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t n THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT.
On the iith day ot November, 1620 (old style), there was drawn on the lid of a chest on board of the Mayflower in Plymouth harbor, and signed by forty-one of the principal men of the first band of Pilgrims, a platform of government known as the Compact, and which gave to these people the claim of being the first "signers" of this great and free United States of America. THE COMPACT.
The following is the full text of the compact :
In Ye Name of God, Amen.
We who!? names are underwritten, the loyall fubjects of our dread fovereigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, of Great
Britaine, France and Ireland, King, defender of ye faith, etc., have- ing undertaken for ye glory of God and advancemente of ye Chrif- tian faith, and honour of our King and countrie, a voyage to plant
ye firft colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by thefe a prefentf folemnly, and mutualy, in ye prefence of God, and of one another, covenant and combine ourfelves togeather into a civill body I politik for our better ordering and prefervation and furtherance of ye end aforefaid, and by vertue hearof to enacte, conftitu.e and frame fuch juft and equall lawes, ordinances, acts, conftitutions and offices from time to time, as fhall be thought moft meete and con- i venient for ye generall good of ye Colonie, unto which we promife I i all due lubmiffion and obedience. In Witnef whereof we have I hereunder fubfcribed our names at Cap-Codd ye II of November, I in ye year of ye raigne of our fovereigne Lord, King James of Eng- land, France and Ireland, ye eighteenth, and of Scotland ye liftie. fourth, Ano Dom. 1620.
.I0I1 11 Carver, Kdnaril Tilley, Deirory 1'rlost, William Bradford, John Tilley, Thomas A\ illiniiis. Kdward Winslow. Francis Cooke, Gilbert winslow. "William Brevrster, Thomas Holers, I '.il 111 11 ml MiirKi-min, Isaac Allerton, Thomas Tinker. l'eter Bf•*fB, Myles Standish, John Kigrdnle. Itteunril Hrl 1 1 it I«!b<\ John Alden, Edward Fuller, GeorR/e Soule, Samuel Fuller, John Turner, llioluird Clarke, Christopher Martin, Francis Eaton, Itlcliitrd Gardiner. William Mnllins, June! Chilton, Jolin Allerton. I William White, John Crackston, Thomas l\intll-li. Richard Warren, John IlilllnKtoii. K.dwurd Dolcjr, I John Howland, Moses Fletcher, Lunard !.i«.n-r. John Goodman, Stephen Hopkins. j COPYRIGHTED, 1S9G, BY THE MAIL AND EXPRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY. it - V
PART I.
Signers of the Mayflower Compact.
JOHN CARVER, First Signer.
There seems something strange and elu- terms "under his hand and seal," the poor the people by the way and see to the dis- sive about the fact that so little is known pilgrims, weary and discourgaed, were pensing of their possessions and such like of Gov. Carver, and yet from the outset driven to bay. affairs." next pleaded their cause with the he held the most important places of trust They THE START. Dutch traders to Manhattan, but, as there- and authority among the Leyden Pilgrims. suit shows, all they did was to acquaint All preparations being made, the vessels One of the oldest of this little band, he them with both plans and hopes, and as a pronounced ready for sea, they sailed Aug- must have acquired the traits of character return reap their reward in deceit and ust 5, 1020. Before the start was fairly that inspired confidence iu his ability, in double dealing. What wonder that, dis- made the Speedwell was reported leaky. This seemed but a trifle, and both vessels some broad field, where education and the couraged on all sides, they turned to one returned, the Speedwell was repaired, anil friction of intercourse had developed him Weston, who appeared on the scene express- ing kind sympathy with the situation, of- again, August 21. they put to sea. Their until he became a ruler of men. troubles fering his services and means for their ben- were not over: the history of the "John Carver, Sonne of James Carver, Speedwell was repeated and, though de- efit, that they should, as the result of his no fects were revealed on Lincolnshire, Yeoman, called by ye grace of counsels, place themselves in the hands of the second search, the whole thing God Governor of our Colony, Dec. ye 10th, some seventy English merchants, known as was attributed to general weakness, and she was the "Merchant Adventurers," and accept, condemned as unfit 1G20, for one year," came to the Leyden for use. though they did it very unwillingly, their Colony unannounced, so far as the records "Twenty of the passengers were put on terms. place him; still, when it wT as necessary to shore, the others, with their worldly pos- Robert Cushman was the one appointed send as envoy to England and the West sessions-, transferred to the Mayflower." for the negotiations, and John Carver saw and the start for the colony they were to Indian Company one who would make their ship out. to fitting the found made, with the knowledge that there interests his own, he was the unanimous The little all of the colony was intrusted must be no turning back. choice, so priceless from and the sequence showed that, for to their care. The money, Upon the defection of the Speedwell of- "Seven hun- the means at his command, he had requited its scarcity, they disbursed. fice sought John Carver, and he was made provisions their trust to the fullest extent. dred pounds was expended in the Governor of the whole colony. pounds and stores, and seventeen hundred The day of the signing of the compact off The die was cast. The rilgrinis, they was the value of the trading venture (\-i|x> Cod John Carver was in weacy with the well-doing that could not confirms! carried." his office of Governor, though both Yonng secure them peace either of conscience or of The failure or success of the enterprise and Belknap state that no oath of oflice and mind, surrounded by foreshadowings of war devolved wholly upon John Carver was required, and he entered upon his ofli- in Holland, the derogatory intercourse with Robert Cushman. No word of criticism eial duties without ceremony or parade. conduct, the people from many lands thrust upon has ever been given of Carver's His term of oflice as chief magistrate, a the Mayflower was finally fitted their children, must make for themselves a but, when I>osition he held without an assistant, was and the requirements of the adven- new home. out of short duration. turers were known, a strong but impotent In four months and twenty days the For this there was but a small fund, and spirit of rebellion was aroused. little colony, April .">. 1681, was called upon only by contract with some company, who Pastor Robinson had never approved of to part with one who had endeared hiuisel: and would surely claim their pound of flesh in Cushman's connection with Carver, by every act to all surrounding him. The deal tor proclaimed that "he was unfit to "good estate he had in England was spent return, could it be made a possiblity. ami other men by reason of his singularity, in his migration to Holland and America." So John Carver and Robert Cushman faithful as a man more facile in talk than He had gone hand in hand with the 1' went forth armed with the authority to in service." grims in all their sorrows, borne the heat terms, seek the King "freedom to out by the make of His strictures seemed borne and burden of the day when the ne. Pilgrims any worship their God unmolested in the New terms, which hardly left the of the situation called him from affairs of is something World, and of the Virginia Company, which personal control; still, there state to work in the field for the means to extenuation, when Cushman was established in 1006, a patent on which to be said in sustain life. claims that it "was one thing to set lie they might settle." The Governor must set an example. lead, themselves in Leyden. and matters among not follow, in the emergencies which v\ ore the other THE KING. quite another to make terms with pressing so hard upon them. side in London.'' That the King should turn a deaf ear to , The fatal first sickness, so much as he with the proceeds of their own estates their petition a matter of course. So, was part of it. was telling seriously upon seemed the merchants to and the assistance of his strength. Work must ho done, hut the Any liberty, even that of thought, if it had mortgaged their lahor and trade whom thev hands to do it were lessening, and those been in his power, would have been denied return for their venture, for seven years in loft were weak and nerveless. provided, one in Holland them. Through 1018-10 Carver and Cush- two vessels were Whatever Gov. Carver's physical condi- tons, called the Speedwell, which man were active in London. The patent of sixty tion, "he was one of the foremost io action, intended to transport some of them was not issued directly to the separatists, was and bore a large share of the sufferings of to America, and there remain for one year (or the colony." True to his life record, his but it ran in the name of John Wincob service for fishing and the natural in their death was caused by overwork and exp-*. Winkop), a member of the Earl of Lincoln's uses of a new settlement: another, of ISO ure in the tio'.ds. whore, side by s'.de with household, who intended to join the emigra- tons, called the Mayflower, chartered by the humblest of them all. the Governor bore in future, but never did, and the Cushman in London, and sent to tion the Mr his part, asking no exemption by Tirtne of patent never issued. Southampton, where Mr. Carver was wait- was his oflice and age, and when the end came, The Virginia Company, torn by internal ing to superintend the equipment. assist- stricken at his post, "he was sciicd with dissensions, the King only playing with "A Governor and two or tnroe ship to order that species of apoplexy which in advanced their request, never willing to give them ants were chosen from each 4 SIGN ERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. life is superinduced by great bodily fatigue scendancy when, as this poor people were was supposed to be a sister of Pastor Rob- and exertion." in great sickness and weakness, he shunned inson, of Leyden, and wife of the first Gov- HIS BURIAL. not to do very mean service for them, yea, ernor of Plymouth Colony, mourned her the meanest of them." dead and would not be comforted. "Gov. Carver's remains were consigned No one appreciated Gov. Carver's worth Frail of constitution, her great sorrow to the earth with all the affectionate so- more than Gov. Bradford; he recognized upon her, the struggle for life was more his true character upheld his every act. than she could bear. The future lemnity which circumstances at that time and had no hope strong enough to rouse her failing fac- would permit, and with the discharge of WESTON. ulties. The other world made a better all their firearms." The trust placed in Weston as principal claim; there she would not be alone; her Unknelled, perhaps uncoffined and un- in their final contract with the adventurers isolation was only on earth; so, without a marked, the rude winds of winter chanting was of short duration. struggle, she, "weary with the march of his requiem, John Carver, always the Gov- He was speedily tired of the slow returns life," simply lingered until the summer, and ernor, rested from his labors. then laid beside her in that he received from his investment, and com- down husband How they mourned and missed him his- "eternal sleep which knows no waking." tory has not failed to record. He had suf- plained that the colonists represented by CHILDREN. fered all the privations uncomplainingly, Gov. Carver had not exerted themselves to never too weary to listen to their confi- send back in their cargo just tribute money Bradford's journal disposes of the hope dences and give of his abundant sympathy to the adventurers. that Gov. Carver left descendants; still, the in all times of trial. Perhaps he realized Gov. Bradford, cognizant of all that had power of tradition is so strong that, though from the first of his arrival that the pri- gone before, realizing that the sick and it cannot be positively proved that he had a vations which were inevitable would prove dying had required their care, answered daughter, those brought up with this con- beyond his powers of endurance, and he Weston, telling him, with touching pathos, viction will not part with it lightly. There endeavored to make his impress of char- "He is departed this life and is now at rest is always the hope, which seems reasonable, acter and unselfishness as potent as pos- in the Lord from all these troubles and en- that Gov. Bradford only meant descendants sible to buoy up their flagging spirits. cumbrances with which we are yet to strive. bearing the name of Carver. There were Their testimony as to his worth was un- He needs not my apology, he who, for the other Carvers who came early to the colony, ceasing, telling that Gov. Carver was a common good, oppressed himself-" and he may have wished to record it that "gentleman of singular piety and rare for Gov. Carver gave his life to his country, they in no way belonged to the Governor's humility, as appeared by his great conde- and poor Catherine Robinson Carver, who family.
WILLIAM BRADFORD, Second Signer.
William Bradford is one of the few and to the hereafter, which held the same left there with his grandfather, Elder May, Pilgrims of whom much can be written promises for each. "Bradford, if not a a man for whom Bradford must have en- thoroughly educated man, was certainly one tertained very kindly feelings, as he wrote without conjecture. He started his life with of cultivation." Brewster, with his special him confidentially for years. John Brad- left one which admits of pride a record, and gift of teaching, and intense humanity, ford's record so far as any continuous his- on the part of his descendants. Even those would hardly neglect the opportunity of di- tory is concerned, soon ended, for he ar- who have no blood relation to claim can en- recting the studies of this young aspirant rived in America in 1627, married Martha, joy with those who have without the slight- for knowledge. Self-reliance, forced upon daughter of Thomas Bourne, and dying Bradford as it was in early life, tended childless in 1678, closed the page of con- est desire to repudiate any of his actions. much to his early development- When only nection with William Bradford's early mar- From the day of his advent into the world 18 years of age he suffered imprisonment riage. where he was eventually to become so im- in Boston, in Lincolnshire, for his religious Though the Mayflower seemed singled portant a factor he associated himself with beliefs, and perhaps for his identity of as- out for discomfort from the start, there William Brewster. sociation. His youth pleaded for him, but must have been times of enjoyment from he was only- successful in his effort to the very makeup of the passengers. Walks on The tie so started was a very trifling one, reach Holland after being again arrested deck, where they planned the history dear the oak grew from the little acorn of but and escaping. to all. The "pipe of peace" smoked after omen, and the man who was appointed Post From the time of Bradford's arrival in the nameless dinner, the beer drank, though of Scrooby the year of William Bradford's Holland until his departure for New En- it was doled out in stinted measure with a birth became his dearest friend and wisest gland, he seems to have gone on his way due regard to its lasting the voyage through slowly, steadily, gaining strength in the Perhaps toasts drank, when guide. and more. march. they threw off the anxieties of their ven- miles and a half north of Scrooby, the Two His first step on arriving at Amsterdam ture, and were "themselves again." Then, home of Elder Brewster, lies the Yorkshire was to apprentice himself to a Frenchman, too, Bradford tells us there were many village of Austerfield, near Bawtry, which who taught him the art of silk weaving. good singers among the Pilgrims. In- is a historical Pilgrim connection. The On reaching his majority he invested his structed by Ainsworth, no doubt. Thrust little there are many resources, how natural to place was of small moment, only two lay- property, about which upon their own estimates as to its value, in starting in imagine them bursting forth in song on the the subsidy of 1575 owning suffi- men in business for himself. slightest provocation. Standish, holding a cient property to be rated, William Bradford little aloof, even though Rose is by his side, and John Hanson, two of those small land- HIS MARRIAGE. a guarantee of future comfort and happi- holders called yeomen, a class in Elizabeth's His second important venture is gathered ness, but when the melody proved too much reign ranking next to the gentry, and en- from the municipal recordsof Leyden, which for him joining in his full deep bass. No titled to use coat armor, who formed the the wise consideration of Hon. Henry one for a moment could doubt the quality strong sinew of England. With local prop- C. Murphy has secured to us, that "Will- of his voice, or that Brewster and Alden erty interests easily identified, the great peo- iam Bradford, of Austerfield, England, would need no urging to chime in with ple of their section, William Bradford, Jr., married November 13, 1613, Dorothy May, their sweet tenors. Surely baritone for and Alice Hanson, married naturally from of Witezbuts, England." Another account Bradford, and for leader Priscella, with a propinquity of residence and interest. gives more complete history of the marriage her pure, clear soprano, emotional, but the March 29, 1590, the young parents wel- in Leyden. "November 15, 1613, William true spirit of song which leads to prayer. comed to their home a third William Brad- Bradford, fustian maker, young man, (i. e., Brewster's hand had long been taken ford, destined to become one of the great before unmarried), from Osterfeldt in En- _from Bradford's head as he knelt within of the land—the future Governor of Ply- gland, affianced to Dorothy May, from his reach. The coming man was demand- mouth Republic. Witezbuts, England." "The banns were ing more outward respect, but the elder Bred to agriculture, a serious youth who again published November 20 and 30, but prayed better, the words rang out truer, held communion with nature's visible forms; the marriage took place elsewhere." when he could feel that Bradford was be- nn orphan thus apart from many home ties, At Amsterdam is found the following side him, and their hearts were pouring he took to his heart the living truths, and record: "December. 1613, William Brad- out in unison the same thanks for bless- early in life identified himself with Scrooby ford, from Osterwelde. fustian maker, 23 ings received, and desire for their continu- and the teachings of William Brewster. years of age, being at Leyden. where he is ance. Dorothy May Bradford was but a expedition, she What their friendship was to them can only betrothed, married Dorothy May, aged 16 name in the history of the married, child from which she had be revealed to us at "that great day, when years, from Witezbuts." To this is ap- had one then, to complete her personal the secrets of all hearts are open." pended their signatures, the "maiden fair to part, and They could look before themselves to the to see" spelling her name "Dority." record, was drowned in Cape Cod Harbor, December 1620, while her husband was life they hoped to and did spend together, They had one son, John, horn in Loydcn, 7, WILLIAM BRADFORD, SECOND SIGNER.
away on an exploration expedition, not even gives one feeling the that he had a special ing the literary landing to locate for herself a home, and touch with improvement and the de- little personalities, and, like all portment of the by accident being deprived of a resting people who rising generation, according appreciate that their pen is to the accounts place in Mother Earth. Poor young wife powerful he bad received from her for description, the work of re- contemporaries." and mother! The privations she was spared cording was second nature. compensation were no for the love she lost! In a not pushing way Bradford liked, as ALICE CARPENTER BRADFORD. To doubt Bradford's sorrow would be to was his right, to be in evidence. The mys- How easy to picture Dame Bradford deny him the character he had shown, but tery connected with the disappearance of happy in her popularity, interspersing her days of toil brought nights of sleep, and this valuable manuscript is easily. solved by lectures on "current topics" with Dorothy's name, of necessity, grew fainter the conjecture that little some British officer, asides and fainter on his lips. The remedy for when the "court courtesy' 'demanded recognizing its value, carried it as a trophy " her attention, while the his loneliness was soon on its way to him, of war to England, where, intentionally Governor, instinct or with love and admiration, and shortly after the arrival of the Ann he, otherwise, it remained unknown stole a position until found where he the Governor, was married to Alice, daugh- in Fulham Palace, London. could witness her grace and ren- der the applause he felt to be her due. ter of Alexander Carpenter, of Wrenton Not having the gift of eternal life, what He was not left to see the contrast, the (Wrington), England (August 14, 1623), benefit accrued to this officer is untold, un- sad lea- son which has been and widow of "Edward Southworth, son of less he shared his secret with some one so long as time give* knowledge. As the Thomas and Jane Mynne Southworth," a who could give him military preferment as Old Colony records state: "She was a man of long and honorable lineage. a reward. "It has been said by the Bishop godly matron, and much loved while she lived, of London that in his opinion a special act and lamented, though LINEAGE. aged, when she died." of Parliament would be required to secure Alice Carpenter The fact that Bradford beronged to the the return of the original manuscript." Bradford had outlived her usefulness, and required two best families in his section explodes Bradford had very few repinings, though explanation of her rising superior to the span of the theory, or romance, of the supposition he says of himself that "he was unused to life allotted to mankind, so that the Carpenters, from their superior trade and trafhque of any kind." that at her great age she was lamented. "He was Mrs. position, had looked with disfavor on Brad- a good writer compared with others of those Bradford, feeble from age and ill- ford's suit. The results were eventually times, though his style may seem uncouth ness, died March 26, 1670, aged 80, and to his liking, for she became very williDgly to modern ears. He understood several lan- her wish to lie beside her husband was his second wife, coming out to America guages, Greek and Hebrew; French and gratified. with her sister, who married George Mor- Dutch he spake, and was conversant with Of their children, William, born June 17, ton, on the Ann in 1623, at Bradford's re- theology." Popular acceptance assures us 1624; Mercy, born 1627, and Joseph, who, quest, perhaps, worded in such a manner he had property, but that, being put in the Winsor says, was a twin with Mercy. that resistance was impossible, and when common fund, what he left was the result Mercy married Ben Vermayes, who at- his death took from her the emoluments and of the various allotments he received and tained no prominence; Joseph married Jael, precedence of his position, clung to his his own special thrift. Given the oppor- daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart. of Hing- memory with the same love she bestowed on tunity, he did not fail them; always Gov- ham, a famous minister, May 15, 1604. his living self. ernor or assistant his mark was upon every- THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR. Drawn more and more together by the thing. Carver, from the situation, could William Bradford, privations of the situation, their responsive merely plan from day to day, so upon Brad- the oldest son, mar- hearts felt it all lessened by the fact that ford devolved the organization and carrying ried Alice Richards, daughter of Thom- they were together, that their affinity of de- out of laws for the benefit of all. as Richards, of Weymouth. Mass.; sec- sire had united them, though the way to The early condition of the colonists was ond the Widow Wiswall. of Dux- the result was over the broad ocean, from pathetic indeed. Winter was appr>achiug- bury, and for his third wife took Mary, luxury to poverty. They had tilled the land, which was the only widow of John Holmes, pastor of Duxburv. From the time Bradford put foot ashore thing they had in quantity, so far as there and daughter of John Atwood. Bacon says: at New England his strength aud power was seed to plant. But the greed of hunger "The only difference between polygamy grew rapidly. His youth was merged in was too much for them and the little store in New England and Utah is that in Utah experience; circumstances were developing appropriated for that purpose went, often- they have their wives at once, in New him to fill the places that came to him. He times, to sustain life. Game was abundant, England in succession." had shown his worth, his goodness of heart, at the start, but there was no leisure for From his position, which certainly his integrity of purpose in the first sick- hunting, and the ammunition must be kept brought with it some privileges. William ness, in the explorations, in his conduct to for times of peril from the ever-present In- Bradford, second, may have been exempt the Indians. And though he was weary dians. Starvation stared them in the face. from the trials and discomfitures attend- and worn, sick almost untodeath.he was ap- Appointing a day of fasting and prayer ing many marriages. Judge Sewall surely pointed w'hen only 33 years old to succeed was irony indeed. Hope was at its lowest depicted them as not a very satisfactory ('arver as Governor and Isaac Allerton ebb. Their envoy, Mr. Prince, who had part of life. At the start, when women placed as his assistant. gone to Ireland to procure stores, had not were in the minority, to be three times suc- There is a fine touch of human nature all been heard from, and fear grew almost to a cessful was quite a tribute to a man's through Bradford's life. The Southworth certainty that the vessel had met with some wealth and worth—even if he depleted the boys, who came with their mother, were disaster, aud, sharing the fate of many ves- family treasury by the inevitable courting. welcomed and treated as his own children, sels of the times, had fallen into the hands Oliver Wendell Holmes was in full sympa- there being only the difference of name to of pirates. thy with the position when he wrote: place them apart. In future years, when "Of my billings and my cooings I do not Mary Carpenter, the "Godly old maid who THANKSGIVING DAY. now complain. But my dollars and shillings, never married." was left alone in England Fasting and prayer came without ap- my they will uever come again." after her mother's death, Bradford invited pointment. But shortly their sorrow was had her to come to them, "though they turned to rejoicing, the vessel was sighted No wonder that Bradford had so many de- old," and would pay her passage scendants, with William's nine sons grown and its stores soon theirs. Lamentations and it. natural six daughters, Elisha, (about £5), if she needed The turned to praise; the dear ones in the far- and son of Joseph, is fifteen children. conclusion from this offer of Bradford's distant lands were heard from, and Gov- who had Major William Bradford, also that the Carpenters were people in moder- Bradford, needing no inciting, appointed Deputy Governor, early high ate circumstances. Gov. Bradford, no with prophetic choice of day February 22, obtained distinction all in his power, in the colonies, having been elected assist- doubt, was willing to do 1631, as the first Thanksgiving in the colony. his kin by ant and chief military commander early in even seeking opportunity among to have New England left out of the Not [ir«'s<.- he required all de- his career. Oth'.r honors rapidly 1 birth or marriage, but is interesting to know that "Gov. count, it upon him, and in ttK>2. when the tail attended to, no overdrawing the bank Colony, about 1630 Colonial Bradford, of Plymouth Government terminated, he was elected account. by the was offered manorial privileges Dep>:ry Governor, and soon Councilor, of president THE JOURNAL. 'Council for New England.' whose Massachusetts- All through the Indian the patent ran The debt of gratitude owed Bradford for was the Earl of Warwick; wars he was a strong power. To donbt his his heirs forever, his journal is not appreciable; its value is to William Bradford and valor and judgment would be to question to hold the present limitless. The "History of Plymouth who were given the right the general statements of history, growing Barnstable and Plymouth i Plantations" is all we have to place us in counties of stronger and stronger with each repetition. as accord with the Pilgrims' early lives, so manor, and the other colonists their Hubbard and Church will give the searcher Bradford quaintly told that the records are word tenants and subordinates. Gov. all that is wanted of the Indian wars, too well fitted to have become pictures, bringing events before us in a would have been comprehensive to grasp in a short story. had he so chosen, for. very tangible way. He, of all others, was Lord of the Manor, No criticism, even in the light of renewed poor, he came of an ancient and search, detracts from the nation held by best fitted to write it. not only from his although Gov. William Bradford: his digni- special literary capacity, but because he. good family." D%puty Alice Carpenter and Gov. Brad- ties aud responsihilites he bore_ meekly, being at all times in public office, knew Between that lived, true OBCe, true knowing he held all positkms on his merits. better than any one else the occurrences of ford was the love claims for her that "she He but followed in his father's foofsteps- the times, and. like all busy men, so regu- always. Morton brought considerable of whom it was said, "This year it pleased lated matters that he could avail of every was well educated and the country." This, and her God to ywt a period to the life of His prec- opportunity to commit to paper these valu- propertv into cross! Elder Faunce ious servant. Mr. William Bradford, who able records. will signed with a "eulogizes her for her exertions in promot- was the second Governor of the jurisdiction There is something about Bradford which 6
of Plymouth." "This worthy gentleman Plymouth, need never be closed against the vissors of the desposing of my estate accord- was interred with the greatest solrnenities reader. ing to the prruises, confiding much in theire that the jurisdiction to which he belonged GOV. WM. BRADFORD (PLYMOUTH). fairhfullness. was in a capacity to perform, many deep "I commend to youer wisdome some small will testament nuuekupa- sighs as well as loud volleys of shot declar- "The last and bookes written by my owne hand to be im- ing that the people were no less sensible tive of Mr. William Bradford, Sr., deceaced plored as you shall see meet. In speciall I of their own loss, who were surviving, than May the 9th, 1057, and exhibited to the commend to you a little booke with a blacke mindful of the worth and honor of him that court held at Plymouth, June 3, 1057. cover,, wherein there is a word to Plymouth, W3. S dcCGtlSGd "Mr. William Bradford, Sr., being weake a word to Boston, and a word to New Eng- Gov. Bradford died May 0, 1657, aged G8, land, with sundry useful verses. In body, but in nerfect memory, having de- a serious loss for the colonies, but a kind "These ptculars were expressed by the Providence let the mantle of his worth fall ferred the forming of his will in hopes of said William Bradford, Gov'r, the 9th of on greater "length his son, and gave him the having the healp of Mr. Thomas Prince May, 1057, in the presence of us: of days," he dying February 20, 1703. at therein, feeling himself very weake and Thomas Cushman, the age of 79. His "epitaph from Burying drawing on to the conclusion of his mortall Thomas Southworth, Hill" gives to the world on his tombstone: life, spake as follcwcth: T could have de- Nathaniel Morton." lived long, but still was doing good, He sired abler than myself in the disposing of The inventory of his estate was taken by And in his country's service lost much blood; After a life well spent, he's now at rest, that I have, how my estate none knows Thomas Cushman and John Dunham. His very name and memory is blessed. better than yourselfe,' said he to Licftenaut There is an account contained in it of arti- cles "in ye old parlor, in the great room, in Had his will been made with a prophetic- Southworth. I have deposed to John and the kitchen, in the new chamber, in the outlook for the needs of the present day, William alreddy theire proportions of land have better touched the wants studdie." he could not which they are possessed of. of a time when every relic would be valu- Exact copy of Bradford's will, from ab- will is that what I stand engaged to able beyond expression. "My stract of earliest wills in probate office of prforine to my children and others, may bee Plymouth, N. E., Gen. and Biog. Register, HIS WILL. made good out of my estate, that my name Vol. V., p. 385. is sou Mistress Alice Bradford (Plymouth). In leaving his property to his sons, he suffer not. Further, my will that my — Joseph bee made in some sort equall to his Will. "Wishes to be interred as near to enjoins upon them "to sell it to none who brethren out of my estate. her deceased husband, Mr. William Brad- not bear the name of Bradford, and be do "My further will is that my dear and ford, as conveniently may be." To sister not descended from him." To David "he loving wife Alice Bradford shell be the sole Mary Carpenter: to sons Constant South- bequeaths a silver bowl, not to be alienated exequtrix of my estate, and for her future worth, Joseph Bradford; to grandchild, from the family of the Bradfords." "My maintenance my will is that my stocke in Elizabeth Howland, da of my dee'd son, Tho. Southworth: to servant maid, father's manuscript" which he left to his the Kenuebecke trad bee reserved for her Capt. comfortable subsistence as farr as it will Mary Smith. son John, is the one so long supposed to be extend, and soe further in any such way Her mark. with other papers in the belfry destroyed as may be judged best for her. Inventory, March 31, 1670, on oath of of the Old South Church, Boston. "1 further request and appoint my much Mistress Carpenter, £162 17s. Each family has its claims, traditions help beloved Christian ffriends Mr. Thomas By Geo. Watson, Eph. Morton, Wm. to the apreciation, but the record that tells Prince, Capt. Thomas Willet and Lieften- Harlow. of William Bradford, second Governor of ant Thomas Southworth, to be the supper- All proper names in the will in italics.
EDWARD WINSLOW, Third Signer.
* Edward Winslow, the third Governor of had placed their impress on character and enough to satisfy his desires, was in Wins- Plymouth Colony, was born at Droitwitch, manner, commanding for him, what he was low's mind. His instincts as a traveler were always credited with being, "of higher so- roused, and the preparations were develop- in Worcestershire, the ancestral home of cial position than the rest." ing his hitherto dormant powers for the dip- the Winslows, sou of Edward and Mag- To confine him in a narrow sphere would lomatic life so truly in the future a part of Wiuslow, and grandson of the dalen Ollyver be to lose the best of the men. Small methods the man's very being. For him there was first Kenelm. His birth is thus rendered in were not matters of his knowledge. He re- no struggle, his whole make-up was in old St. Peter's Church at Droitwitch: "1595, quired contact with people and affairs for favor of the start. Elizabeth, his wife, Edward, son of Edward Winslow, born the his development, and a wise Providence strong in her love, shared his anticipations, The liome her husband described as to be previous Friday, which was the 19th." guided his steps toward Leyden, where he was received, not as a refugee from relig- their's the other side of the great ocean she This old church is fast losing its identity, ious persecution, but as a strong man, of looked forward to with eagerness, seeing ravages of time and the changes inci- the moral character, whose subtle conception of everything with his eyes. only enough dent to progression have left the high integrity of word and deed re- The dreaded ship life, with its close quar- senti- to admit of the continuance of the quired to keep the little community at Ley- ters and many discomforts, was safely over. ment attached to it. den together, made him from his arrival to Bleak New England was not responsive to her The registers, however, have been valued his death such an important factor for the her expectations; but she was strong in love, and determination to bear her part in and carefully preserved. The texts of the good of the whole. the arranging which needed a woman's hand illuminate the walls, bidding The debt, however, was not all on the church to to the husband of her choice even rilgrim's side. Edward Winslow, in other secure "peace on earth and good will to man," and the which was part of situations, might only have been the good a semblance to home edifice, where the Pil- on the arch in this comrade and welcome guest. The serious her life. the baptismal grim Winslows were held at part of his nature found its maturity under THE FIRST SICKNESS. font, and were wont to worship, are the him. and Ed- the influences surrounding But all this was of no avail. Tne unac- commandments and Lord's prayer. ward Wiuslow, the man of the world, with creed, customed privations on their long voyage, History's connections are passing strange. the simple faith of a child, accepted the re- the desolation of the situation, with so little To reach Droitwitch from London, one must ligion of his fathers as the motive power of his future life. prospect of its betterment, and the keen pass through Worcester, the place where, Many attribute his conversion to Tastor winds of the Cape Cod coast, made sad rav- "battle array," Charles I. marched his in Robinson, but one glance at Weir's picture ages among them. Poor Elizabeth Barker forces against the very Cromwell who in of the "Embarkation," where as the bride Winslow, weary with the struggle, was after years was the warm and appreciative Elizabeth Winslow is portrayed, gives the "gathered to her fathers" March 21, 1621. friend of Edward Winslow, Governor of thought that perhaps her weak woman's Even the comfort of a grave bearing her Plymouth Colony. The booming cannons hand may have led him with loving care to name, which should tell her young husband which told those at Droitwitch of war and "choose that better part that cannot be and others that she had once been with carnage were, to be sure, a thing of the taken away." them, was denied to her. The Indians were past in that section; only a change of place Edward Winslow's first wife was Eliza- keeping watch; the little colony was sur- and participants, however, when Winslow beth Barker, of Leyden, born in Ohetsuni. rounded by fears worse than death. So the was to the front. England, to whom he was married accord- graves were leveled and planted, that the Edward Winslow, the diplomat of the ing to Leyden's records, by Pastor Robin- Indians might not know of their depleted Plymouth Colony, went to Leyden simply as son, May 16, 1018, Isaac Allerton for Wins- numbers and attack them unawares and se- a traveler seeing the world; a man of leisure, low, his wife for the bride acting as wit- cure victory from the situation. education and wealth—one who had behind nesses. The first thought of colonization in Let us hope that the English daisy Win- hiro the ancestry of many generations, which far-off America, where the field was large throp is said to have brought out with him . 1
EDWARD WINSLOW, THIRD SIGNER.
may have sought that unknown grave and work of only one day, being honest! v in- credit and esteem he was in marked it with its beauty and piety. tended with many of on botli sides, was kept with 'fidel- the members of Parliament, Edward Winslow, called in history "the ity and principal as long as Massasoit lived," hut was persons then in power, head of the emigration as Myles Standish prevented any preju- afterward broken in 1675 by Philip, his dice to the colony was the right hand," was only twenty-six from either of these ap- successor. plications." when he arrived at Plymouth, young, am- Considering the courtesy and justice of All of his work in London was held in bitious, with strong ideals for his future life, both men, it is highly probable that the ac- high esteem, and records of it kept in one of the gentry in the land of his birth, count a of this interview and treaty was book entitled "Calendar of State Papers." and who, from the start, shared with Brad- written by Edward Winslow. The preoo- While he was in England as agent ford the main burdens of the government, dence to the always (riven Stephen Hcpkins estab- colonies in 1623 he published a work which, owning a position to which the world yields lishes it, as they were the only persons en- fortunately for his aspirations, was con- ready homage, second in wealth in the col- gaged in the mission. sidered quite an advancement upon the onies, a fact never registered against a man, Squanto, the ever faithful, was their literary standard of the day. It was en- found himself, notwithstanding these ma- guide and interpreter. titled "Good News from New England: or. alone in the world. terial benefits, Why The arrival of the Ann in 1623, followed a Relation of Things Remarkable in Tha: should he thus remain, when a remedy was closely by the Little James, the last of the Plantation." close at hand. "forefathers' ships," brought them personal With characteristic modesty he signed it Elizabeth, so recently his companion was and physical comfort. Still, the growing simply "E. Winslow." "sleping the sleep that knows no waking." needs of the colonies and their inadequate Edward Winslow was several times Gov- A fellow-sufferer needed comfort, who so supplies forced the conviction on them that ernor, and he was the first person to hold fitting to give it as himself? the strongest and best fitted of their num- that office by election, which was recorded His mind being fully made up, he sought ber, to cone with English experience and in 1633. advice of Bradford, and the surprise he so place affairs before the Adventurers and MARSHFIELD. evinced in no way affected his action. Merchants, as to secure for the colonies Some prophetic feeling seems to have Wise Winslow made an appearance of con- both supplies and credit, must be sent back ac- sultation at least, prepared with arguments in her. tuated Gov. Winslow in preparing during only on one side, however. All wavering That Winslow should be chosen for deli- one of his stays in this country, his bcanti- was a thing of the past, so May 12, 1621, cate diplomatic service was without doubt, ful home at Marshfield, called "Careswell," this place, so "was ye first marriage in which ne sailed with the shin, nothing loth for where his wife kept watch and guard for according to ye laudable custom of ye low the journey, to be sure, that should so soon the husband who never came—a place countries, in which they had lived, was return him to the scenes with which he was further, and worthily, celebrated thought most requisite to be performed by in such strong personal touch. in history the magistrate, as being a civill thing upon ANOTHER TRIP TO ENGLAND. as the residence of Daniel Webster, and which many questions aboute inheritances where in the burying ground sacred to those Again, in 1635, doe depende," and Edward Winslow wel- he made a voyage to Eng- of Winslow blood his dust mingles with land seek comed to his home, perhaps heart, Susannah to protection against the incur- many generations owning that claim. Tilley White, whose first marriage is thus sions of their too intrusive neighbors. The name of Marshfield first appears in recorded: T The French in the East, the Dutch in the the records on the 1st of March. 1641-2. "William hite, married on ye third day W West, were too much for them. Disaf- It was represented in the colonial govern- of March, 1620. to Susannah Tilley. fected people were ment in 1644. and its earliest list of free- "Peregrine White, born on ye Mayflower venting their spleen on the already men, taken in 1644. with only a representa- in Cape Cod Harbor, December 19, 1620." overwhelmed people, broken by privations, tion of eleven people, had on it Mr. Edward She hardly time to realize the tie sorely wounded, without any had Winslow, Josiah Winslow, "Kanelme" which bound her to William White before power of redress, with full knowledge that their Winslow. it was a thing of the past. "Only a dream at enemies at home were placing Only two of Winslow's children lived the best." matters to their injury before the powers to grow up—Josias. born in 1627, afterward No one could doubt the benefits accruing that be and endangering their chance of re- Governor, and Elizabeth, their daughter, to her from this second marriage. Su- lief from abroad. Particularly this who married first Robert Brooks, of Scotu- sanna Tilley Winslow held the first place in was spirit maintained by ate, and second Capt George Curwen, a everything, the first mother, the first bride, Thomas Morton, of Merry Mount, a man prominent merchant of Salem. The two and then her son, Josiah Winslow. was the who by his own action was debarred from citizenship sons Edward and John did not reach ma- first native born governor of and forced to return to his native Plymouth turity. Colony. A husband, who had precedence land, where ho had a larger sphere, and they Gilbert Winslow, third brother of the always, what mattered the claims of his were rid of his little nleasantries in the way Governor, who was also on the Mayflower, birthright, when the rank which was of the of supplying the Indians first with the rum which went to Piscataqua after the settlement soul was his, and for which in honesty of made them wild for deeds of murder and destruction, was commenced there, and the tradition is purpose, he knew he must give much in re- then putting in their hands that he sailed to England and turn, having received much. the weanons with which to follow out the never re- course of turned. He made his professions, and lived up to their WiW nassions. them. For all of this Winslow must make ex- John Winslow came in the Fortune, one WHAT HE WANTED. cuses, as well as answer the charges against of those left behind by the Speedwell, nnj him "of officiating' in church and the cele- married Mary Chilton, of historic fame, His reasons for coming to America bration of marriages without being in holy known as the Pilgrim Orphan, and for showed him to be a loyal Englishman at orders." whom is claimed the honor, if such it is, of heart. "He wanted the protection and To suffer imprisonment for a continuance being the first to place foot on Plvmouth • language of his own country, the benefits of these offices as established in Holland, Rock. of an equal education for his children, and where a civil contract constituted marriage, Kenelm and Josias, the ether brothers, was hard indeed. Anvthing would serve came before 1632 and settled at Marshfield- to secure them in another country the right for a cause: it was truth crushed to earth, Our Winslow had many gifts and did no: to live without being surrounded by the but !t would rise again, and the vindication suffer the privations of the Pilgrims, being profanation of the Sabbath they saw on all of Edward Winslow's intentions only a always their envoy to other shores, where sides in Holland." matter of time, nlaced him on a securer he picked up from time to time the broken The records tell us that Winslow was as- platform than before. thread of his former life, and won for him- sociated with Brewster in Leyden as a Tf ever he had the austere manners at- self honor and renown. printer, and another statement is to the tributed to the Pilgrims, which is surelr " He was a man to take comfort in inr effect that Winslow, Bradford and with 44 doubtful, association the world and evidences of cultivation, and says: We re- Winthrop, blessed be their names, and their the best society of England must have freshed ourselves with singing psalms, mak- descendants, were journalists-" temnered both conversation and conduct. ing joyful melody in our hearts, as well as At all events, Edward Winslow started The «entiment connected with the'r life with the voice, there being many in our •• • on his diplomatic career early in his Pil- verv to no length 8t T evden was dear him: grogation very expert in music, and indeed grim life. When it was necessary to visit of absence or the silence of lossonin!,• moni- it was the sweetest music and confer with Massasoit, the Indian that mine orv could obliterate the feeling which it ever heard." chief, to sound his intentions, and, so far recalled. nersu.ide mvself never people "I Winslow had an artistic appreciation of as possible, make some plan of action in on earth lived more lovingly together mi l all the elegancies and showed string senti- regard to their intercourse, this delicate parted more sweetly than the church we ment always to the events that bad made mission, carrying the olive branch, with at Leyden." impression upon him and touched his heart. due care to convey sense of power, was in- Dear as he was to his own socmen Win- His high-bred consideration for others and trusted June. 1621, to Edward Winslow dow's fame was not "onfinod to Plvmonth. their wants marked the and Stephen Hopkins. The Massachusetts B*v colonv had deep him as Christian gentleman, .and it was not unnatural that With that tact which never deserted him, and abiding faith in hhn in the'r dissen- on this platform he and Bradford ah on 1. Winslow secured a friend in the Indian sions: thev recognized him as "n fH mrni to linve affiliated. chief, accomplished his mission, "and with he emnloved in our troubles in England, Winslow rv-oogniied the office as well as the tribe they hold friendly intercourse and both in rognrd to bis abilities «vf prosonet " the man. and yielded ready, prompt obe- 'ea t oysters.' speech, courage and understanding, as b'°0 dience. Adaptative himself, lie had the great "He was a man of groat activity and bo'^g well known to t'>e commissioners." resolution, hence qualified to conduct enter- Thev lnd not counted without their host, gift of drawing from those he was stir- prises." This treaty with Massasoit, "the for "by his prudent management and the rounded by the best of themselves, wisely 8 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT.
recognizing that he need put forth no claim and acquaintance with members of Parlia- welcoming to her beautiful home in Marsh- of precedence. If talent existed, it would ment required longer stay." I was very field the great and good of all nations wno speak for itself, and the strength of results glad to find this record; there seemed so lit- visited the home of her adoption. prove his capacity to wield the power tle account of Winslow's personal relations The courtesy of her dispensing, the cor- vested in him. to his family that the question might natur- diality and dignity of her hospitality, form INTERCOURSE WITH BRADFORD. ally arise as to whether he had merged all the record of the times. Her personal his life into his foreign relations. beauty fortunately is perpetuated, and if Bradford yielded Winslow all honor. He Both countries needed him, but there was reproduction in descendants is an evidence could do so cheerfully, free from the ag- always a "good and sufficient reason for his of strength, that existing, Mrs. Winslow gressiveness that sometimes tinctured his remaining in England." must be credited with force of character. speech of those whom he could only indorse Cromwell's pleadings were too strong for There were four children by this mar- in part, and yet struggled with his fine na- the ties that were pulling him to home, wife riage, two sous and two daughters, but only and children. His confidence in him was un- one son lived to manhood, Isaac, who mar- ture to render justice to. bounded, many commissions at various ried Sarah, daughter of John and Eliza- He calls "Edward Winslow the most ac- times had been assigned to him, and when beth Paddy Wensley, of Boston, July 11, complished of the 'old-comers,' distinguished the Protector planned an expedition to the 1700, and through her their descendants for the important services he rendered the West Indies, with the object of attacking were related to both Elder Brewster and colony both at home and abroad, and for the St. Domingo, 1055, secure in his trust, he Gov. Prince. eminent abilities which he displayed as the placed Edward Winslow at the head, with Sad to relate, Gov. Edward Winslow has representative of the sister colony to the Richard Holdrop and Edward Bragge as no one bearing the name who can claim English Government." assistants. lineal descent from him. Fortunately a fine portrait of Gov. Wins- The whole was under Admiral Peun and Josiah Winslow stood on a pinnacle from low, painted while on a mission to London Gen. Venables. any point of view, diplomatic, social or in 1651, is in the possession of the Massa- Only this one man of those in authority military, and the fact that his physical chusetts Historical Society- It represents in whom Cromwell could place absolute condition was far from robust, shows him when about 57 years of age, in the dependence, knowing that most were really strongly the metal of the man, who, under pride of his certain maturity, strong of pur- against him, and attached to the House of such odds, could do so much. pose, rich in experience. Stuart. Disagreements arose. They were He filled many offices, was magistrate, Strange to say, at this late date an au- men of different minds and tempers, their Governor, and in 1675, commander-in-chief thentic miniature ofthe third Governor has hearts not in the work. The troops ill ap- of all the colonies of New England in the been found, taken when he was a child of pointed and badly provided for. Then, to war against the Indians, known as "Philip's four years, and yet bearing such striking add to their troubles, they were landed a War." Being the bright and shining mark likeness to the future man as to insure its long way from the city, and lost their way he suffered severely through no fault of acceptance without the proof which accom- in the woods. his own from the animosity of the red they upon panies it. The army, composed of raw material, man. The encroachments made With no assertion, he takes his place in without the training which rendered them him rendered him virtually homeless, his the foremost rank always, and while his rec- subordinate to a leader, devoid of proper wife and children forced to seek a place of ognized position is that of a diplomat, he nourishment, the first instincts of a soldier saftey. in sense what made it harder shows in other places, which, in the light of unknown to them, it w;ts hardly a great And one this persecution a the world's opinion, seem of minor consider- military achievement to defeat these troops. to bear was that was foundation, the Indians ation; still, the bearing upon the colony, Overcome, not by army tactics, but the retaliation without themselves alleging no cause of discontent was even greater than his successful mis- stern depression of "hunger, thirst, heat and except execution of three murderers sions. fatigue," they were routed, six hundred the (Saccamons), who, it is asserted, acknowl- Winslow "searching for food" appeals killed, and the rest, without cowardice, took edged the fairness of their trial, and one warmly to our affection, installs the man refuge in the vessels, started to Jamaica, confessed his crime. where neither literary nor diplomatic and the army, which really never existed, strength has placed him, and all feel a com- except on the roll call, surrendered. THE QUAKERS. mon sorrow that on his return from this WINSLOW'S DEATH. voyage he should have "found the colony By contrast of thought and life the Quak- much weaker than when he left it. The All this wore sadly upon high-spirited ers were always a source of contention, want of bread had abated the strength and Winslow, the chagrin of defeat—for he did and Gov. Josias (as he always wrote his llesh of some, and swelled others, and had they not been where are diverse sorts of not live to enjoy the after victory—told name) strong in his sense of justice re- shell fish, they must have perished." on his constitution, worn by heat, fatigue sented the treatment they received. OLIVER CROMWELL. and anxiety, threw him into a fever, and Gov. Prince spent much of his time in the sacrificed life of Edward Winslow, third reducing their rights and privileges to a Edward Winslow was a great favorite of Governor of Plymouth Colony, always its minimum, and even suspended from the Oliver Cromwell and his officers, and yield- diplomatic head, ended the 8th day of May, claims of citizenship those who showed ed to the pressure brought to bear upou him 1055, in his 60th year, on the ship in which sympathy with that sect. to accept employment under the Protector. he wr as going from Hispaniola to Jamaica. These Winslow reinstated immediately No greater proof could be given of his What mattered it that he was buried with on his accession, and during his adminis- touch with the world, intelligent feeling cf funeral honors; that the booming guns told tration managed to infuse an outward semb- the public pulse, than the appointment he to all the position of the man consigned to lance at least of regard for their creed, received in 1054, as first commissioner on the great deep? where there was no overt action against the part of the Commonwealth to arbitrate The country of his love and adoption will the government. and determine the value of English ships never cease to regret this valued life Hardly a martyr, but certainly a sufferer seized and detained by the King of Den- thrown away to satisfy a man's ambition. from the cause he espoused, which, in his mark. case meant every line that had a touch of The original commission from the Pro- GOV. WINSLOW'S SON. prevention, of humanity and Christian tector is now in Plymouth. Gov. Josias Winslow, the first native- charity. Josiah Winslow died December 18. 1680. Such a preferment to a man who for born Governor of the colonies, married in thirty-four years had been a resident in the He w-as "buried at the expense of the 1057 Penelope Pelham, daughter of Herbert American colony with the Pilgrims and colony in testimony of its endeared love Puritans, governed by their small, narrow Pelham, Esq., of England. and affection for him," his tombstone bear- habits, is convincing as to the value of the Her fate met her in an unusual way, as ing the inscription: "The Hon'ble Josiah desires of the colonists, even if the carrying- there were few temptations for a beautiful Winslow, Gov'r of New Plymouth. Dyed December ye 18th, 1680, Aetatis, 52." out was restricted by their necessities, woman to make a pleasure trip to America. though in Winslow's case his life in Ply- Being in England with his father on one The father, always interested in the colo- mouth was interspersed by various trips of his missions, Gov. Josias Winslow's por- to see and assist, if pos- to the old world. nies, with a desire trait was painted there. From the start of his official intercourse sible, their struggles for advancement, Mrs. Winslow survived her husband with Europe, the spiritual welfare of the made them his personal care, and, with his twenty-three years, dying December 7, Indians was dear to the heart of the Chris- young daughter for a companion, sought 1703, in the 74th year of her age. Her tian Edward Winslow. He was a zealous New England. portrait, too, exists, and is a very repre- advocate of their civilization and conver- The result was the old, old story, and sentative type of the high-bred Puritan sion, and it was from his unwearied efforts Penelope Pelham, for love of Josias Wins- face history has handed down to us. and strong influence came the "Society for low, said to be the handsomest and most The Winslow descent has made fine his- Propagating the Gospel in New England," courtly man in New England, gave up the tory by sea and land —the "living present" which was formed in England in 1(547, the refinements of her English home and re- gives us many bearing the name—but the act of incorporation bearing date July 27, mained in the country. Were the story all sorrow must always exist that not one 1049. told, there were less than forty years of im- comes in a direct line from Edward Wins- In 1050 President Steele, of this society, provement and comfort as a compensation. low, third signer of the compact on the wrote to the Colonial Commissioners that But it was not always thus. Every- Mayflower off Cape Cod, 1620. and third "Winslow was unwilling longer to be kept thing being valued by contrast, she had the Governor of New Plymouth, the first by from his family, but his great influence with. future pleasure, as first lady of the land, of elective voice of the people. t
WILLIAM BREWSTER, Fourth Signer.
The history of the separatists and their market on Saturdays, and chiefly noted Scotland, had been trie*] and exodus to Leyden is written the length and tor its condemned trade in millstones." 1 after the manner of Queen Elizabeth breadth of the Northern post road of En- William Brewster, sou ! of the William reign, under a law devised to suit the gland, starting from London, JKrewster who was occa- and going appointed by Arch- sion, and the Parliament of England had bishop Sandys in north to Berwick, the last stopping place in January, 1575-0, receiver petitioned for her execution. of Scrooby, and all England, though its real end is Edinburgh. its liberties in Notting- The Queen privately ordered Davison hamshire, and also to Passing through the counties of Middle- bailiff of the Manor draw up a death -warrant, which she signed House, to hold both offices sex, Hertford, Cambridge, Huntingdon, for life, had Even if the ever-present precedent had from his advent into the world the abun- warned him Rutland, Lincoln, of the fickle mistress he wm Nottingham, York, the dance consequent upon his father's serving, posi-* it would have beeu of no Bishopric of Durham and Northumberland, tion. avail Her uneasy head, which wore a crown the student of this early history easily The family were there "even earlier, aeld nothing higher than her own caprief*. for on the administration makes connection with the places and peo- of the estate of His consulting her appointed counselors William Brewster, wa* ple that have put their stamp on the early of Scrooby, being a deed written on the sand. She charged to William colonies of Tinted Brewster, his son, in him, Mary having suffered the death New England. lteM), pen- it is noted that the widow Prudence alty, with too much haste. In view of the fact that leaving their held the office of post when he died, and The consummation she devoutly wished country for cause, they chose to lose their that the father of the deacesed man held for at the moment, in the face of the inev- identity of residence and personal record, it it before him." itable, perhaps, aroused some womanly feel- is rather pathetic think .Thjg places two generations previous ing to that they are in to for the head she had laid low. Still. the William Brewster all evidence from the very naming of the vil- have a legendary Davison's doom was sealed. affection Elizabeth al- for. and renders it almost certain ways required a lages of their new residence, after the al- that our victim. Davison's ap- Elder William was born at pointment was because ways dear homes of their birth and early Scroobv. he was easily im- posed upon, so, "the better to appease life. BREWSTER ARMS. James, whose concern for his mother was Much more thanl two centuries have The original grant for the Brewster arms sincere and cordial, she committed Davison passed, and yet these very local names are (given with the crest to Humphrey Brews- to prison, and ordered him to be tried in the guides searchers take as a foundation the star chamber for ter, of Rushmore, 1561) is in the possession misdemeanor." Davison suffered keenly of fact. They make their records very rap- of the familv of Cardinal from the railing Brewster, of of the very men who, idly, as you start from London, through Greenstead Hall. Halstead, Essex. in the eagerness for the final act, had induced him to Newington, now a parish of London, fa- Burke says: "But that other branch with carry out Elizabeth's plans with indecent mous for the ancient archery butts placed which we are now concerned was estab- haste, promising him their countenance lished in the United States of America bv and sup- at the ends of the fields for targets. port if harm should reach William Brewster, the ruling elder and him- Even with Guilford, Enfield and Waltham on the all this spiritual guide of the Pilgrim Fathers, who, to his credit, the sentence of im- road, Chelmsford and Thomas Hooker near prisonment during the 1G20. went out to America and were found- Queen's pleasure, at hand, St. Albans, where William Wilcox- ers of New England. and to pay a fine of a thousand pounds, wos not abated son, of Stratford, Conn., came from, with Brewster's birth, according to the records, one iota. It makes another colonial his rector's certificate; Hatfield, too, in was about 1560, and, happily for him. his connection to educational advantages were recall that when "Elizabeth appointed a close proximity. the best of commission his time. He was a scholar at the Univer- of forty noblemen and privy There on the direct route .Herford, the councilors, and empowered sity of Cambridge, where, though his at- them to pass shire town, "Governed by Mayor, 9 Bur- sentence on Mary," they tainments were not great enough to make should have sent to her at Fotheringay gesses, etc. Electing Parliament men," any special mark, his subsequent career Castle (in the coun- ty of Northumberland) and for a crowning glory having a market showed that he availed himself of every- Sir Walter Mildmay as one of those to inform her of the on Saturday. In its prosperity the place thing that came within his grasp. com- mission and her approaching trial. could boast of five churches, but the divert- "He was a fluent Latin scholar, with an insight into Greek." Davison's fall was a change of career for ing of this great road from it reduced it to Brewster. had a Life at Scrooby was not vegetation for He made successful start three. Still the familiar names pursue us, in a mode of life he seemed eminently fitted William Brewster. The place was full of for, and subsequently telling that the little colony who left Hart- historic interest. The Manor House had followed one as a re- sult of this deposition from office his ford, Conn., located in Stamford, so called domiciled royalty in the height of its power, of chief on conviction, the very contrast from England's Stamford, on this road, a and misfortune when Cardinal Wolsev be- of his past. True to the man's instincts of life, large, flourishing town (within easy access came an inmate after his fall. Realizing, he stood by his patron till as he said, that be had served his King the last, and of Coventry. Derby, Oxford, etc.), in Lin- Davison in the better than his God. the few weeks he same spirit remained Brew- conshire, only eighty-nine miles north from ster's benefactor always. passed at Scrooby. if meant as expiation, London. Every surrounding circumstance of left the record of that time as well spent in Brew- ster's official "It was originally named Steanforde, de- service for the good of others. life seemed to be weaving for rived from the Saxon stean, a stone, and him a strong leading to what made his forde from a passage across the river Wel- DAVISON. power for the future. land being paved with stones." Next it was Undoubtedly it was at Scrooby, when he Even among Davison's assistants there a Stanford: but ultimately reached its pres- was traveling to Scotland on affairs of was George Cranmer. who, from being a pupil of Hooker's and a helper ent spelling. The town is charmingly sit- state, that Brewster met William Davison, in his work of ecclesiastical piety, had uated on the side of a hill, rising in a beau- one of Queen Elizabeth's Ambassadors, grown fond of theological studies, and his tiful terrace from the northern bank of the and Secretary of Shite, who did more than knowledge on these subjects naturally gave river Welland, "across which a stone any other toward forming his character. him a strong influence on Brewster, always susceptible bridge of five arches connects it with A man of whom Bradford writes as "a to such convictions. Stamford Baron, or St. Martin's, in North- religious and godly gentleman." Becoming Cranmer did not retire from public life, amptonshire." Davison's secretary, au office he was singu- so. "less fortunate than Brewster, was All that locality seems to be of great an- larly fitted for, all the religious and diplo- slain in Ireland as early as 1600." tiquity, "Stamford being ascribed by tra- matic benefits followed him. The best of Then, too, he lived with Sir dition to a period long before the Christian Secretary Davison's life was his connec- Edwin Sandys, whom Kin? James afterward era." tion with Brewster, who then, young and dis- liked because he was one of the leaders of From here to Rutland, and then our rest- impressionable, absorbed and retained the the people's party in the House of Com- ing place Scrooby, a living interest, suffi- influences he was surrounded by. mons, and who, by birth and inclination, cient in the present day to take out a band He shared some of Davison's glory, for took a foremost rank among the ecclesiasti- of history vain when it was Elizabeth's pleasure to make seekers, in the hope, not a cal reformers of the day. one I trust, of bringing back to us much league with the States of Holland, through that their present increased knowledge will her Ambassador. Davison, he attended him ELDER WILLIAM KIJ LUSTER. enable them to appropriate and place in as secretary, and while there "the keys of Upon William Brewster's death. Davison his care, as the position. Flushing were committed to suggested that his sou. the future Elder, safest possible repository, pending the ne- SCROOBY. should be successor. Sir Johu Stanhope, gotiations. Small as was, village of only who was appointed to the office Scrooby a "As a recognition of his valuable services, of "Post- two furlongs, it was accessible on all sides the States presented Brewster with a gold master-General by letters patent, bearing to many of the important places, and from chain." date at Westminster June 30th. in the thir- it you were brought to a kill, where to- QUEEN ELIZABETH. ty-second year of Elizabeth" U590\ wrote. gether you enter Yorkshire and Bawtry, Elizabeth's favor was only a question of August —. 1590: "Regrets he cannot com- "a town of three furlongs extent with a time. Mary, the unfortunate Queen of ply with his request, on the death of old 10 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT.
Bruster." One Samuel Bevereotes had their taking the decisive step and leaving Edward Brewster remained in Virginia, written to him for the place of Postmaster England. leaving there in the early part of 1619. at Scrooby, with which he complied. Robinson and Brewster were gathering His return to England, however, was States the reason for not conferring it on around them from the neighboring villages hardly voluntary. On the 15th of October, young Bruster, served place who had in that converts who were ready to take their lives 1618, he was "court-martialed by Gen for his father, old Bruster. in their hands for the church. Young Brad- Samuel Argalls on the charge of having This proved to be a personal grievance ford had joined them, and the persecutions complained of the unlawful use of Lord that Stanhope had against William Brew- on all sides were warning them that the Delaware's servants by Argalls, and con- ster, for neglect of courtesy toward himself, Manor House at Scrooby must be left and demned to death." Lord Delaware had yet he left a loophole for any explanation on a congregation gathered across the sea. died the previous spring on the passage the part of Brewster in case his applicant The people at Scrooby needed a central from England to Virginia. failed to present himself. figure upon which they could lean, a man to A pretty item of history is found in the "All this while, and to this hour. I never be their conscience, and the choice fell record of that day. from young Brewster; he like heard a word an unwritten election from the voice of the While those already in Virginia were never came to me being in town, nor sent waiting for the expedition by Sir people on William Brewster. . headed being absent, but as though 1 was to to me Whither he went "they would go, his God Thomas Gates and Sir George Soiners, the by his ac- be overruled others, made way should be their God;" so with the consent colonists elected Mr. West, brother of Lord cording to his liking. I know my interesr, of the multitude of counselors they decided Delaware, "temporary president." To-day he had the place or no. I such as whether to seek Amsterdam in Holland. They this family name (West) of the Delawares, displace him, and think him worthily can pinned their faith on him—a sure founda- who were also of the English Temple blood, displaced for contempt of me, in not seyk- tion. unites both continents in Dr. Charles E. ing me at all." The best argument for a belief in God was West, of Brooklyn, and "that grand old The change of mind came, and Brewster Brewster's own existence and manner of man—Gladstone." or de- was appointed. Whatever records life- "Separation, the full blossom of the Edward Brewster's punishment was sires of his personal life history is obliged bud of Puritanism," was the impelling afterward commuted to banishment, a*nd he to do without, his "ordinary wages" are power for their departure. There were no returned to England. fully explained, commencing with "'20d. half way measures for them. Of course such a trial was a farce, and per diem," and closing with 2s.. when he re- The arrangements for Holland were made- thus was recognized by the Virginia Com- signed the office on September 30, 1(507. wit h the greatest privacy, the company di- pany in London. They reviewed the pro- The posts were emphatically the royal vided into two parts, one to go to Boston, ceedings and findings, and declared they roads, and were always spoken of as ".Tour- were "unjust and unlawful, and not war- on the southeastern coast of Lincolushires neys of the Court." Still, the Northern Road, the other by the Humber, flowing between rantable either in matter of form by the which to us represents "Scrooby" as the Lincolnshire on the north and Yorkshire. laws of the realm, or by any power or great stopping place, was the most import- All their foresight could suggest was authority derived from his Majesty." ant in the United Kingdom. It is recorded done, but of no avail; the captain, for cause There is a world of supposition in this that "though none of the Vest Way for af\er unknown, in both eases betrayed their claimant to the Brewster's blood, rendering the first 20 or 30 miles 'tis so generally bad, plans. The hope that had pulsed their start other children possible, not yet accounted that there was a certain late imposition was flighted by the reality. The Boston for, and helps to explain the constant refer- upon Travellers during three years at Stil- company, seized by officials, with a total ence at the earliest times to Brewster's ton, and a place or two on this side, of about disregard of any rights on their part, were large family. a Penny for a Horse, etc.. toward the Re- sent divers ways, Brewster. Bradford and EDWARD BREWSTER CONFORMS. pair of that part of it, yet it is well accom- others being thrown into prison. Capt. Brewster, after his return, modated for Entertainment, and at mod- Brewster was the chief among the non- con- erate rates." conformists who were taken at Boston, one forms to the church, and settles down iu Great responsibilities were attached to of the seven kept the longest in prison, and London. His relations with the Virginia the office. Brewster was an innkeeper, who. as a penalty of their beliefs, suffered Company were always cordial. In 1623 he obliged to provide for distant deliveries, the greatest loss- is mentioned among the (members present there beiag no cross posts on the great high- His position atScrooby gone, other punish- at the meetings. way to the north. The nature of his occu- ments awaited Brewster; a fine of £20 was "He and Henry Seile, in 1635, were book- pation is easily understood, in the record of imposed upon him for his failure to appear sellers near the north door of St. Paul's, expenses of Sir Timothy Hatton, the Arch- before the Ecclesiastical Commission, and and at a later period he was treasurer of bishop's son, on a journey to and from this "contempt of court" secured for him the Stationers' Company," payment London in 1605. a further fine of £20, the HOLLAND. "He paid the 'post' as Scrooby, who must of which he wisely postponed by his flight have been Brewster, for a conveyance (post to Holland. Life in Holland was their period of proba- chaise) and guide to Taxford, 10 shillings, CAPT. EDWARD BREW 3TER. tion and assimilation; they had put ^caind and for a candle, supper and breakfast, 7 them all thought of their life in England, While affairs at Scrooby were assuming shillings and tenpence—so that he slept made common cause of their labor and their roof. his return he proportions the Virginia Company in Lon tinder Brewster's On necessities, east aside class feeling and be- paid 8 shillings to the post of Scrooby, for was gaining strength. The two really don came one in anticipation and appreciation. conveying him to Doncaster, then recorded claimed a community of interest from the Brewster wrote with Robinson from Hol- 7 miles, and 2 shillings for burnt sack, fact that Sandys was an important factor land to Sir Edwin Sandys: "We are knit bread, beer and sugar to wine, and three in each. together as a body in a most strict and sa- pence to the 'ostler." King James declared that the "Virginia cred bond and covenant of the Lord, of the Relays of horses were always kept at Company was a seminary for a seditious violation whereof we make great conscience stated distances, and over this great road Parliament." After a variety of namings and by virtue whereof we hold ourselves journeyed the kings and queens of the times. and the usual changes in the plans, on the strictly tied to all care of each other's goods The mail matter was largely in the handa 23d of May, 1609, a new charter was and of the whole." of envoys or private individuals, and the granted authorizing "the use of the cor- The aid of every individual member of reading of Winthrop's letters gives us as- porate name of the Treasurer and Com- the little settlement was required and cheer- surance that many a hamper of home made pany of Adventurers and Planters of the fully given; small feelings had no place in delicacies, "cappons found and cheese," City of London, for the first colony in Vir- their busy lives. The Leyden records ac- their way along the line. ginia." This charter was seized with avid- count for another child of the elder's, who Retrospection brings William Brewster ity. The outlook was exactly to their died in 1609. bless- before us speeding the parting guest, minds, the list of Adventurers was soon "Brewster was enabled to set up printing by ing "the word in season" those he came full, among them William Brewster and his by the help of some friends." and so had em- in contact with, and placing himself and his son, Edward. ployment enough. The life was congenial teachings on never-to-be-forgotten record. At the date of the charter Brewster was to him so far as the necessity which knows doubtless in Amsterdam. Staunton says no law required labor as a means of liveli- SEPARATISTS. of him about that date "that he was fright- hood. The possibilities of doing good he ened back into the Low Countries." saw before him as a result of the dissemina- persons separ- "The communities of who His sou, Capt. Edward Brewster, how- tion of the truths his books contained, were ated themselves .were called Separatists, ever, went to Virginia "as Lord De la sadly destroyed by the restrictions put upon Congregationalists or Independents, until Warre, Captain-General of Virginia, to their circulation. the time of the civil wars. whom he appears to have been attached in His opinions were not popular according "The Separatist was a Puritan, but the some official or military capacity, sailed to the desires of the official powers, and from England the spring of 1610. It is the field he had laid out for himself was Fnritan was not necessarily a Separatist." probable that young Brewster emigrated at curtailed, if not entirely destroyed, by force The latter felt with the Nonconformists, *hat time." of law. In 1619 the English Government but did not act with them. They sought re- Elder Brewster, however, was borne on complained that Brewster's books were lief from the ceremonies, made special pleas their books, for in the list of Adventurers, "vented underhand" in their country, and with the amount of their ventures, appear asked that given trial in their for their discontinuance, but while entering he be up for "William Brewster 20 li. and Capt. Edward country. Proud of their dectective system, Into their church unions, lacked the "cour- Brewster, his son, 20 li. they arrested the wrong man. and one age of their convictions" when they required All through the Pilgrim life iu Holland Brewer (who was also a member of the d
WILLIAM BREWSTER, FOURTH SIGNER. 11
Leyden company) suffered imprisonment would follow—a thought to carry with them progressive man. for the crimes imputed to Brewster. to their humble Frequently deputy a labors. l*»wer in the When the churches with their pastors Circumstances settlement, and with true Pil- had aided the Pilgrims in grim spirit, he gave had removed to Holland, William Brewster carrying out his best endeavor* their simplicity of desire as to building up the was chosen Ruling Elder, an office be held regarded church. He Is stlyed gen- church connection in Plymouth tleman, a title of importance, i u worthily through all the mutations of Kobmson to the thou* dav, day of his death holding 1 he time and until change to the new colony of New change, the close of his life. the same pastoral relations Lon- to them, they don seemed a matter of benefit to place Peculiarly gifted with power of expres- continued to be his the people without thought of his settlement and himself. He « \.. sion, and the ability to convey to others all ot change, until a » when they were called up- sociate Judge, and established by that was truest of himself, this life with on to part with him, appoint- giving their pastor ment a trading post on lands pur. but one purpose made its impress on every hack to the (,;>—d of God who gave him, they desired Uncas, chief of the surrounding, gathering to Mohegana. and after- him the worthy to confer the office of pastor or ward called teaching el- Brewster's Neck. Fortunate) v. and unworthy that they might benefit by der on Brewster. He. for however, "while de- the world likes to |n-rpetuaie honor, he his precepts and example. clining the office, had performed the duties." three sons and one daughter Patii-nre His teachings were magnetic, and from J.rewster BREWSTER'S CHARACTER. married Gov. Prince in 101M an his abundance all must gain in knowledge, died Thatcher m WA. F,.ar became Isaac AlW-rion\ and the fame that went forth when he be- says "he was too diffident for second wife in 1626, and she died in 1633 came, as he was, a teacher in the position," and Baylies Leyden Uni- rather verities Brewster's library gave evidence of his verscity for years, brought students to this cultivation him statement by recording that the "sub- and continued interest iu learn- from all quarters: sons of great men at- ing. Out missive piety of Brewster, indeed, produced of the three hundred volume, tracted by his superior methods. Danes a sixty-four were classics. moral effect as important in its conse- and Germans who craved what he alone The spirit that guided Elder quences as the active Brewster seemed capable of giving. Latin served him virtues of others/' through the vicissitudes of But he was his life remained in good stead; the "confusion of tongues'' "as bold in defending the colony with him until his closing hours; the con- he was surrounded by required that tinie- against the Indians as he was meek and tent wheh had made him accept whateTer came to honored classic as an interpreter. humble in diffusing the truth." him was his rest iu the Almightv's Prosperity attended Brewster's efforts; will. Death stole upon him unaware-*; Ready of sympathy, his high-toned tem- the he ceased to be an object of sympathy, so sorrow was more to those who loved perament made the personal response such him that toward the close of his twelre years than himself, and after one day's sickness as only a broad, true nature could give, in Holland his "outward condition" was he closed his mortal account "nere four working during the heat and burden of the greatly improved. "He lived well and plen- skore years of age (if not all out) when day side by side with' any member of tifully." the he dyed." his spirit going to the God who little community, cheering them by the ex- gave it April 10. 1044. Brew-tcp "died Leyden, the place of many privations and ample of his unwearied a-, efforts in 'their be- simply and grandly as he had lived: the uncertainty, was wearing upon their cour- half. apostolic benediction on his Hps. the lasr age: the mouths to feed were increasing And when the time of physical exhaustion they knew of life, and the rest was silence out of all proportion to their ability to fill and death came to them without respect to until the end, and then the transfigurati..ii. them; the baneful influences surrounding person, "their Reverend Elder and Standish. which made him grander in death than their children were a cause of great anxiety ei their Captain." did with sorrowful, tender he ever was in the life he had lived for and thought for themselves. "Their desires hearts all that could comfort or benefit humanity in America and for his God." were sett on the ways of God, and to en- those thus thrown upon their huniaiu'tv; the joy his ordinances" they realized they strong men and brave, who took the first Elder Brewster left no will, but letters needed physical and moral strength to make rank as soldiers, watched over the sick with of administration were granted to his their praises avail. sons woman's ways and woman's care. Jonathan and Love. June 1044. time of at least partial prosperity must A "The good Elder fought as he prays, and Wearing apparell, household utensils. have come to the Pilgrims during their early although he would far rather convert an &c, appraised by Capt. Standish residence in Holland, for in 1011 they were and John Done, enemy than hurt one. he would not dream May 10. lCAi 28.0S.1O able to buy a large tract of laud, with a of Articles at his house in Duxbury, by allowing him the first fire." Standish spacious house on it, for which they paid and Pearce. Mar 18 107.00.08 Human nature went with the little band His Latin Books, by Mr. Bradford. $3,000. "The site of this hous'e is now in- to even desolate Cape Cod. taking class dis- Mr. Prence and Mr. Reyner, May dicated by a stone in the front wall of the tinctions to the colonies, for Morton speaks 18, sixty-three volumes" ". 13.13.04 building, which records that on this spot of Brewster's sympathies "for those who His English Books, by Mr. Bradford lived and died John Robinson." and Mr. Prence, Between three and had been of good estate and rank, and were The Leyden baud were not rigid separat- four hundred volumes 27.00.07 fallen into want and poverty, and none did Latin English ists. Brewster and Robinson accepted the and books, 42.19.11. more offend and displease him than such as members of their church from those who would haughtily and proudly cany and lift Total sum of goods 150.00.07 were willing to "renounce the pomps and up themselves, being risen from nothing." Some discussion has been caused by the vanities of this wicked world" and join This in the wilderness, snrninded by red fact that the Elder's testate was inTentori.-l with them in keeping pure and uncontami- men. food not only at the lowest separately, in Plymouth and Duxbury. Thi« nated from the wickedness which surround- point, but every outlook created doubt as to the possible plaiv of his ed them. for the continuance of their privations. death. However, that seems decided as So their thoughts turned to the far away ON THE Plymouth, though he was one of the pioneer new world, where these tenets could be well MAYFLOWER. residents of Duxbury, and his home was carried out. free from the supervision of Elder Brewster's family on the May- there. spoke church and state, where their God flower consisted of the Elder Dame Brew- "The part of his inventory which was ac- from every quarter and had written His ster, the gentle guide of the young people credited to Plymouth was as follows: for animate and inani- on plan of creation the 4 paire stockings, 2 paire shoes, the ship: Lucretia, wife of Jonathan, a son of mate, on the broad expanse of land, sea and 3 waistcoats and a2 shorts. sky. who came out in the Fortune in 1621, and paire of drawers, 26 handkerchiefs They wanted a church without a bishop, two sons. Weeding and Love. 1 old goune, 1 fine handkerchief. 2 gridles. 3 handkerchers. a country without a distant sovereign: so Patience and Fear, the daughters the 2 paire of thin stock- 1 wrought capp. long as Brewster was with them other de- mother's heart yearned over, were on the ings, 1 laced capp. sires could be passed over, and from the 1 knit capp. 1 quilted capp. Ann. reaching the colony in 1631. start at Scrooby, the life of Leyden, and 1 blew cloth suite, 2 old capps broader, stronger needs of Plymouth col- This union was not for long. The delicate, 1 old suite turned, 1 ruffe band. ony, he never failed them. wearied mother was slowly but surely turn- 1 black coate. 1 ruffe sift out. Old cloaths. t> hands. In the nature of things it would have ins- her feet toward the Eternal City. England 1 Mack cloth suite. 1 red cap. seemed that on reaching New Pastor Robinson writes to the Elder from 1 paire of groenel paire garters. Brewster should have been made Governor, Leyden. December 20. 102.">: "I hope Mis- drawers. 1 knife. but as he was "ruling elder," it was not tress Brewster's weak and decayed state of 1 list wascoate, 1 plstoll. 1 1 combe. "compatible with that office to vest a civil body will have some repairing by the com- trusse. 1 black coate. 2 brushes. and ecclesiastical office in one person." ing of her daughters, and the provisions in 1 black stuffe suite. 1 paire of black silk In Plymouth he ussually preached to them this and other ships sent." Poor Mary 1 black suite & cloake stockings. years. twice every Sunday for nine What Brewster! At least, she had the plain, un- 1 dublett. A dagger and knife. a sweet intercourse a prayer meeting under varnished truth set before her: no tempor- 1 paire of stockings, Tobacco* caa*. his 1 1 rapier. his guidance must have been, as in izinsr to spare her the shook. blaeke goune, need called the brethren to in 1 black hat, Tobacco* A some he npon lead All prophecies were fulfilled when she prayer and exhort. "The chief were Brail- 1 old hat. pipes. closed her mortal eyes on this life of risrid 2 paire of gloves, tobacco box an.1 ford. South- A Edward Winslow, Thomas exactions and unavoidable want in 1027. paire of shoes. tongs. worth Secretary Nathaniel Morton- 1 and Love married March 15, 1634, "Miss "His Duxbury iuventory, which ::ic!nded men of superior 'talents and parts and g 1 Sarah." daughter Of William Collier, a very his wardrobe, contained: learning." prominent citizen of Plymouth. He moved I sword, 1 violet color cloth Elder Brewster, true to his instincts of to Duxbury ami had four children, three 1 sword, coate. the best possible good, wanted short but sons and one daughter. White capp, 1 coslett. A trusse. frequent prayers, only sufficient to give a Jonathan became a member of the early text for the self-communion he hoped secession to Duxbury in 1032—an active, "His estate, divided between his two 12 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. sons consisted of his house and appoint- as one of the purchasers of the patent and wishes in the matter was called at the ments in Duxbury, with one hun- plantation of New Plymouth." Governor's house, where the differences dred and eleven acres of upland, The brothers not fully agreeing in the were fully discussed on all sides, and an am< besides marsh lands belonging to him, disposition of the effects, a meeting of the icable settlement mas made, as well his share in the undivided lands men most likely to judge of .the Elder's See note.
ISAAC ALLERTON, Fifth Signer.
Mr. Isaac Allerton was born too soon. Newbury, England. This is verified by the rally count himself in when opportunity records in the Staathuis, Hall, itself. restraint, He is wanted to-day for the syndicates, the or City of presented Chafing under that place, and one disputes his right to unwilling guided Bradford's slow, trust companies, the mining interests, the no to be by put himself on record as from London. The conservative policy, wanting to strike while corporations, where power and capacity witnesses to this marriage were Edward the iron was hot, there is little wonder the man, from the have their place, and every Southworth, Richard Masterson and Ran- Governor should hardly understand a man highest to the lowest, is subordinate to by- dolph Tickens; for the bride Anna Fuller whose disposition must always be recorded laws and the changes consequent upon the and Dillon Carpenter. in extenuation of his action. Honest Brad- majority vote. He could place his house- No one in the whole Leyden colony was ford wanted integrity in the spirit of the hold goods at a moment's notice, and trans- more efficient and eminently useful in all word, requiring no special pleading to con- the preparations for their departure. He vince. fer them in the same space of time to the was hoping to find in America a sort of Bo- In the fall of 1626 Allerton went to Eng- antipodes. hemian life that would fit with his desires, land in the interests of the colonists. Their people had an arbitrary The New England being in a hurry to emancipate himself from terms with the adventurers who advanced Every way of arranging the fate of man. his surroundings. That he had great pow- the money for their start pressed heavily action, almost thought, was open to the ers of organization goes without saying; he upon them. It was all outgo and no in- public, the judgment of them being in the knew the way and showed the will. come. Those who had assumed the debt hands of those who had no shirking sense of IN THE COLONY. wanted to see "if a composition could be made by which the claims should be dis- their duty, as they waited upon the so- The cloud, "no bigger than a man's charged and their rights be conveyed to called delinquent to administer the needed hand," that grew and wrecked him in after the actual planters at Plymouth. This was rebuke. years, was then only the calmly blue at- accomplished, and the instrument of con- to be One place required freemen mem- mosphere that could shine upon his every veyance dated November 15, 1626, which bers of the church, according to the lights action. There is little account of their life is preserved in Gov. Bradford's letter book, prescribed by the ruling elders and deacons, on shipboard. One only judges of it by has forty-two names attached." who held other men's consciences in their a combination of circumstances, but when ENGLAND. they reached Plymouth, Allerton was in the VOYAGE TO hands. Another, like the Pilgrim Colony, height of his glory. By virtue of necessity The wish being father to the thought, Al- claiming only a certificate of good behavior he soon occupied a false position. Carver lerton, desiring to enlarge his borders at all and intention. had gone from them to the realms of light, times, undoubtedly "took a hand" in any In early days Allerton had imbibed the Bradford, the people's choice for Governor, scheme for his own advancement. Up to was ill unto death, and Allerton, the active, spirit of the London Company he came a certain restricted point, his offices were stirring citizen, the man of great resources, from. There a man, be he a duke's son or all for the benefit of his mission; after that was placed as the power behind the in- merely "one of the people," until 1635, was himself always. third voyage to Eng- capacitated throne. The opportunity was The obliged to purchase his freedom, his right land, which was principally for the pro- his; now was the chance to try how he very dis- to citizenship, by identifying himself accord- could work out his own advancement, and curement of the patents, became ing requirements law. obliged +o return to the of with one of when the time was fitting, step into the heartening, and he was the the "Livery Companies or Craft Guilds." shoes he felt were none too large for him. August, 1629, without accomplishing A younger son was himself, nothing more. He was hardly the victim of circumstances; object of his journey. If his ways were sure, that should To be the knowledge only primo- his own pleasure must count for something. not their ways, why the colonists geniture stood between him and the coronet Only the combination had much to do with have sent him out again on the same busi- flid not tend to lessen the resentment of the is mystery. his future life. Bradford was ill, the af- ness in the autumn of 1629 a fate too hard for him. To have the privi- fairs of State beyond his weak physical By assiduous application this trip was a lege of voting for the Lord Mayor of Lon- couditon, so Allerton. the reins of govern- success, and January 29, 1630, the patent don was something, and to know that for ment in his hands, did fine work for the was obtained. Shirley, his associate, in his 800 years the office was filled by a man who colonies, never being a gentleman forgetting letter written March 19 following, expresses had earned his right of office by virtue of himself. his high sense of the services performed being a freeman of one of the twelve great He was looked up to, sought advice from, by the agent. "Till our main business of livery companies of the city, was a slight and gained power day by day- To be sure, the patent was granted, I could not set my compensation. Nevertheless, one's birth- the office he temoorarily held was not his mind or pen to writing, and Mr. Allerton right is hardly sold willingness with for a own, and Bradford could hardly expect was so turmoiled about it, and found so "mess of pottage." that when, with returning strength he as- many difficulties and oppositions, as verily knew he He when started on his career sumed the duties which were his, Allerton I would not, nay, could not have undergone what the possibilities were. To be a freeman would efface himself, forgetting he ever had it. if I might have had a thousand pounds." from the "Merchant Tailor Company of an opinion on affairs of State. This jeal- Mr. Allerton's return to England to accom- London" did not h^get ignorance. If he ap- ousy of his power was perfectly natural, plish this object was strongly urged by peared inexperienced he belied himself. but "trifles light as air" assume great pro- Shirley, who was cordially appreciative of INDEPENDENT. portions when seen through the green his conduct, and always putting his pen to glasses. paper to give expression of these feelings. Isaac Allerton was a power; he carried HARD WORK. He says to Gov. Bradford: "Give me his citizenship with him to Leyden, and ac- Allerton's work had counted in the col- leave to put you in mind of one thing. Here quired the same rights there, February 7. ony; he had cast self aside, tilled the ground are many of your Leyden people now come 1614, in common with William Bradford when plowing the sea and waves was his over, and, though I have ever had good and his brother-in-law, thought of them, yet believe not every one Degery Priest. Con- desire. The barns and houses which grew shall Mr. Allerton. fining him to general rules and regulations by magic power he viewed only as tempor- what they report of He hath been a trusty, honest friend to was heyond the possibilities of any one. ary habitations: the churches, _ from his ab- He or here." This man horrence of their narrow faith, were al- you all, either there wanted everything of his own constructing; activity, so most repugnant to him, yet he onward "plod could not have slumbered in even his religious beliefs were in an evolu- Shirley as a boon companion he acted liis weary way," while Bradford was laid with day, and, tionary state; what the cause he never low, and when he recovered wanting: all on the market quotations of one telephone with which to thought to inquire. Why should he? These or nothing, he constituted himself a "com- being without the around remind himself, the next forgot, and used changes were part of his daily life, and he mittee of ways and means." looked for a change of local habitation, almost the same methods as the opposition. was willing to stand or fall by them. name, a matter agreeable to all concerned. MISFORTUNE. There is a difference of opinion in regard His organization was a not unusual one- Shirley's flattery, or what Allerton con- to his age. Those who said they knew placed fine possibilities, great capacity for work, did not fit his time of birth at 1585; still it was claimed yet always needing a guiding hand over sidered merited commendation, end of the that he wasi 81 when he reached Plymouth. him. He brought experience, and soon got him for depreciation at the other be At all events, he married first November 4, his bearings, whatever the situation, but a line. One or the other opinion must 1611 (O. S.), for him there was but ou« at Leyden, Mary Norris, of man who is smart for others would natu- wrong, and I
MYLES 9TANDISH, SIXTH SIGNER. IS choice. Misfortune soon followed misfor- could get ahead, and when his trading sta- they cracked their little jokes, was the jilt- tune; he was down and the kick was ready tions on the Kennebec and Penobscot were edged commodity of the period. The inter- for him, but there is no attempt to question broken up—the latter by the French in est in it being so great, it served for table his ability. Point Allerton, at the entrance 1634—-he simply "appealed," asking no per- talk as they regaled each other with the of Boston Harbor, took its name from Isaac mission to locate in another place. favorable opinions passed upon it, History while Allerton, as Morton says, "perpetuating the always accords to him the honor making their quick sales. Presumably they of being memory of a man of the greatest commer- the founder of Marblehead, aided dealt in everything that was marketable, by his son-in-law, cial enterprise in those early times." More Moses Maverick. The and one thing begat another as those wise impulse he gave to honors were his, for the history of Dux- trade was never lost, and heads revolved how to turn an honest the penny bury tells us: "An early mention is made "first building in Marblehead for busi- in the speediest possible manner. ness purposes is of Allerton Hall, which was probably called Allerton Block, the his- Some of Allerton's actions to-day would tory of which is almost after Isaac Allerton, one of the first pil- unknown-" All his not cause a passing thought—simply be honors did not deter re- grims, though there is no notice of his him from the expres- corded in the newspapers of one sion day fwith being a resident of Duxbury at any time." of his opinion in his own peculiar man- a portrait), and the next only remembered ner, antagonizing the authorities his too With Allerton and his wife in the May- by by reference to the file. So much for fam»-. liberal views to such a degree that, with flower came three children, Bartholomew, the He was a resident of New York for some law as a propelling power, he born in Holland about 1612, who, however, was forced to time, and in 1643 was one of the representa- "leave between two days." returned to England, marrying, making his tives of the citizens in the council called home and dying there- Remember, born in QUAKERS OPPOSED. the ' eight men," and held other offices und*-r the Dutch administration. Holland, has a very short record, not being All the desire to extenuate Allerton's He owned the \villiam and John, a "ketch" trading heard of after 1627, about which time she faults, allowing for the difference of the with Virginia. Going on most of the probably died. Mary, also of the Mary times, would only permit one opinion of big voyages himself, he acquired property Norris marriage, born before the start, mar- conduct in bringing back as his clerk and there, and as Ins family were constantly with ried, in 1636, Thomas Cushman. Isaac Al- familiar friend Thomas Morton, of Merry him it is highly probable that Isaac, lerton may look down proudly on this de- Mount, a man expelled from the country Jr.—his son by his second wife, Fear Brewster— scent; there is no trouble in following their for constant wrongs to the colony, with noth- who was born in Plymouth, 1630, and records. Mary, his first wife, died Feb- ing to recommend and everything to con- graduated at Harvard College in 1650, formed his love for ruary 25, 1621; Sarah, the youngest child, demn. Allerton, seeing Morton when "he V lrginia by this intercourse. He took up hig remained, by virtue of her tender years, a monk would be," may, if such a thing residence in Northumberland County, with her aunt, the wife of Degery Priest, were possible, have been imposed upon, but Vir- ginia, in 1660, and resided there until 16S3. coming out in the noted forefather ship it was a very short-sighted policy, and only A daughter of his became the second wife Ann, and in 1637 married Moses Maverick, served to accentuate other acts. of Hancock Lee, seventh son of Col. It is, however, to be recorded in his favor Rich- of Marblehead, giving her father a son-in- ard Lee, a man of the distinguished family law whom he must have liked, else why that during the excitement against position. appeared their business connection. Quakers Allerton and some others THIRD in opposition to the measures pursued; in MARRIAGE. SECOND MARRIAGE. consequence, he and they became so unpopu- The balmy South records Isaac Aller- In 1626 the good angel of his life came to lar that they were left out of their offices ton, of the Mayflower, as the progenitor of Quaker to Gov. Prence Isaac Allerton in the shape of his 6eeond of magistrates. A the Lees, of Ditchley, Va.. and through was like a red cloth to a bull in the arena, them wife, Fear Brewster, daughter of the elder. his lineal blood flows in the veins of and if the question in regard to them had the Traverses, Cookes. Colstons. She often stood between him and harsh two sides, he could only see one. Corbins, Willoughbys, judgment, even overt act. The good elder Of course, he was generous, that goes etc., of Virginia. If they in- must be spared. Fear Allerton had a short without saying, even if he was not always herit his strength, unswerving hope, always life; let us hope that her husband appre- just. Old colony records (December 2. sanguine of success, they have a rich herit- ciated what she had been to him and 1673), speaking of "Godbert Godbertson's" age indeed. greater part His third dropped more than a passing tear over her debts, tells that "whereas the and last wife. Joanna, only a 1 of his debts are owing to Isaack Allerton, 8 the world is fi grave. No doubt he did; a man of his stamp - rst noticed y/!? . 4? about would make an unreliable, erratic, but af- of Plymouth, merchant, the said Isaack 1644. Irue, she made no historv. but she fectionate, husband, in his good times com- hath given free leave to all other creditoru managed to secure the love of her stepsou receive any- pensating for previous shortcomings. to be fully discharged before he and, fitting into her husband's declining particular debts to himself, de- years—for The religious life of the Pilgrims was not thing of his he was about 60 at the time of rather to lose all than that they their all peaceful. The adventurers brought in a siring marriage — accomplished mucn any." toward new element, and there was a division should lose giving Mr, Allerton's perturbed happiest time of Isaac Allerton's life spirit rest among the supporters of the Plymouth Col- The and peace. His last home, if he was when he was in partnership with (In- ever truly ony in England, part of whom considered had one. was at New Haven. vert Loockermans in New Amsterdam, To it he the religious policy of the Pilgrims too nar- applied the knowledge he had where he settled soon after the death of his acquired in row and unfavorable to the operation of New Amsterdam, and a "grand second wife. They were kindred spirits, house on the creek with four porches" was trade. It was very easy for those who were business with and went into the trading the result. When the house was demol- the diplomats spending much time abroad his yacht to great zest. Allerton sold Hope ished the workmen reported that the wood- to keep in touch with the times, enlarging one of his own, Loockermans, and, having work was all of the finest oak. and the "best their views with occasion, but the ones at office commodores of their each held equal as of joiners" had placed it home, working and denying, fearful of the water in position. Ou private squadron. There was water, paper he left a fine estate, future, could not grasp the varying methods- though the re- everywhere and plenty of beer to drink, sult was nothing. The debts "As an agent Mr. Allerton appears to and the assets while his great tobacco warehouse, which hardly balanced. have been indefatigable in his attempts to shore of the East River near stood on the But the good son. Isaac, mindful of his promote the interests of his employers. He Maiden lane, furnished the fra- the present worthy stepmother's interests, purchased was a man of uncommon activity, address confidential hours. grant weed for their the house where the regicide Judges and enterprise." Still, he was not a suc- Whal- PARTNERSHIP. ley and Goff had been cess. In 1633 Bradford continues the nar- IN harbored; where rest- less, nervous Mr. Isaac rative of his losses by noticing the failure Being in partnership, with the same pur- Allerton, as he is always called, of a trading wigwam "at Machias, which suits and returns, there was no rivalry. closed his eyes on the won. to which Mr. Allerton, of .Plymouth, and some others Perhaps they knew each other in Holland. he had contributed so much, and presented it had set up." "In 1634 the wreck of his At all events, Govert Loockermans was not to his stepmother to "hare and to hold" during her life. pinnace from Port Royal is mentioned, and a stranger he could "take in." Together There can be no difference in 1635 the loss of his bark at Cape Ann is they raised the chickens for their "home of opinion as to the esteem in noted." Whatever the results, he was the market," and if any one of the brood had which this man is held by his descendants. Averaging his first merchant of New England, the true fighting instincts they would not bo above character." they have so founder of all the large enterprises. The watching the encounter, even making a much more to respect than to condemu coasting trade he delighted in, and the fish- pool with some of the Dutchman to hold that they apply this law. and strive bravely ing interest was the emanation of his leisure the stakes. to prove themselves worthy of him. hours. He believed in competition if he Their butter, over the making of which
MYLES STANDISH, Sixth Signer.
