THE PURITAN i\NCESTORS, IN AMERICA of GEORGIA ANN EASTMAN Mrs. William Morris Bennett Born, Savannah, Georgia, May 3, 183g Married, Buffalo, N. Y., June 6, 1870 Died, Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. ~ 1921 COMPILED BY Russell W. Bennett Jacksonville, Fla. 1929 •-o .. '" ;.---Ci'. ~f:I'V'< ·f- . •'(') ~,. /4-""'o.,._ '~. '-'5"'0... <- • ..,.,~-~ ► --::to,-----..._ <- C..;,o,... ·*,.oM ✓• . U:.:;0~4. CJ 1 · '~ ---==iE==~~~~~~~--~6!:..-:::-,-:1.,-- ~ ~\?~ . 1_ .i J0.5cPh' \ rLt'TCfl£.e uzAB I RANNeY . ,{)ANNt:Y t:Ll- '/IR r,-- ,11t/ H aAIL. 11 1A1f~ . '",A --~----- -·· Ap.tJI< . ~- /~c F< \ C ' · _('~~·105 ~s ;("0:~l~ J~iJ. ., - ., it. THE IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS OF GEORGIA ANN EASTMAN {Mrs. Wi 11 iam Morris Bennett) First place of residence, (or arrival), date, and where from, as far as ascertained. Andrew, Anna Roxbury, Mass. 1630 Twiwel I, Northamptonshire, Enrland Ashley, Robert Spriogf ield, Mass. 1639 Bliss, Thomas Braintree, Mass. 1635 Belstone Parisb,Devon,Englaad Blott, Robert Roxbury, Mas,. · 1631 County Esaex,Eogland Bol twood, Robert Wetbersf ield, Conn. 1648 County Essex,Eaclaad Burt, Henry Roxbury,Mass. 1638 England Chapin, Samue I Roxbury,Mass. 1635 Dartmouth, En1Iaad Ciapp,Barbara Dorchester, Mass. 1630 Sa I combe lle1 is, Eng I and Clark, John Cambridge, Maas. 1632 lp1witcb,Suffolk,En1land Coit, John Sa Iem, Mass. .- 1634 · ·G lamor1aa1bi re, Wa I es Coo I ey, Samue I Mi Iford, ·Conn. 1639 Prob. fr. Wales to Mus., 1631 Gooke, Thomas Gui I ford, Coan. 1636/9 Cooper, Thomas Boston, Masa. 1635 Eactand Cowl es, Jobu Hartford, Conn. 1635 Ensland Crane, Mar1aret Boatoa, Mass. 1636 Coaesha 11, En1 I and Crane, Margery Cambridee, Mass. 1635 London,E111laad Deminr, Elizabeth Watertown, Mass. 1634 Colcbeater,En1laod Deming, John Wethersfield, Conn. 1635 (Named in Charter of 1662) Dickinson, Nathaniel Watertown, Mass. 1634 Ely, Cambridge, Ear land Eastman, Roger Salisbury, Mass. 1638 Romsey, Hampshire, Eag I and Fitch, Thomas Saybrook,Conn. 1638 Bocking,Esaex,Enclaad Fletcher,Jobn Wethersfield, Conn. 1641 Couatj Rut laad, En1land l Foote, Nathaniel Watertown, Mass. 1634 Sbalford,Colchester,England Francis, Robert Wethersfield, Conn. 1651 Wethersfield, Conn. 1640 Gibbons, El izabetb Hartford,Conn. 1636 Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, Enc. Goodrich, Wi 11 iam, Sr. Watertown, Mass. 1643 Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Enc. Hall, John Roxbury, Mass. 1635 County Kent,Encland Harbett. Wi 11 iam New Haven Colony Harris, Wi 11 iam Charlestown, Mass. 1642 (Son of Widow Elizabeth) · Hitchcock, Luke, Sr. New Haven 1644 Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, las. Hol I ister, John Wethersfield,Conn. 1642 Ea1land Hopkins, Wi 11 iam Stratford,Conn. 1640 Horton, Thomas Wi ndaor, Conn . (Removed to SpriUEf ield 16.18) Hubbard, George Dorcbester,Masa. 1639 En1land Hubbard, Wi I I i am, Sr. lpswitch,Maas. 1635 London,En1Iand Har I burt, Thomas Saybrook 1635 Scotland Ia1ram, John Boston, Maas. Enc land (at Hadley, Mau. 1661) Ki Ibourne, Thomas Boston, Mass. 1635 Wood Ditton, Camb. Enc. Knapp, Judith lpawi tch, Mass. 1635 En1land Lamberton, George New Haven 16'1 London,Encland Lewis, Wi 11 iam, Sr. Cambridge, Mass. 1632 Co.Essex,England Lobdell, Simon (bro) Hartford,Conn. 1655 (A Boston, Masa. family) Marsh, John Cambridge, Mass. 163S Braintree,Essex,England Marvin, Mat