ED\Vj~RD JESSUP OF WEST FARMS, WESTCHESTER CO., NEW YORK, AND HIS DESCEKDANTS. Bitb an Jfnttoburtion anb an ~ppmbix : THE LATTER CONTAINING RECORDS OF OTHER AMERICAN FAMILIES OF THE NAME, WITH SOME ADDITIONAL MEMORANDA. BY REV. HENRY GRISWOLD JESUP. I set the people after their families. NEHl!MIAH iv. 13. CAMBRIDGE: l!rfbattlp llrfntcb for t)lt Su~ot, BY JOHN WILSON AND SO!i. Copyricht, 188'7, BY lbtv. HENRY Gl!.ISWOLD JESUP. ,_ , Ir - ?· 17r. TO MORRIS K. JESUP, AT WHOSE SUGGESTION THE WORK WAS UNDERTAKEN, AND \\.HOSE UNFAILING INTEREST HAS FOLLOWED IT TO . ITS COMPLETION, THIS HISTORY AND RECORD OF THE LIFE AND THE DESCENDANTS OF HIS AMERICAN ANCESTOR PREFACE. HE present work was begun in 1879 at the solicita­ T tion of MORRIS K. JESUP, EsQ., of New York city, and has been prosecuted during intervals of leisure up to the date of publication, a period of nearly eight years. The amount of time and labor involved can be justly estimated only by those who have been engaged in simi­ lar undertakings. The materials have been drawn from a great variety of sources, and their collection and arrange­ ment, the harmonizing of discrepancies, and, in extreme cases, the judicious guessz'ng at probabilities, have in­ volved more of perplexity than the ordinary reader would suppose. Records of every description, and almost with­ out number, have been examined either personally or through the officials having them in charge, and in one case as distant as Cape Town in South Africa,- records of families, churches, parishes, towns, counties, in foreign lands as well as in the United States; land records and probate records, cemetery inscriptions, local histories, and general histories, wherever accessible. The recollections Vlll Preface. of aged people have often furnished keys which have unlocked rich treasure-houses of knowledge. It is a matter of regret that so many of our aged friends who were greatly interested in these chronicles of bygone years should have passed away before being permitted to see the work completed. Of necessity much has been done by correspondence. To his large number of correspondents, more than six hundred at least, between whom and the writer several thousand letters have already passed, - both public offi­ cials and civilians, on both sides of the Atlantic, and in distant lands, - he would here make his sincere acknowl­ edgements for the aid they have rendered. A few, to whom he is under special obligations, are referred to in connection with the work done by them individually. With the exception of some names belonging to the later generations, the record is as complete as circumstances would permit. In most cases where the record is defec­ tive or doubts remain unsolved, it is because either no record was found or those who knew the facts failed to communicate them. That there are errors is very prob­ able. When three or four variations of a given date are reported, it is a matter of judgment which shall be chosen. In such cases the oldest private family record is followed. It is earnestly requested that all well-accredited corrections be furnished the writer, both for future use and in the interest of historical verity. The arrangement of the genealogical tables, it is to be hoped, will prove both simple and intelligible. The reader Preface. IX will wish readily to trace out both the ancestors and the descendants (if any) of those in whom he is interested. To enable him to do this, all who bear the fami"ly name and also the ch£ldren of married daughters are designated by a series of numbers, the emigrant ancestor being No. r. If the record of a son or daughter be brief it is given with what is said of the parents. If the head of a family be a daughter, the record of her descendants, so far as known, will form a part of the record of her own family. A plus sign (+) is prefixed to the names of chil­ dren of whom fuller histories are given farther on, where the same name and number will re-appear in heavier type, followed by the names of the father, grandfather, etc., up to that of the emigrant ancestor, when a brief count will readily determine to what generation the individual belongs. The index numbers attached to the name of father, grandfather, etc., do not designate generations as is commonly, the case, but point to a preceding part of the book where in connection with the same number the full history of the ancestor may be found. For example, on page 91 we find "+ 41. BLACKLEACH," appearing for the first time, in order of descent. Turning forward to p. 108, "41. Blackteach Jesup" appears in heavy type, in connection with his full family record, and there it is seen that he is the son of Edward,8 grandson of Ed­ 1 ward" and great-grandson of Edward , the emigrant ancestor. He is, tlien, of the fourth generation; and on pages, 41, 74, and 89 the history of his ancestors will be found, under