short of For the benefit of the Pilgrim Company ceived from Queen Elizabeth a commission Wtl stature, but ho made his wvr.1 at Leyden, there came among them, sword in the English Army in Holland, then aid- accordlnf to his inches, not foot, his in hand, one Myles Standish, of whom the ing the Dutch against Spain. gotio nature and military I first known is that while a youth he re- Myles, ap old Roman name for soldier, him for the endurance and indomitable seCf- 14 control demanded by the many duties thrust always by virtue of his service in the and not only of love, as Oliver Wendell upon him. His life in Leyden seems to Netherlands their military leader, started Holmes, in his "Lending a Punch Bowl," have been wholly a military one, but he was out to view the laud and report. says: taking notes, maturing his judgment for the Justice compels the statement that he " 'Twas on a dreary winters eve; the night colony's benefit in that future of mark. was accompanied by William Bradford, was closing dim, Stalwart as he was, a kind Providence had Stephen Hopkins and Edward Tilley. When brave Myles Standish took the bowl gifted him with a contrasting sweetness, The Indians they expected, they met, but and filled it to the brim. deep sense of justice that made him a ruler the foes they deemed unworthy of their The little captain stood and stirred the among men, all the more powerful that his steel, with the power of rendering their posset with his sword, lives miserable, reticent nature had a personal holy of holies, brought themselves to their And all his sturdy men-at-arms were ranged into which few were admitted. notice. Wolves were not attractive guests, about the board." A scion of a distinguished house, stung roaming at will; they were the unknown Equal to the occasion, the same sword evil. This expedition was not successful, by his wrongs, he never forgot this circum- would carve the Christmas turkey, if the and with kindly thought of the anxiety of stance, and all through his life recognized box arrived too late for conventional dis- those left behind they returned, only that he must so comport himself that the the pensing, and sharing with his knights of no better for their experience. truth of his claim would show without say- table enjoy it while following out the hasty ing. Hope came with the morning, the ship's order of march. shallop they had of waiting tor The lowly surroundings of the Pilgrims wearied So like Myles Standish, our hero. was put together, the start for the end were not to his taste; still through all times THE SWORD. he bore himself with that unmistakable made, and before long they safely anchored dignity which placed him where he be- in (Jape Cod harbor, with foot on Plymouth This sword, with its Arabic inscription, Rock; the real life of Myles Standish, the longed. of which he was so justly proud, was fit for first officer to hold a military commission in all occasions, and now that we have an in- ON THE MAYFLOWER. the United States, began, and only ended terpretation of the characters on the With him came on the Mayflower his gen- "when his eyelids closed in death." sword, acquired no doubt" by Standish tle wife Rose, unrecorded save that with MILITARY CLAIMS. "when he was fighting the battles of Chris- sweet confidence and anticipation she placed This Cincinnatus of the colony, strong tendom against the Turk, in what is her hand in the strong grasp of Myles and true, too brave and single of purpose now Austria," before the captain went to Flan- Standish and went forth to do battle with to have suited the ill-disposed, made for ders, studded with deeds, not gems, all are the world, which for her held but short time himself hosts of friends. They knew he sure could be put to no base uses. of trial—only the landing and accompanying meant what he said, and they judged him Safe at Plymouth, a token of the past doubts in the choice of residence, and Myles according to his own temperament and which honors the living, rests the sword. Standish was alone with his grief, "a hero character. Arabs traveling in the strife." Born, as it is asserted, in 1584, Myles Some in this country who Standish. it was found by the association A born soldier, the music of fife and drum saw it there say "it is one of the oldest arms his birthright, he was heart and soul with formed in 184G to endeavor to regain the in existence, and very valuable." estate belonging to him in England, held tne the colonists in all their vicissitudes, stern The translation tells us quaintly that commission of a lieutenant, given him by want, sickness and death. The hand which "With peace God ruled His slaves" (mean- Oueen Elizabeth. As he is first mentioned naturally sought the sword hilt, when the ing creatures), "and with the judgment of as captain, that is probably the rank ho loved ones were laid low, served them deftly His arm He troubled the mighty of the bore when he left Leyden; indeed, as such with the gentleness of a woman. His strong wicked" (meaning the most powerful and he continued till his death. arms were so restful in their security, his evil of the wicked). The lack of promotion may have been the abundant love rendering the ministrations The jealousy of John Alden, attributed in their result of insufficient military organization, welcome indeed to those who hour to Standish, he certainly held well in hand, of neePriscilla Alden, as wife of his Thrown upon his care, Bradford learned When John Winthrop was Governor of eldest son, Alexander, the one who to him to know this man, who felt no weariness in Massachusetts, and the "Ancient and Hon- always represented the heir apparent to well doing, performing the most menial ser- orable Artillery" were brought up for con- those lost estates at "Duxhury Hall." vice with gladness, considering nothing too sideration, the Governor greatly feared that Being the leader, any acts not fully un- much that would save to them their beloved such a body would tend to overthrow the derstood, if they were failures, reflected on Bradford. civil government. Second thought decided Standish. Wise Bradford and wise Standish. this him in it9 favor, and his own sons, as soon The Indians, without civilization and its tie was never broken; to each the other's as they attained a proper age, became mem- consequent tempering, made wholesale as- faults were lost in the balance of virtues. bers. It is natural to suppose this was the saults against their enemy the white man, Stern of purpose, a disciplinarian in the spirit of the times, and needed a showing of and some have censured the worthy com- broadest sense of the word, always a leader military want to convince. mander for his violence as trouble confronted them, a man bristling SECOND MARRIAGE. in his treatment with danger signals when aroused, he yet of this foe. Others, whose opinion was has given to history the most romantic side Rose was dead, and, true to the Biblical of value,, felt that his conduct needed no a |>ology. of all the colonists. conviction, which deemed it "not well for Upon his foresight, grasp of the situation High of station, free from care, holding a mau to live alone," Standish, as events con- military position he fully in accord and decisive action, depended the very ex- was firm, sent for Barbara, who naturally must with, his joining the little band was a mys- istence of the colony. Prompt measures have been at least an old friend, and who is tery, but he was a zealous, devoted citizen, alone would serve as an example. He sim- one with them in all thought and deed, save generally credited with being his first wife's ply obeyed orders, was true to his oath of the very purpose which made their exile sister. office, conforming to the "blue book" of bearable. She came over in good company on the that day, which then, as now, left no al- The freedom to worship their God accord- "Ann," and the reflective hours of sea life, ternative of action. ing to their individual desires was at the with Alice Sourhworth as chaperoue, made Even Pastor Robinson, who knew him start nothing to him. Many historians de- the prospects of the new home and worthy well, and always loved him, was really too clare him of the Catholic faith of his lover very attractive. severe, considering the distance that separ- fathers. From this he certainly changed, as To the romance connected with Myles ated them and his own cloth, with hear- say evidence only to guide events proved, but when it is known Staudish and Priscilla Molines, told by him, when he that he was not actively of the Pilgrims' writer and poet, stern-appearing Myles wrote for the people "to consider the dis- position their faith, all the more credit to his strength of Standish may have given the keynote and a of captain, who was warm of character that he was able to force the con- poet's license the imaginative story young temper," and more that must have wound- ed the spirit of Standish, yiction in those he was surrounded by that and old are cognizant of. If all the tales brave but he was stanch of he must be left alone, answerable only to familiar as household words are true, he had faith, stood by his trust in his friend) in his will remembering his own conscience for his method of re- a long look ahead, in preparing for his re- "Mayre Robinson, in consideration of love ligious service. fusal, by having a wife to his liking in read- the he bore her grandfather." As his personal history makes itself, there iness for him. The study of his character, Faith without works would hardly do for eems no possibility but that, from what- which makes a high claim in the search, the Indians. They knew he had a mar- ever leading, he became an earnest though renders this view impossible. velous knowledge of them, understood in- Unrecorded member of the Pilgrim faith. The man who dictated such a will as his tuitively when they were intending blood- could do no wrong to any woman. He. a THE START IN PLYMOUTH. shed: then with the strictest secrecy woman's protector, would guard her by the The mishaps of their start, the deceit of thwarted their designs, leaving the Indians strong of the loving arm the law and care of astonished at his divination. tneir landing chafed Myles Standish sorely; the man without fear or reproach where his One Indian, who, with the cunning of his tie wanted to overcome this was something — family ties were concerned . nation, made a trade in furs his cause of his metal, so the impatient few, against the This very fact has made the record. No interview, returned to his tribe not de- better judgment of the majority, to the neglect has been shown him in the state- ceived by the calm demeanor of the cap- uumber of sixteen, under Capt. Standish, ments of events. The poet has sung of him, tain, and informed them that "he saw by MILES STANDISH, SIXTH SIGNER. 15
his eye that he (Standish) was angry in his the same deacon increased to "fifteen shill- £. a. d. It. Doctor heart." ings" for performing the same offices. Hale's workea, Calvin's institutions 1 04 00 How it happened that so many offices Capt. Standish showed his strength of It. VVIIeock'H workes and mayors.. 1 00 0O were merged in one man can only be ex- character, by using, not abusing his power, It. Rogers' seven treatises and the plained by his superior adaptation, and the and. strange to say, though his intereouse nrench akademy 12 00 circumstances of the new colony. The with the Indians was of the law and order It. 3 old bibles 14 00 It. Ceser's practical side of the captain's character style, they appreciated the |>osition he took comentaryea, BarlfTs ar- tillery always stood out in bold relief. He ar- that he was their just friend "in reverses, 20 00 Jt. J/reston s sermons, Hurroughes' ranged for trading depots, to the fish- saw and rendered him affection and even homage Christ in contentment, gospel con- ing, laid out the roads and surveyed the in many instances. versation, passions of the mind, new towns. The Indian, Hobomok, who was a friend the phisisions' practise. Bur- There is no evidence, not even an insinu- of the English, early adopted roughes' Earthly mindedness, the Christian Burroughes" ation, that the colony was ever dissatisfied religion, and discovery 104 00 became an inmate of Capt. It. Ball on with his management. He was trusted with faith, Brinsley'a watch, Standish's house, endearing himself to all dod on the Lord's supper, Spark* their as treasurer, in money and 1G25 went by his loyalty, going with Standish, as his against herlsye, davenporte apol- out as agent to England in a mercantile po- guide and interpreter. According him the > 0eye ••• 1500 sition, to sell and purchase for the colony. spirit and power of a ruler, the quick resent- It. A reply to Doctor Cotten on baptlsme. Not one ray of brightness greeted him on ment that had a code of honor where wrongs The Oarman History, the Sweden Intelligencer, reasons this trip. London, the place of his sojourn, were inflicted, the records of Plymouth and discused was visited by plague and pestilence, when f0 1J0 Duxbury hold no cleaner pages than those 0ne tes tament, one psalme booke, all not Vr "mourned their dead and would be which bore his name, telling that he only .Nature and grace In conflict, a comforted." No hope awaited him on any twice appeared before the court, and then law book, The meaning In mourn- ing allegation side. The state of the country was far simply to punish the offenders for cruelty to against B. P. of from conducive to business transactions, Durham, Johnson against hear- his animals, once his dog! ing' trade of whatever kind was the exception, , 8 00 "Though small of stature he had an active It. a pcell of old bookes of divers not the rule, and Standish had little show- genius, a sanguine temper, and a strong subjects in quarto 14 00 ing for his five months' stay. constitution," affording us "an instance not It. Wilson's dixonary homers Illlad, a The rates of interest were simply ruinous, only of the nerve of the Pilgrims, but a type commentary on James Ball cat- and yet his mission was not only satisfac- tukesmer 12 00 of their hearts." Tt. another pcell in tory, hut acceptable. The colonists never octavo . . 4 00 Thomas Morton, of Merry Mount, and It. half a young heifer wavered in their faith, accepting as inevita- 16000 Standish were born antagonists; there It. one feather bed, bolster and two ble the fact that circumstances were too could be no favors between them; only a pillows 4 00 00 much for him. The news he brought back It. one blankett, a coverlid and a repulsion of character, and yet readily un- rugg was more than dispiriting. The King had derstood from the get-up of the men. Dur- 1 05 00 It. 1 feather died, and his son, Charles I., was already bed, blanket and great ing one of the fights, when Morton was Pillow well on in the career which ended his life 2 15 00 making common cause with the Indians, It. 1 old feather bed 4 00 00 in an untimely manner. The non-conform- selling them guns and ammunition, rousing It. 1 blanket and 2 ruggs 1 IB 60 ists possible Charles, had no chance with them by "firewater" to deeds of violence, It. 1 feather bolster and old rugg... 14 00 he being a warm advocate of their great he hurt Standish more than he could by a It. 4 paire sheets 3 000U enemy, Bishop Laud. Cushman and Robin- gun, when he derisively called him "their It. 1 paire fine sheets 1 04 ui It. 1 table cloth, 4 son had passed the Rubicon, their land- leader, Capt. napkins 1000 great Shrimpe." It. his marks were destroyed, and they were al- wearing clothes 10 00 00 Active to the last, he commanded the It. 16 pieces ready a thing of the past. "Sorrow's cup of pewter 106 00 Plymouth quota in the Pequot war, and It. Earthen ware 5 00 of sorrow was full for them : the overflowing even as late as 1653, when age, his only It. 3 brasse Kettles, one skillett 2<»i<»» drop could intensify feeling not where had conqueror, was upon him, he was given It. 4 iron potts 1 08 00 ceased." command of the colony forces when trouble It. a warming pan, a frying pan seemed imminent with the Dutch at Man- and a cullender 9 00 INTERESTS. It. one paire CHURCH hattan. stillyards 10 00 HIS LIBRARY. It. 2 bedsteads, one table, 1 forme . "Myles Standish was not a church mem- chaires, 1 chist and 2 boxes 213 00 ber, and sometimes was a little rough and His library is in evidence for his literary It. 1 bedstead, one settle bed, one box, 3 casks 1 07 00 strong in his ways, but he could be a voter tastes. The people of that epoch were not It. 1 bedstead, 3 chists. 3 vasses and a magistrate," under the lenient Ply- collectors, but students. His possessions, with sense bottles, 1 box. 4 casks. 2 06 00 mouth system. simple and homely though they were, were It. 1 still 12 00 It. 1 old setter. 1 chaise, one knead- The need room, desire for very large for the times; the stress laid in of perhaps a ing trough, 2 pailes. 2 traies 16 00 change of privileges, about 1630 sent the the inventory on his pewter dishes was not It. 2 beer casks. 1 chun, 2 spinning Pilgrims to Duxbury "close by," which was uncalled for; they ranked with the sevres wheels, one powdering tubb, 2 old casks, one old flasket t 15 00 so named after the English of the of to-day, and everything being by com- home It. 1 mault mill 2 0000 Standish family, Duxbury Hall, where parison, gave importance to his will. More It. 2 sawes, with divers carpenters Hugh Standish was living as early as 1306, would have come of his inheritance could tooles 1 19 00 the claim he put forth have been authenti- It. a timber chaire, with plow and the same domain in England was held cated, but on visiting the Isle of Man, chaires 1 06 00 in It. 2 saddles, a pillion, 1812 by Sir Frank Standish. where his first marriage is said to have one bridle 1 00 00 It. old iron Whatever the cause of the change, it is been consummated, no register, of the 1 00 00 It. 1 chist and a husking table be substantiate 8 00 evident by the following record: event could found to the It. 1 hatchett. 2 tramells. 2 iron assertion, "Ano 1632, April 2.—The names of those and they were obliged to aban- doggs, 1 spitt, one fier forke. 1 don their efforts, legality being lamp, which promise to remove their fam(ilies) to the not 2 gars (?). one lanthorn. proven. with other old lumber 2 0100 live that in the towne in the winter time, STANDISH'S WILL. It. in woole 1500 they m(ay) the better repair to the worship It. in hemp and flax 6 0U "An inventory of the goods and chattels It. of God. eleven bushells of wheat 2 05 01* It. 14 bushells of John Alden. that Capt. Myles Standish, gent, was pos- rye IOBOO It. ."10 bushells of pease .'..«.'. '•> Standish, sessed of at his decease, as they were Capt. It. 25 bushells of indian corn 3 IS 00 Jonathan Brewster, showed to us whose names are underwrit- It. cast and peakes. and plow Irons Thomas Prence." ten, the 2d of December, 1657, and exhib- and I brake 2 05 OO It. axes, sickles, hookes and other that Myles Standish had to do with the ited att the court held att Plymouth the 4 tooles 100 00 dis- church arrangement, and when the May, 1657, on the oath of Miss Barbara It. eight Iron hookes, 1 spinning tance being great, they were obliged to have Standish. wheel, with other lumber 14 00 a meeting house of their own, in due course £. s. d. of age, Alexander Standish always the heir It. one dwelling house and outhouse, with the land thereunto belonging.140 00 00 83$ 07 00 apparent, was deacon. John Alden. It. 4 oxen at 00 00 compul- Attendance upon church was a It. 2 mares, two colts, one young James Cudworth. sory requisite of position in those days, and horse 4S 00 00 The whole will, even the inventory, speaks while some of the fines were unintelligible Tt. 0 cows, 3 heifers and one calf.. 300 for itself. The library would har.ii.v come to modern ears, all can appreciate the con- It. S ewe sheep, two rams and one 00 00 wether 1500 00 under the tenets of the Roman Oaiboho sensus of opinion in Duxbury when, in 1666, Tt. swine, great and small 3 15 00 Church. Cooper and John 14 Edward Land, John It. one fowling piece. 3 muskeits. 4 No. 1 Capt. Myles Stan.lish. perhaps , with fined ten shillings each for guns, old Simmons were carbines, 2 small one much self-communion, left his reiipious "prophane and abusive carriages, each to- barren 80100 record: a dying testimony. It is all Tery wards the other, on Lord's day at the meet- It. one sword, one cutles, 3 belts... 80700 of England and the tender history. they have been written in It. a cronicle ing house." Could country ffarmer BOO Write him d vwn conqueror! the hymn book'.' Matters in regard to this It. the historv of the world and the The cabinet of the Plymouth Society it progressive scale, for in 1690 10 00 church had a Turkish history 1 rich in treasures of the Standish family. Deacon Wadsworth had "ten shillings" for It. ye history of Queen Elizabeth. The veritable sword used by :5-.e y sweeping the meeting house, and in 1693 the state of Europe 1 10 00 16
captain" is there, one of the celebrated pew- been with him in all his joys and sorrows, Navy Department, are placed in position ter dishes, and as well a piece of embroid- was away without possibility of recall. His around the three graves." ery in a frame executed by Lora Standish. friendly offices could bring no healing or The Daughters of the Revolution, on mitigation of the pain that was consuming THE CHILDREN. Monday, September 30, 1895, erected a him. Even the medical knowledge he had cairn of stones to commemorate the landing himself Myles and Barbara Standish had six chil- acquired for the physical benefit of of Myles Standish at Sqantum Head, Sep- others was of no avail when quivering with tember juts dren. Alexander, who married, first, Sarah 30, 1621, a promontory which pain; he could only endure. out into the water of Boston Bay. It is ten Alden; second, Desire Doty, widow of Israel Secretary Morton, another stalwart of the feet in height, and is composed of cobble- Holmes; Myles, who removed to Boston and colony, in recording his death, gives evi- stones, each participant in the historic occa- married a daughter of John Winslow, July dence of his Christian faith when he says: sion contributing a stone, "He growing very ancient became sick of There should be no sorrow in leaving this 19, 1660; Oapt. Josiah, of North Bridge- i water, and Norwich, Conn., married Mary, the stone, or stranguillon, whereof, after man to the verdict of public opinion. He suffering of much dolorous pain, he fell has won on his merits; still, it is a case daughter of John Dingley, who died the asleep in the Lord, and was honorably where one want9 to know how all feel and same year; then he married Sarah, daughter buried at Duxbury." think, whether his true value has been con- of Samuel Allen, of Braintree; Charles, died All doubts about the place of his inter- veyed, and he has found his real place in young; Dora, who died' before her father, ment being solved, it was agreed to place the hearts of the American people. and John, died young. natural boulders on the graves of Myles Capt. Myles Standish, of Duxbury Hall, Standish, his daughter, and daughter-in- England, of Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, Oapt. Myles Standish, the hero, a man law. made his mark on the history of the coun- who demands and receives one's love and "The one on the Captain's grave weighed try he sought of his own free will; the respect, as they read and write of him, about five tons, and is marked on its face rest must be done by his desendants. To "died October 31, 1656, aged 72," a man with the name of Myles Standish, in three- them he has left a name so grand, broad full of years, and honored by his generation. inch block sunken letters. The boulders and true that he has a right to claim, even His last moments were full of suffering so marking the graves of Lora and Mary Ding- allowing for the intervening time which is intense that death was a relief, and in his ley Standish are smaller, and were obtained recorded, that they should so order their agony, when the hero's prayer for strength from the Captain's old farm at South Dux- lives as to perpetuate it intact, as it went went up, his friend. Dr. Fuller, who had bury. Cannon and shell, the gift of the from him to them.
JOHN ALDEN, Seventh Signer,
Pilgrim John, that "young enthusiast," energy and experienced services, so "John in those early nuptials, when perforce the had a place of his own among the colonists. Alden was hired for a cooper at Southami)- "coach and four" of fairy lore being out of ton, ship victualed, being a Youngest of those who signed the Com- where the and the count, he "covered his bull with hand- hopeful young man was much desired, but some broadcloth and on it rode to the wed- pact, buoyant and sanguine of disposition, left to his own liking to go or stay, when he ding," but when the words had been pro- anticipa- he went forward always with the came here; but be stayed and married here." nounced which recorded Priscilla his wife, tion that much would come from his de- Fortunately for the colony there were no and they were about to start for the home sires, and the lamp of the genii in his hands modern laws to contend with, or he wouid his love and care had provided, he tenderly needed but a slight turn to secure to him have been returned as a "contract laborer." put the bride in his place and walked in the best in the power of those he was sur- POSITION. conscious pride beside her, leading the bull to bestow. by the ring in its nose. rounded by Nothing was against this man at the start, In this one must agree with his own un- Why must stern facts and a regard for it would strange if such men as spoken expectation, as they watch the con- and seem historical truths destroy this beautiful summation of affairs. When he is men- formed that Plymouth Colony should have story, and take even one gallant act from tioned the voice even changes to a petting taken him into immediate consultation, of- Pilgrim John's list? But fate is too hard tone, and though one celebrated historian fice and dependence of judgment, with his for us, and "John and Priscilla," as one wrote me that he was "a very overesti- youth against experience, if he were not a calls them naturally in the intimate rela- mated young man," the harm was done be- man of at least equal birth and breeding. tions assumed toward them, were married fore this knowledge, and the inspiration for He had a strong grip upon everything of in 1621, and "in 1624 Edward Winslow re- this opinion remains. a public nature, and his repetition of office turned in the Charity, bringing besides a faults, his sweet personality their If he had is an evidence of his wearing well in good supply, three heifers and a bull, the condones them, and this "tall and hand- estimation. first beginning of any cattle of that kind his position always as some" Pilgrim keeps The wooing of our Pilgrim is the tale told in the land." a prime favorite. No need for him to have generation generation, ever new, from to How hard to imagine John Alden doing asked anything as a favor: before the wish always acceptable where young people with his wooing through a "courting stick." It was formulated, some one stood ready to affinity of desire realize that the world an would be simply impossible. The matter grant him all their intuitions could foresee. linlds nothing good which separates them. was to be attended to, and he must go the Priscilla had her record well defined, one MARY CHILTON. whole figure, with only his own prescribing of the loveliest of the lovely, a favorite of With this knowledge can one for an in- as to the manner. all on her merits. Daughter of William Whispering his words of love with stant believe that, except as a boyish and Alice Molines, of the Walloon Huguenot a fixed distance himself prank, .he would even desire to take prece- contingent, she brought with her not only between and the object would not be at all to his fancy. dence of Mary Chilton as the first to put all that makes woman attractive, but that Neither foot on "Plymouth Rock"? Why argue the deft knowledge of household matters, love was Priscilla couventional. She knew the road to a man's heart, and, with case, she the first woman, he the first man, or art which could utilize very lowly sur- a certain consciousness of her attractions, and when she afterward, as the result of rounding and make of the wilderness a paradise of beauty. added to them by the means nature dic- the terrible first sickness, became the 'Til- True, her live shadows fell very early, tated. grim Orphan," surely John Alden never but she was not alone in her grief, and PRISCILLA'S denied her anything until her graces of HOUSEKEEPING. while it was none the less personal, the fel- mind and person won for her the love of Could John Alden resist her "partritch low-feeling of sorrow roused her to deeds John Winslow, a prominent merchant and stew'd," prepared from an inherited for- of sympathy and comforting, where self large ship owner of Boston, brother of Gov. mula, where you "take marrow bones of Winslow, who, knowing her lonely early was soon forgotten. Still, life was not all an effort when John beef or mutton, boil them well, strayn the life, sought to make up to her for all she had lost by his manly care. Alden, the well-beloved, was always at the broth, and put it into an earthen pot; then John Alden was born in 1599, having, as I trysting place, and ready at any time to add a good quantity of wyne thereto; then make history, finished his guild apprentice- single her out for his attentions. stuffe the partritch with whole pepyr and ship, proud of the citizenship he had thus Their love grew apace, and human nature marrow, and sow up all the vents of the gained, was out seeing the world, when fate forbids my believing of him as ambassador burd; then take cloves, mace and whole led him to the docks where the Mayflower for Capt. Standish, unless he was so cer- pepyr, and let them boil together with the was preparing for its voyage, and with the tain of his own innings that he could ap- partritch; when it is enough cast into the sanguine feeling of untried youth, that his pear generous with no fear of the result. pot powder of gingyer, salt and saffron, and certificate rendered him an expert, gave his Longfellow, with the mental telepathy of serve it up in broth," when he returned from offices, in all probability advice, as to the of lineal descent, may have felt his right to an exploration for the inner man, the "vac- "fitting out." take any liberty he chose with their his- uum nature abhors?" Here his personality was strong upon all. tory, and certainly all would wish to be- Perhaps if they were ready he would They wanted his companionship, youthful lieve the story as he tells it of John Alden prefer "Hennes in BTette." "Take the .
JOHN ALDEN, SEVENTH SIGNER.
hennes and scald them, cut them into gib- there was no hope of the debts due the es- cilla never left it in its stolid appearance; betts and seethe them with pork, pepyr, tate, "most of which are desperate." surely some tri-colored ribbon added to its gingyer and bread; temper it up with the The pioneer settlers of Duxbury had much charms. same broth or ale; color it with saffron, to contend with. Their cottages, hastily The death of Capt. Myles Standish wai seethe it together and serve it forth." built for immediate occupancy, were hardly a great loss to John Alden; be was bis bal- Priscilla would never be a woman with sufficient protection against the winter's ance wheel, the friend to whose counsels only one resource, and John, in those early storms, and the Indians, a little too neigh- he would not only listen, but render obedi- days, was enough of a boy to *want a borly, were still a source of dread. ence. "sweet," so she gave him "apple muse" for The church, too, caused agitation and dis- Had he lived, Gov. Prence and William a change, carefully writing down the com- cussion. Alden was "always a firm sup- Collier would never have let him go far l>onents for the children to use when they porter of the clergy and the church, and astray in his treatment of the Quakers. had homes of their own. Thus she told it everything of an innovating nature received How his nature became so warped is a \ to them: "Take apples, seethe them and his determined opposition." mystery; but the fact exists, and all would searse through a sieve; then add almond, The beliefs he joined the church with ask forgetfulness of this "blot on his milk, honey, grated bread, saffron, sanders must serve him to life's close. Age nar- 'scutcheon." His rounded character, not so and salt; let them all seethe together; stir it rowed him, sad to relate, and he became strong, perhaps, as some of the other colon- well and serve it." There were no regrets "a Puritan in theory and practice," "stern, ists, but so loving and dear, is the view to when "John and Priscilla" gave a party. austere and unyielding," "an iron-nerved take^of him; it is what he deserves. PILGRIM JOHN'S CHARACTER. Puritan who could hew down forests and "Number of days" are considered a bless- live on crumbs." ing, so if number of children fit into the strong side to this pilgrim's character The This is the Pilgrim I do not know; my same category, our Pilgrims were singled was always kept before the people. It was lines with him have been cast in pleasanter out for privileges, for they had eleven. not from habit that he served for forty places. Even going with him to Josias Elizabeth, born 1622, or 3, "the first white woman born in England," though, years as assistant to every Governor but Wiuslow's funeral, when "he had Priscilla New on his arm," a venerable couple, the last with the modesty of her sex she never com- Carver; thirteen years their treasurer, and, time recorded together, was better. Our peted for any share in the tangible bene- from idle to keep himself out of mischief mind's eye shows us Priscilla on that oc- fits which came to "Peregrine White, as the hands, eight times deputy from Duxbury. casion compactly gowned with Puritan ker- first-born Englishman," married William The man had a place that could only be chief crossed meekly across her breast, no Pabodie, December 26. 1644, "a man much "silken whispers of full best skirt" dis- employed in public affairs, and of much filled by himself. to turb the assemblage as she entered; John respectability." the best of He and Capt. Standish were and herself of one mind, one step, as they In 1684 they moved to Little Compton. friends, and Barbara never knew .my cause sought the seats apportioned them. R. L. making a new home for themselves for jealousy of the "good wife" at whose Narrow as the life of that period was, on this "stern and rockbound coast" hospitable, attractive board she was al- there was a slight vent in attending the Until 1745 this place was in Massachu- in ways a welcome guest. They grew "annual fair which was allowed in Dux- setts, but then the boundary was changed. course beauty side by side, and when in the bury in 1638." A very natural place for The people there, with Betty Alden's cot- of events each was to give a child to the "Pilgrim John," wending his way through tage in sight, only allow that it was altered other, they gratified at this were more than the various wares, and sampling the best as to State, but claim that the habits anil their union. perfecting of of every thing to his heart's content; ready habitations now, as of yore, partake of soon too close quarters Plymouth became to give a Bunsby opinion to any committee, the Massachusetts methods. its inhabitants, so Duxbury took the for the fact that he was ignorant being no The Boston "News Letter" of Jnne. 1717. overflow; but, with wise foresight, when drawback, when much that was attractive Little Compton. May 31, records that "This the church seceded from the parent church had been prepared under his own roof, morning died here Mrs. Elizabeth Pay- "care was taken to enact that Plymouth Priscilla, his wife, giving the finishing body, late wife of Mr. Will Paybody, in the should always be the capital of the colony." touches which had rendered the articles 93d year of her age." This first church of Plymouth, organ- artistic land attractive-' The toothsome Little Compton has made her death local ized in Scrooby, England, by these Pil- dainties were part of the daily providing possession by placing a tablet to her mem- grim Fathers, for sixteen years between of his own table, why hesitate to judge there and Holland, their earthly paradise, when he was an expert from habit? As ory. John, the mariner, born in continued in "New Plimouth," the meetings treasurer of the town, who so fitting to do Then came twice, his last beini: being held in the "Common House," in Ley- duty in winding up affairs and seeing the 1624, who married wife den street, the historic first street laid out accounts came out straight? A living ex- the widow of Abial Everitt Next Joseph, by the Pilgrim colony. ample of figures as an exact science, phil- born in 1627, who settled in Bridgewater. Its first meeting house was built on the anthropy with him meaning that the pro- Sarah, wife of Alexander Standish; Ruth, north side of Town Square in 1637; then ceeds should reach the object they were probably born in 1631, who married John came the one of 1683, and the third in intended for, without any dimiuutoin in Bass, of Braintree, son of Samuel Bass, the 1744; the fourth, built in 1831, was the one transit first deacon of that place, a prominent law- destroyed November 22, 1892, by fire, and This was the old-fashioned man, who abiding citizen, always classed in history where, sad to relate, the town bell, cast in knew of these fairs before he started on with John Adams. 1801 by "Paul Revere and Son," met a fate the journey that was to end in New Eng- This is a descent to linger over: a claim all would have desired to avert, being land. They originated in Coventry, where for every American citizen to rise up in broken in its fall from the tower. Wisely, they were first "Wakes." held in the church- his might and proclaim it a nation's pride however, it has been voted to recast it, and yard on St. John's day, and then the and blessing. the same bell will ring out the welcome to "hawkers" of "small wares." soon evolved John Adams. John Qniney Adams and church. The Duxbury church was second into merchants with a full stock, and in Samuel Adams are names written with a to none in its representative power. History their progress became fairs, with booths, firm foundation, for all the world to honor: must accord precedence to the original first and large mercantile interests. the part of American history that, even church as to time of start; but under the HOME LIFE. with more than a century between the other roof was gathered much of the power, present and their living selves, rouses the "John and Priscilla" were people whose religious strength and best personal repre- blood and deeds of every patriot, came to one thought. The sentation of the lime. journey of life was with us through this branch. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP. children, the care of each, no matter which Capt. Jonathan, the son, like his father, heard their catechism, in cither's hands it the one fitted so into his life and hap- "In Massachusetts not one man in four who required perfect, attentive response. The piness, married Abigail Hallet. of Barn- was a church member, but there and in New sermon, long and tedious, must be analyzed stable, and to the end of his days perpetu- Haven only church members were allowed ated Pilgrims' traits. and the truths applied, no one forgetting the to vote. No such restriction was ever adopt- Then Zachariah. whose daughter Anna they were sinners, and every punishment ed in Plymouth or Connecticut, but in Ply- married Jonah Snell. and welcomed nature's meted out to mankind was theirs by virtue mouth the offices held much more responsi- poet, William Cullen Bryant into their of wrong doing. Being the greatest of de- descent bility than dignity or emolument, fience linquents, they must kiss the rod and bow Rebecca, Mary, wife of Thomas Delano; through many people avoided citizenship a in submission to Divine will, regardless ot David, a resident of Dnxbnry, and a prom- desire of escaping petty offices and court the counteracting mercy which would come inent member of the church, who married duties which a freeman might not decline to them for the asking. Mary Southworth. Still another PrisciUa. lived for Priscilla. Priscilla for John, without suffering a fine." John though "perhaps" is attached to her name comforts, still the children, their joys and A few more or less won't count with such Alden had a poor return for his devotion consideration. Even the a very secondary a "full hand." to public interest. Private affairs were lost old Dutch doll Priscilla brought from Hol- sight of, and though he was "crowned with land, reminder of the days when the pa- POSSESSIONS. that competence which is vital to content." rents, now in their rude graves, watched "One John Alden. of the Middle Temple." he innocent play, was dear to him from the republics not being in his case ungrateful, her is mentioned as having a coat of arms as- ultimately found his private treasury so de- association, as part of the life of his dear signed him in 1607. He belonged in Hert- pleted that the voting of aid for him by the wife. fordshire, and from the similarity of names, town was very acceptable. His will gave If it at all resembled those in the "New Pris- and the location alone th.> Scrooby ro*t evidence of the situation. He left but £50 and Haven Colony Historical Collection." 18
Road, it seems natural to place Pilgrim Dr. Samuel Alden. of Bridge water, had who lived in the home of her father, Major John AUlen as of the same family. in his possession a deed that belonged to Judah Alden, some eighty years ago, by in- The possessions of the Aldens, which re- the emigrant Alden, and there is said to be heritance, had a Southworth pewter plat- main as relics, are as imposing as any, in Cambridge, Mass.. a silver tankard once ter. until we reach the members of the Win- owned, as a descendant repudiatiugly said, Whatever his beginnings, Pilgrim Alden throp Fleet. One descendant has a table by that Cooper! grew fast, and before me is a letter, saying, made of English oak which came over in The paper cannot speak, but the "hall on the authority of a learned professor in the Mayflower, and seems to be authentically marks" are indignation. Boston, an Englishman by birth, that Prof. placed as belonging to Priseilla's mother. This may be a confusion of terms, and Haldane. of St. Andrew's. Scotland, claimed If it were not for the minuteness of detail mean the same pitcher which on the 4th of relationship to the Aldens of the north of entered into in the wills and inventories of August. 1896, was in the loan exhibition at England. the early settlers, much could be believed, Plymouth, Mass. Our Pilgrim planted well. The Adams which this fact casts doubt upon. I have Fine old mahogany furniture is said lo family belong to him, and further honor lies never heard il questioned that John Alden have come out in the Ann. I have seen in the Trumbulls and that descent which brought a Bible with him. which is well around Boston more chairs reputed to have gives the learned men of earth. known as of Robert Barker, printer to the been on the ship thai, the Mayflower could Then the Seaburys—Samuel, the first King, 1620. and one treasures (he bit of have held, with only chairs for her cargo. Episcopal Bishop of America, being so near romance "Goodwin" attributes to it. as be- In the Connecticut Historical Society, at the Pilgrim, could nearly place his hand on ing a parting gift, or the purchase dear to Hartford, there is Elder Brewster's chest, his head:—are his worthy representatives. the man's heart, preparatory to his leaving and recently in Connecticut 1 was shown Honoring Pilgrim John Alden. is out of England, his native land. This, with a few a mahogany low boy that had its pedigree our power. The man only comes to his otHeial papers, are placed in Plymouth Hall to the Mayflower, 1620. own. as landmarks of association with John Another heirloom connects history, for Alden. Miss Mary A. Alden, of Duxbury, Mass..
SAMUEL FULLER, Eighth Signer.
This Luke, the beloved first physician of deacon was not concerned in the bargain have been to Matapan (now Dorchester! Plymouth colony, was well fitted to be an for gaining the trade of the colony—a matter and let some twenty people Mood." This example to guide the people on the road he agreed to in their despair, and which had told with self-congratulation when the peo- trod, though ofttimes weary and sore with much to do with the trials of their start. ple were suffering from scurvy and other They freedom to worship their God as low diseases produced by want, the middle the march. His marked career began in had they desired, but there it ended. of summer, and the anxiety about the re- Leyden. Early one of the deacons of that The cast iron demands of the bonds exe- plenishing of their stores, a subject of se- church, his usefulness increased as time cuted toy those in authority left them with- rious thought and prolonged prayer. A went on. This office was not an empty one, out personality, and for a time redress. They remedy was at hand. During this sickness for the deacons of the church, though lay- performed their tasks with weary hearts; of 1630 all hope had fled, despair reduced men, were as carefully selected and formal- no buoyant hope for the future to light them them to prostration and inertness, when "in the ly ordained as the clergymen. The man's on the way. But one comfort all exper- middle of winter Pierce arrived once more in the Lion, and fortunately life invested the position with the power of ienced—they were sure of the sympathy brought with him a large supply his own force of character. and advice of this man they could go to with of lemon juice, by the aid of Unswerving regard for the precepts he every sorrow, knowing his faith and offices which the deaths were confined to the discouraged." was teaching gave to his words a meaning would strengthen them if only for endur- all recognized as the man himself attuned ance. MORTON, OF MERRY MOUNT. to the work in his Master's vineyard, wher- Our "medical deacon" added to his many Dear as Dr. Fuller was to all. he could ever it might be located. Before his start attributes a love for theology, hardly dispu- not escape the ridicule for the new world he had taken a deep tation, but the rigid, narrow beliefs of the of Morton, truly draught of the cup of sorrow, which came Puritans, on matters both spiritual and tem- the clown of the colony, who, when the to him in the death of his first wife. Elsie poral, irritated him sorely, and he warred deacon was "spending and being spent" for Ulaseook, whom he probably married in against Gov. Endicott. whose views were the common good, said that "Dr. Noddy England, and who left him so young he felt more than antagonistic to him, as strongly had a great cure for Capt. Littleworth—he i1 hard to kiss the rod Providence had laid as against disease. cured him of a disease called a wife." heavily upon him. Then he married, ac- ENDICOTT'S cording to Leyden records, in 1013, Agnes, CHANGE OF OPINION. Deacon Fuller in his office had some very daughter of Alexander Carpenter. Though "with patience he stood waiting," modern methods. At one church service in Plymouth, It is opportune here to mention that very the time came when Gov. Endicott, realizing when Gov, Winthrop had this marriage Edward South- been their guest, giving his aid in the ex- shortly after the sore straits of his people surrounded by worth married Alice, her sister, though only horting, assisting the others in prayer, "Dr. sickness, sent to Gov. Bradford, begging this fact is recorded at Leyden. without any Fuller put the congregation in mind of their reference to his birthplace. Soon, Agnes that he might have the services of their duty of contribution, upon which the Gov- fuller was gathered to her fathers, and in physician, so dear to all. ernor and all the rest Went down to the deacon's seat put 1»il" Deacon Fuller married Bridget, daugh- This was Dr. Fuller's opportunity, and he and into the bag and then Leo. famous over- returned." ter of Mrs. Joseph The availed himself of it, relieving his vigils be- When he had time he flow ship, the Ann, in 1623 brought this side the sick bed by learned discourse with was assistant, but Fuller, with their not having solved the problem of third and last wife to Dr. tlie Coventor, and not almost but wholly being in two places at once, he could child, who, however, died soon after their persuading him look not conform to to upon the error of his the general arrival. Two children were born to them ways. wish, though he always did his and Mary, who mar- duty and more. Friend and foe alike in Plymouth, Samuel To this Endicott bore open testimony, were .lames, and he is only recorded secure of his offices, even in the war. when ried Ralph visiting Gov. Bradford to thank him for the life fl i that fact. Honor enough, surely, to of an Indian was a matter of little sending Dr. Fuller to him in his need, ami daughter of Dr. Fuller. moment, the "good physician" took have for wife a saying: "I acknowledge myselfe much charge of the Namaskets at Plymouth, and, re- HIS REPUTATION bound to you for your kind love and care in gardless of the possibility that they might sending Mr. Fuller among us, and rejoyce What he was to the colonists can be prove the vipers to "turn and rend him" much yt. I am by him satisfied touching any limit as to the extent after he had warmed them in imagined without your his bosom, he judgment, of ye outward forme of used all of his power. This great Christian healer his healing and sent them forth God's worshipe." cured. brought with him to their sick and dying The views of the Pilgrims and Puritans History is one oft-repeated tale of his beds, in addition to Ids medical skill, the love were so diametrically opposite that such a goodness, a man of spirit, guarded and con- of his God, which should be theirs but for change of opinion of must necessity have trolled by the promises he had accepted. the asking, that endless gift, if accepted, had a bearing on the whole colony, and Dr. which would last through eternity. Puller, whose services were always held in HIS DEATH. The faith to feel that death, which comes special for request, both the souls and Dr. Fuller died in 1633. "When it pleased all, is only a difference of time, the tran- to bodies of the people, a man high in their ye Lord to visite them this year with an sition but the opening of the pearly gates, esteem for his unfeigned piety, realized infectious fevoure, of which many fell very then the rest and blessing of a place in his that his visits to Salem were very satis- Father's kingdom. factory. sicke, among those who died were Samuel Although he gave bonds, with others, to Queer times, surely, as Dr. Fuller in a Fuller, who was their surgeon and phy- the company of adventurers in England, the letter to Bradford, June, 1630. says: "I sician, and had been a great help and com- u forte unto them as in his faculties so other- them. Balmy sleep needed no wooing in man, ami was the first minister of the wise being a deacon of ye church, a man their behalf. church at Middleboro, Mans., btit had godly and forward to doe good, being much The will of the deacon proves that in ad- preached there for sixteen yeara before, be- missed after his death." dition to his many other attributes he had ing ordained when the "first church was His library contained only twenty-seven been a teacher of youth, as he mentions: gathered." December 2>'>. W.i4; dying there books; it is very supposable they were medi- "Elizabeth Cowles, who was submitted to August _'T. W.i'i S.i. in tie- sevenij tir-t cal works, which must have been scarce in my education by her father an
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, Ninth Signer.
CHRISTOPHER MARTIN, 1 'He and his dyed in the first infection not long after the arivall."
WILLIAM MULLINS, Tenth Signer.
Tilgrim history varies in the spelling of connection with the Dutch had placed all vived, might have proved a valuable instru-
this name. Many called itt Molines, and of them in knowledge of that language. ment in his place.'' continued search makes quite a legend of English they acquired from their church HEGIKNOTS. the possibla connections. relations, and French, their dear native Among others are Du Moulins and Moli- tongue, was the voicing of their emotions Dr. Charles W. Baird. in his "Huguenot neux, and here history, with its strong sense of pleasure or of pain, the tender home Emigration to America," states that Pris- of the inevitable relations of many of these greeting, or the demonstrations of affection. cilla Molines was a Huguenot. people, comes to us all, making us wonder To be linguists was but an acknowledg- "The etymology of this word has B of their birthright, equipment when the tangled skein will be unraveled ment an been satisfactorily explained. Cassaneuve from which so much good was expected. and this family, at least, come to a knowl- and others have suggested the Flemish What a home Alice Molines must have edge of its word Huguenon. which means Puritan. many branches. made in Leyden with her French tastes and writers claim for the Hngncn - - Using Molineux for the text, it fits into housewifely capacity. Never forgetting her Other the Standish family, where "'.Tames Tres- great gift of cooking, which from the un- that they were the French Calvinism. cott, senior, who married Standish, had known provisions accorded her, provided The many gifts of the parents repeat^l a son, who took to wife Alice Molineux, and the dainties so appetizing to all. Think of themselves in Priscilla. She tilled ever) the "simnels, buns, biscuits, comfits, carra- for his bravery and military achievements position more than well. When the "com- ways and cracknels" she evolved from tic; mon house" at Plymouth was the home of he was created lord of the manor of Dugby, ship's stores on the Mayflower. Although the young people, the buoyant acceptance in Lincolnshire." she could not "catch the hare," she would of the economies and watchful thrift, les- Again the Scrooby post road! cook it if brought to her. For all this she sened the privations of all: indeed, they Two of his descendants married Stan- was willing and deft, and when with tight dishes, and lived, died and were buried at fingers she was preparing for the people ceased to exist, for out of the at her Standish. already sickening on the ship, little did she command too much was realized to admit of any discontent. The half is not yet told. The South- think that soon she. her husband and the Although by worths married into the Molineux family, little Joseph she loved so well, would he other i>oople the Mi Mullins to (he colony, their so, through the placing of one historical ferried over the river of death, leaving came Lie' in- cation was never with the "old cmiem.** name, the avenue is opened for much study Priscilla alone to fight the battle of life in Priscilla history them, but of at least four of the passengers on the the colonics. made much for Mayflower. she was early merged into an Aktcn. and HIS WILL. her numerous descendants
WILLIAM WHITE, Eleventh Signer.
tlio span Denied of life, which brings in early times had nothing whatever to do under contiol, and, though he was "a youth maturity of experience, William White told with Susanna, or Susannah. unduly gay for his time and generation." little of himself, and yet some possibilities In later years the change is found during his other attributes served him well in the make him a man of inherited prominence. the lifetime of one person, she not dropping estimate of the public. the Susan, but the Anna. True to the knowledge The will of Bishop John White, dated which comes with By baptism, and even later, when signing these gifits, Peregrine did all in his power to 1G21, "alludes to a son, not called by name, papers for admission to the church, the name enhance them, and when he went to visit who had left his country and church." would be Susanna, or with the final "h." his mother at Marshfield. whom he dearly This tells the story, and, though William But in greater maturity, showing the change loved, "he wore a coat with buttons the size White succumbed to the "first sickness" which is periodical in names, the same of a silver dollar," presenting himself to woman used Susan in signing her will, or her ever-admiring eyes on a coal black soon after his arrival in Plymouth with his as a beneficiary. Naturally, when dropping horse, himself the objective point, a natural wife, he whither had gone to make the home the Anna and making Susan for brevity and delight to a fond mother's eyes. denied them in England, to enjoy Hie strength the real name, Anna secured a To her he was always the loving son, and privileges of his own form of worship, he definite position. the wild ways attributed to him did not tell left behind him a record his descendants DISCUSSION. against her estimate, when he was always dutiful and attentive. must appreciate. This very name was brought up for dis- His stepfather, Gov. Edward Winslow. The bond with the Leyden people, cussion in regard to Rev. Thomas Hooker's was no drawback, and had he been asked strengthened by the very natural belief that wife by Rev. William S. Porter, connected his blessing on their nuptials, in view of Roger White, ihe brother of Pastor Robin- the return with Yale College, the one who helped Sav- to himself, would have signified son's wife, was a kinsman of the Pilgrim his unqualified approval. White, made his stay in Holland have some age with his dictionary, and died some forty His unknown father he had never missed: touch of family interest, a connecting link years ago. he was only a name to him and had no between himself and the past, which must With William "White and his wife, on the claim upon his memory. do him honor. Mayflower, came one son, Resolved White, Peregrine White married a daughter of who afterward married daughter of Will- HIS EARLY DEATH. a William Bassett, and if old age is a guaran- iam Vassell, a gentleman of family and tee of a blessing, it accompanied this union. All the anticipations of hardship and pri- fortune, one of the early settlers of Massa- "Saturday, August 9, 1755. died at Scit- vation were closed by his death, only the chusetts. The fact that very little is said uate, in the ninety-second year of her age, wrench of the start and sorrow at parting of this son in connection with his mother, Mrs. Sarah Youngs, the virtuous widow of Mr. Youngs, eldest from his dear ones to record. Even the and that he hardly occupies the place a Thomas and daughter of mother would claim for her son, seems to that Peregrine White, of Marshfield, who wife he had so tenderly loved, and with corroborate the appearance of her being his was the first born English child in New watchful care led to a willingness to leave stepmother. England. all behind her, that was the habit of her The Pilgrim Mr. White was a wool card- "And this his eldest Daughter was Born life, took upon herself new duties and af- er, and most of the trades chosen show a in Marshfield in Oct. 1663, enjoy'd net fections, with a broad future which would bearing on the woolen industries, which Senses and Health in good measure till have been a temptation to any woman, even proved such a component part of the com- towards her end, and left four sons survh- if in her hours of self-communion she real- mercial connection between Holland and ing." ized tha t six short weeks between the grave England during Queen Elizabeth's reign. The warlike element was not wanting in and the altar were hardly enough of mourn- The cosmopolitan character of Amsterdam this Pilgrim descendant. In 1636 he volun- ing for the one who had been the chosen and Leyden made strong history. The teered for the Pequod war, and in 1642 was companion of her young life. French, with their attributes of art, poesy made "ancient bearer," or ensign, of the The circumstances were peculiar, the col- and all graceful accomplishments, com- trained band when the forces were raised ony needed family ties for its very existence, bined with their unvarying industry and to protect the colonies against the Indians and to be the wife of Edward Winslow, cheerfulness, assimilated well with the of the Narrangansett tribe, of which "Mian- brought with it honors not to be ignored. phlegmatic Dutch, and the Mayflower, in tonomo" was chief. Standish being in com- "THE OLD BIBLE." consequence, took out the elements of future mand, even this brave warrior, with his greatness in all directions. proud bearing, could be kept within bounds. According to Leyden records, William FIRST-BORN ENGLISHMAN. He was in his element at the head of a White married Anna Fuller February 6, THE band, a proper victim for concealed wells, 1612. In the summer of 1895 I saw the old Happily for Peregrine White, "so named could the Indians only have known, that Bible with many records on the blank pages, in token of the pilgrimage then in process," in his whole line of march, even with death at the of it, he would never abate one spaces and margins, owned by Mr. S. W. he was the first-born English child in New end iota from the military tactics furnished by Cowles, of Hartford, Conn. It was printed England, a welcome addition to the family his manual of arms. of William White a fact he never forgot in London in 1588, part in 158G, and through — So with "head erect and eyes to the devious ways has reached the hands of its during his life, and which yielded him good front" he pursued his onward march, shar- present owner. This Bible claims to have return. Upon this accident of birth he ing in any glory that came to the expedi- been originally the property of William based his claim for lands and privileges. tion. White, of the Mayflower, and by his bequest When the patent for Plymouth Colony was The "pen which is mightier than the sword" was his in his youth, and hi' used it went to Elder Brewster. There is no pre- surrendered to the "Body of Freemen," tense at asserting that all the entries were in a forcible manner, but in his last days three tracts of land were reserved for the made as they occurred by the participants, made his mark on his will. but there seems strong cause to believe that "Purchasers, or Old Comers." Peregrine White "lived in great Health they were placed there by persons who, if In 1655, Prence being Governor, this and Vigour to the 84th year of his age, not themselves eye-witnesses, had the grant was recorded: "In reference unto the when a fever carried him off on July 22, records from those who were, and the fact request of the King's Commissioners in the 1704." that subsequent owners continued the book behalf of Lieutenant Peregrine White, de- True to the instincts of his surround- as a family Bible gives strength to the sup- siring that the Court would accommodate ings, even at the advanced age of 77, he position of its reliability as a matter of his- him with a portion of land, in respect that joined the church, and the Boston "News tory. he was the first of the English that was Letter" of the period completes his history. The "old Bible" is authority for William born in these parts, and in answer unto his "Death of Peregrine White, Marshfield, White's second marriage to Susanna Tilley own petition preferred to this Court respect- July 22, 1704. "ye 3.1 of March. 1620." ing the premises, "Captain Peregrine White, of this town. To my mind this exactly accounts for the "The Court have granted unto him two Aged Eighty-three years and Eight months, circumstantial evidence surrounding this hundred acres of land lying and being at the died the 20th Instant. family. Learned men have satisfied them- path that goes from Bridgewater to the "He was vigorous and of a comely As- selves that the after calling of Mrs. White bay ajoining the bay line." pect to the last. Susanna was merely the t se of the nam* of Resolved had no showing, only the legal "Was the son of William White and Anna Fuller White in fun. My search, right of primogeniture, but matters were Susanna, his wife; born on board of the which has been great, reverses this. For reversed without his selling his birthright. Mayflower, Captain Jones Commander, in the first hundred years in New England PERSONAL APPEARANCE. Cape Cod Harbor, November 1620, was Susanna was the baptismal name and Susan the First Englishman born in New Eng- Given one claim, another came to Pere- the diminutive or pet name, not used by land. Altho' he was in the former part of grine, of which he was fully conscious, his itself until the middle of the eighteenth his Life extravagant, yet was much re- century. fine personal appearance. He was very formed in his last years, and died hone- So Anna, or Annah (as the old name was). modest, but he kept the evidence of it well fully." .
RICHARD WARREN, TWELFTH SIGNER. 21
RICHARD WARREN, Twelfth Signer.
Stern facts must be accepted in writing and was followed later on in the Ann by his wife. There the story, ns told us of the history, and, willing or otherwise, the rec- his wife, Elizabeth, and his daughters. The Pilgrim, ends, their children being two ords prove that Richard Warren, the Pil- confusion in regard to him arises from the sons, Richard and John, as the chart ac- placed in any grim, cannot be certainty fact that there was another Warren, who companying this article shows. with regard to his family relations before wns early in the colonies, and who had the Yet, for all practical purposes, our Pil- advent in the colonics, of the his as one honor of being a son of Christopher Warren, grim, arguing from the family names then- Mayflower Pilgrims. and the pleasure of having Elizabeth represented, must have his place as kin Certain it is that he on this ship, Jouatt, came or Ivatt, widow of Marsh, for somewhere in the record*.
John Warreu at UeUbury in the i>. of Asbburton.
I Christopher Wai ren, s. & h.
Wihiam ~ Ann d. of Tho Mablc of ZZ Will Culling of Woodland
Warren I Calston in Cornw. | in Devon Mhusb.
Christopher ~ Alice d. of Tho 1. William Culling Hiclianl
Warren I Webb of ~. John Thomas of Loudon Hubert Warren, Mars. d. of Peter John. 2 Richard. 8, of Kliz. d.of [vatt I s . parson of Burgis of Peter Greenwich in I Honne in C >rnw. I Taw in Cornw. Kent, uierclit. Marsh. I I Christopher 2, Robert 4, Peter Margaret, 1. Richard John Warr.-n, 3, Thomas Nathaniel, Anne, 2 Warren, Is I 8 I I " l Chrisopher, ~ Sarah d. of Thomas William, 5 ~ Mary d. of Ann 4, of Nich. Opie ob. s. p. of London, Will. Cull- ZZ London. of Plymouth. merchant ingof Woodland. John Richards Harluian Society Publication of Visitation of Devonshire in 162J. Richard and Joseph repeat themselves the peculiarity of physical strength at the Warren have largely inhabited Tlyniouth in both families; then, too, mere are Na- beginning, the early death rate being mainly and the eastern part of Massachusetts, al- thaniels. from the numbers as they increase. though the State of New York also puts in Still. I can take "grave Richard Warren" Richard Warren was a true Pilgrim spir- a claim. from his start with us, and give him hearty it, whether of the Leyden Church or one of BOTH BRANCHES. thanks for his descent, even if the ascent the converts along the Scrooby Post road, still remains unknown. too weak of purpose to join the movement The two branches of Warren unite tvry at its inception, but who grew in strength Of him, personally, there is. sad to say, naturally in the fact that the rilgrim de- an unfinished record to place in evidence. with t'me and conviction, until the move scendant Gen. James Warren, the revo- Escaping the first sickness, living to greet for bleak New England found him more lutionary officer and president of the Pro- his wife and daughters, it seems a hard than ready, waiting to record himself as of fate to relate that he only lived to 1G2S. the little band.* vincial Congress of Massachusetts. su<- and "it was not until after seven years of HIS FAMILY. ceeded Gen. Joseph Warren, of Bunker co-labor that any of the men who joined in Hill of other family, in sous filial fame, a member the that pioneer Thanksgiving festival in 1021 Five daughters and two owed office. The following record shows how had been laid in his grave." allegiance to Richard and Elizabeth War- naturally mixing of the line-age oc- He had taken the initial step, proved him- ren. the the self worthy of the position he had achieved The girls, who came with their mother in curred, and though, by reference to in the short time allowed him, all bearing the Ann, married active men in the colonies. chart, we can see that it was not the Ma>- testimony to his value, not needing to wait Mary 'becoming the wife of Robert Bart- flower Pilgrim, there are so many points, in until had passed Rubicon, and in his he the lett; Ann, of Thomas Little: Sarah. Joseph common with the record handed down to silent grave closed the living animosities. Cooke; Elizabeth. Richard Church, October of integrity, us that all would be unwilling to chan-e They described him as "a man 4, 1632, a carpenter, born in ItiOS. a ser- their opinion without the strong substantia- justice and uprightness, of piety and se- geant in the Poipiod war, and. best of all. authenticated histor> rious religion." they were the parents of Col. Benjamin tion of SIGNER Church, the distinguished hero of the In- Richard Warren — —Klixabvth. daughter dian wars. of Greenwich, Co. of Jouatt, and Richard Warren, the twelfth Signer of Kent, merchant, one widow of Marsh. Then Abigail, to complete tho list, mar- prefix of the tirst settlers of She died at Plymouth the Compact, with the honorable of Snow, one of the prominent ried Anthony Plymouth, N. K. He in 1G73, aged 90. Mr., to which he always seemed fully en- men of Marshfiold. died in IOCS. titled, is mentioned by Bradford "as a most Nathaniel and Joseph, the sons, were The Warrens lead straight to the M.iy- useful man during the short time he lived, born in Plymouth, the first marrying Mary unco. Horn flower. though the repetition of nanus in the difficulties and Walker, and Joseph, Priseilla Fa bearing a deep share in t pas> - the two families makes the title very ' the names and marriages of this family troubles of the plantation. zling one. but there ueed be no doubt of cause, through all tho have been greatly to their credit. For some unknown the claim if presented by those W-arini the together of the Their Norman blood flows through -the accounts of this banding names of Otis. Winslow. Walker. Doty. gov- veins of the patriots, the pleaders, tho suc- Mayflower passengers for their better Bradford and many others scattered the of good cessful merchants of this country. ernment, and personal responsibility whole world over. the occupied by each one The descendants of the PilgriniKichard behavior, place Again the matter must ho left to the in seems to be considered a the compact *Why should he not have been the Richard Society of Mayflower Descendants. The.r matter of precedence of position. If so, what Sheriff of Coventry. Warren recorded as good work is progressing, fed by the knowl- an argument for John Alden and John How- Having Ave daughters to come out 1610? edge gained from each seeker for enrollment land and the men "called servants." with their mother in the Ann, tits into the ou the list of members. See notes. And how strai ge, as you read the list, is necessary maturity. - 22 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. JOHN HOWLAND, Thirteenth Signer. that The statement the Howlands arc all while not a fact, admits of explanation. This ble liberties with their spelling and inter- traceable to Essex County, England, gives suggestion has been hard for the Howlands pretations of names, and 1 cannot divest a very satisfactory point to work from. to accept. All that feeling is set aside as to myself of the hope that in the future the our modern rendering by the; knowledge of inconsistency In fact, John Howland is just where he and national resentment in English law. and in this Pilgrim's case by a the combination of should be, perhaps, with the record behind names in Bridget Van fragment of Bradford's journal where he De Velde may bring out something which him of his youth spent with those, whom tells of the mishap which befell him on the :is yet is incomprehensible. knowing, all have learned to honor. journey over of the Mayflower. I am forced, as a matter of fact, to say "In a mighty storm John Howland, a Pas- There were live John Ilowlands in Es- that this conviction in my own mind, be- senger (!), a stout young man, by a keel of sex, any one of whom might have been coming so strong that it seemed an intuition, ye ship was thrown into ye sea. But it has to our Pilgrim's father. led me study it in every light I have pleased God, He caught hold of ye Top- been able to view it. without success, However, all this makes very little dif- ably sail Halliards we hung overboard, and run .issistc,] by those who ference, for in 1646 Humphrey Howland, were as willing as out ye length, yet He kept his hold the myself to the "citizen and draper." of London, left his reach desired consummation. several Fathoms under water, till He was John How laud brothers. "Arthur, John and Henry, re- came into his property at drawn up 'by ye Rope to ye surface and Island Creek Pond spectively £8. £4, £4 out of a debt due and also two small isl- by a Boat Hook and other means got into ye ands in from Mr. Ruck, of New England," which Geeir's Harbor. With his posses- ship; and tho' somew't ill upon it, liv'd sions followed the feeling seems sufficient proof to identify him in this that they needed many years, and became a useful member his personal supervision/ relationship with those Howlands who bo- so for a' time he both hi church and Commonwealth." yielded to necessity, but longed with us from the start. .V gift of the early love for .V needed member of Gov. Carver's Plymouth was upon him. left money is a crucial test of a maifs connec- and he Dux- household, "he was one of the leading men bury, returning to his tion with the donor. home all the better in the colony, and a partaker of their haz- citizen for his little outing. LINCOLNSHIRE. ardous undertakings, and eminent for his In the progression of the times, and a In writing the personal history of the devotion to its interests, both in civil and growing consciousness that Plymouth was religious matters." a barren land, so Pilgrims, taking Lincoln, in Lincolnshire, far as cultivation and yield Office sought him from the first, for John was concerned, he made his last to for the test, does much toward proving move Howland, in conscious dignity, never Rocky Nook, in Kingston, before 1665, and interests in the great centralization of usurped another's place. remained there until the time of his de- Leyden, and the transporting of them to On this basis he was "Deputy and As- parture for his final home, which took place the colony in New England. sistant the greater part of his long and use- February 22. 1072, when he had reached Granting the truth of the record in the fid life." fourscore years. "A godly "Old Bible," which gives John Carver as DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. man. and an ancient professor "sonne of James Carver, Lincolnshire, Yeo- of the ways of Christ, one of the lirst- man.'' and that in Boston in the same This Pilgrim cannot be written of without comers, and proved a useful instrument of county Brewster and Bradford were im- much discussion and with the strong con- good in the place." prisoned, then all know that the original nections, the traditional history that has be- Iii the height of the Quaker troubles he colonists was issued in the was dropped from the General Court, prob- patent to the come part of the beliefs of every section of name of John Wincob, a member of the ably because he was found to be too liberal this land, it is very hard to give up a recog- Earl of Lincoln's household, and the strong for the times. Gov. Prence did not stint nition of the statements of early writers binding together becomes a local certainty. his evidences of disapprobation when a man which were received without a doubt until "The See of Lincoln comprehended cer- differed from him in his opinion with regard the finding of the lost journal of Gov. Brad- tain counties, and Abbots, Aston and Wins- to the Quakers. ford daughter from low. John White, Prebendary, of Win- removed Gov. Carver's There is never any effort made to with- her position as John Rowland's wife. The chester, and Warden of Rickham's Col- draw one word of praise from this Pilgrim: "old Bible in Hartford" places lier more his lege, there was consecrated Bishop of Lin- he had convictions, and the strength of John coln." naturally as Carver's granddaughter. them, willing always to be placed on record This continues the story: ITowland's marriage was in 1023 or 1024— for his acts. one of the earliest weddings in the colony. Gov. Bradford's Here, too, in Lincolnshire are Robinsons, confidence in John How it 1621. land implicit. one named John; ami in those times the The Mayflower Society gave as in was He called him among perpetuating of Christian names was pare As he was 28 when he arrived in the May- the "ten principal men" for the "third ex- ploration." and. of the family history of a place. flower. 1020, and his marriage took place be- as he is credited with hav- ing Another point: William Puller held this fore the land division in 1024. making him, a "military turn," he, with Jonathan Brewster, See, and here are found Turners and War- allowing for the unknown months. 32 or was appointed to be joined with the Governor, rens high in position. nearly so, the supposition has arisen that he etc., "to assess men toward ELIZABETH. might have been a widower, and by his first the charges of soldiers." QUEEN wife a member of Gov. Carver's family. Reference to Plymouth records shows The conviction is forced upon one by Gov. Bradford states distinctly, and his that John Howland, in 1627. was associated search that much of the strong history of record is accepted, that Gov. Carver left no with Gov. Bradford and six other of the the world was made during Queen Eliza- descendants. prominent men of the colony in a compact I feel with the descendants, and would made with London merchants in regard to beth's reign. She had her vagaries, but the to prove meant simply none the relinquishment of claims, upon certain working of them out involved the civilized like that he bearing the of Carver. As early as conditions. nations of the earth. name 1038 there were Carvers in the colony who Alden and Howdand seemed to go into One point for our purpose is that she had a grant of land in Duxbury. and Gov. all enterprises side by side, men of similar gave the Howlands their grant of coai- Bradford may have had some personal rea- tastes upto a point, and then far apart. armor in 1584, which is now used by that son, against their pre- family, authenticated from the Heralds' Col- perhaps prejudice, CHILDREN. suming on any supposed relationship, by lege, London, That started with Bishop His children, as given in the history of Howland. virtue °f their name, with Gov. Carver. has some founda- Duxbury. were John, Jabez, who married A striking matter of consideration to Tradition, that always tion in truth, has clung with barnacle-like Bethiah Thatcher, and was a lieutenant in which I wished to lead is that this same Bishop Howland performed the obsequies tenacity to every Howland descendant: in the Indian war under Church against Phil- of .Mary, Queen of Scots. regard to this marriage nothing can shake ip, after the conquest of Mount Hope going child- This proves at least a connection with their faith in the teachings of their to Bristol, where he was allowed to "keep hood. Elder Brew ster, for he was secretary to a house of entertainment." Davison at that time, and per- The story has been banded down from Ambassador In view of the Quaker interest if not pro- haps they consulted together over the ar- grandmother to grandmother, and facing the clivities of these Howlands, it is interesting rangements. inevitable docs not lessen their own belief; As those items narrow in to a few people thev are silenced, but not convinced This to know that his son Jabez was vestryman a historian gathers much valuable data to claim comes constantly, even in the light of of St. Michael's Episcopal Parish in 1724. work upon, and a hope of the possibilities the acceptation of Bradford's journal. Isaac, another son. was ulso an officer of it easy to imagine they desire; it makes NAM F INTERPRETATIONS. the war settled at Middleboro, "kept an or- Brewster in this spirit extending from love Allowing that John Tilley married Bridget diary" there in 1084. and died in 1724. of his family much care and interest to remained at Plymouth, John Howland. Van De Veldc. and John Howland their Joseph but he had daughter Elizabeth, a slight hope reaches no diminished head to hide; his services ( iARVER'S SERVANT. me from th? name probabilities which so were at the command of his country; he in the That John Howland came out often attract me in my studies. became an officer, and made his mark in the Mayflower as Governor Carver's servant, The Dutch people took the greatest possi- home of his Pilgrim father, increasing bis » 23 value in the local history by marrying Eliz- that Joanna Howland, a great-granddaugh- in view of the will of Humphrey Howland, abeth Southworth. ter of the Pilgrim, married Gideon White, found by Dr. Cheater, of Doctor*' Com Desire, named for Desire Minter, who a great-grandson of Peregrine White, early kind mons, London, were easily identified an was the friend of her mother's or- in the last century, and her home is re- brothers of Pilgrim John phaned girlhood, married Capt John Gor- ferred to by Buckingham in his "Travels Howland. Their history ham in 1043, and may be proud as an ances- in America" as a "remarkable depository of while independent of my purpose in tress of this descent. Mayflower relics." this paper is very profitable and would re- Hope married Elder John Chipman, of Hannah and Mary White, .great-great- ward the search of any one interested in the Barnstable, and their large family are liv- granddaughtors of "Peregrine the first family. their ing through representatives a broad born," died unmarried, the former in IS}.'!, As all love a romance. I will give a Jin. life, always ready to lend a helping hand the latter in 1838. aged 87. of descent from Henry Howland. which to anything that promotes the interests of Their sister Joanna married Pelham brings it others and the public good. Winslow. in. and have no doubt it will reach married twice, her second descendants to it is Elizabeth hus- "It was at the house of these 'ancient whom unknown. being Diekarsoii. band John Lydia mar- maiden sisters' that Buckingham saw the 1. Henry Howland came to Pljiie.uth ried John Brown, of Swansey, and {lath, about «.{.•;, ancient Howland coat-of-arms, published in 1 .lied July 17. l«;7o, niarr..-d Thomas Cushman, of Plymouth, November 48.'!." his 'America. ' vol. 2. p. .Mary Newland. wh., died Jim.- 17. 1671. 7. 16H4. A long search found that it was in the 2. Zoetlr. killed by Indians Januar\ Succeeding generations of Rowlands have possession of Kev. T. Howland White, 1076, married Abagail October, 1656. l>een given to the perpetuating of the names Shelbufne, N. S. 3. Nathaniel, born August 5, 1657, died of Desire and Ja'bez; the female name we The following letter from him explains Marco 172.':, married 1681 Ron Allen can place, but Jabez must come from some tlie matter exactly: born 16t;.">. ancestor, who could, if known, make one of "June 1, 1885.—It was left me by my 4. John, born February 14. 1*IS7. died records. 174!t. the name venerable aunts, Mrs. Winslow, wife of married August 2. 171:.'. Mary Conk to feel so near and so .">. It is hard yel far Pelham Winslow. and Miss Hannah While, Nathaniel, born Maj 7. 1721, married from establishing what I desire wilh regard Joanna of Plymouth. The copy which is in my Rickertson. to this ancestry. As a last effort. I quote This is all that is possession is evidently a very ancient one, necessary t.. "t. :i tha from a letter written by Mr. H. Manning tale." though I have one and the tradition is that it. was brought over direct line lo the Lisbon. Conn.. October present day. Chipman. of 23, soon after the arrival of the Pilgrims, if The I.ady 1878, and kindly sent me by a llowlaud de- not ou the Mayflower herself. ESafe] Fitzgerald, a v.rv Uau- scendant, where he says: tiful woman, and daughter of "It is painted in water colors and is Lord Kdward Fitzgerald, the Irish "Of that Elizabeth Tilley I have learned highly ornamented. I have no doubt from patriot. Married a no clear affirmation British officer by the nan f Ui. kcrt~m. more than the of Brad- its appearance that it came from the Her- On account of Lord opposition ford, plus the indubitable evidence that she alds' College, as it perfectly agrees with a Edward's to the match they was a daughter of John Tilley and his wife printed copy since issued." cainc to Ain.r their ancestry is now included Elizabeth, which passengers in the May- There is also an old arms in the posses- with the Howlands by the marriage flower died in the next winter after the sion of Mrs. Julia M. Barnes, perhaps of their daugh- ter. Joanna Rickertsoii. to Mayflower arriving in Plymouth, in 1620, copied this (as she kept her Nathaniel How- from has up land. i. e.. died as early as before spring, intercourse with the relatives in Nova Sco- The "History of the Howland 1621." tia), in embroidery and water colors, so long Family in America," "Bradford's History," in the family that they have no knowledge "'The Plymouth Republic." "Old Colon Ree., HOWLAND RELICS. of a time, even traditionally, when they v rd«" and "Davis's Landmarks of Plymouth" To complete the history of the old Bible were without it. are all attainable, an,] will In- gn at" rewards ( which is described in the issue of Septem- THE BROTHERS OF THE PILGRIM. in every point of view for all time spent in ber 9, 1896), an item has come to me that Arthur and Henry Howland appeared their perusal. may place it as to its locality, which says first in Plymouth Colony about 1633, and See note. « STEPHEN HOPKINS, Fourteenth Signer. No signer of the Mayflower compact off final syllable of its appellation is evidently such poor children of this city, whose jo- Cape Cod, 1620, opens more historical pos- the British 'tre,' a town. The prefix seem- rents are not able to pay for their learning." to have been from a convent erected on the Then there is a Richard sibilities in his story than Mr. Stephen Warren, Sheriff spot. On excavating in 1792 there was in Coventry. 161(». and Mr. Richard II Hopkins. To secure what I have so eagerly found at the depth of five or six feet from kins is recorded as Burgesse of Coventrv. sought for I will write of him in many as- the surface 'a regular pavement, and on the When Charles II. was " proclaimed (ltf5!»t, pects, bringing all possible circumstantial pavement a coin of Nero in middle brass.' Richard Hopkins, the steward, was li- evidence to bear upon a kinship I so earn- Viewed in every light, it was a town of ed, and received a service of plate, the value great importance. Commerce, manufactures of which they did not fail estly desire and hope to prove—that he was to record- and arts rapidly in its borders, The Hopkinses of Coventry the father of John Hopkins, of Hartford, developed an- well and while its renowned hospitality is a matter honorably mentioned with Conn. the Davenports. of history. Here William Hopkins was Alderman and Goodwin, in his "Plymouth Republic," venturesome enough Mayor, founding Bablake Sdi.».l. ,.i f places the possibility of Hopkins being from The people were even the was most celebrated fret' schools Scrooby upon his apprentices (Doty and to entertain Queen Elizabeth, who in Coventry, never carrying away with her tangi- giving his daughter in marriage to the - Leister), names sounding as if from that above appreciated according of Edward Davct>|«ort. section. ble tokens of esteem, Mayor ol OoieSilll. to their absolute value, while the pageant and they in their turn sending to its their To me Coveiftry fulfills all historical re- great lor her desire and son John, born in Coventry quirements from every point to could never be loo 1597, educated and seems " acceptance. a i Oxford, of whom it is recorded that be the place of his forbears. In 1365, when "Queen Hess" was a guest John Davenport >rds ..i \ The northern post road of England, lead- (after* of the town, the Scarlet Coats, "which sate Haven I, a preacher of Lmdon. tied t-» ing from Loudon to Scrooby and Scotland Mid- close," liveried horses, not forgetting the land and preached through towns whose familiar names were there two years aud a "purse supposed to be worth xxly marks, half as colleague of Rev. John" PairoU" early repeated in the colonies, connects nat- with one hundred pounds of An gella in it." With him on his journey across the « ater urally with Coventry and all the places which the Queen received, and said to ber came Kdward Hopkins, the futiitv from which sprang the Nonconformists and OoTerasff lords, "It was a good gift: 1 have but few of Connecticut, his cousin, one naturally Separatists, to whom, under the name of such, for it was an hundred pounds in supposes. Pilgrims (the passengers in the vessels gold," were part of her welcome. So accepting, for the sake of argument. called the forefather ships), Americans owe Coventry as the place of Stephen Popkius's such warm allegiance. HISTORICAL NAMES. nativity, almost the loeation he is "These wielders of mighty doctrines ami |«lae»l historical of Coventry. by Goodwin. 1 come to his rvl;g:,ois |>e!'. •» tillers of the stern New England soil" were Among the names and Copy from history: "KluVr Brewster not strangers, if pilgrims, as they welcomed I find Richard Hopkins in 1554, Will Hop and his sou Kdward, in 1»SH». became mem- each vessel bearing its living freight to the kins, ir>04; Samuel Hopkins, 1000 (mark bers of the Virginia family jus; formed, "first comers." this name connection); Sampson Hopkins, and this year Stephen Hopkins 1 "who aa family, COVENTRY. 1040; Christopher Davenport, 1641, and other Nonconformists, sailed in the dert to maintain, 'The city of Coventry is supposed to have gave twenty marks per ann. of Gates and Somers for Virginia." This talc, been founded at a very early period, as the and keep, one schoolmaster, for educating tells the proves him a N\m- 24 conformist, and why, as Brewster had him. Only the intervention of those whose Bermuda was an experience which told well a son not known to us in connection with favor he had won on previous good behavior in the Pilgrims' future life. Lack of food him, should not Hopkins have had other saved him. Sir George Somers, the Admiral, developed their ingenuity, and instinct with children of future birth who were not on and chaplain, besought his pardon, but in the hunger, which from its force and con- the Mayflower? face of the findings of the court, the lawless tinuance became a greed; they brought The shipwreck off the coast of Bermuda disregard of human life which came with every living thing to bear on their needs, of the vessel destined for Virginia was the isolation and the times, it was easy to turn learning to trap the deer and other animals means of discovering that island and, re- a deaf ear. The carrying out of the verdict for their daily food. turning to his native laud, the man destined was close at hand, when, under the pressure, How little Hopkins thought that in his to become one of the most prominent of the Sir Thomas Gates, yielded and his pardon next venture this knowledge would serve Plymouth Pilgrims. was secured. The life of such a man must a good purpose, only it was under bleak be spared if there New TEMPERAMENT. was any power of vindica- England sides that he applied it, and tion. Gov. Bradford was the victim the Knowing to In- Stephen Hopkins, as all do, in VIRGINIA dian trap. his strong its COMPANY. character, with perver- Bradford gives Stephen Hopkins as one sities and partial it resentment of control, Sir Thomas Gates had been in the serv- of the Mayflower passengers from the "Lon- is hard to recognize him as "lay reader" to ice of the United Netherlands, another don section." This certainly fits in well Mr. Buck, chaplain to the expedition of Sir "wheel within the wheel," and on the with Coventry, only ninety-one miles from Thomas Gates, realize 24th and that he had Loudon, and everything in the mau's future "much knowledge of the Scriptures of April, 1608, the States General passed the and life shows for his energy, desire to see the could reason well in them." following resolution: world, and what may have been the part, of gift The of speech, perhaps controversy, "On the petition of Sir Thomas Gates, his character, which in after years led his- always rested captain with him, and the legal in- of a company of English soldiers, torians to suppose from his constant connec- stinct long by which made him ere one of the commissioned the King of Great Britain tion with Standish to be the result of his two Ambassadors to Plymouth Colony, the to command with three other gentlemen, in military proclivities, would naturally make the person sharing this fame with Gov. Edward County of Virginia, in colonizing said him seek a larger and more stirring sphere Winslow, gives us ready understanding of county, the petitioner is therefore allowed to of action. the position he took after the wreck of two be absent from his for the company space In this spirit he joined the Virginia com- • of the vessels of this fleet at Bermuda. of one year, on condition he supply his com- pauy with his family, and circumstances claimed that the ships having sailed with good officers He pany and soldiers for the entirely beyond his control returned him to public under contract to serve the company in Vir- service." the land of his birth, which must have been ginia, their landing in a place unknown and "Subsequently the States paid him for the about 1G11 or 1612. unprepared for released them from their time he was absent in Virginia." About this bond and subordination to "the powers that there is no speculation, Stephen Hopkins JOHN HOFKINS. be." was a Nonconformist, of the same company Perhaps Stephen Hopkins counted the cost as Elder Brewster, and his son, Edward, And here I claim came John Hopkins, of of this act; he was hardly a man to plead people of like thought and convictions, Hartford, born near 1613, and early left ignorance in extenuation; at all events he which they adhered to until "Eward Brew- without a mother, for had to face the results. A summary court ster conformed, and returned to the Stephen Hopkins's martial being convened, charging him with church," remaining in England- second marriage took place according to the treason, sentence of death was passed upon The six months spent on the island of records, at St. Mary's, Whitechapel, London, "Jtephen Hopkins et Eliza; ffisher, March 1617." The records of "marriages at St. Mary Le Strand, London," adds the family names of descendants to the list: "October 25, 1610—James Hopkins an! Margaret Howell. November 23 1612—John Hopkins and Jane Marshall. , 1624—Samuel Hopkins and Ann Tumber. February 15, 1616—Hughe Richardson and Mary Hopkins. All married by "lycenc." It is no stretch of the imagination to place and influence might be a restraint to the they loved, hardly seeing that through de- the above as brother and sister of Stephen captain's impetuosity. As early as 1620 he vious ways of His own choosing, Providence Hopkins, of the Mayflower—one brother for was placed in this position with regard to was leading them slowly but surely to a whom John, of Hartford, was named; then Standish. which seems to prove that those home, such as it was, on the barren land of Samuel perpetuated constantly in both fam- on the ship had former knowledge of his Cape Cod's shores. ilies, giving us, thus called, some of the most capacity, which rendered him acceptable, News of their arrival could not be kept to celebrated of American divines, men never and prevented any antagonism because of themselves: So, when Samoset made his spoken of without pride and respect. his occupancy of so many trust places. unexpected, perhaps unwelcome, visit to FAMILY ON THE MAYFLOWER. On the expedition they were much trou- the colony, during the light hours of the day, bled with thirst, "having brought only some when nothing hidden was unrevealed, all On the Mayflower came "Steven Hopkins biscuit and Dutch cheese, with a little bot- united in entertaining him, and true to the and Elizabeth, his wife, and two children lle of aqua vita." Their sufferings became instinct implanted in man's heart, whether called Giles (Gyles), and Constanta, a intense, but nature had provided them with white or red, "he called for beer," which, a relief, the as daughter, both by a former wife, and two guide to and. led by deer, not being forthcoming, he dined with them they went to slake their thirst at the cool- more by this wife, called Damaris and on ".strong water followed by biscuit, with ing springs, they refreshed themselves, and, butter and cheese pudding and mallard." Oceanus (the last was born at sea), and two in their exhausted, condition, they suffering "All this he liked well/' He would be servants, called Edward Doty and Edward oven magnified 11k 1 blessing they felt it to hard to suit, indeed if not satisfied with Lister." be by chronicling that it was "as pleasant Poor Oceanus, though he without doubt this, when as an unbidden guest he dined unto them as wine or beer had been in en famille. had the advantage of being rocked in the former times." night's mantle, with them, was al- celebrated "Fuller cradle" on the great deep, A change of opinion would hardly be reg- As it fell fear seems to have been a "waif and stray," as istered even against a Pilgrim! ways sable, when began to to his personal location, always being re- Bradford claims that "they took the orig- possess their souls. corded as the one to fill the vacancy in the inal of their death here." The one Indian of the daytime might in- number of passengers made vacant by the THIRD EXPEDITION". crease and multiply during the night. The death during the passage of Wilbam Button, feeling of hospitality had merged into self- the servant of Dr. Fuller. The "third expedition," which tested the defense, and what guest chamber to give Bringing with him experience and ca- Pilgrims' strength to a serious degree, told Samoset was a problem not easily solved. pacity, our signer started his record from sorely on those who were quietly succumb- His stay with them was by his own invita- the minute put his foot on the ship, and tion, and the Mayflower was intended for he ing to the "first sickness," which was upon when, land being reached, it was necessary liis alii ling place. However, it was found them, and each day recorded victims to the to explore and see whether it might be fit that at this time, which might be their dire "to seat in or no," he was one of the three privations surrounding all. "Ten of their need, the shallop had failed them, but there sent to pass judgment. His constant con- principal men" had been selected from the was a man of their number, Stephen Hop- nection with Standish on his missions leads volunteers—of course, Stephen Hopkins one kins by name, a physical as well as intel- to the supposition that he was either "some- of them—but they went out weary and lectual power, and he was designated as what of a military man" or that his coolness heavy laden, to work in the service of those "mine host," one who could keep a vigilant STEPHEN HOPKINS, FOURTEENTH SIGNER. 25 eye upon the undesired inmate of his dom- marriage, which took place in March, 1617, venturer, signing his name with a crow. icile. as somewhere near 2 years of age, wh< a This, when he was "lay reader to Mr. Morning broke, hope returned, and the the Mayflower started, and Oceanus's birth Buck, chaplain to the expedition of Sir speeding of the parting guest was so in on the ship iu 1620 does not admit of a Thomas Gates," keeping with their wishes that they doubt. when bis associates had searched their stores to give him evidence STEPHEN HOPKINS'S POSITION. been Elder Brewster, his son Edward, those of at least the last sentiment toward him of his own ship, Lord de la Warre, with Mr. Stephen Hopkins's power and position are formed in a blaze of sunlight with courage West, who owned "the crimson streak of to the front, and presented him, with be- always shown by his being called "Mister," kinship," with the Temples of England, and coming unction, with a knife, a bracelet and a title applied as Master. to-day continues the pride of descent through a ring. "Only twelve people have the prefix Mr. Mr. Gladstone, honored by every nation. Does it not strike true also, DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. in the whole list of the passengers on the to suppose that his coming on the Mayflower was doubt the relations Mayflower, Fortune and Little James." No one can between largely due to Elder Brewster, who, orig- Mr. Stephen Hopkins a man of great Bradford, Winslow and Hopkins; they were was inally a member of the same Virginia com- enterprise, and in the present day would always evident, never more so than when, pany, when "frighted back into the Low have been a very acceptable and apprecia- by the Governor's order, the diplomat Wins- Countries." must have seen where the little tive companion at all athletic sports, low and Hopkins were associated on the company at Leyden were tending, and. when whether on sea or land. At his place, near necessity compelled decisive action, knowing embassy to Massasoit. where the greatest Eel River (Plymouth), which he sold in they wanted stanch material to draw from, possible tact and statesmanship were re- 1637, there was a wharf which gave evi- have turned naturally to his former com- quired; a false move would wreck them. dence of age, and was the first one spoken panion. They were to adroitly ascertain the loca- of in the colony. His yacht is not men- They had ample opportunity for discus- tioned, though he was part owner of the tion of the Indians, elicit some knowledge sion, through Gov. Carver, in charge of the first ship built in Plymouth, but it was on fitting out of their power, discover the country and of the Mayflower, who was iir hand if he could materialize matters to his England in 1618 and 1619, and Brewster all its attributes of strength, prevent abuses liking, and there were sure to be "chips" on himself had some time for intercourse. and make the amende honorable for any board for a time of need, though he never Mr. Hopkins had married again, his supposed encroachments of the white man, life carried a "chip on his shoulder." was settled to his family duties; he must continuing the league of friendship and Not to give precedence to his allegiance forget his love for the ocean peace already formed. and make a to old Neptune, he owned the first horse on home for his children, where, under his This, all know, they secured, Massasoit's record (1644), when a mare belonging to own eye, they could grow up according to pledge continuing through his lifetime. the estate of Stephen Hopkins was ap- his beliefs. They had gone for information of every praised at £6 sterling. kind, to acquire an idea of the Indian habits Its rate of speed has not come to us, but SIGNING WITH AN N. and all pertaining to them, but they had not nothing slow flourished under this master. intended results to be quite so personal, Signing his name with a cross hardly His ofliceholding was continuous—of the when they found they were share the needs explanation, in the to Governor's Council from Plymouth, 1623- present search guest chamber, even the downy couch, with of history, particularly 4-5-6; in 1637 one of the volunteers in aid when one reflects Massasoit, his wife, and, I am not wrong in that of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut in Alice Southworth Bradford, who was saying, some of his braves. their with the Pequods, when the col- eulogized by the great Elder Faunce "f..r That they would have preferred keeping war ony concluded to send them assistance, her exertions in promoting the the "midnight watch" more to themselves literary im- appointed cannot be doubted. and then was of the committee provement and the deportment of the rising to levy an assessment to pay the charges of generation, did the same, and the well- SURROUNDINGS. the expedition; then in 1642 was chosen to known "first-born Englishman," Peregrine If there were not contrasting history, how the Council of "War from Plymouth. White, entitled to the best of his da v. delightful Mr. Winslow's letter to those at No desire could make a narrow-minded "who in his youth used his pen in a forci- Puritan of Mr. Stephen Hopkins; he was ble manner, in his last days home, dated December 11, 1621, would made his mark broad enough for the methods of the pres- iu his will." sound, when he says, "The summer has ent day. It was not in the blood to live up PURSUIT. been delightful, the climate lovely, the nat- to the "requirements of that early "Vigilance ural fruits of the earth abundant, grapes, Committee," who were a law unto them- A friend told me that Stephen Hopkins selves, a "single eye" to the faults of strawberries and budding and blossoming with was a leather dealer; this I cannot find, others. roses in such sweetness and variety that for but he was iu the beaver trade with Mr. a little while New England looked like a BENEFIT OF TRAVEL. John Attwood, of Plymouth, which ren- paradise." He had seen the world and protited by the ders his falling iu with other skins suitable He tells them (George Morton and those knowledge gained, acquiring a certain liber- for tanning purposes possible, and it may coming out on the "Ann"), bring paper and ty of action for himself and others, which be that Doty and Leister were indentured linseed oil for your windows, with cotton sometimes got him into trouble, as he was to this trade. yarn for your lamps, deploring that the "fined in 1637 for permitting servants and The permissions of the early government company who came out in the Fortune others to sit in his house, drinking and seem to have been given with rcservau..: - '1621), depending wholly upon them, should playing shovelboard." for though they allowed our Pilgrim to have depleted their stock of corn so that Gov. Winsiow need never have written, build a house and cut hay for cattle at Mat- they would have little enough till harvest. so far as he was concerned, to George Mor- tachus (now Barnstable), he was not to Not forgetting every care for their com- ton for the "paper and linseed oil for win- stay there and risk his family for the win- fort, the standard of arms required, he re- dows;" he would content himself with "tal- ter. real minds them that the juice of lemons, which low dips," if there were enough of them, so His home was on the strip of land they should bring, is of good use if taken long as darkness was not made visible to reaching from Leyden to Middle stive:. fasting, and "for hot waters, aniseed water the prowling white and red men, who Plymouth, where, surrounded by the "fir>t is the best, but use it sparingly." scented mischief afar, and took, from force comers," he led his active, useful life. No one need be left out of the count when of habit, his house first on their heat. Try as I may, there is no evading the this was dispensed, even Oceanus could The "absence of glass or even paper win- fact that Stepht n Hopkins found «ome of find his place at 'seven bells! dows to his house, was not an indication of the restrictions upon which the Pilgrims Much history hinges on the statement of 'want or narrow means, so pride and inclina- set so much importance constant annoy- J Goodwin, in his "Plymouth Republic," that 1 tion joined forces iu his case. If, as is a ances to him. and his coming before th- Constance, daughter of Stephen Hopkins. * matter of history, they were a luxury in the court on a variety of occasions to ansr\ r trivial by his first wife, was over 13 years old lime of Henry VIII. and in Queen Eliza- some charges had such cause of re- sentment nothing when she arrived with her father on tlie' beth's reign were confined to the houses of — more. Mayflower, and Giles (Gyles) by the same the nobility, and by them considered as This plan of record progresses for him. and he is presented at court for "sollinc marriage, about 13, making Giles born 160o movable furniture, why should he, oue of beer for ijd. the quart not worth jd. or 6. and Constance probably l(iOS. the sovereign people, rebel that he was not a quart." This dignified This places John Hopkins of later birth, compelled by usage to have what he didn't error of appraiar- nicnt was witnessed by Keneitne Winslow. about 1613; after Stephen Hopkins's ship- want, and what might many times be his The story continues, wreck and return from Bermuda, natural. undoing? and two years later he was again before court for "selling ^ All of this fits well into the subsequent (liven permission, any opportunity for locking glass (the first record of a looking records. John, bereft of his mother, must pleasure would lose its value to our friend it alone" class in the colony) at 16d.. the like of be provided with a home, and as it is known Stephen: lie liked to "go at the which is bought at the Bay for 'Al.'