the,,· Hartford,Conn. 1635 Gt. Bentley, Essex, Eng. Mould, Hugh New Londoo,Conn. 1660 Parke, Richard Cambridge, Ma••· 1638 Loadon,Ea1lud 2 Partridge, Wi 11 iam Hartford, Conn. 1640 Berwick-upon Tweed, Eng. Penney, Cicely Roxbury, Mass. 1635 Eng. Powel I, ,vi 11 iam Hartford, Conn. 1690 Wethersfield, Conn. Prudden, James l\U If ord, Conn. 1638 {Bro. of Rev. James Prudden) Pynchon, Wi 11 i am Roxbury, ~lass. 1630 Springfield, Essex, Eng. Ranney, Thomas Middletown, Conn. 1658 Scotland Rice, Mary Gernon Wethersfield, Conn. 1648 Eng. Rogers, Nathaniel Bos ton, ~1ass. 1636 Dedham, Essex, Eng. Root, John Farmington, Conn. 1657 Badby, Northamptonshire, Eng. Sage, David Middletown, Conn. 1650 Wales · Sheldon, Isaac Windsor, Conn .. 1651 Ashford, Derby, Eng. Smith, Samuel Watertown, Mass. 1634 Sailed from Ipswi tch, Eng. Starr, Dr. Comfort Cambridge, Mass. 1634/5 Ashford, Kent, Eng. Taylor, Rev. Edward Boston, Mass. · 1668 Sketelby, Leicestershire,. Eng. -- Terry, Samuel Springfield, Mass. 1650 Barnett(?), Eng. Tilton, William Lyon, Mass. 1640 Digby, Lincolnshire, Eng. Treat, Richard, Sr. Watertown, · Mass. 1635 Pittsminster, Somersetshire, Eng. Tuttle, Wi 11 iam Boston, Mass. 1635 Northamptonshire, Eng. Ward, Samuel Branford, Conn. (~1. in Branford Jan. 1, 1658) Ward, Stephen Wethersfield, Conn. Warner, Andrew Can1hridge, Mass. 163l Great Waltham, Essex, Eng. Watts, Richard Hartford, Conn. 1639 Way, El iezer Mass. Colony 1657 Rem. to Hartford, Conn. 1666 Webster, Gov. John Hartford, Conn. 1636 b. Glasgow, fr. Warwickshire Weld, Capt. Joseph Roxbury, Mass. 1635 Eng. 3 Wei les, Gov. Thomas Boston, Mass. 1635 Essex, Eng. White, Elder John Cambridge, Mass. 1632 Shalford, Essex, Eng. Whitfield, Rev. Henry New Haven, Conn. 1637 Ockham, Surrey, Eng. Whitmore, John Cambridge, 1\-!ass. 1638 Hitchen, Herefordshire, Eng. Woodford, Thomas Roxbury, Mass. 1632 Sailed from London, Eng. Wright, Samuel Springfield, Mass. 1639 Ke I vendon, Essex, Eng. Wyllys, Gov. George Hartford, Conn. 1638 Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, Eng. i.''• ~··. ,;, --= -~ -~~ - . c::':::.. :-- ~ I ;r -&, I, ,.,. ~ ~ 4 ''Tel I ye your children of it, and let your children tel I their children. and their children another generation." - Joel! I: 3 The immutable laws of progeniture provide that every person shall have had two parents, four grandparents, and eight great-grandparents. With each generation the number is doubled. In the tenth degree of relationship, had there been no inter-marriages between the ancestors, the number will have exceeded a thousand. In these pages the numbers shown· in connection with the names of in­ dividuals denotes the degree of relationship with the last of her name in the line, Georgia Ann Eastman, who became Mrs. William Morris Bennett, and was my mother. She is numbered l, her parents 2, grandparents 3, and in like order to the ninth and tenth degree, the first of their respective families in America. As a result of past indifference or neglect, many people are unable to trace their ancestry beyond their grandparents, or only in the line of the name they bear, to each of whom they are no more nearly related than to any other ancestor in the same degree. From each in the same degree of re- 1at i onshi p we are supposed to inherit characteristics in equal proportions, but it is a matter far more complex . than arithmetical progression. As a basis for the study