Bedford VR, p. 92. 524 Bedford VR, p. 43 525 Bedford VR. 526 findagrave.com: David Page 527 Marriage to Abigial Jones according to Brown’s History of Bedford. However, no marriage for David is listed in Bedford VR. There is a marriage of Daniel Page and Abigail Jones recorded in Bedford VR. 528 Ibid, p. 26. 529 findagrave.com: Susanna Page 79
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7. Abigail Page, b. 5 Sep 1745; d. 5 Aug 1799; m. Nathaniel Bowman Brown
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Daniel Brown (60) and Anne Bright (61)
Daniel Brown was born 21 Dec 1703, in Watertown, Mass., the son of Joseph Brown and Ruhamah Wellington.530 He married Eliot Poulter in about 1728.531 She was baptized 19 Jun 1709,532 and died 11 Mar 1733/4, in Lexington,533 and was the daughter of John Poulter and Hannah Hammond.534 Her epitaph, in the Old Burying Ground at Lexington, reads:
Here lyes buried Ye Body of Mrs Eliot Brown wife to Mr Daniel Brown: who Died March 11th, 1733 Aged 23 Years & 9 mo.535
Daniel married Anne Bright, 16 Jul 1736, in Watertown.536 She was born 27 Feb 1715/6, in Watertown, and was the daughter of Nathaniel Bright and Ann Bowman.537
Daniel was admitted to the Lexington Church in March 1733.538 He served as tithingman (1735), assessor (1752, 1761, 1767) and selectman(1744, 1753).539
His wife Anne died 18 Jan 1780, in Lunenburg, Mass.540 He came to Plymouth, Vt., in his later years to be with his son Bowman. He died there 26 Feb 1796, and is buried in the Plymouth Notch Cemetery.541 His gravestone reads: “Daniel Brown, 1703-1796.”542 This, however, was not his original stone.543
Children, by his first wife Eliot Poulter:
1. John Brown, bapt. 30 Nov 1729; d. young544
530 Watertown VR: Daniell Brown fon of Jofeph & Ruhamah Brown born December 21: 1703. 531 Charles Hudson, History of the Town of Lexington, p. 64. 532 Lexington VR. 533 Ibid. 534 Hudson, p. 64. 535 Francis H. Brown, Lexington Epitaphs (1905), p. 13. Also findagrave.com: Eliot Brown 536 Watertown vital records: “July the 16: 1736 mr. Daniel Brown of Lexington and Ann Bright of Watertown were Joined in marriage by the Revd. Seth Storer paftor of a Church in watertown.” 537 Hudson, p. 64. 538 Probably Blanche B. Bryant ,Genealogical Records of the Founders & Early Settlers of Plymouth, Vt. (1967). 539 Hudson, p. 64. 540 Ibid. 541 findagrave.com: Daniel Brown 542 Ibid. 543 Findagrave.com: “Reportedly, someone wanted to use the original slate tombstone and fashion it into a coffee table. Inexplicably, permission was supposedly given as long as a replacement stone was erected.” 544 Hudson, History of the Town of Lexington, p. 64. 81
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2. Ruhamah Brown, b. 7 Apr 1731; d. Jun. 9, 1798, bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford, Mass.;545 m. John Reed 546
Children, by his second wife, Anne Bright:547
3. Nathaniel Bowman Brown, b. 1 Jul 1737; d. 30 Jul 1806; m. Abigail Page
4. Abisha Brown, bapt. 13 Aug 1738548
5. Ann (or Anna) Brown, b. 27 Apr 1739
6. Daniel Brown, b. 20 Dec 1741
7. Esther Brown, b. 12 Aug 1744; d. 26 Jan 1803, Westminster, Mass.;549 bur. Woodside (Old) Cem.;550 m. Nathaniel Tottingham
8. Jerusha Brown, 18 Mar 1746[/7?]; d. 15 Sep 1811, Concord, Mass.;551 m. Maj. Abishai Brown, 30 Oct 1766;552 he was b. 5 May 1746, d. 13 Apr 1799, and served in the Rev. War
9. Martha Brown, b. 18 Jun 1749; m. Zachariah Brown
10. John Brown, b. 12 Aug 1751; d. 19 Apr 1775, in Battle of Lexington;553 “He was killed by the first fire of the enemy on Lexington Green on the first day of the American Revolution. He was one of the first eight of fifty Americans either killed or mortally wounded on that day.”
11. Hannah Brown, bapt. 14 Apr 1754
12. Hannah Brown, b. 8 Apr 1756
13. Mary Brown, bapt. 5 May 1758; d. 29 Dec 1774554
545 findagrave.com: Ruhamah Reed. 546 Hudson; also Lexington Vital Records. 547 Births/baptisms from Lexington VR unless otherwise noted. 548 Hudson, but not listed in Lexington VR. 549 Westminster Vital Records: “Tottingham, Esther, wid. of Nathaniel, 26 Jan 1803, in her 59th year.” 550 findagrave.com: Esther Tottingham 551 Concord Births, Marriages and Deaths, p. 332. 552 Lexington Vital Records, p. 102. 553 Lexington VR says “slain” and gives the date of the battle. 554 Lexington VR gives date of death but doesn’t prove relationship. 82
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Joseph Hubbard (64) and Mary Porter (65)
Joseph Hubbard was born 10 Dec 1643, in Hartford, Conn.,555 the son of George Hubbard and Elizabeth Watts. He married Mary Porter 29 Dec 1670, in Middletown, Conn.556 She was born in 24 Feb 1646/7, in Farmington, Conn., the daughter of Robert Porter and Mary Scott.557 That she was their daughter is shown in the probate record of Robert Porter, who died intestate in about 1689. His estate record includes reference to his daughter Mary Hubbard.558
Joseph died in Middletown 26 Dec 1686, at age 43.559 Mary died, also in Middletown, 10 Jun 1707.560
The inventory of Joseph’s estate was taken in Dec 1686. It included about 472 acres of land, a dwelling house, barn, “little shope,” “one old horse one mare and one 2 year old Colt,” “two cowes two 2 yr old heifers,” eleven “sheepe,” one sow and three pigs, a gun, sword, and other items.561 Robert Porter was appointed to assist the widow in the management of the estate, but it is noted in 3 Mar 1686/7 that he was “now deceased.”562
Children:
1. Joseph Hubbard, b. 22 Oct 1671; d. 1686
2. Robert Hubbard, b. 30 Oct 1673; d. 19 Jun 1740; bur. Riverside Cem., Middletown, Conn.;563 m. Abigail Adkins Ward
3. George Hubbard, b. 7 Oct 1675; d. 16 Dec 1765; m. Mehitable Miller
4. John Hubbard, b. 30 Jul 1678; d. 2 Jan 1726/7; m. Mary Phillips
5. Mary Hubbard, b. 23 Jan 1681; d. 19 Apr 1682
6. Elizabeth Hubbard, b. 26 Mar 1683; unmarried in 1707
555 Barbour Collection of Conn. Vital Records. 556 Barbour Collection of Conn. Vital Records. She is called “Mary Parffer” in the printed record. 557 Barbour Collection. Note that Day, in 1000 Years of Hubbard History, incorrectly asserted that she was the sister of Dr. Daniel Porter of Farmington. 558 A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records, vol. 1. 559 Barbour Collection. He is called Joseph Sr. 560 Barbour Collection. She is called widow of Joseph. 561 Hartford District Probate #2950, Middletown, original images on Ancestry.com. 562 A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records, vol. 1. 563 findagrave.com: Robert Hubbard 83
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John Hollister (68) and Sarah Goodrich (69)
Sgt. John Hollister was born in about 1642, the son of John Hollister and Joanna Treat.564 He married Sarah Goodrich, 20 Nov 1667, in Wethersfield, Conn.565 She was the daughter of William Goodrich and Sarah Marvin.
He died 24 Nov 1711, in Glastonbury, Conn. His will, dated 22 Nov 1711, and proved, 19 Dec 1711, names his sons John, Thomas, David, and Ephraim, daughter Sarah, son Joseph, and daughter Elizabeth Hollister, who was single at the time.566
Children, born at Wethersfield:
1. John Hollister, b. 9 Aug 1669; d. 13 Dec 1741, Glastonbury; bur. Green Cem., Glastonbury;567 m. (1st) Abiah Hollister; m. (2nd) Susannah -----
2. Lt. Thomas Hollister, b. 14 Jan 1671/2; d. 12 Oct 1741, Glastonbury; bur. Green Cem.568 m. Dorothy Hills
3. Joseph Hollister, b. 8 Jul 1674; d. 5 Jul 1746; bur. Green Cem.;569 m. Ann Burnham
4. Sarah Hollister, b. 25 Oct 1676; d. 15 Oct 1715; bur. Green Cem.;570 m. Lt. Benjamin Talcott
5. Elizabeth Hollister, b. 30 Mar 1678; d. young
6. David Hollister, b. 20 Nov 1681; d. 27 Dec 1753; bur. Green Cem., Glastonbury, Conn.;571 m. Penelope Tryon
7. Ephraim Hollister, b. 15 Mar 1683/4; d. 1733; m. Elizabeth Green
8. Charles Hollister, b. 29 Jul 1686; d. before 22 Nov 1711; unm.
9. Elizabeth Hollister, b. abt. 1690; m. Dr. Joseph Steele
564 Since the year of his parents’ immigration is not known, it is not clear whether he was born in England or in Connecticut. 565 Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records. The marriage record, however, does not state Sarah’s maiden name. 566 Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, (1952), p. 617. 567 findagrave.com: John Hollister Jr. 568 findagrave.com: Thomas Hollister 569 findagrave.com: Joseph Hollister 570 findagrave.com: Sarah Talcott 571 findagrave.com: David Hollister 84
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Samuel Hubbard Sr. (72) and Sarah Kirby (73)
Samuel Hubbard Sr. was born in May 1648, in Middletown, Conn.,572 the son of George Hubbard and Elizabeth Watts. He married Sarah Kirby, 9 Aug 1673, in Middletown. She was born 16 Jan 1653/54, in Hartford, Conn., the daughter of John Kirby and Elizabeth -----.
According to One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, Samuel Hubbard was “reared and educated by his uncle, Captain Thomas who left him his house and lot and other bequests…”573
Samuel died intestate, probably in late 1731. Heirs are listed as Samuel Hubbard, George Hubbard, John Hubbard, Esther Butler, Thomas Lee “in behalf of Elizabeth his wife,” Isaac Lee “& Mary his wife,” and “John Gurney & Sarah his wife.”574
Children, born at Middletown:
1. Sarah Hubbard, b. 7 Apr 1674; m. John Gurney
2. Esther Hubbard, b. 4 Dec 1675; m. ----- Butler
3. Samuel Hubbard, b. 27 Mar 1677/8; d. 19 May 1745; m. Martha Peck
4. Thomas Hubbard, bapt. 8 Feb 1679
5. George Hubbard, b. 29 Dec 1680; m. (1st) Mercy Seymour; m. (2nd) Eunice
6. Elizabeth Hubbard, b. 7 Sep 1683; m. Thomas Lee
7. Watts Hubbard, b. 1 Mar 1686; d. 10 Jun 1710
8. Abigail Hubbard, b. Apr 1687; d. young
9. Mary Hubbard, b. Feb 1688/89; d. 8 Dec 1713; m. Dr. Isaac Lee
10. John Hubbard, b. Aug 1691; m. Agnes (Spencer) Humphries
11. Sarah Hubbard, b. 10 Nov 1696; m. John Gurney
572 Barbour Collection of Conn. vital records. 573 Edward Day, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History (1895), p. 276. See also KIrbys of New England. 574 Middletown Probate Record #2956. 85
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Paul Peck (74) and Elizabeth Bayse (75)
Paul Peck was born in about 1642, probably in Hartford, Conn., the son of Dea. Paul Peck and Martha Hale. He married Elizabeth Bayse (or Baisie). She was baptized 23 Aug 1645 in Hartford, the daughter of John Bayse and Elizabeth -----. Paul died in 1724/5 in Hartford. Administration on his estate was granted 2 Feb 1724/5.575
Children, born at Harford:
1. Paul Peck, b. abt. 1666; d. 21 Dec 1752, Litchfield, Conn.; bur. West Cem., Litchfield, Conn.;576 m. Leah Merry
2. John Peck, b. abt. 1672; m. Mehitable Reeve
3. Dr. Samuel Peck, b. abt. 1674; d. 9 Dec 1765, Berlin, Conn.; bur. Maple Cem., Berlin, Conn.;577 m. Abigail Collier
4. Elizabeth Peck, b . abt. 1676; m. (1st) Thomas Welch; m. (2nd) Eleazer Beecher
5. Hannah Peck, b. abt. 1678; m. (1st) Joseph Hopkins; m. (2nd) John Porter
6. Martha Peck, b. abt. 1678; d. 19 Oct 1752; m. Samuel Hubbard
7. William Peck, bapt. 14 Feb 1685/6; d. 1764, Litchfield, Conn.; m. (1st) -----; m. (2nd) Lois (Stanley) Webster
8. Ruth Peck, bapt. 3 Jun 1688; bur. 27 Oct 1760, Wallingford, Conn.; m. (1st) Samuel Sedgewick; m. (2nd) Samuel Culver
575 Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, p. 257. 576 findagrave.com: Paul Peck 577 findagrave.com: Samuel Peck 86
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①William Slack (80) and Mary----- (81)
William Slack was a shipwright and husbandman. He was probably an immigrant from England but his origin is not known. He appears to have arrived in New England comparatively late, as he’s not seen in the records until the birth of his first child in 1683. He married Mary -----.
From 1693 to 1696, he built ships in Boston: “Mr Perkins dyed in the year Sixteen hundred and Ninety three and then Mr. William Slack took the Ship Yard, and built Vessells there Untill the Year Sixteen hundred and Ninety Six…”578
Much of what is known about him comes from his will, dated 3 Feb 1726/7 and proved 17 Oct 1727, in Bristol Co., Mass. He lived in Attleboro, and calls himself a “ship carpenter,” “being aged.” His will mentions wife Mary, sons Thomas, John, Samuel, Benjamin and Joseph, daughter Elizabeth Ide and son-in-law Jonathan Jencks. Also mentioned are grandchildren Jerusha Jencks, Elizabeth Jencks, Hannah Jencks & Rebeckah Jencks, and grandson William Slack (son of Samuel Slack). He willed to his wife his Indian servant Cesar, but specifiying that he would be set free in 13 years.579 His will is transcribed here in full:580
In the Name of God, Amen. The Twenty Third Day of February Anno Dommi one thousand seven Hundred and Twenty Six or Seven, I William Slack of Attleborough in the County of Bristol, with his Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, ship Carpenter, Being aged & weak in Body, But of perfect Mind & Memory, Thanks be given unto God: therefore Calling unto Mind the Mortallity of my Bodyh, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye, Do make & ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say principally, and first of all I give and Command my soul untothe hands of God that Gave it: And my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be Buried in decent Christian Buriel at the Discretion of my Executor; Nothing doubting But at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the Mighty power of God. And as Touching such Wordly Estate wherewith it has pleased God To Bless me in this Life, I give, Devise & dispose of teh same in the following Manner and form. Imprimus I give & Bequeath to Mary my Dearly Bloved Wife all my Moveable Estate within Doors & without and all my money, as also my Indian Servant for the Term of Thirteen years from the Date of this Will, all the above particulars to be at her own Dispose in her Life Time or at her Decease, only my sd Wife shall at my Decease provide for herself out of sd Estate a Mourning Sute of apparell. Further my Will is that if my sd Wife shall not Dispose of what I do here give her in her Life Time Nor at her Decease, the same shall be Equally divided to & among our Children and such as shall Leagally Represent them, that is to say after five pounds Being paid to my Grandson William Slack son of Samuel Slack out of sd Estate. Item. I give to my well Beloved Son Thomas Slack, whom I constitute, make & ordain my Sole Executor of this my Last Will & Testament, all my Home Lot with all the Housing upon it at my Decease, with all the appurtences and priveledges thereto Belonging to him the Said Thomas Slack his Heirs and assigns for Ever and also all my Commons.
578 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 57, p. 415. 579 Abstracts of Bristol County Massachusetts Probate Records 1687-1745, p. 153. This abstract does not contain all the details however, so I decided to include the entire will which I transcribed myself. 580 His will is available via Ancestry.com. 87
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Item my Will is That my son Thomas Slack his Heirs, Executors or Administrators, shall mentaine his Mother During her Natural Life, Decently & Credably with meat, & in Washing, Lodging and apparel, and all other Necessary for the Comfort of Life. Item. I give to my son John Slack as an Addition to what I have formerly given him Fifty pounds to be paid to him, his heirs, Executors, Administrators or assigns By my Executor within Two years after my Decease. Item. I give to my son Samuel Slack as an adition to what I have formerly given him Thirty pounds to be paid to him, his heirs, Executors, Administrators or assigns By my Executor within Two years after my Decease. Item. I give to my son Benjamin Slack as an adition to what I have formerly given him Thirty pounds to be paid to him, his heirs, Executors , Administrators or assigns By my Executor within Two years after my Decease. Item. I give to my son Joseph Slack as an adition to what I have formerly given him Thirty pounds to be paid to him, his heirs, Executors, Administrators or assigns By my Executor within Two years after my Decease. Item. I give to my Daughter Elizabeth Ide as an adition to what I have formerly given her Thirty pounds to be paid to her, her heirs, Executors, Administrators or assigns By my Executor within Two years after my Decease. Item. my will is that Jonathan Jencks my son in law have five shillings paid him out of my Estate, by my Executor. Item. I give to my four grandchildren, Namely Jerusha Jencks, Elizabeth Jencks, Hannah Jencks & Rebeckah Jencks, Five pounds apiece, to be paid to Each of them when they shall come to Lawfull age, and to Each of their heirs, Executors, Administrators or assigns, by my Executor. Item. My Will is that my Indian Servant Cesar shall be set free after he has served the full term of Thirteen years from the Date of this Will and be under No Obligation to Serve any Longer Time. Item. I give to my Grandson William Slack (Son of Samuel Slack) to be paid to him after his Grandmother's Decease five pounds out of the personall Estate. Item. my Will is that if John Wedge shall pay the money that is Due to me within Three years after the Date of these (presents?), with Interest for the same, my said Executor shall have full power to give sd Wedge a good and Warrantable Deed of all that part of Land where sd Wedge Now Dwells, which I the sd William Slack have a Deed from sd Wedge. And I do Hereby utterly Disallow, Revoke and Disanull and Every other former Testaments, Wills, Leagacies and Bequests and Executors, by Me in any ways Before Named, Willed and Bequeathed, Rattifing and Confirming this and No other to be my Last Will and Testament, In Witness Whereof I have Hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day and year above Written. Signed Sealed, Published pronounced and Declared by the Said William Slack as his Last Will & Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers
Samuel Day William Slack Jonathan Fuller Noah Carpenter
Children: 1. William Slack, b. 25 Jul 1683, Boston581
581 Thwing Collection, p16433. 88
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2. John Slack, b. 19 Apr 1686, Boston; d. 1728;582 m. Bethiah Woodcock, 14 Mar 1713/4, in Attleboro
3. Samuel Slack, b. 22 Jan 1687/8, Boston
4. Thomas Slack, b. 5 Jul 1690, Weymouth
5. Benjamin Slack, b. about 1692; d. 18 Jan 1760; bur. Newell Burying Ground, Attleboro;583 m. Jerusha Whiting
6. Joseph Slack, b. say 1694; m. Rebecca Hathorne
7. Elizabeth Slack, b. 13 Apr 1694, Hingham; d. 27 Apr 1753; Attleboro; m. Benjamin Ide, 29 Nov 1716, Attleboro584
8. Mary Slack, m. Jonathan Jencks; she must have died before her father
582 Bethiah was appointed administrator to his estate on 21 May 1728. Abstracts of Bristol County Massachusetts Probate Records 1687-1745, p. 161. 583 findagrave.com: Benjamin Slack 584 American Ancestry, vol. 12 (1899), p. 68. 89
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(Probably) Josiah Wood Jr. (84) and Abigail Bacon (85)
Josiah Wood was born 16 Oct 1658, in Charlestown, Mass., the son of Josiah Wood Sr. and Lydia Bacon.
He married his first cousin, Abigail Bacon, 13 Dec 1686, in Woburn, Mass. She was born 5 Mar. 1666/7, in Woburn, the daughter of Michael Bacon and Sarah Richardson.
Josiah died 9 Mar 1740/1, in Woburn.585 Abigail died 6 Dec 1743, also in Woburn.586
Children, born in Woburn:
1. Josiah Wood, b. 31 Aug 1687; d. 4 Jan 1753; m. Ruth Walker
2. Lydia Wood, b. 1 May 1689
3. Abigail Wood, b. 10 Sep 1691; d. 1 Nov 1739, Woburn; m. Benjamin Simonds
4. Samuel Wood, b. 10 Dec 1693; d. 29 May 1745;587 m. Elizabeth Wright
5. Joseph Wood, b. 25 Apr 1696; d. 13 Dec 1713, Woburn588
6. Solomon Wood, b. 23 Jan 1698/9; d. 13 Oct 1699, Woburn589
7. Ruth Wood, b. 4 Jan 1700/1; d. 2 Aug 1736, Woburn590; unm.
585 Woburn VR, Deaths, p. 210, called “Old Mr. Josiah.” 586 Woburn VR, Deaths, p. 210, called “widow of Josiah.” 587 Woburn VR, Deaths, p. 210. Parents names not given. 588 Woburn VR, Deaths, p. 210, buried First Burial Ground, Woburn (but no photo on findagrave.com) 589 Woburn VR, Deaths, p. 210., “s. of Josiah and Abigail.” 590 Woburn VR, Deaths, p. 210: “d. of Josiah and Abigail.” 90
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(Probably) John Walker (86) and Ruth Kendall (87)
John Walker was born 2 Jul 1665, in Woburn, Mass., the son of Samuel Walker and Sarah Read. He married Ruth Kendall, 9 Nov 1691. She was the daughter of Thomas Kendall and Ruth Blodgett.
According to his probate records, he was a tailor.
John died 29 Apr 1699, in Woburn.591 Guardianship of both children, Edward Walker and Ruth Walker was given to Thomas Kendall.592
John’s widow married, second, Henry Walker, on 15 Oct 1700. She had five children by her second husband, and, by 1726, lived in Hopkinton, Mass. She died 29 Dec 1730, in Hopkinton.593
Children:
1. Ruth Walker, b. 4 Dec 1692; d. Mar 1752; m. Josiah Wood Jr.
2. Edward Walker, b. 7 Oct 1694; d. 6 Dec 1787; m. Esther Pierce. They were the great- grandparents of Rev. James Walker, who was President of Harvard College 1853-1860.
591 Woburn VR. He is called “Jr.” but this only meant that there was another John Walker in Woburn who was older than him (his uncle?) 592 Middlesex Probate #23581. It was probably Ruth’s father, Thomas Kendall, 51. Ruth’s brother Thomas Kendall was only 23 years old. 593 Hopkinton VR, p. 456. “Ruth, w. of Henry Sr., July 29, 1730.” 91
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Nathaniel Woods (88) and Alice Goble (89)
Nathaniel Woods was born 25 Mar 1667/8, in Groton, Mass., the son of Samuel Woods and Alice Rushton.
He married three times. His first wife Alice Goble was born 11 Sep 1673, and died 10 Jan 1717/8, in her 45th year. She is buried in the Old Cemetery in Groton.594 She also appears in the records as “Eleanor” (perhaps a clerical error as the births of three of their children are recorded in the town record with mother “Alles” and in a church record,595 with mother “Eleonor.”
The oft-repeated statement that she was Alice Whitney is not supported by any facts.596 There is in fact convincing evidence597 that she was Alice Goble, daughter of Daniel Goble and Hannah Brewer.
Nathaniel’s second wife Sarah Brown, was born 20 May 1680, in Sudbury, Mass., the daughter of Jabez Brown and Deborah Haines. She died 3 Mar 1724, and is buried in the Old Cemetery in Groton.598 Lastly, on 14 Sep 1725, he married Mary (Blanchard) Derbyshire, who survived him. She was the daughter of John Blanchard, and the widow of John Derbyshire, of Groton.
Nathaniel Woods died 27 Jun 1738, and is buried in the Old Cemetery, Groton, Mass.599
His epitaph is as follows:
Here Lies Buried Ye Body of Mr Nathanael Woods Who Decd June Ye 20th Anno 1738 In Ye 71st Year Of His Age.
He left a will, dated 9 Feb 1737/8, in which he mentions “Mary, my well-beloved wife,” “eldest son Nathaniel” who received a double portion of his estate, sons John, Isaac, Aaron, Moses,
594 findagrave.com: Alice Woods 595 First Church, from Dr. Samuel A. Green's record, published in Groton Historical Series. 596 Unfortunately Ancestry.com continues to publish databases such as the Millennium File which are riddled with errors. Any serious genealogist should never use such sources. 597 See my article: https://www.americanancestors.org/browse/publications/the-register/free-article-spring-2018 598 findagrave.com: Sarah (Brown) Woods 599 findagrave.com: Nathaniel Woods 92
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Jonathan, and Ruben Woods, daughters Bathsheba Mores and Phebe Tufts, and grandson Nathaniel Farmer.600
Children, by his wife Alice Goble, born at Groton
1. Nathaniel Woods, b. 19 Oct 1694; d. Jul 1766; m. (1st) Alice French; m. (2nd) Ruth -----; m. (3rd) Mary (-----) Erwin
2. Daniel Woods, b. 10 Aug 1696; d. 8 May 1725, Fryeburg, Me., in Lovewell’s Fight
3. Lt. John Woods, b. 3 Mar 1697/8; d. 7 May 1782, Groton; bur. Old Cemetery, Groton;601 m. (1st) Sarah Longley; m. (2nd) Deborah -----
4. Lt. Isaac Woods, b. 22 Feb 1699/1700; d. 31 Mar 1775, Groton; bur. Old Cemetery, Groton;602 m. Abigail Stevens, 21 Sep 1725
5. Bathsheba Woods, b. 5 Apr 1702; m. (1st) Collins Moore (or Mores), 2 May 1722; m. (2nd) Samuel Town; m. (3rd) Joseph Phillips
6. Hannah Woods, b. 16 Mar 1704; d. before 1738; m. John Farmer, 27 Apr 1725
7. Phebe Woods, b. 13 Jan or Feb 1705/6; d. young
8. Aaron Woods, b. 26 May 1707;603 m. (1st) Sarah Boynton; m. (2nd) Hannah Farnsworth; m. (3rd) Mary (-----) Brown; m. (4th) Elizabeth (-----) Gates
9. Moses Woods, b. 6 Jul 1709;604 d. 20 Oct 1755, Gaspareaux, Nova Scotia; m. Esther Houghton
10. Reuben Woods, b. 11 Apr 1711;605 d. 17 Oct 1774, Groton; bur. Old Cemetery, Groton;606 m. Submit (Parker) Whitney
11. Phebe Woods, b. 6 Mar 1713; m. James Tufts
12. Jonathan Woods, b. 4 Jun 1715; d. 30 Dec 1755; m. Mary (Page) Boyden
600 Middlesex Probate Case 25512, available online at AmericanAncestors.org, to NEHGS members. 601 findagrave.com: John Woods 602 findagrave.com: Isaac Woods 603 Town records call him son of Nathaniel and “Alles,” but church record gives his mother’s name as “Eleonor.” 604 Town record calls him son of Nathaniel and “Allles,” but church record gives his mother as “Eleanor.” 605 Town records give “Ruben” son of Nathaniel and “Alles” born 11 Apr 1711, but church record has baptism 15 Apr 1711 with mother “Eleanor.” 606 findagrave.com: Ruben Woods 93
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Samuel French (90) and Sarah Cummings (91)
Samuel French was born in Cambridge, Mass., 13 Jul 1653, the son of Richard and Martha French.607 He married Sarah Cummings, 24 Dec 1682, in Chelmsford, Mass.608 She was born 28 Jan 1661/2 in Topsfield, Mass., the daughter of John Cummings and Sarah Howlett.
Samuel was an innkeeper and a member of the local militia. 609 He died, probably in Dunstable after 1728, according to one source.610 But no death or probate record has been found.
Children:611
1. Sarah French, b. 7 Feb 1683/4
2. Samuel French, b. 10 Sep 1685; d. 4 Nov 1727
3. Joseph French, b. 10 Mar 1687/8; m. Elizabeth Cummings
4. John French, b. 6 May 1691; m. -----
5. Ebenezer French, b. 7 Apr 1693; d. 5 Sep 1724, killed by Indians at Naticook Brook, New Hampshire; m. Esther -----
6. Richard French, b. 8 Apr 1695
7. Alice French, b. 20 Nov 1699; m. Nathaniel Woods
8. Jonathan French, b. 1 Feb 1703/04; d. 17 Nov 1757; bur. Old Cem., Dunstable;612 m. Jane -----; no children mentioned in his will
607 Earlier sources say he was the son of William and Elizabeth French, but this has been disproven. John LInzee, in Parker-Ruggles, states, “Samuel, son of William and Elizabeth French, was b. 3 Dec 1645, and bur. 15 Jul 1646, and no other son by the name of Samuel was born to William French in Cambridge.” In addition, William French’s will does not mention any son named Samuel. See also The Great Migration sketch on William French. 608 Chelmsford VR, p. 235. 609 http://www.frenchfamilyassoc.com/FFA/CHARTS/Chart006/ 610 John Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles (1913), p. 207. 611 Ezra Stearns, Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable (1911), p. 18. (But this source erroneously calls him son of William French, see reasons above why this is not correct.) 612 findagrave.com: Jonathan French 94
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Jonathan Boyden (92) and Elizabeth Lakin (93)
Jonathan Boyden was born 27 Sep 1675, in Woburn, Mass.,613 the son of Thomas Boyden and Martha Holden.614 He married Elizabeth Lakin, daughter of William Lakin and Lydia Brown. Elizabeth was born 8 Jan 1668/9, probably in Groton, Mass. Jonathan’s second wife was widow Lydia (Lakin) Shipley, whom he married 22 Mar 1736/7, in Groton.615 She was the widow of John Shipley (or Shiple). She was the cousin of his first wife, and the daughter of John Lakin and Mary Bacon.
“Capt. Jonathan Boyden acquired considerable wealth, and was highly esteemed by his townsmen, serving them as Selectman for several years.” In 1741, the marriage of his slave, Primus, to Margaret, mulatto, appears in the Groton town records. 616
Jonathan must have died in 1749, because probate records show an appraisal of his estate ordered on 20 Mar 1749.617
Children, born in Groton:
1. Josiah Boyden, b. 21 Sep 1701; d. 17 Oct 1772; m. (1st) Eunice Parker; m. (2nd) Jane Read
2. Jonathan Boyden, b. 13 Feb 1705/6; d. before Dec 1749; m Mary -----
3. Elizabeth Boyden, b. 10 Mar 1707/8; d. 1757 (?); m. John Shipley
4. Lydia Boyden, 23 Mar 1711; d. 4 Nov 1794, Pepperell, Mass.;618 bur. Walton Cem.; m. Jonas Varnum
5. Martha Boyden, b. 5 Jun 1715; m. Isaac Green
6. Mary Boyden, b. 1 Jan 1720; m. Eleazer Green
613 Woburn VR. 614 Thomas Boyden and His Descendants (1901), p. 11. 615 Groton VR: “Lydia, wid., and Capt. Jonathan Boyden, Mar. 22, 1736-7.” 616 Ibid. 617 Middlesex Probate #2384, available to NEHGS members at AmericanAncestors.org 618 Pepperell VR. She died of Palsey. 95
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Samuel Parker (94) and Abigail Lakin (95)
Samuel Parker was baptized 1 Feb 1656/7, at age 6 months, recorded in Chelmsford, Mass.619 Since the record say he was six months old, some sources have subtracted six months and give a birth date of 1 Aug 1656. This may be true but it’s possible the “6 months” was only an approximate age. At any rate, if not born 1 Aug 1656, his birth date must have been near that time.
He was the son of James Parker and Elizabeth Long. In about 1685, he married Abigail Lakin, daughter of John Lakin and Mary Bacon. She was born 13 Mar 1666/7 in Groton, Mass.
Samuel was a selectman, in about 1697.620 He died before 12 Nov 1712, when his sons James and Samuel were appointed administrators of his estate. In the intestate probate record, his children were listed by first name only: James, Samuel, John, Abigail, Jonathan, Rachel and Eunice.621
Abigail Parker's signature (from husband's probate record) His widow Abigail married, 7 Feb 1721/2, Robert Dickson, or Dixon.622 Robert died intestate in 1724, probably in Concord. The record does not indicate whether or not Abigail survived him.623 Abigail’s death date has not been determined.
Children, born in Groton:
1. James Parker b. 29 Apr 1686; d. 21 Jan 1749, Groton; bur. Old Burying Ground, Groton;624 m. Abigail Prescott. James was a weaver.
2. Robert Parker, b. 2 Apr 1688; not listed in his father’s probate records
3. Samuel Parker, b. about 1690; d. 21 Aug 1760; m.(1st) Deborah Prescott; m. (2nd) Sarah Houghton
619 Chelmsford VR. The record says 1: 12 m: 1656, however, February was the 12th month, not December. This is because, until 1752, in England and in English colonies, the new year began in March, not January. 620 Samuel Green, Groton During the Indian Wars (1883), p. 84. 621 Middlesex Probate #16788. 622 Augustus Parker, Parker in America (1911), p. 538. Abigail’s marriage to Robert Dickson/Dixon is also found in the Groton VR. See also Marilyn Fitzpatrick, “James Parker of Groton, Mass.,” The Essex Genealogist (TEG), Vol. 13 (1993), pp. 213-14. 623 Middlesex Probate #6268. Samuel Parker is listed as a creditor. Abigail is not mentioned but there is no list of heirs, so her lack of being mentioned is not significant. 624 findagrave.com: James Parker 96
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4. John Parker, b. about 1694; d. 1763; m. Joanna Ames
5. Abigail Parker, b. 22 Aug 1696; d. after 1757; m. Thomas Tarbell
6. Jonathan Parker, b. about 1698; m. Sarah Pierce; both d. 21 Sep 1723
7. Rachel Parker, m. Obadiah Sawtell, who was shot and killed by Indians, while ploughing
8. Eunice Parker, b. 11 Mar 1705; d. 1 Jan 1745; m. Josiah Boyden
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Samuel Jennison (96) and Judith Newcomb (97)
Samuel Jennison was born 15 Dec 1642, in Watertown, Mass.,625 the son of Robert Jennison and Grace -----. Some have claimed that he was born in 1645, and that the 1642 birth record is for another Samuel, although this claim is unsupported by any evidence.
Samuel married Judith Newcomb, 30 Oct 1666, in Watertown. For many years, an error persisted that her surname was “Macomber.” “It came about by a mis-reading of the original records of Watertown wherein the writer gave a preliminary upward stroke to his capital letter ‘N’ which made it appear like an ‘M’.” Thus, “Nucombe’ became ‘Macombe’, and somehow the letter “r” was gratuitously added. Judith was born 16 Jan 1645/6, in Braintree, Mass., the daughter of Francis Newcomb and Rachel Brackett.
Samuel was admitted freeman on 11 Oct 1682. “His service to the town was varied and extensive,” and included being a selectman, town clerk, and constable.
Samuel died 15 Oct 1701 in Watertown. He made his will on 13 Nov 1700, the inventory was taken on 31 Oct 1701, and his will was probated 3 Nov 1702. His will mentions his “beloved wife” Judith, eldest son Samuel Jenison, second son William, son Peter, youngest son Robert Jenison, eldest daughter Judith Barnard, second daughter Rachel Barron, daughter Grace Holdin, youngest daughter Lydia, not yet 18, and grandchildren: Mary Jenison, James and Samuel Barnard, Timothy Barron, and John Holdin. Also mentioned is grandchild Joseph Bowman, who, according to the Giles Memorial, was an illegitimate child of Rachel Jennison and Joseph Bowman Sr.
Samuel’s widow Judith was sick for eight or nine weeks, before she died, 1 Mar 1722/3, in Watertown.626
Children:
1. Judith Jennison, b. 13 Aug 1667; m. (1st) James Barnard; m. (2nd) John Bemis
2. Mercy Jennison, b. 23 Jan 1669/70; d. 28 Feb 1671/2
3. Rachel Jennison, b. 8 Oct 1671; m. (1st) Timothy Barron; m. (2nd) John King
4. Samuel Jennison, b. 12 Oct 1673; d. 2 Dec 1730; m. Mary Stearns
625 Watertown VR: “Samuel the sonne of Robert & Grace [Jennison] borne 15 (10) 1642” (December was 10th month.) 626 Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (1943), pp. 371-373, 460. 98
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5. William Jennison, (twin), b. 17 Oct 1676; d. 19 Sep 1741; bur. Worcester Common Burial Ground;627 m. Elizabeth Golding. He was a judge.
6. Elizabeth Jennison, (twin), b. 17 Oct 1676; d. before father (not mentioned in will)
7. Grace Jennison, b. 11 Feb 1678/9; d. 7 Jan 1757, Concord; m. John Holden
8. Peter Jennison, b. 1 Oct 1681; d. 17 Jan 1722/3, Sudbury; bur. North Cem., Wayland, Mass.;628 m. Jane Goulding
9. Robert Jennison, b. 24 Jul 1684; m. Dorothy (Thomas) Whittemore
10. Lydia Jennison, b. 18 May 1688; m. John Traine
627 findagrave.com: William Jennison (no photo) 628 findagrave.com: Peter Jennison 99
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Samuel Stearns (98) and Hannah Manning (99)
Other online sources: See Michael Roman’s page on Samuel Stearns
Samuel Stearns was born 24 Apr 1638, in Watertown, Mass.,629 the son of Isaac Stearns and Mary Barker, of Watertown, Mass.
In 1660, Samuel, aged 22, was invited to a party at Harvard College, and was subsequently charged, along with 18-year-old John Fleming and nine young women, with “suspicion of uncivil carriages and disorderly conduct.” 630 Samuel, “had Sarah Boatson in his lap and did kiss her at a chamber of one of the scholars.”631 Harvard parties were often rather wild, and non-students were invited. Two years later he, along with another young man, was in trouble again, this time for “disorderly shooting” which disturbed the inhabitants of Cambridge. He and the other man were summoned before the magistrate and he “refused to answer” and acted “with much pride and contempt.”632
Samuel married Hannah Manning, 1 Feb 1662/3, in Cambridge, Mass.633 She was born 21 Jun 1642, in Cambridge,634 the daughter of William Manning and Dorothy -----. “They settled on a farm at the northwest corner of cross-roads made by the direct road from Cambridge to Waltham and by that going north to Lexington.”