* that he came from Coventry. England start; then '"call his neighbors in." at least He kept everything up to the highest mar- (American Ancestry, vol. 4. page 22S). such as would recognise him as a "good fel- ket quotations. No bargain days f«>r him. naturally some Hopkins kin took kindly low" and fall into the place he designed for The signer's li'e was too broad and active care of him. possibly cither John or Samuel them without discussion. for small feelings. What mattered his Hopkins, whose marriages I have given. OPINION'S. dwelling so lone as all wore alike, ami those It is very simple history, borne out by A note sent to me says Mr. Stephen Hop- early settlers were as happy in their log or dates, and "the sequence of events, to place a man without education, an ad- block houses, with a chimney ereote-t from Damaris, the oldest child of the second kins was 20 the center of the building through the roof, to marry and have what her heart desired, Mayflower, were mainly relatives, only as the oldest sons in the marble halls of a home of her own. waiting for the verdict of the pioneers to their progenitors. STEPHEN HOPKINS'S WIFE. make their start. The old houses, with their thatched The human consignment of the "Adven- The unknown wife of his early days had roofs, are. indeed, a thing of the past, but turers" were not those to the "manner long passed from his life, but the Pilgrim in the colonies so important did they deem born," and should not be east upon the the "preservation of this material for the was very appreciative of the one left for his "old comers," as of their ilk. preservation of their log houses from the comfort, though he survived her; the separa- HIS RESIDENCE. In Paige's early plan of (pages inclemency of the weather that every town tion was not for long, and his dying request Cambridge construct a house in which 15 and 10) John Hopkins draws among w as ordered to was to be laid beside her in the grave where grass for this pur- the first, being only "24" on the list, his to secure the long beach he had so lovingly placed her. The records pose." house situated on Spring or Mount Auburn . give his death as 1044, and hers between street. The whole desire of placing every- The "better class of these houses had their 1040 and 1044. protect them thing I could gather before the public was chinks filled up with mud to She had done well by him after her own winter." not foi assertion, but discussion; con- from the cold, chilly blasts of plan of action, their few and simple culin- having all victious which one must hold alone are of No doubt of Stephen Hopkins ary utensils, in keeping with their homes, with Doty and little value, and. fortunately, I have been the modern improvements, she used io the best advantage. Whatever pleasant relief spared this, but every Hopkins must have Leister as his assistants, a the situation, Mr. Stephen Hopkins was a the some legends oi records, and if the im- from their "duplicate whist" played in wiser and better man when he dined well: construction, pulse to bring them forward is not strong gloaming, on the table of hasty the early habit of two meals a day would friendly neigh- enough for action, they have the regrets easily dropped when the too hardly suffice for him, and Doty and Leis- conviviality, which will always remain with them. bors," who had no temptation to ter, being of the family, would never refuse Figures make strong testimony, are ac- came in unawares. the supper" told us of by writer "rear the cepted as facts. Thus John Hopkins, of of "Piers of Fulham," for fear of surfeit- THE STEPMOTHER'S JEALOUSY. Hartford, who, according to the possibility ing, in Plymouth colony! resulting from my search, was born in The very natural suggestion on the part of Hopkins "piped to dinner Elizabeth with 1013. becomes truthfully a "freeman," as and others of the jealousy of Eliza- great regularity," and no one answered the Savage told in the records of Massachuetts, vol. 1, exercise summons with more alacrity than her liege beth Hopkins, which led her to page 370, March 4. 1034. A proud hus- lord and master. Her experienced hand undue influence over Stephen Hopkins and band immediately after, and, to fill the told in the preparation, and Stephen cared make him leave her son Caleb as heir-ap- year with blessings, welcomed Stephen, for the accessories. sole son his heart parent, regardless of the rights of (riles, the of and home, the same HOPKINS, OF HARTFORD. year. first-born son. makes a claim for her leav- JOHN The supposition by many is. though I ing John, of Hartford, behind when start- John Hopkins, of Hartford, the man who cannot verify it by records, that he went to life. Very naturally, be- ing for their new honors Stephen, of the Mayflower, if his Hartford with Rev. Thomas Hooker's com- ing too young for any practical benefit, he son, was made freeman in 1034 (Records of pany. Location and time are in favor of might prove in the way—her lack of affec- Mass., vol. 1, page 370, confirmed as to this. There must have been some great tion would not be against her, as circum- vol. the attraction drawing him there, for his posi- stances seem in favor of his not having statement by C- R., 1, page 153), tion in Cambridge was of the best. under her care. same year his son Stephen, whose name been However, in Hartford, he became an or- would seem to corroborate the kinship be- THE CHILDREN. iginal proprietor, "townsman." if that were tween the two, was born. an additional honor. 1040. juror 1043. and Giles Hopkins, his child by his first wife, To make the above satisfactory and be- then surrounded by all that proves life at- October 9, 1639, born in England, married yond any present doubt, as it is in evidence tractive, died in 1054, making him, accord- Catherine, daughter of Gabriel Wheldon, of from all the authorities in our possession, in sr to his freemansbip and the date of birth Yarmouth and Barnstable, and died about I quote the records on which everything is I have supplied. 41 years of age. his com- founded, and leave to the public the accept- in history. 1090. parative youth being alwavs ing or refusing my own strong convictions. A man was only reouired to be of age to first home was with his parents at His In tracing the ancestry of Col. Archibald secure "freemansbip." but there was. of Mattachuse. Plymouth; he then removed to Hopkins, of Washington, through his course, a varying rate of aso after that. In 1042 he was the surveyor of Yarmouth, father, the great Mark Hopkins, of Will- Time of arrival and inclination (the cause and until 1002 a surveyor of Yarmouth and iams College, to John, of Hartford, "who for the latter I have already explained") had to Cain- to do claiming or accepting it. Xansett, or Eastham; 1055. one of the list came from Coventrv. England, much with bridge, Mass., in 1030," the above is stated of twenty-nine freemen of Eastham. HOPKINS. without demur in "American Ancestry," JANE Giles Hopkins had ten children, and as Vol. IV... pp. 227-228. and the book was His wife. Jane Hopkins, thus early a I that the first son was named history note published in 18S9. when this discussion was widow, found that traditional Pilgrim com- the second John! at least in a quiescent state. Stephen, forter in Nathaniel Ward, of Hartford, first wife's child, burn Then, in Paige's "History of Cambridge." Constance, also the afterward of Hadley. and so far as the step Nicholas p. 33, it is implied that John Hopkins's in England, married in 1027 Hon. she gave the Hopkins descent, had name first appears in the list of proprietors relations Snow, one of the founders of Eastham, who in 1033. while a little later on, it is stated no cause for regret. came over in the Ann. that "perhaps many of them were here Stephen, the first child and only son. mar- as signers, They give a double claim earlier than the dates would indicate." ried Dorcas Bronson. daughter of John descendant, Robert. Treat is ap- through their The next confirmation (which also Bronson. the emigrant ancestor of that fam- Paine. plicable as to the Windsor. Conn., records) ily, a man of military fame, having served Then come the children of the second by the author is to the effect that "some the Pequod war. wife: Damaris. born in England, married whose names are given under date of 1632 in only daughter, "born about in 1046 Jacob Cooke, son of Francis, of the were certainly in Cambridge in 1631, and Beothia. the Deacon MavHower, and died after 1000. leaving some entered in the lists under 1633 and 1035. married first Mar 21. 1052. Jacob with the privilege of marrying again, 1034 may have been residents one or two Samuel Stocking, of Middletown; second. which he availed himself of—after the years previously." JpmPS Steele, of Hartford." name con- fashion of the day. HIS MARRTAGE. I have hoped much from this Oceanus, the Mavflower gift, that came nection, have traced it among the early and further- place it in England Id them about October. 1020, died before John Hopkins married Jane— settlers and thought to Seeking 1027. without attaining the age when his more history saith not. but if he came over so directly as to be family proof. subject, he joined the special birthrights would tell in his favor. in 1030. as "Munsell" unhesitatingly as- a friend on this married search, and we make the earliest record in Deborah, born at Plymouth, 1622. serts, and only attained his majority which Ring, of Plymouth, who the Mildmnv family colla terallv. in 1040 Andrew entitled him to freemansbip in 1034. he that year, and being That period was such a field for "Eliza- was made freeman it is must have married in America, and form that it seemed possi- early an orphan was left by his mother to beth" in everv quite a natural surmise that his wooing ble to me anion"- the manv nicknames that I lie good Dr. Fuller's care. in- in "ye olden times," Caleb, of Plymouth, his father's may have detained him in Cambridge, Mlou-el everything Then and Bethia might result. The execntoi. who bore arms in 1643, and. true stead of seeking his father in Plymouth- Beth. Bertha lax spelling for centuries added or took io his familv instincts, followed the sea. or elsewhere. the slightest compunc Barhadoos. "probably unmarried." In a history which I have never been pway a tetter without dying at pn so not even the t' - Strange, that foi all his mother's successful able to find again, have „ . . be n sinTular confirmation et behalf, gaining for him pre- faintest actual authority for the state- Tics would efforts in his John Honkitis. of Hartford. cedence over his older brother, the descent ment after this marriage of John Hop- relationship if pencil Vnl this numose in naming the daughter of should really and only, unless John Hop- kins io lane— there wns written in fter his stepmother. And when one is accepted, come through "Strong." The wish may have been father Bethia a kins, of Hartford, Piltrrims at any- .. fleets on the horror of the Giles, the oldest son. to tin thought, still the possibilities tend r of Popery, the force of thus poor Elizabeth, who. still naturally that way. claiming as I feel thing savorincr Then Ruth, and John, of Hartford, action of Capt. borne out in saying by constant study ol naming Stephen, son of a child, in 1047 was, by rela- is verv powerful argument, for the Miles Standish and her brother Caleb, in- their personal connections, that fhose who a after the tion to Stephen, of the Mayflower, as St. trusted to Richard Sparrow, but did not live came over for twenty years 27 Stephen, would interdict such :iu net. except 1.810, from the text Matthew xxiii., 8. "And bers of which were Lords Say and S«-al, for the strong family desire of perpetuating all ye are brethren," lits prophetically into Lord Brook, Lord Rich and Sir Richard the father's and grandfather's name. t lie needs of to-day. Kaltonstatl and others of influence, political- JOHN THE MILLER. "The term brethren indicates equality and ly and socially." affection, and these must form the basis of Sail lor To properly bring in the various Hopkins our history, lie died without issue a perfect society. Let every man be at his in 1657, and this country, which would branches necessary for the perfect whole, post, never ashamed of the plain, rigging of iiave been his home but for bis domestic John Hopkins, of Waterbury, in called his- Ids good ship, but always hearing that voice afflictions, had to be content with the p tory "The Miller," sou of Stephen, of Hart- of duty, and of the voice of the Cod of our suits of the sum of money be left "for the ford, and grandson of John, the emigrant, is fathers, which will speak above the war of breeding up of hopeful youth*. Uitb at the a most important factor. every trumpet, and then if our ship must go grammar school and the college, for the down the will of be done, publn service of the I have a record before me from a Hopkins God colony in future "But then she will not go down, then the times." historian, who gives the wife of "John '.he hand which guided the Mayower will guide The bequest has caused much trouble in Miller." as Hannah Rogers. I feel that this her." the courts "on both sides of the ocean, but cannot he substantiated by either him or COV. EDWARD HOPKINS. now iu the hands of trustees the college re- myself, but as he had it from some one, ceives Hopkins, Governor of Connecti- part of the income from it." proof it Edward of may be given by those not before The position I have taken is of great mo- interested iu the search. cut and founder of the Hopkins Grammar ment if I am successful in establishing it, Still, John Hopkins, of Schools, of Haven and Hartford, was Waterbury, Conn., New but I am not alone in opinion. I know spoke for himself, "one of the most respectel born, according to the Memorial History President Mark Hopkins, of Williams Col- aud influential of early settlers of the Wa- of Hartford, at Shrewsbury, County Salop, lege, believed that a relationship existed, terbury," a man who acquired wealth for in England, 1000, son of Edward or Ed- though I have never heard what degree of the times, held every office, was even with mund Hopkins, aud Katherine, sister of Sir consanguinity he thought possible, and Dr. other duties of a large public and private Henry Lello, and came to this country, ar- Park, who wrote the preface to the life of nature, "tavern keeper," aud then by pro- riving in Boston June 20, 1637. the great theologian. Dr. Samuel Hopkins, motion, rose to the pinnacle of power, being Shrewsbury is not far from Coventry, of New|H»rt. says: "This Gov. "ordinary keeper," a position eagerly sought Edward Hop- and the places have a strong ecclesiastical kins, and Stephen, who came for and held by the great ones of the laud. in the May- connection; still, I wished it nearer, and flower, conjectured by some to be related, Miller John was also much of a soldier, in as was delighted to. find from Scavea's "Hart- also to John Hopkins, to a time when "military titles were iu high who came Cam- ford in the Olden Time" that he was born bride, etc." repute among the colonists. They were pre- near Shrewsbury in 1000. which lesseus the Additional supposition comes ferred .to civil or ecclesiastical honors. A from the distance and increases the connection with new "History of Waterbury:" corporal was on the road to distinction. His of the Hopkinses. Coventry, the home "The mill at Hartford, from its l>esin- office was occasionally, but not usually at- nothing The history of Shrewsbury gives ning, seems to have tached to his name. A sergeant had attained been held in the Hop- of importance in the Hue of my study, while kins distinction, his family. Gov. Edward Hopkins him- and title was never omitted. Coventry, in the same series of English self owning the mill, or an interest in it." An ensign, or lieutenant, was lifted quite works furnishes much of interest, and r Then vol. I., page . >7.1: "Stephen Hopkins, above the heads of his fellows." gives high place to those we are seeking. son of John I., who was the owner of a mill Our John, started with the claim to dis- "Edward Hopkins was brought up in in Hartford, accepted the proposal to build tinction, was ensign in 1715 and lieutenant London, iu handsome style." and in his man- the mill in Waterbury. built a mill, and in 1710 This pride of military position be- hood was a "Turkey merchant." sent his son John to run it. but did not come ing his, he was from that date called "Left This identifies him from boyhood with himself, or remove his family Hopkins." What he was himself was good, London, and Stephen Hopkins, of the May- hither-" This was in It 580, several years after th» he fulfilled the inherited claim that he flower, was called from the "London sec- death of Gov. Hopkins, and these facts should do well, and his descendants have tion." regarding business acted nobly their part in this solid family The future Governor of Connecticut came relations would seem to confirm their kinship. history. out in the same vessel with a very noted John the Miller, in 1729, when the new Hopkins cousin. Rev. John Davenport, and Thanks to Dr. Charles J. Hoadley. LL.D.. State meeting house came to be settled, was one as he was a preacher in London, before Librarian of Connecticut, my atten- tion called the of the revered dignitaries who were voted fleeing to Leyden, the strong, continuous was to commission "of John into the "first pew at the best end of the family weaving of interests had every op- Wiutlirop as first magistrate at Xanieeoek. pulpit." Succeeding generations have been portunity of increasing. now New London, dated October 27. \i'<4~. the "teachers of men," and from the pulpit All of this was carried along the lines, "It has on it the oldest known seal of Con itself have spoken to "those in authority." not only to those bearing this name, but the necticut." The commission was written aud signed by Edward Hopkins, doubly CELEBRATED DIVINES. various' members of families, with a strong valuable pull to the American colony, where ties of from the fact that very little of Gov. Hoj>- Who would not claim relationship with blood were awaiting them. kins's writing is in existeuce. It was given Rev. Samuel D., of Newport, to the library by Mr. Robert C. Winthrop. Hopkins, D. LIFE. EDWARD HOPKINS'S part of his family apera. R. I., the famous divine, from whom the p his integ- No high-minded person desire- to , Hopkinsian School of Theology received "He was exemplary for piety, priate to their family advancement a coat- rity and chanty. He did everything to its name, better known to some readers as of-arms not clearly and authentically their maintain peace and justice. He had to the hero of the "Minister's Wooing." Son of own. As regards this family there can be only in subdu- Timothy, of Waterbiy-y. grandson of John combat with many evils, not no doubt. The arms were granted to and the Miller, he tells the story of his life, when ing the wilderness, but with others, which first used by Sir Richard Hopkins, of Cov- writing to his cousin, Rev. Jonathan Judd, gave a wound to his spirit: an incurable entry, "and they may still he seen, carved of South Hampton, November 5, 1789, he dementia had seized his wife at the same in oak. in what is now a machine shop, hut says: ihat some centuries ago was known as time that he was subject to pulmonary the "We arp going into a world of light, Palace Yard, because there Sir Richard complaints. The latter he could have borne where it will be known what truth and what entertained so often the nobility aud royalty for what are the in- errors we have imbibed, and contended for with resignation, el' England." the body, compared with the in this dark world, and then all matters will firmities of There is a very pretty piece of history heart." be set right, to which I feel no reluctance, trials of the attached to the arms, and. having promised myself, said he. "too much hoping I sincerely love the truth, and that I dates at my command the story told content in this relation and enjoyment, and I am building on the sure foundation laid wi'i rarry conviction to every one who the Lord will make me to know that this iu Zion, whatever hay or stubble may be .-cads and "inwardly digests" the argu- world shall not afford it me." found with me. And as to those who are Gov. Hopkins married "Ann. daughter of professed friends of Christ, I desire not the David Yah>. of Denbigshire.'" and step- to judge any of them before the time." etc (Xote— Very naturally many opinions daughter of Gov. Eaton, who was a fellow- S. Hopkins. come to me from people interested iu these "Your kinsman and old friend. passenger on the ship that brought him HOPKINS, LL. D. papers, and one gentleman calls in ques- REV. MARK out. . , , „ tion presuming that the with the early settlers in all my church record bringing the name down to the mem- Though one Then of Stephen Hopkins and El'ia : Fisher's mar- respects identified fully with their interest-. greatest of all these riage in 11517. meant the Kliiahcth of after ory of the living, that Edward Hopkins never lost his connection history. It was written so early who have borne the name of Hopkins, treas- with the London of his previous life. He in times, and not to rely npoa myself wholly. I talk. ! ured by every student at Williams College placed his mark indelibly here, but returned associa- the matter over with Mrs. Alice Morse Ear!. , who had the pleasure of being under him, to England and resumed his large death of his brother. who is. no one will question, a very strong held inexpressibly dear in the hearts of all. tions at the time of the received the office of historian in regard to early colonial times- this Rev. Mark Hopkins. LL. D., as they Henry, 1654, who had from his uncle Sir Mrs. Earle confirmed my opinion, and said called him. who, when visiting his grave the Warden of the Fleet will constituted she not only could give me authorities. hut the college, October 8. 18jM. Henry Lello. and hv his centennial of came to then in added value Gov. 'Hopkins Warden of the Elect and that one her regard to thf "The Sainted Hopkins" gives of Saiem. Mass. Keeper of the Palace of Westminster. Cousins She al<-> fu lly to this inheritance. to this, he was agent in London agreed my suppositious in regard la An extract from a sermon delivered by "Added to colonizing company, the chief mem- "Beitha." A. A. II. him at Plymouth, Mass., December 22, for a 28 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. ments that have preceded in regard to the greaily enhanced by the knowledge that it necticut, and married Jemima Brunson, Hopkins family. would be available for my needs. who was born in Waterbury, in Connecti- It is assured to John of Hartford and his The arms are an azure chevron on a sable cut. My father died in Amenia, in the descendants, and I doubt not will be accept- county of Dutchess and State of New field, between three pistols, or as many red able, with an acknowledged kinship to all York. My mother died at BenningtOD, in holding a title clear to "Mr. Stephen Hop- roses.' Crest, a tower in flames. the State of Vermont, in the 84th year of kin?. i4th Signer of the Mayflower Com- The signature is a fitting accompaniment her age. They were many years and be- pact." and tells a long historical connection with fore my birth professors of religion." the past, the Bible record giving us Reu- Afterward in another handwriting is THE ARMS. ben Hopkins (son of Stephen Hopkins, "Reuben Hopkins, died at Edwardsville in Esq., and Jemima Brunson Hopkins) was the State of Illinois, in the year 1819." The arms given were taken from the fam- born in the town of Amenia, in Dutchess So this arms speaks to us, probably from of June, old style, the last century, and tradition says that ily Bible of Reuben Hopkins, now through County, on the 1st day and was married to Han- "John, the Miller of Waterbury," had pos- intermarriage in the possession of Campbell in the year 1748, nah Elliott, daughter of Col. Aaron Elliott session, by right of priinongeniture of coat- Steward, of Goshen, Orange County, New and Mary Elliott, by Rev. Eliphalet Hunt- armour. presented to Mr. Lewis York, and by him ingdon, November 23, 1773, etc. Found in the family Bible of a man who C. Hopkins, of New York, who has worked With the filial regard of the day, Reuben died in 1819, made personal, by his own with me and for me in this search, his has recorded in this Bible, "My father, Ste- old-time signature, carries ample conviction. pleasure in the possession of the arms phen Hopkins, was born in Hartford, Con- Still, evidence of its authenticity is not STEPHEN HOPKINS FOURTEENTH SIGNER. wanting in other branches of the Hopkins different localities, and myself have addcJ mercial importance. Wealth came to it family of close collateral descent. on conviction, the gift of composition. from its progresHioo. Royalty, Mr. Charles Hopkins kindly brought me secure in Another branch has a large claim, running the pageant of his or her reception. Bought his arms, which he had "from Timothy through John, of Hartford, then Stephen, it frequently, and the people who left there Hopkins, of California, by him taken from and Dorcas (Bronson) Hopkins, he born for homes in the new world, being in the (he Bible of his stepfather, the late Mark 1034, "John the Miller," their son. born in leading strings of heredity, no matter what Hopkins, the great financier of Great Bar- 1665, his son, Stephen Hopkins, born No- garb or sect they hid it under, citizens rington, Mass., and California." They are made vember 19, 1689, married Susanna, daugh- of note and power as a result. the counterpart of each other. Col. Archi- ter of John Peck, of Wallingford, 1717, died The guilds with them were very numerous bald Hopkins, of "Washington, D. C, con- 1709. Next their son, Joseph Hopkins, of —"The Merchants, Trinity, St. Katbcrine's. firms the arms, he having visited Coventry, Waterbury, born in the limits of the present the Sherman and Taylor's, Corpus Christi. where he saw the family tombs at St. Naugatuck, June 0, 1730, married Hepzibah, and many others; the chantries, almshouses Michaels, and the old house of Sir Richard daughter of Thomas Clark, November pensions and indemnities, Hopkins. 28, hospitals and 1754. schools show how great and important a CONVICTION. This Judge Joseph Hopkins is one of her place the city of Coventry was during the Increased strength is found in the im- sons that Waterbury is justly proud of. He middle ages." died possibility that Reuben Hopkins, who died in office in New Haven, Conn., March The power of these guilds cannot be over- 27, 1801. having lived through the stirring rated; their influence was widespreading, in 1819, could have secured his arms from times of the revolution, a patriot, as the so those bearing the names of Hopkins. Dav- the others. the descendants may annro- So country then demanded and made of men. enport, etc.. were not "strangers to be taken priate the arms without hesitation, and feel The records tell us that "Gen. Lafayette, in" by any one at whatever period of their quite secure that when "John Hopkins, of once during the war. perhaps more than own or the conntry's existence they reached - ' Hartford," started "in search of his father, once, passed through Waterbury. He also New England. They came stamped with the best he brought with him family proofs of his on one occasion stopped at the house of the mother country could give, and Joseph through succeeding times have left their Identity, at least locally. Hopkins, Esq., then the most prom- inent civilian in the place." impress on the seats of learning, the manu- Reuben may have been an unknown quan- factures and arts. Jesse, the son of Joseph, born May 20, tity to many branches, but to-day he makes One finds "in St Michael's (Coventry. his claim, and not an unworthy one—for by England) Church, on the north side of the birth and his own marriage to Hannah El- chancel, a finely-executed white marble liot (fifth in descent from "John Eliot, the monument with three busts, and the follow- Apostle"), who was born August 31, i746, ing inscription: and is placed on the records as "highly edu- cated," he gave in his turn much addition Near this place, lye the remains to the family inheritance of distinction. Of Richard Hopkins Esq. and of Mary his MILITARY CONNECTION. beloved Wife. To the pious memory of whom this monu- The military record of this branch of the ment is erected family is unequaled. Stephen Hopkins, of By the order of their only Son Edward Hartford (son of Ebenezer). then of Ha- Hopkins, With design winton, afterwards of "Nine Partners" to transmit to posterity the character of both. (Amenia, Dutchess County, New York.), Justly allowed to them, in the age they live had five sons officers in the Revolutionary in. army, two being killed by the Indians. Can Richard was a tender husband, an indulgent a country ask more of its citizens? father, a sincere friend It was a wonderful family, filled with A devout Protestant, and a true loval Patriot: piety, good works and patriotism." Of the latter he gave proofs, in the several My endeavor will be to place a few genea- Parliments " rogical lines, from various sections, that 1 In which for manv vears he represented this can authenticate, so that those of the same City. lineage will see where they belong in this Mary no less possessed of all the virtues of great history. her sex, she was charitable chaste and Mr. Lewis Cheesman Hopkins (starts pious; a dutiful wife and affection- until notice is given him of another genera- ate mother. tion), with John Hopkins, of Hartford, then He departed this life Feb 1. 1707, in the Stephen, his only son, who married Dorcas 6Sth vear of his age Bronson; next Ebenezer Hopkins, born in She Oct. 13, 1711, in the 63d year of her age. 1669, resided in Hartford, married Mary, daughter of Deacon Samuel Butler, of Weathersfield. Hezekiah P., their son, born This son Edward, who also represented November 21, 1702. in Hartford, afterwards Coventry in of Harwinton; married Sarah Davis, June, Parliament, died in 1736. The list of the of gives 1742. Hezekiah, the second, of Haminton, Mayors Coventry us: born in 1758, married Eunice Hubbell, June 1498— Hopkins, dyer. 12, 1783; their son, William Milton, born Wm. 1564—Wm. Hopkins, draper. August 1, 1789, married Almira Adkins, HANNAH HOPKIXS'S TOMBSTONK. 1609 Sampson Hopkins, draper- November 7, 1807. — 1040—S ampson Then Lewis C. Hopkins, who married Hopkins, merchant. "The family of Hopkins trace founder's Julia Maria Whetstone, and to their two Elizabeth, 1766, married. December, 1794, kin to St. John's College. Oxford. The living sons, gives the inherited family pa- Hart- daughter of Nathaniel Goodwin, of name was originally written Hopkyns. It triotism, himself a son of the American ford. was so spelt by John Hopkyns. who filial Revolution, a member of the "Founders This takes us into Jefferson County. N. and Patriots' Society," while the grand- a civic office in the Citv of Coventry in Y., where, in 1813, Jesse Hopkins was ap- 1507." children, following in his footsteps, are pointed County Judge by De Witt Clinton, learning From the History of Waterbury. V '. duty to their country and flag, with and from this line comes Goodwin Brown, page 60S: the "Children's Society of 1776." of Albany, and Charles Hopkins, of Brook- From this branch comes Major Robert lyn, as well as Katherine Hopkins, the third "Perhaps the stone that will interest the Emmet Hopkins, with a fitting military principal of Mount Holyoke Female Sem- greatest number of readers of this History the record from the civil war. Captain in inary, whose bright career closed too early is that of Hannah Hopkins, wife of John 149th Regiment of New York Infantry, for the good of the college, but the worthy the miller, and fore-mother of a Ions line of taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, Va., con- distinguished memory is still fresh in the hearts of many men. fined in Libby Prison until exchanged, when of the living. Born in Rutland. Jefferson "Her descendants to-day are many, and par- he rejoined his command. Then, after County, N. Y., August 22, 1S35. Heaven it is a matter of tvsrrot that her maiden ticipating Junc- 1730" in the battles of Wahatchie claimed her March 10. 1S65, before she had name is unknown. She died Mav 3, Ridge, tion, Lookout Mountain, Missionary reached her thirtieth year. This tale is told. Hannah Hopkins dead, and Ringgold, resigned account of ill still lives on I have given John Hopkins' linos only in with many to rise np and call her health, July 3, 1864. this paper to prevent confusion, though blessed. Though none is her descent stro:>g- FAMILY GIFTS. there are many in various parts of this country, who, having this descent, have Note.—Amoug those from the Waterbury. Knowing the tradition that all the Hop- never doubted the Mayflower at the other Conn., section are Richard Bnrton. Hart- kins family had as a birthright, the gifts of end, the question not having come up for ford. Conn.: C*pt Milton Haxtun. I*. S. N music, and art, I took pains to search for consideration. Dr. George (I. Hopkins, Col. Woolsey R. the truth of this report, and found at every Coventry, the home of the Hopkins fam- Hopkins. Prof. G. L. Raymond, of Prince- step corroboration from many branches, and ily, was always a place of the greatest eoni- ton 1'niversity. SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. Copp's Hill Inscriptions: er than her son Timothy, of Waterbury, In memory of Mrs. Sally Hopkins This stone is erected in memory of father of Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D. D. wife of Capt Caleb Hopkins Jun'r Mr. Samuel Hopkins who died Octobr 19th In memory of and daughter of the late Samuel Hopkins D. D. 1791 Benjamin Payne, Esq. in the 39th year of his age. Pastor of the died who December 23d Here lies the body of First Congregational Church A. D. 179G in Newport Betsy Hopkins in the 29th year Dau'tr of Michael and Joanna Hopkins who departed this life of her age. Dec 20th A. D. 1803 died August 29 in the 83d year of his age 1783 Whose faithful attention to the duties aged 15 months and 17 days. of his pastoral office and In in Memory of of Whose valuable writings Mrs. Rebecca Hopkins In memory of Will recommend his character Wife of Enoch Hopkins When this monument Mr. Asa Hopkins who departed this life Dec. 27, 1778 Erected by his bereaved flock and daughter of the late a. 55 years. Shall, with the precious dust it covers Benjamin Payne Esqr "Tell them tho' 'tis an awful thing to die, Cease to be distinguished. who died Sept. 17th 'Twas e'en to thee; yet the path once trod, 1791 Heaven lifts it's everlasting portals high in the Cen- Copied from old tombstones Aged 29 years. And bids the pure in heart, behold their tre Church in Hartford by Dr. Charles J. God." Hoadley, State Librarian of Connecticut, to lecure preservation: Here lies ye body of Samuel Hopkins son to Here lieth the Mr Enoch and Mary Hopkins who died Body: Hopkins Sept. 23d 1767 Gorton: who died March: 27 aged 1 year and 8 months. 1725: about: 20 From old cemetery. Chatham, Mass.: Years: &: 11: months Mrs Lydia Hopkins of: age: Born: at wife of Barzilla Hopkins Warwick: in Rod Died, Jan. 5th, 1773 Island: Cols. In her 35th year. The Grave Mr Elisha Hopkins of Lemuel Hopkins M. D Died Feb. 1, 1741-2 who died 14ih April 1801 Aged 53 years, 1 mo., 5 days. Aged 50 years. Here lies the body of (Note.—Rev. M. E. Dwight, of Plain- field, N. J., has sent me the following TIMOTHY HOPKINS, Esq., rec- Also ord: "Your statement that the name of of his eldest daughter Stephen was often Who died February ye not given by the early Rebecca the wife 5tS Puritans of New England, probably on ac- of Jo.m McCrackan count of its association with St. Stephen, A. Dom. \ 743, who died 14th November 1S03 has led me to consult Savage on this point. Aged 21 years- In 500 pages of Savage, taken from Agfei 57 years. each one of the four volumes. I have found only ninety of this name. Fifteen of these were when this you see emigrants of whose ancestry nothing is In memory of recorded, and so may be discarded. There Doct'r Asa Hopkins then think of me. remain, then, seventy-five by the name of v ho died Dec. 4th 1805 Stephen, of whose ancestry something is aged 48 years. known, although in most instances the in- formation is meager. Of these, however, no less than thirty-nine, or more than half, Also of have ancestors of that name, or in a few- Edward cases uncles, by the name of Stephen. This Son of seems to bear you out in your position that Asa and Abigail Hopkins the early Puritans of New England did have who died a prejudice against the name of Stephen, April 18th, 1799 and that when thoy gave it they did so as a aged 13 months. namesake.) <$> The above from the old graveyard in Orient, Suffolk County, L. I., New York, and though Stephen Hopkins's descendants have the Coventry names. U . STEPHEN HOPKINS, FOURTEENTH SIGNER. zr The position of the descendants of John -BethkuAtkins. Iu 1GG5 he was allowed two an interesting study, I can only bone that Hopkins, of Hartford, needs no indorse- —kegs of powder and a grant of land on my convictions may be authentically veri- ment from the dead or living. They are Sampson's Neck, (Eastham). Removed from fied, and the descendants of father and son well placed at every turn, and make good Eastham to what is now Brewster in 1702, have the right they desire of joining the all that can said be of them. Mr. Stephen on land his father gave him. lie died Oc- Society of Mayflower Descendants. Hopkins, of the Mayflower, too, records tober 10, 171S, leaving issue by first wife his claim, and gives us in the present day only. mom i--. the highest State Executive in the length Elizabeth, bora 1GC8. and breadth of the land. _Stephen (4), born 1G70, married Sarah Through the courtesy of Miss Louise The chart explains itself, - but does not Howes, died April 9, 1732*. Winthrop Koues, the student of personal tell all, for the Morton line also leads back .Tudah J. (4), bora January, 1072. history, a professional worker, I have the to the early colonies, to the George Morton Ruth (4), born 1G74. pleasure of giving the following record*, who came out in the Ann, and so established Nathaniel (4), born 1G80. which while only suggestions are certainly himself and descendants as to make it Samuel (4), born 1082. very convincing: a line eagerly sought for. Joseph (4), bora 1088, married Mary "The name of Robert Love occurs with Mayo. that of Roger Mompesson in partial list of Hon. Stephen (1) and Elizabeth Hopkins Benjamin (4), born 1G89, married Rachel 'Justices of the Quorum.' Lincoln. "Edward Love married Elizabeth, daugh- Mary ter Deborah Hopkins (0= Andrew "King (4), born 1092, married Jonathan of Moody, of Garsden. Maker. "Edward Love, Jr., of Aynho, married ' Stephen Hopkins (4) (son of Stephen 3). Mary, daughter to Harecourt." Mary King (3)_iiJohn Morton - bora at Eastham, in the part now called Elder William Brewster, who had much -Brewster (records in the present town of to do with this Dudley circle, which em- -Harwich). He was of the third school di- braced the Mompessons and others of great I Captain Ebenezer Morton (t)—Mercy Foster vision, 1725. with his brothers, Nathaniel 1 distinction, as Miss Kones has shown m<\ I -and Joseph. He married, 1092. Sarah Howe. had a son "Edward," also a sod "Love." i -They had the sixteenth pew in the church. ergo, Elder William Brewster may have Ebenezer Morton (5)=Mrs. Sarah Cobb -He soon turned it over to Lieut. Freeman. married Mary, daughter of Edward and I -His wife was taken as a member of the Moody Love, and then the naming of - new church about 1700. He died April 9, these sons was a matter of course. Dailey Levy Morton (6)=Hannah - 1733. Their children were: There is also a "Gyles Love." and in the Jonathan (5), bora 1693, died 1717. Mompesson family, kin of the Loves, "Con- Thankful (5), born April, 1700. stanta." Rev. Daniel O. Morton (T)sLncretia Parsons Elkanab (5), bora August 12, 1703, died The argument came to me quickly that 1720. here was another possibility. These" name* I 1 June, are also in the family of Stephen Hopkins 1 Thomas (5), bora 1705. Governor Levi Parson ; Morton by his first — Ebenezer (5). bora January, 170G, mar- wife, too peculiar for accident. Many letters have come to me since the _ried Rebecca Crosby. 1732. May not Brewster and Hopkins have joined the Virginia publishing of this article on Stephen Hop- Mary (5), bora 1708. company together, because of kinship by kins, and even with my own convictions on Phebe (5). born July 11, 1711. marriage, his first wife and the Loves related. the subject of this relationship, I have been Hannah (5), bora November 4, 1714. Coventry opens a field, for there surprised to find how frequently the lines «r Ebenezer Hopkins (5), (son of Stephen 4). were both are carried directly from the Mayflower to -born 1705. married Rebecca Crosby, Octo- Dudleys and Hopkinses in this place, giving them the descendants of John, of Hartford, and ber 12. 1732, and recorded on the town rec- as people of the highest position am- the writers have no question but that their "ords of Harwich, Mass., are the following: ple opportunity of intercourse, and the Dud- statements are well authenticated. Issue of Ebenezer and Rebecca (Crosby) leys, Mompessons and Loves being authen- I have given before what I feel to be Hopkins: ticated relatives, the hope is plausible in every strong historical evidence in the repetition Mary (G), born March 20, 1732. connection. of the same names in both branches, and Eunice, born October 18. 1734. To Mrs. Katherine Searle McCartney, even at the risk of the tedious "twice told Phebe, born April 12. 1737. also a historian and professional genealogist, I owe the following record: tale," I would like to revert to the peculiar . Stephen, born May 1, 1739. ) „ (j0nl - It has some discrepancies, naming of the children of Gyles Hopkins, Abijah, born May 1, 1739. \ but they may oldest son of Stephen, of the Mayflower, the No more births occur of this line, bni serve as a clue. first called Stephen for his grandfather, the upon the church records of the "North par- In 1S89 Stannard Warne. of Eng'.and. second John, as I call atention to, for his ish," now in the custody of the orthodox compiled, in the way of notes taken, a brother, John, of Hartford, another child, minister of Brewster, Mass., is this entry: synopsis of the Searle family, for Mr. Beads of Hopkins fame, and she brought it to nie. Caleb. This John names his son Stephen, -—."Betsy Hopkins, daughter of Ebenezer his daughter Bethia, and then Stephen inland Rebecca Hopkins, presented for bap- "Chronological Index of Memoranda." book 22, Searles: turn, calls his son Samuel. From a May- _ tism, November G. 1757.'*. £ kt^vib c/ImJ d^Vc Page 57; date, 1020: Christian name. flower descendant on Long Island, comes a — Also two more were "J presejited, whose Richard: address. Plymouth: description record which proves "Samuel's" place in - names do not "occur in the birth records of , of both branches any Cape Cod towns. W >u/lJf-Jil^LjUP memoranda, in Mayflower. New Kngland. Giles Hopkins had a son, William Hop- (It seems hardly possible their parents Page 59; date. 1G20: Christian name. kins, who lived and died on Shelter Island, were the above Ebenezer and Rebecca.) Ambrose: address Plymouth: description of L. I., in the year of 1718. His son. Samuel Caleb, son of Giles, son of Stephen (I), memoranda, daughter Margaret mar: - Hopkins, died at Miller's Place in 1788. His horn 1G50, died 172S. leaving issue Caleb. Warren. son, Samuel Hopkins, of Miller's Place, died Nathaniel, Thomas, Thankful. My own article on Warren shows by the in 1807. His son. Samuel Hopkins, of Mil- Joshua, son of Giles, son of Stephen (I), chart that he was not the Richard Warr ler's Place, died in 1S0G. leaving a son, also horn 1G57: married Mary, daughter Dan who married Elizabeth .Touatt. or Ivatt. Samuel (J) bora in 1830, to whom I am in- Cole. Children: John, born 10S3, died 1700; widow of Marsh. The above is debted for this genealogical record. Abigail, born 1686; Elisha, born 108S; worth following up. This fills a blank in the lineage sent Lvdia. born H>92: Mary, born 1094; Joshua, In regard to John Howland. I am told the me from Cape Cod, and as it is of great born 1097; Hannah, born 1700; Phebe, Mayflower Society has abandoned the claim- value to descendants of this branch, I write born 1702. ing of Bridget Van Der Velde as wife of our it in full. It is sufficient, the history having William, son of Giles, son of Stephen, the Pilgrim John Til ley, finding two Johu Til- been given, to repeat that. Giles (2), son of% paoer says, "I have found no record of." leys. - Stephen, (1) married October 9, 1G39, Kath- (This, however, is the ascendant of Mr. This opens the field again for the Qui - erine, daughter of Gabriel Wheldon, he died Samuel Hopkins, of Millar's Place, Long ami I can only hope that some of these tine - about 1G90. Island, so he is easily put in line.) From historians and searchers will start with new Their children were: Mary, born Novem- Stephen of the Mayflower descends Mr. zoul to prove authentically this ascent, that like \> ber, 1G40; Ste phen (3), born September. Thomas S. Hopkins, of Washington: Rev. those of the descent may. Noah's de- 1042, married[Mary'Merrick; John (3), born Daniel Requa Foster, of Trenton; Gov. Levi find the resting place they desire aud serve. 1017?, (died an infant): Abigail (3), born P. Morton. Mr. Charles II. Hopkins, of Cali- Hopkins, of Providence: So much has been accomplished in a very 1G44; Deborah (3), born 1045; Caleb (3), fornia; Mr. C. W. Philip short past that « II l This tombstone, taken from the graveyard at Harwinton, Conn., may be of his- torical use, and certainly will give some idea of records of that period: <&<5> body of Mrs. LIEUT. NATHAN <&<8> Perhaps parents of the Sarah Davis who married Hezekiah P. Hopkins, son of Ebenezer and Mary Butler Hopkins—as told in the record. _ Those who have been constituents of the genealogical and historical department of The Mail and Express from its start, Saturday, September 22, 1894, can see its workings and the outgrowth in the historical articles, part of which are now represented in this pamphlet on the "History of the Signers of the Mayflower Compact." The Signers in their order, and perhaps with the addition of some of the early arrivals who were kept back by lack of room on the Mayflower, will appear in the great Saturady issues of The Mail and Express. The second part of the pamphlet, while individual to these people, will contain any new history as addenda that comes to the editor. Two heraldists have criticised the Arms of the Hopkins family, differing materially in opinion as to Gen. Reuben Hopkins's possession of the one in the Hopkins article (the same, however, has been for years in good company; owned by President Mark Hopkins, of Williams College, and Mark Hopkins, the financier of California). There will be opportunity for discussing all of this in the second part of the pamphlet, and the editor desires any information that throws light on the dark places. It is the purpose of the department to arouse such a lively interest that readers will volunteer their hidden treasures in the way of records or family Bibles. The department is open to every one; the rules are few and plain, only such as protect the personality of the writers and make intercourse with it desirable. The wishes of contributors will be respected, and criticism that improves the department is always welcome. END OF PART 1. si PART II. Signers of the Mayflower Compact JOHN TILLEY, Sixteenth Signer. John Tilley, for some cause unknown, does the first mortality except Henry Samson haunt me on every side as an obstacle to be not strike the same responsive chord as John and Elizabeth Tilley, the former of whom overcome. Howland, and though he would make still married Ann Plummer, and had nine chil- The leaf may be turned down. another ancestor on the Mayflower, the line dren; the latter John Howland, and had JOHN TILLEY'S DEATH. does not generally begin with him. ten." "John Tilley took the original of his True, his young daughter married John Mourt's "Relation," page 44, says: "John death," on the expedition of the "ten prin- Howland, but he was not there to accord Tilley—I find in the Leyden MS. records: cipal men;" his work in the colonies was consent or watch over the welfare of the "This February, 1615, John Telley, silk daily, hourly, until the seal of eternal rest Elizabeth so dear to her father's heart. worker, of Leyden, married Bridget Van der was placed upon him, and if granted knowl- A record sent me claims he left a son, but be the hint of the man's Velde,' which may edge in his closing hours, died happy in I have never been fortunate enough to prove Bradford does occupation and affiliation. the consciousness that his young daughter this. name." not give his wife's Christian had a natural home with her grandfather. The very mention Tilley of Elizabeth HARTFORD BIBLE. Gov. Carver. Howland's name arouses the traditional Again the old Hartford Bible comes to Bradford was only eighteen when he left spirit of her descendants to call out with rescue, which gives John Howland's England, too young to be interested in much one voice, loud enough to penetrate the mys- my marriage to "John Tilley's daughter. Eliza- of the personal history of those he prob- tery which seems to prevent the establish- beth, granddaughter of Gov. Carver!" ably was surrounded by, even if he knew ment of the records of generations—from As the Howland marriage took place, ac- "John Carver, sonne of James Carver, Lin- which they have never swerved one iota, cording to the official account of the "So- colnshire, Yeoman." He was fully occu- even in the face of the assertion that Brad- ciety of the Mayflower Descendants," in pied with his own troubles, repeated im- ford makes that Gov. Carver left no de- 1621, and the Pilgrims started for Holland prisonments, which were part of his history scendants—and claim their own. in 1609, John Tilley's marriage to Gov. incidental to joining the Pilgrims in Hol- For my part, there has never been a Carver's daughter must have occurred be- land. wavering thought; I believe the old Hart- fore they left England, else Elizabeth Til- Graver matters filled his mind than the ford Bible tells the tale, and my sorrow at ley. the child, would not have been 12 years parentage of John Tilley's daughter. She not being able to carry the entire weight of of age in 1621, if she were born after their was in good hands, why heed things that conviction, when I wrote of Carver and arrival in the Low Countries. in no way concerned him—the mother prob- Howland, was rendered doubly great, as I Then "Carver and Fuller joined the Pil- ably not in evidence. found in my notebook, but, sad to say, with- grims in Leyden," which lessens the time. John Tilley's spirit of adventure has fal- out any authority attached, that John Tilley NOT TWO JOHN T1LLEYS. len upon one. at least, of his descendants, married, in 1615, Bridget Van der Velde! and while the Pilgrim suecumbed to the This entirely explodes the assumption All search for the lost connection was privations more than he could endure. Gen. that there were two John Tilleys, one who without avail, and I began to feel that I A. W. Greely, the Arctic explorer, watched America with the colonists, aud must yield to the pressure of circumstances came to over by the God of his Pilgrim forefathers, who married Bridget Van der too strong for me. another even when the portals of heaven seemed Velde. SUCCESS. wide open for his entrance, was saved by Bradford wrote only after his arrival in the naval relief expedition to do food to Reluctantly I made what was to be my New England, and the "Relation." edited last effort, is before the country, which is his on a claim of more and the reward me. by his brother-in-law. George Morton, who history, than two centuries. There are tides in the affairs of was left behind, by the unseaworthiness of His descent will be very important from as in all vital matters, and by some mag- the Speedwell, was sent out to him, history the variety of names and many locations netic association, within the last few weeks, telling that the vessel was seized by the which after all are sectional. many claims to Mayflower descent have pirates, to secure the cargo of furs, etc., I. John Tilley's first wife. Elizabeth come to me, starting from John Tilley. I forwarded by the Pilgrims to the Merchant (Carver?); second, Bridget Van dor Velde. accept it as an omen, and put forth the au- Adventurers, as an installment in payment died 1621. thentic history, which may give to powerful, of their bond. Tilley. born 1607. died De- widespread, historical tradition the value The manuscript being utterly worthless II. Elizabeth cember 21, 1687. married August 14. 1623 I feel it deserves. to the pirates, with a little sympathy per- Howland. Mourt, in his "Relation of Plymouth," p. haps with the situation, ultimately reached (T), John III. Hope Howland married before 1640 14, note 41, tells that "Edward Tilley came its destination. born 1615. died July 16S4 with his wife Ann, and two children that So the John Tilley who married, as Brad- John Chipman. V IV. Hope Chipman. born August 13, were their cousens, Henry Samson and Hu- ford put it, Van der Velde, was our Pil- 172$. married »D John mility Cooper." grim, and she was not the mother of our 1652. died July. 1649-167S: she married March "He was probably also elder brother of Elizabeth Tilley Howland! Huckens R, 16S3. Jonathan Cobb tson of Henry Cobb, John, who brought over his wife and daugh- For my own part I am satisfied, and 1. Plymouth. 1629), born April 10, 1600, ter Elizabeth. All of both, families died in Bridget Van der Velde will no longer of 2 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 1 died at Middlesborough, Mass., October 8, Bartlett, N. H., married August 12, 1812, Isaac McCurdy and Mary Warner, of Al- 1727. at Baltimore, Md., Eleanor Neale (daughter bany, married April 28, 1821. V. Samuel Cobb, born February 23 (bap- of John Neale and Mary Lona), born Aug- Mary Warner, daughter of William Smith tized April 6), 1684, died October, 1767, ust 16, 1793, at Baltimore, died August 22, Warner, and Mary Wood, of Albany, mar- married about 1708 Abigail Stewart, born 1882, at Webster, Mass. ried 1798. 1686, died September, 1766, "aged 80." X. Frances Dunn Cobb, born April 20, Mary Wood, daughter of James Wood, of VI. Chipman Cobb, born March 5, 1708-9, 1819, in Limerich, Mass. (now Maine), yet Albany, and Lydia Swain, of Nantucket, died after October, 1775, at or near Fal- living in 1897, married (2) October 30, 1842, married 1780. mouth, now Portland, Me., married in 1731 at Newburyport, Mass., by Rev. Darius Lydia Swain, daughter of William Swain, Elizabeth Ingersoll (daughter of Elisha In- Forbes, John Balch Greely (son of Stephen Nantucket, and Lydia Gorham, of Barnsta- gersoll and Mary), born July 12, Greely and Betsy Balch), born July, 1802, ble, married February 14, 1750. 1705, died before 1765. at Newburyport, Mass., died October, 1864, Lydia Gorham, of Barnstable, daughter VII. Andrew Cobb, born March 27, 1734, at Newburyport, Mass. of Stephen Gorham, of Barnstable, and at Falmouth, Maine, married 1754, Hannah XI. Adolphus Washington Greely, born Elizabeth Gardner, of Nantucket, married Green (daughter of Daniel Green); Andrew March 27, 1844, yet living, 1897, married December 25, 1703, Stephen Gorham. Cobb, married (2) April 21, 1804, Hannah, June 20, 1878, at San Diego, Cal., by Rev. Stephen Gorham, son of John Gorham, of widow of Moses Fowler. Mr. Camp, Henrietta Cruger Hudson Ne- Barnstable, and Mary Otis, of Hingham, VIII. Andrew Cobb, born February 7, smith (daughter Thomas L. Nesmith and married February 24, 1674. 1764, at Gorham, Maine, died February 22, Maria Antoinette Gale. John Gorham (2), son of Capt. John Gor- 1822, married (1) December, 1782, Betsy Another line from John Tilley is in en- ham, of Plymouth, married Desire How- Irish (daughter of Joseph Irish and Hannah tirely different families, and makes many land, of Plymouth, 1643, daughter of John Doane), born about 1764, died after 1S00. connections with the Nantucket early set- Howland. Andrew Cobb, married (2) December 10, tlers: John Howland, of Plymouth, married in 1808, Mary Cobb (widow of Ebenezer Starting with Mrs. James L. Morgan, 1621, Elizabeth, daughter of John Tilley, of Bangs), daughter of Jedediah Cobb and Re- Jr. (Alice M. Hill Morgan). the Mayflower. liance Paine. John J. Hill, who married in Albany, John Tilley married (1) Elizabeth, daugh- IX. Samuel Cobb, born March 11, 1785, N. Y., September 3, 1840, Mary Elizabeth ter of Gov. Carver (?) (2) Bridget Vander- at Gorham, Maine, died December, 1854, at McCurdy, born July 21, 1822, daughter of velde. FIFTEENTH SIGNER. vs />< />- Edward Tilley. DIED FIRST WINTER. Ann Tilley His Wife. DIED FIRST WINTER. 3 FRANCIS COOK, Seventeenth Signer. "With all the sentiment and history at- offices surrounding royalty, and, far pride as saving their country's honor in the tached to Scrooby, the home of the Sepa- stranger, from the kitchen and linen closet civil war. ratists, it was largely dependent upon the of the thrifty housewife to personal attend- The large house of Pastor Robinson, in surrounding villages for its congregation ance upon queen and princess. Leyden, used also as a place of worship, and connection with the world. A person can be no better than the times under the restrictions of the Dutch Govern- The post led directly, according to its in which he or she lives. ment, which required "new and unusual route, to Edinburgh, and the side issues There is always a doubt to contend with sects to worship in private houses, which were by special arrangement with those in when placing Francis Cooke as to the time were as large as churches," was the BOBM charge. No sudden intercourse sprang up of his espousing the doctrines of the Separat- of Francis Cooke, and as one of the little from propinquity. There were deep-laid ists, but he was in the list of those desig- congregation gathered there, came Hester plans for their interchange of intention, and nated as "exiles from Scrooby," joining the Walloon, later to be his wife, and after while passengers along the road carried Brewster and Bradford in worship there, they were of those who kept house in the knowledge of what they were effecting, they going with them to Leyden, and so on to twenty-one houses erected in "the large were dealing with the positive. their haven of rest on Cape Cod. garden," which ran back 125 feet, though "The first body of worshipers, to the num- Scrooby had once been the hunting seat of the width not being given, the size is left ber of one hundred or more, in 1567, occu- the Archbishop of York. The palace it wholly to imagination. pied a hall in London, in Anchor lane, be- contained was a rather pretentious struc- Francis Cooke, known at Cape Cod as a longing to the company of the plumbers, ture "built of timber with front of brick, carpenter, seems to have had no part in the and held service according to their own approached by a broad flight of stone steps, building of these Leyden houses. In all I methods." had two court yards, and was defended by can find they are attributed wholly to "Wm. Jessop, built small So London makes the first claim, an easy a moat." who the houses in Bell lane, adjoining headquarters from which to disseminate Religion being at all times a controlling Pastor Robinson." Hester, their form of doctrine and worship. power to the fact that under Protestantism Why the wife of Francis Cooke, is not further recorded time tell. Gainsborough, in the north, offered a it was not needed as a hunting seat, and the may She is always in evidence, yet is only known as valuable field of action, or rather quiet well-disposed inclinations of Archbishops a Walloon from the southern province of waiting, being in more direct communica- Grindal and Sandys, history owes that this Belgium. People with a sad tale to unfold tion with Holland by water, a place now property was put in the charge of the of their persecutions, loss of country, sep- spoiled by the modern iron works, and de- "senior Brewster as a man of official char- aration from kindred, all of which wore scribed by George Eliot, in "The Mill on acter." upon their spirits and strength. Thousands the Floss," under the name of St. Oggs. There is a natural indication that the an- flocked to Holland, and there the text was From this section came the Cookes, who cestors of the Cookes were Ronianists. So the same for all, only a difference of lan- give fine record in England, tangible and it follows from all form to no form would guage and sectional interests to divide them. acceptable. be the leading, and the change finds Francis The value of this contingent can never be Rev. Mr. Baines, in his "History of the Cooke making choice on conviction of the doubted. They brought their references with Parish of Blyth," York, England, gives two simplest mode of worship, the personal com- them and proved them authentic. families of this name, and fortunately the munication between his Maker and himself, Their expert knowledge of the industrial one he records as knowing nothing about is needing no intermediary to plead his cause. arts, quick conceptions and ability to turn of no importance to us, but Francis Cooke, The parish records of Blyth attest to their their hands to anything that presented itself, the Mayflower Pilgrim, is announced as from manorial rights; also to the ownership of willingness to economize and spend them- Blyth, a parish adjoining Austerfield, which the convent of Blyth as early as 1540. They selves in any direction that was for the and furnish at the same time dates of the mar- means Scrooby. Brewster, Bradford general good, naturally made them wel- riages, births and deaths the Cookes for Robinson, the strong components of the of come. after history, all are searching for. many generations. Each country gave them a different name: The living man may elude us, but the re- Francis Cooke was born in 1577, and, fol- they denominated themselves Gaulois, the ceptacle for the dead—the place where the. lowing the unerring hand of Providence, fled Dutch placed them as Wallecke. and the silent man returns to kindred on being to Holland, with Pastor Robinson, and, for English, from their locating on the River placed in mother earth, carries conviction— some cause of affinity or favoritism, be- Wall, in Holland, called them Walloons. so the record gives us: came an inmate of his family—his personal Their language is a dialect different from "Here lyeth body of Edward Cooke (in charge. the French and German, as well as the St. Michael's Church Belfrays), allied, and The social position of the Pilgrims has al- Flemish, and is said to resemble the old long tyme brought up at the feet of that ways been a matter of controversy. I bring French of the thirteenth century. famous and worthy learned man of his our Pilgrim from a manor house, and can- The fact that these are the people who- tyme, Sir Edward Coke (Cooke) Knight not comprehend in these days, when the applied to Carleton for permission to emi- Lord Chief Justice of England, and of his "knowledge of good and evil" seems used grate to Virginia, a request denied them Majesties most honorable privy counsell." to break down the statements and tradi- from their determination to govern them- This relation is claimed by the descend- tions associated with the past, in which selves without any dictation by the com- ants of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, the modern majority have no part, how they pany, and their subsequent attainment of and the same church gives another testi- can dispose of the claims of these early their object though the management of mony of one who from similarity of names, times, and believe that Archbishop Laud wise Jesse de Forest, shows the close con- and appropriateness of time, might be our and the throne of England would have per- nection with New Amsterdam, proves their emigrant's father. sistently followed up with their persecutions community of interests. "Here lyeth Francis Cooke, late of cittye a body of unknown, unfeared men, devoid of Hester was not one to meet trouble with of Yorke gentleman, one of the attorneys of position and power, only what in England trouble. Going to Leyden was a neoessity. the common pleas at Westminister, who de- would have placed them without the pale of That the "wind had been tempered" to her parted this lyfe to the memory of God, the consideration, members of the "lower well being was a source of gratitude. The 2Gth day of May, anno Dom 1583." class." shadows that started with her life in Hol- This is not inconsistent with the state- Their descendants have grown with the land were all dissipated by the great good ment that the father and grandfather of times; they are the best of to-day, as their that came to her, and while the prosperity Francis Cooke were silk mercers. ancestors, the rilgrims and early colonist*, of the change was not too much for her to for a Always the guilds to interpret these con- were of theirs. Through this inheritance grasp, it certainly opened her new and nections, and prevent the detractions sup- they have recorded themselves at the ballot broadur sphere of notion, gave a homo whore supremo. posed to result from labor in foreign coun- box, upholding the dignity of the Batten, she reigned the Filgrim Separatists reached Hol- tries, though why, with the light of history proving their right to citizenship, backed by As land in 1<<0!\ and Francis Cooke's wife was before us, I cannot understand. the Society of Mayflower Descendants. Sons of the Walloon contingent worshipini: in Among the old German nobility there was of the Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolu- Pastor Robinson's house, it is a natural but a step from the counting room to the tion, of the War of 1S12, and the living 4 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. supposition that they were married about one must be "up and doing, with a heart during the hours of labor was inevitable, ten years before seeking their new home. for any fate," but those who could not must but the familiarity of close residence could No one can imagine Hester a figurehead bear loneliness and separation. Athletes be averted, and no questions asked or an- during that time. With her French pro- wanted then, not for record, but serious swered. The present, when written, will clivities it is only fair to estimate her as labor. tell very much the same history—everything contributing much to the home life so neces- THE DEPARTURE. possible if one only knows the right man to sary to man's well being, both as a matter Those on board the ship, who, with strain- approach and secure. of temper and act. ing eyes, were watching the dear ones, left MILITARY CLAIMS. She had learned the royal road, and the ashore for reason of infirmity, as time pro- With the name of Cooke, wherever located receipts of the day carried out under her ceeded, realized "if they looked behind them the wide world over, comes a strong follow- wise supervision would suit the educated ther was ye mighty ocean, which they had ing of a military character. Infrequent as palate of the present. passed, and now was a niaine barr, and their intercourse with Europe was, they With the mutton "done to a turn," the goulfe to separate them from all ye civill managed to keep themselves cognizant of juices reserved for man's consumption, parts of ye world." affairs abroad, some of the early emi- what better could be asked than Hester's Everything points to the belief that all of and grants returned to England, enlisted effort "To fry cucumbers for mutton sauce Francis Cooke's family were to come over under Cromwell's banner, died fighting for you must brown some butter in a pan and in the Speedwell, but misfortune separated and his cut the cucumbers in thin slices, drain them them, and left Hester Cooke, in "charge of cause. from the water, then fling them into the pan, many yonge children" to follow when the Cromwell's hold upon the Pilgrims and pioneer settlers great and when they are fried brown, put in a time was auspicious. Only John to go with was of power, perhaps accentuated antagonism to Stuarts, little pepper and salt, a bit of onion and his father as some compensation for the by the from whose surely gravy, and let them stew together, and severed family ties, he, one writer says, was hands they had not re- ceived favors, certainly squeeze in some lemon; shake them well, young enough to be led ashore by the Pil- many but they re- and put under your mutton." grim's hand. sponded to Cromwell's beckoning. Love is a great power, but there is a force The thought of this for Sunday dinner No wonder his after association with John to hatred that overcomes many obstacles. would have made the closing of the church was so near and dear, through all of the rec- The Cooke family had cause for this repe- services welcome to even Francis Cooke, ords, the only one spoken of as "his son" tition of military prowess. carried and reflecting that "the poor quality of the from time to time in connection with his They arms in the Holy wars, and the water in Holland confined the Pilgrims al- father. Courtois Collection gives them as most exclusively to beer sold at a penny a FAMILY POSITION. "Walter quart as their daily beverage," increased the The founder of the family of Cookes in Cok went to the Holy Land, 1191. Richard 1191." "appetite which waits on digestion." this country comes to us in his power un- Cok went to the Holy Land. Add to these Henry Cooke, Francis, too, was willing to provide awares. He was one of the Pilgrims who Wm. Recorder of Oxford, Judge of County Courts, a against the physical waste sure to come immediately occupied a very important Mag- istrate and Deputy Lieutenant of Hereford- from his share in the duties of the little place, and while the conviction of his value shire, who wrote three volumes of Collec- colony there assembled before he retired to only dawns upon one as they read continu- tions toward the History and Antiquities rest. He knew the "forty winks" were ously, the fact exists, his record accumu- of County Hereford, in impossible, but wha tever the nature of the lates, and proves that he was behind the continuance of Dun- comb's "History"; also that Sir exercise he was to take, wise Francis would throne wielding immense influence. Anthony Cooke, a learned man, tutor of hurry up if he knew Hester had opened her Pursuing the even tenor of his way, his was King Edward VI. in 1543. and I lead up to the book to where it told her how "To make a strength grows day by day, until the con- Poloc." sciousness comes that he is guiding the "ship natural inheritance of the special gifts of his which the Cookes used for the benefit of "Take a pint of rice, boil it in as much state" with the rare judgment of "Plymouth Colony." water as will cover it; when your rice is strong personality. Localities are right, others must search half boiled, put in your fowl, with a small Valuable as his record is, it seems so gen- the lines. Our Cookes were prominent peo- onion, a blade or two of mace, some whole eral and wide spreading that everything is ple, not great warriors, but scenting the hos- pepper and some salt; when 'tis enough put taken as a matter of course, hardly requir- tilities from afar, ready and willing for the the fowl in the dish and pour the rice over ing recognition. station they were assigned to, with a little it." He and his descendants held firm grip token in their hand for presentation to the The variety in the larder was not great, on positions of weight and trust all through first Indian who approached. but Hester was an artist, and her concoc- their life in Plymouth colony and the sur- Doing their part well, was the of tions gave infinite zest to small means. rounding towns. mark their birthright, they no contrasting When her bell for meals sounded she ARRIVAL OF THE FAMILY. knew life. knew she could begin to dish the viands. Hester, wife of Francis Cooke, came out There was always another leaf Francis never stopped to gossip, when that in the famous Anee with her children, and of them hour arrived. though the time between her arrival and to read, no matter how nearly the colonists thought they had closed the book, and THE SPEEDWELL. that of the Mayflower was only little over sealed it with finis. The old, yet ever new, story of the Pilgrim two years, the intervening anxiety had been Cooke record accumulates with great ra- start from Delfthaven in the Speedwell, serious, telling sorely upon the waiting. pidity in England; in 1612 a was and her return as unseaworthy, claims Still with hope beckoning them, their ship Cooke Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, Sir much sympathy even at this distant day, as life must have been one of pleasure. All the Richard Cooke Secretary for Foreign Af- Bradford tells us: "So, after they had tooke passengers had the same end in view—one fairs in the of Charles I., ia out such provision as ye other ship could great, eager desire to reach Plymouth and Cabinet 1635; 1462 a Cooke was Lord Mayor of London, well stow, and concluded both what number the loved ones, trusting to find them ready an elective position, all remember, as for and what persons to send back, they made and waiting for the deep love they were 800 years this office was filled the vote another sad parting, ye one ship going back bringing. by of the various powerful guilds. to London, and ye other was to proceede on There is the "ring of the true metal" about her viage. Those that went bak were for all of the Cookes. They asked no favors, Again, Sir Thomas Cook, of Worcester- the most parte such as were willing so to had no special pleading for preference in shire, founded Worcester College, at Ox- doe, either out of some discontente or feare any respect, but they always drew the ford, and Sir Thomas Cook, of Middlesex, to "firsf they conceived of ye ill success of ye viage, "lucky numbers" in the land divisious. keep up the connection with the seeing so crosses befale, and the yeare time The rotating wheel in which their lots comers of our country," was governor of so far spente; but others in regarde to their were cast placed them where they would the East India Company. own weakness, and charge of many yonge like to be, and Francis Cooke occupied a The history of Essex, England, supplies children were thought least usefull, and house on Leyden street adjoining the resi- Cookes ad libitum, the men of position by most unfite to bear ye brunte of this hard dences of Edward Winslow and Isaac Al- birth and marriage, the females completing adventure, unto which worke of God, and lerton, a distinction of propinquity which the history, marrying well, and themselves judgement of their brethren they were con- places his social position on record. Had recorded as altogether lovely, strong of in- tented to submit." he not been acceptable to those magnates tellect, reproducing in their children the This tells the pathetic tale of the story of there would have been some means devised best of both parents. life; no place for the weak or young; each to prevent or remove his claim. Intercourse In the army, the navy, the church, in lit- r, erature and the learned professions, in poli- in his stead, the Pilgrim father dying in the but it was awfully grewsome and creepy at tics, in the pulpit, in the mother country it following year, aged 87 years. night in bleak New England, the wind aigh- would be asking little of them with such a APPRECIATION OF THE PILGRIM ing and screaming as if a departed spirit bad backing to be much to the land of their FOREFATHERS. returned to haunt the world and vent the an- adoption and birth, whatever the demands Weary and worn as the little band were imosities of earth on the culprit; wolves it might make. with the exactions of the adventurers, they scenting for prey, and the Indians acting as With the arrival of the Ann, and not only certainly won on their good behavior, and omnipresent sentries. Hester, wife of Francis Cooke, and their if there could be a reward, in their opinion For them the ammunition must be saved. family, but so many others of the Pilgrim they had it, in the letters received from Hunger told upon their spirits; but they still following, increasing the members in the them by the "Ann and Little James," where lived. little fami'.y of the colonists, came the call they encourage them by saying, "Let it not FRANCIS COOKE'S DEATH. for room, the expansion also demanded by be grievous to you that you have been in- The death of this Pilgrim was an irrepar- their experience in the yield of the land, struments to break the ice for others who able loss—a man of judgment, of decisive, Plymouth being notedly barren. come after with less difficulty; the honour though not arbitrary action, who could see From there to Rocky Nook, on Jones shall be yours to the world's end" (New both sides of the question, even when the River, a place within the limits of Kings- England Memorial, p. 102). necessity of action, on conviction, might be ton, was Francis Cooke's next move. Here The verdicts of 1600 and 1800 are the against his interests. he made a home in its full meaning, bring- same, in the latter century given, perhaps, A MAX'S WILL. ing up his children to bear their part in with no knowledge of the previous record. The difficulty historians often experience everything connected with the needs and For all the intervening years, the world's in placing a man's children from the fact regulations of all parts of the colony. vote is on the same platform. they are not mentioned in his will, may per- Studying this man's character all through THE STORY OF THE TIMES. haps be solved by remembering that a man his life, it is easy to see a certain exclusive- The history of a man to be correct can- owning tracts of land in various locations, ness of association, always being with his not be written without an understanding as a son grows to maturity, and under the own, as represented by his family, and the of his environment and restrictions. The influence of the bright, haunting smile of early inhabitants who brought with them history of the day is many-sided; one must the girl he loves, is ready to "set up for known credentials from the mother country. read between the lines after all possible re- himself," gives him a farm and the paternal search to get at the true inwardness of af- HIS AGE. blessing as his share of the estate. So fur- fairs, and understand the springs of action. History places Francis Cooke as about 40 ther notice of him as an inheritor was un- In writing for my own part I feel that I years of age when he reached Plymouth; so necessary, and in many instances he is for am breaking ground under the most favor- he had passed "his green and salad days" the time, at least, so far from the "old able circumstances, for a continuance of before he was made Freeman in 1633, 1634 homestead" that younger members of the this search by other historians, giving my referee in settlement of various affairs be- family, with the many intervening "olive suggestions, not assertions. tween members of the colony. branches" of those days, scarcely know of So I read in "Young's Chronicles" the And in 1636, as was usual with people of brother's existence. story of the times where he says: "I think this "high degree," received an apprentice, John it is a wise course for all cold complexions LACK OF INTERCOURSE. Harmon, son of Edward Harmon, of Lon- to come to take physic in New England, Frequent intercourse was neither expect- don, tailor, for the indenture period of seven for a cup of New England air is better than ed or possible. years. a whole draught of Old England's ale. Every neighbor going to the "cattle show" These records all through this early life Here are also abundance of turkeys, often would be the medium for home news, and accentuate the history of that period as to killed in the woods, far greater than our was sure of a welcome when waited on by the relation of master and servant, as this English turkeys, and exceeding fat, sweet the deputation from the various families, connection is often erroneously placed ac- and fleshy, for here they have abundance of eager to elicit knowledge of the well being cording to modern view. Inherited regard feeding all the year long, as strawberries (in of the distant dear ones. for the customs and laws of England must summer all places are full of them) and all No opportunity for privacy, the secrets continue with this people, and they had no manner of berries and fruits." of all hearts were laid bare, without the feeling in regard to the terms that were in Then, later. Cotton Mather takes up the slightest compunction or delicacy, and if general accepted usage in the homes of their wondrous tale, and observes: "We New the non-resident were detained any lengtl ancestors. Englanders do dwell in so cold and clear an a meeting would be CONTINUOUS DUTIES. of time by business, air, that more of the smaller stars may be called, that, by joint wisdom, fitting advice Until 1640 this Pilgrim's name appears seen by our considerers than in many other might be returned as to their children's ac- constantly in some capacity performing im- places." tion in affairs deemed wholly their own. From this point of view, there is no drain portant duties for the government, in which A parent continued to be a parent, if the upon our sympathies, to be sure, in regard year he was associated with Howland, child was as strong as Samson and big as the turkeys as a sole means of satisfying Pratt and Cash in deciding the boundaries to Goliath. Only self-reliance as to labor was hunger. One might recall the bet made that of the lands of Mr. Thomas Prence and required. Clement Biggs, at Eel River, and in the a man could not eat a quail for a certain ACTION OF THE COURT. same year received a large grant with number of days in succession without resent- If repression has the counter effect of his son John, "bounding on the North ment, but "all manner of berries and forming character, the chance of develop- River." fruits" would suffice for variety as appeas- ment was strongly in the hands of the Pil- Belonging to the "sound currency" party, ing the appetites of even such toilers in this grims. the gold spoon in his mouth, it was, as is "clear, cold air," as we know the colonists "The General Court, always desiring to traditional for people thus born, further to have been. have a fatherly care over her subjects, con- filled from 1642 to '48 by another grant of The contrasting story, as told by Bradford, cluded that a few sumptuary laws were re- land at "A. Medden" by Jones River. returns us to a knowledge of their hard- quired for the welfare of our good fathers His party being right, himself in full sym- ships, and one's sorrow increases with the and mothers, and that there should be no pathy with "the powers that be," he was realization of the cause. The record reads: mistake or misunderstanding about the mat- continually a committee of arbitration, in "The best dish we could present them with ter, they enacted a law to regulate their 1659 appearing in settlement of land bound- is a lobster or a piece of fish, without bread, costume, and also to regulate their diet, by aries. or anything else but a cup of fair spring this forbidding the use of cake or buns, except at In 1662 he, with his son John and others, water, and the long continuance of burials, marriages, or suvh like occasions: was allowed to settle upon a tract of land diet, with our labors abroad, has some- the wearing of all ornaments, gold, silver or purchased for a new settlement. This com- what abated the freshness of our complex- silk lace, was forbidden, as well as hat- prised the old town of Dartmouth (now ion, but God gives us health." bands, ruffs, also embroidery or needle New Bedford), which in 1652 belonged to Poor Bradford, iu this low physical state, the natural de- work, and the wearing of long hair was an thirty-six persons, and it is "probable the could not divest himself of abomination in the sight of God." earliest settlers came from the English sire of mankind, which in the old times in- retain The observance of Christmas was consid- township of that name." There is no record cluded womankind, that they should of youth and plenty. ered a crime, savoring of popery, and to "eat of his making it his home, he only seems to the fresh complexions fish on a Friday" came under the category have held proprietorship, and John reigned The guns were loaded ready for action, 6 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. of restrictions. From this history, and pe- However, he soon "got even" with some his own powers, even preached at Dart- riod, must be viewed the well-balanced one else, for "June 5, 1638, Josias Cooke mouth. character of Francis Cooke, a man with a was a witness against William Adey for Effectively, of course, but his traveling fine reticence, which descended to his chil- working Sunday in his garden." for church purposes on Sunday brought dren. COOKES ALWAYS TOGETHER. him under censure, though this Baptist con- He had expended "considerable estate in nection did not prevent the recognition of promoting the colony," and no one's death From 1637 to 1647, Francis Cooke, Sr., his usefulness, and frequent election to the has called out such peculiar notice. juryman; 1639 to 1669, Josias Cooke, jury- Plymouth General Court as deputy. John Cooke, juryman; He died in 1G63, aged about 8G, and, man; 1640 to 1653, Indeed, the record proves that "at a town to 1683, Jacob Cooke, juryman. though many lived to great age, he is spoken 1G55 meeting, the 22d of May, In the year 1674, names of all of in the death records as "Francis Cooke, Again, "August 1643, under John Cooke was chosen debity, 'arthur males able to bear arms from 16 years to the ancestor," and Bradford states it, as if hathaway,' grand juryman, etc." 60 years, all of Plymouth, Francis Cooke, it were a phenomenon, that he lived to see John Cooke's progress in his religious Jacob Cooke, John Cooke, Sr.; John Cooke, "his children's children have children." acquirements is worthy of notice, as Jr., his boy; Edward Dotey, Josias Cooke." At all events, his Walloon wife survived Backus, in his church history, states that their all the call for one secured him for years, continuing in the "straight They gave — "John Cooke was a Baptist minister in the rest, and proves their community of in- and narrow path" of her whole life, going Dartmouth many years, from whence terests. from the sorrows and privations of her own springs the Baptist church in the east bor- SON. race and sect to the equally narrow life ANOTHER ders of Tiverton." John Cooke married Sarah, daughter of of Flymouth colony, but living to see the MILITARY POSITION. changes of time and thought, her nationality Richard Warren, of the Mayflower, and John Cooke was also a warrior bold, vol- fitting her to grow and broaden with the soon his story began. unteering in for the Pequot war, epoch. He was ten times a Deputy from Ply- 1637 known always in history by the prefix Historians differ in opinion as to the chil- mouth, and held the valued office of deacon "bloody," a statement about which there dren of Francis Cooke, the Pilgrim. Grant- for many years. John's record proves him can be no doubt; so as Capt. John Cooke ing this, I must, from my own judgment, as to have been a man of education; it was, we now must place him, with the positive I peruse the records, assimilate convictions always easy on every committee to have the conviction that if there was any fighting to and search for the truth in all directions; making out of reports fall to his share of be done John Cooke was not attached to take Josias, not only as a son, but a strong the proceedings, not only because of his dis- the "commissary department." power in the family, inheriting the qualities tinguished position, but from his gifts. Wherever he locates Josias Cooke keeps of the Pilgrim, prosperous, and of good re- Surely a statesman, perhaps too stalwart in the company of his family. No circum- pute. Savage does not allow us Josias, and for a diplomat, but he had by choice of the stances are strongly enough beyond their record-seekers dearly love to pin their faith people no idle time. they control to estrange them from a common on him; still, he would be only human to The Cookes being silk mercers, Interest. occasionally pass by the possibilities from may have been included in the record that As Francis and John ruled wisely and which facts grow. "many of the first colonists at Plymouth well, winning golden opinions from those The argument now is founded not upon were weavers from Yorkshire and Notting- they were surrounded by in Plymouth, so what was said.but what was not. Cer- hamshire, and brought over their looms with Josias showed his power in Eastham. He tainty is self-evident, requires no assertion, them." they was made magistrate, selectman and dep- so it seems to me it was not necessary to Iu their substantial way it is certain uty by the town, and several times proved mention Josias as a son. In these days, had everything, and how they came to let his uprightness of deed and intent during when they told the "granite truth," it sure- Miles Standish get ahead and secure a cow his appointment under the court "to exam- ly would have been noticed if Josias were for himself, when "a cow and two goats ine the accounts of the treasurer of the col- not the son of Pilgrim Francis. There was were allowed to thirteen persons," passes ony, and as agent of the colony to treat no political slate for an office holder, desig- my comprehension. with the Indians in the purchase of nating his share of the patronage, firmly OTHER PURSUITS. land." closed when the end was reached, unless John and his father were men of one From 1634 on he was a tax payer, an evi- a lively sense of power to come was evident; mind, and whether from special fitness or a dence of citizenship in vogue in those days then the claim was a moveable feast. Thus touch of old Ne|>tune in the Cooke in- as well as now. Though not a stranger, it is impossible to believe that, unless a son, heritance, they came prominently to the they "took him in" to the extent of all the Josias should have had such constant, inti- front during the building of that great pressure he would bear, without the kick mate, personal and official association with leviathan of the deep, a forty-ton vessel, the Cookes were fully equal to when con- the famiiy. Francis would naturally choose the pride and joy of the people. Not to dis- scious of imposition. his own son for preferment if Josias were parage the seafaring man, or lose my hold HIS MARRIAGE. not a son. He was always in good com- on the "historical hatchet," it is only fair to Not willing to have "taxation without pany, surrounded by his kin and their and say of the Cookes that the deficiency in his nearest connections; each drew on the horsemanship was wholly from lack of the representation," the following year Josias Cooke took to himself a wife, in the person same following. horse, all knowing that the first account of of Elizabeth Ring, of Stephen NAME ASSOCIATIONS. one was in 1644, in the estate of Stephen widow Records and assimilations of names and Hopkins. Deane, September 16, 1635, and may, with localities bear me out in this at every step, John, having placed himself on record as a his ten children, be recorded as having a full house at life's close. and it rests with Mrs. H. Ruth Cooke to naval architect, he was soon ordered by the Stephen Deane was one of the adventur- secure by her wonderful name descents court to build a ferry between Dartmouth ers who came out in the Fortune and was proof that all the early Cookes were in some and Rhode Island. By sea or land the of- degree of one family. authorized in "1633 to build, on Town fices were his, but one was- the last straw, Brook, a beating mill. Until then every In view og the natural sequence of events, and when appointed by the Plymouth family had a hand mortar, though later lit- there is no intimidation in Baylie's assertion Colony to attend the Quaker meetings "to "probably" tle steel mills were not unknown." What- that Josias was son of Francis. endeavor to seduce them from the errors of of Rich's ever his outlook of future prosperity, poor Freeman's History Cape Cod, their ways," he turned sympathizer, realized Stephen Deane never lived see it realized, History of Truro, Davis in Landmarks of the wrongs endured by them, forgot Gov. to well for in 1634 he left his unfinished work, wife History and the "Cook Memorial," as Prince was to the front, and, giving full ex- and three children. as many private records sent me, make ours pression to his feelings, was excommuni- Then the "plum" of the period fell into the majority report. cated, naturally, for his "opposition to the his hands, for, "June 1648, Josias Cooke So, while welcome is given Josias, placing proscriptive laws of the Prince era." 7, him, as all wish, too, in the family of Fran- was allowed to sell wine at Nanset, and to cis Cooke, of the Mayflower, truth compels VARIETY IN RELIGION. be register keeper for Nanset." the telling that one of the earliest records His religion was rather changeable as to The regulations on this subject were very of him as a man is where, "March 26, 1G33, sect, when in 1676 he joined in resettling explicit. he is fined for breach of peace," one of his Dartmouth, he cast iu his religious views "Early provision was made for taverns frolicking days when he was "painting the with Obadiah Holmes, of the Baptist and ordinaries. They who kept them were town." church at Newport, and, with confidence in required to be licensed, and were not to — — SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 7 suffer any to be drunk, "nor to tipple," by a stroke of lightning at Marshfk-ld felt his right to pride in good wife and "after 9 o'clock at night." "while sitting with a child in his lap and children. A precedent for the Raines liquor law, holding his wife's hand to encourage her, Hester married Richard Wright, one of the only progression being the lengthening but he alone of his family was hurt." the adventurers waiting and ready to of the time. Goodwin tersely tells that "this storm im- choose a wife from the "maidens fair to The women, too, were allowed their mediately followed a fast on account of see," who came out in the Ann. Youth was share in the patronpge. drought, and ended with a hurricane a fault remedied by time, and surely they "In 1646 Mrs. Catherine Clark, having a "Prayer was too efficacious." married on a certainty of personal knowl- family of children, is licensed for £10 per Following the course of Josias, Jacob edge not afforded in after years. Richard annum, if she provides a fitt man that is moved to Eastham, and died there July 7, Wright had a mind of his own, even if the godly to manage the business." 1676. Pilgrims had a way of requiring their will NANSET. Josias, always a prosperous man, went should govern the new comers, albeit they away from Plymouth first, before John were the men who by virtue of their in- Josias Cooke went to Nanset with the old went to Dartmouth, and Pilgrim Francis vestment felt they had a word to say in the stand-bys, which included in the committees in his will, after providing for his wife and matter. sent by the church to survey Nanset (East- daughters, left all to his son Jacob, "When in 1645 Rehoboth was founded, ham), and purchase of the natives; Gov. "to be his and Jacob's heirs' forever." Richard Wright built a mill, and the next Bradford, Thomas Prince, John Doane, The story, to me, seems year because he would not leave it to serve Nicholas Snow, Richard Higgins and Ed- complete. The as deputy he was fined." Sure proof of his ward Bangs. elder brothers, well provided for, had no claim to visible remembrance. They had freemanship, that being one of the penalties They decided it was too barren to accom- taken their chance at the start, and as I of their refusing to accept office. modate all of the church of Plymouth; but can find no record of discontent, "The public good must be consulted be- they bought a tract of land called Pochet were sat- isfied the will, fore private interests." Strength of opinion and two islands lying before Potanumguat, with which was "witnessed by John Rowland and John Alden. Inven- with him came after his marriage, which with a beach, besides all the land called took place November 21, 1644, and as he Namkeket. tory, May 1, 1663, taken by Eph Tuckham was born about 1608 his age was sufficient This grant included Eastham, Wellfleet and Mr. Crowe." to suppose he held his own in the future. and Orleans. The church of Plymouth, in THE COOKE PUZZLE. consideration of the sum they had paid, INHERITANCE. As I have felt obliged to put things be- conveyed their right to Thomas Prince, Richard Wright, son "probably" of Will- fore the public as I see them, and am very John Doane, Nicholas Snow, Josias Cooke, iam and Priscilla (Carpenter) Wright, in- anxious that the result of my labor shall Richard Higgins, John Smalley and Ed- herited by the will of his wife's father, be for the benefit of history, I give the ward Bangs, who immediately commenced Francis Cooke, of the Mayflower, "the Old children of Elder John Cooke, son of Fran- a settlement at Nanset. Homestead at Jones River, known as cis Cooke, of the Mayflower, sometimes Cooke's Hollow," and had Adam born CONVICTION. known as Rev. John, just as they came to about 1645, died 1724, married first Sarah, from the historian, who, of her kind- This is not supposition, but record, and me daughter of John Soule and his wife Sarah, ness, desires to place Capt. John Cooke tells the tale, which becomes a twice-told by whom he had two children, then for sec- as the son, not the elder himself. one, of Josias Cooke's association with the ond wife took Mehitable Barrowes, and by Much may have to be done as supple- people, who knew and loved his father, for true Pilgrim progression had eight children. the first proprie- mentary work before the "Signers"' are "Josias Cooke was one of Next came Esther Wright (3), born lt'rlO. tors of the present town of Abington, hav- completed, continuous study affording clews then Mary (3), again John, afterward Isaac ing, received, in with to be worked up. which develop as records June 8, 1664, company Wright (3), born August 26, 1662. pointing to various localities Lieut. Joseph Rogers, Giles Hopkins, Hen- are received, Adam Wright's marriage with Sarah where new search may be made. ry Sampson and Experience Mitchell, a Soule, through their children, enlarges the Elder John Cooke, eldest son of Francis, grant from the court of all that tract of Cooke descent, making clear lines to the of the Mayflower and Plymouth. land lying between Bridgewater and the Mayflower through several ascendants. I.—Sarah Cooke (3), born 1635; died Massachusetts Bay Company." Isaac, marrying in 1717 Mary, daughter of with after 1710; married November 20, 1652, AH_pf these the "old comers," people John Cole, and Joseph, Sarah Brewster Arthur Hathaway, first Hedaway, of the pioneer tie, who pulled together natural- (Spooner Genealogy). ly and had as little wish for intrusion from Marshfield, Mass., and had eight children. COOKE OUTLOOK. This enables those of this descent, through the outside element as would come as a mat- The Wrights were not the only one« to the Hatbaways, to search for their records ter of course from these people, with the spread and flourish among the "old "blood bond," accentuated by long associa- through those bearing the name of Sisson, comers," Elizabeth (3), daughter of Hatch, Mott, Clark, Taber, Kempton, Can- tion Jacob son of Francis, the SON. non, Nye, Hammond, Wing, Pope, Spooner, (2), ANOTHER married John Doty, son of Ed- Hillman, Delano, Willis and Swift. Pilgrim, Jacob Cooke, son of Francis, first attract- ward, of the Mayflower, and Faith (Clark) II—John Cooke (3), born 1637 (given by ed attention in the Colonial records in June, Doty. She died in time to allow John Doty given in- Memorial). 1637, as a volunteer in Capt. Prince's com- Davis; not to seek a second mate, but left ten children III.—Elizabeth Cooke (3), died December pany for the Indian war, and after that he board, and give Sarah, 1661, Daniel to grace the family held 6, 1715; married November 28, several offices in Plymouth. the second wife, enough occupation to keep Ley- Wilcox, son of Edward, of Portsmouth, These sons went from their home on her out of mischief, from idle hands. R. I. They had nine children. (Look for den street to the various places of their marriage the branches the names of Briggs, Through the first after life, through all this descent among a home to be known spread into the families of the Nelsons, Butts, Cook, Earle, Tripp, Sherman, Lake, history, one of the seven houses of which Shearmans. Morses, Faunces, Cobbs, Cur- Moon and Cory). Longfellow writes in his courtship of Miles would take a Philadelphia Esther Cooke, born August 16, tises, etc. It Standish IV— kinships thus Taber, son lawyer to unravel the various 'Till he beheld the lights of the seven houses 1650; married in 1667 Thomas entailed, but they load to much of the his- of Plymouth of Philip and Lydia (Masters) Taber. tory of those early times. V.—Mercy Cooke (3), born July 25, 1654, Shining like seven stars in the dark and COOKE. mist of the evening." in Plymouth, Mass.; married Stephen West, M AHY of the emierani They could ask no better of their future 1682; died November 21, 1733. Mary Cooke, daughter born January 12, Francis, born in 1626. married John Thomp- lite than that it should keep pace with its VI.