THE TWINING FAMILY !REVISED EDITIONI DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM TWINING, SR. OF EASTHAM. MASSACHUSETTS. WHERE HE DIED 1659. \\"ITH XOTliS OF EXGT,1S11, \\"F.LSH AXD XO\"A SCOTIA F.\:\lILtr:s 01: THI-; XA:\tE. 1-"'0HT W' A\'St:. lSOIASA, CO::'olPJt.KD ASD Peuus111-:n JI\' TIIO)IAS JEFFEHSON TWI!'-1:,,i'<i. t'l0.5. A NOBLE NAME. ••J hold as reverend theme for rhyme 1ne name that glorifies its time: A goodly hentage that will. 1nrough fresh inheritors. distill Desire to widen wisdom" s path. Virtue. so gi'.Jl!n. to hirn who hath:' "A lin1!11ge old. of lustre new. Moss-l{l'Own, yet green with latter du~­ This is the glory J u;Qu/d sing, Until our children's children bring. To match the name tliey won at birth. A name of uery present worth:· "He who cares nothing about his ancestors wz11 rarely achieve anything worthy of being remembered by h& descendents. ·• "No virtuousiy disposed mind can look back upon a long line of mdy uenerable ancestors without feeling his motive to a virtuous life strengthened. He can scarcely help feeling that it is not for him to be the first to bring disgrac,, upon his !in,.ige. It will. moreouer. lead him to refled that his posterity a!o;o will/,~ looking back and comparing his life with that of his progenitors.·· ~ FOltT WAYNE PAPEX AND B~JIIC f:OOIC CO. ~ f"IUJfTEJtSANO 81lfDl'C CONTENTS PACE UST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IV INTRODUCTION • V TWJNINC NOTES XI FIRST GENERATION SECOND GENERATION 7 THIRD GENERATION 19 FOURTH GENERATION 29 FIFTH GENERATION 39 SIXTH GENERATION 74 SEVENTH-ELEVENTH GENERATION 112 ENCLISH TWlNINCS 210 WELSH TWYNINCS 222 NOVA SCOTIA TWININCS 224 UNCLASSIFIED TWJNINCS 226 AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS 230 INDEX I -CHRISTIAN NAMES-TWlNINC, 232 INDEX II - SURNAMES OTHER THAN TWININC 238 IV ILLUSTRATIONS Highland Light and Cliffs. Cape Cod IX Map of Orleans. Mass.- Nauset Harbor and Beach XIV- 5 Town Cove. Orleans 13 Map of Newtown. 1703-""lndian Walk"" Monument 22- 25 Soring Garden Bridge -Presbyterian Church. Newtown 27- 34 David Twining Place I 787 37 Alice Graham and Children 40- 43 Ccngregational Churches of Orle2ns and Tolland. Mass. 47- 50 Barley Neck. on Pleasant Bay. Orleans 53 Friends Meeting House and Graveyard. Wrightstown. Pa. 56- 57 Washing'.on·s Headquarters- Friends Meeting House 60- 63 Susanna and Henry Twining . 69 Thomas Twining Homestead-Jared Plumb Dodge 76- 79 Levi and Lucinda Waters 82 Mary Twining Sno·w'-William and Mary Snow . 89- 90 Samuel and Rachel Wardell--Rebecca Lashier 97-100 Jacob and Priscilla Twining-David Twining 107-109 Edward and Elizabeth Atkinson I JO Magill Family. Etc.-Pres. Hadley-Wm. Twining. Etc. 115-117 Fr.mcis Barton Twining I 18 William, Alfred, Nelson and Lewis Twining 120-123 Elijah and Hiram Twining 125-129 Philander, Merrick and Corintha Twining 132-134 Rev. Edward W. Twining-Bemsley L. Twining 136-139 Rev. Harrison and Mary Twining 140 Nathan, Henry and Hattie Twining 147-148 Thomas. Dewitt. Susannah and Thomas Twining . 151-154 Charles. John. Dorcas and Charles Twining 158-165 Lucy. Wife of Mahlon Twining -Jesse Twining . 168-171 Elias and Eleanor Twining -- Smith Van H:irn 174-176 Thomas Twining-George and \Vilhelmina Mahan 177-180 Joseph Twining - Alfred Twining 187-- 190 William and Rebecca Twining-Isaac and Mary Twin.ing 194-!96 Thomas Twining 198 Jesse, Henry, Cyrus, Etc., Twining-Sara Twining 203-207 Thomas Twining-Gen. Washington and Thomas Twinir.g 217 Twining Coat-of-Arms - Marql!is of Donegall and Family 223 225 The Mayflower 229 INTRODUCTION The author began the work of collecting material relating to his an­ cestors very early in life. As a result of these researches, the "Twining­ Family"' was published in 1890. It was then presented with the intention of a future revision and enlargement, as circumstances and the trend of events might suggest. Fifteen and more years have glided by since then. and with them ad­ vancing age, which admonishes him that the cherished design should not longer be postponed. So far as known. there is no other person tracing the Twining family. generation to generation, embracing all the descend­ ants of the New England founder. William Twining; and hence, there is at least an apparent need for the present compilation. The following pages are. therefore, submitted in the confident hope that all the living who welcomed the former volume. and all other lovers of heraldry, seeking for inforrration. may. in some measure, find the new work worthy of perusal. As previously intimated, it is the fruit of many years of painstaking labor, briefly and concisely stated,-not a biography or history-y0 t covering all essential gTound. It has been a work of love. Without any compensation, except the pleasure of doing the labor. In the words of Freeman. the Cape Cod his­ torian, "We have found filially-serious satisfaction in endeavors to remove the moss of age from lineal and historic events, that the record may be legible to such as are inclined to hear.