Samuel died intestate 31 Aug 1683, in Watertown,635 and Hannah died 26 Feb 1724/5, in Watertown.636 Samuel’s estate was not settled until after the death of his widow Hannah. Probate papers dated 20 Dec 1723 mention the heirs of Nathaniel Stearns, Samuel Stearns, and Isaac Stearns. The daughters are also mentioned in some of the probate papers.637
Children:638
1. Samuel Stearns, b. 4 May 1664; d. 7 Jun 1671
2. Hannah Stearns, b. 8 Dec 1666; m. (1st) Thomas Biscoe; m. (2nd) Samuel Gookin
629 Watertown VR: “Samuell son of Isaac and Mary borne ye 24d – 2m 1638.” In the old calendar his would be 24 Apr 1638. 630 Richard Godbeer, Sexual Revolution in Early America (2002), p. 31. See also Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand, Watertown, Mass., 1630-1680 (2001). 631 Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown, Mass., 1630-1680 (2001) p. 124. 632 Ibid, p. 239. 633 Cambridge VR says 1 Feb 1662, it was likely 1662/3. 634 Cambridge VR. 635 Watertown VR: “Corporall Samuell Sternes decessed the last of August” [1683]. 636 Watertown VR: “Hannah Stearnes an Aged Woman deceesed February the 26: 1724/25.” 637 Middlesex Co. Probate #21325. The records are hard to read and I have not attempted to transcribe them. 638 William Manning, Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England (1902), pp. 119-120. 100
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3. Nathaniel Stearns, b. 13 Dec 1668; d. 24 Aug 1716; m. (1st) Elizabeth Dix; m. (2nd) Sarah Nevinson
4. Sarah Stearns, b. 23 Apr 1671; d. Sep 1736; m. Joseph Winship; probably no children
5. Samuel Stearns, b. 29 Mar 1673; d. 16 Aug 1746; bur. Grove Hill Cem., Waltham, Mass.;639 m. Mary Hawkins
6. Isaac Stearns b. 31 Dec 1674; d. 1737; m. Mary Bemis
7. John Stearns, b. 24 Jun 1677; living Dec 1723 when he inherited land from his father’s estate; m. Abigail Fiske
8. Mary Stearns, b. 5 Apr 1679; m. Samuel Jennison
9. Abigail Stearns, b. 16 Apr 1680; d. 11 Jul 1710; bur. Farmers Burial Ground, Weston, Mass.;640 m. Benoni Garfield
10. Joseph Stearns, b. 11 Dec 1682; d. 4 Feb 1683/4
639 findagrave.com: Samuel Stearns Jr. 640 findagrave.com: Abigail Garfield 101
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David Mead (100) and Hannah Warren (101)
David Mead was baptized 7 Jul 1650, in Dorchester, Mass., the son of Gabriel Mead and Joanna (Frewin?).641 He married Hannah Warren, 24 Sep 1675, in Watertown, Mass.642 She was the daughter of Daniel Warren and Mary Barron.
According to Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary, David Mead was first in Cambridge, Mass., and moved to Billerica by 1678. He was made a freeman there in 1683, and soon after moved to Woburn, where his last three children were born.643
Children:
1. Hannah Mead, b. 17 Sep 1676, Cambridge, Mass.; d. 24 Jul 1739, Woburn, Mass.; m. Ebenezer Locke644
2. David Mead, b. about 1680; d. 25 Feb 1767, Waltham; m. Hannah Smith
3. Hopestill Mead, b. 4 Jan 1680/1; d. 9 Aug 1750; m. Elizabeth Hastings
4. John Mead, b. 24 Aug 1685, Woburn, Mass.645
5. Sarah Mead, b. 24 Oct 1688, Woburn646
6. Susannah Mead, b. 11 Oct 1690, Woburn647
641 Although there is no primary evidence that David of Dorchester was the same as David of Watertown, I believe the circumstantial evidence is convincing. We know for certain that Gabriel had sons named Israel and David, and that Israel removed to Watertown. 642 Charles Hudson, Genealogical Register of Lexington Families (1868), p. 135. 643 James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers (four vols. 1860-62). 644 See Jerry Harrison, Descendants of Ebenezer Locke 645 Woburn VR (Woburn Record of Births, p. 172). He is called son of David. 646 Ibid, she is called daughter of David and Hannah. 647 Ibid, she is called daughter of David. 102
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John Hastings (102) and Abigail Hammond (103)
John Hastings was born 1 Mar 1653/4, in Watertown, Mass.,648 the son of Dea. Thomas Hastings and Margaret Cheney. He married Abigail Hammond, 18 Jun 1679, in Watertown.649 She was born 21 Jun 1659, in Watertown, the daughter of Lt. John Hammond and Abigail Salter.650
Abigail gave birth only 26 weeks after marriage, causing the county court to become involved. Abigail’s mother Margaret attended the birth and testified on behalf of the couple. She stated that Abigail had said, regarding the early delivery, “I cam a true maide to the marig bed.” The claim was made that the child was premature, a common defense against charges of premarital sex. Margaret told the court, that the baby was “such a litle or child as I never saw the like.” Several other women also testified that the baby was premature.651
Their homestead was in the part of Watertown that in 1737 became the new town of Waltham.652 John died intestate 28 Mar 1718, in what is now Waltham, Mass. Abigail died within a few days, on 7 Apr 1718. They share a single gravestone, and are buried in the Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham.653 His probate records mention heirs Thomas Hastings, Samuel Hastings, Joseph Hastings, Elizabeth Meads (wife of Hopestill Meads), Hepzibah Shattuck (widow), and the heirs of Abigail. The eldest son John “being shutt out he having been advanced deeds & gifts by his father.”654
Children:
1. Abigail Hastings, b. 8 Dec 1679; d. 19 Jul 1710; m. John Warren
2. John Hastings, bapt. 4 Dec 1687; m. (1st) Susanna Bemis; m. (2nd) Sarah Fiske
3. Elizabeth Hastings, bapt. 4 Dec 1687; m. Hopestill Mead
4. Hepzibah Hastings, bapt. 4 Dec 1687; m. (1st) Nathaniel Shattuck; m. (2nd) Benjamin Stearns
648 Watertown Vital Records says 1 Mar 1653, but 1653/4 is probably correct. Bemis Genealogy affirms 1 Mar 1653/4. 649 Watertown Vital Records. 650 Lydia Hastings Buckminster, The Hastings Memorial: A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of Thomas Hastings of Watertown, Mass. From 1634 to 1864 (1866), p. 25. 651 M. Michelle Jarrett Morris, Under Household Government: Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts (2012), p. 163. 652 Hastings Memorial, p. 25. 653 findagrave.com: John Hastings 654 Middlesex Probate #10669. John Warren’s name is also mentioned in the probate record. 103
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5. William Hastings, bapt. 13 Jul 1690; d. 20 Oct 1723; bur. Grove Hill Cem., Waltham; m. Abigail -----
6. Samuel Hastings, b. 6 Sep 1695, Charlestown, Mass.;655 m. Bethiah Holloway
7. Thomas Hastings, b. 26 Sep 1697; d. 1747, Lexington, Mass.; m. Sarah White
8. Joseph Hastings, bapt. 10 Jul 1698; d. 23 Mar 1783; m. Lydia Brown656
655 Charlestown VR: “Samuel Hasting, son of John & Abigail Hasting of Watertown (here) [i.e. born in Charlestown], b. Sept. 6, 1695.” 656 Barry E. Hinman, “Untangling Two Men Named Joseph Hastings in Watertown, Massachusetts,” NEHGR 170 (Summer 2016). 104
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Thomas Robinson (104) and Sarah Denison (105)
Thomas Robinson was baptized at Scituate, Mass., 5 Mar 1653/4, the son of Thomas Robinson and Mary Coggan. He married Sarah Denison, about 1676, in Boston. She was born 25 Nov 1657, in Roxbury, Mass.,657 and was the daughter of Edward Denison and Elizabeth Weld.
Thomas was a cordwainer (shoemaker). He inherited a part of the Robinson homestead from his father, and also inherited a house and store “on the corner of State and Washington streets” from his grandfather Coggan.
Thomas died in June 1700 in Boston.658 His widow Sarah died in Boston, 15 Nov 1710, at age 53.659
Children:
1. Thomas Robinson, b. 5 Nov 1677; d. 15 Feb 1729/30; m. Sarah Beswick
2. Sarah Robinson, bapt. 28 Dec 1679; d. 26 May 1727, Ashford, Conn.; m. (1st) John Ingoldsbury; m. (2nd) John Perry
3. Joseph Robinson, bapt. 20 Nov 1681; d. young
4. Elizabeth Robinson, b. 26 Sep 1686, d. young
5. James Robinson, b. 15 Mar 1689/90; d. 1762; m. Patience Ruggles
657 Roxbury Vital Records. 658 See Early New England Families (NEHGR) sketch on Edward Denison, which cites “Weld Collection.” 659 History of Hardwick, p. 471. 105
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Samuel Ruggles (106) and Martha Woodbridge (107)
Capt. Samuel Ruggles was born 1 Jun 1658, in Roxbury, Mass.,660 the son of Samuel Ruggles and Hannah Fowle. He married Martha Woodbridge, 8 Jul 1680, in Roxbury. She was born in about 1660, in England, the daughter of Rev. John Woodbridge and Mercy Dudley. She was the niece of the poet, Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet.661 She immigrated on 27 Jul 1663, to Roxbury.662
Samuel lived in Roxbury, and was a “set-work cooper” and an innkeeper. He was captain of the militia 1702, assessor 1694, representative 1697, and selectman from 1693-1711, except for 1701 and 1704. He died “after a very short sickness” 25 Feb 1715/6, n Roxbury, and his funeral is mentioned in Samuel Sewall’s Diary, “Capt. Samuel Ruggles was buried with arms….He is much lamented at Roxbury.”663 He is buried in the Eliot Burying Ground, in Roxbury.664
Epitaph:
Here lyes buried Ye body of Captain Samuel Ruggles Aged about 57 years decd February Ye 25th 1715/6
In July 1721, Samuel Sewall (the famous diarist) wrote that he visited the widow Martha Ruggles, and “shew’d my Willingness to renew my old acquaintance” (as a suitor.) Sewall was a widower himself, and was interested in remarriage, but Martha “expressed her inability to be Servicable.”665
Martha never remarried, and died in 1738, in Billerica, Mass., at the home of her son Rev. Samuel Ruggles.666
Children, born in Roxbury:
1. Rev. Samuel Ruggles, b. 3 Dec 1681; d. 1 Mar 1748/9, Billerica, Mass.; m. (1st) Elizabeth Whiting; m. (2nd) Elizabeth Williams; he grad. Harvard College
2. Lucy Ruggles, b. 8 Sep 1683; d. Jun 1750, Roxbury; m. Lt. Joseph Stevens
660 Roxbury VR, p. 300 (under “Ruggle.”) 661 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bradstreet 662 Marston Watson, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry (2004) 663 Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury (1896). 664 findagrave.com: Samuel Ruggles 665 Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury, p. 20, for further information on this courtship. 666 Lucius Page, History of Hardwick, Mass. (1883), p. 480; also Genealogy of Thomas Ruggles of Roxbury. 106
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3. Rev. Timothy Ruggles, b. 3 Nov 1685; d. 26 Oct 1768, Rochester, Mass.; m. (1st) Mary White; m. (2nd) Anne Woodworth; he grad. Harvard College
4. Hannah Ruggles, b. 16 Apr 1688; d. 14 Nov 1745, Braintree, Mass.; m. William Noyes
5. Patience Ruggles, b. 9 Nov 1689; d. Jan 1768; m. Joseph Robinson
6. Martha Ruggles, b. 1 Feb 1691/2; d. 14 Sep 1740, Bedford, Mass.; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford;667 m. Dea. Job Lane
7. Sarah Ruggles, b. 18 Jun 1694; m. Capt. John Holbrook
8. Capt. Joseph Ruggles, b. 21 Jul 1696; d. 9 Sep 1742(3); bur. Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury;668 m. Joanna White
9. Mary Ruggles, b. 20 Sep 1698; d. unm. before 1716
10. Rev. Benjamin Ruggles, b. 4 Jul 1700; d. 12 May 1782, New Braintree, Mass.; bur. New Braintree Church Cem.;669 m Dorcas Whiting
667 findagrave.com: Martha Lane 668 findagrave.com: Joseph Ruggles 669 findagrave.com: Benjamin Ruggles 107
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Samuel Hedge (108) and Grace Snow (109)
Samuel Hedge was born 18 Jun 1675, in Yarmouth, Mass., the son of Elisha Hedge and Mary -----.670 He married Grace Snow 8 Dec 1698, in Eastham, Mass. She was born 1 or 5 Feb 1674/5, the daughter of Jabez Snow and Elizabeth -----.
Samuel died 19 May 1714, in Eastham, Mass., at age 38. He left no will, but administration papers exist. He is buried in the Cove Burying Ground, in Eastham.671 The top of his gravestone is broken but the rest is still legible:
BODY OF SAMUEL HEDGE AGED 38 & 9 MO. DECD MAY 19TH 1714
Grace married, second, George Lewis, on 21 Jul 1716, in Eastham. There were no children by this marriage. Her date of death is not known. George Lewis of Barnstable left a will, dated 27 Nov 1762, and proved 5 Dec 1769, mentioning daughter Mary, wife of Ebenezer Taylor, daughter Annah Thacher, brother Ebenezer Lewis, and grandsons Josiah Taylor and Lewis Thacher.672
Children, born in Eastham:
1. Thankful Hedge, b. 29 Aug 1699; d. 14 Apr 1713, Eastham; bur. Cove Burying Ground673
2. Mary Hedge, b. 20 Nov 1701; d. 17 May 1714, Eastham
3. Samuel Hedge, b. 10 Jan 1703/4; d. 13 Dec 1709, Eastham; bur. Cove Burying Ground674
4. Elisha Hedge, b. 4 Feb 1705/6; d. before Jan 1789; m. Martha Johnson
5. Elizabeth Hedge, b. 14 Apr 1708; she is probably the Elizabeth Hedge who m. James Morrice
6. Samuel Hedge, b. 4 Mar 1709/10; living 1726/7
7. Jabez Hedge, b. 13 Apr 1712; probably died young
670 Her maiden name is unknown – not Sturges. 671 findagrave.com: Samuel Hedge 672 John Austin, Mayflower Pilgrim Family Genealogies Through Five Generations (Volume 6) (1995). 673 findagrave.com: Thankful Hedge 674 findagrave.com: Samuel Hedge Jr. 108
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8. Thankful Hedge, b. 17 Apr 1714; possibly m. Prince Howes
9. Lamuel Hedge, living in 1726/7
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Daniel Johnson (110) and Dorothy Lamb (111)
Daniel Johnson was born 5 Apr 1675, in Marlborough, Mass., the son of John Johnson and Deborah Ward. He married Dorothy Lamb, 22 Dec 1697, in Marlborough. The marriage record says she was “of Framingham.”675 She was most likely the daughter of Abiel Lamb and Elizabeth (Clark) Buckminster.
He died in 1721/2, as his widow was appointed executrix of his will, on 27 Apr 1722.676 His will mentions eldest son Solomon, sons Daniel and Zebidah, and daughter Martha, whom he gave £200, “fifty pounds of which in Cattle & Household (Stuff?) at the discretion of my Executrix.”
Children, born in Marlborough, Mass:
1. Solomon Johnson, b. 13 Oct 1698; moved to Shrewsbury, Mass.; no information about marriage, children or death; mentioned in Shrewsbury town records in 1733/4
2. Deborah Johnson, b. 8 Mar 1701; probably d. young, since not mentioned in father’s will
3. Martha Johnson, b. 6 Oct 1702; m. Elisha Hedge
4. Daniel Johnson, b. 23 Aug 1709; d. 2 Jun 1763, Shrewsbury; bur. West Main St. Cem., Shrewsbury;677 m. Sarah Holland
5. Zebadiah Johnson, b. 28 Apr -----;678 d. 7 Sep 1796, Shrewsbury; bur. West. Main St. Cem., Shrewsbury;679 m. Esther Richardson680
675 Marlborough VR. The marriage was also recorded in Framingham, where it says “in Marlboro.” 676 Mrs. Elwood Kimball, “The Solomon Johnson Family,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1912), p. 236. 677 findagrave.com: Daniel Johnson 678 Marlborough VR, p. 118, gives “April 28” without a year. If he indeed died in his 87th year, he would have had to have been born sometime between 8 Sep 1709 and Sept 6, 1710. (Note that “in his 87th year” means he had begun his 87th year but was not yet 87 years old.) However, if he were born 28 Apr 1710, it would have been only 8 months after his brother Daniel. 679 findagrave.com: Zebadiah Johnson 680 Andrew Ward, Descendants of William Ward (1851), p. 24. 110
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William French (112) and Sarah Danforth (113)
Deacon William French was born 18 Jul 1668, in Billerica, Mass, the son of Jacob French and Mary Champney. He married Sarah Danforth, 22 May 1695, in Billerica.681 Sarah was born 13 Dec 1676, in Billerica,682 and was the daughter of Jonathan Danforth and Elizabeth Poulter. William French died 30 Sep 1723, presumably in Billerica.683 His epitaph is as follows:
Here lyes ye Body of Deacon WILLIAM FRENCH Who Decd Septbr 30th 1723 Aged 55 Years
Lord Blest are those yt die in thee Their labour rest in their beds.
William died intestate. The inventory of his estate included his homestead containing about 105 acres, and about 100 more acres in various parcels. Besides his widow Sarah, heirs are listed as eldest son Jacob, sons William, Ebenezer, Samuel, and Nicholas, and daughters Sarah (wife of Nathaniel Whittemore), Mary, Lydia, and Esther. Joint administrators were his widow Sarah and his oldest son Jacob.684
Signature of Sarah French (from husband's probate records)
Sarah married, second, Ebenezer Davis, of Concord, 10 Jun 1729, in Billerica.685 She died 15 Oct 1751, and is buried in the South Burying Place, Concord.686
Children:
1. Jacob French, b. 16 May 1696; d. 7 Mar 1775; bur. Old South Burying Ground, Billerica;687 m. (1st) Elizabeth Davis; m. (2nd) Sarah Brown; m (3rd) Mrs. Mary Curtis
2. Joseph French, b. 26 Jan 1698; d. 13 Feb 1698
681 Billerica VR p. 259. 682 Billerica VR, p. 57. 683 Billerica VR, p. 364. A duplicate record gives year as 1725, possibly due to difficulty in reading the gravestone. 684 Middlesex Probate #8529. 685 Billerica marriages p. 259. She is called widow of William. 686 findagrave.com: Sarah Danforth Davis 687 findagrave.com: Jacob French 111
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3. Sarah French, b. 29 Dec 1698; d. 15 Aug 1734; m. Nathaniel Whittemore
4. William French, b. 15 Jan 1701; d. 9 Apr 1776; m. (1st) Joanna Hill; m. (2nd) Mehitable (Lovejoy) Mooar
5. Jonathan French, b. 25 Jan 1703; d. 9 Mar 1728; bur. Old South Burying Ground, Billerica688
6. Elizabeth French, b. 3 Apr 1705; d. 27 Nov 1739; m. Josiah Crosby
7. Ebenezer French, b. 5 Aug 1707; d. 31 Dec 1791; bur. Old South Burying Ground, Billerica;689 m. Elizabeth Hill
8. Mary French, b. 7 Oct 1709; m. Benjamin Manning
9. Nicolas French, b. 5 Sep 1711; m. Priscilla Mooar
10. Lydia French, b. 26 Apr 1714; d. 2 Aug 1731
11. Esther French, b. 16 May 1716; d. 7 Jul 1736; bur. Old South Burying Ground, Billerica690
12. Samuel French, b. 21 May 1718; m. Elizabeth Barron, 7 Jul 1743
688 findagrave.com: Jonathan French 689 findagrave.com: Ebenezer French 690 findagrave.com: Esther French 112
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Samuel Hill (114) and Sarah Page (115)
Samuel Hill was born 22 Feb 1671/2, in Billerica, Mass, the son of Jonathan Hill and Mary Hartwell. He married Sarah Page, 7 Jan 1698/9, in Billerica (according to Hazen and Savage). Sarah was probably born in England and was the daughter of Nathaniel Page and Joanna ----. 691
He was probably the Samuel Hill who was a selectman in 1743-4, in Billerica. “His father deeded him half of the Hill homestead property, consisting of land along the Concord River, his brother Jonathan getting the other half, including the house.” Samuel made his will 13 Jun 1750. Son-in-law William French was the executor. He mentions his wife Sarah, daughters Sarah Baldwin (wife of John), Joanna French (wife of William), Elizabeth French (wife of Ebenezer), Susanna Pattin (wife of Joseph) and Mary Dutton (wife of Thomas). Also mentioned was granddaughter Abiel Kidder, wife of Samuel, and the only child of his deceased son Samuel.692
Sarah died in Billerica, 30 Apr 1758, in the “82nd year of her age,” and is buried in the Old South Cemetery in Billerica.693 Samuel died 17 Feb 1762, in Billerica. He is also buried in the Old South Cemetery.694
Here lies Buried ye Body of MR. SAMUEL HILL who departed this life February the 17th 1762 in the 90th year of his age
Children, born in Billerica:
1. Samuel Hill, b. 1 Mar 1698/9; d. 26 Jan 1748/9; bur. Old South Cem.;695 m. Abigail Richardson
2. Sarah Hill, b. 28 Mar 1702/3; d. 9 Feb 1791; m. John Baldwin
3. Joanna Hill, b. 6 Apr 1707; d. 17 Jan 1769; m. Lt. William French
691 Donna V. Russell, “Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Massachusetts, Descendants to the Fifth Generation,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ), Vol. 72 (1984), p. 17. 692 Ibid. 693 findagrave.com: Sarah Hill 694 findagrave.com: Samuel Hill 695 findagrave.com: Samuel Hill Jr. 113
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4. Elizabeth Hill, b. 7 Aug 1710; d. 26 Mar 1786; bur. Old South Cem.;696 m. Ebenezer French
5. Susanna Hill, b. 26 May 1715; m. Joseph Patten
6. Mary Hill, b. 10 Dec 1717; m. Thomas Dutton
696 findagrave.com: Elizabeth French 114
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Nathaniel Page (116) and Susanna Lane (117)
Nathaniel Page (or Paige) was born in about 1679, in England, the son of Nathaniel Page and Joanna -----. It is said that he came to America with his parents when he was about 14,697 however this contradicts the statement that his father was in Roxbury by 1686. He married Susanna Lane, 6 Nov 1701, in Billerica, Mass.698 She was born 24 Jan 1682[/3?], in Billerica699 and was the daughter of John Lane and Susanna Whipple.
“If not at first, then certainly by 1706, Nathaniel was serving with the mounted troopers. The troops were a more elite corps than the foot soldiers, and took their membership from the well to do.”700 He was a constable in 1708, and later was a quartermaster of the troop horse, and a tithingman. In 1720 he became the cornet of the cavalry troop.
Nathaniel was one of the founders of the new town of Bedford, Mass., which was chartered in 1729. The town had previously been part of Billerica. He was chosen as selectman at the first town meeting. Like his son, he was a Cornet.701
Susanna died in Bedford, 2 Sep 1746, and is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Bedford.
Nathaniel married, second, Mary Grimes, 23 Jun 1748, in Bedford.702 He died 2 Mar 1755, and is buried in the Old Burying Ground, in Bedford, Mass.703
Here lyes Buried Here lyes Buried the the Body of Cornet Body of Mrs. SUSANNA NATHANIEL PAGE PAGE Wife to Mr. Who Departed this Life NATHANIEL PAGE; March ye 2d: 1755 in ye Who Departed this 76th Year of His Age.704 life September 2d: 1746 in ye 64th Year of Her Age.
Nathaniel left a will, in which he mentioned his sons Nathaniel, .John, and Christopher Paige, daughters Joanna Fasset and Susannah Bridge; grandson Samuel Bridge. Besides considerable land in Massachusetts, the will includes bequests of “the Estate in Old England which belonged
697 Abram Brown, Genealogy of Bedford Old Families (1892), p. 27. 698 Billerica VR p. 283. 699 Billerica VR: “Susannah [Laine], d. John and Susanah, Jan 24, [16] 82.” Since this is from the printed VR it is not possible to tell from context if it was 1682/3. 700 Sharon Lawrence McDonald, The Bedford Flag Unfurled, electronic version 2010. 701 Ibid. 702 Bedford VR; he is called Nathaniel Paige Sr. Mary is not mentioned in his will. 703 Brown, Genealogy of Bedford Old Families, p. 27. 704 findagrave.com: Nathaniel Page 115
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to their Mother Susannah Paige late of Bedford Deceased.” His signature is partially obscured, but he signs his surname as “Paige.” 705
Children, recorded in Billerica:706
1. Nathaniel Page, b. 4 Sep 1703; d. 6 Apr 1779; m. Hannah Blanchard
2. Cornet John Page, b. 11 Oct 1704; d. 18 Feb 1782; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford;707 m. Rebekah Wheeler; their son Nathaniel Page (1742-1819) was a “minuteman” in 1776 and is said to have carried the Bedford Flag
3. Christopher Page, b. 16 Jul 1707; d. 11 Nov 1786; m. Abigail Reed
4. Susannah Page, b. 29 Apr 1711; d. 16 Jan 1734/5; bur. Old Burying Ground, Lexington;708 m. Samuel Bridge
5. Joanna Page, b. 29 Oct 1712; m. (1st) Josiah Fassett; m. (2nd) Dea. Samuel Eames
705 Middlesex Probate #16324. 706 Billerica VR. They were probably born in what is now Bedford, however. Bedford was not set off as a separate town until 1729. 707 findagrave.com: John Page 708 findagrave.com: Susannah Bridge 116
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John Blanchard (118) and Mary Crosby (119)
John Blanchard was born 3 Jul 1677, probably in Charlestown, Mass. He was the son of Samuel Blanchard and Hannah Daggett.709
He married Mary Crosby 7 Aug 1701 in Billerica, Mass.710 She was the daughter of Simon Crosby and Rachel Brackett. John lived “probably near Dr. Noye’s place.”711
Mary died 7 May 1748, in Billerica, and John died 10 Apr 1750, also in Billerica.712
Children:
1. Mary Blanchard, b. 18 Aug 1702
2. Hannah Blanchard, b. 24 Oct 1704; d. 7 Sep 1763; m. Nathaniel Page
3. Rachel Blanchard, b. 2 Feb 1706/7; m. ----- Patten?
4. Abigail Blanchard, b. 23 Jan 1708/9
5. Sarah Blanchard, b. 5 Jun 1711; d. 8 Jun 1711
6. Sarah Blanchard, b. 23 May 1712; d. 16 Apr 1713
7. John Blanchard, b. 15 Mar 1713/4; d. 18 Mar 1713/4
8. John Blanchard, b. 15 Feb 1714/5; d. 27 Jul 1756, Billerica; m. Elizabeth Richardson
9. Lt. Samuel Blanchard, b. 17 Aug 1717; d. 26 Mar 1807; bur. Old South Cem., Billerica, Mass.;713 m. Mary Brown
10. David Blanchard, b. 20 Mar 1719/20
11. Benjamin Blanchard, b. 5 Jul 1722
12. Simon Blanchard, b. 16 Mar 1725/6; d. 20 Apr 1796; m. Rebeckah Sheldon
709 “Blanchard Genealogy,” The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 9, p. 26. See also, “Blanchard Family Records,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 60 (1906), p. 373. 710 Billerica VR, p. 224. 711 Henry Hazen, History of Billerica (1883), Vol 2, p. 12. 712 Billerica VR. 713 findagrave.com: Samuel Blanchard 117
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Joseph Brown (120) and Ruhamah Wellington (121)
Joseph Brown was born at Marlboro, Mass., in about 1679, the son of John Brown and Hester Makepeace. He was a cordwainer. He settled at Watertown Farms, now Weston, before selling a place there in 1709, and moving to Lexington. He was chosen as a Deacon of the church in Lexington in May 1713. In Watertown, he had been constable in 1700, and selectman and town clerk in 1708.714
He married, in Watertown, on 15 Nov 1699, Ruhamah Wellington, daughter of Benjamin Wellington and Elizabeth Sweetman. She died in Lexington, 1 Jul 1772, aged 92. They were married 64 years.
He died 11 Jan 1764, in Lexington, and is buried in the Old Cemetery there. His wife is also buried there. Their epitaphs are:715
Here lyes Buried the Here lies the Body Body of Mr JOSEPH BROWN of Mrs Ruhamah who having for many years Brown, wife of used the office of a Deacon Deacon Joseph well in the Church of Christ Brown, who depar- in Lexington, purchased to ted this Life July himself a good Degree and 15th 1772. Aged 92 years. geat Boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus, who departed Tis but a few whose days amount this Life January ye 11th A D 1764 To threescore years and ten; in the 86th year of his Age. And all beyond that short account, To sorrow toil and pain.
From death's arrest no age is free.
Joseph left a will in which he mentions his wife Ruhamah, sons Benjamin, John, Josiah, Daniel., Joseph, James, Jonas, and William. In a codicil to his will, he gave “Three pounds lawful money to be paid to ye Deacons of his church,” “for ye Relief & Benefit of ye Poor of the Town of Lexington, forever.”716
714 Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass. (1860), p. 145. 715 findagrave.com: Joseph Brown and findagrave.com: Ruhamah Brown 716 Middlesex Probate #3102. 118
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Signature of Joseph Brown
Children:
1. Ruhamah Brown, b. 15 Jul 1701; m. David Comer
2. Daniel Brown, b. 21 Dec 1703; m. (1st) Eliot Poulter; m. (2nd) Anne Bright
3. John Brown, b. 5 May 1706
4. Joseph Brown, b. 2 Sep 1708; d. 18 Oct 1791; m. (1st) Katherine Mason; m. (2nd) Hepzibah Lealand; lived in Holliston
5. Jonas Brown, b. 3 May 1711; m. Hannah Munroe
6. James Brown, bapt. 26 Jul 1713; d. 11 Jun 1768; bur. Old Burying Ground, Lexington;717 m. (1st) Jane Bowman; m. (2nd) Elizabeth (Billings) Smith
7. Rev. Josiah Brown, bapt. 21 Aug 1715; d. 4 Mar 1774; bur. Chocksett Burial Ground, Sterling;718 m. Prudence Prentice; grad. Harvard; was minister at Sterling, Mass.
8. Benjamin Brown, b. 30 Jun 1720; d. 4 Mar 1802; m. Sarah Reed; he was “chosen delegate to the State Constitution to ratify the Constitution of the United States.”
9. William Brown, bapt. 28 Apr 1723; d. 12 Dec 1793; m. Elizabeth Conant; moved to Framingham
717 findagrave.com: James Brown 718 findagrave.com: Rev. Josiah Brown 119
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Nathaniel Bright (122) and Ann Bowman (123)
Nathaniel Bright Jr. was born 28 Dec 1686, in Watertown, Mass., the son of Nathaniel Bright Sr. and Mary Coolidge. He married Ann Bowman, daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Bowman and Anne Barnard. She was born 4 Dec 1695, in Watertown.719
He was a tanner.720 Nathaniel died 14 Dec 1737, and is buried in the Old Burying Place, Watertown, Mass.721
He did not leave a will, but intestate probate records list his children as Nathaniel, Anne, Hannah, Sarah and Mary. Eldest son Nathaniel was appointed guardian of his sister Sarah. Subsequent documents in the court record also mention Amos Bond, Daniel Brown, Sarah Clarke, Hannah Wheeler, David Bemis, John Bright, and Josiah Sanderson.722
His widow married, as his third wife, Richard Clarke of Watertown, 6 Oct 1741.723 He died 6 Nov 1760. Anne died before 18 Mar 1777, when her widow’s thirds portion of her former husband’s estate was returned to the estate.724
Children:
1. Anne Bright, b. 27 Feb 1715/6; d. 18 Jan 1780; Lunenburg, Mass.; m. Daniel Brown
2. Nathaniel Bright, b. 22 Jun 1718; d. 21 Oct 1754; bur. Old Burying Place, Watertown, Mass.;725 m. Sybil Stone
3. Hannah Bright, b. 26 Apr 1720; d. 8 Feb 1720/1; bur. Old Burying Place, Watertown726
4. Hannah Bright, b. 15 Jan 1722; m.(1st) Amos Bond; m. (2nd) Timothy Wheeler
5. Sarah Bright, b. 23 Dec 1726; m. Thomas Clarke
6. Mary Bright, b. 6 Apr 1731; m. David Bemis
719 Watertown VR: “Ann Bowman Daughter of Nathaniel & Ann Bowman was born December ye 4th 1695.” 720 He is called a tanner in his probate record: Middlesex Probate #2747. 721 findagrave.com: Nathaniel Bright 722 Middlesex Probate #2747. 723 Bond, Watertown. 724 Middlesex Probate #2747. 725 findagrave.com: Nathaniel Bright Jr. 726 Findagrave.com: Hannah Bright 120
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①George Hubbard (128) and Elizabeth Watts (129)
Note: George Hubbard and Elizabeth Watts are also Ahnentafel numbers 144-145, since they are the parents of both Joseph Hubbard and Samuel Hubbard.
George Hubbard was born in about 1601, probably in England. He was one of the early settlers of Hartford, Conn., first appearing there by 1639. In 1640 he married Elizabeth Watts. She was the daughter of Richard Watts and Elizabeth -----. He was assigned a home lot and land on the east side of the “Great River.” On 24 Apr 1649, he was fined £10 for “exchanging a gunn with an Indian.”
He moved in Mar 1650/1 to what was then called Mattabesett, which in 1653 was named Middletown. When he left Hartford, he carried with him a commission from the Colonial Government as “Indian Agent and Trader for the Mattabesett District.” He was made freeman in 1654, lived on Main Street, and “owned large land tracts on the west side and on the east side of the river.” He, along with some others, gave the land for the second meeting house. He lived near the first meeting house and was chosen to be its keeper. In Dec 1666, he was allowed “40 shillings for sweeping the meeting-house and keeping the glass [hour glass].” This church was eventually known as the Old North Church.
He died 16 Mar 1684/5, in Middletown. He supposedly is buried in the Riverside Cemetery there, but there is no surviving gravestone.727
His will was dated 22 May 1681. In it, he mentions his wife Elizabeth, eldest son Joseph Hubbard, sons “Dannill,” Samuel, Nathaniel, and Richard, and daughters Mary (wife of Thomas Ranney), and Elizabeth (wife of Thomas Wetmore.)728
Children:
1. Mary Hubbard, b. 16 Jan 1641/2, Hartford; d. 18 Dec 1721; m. Thomas Ranney
2. Joseph Hubbard, b. 10 Dec 1643, Hartford; d. 26 Dec 1686, Middletown; m. Mary Porter
3. Daniel Hubbard, b. Dec 1645; d. 9 Nov 1704, Haddam; m. (1st) Mary Clark; m. (2nd) Sarah Cornwell
4. Samuel Hubbard, b. May 1648; d. 4 Nov 1732; m. Sarah Kirby
727 Edward Day, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History (1895), pp. 269-274; Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller (1948), pp. 331-33. See also http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ctsmfsd/HubbardInDepth.pdf, especially for children. 728 Charles William Manwaring, ed., A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Vo1. 1, Hartford District, 1635-1700. 121
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5. George Hubbard, b. 15 Dec 1650, Hartford; d. 1675, Middletown; unm.
6. Nathaniel Hubbard, b. 10 Dec 1652; d. 20 May 1738, Middletown; m. Mary Earle
7. Richard Hubbard, b. Jul 1655, Middletown; d. 30 Jul 1732, Middletown; m. Martha Cornwell
8. Elizabeth Hubbard, b. 15 Jan 1659, Middletown; d. 6 Dec 1725; m. Thomas Wetmore
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①Robert Porter (130) and Mary Scott (131)
Robert Porter was born in England, and immigrated presumably after 1640. He married Mary Scott 7 Nov 1644, in Hartford, Conn.729 She was the daughter of Thomas Scott and Ann -----.
Robert Porter was one of the first settlers of Farmington, Conn. It is not known what relation he was, if any, to Daniel and Thomas Porter, other settlers of Farmington. Robert was in Farmington by1652.
He married, second, Hannah (Atwood) Freeman, widow of Stephen Freeman.
Robert did not leave a will, but probate records exist. An inventory of his estate, which amounted to £253, was taken 19 Sep 1689. The children were listed as: Thomas, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah and Anna. Distribution of the estate was made 6 Nov 1689, by Thomas Porter, son of the deceased. Distribution was to “To the Widow, one third,” “to Mary Hubbard, £5,” “to Abraham Andrews, his wife, £9,” “to Ann Browne, £31,” “to his second sister, Elizabeth Andrews, 5 shillings, she having received her full portion,” and the remainder to Thomas Porter. On 12 Apr 1693, “Thomas Porter in court presented discharges from Thomas Andrews and Wife, Mary Hubbard, Abraham Andrews and his wife & John Browne, all of claims against the estate of Robert Porter, decd.”730
Children:731
1. Mary Porter, b. 24 Feb 1646/7; d. 10 Jun 1707; m. Joseph Hubbard
2. John Porter, b. 12 Nov 1648; not mentioned in father’s probate records
3. Thomas Porter, b. 25 Oct 1650;732 bapt. 29 Oct 1657 at age 7; d. 19 Dec 1718; m. Abigail Cowles
4. Robert Porter, b. 12 Nov 1652; not mentioned in father’s probate records
5. Elizabeth Porter, b. 11 Jan 1653/4, m. Thomas Andrews
6. Sarah Porter, b. 20 Dec 1657; m. (1st) Abraham Andrews, about 1682; m. (2nd) James Benedict
7. Benjamin Porter, b. 18 Mar 1660
729 Barbour collection of Conn. vital records. 730 Manwaring, Digest of Early Conn. Probate Records, p. 499. 731 See Porter Family Record (1896, reprint 1992) by Cyrus Porter. 732 Barbour collection. 123
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8. Anna Porter, b. Apr 1664; m. John Browne
9. Hepzibah, b. 4 Mar 1666
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①John Hollister (136) and Joanna Treat (137)
Lt. John Hollister was born perhaps in about 1612, in England. He married Joanna Treat. She was baptized at Pitminster, Somerset, England, 24 May 1618, the daughter of Richard Treat and Alice Gaylard. John immigrated to New England after 1640.733 He was in Wethersfield, Conn., by 2 Mar 1642, when he was a juror in a court there. He was not the same man as the John Hollister who was in Weymouth, Mass, in 1643.734
John served as Deputy for Wethersfield to the Connecticut General Court, at various sessions from 1644 to 1661. He was called Lieutenant in 1657. In 1664 he was fined £5 for “affronting the Constable (& abetting his son in the same)” at Nayag (South Glastonbury). He died in Wethersfield in 1665, between 3 Apr 1665, date of his will, and 20 Apr 1665, when an inventory was taken of his estate. His will mentioned wife Joanna, son John (under 22), and sons Thomas, Joseph, Lazarus, and Stephen, and daughters Mary and Sarah. His widow Joanna died in about October 1694 in Wethersfield.735
Children:
1. Elizabeth Hollister, b. say 1640; d. before her father’s will (1665); m. Capt. Samuel Welles, son of Gov. Thomas Welles
2. John Hollister, b. abt. 1642; d. 24 Nov 1711; m. Sarah Goodrich
3. Thomas Hollister, b. abt. 1648; d. 8 Nov 1701; m. (1st) Elizabeth Lattimer; m. (2nd) Elizabeth (-----) Williams, widow of Amos Williams
4. Mary Hollister, b. say 1650; living 7 Jul 1712; m. John Welles
5. Joseph Hollister, b. say 1652; d. before 29 Aug 1674; unm
6. Sarah Hollister, b. say 1654; d. 8 Dec 1691, Northampton, Mass.; m. (1st) Rev. Hope Atherton; m. (2nd) Lt. Timothy Baker
7. Lazarus Hollister, b. abt. 1656; d. Sep 1709, Wethersfield; unm.; he was frequently in trouble, for example, for trading liquor with Indians at a late hour of the night, for fighting, etc.