—Mary Cooke (3), Jr.. son LY>. U't.">. a man of eTideni beginning. Jacob Cooke married first 1652; married 166S, Philip Taber, son, December the colony—supposed to b* Damaris, daughter of the Stephen Hopkins, of Philip and Lydia (Masters) Taber. They consequence in origin. There are Tarious spell- whose friendship and congeniality all had seven children. of Scotch remembered, In his will he writes it claim, making a strong family connection, Elder John Cooke, it will be ings of the name. An astonishing "Tomson." which was repeated again to the increase of married Sarah Warren. the Mayflower his industrious and useful life this descent. number of connections with "He closed of these two 1609. nearly SO years old. Ho was After her death he married, in 1655, Eliz- can be made by the study June 16, the first buryiug ground. Middle- abeth, daughter of Thomas Lettice and families. buried in grave is marked by a small widow of William Shurtleff, who was killed Now the d.Mignters and Francis Cooke borouffh. His 8 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. stone, which is said to be the second one method in it, they having crossed the ocean The Cooke descent is a very large one; erected." together as fellow-passengers on the Ann. the names which claim kinship increase at xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Experience Mitchell was one of the every turn; the Pilgrims married "early and XX XX founders of Duxbury, and when Bridge- often," and I find in all who come to me XX XX water was set off became a leading man but one opinion. XX XX XX XX there. Much could naturally be expected of Without the slightest feeling of pretense, XX XX him; he was at Leyden with the Pilgrims they recognize a certain solidity of start xx In Memory of xx and left a brother Thomas, who lived and that cannot be improved upon. The early XX XX XX XX died there." home on Leyden street was one of the seven xx LIEUT. JOHN THOMPSON, xx It hardly seems possible, as there is a lack perpetuated in history, and recognizing that XX XX of any apparent family connection with the lucky the early colonists, XX XX as the number of xx who died June 16, ye 1696, in xx Mayflower people, he was intended for the knowing as all do the claim put forth for XX XX original start, one of those put back on those who were of the "seven pillars of the xx ye 80th year of his age. xx XX XX account of the Speedwell's mishap; his church," there seems to have been an omen XX XX youth would either have secured his coming of content in the thought that, surrounded xx This is a debt to nature due xx neighbors, these Cookes XX XX over or prevented such intention while there by the choice of the xx Which I have paid xx were real family ties in Leyden to hold him started with the best. xx XX back. The Cookes must give their own account, xx And so must you. xx making XX XX WOMEN OF THAT DAY. but let them read backward before XX XX There has been no new dignity given it indelible. XX XX given in this paper has XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX women in the present day they did not The Cooke record XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX possess in the old colonial times. Men and a very wide scope, both as to location and XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX women worked side by side. The only dis- family. Mary, his wife, with inheritance of many cussion was the paramount need of the The references which have been proved days, "died March 21, 1714, in the eighty- other. Labor was king in those days. No entitle those of this lineage to join either eighth year of her age; buried same place man felt above watching beside the couch Society of Mayflower Descendants or Hu- with her husband." This marriage leads of a sick child after a day's toil; the mother guenot Society. back to the most prominent of the early needed rest; their interests were in common. Francis Cooke, of the Mayflower, Plym- families, giving the Mortons, Kemptons, Then an approaching storm, with unstored outh, Mass., 1620, married Hester, the Wal- Tabers; making another of the collateral hay or grain, called wife and daughters to loon, in Holland; she came out in the connections with Gov. Levi P. Morton, for its rescue, not as the "beggar's maid" wait- Ann, 1623. Mannasseth, son of Deacon George and ing for the king to pass, but the home feeling Joanna (Kempton) Morton, married Mary of the loss all would sustain if worst came Jane Cooke, of Plymouth. Mass., daugh- Taber, daughter of Capt Thomas Taber, to worst. Their family ties regulated every- ter of Francis and Hester Cooke, came out and Mary Thomson, daughter of Lieut. thing; the spirit of content was abroad as with her mother in the Ann; married, Thomson, granddaughter of Francis Cooke, well as in the home. about 1628, Experience Mitchell, who also of the Mayflower. They had no long look ahead to the period was passenger on the Ann, the last of the PRIDE OF BIRTH. when machinery, not chivalry, should lessen forefather ships. It is a pleasure to study this lineage; they women's cares, give them time to go forth do their duty in the church, their families from home and take, wisely or no, a place Elizabeth Mitchell married John Wash- and in the government. Deacons, of course, in affairs; separate themselves by "women's burne, Jr., of Plymouth, Duxbury and their's the moral force; military men, guards work," "women's doings" from the place Bridgewater, Mass., December 6, 1645. FRANCIS COOKE, OP THE MAYFLOWER. Mary Washburne,of Bridgewater, Mass., Mary Cooke married John Thompson. married, 1694, Samuel Kinsley, of Easton, Mass. Esther Thompson married 1675 William Reed, born Oct. 16, 1839. Eas- William Reed married 1703 Alice Nash, Benjamin Kinsley, of Swanzey and born May 24, 1682; died Dec. 5, 1757. ton, Mass., married, 1732, Priscilla Manley. died June 3, 1753. Martha Kinsley, of Easton, Mass., mar- Solomon Reed married 1748 Abigail Stoughton. born Oct. 22, 1719; ried May 30, 1762, Seth Lothrop, of Easton died 1785. and Enfield, Mass. John Reed married 1780 Hannah Sampson, born Nov. 11, 1751; born 1755; Thomas Lothrop, of Easton and Leyden, died Feb. 17, 1831. died 1815. Mass., married, February 20, 1792, Deborah Sampson Reed married 1832 Catherine Clark, Pope, of Dartmouth and Bridgewater. born June 10, 1800; born May 28, 1805. died 1880. Zebediah Lothrop, of Providence, R. I., Thomas Reed married I860 Mary Anne Webb. and Philadelphia, Pa., married, at Provi- born Feb. 1837; 3, dence. February 1825, Elizabeth Terry died Feb. 3, 1885. 1, Earle. Caroline A. Reed married 1885 Walter Romeyn Benjamin, born Sept. 24, 1854. I. Sarah Eliza Lothrop married, at Philadel- Walter Reed Benjamin phia, Pa., January 31, 1854, Dr. Richard for their country, whether on the "tented they held so proudly beside husband and Henry Lee, of Philadelphia. field" or sentries to protect the lives of father. their dear ones and homes; government Francis Cooke knew with Hester every Edward Clinton Lee. officials, that the best of themselves may little ailment of the boys and girls, the REFERENCES. be given to rule wisely and well. The one spring of their actions, whether requiring "Lothrop Family Memoir," by Rev. E. who has just left us as the highest State curbing or assuring. No need to go outside B. Huntington, Ridgefield, Conn., 1884. officer can record no better than his ances- for advice. Father knew everything and tor, Lieut. Ephraim Morton, youngest son mother was always there to carry out his "Alden Memorial," by Dr. E. Alden, Ran- of George and Juliana Carpenter Morton, of wishes. dolph, Mass., 1867. the early Plymouth colonies. The home life of this family seems writ- JANE. ten with the records, and though they start- "Story of a Pilgrim Family" (Alden), by Jane was in nowise left behind her sis- ed sufficient unto themselves, they enlarged Rev. John Alden, Boston, 1890. ters, and though the courtship began in and widened until the tangled skein of rela- childhood's sunny hours, her marriage to tionship required the older heads for its un- "History of Plymouth Plantation," by Experience Mitchell had a very modern raveling, if it ever truly reached that state. William Bradford, Colls, of Massachusetts SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. » Historical Society, Vol. 3, 4th series, "Plymouth Bos Colony Records," Boston, The Cooke history is only written fininh«J. ton, 1856. 1855. so far as I am concerned. It rest* in abler hands than mine, who already have gathered "The Pilgrim Republic," by John A. "History of Bridgewater, Mass.," by so much that it seems as if the work were Goodwin, Boston. 1888. Nahum Mitchell, Boston, 1840. completed. "History of Easton, Mass," by Rev. "History of the Huguenot Emigration to To Mrs. EL Ruth Cooke and Mr. Rollin EL Cooke is Wm. L. Chaffin, Cambridge, 1886. America," by Charles W. Baird, D D., much due, and far more apprecia- New York, 1885. tion will be given when all the branches "Ralph Earle and His Descendants," by make their proper claims. Pliny Earle, Worcester, 1888. The End. To verify the statement that the "Cookes connect everywhere," I give the following chart, which places, for descendants of this line, about ten ancestors on the May- flower—surely a full hand, and one greatly to be desired. It came to me from Mrs. H. Ruth Cooke, who always rises to everything which places the Cookes where she thinks they are entitled to be. William Mullins Priscilla Mullins John Al len Myles Standish William White Francis Cooke I I Alexander Standish Peregrine White Mary ICooke Sarah Allen I White Esther Thompson I I White William Reed Lydia Standish Anna White John Heed Isaac Sampson Uriah Sampson Hannah Sampson John Reed I I Sampson Reed Catharine Clark I I Thomas Reed M. A. Webb i Caroline A. Webb Walter Romeyn Benjamin 10 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. THOMAS ROGERS, Eighteenth Signer. personal Mary, September 22, 1644, married John It can hardly be said that the Rogers comers," and for some reason of Phinney. family have a divided interest, and yet the attraction this included both John and James, October 18, 1648, married Mary situation is such in regard to them that, Joseph Rogers, for in "August, 1643, they Paine 1670. failing one connection, they can fall back were on the list of men in- Duxbury able to Hannah, August 8, 1652. upon the other. bear arms between 16 and 20." connections are satisfactory. However, even looking at it in this light, And as evidence they had attained to The name Joseph, the young father, desirous of ap- there is always the strong hope that, having years of manhood, they were among "those his proper relation attained to one position, they may lead on rated March 25, 1633, at nine shillings pearing without doubt in first born son, then the memory of the to the other. each." No overestimate of labor and its to his Thomas, of the Mayflower, is greatly to compensation would be allowed among these father so dear to him, required recognition, order, John, be desired, but the addition of John, the experts on the subject of quid pro quo. so Thomas came next in and per- the brother named in connection with him, Martyr, would round off the claim to LIEUT. JOSEPH ROGERS. fection. must have place. James we may have to There has always been such an atmos- Lieut. Joseph Rogers, as history after- allow to the mother's family, but the name phere of uncertainty about the descendants wards reveals him to us. was some time in can be looked for, and when found, con- of Thomas, the Pilgrim, that all except the Duxbury among those sterling, solid Pil- tinued; there is some back ancestor account- son, Joseph, who came out with him, have grims who were the backbone of the colony, able for it. seemed marked "dangerous." answering the war cry when it sounded The poor Pilgrims do not receive much To be sure, Bradford, in 1G50, writing of with military alacrity and strong personal credit for nostalgia; perchance, in their Plymouth Colony, says: "Thomas Rogers patriotism, and joining with equal fervor stern, unadorned language, thought of home died in the first sickness, but his son is still in the thanksgiving for peace, if such a time would be called force of habit, and although living, and is married and hath six children. ever came to them in those early Indian Joseph Rogers, son of Thomas, of the May- The rest of his children came over and are days. flower, had a residence easily availed of, in married and have many children." In 1648 leave was granted this Lieut. 1635. from the court records it is learned This surely entitles to Rogers descend- Joseph to have meadows purchased from that "Joseph Rogers was allowed a constant ants, even if poor Thomas, the Pilgrim, only the Potanumsquatt Indians, and February ferry over the Jones River, neer his dwelling lived through the voyage, and yielded to the 24, 1652, he was appointed "one of the howse. and to take a penny for the trans- first sickness, consequent upon his priva- jurors to lay out the most convenient way portation of each person, he, the said tions, lack of space and close personal con- from Sandwich to Plymouth." Joseph, maintayning a sufficient ferry at tact, forced upon the people of the May- He had strayed from the original rest- that price"—he was without question much flower by the necessities of the situation. ing place, but was very active in making better satisfied that he thus kept up con- His only kin companion, Joseph, who connection with his early home. sant communication with Plymouth, its af- came out with him, had to serve for all left From Duxbury to Sandwich, and then fairs and inhabitants. behind, fit into his anxieties and bear to the "May 22, 1655, placed on record among the COATS-OF-ARMS. family his sad farewells. legal voters of Eastham." it was in the spirit of this EARLY TIMES. Near enough to Plymouth for all practical No doubt purposes. man never forgotten when home-longing, later on. they began to look In these early times each child was wel- A bravery and judgment were required, step up. and have prepared for use. the coats-of- come. With dire want staring them in the by step he included the offices of worth, and arms which, from their variety, are now face on every side, a large family was "in 1658 a council of war was ap- found to be so perplexing. counted a blessing. when pointed, Josiah Winslow appointed to the The original instinct of obliteration had Need of their future services became the and Joseph Rogers one lessened with time, and the habits of their paramount idea; the increased endurance supreme command early life and traditions being strong upon consequent on the additional mouths to be of his council." history accords to any sections sur- them, thev endeavored from memory to fed was a matter set aside for the general No great fertility with in- produce the cont armour that had been good, which alone must control them. rounding Plymouth sufficient to maintain those dependent ever present in the homes of their an- Many hands made light work. There crease on the crops and supplies, and yet it is cestors. were the household "chores" for little feet given that "there were plenty of orchards Satisfied with general effect, what cared and hands, duties of greater moment for us in in 1637." This, with the tales they whether the arms were heraldicly cor- others of increasing years. Duxbury of the wild turkey, venison and fish found rect? Thev conveyed to them their ;>snirn- So if records were kept at all, those of tions the Rogers family must find place some- in abundance, certainly shows our Pilgrims and the future then was nn unknown their against where, and another from Bradford says of had choice of market, even ouantity, in which they had no personal Bradford's convincing dire Thomas Rogers: "He was one of the forty- statements of part. one persons who signed the constitutions of want. Yeomen in Queen Elizabeth's time were government on board the Mayflower, and SANDWICH. allowed to hear them, the "Guilds" were was one of the Pilgrim Fathers. His son Whatever the improvements in variety granted them, and there they were borne with brr>verv Joseph came with him, is married, and has and quantity in Sandwich, a sturdy little a of disnlny which placed the six children. The other children came over family surrounded our Lieut. Joseph, claim- freemanship thus acquired as a matter of afterward, including John, married, and ing and receiving the sustenance necessary the ereatest moment. have many children. Thomas died in to promote the muscle and sinew required These arms were their connecting cable: with them in hall, and book, the 1621." in the life of toil and small return awaiting new world This secures another child to the Pilgrim, them. seemed more their own. Thev silent about their feelings placing John on the list without any doubt. CAPE COD RECORDS. were for the home across the deen blue ocean, but the DUXBURY. It will not interfere with the coming sur- sentiment was the same, and though the For a time Duxhury was really the an- prises to give Rogers's children, Joseph born tonene told of the abuses from which they nex of Plymouth. The colony had spread in Sandwich, Mass., as: had fled, deep down in their hearts they as to numbers and opinions, so that "Room Sarah, August 1633, died in infancy. 6, sang with tears in their voices: "There is the Pilgrims! Room!" for was a cry that Joseph, July 19, 1635, married Susannah no nlace like home, sweet home." required attention, though the break was at April 1660. Deane Eastham 4, All through this article it will he my en- not sudden or immediate. The residents Thomas, March 29, 1638, married Eliza- deavor to give as much data as Is possible there this suburb for used summer quar- beth Snow 1665. that can be authenticated, and thus place returning ters, to Plymouth winters, and Elizabeth, September 29, 1639, married many of the vexed claims. The following they also attended church there. Johnathan Higgins 1660. were sent me as "miscellaneous records those thus inclined Standish, Among were John, April 3, 1642, married Elizabeth from Harwich": Brewster and other stalwarts of the "old Twinning. Zacheus Rogers married Elizabeth King 11 in Eastham, 1743; children, Eunice, 1745; five weeks old were due unto the plaintiff." meeting house, Kp the Doores and Win- Mercy, 1747; Elizabeth, 1749; Abigail, 1752. He wanted his "little pigges to go to mar- dows of sd meeting bouse shut, and opened ket," and must have felt it a MARRIAGES. poor return for the Congregations use upon all occa- when all he got out of Elizabeth Rogers and Eli Small, 1786. Edward Doty was, sions, and Carefully loock after sd house, David Rogers "the case being heard, the defendant wan and Jerusha Eldridge, 1773. as above sd, and the sd Rogers is to receive cast in four bushels of corn." Priscilla Rogers and Thomas Linnell, of sd Town three pounds pr year for bia ad Later on he might have been better able 1772 - service, to begin on the 1st of April next to care for his Bessie nogers and Jonathan Kinnewick, future bacon, as in 1642 he Ensuing this date." "is granted the parcel of 17S3. meddowing, con- Evidently Eleazer fulfilled bia duties to taining four or five akers, lying Mercy Rogers and Tully Nickerson, 1793. about Mas- the satisfaction of all concerned, for sachusetts Path, about Eliz Rogers and James Slater, 1775. two miles from Mr. "March, 1733, it was Voted that Eleazer Bradford's farm." Levi Rogers and Mary Andrews, 1777. Rogers be Saxton for the ensuing year. Stephen Samuel Rogers and Phoebe Crosby, 1791. Had Hopkins owned it thoughts There was a vote called, whether they of stock raising Crisp Rogers and Rethia Smith, 1756. might have intruded them- would allow ye Saxton, Twelve pounds for selves, but if Bradford Thomas Rogers, of Harwich, and Eliza- had such instincts ye ensuing year; it passed in the negative, he restrained them, beth Smith, of Chatham, November 10, conventional, for fear and Eleazer Rogers being then present, Re- 1748.* of "offending his brother," always. fused to serve." No argument as Mercy Rogers and Eli Fuller, 1746. to his age can be brought If Deacon Wadsworth could secure pro- from his freemanship, as Tabitha Rogers and Stephen Cole, 1748. he was on the first gressive remuneration for mere church ser- list, "they comprising Caleb Rogers and Ruth Rogers, 1767. the General Court vices in early Plymouth, why not one of found under date 1633." Thankful Rogers and Ezekiel Andrews, of the Rogers family nearly a century after? 1750. THE BROTHERS. JOHN. Martha Rogers and Thomas Chase, 1751. That, however, is a matter of no impor- With "John" comes great confusion, and Caleb Rogers and Mercy Ring, 1754. tance; he was quite young enough to enjoy many lines of descent securely placed will Sarah Rogers and John Birge, 1756. even in the way of such youthful sports as need changing, though, in studying them Mary Rogers and Judah Mayo, 1758. the epoch and location admitted of, his over, I find most are through the John who Jesse Rogers and Mary Freeman, 1761. brothers, who came out to him. Their married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Nathaniel Rogers and Elizabeth Crosby, school of physical culture was a very prim- Elizabeth Alden Pabodie, which only neces- 1715. itive one, but all the same it was the best sitates the change in the previous genera- Elizabeth Rogers and Nathan Bassett, they had. tion, which is a clear title. 1734. "In 1640 Joseph and brother John are The righting of these Johns, giving John, Henry Rogers (Harwich) and Deborah granted 50 akers apecce of upland next the son of Thomas, his undoubted place. I Nickerson (Eastham), 1761. where Mr. Vassell's farme is at the North owe entirely to the deep research of Hon. The safe child causes no anxiety. Joseph river, with portionable meadow ground." Josiah H. Drummond, of Portland, Me. Rogers holds his own all through history, So they were near neighbors, and the fact I will not attempt to follow his argument, placing himself from the start as w^h his of Joseph's local authority, for "he was only give the valuable results of his study, authenticated father on the Mayflower, and known lo- elected constable the same year," may have by records which admit of no dispute. cally in the Plymouth record of 1623. lessened some of the depredations on their "The Falles of their grounds which came lands, which were the playful Indian habits Mr. J. S. Rogers, of Chicago. 111., who is compiling first in the Mayflower according as their of the day. the Rogers' history, welcomed lots were cast. Joseph Rogers 2 akers, Soon the break came, and Joseph Rogers the solution thus given to the "confusion lying on the South side of the brooke to the was called upon to assume the "pomp and worse confounded" he met in his study. baywards." circumstance of war," even if it were in- "John Rogers, of Duxbury, son of glorious Then, to show the good company he kept: fighting against the crafty Indians, Thomas, of the Mayflower, was among "In 1627 in dividing the cattle the 11th and is pposed by the town of Nauset (East- those proposed March 5, 1638-9, to take up to this lot fell to Gov. Bradford, and those with ham) Court for lieutenant, to exer- freedom. The latter being the year of his him, to wit,—his wife Alles Bradford, and cise the men in armes, is by this Court ap- marriage to Ann Churchman. April 16. William Bradford, and Joseph Rogers." pred, and established lieutenant there." 1639," goes far toward suggesting that he The intimate relations with Gov. Brad- LAST HOME. was a very young child when the May- flower sailed. ford inclined to a belief of a natural favor- About 1655 Lieut. Joseph, wearing his This would be in keeping with Bradford's itism on his part to the young Joseph. He honors calmly, as he feit was due, moved statement of those left behind who had was fully aware of it, and guarded against with his family to Eastham, where he spent "yonge children." and future history on this any increase of this feeling in the public the remainder of his life, dying early iu plea fill gaps mind. 1678. may which will prove tradi- tions people are wrestling with, knowing "In 1638 Joseph Rogers is granted to have Joseph, Jr., born in 1635, who married they have generations of assertion to build a pcell of land to make him a field or two Susannah Doane, was killed on Christmas them on. Matters with this John do not to plant corn upon, in the place where he de- Day, 1660, from a fall while wrestling with stand still. prepared to establish bis sireth, and to be viewed and appoynted him his friend Richard Hawes. He claims, and, as Mr. Drummond assorts, by Mr. Bradford that it may not too much "The Governor is authorized by the court made a will which "delights the heart of the prjudice the comons of the neighborhood to give oath to Susanna, the wife of the late genealogist." there." deceased Joseph Rogers, for the truth of WILL. Given just what he wanted, our friend the inventory of his estate. March 5, 1660." THE could make himself content. To keep his line intact he had one son, "John Rogers, Sr., of Duxborough," by TO LAW WITH EDWARD DOTY. Joseph, born January 27, 1661. Then will, dated August 20, 1091. proved Sep- The steady course of prosperity was not James, who married Mary Paine, left tember 20. 1692. gives: gained by this young Pilgrim without some James, born 1673, Mary, 1675, and Abigail, 1. To his grandson, John Rogers, all of drawbacks, which required the "strong 1678, and Thomas, marrying Elizabeth his houses and lands in the town of Dux- hand of the law" for their adjustment. Snow, had Elizabeth, born 1666; Joseph, borough. his Tisdall. for "In 1632 he complayned in Court of Ed- 1667; Hannah, 1669; Thomas, 1671, who 2. To grandson. John the ward Doty for non-performance of cov- died iu infancy, and, not to lose the name, use of his mother, Anna Terry, one-half of nant between them, wherein six pigges of the next child was also Thomas, born 1672, his land, divided and undivided, in Middle- then Eleazer, 1673; Nathaniel, 1675. boro, excepting his rights in the Major Pur- chase, the last to bo disposed of nocordins •Note.—A correction in regard to this is This "Eleazer, grandson of Joseph, was one sent me from Mrs. Osborn Nickerson, of of a Committee Chose To take Care of the to his mother's mind. his daughter. Eliiaboth Williams Chatham, Mass. (Cape Cod): "In town rec- Herrinbrooke and the Herrins," and prov- 3. To in this direction, the local (who was the wife of Nathaniel William'*, ords Moses is given, and it is Moses in cem- ing his ability had etery records. and historical importance of being the ear- of Taunton), the other half of the Middle- his "cartel" were to bo equal- " 'Mr. Moses Rogers died March 22. 1795. liest recorded sexton. boro land: and divided these throe daughters. in ye 74 yr of his age. Mrs. Elizabeth, "At n towne meeting held at Plymouth. ly between wife of Mr. Moses Rogers, died December March 23, 1732, the Town A Greed With 4. To his grandson. John Rogers, all of " to Ring bell, sweep the his household stuff and moneys, out of 2, 1795, aged 64 years.' Eleazer Rogers ye 12 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. which he was to pay his sister, Elizabeth started with light hearts when the result is 1735, he quit claims to Jeremiah Wood, of Rogers, forty shillings; and twenty shillings sure. the town of Hempstead, "what right I have, each to "his other three sisters," Hannah Then to accentuate and increase the cer- or ought to have, to any of the estate in Bradford, Ruth Rogers and Sarah Rogers. tainty there comes from Cape Cod another the township of jj.empstead, formerly pur- 5. To his daughter Abigail Richmond, record which enlarges the claim, giving hope chased by my grandfather, William Rog- "that twenty shillings a year which is my of James and those still signed "possibly." ers, deceased." due for four score acres of land which I "Thomas came in the Mayflower with son It has been very hard to quietly hold sold to my two grandsons, Joseph Rich- Joseph, other children, including John and this back, until in the sequence # history mond and Edward Richmond." William, coming afterward. it could properly be brought forward. In- clination prompted its being connected with 6. He appoints his "loving son, John Rog- CHANGE OF RESIDENCE. almost any one, but there has been no place ers, sole executor and administrator of this The local changes of these Pilgrim de- for it until it came to its own. my last will and testament." scendants have a method in them. On the road they made the acquaintance of the This is a strong story. The name of Rog- THE MARTYR CLAIM. is of power always, and, to add to its "early comers of Cambridge and Dorches- ers one The Long Island Rogerses are not the John, Jr., married well, secured ter," met their kin and friends from the desirability, only ones who claim, with Thomas Rogers, a back ancestor Priscilla Molines Al- "mother country." They follow Warham for of the Mayflower, a line "from way back," recently, at a woman's society, and Hooker and "sit down" in Windsor, den, who which shall give them the increased glory as one of the ten great Wetbersfield and Hartford, gathering re- was put forward of descent from John the Martyr. of history. She certainly claims the cruits for any new movement, whether the women In the "History of Huntington," page 6, of her descendants, and John Alden is end finds them in Sharon, Amenia and love there is the statement that Thomas, of the "Nine Partners," or stopping on the way af not far behind in the same sentiment. Mayflower, was son of John, of Dedham, Stamford, they spread sail and trim their who was son of Noah, of Exeter, who was BRADFORD, ALSO. canvas for Long Island. son of John the Martyr, "Prebendary of St. This lineage also adds Bradford, and William Rogers, it is claimed, took the Paul's, Vicar of St. Sepulchre's, and reader there are those who put him first in their natural route to Stamford (though I have of Divinity, who was burnt at Smithfield, estimate of the Pilgrims. no record of him there after leaving Weth- February 14. 1555. First Martyr in Queen Rogers, Bradford, Molines, Alden, South- ersfield), then settled at Hempstead, L. I., Mary's reign." worth demand good citizenship. removing about 1648-9 to Southampton, and The following line which came to me then his household gods, not having root, NAME CONNECTIONS. gives the pleasure of showing a descent de- went to Huntington, L. I., where, together The name connections are very strong, to sired by many who cannot exactly make with Thomas Weeks and Jonas Wood, both most people absolutely convincing. Thom- the connection at various points. I add the of whom were fellow associates in Wethers- as, the American progenitor name in Eng- wife of the first John only: field, he acquired permanent local rights land, after the fashion of the day, one son 1. John Rogers, son of Thomas, of the by purchasing land from the Huntington John, for his father. Then Noah, the son of Mayflower, married Ann Churchman April Indians. William, seems to fit by his naming into the 16, 1639. Savage says perhaps daughter of This was, indeed, his last home, for he ancestral Noah. Hugh Churchman, of Lynn, 1640. died soon after this settling, leaving a THE MARTYR'S DESCENDANTS. in married 2. John Rogers, born 1641, widow, Anne Rogers, and children, Obadiah, The history of John Rogers, of Smith- daughter of William and Eliza- Elizabeth, his eldest son, who, however, finding the field fame, should certainly be found among Alden Pabodie (or Peabody), Novem- beth place to his mind, remained at Southamp- the American family of the name, for I ber 16, 1666. ton; the others, Jonathan, Noah, Simuel, have heard of enough Bibles belonging to 3. Sarah Rogers, born March 4, 1677, Mary and Hannah, removed with him to him, with full records as to identity and married Nathaniel, son of Robert and De- Huntington. lineage, which have mainly perished in the Little borah Searle, born June 9, 1662, NO WILL. flames, to have kindled his funeral pile, and Compton, R. I., and died February 5, The barrier of "early records lost" meets occupied every moment of his maturer 1750. us here, and there is no evidence of Will- years, to the exclusion even of sleep and 4. Deborah Searle. born November 17, iam Rogers having left a will, but all is sustenance. 1695, died May 10, 1776, at Little Compton; not darkness, when the will of Anne Rog- Surely he must have descendants, when married, February 20, 1717, George Pearce ers is found recorded at Riverhead. Long the nursery tales "of long ago" harrowed (son of George), who was born March 2, Island, dated November 22, 1669. the minds of children of that period by pic- 1697, died February 22, 1764. In this testament she mentions her son tures of John Rogers at the stake, sur- 5. Jeptha Pearce, born February 20, 1722. Obadiah, and his eldest son, also Obadiah, rounded by "nine small children, and one at died October 22, 1770>married, February who were residing in Southampton in the the breast." The works of art were very 23, 1749, Elizabeth Rouse, who was born very homestead occupied by our William crude, and though the flames were angry February 23, 1724. Rogers, before he removed to Huntington. and widespread, our Martyr seemed to bear 6. Betsy (widow of Benjamin Sayer) Between the deaths of the parents, the a charmed life, to endure it all without any Pearce, born October 17, 1756; married sons, John and Noah, made home in Bran- physical evidence but that of serene peace April 6, 1800, Capt. Zebedee Grinnell, who ford. Conn., and John died unmarried before and perfect confidence in the truths for the was born January 20, 1730, and died De- 1671. Noah, however, gives us a clear expounding of which he was to suffer the cember 13, 1811. record, marrying April 8, 1673, Elizabeth death penalty. 7. Brenton Bliss Grinnell, born Septem- Taintor, daughter of Michael Taintor. The personal histor^ of this family is very ber 9, 1801, died September 1, 1883; mar- There is no "probably" written on this meager, but the lineage, as I have received ried, January 22, 1825, Nancy Bennett will of Widow Anne Rogers, she is herself, it, is fine, and cannot fail to establish and Brownell, born December 8, 1805, died Aug- no one else, despite any other possible call out all there is to be known. The line ust 15, 1884. claimants—they are the ones to be avoided, now given is very comprehensive, follows No one can be skeptical in the face of so we write out, Ann Rogers, widow of the Pilgrim beckonings, and must of neces- authentic public records, made as events Henry Rogers, of Setucket, who after- sity make authentic the claims of many were happening. ward married George Wood, of Setucket. families. So, when a correspondent sent me the fol- and survived him, the same to Anne Rogers, I. Thomas Rogers, of the Mayflower. lowing from the Harwich records, with the wife of John Rogers, of Oyster Bay, for II. Williams Rogers, of Huntington, statement that "she had searched them per- she and her husband were both alive when moved to Southampton, L. I.; a landholder sonally about two years ago," the con- our Anne, widow of William Rogers, of from 1642 to 1645; married Anne, who in summation of the wishes of all concerned Huntington, died. 1669 is a widow, and makes a will, leaving was almost startling. STILL MORE. her property to her six children. "William, son of first Thomas, settled in If more is wanted to place this family au- Obadiah (1), born 1630-5; inherited house anil Hempstead, Long Island, and died in thentically, it can be found in the office of land at Southampton, which since 1650 1650." the Town Clerk of North Hempstead, at has been in the family. John of The content of success is upon us all, no Roslyn, Queens County, "Vol. E, pp. 18, 19, (2), born 1646, Huntington; Free- discussion left, and for once all are satisfied where all can read and digest the quit claim man; 1664; married Naomi, daughter of with a "plain, unvarnished tale." deed of Widow Anne's grandson Obadiah, Robert Burdeck; landowner before 1668 in The work of connection is only pleasure, of Southampton, in which on August 13, Huntington; removed to Branford about SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 16G6; landowner in Branford 1GG8; died Joseph (34), born March 20, 1792, mar- signed by Jeduthan Rogera, Rufus Rogers, in 1676, without issue. ried Alder Petty. Ambrose Ames and Anna Ames, Amos Samuel (3). VIL Lois Hall Rogers Mary (33), born July Green and Lucy Green, Jabez Walcott and (4). 31, 1789, at Wallingford, Conn., married Jemima Walcott, Edward I*eane and Han- (Jonathan (5). (Town records of Hunt- John Alexander, of Keene, N. H., January nah Pease. ington, L. published L, 1889) 1637). 21, 1810, at Claremont, N. H. He was Vol. 14. page 462, date October 5, 1801— Noah (6), born 1646. born July 27, 1790, at Winchester. N. H., Will of Nathaniel Rogers, of Lebanon; wife, Hannah (7). and died March 18, 1840. She died January Susannah Rogers; sons, Jeremiah. Josiah. III. Noah Rogers (6), born 1646, married 26, 1881, at Cohoes, N. Y. Issue: Daniel and Harris; daughter. Elizabeth Elizabeth, daughter of the first Michael Lucius (34), born December 10. 1810, Noyes, wife of John Noyea. Heirs of Taintor, of Branford, and Elizabeth Rous my married Sophia Chapin; eight children. daughter Theoda Watrous, deceased wife (?), April 8, 1673. Noah removed to Bran- James (35), born October 21, 1812, mar- of Oliver Watrous. Heirs of my daughter, ford about 1666. Was a landowner in ried Susan Braman; seven children. Hannah Stark, deceased wife of Dyar Huntington before 1668; died 1725; left a Bradley (30), born November 27, 1815, Stark. Daughter Luciuda Avery, daughter large amount of money, besides much land. married Frances Hale; six children. Susannah Hyde, wife of Solomon Hyde. Issue: Thankful (37). born March 18, 1818, died Vol. 15, page 233—Will of Jeremiah Mary (8), born April 14, 1675; married September 12, 1819. Rogers, of Lebanon, date August 10. 1805. Barnes, of East Hampton, L. I. Oliver (38), born May 3, 1820, married probated May 6, 1806. Wife Lucy Rogers; John born (9), November 6, 1677; married Lucretia Droune; three children. daughters Lydia and Anna, now Lydia Lydia, daughter of John Frisbie and Ruth Joseph George (39), born May 9, 1822, Stark; A nna Bartlett; son-in-law Caleb Bowers, June 17, 1713; died about 1750 in married Barbara Vickers; seven children. Stark, named as executor. Branford (?). John (40), born July 12, 1824, married Su- Vol. 15, page 291—Receipt of the only Josiah (10), born January 31, 1679, one of san Wood; four children. heirs to the estate of Jeremiah Rogers, late the proprietors of the town of Branford; of Seraph Ashley (41), born November 5, Lebanon, dated August 23, 1806, signed married Lydia Goodsell. Issue, eleven 1827, married 1849, Hon. Joseph Adams by Caleb Stark and Julius Bartlett children. Pond, of Boston, Mass., president Massa- Vol. 19, page 339. August 10, 1829—In- Thomas, the sixth child, married Rebecca, chusetts Senate; five children. ventory of estate of Oliver Rogers, of Chap- daughter of Abijah Hobart. Stonington. lin, insolvent, of Lois Hall (42), born March 26, 1830, $38.95: afterward declared Conn., and died about 1750, in Branford, married Thomas W. Bachelle, of Lynn, and no mention of heirs to be found. aged 86; had eight children. Mass.. March 29, 1853. In Court Book No. 5, Pace 1S1. December Hezekiah 16, 1786 Nathaniel Rogers, of Lebanon, i- (11). Bennajah Franklin (43), born September — appointed guardian of his grandson Seth Noah (12), born 1688. 7, 1832. Rose, Elizabeth (13), married Abiel Frisbie, of VIII. Seraph Ashley Alexander, born minor. " One kind act has begotten another, and Branford. November 5, 1827, married December 4, from Mr. C. H. Dimmick. Town Clerk of Ann (14), married Barnes, of East 1849, Hon. Joseph Adams Pond, born in the town of Windham. Conn., comes the Hampton, L. I. Boston September 8, 1827, died in Boston record of vital statistics of the town of IV. John Rogers (9), born November 6, October 22, 1S67. Issue: Windham, Conn. 1677; married Lydia, daughter of John Joseph (41) Adams, Jr. Relating to the Rogers Family. Frisbie and Ruth Bowers, June 17, 1713. Alexander Winthrop (42). Hope Rogers to Esther Meacham, mar- He died about 1750 in Branford (?), Issue: Frederic Wilson (43). riage November 14. 1715. Lydia (15), baptized May 12, 1714. Carolyn Ashley (44). Mary (16), baptized March 30, 1716. Ellen Josphine Pond (45). CHILDREN. Hannah (17), baptized July 10, 1718. There are surely no limits to the claims of Joseph, son, born August 5. 1716. Elizabeth (18), baptized September 14, the Rogers family, and the present active in- Ishmael. son, born July 7, 1717. 1720. terest will unquestionably place matters of Ichabod, son, born January 19. 1718-19. John (19), baptized October 14, 1722. ascent and descent right, even if it requires Josiah, son, born October 7. 1720. Joseph (20), baptized April 29. 1725. time to put everything in authentic line. Jethro, son, born April 14. 1722, 1723-4. Daniel (21), baptized June 2, 1727. The rare opportunity I am availing my- Jeduthan, son. born February 16, 21, Samuel (22). baptized October 5, 1729. self of leads me to feel that I am only writ- Sarah, daughter, born February Stephen (23). ing the "Pilgrim's Primer," a necessity for 1725-6. 1727. V. Joseph Rogers (20), baptized April 29. after work. Mary, daughter, born October 6, Joel, son, born October 14, 1729. 1725, married, Susannah Pardee August 23, No one is great by themselves, and I can born August 23. 1732. 1748. Issue: truly feel that, surrounded as I am by hosts Ruth, daughter, Jason (24), born December 2, 1749 ) . of friends and upholders, I should achieve DEATHS. twlns - Joel (25), born December 2, 1749 < something of true importance. Joseph, son. died August 9. 1716. Abigail (26), born December 27, 1751. The following records come from sources Ichabod Rogers to Priscilla Holt, mar- Joseph (27), born in Branford. April 27. that admit of no questioning: the first are riage November 10. 1743. 1755, married Lois Hall, December 25, the result of the generous offer of Judge No record of any children born to them. 1779, and died April 19, 1833. Charles N. Daniels, of the Windham Coun- the public will Malachi (28), born November 28, 1763. ty Probate Court, to whom Jethro Rogers to Hannah Holt, marriage the "Signers of the VI. Joseph Rogers (27), born April 27, owe far more before October S. 1747. 1755, in Branford, married Lois Hall, of Compact" is complete. CHILDREN. Wallingford, (born September 25, Conn, ROGERS. Oliver, son. born April 14. 171*v 1757), December 25, 1779. Died in Clare- Copied from Windham Probate Records. Bixbee, son, born December IS. 17-19. mont, N. H., April 19, 1833. She died May Vol. I., Part 1, pages 312, 313. DK LTHS. 30, 1829. Issue, all born in Wallingford, Will of William Rogers, of Voluntown, Bixbee, son. died December 27. 1749. Conn.: dated December 25, 1727, offered for pro- Thaddeus (29), born July 20, 1781, mar- bate July 28. 1729, mentions oldest son Josiah Rogers to Hannah Ford, marriage ried Philina Putnam. John, second son, William, son Mathew March 1. 1742-3. Bennajah (30), born October 3, 1782, mar- Patrick and wife Elizabeth, daughters CHILDREN. ried Sally Hartshorn. Anna and Janet and wife Janet. Vol. 2, Jonah, son. born December 15. 1743. Lemuel (31), born July 13, 1784. married page 178, date April 6. 1736, find receipt of Josiah. son. born August 2. 1747. Fanny Putnam. John to his brother William for his part of Hannah, daughter, born July 15, 1748. Abigail (32), born February 15. 1787, his father's estate, witnessed by Mathew DEATHS. married George Beeckman September 25, Patrick and Elizabeth Fatrick. Josiah. son. died September 7. 1748. 1810, and second, Henry Hill, May 28, Vol. 14, page 462, date January 17. 1801— 1827. Inventory of estate of Jeduthan Rogers, late Jeduthan Rogers to Anna Farnum. mar- riage October 21. 1747. Lois Hall (33), born July 31. 1789, mar- of Hampton. ried John Alexander January 28, 1810, of Vol. 15, page 148, date September 18. 1801 CHILDREN *• Keene, N. H. —Receipt of heirs of Jeduthan Rogers. Jeduthan. son. borr. May 21. 1 7 I 14 Anna, daughter, born December 10, 1749. Whiteman, June 8, 1734; both been married The following is written on the first fly Esther, daughter, born March G, 1750. before. leaf: Jeduthan, son, born March 4, 1753. Noah Rogers, married Heziah Whiteman, The Esther, daughter, born January 7, 1755. February 18, 1734-5. New Testament Lucy, daughter, born October 24, 175G. James Rogers, married Mary Smith, of our Lord Christ Jemima, daughter, born July 19, 1758. March 16, 1736. Translated from the original Greek by Isaiah, son, born February 20, 17G0. John Titus, married Susanna Rogers, Cranmer, Tabitha, daughter, born November 19, October 4, 1741. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 1761. Joseph Rogers, married Mary Rogers, in the second year of Edward VI.'s reign DEATHS. widow, July 9, 1746. MDXLIX. Jeduthan, son, died June 24, 1750. Isaac Rogers, married Mary Rogers, The following is written on the second fly Esther, daughter, died September (!, 1753. November 27. 1747. leaf: Esther, daughter, died January 21, 1756. Cornelius Conklin, married Elizabeth Hoc Novum Testamentum Republica, Tabitha, daughter, died April 22, 17G3. Rogers, January 7, 1747. eruditissimis viris ostensum est, inter quos Anna, the wife of Jeduthan Rogers, died Amos Piatt, married Sarah Rogers, alliqui illustres Theologiae Doctores erant, December 30, 1762. April 27, 1745. Id cum libris et codicillis amplissimarum Ebenozer Titus, married Jerusha Rogers, bibliothecarum collatum est, et declaratum Jeduthan Rogers to Hannah Knight, mar- July 23, 1750. est Cranmeris Episcopi, primarii Canter- riage October 12, 1763. Jonas Rogers, married Mary Jarvis, bury, editio promulgata anno Domini CHILDREN. November 21, 1761. MDXLIX, et in Brittaniae regis Edvardi Timothy Rogers, married Jemima Conk- Hannah, daughter, born August 31, 1764. VI. secundo anno. lin, 22, 1751. Porter, Rufus, son, born January 16, 1767. December Gulialmus H. Joseph Conklin, married Charity Rogers, Asa, son, born March 14, 1769. Waterford, Conn., Oct. 1st, 1839. January 1752. DEATHS. 15, The following is a newspaper clipping Thomas Rogers, married Mary Whitson, pasted on a fly leaf taken from the "New Hannah, the wife of Jeduthan Rogers, January 23, 1751-2. London Repository:" died August 13, 1771. Henry Jarvis, married Sarah Rogers, The Bible of John Rogers the Martyr. May 26, 1752. Little dream, in the of our Jeduthan Rogers to Eunice Burges, mar- did we days Silas Sammis, married Ruth Rogers, boyhood, while, with eager curiosity and riage October 4, 1772. September 2S, 1762. simplicity to pore over No record of any children born unto them. childish we used Zopha Rogers, married Deborah White- the pages of the New England primer, and Oliver Rogers to Hannah Coburn, mar- head, December 7, 1752. pause with almost tearful sympathy over riage February 11, 1770. Josiah Rogers, married Ruth Bunco, the quaint old wood cut representing the CHILDREN. January 15, 1754. burning of the martyr, John Rogers, at the Jeremiah Rogers, married Abigail Kelsey, stake, attended by "his wife and nine small Lovewell, son, born January 17, 1772. March 23, 1757. children, with one at the breast," that we Cynthia, daughter, born April 20, 1774. Obidiah Rogers, married Mary Rogers, should ever behold the Bible, the veritable Daniel, son born November 9, 1776. January 23, 1769. Bible, read, pondered and prayed over by Philora, daughter, born September 23, Timothy Rogers, married Mary Thomas, that noble martyr to Christian faith. 1778. the October 2, 1759. But we have the privilege of recording the Hannah, daughter, born May 26, 1785. Josiah Rogers, Jr., married Jerusha strange fact that we have seen, handled Tryphena, daughter, born December 7, Rogers, June 10, 1760. the 1788. and perused identical precious relic of Andrew Leet Coles, Fairfield, Conn., mar the days of the Smithfield fires and the From Connecticut to Long Island is only ried Elizabeth Rogers, June 11, 1760. bloody persecution of the reign of the cruel following a Pilgrim impulse; the names Silas Carle, married Mary Rogers, Mary. show for the translation, and both places January 25, 1760. The book itself is a small, thick quarto, should be searched for connections. Philip Rogers, married Phebe Rogers, containing the New Testament (the transla- The fate of the papers on all sides acts October 9, 1762. tion of Cranmer in 1539), the Psalms and a as a warning to those now in possession Zephaniah Rogers, married Mary Jar- portion of the liturgy of the Protestant of valuable records to have copies made vis, May 15, 1779. Church at that time. The title page, a few and placed in fireproof vaults. No matter who James Rogers, of New of the first and the last leaves have been It is hard to know they have been not London, was descended from he had chil- lost, the book having been twice rebound. purified, but extinguished by fire, and the dren and made a will, leaving behind him It is printed in the large, full, ancient Ger- escape of the following records from the a clear record of his doings, his value in man text, with ornamental initial letters to Old or First Freshyterian Church, Hunt- the community and the amount of his es- a portion of the chapters and a few marginal ington, L. I., which fell into the hands of tate. references. the British, seems almost a miracle. He came to America in the ship Increase The chapters are divided, as in King Only the marriages were given by the in 1635, aged 20 years, always supposed to James's version, but they have no division kind friend, who thoughtfully placed them be into verses, capital letters in the margin in- at my disposal. a descendant of John the Martyr. Few people dicating the commencement of paragraphs as Josiah Rogers, married Elizabeth Conk- have greater reason for mak- they occur in each chapter. lin, March 23, 1724-5. ing a claim, or feeling that they substan- In various parts of the book we find brief Hezekiah Rogers, married Ruth tiated it, than this on the part of James Scud- notes and memorandums by different per- der, March 29, 1725. Rogers. It needs no discussion; it comes sons relative to its carefully cherished aud Philip Piatt, married authentically, so far as anything can, from Phebe Rogers, De- authentic history. cember 15, 1725. the librarian of Alfred University, New York State, where This venerable book, by a careful compar- Joseph Rogers, married Mary Conklin the Bible recorded as ison with a number of ancient copies in the April 14, 1726. from John the Martyr, of Smithfield, Eng- library of Yale College, New Haven, is as- Silas Weeks, married Sarah Rogers, land, is preserved. Jan- certained by antiquarians to have been uary 23, 1726-7. To strengthen and prove its value, I printed in 1549, in the days of King Edward Jacob Rogers, married quote verbatim from the copy of the Bible Sarah Smith, VI., under the patronage of Thomas Cran- May 28, 1732. records: mer. the primate of England, who was burnt Alexander Rogers, married Phebe Written on inside of cover is the follow- Wood at Oxford March 1, 1556, in the third year August 29, 1732. ing: of Mary's reign, a little more than two years Annais Rogers, married Prudence Carle Cranmer's first edition, to which this after Rogers was burnt at Smithfield. November 1732. 7, accurately corresponds, was first published The Bible was kept as an heirloom by the Cornelius Conklin, married Premella in 1539. The archbishop was burned by family, descendants of the venerated mar- Rogers, November 7, 1732. Bloody Mary in 1556. We give this the tyr, having been concealed from the minions John Brush, married Jane Rogers, Janu- date of 1549 for fear of antedating. Fifteen of the bloody Queen during the remainder ary 8, 1734. hundred and thirty-nine might, with more of her reign, in a bed, and carefully pre- Jonathan Rogers, married Hannah propriety, have been its date," served until it passed into the hands of SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 15 James Rogers, a descendant (great-grand- with him when they read that he was born who were held back to await means of con- son, as by himself stated) of the martyr, by about 1500, at Deritend, in the parish of veyance, they are found on the first list of whom, when 20 years of age, it was brought Aston, near Birmingham. freeman, 1633, Joshua Pratt coming on one over to this country. This gives us pause, and tells the Pilgrim of the "forefather ships," Phineas, supposed He emigrated to New Haven in 1635, and story of the Scrooby postroad, of the cities of Weston's company. sacredly the precious all most kept relic in and towns surrounding it, where, from gen- Kinspeople together, Francis Cooke as his sojourns in this, then, wilderness, as a eration to generation the germ of Separat- always the head of the family. Such things protection against the attacks of savag° ism was being passed on, gathering in do not come by chance. foes, or a talisman against misfortune. It strength for the deeds which make the his- JAMES, came into the possession of Jonathan, the tory of our country. OF NEW LONDON. fifth son of James Rogers, descended to his John, of Smithfield, was only in advance James Rogers, as has been stated, came eldest child, who, by marriage, became con- of his times, when, from an orthodox Cath- to America in the Increase, 1635. aged 20 nected with the Potter family at Hopkinton. olic priest, he became a Protestant, and, years. The first knowledge of him is at R. I. —Conclusion of Newspaper Clipping. with the new zeal of his conversion, made Stratford, New Haven County, Conn., he This Bible has been most religiously cher- the manner of his death such a triumph of where married Elizabeth, daughter of ished in this family about a hundred years, faith. Samuel Rowland, their oldest son, Samuel, is the property of Mrs. benefiting by his naming, for he received and now Saunders, Being the son of John the first, as I reckon from his grandfather, Rowland, according niece of the late Miss Polly Potter, of Pot- him, though many generations behind him to Savage, a large estate. ter Hill, R. I. are known, and Margery Wyatt, the father for Next he is heard of at Milford. Conn., It has been confided a short time, as a a Ioriner, in our modern view of the calling where his wife united with Mr. Pruddens precious relic, to Capt. Daniel Rogers, of a saddler, how he must have startled his Church, (who was the first pastor in Mil- this city, by whose indefatigable antiquarian parents in their simple life by his going out ford), in 1645, and "he himself in 1652." genealogical researches its historical connec- from them to the world he made for him- In the same church the children were bap- tion with every family through which it has self. passed has been fully established back tized. Nature asserted itself in the change of re- "In ye story of ye Memorial, as told by through the descendants of the former own- ligion, and soon John, of Smithfield fame, Nathan G. Pond," in commemoration of er. James Rogers, who came to America in took to himself the wife who has been no the 250th year of Milford's History, there 1035. as above stated. small part in the history connected with is an account of the stone bridge raised in Delays are not always dangerous, and to the Martyr. honor of this event, on one stone of which, secure all that can be known requires the "Adrianna de Weyden, (the surname as the gift of Hon. Isaac T. Rogers, is giving of sufficient time to leave no stone meaning meadows. Latin, prata, anglicized inscribed. unturned to gather in the history all are into Pratt)." his choice was from Antwerp, anxious for. and they are found, shortly after their mar- A great searcher is certainly entitled to riage at Wittenberg, where he was in charge i JAMES ROGERS, : every consideration. One follows almost of a Protestant congregation, and became blindly their train of thought, and accepts a proficient German scholar. :' Obit. 1688. it from the very force of their argument, All the names in the biographies, histories, : Elizabeth, His Wife. : but even in the face of my own willingness, etc., are reproduced in the American de- I cannot see any cause why James Rogers, scendants, John always to the front, as was of Newport, R. I., should claim the place fitting, but the roll call, even as known, can Whatever his birthright, James Rogers as possible son of Thomas of the May- be responded to over and over again. had the spirit of his and every epoch of flower, as against James Rogers, of New Placing Thomas, of the Mayflower, as a the world where the man owned the ability, London. descendant of John, the Martyr, seems to to seek large business interests, and. being Mr. Drummond has effectually disposed me not only possible, but so conclusive that of strong stock, he succeeded. of John, of Milford: left no possible argu- an argument sent me from Miss Anna B. His small dealings with New London ment in his favor, though even having two Williams, of Springfield, Mass., fiti so nat- "grew and multiplied" nntil he had to seek sons of the same name in a family is not urally into my own suppositions and needs a broader field for his workings, and went without historical precedent, as Mr. Ethan that I give it entire, hoping the outgrowth permanentlv to New London, the home of Allen Doty found in his searches. definite light on the subject. may be Governor Winthrop. of Connecticut, and Rhode Island colonial records give that ANOTHER'S OPINION. Jonathan Brewster, between 1656 and James Rogers was a freeman at Newport. "It seems to me that about the first thing 1660. R. T., March 15. 1643: was elected ser- th<> wife of the Martyr would have done, Before leaving Milford he recorded him- gpant of the General Assembly March 15. after the terrible tragedy in England, would self, for in 1655 he was "informed against 1643. and continued such until 1664. and hare been to flee with all speed, with her for had buskit and flower, and if after that was also the Solicitor General in 1657. In vonng children to her native town and his flower or bread was bad the damage 1676 his widow. Mary Rogers (then Mary friends. Germany, not far from the very would fall on him." Peabody). petitions to settle bis accounts. snot whence embarked the passengers of the Being "in transit." he did not hesitate to THE MARTYR'S BIBLE. Mayflower. This stone is conspicuous and make further history, and in 1656 "James Experts, whose opinions are all valuable, has never been turned." Rogers was informed against for bringing believe in the Bible now in the Museum of Interconse with relatives in the sections in liquors and not paying customs duties on Alfred University as belonging to John, the near Birmingham, and Antwerp, could them. He was present, and said it was two Smithfield Martyr, inherited by his descend- easily produce the descent, which would or three anchors. He was ordered to an- ant. James Rogers, of New London, and by send to us Thomas of the Mayflower, and swer to his neglect." him brought to this country. later on the "other children." who bore the Safe in New London, he tried his Httle This coincides with my own convictions, names recorded in history. game again, and in 1657 "James Rogers and on this platform I propose to work, ac- OTHERS OF THE FAMILY. had three anchors of liquor forfeited." knowledging from the onset that many rec- Although Thomas, with his young son Jo- Honor and prosperity came with his local ords which would have been convincing to seph, were the pioneers, they were not. as I habitation in the plantation. He soon me a short time since, to-day. from the fact argue, the only members of their immediate gained property and influence, found him- in civil ec- of my long searching among these people of family represented in the early colonies. self sought, and employed and Six times chosen rep- Pilgrim claim, have only led me to make an It must be remembered that the Cooke clesiastical affairs. entire change of belief. and Rogers families intermarried many resentative to the "General Court." and In History of Hartford." Vol. I., Each historian of this family has given, times in Europe, also that the name of the "Memorial from Say- according to his lights, the opinions formed wife of John, the Martyr, was Pratt. he is given as one of the men lived for a short tiraeV In from the records found. This serves my purpose, and T call atten- brook (where he war. They have turned all the stones in their tion to the record of New Plymouth colony. rhe Pequot anticipated the Rogers line of march, but left many, as a matter "In the division of cattle on Mm- 22. 1627. Wise James, he call for Colonial sons and dames. Got. of course, to be removed by others. the first lot fell to Francis Cooke, and his Winthrop. mindful of his Talue. nnred his JOHN THE MARTYR. company joined to him." Among them were settlemenf_|n_New London, accommodated John Rogers, the martyr, holds his own Joshua Pratt. Phineas Pratt. - ' him with a portion of his owu home lot. always, and all will feel better acquainted Then to establish them as "old colonies," 16 SIGNEKS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. On this Rogers, building for perpetuity, 4. John, born 3-20-1676; died 7-13-1739; nothing unfinished, there was a Pratt, per- erected a house of stone. married 2-5-1718, Deborah Dayton. haps waiting and willing to marry John 5. Rowland, born about 1680; died 5-16- BUSINESS. Rogers's divorced wife. 1712; married Mary . The children of John and Elizabeth Gris- "He was a baker on a large scale, often 6. Elizabeth, married (1) Chapman; wold Rogers, first wife of John, were: furnishing biscuit for seamen and for married (2), 4-7-1705, Bartholomew Cross- 1. Elizabeth, born 11, 8, 1671; married colonial troops, and between 16G0 and 1670 man. Stephen Prentiss, son of John Prentiss, of had a greater interest in the trade of those 7. Sarah, died 11-21-1729; married 2-18- Lyme, Conn., 1689-90. parts than any other person in the place." 1712, Thomas, son of Thomas and Susanna 2. John, born 3, 20, 1674; died 6, 18, Head of the first "American Biscuit Com- birth Williams. She left her husband after 1753; married 1, 20, 1700, his cousin, Bath- pany" and next to Gov. Winthrop, the of daughter Ruth (born 1713), who married sheba Smith. She, daughter of Richard richest man in the State. Joseph Huntley, of Lyme. Thomas Will- and Bathsheba (Rogers) Smith; married (2) His landed possessions were very exten- iams married again, 1717, Sarah Babcock. 1, 28, 1723, Elizabeth, daughter of Israel sive, his outlook was on a broad domain he Sarah did not remarry. Dodge, of New London. knew was his own, there were "several hun- 8. Bathsheba, married, 4-24-1725, Ga- Children by second wife, Mary: dred acres on 'great neck,' the fine tract of briel, son of John Harris; he born about 3. Gershom, born 2, 24, 1700; died 1770; land called "Pachaug farm," several house 1686. married 4, 8, 1725, Sarah, daughter of Da- lots in town, and twenty-four acres east of 9. Jonathan, born about 1683; married vid Wheeler, of Groton, Conn. the river, which he held in partnership with Alice Champion, of Lyme. She had her 4. Mary, born 3, 6, 1702; died 11, 5, 1781; Col. Pynchon, of Springfield, Mass." dower set off about 1749. Three minor married 1, 22, 1730, John son of John The wolf was effectually driven from the children. Hobbs, of Boston. Rogers door. III. John (James (1), born 12, 1, 1648; IV—Bathsheba (James (1) ), born 12, 30, The children, I am happy to give authen- died 10, 17, 1721; married (1), 10, 17, 1670, 1650; married 3, 4, 1669-70, Richard tically, from Mr. J. S. Rogers, of Chicago, Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew Griswold. Smith, of New London, Conn.; married (2), and while I add many personal traits and She was born 1652 and died 1727. John Samuel Fox. items, the dates of births, marriages and Rogers, having left the established church Their children were: deaths I place securely from his courtesy. and joined the "Seventh Day Baptist" 1. James, who married Elizabeth (daugh- I. Samuel (James, 1), born 12-12-1040, Church, of Newport, R. I., his wife was ter of Jonathan Rogers); baptized, 4—12— died 12-1-1713; married (1) 11-17-1G62, granted a divorce in 1676. He married 6, 1674. Mary, daughter of Thomas, and Dorothy 6, 1699, Mary Ransford. This marriage 2. Elizabeth, married William Camp, of (Lord) Stanton, married (2) Joanna, widow was declared illegal in 1703. He married New London. of Thomas Williams, of New London. (3) 7, — , 1714, Widow Sarah Coles, of Oy- 3. John. Their children were: ster Pond, L. I. 4. Bathsheba, married John Rogers (2), 1. Mary, born 4-17-1667; died, 9-30-1756; At the marriage of John Rogprs to Eliza- 1, 2, 1700. She died 11, 13, 1721. married, 10-2-1685, Capt. Samuel Gilbert beth Griswold, her father performed the 5. Richard, died about 1703. (son of Jonathan.l), of Hartford, Conn., af- ceremony, accompanied with a written con- V.—James (James (1) ), born 2, 15, 1652, terward of Colchester. Conn. He died tract, or dowry, the husband prophetically died 2, 7, 1713; married 11, 5, 1674, Mary, 2. Samuel, born 12-22-1669; died 2-2-1743; preparing for the separation which occurred. daughter of Jefferson Jordan, of Ireland. married 1-16-1694, Abigail, daughter of He was at one time a man of influence "Tradition says that Capt. James Rogers John Plumb. She died 6-7-1732. aged 57. in New London, Conn., but eventually be- commanded a vessel which brought over a This is probably the Samuel who married, coming a law unto himself, he naturally number of Redemptionists from Ireland, 1733, Elizabeth Hall, but December 1737, suffered from the powers he was antag- among them this Jordan family. On his ar- he married Palatiah, widow of John Ames, onizing. What he desired, he assumed, tak- rival Capt. Rogers became the purchaser and daughter of John Stebbins. She died ing to himself the ministerial offices of bap- of the oldest daughter, Mary, and married 1-6-1755, aged 78. tizing and preaching, and further to separ- her." 3. Daniel, born about 1670, died before ate himself from the accepted sects organ- In after life he would say "that it was the 1737; married, 9-24-1702, Grace, daughter of ized one of his own, called "Rogerine Bap- richest cargo he ever shipped, and the best Thomas and Joanna Williams. She was tists," or "Rogerine Quakers." obeyed bargain he ever made." born 1680. He the government so far as it did not conflict Their children were : 4. Elizabeth, born 5-8-1673; died about with his code of conscience or religion. They 1. James, born 2, 2, 1674, died 7, 9, 1733; 1750; married (1), 1-5-1699, Theophilus paid the county rate, but the poor ministers married (1) Elizabeth , who died 2, 28, Stanton, of Preston, Conn.; married (2), had no rights. They must live on constant 1713; married (2) Freelove Hurlburt (daugh- 3-17-1709. Asa Harris. He was born in "donation parties." and the rate for their ter of Stephen); she was born 1694, and Boston, Mass, 11-10-1680. Was brother of maintenance was not only not recognized died 1, 26, 1739. James Harris, who married her sister Sarah. but abhorred. 2. Mary, born 5, 1, 1678, died 12, 31, 5. Anna, born 5-8-1675; died, 7-26-1689. Prayer with them must be silent, unless 1720; married 1, 30, 1705, Thomas, son of 6. Sarah, born 8-9-1676; died, 11-13-1748- the grace from within was too strong for John Prentiss. married. 5-10-1696. James Harris, son of repression, and burst forth in song or word. 3. Elizabeth, born 8, 27, 1680; married, 3, James Harris, of Boston, Mass. To a slight degree they favored in their 24, 1703, Samuel, «on of Joseph Rogers; When Samuel Rogers and Mary Stanton belief the Christian Scientists. They con- she died 6, 29, 1703. were married, "the parents of the two con- sidered the use of physicians and drugs as 4. Sarah, born 11, 23, 1682; died, 1776; tracting parties each pledged £200 as a sinful, relying on kindness, care and watch- married (1) Jonathan Haynes; married (2) marriage portion to the couple." Mr. Rog- fulness for cures in case of sickness. Elder Stephen Gorton; he was born 1704 ers, in fulfillment of his bond, conveyed to The Congregational Church was in the (son of Benjamin). his son his stone house and bakery at Win- ascendant at that time, and vigorous as 5. Samuel, born 3, 23, 1685; died young. throp's Cove, or Mill, where the son com- was the growth of the Rogerines, the other 6. Jonathan, born 4, 13, 1678; lived to menced his housekeeping and lived for fif- sect, with Thomas Hooker as its ex- at least 1714, but probably unmarried. teen or twenty years. pounder, was too deep rooted to have it 7. Richard, born 10, 13, 1689; married, II. Joseph (James, 1), born 5-14-1646; viewed calmly. Still, with all that can be 1710, Mary (or Mercy), daughter of Joshua died 1697; married Sarah she died said on the subject, the granting of a di- and Mercy (Sandys) Raymond. 8-17-1728. vorce for ecclesiastical reasons, gave evi- 8. William, born 5, 10, 1693; died 1, 21, Their children were: dence of greater bigotry than one should 1744; married, 8, 27, 1713, Elizabeth Harris; 1. James, born 1672, died 7-21-1721- expect, even in those times, though the married in Westerly, R. I., but lived first married 3-27-1669. Sarah, daughter of feeling for Elizabeth Griswold Rogers is in New London, and said to have removed James Stevens, of Killingworth, Conn. She much lessened by the knowledge that in to New Jersey. born 1680, died 1-4-1752. less than in two years she married Peter The daughter.Lydia, married John Dodge, 2. Samuel, married (1) 3-24-1703, his Pratt (August 5, 1679). October 23, 1748, and from them are de- cousin Elizabeth, daughter of James The names have come to us again. The scended many prominent families. Rogers; married (2), 4-28-1707, Deborah Cookes were Baptists, though not of the VI. Jonathan (James (1)), born 12, 31, ; she died 7-17-1727. Rogerine school, and they were Rogers kin, 1655; babtized in Newport, R. I., 1674: 3. Joseph, Jr., died 1, — , 1724; married the Tabers through whom so many reach drowned at Gull Island about 1697; married Deborah ; she died 7-17-1727. Francis Cooke were Baptists, and to leave Naomi, daughter of Elder Robert (of the — SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT 11 Baptist Church) and Ruth (Hubbard) Bur- God Almighty, desiring my body, it may be If any difference should arise about my dick. buried (hoping for the resurrection), and land here willed, or any part of my estate, Children of Jonathan and Naomi: what is expended thereupon let it be paid for want of a plain discovery, whether L Ruth, born 1678; married William, son out of the estate I leave. I desire all my about bounds or otherwise, my will is there of Samuel Beebe. debts may be paid out of the estate I leave. I shall be no lawing among my children be- 2. Elizabeth, born 1681; married James, know of no old debts unpaid nor any great fore earthly judges, but that the contro- son of Richard and Bathsheba (Rogers) matter of debts I owe. My land at Mystic versy be ended by lot, and so I refer the Smith. I bequeath to my three eldest sons, Samuel, judgment of God, and as the lot comes 3. Naomi, born 1686: married, 2, 25, 1708, Joseph and John, it being first by them forth so let it be. Benjamin, son of Samuel Fox. divided into three parts, and then let it be And this I declare to be my last will and 4. Content, born married 1688; 5, 1, 1707, divided to them by lot, that each may know testament, as witness my hand this elev- Jonathan Maxson, son of John and Mary what his part is, for as the lot falls, so shall enth day of the ninth month, one thousand (Mosher) Maxson, of Westerly, I. R. He each one's part be, they paying to my six hundred and eighty-three. was born 1680 and died 11, 20. 1732. daughter Elizabeth £25. James Rogers. 5. Jonathan, Jr. (only son), born 1690; 2. To my son James I bequeath Goshen Samuel Beebe, Mary Beebe, witnesses. died 6, —, 1780; married, about 1711, Judith Neck, and he shall have a highway to it Recorded in the third book of wills for Potter. over the pond where I now go. New London County this 22d day of July, 6. Rachel, born 1692; married Samuel 3. To my 1703. Fox, Jr. son Jonathan my houses and lands so far back as Magunk fence, which (James Rogers died when the government 7. Catherine, born 1694; married 4, 15, lies within of Sir Edmund Andros was paramount in 1720, William Brookfield, son of William, my field fence, and the bounds New England. His will was therefore of Elizabethtown, N. J. between my son James and son Jonathan, proved in Boston, Mass.) which is, so to say, between Goshen VII. Elizabeth (James (1) ), born 4, 15, and my field shall be the great rock lies 1658; died, 6, 10, 1716; married 2, 9, 1682, which AGAIN THE OTHER CHILDREN. Samuel Beebe, of Plum Island. between the pond, and the sea on the north In speaking of the Plymouth records a Their children were: side of the beach, a line being run north correspondent writes: "In only one book 1. Elizabeth, born 10, 27, 1684; married and south from the said, rock shall be the could I find anything about his other chil- Nathaniel Newbury, of New London. bounds between them. To my son Jona- dren (Thomas's), who came over later 2. Mary, born 1686; married John than I bequeath the twenty acres in the 5, 4, William, who settled in Hempstead, L. L; Clark, of Plum Island. new pasture joining his house and running and John, who owned land in Plymouth, 3. Bathsheba, born 1688; married on the south side of my field fence, and 3, 16, with his brother Joseph." William King. Jr., of Southold, L. I. bounded on the east by the lane running The statements in regard to this fam- 4. Rebecca, born 25, 1690; married between the head of my son James his home 1, ily, made nearly half a century ago lot and my son Jonathan his own dwelling Samuel Brown, of Southold, L. I. must have weight, lesssening as they house. 5. Patience, born 2, 25, 1692; married El- do the time between the generation? der I., To my son John and sun Jonathan I Thomas Hiscox, of Westerly, R. as who were the participants in the great his second wife. bequeath all the rest of my land lying in drama of life, bo fruitful in results, enacted 6. Hopestill, - the new pasture, as also all the rest of my twin of Patience. at Cape Cod. I give a "note of a discourse land lying in the General Neck, it being 7. Hannah, born 4, 5, 1695; married on the 'History of the Congregational divided by them into two parts first, and Lester, of Plum Island. Church Society' of North Branford, Conn- 8. Sus- then, as the lot comes forth shall each one James, born 10, 10, 1701; married January 6, 1850. by Rev. George I. Wood, know what his part is, and will is that anna Babcock. my then pastor of the church, in which he my son James pay to my daughter Eliza- The naming of the children in the various says that the first meeting house there was families beth twenty pounds within a year after the has a strong bearing on their con- built about 1724 (!!). gives names of the death of his mother (my wife), and that sanguinity. James, of New London, with Building Committee, including name of my son Jonathan pay to my daughter Eliza- good judgment, gives to his first born the Josiah Rogers, and in a foot note says: beth fifty pounds within three years after name of Samuel; then came Joseph for the 'This Josiah Rogers, the ancestor of the the death of my wife, ten of it the first brother who coming out with his father, in Rogerses of North Branford, was a lineal year after her death. view of the Pilgrim's death, took upon him- descendant of the fifth generation from To my son Joseph I bequeath the land I self the duties his age would admit of, and John Rogers, who was burnt by the Roman had of Obadiah Bowen, called Bruin's Neck. " stood in his father's place. Catholics at Smithfield in 1554.* To my son John I leave the land I had The inevitable John, pursuing the Rogers No one can realize better than I do that of Robert Allyn, lying on the east side of family always, then James for himself. I am presenting "an unvarnished tale" to the river that goeth to Norwich, he paying The will tells the story of the man—his the public. I have courted kindly criticism to his sister, my daughter Bathsheba the keen sense of justice, devotion to his wife step by step—very little has come to me— sum of twenty pounds within a year after and her interests, mindful of his children's but I do not rest in consequence in the be- the death of my wife, and if he sees cause rights, always under their mother, and an lief it has not been made. All I ask is that not so to do, my daughter Bathsheba shall abiding faith in the Heavenly Father, who it shall be public that history may benefit have said land. — would pronounce the plaudit "Well done, by the discussion. And all the rest of my estate, as cattle, efforts remains for me to do is to give a good and faithful servant" for his household goods, debts and personal estate. What to lead the life appointing. few records that will lead to sectional clews, of His Heave to my wife to dispose of as she sees not to neglect an ancestry dearly THE WILL OF JAMES ROGERS. good, only to pay to my daughter Elizabeth and prized, which I think is only part of what The last will and testament of James ten pounds if she sees good, with the ad- before. I copy: Rogers, Sr., being in perfect memory and vice of my son John. has gone records of another branch, taken understanding, but under the hand of God I also give liberty to my wife to sell or "The Historical Rooms. New- by sickness. This I leave to my wife and dispose of any part of my land or estate from books in the ark. J." all my children, sons and daughters, I being here willed, if she sees cause so to do. N. Nathaniel Rogers came to America old and knowing the time of my departure without offense to any of my children, and "Rev. in 1636. His descendants claimed descent is at hand. What I have of this world I to have the use of my houses to live in or the Martyr, through Nathaniel's leave among you, desiring you not to fall to let out. from John father, John Rogers, of Dedham, Eng'.md. out or contend about it. but let the love one Some cattle was left with me by my son family records in manuscript (Nathaniel to another appear more than to the estate John to use as my own, not giving me The being first writer) are now in possession of I leave you, which is of this world. And power to give or will away, but did promise family's l.uey M. Harris, of Albany. N. Y. for your comfort I signify to you that I me what I sold or killed for the "Nathaniel was born in Haverhill. Eng- have a perfect assurance of an interest in use he never would demand pay, but for land, in 1598. graduated at Cambridge Uni- Jesus Christ and eternal happy estate in only those that should be ren-aining in my where son John versity and became a noted preacher, mar- the world to come, and do know and see my hands. The chamber my leave to him with the room under ried Margaret Crane, of Coggeshall. Eng- name written in the Book of Life, and now lies I settled at Ipswich. Mass.. diod therefore do not mourn as they that are it for him to live in during his lifetime if land, it other 1655. without hope. my wife sees cause not to order wise. "Children—John. Nathaniel and SaniueL 1. I commit my spirit into the hands of IS SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. John was president of Harvard College at their son John, born 1758, in Menden, 8. Theodore D. Rogers, born June 10, his death, in 1684. Mass., married, in 1794, Sally Ballou; their 1822, resides in Norwalk, Conn. "His son John, the second writer in the children were Abigail 1795, Nathan 1797, A choice bit of history is added to the book, was born at Kittery (now Elliot), Me., John Adams 1799, George Washington James Rogers, of New London, descent: in 1692, graduated at Harvard 1711, mar- 1801, Eunice and Eliza (twins) 1803, James John Rogers (5), Dr. Uriah (4), James (3), ried Susannah Whipple, was a preacher at 1805, Maria 1810, John Wilkinson 1813, James (2), James (1), born November 3, Kittery, and died 1773. and William 1817. 1744, and brother of Hannah (Rogers) Kent, He was the father of eight children, the Abigail married Samuel Chaffin, of Hol- mother of Chancellor James Kent, has eldest named John. There was a John in den, Mass., and Eunice Thomas Davis. never been accounted for in any published every Rogers family, including the Martyr, The names are all here, Thomas second accounts I can find. for fourteen generations. The conclusions only to John, the rest male, and female in During or before the revolution he moved of Joseph L. Chester, a descendant of Na- every branch. to Saratoga County, N. Y., then the fron- exhaustive re- thaniel, and who made an It is the same puzzle, but it is in our tier, married a Scotchwoman, McCrea, had search in English records, are that there hands for persistent effort. five children, and died there about 1795. that is only the slightest possibility John One line takes into the Dutch of Long There is a record of him as living in Balls- Rogers, of Dedham, was a grandson of the Island through ton, Saratoga County, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1779, an- Martyr. Chester traces the maternal 1. Thomas, of the Mayflower. where his assessment was £84 and tax cestry of Thomas Rogers, grandfather of the 2. William, and Anne, who died 1669. £3 13s., (Hist. Saratoga Co., p. 250). Martyr, from Charlemagne, down through 3. Jonathan, born 1637, married Rebecca, I can only give positively the descendants William the Conqueror, Henry I., Henry II., and died 1707. of his daughter, Sara Rogers. She married, King John, Henry III. and Edward I. 4. John, and , died after 1730, deed 1801, William M. Wilkins, whose first born First generation, John Fitz Rogers, who was made then. was named John Rogers. married a daughter of Sir Simon Furnep. 5. John, married about 1735 Jemima often heard my grandfather say Second generation, Sir John Fitz Rog- I have Whitman. an cousin to Chancel- ers, married a daughter of Sir Thomas his mother was own 6. John, born 1737, died 1791, married Etchingham. lor Kent, which proves the connection. Will- November 26, 1761, Ruth Wood. Wilkins and Sara Rogers had a Third generation, Sir Henry Fitz Rog- iam M. 7. Mary Rogers,, married John Whitman. of children. grandfather, John ers, married a daughter of Lord Stoughton. number My 8. Anne Whitman, married Zebulon thirteen, you see Fourth generation, Thomas Rogers, who Rogers Wilkins, had so Ketcham. great many descendants. John had two elder brothers, Sir John and there are a 9. Eliza Ketcham, married Samuel James, a doctor of divinity. Van Rogers had besides Sara, David Rogers, Fifth generation, John. Wyck. who married and lived in Corinth, 1820-30, Sixth generation, John. Another which leads through Connecti- and had a family. Susan Rogers, who mar- cut is valuable. With it the story ends, Seventh generation, John the Martyr (his ried a Shepherd, had two daughters, Jane, but fine records "will to the Mayflower children were Daniel, John, Ambrose, Sam- go who died about 1885, in Ballston, N. Y., un- Society, too long and numerous for pub- uel, Philip, Bernard, Augustine, Barnaby, married, and Mary, who married a Fran- Susan, Elizabeth and Hester). lishing. chot. Leucretia Rogers married an An- Eighth generation, John, LL. D. 1. Thomas Rogers, of the Mayflower. thony, of Little Falls, N. Y. Nancy Rogers Ninth generation, Rev. John of Chacombe. 2. William and Anne, of Long Island. married a Taylor; no children. 3. and Elizabeth Tainter Rogers, Tenth generation. Rev. John of Sher- Noah Another item has come through Mr. L. T. of Granford, Conn. burne. This brings us down to the begin- Rogers, of Milton Junction, Wisconsin, who 4. Josiah, son of of Branford, who ning of the line in this country. Noah, says that when the city of New London was married Lydia Goodsell. The children of the latter, as copied from burned by the English during the revolution, 5. Josiah Rogers, Jr., born in 1708, mar- Scituate town records, are: John 1682, Alice the Rogers papers were burned in the house Frisbie, 1685, Daniel 1688, Elizabeth 1691, Thomas ried Martha, daughter of Edward of Peter Rogers. April 24, 1728. 1695, Hannah 1701, Joshua 1708, Mary Whatever information is gained in re- 1712, Caleb 1718. 6. Medad Rogers (born August 17, 1750), gard to this family, by the searches now be- Rachel 1787. The above John, born 1682, and wife De- married Baldwin July 9, ing made in England, will be given to the borah, had Daniel 1708, Elizabeth 1709, 7. Amzi Rogers, born December 17, 1793, public in the paper, and added in the third John 1711, and Deborah 1713. married Betsy, daughter of Samuel T. Bar- part of the pamphlet. John, 1711, married Plain Wilkinson; num, September 22, 1814. THOMAS TINKER. Nineteenth Signer. "Came in the Mayflower, with wife and a son. All died in the first | winter." JOHN RIDGDALE, Twentieth Signer. "Died before April, 1621. Alice, his wife, died first winter." I SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 10 EDWARD FULLER, Twenty-first Signer. The brothers, Dr. Samuel Fuller, the Lothropp brought with him a strong his- cause of his strong man's nature, one sor- dearly loved physician of the Pilgrim col- tory. Educated either at Oxford or Christ rows to think of the lost outcome if he had ony, and Edward, came together on the College, Cambridge, he was the second min- only been in earnest. ister of the First Independent Mayflower, the latter with his wife, Ann, Church in HIS FAMILY. and son, Samuel. England. The journey over, the parting was imme- Imprisoned by Archbishop Laud, upon his Dr. Matthew Fuller came to America diate, for the first sickness proved too much release in 1634, he sailed to America, re- about 1640 with wife and three children. for Edward and Ann Fuller, so they maining nine days in Boston. He next His prominence in Plymouth Colony none answered the summons and went from this sought Scituate, and then settled in Barn- can doubt, lie was "captain in the military, world together, to be sure, but the human stable, where he was pastor many years. surgeon-general of the Colony troops and as chairman in the Council of War wrench at leaving behind their son, the GOV. WINTHROP'S OPINION. served in 1671." He had two wives—Frances and "young Samuel," sad as it was, must have Rev. John Lothrop's arrival was of im- Hannah—and died in Barnstable, Mass., been lessened by the fact that another portance. Gov. Winthrop made public home stood open for him. 1678. mention of it, noting and commending the in Eng- Safe in the care of his uncle, the "deacon His children were (1), Mary, born "modesty and reserve of one who had so Jones, April doctor," the ties soon became but memory, land, who married Ralph 17, a prominently, so ably, so fearlessly upheld 1655; (2), Elizabeth, born in England, mar- and as years and strength were accorded the Puritan faith." ried Moses Rowley, April 22, 1652; (3), him, he took up the duties that came to The blood the of Pilgrims and Puritans Lieut. in England, married the integrity his birthright. Samuel, born him with of makes a national claim for these Fullers, Mary ; Dr. John, born in Plymouth. Surely his life must have been planned (4), and report says that recent researches in Mass., maried Berthia Anna, also to his dear uncle's satisfaction, for he made ; (5), Europe have given more of the history of born in Plymouth, married her cousin, him executor of his will, and showed him this name than any other. Samuel Fuller. always the trust begotten of good behavior. HIS HOME. SAMUEL, SON OF EDWARD. RECOGNITION. Soon the home nest to which Jane Loth- Savage The colony, too, recognized boy's rights, rop Fuller was going was prepared. The Samuel died October 31, 16S3, as says, "one of the latest Mayflowers." His or rather tender claims upon them, for in sparsely settled neighborhood had no terrors children were: the division of land three shares were appor- for this Puritan maid. The fact that theirs Scituate; married tioned to him, acceptable, truly, as a sweet, was but the fifteenth house had no intimi- (1), Hannah, born in Nicholas Bonham, January 1, 1659. (2), living remembrance that they should there- dations. She knew the work of making it baptized February 11. 1637; mar- by perpetuate the memory, and show their habitable was before her, and she only had Samuel, Fuller. Elizabeth, who mar- respect for the parents, so early taken, and time for such duties. ried Samuel (3), Taylor. Sarah, baptized Au- be so far as material life was concerned, in The records credit Samuel Fuller with a ried (4), young. Mary, born the personal relation of the father to the residence in Barnstable as early as 1641, gust, 1641; died (5), Joseph Williams, No- fatherless. but there seems no certainty until 1644. June, 1644; married 1674. Thomas, born May IS, The home so cordially given him, was the No town that had Samuel Fuller for a vember 18, (6), died young. Sarah, born Decem- truest and best a child could have or need, citizen would neglect to write his name so 1650; (7), ber 14, 1654, and married Crow, (8), and in its wholesome atmosphere, the that it would be known, if he were really Barnstable, 1656; married Me- "young Samuel" grew and thrived apace, there. John, born in hitable Rowley, and, after the birth of four until he was made freeman of the colony Samuel Fuller lived his simple life, as he children, moved to East Haddam, in 1634. should from his forbears, retiring in dispo- or five Conn. He did everything well, never with any sition and habit, eminently pious, an honest ostentatious demand, going from Plymouth man, good neighbor and Christian gentle- FULLER TREASURES. to Scituate April 8, 1635, carrying with him man. The Fuller cradle is a matter of authentic his credentials of Christian fellowship with His opinions of such value, such integrity, history, accepted, and, in consequence, the Plymouth Church, which entitled him there was no withdrawal under pressure of placed with the relics at Plymouth, so val- to membership in Scituate, where he joined circumstances. uable in the mind of the public that its the church November 7, 1636, with approval Large wealth for the times came of his abiding place is as fixed as the laws of the on all sides. honest methods. History tells that he was Medes and Persians. Where it is, it must HIS MARRIAGE. the only one of the Mayflower passengers to remain. No beckonings from loan exhibi- settle in Barnstable, where he died October tions will be considered for a moment. Even On April 8, 1635, he increased his happi- Chicago could not make a loud enough call ness and position by marrying Jane, daugh- 31, 1683. his uncle had fallen on his to secure it. ter of Rev. John Lothrop, and to give a The mantle of the account rendered of him Still, there are other treasures claimed substantial bearing to the whole matter, the shoulders, and makes the world better for his having to have come over in that immortal ship, ceremony was performed, civil rites being which, by inherited right, belong in the the order of the day, by the stalwart of the existed. MATTHEW. Fuller line. One, a carved oaken chest, is colony, Capt Myles Standish. To increase in the possession of Mrs. Maria L. the rights of his descendants in the present Matthew, the son of Edward and Ann now parents, a Reid, wife of Rev. Louis Reid, of Hart- requisites for membership in the various so- Fuller, who came after his was H caliber from his brother. ford, Conn. cieties the future marriage connections man of different strange perversity of the human were of the strongest. His talents were as great, but so per- With the for following the fashion of the day. Jane Lothrop was born at Edgerly, Kent, verted as almost to be lost sight of. He had mind for the day, was some of these beautiful old English oak. England, September 29, 1614. Her father, a strange political method rash carved chests, during the period when "col- the Rev. John, being a son of Thomas Low- on the fence, giving his opinions with ored chests" were in vogue, the color a thropp, of Ellen, Yorkshire. This placing freedom, but fell either side when sure of dull Roman red, were submitted to the paint satisfies my plea of local connection with popular approval. brush, henceforth appeared of more the "old comers," gives acquaintance with Owning property together, thrown of and George Morton, perhaps Edward South- necessity upon each other for society from modern conception. lady, who. studying the worth, Brewster, Bradford, Francis Cooke the very loneliness they were surrounded by Curiosity led a date apportioned to a "eoulored chest" of and the like. in their home, did not unite them in opinion. highly primed inheritance, waa led to see how People of one intent, only biding the time They were in thought and deed the very it would appear with the color removed, and for change of location. antipodes of each other. Fuller, to her delight, received from the hands of The Lothrops can carry their line still The world was before Matthew make the the polisher a rare chest of English carved further back, for Thomas Lowthropp was but of his own choosing he did not oak. son of John Lowthropp, of a parish in the best of it. Accompanying the chest was a small iron East Riding of York, and our Rev. John Considering what he accomplished, be- . 20 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. kettle, which is owned by Henry A. Full- "outside the pale," as Popish, and no pray- of Massachusetts," and rector of the Church er, of Wilkesbarre, Pa. ers would avail to save them from perdition of the Messiah, at Boston, Mass. This has a delightful homelike sound, if they ventured on such abhorrence. This includes Col. Stephen W. Nickerson, leading one to imagine the gathering of the LOCATION. a brother of the above, who is president of elan at any Fuller home to enjoy, the har- The Fullers have gone the right way, the "Massachusetts Bimetallic Union." vest being over, a sociable cup of tea. In stopping all through the Pilgrim sections, The next line must of necessity start from our mind's eye there is a view of the table and, while they have sought Wilkes Barre, the common ancestry, for it leads through set with their precious treasures in the way they never forget, or have forgotten, that such various ways as to rouse the hope of of the delft cups and saucers, teapots and they made their start when it belonged to striking unknown descents. plates. Even Brewster's teapot could be Connecticut, and that the Wyoming Valley 1. Edward Fuller, of the Mayflower. borrowed if the assemblage grew beyond was peopled by the Yankees from that 2. Samuel Fuller, who married Jane the Fuller possibilities, and—being sure of State. Lothrop. an invitation, had our lot been cast at that They are true to tbeir traditions, and 3. Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Jane period—at least at this distant day all feel when the "Society of Mayflower Descen- Lothrop Fuller, born in 1G36; married, Jan- they had some home content. dants" calls to duty there is no postponement uary 1. 1658, Nicholas Bonham. They lived This thought has been treasured as one of action on their part. for a time in Barnstable, then moved to Pis- John Williams arid wife Jane. Both boru in England and who migrated to Newbury in 1633, and thence to Haverhill, Mass., as one of its founders. Their son, Joseph Williams, married Mary Fuller, daughter of Sam Fuller, 1647-17«J WU-ITM who removed to the neighborhood of Norwich Conn., about 1694. \N llliams The son of this couple, "Cap'a John . lived at Poquetannock, then a part of Norwich-his wife's name, Mary Knowlton, of Roxbury. 1680-1741 *Cap'n" Joseph W il liams married Ennice Wheeler, of Stonington. He removed to Brattleboro.Vt., just before the war of the revolution and died there. i I 1st child. 5th child. <)th child. Benjamin Williams, Isaac Williams, John Williams, 1747-1813. of Gen. Joseph Williams. 1753- Zipporah Williams, 1753-1820. who died on the "Jersey" who was impressed into the Weathersfield, Vt 1800, of Norwich, Conn married in 1776 Timothy prison ship in 1781. British naval service, and Phelps, of Brattleboro. Vt.. had a leg shot away in an a prominent attorney of that action at sea. Joseph, Grandson, Hon. Edwin Williams, 17S7-1854, State. Fred. H. Nichols, Weath- Author, and at one time ersfield, Vt. Editor of the ST. Y. Herald. John Phelps, 1777, an emi- Charles Phelps. 1781,alawyer Timothy Phelps. 17S2-1S22, a nent lawyer in Vermont, of celebrity of Vermont Bar. lawyer, who died of yellow who late in life removed to fever in the South. T. D. Williams. Baltimore. Hon. James H. Phelps, Mrs. Taft. wife of Ju.'ge 1847-1893. Alphonso Taft. Attorney- of Suffield, Conn. Gen, in Grant's Cabinet. I I I Gen. John W. Phelps, 1830- Gen. Chas. Edward Phelps, Rev. Charles P. Taft, M. C. Cincinnati, Ohio 1870. of Brattleboro. Vt., dis- of Baltimore, a M. C, served Rep. from tinguished during the civil in the civil war and is now war: was with Butler at Judge of Maryland Bar. New Orleans. read of their privations—there was a cer- LINES OF DESCENT. cataway, Middlesex* County, N. J. They had tainty of the chafing dish, its very utility The following lineage comes from Chat- eight children. secured its possibility, now my ruthless ham, Mass., the Cape Cod of then and now, 4. Mary Bonham, their daughter, born hand must tear away from those who have and will, I am sure, aid many lines: October 4, 1661, married July 15, 1681, Rev. not searched history this relic of past tra- 1. Edward Fuller, signer of the Mayflower Edmund Dunham, who was also Justice of ditions, even against the evidence of the compact. the Peace in Piscataway, N. J., commis- delft heirlooms. 2. Capt. Matthew Fuller, participated in sioned by Queen Anne, January 23, 1709. Tea and coffee were absolutely unknown King Philip's war; died in 1678; married He was born in Plymouth Colony, New Eng- to our forefathers, and tea was rarely used Frances ? land, July 25, 1661, and was the third in in England before 1657, and then was sold 3. Lieut. Samuel Fuller, married Mary descent from Deacon John Dunham, of New for from £6 to £10 per pound. ? Killed in King Philip's war, 1675. Plymouth, who came to America in 1630. One drawing would have intrenched on 4. Ann Fuller, born 1670; died July 2, 5. Rev. Jonathan Dunham, son of the their obligations to the merchant adventur- 1722; married April 29, 1689, Joseph Smith, above, born August 16, 1694; died March ers, calling loudly for the blood, as well as born December 6, 1667; died March 4, 1746. 10, 1777; married, August 5, 1714, Joan pound of flesh of the poor colonists. Pyatt. 5. Rev. Thomas Smith, born February 6, Even the aroma of coffee was denied 6. Their daughter Elizabeth Dunham, 1706; died July 7.1788: married August 28, them, though tales of its fragrance may married, 1738-40, Micajah Dunn, who was 1734, Judith Miller, at Yarmouth, Mass., have reached them from England after born September 12, 1716; died September who was born August 23, 1716; died July 1641, when it was first brought to the 11, 1779; served in the revolutionary war. 31, 1785. mother country. She died December 4, 1771. 6. Hon. Josiah Smith, born February 26, I love to accept the pleasant traditions 7. Joel Dunn, born October 22, 1747; 173S; died April 4, 1803; married Mary of the past. They have grown dear to my died July 27, 1845; married, October 2, Barker, June 15. 1760, at Mass., heart, but searching is unveiling, and one Pembroke, 1771, Rachel Runyon, fourth in descent she must have some slight foundation in the was born May 2, 1740. from Vincent Runyon, the Huguenot. Joel truth of their statements in view of the fig- 7. Ruth Barker Smith, born April 12, Dunn served in the revolution as private, ures found. 1773; died September 9, 1855; married at and in the wagon brigade. Pembroke, Mass., October FOOD OF EARLY DAYS. 20, 1796. to John 8. Sarah Dunn, born December 19, 1796; Barker, who born July died The morning and evening meal of the was 24, 1773; died April 2, 1883; married, February 3, early Pilgrims and Puritans was easily pro- August 17. 1839. 1819, Benjamin T. Field, who was the tenth vided, no great variety to arouse capricious 8. Mary Smith Barker, born December 23, in descent from John Field, the celebrated appetite to desire for a change. Milk, hom- lauU; died September 29, 1860; married English astronomer. iny, broth, or porridge, as they called it, June 22, 1826, at Foxborough, Mass., Steph- 9. Jane Fitz Randolph Field, their daugh- prepared for the epicure by boiling in it a en Tillinghast Westcott, born November 22, ter, born September 23, 1832; married, piece of salt pork, must suffice. 1799; died June 13, 1874. April 10, 1853, Thomas Eastburn Mac- Later they learned to know and value 9. Martha Tillinghast Westcott, born Au- Donald. pork and beans for Sunday night, and on gust 20, 1829; died August 16. 1868; mar- 10. Their daughter, Mary White MacDon- Saturday those on fashion intent had ried January 6, 1848, Thomas White Nick- ald, married April 30, 1874, James Moses. minced codfish, potatoes, rye and Indian erson, born January 6, 1826. To give the present matter its full value, bread. 10. Thomas White Nickerson, Jr., bom I must quote it as it came to me from Rev. To eat fish on Friday would have put them June 25, 1S58; a "member of Colonial Wars M. E. Dwight, of Plainfield, N. J., who has SIGNERS OF TIIE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 21 stood by me in historical research, without dletown, east side of the Connecticut River, Edward Fuller. John Fuller was the son of regard to a personal family interest. belonging 'to our honored father, Mr. Shu- Samuel Fuller, brought by his father, Ed- The folio mng nas just been found at bael Fuller, late of East Haddam, de- ward Fuller, in the Mayflower. East Haddam, Conn.: ceased.' " Date of deed June 22, 1748. Since Shubael Fuller married Hannah "Deed from Ephraim Fuller and Shu- Middletown deed book 12, page 5<>7. Crocker, daughter of Jonathan Crocker, of bael Fuller, both of East Haddam; quit "Mr. Shubael Fuller" was the son of Barnstable, and Hannah Howland, daugh- claim. "little" John Fuller, of Barnstable, Mass., ter of Lieut. John Howland. eldest son of "To our loving sisters, Lydia Gates, and Mehitabel Rowley, born January 11, Hon. John Howland, of the Mayflower, the Thankful Brainerd, Zeniah Bill, Hannah 1GG0, daughter of Moses Rowley, of IJarn- marriage names of these daughter* will Daniels and Rachel Hurd, all our right, stable, Mass., and Elizabeth Fuller, daugh- prove of the greatest public Interest. etc., etc., to a certain traci of land in Mid- ter of Capt. Matthew Fuller, eldest son of JOHN CRACKSTON, Twenty-fifth Signer. John Crackston died the first part of March, 1621. His son, "John Crack- ston, Jr., froze his feet, while lost in the woods, and died from a resulting fever." The Pilgrim left a daughter Ann, at Leyden, who married Thomas Smith, a wool carder, from Bury St. Ed- monds. 22 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. JOHN TURNER, Twenty-second Signer. The history of the Turners is bristling In connection with the above, there is this place was near the vicinity of the other with possibilities, each one giving a hope of some Pilgrim evidence in the fact that the Pilgrims, it seems possible John Turner, of reaching the goal, or absolute residence in Windsor, Conn., Browns, who are supposed the Mayflower, may have come from England, where one can date from, with to descend from Peter Brown, went, as was here. any certainty. natural under such circumstances, to Hart- In Dr. Eggleston's "Beginners of a Na- Even the mother country would not be ford and Norfolk, Conn., as well, with the tion," published in 1897, on page 130, is reliable, when their Norman claim is in Turners. reference to a book of Dr. Bound's on a the ascendant, and others with a strong These records cannot be ignored, if one stricter Sabbath. Page 139: "It is Thomas historical pull, put them with the Tour- wants to; the wisest, broadest plan is to ac- Rogers, the earliest opponent of the doc- neurs of early New Amsterdam. cept what is natural, until proof is fur- trine of Greenham and Bound, etc. At all events John Turner came out on nished to the contrary, working always to Preface to Thirty-nine Articles, paragraph the Mayflower, with two sons. Before the make it historically correct. 20." first winter was over father and sons had The Turner name certainly carries with Can this be Thomas Rogers, of the May- succumbed to the first sickness, and, if they it the Brewster record, and as the various flower? were allowed marked graves, even they may marriages make as many lines, I give it in Mr. Alfred R. Turner, of Maiden, Mass., have been lost in the general decay, when the chart as sent to me: who has stood bravely by both Turners Marjorie, the daughter he left behind, and Humphrey Turner, died 1673; was of and Rogerses, as a lineal descendant, sends who is said to have reached this country, ar- Scituate, Mass., in 1633. Married Lydia the line of Humphrey Turner. rived. Garner. Humphrey Turner and wife Lydia came Always allowing the "perhaps" of early Their eldest son, John Turner, born in to Plymouth in 1628 and settled in Scitu- history, I place her, as of Salem, Mass., England November 12, 1645, married Mary ate, near Coleman's Hills. They had and that she married the first Richard Paul Brewster, daughter of Jonathan Brewster John (1), John (2), Thomas (3), Daniel (4), in 1638. This, again, I leave to some other and Lucretia, granddaughter of Elder Will- Nathaniel (5), Joseph (6), Lydia (7), Mary historian. iam Brewster. (8). John (1) married Mary Brewster, A complicated tradition has also reached Benjamin Turner, born March 5, 1650, daughter of Jonathan, and granddaughter me, and being by no manner of means im- died April 14, 1692, married Elizabeth of Elder William Brewster, November 12, possible, though marked "dangerous," that Hawkins. 