RAYMOND, ABBOT, JACKSON and Allied Families Compiled By JOHN MARSHALL RAYMOND Notes on RAYMOND, ABBOT, JACKSON and Allied Families (particularly Nevers (Marshall), Buffum, Chase, Dodge, Lakeman and Shillaber) containing Ancestries of JOHN MARSHALL RAYMOND, his first wife, ANNA BELLE JACKSON, and his second wife, JENNIE ABBOT WARD together with a Register of Descendants of JOHN and MARIA (NEVERS) RAYMOND,_ WILLIAM and MARY (CHASE) BUFFUM, STEPHEN and NANCY (DODGE) ABBOT, and EBENEZER KNCMLTON and JANE (SHILLABER) LAKEMAN compiled by JOHN MARSHALL RAYMOND © John M. Raymond, 1962 Printed by Runnymede Press, Palo Al to Foreword In the early l920's I prepared certain notes on the ancestry and collateral relatives of my parents, John Marshall Raymond and Jennie Abbot (Ward) Raymond, in so far as I could learn about them from living members of the family. Jennie Abbot Raymond bad quite a few notes which she had prepared as well as certain family bibles and a small Abbot family record, all of which are now in my pos­ sesion and have proved to be valuable sources of information in compiling this work. 'lhe Ancestries. In 1952 Dr. Harriet P. Leach, an able genealogist, who bad done considerable research on the Raymond ancestry, generously furnished me copies of the results of her work. From this came the inspiration to complete the work on the Raymond side and to do the same for the Abbot side of the family. Although less complete than the Raymond and Abbot ancestries, the ancestry of the first wife of John Marshall Raymond, Anna Belle Jackson, based again on the framework of notes which Dr. Leach supplied, -s also developed. Apart from the contributions of Dr. Leach, the ancestries have been prepared from genealogical works, from town and city records as published, from the notes and family records in my possession, and from some research (although limited by requirements of time) in the Probate registries in Boston, Salem and Cambridge. Although errors may have crept in, the work has been done as completely and as carefully as this amateur genealogist knew how. The source material for the ancestral tables bas not been set forth, but in most cases the authorities cited in the notes on a particular line are the materials from which the tables were prepared, except for information from the vital records. Wherever there is a line that has not previously been traced and it is not clear from the vital records, the explanation is set forth in the notes. Where authorities differ or have been found to be in error, the conflict or error is set forth in the notes. It has been the objective to run each ancestral line to the immigrant ancestors, who are shown in capital letters in the ancestry. Those have been treated as immigrants (1) who are known to have been such, (2) who are treated by the authorities as being the founders of families in America, or (3) who were married and in America by 1640, since all such were born no later than 1625 and so few were born in New England between 1620 and 1625 that if born here it is highly improbable that they would not have been so identified. A table of such immigrant ancestors is included, arranged chronologically accord­ ing to the earliest known or demonstrable date when they appear here. A sup­ plementary table is set forth giving the ancestors with whom lines stop before reaching immigrants under the above criteria. One chart has been included to show the interesting intermarriages in the ancestry of Sarah Slade Buffum. i '.!he Format of the Ancestries, In the ancestral tables the date and place of birth appear immediately above the name, and the date and place of death immediately below it, The date and place of marriage are on the line midway between the name of the husband and that of the wife, All cities and towns are in Massachusetts unless otherwise indicated, The numbering system of the ancestry requires some explanation, John Marshall Raymond has arbitrarily been assigned number (2), and his wife, Jennie Abbot Ward, number (3). In a separate table Anna Belle Jackson has also been given the number (3). With this start, the father of every individual has been given the number which is twice the number of his child, and the mother's number is found by adding one to the number of the father. Correspondingly, the child of any male has a number one-half that of his father, and the child of any female has a number one­ half that of her husband, The wife always has a number one higher than her husband. Where the ancestor is common to two or more lines there will be two or more numbers assigned to the same individual. To illustrate, number (8) is John Raymond. His father has number (16) and his child number (4), while his wife is number (9). Another example, Jane Shillaber is number (15). Her father is number (30), and her mother number (31). Her hus­ band is number (14), one less than her own, and her child is number (7), one-half that of her husband, Again, in the ancestry of Sarah Slade (41) her father is Edward Slade (82); but he also is the father of Philip Slade (46) and so has the number (92) as well, His father, William Slade, therefore has the numbers (164) and (184); but he is also the father of Martha Slade (91) and hence also has the number (182). Generations are numbered in the order which is the reverse of the usual num­ bering. John Marshall Raymond and Jennie Abbot Ward are treated as the First Gen­ eration. Their parents are the Second Generation, and are found in the tables directly under them, The Third and Fourth Generations are OIIL the same page, the left hand column being the Raymond line and the right hand column the Abbot line. This carries through number 31. The Fifth Generation takes a whole page, with numbers from 32 to 63. While the numbering system continues the same and the designation of generations follows the same pattern, after the Fifth Generation one whole page is devoted to the ancestry of each individual of the Fifth Gen­ eration, with generations from sixth to ninth arranged as in the case of the First to Fourth Generations. Thus, the page immediately following the Fifth Generation is devoted to the ancestry of Daniel Raymond (32) and shows the Sixth to the Ninth Generations, inclusive. The immigrant ancestor of each line is reached in practically every case within nine generations. Consequently the tables are not carried further, Where there is information as to generations above the Ninth it is included in the notes pertaining to the Ninth Generation individual concerned. Numbers are assigned to every individual through the Ninth Generation, whether names are known or not,* English ancestry is given where it has been found, but, with one exception mentioned below, no attempt has been made to search for it once the immigrant ancestor has been located, '.!he Ancestry of Anna Belle Jackson is similarly compiled, *As no information was located on the ancestries of William Marshall (36) and his wife (37) sheets for the Sixth to Ninth Generations of their ancestries are omitted. ii The Notes. Asteriks against the names of individuals in the Ancestries indicate there are notes concerning such individuals. The notes contain genealogic and biographic material believed to be of general interest. '.lhey also correct errors in other works and explain obscure ancestries not heretofore traced. Each note bears the number of the person to whom it relates; notes on individuals with multiple num­ bers will be found under the lowest number. In the eight principal lines of the Raymond and Abbot ancestries (Raymond, Nevers (Marshall), Buffum, Chase, Abbot, Dodge, Lakeman and Shillaber) the notes contain genealogic data on all members of the immediate family in each generation. In the summers of 1954 and 1955 I had the opportunity to do a little research in England and devoted the time in an attempt to determine the ancestry of George Raymond of Glastonbury, Somerset, the father of John and William Raymond from whom so many of the name in America are descended. This developed into a study of all the Raymonds of Somerset and Dorset counties in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and the relationship between them. A special note on this research is included. In the course of this research it developed that the coat-of-arms usually accepted in America as the Raymond coat-of-arms apparently was not the one used by the English ancestors of John and William Raymond. I have therefore depicted the one found in use by the early Raymonde of Somerset and Dorset, and included a note regarding the same. It should be stated frankly that in a few cases relationships set forth in this work have not been established by evidence that would satisfy the stricter standards of the best genealogists. However, when this situation occurs the full evidence and reasoning is set forth in the notes so that the reader can form his own opinion of the correctness of the result reached. The Register of Descendants. The Register of Descendants of John Raymond, William Buffum, Stephen Abbot and Ebenezer Knowlton Lakeman was compiled from Raymond, Buffum, Abbot and Knowl­ ton Genealogies; from Buffum, Abbot and Shillaber family bibles, from an Abbot family record, and from my own notes and those of Jennie Abbot Raymond, all in my possession; and fran information furnished by many living members of the family.