733 He is not listed in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015), which includes all known immigrants to New England up to the end of 1640. 734 Alicia Crane Williams, Early New England Families, Vol. 2, pp. 167-173. 735 Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, p. 615. 125
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8. Stephen Hollister, b. say 1658; d. about 22 Oct 1709, in service, “at Green Bush near Albany of the Camp Distemper”; m. (1st) Abigail Treat; m. (2nd) Elizabeth (Coltman) Reynolds
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①William Goodrich (138) and Sarah Marvin (139)
Ens. William Goodrich was baptized 13 Feb 1621/2, at Bury St. Edmund’s, Suffolk, England, the son of John Goodrich and Margery How. He married Sarah Marvin, 4 Oct 1648, at Hartford, Conn. She was baptized 27 Dec 1631, at Great Bentley, Essex, England, the daughter of Matthew Marvin and Elizabeth -----.
It is not known when he immigrated to New England, but it must have been after 1640.736 He was not the William Goodrich who was in Watertown, Mass., by 1636. He was made a freeman of the Connecticut Colony in May 1656. He served as deputy from Wethersfield to the Connecticut General Court in 1660, 1662, 1665, and 1666. He was made Ensign of the Wethersfield Train Band in 1665.
He died in 1676, before 14 Nov, in Wethersfield, Conn. His widow Sarah married Capt. William Curtis. She died in 1701/2, before 16 Jan.737
Children, born at Wethersfield:
1. William Goodrich (twin), b. 8 Aug 1649; d. young
2. Sarah Goodrich (twin), b. 8 Aug 1649; m. Sgt. John Hollister
3. Mary Goodrich, b. 13 Nov 1651; m. Joseph Butler
4. John Goodrich, b. 20 May 1653; d. 5 Sep 1730, Wethersfield; m. Rebecca Allen
5. Elizabeth Goodrich, b. about 1657; d. 17 Feb 1697/8, Wethersfield; m. Capt. Robert Welles
6. William Goodrich, b. 8 Feb 1659/60; d. 27 Dec 1737; m. (1st) Grace Riley; m. (2nd) Marriane (Bretouin) Ayrault
7. Abigail Goodrich, b. 5 Jun 1662; d. 7 Nov 1684, Wethersfield; m. Thomas Fitch
8. Ephraim Goodrich, b. 2 Jun 1663; d. 27 Feb 1739; bur. Rocky Hill; m. (1st) Sarah Treat; m. (2nd) Jerusha (Treat) Welles
736 He is not listed in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015). 737 Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, p. 555-57. 127
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9. David Goodrich, b. 4 Mar 1666/7; d. 23 Jan 1755
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①John Kirby (146) and Elizabeth (Hinds?) (147)
John Kirby was in Hartford, Conn., by 1645, and later lived in Wethersfield and Middletown, Conn. He was (most likely) not the John Kirby who came over, at age 12, on the ship Hopewell in 1635.738 He married Elizabeth -----. It is possible that she was Elizabeth Hinds. This possibility is based on a letter from Sarah (Hinds) Chaplin to “Cosin Kirby” dated 2 Jan 1661. This was written to John Kirby and states “Your wife’s Father is yet alive and in good health.”
He died in Middletown, between 6 Apr 1677 (date of will) and 27 Apr 1677 (date of inventory). His will is reproduced in full in the Kirby genealogy cited below. His will mentions his wife, his son Joseph, and his daughter Mary. His other children are not mentioned by name but are listed in the inventory of his estate, along with their ages:
Joseph Kirby aged about one and twenty years Mary Kirby wife to Emmanuel Buke aged about two and thirty years Elizabeth Kirby now deceased about her twenty-third year of her life Hannah Kirby wife to Thomas Andrews about twenty seven years of age. Ester Kirby wife to Benajah Stone about twenty-five years of age. Sarah Kirby wife to Samuel Hubbard about twenty-three years of age Bethiah Kirby about sixteen years of age. Susannah Kirby about thirteen years of age. Abigayle Kirby about eleven years of age.
His widow Elizabeth married, second, Abraham Randall, on 27 Oct 1681, and outlived him, dying some time after 1697, probably in Wethersfield.739
Children:
1. Mary Kirby, b. 1644; possibly d. 17 Jan 1712, Wethersfield; m. Emmanuel Buck, 17 Apr 1658, when less than 14 years old
2. Elizabeth Kirby, b. 8 Sep 1646; d. about 1668, in her 23rd year; m. David Sage740
3. Hannah Kirby, b. 2 Mar 1649; m. Thomas Andrews
4. John Kirby (twin), b. 18 Dec 1651; d. 1676, killed by Indians
5. Eunice Kirby (twin), b. 18 Dec 1651; d. 1677; unm.
738 See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration. 739 Rev. M. E. Dwight, The Kirbys of New England (1898), pp. 7-16. In general this seems to be a well-researched book, although it incorrectly states that John came in 1635 on the Hopewell. 740 Lunette (Buel) Hubbard, wife of Edgar W. Hubbard, was a descendant of John Kirby via Elizabeth (Kirby) Sage. 129
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6. Esther Kirby, b. 1652; m. Benajah Stone
7. Sarah Kirby, b. 16 Jan 1654; m. Samuel Hubbard
8. Bethiah Kirby, b. 14 Feb 1658; m. John Andrews
9. Susanna Kirby, b. 3 May 1664; m. Abraham Cruttenden
10. Abigail Kirby, 6 Mar 1666; m. David Robinson
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①Paul Peck (148) and Martha Hale (149)
Dea. Paul Peck was born “perhaps about 1618.” He was in Hartford, Conn., by 1639.741 He married Martha Hale. It is possible, perhaps even likely, that she was the Martha Hale baptized 16 Dec 1618, at Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of John and Martha Hale.742 In any case, she was the sister of Samuel Hale of Glastonbury and of Thomas Hale.
Martha survived him, and was living 7 Mar 1699/1700.743
Children: 1. Paul Peck, b. about 1642; d. 1725, Hartford; m. Elizabeth Baisie
2. John Peck, b. 22 Dec 1645; d. young
3. Martha Peck, b. about 1648; d. 1 Mar 1707/8, Middletown, Conn; m. John Cornwell
4. Joseph Peck, bapt. 22 Dec 1650; d. 16 Jun 1698, Hartford, Conn.; m. Ruth -----
5. Mary Peck, b. “say” 1652; m. Daniel Andrews
6. Hannah Peck, b. about 1655; d. between 1689 and 1695; m. Dea. John Shepard
7. Elizabeth Peck, b. say 1657; d. 4 Oct 1704, Hartford, Conn.; m. Jeremiah How
8. Sarah Peck, b. about 1659; d. 20 May 1696; m. Ebenezer Clark
9. Ruth Peck, b. about 1661; d. 5 Dec 1686; m. Thomas Beach
10. (daughter), b. say 1664; m. Joseph Benton
741 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015). 742 S. Allyn Peck, “Have We Found the Parents of Thomas, Samuel, and Martha Hale of Connecticut?,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 38 (1963), pp. 237-239. 743 Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families, p. 256. 131
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①John Bayse (150) and Elizabeth ----- (151)
John Bayse (or Baisie) was baptized 16 Aug 1612, in Dedham, Essex, England, the son of John Bayse and Mary Slaney.744 He was an original proprietor of Hartford. He was in Hartford by 1639,745 and his name was included in the “book of distribution of land.” His name is listed on the founders’ monument in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground.
The maiden name of his wife, Elizabeth, is not known. He was a weaver. His house lot was on the “south side of the road from the mill to the south meadow, now Elm Street.” He held various town offices including constable and surveyor.746
He died in Aug 1671, between 14 Aug (date of his will) and 29 Aug (date of inventory). In his will he calls himself a weaver, “weak in Body.” He gives bequests to grandsons Paul Peck, Joseph Baker and John Baker, daughter Lydia Baker, son-in-law John Baker, daughter Elizabeth Peck, eldest daughter Mary Burr, and wife Elizabeth Bayse.747 His widow Elizabeth died before 3 Dec 1673 when an inventory of her estate was made.748
Children:
1. Mary Bayse, b. abt. 1639/40; m. Samuel Burr
2. Lydia Bayse, b. abt. 1642; m. John Baker
3. Elizabeth Bayse, bapt. 23 Aug 1645; m. Paul Peck
744 Leslie Maher, “The English Origin of John Baisey/Baysey of Hartford, Connecticut,” The American Genealogist (TAG), Vol. 82 (Jan 2007), pp. 32-34. 745 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015). 746James Hammond Trumbull, Memorial History of Hartford County (1886), pp. 229-230. (Available via google books). 747 Charles William Manwaring, ed., A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Vol. 1 (1904), Hartford District 1635-1700, pp. 179-180. Available google books. 748 TAG 82:33. 132
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(Probably) Josiah Wood (168) and Lydia Bacon (169)
Josiah Wood was born in about 1629, the son of Edward Wood and Ruth Lee. He married Lydia Bacon in Charlestown on 28 Oct 1657. She was the daughter of Michael Bacon Jr. and Mary ----, and was born in about 1638.749
Josiah died 24 Sep 1691 in Charlestown, at age 62. Josiah left a will. Lydia died 25 Nov 1712 in Charlestown, at age 74.750
Children, born in Charlestown:
1. Josiah Wood, b. 10 Aug 1658; d. 9 Mar 1740/1; m. Abigail Bacon
2. Lydia Wood, b. 23 Nov 1659; d. 20 Dec 1659
3. Lydia Wood, b. 6 May 1662; d. 17 Sep 1681
4. Samuel Wood, b. 12 Sep 1671; d. 14 Oct 1711; m. Hannah Buck
5. Joseph Wood, bapt. 27 Oct 1674; d. 28 Feb 1724/5; m. Mary Blaney
6. Ruth Wood, bapt. 4 Apr 1676
749 See Janet Ireland Delorey, “The English Origins and Descendants to the Fourth Generation of Edward Wood of Charlestown, Mass.”, The Genealogist vol. 9 (1988). 750 Wyman, Charlestown Vol. 2, p. 1045. 133
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(Probably) Michael Bacon (170) and Sarah Richardson (171)
Michael Bacon was baptized 16 Feb 1639, in Winston, Suffolk, England, the son of Michael Bacon and Mary -----.751 He married Sarah Richardson, 22 Mar 1660, in Woburn, Mass.752 She was baptized 22 Nov 1640, in Charlestown, Mass., the daughter of Thomas Richardson and Mary -----.753
Michael had a child out of wedlock with his servant, Mary Ball. There is a court record in which he agreed to pay for the upbringing of this child.754
Soon after this, Michael and family moved to what was then Billerica, Mass. (in an area that later became Bedford.) Along with Timothy Brooks, he operated a mill there. His house is still standing, and is the oldest house in Bedford.755
Sarah died 15 Aug 1694, in Billerica, Mass.756 Michael died 13 Aug 1701, also in Billerica.757
Children, born in Woburn:
1. Mary Bacon, b. 1 Mar 1661758
2. Sarah Bacon, b. 24 Aug 1663
3. Abigail Bacon, b. 5 Mar. 1666/7; d. 6 Dec 1743; m. Josiah Wood
4. Michael Bacon759
5. Jonathan Bacon, b. 14 Jul 1672; d. 12 Jan 1754, Bedford; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford, Mass.;760 m. (1st) Elizabeth Giles; m. (2nd) Elizabeth Wyman
6. Nathaniel Bacon, b. 18 Sep 1675; d. 24 Jul 1750, Lexington, Mass.; m. Judith Wyman
7. Josiah Bacon, 20 Oct 1678; d. 14 Aug 1723; m. Mary -----
751 “Bacon Family of Helmingham and Winston, co. Suffolk, England and of Dedham and Salem, Mass.”, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 90 (1936), pp. 301-302. 752 Woburn Record of Marriages, p. 14. http://mavitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Woburn/Images/WoburnP3_M014.gif 753 Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958), p. 27. 754 Diane Rapaport, “The Case of the Rhode Island Runaway,” New England Ancestors, Spring 2006, pp. 54-55. 755 http://www.bedfordmahistory.org/newsletters/April%202011.pdf 756 Billerica VR p. 341. http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Billerica/Images/Billerica_D341.shtml 757 Ibid. 758 The Bacon Genealogy says she married John Lakin, but I believe this may be incorrect. 759 Was he the illegitimate son of Michael Bacon and Mary Ball? 760 findagrave.com: Jonathan Bacon 134
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8. Ruth Bacon, b. 24 Sep 1681
9. Benjamin Bacon, b. 8 May 1688; d. 27 Nov 1727; bur. Old South Cem., Billerica, Mass.;761 m. Abigail Taylor
10. Joseph Bacon, b. 8 May 1685; d. 29 Nov 1747, Bedford; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford, Mass.;762 m. Rebecca Taylor
761 findagrave.com: Benjamin Bacon 762 findagrave.com: Joseph Bacon 135
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(Probably) Samuel Walker (172) and Sarah Read (173)
Dea. Samuel Walker was born 28 Jun 1643, in Reading, Mass., the son of Samuel Walker Sr. He married Sarah Read, 23 Sep 1662, in Woburn, Mass. She was born in about 1643, the daughter of William Read and Mabel -----.
Sarah died 1 Nov 1681, in Woburn. He married, second, Abigail (Carter) Fowle, 18 Apr 1692, in Woburn. She was the daughter of Capt. John Carter, and the widow of Lt. James Fowle. Samuel died 18 Jan 1703/4, in Woburn, and is buried in the First Burial Ground. His will mentioned his wife Abigail, sons Timothy and Samuel, Ruth and Edward, children of his son John; Sarah, Judith, Abigail, Samuel and Hannah, children of his son Samuel, and Edward, Sarah, Esther, Samuel and Abigail, children of his daughter Sarah Johnson. His widow Abigail married, third, Dea. Samuel Stone. She died 11 May 1718, in Woburn.763
Children, by his first wife, born in Woburn:
1. Sgt. Edward Walker, b. 12 Oct 1663; d. 6 Jul 1690, Wheelwright’s Pond, N.H., in a battle with Indians
2. John Walker, b. 2 Jul 1665; d. 29 Apr 1699; m. Ruth Kendall
3. Dea. Samuel Walker, b. 25 Jan 1667/8; d. 28 Sep 1744; bur. 2nd Parish Burying Ground, Burlington; m. (1st) Judith Heywood (or Howard?); m. (2nd) Mary (Richardson) Fowle
4. Sarah Walker, b. 6 Mar 1670; d. 31 May 1704; m. Dea. Edward Johnson
5. Timothy Walker, b. 6 Jun 1672; d. 19 Jun 1706; bur. First Burial Ground, Woburn; m. Elizabeth Fowle
763 Arthur Loring and Richard Cutter, “Samuel Walker of Woburn, Mass., and Some of His Descendants,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 57, pp. 350-52. 136
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(Probably) Thomas Kendall (174) and Ruth Blodgett (175)
Thomas Kendall was born 10 Jan 1649, in Woburn, Mass., the son of Francis Kendall and Mary Tidd.764 He married Ruth Blodgett, in 1673.765 She was the daughter of Samuel Blodgett and Ruth Eggleton. She died 18 Dec 1695, in Woburn, in childbirth.766 Thomas married, second, Abigail (Reyner) Broughton, of Weston, Mass., 30 Mar 1696, in Woburn.767 She died 31 Dec 1716, in Woburn.768 Thomas died (intestate) 25 May 1730, in Woburn.769
Children, born in Woburn:
1. Ruth Kendall, b. 1 Feb 1674; d. 29 Dec 1730; m. (1st) John Walker; m. (2nd) Henry Walker
2. Thomas Kendall, b. 19 May 1677; d. 2 Mar 1761; m. Sarah Cheever; moved to Lexington, Mass. by about 1710
3. Mary Kendall, b. 27 Feb 1681; m. Joseph Whitmore
4. Samuel Kendall, b. 29 Oct 1682
5. Ralph Kendall, b. 4 May 1685; m. Abigail Carter
6. Eleazer Kendall, b. 6 Nov 1687; m. Hannah Howe
7. Jabez Kendall (twin), b. 10 Sep 1692; m. Sarah Parker
8. Jane Kendall, b. 10 Sep 1692; m. Joseph Russell
9. Child, b. and d. 18 Dec 1695 (same day as their mother).
764 Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. 765 Woburn VR does not give his wife’s name, but see NEHGR 39:388, which bases the idea on a deed from Samuel Blodgett to his “loving nephew” Thomas Kendall Jr. 766 Woburn VR, p1. 04, says, Ruth, wife of Thomas, “and her child with her.” 767 Woburn VR, Vol. 3, p. 151. The marriage record does not give Abigail’s maiden name, but see Torrey’s New England Marriages. 768 Woburn VR, p. 104, Abigail wife of Thomas. 769 Woburn VR. Middlesex probate shows he died intestate but there is not much information in his probate record. 137
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①Samuel Woods (176) and Alice Rushton (177)
Samuel Woods was in Watertown, Mass., by 1653, when he was a member of the train band. His origin is unknown. According to a deposition made in 1676, he was born in 1636. He later lived in Cambridge, Mass., where he married Alice Rushton, 29 Sep 1659. Her parents and origin are also unknown. She was also born in 1636 according to the same deposition.
In 1662, he moved to Groton, Mass., where he was an original proprietor. He resided there until March 1675/6, when the town was destroyed in King Philip’s War. At that time, he returned to Watertown, Mass.
In 1676, he and his wife made In 1678, when Groton was being resettled, he returned there. He died there about Jan 1717/8. His widow Alice had died 17 Apr 1712, in Groton.770
Children, all but the first and last born in Groton, Mass.:
1. Samuel Woods b. 3 Jan 1660/1, Cambridge, Mass.; d. 19 Mar 1712, Groton; m. Hannah Farwell
2. Thomas Woods, b. 9 Mar 1663; d. 28 Aug 1738; m. (1st) Elizabeth -----; m. (2nd) Hannah Whitney; m. (3rd) Hannah -----; m. (4th) Abigail (Nutting) Chamberlain
3. Elizabeth Woods, b. 17 Sep 1665; d. 24 Jan 1717; m. Thomas Tarbell; in 1707, three of their children were kidnapped by Indians and taken to Canada. “They were picking cherries one evening…and were taken before they had time to get down from the tree.” A daughter was sold to the French, converted to Catholicism and lived in a convent near Montreal; two sons “married Indian wives, and were afterwards made chiefs…”771
4. Nathaniel Woods, b. 25 Mar 1667/8; m. (1st) Alice Goble; m. (2nd) Sarah Brown; m. (3rd) Mary (Blanchard) Derbyshire
5. Mary Woods, b. 2 Aug 1670; m. (1st) Eleazer Parker; m. (2nd) John Nutting, Jr.
6. Abigail Woods, b. 19 Aug 1672; m. (1st) Daniel Pierce; m. (2nd) Samuel Barron
7. Hannah Woods, b. 18 Sep 1674; d. 29 Sep 1708, unm.
8. John Woods, b. 4 Mar 1676/7, Watertown, Mass.; died young
770 Henry E. Woods, "The Woods Family of Groton, Mass.," New England Historical & Genealogical Register, vol. 64 (1910), pp. 34-35. 771 Samuel Green, Groton During the Indian Wars (1883), pp. 109-116. 138
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Daniel Goble (178) and Hannah Brewer (179)
Daniel Goble was baptized 18 Jul 1641 in Charlestown, Mass., the son of Thomas Goble and Alice -----. He married Hannah Brewer 25 Feb 1663/[4], in Sudbury, Mass.772 She was born 18 Jan 1644/5 in Cambridge, Mass., the daughter of John Brewer and Anne -----.773
Daniel was a soldier in King Phillip’s War. He was executed 26 Sep 1676, for killing friendly Indians. He and three others were convicted in this crime which took place 7 Aug 1676 at “Hurtleberry Hill, in the woods in the precincts of Concord.” Those killed were three Indian women and three children. His nephew Stephen Goble774 was also executed earlier in September for the same offense. Several Indians were also executed on the same day as Daniel. Samuel Sewall wrote in his diary:
“1676 Sept. 26. Tuesday Sagamore Sam & Daniel Goble is drawn in a cart upon bed cloaths to execution… One eyed John, Maliompe Sagamore of Qupaug, General at Lancaster & Jethro (the Father) walk to the gallows.”775
Two other men, Nathaniel Wilder and Daniel Hoare, were involved in the attacks were originally convicted but were pardoned.
Daniel left a will, dated 20 Sep 1676, in which he mentions his wife Hannah and four children, Daniel, John, Hannah, and “Ellis.”776
His widow Hannah married, second, Ephraim Roper, 20 Nov 1677, in Lancaster, Mass. She had five more children by her second husband. Hannah and Ephraim, along with their 14-year old daughter Elizabeth, were killed 11 Sep 1697 when the Indians attacked Lancaster. Their son Ephraim Jr. was taken captive.
Children, born in Concord:
1. Hannah Goble, b. 13 Nov 1666
2. Daniel Goble, b. 21 May 1669; m. Sarah Houghton777
3. John Goble, b. 20 Jul 1671
772 For his birth and marriage, see Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (sketch on his father Thomas Goble.) 773 Dorothy Brewer Erickson& Jane Fletcher Fiske, Descendants of Thomas Brewer (1996, which I have not seen); Cambridge VR. 774 Wyman, Charlestown, p. 411. 775 Henry Stedman Nourse, The Early Records of Lancaster, Mass. 1643-1725 (1884), p. 117. 776 Middlesex Probate #9234. 777777 NEHGR 79:394. Some websites say that he moved to New Jersey, possibly first to South Carolina, and died in N.J. in 1733. I have not been able to verify this information. 139
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4. Alice Goble, b. 11 Sep 1673; d. 10 Jan 1717/8; m. Nathaniel Woods
Hannah also had the following children by her second husband Ephraim Roper:778
1. Priscilla Roper, b. 5 Apr 1679; probably died young, as she is not mentioned in the division of the estate of Ephraim Roper.
2. Ruth Roper, b. 7 Mar 1681779
3. Elizabeth Roper, b. 17 Mar 1683; d. 11 Sep 1697, along with her parents, in the Indian massacre
4. Bathsheba Roper, b. about 1685
5. Ephraim Roper, b. about 1687; taken captive 11 Sep 1697; he returned home in about 1699; d. 16 Feb 1730; m. Sybilla Moore
778 Ella Roper, The Ropers of Sterling and Rutland (1904), p. 49. 779 Lancaster VR: 1st month, 7th day, 1681. 140
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①Richard French (180) and Martha ----- (181)
This section is a summary of information found here: http://www.frenchfamilyassoc.com/FFA/CHARTS/Chart006/ .
Richard French was born in about 1625. He was in Cambridge, Mass., by 1647. He was probably related to William French who settled in Billerica, Mass., but no definite relationship to him or to any other early New England French families has been found. His wife’s name was Martha, her maiden name being unknown. (There is no evidence that she was a Danforth.)
In 1654, Richard was involved in a court case in Middlesex County, being charged with “uncivil carriage and abuse offred to the body of Jane Evans, a servant of Richard Hildreth.” He was found guilty.
He apparently moved soon after this, to Marshfield, Mass. (There is no absolute proof that the Richard of Cambridge was the same as Richard of Marshfield, but he disappears from the Cambridge records at about the same time he appears in Marshfield.) In 1659 he was again charged, this time “to have comitted bodily uncleanes” against Heptsibah Andrews. This case was apparently dropped, however.
He is said to have died intestate in Marshfield, in 1688, his inventory being presented to court 21 Dec 1688. Martha survived him.
Children:
1. Joseph French, b. about 1649; d. 26 Nov 1732, Bedford, Mass.
2. John French, b. about 1651; apparently unmarried, may have died 1710/11 as a soldier in Nova Scotia
3. Samuel French, b. 13 Jul 1653; m. Sarah Cummings
4. Elizabeth French, b. 2 Feb 1660, Marshfield
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John Cummings (182) and Sarah Howlett (183)
John Cummings was baptized 9 May 1630, in Mistley, Essex, England, the son of Isaac Cummings and Anne ----. He married Sarah Howlett in about 1655.780 She was born in about 1639, the daughter of Thomas Howlett and Alice French.781
After their marriage, John and Sarah lived briefly in Boxford, before moving to Topsfield, Mass. In 1680 John is listed as one of the first settlers of Dunstable, Mass., where he was a selectman in 1682. John died 1 Dec 1700, in Dunstable. Sarah died six days later, on 7 Dec 1700.782
Children, the first born in Boxford, Mass., the others in Topsfield, Mass.:
1. John Cummings, b. about 1656, Boxford, Mass.; m. Elizabeth Kingsley, who was killed by Indians near Nashua on 3 Jul 1706
2. Thomas Cummings, b. 6 Oct 1658, Topsfield, Mass.; d. 20 Jan 1722/3, Dunstable, Mass.; m. Priscilla Warner
3. Nathaniel Cummings, b. 10 Sep 1659; m. Abigail Parkhurst
4. Sarah Cummings, b. 28 Jan 1661/2, Topsfield; m. Samuel French
5. Abraham Cummings, b. about 1664; d. before 1707; m. Sarah Wright
6. Isaac Cummings, b. about 1666; d. 2 Nov 1688, Dunstable; killed by Indians
7. Ebenezer Cummings, b. about 1668; d. 2 Nov 1688, Dunstable; killed by Indians
8. William Cummings (twin), b. 5 Aug 1671; d. 30 Mar 1672/3, Topsfield
9. Eliezer Cummings (twin), b. 5 Aug 1671
10. Benjamin Cummings, b. 23 Feb 1672/3
11. Alice Cummings, b. about 1675; mentioned in the will of her grandfather Howlett
12. Samuel Cummings, b. 28 Dec 1677; possibly moved to Douglass, Mass.
780 John Plummer, “Isaac Cummings of Essex County, Massachusetts,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 145 (1991), p. 240. 781 See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, sketch on her father Thomas Howlett. 782 John Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles (1913), pp. 204-209. 142
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Thomas Boyden (184) and Martha Holden (185)
Thomas Boyden was born 26 Sep 1639 in Watertown, Mass., the son of Thomas Boyden and Frances -----. He married Martha Holden. She was born 15 Jan 1645/6, in Watertown,783 and was the daughter of Richard Holden and Martha Fosdick.
The births of their first five children are found in the Woburn town records, with a notation: “These five children of Thomas and Martha Boyden were entered here, by their mother’s request, because of their moving to and fro in the Indian War. Some of them were never recorded anywhere else, and the rest of the records were lost.”
Martha died 18 Mar 1687, in Charlestown, Mass. Thomas died 15 Nov 1719, in Groton, Mass.784
Children:
1. Martha Boyden, b. 14 Jul 1667; m. Timothy Reed
2. Elizabeth Boyden, b. 24 May 1670
3. Capt. John Boyden, b. 6 Dec 1672, Groton; d. 24 Dec 1754, Walpole, Mass.; bur. Plains Cem., Wallpole;785 m. Hannah Bullard
4. Jonathan Boyden, b. 27 Sep 1675; d. 1749; m. Elizabeth Lakin
5. Joseph Boyden, b. 24 Apr 1678; d. 17 Apr 1748, Worcester; bur. Worcester Common Burial Ground;786 m. Rebecca -----
6. Benjamin Boyden, b. 29 Mar 1683, Charlestown; probably died young
783 Watertown Vital Records: “Martha Houlding the daughter of Rich and Martha Houlding borne the 15th d 11 m.” Note that February was considered the 12th month at that time. 784 Thomas Boyden and His Descendants (1901), p. 11. 785 findagrave.com: John Boyden 786 findagrave.com: Joseph Boyden (but no gravestone exists). 143
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①William Lakin (186) and Lydia Brown (187)
Lt. William Lakin was born about 10 Jun 1623, probably in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of William Lakin and Mary -----. His father died in 1633, and in 1637 his mother married, second, William Martin. William Lakin came to New England in about 1644, along with his mother, step-father William Martin, and his brother John Lakin.
William married, say 1648, Lydia Brown. She was born 22 Mar 1631/2, in Watertown, Middlesex, Mass., the daughter of Abraham Brown and Lydia -----, of Watertown.787
The family moved to Groton, Mass., by Jan 1664/5. On 15 Oct 1673, William was appointed Lieutenant of the military company of Groton. According to Samuel Green, “the murderous assault made by the Indians on the town, July 27, 1694, was begin at the house of William Lakin, who lived somewhere in the neighborhood of Chicopee Row.”788
Lydia Lakin was still living on 25 Jan 1693/4, when she received a portion of her father’s estate. William died 22 Feb 1700/1, in Groton.789
William did not leave a will, but intestate probate records exist. An inventory of his estate was taken in Nov 1707.790 According to Douglas Richardson, Lydia had “perhaps” died by then. Heirs were listed as William, Jonathan and Abraham Lakin, and Jonathan Boyden and John Nutting.791
Children, the first six born in Reading, Mass.:
1. Mary Lakin, b. 7 Nov 1649; d. 3 Jan 1649/50, Reading
2. Lydia Lakin, b. 12 Oct 1650; probably died young
3. Mary Lakin, b. 16 Feb 1652/[3]; m. John Nutting
4. William Lakin, b. 6 May 1655; d. 18 Mar 1735, Groton, Mass.; m. Elizabeth Robertson/Robinson
5. John Lakin, b. 3 Jan 1657/[8]; probably died young
787 Douglas Richardson, “The English Origins of the Lakins of Mass.”, The American Genealogist (TAG), Vol. 70 (1995), pp. 146-147. Also see The Great Migration Begins sketch on Abraham Brown. 788 Epitaphs From the Old Burying Ground in Groton, p.242. This book has an error, however, in stating that William’s father William Lakin died in Massachusetts in 1672. William Lakin Sr. actually died in England in 1633, and it was William Jr’s step-father, William Martin, who came to Massachusetts and died there in 1672. 789 TAG 70:147. 790 Middlesex Probate #13501. 791 Ibid; also TAG 70:147, which references NEHGR 63:319. 144
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6. Jonathan Lakin, b. 28 Jun 1661; died before 13 Sep 1743; m. -----
7. Abraham Lakin, b. 10 Jan 1664/[5], Groton; died young
8. Abraham Lakin, b. 11 Sep 1667, Groton, Mass.; d. before 1747; m. Abigail Snow
9. Elizabeth Lakin, b. 8 Jan 1668/9; m. Capt. Jonathan Boyden
10. Abigail Lakin, b. say 1671; d. “shortly before” 30 Dec 1758; m. Joseph Lakin (her 1st cousin)
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①James Parker (188) and Elizabeth Long (189)
Capt. James Parker was born in about 1617, son of John Parker and Ann/Anna. He was the brother of John, Abraham (Abram), Joseph, and Jacob Parker, who also came to New England.792
James Parker was in Woburn, Mass., by 1640.793 He was “a very distinguished and extraordinary man.” He was an early settler of Groton, probably in 1660. From 1662 to 1699 “he was moderator of most of the town meetings, a member and chairman of all important committees… He was a very active, noted, and as is presumed, a very brave officer in the wars with the Indians.”794
He married, first, Elizabeth Long, 23 May 1643, in Woburn. She was baptized 14 Nov 1621 in St. Albans, Hertsfordshire, England, the daughter of Robert Long and Sarah Taylor. He married, second, between 1693 and 1697, Eunice (Brooks) Carter, who survived him, and afterwards married John Kendall. Eunice was born 10 Oct 1655, in Woburn, the daughter of John Brooks and Eunice Mousall. She was the widow of Rev. Samuel Carter.795
James lived at Woburn, Chelmsford, and Groton. He was Captain of the military company in Groton during King Philip’s War.
He died between 2 May 1700 when his will was written and 7 Aug 1700 when it was proved. His will mentions his “beloved wife Eunice Parker,” his unmarried daughter Sarah Parker, not yet 18; daughter “Elizabeth Gary,” and “Hannah Blood,” also Elizabeth Parker, daughter of his son Zachariah Parker, deceased; Abiel Parker, daughter of his son Joshua, deceased; sons James, Joseph, Samuel, Zachariah, and Eleazer, to whom he had already given “several portions in land and otherwise.” Son Josiah Parker of Cambridge was made executor.796
Children, by his first wife Elizabeth:
1. Elizabeth Parker, b. 12 Mar 1645, Woburn; d. after 1712; m. William Gary
2. Anna/Hannah Parker, b. 5 Jan 1647, Woburn; d. 14 Jan 1728, Groton; m. Nathaniel Blood
3. John Parker, b. 18 Jan 1649, Woburn; d. in Malden before 7 Apr 1679 when his father was appointed administrator of his estate; the inventory mentions his “wife and child”
792 Douglas Richardson, “The English Origin and Ancestry of the Parker Brothers of Massachusetts,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register (NEHGR), Vol. 153 (1999), pp. 81, 90-91. 793 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015). 794 Augustus G. Parker, Parker in America (1911), pp. 535-36. 795 NEHGR 153:90. 796 Parker in America pp. 69-70, includes a full transcription of his will. See also Middlesex Probate #16611. 146
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4. Sarah Parker, b. 29 Aug 1650, Woburn; d. 15 Oct 1651, Woburn
5. James Parker, b. 15 Apr 1652, Billerica; d. 27 Jul 1694; m. (his cousin) Mary Parker; he and his wife were slain by Indians and several of their children were taken captive
6. Josiah Parker, b. about 1653; m. Mary -----?
7. Samuel Parker, bapt. 1 Feb 1656/7, Chelmsford; d. 1712; m. Abigail Lakin
8. Joshua Parker, b. 23 Mar 1658, Chelmsford
9. Zachariah Parker, b. 14 Jan 1659, Chelmsford; d. before 1700
10. Eleazer Parker, b. 9 Nov 1661
Child, by his second wife Eunice:
11. Sarah Parker, b. 12 Dec 1697, Groton; living in Woburn, unmarried in 1717
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①John Lakin (190) and Mary Bacon (191)
John Lakin was baptized 1 Nov 1628, in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of William Lakin and Mary -----. His father died in 1633, and in 1637 his mother married, second, William Martin. John Lakin came to New England in about 1644, along with his mother, step- father William Martin, and his brother William Lakin.
John married, say 1656, Mary Bacon. She was born in about 1635, the daughter of Michael Bacon and Mary -----, of Woburn, Middlesex, Mass. Her mother was not Mary Jobo.797
After their marriage, John and Mary lived in the new settlement of Groton, Mass.
John died 21 Mar 1697/8, in Groton.798
Children:799
1. Mary Lakin, b. about 1658; m. Henry Willard800
2. John Lakin, b. about 1660; d. before Mar 1696/7; m. Sarah Wheeler; no children
3. Sarah Lakin, b. 4 Feb 1661/2; d. 15 Mar 1743; m. Capt. Benjamin Willard
4. William Lakin, b. 12 May 1664; died young
5. Abigail Lakin, b. 13 Mar 1666/7; m. (1st) Samuel Parker; m. (2nd) Robert Dickson/Dixon
6. Ens. Joseph Lakin, b. 14 Apr 1670; d. 1 Apr 1747; m. Abigail Lakin (his cousin)
7. Benjamin Lakin, b. 6 Nov 1672; d. 7 Sep 1753; m. Elizabeth Lakin (his cousin once removed)
8. Josiah Lakin, b. 14 Sep 1675; d. before 14 Nov 1723; m. Lucy -----
9. Lydia Lakin, b. about 1677; m. (1st) Capt. John Shipley; m. (2nd) Capt. Jonathan Boyden
797 Douglas Richardson, in The American Genealogist (see citation below) writes, “Mary has sometimes been identified with a distant English cousin, Mary Bacon, who was baptized at Winston, county Suffolk, England, on 18 February 1625/6, the daughter of Michael and Mary (Jeve) Bacon. While such a child and parents did exist, this individual is a different person from the Mary Bacon of New England who married John Lakin. Not only does the chronology not agree, but the parents of this Mary Bacon, baptized 1625/6, never immigrated to New England…” Furthermore, in a footnote, Richardson adds that Mary Jeve is often incorrectly called “Mary Jobo.” 798 Douglas Richardson, “The English Origins of the Lakins of Mass.,” The American Genealogist (TAG), Vol. 70 (1995), pp. 147-148. 799 Children with known birth dates are all recorded in Groton, Mass. 800 See NEHGR 63:320. 148
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①Robert Jennison (192) and Grace ----- (193)
Robert Jennison came to Watertown, Mass., by 1636.801 He was the brother of William Jennison, of Watertown. Robert’s first wife Elizabeth----- died 10 Oct 1638. Robert married, second, Grace -----. He was made a freeman in May 1645.