1G45. They had thirteen children. Joseph, too, I give. Capt. Hawkins Turner, born August 24, who married Bathsheba Hobart, had Bath- "Mrs. Jane G. Austin, in 'Betty Alden's 1704, in Scituate, Mass., married Lucy sheba, Margaret. Ezekiel, who married Daughter,' tells of Elder Brewster's daugh- Starr, of New London, Conn., born July 18, Susanna Keney, had Ezekiel, Grace, Lu- ter Mary, marrying John Turner, and leav- 1707, died March 16, 1809. cretia, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, Elizabeth, ing Plymouth. If she was correct, this John Jonathan Starr, of New London, Conn., Lydia, Hannah, Susanna. John, who mar- must have been the son of the Pilgrim who married daughter of Elizabeth Morgan, of ried Abigail Padeshall, had Richard, Abiel, came in the Mayflower. The theory of Groton, Conn. John, Margaret, Lydia, Abigail. Elisha, John Turner being a son of the Mayflower Samuel Starr, son of Comfort Starr, mar- who married Elizabeth Jacob, had Elisha, Pilgrim is not accepted, as he was clearly ried Hannah Brewster, daughter of Jona- Elisha, Mary, Jael, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary. son of Humphrey Turner, of Scituate, but than Brewster and Lucretia, granddaugh- Benjamin, who married Elizabeth Hawkins, that Mary was a daughter of Elder Brew- ter of Elder William Brewster. had John, Joseph, Benjamin, William, ster is positively stated by some. The tra- Many notes come to me from all quarters Hawkins, Grace, Elizabeth. Jonathan, who dition in one family is that the son or in regard to the Turner family. All will be married first Martha Bisbee, second, Mercy grandson of John Turner, Mayflower Pil- useful to future historians. My attention Hatch, had Isaac, Ignatius, Jesse, Martha, grim, was one of the first settlers in New was called to "Historical Collections of Deborah, Keziah, Jonathan, Mary, Jemima, Haven, Conn., his name Nathaniel Turner. Grantham, England," by Edmund Tumour, Ruth. Amos, who married Mary Hiland, "One of the descendants, a first settler of Grantham, southwestern part of Lincoln- had Amos, Ezekiel, Seth, Jane, Mary, Hartford, Conn.—from there John Turner shire. Lydia, Anna. I am not informed in regard also a descendant—went to Norfolk, Conn., Although the present generation spell the to the rest—Joseph, Lydia, Mary, Ruth, and was one of the first settlers there about name Tumour, it seems, from the book, to Isaac Grace. 1758." have been formerly Tumor or Turner. As MOSES FLETCHER, Twenty-seventh Signer. "His first wife was Maria Evans. In 1613 he married, at Leyden, Sarah, widow of William Dingley." Savage says: "He came in the May- flower, without wife or child, and died within four months." SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 23 FRANCIS EATON, Twenty-third Signer. This passenger on the Mayflower is so longings, and, having sold the property to ger in the "Ann," 1623, survived her hus- mixed as to his marriages and descendants Josiah Standish, in 1663, make another band. The second wife left one daughter. that it would take the infallible Philadel- move. Rachael, who married Joseph Ramsden, and phia lawyer to place them authentically. Sampel himself may have had to more do he led her, to say the least of it, a Terr first His wife and infant Samuel came with this roving, restless spirit, which gov- singular life. out with him, but the wife's brief existence erned all their proceedings, than appears, They were only married March 2, 1645, carried so little weight that she passed for "in the year next before 1652 the Gen- and "in 1652 Joseph Ramsden was ordered from the places that had known her with eral Court admonished Samuel Eaton and to live no longer in the woods remote from scarce a thought on the part of those she Goodwife Hall, of Duxbury, for mixed neighbors, whereby his wife has been ex- was surrounded by. dancing." posed to great hardship, and peril of losing But the boy grew and thrived, lived to be Samuel had at least gone through other her life," but that he bring her with all an old citizen, and, after a sojourn with motions, as he bound himself (which sounds speed to some neighborhood. his father in Duxbury, when he reached like a voluntary act) an apprentice to John Id 1666 the order was repeated, and in maturity moved to Middleboro, where ap- Cooke in 1636, for seven years. case of non-compliance "his house was to pearances of success were against him, as THE PILGRIM. be torn down." he died insolvent. This, however, was not Francis Eaton, the Pilgrim, came out as a an unknown condition of affairs among the ANOTHER SON. early settlers, so he can hardly be ostra- carpenter, which in those times was an oc- cized, unless one admits that he was in cupation very highly respected. The man Benjamin Eaton, son of the Pilgrim, in good company. Affairs were not apt to be who built church and house had a place of 1636, was bound to Mrs. Fuller, "she to in a prosperous condition when so much de- his own in public estimation. keep him at school two years." pended upon a return from land culture aloue. He married for second wife "Mrs. Car- On the 4th of December, 1660, he married This Samuel was something of a real es- ver's maid," and she, too, had no "length of Sarah, daughter of William Hoskins. and tate speculator. He watched his chances, days" to record, so that, in the land divi- moved to Duxbury, but in 1655 returned to and, finding Love Brewster was willing to sion of 1627 he had, as Bradford states, Plymouth. dispose of his beautiful property, by the taken a third wife, and by her had three Christian Penn Eaton, to give her life bayside, he bought it with the loving hope children, of which, he adds, "one was mar- its full variety, married for second husband that Martha Billington, whom he married, ried and had children; the other two were Francis Billington, perhaps a jump into the would enjoy the rest and content he had living, 1650, but one was idiote." fire, but she had reached years of maturity prepared for her. This, however, was not HIS THIRD WIFE. and judgment. to be; they must again pick up their be- The last wife, Christian Penn, a passen- JOHN GOODMAN, Twenty-eighth Signer. "Goodman had a lot assigned him in Leyden street, in 1620." Young, in his "Chronicles," says: "Nothing more is known of him, except that he died before the end of March." 24 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. JAMES CHILTON, Twenty-fourth Signer. To the narrow mindedness of the royal Mrs. Robert Hall Wiles, president of the daughter, Mary Winslow Gray, married family of Stuarts the world undoubtedly Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, who William Abbott, son of George Abbott, who owes much of their ignorance of the times is a lineal descendant, gives the historical came from Yorkshire, England, about 1640, during which they reigned. proof of their residence in Plymouth, from and settled in Andover, Mass., in 1643, one "They had an instinctive jealousy of the the fact of their certificate of dismissal of the pioneers of that town. free press, and so far as possible kept it from the Plymouth Church to the Boston Susanna Winslow became the wife of under strict supervision." Church, being in Plymouth Hall, Mass. Roger Latham, of Bridgewater, in 1649. At What may come to us from the records this living his SAVAGE. time he was in Plymouth, but too unimportant to meet the eyes of those previous home was Marshfield, where in in power, remains to be seen. The present Savage says, speaking of the Pilgrim 1643 he held the office of constable, but true relations with England, which have led 'o Chilton: "His daughter Mary, who accom- to his first home, he returned to Bridgewater the returning of the original history, written panied her father and mother, has by vain before 1667. by Gov. Bradford, may unfold in the same first tradition been made the to leap on BURIAL. spirit other matters of equal importance. Plymouth Rock, as that honor is also as- James Chilton, the Pilgrim, never came signed to John Alden, when we know it is "Mary Chilton and her husband, John ashore. For him "the promised land" was not due to either, married John Winslow, Winslow, are buried in King's Chapel Bury- reached through "the pearly gates of the and in 1650, Bradford says, she had nine ing Ground, in Boston, their names upon a New Jerusalem." Provincetown, Cape Cod, children, of whom one was married, and slab at the gate in Tremont street, with was but a name, and the spirit which re- had a child. She died 1679, but another those of other Mayflower Pilgrims buried turned to Him who gave it December 3, daughter of Chilton was left by him in there." 1620, soon had the companionship of the England where she married, and came to The honor of this descent is wide-spread, wife of his youth, who died shortly after our country." the accident which kept John Winslow from landing. REMOVAL. being one of the Mayflower pa'sengers, is re- Mary, their daughter, known as the "Pil- deemed by his marriage, and the name of grim Orphan," left her "footprints" as his- John Winslow, moved to Boston in 1655, Winslow from this line can take its proper tory names it, on Plymouth Rock. She was a shipping merchant and led a pros- place on every honor roll. married John Winslow, brother of Gov. Ed- perous, important life. One daughter mar- No descendants of the daughter who ward Winslow, who came over by reason ried Edward Gray, who was quite prominent "came after" have come to me. If they of the going back of the Speedwell, in the in Rhode Island, much being written of him are ready for the third pamphlet, history Fortune, 1621. by Austin and other historians; next their will be satisfied. DEGORY PRIEST, Twenty-ninth Signer. Prince says: "The year begins with the death of Degory Priest." "Priest is set down in the Leyden 'Records' as 'from London,' and had been many years a member of the Leyden Com- pany." "It is on record that he mar- ried, November, 1611, Sarah (Aller- ton) Vincent, widow of John Vincent. November, 1615, he was admitted a citizen of Leyden, and in April, 1619, he (calling himself 'a hatter') deposes that he is forty years of age, and knows one Nicholas Claverly. This would make him forty-one to forty-two when he died."—Leyden MS. Records. "His widow married Cuthbert Cuth- bertson, a Dutchman, who also was of the Leyden Company, and Winslow calls him Godbert Godbertson, prob- ably the name he owned in early life; and it met with the changes which seemed to come to the Pilgrims and those in marriage connected with them." Everything will be done to secure the descendants of his two daughters, who came out in the Ann with their mother. A claimant has also arisen bearing the name of Priest, but time sufficient has not elapsed since the communica- tion to really know anything about it. The Mayflower Society have made a search with good results, but want "more." This, too, will come in both paper and pamphlet, third part. SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 25 JOHN BILLINGTON, Twenty-sixth Signer. Gov. Bradford says in his history: "The Billington makeup was not in favor of obe- in the stern necessities of the situation they said Billington was one of the profanest dience. John Billington, the -Pilgrim, re- forgot even to mention the cravings which men among us. He came from London, sented it, and, while he knew the power came with the home thoughts. and I know not by what friends shuffled in vested in Standish was real, that his man- Later these alewives, which in the future among us." dates would be carried out by the strong arm prosperity had no attractions were used for A superficial search makes this possible, of the law, he refused to obey him, utter- farming purposes, and were so valuable that but the conviction grows as one proceeds ing threats for his own satisfaction even the office of keeper was made for their pro- that there is more than ordinary cause for when perfectly cognizant they would be of tection. the Billington family being on the May- no avail. HIS CRIME. flower. Capt. Standish did not wear his sword John Billington had many faults; perhaps Our reason resents the idea that in a ves- for ornament. It was his insignia of the he deserved his sad end. Still I can but sel held, so cramped for room that families are power he even paramount to the Gov- feel that his suffering the death penalty was divided, husbands separated, ernor's. and wives the effect of the times. It is easy to imag- young daughters left without the protection For his insubordination the punishment ine in the light of the present day a more of their parents, Robert Cushman, one of "converted" to Billington was that "he was lenient sentence. the important factors in the equipment of adjudged to lie for a time in a public place John Newcomen had interfered with his the ship, remaining to wait future means with his neck and heels tied together." hunting, and was warned by Billington to of transportation to the colonies, and there An opportunity of thought in which to desist. Not appreciating the manner of man are four stowaways from one family. hatch more mischief. he had to deal with, he continued his annoy- It was a simple impossibility. They had JOHN. ances until on one occasion, when he hid be- been together several days at least, by vir- John, the oldest son, feeling the restraints hind a tree on the approach of his enemy, tue of the mishap to the Speedwell, which and monotony of the little settlement, as the irresistible impulse to rid himself of this attended their start, and John and Francis Bradford tells us, "lost himself in ye woods "cumberer of the ground" was too much for Billington were not boys to be suppressed & wandered up & downe some 5 Billington, and he fired the shot which or reduced to the subordination of extinc- days, living on berries and what he could proved fatal. tion. The situation was one their hearts find. At length he light on an Indean A record from Bradford's history may craved, and the spirit of April fools' day plantation, 20 miles south of this place, place this in a rather different light: was not regulated for them by the calenadr. called Manamet, they conveid him furder "They assemble by beat of drum, each THEIR POSITION. of to Nawsett, among those peopl that had with his musket or firelock, in front of the before set upon ye English when they were captain's door; they have their cloaks on. The Bylingtons were people of high stand- costing, whilest ye ship lay at ye Cape as and place themselves in order, three abreast, ing in England, belonging to the Judges in is before noted. But ye Gov'r caused him and are led by a sergeanr. without beat of Henry VIII. 's time, and I am inclined to to be enquired for among ye Indeans, and at drum. Behind comes the Governor, in long think that John Billington, of the May- length Massassoyt sent word wher he was, robe, beside him on the right hand, come6 flower, being too much for his family, was and ye Gov'r sent a shallop for him and had the preacher, with his cloak on. and on the shown that his "room was better than his him delivered. This act of justice, and pro- left side the captain, with his side arms, company," and the wherewithal provided in tection, was sorely against Gov. Bradford's and cloak on. and with » small cane in his unstinted measure to secure foreign travel desires, time so valuable, and the services hand, and so they march in good order, and for him—his destination not a matter of that the mat- each sets his arms down near him." consideration. of those he detailed so needed Billington's appearance, seemed Habit becomes second nature. The colon- prevented his ter of John However, this in no way Intuitively little young John hardly ists were never without arms. claiming rank among the Pilgrim Fathers. of moment. The his to his own advantabe. they sought them for every obstruction. A recent work says: "The Pilgrim Fa- timed expedition Later he would have enjoyed the Beech "Eternal vigilance was the price both of thers were all those members of the Sepa- plums, wild gooseberries, and white grapes, liberty" and life. ratist at for the Church Leyden who voted prowling beast, for whom he which Young in his Chronicles says "were No Indian or emigration to America, whether they were could have more surely rep- here in great abundance." was prepared, able to go there or not together with such found — resented the evil beyond endurance than the others as joined their church from England. FRANCIS. sight of John Newcomen hidden in his terror "Membership in the Pilgrim Church was the Pilgrims to There was no Sahara for behind the tree. the first qualification; intended or actual country was rendered at- dread, the whole I do not defend the act. but the impulse. emigration the second the variety of to New England was tractive and picturesque by Then, too. there was the same wearing of one. This general definition includes Chris- pools, lakes, creeks, etc., they met during arms on Newcomen's part, and he might topher Martin and his wife, Richard War- their wanderings. have fired the shot as well as John Billing- ren and John Billington, Sr., and his family, "Plymouth Bay is a most hopeful place, ton. who came from London." innumerable store of fowl, and excellent The instinct of self-preservation glows THE BOYS. good, and cannot but be fish in their seasons; more or less in every human heart, only the The Mayflower company, if not wiser and skate, cod, turbot and herring we have fact exists that both suffered, one by a sin- better for having the Billingtons on board, tasted of, abundance of muscels, the great- gle hand, the other under force of the law. ever we saw, crabs and at least had the monotony of the voyage est and best that OF THE COLONISTS. varied by the exploits of the boys. Their lobsters in their time infinite. It is in VIEW youthful pranks were the terror of the fashion like a sickle, or fish hook." Ply- This offense was a matter of great mo- whole community. Nothing held them back mouth was surrounded by these various ment in the colonies. It was a proceeding when roused to action. forms of water, and Francis Billington had that must be made an example of. their rights in the case The little piece of pleasantry on the part the honor of perpetuating the name by find- The question of of John, when he threw the light into the ing a body of water, which has always been caused much discussion. gunpowder, which fortunately was discov- called Billington Sea. They felt themselves powerless to act. *o. only better judgment, bat ered in time to prevent serious consequences, This swarmed in the season with a species to secure not for conviction or forjriveness, they was only in touch with the spirit of his in- of herring called alewives. which in the power and other Uad.rs of heritance, a lawless disregard of sur- needy condition of the colonies proved a consulted "Winthrop under the crown roundings and the rights of others. No valuable addition to their resources. the Bay. whose authority they, with much condign punishment awaited him at bis Matters of individual taste were left whol- was beyond question." and and paryerful regard, decided that father's hands and he was left to live this ly out of the count, and though the French- sorrow Billington "ought to die and the land be life of unconcern. women saw with their minds' eye the many purged from blood." With them, the choice being between "hot delightful possibilities of even this homely condi- A life for a life. water" and fire, they took the one available. article of food, time, utensils and and The death sentence was carried out Sep- "All was grist that came to their mill." Tho ments were wanting to their perfection, 26 SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. tember, 1630, memorable in American his- I greatly fear the family exchequer would search other companies of Pilgrim times tory as the first execution in the colonies. require the whipping. for history in this family has been well re- The punishment consummated, sorrow fol- However, years brought a change, and, warded. I found in Capt. John Smith's lowed, and the generous minded remembered having reached the time of life when, as a company, "Virginia, 1620, a Francis Billing- only what was good in him. He had been Frenchman aptly says, "our vices leave us." ton. with them in all their trials and privations, he was on committees, boards of reference There can be no chance about this, and he bearing willingly his share in their labors, and other organizations, which gave evi- is easily placed as a brother of Pilgrim John through sickness and poverty. dence of his standing in the community. Billington's, while the children's names BAD LUCK. Martha, his daughter, married Samuel make good claim—John for the father, Misfortune, for a time, certainly followed Eaton January 10, 1660, and so far as she Francis for the uncle. name. John had before his father. the died was concerned the name no longer existed. A John Billington was at Portsmouth, John Billington's wife, only a unit while called, Helen, or Elen, as she is variously New Hampshire, in 1645. He settled at lived, took his story and furnished he up widow of the Pilgrim, succeeded to the farm Kittery, Maine, opposite. much uninteresting litigation to the colony. at Plain Dealing, two miles north of His descendants took the name of Billing, Francis, through whom all descent comes, Plymouth Rock, and in 1638 gave it to her later it became Billings. This is the in 1634 married Christian Penn, widow of only living child, Francis Billington, on ac- and with natural associations, there Francis Eaton. count of the "natural love she bore him." story, and the early settlers of They proved a thriftless pair. Their Later in the year she married Gregory were Williamses among later one bearing the name of growing family of eight children seemed too Armstrong, and it is to be hoped that her Kittery, on there is a much for them, and they were forced to declining years had some of the peace and Francis Williams. Then this section. All bind most of them out to secure means for comfort to which she had a claim. Brewster supposition from their existence. this unraveling seems but the work of time, Francis was occasionally sued and fined, THE BILLINGTON FAMILY. but why not avail of the present and hasten and once had the choice of a whipping or The feeling of the authenticity of name the welcome day when one need no longer paying £20. If the sentence was carried out connections, which always leads me to puzzle over supposition. THOMAS WILLIAMS, Thirtieth Signer. "Thomas of Plymouth, 1620, pas- senger in the Mayflower, one of the signers of the memorable compact at Cape Cod in November, had no fam- ily, and died soon after the landing, as Bradford tells."—Savage. There is a very general belief that Thomas Williams either did not die or left a son. One tradition is that he settled in Kittery, Me., where the family intermarried with the Billings (Billingtons); another comes to me from Cape Cod, claiming him as "per- haps" "our Thomas Williams, of Ply- mouth and Eastham," writing: "I think he is the same bad boy Thomas whom Mistress Warren had repri- manded, because he is saucy and sweared. Might he not have been the thirtieth signer, or a son?" SIGNERS OF TUB MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 27 PETER BROWN, Thirty-third Signer. Being "two Dromios in the field" claiming Brown took it, so was registered among the cause of the opposition of its then occupant the same position as to descent from this early settlers of Duxbury, "mest of them (a Peter Brown) to the opening of a new Pilgrim, with my earnest desire to draw men of high repute among the Pilgrims, and road, which left his house in the lot, etc out all discussion, correction and history, I often elevated to the highest offices among "This house wag demolished some thirty give them as I have found them, or they them." The Pilgrims were not the Puri- years since. He contributed 9s. 7d. to the have come to me. tans of "law and order' 'fame, but no laxness Connecticut Colonial relief fund for the Coming to America single in the May- in the way of absence from duty was per- poor of other colonies, 1676; his wife owDed flower seems to have been no drawback to mitted them. Casting their eyes over the Half Way Covenant, in Windsor Cnurcb. Peter Brown, for in the next thirteen years whole colony was a very simple matter, July 17, 1659, O. C. R. Peter Brown died he availed himself cf his opportunities by and the authorities, grasping the situation, March 9, 1692. aged 60, estate £408 15s. 6d." marrying twice. found that Peter Brown, a freeman, and This Peter Brown was a miller, and, Jan- He came out as a carpenter, which gave consequent example, had not answered the uary. 1658-9, at town meeting, it was voted the mill, him when the individual interest was al- roll-call as "present" at the General Court "that Peter Brown that keeps toll, the sixteenth lowed, and a man secured the personal re- in 1633, so this Pilgrim, upon other duties, should take but single or all for his grinding, only of sult of his labors, a fine opportunity for perhaps pleasures intent, was fined accord- part of grain major part wealth from the very necessity of his occu- ing to law 30s., from which there was no Indian corn it was voted by the toll and half, from this pation. His the master hand, and every redress. that he should take next ensuing, but one who could "drive a nail" more or less DEATH. time until 25th of March his assistant. The "divine gift of silence" came to Peter no longer." Indian corn being more difficult to Still though he must have added much Brown in 1633, and his inventory was pre- The grind, larger rates were required as com- to the comfort of the colonists, from lack of sented October 4, 1633. His family position is very peculiarly pensation. other ties, which made a claim on his time, BROWN. his "single blessedness" told against him in stated, when his estate was being settled by JOHN the land division of 1623, when by virtue order of the court, he is mentioned as hav- If this man is Peter Brown, son of Peter of that fact he had but one acre of land in ing "divers children by divers wives." His Brown of the Mayflower, the lineage of the assignment. widow was Mary, his second wife, and as John Brown, of Ossawatomie. and the in- PETER BROWN A BENEDICT. he is said to have left four children, the vasion of Virginia, October, 1859. comes in consideration shown his widow and admin- Early difficulties in the way of local pos- its direct descent. istratrix seems unusual, for, "aside from lead to it are wide- session, however, were overcome, and in The branches which £15, sitt on his two daughters," she received of the "great and 1627, in the division of cattle, he was to the spreading, claiming some the "remainder of his estate for support of benefit those fore, claiming for "Mary and Martha" good of the land." For the of her young family." Standish and Brewster have never looked into this matter I their share and making it good by the rec- who took the inventory. Pilgrim Peter. Peter (2). John ords. give his line: History may some time make more of Capt. John (5). then Owen The "probably" of the situation, where de- (3), John (4). these records in regard to Peter Brown's first in Simsbnry. cided identification of wife and child as Brown (6). who married wives and children. Two marriages and 1793. Ruth (daughter of Lieut. to the time of marriage and birth unknown, February 11. four children in Pilgrim times would hardly Gideon and Ruth Humphrey) Mills, and was merged into certainty, and it is history bear out the statement of "divers children granddaughter of Hon. Oliver Humphrey, to state that he married Martha Ford, who by divers wives. Simsbnry. came out in the Ann. "Marrying and of little town, near Weatogue. Wind- giving in marriage" wfent on even during PETER, THE SON. In this sor, and so many of the places of great his- the times when the colonists held their The early demise of the father left the torical interest, where "God's acre" In the property in common, cultivated the land continuance of the history with the chil- very heart of the place, is full to overflow- without regard to ownership, and all was dren and for our purpose, so much hinging ing with the names that live, was born in deposited in the general storehouse, to be on his after residence, Peter will answer 1793 this Ruth, from whose marriage with drawn out by the authorities in proportion for "he, with Gov. Bradford and thirty Owen Brown came Capt. John Brown, born to the numbers requiring means of liveli- others were among the first purchasers of May 9. 1800. at Torrington. Conn. where h's hood. Dartmouth in 1652." making him, as he parents had made a new home, who died in What the arrival of the Fortune must was born in 1632, only twenty years of age compliance with the law at Charlestown. have been to them, my pen fails to describe. when admitted to this enterprise of the W. Va.. December 2 1S5P. News from the home country, the presence "solid men." Time and the record "marches on." and it of Jonathan Brewster; and yet Bradford in Some affinity to Connecticut, perhaps a is well to leave this part of the history with this hour of hope could feel that the "Plan- drawing to Jonathan Brewster (James the man whose fate mnst always rouse tation was glad of this addition to its Rogers), and other wanderers from the fold divers opinions, but to read his enforced strength, but could have wished that many of Plymouth's claims, took him to Windsor. farewell to earth will surely call forth a of them could have been of better condition Conn. parting tear over his generosity and his and all of them better provisioned, but that He went from Duxbury there, and the purpose, which he claims was a single one. could not be helped." benefit of his Dartmouth venture may have for the good of mankind. Five hundred -miles to the north of them told for him as an investment. (Nova Scotia) five hundred miles to the PETER, JR. THE OTHER STORY south of them (New Amsterdam) for neigh- Dr. Stiles, in his history of ancient Wind- To secure exact history I must mainly bors did not develop social instincts. sor, simply announces Peter Brown, of the quote the records so kindly loaned me. and CHANGE OF TACTICS. Mayflower, giving the usual records, then to give perplexing statements a start, state With the division of land, which meant puts as "Family 2. Peter (son of above), that John Brown, of Plymouth, was an absolute ownership, ambition and enthusi- born 1632; removed from Duxbury, Mass.: older brother of Peter, and both liTed on asm was aroused. The farmer "homeward married, July 15, 1638, Mary (probably the Duxbury side. plods his weary way," to be sure, still the daughter of Jonathan or Nathan) Gillet: he John was married in Eneland. where summing up of his day's labor gave him admitted to Windsor Church June 22. 1662 some of his children were born, but the an account on his own side of the ledger. (O. C. R.): bo't in Windsor, same year year of his coming out is not known. Possesssion brought self-respect, and a (June 28). house and lot of Robert Hay- To make the matter clear. I take the Pil- spirit of progression was aroused. The ward, 'near the mill." and doubtless resided jrrim Peter Brown, then his son Peter, born, homestead was very primitive, but it be- there until he bought the .Tosias Ellsworth as this record gives it. in 162S. and died in longed to the family. place, near William Phelps. Jr.. January 31. 1658. six years after the purchase of Dart- DUXBURY. 1664. which since has been called the Peter mouth, with Gov. Bradford and others in From Plymouth to Duxbury was claimed Brown place, and became conspicuous about 1652. to be a step in the right direction, and Peter the beginning of the present century, be- Now the itrange story begins, which will 28 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. give, in view of the other long accepted, Stonington, and they later removed to nection. Collins's "Peerage will give the much opportunity for search. Ballston, Saratoga County, N. Y. After student more of this history. The story of "Six years later his (Peter 2) two sons, the fashion of the day, the hair of this these Pilgrims is the "living present," a Thomas and Hachaliah, with their friend, couple has been preserved in a locket, mathematical use of the data furnished, Peter Disbrow, removed to Rye, which which is now in the possession of one of the which tells the story of one, at the same was in 1664. (See also "History of Rye," Browns of Rye. time all of the colony. by Dr. Baird, and Bolton's "History of A granddaughter married Hon. Samuel Hutton's statement in his "Original Westchester County," Vol. II. B. Ruggles, of New York, and another Lists" that "the proceedings which were Thomas Brown, the eldest brother (son granddaughter, Content, married Robert taken chiefly against the nonconformists, of Peter 2), never married. Hachaliah Cheesbrough. caused many English families to leave had five sons and three daughters. His Perhaps to the fact that a descendant is their homes, helps the story. Some were sons were Peter (3), Hachaliah (2), Thomas, now writing Cheesbrough genealogy, I owe sent to distant parts of the country. "Thus Benjamin and Deliverance. Jonathan some of the data I am so fortunate as to a delinquent belonging to Essex would be Brown, of Rye, a grandson of Hachaliah, be able to give to the public. sent, perhaps, to Wiltshire or Yorkshire, had a daughter Sarah, who married a de- HachaliahBrown (2) married Ann Kuif- and under pain of severe punishment, for- scendant of Rev. Thomas Hooker, also of fen, of Rye, and died about 1794. bidden to leave the town in which he was Capt. Thomas Willet, the first (English) BOLTON'S HISTORY. located, where, by the way, under the Mayor of New York; and the Snowdens, of semblance of being a free man, he was Philadelphia, are descended from them. To make a correction, as sent me, I must compelled to earn, or at least procure, his says: Peter Brown (3), son of the first Hacha- quote from "Bolton's History," which own living." younger liah, married Martha, daughter of Peter "Brown—This family was a SEPARATION. Disbrow, who, with Thomas and Hachaliah branch of the Browns of Beachworth, in The field of separatism assumes greater Brown, was one of the most prominent men the County of Kent, England, founded by proportions and influence as the search goes in the colony. Sir Anthony Brown, who was created on. Captain Hooker, the historian, recently Hachaliah Brown, second son of the first Knight of the Bath at the coronation of told me that he had found a line of it run- by that name, was, says Dr. Baird, called Richard II. He left issue two sons, Sir ning from Wales to Devonshire. This will John Trumbull- Mary Swan. Mavfl nver Mary explain the Cooke connection with Lieut. Peter Brown-Martha Ford. i John Thompson, of Wales, and so many I I others not distinctly placed. Joseph Trumbull— I Benoni Trumbull—Sarah Drake, Peter Brown — Mary Gillett, Some of the early historians of New Eng- Aug. 10.16,-4, Oct.4, 1632. I land give the birthplace of Mayflower Peter Men. 9, 1691. obit. 24. 1770. | Julv I Brown as Yorkshire. This is quite possible, Peter Brown— Mary Baker, as we know many people of distinction were Mart-h 12,1664. stay there. | compelled to Knowledge of them is lost from their Benj. Trumbull— Mary Brown, leaving secretly, Hutton claiming that even 1763. born Mayll. 1712. I Aug.28, 1708-Nov. 19. at that early period vessels left almost daily I Asbabel Skinner— Sarah Trumbull, for America. "Among the thousands who I July 11, 1745. emigrated to New England, it cannot be I doubted that a large number left to avoid svlvester Skinner - Polly Wilcox. payment of the hateful subsidy, and that 1765- May, i9, 1848. obit. Dec. 1859. | they would not take the oaths of allegiance I Jonathan C. Brown-Julia Skinner, and supremacy." 1810; I June 30. Oct. 1808: Lists of the passengers were not kept, so 1872. ob. Dec. 6, 1890. ob. Sept. 26, I Elsie Brown. the doubters should aot deter people from the natural assimilations of history until Richard, his heir, and Sir Stephen, who Major in 1752. He was Justice in 1755-6, absolute records prove them incorrect. of London in 1439. and Mr. Bolton states that he commanded was Lord Mayor With one more of the statements that have Lord His eldest son. Sir Robert Brown, was the Westchester Levies under Gen. come to me I will leave this history to pub- of Rye, a father of Sir Thomas Brown, of Beach- Amhnrst. Jonathan Brown, lic opinion and correcting, trusting no sup- Castle, was treasurer of the grandson of Hachaliah. had a daughter, worth who posed delicacy will lead any one to hesitate VI., was Sarah, who married a descendant of Rev. household of King Henry and about expressing any suggestions that will in 1444 1460. Thomas Hooker, also of Capt. Thomas Sheriff of Kent and be of benefit. Willet, the first (English) Mayor of New Thomas Brown, Esq., of Rye, County "Peter of Plymouth, and Peter of New York, and the Snowdons, of Philadelphia, Sussex, England, emigrated to Concord, Haven, were undoubtedly the same per- are descendants from them. A later Sir Mass., in 1632, from whence he removed son." time. Anthony Brown Lord Montague was a to Cambridge, where he lived some This chart I am glad to give. Some of the prominent character in Devonshire, Eng- His sons were Thomas, of Rye, and Hacha- records are worthy of full search: land, in the early part of the last century. liah, of Rye." Peter Brown, married Mary Hard; died His daughter. Content Brown, married . MISTAKE. 1633 at Plymouth. Peter Brown, married Stonington, Conn., Rev. John Rathbone, of "Mr. Bolton was misinformed in regard Elizabeth Knapp (?) 1628-1658, Plymouth. years of January 8, 1751, when about 18 to above statement. The Thomas he refers Hachaliah Brown, married, 1671, Ruth age. to was a cousin of Mayflower Peter, and Mead. Hachaliah Brown, married Ano Having left Rye so young, very little is not the ancestor of the Browns of Rye, Kniffen (?) about 1728; major in 1752; known of her, although prior to 1850 most The father of Peter of the Mayflower was judge in 1755; died July, 1789. Content of the older members of the family were Thomas, who was grandson of the first Sir Brown, January 8, 1751, married Rev. John familiar with the name, and expressed them- Anthony." The famous "Battle Abbey" Rathbone, of Stonington, Conn., 1729- selves in regard to her as a near relative. was given by Henry VIII. to Sir Anthony 1826. Prudence Rathbone, 1757-1827, mar- She died at Ashford, Conn., September Brown. A later Sir Anthony Browne, Lord ried Samuel Satterlee, 1741-1831. George 30, 1804, aged 72 years. Montague, was a prominent character in Cary Satterlee.—George Cary Satterlee, HER FAMILY. Devonshire, Eng., the early part of last married March 19, 1833, Mary Le Roy Liv- Rev. John Rathbone and Content Brown century. Montague, Mass., is named for ingston, 1811-1886. Francis Le Roy Satter- had thirteen children. Prudence, their him. lee, married Laura Suydam, December 9, fourth child, married Samuel Satterlee. of This makes the claim of the name con- 1868. Madeleine Le Roy Satterlee. SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 29 GEORGE SOULE, Thirty-fifth Signer. Although not on the records of the Pil- those of Massachusetts Bay, arid Connecti- land, it is evident there would have been grim start, a man of distinction, even in cut against the Pequod Indians." much without any insidious germ of pre- those days of plain living and plain speak- His home at Duxbury, where he was ap- destination. ing, George Soule held his own as a citizen pointed in 1G42, "to provide forces against As early as "1C36 every household in where "essential servies" were needed. them (the Indians) for an offensive, and Plymouth Colony was required to keep a He came out as of Edward Winslow's defensive war," must have been very satis- ladder which would reach the top of the family, leading to the supposition that be factory. In 1637 the records tell us that "a roof in case of fyer." In the same year. No- was indentured to his chief, in connection garden place is granted George Soule at vember 15, 1636, a law was passed by the with his business interests and Brewster. Duxborrow to lye his grounds at Powder Colony Court ordering "cattle marks," by The love he bore Winslow continued al- Point." which alone claim of ownership could be ways, and the next generation, at least, Housekeeping on the primitive plan of that made. acknowledged the bond with great loy- place, would save many steps, though there George Soule, it is shown by Plymouth alty. is a modern sound about their "one large records, must have a "piece cut out like a x Everything he held iu the way of office room a bedroom, and kitchen on the first of the under side of the right eare down- was on his own "probity and integrity," a floor, with two large and two small rooms wards," and he and Anthony Thatcher wielding of his personal power, which was above," then sometimes that part is dear so "were shoson a committee to draw up an felt during the whole of his long life. a woman's heart "an attic above all." order concerning disorderly drinking of to- CURIOS. bacco." Protection against "cigarette ENGLISH HISTORY. fiends," for "drinking" tobacco was then the How the present relic hunters would en- History of Normandy and England, common term for smoking." The joy searching for the treasures sure to be in by Sir Francis Palgrave, third volume, the garrets of those seafaring Soules, where DUXBURY. edition of 1864, in its accounts of the "Ba- generations of curiosities were stored away The bay about Duxbury, being well pro- ronial Castles of the Contentin, Avanches almost forgotten by the ocupants. China tected, is quite free from rocks, only a few and the Bessin" (page 661), mentions that galore, and such ebony desks, filled, beside about Powder Point, where the sportive the "Chateau de Soule," under Henry II. the evident beauty, with secret drawers, trout secured themselves from observation, (1154-1189), was held by Guillaume de receptacles for the trusty gold, the modus are known as Zachary's rocks, probably Soule; a family of Soule subsists in England operandi of reaching it known only to the after the son of the Pilgrim, who. rejoic- under the name of Sole. initiated. ing in an unusual name, secured easy iden- The association of names in the following These cottages were fortified, and had tification. His father early lived at Powder record brings us even to the present day, gambrel roofs, which though of older Eng- Point. with intervening generations accredited. Soules were emphatically of the lish architecture than some of the hastily The men Upon the "Catalogue des Grands Seig- constructed buildings, were considered very sea. Not the wise men of Gotham who neurs Normans, Qui pesseunt la mer et a bowl, but stalwart desirable as a means of firing upou the made their venture in tombattirent pour Le Due Guillaume quand for a whale treacherous Indians. This was a time when seamen, armed and equipped conqueste PAngleterre," may be found smaller game. Only they must have the claim of ambush was made for them- or the name of Le Sire Guillaume de Soulle, something as a reward for their labors. selves. The leanto, for reasons out of my associated with such distinguished Norman The Delanos and Soules shared this glory, power to give, was also called a salt-box. as Robert, Comte de Mortaine (Mor- Barons THE NEW. and the danger gave zest to their enter- ton), Le Sire de Puy (Depew) and Le Sire THE OLD AND prise, as around Cape Sable they sought neatness de Tracy. The idea of Pilgrim and Puritan both means of livelihood and pleasure. This Coming down to more modern times, has been handed down so decidedly that one trade grew upon them, their hairbreadth knowing the family were in the counties of is fain to accept it without a thought. Yet escapes not confined strictly to a landsman's discus- Kent, Cambridge and Worcester; also in even this tradition is susceptible of style of narrative made them welcome London, where, upon the records were found sion as to its inheritance from "Old Eng- patrons of the Duxbury ordinaries, where the following extracts, bearing evidently land." The stories of the merry-making they found refreshment for man and beast. upon the family of the young Norman Pil- there are extant, only the reading to freshen Those abodes of sociability were in good grim with whom we have to do, there is a the memory and tell us that hands; the convival spirit was worked al- feeling that the start is really made: "Old King Cole was a merry old soul. ways under the restraint of the law. The "George Soule, married Alice Edwards And a merry old soul was he. ordinaries, which having become Puritan June 26. 1625, at St. Saviour's, Southwark, He called for his pipe, he called for his bowl. taverns, were not allowed to be kept with- London." And he called for his fiddlers three." out a license by an express order of the "William Sole, son of Robert, baptized in This was the finale, the mint and char- court, and the choice seems to have been » St. Butolph's, Bishopgate, London, October treuse for digestion. What had gone be- matter of great moment, only the sober 18, 1607. fore had ceased to be of interest, but the ones and strong were considered equal to "Elleyn Sole, marryed John Owenstead, surroundings told the tale of the Boar's the gravity of the case, and were enjoined January 29, 1608 at St. Botolph. head and plum pudding eaten, the refuse to keep matters quiet and to take care that (Buto'.ph) "John Soule, -of St. Buttoulphe thrown to the dogs, the unbidden guests, none should "drink over much." The reg- of this Parish, over- hare without algat. and Ruth Fox, their Board of Health, and then, when ulating of the precise quantity must were married in St. Dionis Backchurch," come by satiety, they mounted a sleeping required a neighborly knowledge. London, December, 1581. guard, the abundant rosemary came into THE §E ARURYS. It merely historical sequence to sup- air with its sweet perfume. is a play, filling the Think of "Mr. Seabury," of Duxbury. pose that these were the parents of the Pil- Plymouth did not furnish the rose- Barren who in 167S was granted I license to sell grims. name argument increases the imitation, the sineerest The mary; there was no liquors "unto such sober-niinded neighbors the first born taking that of bis appreciating the neces- possibility— flattery possible, so as hee shall thinke moot, soe as he sell not unwritten the mid- possible grandfather, John, the sity, they sawed the trees through lesse than the quantitio of a gallon at a heart, on top for their sentiment, deep down in the Pilgrim dle, putting the smooth part time, to one person, and not in smaller from asserting itself at the sight of the welcome flooring. This must be scrubbed, and quantities by rotaile to the occasioning of following in the England son. Too, there was a Fox it has grown out beautiful New drnnkenos." early colonies. floors in their primitive neatness. The chance for a royal time was provided, IN AMERICA. OTHER CUSTOMS. but the means to it must be taken on the the family houses Puritan sly. And this was I member of connection is imputed to From these cold, cheerless Some military of Bishop Seabury. required that the first Sunday after its this family, for all through, the generations usage are record- for The early settlers of Duxbury time as the Pilgrim did birth a child should be taken to church living at the same ed as "men of the highest respectability, of George Soule made baptism. Without Dr. Cornwall's explana- more than good service. the Pilgrims," oc- of disease in New Eng- the highest repute among his record as "one of the volunteers to aid tion of the cause n 30 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. cupying military, ecclesiastical and civil po- years of age. He owned the right to having noy, who died September 12, 1733, aged 95. sitions with much honor to themselves and his "days long on the land which his God He died 1707, aged 75. the community they represented. You can gave him." His father's touching tribute SECOND GENERATION. take your choice. George Soule was among to this claim tells, "and for as much as Biy Joshua Soule, bom October 12, 1681, of them, whether you spell his name Sole, eldest son, John Soule, and his family, hath Duxbury, who married Josanna Studley. are of an- Soal, Soul. The family of Sole in my extreme old age and weakness, bin He died May 29, 1767. He left, with other cient English origin, with armorial bear- tender and careful of mee and very healpfull children: ings. to mee, and is likely for to be while it shall THIRD GENERATION. It is all in the story to tell that the SouW please to continue life heer, there- God my Joseph Soule, born March 15, 1722, of in good company, for were traders, always fore I give and bequeath unto my said sou, Duxbury, who married Mary Fullerton, in they had Alexander Standish for one and John Soule, all the remainder of my housing 1742. He had, with other children, Ruby Major Judah Alden for another to partici- and lands whatsoever." Soule, who married Eden Wadsworth, pate in all that could accrue. Facts are Then George, who inherited half of his and: stern things, whether met in the broad day- father's lands at Dartmouth. Benjamin, FOURTH GENERATION. light or in the privacy of the midnight lamp. killed in the spring of 1675 by the over- Joshua Soule, who married February Either way Joshua Soule stared the matter whelming force of the Indians at Canoua- 14, 1765, Mary Cushman, born December in the face and proved beyond doubt that cnt. Zachariah, who lived at Powder Point, 22, 1744; died in Philips, Province of "the most profitable sales of the period were died in 1663; Nathaniel, who, like his Maine, March 27, 1819. They had with those of intoxicating liquors." brother, inherited land in Dartmouth; Eliza- other children: Joshua Soule, late senior SHIFPING MERCHANTS. beth, who married Francis Walker, of Mid- Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, To own two vessels, the Seaflower and dleboro; Susanna, then Mary, placed to and, the Dolphin, was quite a shipping interest, John Winslow. 1652, for seven years, FIFTH GENERATION. and the journeys to Virginia, Maryland and though the joining of these names prevents Ruby Soule, born in Bristol, Me., Octo- the Carolinas aided much to the filling of fear of hard usage, still, fortunately, she ber 1, 1777; died February, 1844. She mar- the "ancestral halls" which grew with their had a home of her own, for she was married ried Peter Dudley (lineal descendant of wealth. before 1672 to John Peterson. Gov. Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts), The Soules were always to the front in A long line of sea captains follow this who was born in Maine, A. D., 1777; died in maritime affairs. Every branch fitted into name. They fly to the east, they fly to the Mainville, Waren County, Ohio, in 1819. their desires. They could fish, trade and sail west, and if old ocean sometimes claims They had, with other children: their own vessels; then, given the chance, if them, there is that in the blood which, even SIXTH GENERATION. for the benefit of their country, turn them with this knowledge, would send other mem- Rhoda Dudley, born in Maine, April 21, into "saucy privateers" at a moment's no- bers of the family out, if they knew the 1806; died October 27, 1846; married March same fate would be theirs. tice. Church interesis were not forgotten 28, 1830, in Mainville, Ohio, Hon. Abram by the Soules. The Pilgrim was one of the George Soule, one of the Pilgrims who Teetor. Their son: petitioners for a church in Duxbury. He came in the Mayflower, in 1620, landed at SEVENTH GENERATION. died in 1680, very aged, and his wife in Plymouth, and afterward settled at Dux- Henry Dudley Teetor was born Novem- 1677. He was called one of the "old stock," bury, Mass. ber 16, 1834, at Goshen, Clermont the also a member of the original company for He had a grant of "one acre west of County, Ohio, who married, January 26, the "Pilgrim Suez," which Cape Cod watering place," at Plymouth, which he sold 1864, at Glendale, Ohio, Miss Sarah Lee isthmus, with Buzzard's Bay for its Red to R. Hicks and Thomas Southworth, and Cilley, daughter of the late Judge Jonathan Sea and Plymouth its Aleppo, was so hap- removed to Duxbury in 1645. Cilley, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and great- pily called. FIRST GENERATION. granddaughter of Major-Gen. Joseph Cilley, George Soule, with others, "lived several of New Hampshire, who distinguished him- years after a route for a canal had been John Soule, born 1632, at Duxbury; mar- self in the War of the Revolution as traced there," and claimed interest of the ried Esther Delano about 1638, daughter of Colonel Commanding the First New Hamp- Massachusetts Bay Colony. Phillippe De La Noye (de Lannoy), who shire Regiment, afterward president of the He married Mary Socket, and had John, came out in the Fortune 1621 from Leidon, Society of the Cincinnati of New Hamp- who lived, as was fitting, to be seventy-five a lineal descendant of the Seigneur de Lan- shire. GILBERT WINSLOW, Thirty-first Signer. "Baptized October 29, 1600. A brother of Gov. Winslow. Returned —to England— i—about —a—1626. Died 1650." EDWARD MARGES ON, Thirty-second Signer, "a Edward Margeson, single man; died I early 1621. J 31 RICHARD CLARKE, Thirty-sixth Signer. Tradition will not allow the early death Island could be within visiting distance, but was expected, but an effort will be made in record of this Pilgrim to stand. the home in more balmy New Jersey. the third pamphlet to give the reasons for The claim of descent from him is con- RICHARD CLARKE, SENIOR. them. stant, and from many sections. The tales Richard Clarke, Sr., with his wife Eliza- In the Rahway cemetery, on St. George's of long ago are deep rooted, and any doubt beth, daughter Elizabeth and five sons, avenue, is a monument erected in 1848 to the memory of the signer. the four of the authenticity of their statements Richard, John, Joseph (Joshua), Samuel and Upon sides of this are the following inscriptions: would be, from their point of view, too ridic- Ephraim, came to Elizabethtown about ulous to arouse even interest. 1678. Two sons, Thomas and Benjamin, Abraham Clark, his arrival. It is one short, to them conclusive tale; were born to him after Born at Rahway, 16th Feb., 1726, and as such mainly from Hatfield's The first five were all admitted as asso- Died 15th Sept., 1794. will of "History of Elizabethtown, N. J.," I ciates in 1G99-1700. The Richard In private life a Christian. Clarke, Sr., is dated York, April 1, state it. New Exemplary, consistent, zealous. The story, while not giving any of the an- 1G97, where he may have been taken ill, In public life a statesman and a patriot. tecedents of Richard Clarke, the Mayflower and where probably he died a day or two In 1775 a member of the first Provincial Pilgrim, states that "Richard Clarke, a ship- later. His estate was valued at £159.5.1%. Congress. son the grandfather of wright, was from the east end of Long Isl- His Thomas was In 1776 one of the Committee of Public Clarke, the signer of the Declar- and. In a deposition made March 22, 1741, Abraham Safety. his son Richard, then 'aged about fourscore ation of Independence. A delegate to the Continental Congress years,' states that he was born, as he hath RECORDS. and a signer of the Declaration of Inde- heard, at Southampton, on Long Island, and The story in Elizabethtown is easily sub- pendence. that he was brought to Elizabethtown by his stantiated. Dr. J. Henry Clarke, M. D., of Erected by the citizens of Rahway. father, named Richard Clarke, when he was Newark, N. J., to whom I am indebted for 4th July, 1848. Richard Clark, Signer of the Children of Abraham Mayflower Compact. Clark, the signer, born about 1720; Had one child. Eliza, Richard Clarke, Abraham Clark, M. who married John of New Haven? D., married Lydla P. Beekman. of Southampton, South- Griffith, daughter of Kinderhook; ha d old and Dr. John Griffith, of two daughters. Elizabethtown. Newark, N. J.; died Catherine, who died July 28, 1854, at the two years ago; An- Richard Clarke, house of his daugh- na Rosalie, who is of Long Island ter. living, single, and and Elizabethtown. One son, single, died the only descendant young in the "Jer- of the signer. Thomas Clarke, sey Prison Ship." born in One son, single, died Elizabethtown. at home of "jail fever;" was in "N. Thomas Clarke, son J. sugar house." No children; both of Thomas, who One daughter, Han- dead. had one son, nah, who married Abraham. Capt. Mellyn Miller. One daughter, Hen- No children; both Abraham Clark, sign- rietta, who married dead. er of the Declara- Major Clarkson Ed- tion of Independ- gar, Rahway. Had one daughter. ence for New Jersey, One daughter, Abbey, Louise Salter, who who married Sarah who married Thos. died, single, at about Hatfield, had three Salter, of Elizabeth. 80 years of age. sons and three daughters. between sixteen and seventeen years of this history, has the above from family re- On the old brown stone which marks the age. cords left him by his father and grandfather, grave the following is engraved: given to Dr. Hatfield. "The father's name is not found among perhaps by them A. C. from the early inhabitants of Southampton. He They had no doubt of their descent In Memory of Pilgrim, and was living in Southold in 1675." Richard Clarke, the Mayflower Abraham Clark, Ksij.. the second Richard There is a strange possibility about this were satisfied that Who died Sept. 15. 1794, in the 60th year Island from record; not more so than some others, how- came, as so many did, to Long of his age. ever. Long Island has many secrets to un- the New Haven colony. Firm and decided as a patriot, zealous ravel. The Pilgrims were no strangers One record shows Rich;\rd Clarke as "hav- and faithful as a servant of the public. He there. It was a place of traffic, its wilds in- ing property in Southold in 1675, bouuded loved his country and adhered to her cause creasing the number of "skins," both the by the property of James Emot, and the darkest hours of her struggles New England States and New Amsterdam Westbrook in right of himself and wife. in the against oppression. found such valuable articles of commerce. "Also is recorded as possessing property bounded This grave, with that of Capt. Richard A little colony of the best people had already in Southampton in 1664 of upland Skinner and Sergt. Abraham Truflvrry. "sat down" there, and, too, there was a by William Oliver, Charles Ludlow and were marked by a committee from the drift of those not to water inclined for New George Rose." Elizabethtown Chapter, No. 1, of the Sons Jersey. The accompanying chart, part of which of the American Revolution. Every year The instinctive desire on the part of many was sent to me, I have added to as I recall I alone to these gentlemen go to the different ceme- to cultivate the soil found better opportunity the history. If incorrect, am teries nnd put marks on the old patriots' among the inland towns. Matters of health, blame. this record, as graves. too, entered their calculations. Bleak Long Exceptions are taken to 32 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. EDWARD DOTY, Fortieth Signer. No one can write of Edward Doty, with- out in any way affecting their lineal traits party, an expedition of the greatest import- out recognizing his various attractions, and mental and social investments." ance, requiring judgment, if possible ex- though some of his proceedings run counter This was Doty's situation; a younger perience, involving the destiny of the whole to one's general expectations of the staid son, as the research of experts shows, of colony, if he were not educated up to it. It and serious Pilgrims. an authenticated family, he was obliged, in was not a time for experiments, the people The supposition of his youth when he common with all others, under the laws of ready and waiting, longing and needing, started for new fields to conquer is eagerly England, to serve his apprenticeship of must have the speediest housing and set- accepted in extenuation of acts which in seven years to earn the rights of citizen- tling for the well-being of their venture. that light seem only the overflow of the ex- ship. THE RIGHT VIEW. uberance of early life, without "malice Stephen Hopkins, a prominent resident of So Edward Doty was a servant to Mr. aforethought" in his acts. his own section of country, personally at- Stephen Hopkins, not for personal, menial Allowing that traditions are truth, until tractive, drew him to make his start of in- service, but living naturally with his mas- disproven, it is easy to accept the informa- denture with him, and under such tutelage, ter, as was the custom of that day, and tion given by history, and coming to me as well as the necessary trade, taught him many which followed it, eating at his table, from various sources. All are backed by as he himself was taught the Separatist as people so circumstanced have for time genealogical search, for, in 1873, Albert G. doctrines, and during the serious twilight out of date. Then, when his time was up, Welles, president of the Gen. Society, and hour imbued his young mind with a longing marrying, if they so desired, a daughter of M. T. Foreman, the secretary, made a gene- for adventure, and what would soon be the house, with the accompaniment of a alogical search, and as a result gave it that called a broad, liberal education. father's blessing. "Edward Dotey or Doughty, of the May- Part his of apprenticeship was behind History had precedent for such procedure. flower, was an English youth, belonging to him when his master, a man strong in his Modern methods are the same, only the the same family as Sir Charles Montague convictions, decided to cast in his lot with terms are different. Edward Doty and Doughty, or Doty, of Therburton Hall, Suf- the outgoing Pilgrims. The prospects as Edward Leister were confidential clerks folk County, England, formerly of Lincoln well as necessities suited Edward Doty, from the start. County. the citizenship and to be earned could be I have no desire, for it in no way detracts The family has an ancient and honorable accomplished as well with Stephen Hopkins from Edward Doty's character, to make record that dates back to the Norman Con- in other lands as with the same person in him other than he was, a wild, harum- quest. his own. scarum fellow. Not being a clubman, and Edward Doty, being a minor, came over AGAIN ENGLISH LAW. having no Monte Carlo to seek when he in the employ of Stephen Hopkins, and was "A freeman, which class alone was enti- desired a little outing where the numbers one of the forty-one "Signers" of the com- tled to elect civil officers, was one who had who were on the same mission hid the pact signed on the Mayflower, November served his apprenticeship to one of the sixty single action, our Edward, who never could 11, 1620." odd Livery Companies, or Craft Guilds, dance a "pas seul," rendered his account RIGHT OF PLACE, and had received his discharge from in- wholly, freely, regardless of Bradford's denture. willing pen or the Plymouth records which, The locality is certainly in favor of Ed- these centuries after, would be searched for his ward Doty's relation to the Pilgrims before "Into Livery Companies went, as indentured apprentices to learn the craft, credentials before he could present himself his start, and as Goodwin, in his "Land- trade, the best blood of England. to the august board who would pass sen- marks of Plymouth," places Stephen Hop- or royalty joined tence on his admission to the "Society of kins as possibly of Scrooby, from his em- "To the Companies even itself." Mayflower Descendants." ployes, Doty and Leister, that is corrobora- Our "young blood," imbued with the tive of the statement. This name may be found in England and spirit of the times when Drake, Hawkins Another of the records written between here, spelt in many ways. They are only and "Sir Walter Raleigh, the master spirit the lines of history that evolve truths as the the accidents of the times, common from of England for romantic enterprises, and a result of a general search, unites these peo- the variety of sectional pronunciations, and passionate desire to discover, explore and ple in one body politic, giving one keynote of the indifference of the owner. settle other countries," had infused the action. Such error has pursued people always, longings for what must be called piratical The statement in my possession that "Ed- and in the early days the desire being to put adventure into the minds of men, expected ward Dotey ran away from home, in resent- their personal identification out of the more of an expedition than the hum-drum ment of his oldest brother's inheritance of power of those they were surrounded by, life of narrow ship's quarters, surrounded the home and emoluments," has a founda- they were willing to drift into any spelling, by women and children. tion in truth, but there is more to it than no matter how far from the truth it ren- He hadn't shipped for this. There must this fact, though it may have been the last dered the pronunciation. be some place for his opinion and action; straw, which gave the active impulse to the In an old deed made October 17, 1752, at least he valued it, and history shows that final act. Abner White (whose son Charles married others took the view of it. Elizabeth Doty) deed, entered in Charlotte same ENGLISH LAW. Edward "Dotte" was not alone in feeling Precincts, recorded in book 2, is signed by that an ordinary mixed ship's company The article on "Descent" preceding Vir- William Dougherty, Town Clerk, February could be dispensed with; other spirits like ginia Genealogies, by Rev. Mr. Hayden, of 13, 1771. unto himself saw with his glasses and felt Wilkesbarre, places Edward Doty on a plat- Abner White in his will places the name form which has no question as to accept- as Doty. it incumbent on themselves to enjoy each day as it came. ance; it is infallible in its relation to the SERVANT CONTINUED. people of that epoch. The word servant in the past had aot THE ADVENTURERS. "The law of primogeniture, or right of the the same significance of menial position as The bond binding them to the merchant oldest son to inherit all of his father's es- in the present. It was an English form of adventurers in the future, men who were tate, if held by knight's service, introduced speech to which no one took exception, and "outgrowths of the craft guilds," bore heav- into England soon after the Norman con- in the large English houses in China, it was ily on their future, and they were to avail quest, by the influence of Norman lawyers, usual for any one not of the firm to speak themselves of all the liberty of unorganized has determined the descent of land in Eng- of himself as servant of the house of ship life to store up retrospective pleasure. land for the past 800 years. True, its di- "Blank." Years of trial, work and the discipline of rect effect has been to enrich the oldest sou Fresh from countries where the feeling "a barren country, which is a great whet the rest and beggar of the family. of caste was wool-dyed, no necessity would to the industry of people," never entirely "Yet it has this advantage, in that while have led Gov. Carver, whose conversatism effaced this part of his character. it creates a privileged class of landed gen- was a matter of fact, to choose this youth The boy nature remained with the man try, it disperses the younger sons to seek as one of the "ten principale men from the of riper years. their homes and fortunes elsewhere with- volunteers" to go on the third exploring At the start all had land, to be sure, but SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. M it was by yearly tenure, everything on the to the government abroad that the official and fitte for labour and service did repine co-operative plan. hand would fall with undesired weight. that they should 6pend their time and The old saying that everything was pro- LAND DISTRIBUTION. strength to work for other men's wives and vided for the "lame and the lazy" did not children without recompense. The strong, The second distribution in 1027 spok>' take deep root in the Pilgrim mind. Natu- or men of parts, had no more devission of well for the progression of the people, in thrifty resented this procedure, victails and cloathes than he that was rally the idea and material; also for a national de- and at the request of the people, in 1G23, weake and not able to doe a quarter the pendence on each other; so "to make it all other could; this was thought injustice. there was a distribution of ground plots, easy we take every head of a family, with acre, permission be- "The aged and graver to be ranked and each man receiving one every young man of age and prudence, both ing allowed the father to claim one acre for equalized in labours and victails, cloathes. of the first comers and those who have since etc., with the meanner. and younger sorte, each member of the family. arrived, into partnership with us. Each allotment, thought it some indignitie and disresprf-'-t Edward Doty had but one single freeman to have a single share. Each conclusively satisfactorily unto them, and for men's wives to be com- which proves and father to have leave to purchase a share manded to doe service for other men. as that he was a single man at the time. No for each of his family." his left unclaimed. dressing their meate, washing their rights on part would be Each share is allotted twenty acres of till- cloathes, etc., they deemed it a kind of What his own act had to do with his able lands, besides the single acres with the slaverie; neither could many husbands well state of single-blessedness no one will ever gardens and homesteads they had before brooke it." —Bradford's Plimouth Planta- know. But he lived it down, although the (in the allotment of 1623). tion, pp. 135, 13«i. record can never be effaced that "on the Each single man was requested to unite DOT YS I'M HI. IN' IS. 18th of June (1621) the whole company with some head of a family, in order that EDWARD Imagine Edward Doty remaining quiet were convened to adjudge upon the record of there might be as few families as possible. under such regulations for an instant. offense which had been committed in the Still, Edward Doty was unmarried, and Every instinct of the man would call out colony." This was a duel fought with could claim but one share. sword and dagger between Edward Doty EDWARD A BACHELOR. against it, and few, and necessary, as were and Edward Leister, the servants of Ste- the "cloathes" he owned, he would surely Edward Doty, sowing his wild oats, with phen Hopkins, in which both were wounded. "turn and rend them" that his wife might all the freedom he could command, did not The company sentenced them to have have full occupation for every moment at stop to realize "that a plantation can never their heads and feet tied together, and so home, or if the necessity which knows no planted, and the re- flourish till families be in the to remain for a day, without meat or drink; law compelled her to some share spects of Wives and Children fix the people but within an hour they were released by work required for others, would take care on the soyle." the Governor. there should only be time for a hasty "run- when he did not suffer for Why should he, ning over" of these outside duties. His LENIENT PILGRIMS. blessedness, and the little cherub his single wife, his time, would have suited his hus- Soft-hearted Pilgrims, they were still sped no arrows for him? who sits aloft had bandly requirements far better. themselves without the austere learning hospitable board Beside John Howland's that there are two sides to fresh Allowing which came with the Puritans, from found all the comforts the colony could he every question, and that I may naught ex- the cruelties of other countries. and under his peaceful influence command, tenuate or give false value to. each view Puritanism partook of the temperament nothing to arouse his belligerent there was shall have its place. of the person in pawer, who was often a spirit. The acknowledged authority on Edward law unto himself. Pilgrimism, if it can be CALM BEFORE MANY STORMS. Doty, of the Mayflower, is certainly Mr. so called, saw always the lenient side of After this the record is very quiet, and it Ethan Allen Doty, and when preparing this everything, they sounded the modern war Bradford, when, is only as one reads from article, I was glad of the personal friend- cry of wishing "to be left alone" with their Doty, by a in 1650, he says: "Edward ship which enabled me to seek him last beliefs and desires. he and second wife, hath seven children, and spring, and secure the expert opinion which A household religion, strong of purpose, realizes how, be- they are living," that one I knew was his. loving and tender in authority. sorrow have tween 1627 and 1635, joy and True to his desire to have only real, au- They made no compromises with their wife of come to our Pilgrim, and that the thenticated history. I found he felt there consciences, but held to the form of Chris- his youth was one of the loved and lost. was not the slightest foundation of fact in tian service which kept their daily life the Gone from his earthly to her heavenly home. the many statements of the connection with best they knew, not looking backward for "On the 6th of January, 1634-5, Edward the Doughty family of Suffolk County. regrets, or forward the unknown future to Doten and Fayth Clarke were married." England. beyond their control. Thurston This young bride, daughter of Indeed, if I mistake not, the family na- The Pilgrim toleration was not in the Pu- Clarke, only 16 years of age, knew whom tionality is rather attributed to Germany. ritan "articles of faith," who were tempest- happi- she loved, and that she was sure of Goodwin pronounces it French, and allows tossed religiously and meted out to those ness with Edward Doten, a "thrifty, active this birthright to plead for many faults of under them punishments with an iron will citizen." temper. which was not velvet-gloved. A man who, if given a choice of the place, However this may be. and admitting, as A WILLING SINNER. could, or at least would, try to occupy any "the historian" claims, that he was an ic- For my part, I would not have trusted or all at once. norant lad, 20 years of age. who signed the Edward Doty had not punishment stared What matter which, so long as they Compact and future papers, including his court, him in the face, not to repeat the same of- caused him to present himself at will, in 1655, with a mark. this, if accept rd fense at a moment's notice on the slightest whether as plaintiff or defendant was a as evidence of his inability to write, would provocation. It was the irresistible some- matter of perfect indifference to him. and place many of that epoch as nnedueated. thing in the mail's nature that hal to be when going too far he found himself a pris- OTHERS SIGN WITH AN* X. trifle, the too worked off, regardless of circumstances. oner, it was only for a mere Having already called attention in pre- Why have a sword if not for use? They free use of tongue or fists! vious papers to Alice Southworth Brad- were not collecting relics for home adorn- There is no doubt of his capacity in either ford's will, also that of Peregrine White, ment. respect. signed with an X. I doubt not I could find GOVERNOR'S POWER. THE INHERITANCE. much similar evidence that would make the won- "The Governor, in some cases previous By heredity his sons took up Edward Doty in good compauy. My own far as to the establishment of juries, remitted drous tale and repeated history so conviction grows with the search into a punishments. He remitted that of the their attendance upon court was concerned. belief that there was some method in this they were recognized by the duelists, Doty and Leister, after it had Still, again, like the rilgrim. mode of procedure, been partially administered." energetic, useful citizens, although litiga- period. '.c ' when lack Having no patent of their own by which tion was the very "breath of their nostrils." The days arc r.or ^ brought inclination made writing i to live and guide public affairs, the officials The Pilgrims and "old comers" of practice and all have reached years of were peculiarly placed as to their actions. with them a deal of human nature, resent- labor, and who rebelled with a maturity can give evidence from precedent They were still wholly under English law ment of imposition, and number of people who rarely and must creep slowly into power. The modern spirit at the requirements of the of the large took a pen in their hand. adventurers migh at any time "vent their times. able one doubts Louis XVI. a royalty, and spleen" upon them, and so represent affairs "For the young men that were most No 34 SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. yet he could not write, still he held his prevents false hopes, only admitting every human nature has always been, bear testi- throne by right of inheritance as to his possibility among those "old comers" of mony of the horrors overcome, as sick, ner- place and the will of the people. reaching that ship by the various intermar- vous and alone they were to accept their SUCCESS. riages. fate. Edward Doty's success in life in attrib- Thinking people must pause before they THE CREW OF THE MAYFLOWER. relegate the present interest in ancestry to uted to his ambition and shrewdness. Cer- History enables us to feel a little vindic- a place among the "fads" of their times tain is it that by 1640 he was a considera- tive toward the captain and crew of the and realize the powerful, worldwide strength ble land owner and a man of position and Mayflower, but all, allowing for the lapse growing day by day as each one enlists influence. of time, pass over the never to be forgotten under the Mayflower Arriving in America in 1620, the early banner, the "Founders wrongs when they read that "they that and Patriots," the Sons of the Colonial part of the time tied to the needs attendant had been boone companions in ye time of Colonial time upon the sickness that made such havoc in Wars, Dames, for a future their health and welfare began now to de- of need. the colonies; then the contract with the ad- These societies are making a serte one another in this calamity, saing venturers, which bound a man hand and band with but a single thought for their they would not hasard their lives for them, country. foot, with no outlook of liberty of action; Children are growing up, with the they would be infected by coming to help currents again the barrenness of Plymouth, which of patriotism running through them in the cabins." every fiber of their being, to venerate the was labor with scarcely a return; and yet This is a long "looking backward," to with these years against him Edward Doty, flag all hold so dear, and with the pull search for personal inheritance of disease, young, strong and fearless, made great all together hold it aloft, the pride of a and some of the descendants of the "tough ad- whole nation. strides to accomplish such a material ones," who survived all ills, may take much vancement more than equal to the average, "Imitation, the sincerest flattery," will unction to themselves for their exemption, certainly, at years of age, with all the spread its influence over others until time 40 but the present era of enlighten men t, which drawbacks of the situation. gives them the born right to place them- "carries healing in its hand," wlV still allow I I can but feel that there in Strive as may, selves their turn as the example. all Pilgrim descendants prMe in their birth- was more backing to Edward Doty than PILGRIM HEREDITY. right. would come from an ignorant, untutured There was nothing of the "dinna ken, or allow to been. lad, as many him have One thing the Pilgrim Fathers brought dinna care," about the Dotys; what they must recall that the intellectual pro- One with them could well be dispensed with, but had, what they did, was recorded. gression of that day was at a very low ebb; "hope comes with the morning," and Edward Doty, or Doten, and Faith Clark, there no goal before people that placed was science, which has a barnacle-like tenacity daughter of Thurston Clark, had nine chil- them in early training. Indeed, truth com- of purpose in averting disease, has laid dren, and I owe it to Mr. Ethan Allen Doty pels the assertion that this method of edu- hold upon the fell destroyer, determined to that I can account for them all. cational economy of time hardly reaches place it, so far as human knowledge con- One very important and convincing argu- two generations, and it is asking too much trols, with the things of the past. ment for the Dotys is that they married of the Pilgrims that they should be post- For a long while I have studied during well, the majority of them not "early and graduates in the "arts and sciences" in our work in the library under Dr. Edward often," as the history of the times records those early days. E. Cornwall, M. D., while he was tracing Still, frequently EDWARD DOTY'S SECOND WIPE. for many of the families. to its source the cause of the early disease enough to show they were not out of the Faith Clarke Doty was not exempt from known as the "first sickness," which dev; count in the way of attractions. the sorrows of life. In 1655 she was called astated the colony at the start. It is a very convincing lineage, as to the to part with her husband, and in 1661, be- Now that his article is published, I have aspirations, desires and success of those of fore time had lessened her grief, her father, the opportunity of quoting from it, and the name. Thurston Clarke, was frozen to death while accounting for the rapid spread of that The Pilgrim's will tells the tale I love to on his way by land from Plymouth to Dux- sickness. Dr. Cornwall attributes it to dwell upon, recall, and repeat. Made May bury. A hard fate to come all the way quick consumption. The infectious disease 20, 1655, and recorded at Plymouth, at his from Ipswich, England, in the Francis, to which had spread over the country some August 23, 1655, with nine children, meet! death, two the arrival of the Pil- sons, men- HER HOME. years before while it gives his lands to his grims, making such havoc among the In- tions only Edward the eldest, and provides Faith Doty had a very beautiful house dians, seems to have had no connection with for his widow. at Plymouth, on the High Cliff, and other the after sickness, and is scientifically at- So, if wills are infallible, history is only residences, and there came to her Edward, tributed to smallpox or measles. the first-born, from this source. John, Desire, Samuel, Thomas, Elizabeth, sure of All the circumstances attending the arri- Isaac, Joseph and Mary, two of them born QUAINT INVENTORY. val and life of the Pilgrims were in favor after Bradford's account in 1650—where he Thirty-five years of accumulation, and the of the development of the very disease says: "Edward Doty by his second wife enumeration of his possessions, assures us this article goes to prove. Still, there must had seven children living in 1650, but his that his thrift met with its reward, as he have been an exciting cause, and search has will mentions only wife and one son" (Sav- leaves "three score acres of upland, with proved conclusively that "tlie tubercular age's Gen. Diet, vol. II., p. 61, Bradford's meadow adjoining," valued at £10, while "a bacillus was present on the Mayflower." Plymouth Plantation, 455; Mount's Re- yoake of working oxen," true to the neces- p. Dorothy May Bradford was drowned, lations, p. 45). sities of the times, are placed at £12, and a Gov. Carver died of apoplexy, and then the Can I have better argument for the doubt- cow, his children's friend, is appraised at £4. sad tale is taken up, all in favor of the ers in favor of many other children left out It is a pleasure to notice that he had some presence of the disease that "walketh at of their fathers' wills? Only his namesake, of the comforts himself, among them a large noonday." Edward, to show out of nine children! Why number of household utensils, and as in Consumption, which medical science not the same privilege allowed to Elder those days a "chafing dish for live coals" places as most certain between the ages of William Brewster, to Stephen Hopkins, and was included, Faith Doty could join a club twenty and thirty, took from this little others who have not left a title clear for and spread such tempting viands as venison band the flower of its company, and to their descendants to prove these "back- and wild turkey before the members that spend still further its venom, fastened itself fathers" as their own? the only excuse offered for absence would upon the crew of the Mayflower, after the That this was usual there can be no he sickness. Pilgrims had left the ship, and they, happy doubt; in fact, with the above authority, all Chairs, "chists," hammers, hinges, "kit- in better quarters, sought the places va- must be silenced if not convinced. tles" and, above all things, "a bed and cov- cated by the Pilgrims, probably receiving ering," estimated at the high value of £5, HER SECOND MARRIAGE. therefrom the germs for future disease. figured in the inventory. How they disposed Being a second wife, Faith Clarke Doty Mary Brewster's death appealed to us, "nine little" Dotys, with only one bed, retaliated by having a second husband, knowing she was wasting away, even when of the is a matter of conjecture. marrying March 14, 1667, John Phillips, of all her heart desired had gathered around Marshfield, Mass. This unfortunately does her. THE CHILDREN. not give claim to the Mayflower descent, The Lord's will with them was not a mat- Mary, the youngest child, effaced herself that only coming through the Dotys. ter of rhetoric, or assuagement; the victim completely after she had participated in the This ancestry is naturally so much desired must meet it with the undying faith which settlement of her mother's estate in 1077, that kindness prompts any assertion that overcame harsh methods, and weak as poor and the records announce, for the benefit of — SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 33 to Mayflower ascent, aspirants that she was ing lived on the New England coast, were Walker, then their son Eben<-z<-r Sh<-rrnan, unmarried. and are found as "Doten." who married Mary Simmons, and had a son, Edward Doty, Jr., married, at Plymouth Elizabeth Cooke Doty, mindful of her Aaron Sherman, whose wife, Lydia February 25, 1633, Sarah Faunce, daugh- duties, left behind her nine children, dying Mitchell, added another Aaron Simmona ter of John Faunce, and Patience, his wife, November 21, 1092; and John, backed by Sherman, father of George W. Sherman. and no historian neglects to chronicle that Biblical and I'ilgrim lore, feeling the loneli- OTHER IILSBANDS. sister of she was a the famous Elder ness not good for man (!) even with all of Desire Doty next took to herself Israel Faunce, while those his who read accept these "olive branches," secured the hand (a Holmes, a fisherman, who, to fill her cup of worth unhesitatingly. woman's heart in those days was supposed sorrow to overflowing, was drowned 1085, This Edward, being a man of many vir- to be in her work) of Sarah, daughter of in Plymouth Harbor. tues, having the Doty "intelligence, integ- Giles Rickard, and, to make the round dozen However, the third time she was success- rity and thrift," seemed fitted for a better at the family board, had three children. ful, and in the love and protection of Alex- end than to be drowned with his son John Thomas Doty, the third son of the Pil- ander Standish, heir apparent, and oldest and Elkanah Watsou, in Plymouth Harbor grim, took a different view of life from his son of the great Capt. Myles Standish, life February 8, 1690. stay-at-home brothers; his talents required assumed new beauty. In this line comes There is one comfort. He made his mark greater scope for their development, so Cape Mrs. Russell Sage and her brother, Col. on ages to come, for his daughter Sarah Cod became his home, took to himself a Sloeum, honored members of the "May- married James Warren, justice of the wife, and made Mary Churchill happy dur- flower descendants." peace, captain, and ancestor of many ing his stay, dying in 1679. Their only- To her was granted length of days, for patriots dear to all. child, also Thomas, to keep the family title she died, as appears by her gTave stone in Mary, another of his daughters, married clear, had by his wife, Elizabeth Harlow, a the Cedar Grove Cemetery at Marshfield, Joseph Allyn, whose distinguished family son, Col. Thomas Doty, born in 1704, who December, 1731. aged 86. honor Connecticut, and soon removed to was a distinguished officer in the war of Elizabeth, who owned Edward Doty the Wethersfield, that State, there becoming 1756, and then, having acquired the martial first as father, has a short tale to tell. She identified with the history of the colony. knowledge, which gave him something to married at Marshfield. Mass., January 13. Then an Allyn daughter, with inherited talk about, made himself known during the 1675, John, son of John and Annis Peabody ambition, became the wife of James Otis, war of the Revolution, as landlord of the Rouse; they had one son, also John, born colonel, and Judge of Barnstable, whose son famous "Doty Tavern" at Stoughton, Mass., 1678, died 1704. James was the great orator and patriot of where the patriots were always welcome. The one who makes the full rounded his- his times. Here they met to crack their jokes, plan tory of the Dotys, which gives great satis- 1 campaigns, place their pickets, and then, faction to the historian, is Isaac Doty, the — everything being arranged to their satisfac- seventh child of Edward and Faith Clark — TIE. A BROKEN tion, they did not neglect themselves or Doty. Not to forget the Tilgrim claims, Here history has a sad side. While leave "mine host of the Doty Tavern" in he lived for a time in Sandwich. Mass.. collecting material for these articles, the background. and then the same magnet as to locality no one was more interested than Mr. Col. Thomas Doty made his country his drawing him as it did others to Long Island, Albert Boyd Otis, of Belfast, Me., in bride, never marrying, giving all of his time, about 1672. he removed to Oyster Bay, securing for my use and advancement thought and strength for the use of the pa- and with the adaptability given to sparsely did congregate" under his settled regions, fitted into the work to be all of record and tradition possible. triots who "most trusted roof. done, became vestryman of the Episcopal To-day my historical work among Samuel, the fourth son, to vary the family Church, and, to keep up the connection, was the Pilgrims is nearing its close, but history, commenced his career as a seaman, buried in its graveyard. no word of encouragement or con- lived on Cape Cod, fished for a change, per- With wise forethought, perhaps knowl- gratulation will come him, to me from haps livelihood, and, though his subsequent edge, he married Elizabeth, daughter of unless the angels in Heaven are per- career fails to prove him one of the whalers William and Elizabeth England, of Ports- mitted to minister on earth. of that location, probably took a hand at mouth. R. I., and of this union there were any such sport if opportunity offered. six children accounted for that in no way prevents others being found who have the The history of CHANGE OF RESIDENCE. the Dotys could not be same claim. written with the Warrens left out, so, true However, he left this life of supposed peril Nine was the lucky number in the Doty to precedent, him, removed to Fiscataway, N. J., Mary, daughter of James, and behind family. Mary Allyn Otis, married her cousin, soon became a warrior bold, lieutenant James and No one need confine themselves to Epis- Warren. This marriage was on a very Capt. Francis Drake's company. He of copal records in this search, many of his equal footing; Harmon, exchanged anchor no woman versed in modern married Jane descendants united with the Society of ways could be more than Mercy Otis and gun for the pruning hook, became a War- Friends on Long Island and in Duchess ren, the historian of the revolution, was, farmer, and, stretching forth for the ground County, so they may look under the broad- and she found, as wise, a fitting mate to till, gained wealth, a "local habitation and was rimmed hats and Quaker bonnets for their in the never-to-be-forgotten Warren, a name." James long-lost cousins and aunts. president of the Provincial Congress. Edward Doty, the Pilgrim, would "rise Prosperity has followed this branch. They The world honors him, without personal in his wrath" if Desire, his lovely, at- a up have not doffed their practical common claim his were deeds, not words. tractive and intelligent daughter, had — sense, while donning the gray garb which the place to which she belonged. AGAIN THE CHILDREN. not has brought to them peace and exemption married, first, Christmas, 1667, William Two sons of Edward Doty, Jr., and Sarah She from the adventure their ancestors started Sherman, of Marshfield, Mass. (son of Will- Faunce, Samuel and Benjamin Doty, set- with. This family are a little mixed with tled iam Sherman, who died in Marshfield Oc- at Saybrooke, Conn., and place the the name of Doughty. I leave to them the tober 25, 1697, and Prudence Hill), who world in touch with themselves, in the pres- unraveling of the start. Perhaps it may "fell destracted" under pressure of the trials ent, through Rev. Dr. William D'Orville fall on Mr. Spencer Gary Doty, of this line, of King Philip's war, and a grateful nation Doty, of Rochester, and the late Clara Doty who carried his gray into the civil war. win- her £20 for her relief. Only this for Bates, of Chicago. granted ning for himself an additional society in Hannah, born in 1668, who married William John Doty, the second son of the Pilgrim, the "Loyal Legion" of New York. Ring, Elizabeth, William, Patience. Ex- found his happiness in Plymouth, owning LAST OF THE OHXLDBMN. good citizenship, marrying for his better- perience and Ebenezer. THE Mary, with the claim of her youth and ment, in 1667, Elizabeth Cooke, who was The only record well authenticated to the lack of history, was accounted for first, and born in Plymouth, January 18, 1649, daugh- present day I have, is that of Mr. George now there is no choice left us. Only Joseph, ter of Jacob Cooke and Damaris Hopkins, W. Sherman, of Lynbrook, N. Y., taken the eighth child and youngest sou. can add and then adding to all that was best of him- from the records at Marshfield Hills. to the history, in which there is so much self by caring for the brothers and sisters, William Sherman, who married Prudence to revere. Having surveyed and laid out who naturally needed his protection. Hill, their son William Sherman, wife De- the town of Rochester. Mass., as it is to- This John Doty, who was a farmer, with sire Doty. Ebenezor Sherman, their son, day, it is uatural he should have chosen a the tendency of the times to allow the spell- who married Margaret Decro (or, as it is "garden spot" to his liking, and. farmer as ing of their names to be at the mercy of the said, Margaret D'Esqurureaux). and had he was, till the ground to his personal ad- individual, his family for generations hav- Elisha Sherman, who married Lydia 30 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. vantage, until he became at least one of its dence, that I sought Rev. C. M. Selleck, 2. Edward Doty, Jr., who married Sarah largest landowners, which would, in con- the historian, of Norwalk, Conn., to place Faunce. sequence, place him as a prominent citi- it positively. He says it is between Ridge- 3. Samuel Doty, who married Ann Buck- zen. field, Conn., and New Canaan, in the same ingham, and lived at Saybrook, Conn. Joseph Doty's life was relieved from State. 4. Samuel Doty, who married Margeria monotony, being three times a wooer (shall The Dotys have given us Gov. James Parker. I say lover?), marrying first Elizabeth War- Duane Doty, Governor of Wisconsin, both 5. Samuel Doty, who married his cousin, ren, who was born September 5, 1654, as Territory and State, and then, as a gift Mercy Doty. He also lived at Saybrook, daughter of Nathaniel Warren and Sarah from the honored Lincoln's hands, Governor and with all of his sons who were above Walker; then for second wife choosing De- of Utah; Commodore George W. Doty, of sixteen joined the revolutionary army, do- borah, born about 1662, daughter of Walter the navy; Rev. Elisha Doty, the missionary, ing good service through the war. Hatch and Elizabeth Holbrook, and again, and, of course, as has been told, the War- 6. Ethan Allen Doty, married Keturah to increase the undoubted strength of the ren and Otis claim, but there is still a very L. Tompkins. family connections he made by his mar- rugged one to add in Ethan Allen, of revo- 7. Warren S. Doty, married Sarah M. riages, took Sarah Edwards to his "heart lutionary fame, the "Green Mountain boy," Child. and home." who needs neither title nor description to S. Ethan Allen Doty. His descendants have spread and in- place him; every schoolboy in the land is The original record reads "In answer creased with time, following a Pilgrim trail waiting and longing to follow his example. unto the petition of Desire Sherman unto from which I expect much history. They One more line of descent to afford a clew her husband, William Sherman, Jr., who have gone from Rochester and Hardwick, for search and my story is done. The fell destracted in the service of the coun- Mass., to Sharon, Conn., and the adjoining Dotys prove themselves so much in the try, the court allows her the sume of £20 towns, to "Nine Partners," and the "Ob- present that the Mayflower is only an towards the releiffe of them and theire fam- long" tracts in New York. accessory, not a necessity. ilie, being by reason of great charge and This "Oblong" has so much historical 1. Edward Doty, of the Mayflower, who nessesities in great straightes."—Plymouth significance, is so constantly in local evi- married Faith Clark. Colony Records, Vol. V., 1668-1678. RICHARD BRITTERIDGE, Thirty-fourth Signer. "Richard Britteridge, Plymouth, came in the Mayflower 1620. Died ten days after landing, being the first of the sad roll."— Savage. SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 37 EDWARD LEISTER, Forty-first Signer. The records of the early historians sim- A correspondent has claimed descent from 1048; births of four children are recorded ply give him as coming over with Stephen him, and adds: "Andrew Leister, his at that place. Hopkins, as Edward Doty did, and that he brother, was licensed to keep a house of "Andrew died June 7, 1009; big eldest went to Virginia. entertainment at Gloucester February 20, child was born 1042." RICHARD GARDINER, Thirty- seventh Signer. "Richard, of Plymouth, 1020, one of the passengers of the Mayflower, was living late in 1024, but though he par- took of the division of lands, early in that year, he had no share in the di- vision of cattle—1027. Xo more is known of him but what Bradford tells, that he became a mariner and died away, and he had no wife." JOHN Al LERTON, Thirty-eighth Signer. 'John Allerton, a sailor on the 'May- flower,' who decided to join the colony; signed the 'Compact,' but died before the vessel set sail to return." THOMAS ENGLISH, Thirty-ninth Signer. "Thomas Plymouth, one of the pas- sengers in the Mayflower, 1G20, died in the general sickness early next spring, leaving no wife nor child. He had been a sailor, says Bradford, hired by the Pilgrims."—Savage. 38 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. " MAYFLOWER LOG." The hope, which was the result of the ton, it certainly was carried in some unac- leaves has written a short account of the wish, has given cause for a wrong impres- countable way to England, and found a early history of the manuscript. sion as to the contents of what is called the resting place in the library of Fulham Pal- "This book was rit by goei'ner William "Mayflower Log," a misnomer surely, and ace. Bradford, and gifen to his son Mager Will- for that reason a disappointment to those Nothing is hidden that shall not be re- iam Bradford, and by him to his son, Mager who expected to have all difficulties solved vealed, and as the historians of the early John Bradford, rit by me Samuel Bradford which had crossed their pathway while colony had borrowed largely in their writ- March 20, 1705." searching for the history of the Pilgrim ings from Bradford's journal, the quoting Many of the early historians had free ac- Fathers and early colonists. by Bishop Wilberforce of passages from cess to Gov. Bradford's Journal, Morton, journal, their Our knowledge remains as of yore. To this hidden made source easy surely, and Prince, who tells of Gov. Brad- of identification. us has only come the original manuscript of ford's "History of Plymouth People and The temptation no one had a desire to Gov. Bradford's journal, the book from Colony," "all in his own handwriting." Hub- resist, led the Massachusetts Historical So- which all subsequent history must have bard continues this tale in his history of ciety to seek at least to copy what they been taken, varied only so far as the New Engiand, and Gov. Thomas Hutchin- deemed their own, and in 1856, under the writer was a participant in the events son gives full credit to the Bradford manu- supervision of the late antiquary Charles narrated. script. Deane, an edition of surely five hundred Bradford made no special plea for its Bradford, without, or with very little, copies were published, and soon were being value while writing it. He was plain of competition, could easily be the great his- eagerly read and digested by the historian speech, as befitted the times, but one needs torian of his time. Still much of his value and searcher in the various libraries. no telling to know that, in his position, he in relation to future needs is a matter of was the one of all people fitted to the work ANOTHER TREASURE, temperament. He enjoyed the petty details he undertook and accomplished. He was in that would ahve been irksome to other men; Too, there is a fac-simile edition by the the midst of events as they occurred, and, matters of seemingly no importance, now photogravure process, with an introduction with his conscious gift of description, has so highly treasured, that came under his by John A. Doyle, Fellow of All Souls' done as all so blessed always have and will, official eye, were to him worthy of a place College, Oxford. No writer has ever put it on paper in his leisure hours. with the events of the day, and in the pres- claimed more for Bradford than he does, The Pilgrims were a living history, told ent much greater detail would be forgiven by themselves in of time. and his high appreciation shows where he the passage That him. He saw things from all sides, and 1 their tells "The practical temper of the man, his Governor and strong dependence gather from my study that he was not a power of bringing common sense, with a should chronicle their life was more than really conventional man, as were many of natural. touch of humor, to bear on an administra- They had been driven from Eng- that period. This strikes one when they re- land, after enduring tive difficulty is well illustrated by his ac- persecutions beyond call his state visit to Mrs. John Winthrop, count of the second Christmas day spent human nature to bear, at a time when every- of Massachusetts. He allowed himself time thing connected with the at at Plymouth." The same conviction will government was to pay his respects, as was due, but, that come to every one as they read in Brad- the lowest ebb of integrity. They were function through with, sought Capt. Prince looking for more from life than was given ford's quaint language, after knowing that on his vessel for a chat. them. They had, as a celebrated clergyman in the autumn before the colony had re- recently said in a sermon before the Fort ceived an addition of thirty-five new- THE PRESENT. Greene Chapter ofjjfthe Daughters of the comers. This is the time when there will be no American Revolution, "found their souls," "Most of them were lusty young men, neglect in disseminating whatever can be and, in order to keep them, they must leave and many of them wild enough, who little added by the return of this history. Public the depravity surrounding them and seek considered whither or about what they interest demands and commands that it bo new fields, where their purity of purpose went. made available for all. should not be strangled by the difficulties "When Christmas day came round these Rev. Anson Titus, of Tufts College, to they could not control. new-comers refused to work, as against whom I applied for information, writes me: their consciences. Bradford then told them LEYDEN. "The Massachusetts Great and General that if they made it a matter of conscience Court has authorized a full account of the Leyden, their next home, to them, went spare until they bet- he would them were return of the original manuscript to be pub- so far and no farther; there was a limit ter informed. lished. The same will be of great interest, of time set upon their freedom to worship "When the rest of the settlers came in at in that it will contain information in brief the living God as they were finding Him. noon from their husbandry, they found the compass." The twelve years' truce with Spain, nearly new-comers amusing themselves with over to them, STUDENTS. meant possible defeat, only games in the street. Bradford therefore the faithful to live and die by their be- took away their implements and told them No one from Savage down will say aught liefs, while the future of their children against "Bradford's History." It has been was that it was against his conscience that they the cause of their greatest anguish. should play and others work, and henceforth an entertainment and benefit all these years. Next their pilgrimage Searched with avidity, authority with- to America, and games were no more seen in the streets of an the silver lining to the dark cloud was Plymouth." out competition, and yet there is surely evident, even through all sorrow that the the their vicissitudes AUTHENTICITY OF HISTORY. accidental changing of and dire want. THE long-treasured name to the "Mayflower Of this situation of affairs, thanks to The newly returned "History of Plymouth Log" led to anticipations of new fields open Gov. Bradford's journal, all have been fully Colony" carries with it proofs of its au- to the student, knotty, puzzling questions set aware, and, though it is claimed by some thenticity. Samuel Bradford, perhaps with at rest, and all with their welcome, in- historians that the original manuscript was some intuition of the dangerous surround- clude a regret that they had not the un- stolen from the belfry of the church in Bos- ings of new colonies, on one of the blank known to deal with. » •.V A * 'J • L Pf I '3 SIGNERS 0> OF THE * A * : Mayflower i * * X I Compact , ' s 'A 's A A A A A ANNIE ARNOUX HAXTUN A a A a A PART III. A'a A' A A REPRINTED FROM ' A THE MAIL AND EXPRESS. A NEW YORK, PART in. AFTER much consideration, I have determined to compile this pamphlet, with many faults to be corrected. "Ye olden time" is making history so fast in the present that it seemed wiser to thus arouse the discussion which would lead to the securing of hitherto untold genealogical history. To this end a number of blank pages have been left, that when the corrections come, which will be published in The Mail and Express Saturday edition there will be space to add them to the pamphlet. The historical tangles which to me seem of the greatest importance are the finding of an authentic list of Elder Will- iam Brewster's children. My own study of the Pilgrims does not reconcile me to the number accounted for, in view of the sympathy so constantly given Brewster for his large family and inadequate means for their support. Rev. Nathaniel must have his authentic place in his family, and Hanna Brewster's two husbands should be recorded. Edward Brewster, who joined the expedition with William Brewster and Stephen Hopkins, is not fully received as the Elder's son. He wants his recognition. Elizabeth Tilley, who long ago I proved by old records not to have been the daughter of John Tilley, the Pilgrim, by his wife, Bridget van der Velde, wants what, tradition from all quarters of the country gives her, and from which no argu- ments will turn the Howland descendants—her historical right to being Gov. Carver's granddaughter. In 1895 I wrote of this from Mr. Cowles's Hartford Bible. The parents of Richard Warren, of the Mayflower, and his wife Elizabeth, cannot be found. I felt grateful for the start in the right direction when now some years ago I found his wife was not Elizabeth Ivatt, widow of Marsh, but this knowledge was only leading to more search in the endeavor to really record them. Col. Chester, in "London Mar- riage Licenses and Allegations," page 1,418, gives under the head of Warren, Richard, haberdasher, and Elizabeth Evans, of St. Mildred, Poultney, London, spinster, at St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 2 January, 1592-3, B. ("B." means Bishop of London's office.) This would appear to place Richard Warren's wife, and account for it by the confusing of names, making Evans, in the variable spelling of the day, Ivans, as the name was often spelled in connection with the Widow Marsh. Mr. Inglis Stuart, of New York, and "Nauset," of Boston, disposed of that claim by impossibility of dates. Two wives are wanted for Francis Cooke, of the Mayflower, and the arranging of all the grandchildren as well as children attributed to him. These and many other questions are before you; each will help the other, and no one need hesitate from any sensitive feeling in criticising or correcting me. I only want true history, will be very proud of that which I can substantiate myself, and willing to accord all honor to those who accomplish what I fail to do. My willingness to help goes without saying, and in asking (he active good will of those who have records it is hardly personal when t lie whole world may share in these benefits. With gratitude to the public for the courtesy and considers tion always shown me, Annie Arnoux Haxtun. No. 56 St. Felix street, Brooklyn, N. Y., July, 1899. For copies of the Mayflower Pamphlet address THE MAIL AND EXPRESS, No. 203 Broadway, New York City. ! PART III. SEQUEL TO Signers of the Mayflower Compact. ••••••••HI The Brewster Records and Passengers on the Forefather Ships. The following records have many spon- ruling elder in Rev. John Robinson's church ried Faith Ripley March 15, 1739; died sors, and I am indebted first of all to Mr. in Leyden, and came in the Mayflower as October 2, 1775. Ripley Hitchcock for the liberal interest chief of the Pilgrim band, with his wife, 2. Peleg, born about 1717, removed to which started this paper on its way to the Mary, and two younger sons. He died Canterbury, Conn. public. An inheritor of the ascent of both April 16, 1643. 