the numbers 1, 4, and 8. X Preface. Very nearly the same arrangement is used in connec­ tion with the records of the Jessup families given in the Appendix as also in the record of the family of THOMAS HuNT, JR. given there, the latter having been prepared too late to be inserted in its proper place in Chapter First of the main body of the work. The arrangement by chapters, instead of the more common one by gener­ ations, is simply the result of the way the material came into the writer's hands, one line of investigation being completed before a second was begun. The three well­ marked families which originated with the brothers Edward, Joseph, and Jonathan, of the third generation, will doubtless be glad to find their several histories unbroken, while the mutual kinship of the various members of the three can still be traced without difficulty. So far as can be ascertained, all variations in the orthography of names have the authority of those in connection with whose records they are found. H. G. J. SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, HANOVER, N.H., 7anuary 28, 1887. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. I. RESEARCHES IN ENGLAND. PAGE Begun by Col. Joseph L. Chester, but interrupted by his death; sum­ mary of work done by him ; distribution of the name in the British Isles; social position ; early appearance in Yorkshire; sympathy of some of the name with the Puritans; Pedigree of Richard Jessop of Broom Hall and traditional connection of EDWARD JESSUP with that family ; Broom Hall, location and description ; residence there of Vicar Wilkinson ; early proprietors ; the Swift family, from whom the Hall and the patronage of the parish of Sheffield passed by mar­ riage to the Jessops; non-conformist vicars; Jessop memorials in the parish church; arms of Jessop and Swift; Judge Wm. Jessop of Broom Hall; the Rev. Francis of Treeton ; Francis of Broom Hall, the Scientist, member of the Royal Society, friend of John Ray; ex­ tracts from Ray's letters ; Jessop's scientific publications; more recent history of Broom Hall; other nearly related families of the name in Yorkshire; early home near Sheffield of the Pilgrim Fathers of New England; Francis, son of Richard Jessop, a member of the Rev. John Robinson's Church, and goes with him to Holland; York­ shire men who came to America, some of whom were at Stamford, Connecticut, with John and Edward Jessup . • • • 1-21 AddiHona! Statements bJ' the Rev. Augustus 'Jessopp, D.D.: - early English history; further account of the Broom Hall family; Francis Jessop, the Puritan, returns from Holland to England; aids Dowsing in his official visitation of the Suffolk churches ; history of his fam­ ily; record of the Jessopps of Thurmscoe; Jessops in the English counties of Derby, Notts, and Dorset; reasons for supposing the XU Contents. children of Francis, the Puritan, may have come to America ; opinion as to the derivation of the family name ; further historical items • • . • • . • . • . • • . 22-30 II. RESEARCHES IN AMERICA. Early emigrants of the name; Mr. Jessope, secretary of Lord Saye and Sele; early history of John Jessup, of Stamford, Conn., and South­ ampton, New York; later families of Thomas of North Carolina,/ William of Maryland, William of New York and Ohio, and John of Southern New Jersey, whose records are given in the Appendix . J0-33 III. THE FAMILY NAME. Its derivation: prevailing orthography in the United States ; varied orthography in early British and American records; present use as a local name in the United States . • • • • . • • • 33-40 CHAPI'ER I. EDWARD JESSUP OF WEST FARMS, N. Y., AND HIS DESCENDANTS OTHER THAN THOSE OF HIS THREE GRANDSONS. Etlwar-d "Jessup of Stamfor-d, Conn., 1649: - record of sale of land in Fairfield made by him in 1653 ; settlement of Fairfield in 1639 and Stamford in 1641; probabilities :of kinship between John and Ed­ ward Jessup, and that both were Yorkshiremen; removal of Edward to Middleborough (Newtown) N.Y.; subscribes to fund for purchas­ ing lands of the Indians; other real estate purchases; appointed magistrate; unwillingness of English on Long Island to submit to the Dutch ; Jessup sent to Boston for aid and advice; aids the Dutch in defending New Amsterdam against the Indians in 1655; the In­ dians threaten him with vengeance, as shown by the sworn declara• tion of witnesses; his petition to Governor Stuyvesant for permission to erect a tide-mill; lawsuits in Connecticut courts; unexpl~ined reference to" the widow Whitmore of Stamford" as Jessup's "moth­ er;" he subscribes to bounty for killing wolves ; Governor Stuyves­ ant's letter demanding the tithes; names Jessup with others as delinquent ; Connecticut in 1662 again claims Long Island; the Dutch sheriff arrests Christie for treason; Jessup and others attempt a rescue; Laurenson's letter to the Governor denouncing them as ..