In the early 1640s, Watertown was experiencing economic problems, and Robert had to go to Robert Keayne for a loan “to keep afloat.”802
A story involving Robert and Grace Jennison (sometimes spelled “Genings”) was related by Rev. John Hale in his “A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft.”803 This occurred in the late 1640s, and was one of the first cases involving allegations of witchcraft in Massachusetts.804 It seems that Robert had provided his wife with a nurse maid during her pregnancy. The nurse accused the wife of John Kendall of bewitching Jennison’s child to death. Rev. Hale reports, “Kendal did make much of the Child, and the Child was well, but quickly changed its colour and dyed a few hours after.” Kendal denied her guilt, but was executed. Later, Robert Jennison was asked if he suspected her to have bewitched his child and he said No. Rather, he stated, according to Rev. Hale, that “the Nurse had the night before carryed out the Child and kept it abroad in the Cold a long time, when the red gum was come out upon it, and the Cold had struck in the red gum, and thus they judged the cause of the Childs death.” The nurse was later put into prison for adultery, and gave birth to a “base Child.” A Richard Brown went to her in prison and said, “It was just with God to leave her to this wickedness as a Punishment for her Murdering goody Kendal by her false witness bearing.” The nurse died in prison and so the matter was not inquired into further.805
Robert Jennison left a will dated 15 Sep 1683 and proved on 7 Oct 1690. An inventory was taken 24 Jul 1690, and stated that he died 4 Jul 1690. His will mentioned, besides his wife, daughter “Mickell” Warren, son-in-law George Read, farm land that had belonged to his brother William Jennison, son Samuel, and grandson William. Grace died 26 Nov 1686, in Watertown,806 and so Robert added a codicil to his will, giving additional money to daughter “Micaell,” and also giving 30 acres of farmland to grandson Robert Jennison. 807
Child, by his first wife Elizabeth, born in Watertown:
1. Elizabeth Jennison, b. 13 Aug 1667; m. (1st) James Barnard; m. (2nd) John Bemis
801 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015). 802 Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand, Watertown, Mass., 1630-1680 (2001), p. 95. 803 See Kroch Library eBook, chapter 1, pp. 18-19. 804 See Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown, Massachusetts 1630-1680 (2001), p. 77, 805 Mary W. Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (1943), pp 370-71. 806Watertown VR, p. 57: “Grace Jennison, the wife of Robert Jennison dyed the 26 of November [1686].” 807 Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, pp 370-71. 149
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Children, by his second wife Grace, born in Watertown:
2. Michell/Michal, b. 17 Dec 1640; d. 4 Jul 1713, Watertown; m. (1st) Richard Bloise; m. (2nd) Capt. John Warren
3. Samuel Jennison, b. 15 Dec 1642; 15 Oct 1701; m. Judith Newcomb
4. Child, died in infancy (see story above)
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①Francis Newcomb (194) and Rachel Brackett (195)
Francis Newcomb was born in about 1605.808 He married Rachel Brackett, 27 May 1630, at All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk, England. She was baptized 28 Apr 1614, in Sudbury, England, the daughter of Peter Brackett and Rachel -----.809 She was the sister of Richard Brackett. Francis and his family came to Massachusetts in 1635 on the ship Planter. They first lived in Boston and later moved to Braintree, Mass. The area in Braintree where they lived later became the town of Quincy. It is likely that they lived in or near what is called “The Neck.”810 In 1678 Francis served on a trial jury but there is no evidence that he took any noticeable part in public life.”811
Francis died 27 May 1692, at Braintree.812 He was buried in Hancock Cemetery, in what is now Quincy, but the gravestone was no longer standing as early as 1904. His age was most likely exaggerated, as his tombstone inscription was: “In Memory of Mr. Francis Newcomb, who Died May 27, 1692, aged 100 years.”813 The town record also states that he was “accounted an hundred years old.” If the age given on the passenger list was correct, he was actually about 87 years old.
Children, all but the first three born in Braintree, Mass.:
1. Rachel Newcomb, bapt. 13 Nov 1631, All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk; came to New England with her parents and brother, but no further record
2. John Newcomb,814 bapt. 8 Aug 1634, All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk; d. 21 Mar 1722, Braintree, Mass.;815 m. (1st) Ruth Marshall; m. (2nd) Elizabeth-----
3. Hannah Newcomb, bapt. 15 Oct 1637, Boston; m. James Thorp
4. Mary Newcomb, b. 1 Apr 1640; m. (1st) Samuel Deering; m. (2nd) George Spear
5. Sarah Newcomb, b. 30 Jun 1643; no further record
6. Judith Newcomb, b. 16 Jan 1645[/6?]; d. 1 Mar 1722/3; m. Samuel Jennison
808 This is based on his report of his age as 30 on the passenger list of the Planter, in 1635. 809 See Douglas Richardson, “The Brackett-Newcomb –Sanders Connection”, The American Genealogist, Vol. 55, pp. 215-17. 810 Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (1943), p. 459. 811 Ibid. 812 Unless otherwise noted, all information from Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration. But see also Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (1943), pp. 459-60. 813 According to Quincy Inscriptions, New England Historical and Genealogical Register vol. 9 (1855), p. 154. 814 My great-grandfather Harry S. Pratt was a descendant of John Newcomb & Ruth Marshall in two ways. 815 Death listed in Dawes-Gates. 151
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7. Peter Newcomb, b. 16 May 1648; d. 20 May 1725, Braintree;816 m. (1st) Susan Cutting; m. (2nd) Mary (Phillips) Humphrey
8. Abigail Newcomb, b. 16 Jul 1651; according to Dawes-Gates, living unm. in 1702
9. Leah Newcomb, b. 30 Jul 1654; m. William Price
10. Elizabeth Newcomb, b. 26 Aug 1658; m. (1st) John Pidge; m. (2nd) James Emery
816 Death listed in Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. 152
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①Isaac Stearns (196) and Mary Barker (197)
Other online sources: See Michael Roman’s page on Isaac Stearns
Isaac Stearns was born by about 1600. He immigrated to Massachusetts in 1630 and lived in Watertown, Mass. He was a tailor. He married Mary Barker, by 1625. She was the daughter of John Barker and Margaret Walker, of Stoke Nayland, England.817
He died 19 Jun 1671, in Watertown. He left a will, dated 14 Jun 1671, and proved in Oct 1671, mentioning his “beloved wife” Mary, “my grandchildren, the children of my son John Sternes,” sons “Isaac Sternes,” and “Samuel Sternes,” “my grandchildren, children of my daughter Mary, deceased” including “Isaac Lernot” and the other children of “Mary Lernot,” daughter Abigail Morse, and “my kinsman Charles Sternes.”818
His widow Mary died 23 Apr 1677 in Watertown.819
Children:820
1. Mary Stearns, bapt.6 Jan 1625/6, Nayland with Wissington; d. 9 Jan 1663; m. Isaac Learned
2. Anna (or Hannah) Stearns, bapt. 5 Oct 1628; bur. 17 Jun 1656, Watertown; m. Henry Freeman
3. John Stearns, b. about 1630; d. 5 Mar 1668/9; m. (1st) Sarah Mixer; m. (2nd) Mary Lothrop
4. Isaac Stearns, b. 6 Jan 1632/3, Watertown, Mass.; d. 29 Aug 1676; m. Sarah Beers
5. Sarah Stearns, b. 22 Sep 1635, Watertown; d. 6 Oct 1700; bur. Old Burying Ground, Lexington, Mass.;821 m. Samuel Stone
6. Samuel Stearns, b. 24 Apr 1638; d. 31 Aug 1683; m. Hannah Manning
7. Elizabeth Stearns, b. say 1644; d. 24 Jun 1671; m. Samuel Manning
8. Abigail Stearns, b. say 1646; d. 15 Oct 1690; m. John Morse
817 See John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists, for the ancestors of Mary Barker. 818 Middlesex Probate #21239 819 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (Featured Name). 820 Deaths from Michael Roman’s page on Isaac Stearns. 821 findagrave.com: Sarah Stone 153
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William Manning (198) and Dorothy ----- (199)
Other online sources: See Michael Roman’s page on William Manning
William Manning was born in about 1615.822 He was the only child of William Manning Sr. He married Dorothy -----. Some have claimed that her maiden name was Adams, but I have found nothing to substantiate this.
He lived in Cambridge, Mass., where he was a “prominent citizen” who “was a merchant, somewhat concerned in navigation, and owned a warehouse at the southwest corner of Dunster and South streets, to which boats had free access by the canal.” 823 There is a historical marker designating the site of Manning’s Wharf, in 1651.
“The most important trust of his life was in connection with Harvard College, he having been selected, with Deacon John Cooper as an associate, to replace the old college building with a new one, and to receive and disburse the funds for that purpose. This was in 1672, and as the final accounting was not made until 1684, it will be seen that the work covered many years. The records of the General Court (Legislature) term these two associates stewards, trustees and overseers at various times. The name of William Manning appears oftener than that of Deacon Cooper, and as he received more than two-thirds of the sum allowed to them for their services, it is clear that the greater part of the work, management and responsibility fell upon him. To both it was a momentous trust.”824
William died 14 Mar 1690/91, and is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Cambridge.825 His widow Dorothy died 26 Jul 1692, at age 80. She is also buried in the Old Burying Ground, Cambridge.826
He died intestate, but probate papers exist which mention eldest daughter Hannah Stearns, only son Samuel Manning, “Joseph Bull had wth his wife Sarah (ineligible) daughter” (not clear if Sarah was still living), “Eliphalet Adams ye only son of Mary ye youngest Daughter.”827
Children:828
1. Hannah Manning, b. 21 Jun 1642;d. 26 Feb 1724/5; m. Samuel Stearns
822 From age on gravestone. 823 Lucius Paige, History of Cambridge, Mass. 824 William Manning, Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England (1902), p. 102. 825 findagrave.com: William Manning 826 findagrave.com: Dorothy Manning 827 Middlesex Probate # 14610, available via AmericanAncestors.org to NEHGS members. 828 Children with known birth dates are all recorded in Groton, Mass. 154
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2. Samuel Manning, b. 21 Jul 1644; d. 22 Feb 1710/11; m. (1st) Elizabeth Stearns;(sister of his sister’s husband Samuel Stearns); m. (2nd) Abigail Wright
3. Sarah Manning, b. 28 Jan 1645/6; according to the Manning Genealogy, “the date of Sarah’s decease has not been found; it is said she died in 1691;” m. Joseph Bull
4. Abigail Manning, b. 15 Jan 1647/8; d. 10 May 1648
5. John Manning, b. 31 Mar 1649; d. of smallpox, 25 Nov 1678, probably unm.
6. Mary Manning, b. about 1651; d. 24 Jun 1679; m. William Adams; their son Eliphalet Adams grad. Harvard College and was “a talented clergyman” who “acquired the language of the Indians and preached to them in their native tongue.”
7. (possibly) Timothy Manning, d. 8 Nov 1653
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①Gabriel Mead (200) and Joanna (Frewin?) (201)
Gabriel Mead was in Dorchester, Mass., by 1637.829 He was made a freeman there 2 May 1638. His name was sometimes spelled “Meade” or “Meades.”
Spencer Mead in The History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (1901) claimed that Gabriel’s wife Joanna was the daughter of James Bates. While this is not impossible, the evidence is not convincing.830 More recently, the idea has been presented that Joanna’s maiden name was Frewin, and that Gabriel may have been the son of Thomas Meades and Emlin Carter.831
In his later years, Gabriel was custodian of the meeting house at Dorchester. His will is dated 15 Jan 1654, but he did not die until 1666. A transcript of his will was published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. It mentions his wife Joanna, his son Israel (who was given “ye house I now dwell in, with ye orchard & appurtenance thereunto belonging”), son David (given “my old house and that orchard or garden thereunto adjoining, & also my plott of land being in ye field neer the buriall place”), daughters Lidia, Experience, Sarah and Patience (who inherited money, and whose married names are not given).832
Most likely, Joanna married, second, John Eddy, sometime after 12 May 1666, and died 25 Aug 1683, in Watertown, Mass., “aged about 80 years.”833
Children:
1. Israel Mead, b. about 1639; d. 1713 or 1714; m. Mary Hall; he moved to Watertown, Mass.
2. David Mead, bapt. 7 Jul 1650; m. Hannah Warren
3. Sarah Mead, m. Samuel Eddy
4. Lydia Mead, d. after Jan 1670/1; m. James Burgess, 19 Oct 1652, Boston834
829 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015). 830 Gordon Remington, “The English Origin of William Mead of Stamford, Conn.,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 73 (1998), pp. 1-3. 831 This theory seems plausible and well-researched. See: http://sites.google.com/site/meadfamilyhistory/home/family/gabriel-meades 832 “Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on ecord and on the Fiels in the County of Suffolk, Mass.”, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 16 (1862), pp. 163-164. 833 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, sketch on John Eddy. He states that “complete proof for this identification for this second wife is lacking, but seems likely, since in 1664 John’s son Samuel had married Sarah, daughter of Gabriel Meade, in 1675 David Meade, son of Gabriel, married in Watertown, and Israel Meade, another son, was said to have gone to Watertown.” 834 See The Great Migration sketch on James Burgess . Lydia was still living 21 Jan 1670/1, and was probably living as late as 1687. 156
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5. Experience Mead, b. Feb 1641/2, Dorchester;835 m. Jabez Heaton
6. Patience Mead, m. Mathias Evans
835 Dorchester church records, “11 mo.” which was February according to the old style calendar. 157
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Daniel Warren (202) and Mary Barron (203)
Other online sources: See Michael Roman’s page on Daniel Warren
Daniel Warren was baptized 25 Feb 1627/8, in Nayland, Suffolk, England, the son of John Warren and Margaret -----. He married Mary Barron, 10 Dec 1650, in Watertown, Mass.836 She was born “say 1630,” the daughter of Ellis Barron and Grace -----.
Mary died 13 Feb 1715/6, in Watertown.837
Children, born at Watertown:
1. Mary Warren, b. 29 Dec 1651; d. 12 May 1734; m. John Child
2. Daniel Warren, b. 6 Oct 1653; m. Elizabeth Whitney
3. Hannah Warren, m. David Mead
4. Sarah Warren, b. 4 Jul 1658; she was “presented for fornication” in 1679
5. Elizabeth Warren, b. 17 Sep 1660; m. Jonathan Tainter
6. Susannah Warren, b. 26 Dec 1663; d. 15 Oct 1678
7. John Warren, b. 5 Mar 1665/6; d. 11 Jul 1703; m. Mary Brown
8. Joshua Warren, b. 4 Jul 1668; d. 30 Jan 1760; m. Rebecca Church
9. Grace Warren, b. 14 Mar 1671/2; m. Joseph Morse
836 See sketch on John Warren in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. 837 Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass. (1860). 158
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①Thomas Hastings (204) and Margaret Cheney (205)
Other online sources: See Wikipedia: Thomas Hastings
Dea. Thomas Hastings was born in about 1605. He immigrated to Massachusetts in 1634 on the ship Elizabeth, with a wife named Susanna, and lived in Watertown, Mass. He was admitted to the Watertown church prior to 6 May 1635. He held various offices in Watertown including Deputy to the Massachusetts General Court in 1673, selectman (various years starting in 1638), and Town Clerk. He “had financial and arbitration skills and served as moderator of the town meeting.”838 His first wife Susanna died 2 Feb 1650/[1] in Watertown. No children are known by this marriage. He married, second, Margaret Cheney “about April 1651” in Watertown. She was born in about 1625 and was the daughter of William Cheney and Margaret -----.
“In 1671, their 19 year old first son, Thomas, Jr., was accused of fathering a child out of wedlock and the Hastings and Woodward families…became embroiled in a highly embarrassing paternity suit before the Middlesex County Court.”839
“The west side of School Street, then called Hill Street, was always his residence, which he enlarged by the purchase of the lot of H. Bright, senior. This homestead passed to his son Samuel.”840
In his will dated 12 Mar 1682/3, and proved 7 Sep 1685, he mentioned his “eldest son” Thomas Hastings, of whom he says “I have been at great charge to bring him up to be a scholar,” sons John, Joseph, Benjamin, Nathaniel and Samuel, daughter Hephzibah Bond, “my eldest daughter the daughter of Thomas Hastings,” “my granddaughter Hannah Hastings the daughter of Thomas Hastings,” and “my beloved wife Margarett Hastings.”841
Children, by his second wife Margaret Cheney, born in Watertown:
1. Thomas Hastings, b. 1 Jul 1652; d. 23 Jul 1712; m. (1st) Anna Hawkes; m. (2nd) Mary Burt
2. John Hastings, b. 1 Mar 1653/4; d. 28 Mar 1718; m. Abigail Hammond
3. William Hastings, b. 8 Aug 1655; drowned in Aug 1669
838 Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown, Mass., 1630-1680, p. 216. 839 Wikipedia: Thomas Hastings. For details of the court case, see Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand, pp. 189- 190. 840 Samuel Drake, The Hastings Memorial (1866), p. 6. 841 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name). The interested reader is strongly encouraged to refer to this source, which I have merely summarized the main points of. See also Hastings Memorial. 159
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4. Joseph Hastings, b. 12 Sep 1657; d. 7 Oct 1695; m. (1st) Ruth Rice; m. (2nd) Martha Shepherd
5. Benjamin Hastings, b. 9 Aug 1659; d. 18 Dec 1711, Hatfield, Mass.; bur. High St. Cem., Greenfield, Mass.;842 m. (1st) Elizabeth Graves; m. (2nd) Mary (Clark) Parsons
6. Nathaniel Hastings, b. 25 Sep 1661; d. 25 Dec 1694; m. Mary Nevinson
7. Hepzibah Hastings, b. 31 Jan 1663/4; m. William Bond
8. Samuel Hastings, b. 12 Mar 1665/6; d. 24 Jul 1723; bur. Old Burying Place, Watertown, Mass.;843 m. (1st) Lydia Church; m. (2nd) Elizabeth Nevinson; m. (3rd) Sarah Coolidge
842 findagrave.com: Benjamin Hastings (no photo) 843 findagrave.com: Samuel Hastings 160
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John Hammond (206) and Abigail Salter (207)
Lt. John Hammond was baptized 2 Jul 1626, in Lavenham, Suffolk, England.844 He was the son of William Hammond and Elizabeth Paine. He immigrated with his parents in 1631.845 He married Abigail Salter in about 1652, probably in Watertown. She was baptized 9 Nov 1623, in Rattlesden, England, the daughter of George Salter and Elizabeth Munning. He married, second, Sarah Nichols, in about 1664. Sarah died 14 Jan 1688, and is buried in the Old Burying Place, Watertown, Mass.846 He married third, Prudence (Wade) (Crosby) Cotton, who survived him. She was the daughter of Jonathan Wade of Ipswich, and the widow of Rev. Seaborn Cotton.
John was a soldier in King Phillip’s War, “in the garrison at Wrentham.”
John died 22 Nov 1709, probably in Watertown.847 He is buried in the Old Burying Ground, in Watertown.848 He left a will in which he names his wife Prudence, son John, daughters Elizabeth Mason, Abigail Hastings, Hannah Poulter, and Hepzibah Shattuck, along with sons-in- law John Mason, John Hastings, John Poulter, and William Shattuck. His widow Prudence died 1 Sep 1711, and is also buried in the Old Burying Ground.849
Children, by his first wife Abigail, born in Watertown:
1. John Hammond, b. 3 Feb 1653/4; d. 1 Oct 1659, Watertown, Mass.
2. Elizabeth Hammond, b. 6 May 1655; d. 13 Nov 1715, Newton, Mass.;850 m. John Mason
3. Abigail Hammond, b. 21 Jun 1659; d. 7 Apr 1718; m. John Hastings
4. John Hammond, b. about 1661/2; possibly either unmarried or may have moved to Maine
Children, by his second wife, Sarah:
5. Sarah Hammond, b. 1666; d. 11 Sep 1674
844 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (sketch on his father William Hammond). 845 Ibid. 846 findagrave.com: Sarah Hammond 847 Date of death from gravestone. 848 findagrave.com: John Hammond 849 findagrave.com: Prudence Hammond 850 According to findagrave.com, she is buried in the East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, but there is no gravestone photo. 161
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6. Hannah Hammond, b. 25 Jul 1669; d. 18 Feb 1689/90
7. Hannah Hammond, b. 10 Apr 1669; d. 11 Nov 1735; bur. Old Burying Ground, Lexington, Mass.;851 m. John Poulter
8. Nathaniel Hammond, b. Jul 1677; d. Feb 1677/8; bur. Old Burying Place, Watertown, Mass.852
9. Samuel Hammond, b. 25 Feb 1679; d. young
10. Hepzibah Hammond, b. about 1681/2; d. 1 Aug 1762; bur. East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Mass.;853 m. (1st) William Shattuck; m. (2nd) John Robbins
851 findagrave.com: Hannah Poulter 852 findagrave.com: Nathaniel Hammond 853 findagrave.com: Hepzibah Robbins 162
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①Thomas Robinson (208) and Mary Coggan (209)
Thomas Robinson married Silence Boyce 8 Dec 1630, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.854 She was the daughter of Rev. John Boyce or Boyse and Joan Stowe. Thomas and his family immigrated to Massachusetts by 1638,855 settling first in Roxbury.856 He had a house and twenty four acres of land in Roxbury, and his wife Silence was a member of the church there. At some point, he moved to Scituate, Mass.857 He married Mary (Coggan) Woody, 10 Jan 1652/3, in Boston.858 She was born in about 1625, the daughter of John Coggan and Mary Jourdaine, and was the widow of John Woody.859 Mary died 26 Oct 1661, in Boston. Thomas married, third, Elizabeth (-----) Sherman, widow of Richard Sherman. From Thomas’ will, we know that this marriage was not a happy one. He states, “Though my wife hath not carried her selfe as a wife should have towards me, but Contrary to the Law of God & Man hath withdrawn her selfe from Living with mee as she ought to Doe.” Nevertheless, he leaves her £10, in case she will accept.860
Interestingly, Elizabeth had, in the 1630s, been involved in a famous court case, known as Goody Sherman’s sow, which is said to have led to the idea of a bicameral system of legislature.861
Thomas died between 17 Mar 1655/6, the date of his will, and 27 Apr 166[6?], when it was probated.862
Children, by his first wife Silence:863
1. John Robinson, bapt. 2 Sep 1632, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; said to have been in England at the time Thomas Robinson made his will
2. Samuel Robinson, b. 1 Jan 1634, Halifax; said to have d. 16 Jan 1661
854 “Pedigree of the Boyse Family,” The American Genealogist, vol. 19 (1942-43), p. 138. 855 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015). 856 John Insley Coddington, “The Mother-in-Law of the Reverend Peter Prudden With a Pedigree of the Boyse Family,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 19, pp. 138-139. 857 Marsha Hoffman Rising, “Was Elizabeth, Wife of Richard1 Cutter of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Daughter of Robert1 Williams of Roxbury?” The American Genealogist, Vol. 74 (1999), pp. 297-98. 858 George E. McCracken, “Early Cogans, English and American,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register (NEHGR), Vol. 111 (1957), p. 16. 859 See sketch on Mary’s father John Coggan in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Vol. 1, pp. 401-401 (online database at AmericanAncestors.org; originally published 1995).. 860 McCracken, NEHGR 111, pp. 16-17. Note: McCracken claims that Thomas’ first wife’s name was Margaret, but this is incorrect. 861 See sketch on her husband Richard Sherman in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. Also see Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Founding of American Society (2011), pp. 314-317. 862 NEHGR 111:17 (see above), which cites Suffolk Wills 1:462 f. 863 International Genealogical Index 163
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3. James Robinson, b. 1 Jun 1635
4. Ephraim Robinson, b. about 1637; d. 22 Sep 1661, Boston
5. Jane Robinson
Children by his second wife Mary Coggan, baptized in Scituate (except James):
6. Thomas Robinson, bapt. 5 Mar 1652/3; m. Sarah Denison
7. James Robinson, b. 14 Mar 1654/5, Boston;
8. Joseph Robinson, bapt. 8 Mar 1656/7
9. Mary Robinson, bapt. 28 Feb 1657/8
10. Mary Robinson, bapt. 6 Nov 1659; m. Jacob Green Jr.
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Edward Denison (210) and Elizabeth Weld (211)
Edward Denison was baptized 3 Nov 1616, in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, the son of William Denison and Margaret (Chandler) Monk.864 He came to New England in 1631 with his parents. He married Elizabeth Weld, 30 Mar 1641, in Roxbury, Mass.865 She was baptized 22 Feb 1626 at All Saints Sudbury, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Joseph Weld and Elizabeth Wise.866
Edward was a selectman, town clerk, and representative in Roxbury. In 1637 his name was on a list of followers of Rev. John Wheelwright, as part of the Antinomian movement which included Anne Hutchinson. In 1647 he got into trouble due to an episode, with his brother George, of “open and shamefull drunkennesse at Boston.” George was excommunicated but quickly accepted back into the church. Edward was not a member of the church at the time, so was not excommunicated, but “was also speedily received in to the Church” after “humbling himselfe so effectually.”
So many of his children died in infancy that it has been suggested that there may have been a genetic disorder.
He died 26 Apr 1668, in Roxbury. His widow Elizabeth died 5 Feb 1716/7, in Roxbury, at age 91.867 She is buried in the Eliot Burying Ground, in Roxbury.868
Children, born/baptized in Roxbury:
1. Elizabeth Denison, bapt. 8 Aug 1642; d. 12 Feb 1697/8, Rowley; m. Jachim (or Jachin) Rayner
2. John Denison, bapt. 14 May 1644; d. 7 Sep 1644
3. Edward Denison, bur. Jan 1645, Roxbury
4. Son, d. of convulsions, bur. 6 Oct 1646, Roxbury
5. Jeremiah Denison, b. 6 Dec 1647; bur. May 1649
6. Joseph Denison, bapt. 8 Apr 1649; bur. May 1649
864 See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, p. 522-523. 865 Roxbury Vital Records. 866 The American Genealogist, Vol. 55: 146, 148. 867 Alicia Crane Williams, Early New England Families; 1641-1700, vol.1 (2015), pp. 51-56, I am only summarizing the wealth of information contained therein, the reader is encouraged to see this source for more details. 868 findagrave.com: Elizabeth Weld Denison 165
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7. Margaret Denison, bapt. 15 Dec 1650; d. 13 May 1678, Stonington, Conn.; m. Daniel Mason
8. Mary Denison, bapt. 27 Mar 1653/4; d. 9 Oct 1743, Billerica; m. Joseph Thompson
9. Hannah Denison, b. 10 Sep 1655; not named in father’s will
10. Sarah Denison, b. 25/29 Nov 1657; d. 15 Nov 1710; m. Thomas Robinson
11. Deborah Denison, b. 16 Dec 1660; bur. 18 Jun 1663
12. Child, stillborn, bur. 2 Jun 1663
13. William Denison, bapt. 18 Sep 1664; d. 22 Mar 1717/8; bur. Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Mass.;869 m. Dorothy Weld; grad. Harvard 1681; he was the first town clerk of Roxbury; no children
14. Deborah Denison, b. 30 Oct 1666; bur. 27 Apr 1667
869 findagrave.com: William Denison 166
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Samuel Ruggles (212) and Hannah Fowle (213)
Capt. Samuel Ruggles was baptized 19 Apr 1629 in Nazing, Essex, England, the son of Thomas Ruggles and Mary Curtis.870 He married Hannah Fowle, 10 Jan 1654/5, in either Roxbury or Charlestown, Mass. (it was recorded in both locations).871 She was the daughter of George Fowle and Mary -----. Hannah died 24 Oct 1669, in Roxbury.
Samuel married, second, Anna Bright, 26 May 1670, in Roxbury. She was born 17 Mar 1643, in Watertown, Mass., the daughter of Dea. Henry Bright and Anne (or Hannah) Goldstone.
Samuel was an inn-keeper, active in town affairs, and a captain of the militia. The following is taken from the History of Hardwick:
His preservation from death by lightning on the 25th of May 1667 was so remarkable that an account of it was entered on the Church record by Rev. Samuel Danforth: ’25 (3) 1667. There was a dreadful crack of thunder. Samuel Ruggles happened at that instant to be upon the meeting-house hill, with oxen and horse, and cart loaden with coarn. The horse and one ox were strucken dead with the lightning; the other had a little life in it, but died presently. The man [i.e. Samuel Ruggles] was singed and scorched a little on his legs, one shoe torn apieces, and the heel carried away; the man was hurled off from the cart and flung on the off side, but through mercy soon recovered himself and felt little harm. There was a chest in the cart, wherein was pewter and linen; the pewter had small holes melted in it, and the linen some of it singed and burnt.’ He (or his son Samuel) was one of the eight associates, who purchased of the Indians 27 Dec. 1686, the territory, now the town of Hardwick; and he with his son Samuel and four others, on the 5th of May 1786, bought of Capt. James Fitch of Norwich, Conn., a tract styled the ‘Mashamoquoet Purchase,’ which afterwards became the town of Pomfret, Conn.”872
In 1689, Samuel, as Captain of the militia, was involved in the arrest of Joseph Dudley. According to the History of Hardwick, “When Governor Andros and his associates were seized and imprisoned, Joseph Dudley (afterwards Governor) was committed to his special charge, while temporarily released from prison. Dudley was unpopular because he was seen as collaborating with the hated Edmund Andros. Dudley escaped to England, but, returning to Massachusetts, he became Governor of the colony in 1702.873 Interestingly, Samuel Ruggles’ son, Samuel Ruggles Jr., married a niece of Joseph Dudley.
870 John W. Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. (1913), p. 451. 871 Ibid. 872 Lucius Paige, History of Hardwick, p. 480. 873 Ibid.; see also Francis Drake, The Town of Roxbury (1878), p. 108. For Joseph Dudley see Wikipedia: Joseph Dudley. 167
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Capt. Samuel Ruggles died 15 Aug 1692, in Roxbury, aged 63 years. His widow Anna died 5 Sep 1711, in Roxbury.874 They are both buried in the Eustis Street Cemetery.875
Children, by his first wife Hannah, born in Roxbury:
1. Hannah Ruggles, b. 21 Jan 1655; d. young
2. Mary Ruggles, b. 1656; d. young
3. Samuel Ruggles, b. 1 Jun 1658; d. 25 Feb 1715/16; m. Martha Woodbridge
4. Joseph Ruggles, b. 12 Feb 1660; d. young
5. Hannah Ruggles, b. 11 Dec 1661; d. young
6. Sarah Ruggles, b. 15 Nov 1663; d. young
7. Mary Ruggles, b. 8 Dec 1666; d. 1741; m. (1st) Ebenezer Pierpoint; m. (2nd) Isaac Morris
8. Sarah Ruggles, b. 30 Aug 1669; d. young
Children, by his second wife Anna, born in Roxbury:
9. Rev. Thomas Ruggles, b. 10 Mar 1671; d. 1 Jun 1728, Guilford, Conn.; bur. Alderbrook Cem.;876 m. (1st) Sarah Fiske; m. (2nd) Mary Hubbard
10. Anna Ruggles, b. 30 Sep 1672; m. William Heath
11. Nathaniel Ruggles, b. 22 Nov 1674; d. young
12. Elizabeth Ruggles, b. 1 May 1677; m. James Bailey
13. Henry Ruggles, b. 7 Jul 1681; d. 9 Dec 1702; bur. Eliot St. Cem., Roxbury877
14. Huldah Ruggles, b. 4 Jul 1684; m. Samuel Hill
874 John W. Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Their Ancestors and Descendants (1913), p. 452. 875 findagrave.com: Samuel Ruggles Sr. and findagrave.com: Anna Ruggles 876 findagrave.com: Thomas Ruggles 877 findagrave.com: Henry Ruggles 168
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①John Woodbridge (214) and Mercy Dudley (215)
Rev. John Woodbridge was born in about 1613, based on his age at death. He was the son of Rev. John Woodbridge and Sarah Parker, of Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire, England. He was educated at Oxford, but did not graduate due to the requirement of taking the “oath of conformity” which he refused to do.
He immigrated in 1634 on the ship Mary & John, settling briefly in Ipswich before moving to Newbury, Mass., by 1635.
Cotton Mather, in his Magnalia Christi Americana, had this to say about John Woodbridge’s education and journey to New England: “Our John was by his worthy parents ‘trained up in the way that he should go,’ and sent to Oxford, when his education and proficiency at school had ripened him for the university; and kept at Oxford until the oath of conformity came to be required of him; which neither his father nor his conscience approving, he removed from thence unto a course of more private studies. The rigorous enforcing of the unhappy ceremonies then causing many that understood and regarded the second commandment in the Laws of Heaven, to seek a peaceable recess for pure worship of the Lord Jesus Christ in an American desart, our young Woodbridge with the consent of his parents, undertook a voyage to New-England about the year 1634, and the company and assistance of his worthy uncle, Mr. Thomas Parker, was not the least encouragement of his voyage.”
He returned to England in 1638 to deal with his father’s estate and came back to Massachusetts the following year. He married Mercy Dudley, by about 1640. She was the daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke.
John was first a schoolmaster, and then became a minister, being ordained at Andover, in 1645. In 1647 he returned to England a second time, this time staying until 1663.878 On his journey to England he brought with him a manuscript of poetry by his sister-in-law, Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet. This was published in England as The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America – considered the first book of American poetry. When he returned to Massachusetts, he was assistant to his uncle Rev. Thomas Parker, in Newberry, Mass., from 1663-1672.879
Mercy died 1 Jul 1691.880 John died 17 Mar 1694/5 in Newbury,881 “aged 82 years.” Samuel Sewall recorded in his diary, “Marcy 17th, 1694/5. Mr. Woodbridge of Newbury died in a good
878 This entire section is based on Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration. It is my intention to merely present a summary here but the interested reader should refer to the original source for detailed information. 879 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woodbridge 880 Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, in which he states “…he was observantly overwhelmed by the death of his most religious, prudent, and faithful consort, when she was (July 1, 1691) fifty years after his first marriage unto her, torn away from the ‘desire of his eyes.’ His value for the whole world was, after a manner, extinguished in this loss, of what was to him the best part of it; and he sometimes declared himself desirous to be gone, whenever the Lord of heaven should please to call him thither.” 881881 Newbury Deaths, p. 752. 169
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old age, more than 80; buried March 19th.” He was buried in the First Parish Burying Ground in Newbury.882 Although his original gravestone no longer exists, a more modern marker was erected later.
Children:
1. Sarah Woodbridge, b. 7 Jun 1640; she returned to England with her family and probably married there and remained in England
2. Lucy Woodbridge, b. 13 Mar 1641/2; m. (1st) Simon Bradstreet Jr.; m. (2nd) Daniel Epes
3. John Woodbridge Jr., b. abt. 1644; m. Abigail Leete, dau. of Gov. William Leete; grad. Harvard College
4. Thomas Woodbridge, b. abt. 1649; m. Mary Jones
5. Benjamin Woodbridge, b. abt. 1650; m. (1st) Mary Ward; m. (2nd) Deborah (Cushing) Tarlton
6. Anne Woodbridge, b. abt. 1652; d. 28 Feb 1700/01, Roxbury
7. Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, b. 13 Jan 1655/6, Barford St. Martin, Wiltshire, England; d. 30 Apr 1732; bur. Ancient Burial Ground, Hartford, Conn.;883 m. (1st) Mehitable (Wyllys) (Russell) Foster; m. (2nd) -----; m. (3rd) Abigail (Warren) Lord; grad. Harvard
8. Dorothy Woodbridge, b. abt. 1659; m. Nathaniel Fryer
9. Martha Woodbridge, b. abt. 1660; d. 1738; m. Samuel Ruggles
10. Joseph Woodbridge, b. abt. 1662; m. Martha Rogers
11. Mary Woodbridge, b. abt. 1664; m. Samuel Appleton
882 findagrave.com: Rev. John Woodbridge. This page contains a portrait of Rev. John Woodbridge, said to be from Old-Town and the waterside: Two hundred years of tradition and change in Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, 1635-1835. 883 findagrave.com: Timothy Woodbridge 170
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Elisha Hedge (216) and Mary ----- (217)
Elisha Hedge was born in about 1642, probably in Eastham, Mass., the son of William Hedges. He married Mary -----. It has been stated that she was Mary Sturgis, but Robert Charles Anderson, in The Great Migration Begins, stated “Most sources claim that Elisha and William Hedges married Mary and Elizabeth Sturgis, but there is no direct evidence for this, and the known marriage of Mary Sturgis to one of the sons of Edward Sturgis is sufficient to explain other associations between the two families.”884
In 1663, Elisha was involved in a court case as follows. “Josias Hallet and Thomas Starr of Yarmouth went to the house of John Doane, Jr., at Eastham, and finding no one at home, behaved themselves uncivilly therein, ransacking the house for liquors, and drinking thereof, and writing and setting up in the house a libellous and scandalous paper of verses and leaving them there. Elisha Hedge and Samuel Sturgis were also deemed guilty, in some degree, though not so deeply as the former.” Elisha was ordered to pay a fine of thirty shillings.885
Mary died 5 Mar 1712/3, in Yarmouth.886
Elisha died 17 May 1732, in Yarmouth, Mass.,887 and is buried in the Ancient Cemetery, Yarmouth.888
Here lyes Buried ye Body of Mr. ELISHA HEDGE Who Died May 17th, Anno Domni 1732 in ye 91st Year of His Age.
He left a will dated 13 Feb 1729/30, presented for probate 5 Jun 1732 and approved 27 Jul 1732. He mentioned sons William, John and Thomas Hedge, children of his deceased son Samuel Hedge, daughters Elizabeth Lothrop, Mary Paddock, Sarah Howes, unmarried daughter Hannah Hedge, and the children of his daughter Mercy Denison. Another son, Edmund Hedge, is also mentioned.889
Children, born in Yarmouth:890
884 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Vol. 2 (1995), p. 907. 885 Charles Swift, History of Old Yarmouth: Comprising the Present Towns of Yarmouth and Dennis (1884), p. 91. 886 Yarmouth VR: “Mis Mary Hedge the wife of Mr. Elisha Hedge she died on the 5th day of March 1712/13.” 887 Yarmouth VR. 888 findagrave.com: Elisha Hedge 889 Elizabeth P. White and Roberta G. Bratti, “Some Descendants of Jacob Taylor (1670-1750) of Yarmouth, Massachusetts,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 74, pp. 176-177. 890 For births see Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 3, p. 246. 171
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1. Elizabeth Hedge, b. Nov 1666; d. 18 Sep 1747; m. Barnabas Lothrop, 14 Nov 1687891
2. William Hedge, b. 31 Jan 1668/9; d. 15 Sep 1734, Yarmouth;892 m. Elizabeth -----893
3. Mary Hedge, b. Mar 1670/71; d. 6 Aug 1727; m. (1st) Josiah Thatcher, 25 Feb 1690/91;894 m. (2nd) Zachariah Paddock, 29 Jul 1708895
4. Elisha Hedge, b. Mar. 1670/71; d. 27 Jun 1709, Yarmouth;896 m. Sarah Lothrop, 1 Sep 1702;897 he was a mariner, and left a will
5. John Hedge, b. 15 Apr 1673; d. 2 Jun 1752; m. Thankful Lothrop, 25 Jan 1699/70898
6. Samuel Hedge, b. 18 Jun 1675; d. 18 May 1714; m. Grace Snow
7. Sarah Hedge, b. 3 Mar 1677/8; d. 24 Mar 1776; m. Thomas Howes, 23 Jun 1698899
8. Mercy Hedge, Sep 1680; apparently d. before 1732; m. Edward Denison
9. Susanna Hedge, b. 16 Dec 16--; d. 24 Jan 1755; m. Amos Howes, 22 May 1701900
10. Thomas Hedge, Apr 1682; living in 1732, but died before 19 May 1740; m. Hannah Taylor, 12 Dec 1717, Yarmouth901
11. Hannah Hedge, d. 2 May 1757; unm.902
12. Edmund Hedge?, mentioned in father’s will903
891 NEHGR 3:273. 892 Yarmouth, VR: “William Hedge departed this life on the 15th day of September 1734.” 893 Some web pages say Elizabeth Ingoldsby but I do not find a record of this marriage. 894 John Totten, “Thatcher-Thatcher Genealogy,” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 42, pp. 160- 161. 895 Ibid. 896 Yarmouth VR: “Elisha Hedge Jr. departed this life the 27th day of June in the year 1709.” 897 Barnstable VR, in Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 14, p. 255 898 Ibid. 899 Yarmouth VR. 900 According to Genealogy of the Howes Family in America (1892), p. 11. However I cannot find this marriage in any original source. Also, Susannah is (apparently) not mentioned in Elisha’s will. 901 Elizabeth P. White and Rpberta G. Bratti, “Some Descendants of Jacob Taylor (1670-1750) of Yarmouth, Massachusetts,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 74, pp. 176-177. 902 Ibid, p. 183. 903 Ibid. p. 177. But the article does not give the will in its entirety; it would be useful to have the complete information. 172
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Jabez Snow (218) and Elizabeth ----- (219)
Jabez Snow was born in about 1642, probably in Eastham, Mass., the son of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins. Jabez married, before 6 Sep 1670, Elizabeth -----, in Eastham, Mass. Some people have speculated that she may have been Elizabeth Smith, born in 1648, daughter of Ralph Smith.