3. Jonah, of Windham, married, January Brewster and Bradford, he not only put CHILDREN 25, 1743-4, Joanna, daughter of Edward ! in my way the tangible evidence now given, Waldo, and died June 3, 1750. Will t- 1. Jonathan (2), born in England, came kept alive May 15, 1750, proved July In, 1750, but the desire to enlarge these over in the Fortune in 1621, settled in UM wife, Johannah, and her father, Edward historical benefits. New London, was prominent there, and Waldo, children Jonathan, Nathan. Eze- Then to Rev. Joshua W. Wellman, of had a family. kiel, Ann (child unborn). Maiden, Mass.; Judge Charles N. Daniels, 2. Love, born probably in Holland, came of 4. Hannah, married Barker or Baker the Windham Probate Court; Mr. C. with his father in the Mayflower, re (probably John). H. Dimmick, Clerk of the Town of Wind- moved to Duxbury, married Sarah, daugh- ham, Willimantic, Conn.; 5. Mary, married 1st Reuben Lillie, 2d Mr. Joseph F. ter of William Collier, May 15, 1034; had Swords, Mr. Weaver and Mr. George E. Jeremiah Bingham. Sarah (3), who married Benjamin Bartlett; 6. Jerusha, married Zebulon. or Zebur- Hoadley, of Hartford, Conn.; Dr. Charles Nathaniel; William, who was deacon in Inslee ton, Rudd. Pardee, of New York; Mrs. Calvin church in Duxbury; he had William and 7. Sarah, married Jehephat Holmes. Durand, of Lake Forest, 111.; Mrs. Wil- Benjamin, who was born in 1714, and helmus Mynderse, and Mrs. Mary Brew- 8. Elijah, born in Windham. March 12. Wrestling (3). ster Minton, of Brooklyn, 1731; died about 1755. unmarried. In hi* N. Y. 3. Wrestling, born in Holland, came with will, dated April 24, 1755. he gives hi* his father, and died a young man, probably "blue coat and camlett jacket and my b<»>t THE RECORDS. unmarried. following of hat to John Baker for reasons best known The genealogy the Brewster 4. Patience, came in the Ann, 1623, and to myself." family was printed some years ago in some married Thomas Prince, who was after- 9. Jonathan, born May 1, 1737. mar- newspaper or magazine, then cut out, and ward Governor of the Colony. the slips pasted into scrapbook. This ried Joanna, daughter of Edward Wald<>. a 5. Fear, came with her sister in the Ann, record thus kindly He died November 24. 1753. preserved was forwarded and in 1626 married Isaac Allerton, as his by "The probate records of Windham Comi- mail October 11, 1894, by Miss Ellen D. second wife. Larned, of Thompson, Conn., to Rev. ty, Conn., show that Jonathan Brew-- Wrestling Brewster (3), of Duxbury, son Joshua W. Wellman, of Maiden. Mass., in died November 24. 1753; his will was i>r<> of Love (2) and grandson of Elder Wil- bated January 21, 17">4." response to a letter of inquiry from him. liam by his wife Mary had children: (1), lxirn 1" She is the authoress of the invaluable his- Capt. James Brewster, May 1, Jonathan (4); 2, Wrestling; 3, John tory of Windham County, Connecticut, in 1739, (5). son of Jonathan (4) above, who 4, Mary; 5, Sarah; 6, Abigail; 7, Hannah. two large volumes. was son of Wrestling (3), of Duxbnry. Jonathan Brewster (4), son of Wrestling In a letter accompanying this record of who was son of Love (21, who was son of (3), of Duxbury, Mass., called of Lebanon, the Brewster family, she says: "This Elder William Brewster (1>. of Plymouth though no account of him is found in of colony, lived in Scotland parish, and was record was compiled by W. L. Weaver, Lebanon records, bought land of Amos researches a tanner and currier. He married Faith Windham, who died before his Dodge, near the meeting-house in Wind- in but though un- Ripley (5) March 15. 173S-9. daughter of were printed .book form; ham, July 26, 1729-30. He purchased sixty valuable. David (4) and Lydia (Oareyt Ripley. finished they have proved very acres of land with house of Amos Wood- is CHILDREN. He had access to many sources, and ward, east of Merrick brook, January 12, I" very trustworthy." The printed copy of 1729-30. This, we suppose, became the 1. Lydia (6), born March IS. LTSB by 17T>7 record, which was so kindly forwarded Brewster homestead, now in Scotland, married William Ripley January 11, carefully mail, and which, after being near the old Brunswick meeting-house, 2. Faith (6), born May 30. 1742; die,! copied, returned with many thanks to September 2S, 1745. was a little north of the Williams family, and generously cut by married Miss Larned, was most near the burying ground in that neighbor- 3. Olive (61. born June IS. 1744; scrapbook. of Renselear, N. Y. her from her own hood. His will was proved September 29. West, 4. Faith (6). born November IS. 17 16; I.—COPY OF THE BREWSTER GENE- 1754. From the will and town records it ALOGY. appears that Jonathan and Mary (daughter married Samuel Pardee. Octobef 12. 17'59. st Sharon. Conn., and died in 1U& William Brewster, the famous ruling of John Partridge) Brewster, who were removed to 5. James (6). born January 8, 1748-9; elder in the Plymouth Church, was born at married May 6, 1710, and lied February 22. 1777. Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England, proba- Windham. Conn., had the following 6. Mary («'•>. born June 30. LIU; married bly in 1563, and educated at Cambridge. children 1714-15, mar- David Gould, son of Job Could, of New In 1607 or 1608 he went to Holland, was 1. James v5), born in May, — 4 Milford, November 4, 1772; died March 2, 8. Jonathan (7), born October 17, 1781. Faith Ripley (5) who was married to 1840. Job Gould was son of William and "William Brewster appeared in Windham Capt. James Brewster (5) and became the of Abigail Gould. about 1753, what branch of the family mother of Lydia (Brewster) (6) Ripley, 7. David (6), born December 21, 1753; we have not ascertained. He had: was the eldest daughter of David Ripley 1. February married Hannah Paine 1776. He died. Benjamin, born 6, 1753; (4), who was the son of Joshua and Han- lived in Centre; She married (2) Capt. Caleb Jewett, of Windham married Susan- nah (Bradford) (3) and also younger broth- nah Green September 8, 1786; she died Sharon, Conn. er of Joshua Ripley (4), Jr., who married Peleg Brewster (5), the son of Jonathan, March 24, 1808, aged 47. He died March Mary Backus and became father of Will- 1825, aged 72. Margaret, their only the Windham settler, married, and had a 23, in m Ripley (5) Esq.. of Cornish. David child, born November 12, 1794, married the family and removed to Canterbury. We Ripley (4) was born in Windham May 20, •ate Dr. C. S. Avery. have not the record of his family except 1698. and died February 16, 1781. He 2. Hannah, born October 26, 1754. John (6), born in Scotland, June 14, 1739. married March 21, 1720. Lydia Carey, who 3. Elizabeth, born January 21, 1759. Jonah Brewster (5), son of Jonathan (4), was born in 1705 and died April 9, 1784, 4. Cynthia, born July 25, 1762. married Joanno Waldo, daughter of Ed- in Scotland. Conn. (Originally a part of 5. William, born January 21, 1765. ward, January 25, 1743-4. He died June 3, Windham). 1750. 6. Cyrus, born August 15, 1769; married CHILDREN. De Witt, and had William, Cyrus, CHILDREN OF DAVID (4) AND Nancy and Maria, who went, we believe, to 1. Jonathan (6), born August 25, 1744. LYDIA (CAREY) RIPLEY. Montreal. He died suddenly September 28, 2. Nathan (6), born January 31, 1745-6; 1818. 1. Faith (51. born May 6. 1722; married married Slack, of Killingly, and died 7. Bowen, born April 19, 1773. March 15. 1739, Capt. James Brewster (5), in Pennsylvania, aged nearly 90. "Asa Brewster, married Ruth Badger, who was born in May. 1714; died . 3. Ezekiel (6), born July 19, 1747. daughter of Samuel, May 28, 1776. He She married 2d a Mr. Caleb Jewett. 4. Ann (6), born February 12, 1748-9. died March 10, 1811, aged 71. 2. Lydin (5) b. February 20, 1724, who 5. Jonah, born September 1, 1750. CHILDREN. married Rev. Samuel Wood. He was a Doctor John Brewster (6), son of Peleg 1. Edward, born January 12, 1767. chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, and (5), was the first physician settled on 2. Oliver, born March 17, 1769. died in the British prison ship Asia. Hampton Hill, and was an eminent prac- 3. Erastus, born March 1773; died 3. Ann. b. August 27. 1726. died Septem- titioner, and a prominent man in that 15, October 1775. ber 6. 1792: married October 31. 1745, Na- society. He studied medicine with Dr. 15, 4. Abigail, born October 28, 1775. thaniel Riploy (51. son of Joshua. Jr.. and Barker, of Franklin. He married first in Ashford." Mary CBnckns) Ripley. She married 2d Mary Durkee, daughter of Captain William 5. David, merchant May 17. 1769. Samuel Bingham, of Scot- Durkee, of Hampton, November 6, 1760; Portions of the above Brewster records land, a part of Windham. Conn. she died June 4, 1783, aged 41; he married obtainable by all, but for 4. Irene, born February 11. 1729: died second, Ruth Avery, daughter of Rev. have long been one part of them there has been of late a Febrnnry 24. 1804: married 1st Dr. Tim- Ephrian Avery, of Brooklyn, June 4. 1789. laborious and until now fruitless search. othy Warner: married 2d Nathan Hebard She died May 18, 1823, aged 69. He died The living descendants of Lydia (Brewster) (spelled elsewhere Hibberd); married 3d August 18, 1823, aged 84. Ripley, of Cornish, N. H., have been ask- Rev. James Cogswell. D. D.. pastor of the CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE. ing "Who were her immediate ancestors on Congregationnl Church, in Scotland. Conn. 1. Mary (7), born September 9, 1762. her father's side; and can her lineal descent 5. David. Rev., born February 7. 1731. T 2. William (7), bom June 17, 1764, died from Elder W illiam Brewster, of Plymouth died in September. 1785. He graduated June 4, 1789, aged 25. Colony, be clearly traced?" from Yale College in 1749. and was min- 3. John (7), born May 31, 1766, was deaf It had been known that she was born in ister of the Congregational Church in and dumb. Windham, Conn., March 18, 1740, and died Abington. a part of Pomfret. Conn., for 4. Augustus (7). born May 30, 1768, in Cornish, N. H., November 2, 1829; that twentv-five years (1753-1778). died January 3, 1789, aged 22. she was married in Windham January 11, David Ripley married Betsey Elliot. Their 5. Roval (7) born July 13, 1770, died 1757, to William Ripley, who was born in children were: David, born July 11. 1761: March 1835. Windham February 12, 1734, son of died September 9. 1764. Mnry. born Au- 6. Abel (7), and Joshua, Jr., and Mary (Backus) Ripley, and gust 26. 1763: died January 28. t82R: mar- 7. Sophia (7), twins, died young. grandson of Joshua, Sr., and Hannah ried Dr. J. E. Warren. Utioa. N. Y. Au- CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE. (Bradford) Ripley, who came from Hing- gustus, born November 1. 1765: died March 8. Elisha (7), born June 18, 1790, died ham, Mass., and who were among the first 24. 1769. Elizabeth, born September 5. aged two days. settlers of Windham, Conn., and that she, 1768. David William, born July 17. 1770: 9. William Augustus (7), born December with her husband and children, removed to died August 2. 1771. (11 David Bradford, 10, 1791, was a physician; married Lucy Cornish, N. H., in June of 1775, but none born February 14. 1777. Chamberlin, of Brooklyn, March 14, 1813, of her descendants now living, so far as (1) David Bradford. Rev., mnrried in 1807 and died at Danielsonville. Julv 24. 1856. known, had any knowledge of even the Betsey Pavson: born Aug. 15. 1786: died Oct. aged 65. They had children: William given names of her parents or grandparents. 20. 1840. He was pastor of the Congrega- Henry, born July 3, 1814, died in Mexico, But a single letter of inquiry recently ad- tional Church nt Mnrlborongh. Conn., nbout February. 1842; Francis Augustus, born dressed to Miss Ellen D. Larned, of twenty-eight years, went West and died nt July 18, 1817; Mary Sophia, born January Thompson, Conn., brought out of an old Endor. Til. Children: Eliznbeth. born Feb- 23, 1819, married Segar, and died June scrapbook in her possession the long de- ruary 23. 1810: died March 21. 1838. 18, 1840; Lucy Maria, born August 17, sired information. The records of the Homer. N. Y. Caroline, died in infancy 1828 Brewster family thus obtained show con- at Marlborough. Conn. Caroline, born Au- 10. Sophia (7), born April 9, 1795, died clusively that Lydia (Brewster) (6) Ripley gust 9. 1813: married October. 1841. Rev. April 24, 1810. was daughter of Capt. James and Faith L. C. Gilbert. Prairieville. Minn. Cynthi.n 11. Betsey (7), Averey, born September (Ripley) (5) Brewster (5); that Capt. James Williston. born June 29 1816: married (1) 11. 1798. married Joseph Prentiss, died Brewster (5) was son of Jonathan and David Jay. married (21 Cornelius Williams, October 17, 1838, aged 40. Mary (Patridge—elsewhere spelled Part- of Missouri. David Eliot, born Aoril 16. Jonathan Brewster (6 or 5), probably ridge) Brewster (4), who came from Dux- 1819: mnrried Februnrv 5. 1850. Chloe son of Jonah, though he may have been bury, Mass., to Windham, Conn.; that Sha w. of Northfield. Minn. Catherine, youngest son of Jonathan the settler, mar- Jonathan Brewster was son of Wrestling born January 6. 1823: mnrried Febrnnry 4. ried Eunice Kingsley February 12, 1767 and Mary Brewster (3), of Duxbury;. that 1851. Liberty Ruggles. of Northfield. Minn. (Mr. Weaver, of Hartford, says he was son Wrestling Brewster (3) was son of Love Mary, born October 10, 1826: married Sep- of Jonathan, who died 1753), and had: and Sarah (Collier) Brewster, of Duxbury; tember 18. 1852. Rodney A. Mott. of Fair- 1. Orson (7), born August 13, 1767. and that Love Brewster (2) was son of bault. Minn. 2. An infant that died soon. Elder William and Mary Brewster, of the William nnd Lydia (Brewster) Rinley Pilgrim 3. Eunice (7), born January 8. 1770. Band, who came over in the May- were members of the First Church in Pom- 4. Oher (7), born August 28, 1771. flower in 1620. Therefore, Lydia (Brew- fret for several years previous to their re- 5. Oramel (7), born October 31, 1773. ster) Ripley, of Cornish. N. EL, was a de- moval to Cornish. N. H. They were kin- 6. Joanna (7). born July 29. 1775. scendant of Elder William Brewster, the dred of Rev. Dnvid Rinley. pastor of an- Pilgrim 7. Lydin (71, born January 2, 1779. Q. E. D. other Congregntionnl Church in the snme SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. town. William was his cousin and Lydia 1. Lydia (6), born March 18, 1739-40, in Thomas, born December 21, died January his niece. was Scotland Parish, m Windham Conn., died 21, 1775. 6. William, born July 12, 1734; died in in Cornish, N. H., November 2, 1829. She Betsy, born February 21, 1776, died Sep- Scotland, Conn., November 11, 1811. (He married January 11, 1757, William Ripley tember 2, 1778. married, March 1757, Rebecca Marcy, 10, (5), who was born in Windham, February Arceneath, born Julv 22, died September who died November 1818, aged 83. Their 6, 12, 1734, son of Joshua (4), Jr., and Mary 1, 1778. son David was born January 18, 1761; (Backus) Ripley. Children, 1, Faith; 2, Ale- Luther, born October 4, 1779, died June died June 11, 1782.) theam; 3, Alethea; 4, James;_ 5, Selinda. 16, 1846. 7. Gamaliel, born April died 19, 1736; James was born in Pomfret, Conn., and * Orrin, born January 27, 1782, died De- May 20, 1737. probably Selinda was also. cember 6, 1857. 8. Alathea (more properly spelled Ale- 2. Faith, born May 30, 1742; died Sep- James, born June 14, 1785, died April 29, thea), born April 24, 1738; married to Dr. tember 28, 1745. 1815. Klisha Lord, who was the first physician 3. Olive, born June 18, 1744; died about Laura, born May 15, 1787. in Abington parish in Pomfret, Conn. Dr. 1838, and must have been about 94 years Faith Brewster Pardee, died at Sharon, Lord married a sister of the young minister, of age. She married a Dr. West. She re- Conn., December 26. 1815, aged 70. David Ripley. sided at one time in Sharon, Conn; as Olive Samuel Pardee, died at Sharon, Conn., 9. Gamaliel, born October 20, 1740; died Brewster, in 1768, loaned money to William April 26, 1827, aged 82. April 15, 1799; married Elizabeth Hebard, bill Brewster, and in the note is spoken of as A of mortality kept by Samuel Par- who died January 10, 1765; married (2), dee: Olive Brewster, of Sharon. But in 1808 January 23, 1772, Judith Perkins; she died Mrs. Olive West was not living in Sharon. My grandmother, Betsey Pardee, died July 6, 1803. They had ten children, one l':<>!inbly William Ripley and family, January 8, 1762, in the 63d year of her age. of whom married Joshua Adams, who was in 17'*.8. were residing in Pomfret. My grandfather, John Pardee, died July principal of Phillips Academy, Andover. 1766, aged 69 years. ri. Faith, born November 18, 1746, mar- 13, Mass., twenty-three years. brother, ried Samuel Pardee and died in 1815. My Gamaliel Pardee, died April 10. Hezekiah, Rev. and D. D., born Feb- Genealogical history of the Pardee fam- 21, 1777, aged 25 years. ruary 14, 1743; died November 29, 1831. ily, compiled from the "New England Gen- My mother, Weltheon Pardee, died No- He graduated from Yale College in 1763; 1804, years. ealogical Dictionary," Savage, vol. II., and vem 19, aged 80 was ordained February 11, 1767, and was from family Bible of Samuel Pardee: My sister, Alena, died June 7, 1777, aged pastor of the Congregational Church at George Pardee came to Haven, 19. Green's Farms, in Westport, Conn., for New Conn., in 1644. He was born in 1619 and My father, Thomas Pardee, died August fifty-four years (1767-1821); was an inti- married Martha, daughter of Richard 1, 1806, aged 84. mate friend of Timothy Dwight, D. D., Miles, in 1650. Issue of above: My brother, Calvin, died at Steventown. president of Yale College, and was a mem- Joseph Pardee, born New Haven, Conn., N. Y. ber of the corporation of that college for April 27, 1664; married July 31, 1688, Eliz- My sister, Weltheon Dumour, died at twenty-seven years. He is described as "a jb'--th, daughter of first Thomas Yale. Great Barrington. Mass., May 26, 1814, man of commanding presence, of a tall, Therefrom issued John, born in 1689; and T only am left, the survivor of ten chil- athletic, dignified frame. His fine counie- Thomas, dren of my father's family, and may God nance beamed with intelligence and kin.i born October 26, 1695. grant me to consider. ness, and yet there was something in hi^> *John (2), born February 6, 1698; Mary, Issue of Orrin. son of Samuel and Faith look which gave assurance of unyielding born 1700; Elizabeth, born 1704; Daniel, Brewster Pardee: firmness." He was a distinguished man in born 1706; Rebecca, born 1708; Josiah, Charles Inslee Pardee, born April 13, his day and wielded a powerful personal in- born 1711; Ebenezer, born 1714; Samuel, 1838; married to Frances Gertrude fluence. born 1718; Sarah, born 1720. Snow Beecher (a lineal descendant of the Pil- Dr. Ripley married, January 9, 1705, George Pardee, born February 10, 1676, grim Snows), November 28.1S93. Dolly Brintnall, of New Haven, Conn. went to New York. Edward Luther Pardee, born February "Their union continued for more than sixty- From old family Bible: 1842. six years, and was dissolved by the death *John Pardee, born February 6, 1698; 25, Richard was married Re- of Mme. Ripley in August, 1831." His own died July 13, 1766, aged 69 years. His Gay Pardee to in Sharon, April death followed only a few months later. wife, Betsey Horn, died on the 8th day of becca Camp 12. 1836; died They had five children, one of whom, Will- January, 1762, in the 63d year of her age. in New York. iam Brintnall, graduated at Yale in 1786 From *Thomas Pardee's Bible, bought Laura Pardee married Charles Inslee No- and became an able minister of the Gospel. February, 1767; price £2. vember 14, 1837. She died in Waterloo, (See Sprague's "Annals of the American (This Bible was left by will to *Samuel Seneca County, N. Y., September 6, 1896. Pardee.) Pulpit," Vol. I., p. 647. "A Sketch of Rev. Frederick F.Pardee married Maria Conk- Hezekiah Ripley, D. D.") * Thomas Pardee was born October 31, lin February 8, 1S38. 11. Bradford, born December 26, 1744: 1722. He was married to Weltheou Cook Augustus Pardee married Emily Mo- lost at sea. (who was born August 20, 1724) on the Knight. 12. Hannah, born February 23, 1750; 24th of November, 1743. Issue: Albert Pardee married Adelia Jones. married a Mr. Waldo—was a widow in Irene, born December 25, 1744, died April Walter Pardee married Almira Bennett. 1803. 12, 1745. Myron Pardee married Cynthia Wilcox, born 7, 1746. Faith Ripley (5), the eldest of the above Samuel, March 1848. twelve children, afterward Faith (Ripley) Weltheon, born December 25, 1748 (both Helen Pardee married Charles Seymour, Brewster, and mother of Lydia (Brewster) daughters born on Christmas). 1855. November 26, 1750, died (6) Ripley, of Cornish, and grandmother of Gamaliel, born Francos S. Pardee married James Bough- all the children of William and Lydia December 8, 1750. ton, 1S59. in (Brewster). Ripley, of Cornish, belonged Gamaliel 2d, born May 31, 1752; was Orrin Fardoe died in East Bloomfield. On- Revolution. herself to a large and distinguished family. the War of the tario County, N. Y., December 6, 1S57. Jan- Two of her brothers were able min- William, born March 3, 1754, died Sophia Gibson Pardee died in Victory. isters of the Gospel, two of her uary 1, 1767. N. Y., about January. 1S63. sisters married ministers of the Gos- Argulus and Petchena, twins, born April YALE FAMILY. pel, and two married physicians, one 22, 1756, died May, 1756. "The first Thomas Yale, of New Haven, of them, however, marrying first a phy- Calvin, born July 26, 1757. born in Wales, came in 1637 to Boston, sician, Dr. Timothy Warner; second, Na- Alena, born February 24, 1759. with Theophilus Eaton: went in 163S to than Hibbard, and, as her third husband, Weltheon, wife of Thomas, died Novem- plant in New Haven: married Mary, eldest a minister, Rev. James Cogswell, D. D., a ber 19, 1804. daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Turner; had man of high repute. * Samuel Pardee, born March 7, 1746. Brewster, born Novem- John, born 1645: Thomas, bom 1646: Elihu. CHILDREN OF CAPT. JAMES (5) AND Married Faith the 12th of October. 1769. born 1648, governor of the East ludia FAITH (RIPLEY 5) BREWSTER. ber 18, 1746, on Faith Brewster Compauy. and by his legacy became found- Their names have already been given in Issue of Samuel and er of Yale College; Elisabeth, born Jin- the records obtained from Miss Larned, but Pardee: nary 29, 1667, the youngest daughter of the further information has been obtained re- Laimia, born October 3, 1770. family of ten. married Joseph Parde.\ *on specting some of them. Augustus S., born October 12, 1772. 6 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. of George Pardee, iu 1688."—Savage, vol- Betsy Downs, died 1785. uate and by profession a lawyer; another David Downs, Jr. (married Polly Baird), was a physician. Some of his children were ume iv. died 1812, aged 44. George Pardee, born in 1629, came from eminent for their piety and Christian de- Clarissa Downs, marrier Rev. Julius votion. in Oswego. England or Wales to Boston, and to New The lawyer resided Gregory. N. Y., and was a member of Congress. Haven in 1644. de- Erastus Downs, died young. It thus appears that Lydia (Brewster) (6) He is supposed to be of Huguenot Sarah Downs, married Lyman Gould. Ripley was the eldest of six children, and scent. The above from Dr. Charles Inslee James Downs, married Sarah Gould. Pardee. this record of her brothers and sisters, Abel Downs, married Jerusha Hemp- In pursuance of my policy having given though fragmentary, gives hints of the high stead. intellectual and Christian character of the one record, I also submit another, which Gregory. birth member. being from Mr. Charles Henry Townshend, John Downs, married Mary family of which by she was a Esq., was from New It has already been shown from genealog- will secure attention. David Downs, (Brew- "Thomas Yale, my ancestor, second son Haven and came to Sharon in 1768. He ical records presented that Lydia Day. ster) (6) Ripley descendant from of David, born in Wales, came probably in married a daughter of Thomas was a in the Brewster, one of the leaders 1637 to Boston, with Theophilus Eaton, He was a captain of a company Elder William who had married for his second wife the revolutionary service, and was, with his of the Plymouth Pilgrims, and that she be- widowed mother of David and Thomn« company, taken prisoner at the Cedars in longed to the sixth generation of Brewsters Yale. Canada, 1776. in this country. "David Yale, the eldest son, returned to He was for many years a magistrate of It may now be added that she was also England, and by wife Ursula, had sons the town and a member of the Legislature a descendant from Gov. William Bradford, Thomas and Elihu. for several sessions. of the same Pilgrim hand. Lydia (Brew- "Thomas, the eldest son, in will dated David Downs, died December 15, 1813, ster) (6) Ripley was daughter of Capt. years days. (Ripley) (5) Brewster (5). London, September 29, 1697, proved Jan- aged 77 7 months 15 > James and Faith uary, 1697, O. S. (no issue), bequeathed Sarah Day Downs, his wife, died Decem- Faith (Ripley) (5) Brewster was daughter to 'My dear mother, Mrs. Ursula Yale, ber 14, 1808, aged 66 years. of David and Lydia (Carey) Ripley (4). and to my brother Mr. Elihu Yale, estates Buried in Sharon Cemetery are the fol- David Ripley f4) was son of Joshua (3) Sr., here and India. The Hereditary Estate in lowing: and Hannah (Bradford) (3) Ripley. Co. Denbigh to my brother Elihu Yale's Jonathan Day, died January 8, 1763, age Hannah Bradford was the daughter of male issue if he have any. Failing such 32. William Bradford (2). Jr.. and Deputy Gov- then to the heirs Male of my uncle Thomas Sarah Day, amiable consort of Rev. Jere- ernor of Plymouth, and William Bradford Yale, in New England, and to his heir- miah Day, died August 25, 1767, aged 21. (2), Jr., was son of William (1). Sr., the " forever.' Mary Day, wife of Thomas Day, died famous Governor of Plymouth Colony. 5. James, born January 8, 1748-9. One August 15, 1768, age 66. Therefore Lydia (Brewster) Ripley was a James Brewster witnessed the signature of Thomas Day, died February 28, 1772, descendant of Gov. William Bradford, a deed given by John Cotton to William age 82. Q. E. D. Ripley in Pom fret. Conn., March 29, 1766. Job Gould was from New Milford, settled But William Ripley (5). who married This seems to indicate that some James on Sharon Mountain. He had two sons, Lydia Brewster (6). was also a descendant Brewster was then residing in Pomfret. Job and David. from Gov. Bradford. William Ripley (5) This witness may have been James Brew- Job Gould died February 27, 1795, age was son of Joshua. Jr., and Mary (Backus) ster. Sr., or Brewster, Jr. The latter 95. James Ripley (4). of Windham, Conn.; Joshua at date 17 years old. Sarah Gould, died that was March 17, 1788. Ripley (4), Jr., was son of Joshua (3). Sr., 6. born 1751: died March David Gould, Mary, June 30, died April 19, 1824, age 77. and Hannah (Bradford) (3) Ripley; Hannah aged years and 6 months; mar- Mary Gould, died 2, 1840, 88 March 2, 1840, age 88. Bradford (3) was daughter of William ried David Gould. They lived through life Sarah Gould was married to Dr. James Bradford (2), Jr., a Deputy Governor of in Sharon, Conn. He died at 77 years of Downs at Sharon, Litchfield County, Conn., Plymouth Colony, and William Bradford, age. ten children, "raised February 25, 1803. (They nine chil- They had up" had Jr., was son of Gov. William Bradford, dren.) nine; had seven living in 1829. One was Sarah Gould Downs died at 79 who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. Rev. Vinson Gould, minister in Southamp- Grand street, New York City, in her 54th Therefore William Ripley (5), of Cornish, ton, Mass., thirty-one years. He was born year. was a descendant of Gov. William Brad- Myron Day (sixth son), born Jan- August 1. 1774, graduated at Williams Col- Downs ford. Q. E. D. lege in 1797, was tutor there 1800-1801; uary 3, 1815; married February 27, 1839, Hence it follows that all the descendants Lydia Elizabeth Allen, and died ordained August 26, 1801. The youngest July 31, of William and Lydia (Brewster) Ripley, of 1891. son, William Ripley Gould, graduated at Cornish. N. H., are descendants of Elder Sarah Gould Downs.their daughter, mar- Yale in 1811 and at Andover in 1814, and William Brewster, of Plymouth Colony, then -.several ried, January 1867, Calvin Durand, of had pastorates. One daughter 17, and are also, through two lines of descent, of David and Chicago, who was son of Calvin and Luis Mary (Brewster) Gould, descendants of Gov. William Bradford, the Barnes Durand, of Charlotte, Vt., and Sarah Gould, married a physician, Dr. Plymouth Pilgrim. Downs, of New York City. grandson of Francis Joseph and Weed William (5) and Lydia (6) (Brewster) Rip- Durand, of Norwalk, Conn. ley.—They were married in Windham. DOWNS FAMILY. The children of Calvin and Sarah (Downs) Conn.. January 11, 1757; removed to Pom- The following history is given me by a Durand are Jennie Elizabeth, who married fret in 1761 or early in 1762. Removed descendant, so I copy verbatim, though Elisha Herbert Allen, of Orange, N. J., from Pomfret to Cornish, N. H, in June, knowing there may be errors, still hoping September 19, 1889. 1775. from that fact to have the matter corrected Henry Calvin married Mary Alice Piatt, and placed properly in the third pamphlet. June 20, 1895. CHILDREN. Revolutionary War. Intelligence of the Harriet Allen. 1. Faith (6), born probably in Windham, battle of Lexington was brought to Sharon Married Cornelius Trowbridge. Conn., October 13, 1757, died in Richmond, on the Sabbath. Mabel Edna. Vt, May 31, 1824. She married, January The minister at the close of the morning Bertha Josephine. 14, 1779. in Cornish, N. H., Jabish Spicer, exercises announced it from the pulpit, and Ruth. of Cornish. They resided in Cornish until his remarks tended to arouse the sprit of Another daughter. Betsey Gould, married 1810. and removed to Richmond. Vt., the congregation to firmness and resistance. Rev. Sylvester Woodbridge, D. D., who was where he died January 6, 1823. As soon as the congregation was dis- born in Southampton, Mass., November 9, 2. Alethea, born August 23, 1759; died missed the militia and volunteers to the 1790. September 5, 1759. number of one hundred men paraded on 7. David (6), born December 21, 1753, 3. Alethea. born in Windham. Conn., the street and prepared to march to the youngest son of Capt. James (5) and Faith January 11, 1761; died in Cornish, N. H.. scene of action. (Ripley) (5) Brewster and the youngest October 15, 1841. She married, March David Downs, Esq., captain. brother of Lydia Brewster (6) Ripley, of 30, 1788, James Wellman, Jr., of Cornisb, James Brewster, lieutenant. Cornish, was living in December, 1829. He N. H.. who was born July 30, 1754. in Sut- David Gould (who married Mary Brews- married Hannah Paine in 1776. He died ton, Mass., Second Parish (now Millbury) ter, November 4, 1772), -ensign. about 1836. He had a family of five chil- and "died in Cornish, November 28, 1841; Children of David and Sarah Downs: dren. One of his sons was a college grad- was son of Rev. James Wellman, who was 1 SIGNERS OF THK MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 7 born in Lynnfiold), Lynn End, (now Mass., was born in Norwich, Conn., September daga County, N. Y., where Dr. Warner died May 10, 1723, and graduated from Har- 11, 1753, where he resided until 1771, when Octobers, 1822. They had oik- son. Al.ne, vard College in 1744. He was ordained with his parents he removed to Cornish, Spicer Warner, born in Camillus. Septem- and installed pastor of the Second Parish S>'. H. His father's name was Zepheniah ber 7, 1818. After the death of Dr. War- in Sutton, Mass., October 7, 1747. Was dis- and his mother's name Sarah. The family ner, his widow, with her boy. removed, firnt. missed July 22, 17G0, and was installed came to Cornish in 1771 from Norwich, to Richmond, Vt.; then to Cornish. N. If. first pastor of the First Church, in Cornish, Conn., four years before William Ripley The son resided for a time with his great- N. H., September 20, 17<>S. He married and family came from Pomfret, Conn., and uncle, Col. James Ripley, and fitted for col November 8, 1750, Sarah Barnard, born only six years after the arrival of the first lege at Kimball T'nion Academy, Meriden. in Watertown, Mass., July 22, 1729, daugh- settlers. Jabish Spicer died January 0, N. H.; graduated Esq., from Dartmouth Col- ter of Isaac Barnard, of Sutton, 1823, aged his 70, and wife died May 30, lege in 1842. and from dep.-u- Mass. They had nine children. the medical 1824, both in Richmond, Vt. ment of that college in 1848. was 4. James, born in Pomfret, Conn., April He prin- CHILDREN (ALL BORN IN CORNISH, cipal of the Academy in Ipswich, \. 4, 1705; died in Cornish, August 9, 1842. New N. H.) n., 1842-44; of a village school in N'ewporl He married first, March 7, 1702, Lucy 1. Erastus, born November 21, 1779. N. II.. 1S4I-4l>. Eaton, of Hartford, Vt., who was born in He and was a nindent of medi went to Richmond, Vt., where he married Woodstock, Conn., October 15, 1765, and cine at Dartmouth, 1.840-18. Since 1S4S he Abigail R. Richards, died at Rich- died in Cornish, N. II., December 23, 1807, who has been in successful practice as a physi- mond, Vt.. August 1818. Their daugh- aged 42. He married second, in Tarring- 10, cian. He was surgeon of the Sixteenth In- ter July 1810, the ford. Conn.. September 2. 1810, Florella Leucretia was born 14, fantry Regiment of Connecticut volunteer-. Mills, who was born in Tarringford, July year in which his father removed to Rich 1802-03; physician of the Connecticut State mond. 5, 1779, and was daughter of Rev. Samuel Prison, 1818-1891; member of the Conaec 2. Lydia. born February 19, 1781, mar- John and Esther (Robbing) Mills, and tient Legislature in 1878. and during all Ms sister of Samuel J. Mills, Jr., so famous ried Erastus Eaton, a brother of Lucy Ea- professional life has been physician an I Cor- for the part he took in the organization ton, first wife of Col. James Ripley, of surgeon at W'ethersfkld, Hartford County. nish, in Woodstock. of the American Board for Foreign Mis- and born about 1779 Conn. He married, first, Caroline C. Kim- So- sions and the American Colonization Conn. ball, of Cornish, N. H.. November 23. 1817 died ciety, and who died at sea. June 15, 1818, 3. Amy, born December 11, 1782, She was the daughter of William Ripley in the thirty-fifth year of his age. April 11, 1785. and Eliza (Dorr) Kimball, of Cornish. She July 1784. This Mills family, descendants of Peter 4. William Ripley, born 19, and her husband were great-grandchildren Their daughter, Mills, known in Windsor, Conn., as "the married Betsey Sherman. of William and Lydia (Brewster) Ripley. being \urillia Spicer, appears to have married Dutchman" (the original name Van D. She died September 12, 1866. Dr. Warner der Meulen), and which the emigrant an- a Mr. Lothrop, and to have died May 17, married, second, Jane M. Spalding, June 7. cestor had changed by law to Mills, the" 1835. 1809. She was daughter of James Spald- translated being "of the Mill." 5. Peter Bradford, born June 4, 1780. name ing, M.D., of Montpelier, N't. The full history of this Mills family, Married June 18, 1817, in Cornish, Miriam CHILDREN OF F. ABNER AND CAR which has furnished such wonderful de- Wyman, who was born in Pelham, N. II.. OLINE C. (KIMBALL) SPICER. scent, can be found in "Stiles's History of January 31, 1794; was daughter of Joshua Ancient Windsor." and Miriam (Richardson) Wyman, of Cor- 1. George Abner, born March 11, 1810 died August 13, 1851. Florella (Mills) Ripley died in Cornish, nish, N. II., and died May 20, 1824. in 2. Caroline Eliza, born September 1 September 21, 1858. She was a woman of Richmond, Vt. He died March 22. 1855. 1852; married Ellsworth B. Strong, Ma* sweet and gentle spirit and of sincere piety, at Mercer, Maine, having married for sec 24, 1887. was in full sympathy with her brother's ond wife, April 11, 1825, Susan B. Briggs, 3. Mary Lucia, born May 20, 1854; mar earnest missionary spirit, and in her quiet who was born in Wiscasset, Maine, April ried February 1, 1894, James T. Pratt. way did not a little to awaken a similar 23, 1799. 4. Elizabeth Williams, born June IS spirit in many Christian people in Cornish. MARRIAGE. CHILDREN BY FIRST 1858. Ripley of prodigious James was a man in Richmond, Vt., July 1. Mary, born 5. Eliza Spicer, born March 7, 1801; died energy ability. and of great executive He in Cornish, May 8, 1839, 10, 1819, and died November 9, 18ti4. became famous as a military man and at- aged 19 years and 9 months. Dr. Abner 8. and Jane M. (Spalding; tained the rank of colonel. He inherited Sep- 2. Pamela, born in Richmond, Vt., Warner had one child; George Spalding, many of the characteristics, not only of his H., tember 13, 1821, died in Newport, N. born December 28, 1871; died, Chicago. noble father and accomplished mother, but her moth- June 1, 1858. Some years after 111., July 29, 1891. also of his Pilgrim ancestors, Gov. William er's death she was received into the family Bradford and Elder Brewster. He had no REV. JAMES AND SARAH (BAR- of her mother's sister, Pamela Frost (Wy- children. NARD) WELLMAN (4). man) Ohapin, of Newport, N. H. She mar- 5. Selinda. born Pomfret, Conn., April James Welimau (5), Jr. (uitutioued be- 4, ried Stillman Timothy Fletcher, of New- 1773; died in Cornish, N. H., June 1854; fore), was born in Sutton. Mass., 2d Par- 4, port, N. H. ish (now Milbury), July 3t», 1754, sou of married April 4, 1790, Eliphalet Kimball, MARRIAGE. of Cornish. This youngest daughter of CHILDREN BY SECOND Rev. James and Sarah (Barnard) Welimau William and Lydia (Brewster) Ripley re- 3. Wyman, born January 24, 1S20, at (4), and died iu Cornish. .N. U.. November ceived from her mother an ancient "bap- Morristown, Vt., died at Bradford, Me.. 28, 1841. Rev. James Wellman (4). the tismal robe," or "Christening blanket," so February 17, 1851, aged 25. first settled minister in Cornish. N. U., (.now Lyntield). called, which, according to tradition, and as 4. Lucy Miriam, born in Morristown, was born in Lynn End October Mass., 10, 1723, died iu Ooruisu, her mother affirmed, came down to her as Vt, February 21, 1S27, married May and an heirloom from Elder William Brewster 19, 1853, William B. Chapman, son of N. 11., December 18, 18t*\ aged S*> years and his wife Mary of the Pilgrim band, .Tebish and Faith (Ripley) Splea. His wife Sarah Barnard, whom be mar- ried iu Sutton S, 1S50. was l»oru and has been used in the baptism of infant 6. Jahez, born March 12, 17SS, married November York iu Watertown, Mass., in August, 1729. and children in all the intervening Brewster Mary Hovey, and died in New daugtiter Isaac Sural, families. This robe was subsequently cut 1854-5. was oldest of and Stevens Barnard Ksq., of Watertow n. up into small pieces, which were distributed 7. Sarah (or Sally) born March 10. 1790: (5). but he afterward removed to Crattoo, among the kindred. One piece is now pre- married Phinehas Kimball. They resided Mass., and thence to Suttou Seeoud Parish. served in the Congregational Library in the in Hartford, Vt.. and afterward in Mass. Congregational Home, Boston, Mass. Woathersficld, Vt. She died in Texas in Israel (5), Isaac (4), James (3i. John (2t. William Ripley (5), Esq., who married 1842 or 1843. born August 4. 1792; John (1). Lydia Brewster (6), served in the War ot 8. Mary (or Polly) Sarah (Barnard) Uellman died in Cornish. the Revolution, holding the rank of adju- died June 6. 1813. at Richmond. Vt. N. 11., Juno 27. 1S">J. aged St years. tant in Col. Jonathan Chase's regiment in Elija, born January 31. 1798; died at the Rev. James Welluian iU was fitted for Gen. Stark's Brigade of New Hampshire home of her niece. Pamela (Spicer) Fletch- college by his paster. K, \ Stephen ( Militia. er, in Newport. N. H., October 3, 1845. minister of the Congregational Church in (5. 1S10. Aimer JABISH AND FAITH (RIPLEY) (ti) She married, December SPICER. Warner. M.D., who was born November Lyun End (now Lynnfiold I. entered Harvard College iu 1740 and graduated Jabiah (sometimes called Jaber) Spicer 30. 1787. They resided in Camillus. Onon- 8 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. who from the same in 1744. He was a son of success in curing "the black fever," was Francis and Abigail (Reed) Wyman, settlers of the town of Abraham Wellman, Jr. (3), and Elizabeth taken with fever when away from home were among the first 1642. was in (Taylor), his wife, who were married in and died of it, at Warren, Vt., November Woburn, Mass., in He son 1717 (published August 23, 1717). Abra- 14, 1815. Charlestown as early as 1640. He was of Westmill ham Wellman, Jr. (3), was born in Lynn 9. Barnard, born in Cornish, N. H., of Francis and Jane Wyman, Phebe End, November 25, 1673, a son of March 9, 1773, and died April 7, 1773. Parish, Hertford County, England. ancestors on her father's side Abraham, Sen. (2), and Elizabeth (Cogs- JAMES AND ALETHEA (RIPLEY) Wyman's and died in the siege of were Joshua (5), William (4), Edward (3). well) Wellman, WELLMAN (5). Breton, under Gen. William (2), Francis (1) and Francis in Louisburg, on Cape James Wellman eldest son of the Rev. French war. His (5), England. Pepperill, in 1745, in the mar- James and Sarah (Barnard) Wellman, mother's side a de- is not found on the muster roll of She was also on her name ried March 30, 1788, Alethea Ripley, daugh- Gen. Pepperill's army, but he may have scendant in the seventh generation of ter of William and Lydia (Brewster) Rip- second of the served as a mechanic in that successful Samuel Richardson, the ley, of Cornish, N. H. Before he was mar- not only military expedition. That he was in that three notable brothers, who were ried he went into the wildwoods in the (now city) expedition and died at the siege of Louis- among the founders of the town northern part of Cornish, and single- seven burg there can be no doubt, for such was of Woburn, but also were among the handed began the enormous labor of clear- one by one, and de- the repeated affirmation of two of his own men who "stood forth, ing off the mighty primeval forest and Christian sons, Jacob and Rev. James Wellman. clared their religious faith and creating for himself a cultivated and fruit- organized into "The Abraham Wellman, Sen. (2), was born in experience" and were ful farm. This land was near that which They Lynn End, probably in 1643, son of Thomas First Church of Christ," in Woburn. William Ripley had bought a few years seven pillars.'" and Elizabeth Wellman (1). Thomas (1) were afterward called "the before, and upon which he and his family Ezekiel, Samuel was in Lynn, Mass., as early as 1640, and Three of the seven were were now (1788) living. Thus this young ancestors he died at Lynn End, October 10, and Thomas Richardson. The subduer of the mighty forest had a good Joseph 1672. Tradition says he came from Wales. of Phebe Wyman were Miriam (6), opportunity to become acquainted with Stephen (2), great grandson, James Wellman (4), (5), Amos (4), Stephen (3), His Alethea Ripley. was ordained to the Christian ministry and Samuel (1). CHILDREN. and Phebe installed pastor of the Second Church and Children of James Ripley All born in Cornish, parish in Sutton, Mass., October 7, 1747. 1. James Ripley (6), born February 21, (Wyman) Wellman. He resigned the pastorate and, by the ad- 1789; died November 1, 1860; married N. H.: 1820; died vice of council, was regularly dismissed Phebe Wyman, of Cornish. Aurilla Phebe, born July 18, first married January 1 July 22, 1760. He was installed the 2. Alethea, born November 14, 1790; died November 28, 1862; of Fitch- minister of the First Church in Cornish, in New Britain, Conn., at the house of her 1851, Alfred Hitchcock, M. D.. Westminster, N. H., September 29, 1768, and moved the son, Benjamin Newton Comings, M. D., burg, Mass. He was born in March 30, family from Sutton to Cornish in 1769. He January 10, 1879. She married November Vt., October 17, 1813, and died David married Sarah Barnard November 8, 1750. 30, 1815, Benjamin Comings, of Cornish. 1874, in Fitchburg, Mass.; son of Hitchcock. He re- She died in Cornish January 27, 1814, aged He was a farmer, and resided on a farm a and Hannah (Owen) D. from Dart- S4 years. little south of the center of the town. ceived the degree of M. mouth College, in 1844; was much respect- CHILDREN OF REV. JAMES AND 3. Lucy, born March 7, 1794; died Febru- ed, a member of the Legislature for sev- SARAH (BARNARD) WILLIAMS (4). ary 12, 1863, in Cornish; married January eral years, a member of the Executive died in 13, 1818, Joshua Wyman, who was born \ Sarah, born June 20, 1752; Andrews, for December 26, 1788, in Peiham, N. H., eld- Council under Gov. John A. Cornish, June 21, 1803; married January est son of Joshua and Miriam (Richardson) two or three years during our Civil War, 1776, Nathaniel Dustin, of Cornish, physician and 16, Wyman, and who died in Cornish Novem- and was a distinguished H. edu- N. ber 5, 1869. surgeon. Aurilla P. Wellman, was •_». 1754; died No- James, born July 30, cated in a public school in Cornish, in a 1788, 4. Joshua Barnard, born February 10, vember 28, 1841; married March 30, her father's house 1797; died in Cornish, June 1887; mar- private school taught in (noticed above). 9, Alethea Ripley ried in her childhood by Miss Martha L. Row- died in December 18, 1827, Lucy Hough, of 3. Isaac, born February 4, 1757; married Mr. Edwin Cornish, who was born February 18, 1804, ell (who afterward Cornish, December 6, 1840; married about as a missionary and died in Cornish, February 1897. Loche, and with him went Colton, born in Grant- 28, 1804 or 1805, Mercy to the Sandwich Islands), in Lebanon aged They resided upon the farm owned by his ham, N. H. She died April 7, 1845, N. H., in 1838. and father, James Wellman Jr. Academy, Lebanon, in Cornish. (5), r,l). He was a farmer in Kimball Union Academy at Meridan, 1758; died JAMES RIPLEY AND (WY- 4. Solomon, born February 8, PHEBE N. H. She taught in a public school in Molly Putnam, MAN) January 21, 1841; married WELLMAN. Cornish, in a simila'r school in Meriden. farmer; inherited of Cornish. He was a James Ripley Wellman, eldest son of N. H., in the High School in Windsor, Vt.. upon it his father's farm, and resided James and Alethea (Ripley) Wellman, a with great acceptance, for a short time in through life. grandson of William and Lydia (Brewster) Mrs. David H. Burr's seminary for young died 5. Joshua, born November 16, 1760; (6) Ripley (5), was therefore a descendant ladies in Washington, D. C; in Francis- in Sutton November 29, 1760. in the eighth generation of William Brew- town Academy, Francistown, N. H, and died 6. Martha, born August 11, 1763; ster, the famous elder of the Pilgrim was teacher of Latin in Mount Holyoke November 5, 1839; married, first, May 27, Church, and also a descendant in the sev- Seminary from 1848 to 1851, and during 1781, Ebenezer Wright, M. D.; married, enth generation, through his grandfather, the first year under the famous Mary second, Barnabas Tisdale (widower) De- William Ripley, of William Bradford, who Lyon. She was married to Dr. Hitchcock cember 30, 1802. Dr. Wright resided in was Governor of Plymouth Colony and who in her father's house in Cornish, January the southwest corner of Plainfield, N. H., came over in the Mayflower in 1620, and 1, 1851. This was Dr. Hitchcock's second near the line between that town and Cor- still again a descendant in the eighth gener- marriage, he having married first Decem- nish, and practicd in his profession mainly ation, through his grandmother, Lydia ber 13, 1837, Fidelia Darens Clark, of in those two towns. He died October 28, (Brewster) Ripley, of Gov. William Brad- Westminster, Vt., who was born in that 1798. Barnabas Tisdale graduated at Dart- ford, as she was a descendant of both the town April 15, 1812, and died in Ashby, mouth College in 1809; was a lawyer, and Pilgrim elder and the Pilgrim governor. He Mass., December 1, 1849. (See genealogy died in 1860, aged 72. married September 22, 1819, in Cornish, of the Hitchcock family.) 7. Joshua, born May 24, 1766; died in Phebe Wyman. 2. Joshua Wyman, born November 28. Cornish, unmarried, June 20, 1806. He Phebe Wyman (6), born in Cornish Octo- 1821. He fitted for college in Kimball studied medicine, and was a physician in ber 31, 1796, and died in the same town Union Academy, graduating from the same Cornish. May 6, 1885. She was the fourth child and in 1842, entered Dartmouth College the All the above children of Rev. James second daughter of Joshua and Miriam same year, and graduated from that college and Sarah (Barnard) Wellman were born (Richardson) Wyman, who with their chil- in 1846. He entered Andover Theological in Sutton, Mass. dren removed to Cornish from Peiham, Seminary in 1847 and graduated from it in 8. Lemuel, born in Cornish January 3, N. H., in March, 1794, Mrs. Wyman riding 1850. He taught first, at the age of 17, a 1770; died November 14, 1815; married on horseback and carrying her infant child, public school in Hartford, Vt; next in the Esther Steele Russell, of Piermont, N. H. Miriam, in her arms. Phebe Wyman was winter of 1842-3 a public school in Upton, He was a distinguished physician, had great a descendant, in the sixth generation, of Mass; then in the autumn of 1843 im aa : SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. I academy in Bradford, N. H.; in the winters a man and a citizen. Fidelia Wellman was there August 2. 1876. He held im- of his junior and senior years in college many educated in a public school in Cornish, in portant trusts, was highly esteemed taught a public school in East Randolph as a a private school taught in her father's «ian and citizen, wag an honorable lawyer (now Holbrook), Mass.; taught in an house, in Kimball Union Academy, and in and a sincere Christian. Hi, daughter Loo> academy in Rochester in the summer of Mrs. Ellis' boarding school for young ladies ise was educated in part at the Oread In 1847, and taught a part of each year, from at Hanover, N. H. stitute. Worcester. Mass.. and at Lowell 1846 to 1850, in Kimball Union Academy. She was principal in 1846 - - was of the female Institute, Auburndale. M . He ordained to the Christian ministry department of the Literary Institute and James Ripley Wellman. Jr., and installed June 18, 1851, as pastor of was Bdacsted Gymnasium at Pembroke, N. H.; teacher in part ;it Kimball Union the historical First Church in Derry, N. H., A<,idemy ;u,.| in a select school in Marlboro, N. H., in at Thetford Academy, Tin t ford, Vt. where he labored five years, when he re- Hi 1847-8, and was preceptress in Bradford taught in public signed to accept a call to the Elect Church, schools in different towns Academy, Bradford, Vt., from 1849 to 1854. for several winters, Newton, Mass., where he was installed as studied medicine nt 5. Catherine Ilamblet, born May 31, Dartmouth College pastor June 11, 1856; and after a pastorate and graduated from the 1827, died in Fitchburg, Mass., January Medical Department in 1856. of more than seventeen years was dis- He also at- 24, 1893, unmarried. She was an invalid tended medical lectures and took missed October 23, 1873. He was installed part in Iioh during nearly all her life, and on account pital practice March 25, 1874, pastor of the ancient First in New York City. He began of her ill health she was not able to attend practice as a physician Church in Maiden, Mass. He remained and surgeon in IK.".-,, any school outside of her native town. in partnership with his brother-in-law, in this position until May 6, 1883. Olivet Dr Yet she was possessed of brilliant mental Alfred Hitchcock. in Fit.-hburg. College in 186S and Dartmouth College in Mas- powers which she faithfully cultivated by After occupying 1870 honored him with the degree of D. D. this position for a time reading and study at home. Her father he sailed for Europe, for He married, October 24, 1854, Ellen Maria and one year dili- and mother in disposing of their own hard gently pursued his medical studies Holbrook, who was born January 31, 1827, in lecture earned property, carefully and anxiously in East Randolph (now Holbrook), Mass. rooms and hospitals in Edinburgh. London provided for her support through life. By and Paris. She was educated in a public school in East Returning home in is". he economy and care, she preserved and even opened Randolph, in Wheaton Academy in New- an office in Fitchburg. and a bril- increased what she then received. During liant career ton, Mass., and in Bradford Academy, in his profession opened at Ma Bradford, Mass. almost her entire life she resided on what before him. His practice was large arid h<- was hor father's and mother's estate, one- overworked. In a 3. Mary Sophia, born December 20, 1823; few years he broke down after her mother's death she in health. died January 10, 1842. half of which Repairing to his native town for In upon kind and urgent rest, he died there in 4. Fidelia, born August 13, 1825: died in owned. 1890, his childhood home, invitation, she removed to Fitchburg. but his remains Kalamazoo, Mich., December 8, 1874. She were taken to Fitchburg the last three years of and buried married, September 16, 1856, Homer Owen Mass., and during in the cemetery of his hrother- Hitchcock. M. D., who was born in her life resided with her widowed sister- in-law. (Wood) Wellman. 7. Albert Erasmus, born Westminster, Vt, January 28, 1827, and in-law, Mrs. Louise H. Februarv 21. unwearied IS. died in Kalamazoo. Mich., December, 1888, These last years, through the 1838, died in Burlington. Vt.. July 1892. son of David and Hannah (Owen) Hitch- kindness of her beloved sisters, were made He married in Cornish. January 6. 1884 cock, of Westminster. Vt., and younger years of great comfort and happiness to Emily Dodge Hall, who was born at Bhu brother of Dr. Alfred Hitchcock mentioned the failing invalid. According to her re- Hill, Hancock County, Me., daughter of left Peter- iP. ..]_•. , above. He fitted for college at Kimball quest she was buried in Cornish. She Lyman and Mary II r Union Academy, entered Dartmouth Col- legacies to her near kindred, to the Congre- Her father. Dr. Hall, was a physjrian for lege in 1846, continued in the same three gational Church in Cornish, of which she many years in Cornish. Albert E. Well- years, then taught one year in Kimball was a member, and in which she was ten- man was educated in part at Kimball Union Union Academy, returning to college at the derly interested, and to two missionary so- Academy, and taught public schools in close of that year, and graduating from the cieties. Lebanon. N. H.. and in Kalamazoo. Mich. same in 1851. In the autumn of that year 6. James Ripley. Jr.. born July 27. 1829; He resided through life in the old home, and he became associate principal of Oxford died in Cornish July 25. 1861. He married. carried on the large farm owned by his Academy, at Oxford, N. H., and during the May 2. 1881. Louise Holman Wood, of father and mother. He was highly respected three following terms was principal of that Fitchburg. Mass. She was born July 14, and beloved in the town. Important trust- Academy. He graduated from the College 1834. daughter of Nathaniel and Louise were committed to him. He settled several of Physicians and Surgeons in New York (Holman') Ward. Her mother was horn in estates, was selectman for several ycar- City, spent one year in Bellevue Hospital Bolton. Mass.. November 30. 1.803. and died and for two years represented the town in in the same city, and began practice in his in Fitchburg April 24. 1887. Her father the State Legislature. The last year of hi- profession in the autumn of 1856, in Kala- was born in nolden. Mass.. August 29. life he suffered from ill health. At the re- mazoo, Mich. He became one of the most 1797. Ho graduated from Harvard Col- quest of his son he went to the hospital in eminent physicians and surgeons in that lege in 1821. studied law in the Dane Law Burlington. Vt.. for the purpose »f obtaining State, was the first president of the Board School, at Cambridge, and in the office of better medical aid. and Chen he diiil. The of Health, and for many years a member a Boston lawyer, and was admitted to the funeral services were held in Cornish, and of the Board of Trustees of Olivet College, Bar and began practice in Boston in 1826. the large audience assembled in the church which was a faithful and liberal supporter In February. 1827. he removed to Fitch- attested the profound res|M-et and warm af of the Congregational Church, of which he burg. successfully followed his profession fection in which he was held by the n< was a member, and was highly esteemed as through the remainder of his life, ami died of his native town. MISCELLANEOUS BREWSTER RECORDS. -•• 16.V.). September 1". 171". i The annexed data from the records of Elisha, ye son, August 21, 1743. He died births recorded in Norw ich. the Congregational Church of Middle Had- Lucy, ye daughter, June 2, 1745. 77. Children, dam, Middlesex County, Conn., arc in my Lucretia, ye daughter, November S, 1747. Conn.: born December. It**). possession and care for the purpose of copy- Copied from Lebanon (Oonn.) Records: Mary, (Elder) Annie, born September, tfitt ing, and may l>e of interest to you, al- Jonathan Brewster, son of Will- Jonathan, born November. though in a detached and miscellaneous iam Brewster and Mary Brewster, born in MM, March. 1606. form Sorooby, England; married Lucretia. He Daniel, born William, born March. 1667. That church was organized in September died in 1661. She died March 5, 1678. Ruth, born September 16, 1671. 25, 1740. Children: Benjamin. Iwn November 2S. 1918s I confine myself to mention of Brewster. William, remained in the old Colony in Elizabeth. l>orn June 23. 1676. Cook, Rogers and Hopkins families. Massachusetts; Benjamin. 1/ondon. Daniel Brewster, of Benjamin and Annie Yours, H. M. Seidell, Clerk. Four daughters located in New bis wife, (Dart) Bewster. born March. 1«M». mar- Marriages: September 30, 1742, Elisha Conn. Jonathan and Lucretia. ried tD Hannah Cagcr. December -3. l'-S6 Brewster and Lacs (Prob. Lucy) Yeamans. were buried in Brewster Cemetery in Pros Children recorded in Preston. Conn.: Baptism children of Elisha and Lucy ton, Oonn. Daniel, bom October 11, 16S7. (Yeamans) Brewster: Benjamin married Annie Dart February, SO SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. Hannah, born December 2, 1G90. Louisa, born March 7, 1787. thrown upon the different families men- Mary, born January 2, 1692. William Brewster married Patience. One tioned by him as from Windham by the ex- John, born July 18, 1095. child, Ebenezer, born February 1, 1703. amination of the land records. Jerusha, born November 18, 1697; died William died August, 1728. "Upon page 6 of said manuscript appears April 17, 1709. William married Mehitable Abel Decem- the following: Ruth, born June 20, 1700. ber 13, 1716. Children: " 'William Brewster appeared in Wind- Bethia, born April 5, 1702. Hannah, born March 31, 1718. ham about 1753; of what branch of the " Ebenezer, born September 19, 1713. Abel, born July 15, 1720. family we have not ascertained.' All except Daniel were born in Preston. William, born February 26, 1723; died William Brewster was the son of Benja- Daniel was born in Norwich. Hannah young. min Brewster, of Preston, and Benjamin of Gager, wife of Daniel Brewster, died Sep- Elisha, born August 22, 1725; died at Preston was the son of Deacon William tember 25, 1727. He married (2) Dorothy Louisburg 1746. Brewster, and Deacon William Brewster Witter, December 19, 1727. He died May Ann, born August 28, 1727. the son of Love Brewster. The first Will- 7, 1735. Love Brewster (Duxbury). iam Brewster mentioned herein was born His widow, Dorothy (Witter) Brewster, Will dated October 1, 1650, aud exhibited September 16, 1714; married, March 24, died March 19, 1759. John Brewster, son at court March 4, 1651. 1737, Damaris Gates, and had Grace, Cy- of Daniel and Hannah (Gager) Brewster, To children: Nathaniel, the heir apparent, rus, Asa, Damaris and Drusilla. The wife born July 18, 1695, married Dorothy Treat, the estate in Duxbury; William, Wrestling Damaris died, and he married (2dJ Esther daughter of Rev. Salmon and Dorothy and Sarah and to his three sons, jointly, all Sabin, and had Benjamin, Hannah, Esther, (Noyes) Treat, of Preston, Conn., Septem- such land as is of right due to me by pur- Elizabeth, Cynthia, William, Cyrus, Bowen ber 20, 1725. Children recorded in Preston, chase, and first coming into the land, which and Benjamin. Conn.: is in the yeare 1620. His wife executrix. The first record we have of him in Wind- Oliver, born July 20, 1726. Witnessed by Myles Staudish. ham was by a deed conveying land to him Dorothy, born July 22, 1728. Inventory (including books to the num- August 3, 1752, in which he is mentioned Hannah, born September 26, 1729; died ber of thirty volumes) taken Jan. 31, 1051, as of Canterbury. December 15, 1736. by William Collier and Capt. Standish. Damaris married a James Flint. Asa Daniel, born April 12, 1731. Amount, £97 7s. Id. married Ruth Badger, May 28, 1766, and Sarah, born May 25, 1733. New England Historical Register (Vols. had Edmund, Oliver, Erastus and Abigail, Sybil, born August 20, 1735. 3-4), page 284. as appears by said manuscript. John, born January 9, 1737. From Probate Records of District of Wind- Drusilla married William Ely, of Spring- Eunice, born October 17, 1740. ham, Conn. field, Mass. Levi, born March 17, 1743. Furnished by Judge Charles N. Daniels. Cyrus married Nancy Dewitt (daughter Joseph, born March 7, 1745. Vol. 15, page 324, July 13, 1794. of Henry Dewitt, who married Hannah Sarah Brewster, daughter of John and Will of Joseph Barston (?), of Lebanon; Dean, of Norwich, 1772). They had Will- Dorothy (Treat) Brewster, married Moses wife, Sybil; sons, Samuel, Job and Micah; iam, Cyrus, Nancy and Maria, as also ap- Parke, of Preston, Conn., November 9, daughters, Molly, Lydia, Betty and Mehit- pears by said manuscript. 1752. abel. This record comes through the kindness Benjamin Brewster and his wife Mary Speaks of daughter, and only heir of my of Mrs. Henry Minton. It is given in full, had children, viz.: son Joseph, deceased. Says he means to even if there are some repetitions: Benjamin, born September 4, 1697. give nothing to his son Charles, he hav- Elder William Brewster, born in Scrooby, John, born May 25, 1701. ing already had his portion. England, 15G0, died 1644; married Mary, Mary, born April 22, 1704. Volume 16, page 392, June 13, 1815. who died in 1624, aged 56, or before 1627. Jonathan, born November 4, 1706; died Inventory of estate of Comfort Brewster, Came to Plymouth in 1620. 1717. Jr., of Lebanon; no names mentioned. Children: Nehemiah, born June 1709; died 1719. 25, Volume 17, page 90, Oct. 20, 1817. Jonathan, born 1593, died 1661; married Comfort, born December 2, 1711. Inventory of estate of Daniel Brewster, of Lucretia. Daniel, born November 21, 1714. Lebanon; among list of creditors of this Patience came in the Ann, died 1634. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Mary estate find Dr. Dwight Ripley, Justice Fear came in the Ann, died 1633. Brewster, married Rebecca Blackman. Brewster and Comfort Brewster. Love came in 1620. Children: Caleb and Betsy Brewster were adminis- Wrestling came in 1620. Jonathan, born September 1723. 9, trators. Capt. Edward. Benjamin, born October 12, 1726. Volume 17, page 131. Oct. 31, 1818. Jonathan Brewster, eldest son of Elder John, son of Benjamin and Mary Brew- Inventory of estate Brewster, of Cyrus William, and Mary, his wife, born at ster,-married Mary Terry. Children: of Windham; no names. Scrooby, England, 1593. Came in the Mary, born January 20, 1726. Volume page 364; June 12, 1822. 17, Fortune to Plymouth in 1621; married Lu- Hannah, born May 5, 1734. Will of Comfort Brewster, of Lebanon, cretia. He removed to Duxbury in 1032; Comfort, son of Benjamin and Mary wife Elizabeth. afterward to New London in 1648; died Brewster, married Deborah Smith, Decem- Eldest daughter-in-law, Parthenia Brew- 1661. ber 2, 1736. Children: ster. Children: Deborah, born December 20. 1737. Other daughter-in-law, Betsy Brewster. Ann, born May 10, 1741. Daughters Melinda and Louisa. William, born in Holland, died 1645; Narragansett war last known of him. Betty, born August 20, 1743. Volume 18, page 385; April 16, 1825. Comfort, born August 20, 1745. Distribution of estate of Benjamin Brew- Mary, born in Holland; married John Daniel, born July 20, 1751. ster, of Windham. Turner. Daniel, son of Benjamin and Mary, mar- Wife Betsy, and Margaret Avery, daugh- Jonathan, born about 1627-1049; last ried Mary Dimock October 10, 1733. Chil- ter of deceased, are the only ones men- known of him, probably killed in battle. dren: tioned. Benjamin, born 1033, died September 10, Nehimiah, born November 21, 1735. Volume 19, page 441; March 6, 1830. 1710. Nehimiah, born April 19, 1738; died 1751. Inventory of estate of Silas W. Brewster, Elizabeth. Ruth, born August 28, 1740. of Mansfield; no names. Ruth. Eunice, born January 2, 1743. Volume 22, page 241; January 20, 1855. Grace. Mary, born April 13, 1745. Will of Elizabeth Brewster, of Windham. Hannah (she was aged 37 in 1080). Mehitable, born August 6, 1747; died Property left to her nephew, Samuel H. Benjamin Brewster, son of Jonathan and 1749. Perkins, of Philadelphia, in trust for her Lucretia; married in February, 1659, Anna Daniel Brewster died May 7, 1749. niece, Harietta P. Clark, of Windham. Dart, of New London. Comfort, son of Comfort and Deborah The Brewster record ends here, so far as Children: (Smith) Brewster, married Elizabeth Abel records of Windham Probate Court show. Mary, born December, 1060, at New Lon- February 15, 1770; he died May 27, 1822; For the following the public is indebted to don. she died March 19, 1825. Children: Mr. C. H. Dimmick, Town Clerk of Wind- Ann, born September, 1662, at Norwich. Comfort, born April 7, 1771. ham, Conn.: Jonathan, born November, 1664. Elizabeth, born December 2, 1772. "Mr. Weaver, in his examination of the Daniel, born March, 1667. Lucretia, born February 18, 1776. records of vital statistics of this office, was William, born March, 1669. Melinda, born October 30, 1778. very thorough, the only thing that could be Ruth, born September 16, 1671. Daniel, born AuguBt 12, 1781. added, possibly, is, some light might be Benjamin, born November 28, 1673. : SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COM TACT. 11 tions of relationship Elizabeth, born June 23, 1676. connected witli them, SonB Josiah, Jeremiah, Eleazer and Hi Jonathan Brewster, son of Benjamin and makes me pause before even thinking of an hemiah. Ste- ending. Anna Dart Brewster, married Judith Volume 16, page 65, August 10. 1811. vens, December 18, 1090, probably daughter Stiil, that time must come, and though Inventory of estate of Ebenezer Ripley, of James and Sarah Smith Stevens. much has been revealed, there are still con- of Windham, no u;i in<--. Children nections to be made, and the spirit of the Hezekiah Ripley was judge of the kindly sent by of Boston. Miss . Mary Robinson Brewster married (2), in valuable, so 1 give, as so me Mr. Sewall A. Fauuce, 1816, Abel Kendall; one son, Elmer Ken- Judge Daniels, the following: who is a Pilgrim so far as descent is con- District of Wind- furnishes dall, born 1817; died October, 1841. From Probate Records, cerned many times, the argu- George Robinson Brewster, son of ham, Conn., volume 15, page 77, July 1, ment, and I know I am safe in sayinc that will better than himself Stephen, Jr.. and Mary Robinson Brewster, 1803: no one be pleased Windham, sou if there are proofs of Elizal>eths or married May 19. 1831, Achsah, daughter of Will of Judith Ripley, of two Daniel and Ruth Steele Morgan; born May Harvey Ripley. anything in the records at variauiv with of John Adams. absolute truth to have now settled. 8. 1811, in Tolland. Tolland County, Conn. Betsey Adams, wife them Children: Bradford Ripley, Sephaniah and William. The statement made is that Rev. Samuel Mary, Helen. Julia, Samuel, George. In heirs' receipt Bradford signs his name Fuller, the first minister to Middle!- Charles Morgan. David B. Ripley. (son of Dr. Samuel, of the Mayflower, Mary Brewster, daughter of George Rob- Volume 15, page 229. March 20. 1806! their "T.uke. the beloved pli.Tsici.rn">. born Kip- inson and Achsah Morgan Brewster mar- Nath Manning, guardian of Samuel in 1624 and died August. 10UR. married of sale of land. Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Brewster, ried April 8. 1857. Henry Mintou, M. D.; ley, a minor, makes return April 14. 1810: son of the elder. Did he? born March 1831; died June 1, 1895. Volume 15. page 548, 4, Jon The great and increasing interest in the Will of Eleazer Ripley, of Windham, Elisabeth Brewster, the daughter of flower Connecticut soil. Brewster family, and the various ramifica- wife Miriam. athau. was a of 12 and though not left to "blush unseen" long Conn.; served in the revolution; ensign Brewster, to her son, James Brewster, de- at that time, was apparently unknown to Twentieth Continental Infantry, Col. John vises 'my smallest gun which his father, " the "Old Colony." Durkee, January 1 to December 31, 1776. Jona Brewster, hath sometimes used.' Neither Goodwin nor Winsor discovered (Conn. in the Revolution, Men page 106, Mary Partridge, born in Duxbury May 2, the existence of such a person. But ac- and Heitman's Hist. Reg.) 1693, daughter of John Partridge (1), and cording to New London records she was IV. Judah (5) Alden, resided at Lebanon, Hannah, daughter of Dr. Samuel Seabury born in 1638; married first Peter Bradley, Conn.; served in the Revolution, captain in (1), married Jonathan Brewster, born Col. Samuel B. addition who died in 1662, and afterward Christo- Webb's Continent- March, 1709-10. Tlfc>y removed to Wind- pher Christophers. al regiment; commissioned January 1, ham, Conn., after 1728. Christophers's first wife died in 1676; 1777. Killed in a skirmish in Westchester John Partridge (1), of Duxbury, born in his widow, County or Staten Island, August 22, 1777. Christophers died 1087, and November 29, 1657, was eldest son of "relict of Peter Bradley," died in 1708. (Conn. Men in Rev., page 246, and Heit- George Partridge (1), and Sarah, eldest All of these dates are important in con- man's Hist. Reg., page 591.) daughter of Stephen Tracy (1), and Try- sideration of the above statement. V. Roger (5) Alden, born 1748, gradu- phosa Le , who came over on the Ann it ated at Yale College. Served in the Turning now to Rev. Samuel Fuller, revo- 1623. by Plymouth probate records that lution; adjutant of Fifth Continental Line, appears John Partridge married (2) Mary, the January lieutenant he died in 1695, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, 1, 1777; June 15, 1778; widow of Wrestling, the son of Love and seven children, and Plympton town rec- captain September 1, 1779, of Second Regi- Brewster. ords show that Samuel's said widow Eliza- ment; brigade-major Huntington's brigade, Lydia Partridge, sister of John (1), mar- beth died in Plympton in November, 171:'.. at Peekskill, July 13, 1777; wintered at ried William Brewster, son of Love. is true also that in the same year thai It Valley Forge 1777-78; at battle of Mon- Through Dr. Samuel Seabury the Brew- Peter Bradley's "relict" became the widow mouth June 28, 1778; appointed aide de sters and Partridges are also related to of Christopher Christophers (1687), Rev. camp, with rank of major, to Gen. Hun- Rev. Ralph Partridge, first pastor of Dux- Samuel Fuller's grandson, Nathaniel, was tington, in division orders, Springfield, bury Church (who was probably uncle or born. N. J., April 1, 1780; resigned February 10, cousin of George Partridge, 1st), as follows: It is evident, therefore, that the Elizabeth 1781. (Connecticut Men in Revolution, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Rev. Ralph, who, as wife of Samuel Fuller, then living, various pages, and Heitman's Hist., Reg.) married Rev. Thomas Thatcher, May 11, became the grandmother of Nathaniel Ful- Settled after the revolution in Meadville, 1643. They had a daughter. Patience, who ler in 1687, was not Elizabeth, daughter of Pa. A member of the Connecticut Cin- married Mr. William Kemp at Weymouth. Jonathan Brewster, who became the widow cinnati. Appointed ordnance storekeeper at Mass., and they had a daughter. Patience of Christopher Christophers the same year. West Point January 20, 1825, and con- Kemp, who married Dr. Samuel Seabury, BRADLEY. tinued to hold the office until the time of and who had a daughter, Hannah, born Bradley's "relict" was 24 years of age his death, November 5, 1836. July 7, 1668. who married John Partridge, there when she first became a widow (1662); He had a daughter, who married Capt. 1st. evidence that she was still is indisputable Henry Swartwout, U. S. A., and a son, PARTRIDGE. his widow in 1673. Bradford Ripley Alden, who was captain Christopher Christophers This adds another family, with many off- She married United States Army, and died September after 1676, became his widow in 1687, and shoots to the Brewster claim. They inter 10, 1870. died in 1708, five years before Fuller's married often in Plymouth or Duxbury, and VI. Elizabeth (5) Alden. widow died in Plympton. after settling in Windham and Lebanon. VII. Son who died in infancy. Therefore if arithmetic is a better witness Conn., continued to increase the relation VIII. Son who died in infancy. than theory the statement must be an- through the younger branches. Can there be a more beautiful record, and swered in the negative. All of this is the Pilgrim trail and should there are many who make the three de- ALDEN. bring out much history and place some of scents—Brewster, Bradford, Alden! The history of this family of Brewsters the "probablies" on a solid basis. The true spirit has ben roused in the reaches everywhere, and thanks to Mr. W. Brewster family, which means in the pres- ANOTHER LINE. J. Ripley, of Chicago, who is compiling the ent day many other names, so that as one- has been authenticated, Ripley genealogy, I am able to furnish this This line, which location furnishes record, another, in its families not be- Alden record, which will be invaluable to takes the records into some pride of its local data, sends still more for many: fore touched upon. the public benefit. Quite a little, hardly "In your 'Brewster Records' published Elder William Brewster. complaint, but attention has been called to July 24, you mention William Ripley (5), Jonathan Brewster. the lack of record in regard to Love Brews- Brewster, married in 1645 John Joshua (4-3), John (2), William (1), who Mary ter's family. All in due time, now I will married Lydia Brewster, etc. Turner. give for a start an item from History of "It may be of interest to know that Eliz- Amos Turner, married in 1695 Mary Bridgewater, page 366, where it says thai abeth Ripley (5), (sister of William), born Hiland. Sarah, daughter of William Collier (widow Otis. November 4, 1724, married October 9, Jane Turner, married Solomon of Love Brewster), married for second hus- in 1798 1744, John Alden (4), Andrew (3), Capt. Amos Otis, born in 1737, married band a Parks. This is a new field for me, Jonathan (2), John (1), of the Mayflower, Nancy Farnsworth. and while not a Brewster descent, it gives (1620), of Lebanon, Conn.; for reference Amos Otis, born in 1801, the historian the Parks family, if there are see Alden genealogy. any descend- and genealogist. ants, a collateral relation with the Brews- "John (4) was born July 23, 1716; died ters. STILL ANOTHER. March 26, 1789. different source "Their (the following) children are de- NEW MATERIAL. Although from an entirely scended as well from Gov. Bradford A correspondent sends the following, but this weaves in with the Partridge record: James through Joshua Ripley, and his wife, Han- dreading the possible letters which may "I find among my Tilden records nah Bradford." ensue, prefers his name should not appear: Thomas, born 1683 (grandson of original Children: "I have been much interested in the John Thomas, one of the founders of Ply- afterward set- I. Parthenia (5) Alden, married Wood- Brewster genealogies being published, and mouth Colony, and who bridge Little, Esq. (It would be well to can add an item from the record at Ply- tled at Marshfield, Mass.), married Mary look up this Woodbridge. Some branches mouth, Mass., in regard to James Brews- Tilden and settled at Duxbury. They had of that family lead to Gov. Dudley.) ter, of Windham. Mary, born 1693; James, born 1696, and II. Violetta (5) Alden, married Isaac "Probate records, book 2, page 131. John Hannah, born 1698, the wife of Deacon Fitch. Partridge's will, dated December 31, 1730, Wrestling Brewster, of Kingston." HI. John (5) Alden, resided at Lebanon, names his daughter, 'Mary,' wife of Jona E. A. S. — W SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 13 BREWSTER RECORDS CONTINUED. NEWSPAPER RECORDS. few from each end, and some from different "Johnnatban Brewster wai borne at The following sent me by Mr. George places here and there. Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire, the 12th of E. Hoadley, of Hartford, Conn., are both It has the original stamped calf covers, August, 1593. (Note Elders oldest son.) quaint and valuable: now separated from the book. It was cap- Mary—The wyfe of Wm. Brewster Ajred Horrid murder, Windham, April 29, 1802. itally bound, and the book is as firm as at Plymouth in New England, the 17th Died at Canterbury on Wednesday of last ever. April, 1627. week, widow Jerusha Brewster, aged 62. It was a blank record book, and the mat- William Brewster dyed at Plimonth, in Poisoned with arsenic. —New Loudon Ga- ters in it indicate the following history of New England, ye 10th of A prill, 1644. zette, May 5, 1802. the volume: William Brewster, the son of Jonathan Died at Preston, Conn., on the 29th of 1st Owner—A scholar and business man, Brewster, borne at Plimouth, in New Bnf April in the 81st year of his age, Mr. Sim- and he owned the book at time of the first land, the 9th of March, 1625. eon Brewster.—Gazette, May 13, 1801. emigration to N. England, who copied into Mary Brewster, the daughter of Johna- At Canterbury, Peleg Brewster, aged 84. the book various public documents relat- than, borne at Plimouth, 16th April, 1627. —Gazette, May 27, 1801. ing to tbe settlement of N. England. Johunathan, the soun of Johnatban At Preston on the 5th inst., Miss Polly, Lists of goods, notes of direction about Brewster, bom at Plimouth, 17 July. 1629. daughter of widow Elizabeth Brewster, emigrating, etc. Ruth, the daughter of Johnnatban, borne 1631." aged 15 years.—Gazette, October 24, 1798. This person may have been Elder Brew- at Jones River, the 3 of 0< tober, ster. then, in New London, January 3. 1772. About a [Two blank pages, leaves gone; month ago Mr. Comfort Brewster died in 2d Owner—A person less learned than the a different handwriting:] Lebanon in a sudden manner.— Gazette, first, but of recording propensities; very in- "Benjamin Brewster, the sonn of John- ferior writing. the January 3, 1772. They entered births and nathan Brewster, borne at Duxborow, Died July 23, a child of Benjamin Brew- deaths and some notes historical and theo- 17th November, 1633. logical. Johnnathan ster, 2% years old, near Preston, Conn. "Elizabeth, the daughter of Less at the first of Gazette, October 1, 1773. 3d Owner— cultivated people, who Brewster, borne Duxborrow, At Hanover, N. H., on the 14th of Sep- noted genealogy and a few business ac- May, 1637. tember, Mrs. Hannah Brewster, aged 35. counts. "Grace, the daughter of Jonathan Brew- consort of Gen. Ebenezer Brewster and 4th. Lastly, it has been scrawled over ster, borne at Duxborrow, the first of No- daughter of the late John Avery, of Pres- and abused by children. vember, 1639. borne at ton.—Gazette, April 8, 1805. It is badly stained and eaten for from "Hanna, the daur. of Jonathan, At Lebanon, Mrs. Lydia Brewster, aged one to three inches back from front mar- Duxborow, the 3d of Novr., 1641. 98, relict of Iehabod Brewster. Her de- gin. The paper has been wet, and become (In a later hand at foot of page.) scendants are 8 children, 74 grandchildren, hard and brittle. This has damaged the "The above named Benjamin Brewster 220 great-grandchildren and 23 of tbe oldest entries. died in Norwich ye 14th of Septetnl>er. Brewster Plain. fourth generation.—Courant, February 14, The later records have mostly been writ- 1710, and was buried in 1815. ten within the limits of the margins on un- fNext page, in the old handwriting, same At St. John's Island, S. C, September injured paper. as before.] Lueretia 11, Dr. Iehabod Brewster, aged 29, former- There are a great many different hand- Johnnathan Bre wster, marryed ly writings and variations in spelling, worse Oldham (?). of Darby, the 10th of April. of Lebanon.—Mirror, October 11, 1813. T At Chapel Hill, N. Y., Charles A. Brew- and worse to the end. 1629 (?), who had children— illiam, Mary. Elizal>eth. ster, aged 28, of New York, formerly of Various series of notes of births and Johnnathan. Ruth. Benjamin, Hartford.—Courant. March 29, 1815. deaths, covering long periods are noted by Grace and Hanna. Note by J. P. B. Tbe incorrect— At New York, Benjamin A. Brewster, the same hand, as if transcribed from a marriage date here is evidently March, 162.". aged 15, formerly of Norwich.—Courant, record, and in one or two cases, a different if William was born 9th of married before November 21, 1815. hand in ink, notes last the death of some His parents were probably marriage. At Preston, Peletiah Brewster, aged 58. person thus registered. Chief matters reg- that, or the ceremony came after 18) marryed John —Gazette, April 8, 1812. istered are: Mary Brewster (aged Situate, elder, the 10th At Demarara, Joseph Brewster, of Nor- 1st. Copy of the charter or grant of New 1 Warner?], of the by J. P. B. wich, aged 40.—Gazette, November 20, Scotland to John Mason and Anthony of November, 1645. [Note 1805. Alexander in 1621. should be John Turner.] Fickett the At Franklin, Hepzibah, wife of Stephen 2d. License to Thomas Weston to trans- Ruth Brewster tnaryed John Brewster, aged 86.—Gazette, November 8, port ammunition and ordnance to New Eng- 14th of March. 1651. (Greani. •> 1820. land, date February 17. 11121. No. 3—xx— William Brewster niaryed Mary October. 1651. In Griswold, Margery, wife of Elias No. 4. Ex. xx No. 5. of London the 15th of leaves gone, then in a Brewster, aged 56.—Gazette, January 29, The New England patent of thirteen or [Two blank pages, 1823. more pages. different handwriting.] Witherell maryied to Grase Brew At Hampton, Dr. John Brewster, aged No. 6. Seventeen pages of household Daniel 4th 1.6.5.9. Eliiabeth 84.—Gazette, September 23, 1S23. farming and trading goods and directions. ster August the maried to Peeter Brawley the At Griswold, Mehitable, wife of Simeon No. 7. Commission granted by the Coun- Brewster, 7th September, 1053. Brewster, aged 72.—Gazette, November 30, cil for New England (name left blank; a Elizabeth Rrawley. bom 1825. license for a voyage). (?Bradley) 16th 1654 9. in August, the 7th day. Notes." of oar ster Book," mentioned in Vol. III. of the "Beniaman Rrowster ma reed Ann Put* 13. The Fitch epitaph. "Vermont Historical Gazeteer," under of febeare. 1669 (this date leaves (many blank) hav- (?) the last day "Hyde Park." 14. About fifty genealogical items. Brewster is carefullv rewritten). follows: ing scattered > F. P. B. describes the book as (Note by J. P. B.. no doubt Anna Dart and other items. It is a small quarto volume, with leaves Marie, the dafter of Roniman Brewster, 15 and 16. Some Latin extracts <>f his 7% by 6 inche9. other borne 10th day of December 16ti<>. two torical acccouuts concerning Spiiu and There are now 121 leaves, besides Ann. the dafter of Beniman Brewster. countries. torn off and lying in the book, making 123. 29 September 1662. Genealogies. bo*N at MMhegU A considerable more leaves are gone, a No. 3. : 14 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. Jonathan—sonn of Beniman, borne at 14. Dannell, born March 1, 1067; married Treat (died April 17, 1704 (?); another en- Mohegan November the last, 1664. December 23, 1686, Hannah Guyer (?). try says March 7, 1711). Daniell—sonn—born Mohegan 1st March 15. William, born March 22, 1069. 23. Jeruca (Jerusha), born at Preston, 1667. 16. Ruth, born September 10, 1071; mar- November 18, 1097. (Scrawled up and down in inner margin ried Thomas Adgate, June 15, 1692. 24. Ruth, born at Preston, June 20, 1701. of the page in another hand:) 17. Benjamin, born November 2, 1673; 25. Bethujah (Bethia), born at Preston. Ann Brewster, the wife of Benianiau married Mary Smith, December 17, 1696. April 1702; married William Parrish, May Brewster, departed this life May the 9th, 18. Elizabeth, born June 23, 107— (torn 23, 1738. 1709. off)—probably 1675; married to Dauiel 26. Jonathan, born at rreston, June 6. (Some pages further on in another hand:) Meeks, July 4, 1700. 1705. Ruth Pickett, widow—ye d. of J. B., m. No. 8. Elizabeth, born May 1, 1637; mar- 27. Ebenezer, born at Preston, Septem- to Charles Hill of Barley in Darbyshire ried Peter Bradley, September 7, 1053; died ber 19, 1713; married Hannah or Susannah the 2d July, 1688. (This date is evidently April 3, 1662. Smith; died October 7, 1739. wrong, should be 1608—J. P. B.) Bradley children: Benjamin, born November 25, 1673. their d., 9th December, 1669. Married Mary Smith December 17, 1696. Jane, born Elizabeth, born March 16, 1054. b. 16th October. Children: Cbarles, sou, New London, Hannah, born September 17, 1656. 1671, New London. 28. Benjamin, born at Mohegan Septem- Peeter, born September 7, 1658; married, Ruth, ye wife of Charles Hill, deyed the bei 24, 1697. May 9, 1678, Mary Christopher, daughter 29. John, born at Lebanon May 1701. 1st of May, 1677. of Christopher Christophers; died August 25, Note. compre- 30. Mary, born at Lebanon April 24, 17— —The following genealogy 26, 1687. leaves gone and torn. hends all the important particulars I found Lucretia, born August 16, 1061. in no No. 22, John Brewster. the "Brewster Record," which was, No. 9. Grace, born November 1, 1639; Brewster, Elder Born July 18, 1695. doubt, owned by Jonathan married, August 4, 1659, Daniel Witherell, Married, September 20, 1725, Dorothv William Brewster's oldest son. born at Kent, November 29, 1030. Treat. Joseph P. Beach, Cheshire, Conn. Wetherill children: ( 'bildren: 1. Elder William Brewster, died April 10, Hannah, born March 21, 1659, married — Plymouth, 31. Olivour, born at rreston July 20, 1644; married Mary ; dyed Pickett, 1680, Wednesday, — Adam May 26, 17LV,. April 17, 1627. and had a son, Adam, born September 7, 32. Dorothy, born at Preston January 22 Children: 1681. 1727. 2. Johnnathan, born at Scrowby, August Mary, born October 7, 1668. 33. Hannah, born at Preston September 12, 1593; dyed August 7, 1659; married Daniell, born January 26, 1070. 26, 1729. Lucretia Oldham, April 10, 1629. (? Date Marye, borne 1672. Lived 2 mos. and 34. Daniel, born at Preston April 1678-79. 12, missing.) She dyed March 4, dyed. 1731. Children: Four sons successively "borne and dyed" No. 27. Ebenezer Brewster, born Septem- 3. 1625; married nameless immediately after their births. William, born March 9, ber 19, 1713. Mary Graeme, October 15, 1651. The above Wetherell entries are all in Married Hannah or Susannah Smith. 4. Mary, born April 16, 1627; married one handwriting, as if copied from some 35. Benjamin, born at Preston April 15. John Warner, November 10, 1645. record. 1736. 5. Jonathan, born July 17, 1629. Then in different hand: 36. Ebenezer, born at Preston April 25 6. Ruth, born October 3, 1631; married Grace Wetherell deyed Aprel the 22d, 174(1. John Pickett, March 14, 1651. 1684. Then follows several pages of marriages 7. Benjamin, born November 17, 1633: No. 10. Hanna Brewster, born November and births of the Wedg, Fitch, Niles, Dem- married Anne Parte (should be Dart), Feb- 3, 1041. ing, Rudd, Freeman, Fobes, and copy of ruary 28, 1669. No. 11. Marre (Mary) Brewster. inscription on tombstone in Lebanon, Conn. 8. Elizabeth, born May 1, 1637; married Born married Mr. Fitch, December 10, 1660, No- James , born 1022, minister at Peter Bradley, September 7, 1653. vember 28, 1678, Samuel Fitch, son of Saybrook, and after at Norwich, Conn. 9. Grace, born November 1, 1639; mar- James Fitch. (Graveyard memoranda from "Brewster ried Daniel Wetherell, August 4, 1659. Fitch children born at Mohegan: Book.") 10. Hanna, born November 3, 1641. Mare (Mary), dafter, born March 10, Preston, June ye 14 Day, 1756; then Dan- No. 3. William. 1679-80. iel Brewster (sic), Departed this Life in the Born March 9, 1625. Samuel, 1081; Hezekiah, 1682; Elizabeth, 69th year of his age. Married Mary Gaeme, .October 15, 1651. 1684; Abigel, 1686; Samuel, 1688; Benia- (Written on a loose slip). November, A. No. 4. Mary, born 1627. mau, 1691; John, 1693; Jabus (Jabez), D. 1790, Anna Lord Rudd, died, aged 12 Married John Warner, 1645. 1695, died March 28, 1779, age 84; his wife years. No. 5. Jonathan, born July 17, 1629. Anna died August 25, 1770, aged 81; January 20, 1781, Mrs. Lurene Rudd. No. 6. Ruth, born October 3, 1631; died Peltiel (Pelatiah), 1698. died age 49, September 22, 1795. Mr. May 1, 1677. No. 12. Samuel Rudd died, age 73. Married (1st) John Pickett, March 14,1651. No. 13. Jonathan Brewster, born Novem- Another entry reads: John Christopher Married (2d) Charles Hill, July 2, 1688 ber 31, 1664; married Judith Steven, De- (son of Christopher Christophers), was borne (1668, J. P. B.) cember 18, 1690, she being then 20 years of at New London, Soptember 3, 1668. Children by second marriage born at New age, wanting seven days. Christopher Christophers deyed July 23. London: Children: 16S7. 18 a. Lucretia (dafter), Mary, wife of Christopher Daughter Jane, born December 9, 1009. born at Mohegan, Huntington, November 1691. departed December 1749. Son Charles, born October 16, 1671, 4 3, 24, 18 b. Jonathan, born at April Matthew Coy married o'clock a. m. Mohegan, Ann. Entries Adam Pickett, son of John and Ruth, 2, 1694. of Freeman children, born at No. 14. Daniel Brewster, born March Preston: born November 15, 1658, was married to 1, 1667; died May 7, 1735; married December Daniel Brewster, married Dorothy Wit- I lunnah Wetfoerill. 23, 1686, Hannah Guyer (?Gager); died ter, December 19, 17— (torn). No. 7. Benjamin Brewster, born Novem- September 25, 1727. Mr. Joseph P. Beach, of Cheshire, ber 17, 1033; died September 14, 1710; mar- Conn., to I ried Anno Parte, February 28, 1669; died Children: whom am indebted for the records from the "Brewster Book," of course, May 9, 1709. 19. Dannell, born Norwich, October 11, claims no responsibility for This is no doubt intended for Anne Dart, 1687; married, August 8, 1710, Elizabeth the above, knowing that in it there and date should be 1659—J. P. B. Freeman. are doubtful dates, Children 20. Hanna, born at Preston, December 2, which he, however, thinks will be explained and settled by other 11. Marre, born December 10, 1060; mar- 1090; married, December 2, 1708, Joseph evidence. Mr. C. Ernest Bowman, I ried November 28, 1078, Samuel Fitch, son Freeman. have been told, had the same record of James Fitch. 21. Mare, born at Preston, January 2, of Jonathan Brewster's marriage to 12. Ann, born September 29, 1662. 1092, probably wife of Christopher Hunt- Lucretia Oldham. Whether gaiued from the 13. Johnnathan. born November 31, 1664; ington. same source I do not married Judith Steven; died November 20, 22. John, born at Preston, July 18, 1695; know. Mr. 1704. married, September 20, 1725, Dorothy Beach's present contribution, though IB I promised am more records by him, closes wich, to Miss Hannah Maria Brewster.— Hill was born '.) with "Ye Brewster Book." 3 in ye morning of Gazette, December 29, 181!). 1869. It is described in the second volume (not At Brooklyn, N. Y., Benijah A. Brewster Daniel, son third, Daniel and ftraee W.-rh. r.-ll as printed) of the Vermont Historical to Miss Lucy Potter, both of New London. Ix.rn 2/5 Jan 1670. Gazetteer on page 628, under an account —Gazette, June 20, 1821. Thomas Dyrnond of of "Hyde Park," 1781, Hartford wan mar- as follows: At Preston, by Jonathan Brewster, Esq., "The Brewster ried to ElisaUth daughter of Peter and Book, a curious old man- William P. Nash to Clarissa Brewster.— Elizabeth Bradley Keptcmlwr 22, 1670. uscript volume, is in the possession of the Gazette, October 20, 1824. Benjamin Shapley, family of Jabez Fitch, je toon of Xichola* born in Norwich Many lines can be Shapley February traced from the follow- of Charlcstown was m irryi-d unto 15, 1737, married .Tune 3, 1760, ing record: Capt. Elisha Brewster (son of Mary, ve daughter of John Pickett, of NVw Hannah Perkins. He died at Hyde Park, William, Ron of Deacon William, son London, ye 10 of April Vermont, February 1812." of 1072. 29, Love, son of Elder Ruth William) was born Oc- Shapley, daughter Beajnerin and The writer of the tober article continues: 29, 1715; married September 30, 1742, Mary Shapley born 21 December 167Z by "The Brewster Book was evidently com- Rev. Benjamin Bowers, first pastor of Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Eliz the alteth menced in the sixteenth century. Having Congregational Church, of Middle Had- Dyinond lx>rn Aug 14, ]i;72. three times crossed the Atlan^c and been dam, Middlesex County, Conn, (the church Jonathan Hill son of tttarles and Roth exposed to the action of salt water for some was organized September 25, 1740), to Hill was l>orn ye Di cember 1073-4. Lucy, time on one of the voyages, the edges of the daughter of Jonathan, and Sibbel Benjamin, sonn Benjamin and Marv (Harris) Shapley, leaves have been partially destroyed. They Yeomans. She was born April 7, born ye 20 .March 1<;7.",. appear exactly as if charred by the action of 1715; died August 15, 1775. He died Thomas, sonn Thomas and KlizaU-th Dy fire, and from one and one-half to two March 26, 1789. The second pastor was mond. born July 22, 1075. inches of the writing is gone or illegible." Rev. Benjamin Boardman. Ruth Hill, wife Charl.-s Hill did :;n "The family records having been subse- Children: April, 1677. quently made are entire." Mary, daughter Benjamin and Mary Elisha, born August 19, 1743; died June The writer in the "Historical Gazetteer" Shapley, W,rn ye 20 March 1677. 12, 1745; baptized August 21, 1743. after describing some of the contents of the NEW LONDON Lucy, born May 30, 1745; baptized June RECORDS CON book, suggests that the Vermont Historical 2, 1745. TINUED. Society should preserve th? contents of the Moses Dyrnond. son of Lucretia, born October 31, 1747; baptized Thomas and Eliz- Brewster Book. abeth Dyrnond, born May November 8, 1747; married Dr. Elihu Tu- 14. 1077. Ezekill The above article is followed by "Fitch's dor. Timer, ye son of John of Seit- Diary," a very interesting document cover- uate, marryed Susannah the Lott, born September 18, 1749; died about daughter of ing several John pages. June, 1795. Keeney of New London 20 Decern ber 1078. Very naturally this "new find" has re- Elisha, born July 1751; married Mar- 8, Peeter Bradley, vived search into the old records, and as garet Curtis. the sonn of Peeter. was the marryed unto Mary the daughter of conviction has been constantly forced William, born February 21, 1753. Ofcrii upon that topher Christophers May 9 1078. me the whole of the Brewster Sarah, born November 20, 1754; married Christopher, history of the early days has never been Dr. Oliver Wetmore. son of Peter and M.itt Brad- ley, reached, I ye 11 July, 1079. quote from Henry Martyn Dex John, born November 10, 1756; died De- Adam Pickett, of New London, marrvod ter in his notes to "Monet's Relation," page cember 17, 1758. unto Hanna daughter of Daniel Wether- 140, where he says: "Jonathan Brewster Hopestill, born April 15, 1759. ell, 20 May 1(580. was the eldest son of the Elder. Mr. Sav- Lydia, born September 12, 1762; married Ruth, daughter age says he was born in Scrooby, England, Peter Van Deusen. Thomas and Elizabeth Dyinond, born Septeml>er 12 lt!SO. but I have in my possession a copy of an John, burn June 22, 1764; died August, Benjamin Starr and Lydia I>atharn. affidavit from the Leyden records, which 1764. mar- ryed on Wednesday the 20th of May 1702, states that he was about sixteen years old. Ruby, born November 22, 1765; married Benjamin, son of Benjamin and .Tune 25, July 5, 1(509, which would back William Kippen. Lydia Starr, born Tuesday 4 December 1702. his birth to 1585, eleven years anterior to From NewT London records: Mary, daughter Benjamin and Lydia Mr. Hunter's record of the preference of "John Picket ye sonne of John Picket Starr, born December 26 1703. his father at Scrooby. This would make and Ruth his wife born ye 25 July 1656. Lydia. daughter Benjamin and Lydia him 37 at landing. Elizabeth Bradley, ye daughter of Peter Starr, riorn October 25 1705. Much supposition can come from this. and Elizabeth his wife born ve March 10, Elizalieth. daughter Benjamin and Lydia Being a Pilgrim, with their surroundings 1654. Starr, born October 4 1707. of their history, it is not in the nature of Peter Bradley, ye son of reter Bradley Jasper, son Benjamin anil Lvdia Starr affairs that Jonathan Brewster had not and Elizabeth his wife born ye 7 Septem- born March 21 1709-10. been married before 37 years of age. ber 1658. Elizabeth Starr departed this life March son At Pomfret, Conn., Dr. William A. Brew- Adam Pickett, of John and Ruth 30 1710. Pickett born November 15 1658. ster, of Hampton, to Miss Lucy Chamber- Aila m Pickett, son Adam and Hanna Daniel Wetherell, ye son of William lain.—Mirror, March 29, 1813. Pickett, born ye 7th September 1»5S0. clericus of Scitnate, in At Bolton, on the 25th inst., Anson Brew- Wetherell— New Richard Christophers, son of Christopher England unto Grace, the ster to Miss Aurelia, daughter of Capt. —married daughter Christophers marryed unto Lucrvtia the of Jonathan and Grace Brewster of Now Samuel Alvord.—Courant, January 2, 1805. daughter of Peter Bradley of New Lond 01 At Windham, David Brewster to Miss London the 4th of August 1058. January ye 26 1081. wife Sally Donance.—Gazette, March 9, 1S03. Mistake of Recorder. Lucretia was Joseph Shapley, son of Benjamin and of Brewster. At Stonington, Mr. Azel Pierce to Miss Jonathan Mary Shapley. born 15 July 1(581. of Daniel Eliza Brewster—Gazette, October 8, 1800. Hannah Wetherell, daughter Samuel Ffosdick. sonn of John ffosdick. Wetherell born 21 1659. At Norwich, Abel Brewster to Miss Sally and Grace March of Charlestewn in New England, marryed Leach.— Coura*nt, February 20, 1816. Mary Pickett, daughter of John and Roth Mercy Pickett, the daughter of John and At Poquetanock, Capt. John Brown to Pickett born January 16 1059-00. Huth Pickett the 1st dav of November Miss Eunice Brewster.—Gazette, Septem- Samuel Starr, was married to Hannah, 1(582. ber 13, 1797. daughter of Jonathan Brewster 23 Decem- Christopher, son of Richard and Lucretia At Preston, Elisha Brewster to Mrs. Jane ber 1664. Christophers born ye 2nd Diwinln-r 1(5S2. Harkers.—Gazette. January 25, 1S04. Samuel Starr, son of Samuel and Hanab Samuel ffosdick the sonn of Samuel and At New Haven, James Brewster to Miss Starr, born 11 December 1065. Mercy ffosdick born August l'">. and de- Mary Ilequcmbourg.—Connecticut Mirror, Charles Hill, sonn of George Hill of parted this life 2S November MH September 24, 1810. Barley in Dartshire old England was mar- Sarah, the dnnshter Ezekiel Turner, and At Franklin, William S. Gere, of Groton, ried unto Ruth Pickett the widow of John Susannah bis wife, born Oct. -N. 1(583. to Miss Louisa, daughter of Frederic Brew- Pickett 16 July 1008. Samuel the son of Samuel and Mercy ster.—Courant, March 5, 1810. Thomas Starr, son of Samuel and Han- ffosdick horn IS of September MM, At Preston. Jeremiah S. Halsey to Miss nah Starr born 27th of September 10(58. John Pickett, son of Adam, and Hanna Sarah, daughter of the late Capt. Jabez Mary Wetherell. daughter of Daniel ami Pickett, born July 2S. lt»S5 Brewster.