·· By far the larger portion of facts recorded herein, were obtained direct from families whose lineages comprise the book. Added to these, works on pedigree and history have been consulted by the hundreds; church and court records, Bibles. wills, family documents, and even grave­ yards have yielded witness to the treasury of names and dates found upon its pages. And last but not least. the author spent several weeks at Boston. Plymouth. Barnstable, Orleans, Eastham, Philadelphia and Bucks county. Pa .• examining the original records. tramping over grounds of the early an­ cestors. seeing their lands and places of resort. and standing by the tombs in which some have slept since long before the Revolutionary War. The revised work has extended tracings of collateral lines, but briefly noted in the former, many of whom are brought down to date. Copious selections from several English works, covering the English, Welsh and Nova Scotia families, have also a place beside the American. VI THE TWINING F.\:IIILY HERALDRY The study of heraldry Is regarded by many as dry and unprofitable, altho on enquiry into its origin and design, it will be found not only interesting, but necessary to hi!':•orians as well as antiquarians. Many his• torical facts would remain in sedusion but for the light flashed on them by the touch of genealogy. ThPy are important in certain legal cases where claims of inheritance are soi.zht to be established. At this point, we would express the thought that it s,,ems very strange that so few, who other­ wise manifest deep interest in historical works and societies, going to the extent of collecting data and relics, are so disinterested in the ancestors, the characters who made the history and fashioned and used the relics they profess to adore. However, the pride of ancestry is inborn in nearly all mankind. It is said that no nation was more careful to preserve its gene­ alo&1es than the children of Israel. Josephus informs us that he traced his own descent back some 2,000 years by means of public registers. Indeed. "the wisest and best have ever cherished regard for ancestry. and only those deserve to be remembered by posterity. who treasure up the · :,tory of their ancestors... The quest of an ancestor is the mark of that spirit that binds the heart of father and mother to their children. ln the former edition, the author was invaluably aided b~· Mrs. E. H. Atkinson. (dee.) of Wrightstown. Pa., Mrs. Mary B. Twining. of New Boston, Mass., Josiah Paine. of Harwich. Mass .. and Prof. Edw. H. Twin• ing, of Chicago. Ill. ln the revised work he wishes to acknowledge the kindly assistance of Mrs. Marinda S. Roberts !Kirk Gen./, Forest Grove. Penn. Mrs. Esther E. Walton. Wycombe. Penn. Geo. Lee Mahan. Stoopville. Penn. Mrs. Elvira Weston Cebu, Union, Maine. Smith 'Ian Horn. Mt. Blanchard. Ohio. Mrs. John Twining Davis. Binghamton. N. Y. Mrs. Geo. Robert Twining. Gays Mills. Wis. ORIGIN OF NAMES The English historian. Freeman, says there is no well ascertained hereditary surname in England before the Conquest, and that they d;d not come into use till about the middle of the 14th centu:-y. Prof. John Fiske, anothe• eminent author, says the origin of surnames is not perfectly clear. He says: "The largest and most familiar groups of surnames are either (I) patronymic, such as Johnson, Jones, Wilson. etc.; or (2) names of villages and estates, such as Washington, Frothingham, Greenough THE TWlND-G FA:llILY VII (green fields), Holmes (meadow), Stanley (stone pasture), etc.; or (3) names descripti•:e of occupations or social position. such as Mason, Car­ penter. Franklin (country squire), Baker, Thrasher. Weaver, Webster, etc." The earliest use of surnames in England, was about the 12th century. Long before that time clan names were common, and were always pat­ ronymics. At the time of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Gt. Britain (5th and 6th cen.). it was customary for a cl.m or tribe to settle in a stockaded village by itself. and all English towns whose names end in ham or ton. were originally the abode of a clan. Surnames derived from estates. or localities. appear to have been the first to become stationary. and next after them the surnames derived from occupation or office. The older. animal surnames. such as Bear. Bull, Crane. Crow, Eagle, Hawk. Lamb. Lion. Turtle and Wolf. are survivals of heathen clan names; but tha animal surnames of moderri English are largely derived from her­ aldic devices or designs placed upon banners.