Jabez died 27 Dec 1690, in Eastham. An inventory of his estate was taken on 20 Apr 1691.904
Children, the first four recorded in Eastham:
1. Jabez Snow, b. 6 Sep 1670; d. 14 Oct 1750, Eastham; bur. Cove Burying Ground.;905 m. Elizabeth Treat
2. Edward Snow, b. 26 Mar 1672; m. Sarah Freeman
3. Sarah Snow, b. 16 or 26 Feb 1673; “very likely” to have been the Sarah who m. (1st) Henry Young, and (2nd) Jonathan Sparrow
4. Grace Snow, b. 1 or 5 Feb 1674/5; m. (1st) Samuel Hedge; m. (2nd) George Lewis
5. Thomas Snow, d. Eastham, 2 Apr 1697; unm.
6. Elizabeth Snow, probably m. Edward Kindreck (or Kenwrick)
7. Deborah Snow, m. Stephen Merrick
8. Rachel Snow, d. 22 Mar 1765, Barnstable, Mass.; m. Thomas Huckins
9. (daughter) Snow, probably the Mercy Snow who m. John Witherill Jr.
904 John Austin, Mayflower Pilgrim Family Genealogies Through Five Generations (Volume 6) (1995). 905 findagrave.com: Jabez Snow Jr 173
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John Johnson (220) and Deborah Ward (221)
John Johnson was born in about 1629, the son of Solomon Johnson and Elinor -----. He married Deborah Ward, 19 (Nov?) 1657, in Sudbury, Mass.906 She was born in about 1637, probably in England, the daughter of William Ward, of Sudbury, Mass.
Deborah died 9 Aug 1697, at age 60, in Marlborough, Mass.907 John died 4 May 1713, at Marlborough.908 No probate record exists, but a deed dated 11 Feb 1714 states that Daniel Johnson of Marlborough was one of the children of John Johnson, deceased, late of Marlborough909
Children, recorded at Marlborough, Mass:
1. John Johnson, b. 21 Jan 1672; d. 23 Nov 1676, “scalded to death”910
2. Daniel Johnson, b. 5 Apr 1675; d. 1722; m. Dorothy Lamb
3. Elizabeth Johnson, b. 20 Jul 1677; m. Joseph Witherby
4. Deborah Johnson, b. 22 Aug 1678; probably died young
5. John Johnson, b. 16 Feb 1680; m. Mary -----
906 The NEHGR article below says 19 Nov 1657, but Sudbury VR just says 19 ---- 1657 (month unknown). 907 Marlborough Deaths, p. 373. Her death record says she was the widow of John Johnson, and the daughter of William Ward Sr. 908 Marlborough Deaths, p. 373. He is called John Johnson Sr. 909 Mrs. Elwood Kimball, “The Solomon Johnson Family,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1912), p. 235. 910 Marlborough Deaths, p. 373. 174
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(Probably) Abiel Lamb (222) and Elizabeth Clark (223)
Abiel Lamb was born 2 Aug 1646, in Roxbury, Mass., the son of Thomas Lamb and Dorothy Harbitle.911 He married Elizabeth (Clark) Buckminster. She was born 31 Jan 1648, the daughter Hugh Clark and Elizabeth -----, and the widow of Joseph Buckminster.
Abiel and Elizabeth lived in Roxbury, Mass., before moving to Framingham in 1694. He served in King Philip’s War, and was a soldier in Capt. Johnson’s Co. in the Great Swamp Fight in 1675.912 He was in Framingham by 1695, living near Doeskin Hill.913 He was selectman in Framingham in 1701. He probably died by 1710.914
Children:
1. Harbuttle Lamb, bapt. 28 Feb 1675, Roxbury
2. Abiel Lamb, b. 23 Dec 1679. Roxbury, Mass.; d. 1770, Oxford, Mass.; m. Hannah Taylor
3. Jonathan Lamb, b. 11 Nov 1682; m. Lydia Death
4. Samuel Lamb, bapt. 12 Apr 1685; m. Esther Joslin
5. (probably) Dorothy Lamb, m. Daniel Johnson915
911 See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins sketch on Thomas Lamb. Abiel. Was posthumous, his father having died soon before his birth. 912 J. H. Temple, History of Framingham, Mass. (1887), p. 619. 913 William Barry, A History of Framingham, Mass. (1847), p. 312. 914 According to Barry’s the History of Framingham. According to the Settlers of the Beekman Patent, he was buried 16 Oct 1709, but the validity of this information remains unverified. 915 Although there is no primary evidence placing her in this family, we know that the Dorothy Lamb who married Daniel Johnson was from Framingham (according to Marlborough VR), and there were no other Lamb families in the area at that time. There was a Dorothy Lamb born in Roxbury but that Dorothy married first Dudley Woodbridge and second Timothy Woodbridge. 175
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Jacob French (224) and Mary Champney (225)
Jacob French was born 16 Jan 1639/40, in Cambridge, Mass., the son of William French and Elizabeth -----.916 He lived in Billerica, Mass., and was a sergeant in the militia. He married Mary Champney, 20 Sep 1665, in Billerica.917 She was born in Nov 1639, in Cambridge, the daughter of Richard Champney and Jane -----.918 She died 1 Apr 1681, in Billerica.919 It is possible her death was due to complications of childbirth, as she had just given birth to her tenth child a few weeks earlier. Jacob then married Mary Convers of Woburn, on 30 Jun 1685, in Billerica.920 She died 18 Jun 1686, in Billerica.921 A third wife, Mary -----, was drowned 9 Jun 1709, in Billerica.922 Lastly, Jacob married Ruth -----, who died 6 Nov 1730, in Billerica.923 Jacob died 20 May 1713, in Billerica.924 His life was a tragic one, for he lost three wives and six of his 11 children died before the age of four.925
Jacob is buried in the Old South Cemetery in Billerica.926 He died intestate, but there are probate papers including an inventory of his estate. William French was made executor. Besides William, the papers mention Jacob’s widow Ruth, as well as Jonathan Baldwin, Mary Baldwin, William Manning, Elizabeth Manning, Thomas Baldwin and Sarah Baldwin.927
Children, by Mary Champney:
1. Jacob French, b. 20 Feb 1666/7; not mentioned in father’s will; some sources state that he d. 1700928
2. William French, b. 18 Jul 1668; d. 30 Sep 1723; m. Sarah Danforth
3. Mary French, b. 6 Oct 1669; d. 12 Nov 1669
4. John French, b. 6 Oct 1670; d. 3 Dec 1670
916 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (sketch on his father William French) says “16 Jan 1639/[40?]” citing NEHGR 4:56. However from Ancestry.com original image of Cambridge VR, it is clear that the date was indeed 16 Jan 1639/40: “Jacob, the son of William and Elizabeth his wife was born the 16th of the 11th month 1639” (the 11th month being January.) 917 Billerica VR, p. 257. 918 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (sketch on her father Richard Champney), citing NEHGR 4:55. 919 Billerica VR, p. 363. 920 Billerica VR, p. 258. Jacob is called “Sgt.” In this record. 921 Billerica VR, p. 363. 922 Billerica VR, p. 363. She is called wife of Jacob. 923 Billerica VR, p. 363, she is called widow of Jacob. 924 Billerica VR, p. 362, based on gravestone. 925 Mary Beyer, French and Allied Families (1912), pp. 24-27. See also Henry Hazen, History of Billerica. 926 findagrave.com: Jacob French 927 Middlesex Co. Probate Case # 8489, available online via AmericanAncestors.org to NEHGS members. 928 I have been unable to confirm his death date, however. 176
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5. Joseph French, b. 5 May 1673; d. 25 Sep 1676
6. Jabez French, b. 16 Sep 1674; d. at birth
7. Mary French, b. 5 Mar 1676/7; d. 11 Oct 1727; bur. South Burying Ground, Tewksbury, Mass.;929 m. Jonathan Baldwin
8. Hannah French, b. 23 Oct 1677; d. at birth
9. Elizabeth French, b. 8 Jun 1679; d. 19 Sep 1736; bur. Old Corner Burying Ground, Billerica, Mass.;930 m. William Manning
10. Sarah French, b. 7 Mar 1681; d. 16 Jun 1761; bur. Old South Cem.;931 m. Thomas Baldwin
Child, by Mary Convers:
11. Abigail French, b. 20 Apr 1686; d. 29 Mar 1687
929 findagrave.com: Mary Baldwin 930 findagrave.com: Elizabeth Manning 931 findagrave.com: Sarah Baldwin 177
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Jonathan Danforth (226) and Elizabeth Poulter (227)
Capt. Jonathan Danforth was baptized 2 Mar 1628/[9?], at Framlingham, Suffolk, England, the son of Nicholas Danforth and Elizabeth Barber.932 He immigrated in 1635 with his father. His father settled in Cambridge, and died when Jonathan was only 10 years old. It’s possible Jonathan was raised by his oldest sister who was married by 1639. He married Elizabeth Poulter 22 Nov 1654, in Boston, Mass.933 She was born 1 Sep 1633, probably in Rayleigh, Essex, England. She was the daughter of John Poulter and Mary (Pope?).934
Although he was married in Boston, by 1654 Jonathan had become one of the first settlers in the new town of Billerica.
Jonathan was a surveyor who kept all the land records, and he also kept the records of births, marriages and deaths. He recorded the death of his Indian servant, John Warrick, in 1686.935
His wife Elizabeth died 7 Oct 1689. She is buried in the Old South Cemetery in Billerica.936 Jonathan married, second, on 17 Nov 1690, in Billerica, Esther (Champney) Converse, widow of Josiah Converse. Jonathan Danforth's House “taken down in 1878” –History of Billerica
Jonathan was Captain of Billerica’s militia. “When Sir William Phipps led the colonial troops against Quebec in an effort to break the French control of lower Canada, Jonathan, then aged 62, went as one of the Captains of the Middlesex Regiment.... The campaign was a miserable failure but Capt. Jonathan (Danforth) returned safely after the endurance of many delays, extremely severe weather, an appalling loss of life and unbelievably poor management of the expedition throughout.”937
“In July, 1692, during the witchcraft craze the constable of Billerica was officially required to subpoena ‘at their peril’ Capt. Jonathan Danforth and others to appear in court to testify as to their knowledge relative to one Martha (Allen) Carrier once of Billerica, but then of Andover. Jonathan defied the law, and the constable reported ‘According to this warrant I have showed it to Capt. Danforth and his answer is that he can say nothing in ye case that is worth mentioning.’
932 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, sketch on Jonathan’s father Nicholas Danforth. 933 Ibid. 934 Janet Ireland Delorey, “The Poulter Family of Rayleigh, Essex, England, and Billerica, Massachusetts,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 141, p. 218. 935 History of Billerica, p. 108. 936 findagrave.com: Elizabeth Danforth 937 Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, p. 260. 178
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Martha was hung, but if there had been more people like Jonathan, who could ‘say nothing’ she might have lived.”938
According to the History of Billerica, “Our Jonathan Danforth was of worthy stock, and in view of his long life and many and varied services, he might be recognized as the father of the town… His skill as surveyor gave him employment far and wide. For forty years, he probably surveyed every land grant in Billerica, and must have explored every nook and corner of the ancient town. His descriptions fill some 200 pages, in his own, very clear and handsome hand-writing, in the volume of Land Grants; and in locating grants and making surveys, as settlement went on, north and west, he was more frequently employed than any other… He was town clerk, 1665-86, Selectman, Representative, and Captain of the Militia company. His energy and wisdom made his counsel of value, and his piety shone…”939
He made his will in April 1709 and probated 27 Oct 1712. He mentions his second wife Esther (who died the following April), his seven living children, and grandchildren Mary Parker and Samuel Danforth, who lived with him. Eldest son Jonathan was named executor. “On January 1 1713/’4, and agreement was entered into by the living heirs, viz: the daughters (a) widow Mary Parker (b) Lydia Wright (c) Anna Whiting, and (d) Sarah French with their respective husbands by ( e) Simeon Hayward on behalf of his deceased wife Elizabeth, (f) by son Samuel Danforth and (g) by grandson Thomas Danforth, eldest son and joint administrator of the estate of his deceased father Jonathan3 Danforth.”940
He died 7 Sep 1712 in Billerica, and is buried in the Old South Cemetery, there.941
His nephew, Rev. John Danforth, supposedly wrote this poem upon his death:
“He rode the circuit, chain’d great towns and farms, To good behavior; and by well marked stations He fixed their bounds for many generations. His art ne’er failed hi, though the loadstone failed, When oft by mines and streams it was assailed. All this is charming, but there’s something higher, Gave him the lustre which we most admire.”942
Children, born in Billerica:
1. Mary Danforth, b. 29 Jan 1655/6; d. after 1 Jan 1713/4; m. John Parker
938 Ibid. 939 History of Billerica, pp. 34-35. 940 Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. 941 findagrave.com: Jonathan Danforth 942 Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines 179
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2. Elizabeth Danforth, b. 27 May 1657; d. after Mar 1696; m. Simeon/Simon Hayward
3. Jonathan Danforth, b. 18 Feb 1658/9; d. 17 Jan 1710/11; bur. Old South Cem., Billerica;943 m. Rebecca Parker
4. John Danforth, b. 23 Jan 1660/1; d. 7 Feb 1660/1
5. John Danforth, b. 22 or 24 Feb 1661/2; d. 1 or 4 Jun 1662
6. Lydia Danforth, b. 1 Jun 1664; d. 4 Nov 1758; m. Edward Wright
7. Samuel Danforth, b. 5 Feb 1665/6; d. 19 Apr 1742, Billerica; bur. Old Corner Burying Ground, Billerica;944 m. Hannah Crosby
8. Anna Danforth, b. 8 Mar 1667/8; d. 13 Aug 1737, Billerica; bur. Old South Cem., Billerica;945 m. Oliver Whiting
9. Thomas Danforth, b. 29 Apr 1670; d. 31 Jun 1670
10. Nicholas Danforth, b. 1 Jul 1671; d. 8 Mar 1693/4; bur. Old South Cem., Billerica946
11. Sarah Danforth, b. 13 Dec 1676; d. 15 Oct 1751; m. (1st) William French ; m. (2nd) Ebenezer Davis
943 findagrave.com: Jonathan Danforth Jr. 944 findagrave.com: Samuel Danforth 945 iindagrave.com: Anna Whiting 946 findagrave.com: Nicholas Danforth 180
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Jonathan Hill (228) and Mary Hartwell (229)
Jonathan Hill was born 20 Apr 1646, in Woburn, Mass,947 son of Ralph Hill and Margaret -----. He married Mary Hartwell, 11 Dec 1666 in Billerica, Mass.948 She was born in about 1643, probably in Concord, Mass., the daughter of William Hartwell and Jazan -----.
Jonathan lived in Billerica all of his adult life. In 1663 he inherited his father’s homestead. He served as Selectman in 1698 and 1700. He served in King Philip’s War in Feb 1675/6 and in Jun 1676, under Capt. Daniel Henchman. In Feb 1695/6 he served at Groton Garrison under Capt. Wheeler. Mary died 13 Feb 1694/5, in Billerica. Jonathan died after 1717, intestate. Before his death he divided his property equally between his two sons, Jonathan Jr., and Samuel, by deed.949
Children, born in Billerica:
1. Mary Hill, b. 9 Sep 1667; d. 19 Mar 1749 (as Betsy); m. John Fassett; no children
2. Jonathan Hill, b. 21 Aug 1669; d. 15 Dec 1743, Billerica; bur. Old South Cem., Billerica;950 m. Mary Bracket
3. Samuel Hill, b. 22 Feb 1671/2; d. 17 Feb 1762; m. Sarah Page
4. Sarah Hill, b. 10 Oct 1674; probably died young
5. Joseph Hill, b. 29 May 1683; probably died young
947 Woburn Vital Records: Jonathan, s. of Ralph, Apr. 20, 1646 (printed transcription). http://ma- vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Woburn/BirthsH.shtml 948 Billerica Vital Records. 949 Donna V. Russell, “Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Massachusetts, Descendants to the Fifth Generation,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ), Vol. 72 (1984), pp. 10-11. 950 findagrave.com: Jonathan Hill Jr. 181
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①Nathaniel Page (230) and Joanna ----- (231)
Note: Nathaniel Page and Joanna are also Ahnentafel numbers 232-233, since they are the parents of both Nathaniel Page Jr. and Sarah (Page) Hill.
Nathaniel Page, presumably born in England, was in Roxbury, Mass., by 1686, and Billerica (the area later set off as Bedford, Mass.), by 1688.951 The maiden name of his wife Joanna is not known.952
Nathaniel died 12 Apr 1692, in Boston.953 He left a will, dated 11 Apr 1692, which mentions “iron work belonging to the saw mill,” three horses, 24 sheep and lambs, nine cows, six oxen, a farm of 200 acres, and a “servant man.”954
Children:
1. Sarah Page, b. about 1677; d. 30 Apr 1758; m. Samuel Hill
2. Nathaniel Page, b. about 1679; d. 2 Mar 1755; m. (1st) Susannah Lane; m. (2nd) Mary Grimes
3. Elizabeth Page, m. John Simpkins
4. James Page, d. young
5. Christopher Page, b. 6 Feb 1690/1; d. 10 Mar 1774; Hardwick; m. (1st) Joanna -----; m. (2nd) Elizabeth Reed
951 Abram Brown, Genealogy of Bedford Old Families (1892), p. 27. 952 Claims that she was Joanna Morrison are without credible evidence, as far as I can tell. 953 Billerica VR, p. 381. Although recorded in Billerica, the record says he died in Boston. 954 Brown, Genealogy of Bedford Old Families, p. 27. However, I cannot find his probate records on NEHGS, even though NEHGS contains probate records of Middlesex County, Mass., 1648-1871. 182
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John Lane (234) and Susanna Whipple (235)
Maj. John Lane was born in Oct 1660, in Malden, Mass., the son of Job Lane and Anna Reyner.955 He married Susanna Whipple, 20 Mar 1681/2, in Salem, Mass.956 She was born in about 1662, and was the daughter of Capt. John Whipple and Martha Reyner. Through the Reyner family, John Lane and Susanna Whipple were second cousins.
John Lane was owned a large amount of land, including 750 acres from the Winthrop Purchase. In 1688, he was taxed at the highest rate in Billerica, Mass. He also owned land in England, inherited from his father, and apparently rented out. He was an officer in the Indian wars. In King William’s War, 1693, he was in charge of Billerica’s troops. He also led soldiers in the defense of Lancaster, Groton, Dunstable and Dracut, in 1704, and Dunstable again in 1706. In 1711 he received his commission “as Major in the West Regiment of Horse and Foot” from Gov. Dudley.957
Susanna died 4 Aug 1713, in Billerica,958 at age “about 51 years.” She is buried in the Old South Cemetery, in Billerica.959 John died 17 Jan 1714/5, in Billerica.960 According to Lane Genealogies, he is said to have died in military service. He is buried in the Old South Burying Ground there.961
Children:
1. Susanna Lane, b. 24 Jan 1682[/3?]; d. 2 Sep 1746; m. Nathaniel Page
2. Job Lane, b. 19 Nov 1684; d. 7 Feb 1684/5
3. Mary Lane, b. 13 May 1686; d.27 Mar 1783; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford, Mass.;962 m. John Whitmore
4. Jemima Lane, b. 27 Jun 1688; d. 10 Jul 1688
5. Dea. Job Lane, b. 22 Jun 1689; d, 9 Aug 1762; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford;963 m. (1st) Martha Ruggles; m. (2nd) Mary Wellington. He built, in about 1713, what is now
955 Malden VR, p. 49. His birth is recorded as being in the 8th month, 1660. Since in those days, the year began in March, this would indicate October 1660. 956 Recorded in Billerica, but the record says “in Salem.” 957 James Fitts, Lane Genealogies, Vol. 3 (1902), pp. 25-36. 958 Billerica VR. 959 findagrave.com: Susannah Lane 960 Billerica VR, p. 375. 961 findagrave.com: John Lane 962 findagrave.com: Mary Whitmore 963 findagrave.com: Job Lane 183
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called the Job Lane House which is operated by the town of Bedford as an historic museum, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
6. John Lane, b. 10 Oct 1691; d. 23 Sep 1763; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford;964 m. (1st) Katherine Whiting; m. (2nd) Hannah Abbott
7. Martha Lane, b. 1 Oct 1694; d. 18 Jan 1734; bur. Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord;965 m. James Minott, a noted schoolmaster of Concord
8. James Lane, b. 12 Aug 1696; d. 11 Apr 1793; bur. Old Burying Ground, Bedford;966 m.(1st) Martha Minot; m. (2nd) Charity Wellington; m. (3rd) Abigail Farnum; m. (4th) Abigail Merriam
9. Joseph Lane, b. 18 Feb 1698/9; d. before 1715
964 findagrave.com: John Lane 965 findagrave.com: Martha Minott 966 findagrave.com: James Lane 184
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Samuel Blanchard (236) and Hannah Daggett (237)
Samuel Blanchard was born 6 Aug 1629, in England, the son of Thomas Blanchard and Elizabeth ---- 967 He was baptized 30 Aug 1629, in Goodworth Clatford, Hampshire, England.968 He “landed in New England on the 23rd day of Jun in the year 1639.”969 He married, first, Mary Sweetser, 3 Jan 1654/5, in Charlestown, Mass.970 She was the daughter of Seth Sweetser and Bethiah -----. She died 20 Feb 1669, probably in Andover, Mass.971 He married, second, Hannah Daggett, 24 Jun 1673.972 Her surname is sometimes spelled as Doggett. She was born in about 1646, in Weymouth, Mass.,973 was the daughter of Thomas Daggett and Elizabeth Foster.974
Samuel and family came to Andover, Mass, in June 1686, according to a document that he wrote himself. 975
Samuel died 22 Apr 1707, in Andover, Mass. He is buried in the West Parish Garden Cemetery in Andover.976 His grave is the oldest one in Andover that is still standing. His widow Hannah died 10 Jul 1725, in Andover, at the age of 79. 977 She is buried in the South Church, sometimes called South Parish cemetery, but only a footstone remains.978
Samuel left a will dated 21 Nov 1704, in which he mentions his “dear wife,” eldest son Joshua Blanchard, sons Jonathan, Thomas, John and Samuel, “daughter Stratten,” “daughter Osgood,” and granddaughter Dority Storer. He begins his will saying he is “in Bodyly health, through the goodness of God to me.” Regarding John, he says “my sonne John shall enjoy what I have given him by a deed of gift, and what else of my estate he hath in his hand.”979
967 The baptism record gives no mother but his mother could not have been Agnes since he had a brother Nathaniel, baptized in 1631, with mother Elizabeth. 968 Familysearch.org: “England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.” The baptism gives his father as Thomas Blanchard, but his mother is not listed in the record. Also baptized there are his siblings: Thomas (12 Oct 1623), Mary (15 Jan 1625), Steven (22 Jun 1628), Nathaniel (22 Jul 1631, mother Elizabeth), David (2 Feb 2633), Agnes (10 Oct 1633), and another Agnes (8 Apr 1638, mother Agnes). 969 Blanchard Family Records,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 60 (1906), p. 373 970 Charlestown VR. 971 Blanchard Family Records,” NEHGR 60:373. 972 Ibid, but only her first name is given. 973 History of the Doggett Family (1894), p. 345. It is not clear what this is based on and whether or not it is just a guess. 974 See Frederick Nicholson, “The Family of Jonas Humfrey of Dorchester, Mass.”, The American Genealogist, Vol 68 (1993), pp. 21-22, for argument that Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Daggett, was the daughter of Thomas Foster and Elizabeth Seamer, and not the daughter of Jonas Humphrey. Elizabeth (Seamer) Foster married, second, Jonas Humphrey. 975 Blanchard Family Records,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 60 (1906), p. 373 976 findagrave.com: Samuel Blanchard 977 Blanchard Genealogy,” The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 9, p. 26. See also, “Blanchard Family Records,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 60 (1906), p. 373 978 findagrave.com: Hannah Blanchard 979 No. 2612, Essex Co. Probate, online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS, paid site). 185
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Children, by his first wife Mary Sweetser:
1. Samuel Blanchard, d. of smallpox 1677/8
2. Joshua Blanchard, b. about 1661; d. 15 Jul 1716; m. (1st) Elizabeth -----; m. (2nd) Mehitable
3. Jonathan Blanchard, b. about 1664; d. 19 Oct 1742; bur. South Church Cem., Andover, Mass., but no gravestone survives; m. (1st) Anne Lovejoy; m. (2nd) Hannah (-----) Wyman, widow of Timothy Wyman
4. (daughter, probably by first wife), m. -----Stratton, before 1704
Children, by his second wife, Hannah Daggett:
5. Thomas Blanchard, b. 28 Apr 1674; d. 17 Mar 1759; bur. South Church Cem., Andover;980 m. (1st) Rose Holmes; m. (2nd) Hannah (-----) Gowing; m. (3rd) Judith (-----) Hills, widow of Zachary Hills
6. John Blanchard, b. 3 Jul 1677; d. 10 Apr 1750; m. Mary Crosby
7. Samuel Blanchard, b. 4 Jun 1680; d. 17 Jun 1754; m. Sarah Johnson
8. Hannah Blanchard, bapt. 2 Oct 1681; m. Stephen Osgood
980 findagrave.com: Thomas Blanchard 187
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Simon Crosby (238) and Rachel Brackett (239)
Simon Crosby was born in Aug 1637, in Cambridge, Mass. the son of Simon Crosby and Anne Brigham. His father died when he was two years old, and he lived with his mother and grandfather in Cambridge on what was later Brattle Street. His mother remarried when Simon was 8 years old, and moved to Braintree. He married Rachel Brackett, 15 Jul 1659, in Braintree, Mass. They were married by Maj. Humphrey Atherton, of Dorchester.981 Rachel was born 3 Nov 1639 in Boston, Mass.,982 the daughter of Richard Brackett and Alice Blower.
They moved to Billerica, Mass., in about 1662. He was an inn-keeper and large landholder. The house where he lived was owned by the Crosby family until 1877 when it was destroyed by fire. His farm was “near Nutting’s Pond on Bare Hill, about one and a half miles from Billerica Common.” He served as Deputy to the General Court, was a constable, and from 1671 to 1699 served as selectman. Sometimes the selectmen met in his home, which was a large house for that time. In Nov 1672 he was granted permission to “keep a house of public entertainment.” He is said to have been the first innkeeper in Billerica. He was also surveyor of highways 1677- 78.983
Simon died 22 Jan 1725/6, in Billerica, at the age of 88. He is buried in the Old South Cemetery there.984
Simon left a will, which gives to his wife Rachel “The whol use & Improvement of my boarding house and all the rooms therein" also "a sufficiency to provide a maid or a nurs, according to her necessity, and the use of a hors to cary her to meeting, or when she hath ocation to ride forth, and her choyce of two cows…” Also mentioned in his will were eldest son Simon, sons Thomas, Joseph, Nathan, and Josiah, daughters Rachel Kidder (wife of Ephraim), Hannah Danforth (wife of Samuel Danforth), Mary Blanchard (wife of John Blanchard) and daughter Sarah Rawson, wife of William Rawson.985
Besides his will, the probate records for Simon include inventories and executor’s reports. It appears that daughter Rachel was employed as a maid to care for John’s widow Rachel, who was perhaps in poor health. Widow Rachel Crosby’s date of death is not known, but from his probate papers, it appears she lived probably until about 1735/6.986
981 Braintree VR: “Symon Crosby and Rachell Brackett were married the 15th of the 5th month, 1659, by Major Atherton.” At that time, the 5th month was July. 982 Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699, p. 8: “Rachel of Richard Brackett, 3 day, 9 mo.” Recorded in records of the First Church of Boston. Again, keep in mind that the 9th month was November. 983 Eleanor Crosby, Simon Crosby the Emigrant (1914), pp. 67-76. 984 findagrave.com: Simon Crosby 985Middlesex Probate #5369. 986 Ibid. 188
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Children:
1. Rachel Crosby, b. 24 Aug 1660, Braintree; d. 14 Sep 1721, Billerica; bur. Old South Cem., Billerica;987 m. Ephraim Kidder
2. Simon Crosby, b. about 1663, probably in Billerica; d. after Dec 1717; m. (1st) Hannah ---; m. (2nd) Abigail (Whitaker) Parker
3. Thomas Crosby, b. 10 Mar 1665/6, Billerica; unm.; mentioned in father’s will
4. Joseph Crosby, b. 5 Jul 1669; said to have d. 26 Nov 1759;988 m. Sarah French
5. Hannah Crosby, b. 30 Mar 1672; d. 3 Oct 1752, Billerica; bur. Old Corner Burying Ground., Billerica;989 m. (1st) Samuel Danforth; m. (2nd) Enoch Kidder
6. Nathan Crosby, b. 9 Feb 1674/5; d. 11 Apr 1749; m. Sarah Shed
7. Josiah Crosby, b. 11 Nov 1677; d. 1745; m. Mary Manning
8. Mary Crosby, b. 23 Nov 1680; d. 7 May 1748; m. John Blanchard
9. Sarah Crosby, b. 27 Jul 1684; m. Capt. William Rawson
987 findagrave.com: Rachel Kidder 988 According to findagrave.com (grave location unknown), but no proof given, and not found in Mass. Vital records. 989 findagrave.com: Hannah Kidder 189
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①John Brown (240) and Hester Makepeace (241)
John Brown was born in about 1631, probably in Scotland. Robert Charles Anderson, in the Great Migration Begins, explains that he was not the son of John and Dorothy Browne of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.990
John married, in Boston, Mass., on 24 Apr 1655, Hester Makepeace, daughter of Thomas Makepeace and Alice Brasier. Hester was born “say” 1635 in Massachusetts.991 Her name was sometimes written as “Esther.”
According to Paige’s History of Cambridge, John Brown lived in Menotomy,992 and “sold his estate 27 Oct 1655, and four days afterwards bought in Marlborough; in the deed of purchase, he is styled ‘Scotsman.’”993 In 1678 he sold his farm in Marlborough and probably moved soon after to Falmouth. He then moved to Watertown, Mass. His will is dated 20 Nov 1697, in which he is called “late of Falmouth.” His will mentions wife Hester, sons John, Thomas, Daniel and Joseph, daughter Deborah Meacham, and sons in law John Gustin, John Adams, Thomas Darby, and John Hartshorne.994
Children, the first four born in Cambridge, the rest born in Marlborough, Mass.
1. Joseph Brown, b. 8 Feb 1655/6; d. 24 Sep 1671, “killed by a cart”
2. Elizabeth Brown, b. 26 Mar 1657; m. John Gustin
3. Sarah Brown, b. 18 Jul 1661; m. John Adams
4. Mary Brown, b. 19 Dec 1662; d. 4 Jan 1727, Stow, Mass.; m. Thomas Daby (or Darby)
5. John Brown, b. 27 Nov 1664
6. Hester Brown, b. 1667; d. 1667
7. Thomas Brown, b. 1669
990 See Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, vol. 1, p. 257, which states, in arguing that the John Brown who married Hester/Esther Makepeace was not the son of John and Dorothy Brown: “Bond had disproved this by citing a deed in which the husband of Esther Makepeace was called ‘a Scotchman,; and by pointing out that the land records quite clearly show that John Brown had only the two daughters [Bond 731]; the grant of two acres directly to these two daughters especially disproves the possibilyt of a son John.” Unfortunately, like many genealogical errors, this mistake has been repeated endlessly for over 100 years. 991 For John and Hester’s marriage, and Hester’s parents and approximate birth date, see the sketch on Thomas Makepeace in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration. 992 Now Arlington, Mass. 993 Lucius Paige, History of Cambridge, Mass., p. 502. 994 Middlesex Probate #3064. 190
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8. Daniel Brown, b. 1671
9. Deborah Brown, b. 1673; d. 20 Dec 1731; m. Jeremiah Meacham
10. Abigail Brown, b. 9 Mar 1675; m. John Hartshorne
11. Joseph Brown, b. about 1679; d. 11 Jan 1766; m. Ruhamah Wellington
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Benjamin Wellington (242) and Elizabeth Sweetman (243)
Benjamin Wellington was born in about 1645, the son of Roger Wellington and Mary Palgrave. He married Elizabeth Sweetman 7 Dec 1671, in Watertown, Mass.995 She was the daughter of Thomas Sweetman and Isabel -----.
Benjamin died 8 Jan 1709/10.996 He left a will dated 13 Jul 1709 and proved 30 Jan 1709/10. He mentions eldest son Benjamin, sons John and Ebenezer, youngest son Roger (if he “returns home again from sea”), and daughters Elizabeth Fay and Ruhamah Brown, and wife Elizabeth.997
Children:
1. Elizabeth Wellington, b. 29 Dec 1673; m. John Fay. They were the great-grandparents of inventor Eli Whitney
2. Benjamin Wellington, b. 21 Jun 1676; d. 15 Nov 1738; bur. Old Burying Ground, Lexington, Mass.;998 m. (1st) Lydia Brown; m. (2nd) Elizabeth Phelps
3. John Wellington, b. 26 Jul 1678; d. 30 Nov 1717; bur. Old Burying Ground, Lexington;999 m. Hannah Morse
4. Ebenezer Wellington, m. Deliverance Bond
5. Ruhamah Wellington, b. about 1680;d. 1 Jul 1772; m. Joseph Brown
6. Mehitable Wellington, bapt. 4 Mar 1687/8; d. 12 Apr 1776, New Haven, Conn.; bur. Grove St. Cem., New Haven;1000 m. William Sherman. Their son Roger Sherman was a founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
7. Joseph Wellington, bapt. 4 Jan 1690/91; d. 1718; m. Hannah -----
8. Roger Wellington, “went to sea in early life”
995995 Watertown VR p34: “1671. Benjamin Willington and Elizabeth Swetman Joyned in marriage the 7th of December.” 996 Hudson, History of Lexington, Vol. 2, p. 727. He probably died in Lexington, but the death is not recorded in Lexington VR. 997 Middlesex Probate #24037. 998 findagrave.com: Benjamin Wellington Jr. 999 findagrave.com: John Wellington 1000 findagrave.com: Mehitable Sherman 192
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Nathaniel Bright (244) and Mary Coolidge (245)
Nathaniel Bright Sr. was born 5 May 1647, in Watertown, Mass., the son of Henry Bright and Anna Goldstone.1001 He married Mary Coolidge, 21 Jul 1681 in Watertown.1002 She was born 11 Dec 1660 in Watertown,1003 and was the daughter of Simon Coolidge and Hannah Barron.
Nathanial was a tanner and farmer. He served in King Phillip’s War, on an expedition in Nov 1675, under Capt. Richard Beers, who was killed near Northfield, Mass.1004
Mary died 1 Dec 1717, in Watertown, at age 57, and is buried in the Old Burying Place there.1005 Nathaniel died 11 May 1726, in Watertown.1006
Nathaniel left a will, dated 22 Sep 1725.1007 In it, he calls himself a “yeoman,” “being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind.” He gives, to his son Henry Bright, “my dwelling house (he now lives in), barns & out housing, also part of the land thereto.” To his son Nathaniel Bright, various other lands, including “part of the meadow below his back barn.” To his son John Bright, “fifty acres of Wood Land in the Westerly part of Watertown.” To his son Joseph Bright, other lands. To his daughter Hannah Bond, “sixty pounds in money,” and to daughter Abigail Bright, “one hundred pounds in money” and “one hundred pounds in money” to daughter Mercy Bright.
The moveable estate is divided as follows (I have tried my best to interpret the handwriting):
“I give to my son Joseph my oxen, two horses, the oldest and youngest, three cows, two young steers, one heifer(?), ten sheep, and one half of all my Husbantree Utensils.” “The other half of my Husbantree Utensils I give to my son Henry.” “I give to my Son in Law Thomas Livermore Seven Sheep to use at his house” “I give to my son John one Cow, the rest of my sheep not (?) before and my mare and Colt.” “I give to my son Joseph the Bed which I lye on with the furniture belonging to it, also my Saddlery(?) and furniture to (them with Pistols?) and (?) also my great Kittle & one Iron Pott and all my Syder Casks.” “I give to my daughter Abigail the Bed she lyes on with all the furniture belonging to it.” “I give to my daughter Marcy one bed with all the furniture belonging to it.” “My will is that my Linen be equally divided between my son Joseph and my two Daughters Abigail and Marcy.”
1001 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Vol. 1, p. 242. 1002 Watertown VR: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Watertown/Images/WatertownV1_049.shtml 1003 Watertown VR: “Mary Cooledg Daughter of Simon & Hannah Cooledg Borne ye 11th d 10 mo. (1660). At that time, the 10th month was December. 1004 Thompson, Divided We Stand, p. 249. See also Soldiers in King Phillip’s War. 1005 findagrave.com: Mary Bright 1006 Watertown VR: “Nathaniel Bright Deceased the 11th Day of May 1726, in the Eightyeth year of His Age.” 1007 Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass. (1860), p. 110. 193
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“My will is that the Blanketing and Coverlets which my daughters Abigail & Mercy have been at the pains of Making be Equally divided between them.” “I give to every one of my daughters Viz Mary, Hannah, Abigail and Mercy a silver spoon a piece.” “I give to my son Joseph a Silver Tankard and a silver spoon.” “I give to my two sons John & Joseph all my waring apparel (illegible) & Linnen to be divided equally between them only my soft bed I give to my son Joseph.” “My will is that all the rest of my household stuff be equally divided between my son Joseph and my two daughters Abigail & Mercy.” “My will is that my Swine and the Corn be for the use of the Family & (illegible) and the Hay to go with the stock.” He also asks that his house which is not yet divided, be sold to pay debts and defray charges.