—Gazette. September 23, 181S. Grace Wetherell l>orn 7th October 1068. Richard, son of Richard, and Lncretia In New Haven, Simeon Lester, of Nor- Jane Hill, ye daughter Charles and Huth Christophers, born August IS, MSB) L6 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. Susannah, daughter Ezekiel and Susan- and who was a student at Leyden Uni- Derby, and have two children. Charlotte nah Turner born Jan. 2, 1685. versity, Holland. Lyman and Cyrus (9), both born there. Anna Shapley, daughter of Benjamin and They had seven children, Sarah M., Cy- The only other married child of Cyrus (7) Mary Shapley born Aug. 2, 1685. rus, Mary A., Alice M., Samuel M., Will- and Sarah E. Mills is May A., who married Mercy, daughter Samuel and Mercy ffos- iam J. and Jessie. E. W. Hend, of Boston. dick born 30 November, 1685. Ann T. Brewster, daughter of Cyrus (7) Rosa Tomlinson, granddaughter of Cyrus By looking back to The Mail and Ex- and Ann Tappan Brewster, married Jos- (7) and Ann (Brewster) Tomlinson, mar- press of September 11, 1897, searchers, eph Tomlinson, of Huntington. They had ried Rev. Charles W. Shelton, of Derby, through the courtesy of Mr. Cyrus Brew- five children, Nettie, Rosalie, Joseph, Annie Conn. They had two children, Winona ster, of Derby, Conn., will be able to finish and Cyrus Brewster. and William. Winona died. The family a line from Cyrus Brewster, who married Jacob Brewster married Louisa Keefer. are now living in Derby, Conn. Nancy, daughter of Henry De Witt. of Thorold, Out. They had seven chil- Cyrus (7) went from his birthplace at Their son, Cyrus, (7) married for first dren, Frank H., Katherine G., John T., Windham, Conn., to Montreal, when he wife Ann Tappan, who had two children. Maggie L.. Robert K., Henry G. and was 18 years old. His two older brothers. Annie T. and Jacob D. He married for Ins Charles B. Jacob D. was captain and Benjamin and William, having gone there second wife Sarah E. Mills, of Huntington, afterwards brevet lieutenant-colonel, and before. Conn. was on the staff of Major-Gen. Herron in Cyrus (6) died in Windham, Conn., in This gives five collateral branches, as the Civil War. He died October, 1896, in 1818. Cyrus (7) died in Huntinsrton, Conn., Sarah E. Mills was one of the noted Mills Derby, Conn. June 6, 1888. family, of, before told descended from Cyrus Brewster (8), son of Cyrus (7) and The two papers make this line perfect to Peter Van Der Menlen, of Windsor, Conn., Sarah E. Mills, married Laura R. Lyman, the Pilgrim Elder, William Brewster, of who had bis name changed to Peter Mills, of Batavia, N. Y. They are now living in the Mayflower. THE FOREFATHER SHIPS FORTUNE, ANN AND LITTLE JAMES. Just one year after the Mayflower sighted All that was left them was the brute in- beaver skins and other commodities sent the hills of Cape Cod, the Fortune, "a ves- stinct of self-protection. out in payment of the debt to the Adven- sel of forty or fifty tons, or threeabouts,'' WINSLOW. turers, knowing full well the trouble it sailed into port, having started from Lon- would be for the poor colonists to make rep- don July, 1621, bringing very unexpectedly Winslow tells us iu his "Good News from aration. to the colonists thirty-five passengers. England" "that tie passengers on the For- Then, perhaps saddest of all, the Marquis Eager as all were for the possible com- tune came so unprovided, not landing so with the refinement of cruelty, "sent for all panionship and news from home, the cau- much as a barrel of bread or meal for their their letters, opened and kept what he Lion of their lives in their new situation whole company, but, contrariwise, receive'l pleased, especially, though he was much made them not only anxious in spirit, but from us for their ship's store homeward. intreated to the contrary, a letter written preparation, Their cup of experience was Neither were the settersforth thereof alto* by (William Bradford) the Governor of our too full to accept the unknown. gether to be blamed therein, but rather cer- colony in New England, containing a gen- Capt. Standish, true to his instincts of tain amongst ourselves, who were too prodi* eral relation of all matters there." anticipating a foe while he longed for a gal in their writing and reporting (by the Being the winners, Americans can laugh friend, surveyed the means at his command Mayflower) of that plenty we enjoyed." now, but there have been weary years of and called all to their posts. The fearful first sickness and consequent mourning over the loss of this manuscript, "The stranger drew into the harbor, and depletion of their stores, that the dear ones and in the present, to many, disappointment when sufficiently near them sent out from might have all available comforts, had not that, as it is now our own, it should only her 'ancient staff' the red cross of Eng- then to be accounted for. This knowledgo contain the pages so often perused. land." might have lessened the numbers. But they THE ANN AND LITTLE JAMES. It. a moment, conflicting came, and the list, so far as possible to au- was supreme The welcome for the Ann and Little thenticate it, was: emotions would soon be satisfied, an3 per- James was ready and waiting. They had haps tangible aid come to them in their John Adams, Edward Bompasse, William given the navy toast to "Sweethearts and Bassite, William Beale, Jonathan Brews- great need. Wives" more than the customary Saturday Pate against them, there was a wel- ter, Clement Brigg, John Cannon, William was nights, and they were longing for tangible others Conor, Robert Cushman, Vhornas Cush- come for some, and were not ac- results. ceptable; indeed, so different a type, that man, Stephen Dean, Philip De La Noye, "In August, 1623, the Ann, of 150 tons, oven Elder Brewster and Gov. Bradford Thomas Flavell and son, Widow Foord (4), and the little James, of forty-four, arrived, reseated the contingent thrust upon them Robert Hicks, William Hilton, Bennet bringing about eighty more passengers." by the Adventurers. True, Robert Cushman Morgan, Thomas Morton, Austin Nicolas, To Gov. Bradford and Miss Standish was one of their agents, sent to spy out the William Palmer, William Pitt, Thomas came expectedly their future wives, to hind and guard their interests, yet giving Prince, Moses Simonson, Hugh Static, Elder Brewster and Richard Warren the the Pilgrims little companionship, as he was James Steward, William Tench, John dear ones left behind, and so on through the to return in the vessel. Winslow, William Wright. The Adventurers may have been greedy list, of those who were to make the one great family, gathered on England's THE FORTUNE. for returns on their investment, but, if as New bleak shores. This hastily equipped vessel brought the a punishment, they had a severe one, the The rest of the story is told over and over months to fill, at the time when the people, "Fortune being taken by a French man-of- again in the intermarriages "weary and worn," were in an exhausted war off the English coast and carried to the that resulted condition for want of food, the colony re- Isle of Use." Like many, in all ages, the from propinquity, the participants never duced to a minimum as to supplies. captain was lavish with the property of knowing how different their lives might Exasperated by the sight of game they others, and "presented the vessel and com- have been had the field been larger and could not secure, every particle of ammuni- pany thereof, being thirteen persons, as they given more choice. tion hoarded as necessary to protection prisoners to Monsieur the Marquis de Cera, "No passenger list has been preserved, against the Indians and wild beasts, which Governor of the Isle." but unless some died before the division of prowled about night and day seeking whom The papers were searched; nothing pirat- lands, in 1624, the following names, re- they might devour; starving in reach, if not ical could be found; the commission cor- ferred to in that division, must approxi- of plenty, at least of food which would rect, and yet the Marquis de Cera "kept mate to accuracy." render life more endurable, they could not Oapt. Barton close prisoner in his castle, Anthony Amiable, Jane Annable, Sarah compass what this increase of numbers commanded his soldiers to pillage them and Amiable, Hannah Amiable, Edward Bangs, might mean. left them without so much as a kettle to Robert Bartlett, Mary Buckett, Faith More endurance was an impossiblity; they boil their meat in nor can to drink in." Brewster, Fear Brewster, Edward Burcher had reached the limits of everything; the And all this while Cushman looked on and wife, Thomas Clark, Christopher "spirit of mortal had ceased to be proud." powerless to avert the confiscating of the Conant, Hester Cooke, Cuthbert Cuthbert- SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 17 son. wife and four children: Anthony Dix. Thomas Morton Jr., Ellen Newton, John Wallen, his wife; Elizabeth Wi.rr.-n. Mary John Fauuee, Mannascfa Faunco (Kemp- Oldham and a company of nine, Francis Warren, Ann Warren, Sarah Warren. Eliz- ton), Goodwife Flavol. Edmaud Flood, Palmer, Christian Penn, two servants of abeth Warren and Abigail Warn n. Bridget Fuller, Timothy Hatherly, William Mr. Pierce, Joshua Pratt, James Band, References: Davis's "History of Plym- Heard. Margaret Hickes and three chil- Robert Rattliffe, Nicholas Snow, Alice outh," p. 27: "History of the Town of dren. Willi am Hilton, Mrs. Hilton, William South worth, Francis Sprague, Mrs. Spraguc Plymouth," lilt, W. T. Davis, pp. g] (,,, , i Hilton, Jr.; Hilton, John Jenney, wife child, and Barbara Standish, Thomas Til- News from England," by K. Win-lo.v and children; Robert Long, Experience den. Stephen Tracey, Tuphosa Tracey, his "The Story of the Pilgrim Father-." bv E. Mitchell, George Morton and family. wife. Sarah Tracey, Ralph Wallen, Joyce Arber. pp. 500, 507. • JOHN ADAMS. Only thirteen years of life granted John Frances, daughter of William Vassall. July November 9. 1021. died 1033. Married Adams in his new home in Plymouth, New 10, 1646. Eleanor Newton. England, after sustaining the hardships of This marriage was certainly no drawback Their son, James Adams, married Fran- the voyage on the Fortune, arriving Novem- as to position, for William Vassall, who ces Vassals. ber 9, 1621. was a son of John Vassall. Alderman of Their son, Richard Adams, married Rc- He was a carpenter and by this pursuit London, brought much to this country in becca. was able to leave his widow and children a the way of solid claims to consideration. Their sou, Richard Adams, married Marr "decent estate for that day." And yet the His father was a man of fine organization, Cady. necessity for absolute "bread winning" be- placing himself on record for his successful Their son. Peter Adams, married Pris- ing wanting, his widow, though he died in plans for resisting the Spanish Armada in cella Warren. 1633, his estate recorded October 24 of that 1588. People of this desire and intention Their son, Philemon Adams, uiarrie.) year, married the following June Keuelon were apt in. those times to find their way Sarah Day. Winslow, perhaps a business associate and to the Low Countries, and as a result im- Their daughter, Sally Adams, married boon companion of poor John Adams, for bibe some of the Pilgrim ideas and tenets. Curnel C. Tarbox. both were carpenters. AVilliam Vassall's own position was a Their son, Hiram Tarbox. mailed Mi The placing of the wife of John Adams high one, starting out as assistant of the cousin, Eunice Tarbox. turns, as history so naturally points, on her Governor and Company of the Massachu- Their son. George W. Tarbox. married maiden name, which, as Ellen, or Elinor setts Bay, named in King Charles's char- Caroline E. Lewis. Newton, makes her the one who came out ter. For some reason he went back to Eng- Their children— Ida Caroline Tarbox. in the Ann, 1623. land, but what he had seen produced the Kate Lewis Tarbox. George W. Tarl«>x. Savage accords this sagacity of interpre- desire to return, and in 1035 he appeared Philemon Adams enlisted January 17. tation to Judge Davis. on the Blessing, with wife and children. 1778, in Capt. Branches Company of 06L John and Elinor Newton Adams had His first stop was at Roxbory, but for Johnson Regiment. three children. James. John and Susanna. the future benefit of John Adams his next Windham County History, volume 2, This James, though of Plymouth, had a "sitting down" was in Scituate, though he page 188: "Mrs. Philemon Adams, of natural leaning to Marshfield, the home of died in the Barbados. Brooklyn, Conn., left by her husband er. his stepfather. Kenelon Winslow. but he The other son, John, was of Marshfield. her home was finished, laid the floor herself soon tired of being under the family eye and married. Dec. 27, 1654, .lane James. and made the house ready for occupation and moved to Scituate, where he married John Adams came over in the Fortune of her family.* WILLIAM BASSETT. William Bassett would have added much of the colony, on the 22d of May, 1027. the names given sound strangely, in view of to the interest of his history if he had name of the wife of William Bassett is the warehouses and counting houses of only recorded a little more of his life in given as Elizabeth Bassett. as there are modern times. Everything possible »a 5 Leyden and in England before seeking the two of that name mentioned in the fam- gathered under one roof, as was evidein-e Low Countries. ily." Iu the History of Duxbury she is of the working capacity of one man. Prob- His story might have -unraveled other given as Elizabeth Tilden (?). ably William Bassett was a general re- knotty questions. The tale as it comes This has an historical ring, as Thomas pairer, using wood more fntiuently than Tilden, who arrived on the Ann. probably from Leyden records that "His Bans were welding iron, a ship builder forsooth, win :) published first with Mary Butler, on the brought out wife and children, as evidenced the article desired was for heavy travel, 19th of March, 1(511, but she died before by his three shares in the cattle division of at what they conceived to be long dis- the third publication." 102.'!; and there being none of his name tances. Without horses, then' wen- per- Fate was surely against him, but his was in the allotment of 1027 it seems as if force no wagons, and the oxen, though not a faint heart, so he soon found another they were daughters, who had merged their capable, were utilized on the farms. The bride, and as "William Bassett, English- rights in other families by their marriages. agricultural implements during Bassett's Cecil Lecht, he appears man, widower of OCCUPATION. life few and crude, so I give him a broader July 29 and August 13, Kill, accompanied field, and feel I am only doing him justice. William Bassett's share in the equipment by Roger WHson and Edward Goddard, One of my notes says he was a "journey of the colony was as a blacksmith, a laugh- with Margaret Oldham, maid from Eng- mason from Sandwich. Eng.." and though able misnomer of occupation as it is known land, accompanied by Wyham Pautes the authority was not taken, the combina- in the present day. when it is recalled that (? Pautes) and Elizabeth Neal." tion would cover the ground. the first horse on record (10-141 was owned History naturally points to this Margaret The first home of the Bassett family in by Stephen Hopkins, the Pilgrim. There Oldham as being a sister of John, and if this country was Plymouth, in 1027. but. is no precedent in the Bassett family, as I Jonathan Brewster's wife is established as joining those who desired the church to place it in England, to suppose our William Lucretia Oldham, opens a possibility of an- have an offshoot in Duxbury. the change spent the years from 1023 to 1044. as one other sister to this family. came with this consummation, and uutd of the "lame and lazy" of the "old comers." The Bassetts are in the right line for al- 1037 they are found there. After that in A pride in the outfit they felt necessary most anything; it is a field worthy of fine Rridgewater. whore William Bassett diet! may have made them desire to place on searching, and surely will reward the time 1007. having been one of the pioneers of their list artisans of every conceivable spent upon it. the place. or trade. They were part of the This is not all. however, lor William guild THE CHILDREN. Bassett's family relations, as "In the di- Fnglish requirements. Why not continue vision of the lauds by the General Court the blessings and escape the Wrongs! The Goodwill, in Plymouth Republic. giv,s 18 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. the names of the children as William, Na- Lawe." which filled the northeast corner searchers of the present time in regard to thaniel, Joseph. Sarah, Elizabeth, Jane and of Nottinghamshire, striking Yorkshire and the "early comers," the "builders of our Rath. Savage announces Nathaniel as a Lincolnshire, as bearing on the Bassett fam- nation." It is hard to put them in any son, William, of New Haven, "probably.'' ily, who were as the records show in Ley- position and keep them there, in the public while of Joseph he merely says he was of den the natural supposition being that they estimation. Those belonging to these fami- Pilgrim Hingharn and married, October, 1677, Mar- came to the or Separatist Church, lies claim too much for them; it is not tha Hobart. the history multiplies and strengthens. necessary, they could be placed with roy- William married, in 1G48, the widow of About midway of this Great Northern alty on their habits and cultivation without William1 Ives. Nathaniel, of Yarmouth, in Post Road it is my earnest endeavor to any attempt at supposition, the "plain, 1672, married a daughter of John Joyce. prove as the vital power of this Pilgrim unvarnished tale would suffice." Sarah married Peregrine White, and every movement, "where this court posting ser- Not even the arrivals, repudiated by history of early times is bristling with the vice was originated' by Edward IV. to ob- Hrewster and Bradford would be described demands of her husband by accident of bin tain war news from Scotland," lies this in more forcible terms to their disadvan- bring the first native born Englishman. It section from which we bring the Mortons, tage than Froude has handed down in re- added much to their possessions that his Southworths, Cooks, Bradfords, Canus, etc., gard to Queen Elizabeth. claims were allowed, for she, living until and within easy distance the names promi- "She free of to 1711, had a long period in which to enjoy nent in the history of the time. was access her presence, them. "It is supposed the hundreds of subdi- quick-witted and familiar of speech with Elizabeth married Thomas Burgess, a visions of the Shire were so-called for the men of all degrees. She rode, shot, jested and drank beer; spat, and swore neighbor, November 8, 1648, and after thir- numbers of families in each at the time upon occasions teen years' hardly to be recorded as wedded the counties were originally divided bv Al- —swore not like a 'comfit-maker's wife.' but round mouth-filling oaths bliss they were divorced June 10, 1661. fred." which The History of Bridgewater says she mar- One may well look back upon these roads would have satisfied Hotspur, etc." ried William Hatch. If so, it must have with pride when they read of the results of And this was one of England's greatest been a second marriage, and certainly pre- the excavations of the present era, showing sovereigns. When discussing their fore- vious exi>erience did not prevent another that our modern improvements are but a lathers, don't try to place them above the trial on the part of Thomas Burgess, repetition of the past, handled by machinery throne, expect of them what the times Jane cast in her lot with Thomas Gilbert instead of soldiers. All around Coventry gave. 1639. are the Roman roads, proved by coins found Take William Bassett. to Lincolnshire. Elizabeth married John Sprague, son of there to at least reach Nero's reign. The Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire or any sur- Francis, in 1655, who joined "Michael solid work which has so resisted time shows rounding county, reached by the various Prince's company at Philip's war, ami was the method to have been layers of broken roads to the Great Northern, let him renew killed at Pawfucket March 26, 167<'>." and stone and mortar, the surface covered with his acquaintance with George Morton, and his widow married for second husband shell. There being no "Department of Pub- Edward Southworth, the merchants, and (?) Thomas. lic Works" it has remained intact until the history may prove him as well born and The Adams and Bassett marriage rela- explorer's spirit unearthed it as a matter bred, quite enough so to have his descend- tions bring them together into the families of history. ants feel a natural pride in the citizenship of Willi am Vassal, AVilliam AVhite and the THE TIMES. which dates back to the arrival of the For- Winslows. Taking the "Hundred of Basset There is a great division of opinion among tune in 1621. ROBERT HICKES. Robert Hickes started his life in the New that they were blood relations sufficiently he had sons, Thomas and John, married World in a manner entirely unfair to his near for her to feel a drawing to the coun- (2) in 1610 Margaret Winslow, whose antecedents, his unfriendly conduct to the try where she had such a contingent kin, of parentage has not been found, by whom he government, in conveying of their news occupying places of trust as each one pre- had six children. actions to the Adventurers, laying him open sented himself to the notice of the powers CHILDREN BY to severe criticism. in office. FIRST WIFE. To his credit, Thomas, the however, it can be said, on DESCENT. son by first wife, Elizabeth Goodwin's authority, that he ultimately Morgan, is already placed, as succeeding to became a good citizen, and left to his de- The "Barton Genealogy" is authority for his father's business, leaving John, the son scendants a fine record. the following, which will be found on pages who was destined for the profession of law, His history in London opens large his- 1 89-90: and entered college, but some call strong torical possibilities, giving such strong cir- 1. John Hicks, of Tortunth, County enough drew him to his father and the New cumstantial evi dence that, but for the ne.es- (Jloucester, England, a lineal descendant England of so many hopes and fears. sary certainty in these days, when tradi- of Sir Ellis Hicks, who was knighted by He was known as being in Rhode Island tions are a thing of the past, would be ac- Edward, the Black Prince, on the field of in 1641, and from there, with the custom cepted without a thought to the contrary. Poitiers, dying in 1492, left two sons, of intercourse between the two places, he "Robert Hickes, a merchant (leather Thomas and Robert. The latter was father removed to Newtown, L.I., but finally, with dresser), of Bumenlesey street, Southwark, of Sir Michael Hicks, and of Baptist Hicks, prescience of the honors that awaited him, London, England, son of John Hicks, came Viscount Camperdeii. The elder sou, he settled at Hempstead, and as early as to Plymouth Colony in the ship Fortune, 2. Thomas Hicks, of Tortunth, who died 1664, his legal mind serving him in good 1621." in 1505. By wife, Margaret Atwood, he stead, he was a justice under commission From similarity of occupation there is had John, and from Connecticut, the same year being also every possibility of his intimate relations 3. Baptist Hicks, of Tortunth, born about a deputy from Hempstead, and married (1) with Stephen Hopkins, which would take 1526, who married Mary, daughter of Hewdias Long. His second wife was Ra- him back to the expedition of" Somers and James Everard, Esq., by whom he had chel (a very unusual name in early history), Gates, to Elder Brewster and his son, Baptist, who died unmarried, and daughter of Josiah (or Thomas) Starr, of "Capt. Edward." 4. James Hicks, who married Phoebe, Scituate. He died June, 1672. The honors After the manner of the day, he made daughter, perhaps, of Rev. Ephraim Allyn, descended, for Thomas Hicks, his son, was over his business in London to his son of Hertz. He had besides three daughters, a judge of Queens County, L. I.; married to Thomas, a child by his first wife, ami, John, Ephraim, who died young; Robert, increase the solid history of the day Mary, having married well a second time, left Samuel, whose two sous, Timothy and daughter of Richard Butler, of Stratford, England to purchase a home of sufficient Richard, emigrated to New England; Conn., and widow of John Washburn, comfort for his wife, Margaret Winslow Thomas, a linen draper of London, who fol- whose family hold power of descent with Hickes, and her six young children. lowed his brother Robert to New England, any of the early settlers. There a Long Again this wife's maiden name attracts and .lames, a clerk in the warehouse in Island name, for his second wife was Mary attention. His venture on the Fortune is London of his cousin, Sir Baptist Hicks. Doughty. Change of location altered (lie made with John Winslow as a fellow pas- 5. Robert, born 1580, married (1) Eliza* blood interest, and their sou, Thomas Hicks, senger, suggesting, as a natural sequence, beth, daughter of John Morgan, by whom of Flushing, L. I., by marrying a daughter SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 1M of Daniel Whitehead, took of the hest as he physical culture, he tells with pride that his (EoaUUUn)_10t7-& He lived at Barn- was surrounded. wife was not of a very strong constitution; stable, Mass., until 1670, tli'-u removed to Jacob, brother of Thomas, so son of but she lived to be the mother of eleven Yarmouth, and finally to Dartmouth. M.i- Thomas and Mary (Butler) Hicks, born children, four sons and seven daughters. 4. Lydia Hicks, married ;iit. r l'JL'7, J. about l(i(>9, married Hannah Carpenter, This strongly developed paternal instinct ward Bangs, of Plymouth, her fell, ,w' ,,..>• and their son John, who married (1) Mar- had a drawback in the fact that several aeDget on the Ann, 1623. and had a large tha Smith, (2) Phoebe Powell, brings us •f his children died in early youth, owing family . where the story opens a large field, as he to this inherited maternal weakness, but 5. Daniel Hicks, of Scituate. Miw.. was father of Elias Hicks, the Quaker bearing in mind his own early temptations, married Elizabeth Hanmore. S.-pi.-n, I.. r I'.t preacher, who was certainly "known and to which he succumbed, -with much phil- 1657, so says the Colonial Beeorda, and read of all men" in this section of the osophy he states, "The weakness and bodily Davis also, but Savage give, :l * record thai country. infirmity of our sons tended to he keep them married September, 1659, Reix ELIAS HICKS. out of much in the way of the troubles and daughter of John Hanmur. temptations of the world." If modern times did not give precedent (J. Phoebe Hicks, marri- d 1635. Georgv Too, Elias Hicks was spared for youthful precocity, lacking not expe- the personal Watson, of Plymouth, born about li^'j experience of much of the rience but years, the story of Elias Hicks care of this large son of Robert Watson, of Plymouth. family and the sorrow would assume, to mature ears, something attending the sick- ness ROBERT HICKS. ludicrous. preceding their passing from the home almost The first list of circle. The record of the amount Freemen in the record - Born March 19, 1748, at Hempstead, of travel- of Massachusetts ing he accomplished in pursuit of is under date of 1633 Queens County, L. I., his min- son of John and Here is found Robert Hicks, and isterial duties seems incredible, and his by rirtn Martha Hicks, a man described as of com- of this position he power is told by results. became one of the Co manding person, powerful build and in- eral Court, who chose the officer., domitable will, it is hard to realize THE SECOND WIFE. that government and made the laws. Mindful he began life when the youth of the pres- The children of Margaret of the Winslow Hicks, needs of the colony, he left a ent are little more than nursery darlings. according to Davis in calf "Landmarks of Ply- to the town of- Plymouth." Whether When only 13 years old (!) he was placed mouth" (p. 1.33), were Elizabeth, he ever Ephraim, saw Scituate, or not. he sure v with one of his married brothers, and "be- Samuel, Lydia, Daniel and owned Phoebe. land there, the colon r record givin • ing without parental restraint, mix- 1. Elizabeth, and married John Dickarson, of that "in 1662, Margaret, his widow, con- ins; with his gay associates, lost Plymouth, he much and died before July 10. 1651. firms a sale of 50 acres on the North river of his youthful innocence and was led 2. Epkraim married sold September 13, 1649, by her husband in his life-time to El- from the path of true religion, learning to Elizabeth, daughter of Pilgrim John How- uathan, youngest of the sons of Preside sing vain songs and to take delight in run- land, and died three months after the mar- Chauncey." ning horses." riage. His young widow married July 10, Robert Hicks, properly of the Pilgrim The location may have brought the taste, 1651, John Dickarson. party, coming out on the Fortune, died Hempstead Plains as early as 1750 drawing 3. Samuel Hicks, married Lydia, daugh- March 24, 1647, leaving a dcs<-cnt » large concourses of people to the horse ter of Deacon John covers Doane, of Plymouth, many States, and embraces th. races, and he, poor boy, following his own and of Eastham (History of Scituate gives peculiarities of religious belief, as exempli- inclination, which later would have led him the year as 1645), and had, according to fied by the Hicksite Quakers. to the circus, vented his youthful enthusi- Davis, Samuel, born 1651, and Margaret, Authorities: "Dean's History of Scitu asm on what he had, and others were en- born 1654. (Gen. Notes of Barnstable ate," Davis's "Landmarks of 'Plymouth.' joying. Families, :Vol. II., page 272, gives a second Savage. "Barton Genealogy," "History ol In his twenty-second year he married laughter Dorcas, born February 14, 1652.) Barnstable," "Long < Island i. io , -/ Jemima Seaman, daughter of Jonathan of History of Scituate, says this Samuel (son by Bunker; "Samuel Bouas's Journal.' Jericho, and never having studied modern of Robert), was a deputy from Nanset, "Life of Elias Hicks." ROBERT HICKS OF THE FORTUNE. The corrections and interrogatories foi ried Benjamin Higgins December 24, 1(561. Children—Elizabeth 3. born April 2V this article to different I also have come me from have a record of the births and mar- 1654; Zaehariah 3. born September 28, sources, so I will merely state them as re riages through the Higgins line from Lydia 1657; John 3. born April. ltitiO; Joseph .". othei ceived, hoping thereby to draw out Hicks and Lydia Bangs to the present gen- born 1662: Thomas 3. born July .!. \ Aus- . son married, but left no children. wife. In the inclosed pedigree of Mr. died March 21. 174G ; Sw.mz y. Mass. >|., r "Edward Bangs married, second, Rebecca tin, of Providence, he gives Daniel, sou of ried Eebruary 11. liar.. Sarah Esmonds, (?), who was the mother of his other Thomas and Margaret (West) Hicks. I born Eebruary 17. 1 Tiverton, came from Thomas (3), Samuel tions wife Margaret, and sons Zaehariah, Married 1st : married 2d. September (2), Robert (1). References, Bangs's Gene- Daniel and Samuel. Married Margaret; 20. 1712. Hannah Mills. In 1717 ho deeded alogy, History of Cambridge, N .Y.; Paige died 1666. fifty acres to son Ephraim. and to son John and Austin's Gen. Diet, of R. I." I. Children—Zaehariah Hicks (2). born . fifty acres more. Another correspondent writes: "I have 162S; died August 5, 1702; married Oc- Children -Ephraim (41. married Febru- a record giving date of marriage of Lydia tober 2S, 1652, Elizabeth Gills, born 1636: ary IS. 17»>\ Sarah Kingsley. who died Hicks to Edward Pangs. 1636. Their died April 2S, 1654; daughter of John Gills. October, 1727. Perhaps ho had a seo»nd daughter, Lydia Bangs, born in 1642, mar- Cambridge, Mass. wife, Euuicv. who died February 25, 171'.' 20 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 1. John (5), born March 12. 1712; 2, ber 27, 1665, Dorchester, Mass.. Hannah scribed in "Magna Britanuica." Vol. II., Ephraim (5), born March 28, 1714; 3, Evans. page 784, as follows: "Tortworth, which Barnard (5), born April 11.1719; 4, Alitha From above memoranda (culled from stands on the south side of it (the Avon), (5), boru February 18, 1724. Rehoboth and Swanzey town records, pro- a parish of e'ght miles in compass, con- bate records, Bristol Co., etc.,) it will be sisting of pasture, arable, wood grounds II.—John Hicks (4), Rehoboth, Mass.. seen that Thomas Hicks (1) had a sou and large commons." married September 16, 1714, Priscilla Daniel (2) who went to Swanzey, and that Wheaten. 1, Mary (5), born October 11, 2. In the "Paine Records," by Dr. Henry Daniel (2) had a son Daniel (3), Thos. (3) 1710; 2, William (5), born October 11, 1716: D. Paine, Vol. II., pp. 156, 172, and in and Ephraim (3). The first two of said 3. Elizabeth (5), born November 5, 1718. the "New England History and Gen. Reg.," sons settling at Swanzey, while Ephraim Vol. XXII., 60-4, English residence III. Samuel Hicks* (4), born 1730, pp. the — (3) went to Rehoboth, an adjoining town. of early generations of the Hicks family is Rehoboth. Mass., married September 13, said had a son Ephraim The Ephraim (3) given Gloucester. 1713, Mary Rainzey. Nathaniel, 5; Lydia, as Tortworth, County (4) , who had a son John (5), born March 5; Jane, Mary, Experience, 5. It be stated that there is no men- 5; 5; 12, 1712. This John is the right genera- may tion of the Hicks family in connection with IV. —James Hicks* (4), born 1730, Reho- tion for your John. Tortworth in Britanuica." both. Mass., married October 22, 1713, Thanks to Hon. Daniel Cleveland, of San the "Magna Mary Wells. Hezekiah, 5: James, 5; Diego, president of the Sons of the Ameri- Sir Baptist Hicks, of the third generation Mary. 5; Freelove, 5; Lois, 5. can Revolution of Southern California, the before Robert Hicks, is mentioned as hav- record in regard to the English home of the ing been created a baronet by James I., III.—Samuel Hicks (2), married Septem- Hicks family is added: and afterward Viscount Camden, aDd as 1. There is a parish of Tortworth, Coun- being the owner of Camden Manor in *These two were probably also sons of Ephraim. ty Gloucester, Eng., which is thus de- Gloucester (Vol. II., p. 803). GEORGE MORTON OF THE ANN. The Mortons can look backward, place to this thought as furnished by Hunter in though "he much desired to embark with them where you may, not anxious to assert his "Founders of New Plymouth," that the the colonists," remained behind the better as to their emigrant ancestor, laudable George Morton hitherto accounted for in to arrange matters for their benefit. though their pride in him is. but willing to the family of Anthony Morton, of Bawtry. As it is claimed for Robinson that his count for themselves, having taken the one of the historical families of England, stay in Leyden was to promote emigration, honor of their ancestry into their own was one George Morton, the Pilgrim on the same reason may have maintained with hands, acting w'STI in the living present. the Ann. Morton. At all events, he was agent Eor They belong to "the forefathers, who," as Great possibilities follow this location. sect in London, and it is historical that President Dwight says, "were inferior to no The surroundings tit exactly into the his- he "acted as financial agent in London for body of men whose names are recorded in torical mosaic, which, if absolutely proven, Plymouth Colony." history during the last 1.700 years." must include many other families. The Goodwin, in his "Plymouth Republic," There may be other Mortons in the field, story is old, indeed, as it is known that at states, "Among the merchants and traders, are not unlikely but with them there is absolutely nothing "Harworth, near Bawtry, Yorkshire, on the to have been John Carver. to do, only as passengers in the forefather edge of Nottinghamshire, Robert Morton. Edward Southworth and George Morton." founded before 1361 a hospital for an ships, which reached America by 1623. has Esq., MOUNT'S RELATION. the name any place with us. ecclesiastical master and certain poor, FRANCIS COOKE AND GEORGE which is still in existence and in the gift "Mount's Relation," so long the treasure MORTON. of the Archbishop of York." trove of early history, is the subject of long EVIDENCE. argument to prove its place as to the per- Between Francis Cooke, the Pilgrim from son designated as its author or compiler by passenger on Of one item m the way of data all are Bawtry, and George Morton, the intitials sure, as the Leyden records announce with under which the book was pub- the Ann. the first of the name to found a lished. the positive assertion of the history that family in America, who was born, as is Whichever all that side one leans to, it all re- Yorkshire. England, about 1585, can be known and read of men, claimed, in solves itself when rendering a verdict into the "George Morton, of York, England, accom- and is believed without doubt to be of the belief panied by Morton, his brother that William Bradford, Governor there is great Thomas ancient family of Morton, of New Plymouth, sent the (though I have been told he was proved not manuscript to similarity of history. his friend, George Morton. to a brother), and Roger Wilson, his ac- The vessel Both were of Roman Catholic families, be quaintance; with Juliana Carpenter, maid, which carried out this precious history was wnn over to the Separatist movement by from Bath, England, accompanied by Alex- freighted with merchandise in payment of tin strong pressure of religious conviction the colony's ander Carpenter, her father, and Alice Car- debt to the Adventurers. which spread along the line of the Great The pirates roaming penter, her sister, and Anna Robinson, her the broad seas, seek- Northern road leading from London to Scot- acquaintance." ing for prey, had no hesitation in seizing land. In the hands of men of great power "The banns published 6-16 July, 1612. the little all of the poor Pilgrims, earned ami persuasion it is not at all wonderful by the "The marriage took place 23-2 July, "sweat of their brow" and self- that they renounced the religion of their in- 1612." sacrifice of a heroic nature. The manu- the heritance and "fell into the ranks of script, from lack of value to themselves, rather, to better INCREASED HISTORY. Protestant Puritans," or, perhaps a little awakened humanity, was guided All of this makes large family history, define the start, the Pilgrims who, forwarded to its destination, which was by Brewster and Bradford, led them to the the iuterweavings of kin explaining the George Morton. actions of each, giving the text for a start Low Countries, and thence to the Mecca of Young in his "Chronicles of the Pilgrims" in searching locations for other names. these people, where they could pour out. Ipage 175) calls attention to Edward Wins- claim by historians that blood their hearts in praise, prayer and song, ac- The made low's ending of his preface, where he says Col- relation dies out in two hundred years had cording as it proved, in the Plymouth "some faults have escaped because I could no in Pilgrim days, its constant re- ony, to their individual convictions and power not attend on the Press," then speaking of newal perpetuating the strain. needs. Mount's Relation, he writes: "It was sent This accounts for inherited characteris- This faith was strong and dear to them, over to George Morton, who, not being in wanderings, tics, the reproduction of the traits of the continuing through all their London, put it into the hands of one of the turned old Pilgrims, in some instances the strong privations and sorrows until they Merchant Adventurers, who got it printed." seeming almost to be their faces toward the New Jerusalem and physical resemblance Something must be given the public as a freak of nature. joined the "choir invisible." an earnest of the success of this venture, SUGGESTIONS. MORTON POWER. historical correctness not being a requisite. Morton's It is not surprising that with the pen- It is poor history to rely wholly upon Everything points to George "suggestions," but they often prove great efficiency as well in England as Leyden, a manship of that day mistakes should be by inexperienced printers in decipher- powers as clues, and one takes naturally master spirit, needed in both places, who, made — SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 21 fng the manuscript, and dear to our heart? His six children were daughters, so none where Ephraim Morton was conrerned. Hi« as Bradford's History is, with the added bearing the name is lineal descent from descendants receive /rom him the record sentiment of our recent possession of the him. which makes them welcome to most of the original papers, can it not 1h> possible that Biblically, he had reached the time al- present organization! who are placing their some errors may have crept in there with lotted man "by reason of strength," but roots deep in the history of the past. the printing. his seventy-two years were so well spent, Still this was not all; strong as Ephraim It would emphatically be repeating his- all of manhood with his early start in the Morton was in civil and military affairs, he tory to tell that George Morton came over service of his country, that the loss was moral nature had no narrowing or starving in the Ann in 1(523, accompanied by his too personal to connect time with him as from disuse, the six days of labor giving wife and live children, the last, the infant for other men. him the seventh, when 1m- could he an ex Ephraim, born on shipl>oard. THE CHILDREN. ample as deacon of the Church of Plymouth, without a country" From this "man de- This Nathaniel Morton, the oldest son of his own son, George, following in his foot scends a large proportion of those bearing George Morton, the ancestor, was l»oni at steps, and becoming his successor in office. the name. I^eyden, 1(!13, though Savage says Eng- This same George Morton, born in 1G4.Y This ship, the poetry of the expedition, lffH. land; died at Plymouth, Mass., June 2!(, married, December 22. Joanna, .laugh leaving home with the knowledge that all lt«S5; married the year he became freeman ter of Kphraim Kempton, and died October if as glowing their fancy painted it not as (1(!35) Lydia Cooper. She lived long 7. 1603. terrible sickness, still before the first enough to be the mother of his children, Then, to increase the military claim. enough was attractive to make the coming and leave him a widower Septeuilsr 23, Mannaseth. their son. married Mary Taber out desirable. 1073, though not for long, eight short daughter of ('apt. Thomas T.iUr. and Two of their number at least joined the months after he marrying Ann, widow of Mary Thomson, daughter of Lieut. Thmn expedition as the result of that very sick- Richard Templar, of Charleston, Mass., son, and granddaughter of Francis Cooke, ness, profiting, so did at that time, the Pilgrim on the Mayflower. as many who, as he died June 29, 1686, and she sur- by the will of Providence, which, in His Here records place the people without vived him until December 2(i, 1680, gave a dispensations, a for doubt. Capt. Thomas Tabor, with had given them place her a few years to be widow of, as Savage a long their life in colonies. look ahead, names his daughter as new the calls him, the "dignitary." Mary Morton in his will, ami Mannaseth Morton THEIR RIGID LIFE. Then Patience, born at Leyden, 1015 (V). to accentuate, leaves property to his died at Plymouth, 1(191, and. to guard the wife. The personal griefs of the Pilgrims were Mary, and sons Taber, family position, married, in Ki33, John etc. cast aside by the grim necessity of the occa- This very Taber Morton, born March 3. Faunce, of whim it will, as is just, be a sion, the glamour spread around their lives 17(>9. was married in Nannieket. pleasure to write. 1732-3. by by poets and authors, their own descend- John Coffin, justice of the John Morton, the second son, was l>orn pence, to Lucy ants, with the enlarged sentiment which Burgess (who is she?>. and their son at Leyden, 1610-17; died at Middleboro, Reu- follows tradition, must be read with the ben, born November 1. 1747. married Mary, Mass., 1073, having married about 1048-9 remembrance there was only a slight foun- daughter of Capt. John Worth, Lettiee or Letys. and. sad dation in fact in it all. to say, followed the fate of of that Sarah Morton, born at Leyden, 1017-18. many It takes away from the desire to trace and previous dates, by being drowned while married George Bonum, and died at Ply- possible, back one's ancestry, as many deem crossing a river (Hudson i on the ice. De- mouth, 1094. to the great "gardener Adam," to read in cember 27. 1813. Last, Ephraim, born on the Ann. 1023. Mr. Benjamin Kidd's "Social Evolution" who died at Plymouth, 1093, having had THE CLAIM. (277), as given by Byington. in his "Puritan two wives—Ann Cooper, whom he married I desire to in England and New England." that "only Here comes the point make in 1044, and in 1092 took a second wife in five out of five hundred of the oldest an historical connection of the grandson of the person of Mrs. Mary Harlowe. widow aristocratic families in England, at the this Reuben Morton, through his daughter of William Harlowe and daughter of Rob- present time, can trace direct descent Sarah, named Washington Morton this sur- ert Shelly, of Scituate, Mass. through the male line to the fifteenth cen- name of no consequence, but he was of the Lieut. Ephraim Morton has a story of his tury." When making such an attempt, same family of Mortons as (Jen. Jacob Mor- to tell, and, as I have a point in his- nation- own ton, who was son of the patriot John Mor- one would do well to be of Dutch of tory I wish to make, will give a line ton, of of Safety" ality, the mixing of the spelling and suf- one the "Committee descent from him in hope the connection fixes would allow of belief to even those pledged to defend their country at all may be authenticated by absolute records. not wholly ignorant. hazards.) His freemanship came on June 7. 1648, were re- A copy of John Morton's will is t>oforo In those Pilgrim days family ties colony's and the better to emphasize the me, wholly a family matter, providing with quired, women in the minority; they mar- was need of his services, the same day he loving care for his wife and children, but ried, of course; it was their only pastime; chosen by the General Court constable of ante the father need fear no opposition, because, giving no possible history of himself Plymouth. which after the manor of European nations, he re- cedent to this last testament, was Every office came to Lieut. Ephraim Mor- and. admitted to probate June 11. 1784. ceived the almost unknown suitor, In- ton. In 1654 he was one of the Grand places his sons and trusted without thought of any will on the maiden's One sentence quest; in 1657 was elected a representative part, gave or withheld consent. friends: to the General Court of Plymouth, of which nominate, constitute and Surely little Ephraim was the gainer by "Item— I hereby he was a member twenty-eight years, and wife. Sophia, during his place of birth, scoring health as against appoint my said Mary when, by King William's charter in 1691- Jacob. John the requirments of those early customs, her widowhood, and my sons 92. Plymouth colony was merged into that Washington and my friend*. when a child must Ik? brought from its and James Massachusetts. Lieut. Morton was church of Henry Remsen and Elias Hotidinot, E* comfortless home to the unnamed representatives to chosen one of the first quires, to he the executors of this u\\ last for baptism l>efore it was three days old! the Massachusetts General Court. MORTON PRIDE. will and testament, etc." FURTHER HONORS. "Witnessed by John Reed. Robert Mot their The Mortons have guarded well ris and Roltort Hoggs." nearly a quarter of a century he pride, by making their collateral relations For The other son. George Clark, and daugh the head of the Board of Selectmen worthy of the name, deepening the feeling was ters Margaret and Elisabeth Susannah, Plymouth Military Company, aud in with which they go back, yet how sad to of are carefully provided for as to their edu 1071 was chosen a member of the Council think of George Morton cut off in the cation and future maintenance. of "much scr strength of his early manhood. "June anno. of War. in which he was Philip's RELATION. 1024," with so much achieved for the time vice" many years, including King owing to the between these two branches allowed him, yet never to know that Na- war. and in March. 1077. The kinship the war. was known and acted upon. I had thaniel, the son, only 12 years old when great distress consequent ui>on which of those from the widow of this Washington Mor- they reached the new world, was to make was appointed one of n committee ot" S. ituate "the ton, whose lineage 1 have given, but. having himself from his personal participation in to distribute to the people divers Christians in no interest at the time, made no effort to events a name among the highest, the po- money eontribpted by of those who suf- place it in its relation to the George Mor- tentates of the land. Ireland, and for the relief ton who came in the Ann. Secretary to the colony from 1646 t" fered during the war." have been be- Knowing the circumstances. I am sure 1(!S5, and author of the memorial, which Those old Pilgrims may in office, hut they verified of the blood relation, and have brought the has so far as history is concerned the value hind in rotation proving the rule. subject forward with the hope that from of reaching years beyond Bradford. the saying of the exception 21' SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. the proving other history, that seems ex- riage at Leyden, but there were many his inheritance from Adam, asserted itself, actly in line, should be developed. times, no doubt, when George Morton and his evil ways coming to the front, be Secretary Nathaniel Morton had, without would willingly have dispensed with this on his own sweet will intent went too 'far, discussion, his place. Lieut. Ephraim made proclamation of relationship. was brought to trial, and sentenced "to be his own right to honor. The Faunces and What Thomas Morton omitted doing was set in the bilboes, and afterward sent be ignored. Perez pris- Thomsons can never simply for want of thought, no intention oner to England." Morton, Attorney-General of Massachu- of neglect. It seems ironical setts (1810-32), and another of the seventh to recall that his goods There is no escaping Thomas Morton, of were sold Morton, an eminent to pay expenses, but justice to generation; Marcus Merry Mount; he meant to show himself, burn his house in the presence of the In- jurist in 1840 and 1843, Governor of Mas- and did, antagonizing everybody, and yet dians he had wronged by his example. sachusetts, and his son Marcus, Chief considering the land he came from, he was Thomas Morton lived out of date. Justice of the Supreme Court, on whose only continuing the sports in part to which His wrong career bench his father did such long and honor- was not. over, and though he he had been Accustomed, only he was not unjustly able service, come to us through Ephraim. occupied places of trust, he with people of his own inclination. They worked from John, son of George, our liv- against the interests of the colonies Then had left England to forget it. The sore- to an alarming extent, while ing ex-Governor, Levi P. Morton, and now ness of the parting from their native land outwardly seeming to have retired to the it remains to be seen whether added gave prejudice to everything, though no peaceful can authenti- employment of writing for the press, strength of family claim be one can justly admit that his career was a his "New England Canaan," which was cated and give us President Henry Morton, safe one for the colonies. 'pub- lished at Amsterdam in 1637. of Stevens Institute. People who have no regard for the opin- Though banished, there NATIONALITY. ion of others are always a failure. Their was no annihila- tion for Thomas Morton, and in 1(543 The family of John Morton, of the utter selfishness is only forgiven when they he returned to the colonies "Committee of Safety," announce them- are in power, or with the wisdom of ma- in the new capacity of agent to Sir Alexander selves as of Irish descent. This national- ture years they see the error of their ways Rigby, "ostensi- bly to superintend ity, I am told, the Rev. Mr. Griffis claims and make atonement. There was no room his affairs in America." Soon, for George Morton, of the Ann. I leave for people of his tendencies, where every however, it was evident the same old it with him to explain where this comes in, talent was used to the injury of the strug- Adam remained, and in the clutches of but if so, can readily understand the pos- gling people, working always for the com- the law "he was imprisoned a year for the sibility of some of the Yorkshire Mortons mon good. defamation of the colony in his 'New Ca- naan,' going to Ireland in government capacity, The arms necessary for protection, too but after sundry findings he was allowed and from choice remaining there. This precious for hunting, by him put in the to settle at Agamentius, Me., was true of Gen. Edward Whalley on duty hands of the Indians, became weapons of where he died in 1646." in under military orders. Dublin destruction, the red man, made desperate If Thomas Morton felt, unjustly dealt GEORGE MORTON'S WIDOW. by liberal potations of the fire water he with, that as a free American citizen he Juliana Carpenter Morton, thus early left kept ready for his own purposes. could work out his salvation his own way. a widow, made strong step relations for he certainly kissed the hand HIS VIEW OF THE CASE. that smote the family by marrying Manasseh Kemp- him, returning to the country where the ton, Esq., a member of the first, and other Accredited authority to him was a joke, rod for him was always ready, and when assemblies of the colony, one of the "old but he was overcome by numbers, the ma- the period for the calming of man's turbu- comers." Her home in this country con- jority report was against him, his room lent passions came, closed his days under tinued with kin and the friends she loved was indeed better than his company from the protecting arms of this government. for many years, and she died at Plymouth, every point of view, so, under marching Authorities: "Goodwin's Plymouth Re- February 18, 1605, in the 81st year of her orders, he returned to England, there to public," "Bradford's History," "Morton age. pose as a martyr, and having the required Memoranda," "Mount's Relation," "Da- THOMAS MORTON. "pull," his report was accepted. vis's Additional History of Plymouth," Thomas Morton identified himself with The return to America was owing to Capt. Charles Morton's (IT. S. A.) manu- the family by witnessing his brothers's mar- Isaac Allertou, but the natural man, with script, family papers, "Young's Chronicles." SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. a WILLS OF TOHN HOPKINS, PILGRIM FRANCIS COOKE AND JOHN COOKE. It is a grout pleasure to give three very my will the issuing there"of shall be my Cooke, of tile Town of Dartmouth, in tin- desirable wills, those of John Hopkins, of foresaid overseers being best acquainted county of 1'ristoll. I being weake of ImmIj. Hartford; Francis Cooke, of the May- therewith. but sound and perfect memory, barn di- flower, .•mil his son John. Witness my hand to this my last will and posed of my estate which Cod hath been The first, through the courtesy of Mr. testament this first day of January, W4S. pleased to bestow upon me in manlier fol- Goodwin Brown, of Albany, N. Y.: John Hopkins. lowing; t hat is to say : That of Francis Cooke, being sent to me, This was declared to be the last will and "In the lirst plan-. I give to my son-in- I feel that I have the right to give it to the testament of John Hopkins aforesaid in the law, Arthur Hathaway, and his wife Sarah, public. The one of John Cooke came di- presence of my daughter, all my land in the point at or rectly from Mrs. Henry C. (II. Ruth) Will Andrewss, near the burying place in Dartmouth, tie Cooke, and, while I cannot claim for her John Cullick which I bought of John ICussell. to them, its composition, surely the unearthing of James Ensing. their heiress ami assignes forever, and also I give with it belongs to her for her persistency in the This may certify that we under written my son-in-law. Stephen West, search. have received full satisfaction of or be- and his wife Mereey. my daughter. «ii>- State of Connecticut, office of Secretary of loved brother, Steven Hopkins, loo good full third part of a whole share of hud- in the of Dartmouth, with all State, Particular Court, Vol. II., Pro- content for whatsoever is due unto us by Township my bate Records. the last will and testament of our honored housings and orchards thereunto Udongiiig. with all the privileges appur'es to- I John Hopkins off Hartford being father, John Hopkins, and we doe for us and through the beseting hand of God upon my our heirs, executor anil administrator, longing to the same to them, their heiress sick bed ami not knowing how soon the remit, release and quint our claynie to ami assignes forever, they to possess the same after the decease of I. oi d may put an end to this my fraille life whatsoever is by the sayd will given and my wife Sarah. "Allso Reing now in perfect memory for the pre- bequeathed too us too beloved brother. I give unto Jonathan Delano one- third of share of called venting of all differences and the setting Steven Hopkins, aforesaid; the same from part a meadow Freemen's Meadow, lying within Town- of things in a peasable mind after my de- the day of the date hereof to be to him his the ship of Rochester, to him, his eease do make this my last will and tes- heire and assigne forever as witness or heiress ami assignes forever. ta lnent & doe dispose of my estate as in hand lt.79. Samuel Stocken. "Allso I give to grandson, manner following Test, John Allyh, Sec. November 11, my Thomas Tabor, my little island caled and Imprimis I make and ordaine my loving 1079. known by the name of Island, wife Jane Hopkins my soul execuxeris of (Signed) Rethia Stocken. Ram lying in fT—filial River, in Dartmouth, with one-third part my whole estate movable and immovable State of Connecticut, ss. of my share of meadow culled the Fr«-«- out of which my will is that my Saide wife Office of the Secretary. men's Meadow. Iyeing in the Township of shall pay all the debts which I truly owe to I hereby certify that the foregoing is a Rochester, to him. his heiro>s and assigne* any person at the time of my deasease also true copy of record in this office. forever, and I give to my said grandson my will is that my said wife shall pay unto In testimony whereof I have hereunto my gun and sword: allso give to Daughter Bethiah Hopkins the sum of thir- set my band and affixed the seal of said I my granddaughter. Hester Perry, one feather ty pounds when she shall a tain the adg off State, at Hartford, this 4th day of Sep- bed and bolster. eighteen years if she shall live thereunto, tember. A. D. 1S97. "All the rest, residue of estate, goods anil and my will allso is that the onne half of L. S.) Charles Phelps, Secretary. chattels of what sort or kind so ever I give all my lands and housings should bee my WILE OF FRANCIS COOKE. PIL- and bequeath to my lovoing wife Sarah to sonnea Stephen Hopkins to be injoyed by use and dispose of the same as she shall see him and his heirs for ever when hee hath GRIM ON THE MAYFLOWER. good, and I make my said wife sole execV- attained the adg of twenty and two years "The last wil and testament of ffraneis trix of this my last will and testament. my meaning is that my Said Sonne shall Cooke, of Plymouth, late deceased, exhib- "In witness whereof. I. the said John not require my said wife to make good all ited before the court held at Plymouth Cook, have hereunto sett my hand and seal such valuables as may befal my Said houses aforesaid, the first day of June, 1633, on this ninth day of November, 1«SM. In the by fire at- the oath of Mr. John Aldin and Mr. John or other wise before he hath presence of tained the adg of twenty and two years Howland. "John Cooke. (Seal.) Rut that my Said Sonn shall enjoy the one "The last will and testament of ffraneis "Aaron Savory. O, his mark. balfe of all my lands and housings as they Cooke made this seventh of the tenth "Thomas Tabor." shall be when he attains the adg of afore- month, 1659. "Memorandum, thai on theli'.th of A prill. said and my will is further, that if my said "I being att ye present weake and In- 1696, then appeared Aaron Savory and wife Should marry again then the onne feirm in body, yett in p'fect memory thro' Thomas Tabor, both of Dartmouth. before half of the estate that shee shall then pos- mercy doe com't my Soul unto God that John Saffin, Esq.. Judge of Probate and sess the former portions being paid or dis- gave it, and my body to the earth which Wills, etc., and made oath that they wen counted shall be paid in equall proportion my will is should be intered in a decent present ami did see John C«»oke. late of to my said sonn and daughter or their and comely manor Dartmouth, dee'd, signe, sea II and publish heirers after the deasease of my aforesaid "As for such goods and lands as I stand this instrument to be his last will and tes- wife my will allso is that my said sonne possessed of I doe will and bequeath as tament, and yet ho was of « dis|>t»s> ing and daughter remaine witli and under the followoth: mind when ho did so to the l>est of their government of my said wife until they have "1. My will is that heater my dear and apprehensions. John S.irhn." attained their adgos aforesaid, if lovoing wife shall have all my moveable severall John Cary. Register. then living and of my loving ffriends mr. goods and all my Cattle of all kinds, viz.: This entered, engrossed John Cullick and James Ensing wliome I neat cattle, horse kind sheep and swine to May the Sih. 1 1 '»!>•;. by J no. Cary. Doeeiul>er desire to be overseers of this my last will be at her dispose. the 7th. "2. shall lli!>*'>. A true inventory of the estate, goods, and testament, my will allso is that if any My will is that heater my wife chatties of John Cooke, late of of my said children shall depart their life have and occupy my lands, both upland and Dartmouth. deceased. before they have issue or have attained meddow lands which at present I possess their aforesaid of during her life. u s r> adges that too thirds tmpr. — All his housing and land at.SM.Mk AO "3. their portion now by me bequeathed shall I doe ordain and appoint my dear Ills cattle of all sorts 03O00 on fall to and be enjoyed by that child which wife and my son John Cooke joynt execu- In silver money 02TVOO oo His wearing apparel \t On7. 10 00 survives the other third shall fall tors of this my said will. and part 010.1O <»• "ffraneis Cooke. Two beds and heddinp at too and be enjoyed by said wife if then For puetor and tin vessels 001 or. 00 land." living, my will allso is that in case any dif- "Witness—John Aldin. John How One warnilnjf pann 000.12 «*< Bibles am! six other hooks . .002. Oil 00 ference should hapen between my said wife Copy of will of John Cooke, of Dart- Two mouth, from Register of Probate of Rris- Two Iron pots, one Iron kettle «n«1 and children or any of them or between my two old skillets 002.00 M sonne and daughter about the understand- tol County. Massachusetts: Five bushels of com MO 15 i»» ing of my true meaning in any part of this "The last wil and testament of John For llnnen. yarn and flax te«re 001.08 ©0 24 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT L. S. D. lage, the upper village of the town, with no information came out in the "Transcript," Half a dozen of spoons 000.02 00 monument to mark his grave." and was sharply criticised (I am inclined irons with Two chains and plow to think this material was contributed by several other old iron tools at. . .001.10 00 AGAIN JOHN HOPKINS. 008.00 00 Mrs. H. Ruth Cooke), especially by E. C. Due in debts For this and many reasons I hail with de- gun a sword and powder and Leonard, of Dartmouth, Mass. One sent from the bullets." light an article recently me PJ? He was very accurate, and judged of One pare of andirons 001.10 00 Rochester "Democrat and Chronicle" of settle. 002. 00 00 John Cooke's family by his will, which only Two chests, one table and a March 15, 1898, read by Dr. A. Hopkins of all sorts at 003.00 00 speaks of Mercy West. Esther Taber. the For lumber Strong, before the Rochester Historical So- wife of Daniel Wilcox, and of Arthur Hath- 290.19 00 ciety, entitled the "Autobiography of Sam- away. (This will was published in The above uel Mills Hopkins." written by the author Taken by us the day and year first Mail and Express of March 20, 1S98.) for his children. written. Arthur Hathaway, Mr. Leonard went to Plymouth shortly The manuscript which was prepared just Thomas Taber. after, and. finding these deeds, made ac- sixty-six years ago, has been in the posses- 10th, the widdow Sarah knowledgment of his mistake. April 1696, sion of the family for fifty years, and has ye above written in- I feel reasonably sure of William Wood Cooke made oath to never been made public. Dr. Strong ventory. Before me, Seth Pope, and his wife, but am inclined to think that thought that it had not, till that evening, Justice of Peace. William Palmer married, first, a Pad- been read outside of the family. dock, and second. Susanna Hathaway, and The above named Sarah Cooke being a The conjunction of the name of Strong that Susanna is granddaughter of John very antient woman and unable to trayile with Hopkins has led me to hope that the Cooke. far, it was necessary that her deposition pencil writing of Strong after Jane Hop- should be taken as above said to the truth kins's name, which I saw in the L. I. His- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. of this inventory, the which I do alow and torical Library, may prove as true as it approve and doe hereby order it be re- seems natural, considering that John Hop- THE MATE OF THE MAYFLOWER. corded in the Register's Office, this 16th kins was a shipmate of Elder Strong on his A correspondent sends me the following day of Aprill, 1<>90. journey to America, with the Rev. Thomas as received in response to an inquiry con- .Tno. Saffin, Probae. Hooker, in 1033. cerning Thomas Clark, the Pilgrim. Jno. Cary, Registe. It is a delight to quote from Dr. A. Hop- "In regard to Thomas Clarke, the Pil- Thus entered and engrossed May the kins "Strong's rendering of the autobiogra- grim, you are in error in supposing that he 19th, 1090. by Jno. Cary, Registe. phy, where he states "that Samuel Miles was mate of the Mayflower. Mrs. Cooke makes ve ry strong arguments Hopkins, of Salem, Conn., born in 1772. "The mate's name was John Clarke. He in regard to the will of John Cooke, and and died in 1837, was inclined to trace his settled in Virginia and died there. Thomas but for want of space, it would be well to descent from Stephen Hopkins, who came first came to Plymouth in 1023, in the give them in full. Still my own belief very over in the Mayflower. One link is some- Anne, when he was but 18 years old, and it generally is that when children whether what hypothetical, and we know certainly is absurd to imagine that he would have sons or daughters are left out of wills, it is only this, that the line can be made au- been mate of a vessel at the age of 15. because they have for reasons considered thentic as far back as John Hopkins, He was horn in 1005, not in 1599, as has good by the parents had the share of prop- known as of Hartford. been so often published. I have never be- erty and belongings they felt to be their "That this John Hopkins was the son of lieved that he was mate of the Mayflower, due. Stephen Hopkins, of the Mayflower, has and recent investigations have proved the Finding the will of Hester Cooke would been plausibly maintained, but it cannot be correctness of that belief beyond the be a treasure indeed, for under the condi- considered as absolutely proved." shadow of a doubt. tions of Francis Cooke's will she had in The outgrowth of the meeting, the limit- "The statement in Deans's ocituate' that proportion to his estate much to leave. ed time only giving chance for little more Thomas Clarke, of Seituate, was son or a At this very time an effort is being made than a synopsis of this valuable history, grandson of Thomas, of Plymouth, has no at Fairhaven, Mass., to raise a monument was the forming of a committee composed foundation in fact. He is not mentioned to John Cooke, and to more clearly under- of Dr. Strong, Charles E. Fitch and George in the will of the Pilgrim, nor in any doc- stand the matter, I will give the tale as P. Humphrey, to confer with the family ument emanating from him. The names told to me by the wife of Mr. Edward An- in regard to the publication of the manu- of the children of Thomas, of Seituate, do thony Jr., chairman of the committee to script. not, with one exception, correspond with raise funds for the purpose— a matter they No one of Hopkins blood could surely the names of the children of the Pilgrim. hope will appeal to his descendants: deny so natural a desire, and all descend- See Johnson's 'Clarke Genealogy,' page 14. "John Cooke came from Plymouth to this ants will watch eagerly for the publication "It is a matter of record that in 1004 town (Fairhaven) in 1000, at the age of of the history of their ancestors. Thomas Clarke made oath that he was 55, and settled on a broad plot of land in- CORRECTION FROM MRS. about 59 years old. consequently he was cluding all of Oxford and a mile or more to COOKE born about 1005. and was 92. not 98. when N. north of it. He was prominent in church CHAS. ALDEN. he died. Hon. William T. Davis, author of matters and State, having been a deacon In reading over your Mayflower book, I 'Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth,' writes and preacher in one, and a representative wish to call attention to John Cooke's fam- under date of June 14. 1897: 'The mate of in the General Court in the other, and was ily. It is claimed that John Cooke had more the Mayflower was not Thomas Clarke, but appointed by the colony as Chief Magis- daughters than you give, and most of them, was undoubtedly John Clarke.' trate and General Agent in this part of the if not all, are proved by deeds of gift be- "Rev. W. W. Johnson, author of the Slate, and at one time was appointed to fore his death. 'Clarke Genealogy.' wrote to me under treat with King Philip. To the twT o Tabers, Thomas and Philip, date of June 25. 1897: 'And now, my "He dieil in 1695, and was the first white through Esther and Mary. Stephen West friend, I think that numerous Clarke de- man to settle in Fairhaven, and the last and Mercy. Arthur Hathaway and Sarah, scendants will have to abandon the idea male survivor of the passengers on the and Daniel Wilcox and Will- that Thomas Clarke was the mate of the " Mayflower, and lies buried in Oxford vil- iam Wood and William Palmer. This Mayflower.' SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 25 TONATHAN BREWSTER, PASSENGER ON THE FORTUNE To start this history well, I ask atten- "By wife Lucretia he had William and land to take care of In- sinter*, with bl- tion to the records and at the same time Mary, both probably, but the first certainly, own family." request all criticism, viewing it as a strong born in Holland; Benjamin, also Grace, HIS MARRIAGE. factor in history, also all records, wills, Ruth, Hannah and p rhaps Elizabeth, some It is against all Pilgrim precedent that even traditions which will lead to searches, of these born probably at New London.'* he should have attained hi* proven ig. and oftentimes facts well authenticated. FURTHER RECORDS, Accepting Rradford as a reliable author without marrying. All the statements :ir.- to the effect his ity, I quote from him. In the list of pas- Vol. I., New England Historical and that wife, Lucretia. came sengers on the Mayflower he gives: Gen. Register, page 50, in an article on with the Elder in the Mayflower, bringing •"Mr. William Brewster, Mary, his wife, "The Passengers of the Mayflower, 1620," William with her (for he had by wife Lucretia. with 2 sons, whose names were Love and by Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, I). I)., William and Mary. I«,th prob- ably, Wrasling, and a boy was put to him called gives in the list of passengers: but the first certainly. l>orn in Hol- Richard More; and another of his brothers, William Brewster x, which means he land: perhaps Mary). The rest of his children were left behind brought his wife. Through all the histories of early times and came over afterward." Bradford's Mrs. Brewster (his wife), in italics, denot- there is more or omission and History, page 447. ing she died before the division of cattle tion concerning "William ami Mary." From the same history, page 450. At in 1627. By some they are placed as children of the close of the list of passengers there is Love Brewster, son of William. the Elder. The idea is growing n|»>n me a note: "These being about a hundred Wrestling Brewster, son of William. that Jonathan Brewster married twice, so wis, came over in the first ship; and be- Mrs. Lucretia Brewster, wife of Jona- and the wife known to the colonists being gan this work, which God of His goodness than, the oldest son of Elder Brewster- Lucretia, there was a confusion of names, hath hitherto blessed; let His holy name William Brewster, son of .Jonathan. and the first was made to bear the same have ye praise. The division of laud on May 22, 1627. as the second. "And seeing it hath pleased him to give gives Jonathan Brewster. Lucretia Brew- BREWSTER in K)K. me to see 30 years completed since these ster, William Brewster, Mary Brewster as I have already written of the TTuWBtel beginnings; and that the great works of having one share each.—Davis Landmarks Book" from the accounts furnished me by His providence are to be observed, I have page 40. Mr. Joseph P. Beach, who enjoyed the thought it not unworthy my paines to take "Jonathan Brewster, one of those to perusal of a copy in the Boston Public a view of the decreasing and increasing of whom land was granted as passenger on the Library which was made from the origi- these persons, and such changes as hath Davis Landmarks. Fortune."— nal 1S74. theirs by F. B. Perkins, in November, pased over them and in these thirty This article is left as it is, seeming a debt Fortune continues to Callow my historical years. It may be of some use to such as of honor to the willing helpers, that every efforts, and I now have the added testi- come after; but. however, I shall rest in my opportunity should be given the country at mony of Mrs. Lucy Hall Greenlaw, of owne benefite. large to coiJ'ribute record or interest Cambridgeport, Mass.. who writ.-s me that "I will, therefore, take them in order as sol^.ag the many vexed questions people in she had the pleasure of making a copy they lye." etc. (page 451). "Mr. Brewster arisen in regard to this family. which have the original )>ook itself lived to a very old age; about 80 years, he from As I have said before, in the "Signers of lived Feeling a certain obligation to the Gen- was when he dyed, having some 23 Compact," I believe Elder the Mayflower eral Society of Mayflower Descendants, or 24 years here in ye conntrie; and though William Brewster had children not yet ac- his wife dyed long ago, yet she dyed aged. she only sent me a synopsis of the manu- counted for, and the present opportunity, His son Wrastle died a young man unmar- script, but says there is not a shadow of a attention to this, may result in by calling doubt of its authenticity. ook shows No one passes a Brewster ancestry child or 2." clearly that the elder son. Jonathan, cam. lightly by, and, until proved, it is natural Savage records "William Brewster as the into possession of it soon after his father's to believe there are many more aspirants earliest of distinguished Puritan laymen in death: that at his death it pass.-.! on to for this honor than have yet been heard England; came in the Mayflower, 1020, with son Benjamin: from him. through his son from. his wife, two younger sons, the wife of the Daniel to Daniel. Jr.. who. dying childless, In striving for so much that seems pos- eldest, and her son William." The same left it to his nephew. Nathan Freeman." it hard :o restrain conjecture author gives "Jonathan, Plymouth, eldest sible, is Mrs. Greenlaw is confirmed in her be- has assumet great proportions, and son of Elder Wm. Brewster, born at Scroo- which lief from having examined the original oneself to bare statistics. by. in County Notts, on the road to Doncas- confine records in Connet ticut of the localities But records carry positive weight, and ter, in Yorkshire, from which it is only where Jonathan Brewster's descendants article on "The true date twelve or thirteen miles distant, in a manor I copy from an lived, without finding any contradiction. of Elder William belonging to the Archbishop of York, under of the birth and death She acknowledges the inaccuracy of tin- Morton Dexter, which his grandfather was tenant on long Brewster," by Rev. Henry Perkins copy in the Public Library, as he lease; had been instructed only by his glo- of Boston: makes a mistake of five years in the mar- "Archives of Leyden, rious father either in his native land or the riage of Jonathan Brewster and Lucretia of Affidavits dozen years residence in Holland, where he "Registry Oldham ("of Derby," as Mrs. Eva J. Ham- declaration made before was left by the Elder to take care of his "Record of ilton, of Chicago, give* it to me>. in two sisters, with his own family. Magistrates of Leyden. June 25. 1600, Englishman, OLDHAM'S BROTHER "Without his sisters he came in the For- which William Brewster, age his wife, 1 in "Goodwin's tune, 1021; in June, 1630, was in command 42 years, and Mary Brewster, Long ago found Plym of the Plymouth trading house on Connec- age 40 years, and their son. Jonathan outh Republic" ipage 274> thai Jonathan that they "brother." which ticut River, and gave notice to John Win- Brewster, age 16 years, declare Brewster termed Oldham Bernard to accept the new throp, Governor of the fort at Saybrook. have received some cloths which naturally pre|*.fTcd me in Amsterdam, find in the "Brewster Book." in a letter in my possession of June 18. of Rosse, Englishman, living at Leyden. "< Ud Hartford Bihk ' as many the evil designs of the Pequots; removed to had sent them. They resided The claims to authenticity. This. loo. comes Duxbnry, of which he was a representative in the Street St. 1'rsule. was near four into the Brewster family. Perhaps a com- 1639, the earliest assembly of deputies in "Elder William Brewster 1044, age 77 or 78." parison of the two would evolve some un- that colony; thence to New London before score,' born 1566, died he arrived expected truths, which have needed the 1049; there was Selectman; died before Sep- So Jonathan Brewster, when was years old. present enlightenment to make them evi- tember, 1659, having in September, 1666, in the Fortune in 1621, 28 Savage's statement dent. projected to return to England with his This seems to verify the Elder in Hol- Returning to Mrs. Greenlaw: "The ex- fa niily. that "he was left by 26 tract from Campeuella's 'Do Monarchia librarian of the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, 15, 1034; their children were Nathaniel. Hispanica Discoveries,' which the first Mass., under date of April 20, 181)7, states William, Wrestling and Sarah. owner copied in a scholarly hand into the in regard to Rev. Dr. Samuel Fuller: 'One Wrestling P.; children were Jonathan, book, suggests to me that William Brew- or two authorities have stated that he mar- John, Joseph and Nathaniel. ster may have had access to the original ried Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Jonathan Brewster, son of Elder William manuscript of that work in Holland, and Brewster.' Brewster, had sons, James, Peleg, Jonah, that he copied the most interesting part to "The church records of Middleboro have Elijah and .lonathan. Peleg was born Feb- ruary, print in his own press. This suggestion is it that his wife was a Brewster, and 1 1717, and his son. Dr. John, June strengthened by the fact that the copy in know of no other Brewster she could have 14, 1739, and when 21-4-22, was married to Mary the 'Brewster Book' differs from the first been but the daughter of Jonathan, yet 1 Durkec, daughter of Captain ami Abigail, known edition published in Amsterdam in have never seen a record of it. November 0, 1760; she was bom November 18-9-7 1640, the year alter its author's death. "Rev. George Stearns, pastor of First 29, 1741, and was when Brewster's inventory does not show a copy Congregational Church, of Middleboro, married. Dr. Brewster bought his acre lot (S. Capt. Harvey of Oampenella's work among his hooks. Writes me under date of May 18, 1897, that Fuller) March 2, 1701. of Nathaniel "Besides the autographs of .lonathan the records of the church state that Rev. Hovey, Jr. Children: Mary, Brewster. Daniel Wethereil, Benjamin Samuel Fuller married Elizabeth Brewster born September 9, 1702. William, born Brewster, Nathan Freeman and Cordilla and that she died at Plvmton, November 4, June 17, 1704; died Janu- 1713." ary, 1789, aged 25 years 0 months Fitch, there is another striking proof of the and 17 days. authenticity of this old relic and that is So much has been done for me by the John, born May 31, 1700; deaf the record of tour sales of books by its sec- "cheerful givers" Judge Charles N. Dan- and dumb. iels, Augustus, born May 30, 170S; Janu- ond owner to persons living near Jonathan of the Windham County Probate died ary .'«), 1789, aged 20 years and 8 Brewster, of which sales every title is Court, Willimantic, Conn., and Mr. 0. 11. months. Royal, born July 17, 1770; died March, found in William Brewster the Pilgrim's Dimmick, the Town Clerk, that I feel they 1835, aged 64 years and months. Inventory." are my Brewster "find," and copy hopefully 8 Abel and Sophia, a very peculiar paper, which tells its own twins, bom 1772; soon THIS ARTICLE. died. PURPOSE OF story as Mr. Dimmick has written it to me. Mary, wife of Dr. John, died June To secure all possible records this article 4, 1785, aged 41 years 6 months must work slowly, until public interest The following is a copy of a manu- and 5 days, and ho married Ruth Avery, of Brooklyn, spreads and increases. The point of Jona- script record, found in a volume of a gene- established, alogical character, compiled by Jonathan June 4, 1789; she was born January 13, than's first marriage should be 1754, and was 35 years 4 months William and Mary, as children of the Clark, which I found filed among the rec- and 21 then days old family ords of this office. How it came to be placed when married; their children: first wife, would represent the here Elisha, bom June IS, 1790; died June 20, Jonathan was "left behind to take care or by whom I have been unable to 1790, two days old. marriage learn. I send it to you simply for what it of," and prepare the way for his may Wm. A., born December 10, 1791; died with Lucretia Oldham, one of "John Old- be worth, and not assuming any re- July 24, 1850, aged 05 years 7 months and eouipany of nine who came out in the sponsibility as to its accuracy. ham's 14 days, in Danielson. Ann" (History of the town of Plymouth, It is as near as possible a verbatim copy. Sophia, born April 9. 179H; died July 24, T. Davis), in 1623. "April 26, 27 and 28, 1852, I was in by W. 1800, in Hampton, aged 5 nine or ten chil- Hartford and got Dea. Allyn S. Stillman to years and 15 After the marriage the days. Bradford as Jonathan's bind this book, paid him twenty-five cents dren recorded by Betsey Avery, born September before it was in sheets and marked for 11, 1798; in 1650, should be placed authentically. W died October 17, 1838, aged 40 years 1 lingering hope it can Windham, H for Hampton, records Nos. Then, too, I have a month and 0 days; etc. Sheets on oue letter blank married Joseph Prentiss. be proved that Elder Brewster had another 1, 2, 3, Dr. John Brewster died August 18, 1823, Elizabeth, not yet accounted for, paper was added when bound, and filled in daughter aged 84 years 2 months and 4 days. number of children since by Jonathan Clark, of Hamilton, which arises from the His wife Ruth died May, Elder, which aged the 28th, 78 years 7 mouths and 11 1823, aged 09 so constantly attributed to the years 5 months and days. noon, 5 days. cause of his "low estate," and the I was born on Friday, most were the Dr. Brewster studied with Dr. received from his September 17, 1773. Barker, of need for the help he Franklyn. Conn. as "Hampton, February Wednesday, He was born in Scotland, friends in England for his establishment 8, 1854." where his father Peleg lived X Jonathan which with his professorship m a printer, b Jonathan was son of elder William, who University gave him "better Having for five or six years past taken the Leyden came in Mayflower X. S. E. of Brunswick quite astonished one day much pains and spent much time and con- days." I was M. H. Peleg Brewster and his father pondering over "these other chil- siderable money in obtaining my geneal- while Jonathan lived in what was called Brewster receive a letter from Mrs. Noel, ogy, and believing I can obtain very little dren," to House, not far from the old Brunswick advancing this very idea, which if any more, I begin this day to make the of Tacoma, M. H. Peleg removed to Canterbury, a possibility with me. following records of them. has grown to a little north of Williams family, and near had children, "who came Other families JONATHAN CLARK. the old burying ground for that neighbor- was there to prevent Eliza- after." What hood. Dr. John Brewster was the first her brother Edward After giving the Clark genealogical line, beth remaining with doctor that settled on Hampton Hill; there party bound to he says, on page 519 of the volume above in London and joining some was a Dr. Walton who lived on mentioned: the road; the colonies? from Hezekiah Hammond's to where old be father to the thought, Brewster pedigree and families. Th§ wish may Mr. John Fuller lived it was 20 or more puzzle which I have Elder William Brewster was born in but it would settle a rods south of Lester Holt's little barn. unraveling N. part of England, 1560, educated at Cam- not the temerity to endeavor the Pedigree of Sir John Brewster's last bridge, to Leyden, in of. I trust I will be understood as making England, removed wife, Ruth Avery: idea that Holland, in 1610 (on account of the perse- no assertion, simply advancing an Ephraim Avery, first settled minister in Elizabeth to cution), where resided eleven years under if proved would allow this Brooklyn; was ordained 24 Sept., 1735; he pastoral charge of Rev. Robinson; marry Rev. Samuel Fuller in 1(154 or 1656, John married Deborah Lothrop 21 Sept., 1738; born in he and family left Delft Haven, in Hol- as his third child Samuel was she was born 9 .Tan'y, 1719. Their chil- that this land, 22 July, 1620; two ships, the Speed- 1659. An argument is advanced dren : Mayflower, the would be appropriate to Elizalieth, daugh- well and left Northampton, John. b. 14 July. 1739; Ephraim ami ter of Jonathan, who Savage states was Speedwell sprung a leak after sailing and Samuel, twins, b. 10 April, 1741 (Samuel married in 1054. The other idea would the Speedwell leaked and they returned, died 21 Dec. 1741); Samuel b. 7 Nov.. sailed again, Speedwell leaked re- enable Peter Bradley to continue as Jona- and and 1742; Elisha, b. 3 Dec, 1744; Elizabeth, b. than's son-in-law. turned again on 0 September, 1020. The 5 Dec, 1740. Cm. Rev. Aaron Putnam. Mayflower set sail with 100 on board, an- Pom fret); Deborah, b. 0 July, 1751 (died LETTERS. chored Cape Cod Harbor, 11 November or 13 Feb., 1777. m. Dr. Baker, of Brooklyn). The Brewster descent being much sought 21 December, new style, 1620. Septimus, b. 21 July, 1749 (died 10 after, naturally a great deal of malerial has Elder William Brewster's children were Oct., 1754). come to me, the following letters kindly Freelove, Wrestling, Jonathan, Lavinia, Ruth, h. January 13, 17".4; married Dr. furnished by Mr. It. E. Fuller, at least, as- Lucretia, Patience, Fear. William, Mary John Brewster. sist in the controversy: and Nathaniel. Rev. Ephraim Avery, died 1754, aged 42; his "A letter I received from T. B. Drew, Freelove B. married Sarah Collins May widow then maried Lord Gardiner, so- : I- SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT 27 called; owned cast end Gardiner's Island, William Brewster, that the Mayflower Esther Sal»cns, and had by hex eight other New London. After his death she married chest— I have had the pleasure of seeing in children. Gen. Putnam, and died during Revolu- the Wadsworth Atlieneum, the headquar- He was at one time in Went .Springfield. tionary War at Rye, N. Y. ters of the Connecticut Historical : _ Society Mass., and to I < r • i • from there went W«j . No one can doubt some of the impossibili- —may have the place it deserves as part of Vt., where he probably died. ties of this record; but there are familiar the Pilgrim's journey. Drusilla Rrewster married, Octolxr 12. names that seem to argue for some ancestor "It is a solid wooden box,, five feet long, 1786, William Ely, of West Springfield. all are anxious to place properly tihis in two feet wide and about three feet in depth. Mass., and belonging to her marriage out- family. The original heavy lock and key and iron fit was the "Brewster chest, or one like it." OLD LETTERS. braces at the corners, fastened with rude Why should not her "bravery." much of through hand and wrought nails, are Going an accumulation of letters intact. it woven by her own hands, be carried l<. "A paper recently I came across one long forgotten, pasted upon flic lid records thai her new home in the .best of her fore it descended to the and quote it from its hearing upon 'a pre- Elder's son. grandson, fathers? And though there were many great-granddaughter, vious paper. Dr. D. E. Crocker, of Boston, and finally, in 1H12. such chests in Plymouth Colony ;ind the to a Mr. who is compiling a genealogy of the Fuller Day. It was purchased by the surrouding regions, what reason could Historical Society family, writes me: "Tradition handed down in 1850."—New York there be that only Elder firewater's de Herald, May .'{0, 1801. from Ebenezer Fuller, the grandson of Rev. scendants should be denied this natuarl Samuel and Eliz. a genealogist < Brewster, STORY OF THE ' 1 1 EST. article of convenience and necessity? all through his long life of 04 years, gives Mr. Joseph P. Reach, while in no possi- TO CONTINUE THE UNE. Eliz. as daughter of Elder William. This ble way claiming that he can prove this "Mary", daughter of William Ely and statement was given me by 'a descendant chest to be a veritable possession of Elder Drusilla Rrewster, married. May 1T>. 1704. who kept all the sayings of this revered an- Brewster, certainly opens a large field to Henry Day, and in her possession was a cestor in his heart." Further on he says search on. 'Brewster chest.' so-called, which was. no that she died in I'lymton, at the house of He tells me that the "Brewster chest" is doubt, .sold by her son. the late R. ujamm her eldest son, on land originally granted to the one, or very like it, that he once sat II. Day." Elder William Brewster. upon as a boy when visiting his grand- Whatever the value of the forcgoinc r< . This is very gratifying, and covers a long mother in the Day homestead, at West ord, it surely establishes the ownership of span of years, as Ebenezer Fuller naturally Springfield, Mass. a Brewster chest by Mrs. Mary (Ely) Ihiy. remembered his grandfather, and treasured His mother frequently took him there, a lineal descendant of Elder William Brew- his legends and traditions through his w'hole and his grandmother often spoke of his sis- ster, which became later on the property life. ter as being the only one entitled to the of her daughter, Drusilla Brewster. RELICS possession of that chest, because she bore It was handed down, and for one hun- and Fuller recalls the full The union of Brewster name of its "Brewster" owner—his dred and fifty years the family knew and the speech of Rev. L. Gage at the cele- grandmother W. Day's name, "Drusilla Brew- spoke of it as the Brewster chest, bration of Forefathers' Day by the Congre- ster." in whose family it had been for sev- This may not authenticate it as the ver- gational Club,, reported by the Boston eral generations. itable chest upon which it is mid the Com- "Journal" January 4, 1888. About 1840 the late Benjamin II. Day pact was signed, but it goes a \>iux way The Brewsters claim possession of a tea- (the original founder of the New York toward making all the kin desire it and r. "Sun"), pot brought over by Elder Brewster, which youngest child, and only son. of vere the simple article as having passe. has been duplicated times for de- his mother, Mary (Ely) many Day. induced her from the hand of the great Elder to it- to scendants; the same of the Fullers, who remove from West Springfield. Mass.. present resting place. given or loaned theirs to the Ply- to New York City, where she have was to reside All of this comes in the course of areata. I, I suppose with him. mouth collection. in common During the lifetime of the Elder, and for It was soon with others, in my ignorance, repudiated after that that her West a generation or two after his death, the the Springfield belongings these heirlooms, basing the opinion on were sold. Mr. <'licst was of no im|iortaJice. one of the fact of tea being unknown in England at Beach remembers the lamentations over household possessions taken as .i matter of the scattering that time. of the relics and the loss of course. It was only after the |«tssing aWay It rests with Rev. Mr. Gage to set us the Brewster chest, and while able to fur- of loved ones, giving fond as-.» ia t i .ns. the nish every link right in this matter, and I give the ac- as complete so far as Mrs. changes incident to marriage and new Mary (Ely) Day, of West Springfield, is count in his own words: homes in other, perhaps faraway localities, concerned—as town records, probate rec- "THE OLD TEAPOTS. that these homely articles of everyday lift- ords, church records, tombstones, family "It must be remembered that the Pil- assumed any value, anil even then were Ribles and traditions can make them—he grims did not come here direct from Eng- hardly relics, only a time-honored connec- does not feel that all that proves the chest land, but from Holland, where they had tion with by-gone days of the person's as belonging to Elder Rrewster. resided over twelve years. To give the old childhood and youth. teapots a chance to assert their claim to THE LINE OF DESCENT FROM The desire of history would be folly sat- isfied if this chest could authenticity, it is relevant to show that tea, LOVE BREWSTER. be proved to he and therefore, teapots, were in general use the veritable chest that had sue* close per- For once a line comes directly from Love by the Hollanders at the time of the so- sonal connection with Elder Brewster and Brewster, who married. May 15, 1634. journ of the Pilgrims in that country." his home across the sen. Sarah Collier, and settled as an original "The World's Progress, by Geo. P. Put- Jonathan Brewster, nassencer on the proprietor in Brodgewatcr. Mass.. in 1646. nam, 15th edition, article Tea." "First Fortune, followed so closely upon the arri- Of his son, William Brewster, the Dux- known in Europe, being brought from In- val of the Mayflower that the beginning of bury, Mass., record says: "He removed to dia by the Dutch in 1610. Brought into his history is that of many of the "old Preston, Conn." And the Preston record England by Lord Ossory and Lord Arling- comers." says: "Benjn Bruster and Elizabeth Wit- ton from Holland, and being admired by His individuality really asserts itself as ter was maryed ye 18th October. 1713-14." j>ersons of rank, it was imported from he leaves them behind and journeys into Their son. William Rrewster. born in thence (Holland) till our East India Com- what for the times were almost far t>«nn Preston, Conn.. September IS, 1714; mar- pany took up the trade. (Anderson)." tries, joining issue with other "Pilerim" ried, March 24. 1737, Damaris Gates, and According to this author the Puritans descendants, using that word as including after the birth of their first child in Pres- must have had nine or ten years experience many of Winthrop's fleet, who came after ton he removed to Canterbury, Ooun., in tea-drinking, before their departure in heariug the prospects from kin who had where five other children born. the Mayflower. The teapots exhibited In were among made the first start. them, according the record the collections may not be the veritable ones to Jonathan Brewster received from the di- "Drusilla. daughter of William and Da- 1R27. brought over, but there is no reason why vision of land May 22. the one shire born 3. these pain-taking Pilgrims may not have maris Brewster, was November allotted by the records to himself, to I.n- 1745." after this there is entry given their careful habits to their Yankee Soon an cretia. his wife, and William and Mary Canterbury, Conn., records that descendants, and a few of the receptacles on the (Davis, p. 401. Then he was one of those wife of William Rrewster. for the cup which cheers be left to gratify "Damaris. ye to whom land was granted as passeoirer on 1751." relic-lovers." deceased September ye 7. the Fortune. after the death The indebtedness to friends continues, William Rrewster. soon Also recorded in the "old colony records and that as much Brewster history may be of his first wife, moved to Windham, now from Duxbury as Anno, 1iC52. April 2. married made public as possible, I return to Elder Willimantic, Conn., where he among the names of those who promised to 28 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COM TACT. remove their families to live in the towne the rulers, its cultivation rendered easy forms succumbed to disease, there was a in the winter time that they may better from the rich bottom lands of the Connecti- compensating side to her character, as she repair to the worship of God." (Davis, p. cut, was encouraged by every means in approached the bed of pain, carrying com- 121.) their power. fort and delicate healing. The hands that Plymouth, the homestead of the colonies, A decree was issued "that whoever after sported the rod could bathe their fevered could not brook to see those onco gathered September, 1641, 'drink' (smoke) any other brows racked with pain, deftly easing all under its command seeking independent tobacco but such as is, or shall be planted Ills. Calling the maidens blessed with such fortune, even in an adjacent town. Short without these liberties, should suffer the gifts to her aid and with them guiding both Sittings could be tolerated, but entire sev- heavy penalty of a fine of five shillings for young and old to health. erance in residence and action could not be every pound." (Bryant's Hist., Vol. II., HONORS. grasped, though the stalwarts of the colony page 27.) According to the interpretation of early the INDIANS. were seceders. THE lays. calling Jonathan Brewster Mister was The Indians made their own position in OTHER PLANS. an honor— fully deserved by him, it is true, connection with the laws by their atroci- by inheritance, and his own personal claims. Whatever the drawing to other places, ties, without doubt, yet it was hard to real- The restrictions laid upon the trade with Jonathan Brewster remained long enough ize they were to be availed of to the utmost the Indians did not include Jonathan Brew- in Duxbury to he several times representa- taught in time of need by the white man, ster, who, when others required a license tive from that place. as for their benefit the use of firearms, to go up the river to buy corn, had such a Watching tlie history of these early peo- beasts, unfriendly against the wild or other monopoly that no other efforts met with ple closely, it is easy to account for the tribes, and when a cause no longer existed success. many sectional probabilities of kinship the come under stringent laws. Being among those who "wrought at the names of various locations suggest. Jona- "It was a penal act after the Pequot Mill Dam" in 1(151, may not have been an than is seen as engaged in the coasting to sell to the In- War for any one arms evidence of favoritism, but its usefulness trade the head and front of the affair, dians, or even mend those in their posses- entitled him to be recorded. master of the vessel, probably its owner, sion." To this talent he surely owed that "when turning aside at will for trade with hitherto ELDER BREWSTER. the grants were copied and registered with untraveled places on his route from Ply- Whatever the greed of need—and those more precise bounds in a book by them- mouth to Virginia. were times when every little possession selves it was referred to as 'the old book Having social intercourse with the Dutch " told in the household—the fears entertained under Mr. Brewster." at New Netherlands, and the English rep- by many that as Elder Brewster left no Even as Town Clerk this duty if not the resentation in Virginia, who, however, were will there might be some trouble about the best of him, would have passed on to one his acquaintances in the Old World. settling of the estate were groundless. more competent, perhaps have had his In all this he was storing up knowledge Jonathan, the first born, with perhaps the supervision, but the records were too im- for future use, becoming acquainted with feeling of the times for the heir apparent, portant to be left to those not gifted with the Pequot Harbor, as he entered the river offered no claim, "only desiring an equal the pen. to trade with the natives. Winning from division." The spice of variety was not wanting in them alike affection and good will, which The "settlement was made harmonious- Jonathan Brewster's life, often recorded for the Iienetit of both continued always, ly," everything guided by the good friends as a member of the Grand Inquest, and giving Jonathan Brewster the right of way, of the Elder, watchful that neither harm one year after attaining his freemanship when others presumably as honest dealers should come to the living, or disrespect to (1633), he was "appointed for laying out of failed of intercourse. the dead. highways Duxborrow side." Strong in his TRIALS. Jonathan, by right of being the "first engineer instinct, "he was constantly em- born," given his father's arms and a ployed by the court in the surveying and Everything being opened to him, he lived was two-year-old heifer; the only exception for laying out of lands for the settles." too fast, attempted to guide in the civil Love being an allowance for the board of Real estate acquisitions were constant, government and still continue his own large his nephew, Isaac Allerton, Jr.. whom the though they were undignifiedly granted for enterprises, extending over various tracts Elder had left for him "to table." In all "meddowing." or hard-to-travel land and water, until, sad other respects they had share and share THE FERRY. to relate, in the spring of 1049, fate over- like. (Goodwin, pp. 431-432.) Perhaps the crowning glory of position took him and he was overwhelmed with Reading along in the life of Jonathan was his when. September 12, 1638, he en- pecuniary disaster. Brewster, with his large family reverses, tered into an agreement with Peter Mea- Mr. Williams, of Providence, gives this credulity and hopefulness, one could almost cock to keep a ferry on the North River, notice of his misfortune to Mr. Winthrop wish him. a boy when he arrived, to make "for the transportation of men and cattle." (who was afterward John, the Governor of his mark among the young people, singing "Brewster to provide a boat or skiff for the (though Mr. Brewster Connecticut): "Sir the hymns taught them by Ainsworth, play- transportation of passengers, and another word of it) yet, in private, I write me not a ing the pranks not even Pilgrim and Puri- boat for horses and cattle, and Meacock to am bold to tell you that I hear it hath tan watchfulness could repress or prevent. keep the ferry for three years and have pleased greatly to afflict him in the God It is easy to imagine him dearly loved by half the profits, and to have from Brewster thorns his life. of all. Even the "four grave men for ruling a deed of 10 acres of land near the ferry, "He was intended for Virginia, his credit- elders, the three able and godly men for and a servant provided to assist him in his ors in the Bay came to Portsmouth, and deacons, and one ancient widow for dea- labors, and any damage resulting from in- unhung his rudder, carried him to the Bay, coness—who did them service many years, efficient service at the ferry to be on Brew- where he was forced to make over house, though she was sixty years of age when ster's responsibility." land, cattle and part with all his chest. Oh, chosen"—would pass by his misdemeanors This one-sided agreement did not hold how sweet is a dry morsel, and an handful, as too trivial for notice. longj providing everything, including a bo- with quietness from earth and Heaven." The "old deaconess," history tells us. was nus, was hardly the road to wealth, and (Mass. Hist. Coll., 2d series, Vol. IX.. "honored in her place." Having secured a Jonathan Brewster was "presented" for oage 281.) position of prominence in the congregation, neglecting the ferry at North River, and. OPPORTUNITIES. she made a baton of her "lichen rod," wav- probably because this view of the case was ing it to and fro to the alarm of the chil- evident to every one, was released. This reasons Jonathan There were many why dren, who. in the awful silence of a Pil- experience, however, did not prevent his Brewster, but for his immersion in public grim service, give play to their imagina- being again complained of and "fyned xxs the affairs should have been prosperous, tion, conceived of many horrors as a pun- to the colony and xs a piece to Mr. laws of the times rendered protective by ishment for the slightest deviation from the Groomes and Edward Weston if they will the needs of the people guarded the most rules laid down for them by their elders. take yt." minute interests. Viewing this as a necessity to constitute No wonder impecuniosity came upon Jon- In 1040, mindful of the future, it was being "an ornament," she certainly achieved athan Brewster. Still he had comfort in "enacted that every family should sow at her purpose, through devious paths, each the living friendship of the younger Win- least one spoonful of English hempseed," one a terror to their youthful minds as she throp, the founder of New London, and in and cultivate it in "husbandly manner," showed them the error of any way natural all probability this was the inducement for for a supply of seed the next year. Tobac- to their childish instincts. settling in the town called Pequot, now co held a high estimate in the opinion of But, as time passed on, and their young New London. SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. REV. NATHANIEL BREWSTER OF BROOKHAVEN LONG ISLAND. One of the many vexed questions iu the preparation for every emergency that could at Court March 4, 1661. To children Na- history of the Brewsters is Nathaniel, the arise. thaniel, the heir apparent, the estate in tirst graduate Of Harvard College. Circumstances required them to be gen- Duxbury; William ;nid Wr< stling and Su- Although speculative history is very weak, eral experts, and I can recall no one more rah, and to his three sons jointly, all such I may be excused if I follow what has beeu fully equipped for such needs'than Lucretia land as is of right due to me by purch.iM . my policy from the start, making the sug- Brewster, wife of Jonathan. and tirst coming into th.