of this interesting and important subject, and for such interest and benefit as may accrue to future generations, I have attempted a compilation of my mother's ancestry in America. Almost without exception the names of her ancestors in the first three generations in America are shown in "The Genealogical Dictionary of New England" by Savage .. "The Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620, 1700", by Frank R. Holmes, N. Y. 1923, is also a source of wide information. ·· Her immigrant ancestors were Puri tans. So far as has been ascertained, none of them "came in the Mayflower". The Pi lgrinw landed at Plymouth, December 21, 1620 and settled there. The Puritans began coming in ten years later. They settled the towns of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and were the first to remove to the Valley of the Connecticut. For an historical background of the early settlers from whom it is shown that Georgia Ann Eastman was descended, one may refer to the his­ tories of the settlement of Boston, Cambridge, Roxbury, Charlestown and Watertown, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and of Weathersfield, Hart­ ford, Springfield, Middletown, Hadley, and other early towns in the Con­ necticut Valley. Chapters in "The First Century of Springfield'', Middletown Upper Houses, and the History of Hadley, might almost have been written as family his• tory for the descendents of the subject of this memorial. THE FOUNDERS George Edward El I is, vice-president, Massachusetts Historical Soc1ety 1 10 the Memorial History of Boston, I: 48, says: "Thomas Foxcroft, the minister of the First Church in Boston, in a sermon preached by him on the first centennial of the settlement, thus speaks of the founders: "The initial rener- 5 at ion of New England was very much of a select and Puritanical people in the proper sense of the word. They were not ( as to the body of them) a promiscuous and hetrogeneous assemblage, but in general of a uni form charac­ ter; agreeing in the most P.x.cellent qualities. principles and tempers: Christians very much of the primitive stamp. As one of our ~vorthies of the second generation (Stoughton,in his election sermon) has aptly expresed it, 'God has sifted a whole nation, that he might s·end a choice grain over into this wilderness.' It was little of a mixed generation, in regard to their moral character and religious profession, that came over first to New England, as perhaps was ever known in the earth. They were very much of a chosen generation, collected- from a variety of places, and by a strange conduct of Divine providence agreeing in the same enterprise, to form a plantation for rel igioo in this distant part of the world. Scarce any of a profane character mingled themselves with the first-comers; and of those who came hither upon secular views, some were disheartened by the toils and difficulties they met with and soon returned, and others, finding the reformed climate disagreeable to their vitiated inclinations, took their speedy flight away. The body of the first-comers were men in their middle age or declining days, who had been inured to suffering for righteousness sake." THE LATER GENERATIONS Mother had few near relatives. She was the only child of her parents to reach maturity. Grandfather Eastman lived in Savannah, Georgia, and died there February 14, 1840, "from an affection of the liver", aged 28 years.