Children:
1. Mary Bright, b. 7 Oct 1682; d. 22 Sep 1757; bur. Grove Hill Cem., Waltham, Mass.;1008 m. Dea. Thomas Livermore
2. Henry Bright, b. 16 Aug 1684; d. 24 Oct 1756; bur. Old Burying Place, Watertown;1009 m. Margaret Jackson
3. Nathaniel Bright, b. 28 Dec 1686; d. 14 Dec 1737; m. Ann Bowman
4. John Bright, b. 5 Apr 1689; d. 22 Apr 1754; bur. Old Burying Place, Watertown;1010 m. Rebecca Traine; no children
5. Joseph Bright, b. 11 Jul 1692; d. 1757; m. Elizabeth -----
6. Hannah Bright, b. 7 Aug 1694; d. 1786; m. Jonas Bond
7. Abigail Bright, d. about 1733; m. Capt. John Brown
8. Benjamin Bright, b. 19 Jul 1698; not mentioned in father’s will
9. Mercy Bright, m. John Coolidge
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Nathaniel Bowman (246) and Anne Barnard (247)
Capt. Nathaniel Bowman was born 9 Feb 1668/9, in Watertown, Mass., the son of Francis Bowman and Martha Sherman.1011 He married Anne Barnard 16 Dec 1692 in Watertown.1012 She was born in Sep 1670 in Watertown,1013 the daughter of John Barnard and Sarah Fleming.
Nathaniel died 13 Jun 1748, in Waltham, Mass., in his 80th year. He is buried in the Grove Hill Cemetery in Waltham.1014 Anne died 16 Sep 1757, in Watertown. She is buried in the Old Burying Place in Watertown.1015
Nathaniel left a will, mentioning wife Ann, daughters Abigail Bridge, Mary Garfield, Ann Clark, Grace Coolidge, Sarah Stearns, and Jane Brown,1016 and sons-in-law Samuel Stearns and James Brown. Among his bequests to his wife was his “Negro Man Pero to server her during her life.” He included a stipulation that “After my sd wife’s decease, that then my sd Negro man Pero shall be free, and be his own man, at his own Disposall.”1017
Children, born in Watertown:1018
1. Mary Bowman,1019 b. 22 Dec 1693; m. Samuel Garfield
2. Anne Bowman, b. 4 Dec 1695; d. probably 1777; m. (1st) Nathaniel Bright; m. (2nd) Richard Clarke
3. Elizabeth Bowman, b. 4 Mar 1697; d. 25 Feb 1748, Waltham, Mass.; bur. Grove Hill Cem., Waltham;1020 unm.
4. Abigail Bowman, b. 24 Jan 1700; d. 15 Jun 1785; bur. Grove Hill Cem., Waltham;1021 m. Matthew Bridge Jr.
1011 Watertown Records Vol. 1: “Nathanell Bowman son of Frances & Martha borne the 9 12 [1668].” The 12th month was February, and this record indicates 9 Feb 1668/9. See also Bond, cited below. 1012 Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass. (1860). 1013 Watertown VR, p. 33: “Ann Barnad daughter of John and Sary Barnad born the [blank] of September” {1670]. However Bond (below) says she died “aged 87, lacking 24 days,” which would put her birthday in August 1670. 1014 Death in Waltham VR; findagrave.com: Nathaniel Bowman. 1015 findagrave.com: Anne Bowman 1016 The spelling looks more like “Joan” but it could be a mistake, since Jane’s gravestone has “Jane.” 1017 Middlesex Probate #2635. 1018 All births except Mary’s are listed in Watertown VR, pp. 224-225. 1019 Listed in Bond (above) but not in Watertown VR. 1020 findagrave.com: Elizabeth Bowman 1021 findagrave.com: Abigail Bridge 195
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5. Nathaniel Bowman, b. 21 May 1702; d. 26 Dec 1723, Waltham, Mass.; bur. Grove Hill Cem., Waltham;1022 m. Ruth Soden
6. Grace Bowman, b. 29 Sep 1704; m. Nathaniel Coolidge
7. Sarah Bowman, b. 17 Jun 1709; m. Samuel Stearns
8. Jane Bowman, b. 6 Dec 1713; d. 14 May 1761; bur. Old Burying Ground, Lexington, Mass.;1023 m. James Brown
1022 findagrave.com: Nathaniel Bowman Jr. 1023 Findagrave.com: Jane Brown 196
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Ninth Generation
This section provides abbreviated information. Refer to the sources listed here for further details.
indicates the first male for a given family surname to immigrate to New England. I will only include those who lived in New England for at least part of their lives.
Richard Watts (258) and Elizabeth ----- (259)
Richard WATTS was in Hartford, Conn., by 1639.1024 He died in 1654/5. He left a will dated 20 Oct 1653, with an inventory taken 20 Mar 1654/5. His will mentions “wife Elizabeth,” “daughter Hubbard,” and “daughter Browne.” His widow Elizabeth also left a will, and died in 1666. Besides her two daughters, Elizabeth mentions, among others, a cousin, Mary Smith, in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, as well as a cousin “Geo. Haines that is blind.” Richard and Elizabeth Watts were the parents of Elizabeth Watts, wife of George Hubbard. Sources: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records; Memorial History of Hartford County.
Thomas Scott (262) and Ann ----- (263)
Thomas SCOTT was born “by about 1597.” His origin is unknown. He married Ann ----- by about 1622. Thomas and Ann immigrated in 1634 and settled in Cambridge, Mass. They moved to Hartford, Conn., in 1636. Thomas died 6 Nov 1643 in Hartford, while dictating a nuncupative will. It is unclear how, but a jury found that John Ewe “by misadventure, was the cause of the death of Tho[mas] Scott.” His widow, Ann, married Thomas Ford, on 7 Nov 1644 in Hartford. She died 5 May 1675 in Northampton, Mass. Thomas and Ann Scott were the parents of Mary Scott, wife of Robert Porter. Source: The Great Migration (featured name), which includes a summary of his will.
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Richard Treat (274) and Alice Gaylard (275)
Richard TREAT, or Trott, was baptized 28 Aug 1584 in Pitminster, Somerset, England, the son of Robert Trott and Honora -----. He married Alice GAYLARD, 27 Apr 1615, in Pitminster. She was baptized in Pitminster 10 May 1594, the daughter of Hugh Gaylard. Richard and Alice were living in Wethersfield, Conn., by 1641.1025 Richard served as Deputy for Wethersfield to the General Court on various occasions from 1644-1657, and as “Assistant to the Colony” from 1658-1665. In 1662, he was one of 19 Patentees of the Royal Charter of Connecticut. Richard died in 1669/70, before 3 Mar 1669/70, when an inventory was made of his estate. His wife survived him. Richard and Alice Treat were the parents of Joanna Treat, wife of Lt. John Hollister. Sources: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families. Comments: Their son Robert Treat was Governor of the Connecticut Colony from 1683-1698.
Matthew Marvin (278) and Elizabeth ----- (279)
Matthew MARVIN was baptized 26 Mar 1600, in Great Bentley, Essex, England, the son of Edward Marvin. His wife was named Elizabeth. Matthew and family came to New England on the ship Increase, in 1635, and was one of the original settlers of Hartford, Conn. Matthew’s wife Elizabeth died in the 1640s, and he married second, by 1647, Alice (-----) Bouton, widow of John Bouton. In 1651, Matthew moved to Norwalk, Conn. In land records, he is called a wheelwright. In 1654 he was Deputy to the Connecticut General Court. He died between 22 Jan 1678[/9?] (date of deed), and 13 Jul 1680 (date of inventory.) Alice died between 17 Dec 1680- and 9 Jan 1680/1. Matthew and Elizabeth Marvin were the parents of Sarah Marvin, wife of William Goodrich. Sources: Donald Lines Jacobus, Hale, House and Related Families; Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name).
Probably: Edward Wood (336) and Ruth Lee (337)
Edward WOOD was baptized 29 Oct 1598 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, the son of Lewis Wood and Margaret Holmes. He married Ruth LEE 20 Feb 1619/20, in Nuneaton. Edward was in Charlestown, Mass., by Aug 1639. He was a baker. Ruth died 29 Aug 1642, in Charlestown.
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Edward died soon after, on 27 Nov 1642, also in Charlestown. Edward and Ruth were the parents of Josiah Wood. Source: Janet Ireland Delorey, “The English Origins and Descendants to the Fourth Generation of Edward Wood of Charlestown, Mass.”, The Genealogist vol. 9 (1988).
Probably: Thomas Richardson (342) and Mary ----- (343)
Thomas RICHARDSON was baptized 3 Jul 1608 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, England, the son of Thomas Richardson and Katherine Duxford. He married Mary -----. Thomas was in Charlestown, Mass., by 1636.1026 He was one of the first settlers in the town of Woburn in 1642. He died intestate 28 Aug 1651, in Woburn. His widow Mary married Michael Bacon Jr., 26 Oct 1655. She died 19 May 1670, in Woburn. Thomas and Mary were the parents of Sarah Richardson, wife of Michael Bacon Jr. Source: The Ancestry of Sarah HIldreth; NEHGR 57. Comment: A Mary Richardson was admitted to the Charlestown church in 1635. Some sources claim this was Thomas’ wife; however, Robert Charles Anderson, in The Great Migration, states that we cannot be certain of this.
Probably: Samuel Walker (344)
Samuel WALKER was born in about 1617, according to an affidavit he made in 1661. He first appears in the records of Reading, Mass., in 1650, but may have immigrated earlier than that. By 1655 he was in Woburn, when he petitioned for a license to sell liquor. His petition was granted in 1662, and he was an innkeeper in Woburn until being succeeded by Henry Summers in 1682. The name of his first wife is not known. He married, second, Ann (Roberts) Alger, daughter of Giles Roberts, and widow of Arthur Alger. He died 6 Nov 1684, in Woburn. His widow Ann taught school in town after his death. She died 21 Mar 1716, in Woburn. Samuel and his first wife were the parents of Samuel Walker Jr. Source: NEHGR 57:350-52.
Probably: William Read (346) and Mabel ----- (347)
William READ was born in about 1587. He and his wife Mabel ----- immigrated to Massachusetts in 1635 on the ship Defense. He married Mabel in about 1629. Her maiden
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name is unknown (there is no proof that she was Mabel Kendall.) William settled first in Dorchester, Mass., moving to Scituate by 1642, Roxbury by 1647 and Woburn by 1648. He served as constable in Scituate in 1644. Sometime between 1648 and 1656, William returned to England, and settled at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland. This may be his place of origin. His wife Mabel remained in Massachusetts. William at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, between 9 Apr 1656 (date of will) and 31 Oct 1656, (probate of will). His widow Mabel married, second, Henry Summers Sr., 21 Nov 1660 in Woburn. In Aug 1684, Mabel sued her step-son Henry Summers Jr., whom she lived with, citing “a long list of grievances.” Some of these were, “The food prepared for me was such as my stomach through age and infirmity would not comfortably bear nor such sometimes as my nature did necessarily require;” “I must either be confined to that room without any company though so aged, or else must go to some other house for it having but little quiet when in any other room;’ “Henry Summers affirming that I was so strong to drink that I could lay three men under the table, which knowing I took only for necessity I could not well bear to hear;” “The pulling down part of the end of the house which exposed me to much cold and the often want of comfortable firing and much noise and lumbering overheard and otherwise that rendered my life uncomfortable.” Due to these and other reasons she left the house and filed suit. The county court files contain many depositions regarding this case include responses from Henry Summers Jr. She died 15 Jun 1690. William and Mabel were the parents of Sarah Read, wife of Samuel Walker. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name). Comments: It has been claimed that Mabel was Mabel Kendall, sister of Francis Kendall. This is based on the fact that she supposedly referred to Francis as “brother.” In addition to the fact that this reference has not been found, there are other reasons why should could have called him brother – namely, that her son Israel Read had married Francis’ daughter Mary.
Probably: Francis Kendall (348) and Mary Tidd (349)
Francis KENDALL was born in about 1615 – 1620 (based on various depositions he made). He was the brother of Thomas Kendall. He was in Charlestown, Mass., by 1640, and in 1642 was one of the first settlers of Woburn, Mass. He married Mary TIDD, 24 Dec 1644, in Woburn. She was the daughter of John Tidd and Margaret -----. He is called “Francis Kendall, alias Miles” in his marriage record. He was a miller, and built thae first mill in Woburn, in 1650. He was a selectman for 18 years between 1659 and 1688. He left a will dated 9 May 1706. He died in 1708. His wife Mary had died in 1705, apparently after a painful illness, because Francis’ will stipulates his three daughters be given all of his “household stuff” “fore a requiteall of their great care and pains in nursing there mother my late wife in her last sickness.” Among the children of Francis Kendall and Mary Tidd was Thomas Kendall. Sources: Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines; also see Kendall Genealogy; Woburn VR (which only gives the year of his death, and that of his wife); Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth.
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Comments: Concerning the alias “Miles,” Mary Walton Ferris, in Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, states, “…a tradition has grown and persisted that Francis had been stolen from a Ralph Miles in England, and brought over to the colony; but this seems quite unlikely since his acknowledged brother Thomas of Reading bore the name of Kendall without an alias. Another theory which is advanced is much more probable, namely, that the parents of Francis may have objected to his leaving England and he may have sailed under the assumed name of “Miles,” to avoid controversy. If that were true, he might have used both his assumed and his actual names at marriage for a completer identification.”
Probably: Samuel Blodgett (350) and Ruth Eggleton (351)
Samuel BLODGETT was baptized 12 Jul 1633, in Stowmarket, Suffolk, England, the son of Thomas Blodgett and Susanna -----. He immigrated to New England with his parents in 1635 on the ship Increase. He lived with his parents in Cambridge, Mass. After his father’s death in about 1642, his mother remarried and moved to Woburn, Mass. He married Ruth EGGLETON, 13 Dec 1655, in Woburn. She was the daughter of Jane (-----) Eggleton, who died 10 Mar 1687 in Woburn. Ruth’s father’s name is not known. Samuel was selectman in Woburn for many years. He also served as Deputy to the General Court in 1693. His wife Ruth died 14 Oct 1703 in Woburn. He died 21 May 1720 in Woburn. Among the children of Samuel Blodgett and Ruth Eggleton was Ruth Blodgett, wife of Thomas Kendall. Source: Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines.
Isaac Cummings (364) and Anne ----- (365)
Isaac CUMMINGS was baptized 5 Apr 1601, in Easthorpe, Essex, England, the son of John Commin/Commyn and Amy Greene. He married Anne ----, probably in Suffolk or Essex England, by 1628. Between 1629 and Feb 1634/5, they appear in the parish registers of Mistley, Suffolk. In 1636 his name first appears in the records of Watertown, Mass. In 1638 he acquired land in Ipswich, and in 1652 in Topsfield, where he moved. He was deacon of the church there for many years. He died in Topsfield between 8 and 22 May 1677. He left a will. Among his children was John Cummings. Sources: NEHGR 165:40-41, for parents and baptism; NEHGR 145:240; Parker-Ruggles.
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Thomas Howlett (366) and Alice French (367)
Ens. Thomas HOWLETT was born in about 1606. He immigrated to New England in 1630, settling first at Boston, Mass, and moving to Ipswich (then called Agawam) by 1633. He married Alice FRENCH by about 1637. She was baptized 9 Apr 1610, at Assington, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Thomas French. He was “apparently trained as a surveyor, for he was in great demand in laying out lands and determining boundaries between towns [GMB]. He is said to have been a carpenter [The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes]. Alice died 26 Jun 1666 at Ipswich. Thomas married, second, Rebecca (----) Smith, widow of Thomas Smith. He died between the date of his will, 4 Nov 1677, and the date of an inventory of his estate, 10 Sep 1678. His widow Rebecca died 1 Nov 1680 in Newbury, Mass. Among the children of Thomas and Alice Howlett was Sarah Howlett, wife of John Cummings. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (featured name); The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes.
Thomas Boyden (368) and Frances ----- (369)
Thomas BOYDEN was born in about 1613. He immigrated to New England in 1634, at the age of 21, as “servant to Brother Gilson,” on the ship Francis. (This was William Gillson of Scituate). He settled first at Scituate, Mass, and moved to Watertown by 1639, Boston by 1650, and Medfield by 1662. He married Frances -----. In land records he is called a planter, and later a carter. Frances died 17 Mar 1657/8, in Boston. He married, second, Hannah (Phillips) Morse, widow of Joseph Morse. She died 3 Oct 1676 at Medfield. Thomas died after 1 Apr 1678. Thomas and Frances were the parents of Thomas Boyden Jr. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); see also Thomas Boyden and Descendants.
Richard Holden (370) and Martha Fosdick (371)
Richard HOLDEN was born in about 1609, the son of William Holden, of Lindsey, Suffolk, England. He came to New England in 1634 on the ship Francis, first settling in Watertown, Mass., and then moving to Woburn by 1649, returning to Watertown in 1676, and moving to Groton by 1684. He was the brother of Justinian Holden who also came to New England. He married Martha FOSDICK, daughter of Stephen Fosdick and Anna Harre. Martha was born in about 1621. She died 6 Dec 1681, at Watertown. Richard died between 23 Mar 1690/1 and 16 Mar 1693/4. Although the Holden Genealogy gives his death as 1 Mar 1695/6, this is not supported by evidence and no record has been found to confirm this. Richard and Martha were the parents of Martha Holden, wife of Thomas Boyden Jr.
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Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); also see sketch on Stephen Fosdick.
Abraham Brown (374) and Lydia ----- (375)
Abraham BROWN (or “Browne”) was baptized 22 Oct 1588 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, the son of Edmond Brown and Mary Cramphorne. He married, first, Joan Shelton, 21 Sep 1619, in Sawbridgeworth. He had three children by this marriage. Joan was buried 27 Sep 1628, in South Weald, Essex, England. He married, second, Lydia ----, “say 1629.” They lived for a time in Childeritch, England. Abraham and his family came to New England in 1631, and settled in Watertown, Mass. He became a freeman there 6 Mar 1631/2. He was a surveyor. He was a selectman in Watertown from 1635-41. He may have been the brother of John Browne from whom he purchased land several times. Court records state, years after the fact, that he died in 1650, however, it is possible that he died earlier, as he disappears from town records after 1643. There is a document “purporting to be his will,” but it may have been an account taken from depositions proving a nuncupative will. His widow Lydia married, second, Andrew Hodges, 27 Nov 1659, in Ipswich, Mass. She died 27 Sep 1686, in Watertown. Among the children of Abraham and Lydia Brown was Lydia Brown who married William Lakin. Sources: Dean Crawford Smith, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, part 1 (1996); Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (featured name). Comments: According to Robert Charles Anderson, cited above, there is no evidence that Abraham Brown was from Hawkedon, England, and there is nothing that connects him with Richard Brown of Watertown. The information about Abraham’s baptism, parents, and first marriage is from The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, having been discovered after The Great Migration Begins was completed.
Robert Long (378) and Sarah Taylor (379)
Robert LONG was born in about 1590. He married Sarah TAYLOR, 3 Oct 1614, at St. Alban’s Abbey, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. She was baptized there 29 May 1595, the daughter of John Taylor and Margaret Willmote. She was the mother of 10 children. She was buried 13 Dec 1631 at Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. Robert married, second, Elizabeth ----, by 1634. There were four children by this second marriage. Robert, his second wife, and children immigrated in 1635 on the ship Defense, first settling in Charlestown, Mass. He was an innkeeper and vintner. In 1635 he was licensed to keep a “house of entertainment at Charles Towne for horse & man.” He was given the right to
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sell wine. That year, he bought what was then called the Great House, and turned it into a tavern, which he named “The Three Cranes.” This tavern, in the center of Charlestown, was in the Long family for over 140 years and was finally burned to the ground in 1775 during the Revolutionary War. It is now an archaeological site, and visitors can still see the foundations.1027 Robert died 9 Jan 1663[/4] in Charlestown. Elizabeth died 29 May 1687, “aged about 84.” Among the children of Robert and Sarah Long was Elizabeth Long, wife of James Parker. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); Roger Thompson, From Deference to Defiance: Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629-1692 (2012).
Michael Bacon Jr. (382) and Mary ----- (383)
Michael BACON was born in about 1609, the son of Michael Bacon and Alice -----. He was in Charlestown, Mass., by 1640, and the next year was one of the founders of Woburn. He married three times, all of his wives being named Mary. He married his first wife Mary ----, in about 1636, in England. She died 26 Aug 1655, in Woburn, Mass. He married, second, Mary (--- --) Richardson, widow of Thomas Richardson. She died 19 May 1670 in Woburn. He married Mary (-----) Noyes, widow of Thomas Noyes of Sudbury, 28 Nov 1670 in Woburn. His children included Mary Bacon, wife of John Lakin; Lydia Bacon, wife of Josiah Wood; and Michael Bacon III. Source: NEHGR 90:302; NEHGR 56:365. Comments: Mary was not Mary Jobo. The descent from Lydia (Bacon) Wood, and Michael Bacon III is considered “probable” due to the uncertainty of the parents of Phebe (Wood) Slack.
William Manning (396)
William MANNING immigrated to New England in 1639.1028 According to his own statement, he lived in Roxbury for a few weeks before moving to Cambridge, Mass. He was probably a merchant, like his son. He was in Cambridge by 1640, when he was made freeman. His house was at the southwest corner of what is now Mount Auburn and Holyoke Street, a short distance south of Harvard Square. He is mentioned in a manuscript written by Rev. Thomas Shepard,”The confessions of Diverse propounded to be received and were entertained as Members.” Manning’s confession states that he was an apprentice at age 14, and lived in a place of ‘bad examples” in a condition that was “lamentable.” “But the Lord brought me out of this condition.” Of his journey to New England he writes, “when (the) Lord brought me to sea I was overcome with a discontented mind; meeting there with hard & sad tryalls; as that Losse of
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my wife…” “I lived at Roxbury 9 or 10 weekes; there meeting with some straits at length; Mr. Hooker being here my wife & I desired to come to this place, yet still had a discontented mind not quite got over it, but hearing Mr. Shepard , speaking upon a text to encourage them that newly came to land, that it may be had that which I expected not (tho’ troubled) viz: the life of my wife & child, it began to revive me, & then I considered I had forgotten the mercys of old much more those new mercys.” From this account, most have assumed that Manning lost his first wife at sea, and Susannah, who died in Cambridge 16 Oct 1650, was not the mother of his son. He married, third, Elizabeth -----, who survived him. In his will dated 17 Feb 1665, and proved 28 Apr 1666, he calls himself “of Boston.” He mentions wife Elizabeth, son William, and grandson Samuel Walsbie. He was the father of William Manning Jr. Source: Genealogical & Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England (1902). Other online sources: Michael Roman’s page on William Manning. Comments: The fact that he is not listed in The Great Migration series indicates that there is no solid proof that he was in New England by 1635. Either Manning himself wrote a confession, which Rev. Shepard copied, or else Rev. Shepard wrote about what he’d heard Manning say. The manuscript is difficult to read but experts have attempted to decipher it.
John Warren (404) and Margaret ----- (405)
John WARREN was baptized 1 Aug 1585, in Nayland, Suffolk, England, the son of John Warren and Elizabeth Scarlett. He married Margaret -----. In 1629, he and six others were “presented for refusing to kneel at Communion,” which was a common Puritan offense. He immigrated to Massachusetts in 1630 and settled in Watertown, where he lived his entire life. He became a freeman in 1631. He served as selectman in 1636 and 1640, but later did not play a major role in town affairs, apparently due to his Baptist-leaning beliefs. “His name appeared in 1651, 1654, and 1661, charged with dissent over the issue of infant baptism”1029 and he was frequently cited for failing to attend public worship. In 1661 his house was searched for Quakers.1030 His wife Margaret died 6 Nov 1662, in Watertown. He died 13 Dec 1667, in Watertown, at age 82. He left a will dated 30 Nov 1667 and proved 16 Dec 1667. Among the items mentioned was a then popular book “The plain man’s pathway to heaven,” and his inventory also included “one musket, one sword and one halberd.” Among the children of John Warren and Margaret was Daniel Warren. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins; Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand; see also NEHGR 64, for his ancestry. A recent account of his family is included in the Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton. Other web sites: Michael Roman’s page on John Warren.
1029 Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown, Mass., 1630-1680, p. 71. 1030 Ibid. 205
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Ellis Barron (406) and Grace ----- (407)
Ellis BARRON was born “say 1610.” He was in Watertown, Mass., by 1640,1031 and on 2 Jun 1641 he was admitted as a freeman. He married, probably in England, Grace -----, who was the mother of his children. She died sometime after 1643, when she last appears in the town records. He married, second, on 14 Dec 1653, in Watertown, Hannah (Hammond) Hawkins, widow of Timothy Hawkins, and daughter of William Hammond and Elizabeth Paine. She was sometimes called Anne. Ellis’ name was sometimes spelled “Elliz,” “Ellias,” or “Eleazer,” in the town records. He was a constable (1658) and selectman (1668) in Watertown. As part of his duties as constable, he spent time searching for runaway servants. He may have been Watertown’s first barber. He had a slave named Shippio. He died 30 Oct 1676, in Watertown.1032 He made his will 26 Oct 1676 and it was proved 19 Dec 1676. His will mentioned oldest son Ellis (“Elizoas”), sons John and Moses, granddaughter Elizabeth Barron. His daughters are not named in his will, but the administration records mention Hannah Coolidge, deceased, Susanna Randall, and Sarah Estwick. Among his legacy to his wife was a Negro servant (probably Shippio). The inventory of his estate also contains “Barbers Instruments and Instruments to draw teeth.” His widow Hannah died 1 Sep 1685 in Watertown and is buried in the Old Burying Ground. She also made a will. From it we learn the name of their slave, Shippio, who she gave some possessions. However he is not mentioned in her inventory, so “Shippio may have died the two years between Hannah’s will and her inventory, or he may have been “transferred” to someone else. Ellis and Grace were the parents of Mary Barron, wife of Daniel Warren; as well as Hannah Barron, wife of Simon Coolidge. Sources: Dean Crawford Smith, Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, part 1 (1996); TAG 20:135-136; Bond, Watertown Genealogies; Middlesex Probate #1291; Randall Seaver’s Genea-Musings Blog Comments: Ellis and Grace are also #982-983 in this ahnentafel. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton contains a good transcript of his will, which is somewhat hard to read in the original document (available online at AmericanAncestors.org). Some sources say he was born in Ireland; this may be possible but I don’t see hard proof of it. Dean Crawford Smith, in the source cited above, says he was born in England. Other online sources: Michael Roman’s page on Ellis Barron.
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William Cheney (410) and Margaret ----- (411)
William CHENEY was born in about 1604. He married Margaret -----, probably in England. He was in Roxbury, Mass., by 1639.1033 He was a constable and selectman in Roxbury. He was one of the contributors to the Roxbury Free School. William died 30 Jun 1667 in Roxbury, at age 63. He left a will, which is transcribed in the Cheney Genealogy. In his will, he calls her his “deare and Afflicted wife” and expresses his desire that she be “carefully & sufficiently provided for.” His widow Margaret suffered with a “melancholick distemper” for more than 10 years, which made her “wholy neglect her Calling & live mopishly.” This was recorded in the Roxbury church records of 1673, “this day gave thanks to God for loosing her chain & confessing & bewailing her sinful yielding to temptation.” In 1676 the court responded to her complaint about how her son Thomas was treating her. A few years after her recovery she married ----- Burges (or Burdge). Her second husband had died soon after marriage, however, and she is referred as widow Burge by 1679. She was buried 3 Jul 1686 in Roxbury. She was called “Cheny” in the death record even though she had remarried. She made a will which was proved 23 Sep 1686. Among the children of William and Margaret Cheney was Margaret Cheney, wife of Thomas Hastings. Sources: The Cheney Genealogy; The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton; http://www.treetreetree.org.uk/Cheney.htm Comments: There is no evidence for Margaret’s maiden name being Cule. His ancestry in England is not known, despite some websites that claim otherwise. William and Margaret’s son William Cheney Jr. was executed for rape in 1681.
William Hammond (412) and Elizabeth Paine (413)
William HAMMOND was baptized 30 Oct 1575, in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, the son of Thomas Hammond and Rose Trippe. He was an orphan at age 14, when his father died. He married Elizabeth PAINE 9 Jun 1605, in Lavenham, Suffolk. She was baptized there on 11 Sep 1586, the daughter of William Paine and Agnes Neves. On 26 Feb 1629/30, William was declared bankrupt in England. William sailed for New England in 1631, probably on the ship Lyon. He settled in Watertown. His wife and their three youngest children came over in 1634 on the ship Francis. William was a selectman in Watertown in 1647. Several letters from William Hammond to his “patron” and former landlord Sir Simonds D’Ewes have been published. Among them is the second letter ever written from Watertown, in which he reported “as for the eingeines” (Indians) “we have but few amongst us. They are quiet.”1034 In another letter he asserted that “we have good laws here…we have few that are drunk and there is no swearing for if they be drunk or swear if it be known they are punished.”
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In another letter he described seeing “so many pigeons as might have loaded two or three ships. For two hours we did behold them.”1035 Hammond was apparently religiously independent, and may have been a friend of John Warren. At any rate, on 27 May 1661, the houses of “old Warren and Goodman Hammond” were searched for Quakers.1036 William Hammond was a merchant, and engaged in the export business. The inventory of his estate included “woven and knitted goods, spices, wine, and money on loan.”1037 He died 8 Oct 1662, in Watertown. He left a will, which is summarized in The Great Migration. The inventory of his estate included 331 acres of land, and totaled £467. Elizabeth died 27 Sep 1670, also in Watertown. His children included John Hammond. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown 1630-1680.
John Coggan (418) and Mary Jourdaine (419)
John COGGAN – sometimes spelled “Cogan” or “Coggin” – immigrated to Massachusetts in 1633, first living in Dorchester, Mass., and then moving to Boston the following year. He was a merchant, and is said to have opened the “first shop” in Boston. He was “probably” baptized at Tiverton, Devonshire, England, 5 Jan 1590/1, son of John and Eleanor Cogan [NEHGR 111:10]. He married, first, Mary JOURDAINE, 26 Jan 1619/20, at St Mary Arches, Exeter, Devonshire. She was baptized at St. Mary Arches, Devonshire, 5 Apr 1595, the daughter of Ignatius Jourdaine. She died before 1634, probably in England. John married, second, Anne ---, who was admitted to the Boston church, in 1634. He married, third, Mary ----, after 1639 and before 1652. He married, fourth, Martha (Rainsborough) (Cotymore) Winthrop, on 10 Mar 1651/2, in Boston. She was the widow of Gov. John Winthrop. Her first husband was Thomas Cotymore. In 1652, he donated about 75 acres of land in Rumney Marsh (now Chelsea) to Harvard College. John Coggan died 27 Apr 1658, in Boston. He left a will, in which he is called a merchant. The will mentions his “mansion house,” “two shops adjoining to my dwelling house,” a “garden plot,” “all my farms & land at Rumney Marsh & my cornmill at Maulden & one-eighth part of a cornmill at Charlestown, with all my lands at Maulden, and five hundred acres at Woburne.” He also left a gold ring to John Coggan, son of his brother Humphrey Coggan. His entire estate was valued at £1339. His widow Martha died about 24 Oct 1660, in Boston. Her death was sudden and “not without suspition of poison.” It is thought that she killed herself by drinking ratsbane [see NEHGR 111:15]. Among the children of John Coggan and Mary Jourdaine was Mary Coggan, whose second husband was Thomas Robinson. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); NEHGR 111:10-16.
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William Denison (420) and Margaret Chandler (421)
William DENISON was baptized 8 Feb 1571 in Bishop’s Stortford, Herfordshire, England, the son of John Denison and Agnes Willie. He married, at Bishop’s Stortford, Margaret (CHANDLER) MONK on 7 Nov 1603. She was the widow of Henry Monk. They immigrated in 1631, and settled in Roxbury, Mass. William was a maltster. He also served as constable of Roxbury in 1633/4, and the next year as Deputy to the General Court. Margaret died 3 Feb 1645/6, in Roxbury. William died 25 Jan 1653/4, in Roxbury. Among their children was Edward Denison. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name).
Joseph Weld (422) and Elizabeth Wise (423)
Joseph WELD was born “by about 1599,” the son of Edmund Weld of Suffolk, Sudbury, England. He married Elizabeth WISE, 11 Oct 1620, at All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk. Her father’s name is not known but she was the daughter of Elizabeth Wise (see comments below). He immigrated to New England in 1635, settling in Roxbury, Mass. His wife Elizabeth was buried in Roxbury in October 1638. He married second, 20 Apr 1639, in Roxbury, Barbara Clap, daughter of Nicolas Clap. Joseph returned to England in 1644, where he was arrested “upon arrival for his part in a lawsuit against the brother of Alderman Berkley.” He was, however, released and soon returned to New England. Joseph was a merchant. The inventory of his estate contains a list of items in his shop, such as cloth goods, haberdashery, and spices. The inventory also included items “in the iron work.” The total was valued at £2028. He was also an innkeeper, and was permitted to “draw wine.” He died 7 Oct 1646, in Roxbury, “of a cancer in his tongue & jaws.” His widow Barbara married Anthony Stoddard. Among the children of Joseph Weld and Elizabeth Wise was Elizabeth Weld, wife of Edward Denison. Sources: Robert C. Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); TAG 55:145-150. Comments: Joseph’s mother was probably Amye Brewster. Amye was Edmund Weld’s wife, but it’s possible she wasn’t the mother of all his children. See TAG 55 for argument that Elizabeth’s mother may have died in Roxbury in 1637.
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Thomas Ruggles (424) and Mary Curtis (425)
Thomas RUGGLES was born in about 1584, in Sudbury, England, the son of Thomas Ruggles. He married Mary CURTIS, 1 Nov 1620, in Nazeing, Essex, England. She was baptized Mar 1589 in Nazeing, the daughter of Thomas Curtis and Mary Camp. Thomas and Mary came to Massachusetts in 1637, according to John Eliot, and settled in Roxbury. Thomas died in Roxbury, 15 Nov 1644, “of a Consumption.” His widow married second, Ralph Roote. She died 14 Feb 1674, in Roxbury. Among the children of Thomas and Mary Ruggles was Samuel Ruggles. Source: John Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles (1913). Comment: His son John preceded him to New England, arriving in 1635.
George Fowle (426) and Mary ----- (427)
George FOWLE was born in about 1610 (based age on gravestone). It is possible that he was the George Fowle baptized 27 Jan 1610/11, at Wittersham, Kent, England, the son of Miles Fowle and Iden Throlton. He was in Concord, Mass., by 1638 and was made freeman in 1639. He was in Charlestown by 1648. He was a tanner. He married Mary -----. She died 15 Feb 1676/7 in Charlestown. He died 19 Sep 1682, in Charlestown. They are both buried in the Phipps St. Burying Ground and share the same gravestone [gravestone]. The oldest of the eleven children of George and Mary Fowle was Hannah Fowle, wife of Capt. Samuel Ruggles. Sources: TBD (see comments). Comments: The best source seems to be Descendants of George Fowle of Charlestown, Mass. (1990), but I haven’t seen it. Some web pages make the claim that George’s wife was Mary Tufts, but this appears to be unsupported by evidence.
Thomas Dudley (430) and Dorothy York (431)
Gov. Thomas DUDLEY was born 12 Oct 1576, in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England, the son of Roger Dudley and Susanna Thorne. He married Dorothy YORKE, 25 Apr 1603, in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire. She was the daughter of Edmund Yorke. Thomas sailed to Massachusetts in 1630 as Deputy Governor of the Colony. He was Governor in 1634, 1640, 1645 and 1650, and Deputy Governor most other years up to 1652. He is considered the founder of Cambridge, Mass., then called Newtowne. “Dudley was a member of the first Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and in 1650 the signer of the
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College charter which established the administrative structure under which the University still operates today.” In 1637, as Deputy Governor, he participated in the trail against religious dissident Anne Hutchinson, and supported her banishment. His wife Dorothy died 27 Dec 1643, in Roxbury, “of wind colic.” Their daughter, the poetess Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, wrote: “A worthy matron of unspotted life, / A loving mother and obedient wife, A friendly neighbor, pitiful to poor, / Whom oft she fed and clothed with her store. “1038 Thomas married, second, Katherine (Deighton) Hagbourne, 4 Apr 1644. She was baptized 16 Jan 1614, at St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England [TAG 9:221]. She was the widow of Samuel Hagbourne. Thomas died 31 Jul 1653, in Roxbury. He is buried in the Eliot St. Burying Ground there. His widow married Rev. John Allin, of Dedham, on 8 Nov 1653. Thomas and Dorothy were the parents of Mercy Dudley, wife of Rev. John Woodbridge. Genealogical source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name). Biographical sources: Wikipedia: Thomas Dudley; Thomas Dudley: Founder of Cambridge; Dudley House.
William Hedges (432)
Capt. William HEDGES was born in about 1612, the son of Elisha Hedge(s) and Ann Ward. He came to New England in 1633, and settled first in Lynn, Mass., and then moved to Sandwich (1638) and finally Yarmouth (1643). His first wife’s name is not known; she was the mother of all his children. She died after about 1658 and before about 1667. William married, second, Blanche (-----) Hull, widow of Tristram Hull. At some point before 1670 she deserted him. William was constable in Yarmouth in 1650, and was Captain of the military company in 1659 and 1662. He may have served in the Pequot War (according to Savage). According to a court record, in 1658 he was “presented for threatening to have the blood of Edward Sturgis, upon some small difference betwixt them.” In 1662 and 1663 he imported liquor and ammunition. He died in 1670. William Hedges was the father of Elisha Hedge. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name).
Nicholas Snow (436) and Constance Hopkins (437)
Nicholas SNOW immigrated to Massachusetts in 1623 on the ship Anne, settling first in Plymouth and later in Eastham, Mass. He was “possibly” the Nicholas Snow, son of Nicholas Snow, baptized 25 Jan 1599/1600, at St. Leonard’s Shoreditch, London (see TAG 14:229). He
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married, by 1627, Constance HOPKINS. She was baptized 11 May 1606, in Hursley, Hampshire, England,1039 the daughter of Stephen Hopkins and Mary -----. She he was a passenger on the Mayflower with her father. Nicholas was a carpenter. He died 15 Nov 1676, in Eastham. Constance died in Eastham in the “middle of October” 1677. Nicholas and Constance (Hopkins) Snow were the parents of Jabez Snow. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); John Austin, Mayflower Pilgrim Family Genealogies Through Five Generations (Volume 6); TAG 73:163.