- lands which i» in gestions of certain possibilities, that other RELATIONS TO NATHANIEL. th« yea re 1020. students may bear them in mind during No actions among these early His wife executrix. Witiji-KS4.fi by Myle* their searches, and see if they can be abso- people but had their meaning, Standish. lutely authenticated. were freely discussed without fear Inventory (including books to the number Rev. Nathaniel Brewster's death took or favor, particularly in re- gard to religion. Mrs. Caulkins, of 30 volumes), taken January 31. 1651, by place December 18, 1090, at the age of in the "History of New Loudon," gives, William Collier and Capr. Standish Amount 70. This would make the date of his birth under date of July 10-65 £97.7.1. 1020. 1665): "In towne meeting Nathaniel Brewster constantly confronts As a matter of history all recall that "If it be your myndes oue with "probably" and "if." and it hardh Bradford shows Jonathan Brewster as be- yt Mr. James Rogers shall goe in the behalfe of seems possible that so much mention of ing left behind to look after his sisters and the towne to him in relation to Mr. Brewster to give him a call, and to Elder Brewster can be his own family. without know whether he will come to us to foundation iu fact. The coming One part of his charge he did not fulfill, be our minister, and yt shall intercead out of a brother of Elder Brewster'i would as instead of remaining for the Ann to pro- to Mr. Bell tirst to be helpful to us herein, not have {Kissed by unnoticed or have )> u tect his young sisters, he came out sud- manifest it by lifting up your hands. Voted." ii matter of conjecture particularly, as some denly in the Fortune. Very grave doubts The person to whom this suggest, that the Brewster the Her. Na- are expressed by many as to the wife of application was made was supposed to have thaniel was desceudeil from went down in Brewster being on the Mayflow- been Rev. Na- Jonathan thaniel the "Phantom Ship" from the Brewster, of Brookhaven, L. I. No New Haven er, even those most desirous of adding to Colony. further allusion is made to him. their ancestry by her presence there, write The assertions Many things point to this as a fact, and or surmises of this de- her uncertain. scent are not nearly I will be pleased if, in reading future as frequent as in re- His son William, born iu Holland, and gard to the papers on this family, those interested will Chief of the Pilgrims. "probably" Mary, seem to cause no dis- look at the various bearings on Mrs. Eva J. Hopkins Hamilton, of Chi- cussion. this sub- ject. cago, called my atteutiou to the following, possibility that Jonathan Here comes the which I immediately While having a natural drawing to Jon- verified: Brewster's first wife died at or near the athan Brewster, if his father, Ecclesiastical History of New Eugland. birth was the Rev. time of the of Nathaniel, who Vol. I., page 497. Nathaniel had probably been trained in- left behind, of course, to the care of others, dependently of this parent, and, though PLYMOUTH, 1642. mayhap Edward living in London, and was glad to be with him on all occasions, the deciding cause of Jonathan's commit »• still "This year Jonathan (2). sou of William did not feel the same necessity as other Brewster, in Fortune. (1) a chief founder of the Col- America the children brought up more immediately un- ony, takes the degree at Harvard. He LONG ISLAND HISTORY. der his eye. soon jroes to the land of his ancestors. Be Long Island In looking carefully over Thompson'* was his home, the people his is ordained over a Parish at Norfolk, and people; "History of Long Island," there is much t<» other ties had already been formed gained an estimable reputation. Rev. there, to which I will found an argument on in regard to allude as time goes "He had the degree of Bachelor of Di- first pub- on, and the Nathaniel Brewster. The edition, constant intercourse between vinity from Dublin. Another person of his the two lished in 1839 (page 207), calls him the places sufficed for the claims of surname lauded at Boston, under date of Elder's nephew, but between that time and kinship. October, 1663." It would be the second edition, published iu 1843, some- very unwise to close writing Hull, the minister, writes in his diary: of Rev. thing must have called his attention to Na- Nathaniel Brewster until opportu- "About this time here arrived Mr. Na- nity has been thaniel and made him waver in his opinion, given for either discussion or thaniel Brewster, a very able and pions as there he admits the probability of bis further information. His will has been minister, in Mr. Proofs ship from London published, being Jonathan's son. consequently th' and while it does not tell all one Mrs. Norton entertained him and his fauu could wish, Elder's grandson. it is the best there is. ily in her house. After a while when our In the It was very easy to misplace Nathanie meanwhile I copy from the letter church had tasted his gifts they desire a Brewster, in varying of a correspondent the view of the circum following: "It seems frequent labor amongst us. who tosjethei that stances surrounding his locating for an\ he (Gov. Bradford) made the state- with Mr. James Alliu that came hither ment permanent residence. History records fully in his history that Wrestling Brews- about August. 1662, cany an the puMir his return to Europe, and the fact of his ter (son of the Elder), was supposed to ministry of our church." receiving the degree of bachelor of divinity have died young. Iu the appendix to his Thus recalled to dispense the words of from the University of Dublin. His return history, page 451, you will find: 'Some eternal life he died IiHiO. leaving many to America could hardly be called a volun- writers think the Governor mistaken, as children, John. Timothy and Daniel, tary act, arising, as it did, from the "gen- there is a deed of land in Portsmouth.N.H., thought to be but not proven as grandsons eral ejection of the Protestant clergy in commencing in these words: of Elder William Brewster. 1662." Portsmouth, 0th day of December. AUTHORITIES. His first "sitting down" was not on Long 1029, Joseph and Hannah Pendleton (con- Wood, in his "History of Long Island." Island (Brookhaven) where his sous John. vey to) Wrestling Brewster 80 acres of page .'{3. gives "Nathaniel Brewster, as Timothy and Daniel had settled some years land, for £8, adjoining land belonging to educated at Harvard, graduated iu 1642, before. For three years he preached in said Wrestling. settled 1665, died ltSK'." various parts of New England, arriving or These lauds have descended by inherit- The very confusion with Jonathan iu the Long Island in 1005. ance in the Brewster family at Ports- quotation I have given is . irnimstantial mouth, who claim to be descendants of this INHERITANCE. evidence of their relation. The parent pay- Wrestling Brewster, until within the mem- ing the bills is stront association, To be a descendant of Jonathan Brewster ory of the present generation. which in in olden time carried much weight, and. those days of irregular records placed ii|»on Love's early death placed him outside of though Rev. Nathaniel could not hi- the son the father the education of the son. many possibilities. He had led a good life, of Lucretia Oldham (Brewster), who "Sibley's Harvard Graduates." pace 6S, came and dying a memory tinctured by the sor- over in the Ann. in 1623, he might be very gives an account of Rev. Nathaniel, and row that he might not have been allowed a fond and proud of her from she states that he was horn about lfI20. died the records longer span in which to prove himself. His worthily secured. December IS. KB 10. aged 70 will in the N. E. Historical Reg.. Vol. 34, The "Age and infirmity having for s«»uie women of the past worked steadily, page 2S4. is as follows: time disabled him from performing constant willingly in their appointed places, but the Love Brewster (Duxbury). min- simple home duties did not deter them from isterial duty." Will dated October 1, 1050. and exhibited Sibley has the "if" before the specula- — — 30 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. all things per- Deed dated April 28, 1814. Nathaniel tion as to his lineage, but the very fact of will aud testam't to perform pay Brewster aud Keziah, his wife, of the town the subject being discussed iu the early taining to ye office of an Executrix, to and pro- of Newburgh, to James Sidmay. Land in part of this century goes far to prove the ye aforesaid legacys and to give at her the town of Goshen, N. Y. Recorded iu general belief. vide portions for all my daughters discretion of improvements of ye Book "2," page 410. I may be allowed to say that I have out ye the assistance Nathaniel Brewster to Samuel Tallman. sought iu every trodden and unknown path stock aforenamed and with i)f provided that Mortgage dated May 1, 1833. Laud in the to place the Rev. Nathaniel Brewster au- my 2d two sons always village of Newburgh, N. Y. Recorded in thentically. Every one has been willing to there be referred to my 2d Executrix a out ye Book 32, page 235. Orange County Rec- aid, and so long as this article is contin- good and competent maintenance of ords of Mortgages in County Clerk's office, ued persistent effort will be made. If no improvements of the lands willed and be- in Goshen < N. Y. further success attends me, I have at least queathed to my sons Timothy and Daniel Church records of the Presbyterian given the public and future writers the above named as also ye full and free use Church of Goshen, N. Y., I find the fol- benefit of my search. of ye house home lot orchards gardens and lowing: Copy of ye last Will & Testatnt of ye other improvements thereon which are be- January 19, 1799. Married, John Brew- Revd Mr. Nathaniel Brewster, ye first queathed to my son Timothy. In confirma- ster and Mary Harrison. Deaths. Novem- .Minister of Brookhaven, in ye County of tion whereof I do hereinto set my hand and ber 23, 1816, Mary, wife of John Brewster, Suffolk. Province of New York. seal the day and year above named. Nathaniel Brewster. age 48; cause of death, insanity. April 30. COPY. Signed sealed and delivered iu presence of 1817, John Brewster. Aged 62. Inflam- In ye name of God Ameu March ye 16, Theo Helme, mation of the Lungs. 1684-5 I Nathaniel Brewster in County Jack Hawkins. (Seal) In Eager's "History of Orange County." Suffolk on Long Island being weak in By ye tenor of these presents know ye page 73, an account is given of the finding body but of sound & good memory calling that on ye 3d day of May. 1695, at Brook- of [iart of the remains of a mastodon. I to mind my frailty & ye uncertain estate haven, in ye County of Suffolk, in ye Prov- quote: "In 1845, found about seven miles of this uncertain life do make & ordain this ince of New York, before Col.Wilhn Smith, east of Montgomery, on the farm of Na- my last Will <& Testamt, by these presents judge of ye Prerogative was proved & ap- thaniel Brewster, Esq." revoking & annulling any former Will proved the last will and testamt of Na- Nathaniel Brewster, Ensign, commis- made by me either by word or writing »& yt thaniel Brewster, deed, at Brookhaven sioned as ensign April 4, 1776. In a com- last Will pany of Brookhaven, and Manor this only is to be approved my aforesd, on ye day of , Anno Dom Smithtown iV Testamt his own hous, October the 6th, 1778, be- 1740, August 31— Ruth, probably daugh- 1724, Feb. 0—John, m. Mary Terry. tween one and two o'clock at night (a later ter of Daniel. 1720, Oi l. 26 M iry, tn. Benj. Paine. handwriting iu pencil says 'By Claudius 1741, .May 10— Ann. probably daughter " Nov. 30-Samuel m. Tabitha Baldwin. Smith).' of Comfort, tirst. 1730, Fi-b. IS Peter, III. Mai I.e.-. "Charity Brewster, dyed November the 1743, January 2— Eunice, probably 1740— Elizabeth, iii. Caleb Owen. 19th 17SO aged seventy-five years. 'laughter of Daniel. 1744, April—Patience, m. Haithi m Watlt "'Isaac Brewster, dyed Sept 5th 1784." 1743, August 21— Betty, probably daugh- (De.) "Nathaniel Chandler dyed Sent ye Oth ter of Comfort, tirst. 174.'',, May 18— Hannah, ui. Cointtaiici 17S4." 1745, April 14—Mary, probably daughter Crandel. "Sarah Brewster dyed July the twenty- of Daniel. 1744, Nov. 13— Ebciiezer, ui. Elizabeth Seventh day 1794." H. M. U. 1745, August 25—Comfort, sou of (Join- De Wolfe. From Mr. John Bissell, Pittsburg, Pa.: fort, first. Nov. 11—Elizabeth, m. Joseph Hideo. Brewster baptisms in First Church, Le- 1747, August 9—Afehitable, probably Goshen Church, Lebanon, and other rec banon. Conn. No lathers named on record daughter of Daniel. ords: till 1774. 1751, July 21— Daniel, probably son of 1754, Oct. 16— Hannah, in. Simeon Met 1724, June 28—Charles, probably son of Daniel. calf. and Sibil. Joseph 1771, November 17— Comfort, sou of 1700, June 24— Huldah, in. Ozias Cole 1724, July 0— Sarah. Comfort, second. man. of CMcheater. 3 1725, January —Jonathan, probably sou 1773, January 3— Elizabeth. 170.H, Oct. 30— Bettv. in. Amos Thomas of John. 1775, January 22—John, probably son of Jr. 172(1, January 30—Mary, probably daugh- Comfort, second. 1772— Ichabod, iu. Lucy Clark. ter of John. 1779, May 2— Meliuda, daughter id' Com- 1773, April 1— Ruth Partridge, m. Simon 1720, August 21—Abel, probably son of fort, second. Abel William and Ann Abel. 1781, April 28— Daniel, son of Comfort, 1710, Dec 13— William, m. Mehitabl. 1720, August 21— Hannah. probably second. KbeL daughter of William and Ann Abel. Brewster baptisms from Goshen Church. 1725, May 24-Hannah. in. J»hn Barker 1720. January 21—William, probably son Lebanon: 1732-Oliver, in. Martha Wadaworth. of William and Ann Abel. 1733, January 7— Ruby. 173(5, Dee. 2—Comfort, m. Ik-burah 1720, August 21— Elisha, probably son of 1737, April 7— Wadsworth. Smith, of Pulton. William and Ann Abel. 1744, June 3—Huldah. 1747, Nov. 5— Katherine, m. Eben Rich 1727, April 30—Katherine. 1740, September 21— Betty. ardson, Jr. 1727, September 3—Ann. probably 1749, July 9—Prince. 1768— Lydia. m. Asahel Clark. daughter of William and Ann Abel. 1753, May 0—Ichabod of Ichabod. 1755—Bathaheba, m. Josh Chappel, Jr. 1729, March 23— Samuel, probably sou 1757, October 2—Lishe of Jonathan. 1759, May 24— Wadsworth, ui. Jerusha of Samuel. 1700, July 20—Hopestill of Ichabod. New co me. 1729, March 2:5— Mary. 1703, January 9—Morgan of William. 1753, May 31—Daniel, m. Phebe Will 1729, April 6—Elizabeth. 1704, December 10—Ruth of William. iams. at Stonington. 1729. May 4—Deborah. 1770, April 15—Seth of William. 17C>2, Oct.— Mary, daughter of Samuel, 1731, June 0—Martha. 1772, October 4— Oliver of William. m. Jonathan Strong. 1732, November 12—Tabitha, probably Brewster marriages, from records First 1774, June 2—Daniel, m. Rosamond daughter of Samuel. Church, Lebanon: Richardson. 1734. May 12—Hannah. 1744, May 15— Charles, m. Keziah Owen. 1775, Feb. 2—David, m. Lucretia Smith. 1735, November 23—Nehemiah, prob- 1748, May 18—Mary, m. John Johnson. From Rev. Zebulon Ely records. Leb- ably son of Daniel. 1752, May 15—Elizabeth, in. Benj. Wesson. anon: 1738. January 8—Deborah, probably 1700, May 12—Samuel, m. Experience 1793. Eeb. 13—Comfort, Jr.. m. Gay. daughter of Comfort, first. Scott. 1797. Oct. 15—John, m. lleborab Terry. 1738. April 23—Nehemiah. probably son 1759, Feb. 7—Hannah, m. Maverick Dec. 17— Lucretia, in. Samuel Porter. of Daniel. Johnson. 1722— Benjamin, in. Rebecca Blackmail. MORE BREWSTER RECORDS. Although these lines are given as full as her marriage to Gov. Bradford. Patience there is no claim for reserving his history possible to show the general public various Brewster needed no assistance to her birth- .or a future paper. localities and names that descended from right to give her social position in her m w Every act of the early settlers being un- Elder William Brewster, much detail could home. Marrying Thomas Prence, son of der the strict supervision of both friend and be added, only it would simply be a repeti- Thomas Prence, of Lech lode, in County foe, to rise as Edmund Fnviuan did to tion of what has already been published Gloucester, August 5, 1024, was to his distinction was on his absolute merits. in the "Signers of the Mayflower Compact" credit, though the honor was his but a short Both town ami colony gave him important and subsequent Brewster records. time, as she died, to the regret of all and trusts. Grand Juror in UCttJ and Assistant The present one of Volney William Fos- deep sorrow of her father, the Elder, iu Governor from 1040 to 10-10. ter, of Evans-ton, 111., has been thoroughly 1634. So John, his second son and fourth child, carried out. and those who can make the The five children of this marriage had born in England in 1»>20. who eame to same lineage will only have to watch the equal right necessarily to the Brewster New England with his fa tin r. was at least passengers on. the Forefather ships to se- claim, the Prence widened by the second iu a worldly sense a titling mate for the cure more than usual history with regard to marriage. As Gov. Prence is entitled to his elder's granddaughter. their own ancestry. own history as passenger with Jonathan The record of his youth he preserved to William Brewster, as originator of his Brewster in the Fortune, he should be thus the end, early removed to Eastham. was family in this country, needs no mention: known rather than by his marriage. captain in 1075. and actively engag«tl iu Philip's war. June. |(N5. wa» early writers have made his name a house- THIRD GENERATION. King In hold word, and present search only con- i hosen Major of the County of Barnstable, firms their high estimate of him. Mercy Prence (3) (Patience Brewster 2. was deacon ot the church, one of the con- the fourth child densed honors of that day. am! for ten Then comes Patience (2), daughter of El- William Brewster 1) was der William, born in Scrooby, England, ind third daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence. are selectman. of who came to Plymouth, Mass., on the Ann. and was born in that home of the early Then he was sheriff the omnty under the first- in 1023, "perhaps," and "probably" (as her heroes, Plymouth, Mass.. in 1031; married Andross's Administration and of the Court of brother Jonathan, left to guard her, came February 13 or 14, 1650, John Freeman, named judge Common Pleas, after the union of Plymouth and unexpectedly iu the Fortune, in 1021) under who was son of Edmund Freeman. As the the care of Mrs. Edward Southworth, so emigrant had the grace to come out in the Massachusetts colonies. iu . as his story is, from the houors soon to be the first lady in the land from Abigail iu 1035 and settle Lynn, Mass Defined 32 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. Thomas heaped upon him, it is one of the records Lydia Winslow, born September 8. 1700. among them the great Rev. that Major Freeman bore a reputation in Harwich, daughter of Major Edward Hooker. equaled by few in the colony at that early Winslow, of Rochester. Mass., married If nothing comes from the pursuit of date. Sarah (last name unknown) about 1702 or Hannah Brewster, in every known and un- Descendants can ask no more than to be 1703. Among their children were Edward, known locality, it is only a matter of sor- row, not fault. interest has been able to authenticate that in all his acts born November 0, 1703. married December The active, persist- while a public servant he was upright and 14, 1728. Hannah, daughter of his uncle. the methods painstaking and impartial, and as a source of such action Kenelon; she died September 23, 1745; ent. steps in the right direction are to correct in his religious walk and conversa- Lydia. born September 8. 1709, married Many our credit, and in hopes there will re- tion. July 10, 1729. Deacon James Foster; I am sult an outgrowth of real historical value. His gravestone at Eastham bears the in Mercy, born September 11, 1712, married Long ago I published in the paper a grow- scription: October, 1723. Chillingsworth Foster. ing conviction on my part that Hannah "Here lies ye body of Major John Free- The record is an open sesame to many Brewster, daughter of the first Jonathan, man. Died October ye 28th, 1717, in ye societies dear to all patriots. The "May- married twice. It met with no response, 98th year of his age." flower Descendants" is fully established and, is His wife, Mercy, died September 28, through the Brewsters. Sons of Colonial though sorry did not provoke dis- cussion, it in way dampened the ardor 1711, at 80. Wars, by Major Edward Winslow. which no of my pursuit for something tangible in The Pilgrim welcome extended to an in- now requires a military line, and when regard to it, nor did I change the opinion. definite number of children, mainly per- founded, as it must be from the nature of Which gathered strength with time. haps from the neels of population to make history in the present time, "Descendants their numbers in excess of intruders, of the Forefather Ships," there is a large HISTORY. w hether the white man or the Indian, had place for this descent. Miss Caulkins, in her "History of New an active spirit in this family of eleven. These pioneer men seem to have been London," states that "Hannah (daughter The crust, though small, was always cap- muscular Christians; to be a blacksmith of Jonathan) married, December 25, 1004. able of subdivision. almost insured a deaconship, and James Samuel Starr. She was aged 37 in 1680." FOURTH IX DESCENT. Foster followed precedent. Kind fate, which in its workings seems like Providence, brought Miss Elizabeth John Freeman 4 I Mercy Prence 3, Pa- SEVENTH GENERATK >N. Miner Avery, of Grotou. Conn., to my de- tience Brewster 2, William Brewster 1), Edward Foster 7 (James Foster, 6; partment, and as part of the toll the whole the second child and second son, born De- Mercy Freeman, 5; John Freeman, 4; world of my knowledge has been obliged to eember, 1651, in Eastham. Mass., married Mercy Prence, 3; Patience Brewster, 2; pay I immediately proposed to her the ques- first Sarah, daughter of William Merrick, Elder William, 1), fourth son and seventh tions in regard to Hannah Brewster, so December 18, 1672. She was the mother child of James, was born July 3, 1738, in near to my heart. Of all children, dying April 21, 1G9G, when Rochester, Mass.; married, January 13, She wrote me the last of 1897, giving me life seemed brightest, the children having 1702, Deborah Bangs, born February 5, the following: "I copy from the Starr Ge- arrived at maturity naturally ready to aid 1744, in Harwich, Mass. This Deborah nealogy, prepared by Burgess Starr Pratt, their parents and smooth their pathway. is easily accounted for, as she was the only Hartford, 1879. The first mention of History repeated itself, the children num- Sam- daughter and eighth child of Seth and De- uel Starr in London is his marriage. bering eleven. New borah (Nickerson) Bangs, her father being December 25, 1604, with Hannah, daugh- IN DESCENT. FIFTH born in Eastham, Mass., July 29, 1705, and ter of Jonathan Brewster. She was born Freeman 4, Mercy Freeman 5 (John married Deborah, daughter of William 1643. November 25, 1091, was in full Brewster Will- Mercy Prence 3, Patience 2, Nickerson, of Eastham, December 23, 1720. communion with the First Church in New iam Brewster 1). the third daughter and This Edward Foster, with all the love so London, where her children were baptized. in seventh child, was born August 3, 1087. freely given to the Eastern States by its No record of her death. The children of Eastham, Mass., and married Deacon Chil- sons and daughters, still had the grace with Samuel and Hannah Starr were Samuel, bom in Marsh- lingsworth Foster, who was favoring fortune to move to New York born December 11, 1665; Thomas, born field, Mass., June 11, 1080. State and die at Broome Schoharie Coun- September 27, 1668; Comfort, born August raises her family ty, January, 1828. at the advanced age of Here again the mother 7, 1671; Jonathan, born February 23, sufficiently to be a comfort to her, which 90. 1073-4." helpful, and in Pilgrim parlance means EIGHTH GENERATION. This is the same as Miss Caulkins's His- 1720. wearried with doing, dies July 7, tory. Hopestill Foster 8 (Edward Foster, 7; aged 33. James Foster, 0; Mercy Freeman, 5: John ABSOLUTE PROOF. Clnlliugsworth Foster, bearing testimony Freeman. 4; Mercy Prence, 3; Patience Not satisfied that these statements should to the great merits of Mercy Freeman, Brewster, 2; Elder William Brewster. marries again, and this time took to himself 1), lose their power for want of absolute proof. was the fourth son and eighth child of Ed- Susanna, widow of Nathaniel Sears and Miss Avery; verified the genealogies by the ward; was born July 1780, in that part daughter of John Gray. 27, New London town records (Vol. 1. Page Their happiness was not of long dura- of Pelham« Mass., now called Prescott, and 4), adding, "She was left a widow because married Osborn, February, a tract of laud deeded tion, she entering the spirit land December Laura 1808. was bv her as such he availed himself of the op- February.. 22. 1087-8." 7, 1730, and X I X T 1 1 GE X ERATION. portunity thus given him by marrying This was not all; light seemed to dawn Volney Foster, 9 (unnecessary to repeat Ruth, widow of Samuel Sears, and daugh- upon her as she searched and wrote me: the line); born October 10, 1810, in Ant- ter of William Merrick. December 7. 1731. "Perhaps she then married a Thompson, werp, Jefferson County, X. Y.; married. the anniversary of his second wife's death. for she was only in middle life." November 1, 1840, in the "Yellow Tavern," Although no relative to the Brewster con- PERSISTENCY. at Jefferson, Wis., Marianna Torrey (who nection, it is part of early history to state was born in Aneron, X. Y., August 21. Xcxt it was the turn of Mr. S. Cleveland, that he settled in that section of Harwich the Clerk of Prestonside, Norwich, 1820, and died at Evanston, 111.), daughter Town which is now Brewster, was a blacksmith of William and Phebe Vauder Veer Van Conn., to be interviewed, and immediately by trade, the iron merchant of the times Sicklen. matters seemed to materialize. and deacon in the church from July 4. authority there This Torrey line is a very complete one. While he had no was one 1731, till he died. item with a bearing on the case at least thong it only being the intention to lead Chillingsworth Foster's name provides strong enough to have found place in his give to important ancestry, people can do their easy means of search, and the records notebook. Soon the name of the one fur- connecting, as there is too little space John Foster, of Weymouth. own him as son of nishing it was forthcoming, and from Mrs. married, about 1063, Mary, to give the history entire of any family. Mass., who A. O. B. Hatch I have with (lie names of Chillingsworth, a set- daughter of Thomas TENTH ( ! EXER ATION. Jonathan Brewster's children. Hannah, as early as 1037, of Lynn. Mass. tler Volney William Foster 10 (same line), born 1643, married John Thmopson, of SIXTH GENERATION. born February 27. 1848, at Aztalan, Wis., Shetucket. Thames. Conn.; December 25. James Foster 6 (Mercy Freeman 5, married, at Brockport, X. Y., Eva Adelle 1004, married Samuel Starr. about John Freeman 4, Mercy Prence 3, Patience Hill, born January 30, 1852, and died at This would have made "Hanna" Brewster 2, Elder Brewster 1), born Jan- BvanstOH, 111., October 18, 1887, daughter twenty-one when she made her second mar- at all an mi usual to marry uary (J, 1700, in Harwich, Mass., was eld- of Ezra Northrii|) Hill. riage. Not age est child of Chillingsworth and Mercy This line, if taken in all its branches, at sixteen among the Pilgrims, easily veri- (I'reemau) Foster, married July 10, 1720, makes many fine connections, principal fied as custom by reference to Desire Do- — SIGNERS OF TTTTC MAYFLOWER COMPACT. ty's marriage, and Elizabeth Tilley, wife noted by the public, of more mouths to fill State Librarian of Connecticut, and bis of John Howhiud. Of course, many, many than there was supply for. brothers, James II., George arid Lewia: more. With the definite placing of Hannah, in Benjamin Brewster, who died at hi* villa, Scrooby, Mr. Cleveland says Shetueket. which was regard to John Thompson, or rather the in Cazenovia, N. Y.: Simon L. set off from Norwich, Conn., was a wilder- first I could give to the public for discus- Brewster, Benjamin Brewster, WilliamCul- ness in "Hannah's" time. sion, came a list of Jonathan Brewster's len Brewster, Dr. James B. Brewster. Dr. Mrs. Jane G. Austen would have seen the children, which I give without comment, James C. Jackson, Wadsworth I.Bmntaf Prof. possible vein of romance in the youthful merely as the new suggestions show them- George T. I .add. Dr. Walter B. Piatt (for pair avoiding the parental vigilance selves. Edwar.l 0. Hagar. Charles II. Buckingham. Lucretia Oldham Brewster was not one to William, in the Narragansett war, 1645, Dr. George K. Hunt. Henry C. rergaaoa be left out of the count when her children's came on the Mayflower. Mary married in Cyrus A. Dodge, Dr.Ohariea Inslee Pardee, interests were at stake) and seek their 1045 John Turner, of Scituate, Mass. Jon- Dr. Henry Hrcwstcr Minton. Mr. Waller far from the stern eyes that Gretna Green athan, born 1027, married Grace. Hannah Brewster, Horace Rogers, who is doubly them. might be searching for (record already given). descended from Jonathan: William F. Pilgrims believed in marriage, oft The John, horn January 20, 1031, married Brewster, who is descended paternally beta if convenient, but discipline must repeated July 6. 1605, Mary Knight, died 1092; Ben- from Jonathan and Love, maternally from be maintained. A parent was always a Jonathan, jamin, born 1633, married Annie Dart, of and Lodwick II. Jon. s. who had parent, New London, Conn., 1059. died 1710; Grace five distinct lines from the elder, two DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. married Daniel Wetherell August 4, 1668. through Jonathan and three through I^ove. Love Lucretia, born May 3. 1030, married Of course, this is but a small portion, only Miss Avery thought she might have mar- enough Samuel Sherburn December 15, 1(>elieved by most. and State. As a last hope, I many think he went, taking his portion of went over Again, the persistency worthy of the many records to s.-e whether in goods with him, ceasing to be locally of the possible assimilation cause sent me to Rev. William H. Littell, and of dates. I might the Elder's family. not find a clew of "The Manse," Setauket, L. I., ninth pas- which would start fresh search. tor of the church of which Rev. Nathaniel Love, the young Pilgrim in the May- little Brewster was the first. flower, in history and records bears that A strength was gained by "Nathan- iel S. I quote without alteration from his let- name, but some of the descendants unite in Prime's History of Long Island." where ter: "According to some authorities, among presuming the name was the diminutive of on ecclesiastical matters wholly in- tent them Thompson, he (Rev. Nathaniel) ap- Truelove. (page 223) he writes of Rev. Nathan- iel Brewster, pears to have gone to Norfolk, England, While everything is possible, I still, from as a "grandson of Elder Will- iam with his wife, Sarah Ludlow, of Roxbury the association of Elder Brewster at the Brewster, who fill.il so distinguished a after three sons were born. time he was secretary to Minister Davison, place in the Plymouth Colony— the Pilgrim of the "They were left with his sister Hannah must cling to the feeling that Mary Brew- Mayflower." Mr. Prime, and his father Jonathan, who came with ster, his wife, was a daughter of Edward not seeking entrance on this descent to any society, them to Setauket. As to the marriage of Love, of whom, as I have already written told this story nat- urally Hannah to John Thompson, that occurred (the result of MissKouse's connections while in 1849 (I believe) with no fear or anticipation probably in Connecticut, and they came studying the history of the Dudley family) of a dissenting voice. here." in the "Signers of the Mayflower Compact," Two points for evidence come from the "History of the Descendants These close arguments are very danger- there is no need of repetition. of Elder John Strong" (page 6001. ous when so many historical threads are The local and name weavings of history Speaking of Jonathan Brewster, it being unraveled by one person. But this are realities; to call one son Edward, an- says his daughter Hannah married in material furnished by Rev. Mr. Littell just other Love, when Mary Brewster was the 1650 John Thompson and died at Setauket, L. I., fits into the claims made by the previous possible daughter of Edward Love, does not Oc- tober 4, 1687. Here the "about" so fre- statements. seem an accident. quently met with in the old books would The Rev. Nathaniel Brewster returned to This Love Brewster, unfortunately for serve us well for the date of Hannah's Setauket in 1605, having spent two or three his continued mark on the colony, died birth. The fact of the exceedingly early years in other places, as I have already young, but so far as his life went it spoke marriages is not all that is wanted, even written. At the close of 10G4 Hannah well for him. for those early Pilgrim times. How inval- Brewster married Samuel Starr, and was The marriage of Love Brewster to Sarah uable the little "rewards of merit" of the ready and willing to give np the charge of (I have seen a record of her with the prefix past century would prove, as establishing her nephews to their legitimate guardians. Miss), daughter of William Collier, was her in the infant class, or perhaps in her Her life in regard to John Thompson was very pleasing to his father, he being a and later wisdom, even as a youthful matron a thing of the past; new duties awaited and favorite son the Elder covenanted under the Sabbath instructions of the Rev. her, and from that time her movements pledged the bridal pair that his house and Nathaniel, her brother. were recorded. Thus I have told all I furniture and one-half of his estate and It is impossible, for want of space, to give know. In gaining this information I have lands should be theirs when he died. many lines, as originally intended, but that become an historical beggar, seeking of The will of Love Brewster surely indi- is no reason why the material should not be every one the s"mallest morsel of knowledge cates from this clause, "And for those books collected for some future use. The follow- in their possession. I have that my wife would distribute ing line is very broad, as regards names This position I shall retain to the close them to herself and children at her dis- and localities, and surely will aid in sug- of these articles. It would be very gracious cretion," that he had his share of the gesting names for unexpected search. on the part of any one who would lessen Elder's books, and also the perfect confi- John Prince, horn about 1610 (son of my severe labors by voluntary contribu- dence he felt in his wife's dignity and good Rev. John, who had been bred at Oxford, tions for public benefit. judgment. and was minister at East Strafford County. My reciprocating is not only a matter of There is a very strong list of descendants, Berkshire, England), came to New England. duty, but pleasure. among them Right Rev. Chauucey Brew- 163S, and was in Hiugham. 1635, where he THE CHILDREN. ster, D. D., coadjutor Bishop of Connect i- received a grant of land. Rev. William J. Brew- 4. 1<53S. to The Brewsters seem wanderers on the cut; his brothers. Freeman, March removed ster, Rev. Benjamin Brewster and Prof. Hull about 1638. married his first wife, face of the earth in those early generations. He II. sons of the late Rev. Alice Honor, at l dren, was made the 9th of May preceding. (See Alden Genealogy.) John born (4) was land records of this town relating to the He received a liberal education at Oxford July 23, 1710; died March 1789. Their 26, Brewsters is September 22, 1725, when University, England, and after locating at children (the following) are descended as William Brewster, of Preston, bought 158 Hull was a ruling elder there for many well from Gov. Bradford, through Joshua acres of land. years. His children, all by his first wife, Ripley and his wife, Bradford. (3) Hannah "In 1749 Benjamin, still of Preston, sold Alice Honor, and baptized by Rev. Peter I. Parthenia Alden (5) married Wood- the above land to 'Cyrus Brewster, a minor Hobart, Hingham, Mass., were: of bridge Little. Esq. under 21 years.' A very comprehensive 1. John, born May 16, 1638. 2. Eliza- II. Violetta Alden married (5) Isaac line is in my possession from Mr. Cyrus beth, born August 1640; married, 1662, Fitch. 9, Brewster, of Derby, Conn., and though Josiah Loring. 3. Joseph, born February III. John Alden (5) resided in Lebanon. lack of space prevents giving it all, two or 1642; died at Quebec, 1695. 4. Martha, Conn.; served in the Revolution; ensign of 12, three generations will be iuvaluabk born married, Chris- tlie Twentieth Continental Infantry, Col. August 10, 1645; 1674, through the relation to Huntington, Conn, John Durkee, January 1 to topher Wheaton. 5. Job, born August 22, December 31, (where the Mills family, of Windsor, Sims- 1776. ("Connecticut in the 1647; shipmaster, lost at sea. 6. Samuel, Men Revolu- bury, etc., were located), also Strathford. born August 19, 1649. 7. Benjamin, born tion," page 106, and Heitman's "Historical Conn. Cyrus . Brewster, sixth in descent Register.") April 25, 1652; died at Jamaica, West In- from Elder William Brewster, married IV. Judah Alden in dies, before his father. 8. Isaac, born July (5), resided Lebanon, Nancy, daughter of Henry Do Witt, he Conn.; served in the 9, 1654; married Mary, daughter of John Revolution; captain marrying Hannah Dean, of Norwich. Turner, of Scituate. 9. Thomas, born Au- in Col. Samuel B. Wehb's additional Con- Conn., 1772. tinental Regiment; commissioned gust 8, 1658; shipmaster, settled at Scitu- January "Their children were Benjamin, William. ate, and married Ruth, daughter of John 1, 1777; killed in a skirmish in Westchester Cyrus, Maria and Nancy. County August 22, 1777. (Conn. in and Mary (Brewster) Turner. "Men "Cyrus (7) married for first wife Anna Revolution," page Mary Brewster was daughter of Jona- 246, and Heitman's Tappan, who had two children, Annie T. "Historical Register," page than and Lucretia Oldham Brewster, and 59.) and Jacob D. He married for his second V. Roger Alden born granddaughter of Elder William. (5), 1748; graduated wife Sarah E. Mills, of Huntington, Conu. at Yale College, 1773; served in the Revo- Benjamin (3), his son, born 1693 or '94, They had seven children, Sarah M., Cyrus. lution; Adjutant of the Fifth Connecticut married Aliel, daughter of John and Pa- Mary A., Alice M., Samuel M., William J. Line, Jan. tience (Morton) Nelson, of Duxbury, April 1, 1777; Lieutenant June 15, and Jessie. 1778; Captain Sept. 1, 1778, of Second Reg- 17, 1717. Benjamin Prince lived for a "Ann T. Brewster, daughter of Cyrus (7) iment; Brigade Major of Huntington's while at Duxbury, and later removed, 1727, and Ann Tappan, married Joseph Tomlin- Brigade, at Peekskill, July 13, 1779: win- to North Yarmouth, Me., where his wife son, of Huntington, Conn. They had five tered at Valley Forge, 1777-78; at the bat- died September 15, 1744, and he also De- children, Nellie, Rosalie, Joseph, Annie and tle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778; appointed cember 5, 1737. Cyrus Brewster." aide-de-camp, with rank of Major, to Gen. Paul his son, born May 1720, at (4), 14, Huntington in Division Orders, Springfield, A DUTCH NAME IN DESCENT. Duxbury, married about 1742, Hannah, N. J., April 1, 1780; resigned Feb. 10, 1781 Rev. Mitchell Bronk, of New York, whose daughter of David and Rachel (Lewis) (Conn. "Men in the Revolution," various line of descent is through our Jonathan, Cushing, of Hingham, Mass. She was of pages, and Heitman's "Historical Regis- passenger on the Fortune, writes me: the famous Gushing family of Massachu- ter"); settled after the Revolution in Mead- "Through my grandfather, Stephen Brew- setts, and a descendant of the Cushings of ville, Pa.; a member of the Conn. Cincin- ster, born in 1782, I obtained actual word Norfolk County, England. He died No- nati; appointed ordnance storekeeper at of mouth information about his grandfather, vember 25, 1809. She died February 6, West Point, Jan. 20, 1825, and continued and the first Jonathan's great-grandson, 1814. until the his death, to hold the office time of Joseph, born in 1726." David (5), his son, born May 6. 1753, Nov. 1836. had a daughter, who 5, He I have in my possession a commission married November 20, 1777. Elizabeth, Swartvvout, A., married Capt. Henry U. S. issued to this Joseph as ensign of the Fifth daughter of Nathan and Amy (Wyman) son, Bradford Ripley Alden, who was and a Company of Train Band, in the town of Oakes. She died February 19, 1828; he States Army, died Captain in United who Norwich, Conn., dated 1764, and signed by died February 3, 1849. 1870. Sept. 10, Thomas Fitch, Captain-General of Connec- Lucretia (6), his daughter, born January VI. Elizabeth Alden (5). ticut under George III. I also have a sword in- 26, 1784, married Dr. Elias Banks, Jan- VII. , VIII. Two sons who died in which belonged to this Joseph, and which, uary 1805. died February 1841; fancy. 17, He 9, family tradition says, was owned and she died March 15, 1872. any one doubt that clannishness is Can brought from Europe by Jonathan, son of Elias (7) Banks (son of Dr. Elias and an instinct of the heart, rising superior to the elder. Lucretia (Prince) Banks), born July 14, custom, when the claim of a common in- To doubters, as all become during their 1809, married Dorcas Hopkins, of Port- heritance gives a person the strength and study of history, finding it hard to reconcile sinew of the Pilgrim colony? land, Me. apparently truthful statements they cannot The "Brewster apple tree" could bring no Their daughter Elizabeth Hopkins mar- substantiate, nothing is so absolutely ap- discord, planted by Elder William Brew- ried, first, George W. Whittier; one child, palling as the possessions said to have come ster (Hist, of Duxbury, p. 234), said to be Margaret Deane Whittier, who married over in the Mayflower. the first in New England, and though it Richard Storrs Colton; their child Deane And what gives zest to the story, past and was gone during the Revolution, another Whittier Colton. Elizabeth Hopkins mar- present, is that so many, perhaps from sprang from it, and continued as the Brew- ried, second, Edward H. Tobey; one greater forethought, belonged to the Brew- ster tree. child, Donald Banks Tobey. sters. Too many contributions to this history MORE OF EDWARD. The grave soberness and dignity of bear- are coming in to admit of its being closed What claim Edward's descendants may ing among the Pilgrims contrasts strangely or while there is such a chance of search, make for entrance into the Mayflower So- with the knowledge that the most pious of holding one's on the desires which peace ciety is unknown; from them may yet come, the "7 pillars of the church" had distilleries in strength are growing day by day. from their local habitation and name, the in their houses, and discoursed of another Thanks to Mr. Ripley, of W. J. Chicago, history so ardently sought for. All I can and a better world while waiting for the pot who is compiling the Ripley Genealogy, do is to add, to what has been given in the concocted with experience of years to reach the Brewsters line to have the additional "Signers of the Mayflower Compact," an the temperature consistent with human en- John Alden added to the Bradford, already item recently sent me. durance. secured. "In 1637 Edward Brewster had a shop, In your Brewster records you mention BREWSTER CONSTITUTION. bookseller with sign of Bible, at Fleet St. William Ripley (Joshua of (5) 4, Joshua 3, Bridge London, subsequently was treasurer Too, they were not devoid variety, the John 2, William who married Lydia opportunity being given them of mulled cider 1), of stationers company." — America Neill, Brewster, etc. It may be of interest to and spiced drinks, Elder Brewster, as tra- p. 95. know that Eliz. Ripley (5) (sister of dition tells, securing the means for such CT. William) born November 4, 1724; married LAND RECORDS OF WINDHAM, possibilities by bringing the "original and October t>, 1744, John Alden (4) (Andrew From Mr. C. H. Dimmick, Town Clerk only" mortar on the Mayflower. Adding to 3. Capt. Jonathan 2, Pilgrim John of the and Treasurer of the Town of Windham, continuous enjoyment by planting, as has Mayflower, 1620, 1), of Lebanon. Conn. Conn. : "The first mention made on the been told, the first apple tree. SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. It is now in the possession of a descend- English home to care for the messages sent Brewster, son of Elder William Brewster, ant, who received it from the widow of Dr. from barren, bleak New England. of Plymouth Colony. William A. Brewster, of West Killingly, STILL MORE. Conn., who was the son of John Brewster ANOTHER BRANCH. To Mr. William Fayal, (6), son of Pelig Brewster (5), son of Jona- of St. Louis, 1 In Eager's "History of Orange owe County" than Brewster (4), son of Wrestling ("3), son knowledge of the following addition (1840) p. 545, there is mention of the Bit r to Brewster foresight, or perhaps of Love Brewster (2), son of the Chief of only an ster family of Orange County (Blooming the Pilgrims. evidence of early mode of life which made Grove). such things both a necessity William Collier comes with this lino, giv- "and a matter It speaks of "Anna Brewster, who was ing additional dignity to the ancestry, a of course to them: one of the many descendants in Blooming man who came as merchant in 1633, and He sent me, as my final resting place, to Grove of Elder William Brewster, and nh<- was assistant from 1630 to 1008, in- a daughter of Dr. Oliver Brewster, of had two (p. 646) brothers, Daniel and clusive. Theresa, Jefferson County, New York, who John." was a son of Elias Brewster. It is a beautiful tribute to tell of him Amy Brewster (who married Major that was the only one of the These older Brewsters, proud of their "he Company Nathaniel Strong, of Blooming Grove), w.i» blood, did sometimes try to preserve family of London Merchants who came to this a great-granddaughter of Rev. history by Nathaniel country who furnished means to fit out the visiting aged relatives, and tak- Hrewster, and was born and married in and he had something more ing word of mouth testimony as to their Mayflower, Blooming Grove, and in the family archive* than a mercenary interest in the sending forbears. registered as a descendant of Elder Will- out of the little ship. His conscience went As a result of this spirit Dr. Oliver Brew- iam Brewster. ster it, followed." (Stiles's "Wind- sought Elder Timothy Brewster, of with and he This came from Lydia Strong Howell, Ellesburg, Jefferson County, and after lis- sor.") \ whose name, as every student of historv tening to the marvels of How little he knew that he was following the past, received will recognize, covers from the Brewster trail a man's best instinct, as the future showed, lips of previous generations, came to Long Island. Collier blood, away the richer for "an iron trammel, some- and working for his own, the A little item of the greatest interest thing prior is flowing through many veins, whose descent to a crane." proper here: the little ship so honored This, too, belonged to the Elder of the was from those of "The History of the Descendants of Elder little in the present. Pilgrim band, and did good service John Strong" (p. 15) says the Strong family The "Massachusetts Historical Collec- unquestionably before the "common house" of England were originally located in was in running order. The description bV tions," third series, volume 3, Joselyn's County of Shropshire, England. "Chronology of America," published in Lon- proves its ability: This tells a story so strongly circumstan- in "A large hook at one end don, 1674, says: "1633, arrived New Eng- goes over a pole tial I that would like to call attention to it. land, Mr. Thomas Hooker, Mr. Haines and in open-air cooking; the pole held up on and while inviting correspondence ask ev.ry Mr. Cotton, ministers, and Mr. Stone and crooked sticks. At the other end is a small one who has friends abroad to Enteres! Mr. William Collier, a liberal benefactor hook for the kettle, which can be raised or themselves in the search for the possible his- to the Colony of New Plymouth, all in one lowered by means of a second notched slab tory. Edward Hopkins came from near ship." of iron, three inches wide, eighteen long.' I Shropshire, a neighboring town to Coventry, The mortar was for general use, but think this slab is mended in the middle by the home of John Hopkins. John Daven- whatever the baser needs of the day, night riveting, which shows that the repairing port, etc., and I have already told in "The sent forth the odors of Araby the Blest, as took place before our blacksmiths could Signers of the Mayflower Compact" of find- round the council fires were gathered these weld, a rather modern method." ing a pencil note giving potent, grave and reverend defenders of the John Hopkins's wife as a Strong, though to faith, who were like unto other men. What THE BIBLE. my great sor- row all my search fails of getting it again. they lacked was the ability to make their Elder Timothy remembered the Brewster At the time I saw it I had no desire for surroundings equal to former habit, and Bible; said it had a wooden cover, with authorities, so passed it by. not having what they wished, they must be Elder William Brewster's name in silver This is fine material to work on. content with what they had. letters let in the cover. "The old man, To write of surmises and arguments is Timothy, said the boys took the silver out OTHER POSSESSIONS. very hard indeed, and will not be satisfac- for buckles, knee and the book was all torn tory to those Brewster, artist, who want definite authority Miss Ada A. the whose to tatteration," but "I saw in the New for every move. Others, too, may be an- home in Kingston, Mass., has been in the York 'Sun' some years ago that the Bible noyed at having the waters again stirred in possession of the name and family for over was still in existence." regard to Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, of Long two hundred years, tells me of the orchard Mrs. Eva J. Hamilton, of Chicago, her- Island, but the hope always presents and woods at the rear of the house, the itself self a Brewster descendant, sends me the that out of the records of one family may original planting done by Brewster hands, following from the Town Clerk of Stoning- grow those of another, which dovetailing and continued from generation to genera- ton, Conn.: with it, may start the ball with anticipa- tion. "It appears from the journal of Lieut. tion of definite results. One room has not been changed, but kept Thomas Minor (wife Grace Palmer, daugh- As yet I have never found a single at- as a sort of museum. In it is an old-fash- ter of Walter and first wife) that Mrs. tempt to prove Rev. Nathaniel BreWStet U ioned mirror, said in the to have come over Lucretia Brewster was buried March 5, born in this country, ami that on the law Mayflower, and also the first rocking chair 1679, and Christopher Avery, the emi- dation I make, confirms the idea of Jona- in the colonies, made for the invalid wife of grant, March 12, 1679 (of Groton), and than Brewster's having married In-fore he Wrestling Brewster (4) by a sympathetic from memoranda of Charles Hill, the sec- took to wife the Lucretia Oldham of his- farmhand by fastening sounding boards on ond husband of Ruth Brewster Pickett." tory. the legs of a low, chair. The easy RECORDS. majority report is in favor of Na- The best pri?ed of all, however, is the thaniel Brewster as a grandson of the book of sermons used by the Elder, with Again lack of space requires the curtail- Elder's, much of the history with this tend marginal notes in his own handwriting. ing of personal records. Those now given, ency having been written before the issue There is more than a grain of possibility however, have too strong a bearing on the was considered of any more importance than tin- in regard to this book. The location is usual acceptance of Rev. Nathaniel to be natural desire to own descent from right and continuous, generations having left out. a man both distinguished and beloved, whose the one garret, and there being no changes This is the line of Mrs. Clara Mitchell achievements were written in the history of requiring the lessening of what to many Howell Lyons, who now lives in the house the Old World; whose virtue* were tale told the might appear unnecessary occupation of belonging once to her great-grandfather. a in home of his adoption. space in the transportation. John Howell, and Elizabeth Brewster, his THE OTHBB BTORT. wife. Keeping records seems to have been a To be the son of Francis Brewster, of Charles Brewster gift; theirs is the name which Clara M. H. Lyons, daughter of New Haven, involved no personal hardship: occupies everything that comes to light, at Howell, son of Major John Mitchell How it simply was not a faot as regards Rl ^ least in part, and to this trait history may ell, who was son of John Howell and Eliza- Nathaniel Hrewster. taking the tradition yet owe the clearing up of many doubts to beth Brewster, daughter of Daniel Hrew- of multitudes front every section as a foun- the records possibly quietly stored with ster, sen of Rev. Nathaniel Brewster, of dation for the statement. Edward's descendants, too content in their Brookhaven (Setauket), son of Jonathan It is only by continuous searching that 36 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. one realizes how widespread these family by the fact that in the town records of not yet been reached, and takes in some of claims are, the counterpart as to traditions Brookhaven, John's name is seldom men- the new questions aroused by recent his- coming from every section of the country. tioned, while those of Timothy and Daniel tory. It would be as impossible to eradicate the frequently occur. Anson Brewster married Louise Mudge. belief on the part of a descendant of Rev. "3. The name of Samuel is not among Their children were Caroline, Erastus, An- Nathaniel that two generations behind him the children and grandchildren mentioned son H., William Robinson, Emily and Jef- the claim was vested in the beloved Elder in Daniel's will. ferson (twins) and Edward M. as to shake the convictions of those of "In the record of Brookhaven up to 1800, William Robinson Brewster (named for Howland lineage of the Gov. Carver blood compiled by the town clerk, I have found the Pilgrim), born October 20, 1814, died flowing through their veins. the name of Timothy Brewster, or that September 1, 1893, married Eliza C. Mitch- To do this subject justice, I must copy of Daniel Brewster, affixed as town clerk ell, born December 25, 1813, died January from a letter written me in July, 1898, by to records and memoranda during the 7, 1882. Their children were: Miss Harriet Haines Brewster, of Summit, period of time extending from 1G88 to Jane T., bom July 1, 1840. She married N. J.: 1738." Mort Wakely. "The only authoritative statement that I ANOTHER SEARCHER. Edward E., born February 14, 1842, mar- have would tend indirectly to confirm your ried Sophie Myers. He died December 9, theory that Nathaniel was a son of Jona- Mr. George Lamb, of Cambridgeport, 1891. than, born in England. Mass., has a theory of two Nathaniels Margaret, born February 19, 1844, mar- "This is a statement made by my great- which naturally should be left to him to ried Lucien J. Failing, October 25, 18G3. great-great-grandfather, Samuel Brewster, place, but all will aid in the cause if they Jefferson, born May 8, 184G, married, to John Adams in the year 1777. Adams will send him every minute detail, record, April 23, 1871, Ida Philips. in his diary ('Adams Works,' II., 441), No- deed, name or address. Emily M., born January 7, 184S, married vember 17, 1777, writes as follows: This will make three earnest workers in G. I. Lish, June 25, 1872. " 'Dined Brewster's, in Orange Coun- this field, and the willingness on the part at MANY LINES. ty, State of New York. Brewster's grand- of some of the descendants to contribute father, as he tells me, was a clergyman, toward paying for an extended search is 1. Elder William Brewster. and one of the first adventurers to Plym- surely no drawback. 2. Jonathan Brewster. outh. He died at 95 years of age, a min- The "English Quarterly Magazine of 3. Benjamin Brewster. ister on Long Island; left a son, who lived Genealogy" should certainly be one means 4. Mary Brewster, married Samuel Fitch, to be above 80 and died leaving my land- of finding the descendants of Edward son of Rev. James Fitch, who came from lord, a son, who is now, I believe, between Brewster. England in 1638, and later founded the GO and 70. Everything being in the hands of guilds town of Norwich, Conn. " 'The manners of this family are exactly in those early times, some reference in the Another son, Major James Fitch, mar- like those of the New England people, a search should be had to them. ried Alice, granddaughter of Gov. William decent grace before and after meat—fine Those who have not enjoyed the privilege Bradford. poik and cabbage and turnips.' of reading the weekly records furnished in 5. Jabez Fitch, born, lived and died in "Although there may be a mistake heir the paper, would be surprised by reference Norwich, Conn. Wife 2 had four sous, there seems no as to the age of Nathaniel, to a file, and study of the lineage pub- Elisha, Asa, Peletiah, Jabez, Jr. doubt that so definite a statement made lished, to know how insensibly great his- G. Peletiah Fitch (son of Jabez), born by such an intelligent a man as was Sam- tory has been making. The limits of life 1721 in Norwich, Conn., married Eliza- uel Brewster is in the main correct. and paper space do not admit of all this beth, daughter of Samuel Burrows, of Gro- brothers (I ton, Six sons, Joseph, Chester. "Samuel Brewster had three being carried out, but it is there, to be Conn. still preserved Peletiah, Elisha, Benjamin Asa. quote from the family record known and read of all men. and Two in the handwriting of Samuel's son Timo- daughters, Lydia and Elizabeth. thy, my great-great-grandfather). ANOTHER BREWSTER. 7. Asa Fitch, son of Peletiah, married "The oldest inherited the property, and Now living on a farm about three miles Abigail Martin; three sons and four daugh- remained in Long Island. The names of from Norwich, in the town of Leedyard, ters. the other two were Henry and Timothy. the home of his fathers, is Capt. John 8. Barbara, daughter of Asa Fitch, mar- Henry settled in the town of Blooming Brewster, a man who from his own varied ried Peter Cortenius Dunlap, and had two Grove, Orange County, New York. Tim- positions of honor has had the opportunity sons and three daughters. othy lived in New York. of keeping to the front and renewing his 9. Mary, daughter of Peter Cortenius "This will account for the large number memories of the old Brewsters, who have Dunlap, married M. Simpson Culbertson of Brewster names found in Orange Coun- lived and are buried near his home. (missionary to China), of ChambersburR, 1844. Surviving children, Helen, Cor- ty, before and about 1800. Within sight is the farm where, it is said, Pa., "Argument in regard to Samuel: Jonathan Brewster lived during the time nelia, Josephine M. Rev. Simp- "I believe Samuel to have been a son of of his trading with the Indians, also the 10. Helen, daughter of M. Kip. Timothy, second son of the Rev. Nathaniel, cemetery where Jonathan and Lucretia son Culbertson, married Rev. Leonard City in China), 1865, for the following reasons: Brewster found their last resting place. of New York (now and has one daughter, Alice. "1. From Nathaniel's will, dated March ANOTHER LINE. Rev. Alexander S. Van 16, 1684-5, it would seem that John, the 11. Alice married oldest son, might have been for some time That of Mrs. Emily Brewster Lisk, of Dyck, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and had four an invalid. Romulus, N. Y., can only be given in the children, Marjorie, Leonahrd, Katrina, it involves that have "2. This supposition is further confirmed present, but names Louis Bovier. SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. n JOHN WINSLOW OF THE FORTUNE. Through no intention of his own, simply Court iu as Davis 1654— tells us, being on punishments might meet the mark the pa- as the result of circumstances beyond his the list of freemen in 1633. rent meant, they were served to the multi- control, John Window came to America on shipowner: tude, and misery loves company. the Fortune. The unworthiness of the To modern ears, This colonial law most explain come of Speedwell for an ocean trip was not per- John Winslow as a ship- ping merchant the peculiar placing out of children one sonal to him. The bon voyage was said by has a very crude sound, and when it meets, causing wonder that there should be many, the facing is known that he was considered an as Mayflower, the un- such necessity extensive one, having large connections in families of wealth and known, started for any port where religious position. with the British merchants, one looks back liberty would be accorded them and they Boston, now and recognizes that he famous for its markets, "lor might find refuge from the ills they was surely a power more that a century after the I ill in his day, importing and exporting all there W Hut knew of. of the town was for the benefit was destitute of a public mar The first important step was the start, of commerce. In ket. Provisions were brought in carts to progression and landing of the 1656, realizing his need of a broader Mayflower; the doors of the inhabitants, ami an Opin- field, they moved to Boston, the goal of his but second only to it, and a sequence which ion generally prevailed that the tendcnc} ambition, and there in a house on Jayliffe's gave reality to the colony, was the arrival of a local market was to encourage fort- lane, corner of Spring lane and Devonshire of the Fortune, bringing not only passen- stalling and raise the price of provision-" street, he started the home of his maturer gers, some of them much to be desired, but This method obtained in New Amster- years, easily located as near the present "a patent of their land, drawn up in the dam, though in part they had a collection Postoffice. name of John Pierce and associates, of the of vehicles filled with commissary stop - The deed for this property, which was date of June 1, 1621." This patent was perishable and unpcrishahle. which was lo- made out in 167$ is in the properly deposited in Pilgrim Hall, Ply- possession of cated near Jacob Leister's boose, and was the Trott family, of Niagara Falls, and I mouth, Mass. quite an approach to the Fan. nil Market, judge from STORIES. the description that it is so his- the pride of the Hub. GLOWING torically quaint as to render it a valuable A very funny record, which Where the tales of plenty and prospective shows that addition to the records of this family. after all there was a method in these r. gain came from it is hard to place definite- MARY CHILTON. strictions, is iu regard to Josias Winslow. ly, but the "Adventurers" were not minded "Sept. 28th, 1630. Mr. Josias is fined for to see their investment in the New World Romantically speaking, Mary Chilton stealing from the Indians, and condemned continue without tangible dividends, and should have married either John Alden or to forfeit his title and henceforth to be the Fortune was the bird of ill-omen, carry- Feregrine White. As the wife of either of called Josias." (Quincy's ••Boston." paire ing the means of prodding the poor Pil- them the story told of her would have no 40). prims, just rallying from the early sickness, proportions; with Alden she could have So after all Steven Hopkins shared the glory, if such it were, of being had a claim few in number left them, and most of these he never the first forfeited; the Mr. remained with in a weak and debilitated state, to the ne- to put foot on Plymouth Rock. him to the end of his days. cessity of making superhuman efforts to Then there would be no need of splitting send back by the Fortune merchantable ma- straws as to their different claims in this BOSTON. respect; however decided the honor terial as evidence of the gains to be found would Boston has its own place in the hearts be in one family. in America. of New England people: early in on hi— Peregrine White's wife would never The fate of this cargo has already been have tory it had the same value. John Winslow, chance told; the colonists, the losers in everything any of getting ahead of him. He growing to his privileges and prosperity, was, and none disputed it, the first but the honored few among the passengers; born made his home there, brought up bis chil- strong in the welcome was John Winslow. Englishman in the Pilgrim colony, and dren as nearly to his own idea a- the what accrued to him from this position There is no reading between the lines he usual parent, and then, the race being run. never hid. about this family. All is told, all is his- without any personal volition, BOOgfal by John Winslow's larger torical; they are born, christened and leave methods made this Divine decree his last resting place in of little moment. he cared their home under the proper authorities, a What for in Kings Chapel Burial Ground. connection with his family was that as he There, as clean bill of health and position accom- "Rambles in Old Boston." re- and his wife panying them. had been received as members cords : of the Old South Church on July 16, 1671, "1630 HIS MARRIAGE. pew No. 28, should be occupied by an order- Here were buried The variety of traditions hardly seems ly band of little Winslows, who would need Jacob Shcapc 1058 John Winslow M74 to warrant the suppositions as to the age no waving rod in the hands of the appoint- Mary Chilton H'.7:» of Mary Chilton, one of the passengers on ed deaconess to keep them conscious of the a passenger iu the Mayflower the Mayflower, who afterwards became requirements of the Pilgrim ritual and their and wife of John Winslow." the wife of John Winslow. proper behavior in the Old South Church. The coat of arms on the tomb If a "bright girl of twenty," as one record John Winslow was making money; the brought from England in 1083. gives no wonder the heart of this passenger times for him were prosperous. Mary had THE CHILDREN. on the Fortune was torn asunder in the the wherewithal to give the nine little As I find and as it is sent me there i> fear of her fellow-passengers and he not Winslows the best of everything, either in a difference of one in the number of children there to guard his possible interests. Still, attire or for their physical wants. So hap- allowed John and Mary Chilton Winstar. there is a saving clause, when Savage py within and without, they trudged to Either will Jo for history, and as his will gives the marriage as about 1627, and one church before their parents, mindful that is in evidence, nine children accounted for recalls that in those Pilgrim days, with the duties of the Sabbath could be increased will be sufficient to secure to the marriage James Chilton and his wife in their if they gave vent to any unseasonable hi- graves, a plentiful descent. there would be no possibility of delaying larity or sought the repose brought on by At all events, Susanna, their daughter, this marriage to such a date, had this been their internal content, while the parson was married in 16-19 Robert Latham, ami here her age. telling them of future punishment or the for the benefit of new students I will quote preordination, which rendered any good be- A well-studied account of this branch of from Savage: the Winslows places the havior of no account. marriage as on "Robert (Lathaml Cambridge. i>orh.ip-. October 12, 1624. LAWS OF THE TIMES. brother of Cary, lived two years or more True to local instincts and interests, they Perhaps these children knew, as is now with Rev. Thomas Shepard. removed to remained for years in Plymouth, living in read in Quinccy's "History of Boston," that Marshfield, where he was constable in the northern part of the town, their place in "1672, under the authority of colonial 1643. thence to Plymouth, where his mar- being called "Plain Dealing," and rendered laws, the Selectmen ordered parents to put riage took place, some of his children were dear to them as the birthplace of most of their children out to service or to indent born, and others, at his last residence in their children. No narrow life for the them out. and if they did not, the authority Bridgewater. Winslows, and John made Plymouth his had power to take them from their parents "Mitchell thinks him son of William. trial trip, occupying local positions of prom- for that purpose." "William Plymouth came in the May- inence, being representative to the General Home had many privileges, and though flower, 1620, servant to Go -*. CarTcr, only . 38 SIGNERS OP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. a youth, and in 1627 had a share in the time after my decease by my Executor or slow's two children five pounds apiece to be division of cattle, being in the lot with Overseers hereafter named. paid unto them as aforesaid. Gov. Bradford, yet was never named as Item—I give and bequeath unto my dear Item—I give unto my grandchild Mercy one of the Mayflower Company in 1620, and well beloved wife Mary Winslow the Harris, her two children, five pounds a when he was a boy under Carver's charge, use of my now dwelling house with the piece, to be paid unto them as aforesaid. and for the division of lands in 1624, with Gardens and Yards thereunto belonging for Item— I give and bequeath unto my kins- another servant of Carver's, may have and during the term of her natural life. man, Josiah Winslow, now Governor of helped John Howland to count four heads. Item—I give and bequeath unto my said New Plymouth, the sum of twenty pounds, By the discovery of Bradford's history his wife the use of all of my household goods to be paid unto him by my Overseers in right to passage in the first ship is proved. for her to dispose of as she shall think Goods. "He was of Duxbury, 1637-9, and Marsh- meet. Item—I give unto imy brother Josiah field, 1643-8, and in Bradford we see that Item— I give unto my said wife the sum Winslow, the sum of twenty pounds, to be after so long residence here, he went home of four hundred pounds in lawfull money of paid unto him by my Overseers in Goods, to England, thence to Bahamas and died of » New England to be paid unto her by my both in convenient time after my decease. starvation." Executor or Overseers hereafter named— Item— I give unto my kinswoman, Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, which in convenient time after my decease. Eleanor Baker, the daughter of my brother gives a full Latham descent, speaks of Item—After the death of my said wife I Kenelm Winslow, five pounds, to be paid Cary Latham as an uncle of Robert. give and bequeath my s'd dwelling house, her in Goods by my Overseers in conven- ANOTHER DAUGHTER. with all the land belonging to the same ient time after my decease^ Mary Winslow, born 1630, married Ed- uuto my son John Winslow, and to his heirs Item—My will is that what my estate ward Gray, January 16, 1651, a merchant forever he or they paying when they come shall amount unto more than will pay and prominent man. to possess and enjoy the same the sum of funeral charges, my debts and legacies in The oldest gravestone in Old Burial Hill, fifty pounds of lawfull money of New Eng- this, my will, given and bequeathed, it shall Plymouth, Mass., is that of Edward Gray, land unto William Payne, the son of my be divided (after the decease of my said and bears date of 1681. Daughter Sarah Middlfccott, and also to wife) among my seven children in equal Sarah, the much-married daughter of the Parnell Winslow Daughter to my Son proportions, except any one of my said House of Winslow, united her fate, first Isaac the full sum of fifty pounds of like children shall have an extraordinary Provi- with Miles Standish, the second son of the lawfull money and my Will is that both dence befall them by way o>f any eminent of great warrior Pilgrim, August 15, 1660; of the said sums be paid into the hands loss, then that part of my estate that shall next, in 1665, Tobias Payne, who came my Overseers to be improved for them un- remain as aforesaid shall 'be divided and Marriage from Jamaica and died September 12, 1669. till they come to age or day of distributed according to the prudence and Savage says "with so short notice that his with the full profit, that they make of the discretion of my Overseers hereafter said Chil- will was nuncup." same, and in case either of the named, or any two of them. dren die before they came of age or to Destiny now brought to her Hon. Richard Item—My will is that in case any of my marriage as aforesaid my will is that the Middlecot, who came from Warminster, now children shal die before my said wife Survivor of them shall then enjoy both County Wilts, England, with one son Ed- that then his or their proportion of the said the said Sums, but in case both of them ward, and, all things being equal, made her remaining estate shall be disposed to his should die before they come to age my will his second wife. or their children, if they have any; if not, is that then the said sums shall be equally then that part or parts shall be equally THE SONS. divided amongst the Daughters of my divided amongst the survivors of my said Mitchell, in the history of Bridgewater, Daughter Latham to be paid unto them as children. where he has quite a little Winslow history, they come to age or marriage as aforesaid. only gives John four sons, John, Isaac, Item—I give to Mr. Paddy's widow five Item—My Will is that my Ketch Speed- pounds as a token of my love. 1644, Benjamin, August 12, 1653, and well (whereof I am the sole owner) and Item— will is that my negro girl Jaue Joseph, but Savage adds Samuel, 1(541. the produce of the Cargo that I sent out in My (after she has served twenty years from JOHN WINSLOW'S WILL, 1673. her be (at her return to Boston) disposed the date hereof) shall be free, and that slit "In of by my Overseers hereafter named and the name of God Amen the twelfth shall serve wife during her life, and the nett produce thereof be equally divided my day of March in the year of our Lord ac- wife's decease she shall be dis- amongst my children my son John Wins- after my cording to the computation of the Church to the discretion of my low only excepted and to have no part posed of according of England one thousand six hundred and of thereof. Overseers, hereafter named, or any tw seventy-three—Anno Requi—Regis Car se- them. cundi, Angli xxxvi. I John Item— I give and bequeath unto my Son Winslow sen Item I do nominate and appoint my son Benjamin the full Sum of One hundred — of Boston in the County of Suffolk in New John Winslow the sole executor of this my England Merchant, being pounds to be paid him by my Executor or weak of Body, will and testament. Overseers hereafter named when he shall last but of sound and perfect memory praised nominate and appoint attain the age of Twenty one years. Item— I do hereby lie almighty God for the same. Knowing my loving friends, Mr. Thomas Brattle, the uncertainty Item—My Will is that if my Son Edward of this present life and Mr. William Tailer and Mr. John Winslej being desirous Winslow shall see cause to relinquish his to settle that outward Estate my overseers to see this my will performed that the Lord hath lent me, I do this said part and interest in the S'd Ketch make so far as they can, and I do hereby give my last will and Testament in Speedwell and her proceeds then my will manner and unto my said overseers five pounds apiece in form following is he shall have one quarter part of my (that is to say) First and of love. Ketch Johns Adventure his money as a token my principally I commend my Soul to almighty unto own proper use and then the said Ketch and Item—My will is that my said overseers, God my Creator hoping to receive full par- have Cargo, to be equally divided or any two of them, shall and hereby don and remission of all my sins, and sal- among my power to make sale of any part of my ves- vation through the merits of Jesus Christ other Children my Son John excepted as aforesaid to gether with sel or vessels that I have not hereby dis my Redeemer and my body to the Earth to my Son Edward from having any part in posed of, and also any other goods, wares be decently buried with such charges as to the aforesaid Ketch Cargo. merchandise for the best advantage of the Overseers of this my last Will and Tes- and and aforesaid cliildren and better payment tament, hereafter named shall be thought Item— I give and bequeath unto my my hereby given and be- meet and convenient. Grandchild Susanna Latham the Sum of of other legacy's And as touching such worldly Estate as thirty pounds in -money to be paid her at queathed. the absence the Lord hath lent me my will and mean- the day of her marriage and to the rest of Item—My will is that during overseers above ing is the same shall be employed and be- my Daughter Latham's Children I give and of my said executor my of them, have full stowed as hereafter in and by this my will bequeath unto each of them five pounds named, or any two and things re- is exprcst. apiece to be paid unto them as they shall power to act in all matters will as if he was person- Imprimis—I do revoke renounce and make come to age or the day of marriage. specting this my void all wills by me formerly made and de- Item— I give and bequeath unto my Son ally present. will is that my said clare and appoint this my last Will and Edward Grey his Children that he had by And, further, my matter or Testament. my Daughter Mary Grey the Sum of twen- executor shall not act in any respecting this, my will, without the Item—I will that all the Debts that I ty 'pounds apiece to lie paid unto them when thing consent of my said overseers, or justly owe at the time of my decease to any they come to age or the day of their re- advice and them, and that my executor shall person, or persons whatsover shall l>c well spective marriages. two of pretence whatsoever claim and truly contented and paid in convenient Item—I give unto my Son Joseph Win- not under any 39 auj more of my estate than I have hereby Richard Taylor having Mr. sustained a ment, and among the wealthy it was con- bequeathed him. good character in life was lamented in sidered important enough to send tli«- young In witness whereof I, the said John death. people to Europe that they might have Winslow, Sr., have herewith set my hand He bequeathed two handsome legacies every advantage. and seal the first day and year above to the Old Brick and Old South Church, in The mercantile spirit of New England written. John Winslow seal. and Boston. John Taylor, my grandfather, the shows in the will of John, tin- eldest son of Signed, sealed and published by John son of Richard, died at Jamaica. My John mid Mary Chilton Winslow, who left Winslow, Seur, as his last will testa- • and grandfather, John Taylor, married my a request in his will that its overseers ment, in the presence of John Jayliffe and grandmother, Ann Winslow, the youngest should see that his son, John Winslow, a John Sr. Hayward, daughter of Edward, by whom was John lad then about 14 years of age, "should be The skeptical present, with all its thor- Taylor afterwards minister at Milton; he well instructed in arithmetic and mer- oughness of intent, large business interests died aged 45. chants' accounts." The arithmetic be 1 ; 1 1 1 aspirations for wealth, has recognize:! His death is lamented as a gentleman, studied, from which so much was expected. the value of the past, if and now, as with scholar and Christian. Elizabeth, William "Mr. Wyngate's Arithmetic," is still in tin- one thought, is trudging over time and con- (my father), Rebecca and Nancy, children possession of the Trott family, of Niagara tinuing the pursuits so far as his- personal of John and Ann Taylor, were born in Falls, to whom I am indebted for copies of tory is concerned, of past ancestors. Jamaica. My great-grandmother, Eliza- John Winslow's and Mary Chilton Win time A was when word of mouth commu- beth Winslow, was just 30 years of age slow's wills. nication with the participants in the events the day after the birth of her first child, A NOTIIER TREA SURE. related gave them a real value, haudeti Edward, my great-uncle. To Mr. Marston Watson, in whose home down to posterity secure in their truth. Kenelm Winslow, one of the first ad- the chest now is, I owe its description. He The world moved then, as now, according venturers, was the father of Nathaniel, received it from his uncle, the late Benja- to the spirit of progression; the descendants and Nathaniel was father oT Kenelm (my min Marston Watson, of Boston. Mass.. of the Pilgrims took up the tales that were grandfather). He married Abigail Water- and copied for nie the inscription on the told desired to verify them. had and They man, by whom was Sarah, Abigail, Na- brass plate fastened to the chest: lived beyond the period of martyrdom, thaniel, Faith, Kenelm and Joseph. My This chest was brought to wanted be heirs in the strife, the to wear grandmother Taylor, whose maiden name Plymouth in the ship Mayflower honors claimed for their ancestors, and was Ann Winslow (after her return from Dec. 22. Ki2il. by Edward Winslow. when the age of retrospection came to Jamaica) married Kenelm Winslow, the afterwards Governor of Plymouth them, to tell to their descendants the same son of Nathaniel. Colony, and from him, through tales which delighted their youthful ears, his great-granddaughter, Elizabeth William Taylor (my father), the son of Winslow, daughter of the Hon. with the modest addition of whatever hon- John and Ann, married Faith (my mother), ors might have come to themselves. Isaac Winslow. of Marshfleld, and the daughter of Kenelm and Abigail, by wife of Benjamin Marston. Esqr.. Only doing in the present what those all- whom were William, John, Abigail, Eliza- of Salem, Essex Co.. and afterwards of ievered and looked-up-to did in the past. beth, Winslow, Joseph and Joshua. Manchester, Mass.. descended to For the records which follow I am in- The foregoing is taken from a paper said her great-grandson, Benjamin Hills, or debted to Major Francis Lowell to be written by Winslow Taylor, son to Marston Watson, of the City of Delaware, who sent me as his addition to William Taylor, of Milton, who was uncle Boston, its present possessor, who of the my department a photographic copy to my mother. N. G. has affixed this plate and inscription •'Memorials of my Progenitors, taken by (Col. Nathaniel Gilmau, of Exeter, N. H., this 20 day of June, in the year Winslow Taylor, as related by my grand- 1759-1847.) of our Lord 18.10. mother, Madam Ann Winslow, September, July 25th, 1790. COPY OF 1769." OTHER LINES. MARY CLINTON WINSLOW'S Mary Chilton was the first European female that landed on the North American The Winslow name does not figure so WILL. largely in the present as many others be- shore. She came over with her father and In the name of God Amen the thirty first longing to the Pilgrims, but the descent is mother and other adventurers to this new day o>f July in the yea re of our Lord Dl c in almost every family of the early set- settlement. One thing worthy of notice is thousand six hundred seventy and six I tlers. that her curiosity of being first on the Mary Winslow of Boston in New England Through Josiah Winslow, brother of the American strand prompted her, like a Widdow being weake of Body but sound Governor, it takes up by his marriage to young heroine, to leap out of the boat and and perfect memory praysed be Almighty Margaret Bourne, that line of ascent, which wade ashore. God for the same knowing the uncertainty brings them into collateral relation with the John Winslow, another early adventurer, of this present life and being disenuw Littles and Warrens. married the said Alary Chilton, from whom settle that outward estate the Lord hath Then, Mary Winslow. daughter of Jo- have descended a numerous and respectable Lent me I doe make this my last Will and siah and Margaret (Bourne) Winslow. mar- posterity. My grandmother, now living, Testament in manner and forme following ried 1GG2 (?) John Tracy, of Say brook. and who affords me these memoirs, is their (that is to say) First ami principally I Conn., which gives a large and well-known last surviving grandchild, in the 92d year comend my Sonle into the hands of Al- history. of her age. Edward Winslow remained in mighty God my Creator, hoi>oing to receive were Again, they are relations of the Tildens, England. His sons who came over full pardon and remission of all my sin-, and to show bow wide these early connec- Edward. John, Kenelm, Gilbert and Jo- the alone merr t- sent by (E. and Salvation through siah. Ed- tions are, I quote a note me A. Edward Winslow, the sou of of Jesus Christ my redeemer: And my grand- S.) a correspondent: "Isaac Tilden mar- ward in old England, was my Earth to. be buried in such ried for his second wife Rebecca Man. IJody to the mother Ann's father. The maiden name maimer as to my Executor hen- granddaughter of Richard Man, who is said Decent of my grandmother's grandmother was be thought meet and by Davis's 'History of Scituate,' to have after named shall Katherine Hanly, from Old England and touching Such Worldh come a youth in Elder Brewster's family convenient and as died in New England. Estate as the Lord hath Lent me my Will My grandfather's grandfather, Edward in the Mayflower, 1620. was More, afterward and meaiicing is the same shall be in- Hutchinson, was killed by the Indians at "Richard's name Scituate. 1656. ployed and bestowed as hereafter in and by Albany. My great-grandmother Winslow, called Man. He died in Ellen died the first this my Will is exprest. Impr. I doe here- the wife of Edward, whose maiden name His brother and sister by revoake renounce and make void all was Eliza Hutchinson, died aged 89. Ed- winter." HEIRLOOMS. wills by me formerly made and declaire and ward Winslow's first wife was Mary Hil- anoint this my last Will and Testament. ton, by whom was John, Sarah and Mary. John Winslow had every right to expect Item—I will that all the Debts that I Edward Winslow's second wife was Eliz- progression from bis descendants. By the justly owe to any manner of |>orson or per- abeth Hutchinson, by whom was Edward. industry which meant much personal labor sons whatsoever shall be well and truely Katherine. Elizabeth. Susannah and Ann. he had earned the position of merchant a claim to social paid or ordained to bo paid in convenient all of whom survived their mother. prince, held by birthright at time after my decease by my executor Thomas Taylor was born in the middle of precedence, and left an estate valued hereafter named. Wales and Mrs. Ann Winslow believes he flO, Gowne and Petticoat aud My Silver Bcare Item—I give and bequeath the full re "Sir Herbert Pelham, who died 1676, Bowie, and to each of her children a Silver mainder of my estate whatever it is or married Penelope West, daughter of the Cup with an handle: wherever it may De found unto my children. third Lord De La Warr (of the new crea- Also I give unto my Grandchild William Name John Winslow, Edward Winslow, tion)." Paine My Groat Silver Tankard. Joseph Winslow, Samuel Winslow, Su- This (Thomas West) third Lord De La Item—I give unto my Daughter Susaune sanne Latham and Sarah Middlecott, to be Warr was Governor and Captain-General Latham my Long Table, Six Fayned equally divided between them. of Virginia, where he died 1618. His sister. Stooles and my Groat Cupboard; a Bed- Item—I doe hereby nominate, constitute, Elizabeth West, was Sir Herbert Pelham's stead Bedd and furniture thereunto belong- authorize and appoint my trusty friend Mr. mother. ing that is in the chamber over the roome William Tailer of Boston afforesaid mer- Mrs. Josiah Winslow's mother (Penelope where I now Lye my small Silver Tank- chant the sole executor of this my last West) was accordingly a first cousin of ard; Six Silver Spoones, a case of Bottles Will and Testament: her own husband, Sir Herbert Pelham. with all my wearing apparel: (except onely In Witness Whereof I the said Mary This Thomas West, third Lord De La what I have hereby bequeathed unto my Winslow have hereunto set my hand and Warr (Delaware) was the son of Thomas Daughter Middlecott and my Grandchild scale the day and yeare first above written. West, second Lord Delaware, the son of Susanna Latham. Memorandum— I doe hereby also give and William West, first Lord De La Warr, who Item—I give and bequeath unto my bequeath unto Mr. Thomas Theher pastor died 1595 (of the first creation). of the third Church in Boston the sume of Grandchild Ann Gray that trunke of Lin- There is a beautiful ancestry beyond all five pounds in money to be pd in convenient ing that I have already delivered to her and this, but sufficient has been given for is in her possession, time after my decease by my executor, and also one Bedstead present historical purposes, only it is well Boulster her Bedd aud Pillows that are in the to know that it leads to the Pierreponts. the Mary X Winslow, (Seal.) Chamber over the Hall; also the sume of Hookers, the Collins, Edwards. lingers. ten pounds in marke money unto her within Six Burrs, Dwights, Saymours. etc.. and my Signed Sealed and Published by the above months after my desease: correspondent thinks Adam must have bet n Also will is named Mary Winslow as her last will and my that my executor shall a Hyde (!) claiming that everybody who is testament in the presence of us after the pay four pounds in mony per aun foure anybody in Connecticut and their descend- three adding of four lines as part of her will: years unto Mrs. Tappan out of the ants comes from Mr. Hyde, of Norwich. John Hand interest of my money now in Goodman Conn. Francis Harker Cleare's hands for and towards the main- A CERTAINTY. tenance of the said Ann Gray according to John Hayward ser my agreement with Mrs. Tappan. Mr Wm Tailler nominated Exr appeared The story seems a clear one, Thomas in Court pro May 1670 and his Item— I give and bequeath unto Mary renounced West, third Lord De La Warr, was one of Executorship this will Winslow, daughter of my son Edward to attests. the expedition with Somers and Gates to Ira Addington Cler Winslow my largest silver cupp with two Virginia, of which he was afterward Gover- handles and unto Sarah daughter of the Jno Hayward and John Hands made oath nor and Captain-General. On one of these said Edward, my lesser silver cup with before the Honorable Simon Bradstreet vessels went Stephen Hopkins and Edward two handles; also I give unto my said son Esq. Govr and Edwd Tyng Esq Assist 11th Brewster, son of Elder William, who ex- Edward's children six silver spoons to be July 1079 that they did see Mrs Mary Win- pected, and had paid his assessment, to be divided between them. slow signe and seale and heard her pub- of the company. Item—I give and bequeath unto my grand- lish this Instrument to be her last will and There was no chance in this, and but of disposing to child Parnell Winslow the sum of five that then shee was mind for the shipwreck the Pilgrims would have pounds, in mony to be improved by my their best understanding. Attests Ira Ad- had a sad deprivation in going without executor until he comes of age; and then dington Cler Steve Hopkins. Other non-conformists paid unto him with the improvement. By the Honorable Governor and Magis- were of the company; who they were it be- trate then in of Item—I give and bequeath unto my grand- met Boston power Adminr hooves us to find out. of all singular the child Chilton Latham the sum of five and goods Estate and Elder William Brewster had been "fright- pounds in money to be improved for him Credits of Mrs Mary Winslow late of Bos- ed back into the low countries" by Carle- ton intestate is until he comes of age and then paid to him Widdow deced granted unto ton's persistent efforts to punish him for the with the improvement. John Winslow and Richard Middlecott publishing of religious works calculated to merchts two of his sons in behalf of them- spread the spirit of religious freedom of Item—My will is that the rest of my selves and others concerned they giving spoons be divided among my grandchildren thought and action. security to Administer the 2d estate accord- according to the discretion of my daughter Naturally, the daughter of Lord De La ing to law and the declared minde of the Middlecott. Warr knew of the various members of the deced annexed and bringing in an Invento in later years easily fell into Item— I give unto my grandchild Mercy expedition, and thereof upon Harris my white rugg. her husband's (Sir Herbert Pelham's) desire as attests Ira Addington Cler Item— I give unto my grandchild Mary to cross the ocean and see for himself how 24 July Anno 1679 Pollard forty shillings in money. affairs were progressing in the New World, Simon Bradstreet Esqr Govr Item— and if any were kin judge of their pros- I give unto my grandchild Su- Edwd. Tyng Esqr sanna Latham my Petty Coate with silke perity. Joseph Dudley Esqr. } Assist Lace. Penelope Pelham's marriage to Josiah Humphry Davie Esqr. J Winslow is a "twice-told tale:" still a poet's Item—I give unto Mary Winslow, daugh- ADDITIONAL WINSLOW HISTORY. license have been taken with of ter of my sone Joseph Winslow, the sume may some confess ignor- the circumstances attending it, and born, of twenty pounds in mony to be paid out Being always ready to my is of Plymouth was, of the sume my said Sone Joseph now ance that good may come, the reward though the Governor New of his father's adoption, his owes to be improved by my executors for shown in the following record which, to in the land the said Mary and paid unto her when she my mind, has a possible development of slay in England with the first Governor of shall attaine Ihe age of eighteen years or very much history connected immediately the name, while on one of his missions, was beginning of the romance day of marriage which of them shall first with the Pilgrims, which I had not known perhaps the of his life. happen. before. . J SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 41 MORE BREWSTER RECORDS. Miss Emily Wilder Lcavitt, of Boston, pointed ensign; Capt. Jonathan Brewster, a who died March 28, 1812. in mindful of her obligations to the public, the 59th year prisoner in New York, page 59, also a jus- of his age. sends records which she secured in the tice, Vol. II., pp. 7 and 255. Vol. II. has In memory of Mrs. town clerk's office, of Blandford, Mass., Hannah Brewster, Elijah Brewster, a captain, page 532; Eli- wife "300 of Mr. Pelatiah Brewster, who miles above the house on Mt. Tom." sha, a lieutenant, page 284. Ichabod August died Blandford, Mass., Jenny 31, 1811, in the 57th year of her Brewster, of Brewster owns land near Colchester, Vol. age. Norwich, Mass., published her marriage in- II.. p. 336. In memory of Mr. tention with Jason Jones, of Blandford, From Mrs. George F. Newcomb, of New Nathan Brewster, who died Aug. 30, 1817, February 20, 1797. Haven, Mr. S. Cleveland, town clerk at aged SB. Moses Brewster, of Worthington, Mass., Preston, Conn.; Mr. L. E. Misher, The sweet of Nor- remembrance of the Juat published April 1842, to Jerusha Col- wich, Shall flourish, 20, Conn., and Carll A. Lewis, of Guil- tho' they sleep In dust hns, of Blandford. ford, Conn., have come the same list of In memory of Mrs. Dr. Joseph and Lorice Brewster, Brewsters gathered by Mr. Edward Cook, Cynthia Brewster Wife of Mr Nathan Brewster, children born in Blandford: 1. Laura. of Brewster's Neck. He says that in the who died Nov. 29, A. D. 1814. aged 30 March 10, 1788; 2. Venera, October 10, Brewster cemetery at Brewster's Neck are years. 1789; 3. Oliver. October 26, 1791; 4. Eliz- buried Mr. Jonathan Brewster, Tho' son of Elder it may seem of little weight abeth, January 6, 1794; 5. Flarra, October William, who came there from New Lon- Which of us goes before 30, 1795. don in 1650. He died in 1661, and his wife, For surely we shall shortly meet Mr. Edward S. Beckwith, of Elkhorn, Lucretia, who is also buried there, died in Never to part no more. Wis., has contributed from his section, 1671. The foot stone that marked the Mr. Cleveland further adds: "It is true writing me: "I find in the United States grave of Jonathan Brewster is still in ex- that the son of Jonathan (2), Benjamin (3) istence, the it census roll, town of Geneva, Walworth and letters on can be dis- is buried in Preston, and I do not think it County, Wisconsin, June 1, 1860, the fol- tinctly seen. Other stones have the follow- is improbable that his mother Lucretia lowing Brewsters: ing inscriptions: was. Deodat Brewster, aet. 71. born in Con- Here lies the body of Capt. Benjamin "Benjamin, as you know, being the onlv necticut. Brewster, who died April 14, 1710, aged 80. surviving son of Jonathan, and his mother Louisa Brewster, aet. 71, born in Massa- Here lies the body of Mrs. Brewster, who surviving her husband, would, I think chusetts. died May 9, 1709. (Evidently the wife of have been likely to have lived with him." Franklin Brewster, aet. 40. born in Ver- the 'above.) mont. Here lies the body of Mr. Jonathan POSSESSIONS. Laura Brewster, aet. 32, born in New Brewster, who died November 20, 1704. Why it is York. aged 40. so much easier to reach the Brewster descendants than Mary Brewster, aet. 4, born in Wiscon- In memory of Joseph Brewster, who died any other fam- ily is a mystery, but sin. October 15, 1770, in the 73d year of his age. they respond promptly and willingly to any call for their Ella Brewster, aet. 3, born in Wisconsin. Here lies ye body of Mrs. Dorothy, wife history. In this spirit Eliza Brewster, aet. 1, born in Wisconsin. of Mr. Joseph Brewster. She died April Mr. E. B. Freeman, of New York, sent The History of Walworth County, Wis- 30, 1779, in ye 77th year of her age. the following valuable informa- tion: consin, has the following: Deodat Brew- In memory of Mrs. Sarah Brewster, wife of There is ster died, Geneva, Wis.. October 28, 1881, Capt. Jabez Brewster, who departed this in the possession of his brother, life William aet. 93; Lois (Louisa) Brewster died, Ge- June the 18th, A. D. 1773, in the 23d C. Freeman, of Owego. N. Y. a Brewster neva, Wis., August, 1872. aet. 84; George year of her age. Bible, "printed in Edinburgh England, F (ranklin). Brewster, born in Vermont In memory of Miss Mary, daughter of A. D., 1663." From him I have its history. February 27, 1820, married Laura, daugh- Jonathan Brewster and Lucy, his wife. She died Dec. 31, 1778, in ye 24th year of her ter of J. G. Palmer. Children— 1. Eliza, "Mary Brewster, a direct descendant of age. 2. Frank, 3. Lulu M., 4. Grace W., 5. Elder Brewster, married Skis Freeman Fred. In memory of Capt. Jabez Brewster, who some time in the year 1700." died May 12, 1802, in the 56th year of his In the Public Records of Connecticut, This Bible was presented to her on her age. compiled by State Librarian Dr. Charles J. wedding day by her father and has passed In memory of Miss Dolly Brewster, Iloadley. LL. D., are the following: through each generation of the Freeman daughter of Capt. Jabez and Dolly Brew- Vol. 1. p. 258. Receipts for money re- family until it reached its present pos- ster, who died Nov. in the ceived through Col. Selab Hart from the 11, 1810, 20th sessor. year of her age. following captive officers are found in A sister living in Wilkesbarre owns a Lord, I commit soul to Thee; Revolutionary War. NIL, 130-181: Lieut. my pair of tramels, Mr. E. B. Freeman has a Accept the sacred trust, Benjamin Brewster, etc.. page 13; Ebenezer prayer book, and the family of the late Dr. Receive this nobler part of me Brewster to be captain in the (eight) bat- S. D. Freeman, of Smethport, Pa., have a And watch my sleeping dust. talions now ordered to be raised in this tea chest and silver buckles, all inherited State, page 15; Elisha Brewster, Jr., ap- In memory of Mr. Pelatiah Brewster, from Elder Brewster. : 42 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. HISTORICAL TANGLES—BENJAMIN FULLER PLACED. INHABITANTS DEATHS. Few courtesies extended to this depart- PROPRIETORS, NOT ment could be more acceptable to the pub- OF REHOBOTH. Page 877—Judith, died November 26, 917—Benjamin Fuller, February 7. lic than the following, sent by Mrs. F. H. Page 1753. Recorded in Rehoboth. 1689. Lovell BIRTHS. PARENTAGE OF JUDITH, FULLER. Page 613—Ezekiel, son of Benjamin and Wife of Benjamin Fuller. been made A great deal of research has Mary , February 11, 1695-6. Page 343—Daniell Smith and Ester by genealogists regarding the marriage of DEATHS. Chickering, October 20, 1659. son of Samuel (3), of Benjamin Fuller (4), Page 825—Mary, wife of Ben (!), Febru- Page 743—Daughter, Judith, born Feb- passenger on Samuel (2), of Edward (1), ary 27, 1695-6. ruary 7, 1678. the Mayflower. No record of this marriage in Rehoboth, DEATHS. While studying quite a different line, the although the birth of the son and the death Page 876—Ester, wife of Daniell Smith, record of Benjamin Fuller's marriage has of the mother sixteen days after are re- Esq., buried June 6, 1687. been discovered: corded there. REHOBOTH. INTENTIONS AND MARRIAGES. Page 877—Daniell Smith, Esq., buried VITAL RECORD OF March 5, 1724. James M. Arnold. Page 143—Benjamin Fuller and Judith Judith's mother died before her mar- Married January MARRIAGES AND INTENTIONS. Smith. Intention 1697. riage, no record of her father, Daniell 13, 1698-9. Smith, making a second marriage. Judith December 14, 1664. BIRTHS. probably went to her home in Rehoboth, Page 143—Jonathan Fuller and Eliza- Page 613—Amos, son of Benjamin and from Barnstable, with her four young chil- beth Willmot. (See note page 912.) Judith Fuller, second wife, October 25, dren and sick husband to her father's, No record of birth, showing probably 1699. Daniell Smith, whose record of death does that both came from other places. The births of not occur until twelve years after. 1. Temperance, March 7, 1702. BIRTHS. There is no doubt, I think, that as the 2. Hannah, May 20, 1704. record of the birth of James, the last child, Page 613—Jonathan, 1665, son of Jona- 3. John, December 25, 1706. is in Barnstable, 1711, and the Rehoboth than and Elizabeth Fuller. The first re- 4. James, May 1, 1711, Records give 1711-12, as the date of Ben- corded Fuller born in Rehoboth. are recorded in Barnstable. jamin Fuller's death, that the year was Page 613—Gives a long line of Fullers DEATHS. 1712, and the child James was eight from 1665 to 1700, no Benjamin, although Page 825—Benjamin Fuller, January 11, months old when Benjamin died. the names of Samuel and Matthew appear, 1711-2, showing that Benjamin Fuller re- There are more records to prove the in- which seems to be conclusive that the Re- turned to Rehoboth to die. James, the last timacy and friendship of the Fuller and hoboth and Barnstable, or Mayflower Ful- child, was born eight months before - he Smith families, but probably sufficient has lers, were closely connected. died, or four months afterward. been given. SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. SIGNERS -OF- -Tim -M^YFi^WBH COMPACT: 46 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 48 SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT. 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