Solomon Johnson (440) and Eleanor ----- (441)
Solomon JOHNSON came to Massachusetts before Feb 1639, when the births of his twin sons were recorded in Sudbury. His wife, Eleanor -----, was probably the mother of all of his children. He was an original proprietor of Sudbury. In the 1650s, Joseph Garfield of Watertown saw Solomon “’go through his [own] orchard to Henry Curtis’s orchard with a drove or company of hogs following after him, and he took a pole about ten or twelve feet long and went about the apple trees and throwed down the apples to the hogs.’ A search revealed stolen stock (a pig, a horse) and goods: shirts, gloves, hay and firewood. Living on the borders between the two towns, Johnson was literally a frontiersman who seemed to think himself beyond the law.”1040 By 1660 he moved to Marlborough, Mass., where he was an original proprietor. He was a tailor. He served as selectman and constable in Marlborough, and was also deacon in the church. He died in June 1687, in Marlborough. His wife survived him (she is mentioned in his will), but no death record for her is found. Among their children was John Johnson. Sources: NEHGR 66:233-34; Thompson, Divided We Stand; see also Parker-Ruggles. Comment: His death record only calls him Deacon Johnson, but it is reasonable that he was the one intended since no other Johnsons were in Marlborough that early.
William Ward (442)
William WARD was in Sudbury, Mass., by 1639. His first wife’s name is not known, and he married, second, Elizabeth -----. He represented Sudbury in 1644 at the General Court, and was also a selectman there. He moved to Marlborough, Mass., by 1660, where he was a proprietor. He had 14 children. He died 10 Aug 1687 in Marlborough. According to his death record, he was a deacon. His second wife Elizabeth died there on 9 Dec 1700, at age 87. William and his first wife were parents of Deborah Ward, wife of John Johnson.
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Sources: The William Ward Genealogy (1925); History of Marlborough, Mass. (1862).
(Probably): Thomas Lamb (444) and Dorothy Harbittle ----- (445)
Thomas LAMB was born by about 1599. He may have come from Barnardiston, Suffolk, England. He immigrated to Massachusetts in 1630, settling in Roxbury. He may have been a “slater,” that is, someone who laid slate on roofs. He married, first, Elizabeth -----. She was buried 28 Nov 1639 in Roxbury. He married, on 16 Jul 1640, Dorothy HARBITLE, “a godly maid” according to the Roxbury Church records. Thomas died 28 Mar 1646, in Roxbury, “of a calenture, by a great cold.” (A “calenture” is a fever.) His widow Dorothy married Thomas Hawley, 2 Feb 1651/2, in Roxbury. Among the children of Thomas and Dorothy Lamb was Abiel Lamb, who was born posthumously. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (featured name); TAG 56:99. Comments: His ancestry is unknown, despite some claims to the contrary.
(Probably): Hugh Clark (446) and Elizabeth ----- (447)
Hugh CLARK was born in about 1613, undoubtedly in England, although nothing of his origin is known. He married Elizabeth ----, perhaps in about 1640. He was in Watertown, Mass., by 1641. He moved to Roxbury, Mass., in about 1660. The following court record is found: on 10 Sep 1665, he “was called before ye church & charged with telling a lye in ye face of ye Court, slandering Authority in saying that his son in law was Committed for Murder which was proved.” “It appeared to ye church yt his soul was sick & needed medicine & therefore dispensed a publick admonition unto Him…Hugh Clark told myself yt his aim & intent in what he said in ye Court was to get some satisfaction & recompense for ye wrong yt was done to his son in law.” [Records Relating to the Early History of Boston]. He became a member of the Artillery Company in 1666, and was paid for services rendered during King Phillip’s War in 1675 and 1676. His wife Elizabeth died in Roxbury 11 Dec 1692, and Hugh died 20 Jul 1693, in Roxbury. Among his children was Elizabeth Clark, whose second husband was Abiel Lamb. Source: A Record of the Descendants of Hugh Clark (1866); also see Alicia Crane Williams, Early New England Families vol. 2.
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William French (448) and Elizabeth ----- (449)
William FRENCH was born in about 1603 or 1604, in England. He immigrated to New England in 1635 on the ship Defense, first settling in Cambridge, Mass., and moving to Billerica, Mass., by 1652. His first wife, Elizabeth -----, died 31 Mar 1668 in Billerica. He married, second, Mary (Lothrop) Stearns, widow of John Stearns. William was a tailor. He sent, to a friend in England, “the relation of one Indian of two years profession, that I took from his own mouth by an Interpreter, because he cannot speak or understand one word of English.” This was, in 1652, included in a pamphlet called Strength out of Weakness; or a Glorious Manifestation of the Further Progress of the Gospel among the Indians of New -England…,” published in London.1041 William died in Billerica, 20 Nov 1681, “in his 78th year.” His widow Mary married, third, Isaac Mixer on 29 Jun 1687, in Billerica. Among the children of William and his first wife Elizabeth was Jacob French. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name). Comments: Claims that his first wife was Elizabeth Symmes, or that he was from Halstead, England, are false.
Richard Champney (450) and Jane ----- (451)
Richard CHAMPNEY was born “by about 1604.” He was from Stisted, Essex, England (several of his children were baptized there), and came to Massachusetts in 1635 on the ship Defense. His wife was named Jane -----. He may have been the brother of John Champney of Cambridge. He settled in Cambridge and remained there. He died 26 Nov 1669 in Cambridge. His widow was living when Richard made his will in June 1669. Richard and Jane were the parents of Mary Champney, wife of Jacob French. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name).
Nicholas Danforth (452) and Elizabeth Barber (453)
Nicholas DANFORTH was baptized 1 Mar 1589/[90?] in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, the son of Thomas Danforth and Jane Sudbury. He married Elizabeth BARBER, 11 Feb 1617/8, in Aspall, Suffolk. She died in 1629 in England. He came to Massachusetts in 1635. According to Robert Charles Anderson, “The range of offices to which Nicholas Danforth was elected or appointed indicates a high level of education.” Among these offices was that of Deputy to the
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Massachusetts Bay General Court, in 1636 and 1637. He not live long in the New World, dying in Apr 1638, and leaving seven children, only one of whom was married by that time. Cotton Mather, in writing a biography of his son Rev. Samuel Danforth, that Nicholas was “a gentleman of such estate and repute in the world, that it cost him a considerable sum to escape the knighthood, which King Charles I imposed on all of so much per annum; and of such figure and esteem in the Church, that he procured that famous lecture at Framlingham, Suffolk, where he had a fine manor…” Nicholas Danforth and Elizabeth Barber were the parents of Jonathan Danforth. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name), Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. Comments: Some have suggested that he had a daughter Martha who married Richard French, but Robert Charles Anderson disputes this claim.
Ralph Hill (456) and Margaret ----- (457)
Ralph HILL was in the Plymouth Colony by 7 Aug 1638. His parents and origin in England are unknown, despite some claims to the contrary. He had two children by his first wife, whose name is unknown, and who died probably in England. He married Margaret (-----) TOOTHAKER, 21 Dec 1638, in Plymouth, Mass. She was the widow of Roger Toothaker. Margaret had two children by her first marriage. Apparently Ralph and Margaret lived in Wellingsley, near Plymouth, until 1643, when they moved to Woburn, Mass. He was a selectman there. In 1654 he was one of the first settlers of Billerica. He served as selectman there as well. He gave ½ acre of his land at the northeast corner of his homestead to the town for a cemetery (now part of the Old South Burying Ground) and he was buried there later that same month. He died in 29 Apr 1663, in Billerica. His wife Margaret survived him. She died 22 Nov 1683, in Billerica. Ralph and Margaret were the parents of Jonathan Hill. Source: NGSQ 72:3-4. Comments: Margaret had two children by her first marriage: Roger Toothaker, who was arrested for witchcraft during the height of the Salem witchcraft hysteria, and died in prison in 1692; and Martha Toothaker, who married her step-brother, Ralph Hill Jr. (son of Ralph Sr. and his first wife).
William Hartwell (458) and Jazan ----- (459)
William HARTWELL was in Concord, Mass., by 1640.1042 His wife was Jazan -----. By 1666 he was a large landowner in Concord. In 1671, he was made “corporal of the 2nd troop of horse for Middlesex County.” He died 12 Mar 1690, in Concord. His will mentions “beloved wife Jazan,”
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eldest son John, son Samuel, daughter Mary Hill, son-in-law Jonathan Hill, and daughter Sarah, deceased. Jazan died 15 Aug 1695, in Concord. William and Jazan were the parents of Mary Hartwell, wife of Jonathan Hill. Sources: Hartwells of America (1956), The Hartwell Family (1895); History of Concord; Concord Vital Records; also Joy Peach, The Descendants of William Hartwell (2007).
Job Lane (468) and Anna Reyner (469)
Job LANE was born in about 1620 in England, the son of James Lane. He was in Sekonk, Mass., by 1643, but returned to England sometime after 1645. He married his first wife, Sarah Boyce, in England in about 1647. Returning to Massachusetts, he settled in Malden by 1649. His first wife died in May (3rd month) 1659. He married, second, Anna REYNER, in Sept 1660, in Malden, Mass. [Malden VR]. She was the daughter of Rev. John Reyner and Anna Boyse. Job Lane was a distinguished “master carpenter” and “bridge builder.” In 1664 he moved to Billerica, having purchased “a substantial tract of land in Billerica from the heirs of Governor John Winthrop.” He apparently owned at least one slave, named Mercury, and also had several indentured servants working for him. He served as Deputy to the General Court from Billerica, and also as selectman. It is said that he built one of the wooden buildings at Harvard College. He was called a man of “marked intelligence, great business capacity and commanding influence in the colony.” He returned to Malden in 1681. Late in life he lost the use of his right hand and had to sign papers with his initials only. Job died 23 Aug 1697, at age 77, in Malden. Anna died 30 Apr 1704, aged 72 years, also in Malden. They are buried in what is now called the Bell Rock Cemetery, in Malden [Job Lane gravestone; Anna Lane gravestone]. Job and Anna were the parents of John Lane. Sources: The Lane Genealogy. Comments: The Lane Family Papers are among the oldest documents owned by the Bedford Historical Society.
John Whipple (470) and Martha Reyner (471)
Capt. John WHIPPLE was born 21 Dec 1625, and baptized 25 Dec 1625, in Bocking, Essex, England, the son of Elder John Whipple and Susanna Clarke. He came to Massachusetts with his parents, in about 1637 or 1638, settling in Ipswich. He became Captain of the troop in Ipswich in 1676, formerly he had been Cornet. His house, still standing, is one of the “finest early wooden dwellings in the United States.” He married, first, Martha REYNER, daughter of Humphrey Reyner and Mary Middlebrook. She died 24 Feb 1679/80, in Ipswich [Ipswich VR]. He married, second, Elizabeth (Burr) Paine, 28 Jun 1680, in Ipswich. He died 10 Aug 1683, probably in Ipswich. Capt. John Whipple and Martha Reyner were the parents of Susanna Whipple, wife of John Lane.
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Sources: Mary L. Holman, Ancestors of Charles S. Pillsbury; for Martha Reyner, see NEHGR 156:316-17. Comments: Birthdate: “from a family record found among the ‘Wheatland Papers’ in the Essex Institute.” The house built by Capt. John Whipple is now the oldest surviving house in Ipswich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whipple_House ; http://www.historicipswich.org/the- whipple-house/
Thomas Blanchard (472) and Elizabeth ----- (473)
Thomas BLANCHARD, said to have been born in about 1590, came to New England in June 1639, on the ship Jonathan. His first wife, Elizabeth -----, died in 1636 in Goodworth Clatford, England. He married, second, Agnes (Bent) Barnes, 15 May 1637, in St. Edmund’s, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. She was the daughter of Robert Bent and Agnes Gosling, and the widow of Richard Barnes. She died in 1639 on the ship, enroute to Massachusetts. He married, third, Mary -----. Thomas lived first in Charlestown, then in Braintree, Mass., and finally in Malden. He died 21 May 1654, in Charlestown. His widow Mary survived him and died in 1676. Thomas and his first wife Elizabeth were the parents of Samuel Blanchard. Sources: Wayne Blanchard, From the Great Migration to the Greatest Generation (2013); Essex Antiquarian; NEHGR 60:373 (for arrival date); NEHGR 17:156-57 (for abstract of his will; death date). See also: Roger Thompson, From Deference to Defiance: Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629-1692 (2012).
Thomas Daggett (474) and Elizabeth Foster (475)
Thomas DAGGETT (sometimes spelled “Doggett”) was born in England in about 1607. He may have come to Massachusetts in May 1637 on the ship Mary Anne. He was a servant to Thomas Oliver of Norwich, Norfolk, England, at the time of his passage to New England. His first wife, whose name is not known, died 23 Aug 1642, in Concord, Mass. He married, second, in about 1643 at Weymouth, Mass., Elizabeth (FOSTER) FRY, widow of Thomas Fry. She was the daughter of Thomas Foster and Elizabeth Seamer. She died in about 1653 in Weymouth. He married, third, Joan (-----) Chillingsworth, widow of Thomas Chillingsworth of Marshfield, Mass. She died 4 Sep 1684, in Marshfield. Thomas was a selectman in Weymouth in 1648, 1651 and 1652. Thomas died 18 Aug 1692, at Marshfield. He left a will dated 20 Jan 1689/90, mentioning sons Samuel and John and daughters Hannah “Blancher,” Sarah Sherman, and Rebecca Wilder. Thomas Daggett and Elizabeth Foster were the parents of Hannah Daggett, wife of Samuel Blanchard.
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Sources: Chamberlain, Genealogies of the Early Families of Weymouth (1923); History of the Doggett Family (1894); for Elizabeth Foster (not Humphreys) see TAG 68:22; Plymouth Probate # 6540.
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Simon Crosby (476) and Ann Brigham (477)
Simon CROSBY was born in about 1609, the son of Thomas Crosby and Jane Sotheron, of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England. He married, at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Ann BRIGHAM, on 21 Apr 1634. She was born in about 1606 and was the daughter of Thomas Brigham and Isabel Watson. They immigrated to Massachusetts in 1635 on the ship Susan & Ellen, and settled in Cambridge, Mass. Simon was a selectman in Cambridge in 1636. He died in Cambridge in Sep 1639, being only about 30 years old. His widow Ann married, second, Rev. William Thompson. She died 11 Oct 1675, in Braintree, Mass. Simon and Anne were the parents of Simon Crosby Jr. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name). Comments: Simon’s parents, Thomas and Jane (Sotheron) Crosby, immigrated after he did.
Richard Brackett (478) and Alice Blower (479)
Richard BRACKETT was baptized 16 Sep 1610, at St. Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk, England, the son of Peter Brackett and Rachel -----. He married Alice BLOWER, at St. Katherine by the Tower, London, England, on 6 Jan 1633/4. She was baptized at St. Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk, on 30 Jun 1615, the daughter of Thomas Blower and Alice Frost. Richard came to Massachusetts in 1632, returning to England in 1633 to get married, and coming again to Massachusetts the following year. He was the jail-keeper in Boston from 1637-40. In 1641 the family moved to Braintree, where he served as Deacon in the church. He was also Deputy to the General Court from Braintree at various times, served as selectman, as well as on various town committees. He died 3 Mar 1690 in Braintree. His widow Alice died 3 Nov 1690. Among their children was Rachel Brackett, wife of Simon Crosby. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name). Comments: Richard Brackett was the brother of Rachel (Brackett) Newcomb.
Thomas Makepeace (482) and Alice Brasier (483)
Thomas MAKEPEACE was baptized 22 Sep 1595, in Burton Dassett, Warwickshire, England, the son of William Makepeace. He married Alice BRASIER 10 Oct 1620, at Alkerton, Oxfordshire, England. They immigrated to Massachusetts in 1635, settling first in Dorchester, and moving to Boston by 1648. He was a merchant. The inventory of his estate “included an extensive list of cloth and other dry goods, far beyond needed by a single household.” He married, second, by 1641, Elizabeth (Hawkredd) (Coney) Mellowes, widow of John Coney and of Oliver Mellowes. He died between 30 Jun 1666 (when he made his will), and 2
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Mar 1666/7 (date of inventory.) Thomas and Alice were the parents of Hester Makepeace, wife of John Brown. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name). Comment: A daughter by his second marriage had the unusual name of Waitawhile Makepeace.
Roger Wellington (484) and Mary Palgrave (485)
Roger WELLINGTON was born in about 1609 or 1610. He married Mary PALGRAVE, daughter of Dr. Richard Palgrave and Anne -----. Roger was in Watertown, Mass., by 1636.1043 He was selectman in Watertown 1678-79, 1681-84, and 1691. He was also constable, in 1663, when his accounts were “so unsatisfactory that [Richard] Beers and [William] Bond were deputed to ‘deal with him,’ presenting him to the grand jury if necessary.”1044 He and his son Benjamin were involved in suits over cattle sales in 1661 and 1677.1045 He was not made a freeman in Watertown until 1690. He left a will. He died 11 Mar 1697/8, in Watertown. His wife had died 21 Jan 1695 in Watertown. Roger and Mary were the parents of Benjamin Wellington. Sources: Bond, Watertown Genealogies; Hudson, Lexington; Watertown Vital Records; Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand.
Thomas Sweetman (486) and Isabel ----- (487)
Thomas SWEETMAN (also spelled Swaetman or Swetman) was born in about 1609-10. He was in Cambridge, Mass., by 1637.1046 He was a weaver. He married Isabel -----. He lived “at the N.W. corner of the present college grounds.” He died intestate 8 Jan 1682/3, in Cambridge, at age 73. Administration was granted to his widow Isabel. Isabel was still living on 12 Jun 1697, and was probably the “widow Sweetman” who “received charity from the church 1691-1709, about which last date she probably died. Thomas and Isabel were the parents of Elizabeth Sweetman, wife of Benjamin Wellington. Sources: Lucius Paige, History of Cambridge; Middlesex Probate #22056 inventory only).
1043 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015). 1044 Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown, Mass., 1630-1680, p. 44. One of the duties of the town constable was to collect taxes and make an account of the money collected. 1045 Ibid, p. 91. 1046 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (sketch on Michael Spencer, whose son married Thomas Sweetman’s daughter Rebecca). 220
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Henry Bright (488) and Anna Goldstone (489)
Henry BRIGHT was baptized 29 Dec 1602, in St. James, Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England, the son of Henry Bright and Mary -----. He immigrated to New England in 1630, setting first in Boston. He may have returned to England in 1631, coming back to New England by 1634. He moved to Watertown, Mass., by 1635. Coming from a “mercantile background,” he was one of the most prominent members of a group of Watertown settlers who were from the mid-Suffolk region of England.1047 He married Anna GOLDSTONE, by 1635. She was the daughter of Henry Goldstone and Anne -----, of Watertown. He was a deacon in the church at Watertown. He died 9 Oct 1686, in Watertown. His death is noted in Samuel Sewall’s diary: “Deacon Bright carrying home chairs, &c. used at Mr. Bayly’s [ordination], is hurt by his cart none seeing, so that he dies October 9, Saturday. It seems he was the only officer left in the church. Several of his ribs broken.” Henry and Anna were the parents of Nathaniel Bright. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand. Comment: He was apparently unrelated to another older (and much poorer) man by the same name, who also lived in Watertown.
Simon Coolidge (490) and Hannah Barron (491)
Simon COOLIDGE was born in about 1632, in England, the son of John Coolidge and Mary Ravens. He came with his parents to New England in 1635. He married Hannah BARRON, 17 Nov 1658, in Watertown, Mass. She was born in about 1635,1048 in England or Ireland, the daughter of Ellis Barron and Grace -----. She died 14 Jul 1680, in Watertown, at age 45 [gravestone]. He married, second, Priscilla Rogers, 19 Jan 1681/2, in Watertown. She was the daughter of John Rogers and Priscilla Dawes. He died 27 Jan 1693 in Watertown. Priscilla died 9 Jun 1717 in Watertown. [gravestone]. Simon and Hannah were the parents of Mary Coolidge, wife of Nathaniel Bright. Sources: NEHGR: 77:274; Robert C. Anderson, The Great Migration (sketch on John Coolidge).
1047 Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand: Watertown, Mass., 1630-1680, p. 14. 1048 Dean Crawford Smith, Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, says she was born “say 1637,” but her gravestone states she was aged 45, and I see no reason to doubt the gravestone. 221
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Francis Bowman (492) and Martha Sherman (493)
Francis BOWMAN was born in about 1630,1049 the son of Nathaniel Bowman, probably by his wife Anna -----.1050 He married Martha SHERMAN 26 Sep 1661, in Watertown, Mass. She was born 21 Feb 1640/1, in Watertown, the daughter of Capt. John Sherman and Martha Palmer. He died 16 Dec 1687, recorded in Watertown, at age 57. He had moved to Cambridge Farms, which is now Lexington. He is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Watertown [gravestone]. There are no probate records. Francis Bowman and Martha Sherman were the parents of Nathaniel Bowman. Sources: Great Migration, sketch on his father Nathaniel Bowman; Bond, Watertown; Hudson, History of Lexington.
John Barnard (494) and Sarah Fleming (495)
John BARNARD was born in about 1632 in England, the son of John Barnard Sr. and Phebe Whiting. He came with his parents to Massachusetts in 1634. He married Sarah FLEMING, 16 Nov 1654, in Watertown, Mass. She was born 1 Sep 1639, in Watertown, the daughter of John Fleming and Anna -----. According to court records, John’s “strong affection” for Sarah was approved by her father, but John’s mother, the widow Phebe Barnard, expressed “some dislike.” This resistance was overcome by a pledge of a £150 dowry by Sarah’s father.1051 John was made a freeman in 1671. There is no record of his death, nor are there any probate records for him. Sarah died 24 Mar 1716/7, in Watertown (Watertown VR). John and Sarah were the parents of Anne Barnard, wife of Nathaniel Bowman. Sources: Bond, Watertown Genealogies; Watertown VR; Great Migration sketch on his father, John Barnard Sr.; see also Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand. Comments: Bond does not list Sarah’s death, but Watertown VR which states, "Mrs Sarah Barnard wife of Mr. John Barnard Deced. the 24th of March 1716/7” could not refer to anyone else. John and Sarah’s son, John3 Barnard, did have a wife named Sarah, but she died before 1694, when John3 remarried.
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Tenth Generation
This section provides abbreviated information. Refer to the sources listed here for further details. indicates the first male for a given family surname to immigrate to New England. I will only include those who lived in New England for at least part of their lives.
Probably: ①John Tidd (698) and Margaret----- (699)
Sgt. John TIDD was born by about 1600, and came to Charlestown, Mass., by 1637. His wife was Margaret -----. John was a tailor. In 1640 he had the task of ringing the bell for church and probably for town meetings as well. By 1642 he moved to Woburn, Mass., where he was an original proprietor. He was a sergeant of the train band. He was chosen selectman in 1647 and also held other minor town offices. In 1653 he was among the signers of the “Woburn Memorial for Christian Liberty.” His wife Margaret died in Woburn in 1651, and he married, second, Alice -----. John died 24 Apr 1656 in Woburn, and his will was proved 10 Nov 1656. His widow Alice survived him and subsequently married William Mann. Among the children of John Tidd and Margaret was Mary Tidd, wife of Francis Kendall. Source: Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. Comments: Some have stated that his wife was Margaret Greenleaf. I have not found a reliable source for this. Torrey’s New England Marriages says “Margaret [GREENLEAF?]” indicating that it was a possibility but he could not confirm it.
Probably: ①Thomas Blodgett (700) and Susanna ----- (701)
Thomas BLODGETT was born in about 1605. He married, by about 1627, Susanna -----. They immigrated to Massachusetts in 1635 on the ship Increase, first settling in Cambridge, Mass. The voyage took two months. He was a glover in England. He died in Cambridge between 10 Aug 1641 (date of will) and 10 Dec 1642 (date of inventory.) His widow Susanna married James Thomson, 15 Feb 1643/4, in Woburn, Mass. He became step-father to Thomas and Susanna's three underage children. She died in Woburn 10 Feb 1660/1. Among the children of Thomas and Susanna Blodgett was Samuel Blodgett. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); see also Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines.
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①Stephen Fosdick (742) and Anna Harre (743)
Stephen FOSDICK was born in about 1584. According to a deposition he made in 1637, he was from Great Wenham, Suffolk, England. He married Anna HARRE, 10 Jun 1612, in Hadleigh, Suffolk. He married, second, probably in the late 1620s, Sarah ----, perhaps the sister of John Witherall. He immigrated to Massachusetts in 1635, settling in Charlestown. He returned to England in 1636, perhaps to retrieve family members, and was back in Massachusetts by 1637. Stephen was a carpenter. He was excommunicated from the Charlestown church on 7 May 1643. The reason for his being excommunicated is not clear but in his confession (many years later) he asked for forgiveness for speaking against the church, and neglecting to “hear the church in their dealings with me.” “Like some of his Watertown neighbors, he may have been attracted to Baptist ideas.”1052 Excommunication was a “rare and draconian punishment…The victim was not only exiled from the circle of the godly elect…but also depreived of all except the most necessary communication with church members.” In addition he was fined the “huge” sum of £20, in 1647, and one of the family houses burned down the same year. A son died in 1649, another in 1650, and, also in 1650, another son was named the father of a child born out of wedlock.1053 After his confession, he was and reinstated to the church on 28 Feb 1663/4. He died 21 May 1664, in Charlestown. In a petition made after Stephen’s death, John Witherall called Stephen his “loving brother,” “who had left behind and aged infirm crazy wife being about the age of seventy-five years, lame on her feet going with crutches, had been his wife nearly forty years, married to him in a single state, upon her marriage to him had six of his children to take care of.” Stephen and his first wife Anna were the parents of Martha Fosdick, wife of Richard Holden. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); Roger Thompson, From Deference to Defiance: Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629-1692 (2012).
①Michael Bacon (764) and Alice ----- (765)
Michael BACON was baptized 6 Dec 1579 in Winston, Suffolk, England, the son of Michael Bacon and Elizabeth Wylie. He married Alice ----- in about 1608. He was apparently in Ireland between 27 Mar and 26 May 1640. His wife was in Dedham, Mass., by 23 Jun 1640. On that day, the Dedham records include an entry stating that she and Mrs. Smith had “lately arrived heer from Ireland have been in our town,” and “howsoever their husbands are not yet come yet liberty is graunted unto them to purchase in our town for an habitation.”
1052 Roger Thompson, From Deference to Defiance: Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1629-1692 (2012), p. 31. 1053 Ibid. 224
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Michael did not join the church in Dedham and may have belonged to the Church of England. He died in Dedham 18 Apr 1648. His wife had died just 16 days earlier, on 2 Apr 1648. He left a will. Michael and Alice Bacon were the parents of Michael Bacon Jr. Sources: Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller; NEHGR 80:301-02.
①Stephen Hopkins (874) and Mary ----- (875)
Stephen HOPKINS was born by about 1582. He was probably the Stephen Hopkins who was baptized the last of April 1581, in All Saints Church, Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England, the son of John Hopkins and his second wife Elizabeth Williams.1054 Stephen’s first wife’s name was Mary -----, who was buried 9 May 1613, at Hursley, Hampshire, England.1055 Stephen married, second, Elizabeth -----.1056 He was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 and signed the Mayflower Compact. He was a tanner and a merchant, and was not part of the Leiden group of Mayflower “pilgrims” who came over for religious reasons. Two indentured servants of his, Edward Doty and Edward Lester, came over on the Mayflower with him. In 1621, Stephen was chosen, along with Edward Winslow, by Governor Bradford, to approach the Native American chief Massasoit to bargain with him, and Hopkins continued to act in that role at other times. In June 1636, Stephen was fined for battery of John Tisdale, whom he “dangerously wounded.” In 1637 he was fined for allowing drinking on the Lord ’s Day, and there were several other times he was cited for minor infractions. He died in 1644, between 6 Jun (date of his will) and 17 Jul (when his will was proved.) His second wife Elizabeth had died some time before him, in the early 1640s. Stephen Hopkins and his first wife Mary were the parents of Constance Hopkins, wife of Nicholas Snow. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (featured name); see also John D. Austin, Mayflower Pilgrim Family Genealogies Through Five Generations (Volume 6); TAG 73; TAG 79 (see footnotes). Comments: It is quite possible that Stephen Hopkins was the one who by that name who came to Virginia in 1609 on the Sea Venture, as claimed by Caleb Johnson and others, but I still consider it an interesting theory, not a proven fact.
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①John Reyner (938) and Anna Boyse (939)
Rev. John REYNER (sometimes spelled “Raynor” or “Reynor”) was born about 1605, in Gildersome, Yorkshire, England, the son of John Reyner and Ellen ------. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Cambridge, on Easter 1622, graduating in 1625. He married Anna BOYSE, 12 Aug 1633, at Bradford, Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of Rev. John Boyse and Joan Stowe.1057 John immigrated to Massachusetts in about 1636. He was pastor at Plymouth, Mass., from 1636-1654. Gov. William Bradford, in Of Plimouth Plantation, writes “And it pleased the Lord to send them an able and a godly man, and of a meeke and humble spirite, sound in ye truth, and in every way unreproveable in his life & conversation; whom, after some time of triall, they chose for their teacher…” His wife Anna died in about 1642 in Plymouth, and soon after he married, second, Frances Clarke. He left the church in Plymouth and became pastor of the church in Dover, in 1655. There, he became infamous for his harsh persecutions of Quakers. One incident stands out. In the fall of 1662, three Quaker women had come to town, and “The Reverend Mr. Rayner, the Puritan minister at Dover, induced the Massachusetts magistrates to apply the Cart and Whip Act to the three women. The women were duly stripped to the waist, tied to a cart’s tail, and whipped through eleven towns, through deep snow, and lashed up to ten times apiece in each town,” until finally a man in Salisbury took pity on them.1058 Quaker writers make the claim that Reyner watched and laughed at these unfortunate woman. 1059 John died 20 Apr 1669, in Dover, N.H. John and Anna Reyner were the parents of Anna Reyner, wife of Job Lane. Sources: NEGHR 156:322-26; TAG 19:139; TAG 72:282; Of Plimouth Plantation; Saints and Strangers (1943); Lane Genealogies; Sibley’s Harvard Graduates v2 (sketch on his son, Rev. John Reyner Jr.); his will is transcribed in the New Hampshire Provincial State Papers (Google books). Comments: See The Correspondence of John Cotton for some letters of Rev. John Reyner.
①John Whipple (940) and Susanna Clarke (941)
Elder John WHIPPLE was baptized 29 Aug 1596, in Bocking, Essex, England, the son of Matthew Whipple and Joan -----. He married Susanna CLARKE 28 Aug 1621 at St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, London. She was the daughter of Stephen Clarke and Elizabeth -----. John “evidently” came with his brother Matthew to Ipswich [Mass.] in 1638, being a proprietor of that town. He represented Ipswich as a Deputy to the General Court 1640-42, 1646, and 1650- 53. Susanna apparently died about 1661 or 1662, and John married, second, Janet (-----) Dickinson, widow of Thomas Dickinson of Rowley. John died 30 Jun 1669, in Ipswich, Mass.,
1057 John Insley Coddington, “The Mother-in-Law of the Reverend Peter Prudden With a Pedigree of the Boyse Family,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 19, pp. 138-139. 1058 Murray N. Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 1, p. 237. 1059 See for example, William Hodgson, Select Historical Memoirs of the Religious Society of Friends. 226
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and left a will. His second wife Janet died 30 Jan 1686/7, in Rowley. John Whipple and Susanna Clarke were the parents of Capt. John Whipple. Sources: Pillsbury Family; NEHGR 160:17-29 (for Susanna Clarke); see also Blaine Whipple, History and Genealogy of Elder John Whipple of Ipswich, Mass. (2003).
①Humphrey Reyner (942) and Mary Middlebrook (943)
Humphrey REYNER was the son of Rev. John Reyner Sr. and Ellen -----. He married, before July 1631, Mary MIDDLEBROOK, daughter of Michael Middlebrook and Grace -----. Humphrey and family came to Massachusetts in 1642, settling in Rowley, Mass. He was a ruling Elder of the church there, and Deputy to the General Court in 1649. He was buried 14 Sep 1660 in Rowley, having left a will dated 10 Sep 1660. Mary was buried 7 May 1672, in Rowley. Humphrey Reyner and Mary Middlebrook were the parents of Martha Reyner, wife of Capt. John Whipple. Source: NEHGR 156:314-316; History of Rowley, Mass. Comments: Humphrey Reyner was the brother of #938 Rev. John Reyner.
①Thomas Crosby (952) and Jane Sotheron (953)
Thomas CROSBY was born in about 1575, probably in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of Anthony Crosby and Alison (Blanchard?). He married Jane SOTHERON. She was baptized 4 Mar 1581/2, in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, the daughter of William Sotheron and Constance Lambert. The Crosby and Sotheron families were relatively well-off. He immigrated to Massachusetts by about 1639, settling in Cambridge, Mass. His son Simon had immigrated earlier. Thomas moved at some point to Rowley, Mass where his grandson Dr. Anthony Crosby had settled. He was buried 6 May 1661, in Rowley. His widow Jane was buried 2 May 1662 in Rowley. Among the children of Thomas Crosby and Jane Sotheron was Simon Crosby. Source: Simon Crosby the Emigrant; also Paul Prindle, Ancestors and Descendants of Timothy Crosby Jr. (1981), which I have not seen.
①Thomas Blower (958) and Alice Frost (959)
Thomas BLOWER was baptized 23 Apr 1587, in Stanstead, Suffolk, England, the son of Thomas Blower and Susan Vincent. He married Alice FROST, 19 Nov 1612, in Stanstead. She was baptized in Stanstead 1 Dec 1594, daughter of Edward Frost and Thomasine Belgrave. Thomas
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and Alice immigrated to Massachusetts in 1635 on the ship Truelove, and settled in Boston. Thomas died before 9 Sep 1639, only a few years after his arrival in Massachusetts. His widow Alice remarried William Tilley, soon after 6 Jul 1640. Alice was a prominent Boston midwife. In the spring of 1649, the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s Court of Assistants tried, convicted and imprisoned her. The evidence against her is not known because court records for that date have been lost. Over 200 women signed six different petitions in her defense. Her supporters attested to her “skills, & redines, & paynfulnes, helpfulnes & Courage.” She was apparently freed and was living in Boston as late as 1665. In October of that year, “in answer to the petition of Mr. William Tilley, the court, having heard what he & his wife could say for themselves, judge meet to order & enjoin Mr. Tilley & his wife forthwith to live together as man & wife, that Mr. Tilly provide for her as his wife, & that she submit herself to him as she ought, on the penalty of forty pounds on his part, & imprisonment on hers.” [The Great Migration, sketch on William Tilley.] The date of her death is not known. Thomas and Alice were the parents of Alice Blower, wife of Richard Brackett. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); for the legal difficulties of Alice (Frost) (Blower) Tilly, see Mary Beth Norton, “The Ablest Midwife That Wee Know in the Land: Mistress Alice Tilly and the Women of Boston and Dorchester, 1649-1650,” in William and Mary Quarterly 55:105-134; also published, by the same author in Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society; The Great Migration (sketch on William Tilley); Heidi Quinn’s page on Alice Tilly.
①Richard Palgrave (970) and Anne ----- (971)
Dr. Richard PALGRAVE was born in about 1593. His parents and place of origin in England are unknown. He may have been from county Norfolk, but more evidence is needed. He married Anne -----, by about 1618. She was born in about 1593. Richard was a physician. Richard and family immigrated to New England in 1630, and lived in Charlestown, Mass. George Andrews Moriarity, in an article in The American Genealogist, wrote of him: “[h]e was a quiet man, who minded his own business, got into no trouble, and buried himself in his profession.” He died in Charlestown between 8 Jun 1651 (date of his will) and 8 Aug 1651 (probate of will). His widow Anne returned to England, and lived in Stepney, Middlesex, in 1656. She was back in Massachusetts by 1665. She died in Roxbury, Mass., 17 Mar 1668/9, her age said to have been 75. Among the children of Richard and Anne Palgrave was their eldest child, Mary Palgrave, wife of Roger Wellington. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (featured name); NEHGR 102.
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①Henry Goldstone (978) and Anne ----- (979)
Henry GOLDSTONE was baptized 17 Jul 1591 in Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England, the son of Rev. William Goldstone and Margaret -----. He married Anne ----- by about 1616. Henry and Anne immigrated to Massachusetts in 1634 on the ship Elizabeth, settling in Watertown, Mass. In Nov 1634 he was one of three men who were “by means of their age & infirmities” dismissed from military training. As he was only 43 years old, one wonders if he had health problems, especially since he died at age 46, being buried 25 Jul 1638 in Watertown. His widow Anne married, second, John George. She died 26 Apr 1670 in Watertown, aged 79. Henry and Anne were the parents of Anne Goldstone, wife of Henry Bright. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name).
①John Coolidge (980) and Mary Ravens (981)
John COOLIDGE was baptized 16 Sep 1604, in Cottenham, Cambridge, England, the son of William Coolidge and Margaret Mayse. He married, by about 1630, Mary RAVENS. She was baptized 14 Nov 1602, in Wattsfield, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Rev. Richard Ravens and Elizabeth Hedge. John Coolidge and family immigrated to Massachusetts in 1635, settling in Watertown, Mass. John was active in town affairs, being a selectman from 1639-1642, as well as 1664, 1676 and 1679. He was also constable in 1652 and 1668[/9?]. In 1658 he was Deputy to the Massachusetts Bay General Court. He died 7 May 1691 in Watertown, aged 88 [gravestone]. His widow Mary died 22 Aug 1691, in Watertown [gravestone]. John and Mary Coolidge were the parents of Simon Coolidge. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name).
①Nathaniel Bowman (984) and Anna ----- (?) (985)
Nathaniel BOWMAN was born in about 1605. His parents’ names and origin in England are unknown. He immigrated to Massachusetts in 1630, settling in Watertown. He married Anna -- ---. In 1633/4, Richard Williams and others were fined for drunkenness at Nathaniel’s house. Nathaniel was Deputy to the General Court in 1636, but he did otherwise take part in town affairs. He moved to Cambridge in 1651, in a part of town that later became Lexington. There is no evidence that he ever joined the church either in Watertown or in Cambridge. Nathaniel died 26 Jan 1681/2, in Cambridge. His wife’s death is not recorded, but she must have died before 21 Oct 1679 when Nathaniel made his will and didn’t mention her. Nathaniel and Anna (?) were the parents of Francis Bowman. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (featured name).
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Comments: It is possible that Nathaniel may have married twice, and if so, that his son Francis was by his first wife and not by Anna. It is also possible that Nathaniel returned to England in about 1631, perhaps to marry.
①John Sherman (986) and Martha Palmer (987)
Capt. John SHERMAN was baptized 3 Sep 1612, in Great Horkesley, Essex, England, the son of John Sherman and Grace Ravens. He immigrated to Massachusetts in 1634 on the ship Elizabeth. He married, by 1638, Martha PALMER, daughter of William Palmer and Mary Stamforth. John Sherman was very active in the affairs of Watertown. He was selectman many different times, from 1626-1680. He was town clerk from 1664-1665, and was in the Watertown train band, as Sergeant (by 1652), Ensign (by 1655), Lieutenant (by 1675) and finally Captain (by 1680). He was also town surveyor, and served as Deputy to the Massachusetts Bay General Court on three different occasions. “Probably no other one man carried on more of the town’s business.” [Great Little Watertown]. However, he was not without faults, as the “seems to have been prickly, proud and provocative,” and “the 1655 commissioner’s report criticized his lack of expertise.” After losing a court case in 1669 he virtually disappeared from public life. [Divided We Stand]. He was appointed schoolmaster in 1677. When a new schoolmaster was appointed by the town in 1679, Sherman “refused to give up the key of the school house.” On 31 Dec 1679,the town, apparently giving in, voted that he was to keep the school as formerly. He continued to act as schoolmaster until Apr 1682. He died 25 Jan 1690/1, in Watertown. His widow Martha died 7 Feb 1700[/1?] in Watertown. John and Martha were the parents of Martha Sherman, wife of Francis Bowman. Sources: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name); Great Little Watertown, A Tercentary History 1630-1930; Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand, Watertown, Mass., 1630-1680 (2001); Sherman Genealogy, p. 118-122; (1920, caveat); Bond, Watertown. Comments: John and Martha were great-grandparents of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
①John Barnard (988) and Phebe Whiting (989)
John BARNARD was born in about 1607. His parents’ names and origin in England are unknown. He immigrated to Massachusetts in 1634, on the ship Elizabeth, and settled in Watertown. He married, in England, by about 1632, Phebe WHITING. She was the daughter of Anthony Whiting and Anne Sherman, of Dedham, Essex, England.1060
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John was a selectman in Watertown in 1643. He was buried in Watertown on 23 Jun 1646, being only about 39 years old. His widow Phebe did not remarry. She was involved in several land disputes. She died 1 Aug 1685, in Watertown. The inventory of her estate included over 300 acres of land. John and Phebe were the parents of John Barnard Jr. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration (featured name).
①John Fleming (990) and Anna ----- (991)
John FLEMING was born in about 1597,1061 and immigrated to Massachusetts by 1639, 1062 settling in Watertown, Mass., where was a maltster. He is listed on the Watertown Founder’s monument. He married Anna ------. In 1649 he was a selectman of Watertown. In 1650 Phebe Page sued John and his wife for “slanderously saying that she was with child.” Fleming defended himself saying that his words were based on “the common practice of Phebe Page & the report of her own friends.” The suit was withdrawn because many of Phebe’s own family did not support her and Phebe had quite a reputation. On 8 Jun 1654 he had an 8-year contract with an apprentice named Thomas Brabrook. John died 4 Jun 1657 at age 60 and Anna died 11 Nov 1657,1063 both in Watertown. Anna left a will mentioning Sarah Barnard. After Their deaths, in 1658, a court case involved the executors of the estate. A debt was contested because John’s malt was said to have been overpriced and of poor quality. Various people testified in this case, including John Clough who maintained that Fleming’s malt was “very defective…not sufficiently dried and besides very much eaten with the weevils.” Even Ensign John Sherman, who was one of the executors, stated that “good beer could not be made of Fleming’s malt, it was so bad.” John and Anna were the parents of Sarah Fleming, wife of John Barnard Jr. Sources: Bond, Watertown; Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand (for the court case involving poor quality malt); Middlesex Probate #7803 (inventory of John’s estate; I cannot find probate records for Anna); for Phebe Page’s suit, see The Great Migration sketch on her father John Page.
1061 Roger Thompson, Divided We Stand, Watertown, Mass., 1630-1680 (2001), p. 183, states that he died at age 60. His age is not given in Watertown VR or in Bond, however. 1062 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015). 1063 Watertown VR calls her “Hannah.” 231
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Eleventh Generation
This section provides abbreviated information. Refer to the sources listed here for further details. indicates the first male for a given family surname to immigrate to New England.
At this time, only one family group in the 11th generation for Edgar W. Hubbard’s ancestors is known to have lived in New England.
①William Palmer (1972) and Mary Stamforth (1973)
William PALMER was born in about 1585, probably in Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk, England. He was “probably” the son of Ambrose Palmer of Ormesby. He married Mary STAMFORTH, 30 Jan 1608 in Ranworth, Norfolk, England. In September 1637 William was excommunicated from the church in Ormesby, for not attending church, apparently due to his Puritan beliefs. William immigrated probably in 1637 and certainly by 1638, settling first in Newbury, Mass., and by 1638, Hampton, N.H. It is not certain whether his wife Mary came with him to New England. At some point, after 1638, he married, second, Ann -----, who is said to have been a widow when she married him. The date of William’s death is not known, but it was after 1644, and probably in 1646 or 1647. William Palmer and Mary Stamforth were the parents of Martha Palmer, wife of John Sherman. Source: John C. Palmer, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of William Palmer (1998). Comment: Another William Palmer immigrated to Watertown, Mass., according to Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015), which lists them separately.
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Here Lies: A Graveyard Guide
The following is a list of Edgar Worthington Hubbard’s ancestors (including himself) for whom there are gravestone photos on findagrave.com. The state is assumed to be Massachusetts unless otherwise specified. The first column is the ahnentafel number relative to Edgar W. Hubbard. (**) indicates husband and wife shared the same gravestone.
Note: Many years ago, long before the internet (and hence findagrave.com), my Grandfather had an idea of writing a book about the burial places of famous people. As far as I know, he never got far with this idea, but he did have a title in mind: “Here Lies: A Graveyard Guide.”
A# Name Findagrave Photo? Cemetery City & State 1 Edgar Worthington Hubbard Edgar W. Hubbard gravestone Ft. Lincoln Brentwood, MD 2 Artemas S. Hubbard Artemas S. Hubbard gravestone Oakwood Floyd, IA 3 Susan (Jenison) Hubbard Susan Hubbard gravestone Oakwood Floyd, IA 6 Josiah Jenison Josiah Jenison gravestone Northam Shrewsbury, VT 7 Susanna (French) Jenison Susanna Jenison gravestone Northam Shrewsbury, VT 10 William Slack William Slack gravestone (**) Kibling Strafford, VT 11 Alice (Woods) Slack Alice Slack gravestone (**) Kibling Strafford, VT 14 Nathaniel French Nathaniel French gravestone Middletown Grafton, VT 16 Joseph Hubbard Joseph Hubbard gravestone Old Farm Hill Middletown, CT 17 Elizabeth (Hollister) Hubbard Elizabeth Hubbard gravestone Old Farm Hill Middletown, CT 18 Timothy Hubbard Timothy Hubbard gravestone Middletown Middletown Springs Springs, VT 19 Abiah (Porter) Hubbard Abiah Hubbard gravestone Middletown Middletown Springs Springs, VT 25 Abigail (Mead) Jenison Abigail Jenison gravestone Adams Barre 26 Joseph Robinson Joseph Robinson gravestone Adams Barre 27 Martha (Hedge) Robinson Martha Robinson gravestone Adams Barre 28 Jonas French Jonas French gravestone Old South Billerica 29 Hannah (Page) French Hannah French gravestone Old South Billerica 30 Nathaniel Bowman Brown Bowman Brown gravestone Plymouth Notch Plymouth, VT 31 Abigail (Page) Brown Abigail Brown gravestone Plymouth Notch Plymouth, VT 32 John Hubbard John Hubbard gravestone Old Farm Hill Middletown, CT 33 Mary (Phillips) Hubbard Mary Hubbard gravestone Old Farm Hill Middletown, CT 37 Martha (Peck) Hubbard Martha Hubbard gravestone Maple Berlin, CT 46 Josiah Boyden Josiah Boyden gravestone Old Burying Grd Groton 47 Eunice (Parker) Boyden Eunice Boyden gravestone Old Burying Grd Groton 48 Samuel Jennison d 1730 Samuel Jennison gravestone Old Burying Pl Watertown 50 Hopestill Mead d 1750 Hopestill Mead gravestone Old Burying Grd Lexington 52 James Robinson James Robinson gravestone (**) Old Hardwick Hardwick 53 Patience (Ruggles) Robinson Patience Robinson gravestone Old Hardwick Hardwick (**) 56 William French d 1776 William French gravestone Old South Billerica 57 Joanna (Hill) French Joanna French gravestone Old South Billerica 58 Nathaniel Page Nathaniel Page gravestone Old Burying Grd Bedford 59 Hannah (Blanchard) Page Hannah Page gravestone Old Burying Grd Bedford 60 Daniel Brown d 1796 Daniel Brown gravestone Plymouth Notch Plymouth, VT 88 Nathaniel Woods Nathaniel Woods gravestone Old Burying Grd Groton
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89 Alice (Goble?) Woods Alice Woods gravestone Old Burying Grd Groton 102 John Hastings John Hastings gravestone Grove Hill Waltham 103 Abigail (Hammond) Hastings Abigail Hastings gravestone Grove Hill Waltham 106 Samuel Ruggles Samuel Ruggles gravestone Eliot Burying Grd Roxbury 108 Samuel Hedge Samuel Hedge gravestone Cove Bur. Grd Eastham 112 William French d 1723 William French gravestone Old South Billerica 113 Sarah Davis Sarah Davis gravestone South Burying Pl Concord 114 Samuel Hill d 1762 Samuel Hill gravestone Old South Billerica 115 Sarah Hill d 1758 Sarah Hill gravestone Old South Billerica 116 Nathaniel Page d 1755 Nathaniel Page gravestone Old Burying Grd. Bedford 117 Susanna Page d 1746 Susanna Page gravestone Old Burying Grd Bedford 120 Joseph Brown d 1764 Joseph Brown gravestone Old Burying Grd Lexington 121 Ruhamah (Wellington) Ruhamah Brown gravestone Old Burying Grd Lexington Brown 122 Nathaniel Bright d 1737 Nathaniel Bright gravestone Old Burying Grd Watertown 172 Samuel Walker (probably) Samuel Walker gravestone First Bur. Woburn Ground 198 William Manning, d. 1690 William Manning gravestone Old Burying Grd. Cambridge 199 Dorothy Manning, d 1692 Dorothy Manning gravestone Old Burying Grd. Cambridge 206 John Hammond John Hammond gravestone Old Burying Grd Watertown 210 Elizabeth Denison d 1717 Elizabeth Denison gravestone Eliot Burying Grd Roxbury 212 Samuel Ruggles, d. 1692 Samuel Ruggles gravestone Eliot Burying Grd Roxbury 214 Rev. John Woodbridge John Woodbridge gravestone First Parish Newbury 216 Elisha Hedge Elisha Hedge gravestone Ancient Cem. Yarmouth 224 Jacob French d 1713 Jacob French gravestone Old South Billerica 226 Jonathan Danforth d 1712 Jonathan Danforth gravestone Old South Billerica 227 Elizabeth Danforth d 1689 Elizabeth Danforth gravestone Old South Billerica 234 John Lane d 1715 John Lane gravestone Old South Billerica 235 Susannah (Whipple) Lane Susanna Lane gravestone Old South Billerica 236 Samuel Blanchard Samuel Blanchard Gravestone West Parish Andover 237 Hannah (Daggett) Blanchard Hannah Blanchard (footstone) South Parish Andover 238 Simon Crosby Simon Crosby gravestone Old South Billerica 245 Mary Bright d 1717 Mary Bright gravestone Old Burying Grd Watertown 246 Nathaniel Bowman Nathaniel Bowman gravestone Grove Hill Waltham 247 Anne (Barnard) Bowman Anne Bowman gravestone Old Burying Gr Watertown 426 George Fowle George Fowle gravestone Phipps St. Charlestown 427 Mary Fowle Mary Fowle gravestone (**) Phipps St. Charlestown 430 Thomas Dudley, d. 1653 Thomas Dudley gravestone Eliot Burying Grd Roxbury 468 Job Lane, d. 1697 Job Lane gravestone Bell Rock Cem. Malden 469 Anna Lane, d. 1704 Anna Lane gravestone Bell Rock Cem. Malden 491 Hannah Coolidge d 1680 Hannah Coolidge gravestone Old Burying Grd Watertown 492 Francis Bowman, d. 1687 Francis Bowman gravestone Old Burying Grd Watertown 980 John Coolidge d 1691 John Coolidge gravestone Old Burying Grd Watertown 981 Mary Coolidge d 1691 Mary Coolidge gravestone Old Burying Grd Watertown
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Jenison Bible
Marriages from the Bible Record, Josiah Jenison’s Bible, 1830:
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Births from Jenison Bible:
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Brown Family Document
…Martha Jonas, Hannah, Mary. Nathaniel Bowman Brown was born July 16th 1737 and died July 30th 1806. He was married January 1765 to Abigail Page who was born Sept. 5th 1745 and died Aug. 8th 1799, they had 10 children. Susanna, Abigail, Nathaniel, Anna, Daniel, Hannah, Thomas, Joseph, Ruhamah, and Mary. Susanna Brown was born Oct 24th 1765. She was married Sept 11th, 1783 to Nathaniel French who was born April 11th 1760. They had 15 children, Nathaniel, Susanna, Jonas who died April 10th 1793, aged 6 years, Lucinda, , Nancy, who died May 30th 1823 age 31, Jonas, Daniel, Jerusha, Lydia, Erastus, Anthony, Sophronia, James Henry , Leander, and Diana.
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First Arrivals
Robert Charles Anderson, as part of the Great Migration Study project, has produced a series of books carefully documenting known New England immigrants who came during the years 1620- 1635. The following of Edgar Hubbard’s ancestors are listed in these books (The Great Migration Begins, and The Great Migration.) Since the books are available online through paid subscriptions via Ancestry as well as the New England Historical & Genealogical Society, I need not list the volume and page, as they are easily to look up. Note that not being included in this series is not proof that an ancestor was not here by 1635, however, it does indicate that currently there is not sufficient evidence to say that they were.
Date A# Name Ship First Residence
1620 874 Stephen Hopkins Mayflower Plymouth
1623 436 Nicholas Snow Anne Plymouth
1630 196 Isaac Stearns Watertown
1630 366 Thomas Howlett Boston
1630 404 John Warren Watertown
1630 430 Thomas Dudley Charlestown 1630 444 (probably) Thomas Lamb Roxbury
1630 488 Henry Bright Boston
1630 970 Richard Palgrave Charlestown
1630 984 Nathaniel Bowman Watertown
1631 374 Abraham Brown Watertown
1631 420 William Denison Roxbury
1631 412 William Hammond Lyon? Watertown
1632 478 Richard Brackett Boston
1633 418 John Coggan Dorchester
1633 432 William Hedges Lynn
1634 204 Thomas Hastings Elizabeth Watertown
1634 978 Henry Goldstone Elizabeth Watertown
1634 986 John Sherman Elizabeth Watertown
1634 988 John Barnard Elizabeth Watertown
1634 368 Thomas Boyden Francis Scituate
1634 370 Richard Holden Francis Watertown
1634 214 John Woodbridge Mary & John Ipswich 1634 262 Thomas Scott Cambridge
1635 422 Joseph Weld Roxbury
1635 452 Nicholas Danforth Cambridge
1635 482 Thomas Makepeace Dorchester
1635 742 Stephen Fosdick Charlestown
1635 980 John Coolidge Watertown 1635 346 (probably) William Read Defense Dorchester
1635 378 Robert Long Defense Charlestown
1635 448 William French Defense Cambridge
1635 450 Richard Champney Defense Cambridge
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Date A# Name Ship First Residence
1635 278 Matthew Marvin Increase Hartford, CT 1635 700 (probably) Thomas Blodgett Increase Cambridge
1635 194 Francis Newcomb Planter Watertown
1635 476 Simon Crosby Susan & Ellen Cambridge
1635 958 Thomas Blower Truelove Boston
With the publication of Robert Charles Anderson’s The Great Migration Directory, it is now possible to include, with some certainty, the year of arrival for colonists who came between 1636 and 1640:
Date A# Name Residences 1636 192 Robert Jennison Watertown 1636 342 (probably) Thomas Richardson Charlestown, Woburn 1636 364 Isaac Cummings Watertown, Ipswich, Topsfield 1636 484 Roger Wellington Watertown 1636 938 John Reyner Plymouth, Dover 1637 200 Gabriel Mead Dorchester 1637 424 Thomas Ruggles Roxbury 1637 474 Thomas Doggett Concord, Weymouth, Marshfield 1637 486 Thomas Swetman Cambridge 1637 698 (probably) John Tidd Charlestown, Woburn 1637 1972 William Palmer Newbury , Hampton 1638 208 Thomas Robinson Roxbury, Scituate, Boston 1638 426 George Fowle Concord, Charlestown 1638 456 Ralph Hill Plymouth 1638 940 John Whipple Ipswich 1639 128 George Hubbard Hartford, Middletown 1639 148 Paul Peck Hartford 1639 150 John Bayse Hartford 1639 258 Richard Watts Hartford 1639 336 (probably) Edward Wood Charlestown 1639 396 William Manning Roxbury, Cambridge, Boston 1639 410 William Cheney Roxbury 1639 440 Solomon Johnson Sudbury 1639 442 William Ward Sudbury 1639 472 Thomas Blanchard Braintree, Charlestown 1639 952 Thomas Crosby Cambridge, Rowley 1639 990 John Fleming Watertown 1640 188 James Parker Woburn, Chelmsford, Groton 1640 348 (probably) Francis Kendall Woburn 1640 406 Ellis Barron Watertown 1640 458 William Hartwell Concord 1640 764 Michael Bacon Dedham
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Miscellaneous Facts and Superlatives
The following are some facts, statistics, and superlatives for Edgar Hubbard’s known ancestors:
Oldest: Timothy Hubbard, who died at age 97 according to his gravestone.
Died Youngest: Simon Crosby, who died at about age 30.
Average age: Surprisingly I calculate an average age of about 70 for men, and 69 for women. Of course, that does not mean that this was the average for the general population, because I am only including ancestors who necessarily lived to childbearing age.
Most Children: Nathaniel and Susanna (Brown) French had 15 children – and all but one of them lived to adulthood and married. Two other couples had 14. The average number of children per couple was 8, and around one-third of couples had 10 or more children. Only two couples, Edgar and Nettie (Buel) Hubbard, and Hopestill and Abigail (Mead) had only children.
Earliest marriage: Martha Hedge, Elizabeth Weld, and Sarah Fleming were each about 15 at the time of their marriage. Men were at least 20.
Longest marriage: Both Timothy Hubbard and Abiah Porter, and Joseph Brown and Ruhamah Wellington were married about 64 years.
Number of marriages: Jacob French and John Coggan had 4 wives. I find none of Edgar’s female ancestors with more than 2 husbands. 45 of 151 (30%) of his male ancestors had 2 or more wives. Only 16 of 147 known female ancestors (11%) had two husbands.
First born in America: It is possible that Francis Bowman, born in 1630, was born in Massachusetts, but not certain. His parents immigrated in that year. Lydia (Brown) Lakin was born 22 Mar 1631/2, in Watertown.
Earliest Gravestone still standing: Hannah (Barron) Coolidge died in 1680 and is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Watertown, Mass.
Causes of death: Some of the more interesting ones: Daniel Goble was executed by hanging, his crime was killing friendly Indians; his wife Hannah (Brewer) (Goble) Roper was killed by Indians; William Slack was killed “by the falling of a tree.”
Slavery: Although not common in New England, I was surprised to learn that some of my ancestors owned slaves: Nathaniel Bowman, Ellis Barron and Job Lane.
Mayflower Ancestor: Edgar Hubbard had one Mayflower ancestor, Stephen Hopkins.
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Occupations: Most of Edgar’s ancestors were farmers. Thomas Dudley, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was probably the most prominent of Edgar’s ancestors, although perhaps not an exemplary man considering his harsh treatment of Anne Hutchinson. Job Lane was a “master carpenter and builder.” Robert Long was proprietor of the Three Cranes Tavern in Charlestown, Mass. Edgar’s ancestors also include two ministers and one doctor. The following is a list of known occupations (not including farmers). Some are listed twice.
Occupation Names Carpenter Job Lane (master carpenter / builder), Stephen Fosdick, Thomas Howlett, Nicholas Snow Colonial Governor Thomas Dudley Cordwainer Thomas Robinson, Joseph Brown Doctor Dr. Richard Palgrave Housewright James Robinson Innkeeper Robert Long, Samuel French, Samuel Ruggles, Simon Crosby, Joseph Weld Miller Edgar W. Hubbard Minister Rev. John Reyner, Rev. John Woodbridge Ship carpenter William Slack Shopkeeper & trader Elisha Hedge Surveyor John Sherman, Jonathan Danforth Tailor Isaac Stearns, William French, Solomon Johnson, Elisha Hedge Town Clerk John Sherman, Jonathan Danforth Vintner Robert Long
Cemeteries:
The following table shows cemeteries with 3 or more ancestors of Edgar W. Hubbard.
Cemetery Name City, State Number Old South Billerica, MA 13 Old Burying Ground Watertown, MA 9 Old Cemetery Bedford, MA 4 Old Burying Ground Groton, MA 4 Old Farm Hill Middletown, CT 4 Eliot Burying Ground Roxbury, MA 4 Grove Hill Waltham, MA 3 Plymouth Notch Plymouth, VT 3 Old Burying Ground Lexington, MA 3 Adams Cemetery Barre, MA 3
Places of Birth (by State): For those born in New England:
State Number born Percent First born (year) Massachusetts 93 82% Lydia Brown (1631/2) Connecticut 17 15% Paul Peck (about 1642)
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Vermont 3 3% Lucy Slack (1787) Where They lived
The table below gives an idea of which towns Edgar’s ancestors lived in, by summing the number of births and deaths. The total is a total of events, not people, since the same person may have been born and died in the same town.
Town Births Deaths Total Watertown, MA 24 44 68 Billerica, MA 12 22 34 Groton, MA 9 13 22 Roxbury, MA 4 17 21 Middletown, CT 6 8 14 Hartford, CT 5 8 13 Cambridge, MA 5 7 12
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What’s In a Name?
Most of Edgar’s ancestors had rather ordinary names. The most common male names were: John (24), William (17), Thomas (15), Samuel (13), and Nathaniel (12)/ And the most common female names: Mary (25), Elizabeth (21), Ann/Anne/Anna (14), Martha (12), Alice (10) and Sarah (10).
Edgar’s middle name Worthington is not, as far as we know, based on any relationship to a Worthington family. Middle names were unheard of in early America and when they did come into vogue, often they had no particular significance.
Edgar’s father Artemas Hubbard’s name is somewhat unusual. “Artemas” is a Greek name, mentioned in the New Testament book of Titus. Edgar’s grandfather Reuben Hubbard was also named for a Biblical character. Reuben was the eldest son of Jacob and Leah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Going further back to colonial America, some unusual female names were Jazan, wife of William Hartwell. “Jazan” may be a variant of “Jasmine.” There is no record of any other woman in early New England with that name! An unusual male name was Hopestill Mead.
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Probate Records
The New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS) offers Middlesex Co., Mass., probate records online to members. Due to this, it is possible for me to include probate information which otherwise would be very time-consuming to look up.
I am including here a summary here of the ancestors of Edgar W. Hubbard, with Ahnentafel numbers 1-246, who died in Middlesex County, Mass. This information is divided into three categories: will, intestate (with records), and none (no probate record found). Intestate records often include a detailed inventory of the estate and may contain as much or more information than a will.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts. A# Name died Type Probate Transcription / comments #
28 Jonas French 1801 will 8502 Transcription
42 (possibly) Josiah Wood 1753 no record ----- 44 Nathaniel Woods Jr 1766 intestate 25513 Heirs not listed, although record states that the administrator, Ebenezer Woods, was Nathaniel’s son 46 Josiah Boyden 1772 will 2387
48 Samuel Jennison 1730 intestate 12587 50 Hopestill Mead 1750 will 14919
56 William French 1776 will 8535 Transcription
58 Nathaniel Page III 1779 will 16325 Transcription
88 Nathaniel Woods 1738 will 25512
90 Samuel French ? no record 92 Jonathan Boyden 1749 intestate 2384 94 Samuel Parker 1712 intestate 16788
96 Samuel Jennison 1701 will 12586 98 Samuel Stearns 1683 intestate 21325 Court papers seem mixed up with another Samuel Stearns 102 John Hastings 1718 intestate 10669
110 Daniel Johnson 1722 will 12635
112 William French 1723 intestate 8529
114 Samuel Hill 1762 will 11514 Called Samuel Hill "Jr".
116 Nathaniel Page Jr 1755 will 16324
118 John Blanchard 1750 no record
120 Joseph Brown 1764 will 3102
122 Nathaniel Bright 1737 intestate 2747 176 Samuel Woods 1718 no record 182 John Cummings 1700 no record
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A# Name died Type Probate Transcription / comments # 186 William Lakin 1707 intestate 13501 188 James Parker 1700 will 16611 Transcription found in Parker in America. 190 John Lakin 1698 no record 192 Robert Jenison 1690 will 12585 Summary in Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. 196 Isaac Stearns 1671 will 21239 Summary in Great Migration 198 William Manning 1691 intestate 14610 202 Daniel Warren ? no record 204 Thomas Hastings 1685 will 10726 Summary in Great Migration 206 John Hammond 1709 will 10230 Summary in Hammond Genealogy. 220 John Johnson 1713 no record 224 Jacob French 1713 intestate 8489 226 Jonathan Danforth 1712 will 5891 Summary in Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. 228 Jonathan Hill 1717 no record 230 Nathaniel Page 1692 ? ? According to Brown’s History of Bedford, he left a will dated 11 Apr 1692 and proved 9 May 1692; but it is not found in the database of Middlesex Co Probate records via NEHGS 234 John Lane 1715 intestate 13577 238 Simon Crosby 1725 will 5369 240 John Brown 1697 will 3064 242 Benjamin Wellington 1709 will 24037 244 Nathaniel Bright 1726 will 2746 246 Nathaniel Bowman 1748 will 2365
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Military Service
The following is a list of Edgar W. Hubbard’s ancestors who fought in some war, or may have done so. (Elnathan Hubbard’s Revolutionary War soldiers is not definite, see comments.).
A# Name War Comments 6 Josiah Jenison War of 1812 An enlistee for the Battle of Plattsburgh, N.Y., (1814) under Capt. Robert Reed's company of militia. 8 Elnathan Hubbard Revolutionary War? Not on DAR Patriot Index. However: His name appears on a payroll of Capt. Savage's Co. of Militia (1781, Windsor Co Vt.). Said to have served as Corporal at the Siege of Boston, Jan--Mar 1776, in Capt. Selah Heart's 3rd Co. (Col. Wolcott's Regt. Also may have served in the army in Conn. 10 William Slack Revolutionary War Not listed on DAR Patriot Index, but received a pension. .He first enlisted, in April 1775, in Capt. Burt’s Co., Col. Whitcomb’s Mass. Regt. He again enlisted on 1 Jan 1776, as private, serving for one year in Capt. Morse’s co., Col. William Prescott’s Regt., in Gen. Sullivan’s Brigade in the Mass. Line. discharged in N.Y. state 12 Alijah Jenison Revolutionary War DAR ancestor #A062469. 14 Nathaniel French War of 1812 (possible) War of 1812?
Revolutionary War Revolution: DAR ancestor #A042507. Also received pension. 22 Ebenezer Woods Revolutionary War Lt. in Captain Burt's Co., Col. Whitcomb's Regiment, in Mass. He was in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was also a Capt. in Vermont in 1781, and was a Col. in the Vermont Militia 26 Joseph Robinson Revolutionary War DAR Ancestor # A097605. 30 Nathaniel Bowman Revolutionary War DAR Ancestor # A015757. 2nd lieutenant; fought Brown in the Battle of Bennington. He assumed command of the company, his superior officer having been killed or disabled. The flintlock gun which Bowman Brown used was later given to President Calvin Coolidge. 188 James Parker King Phillip’s War Captain of the military company in Groton. 206 John Hammond King Phillip’s War In the garrison at Wrentham. 228 Jonathan Hill King Phillip’s War Served under Capt. Daniel Henchman. 244 Nathaniel Bright King Phillip’s War Went on expedition with Capt. Richard Beers in Nov 1675.
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1850 Census Information
This section seeks to list all of Edgar W. Hubbard’s ancestors who are found on the 1850 census, along with the families they are living with. To save space, the last two columns are omitted. These columns, which were left blank for all of these records, are: “Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper or convict ” and “Persons over 20 yrs of age who cannot Read & Write.” NOTE: although census records can provide valuable genealogical information, it should be taken with a grain of salt, as census takers often estimated people’s ages, and may not always have been accurate about other information as well.
In this section, Edgar’s ancestors are highlighted in blue.
Reuben and Lucy Hubbard were living with their son Horace. Martha is probably Reuben and Lucy’s youngest daughter. Harriet A. Alger may be a boarder; there is no known relationship to her.
Page 47. Location: Sharon, Windsor Co., Vermont Enumerated on: 23rd day of August 1850
Line # Dwellin Families Name of every person whose usual Profession, Value of Place of Birth naming Married In School
1065 Sex Sex
g place of abode on the first day of Age Occupation or Trade Real Estate the State, Territory, or within within the
houses June 1850 was in this family Color of each male person Owned Country the year year 1064 over 15 2 183 200 Horace (Hubbard) 47 M Farmer 1500 Vt. 3 Sarah “ 44 F “ 4 Vesper T. : 17 M “ 1 5 George W. 9 M “ 1 6 Nelson “ 2 M “ 7 Reuben “ 76 M Conn. 8 Lucy “ 62 F Vt. 9 Martha A. “ 20 F “ 10 Harriet A. Alger 18 F “ 1
1064 The full heading is: “Dwelling houses numbered in the order of visitation” 1065 The full heading is “Families numbered in the order of visitation” 249
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Josiah and Susanna Jenison were living in Shrewsbury, Vt., with their son Lyman Bishop:
Page 40 Location: Shrewsbury, Rutland Co., Vermont. Enumerated on: 13th day of September 1850
Line Dwelling Families Name of every person whose usual Profession, Value of Place of Birth naming Married In School
Sex Sex
# houses place of abode on the first day of Age Occupation or Trade Real Estate the State, Territory, or within within the
June 1850 was in this family Color of each male person Owned Country the year year over 15 12 1317 1347 Lyman Bishop 42 M (Farmer) (Vermont) 13 Amanda “ 41 F “. 14 Ellen “ 16 F “ 1 15 Josiah “ 9 M “ 1 16 1348 Josiah Jennison 72 M “ 1000 Mass. Susan “ 64 F “
Artemas and Susan Hubbard and family lived in Ashburnham, Mass.
Page 60 Location: Ashburnham, Worcester, Mass. Enumerated on: 6th day of September 1850
Line Dwelling Families Name of every person whose usual Profession, Value of Place of Birth naming the Marri In School
Sex Sex
# houses place of abode on the first day of Age Occupation or Trade Real Estate State, Territory, or ed within the June 1850 was in this family of each male person Owned Country within year Color over 15 the year 34 15 17 Artemas Hubbard 43 M Laborer 3000 (Massachusetts) 35 Susan “ 34 F “ 36 Harriet B. “ 13 F “ 1 37 Mary L. “ 11 F “ 1 38 Susan “ 7 F “ 1 39 Emily “ 6 F “ 1 40 Jennison “ 1 M “
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1860 Census Information
This section lists all of Edgar W. Hubbard’s ancestors who are found on the 1860 census, along with the families they are living with. To save space, the last column is omitted. This column, left blank for all of these records, is: “Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper or convict.” Also to save space, the Column “Color” is omitted. Edgar’s ancestors are highlighted in blue.
Lucy (Slack) Hubbard was living in Sharon, Vt., with her son Horace and his family.
Page 114. Location: Sharon, Windsor, Vermont. Enumerated on: 11th day of June 1860
Line Dwellin Families Name of every person whose usual Profession, Occupation Value Value of Place of Birth
# g houses place of abode on the first day of Sex or Trade of each male of Real Personal naming the State, Age Age
June 1860 was in this family person over 15 Estate Estate Territory, or Country
Married Married the within year Attended within School yearthe over Persons age of 20 yrs cannot who write & read 8 1468 1474 Horace Hubbard 56 M Farmer 1400 450 (Vermont) 9 Sarah “ 53 F “ 10 Geo. W. “ 19 M Farmer “ 11 Nelson C. “ 12 M Day Laborer “ 1 12 Lucy “ 72 F “ \ 13 Martha A. “ 29 F Servant “
Still in Shrewsbury, Vt., were Josiah and Susan Jenison, living with their daughter Amanda Bishop and her family.
Page 45. Location: Shrewsbury, Rutland, Vermont. Enumerated on: ?? 1860 (Split between two census pages)
Line Dwellin Families Name of every person whose usual Profession, Occupation Value Value of Place of Birth
# g houses place of abode on the first day of Sex or Trade of each male of Real Personal naming the State, Age Age
June 1860 was in this family person over 15 Estate Estate Territory, or Country
within the the within year Attended School the within year over Persons age of 20 yrs cannot who write & read Married 38 2452 2599 Lyman Bishop 52 M 1500 (Vt.) 39 Amanda “ 50 F 40 Ellen “ 26 F Teacher Mass. 1 Henry Bishop 19 M F. Laborer Vt. 2 Josiah Jennison 82 M Farmer 100 Mass. 3 Susan “ 75 F “
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In Ashburnham, Mass., Artemas and Susan (Jenison) Hubbard:
Page 12 Location: Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts. Enumerated on: 16th of July 1860
Line Dwellin Families Name of every person whose usual Profession, Occupation Value Value of Place of Birth
# g houses place of abode on the first day of Sex or Trade of each male of Real Personal naming the State, Age Age
June 1860 was in this family person over 15 Estate Estate Territory, or Country
Married Married the within year Attended within School yearthe over Persons age of 20 yrs cannot who write & read 8 12 12 Artemas S. Hubbard 50 M Farming 600 500 Vermont 1 9 Susan F. “ 45 F “ 10 Emily I. “ 15 F Massachusetts 1 11 Ellen P. “ 13 F “ 1 12 Jenison A. 11 M “ 1 13 Chester E. 8 M “ 1 14 Edgar W. 6 M “ 15 Herbert L. 4 M “
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1870 Census Information
This section seeks to list all of Edgar W. Hubbard’s ancestors who are found on the 1870 census, along with the families they are living with. To save space, the last column is omitted. This column, which is left blank for all of these records, is “Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper or convict.” Also to save space, the Column “Color” is omitted. None of Edgar’s ancestors had parents of foreign birth, so that column is skipped as well. Although census records can provide valuable genealogical information, census takers often estimated ages, and may not always have been accurate about other information as well. In this section, Edgar and his ancestors are highlighted in blue.
Susan (French) Jenison is now a widow, living in Pittsfield, Vt., with her daughter Amanda Bishop and family.
Page 550 Location: Pittsfield, Rutland, Vt. Enumerated on: 9th of August 1870
Line Dwellin Families Name of every person whose Profession, Occupation Value Value of Place of Birth
# g houses usual place of abode on the first Sex or Trade of each of Real Personal naming the State,
day of June 1870 was in this person, male or Estate Estate Territory of U.S.; or birthday family femaile the country if of Age at last last at Age foreign birth.
within orn
the year, state state year, the the month married If year, the within the month state Attended within School yearthe b If 26 8 8 Bishop, Lyman 62 M Farmer 4000 1500 Vermont 27 ---, Amanda 61 F Keeping house Vermont 28 ---, Nancy E. 36 F At home Vermont 29 ---, Harry J. 29 M Farm Laborer Vermont 30 ---, Sarah R. 18 F Keeping house Vermont 31 Jennison, Susan 84 F Boarding Massachusetts
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Artemas S. Hubbad and family have now moved to Iowa.
Page 18 Location: Floyd, Floyd, Ia. Enumerated on: 28th of June1870
Line Dwellin Families Name of every person whose Profession, Occupation Value Value of Place of Birth
# g houses usual place of abode on the first Sex or Trade of each of Real Personal naming the State,
day of June 1870 was in this person, male or Estate Estate Territory of U.S.; or birthday family femaile the country if of Age at last last at Age foreign birth.
year, the thin
the year, state state year, the the month married If wi the month state Attended within School yearthe born within If 18 131 32 Hubbard, Artemus 60 M Farmer 2125 860 Vt. 19 ---, Susan F. 54 F Keeping house Vt. 20 ---, Jenison A. 21 M Farmer Mass. 21 ---, Edgar W. 16 M Home Do.1066 1 22 ---, Herbert L. 14 M Do. 1
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1880 Census Information
To save space, some of the column headings have been removed or abbreviated. This was done without the loss of any important information.
Edgar and Nettie (Buel) Hubbard , after their 1875 marriage, live in Rock Grove Township, Floyd County, IA.
Location: Rock Grove Township, Floyd Co., Iowa. Enumerated on: June 2nd 1880
Name of every person Relationship Profession, Occupation or Sickness or Place of Birth Place of Place of Sex whose usual place of abode Age Trade of each person, male Disability Birth: Birth: on the first day of June 1880 or female Father mother
was in this family
Single Married Widowed or crippled Maimed, bedridden Line# 7 Hubbard, Edgar W. M 26 1 Works in Grist mill Mass. Vt. Vt. 8 ---, Nettie R. F 22 Wife 1 Keeping house Iowa Ohio Ohio NOTE: Nettie’s parents were not born in Ohio, this is an error.
Edgar’s parents Artemas and Susan Hubbard also lived in Floyd County. Next door was their son Artemas Jenison Hubbard, with his wife Barbara, daughter Ethel, and stepson William Wilcox.
Location: Rudd Twp., Floyd Co., Iowa. Enumerated on: June 1st 1880
Name of every person Relationship Profession, Occupation or Sickness or Place of Birth Place of Place of Sex whose usual place of abode Age Trade of each person, male Disability naming the Birth: Birth: on the first day of June 1880 or female State, Father mother was in this family Territory of
U.S.; or the
country if of
foreign birth.
Single Married Widowed or crippled Maimed, bedridden Line # Line 14 Hubbard, Artemas M 70 1 Farmer Vt. Conn. Vt. 15 ---, Susan F. F 64 Wife 1 Keeping house Vt. Mass. Mass.
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