ANCESTRY OF JOHN S. GUSTIN AND HIS WIFE SUSAN McCOMB, INCWDI:IW AN ACCOUNT OF JOHN HUBBARD, SECOND HUSBAND OF ELINOR SHEPHERD. BY Mils. SARAH A. DEWICK. BOSTON: DAVID CLAPP & SON, 19 00, CONTENTS. ifHE MAKEPEACE FAMILY • 5 THE BROWNE FAMILY 13 ANCESTRY OF JOHNS. GusTIN (on the paternal side) 17 THE OWEN FAMILY 41 THE PRICE F AMIL y 47 ANCESTRY OF JORN S. Gus TIN ( on the maternal side) 53 CAPTAIN ELISHA SHEPHERD 55 THE SMOCK F AMIL y • 59 THE CONOVER OR VAN CouwENHOVEN FAMILY 63 THE SCHENCK FAMILY 69 JOHN HUBBARD 73 Ancestry of Susan McComb:­ THE LEGGETT FAMILY 79 OSBERNE THE SENESCHAL 95 THE MANDEVILLE, DE Rm AND Roos FAMILIES 101 RICHARD LAWREN CE 107 THE MACOMB FAMILY 117 JOHN MOTT 129 INDEX 131 THE MAKEPEACE FAMILY. MAKEPEACE F .1-\.MILY. N the history. of" Old Dorchester" the name .of 'Mr. Thomas Makepeace is among those who came in 1635, from Lon­ I don ; but the writer of the Makepeace genealogy thinks he did not come till 1637, and then from Bristol, England, because the five . Proprietors ( of whom he was one) of the Dover., N. H., and Swampscot patents were of Bristol or Shrewsbury. The proprietors were Thomas Makepeace, George Willys, Robert* Saltonstall, William "Whiting, and Edward Holyoke. The patents embraced in them from the "sea side" ( near where Portsmouth now is) "and coming round the said land by the ryver unto the Falls of Quamscot" which includes what is now Dover, N. H. Mr. Makepeace was one of the five partners who petitioned the "General Court" to have both patents, and the jurisdiction of the people dwelling within the limits of these patents, come under the government of the Massachusetts, which was granted. The History of Dorchester says : "Mr. Thomas Makepeace came in all probability in 1635. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery in 1638, and had the title of 'Mr., and appears to have been a man of some importance. Had two sons, Thomas and vVilliam." Notwithstanding the above extract, the writer of the genealogy (vVilliam Makepeace, 1857) is strongly of the opinion that Mr. Makepeace did not leave England till the year 1637, when he settled in Boston, He quotes from Belknap's History of New Hampshire which * Second son of Sir Richard, who came with some of his family to Salem in 1630. 8 GENEALOGIES. says respecting the Dover patent that "two thirds of this patent belonged to some merchants of Bristol the other third to some of Shrewsbury." And the same history says that "those of Bristol had sold their interest to the Lords Say and Broke, George vVillys and vVilliam ..Whiting," etc. As the other pro­ prietors of the patent were Mr. Makepeace, Robert Saltonstall and Edward Holyoke, he (William Makepeace) thinks Mr. Makepeace was from Bristol or vicinity, and had no connection with the "second emigration" which came from England in 1635 and settled in Dorchester. And he says: "Besides if Mr. Makepeace had been one of the settlers in Dorchester from 1635 to 1G37, would the authorities of the town of Boston, on his removal there only from Dorchester, be likely to have grant­ ed him as they did 'September 25th 1637' 'a house plot and garden place,' for him a settlement in their towne? In a book called a 'Transcript of Boston Records,' Vol. 1. p. 45, 1637 (Ci1y Clerk's Office) is the following. 'The 25th of the 7th month Sept. 1637. At a meeting, this day, of Thomas Olyvar, Thomas Leveritt, ·William Hutchinson, ..William Coulborne, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, ·w illiam Balstone, and ,James Penne ;-it is agreed that_ Mr. Thomas Makepeace shall have a house plot, and garden place.' This house and garden were in Hanover St., near Court St., and probably not far from where the Concert Hall was in 1857 ." Thomas Makepeace appears to have been a person of some importance and considerable wealth. In the " Transcript of Boston Records" is the following :- The 25 th day of the 1st month called March, 1639 Further at this meeting it appeared by a writing dated the first day of August 1(338, that Mr. John Underhill hath surrendered unto Mr. Thomas Make­ peace of Dorchester, his house in Boston, ·with :m hundred acres of upland ground at Muddy River (Brookline) and ten acres of meadow or marsh ground there, and his share of woodlands in the Islands, with a garden at the house, and another behii1d Mr. Parker's house to the quantity of half an acre and somewhat more, and also near half an acre upon the Fort Hill for the sum of an hundred pounds. From ":Massachusetts Records " : " 1641 June 2. Mr. ,T ohn Oliver, :Mr. Edward Alleyn --Willi: Parks are appointed to view, )fAKEPEACE FAMILY. 9 and settle Mr. Makepeace his farm of 200 acres." At this time, 1641, Mr. Makepeace lived in Dorchester, where he owned land. The same year he married Mrs. Elizabeth Mellowes of Boston for his second wife. In the records of the First Church, Boston, is found the following:- The 25 th day of ye 5th mon. 1641 Mrs. Elizabeth Makepeace, lately called 1\lrs. Eliza. Mellowes, but now ye wife of Mr. 1\Iakepeace Dor­ chester, was granted lve of Recommendation thether That is to the church in Dorchester. Mr. Makepeace was evidently too broad in his religious views for those times. Extract from History of Dorchester:- A church was gathered this year (1638) at Weymouth under the sanction of the proper anthorities, and Mr. Lenthial, who appeared to have been in advance of his time in liberality, caused some of the elders to suppose that he had imbibed some of the errors of Mrs. Hutchin­ son. They determ_ined to check the error in the bud, and Mr. Lenthial was therefore called before the General Court to retract his opinions, and some of his friends were punished. Some of the Dorchester people seemed to have been under mt1ch excitement about this matter, "for two of our Mr.'s, a title of no small significance in those days, were brought before the Court, and Mr. Ambrose Martin for calling the church covenant a stinki11g carrion and a human invention and saying he wondered at God's patience, feared it would end in the sharp, and said the ministers did dethrone Christ and set up themselves, was fined £10, and counselled to go to Mr. Mather to be instructed by him." Likewise Mr. Thomas :\fakepeace, because of his novel dis­ position, was informed "We were weary of him unless he re­ formed." (Writer of History.) At this day the record of the court appeared as novel to us as did to them the disposition of Mr. Makepeace. In H554 Mr. Makepeace was in the "Narraganset Expedition" against the Indians, for which he received pay from the treasury of the Massachusetts Bay. He took much interest in free schools. In 1641 he, with the other owners, conveyed the whole of the rents and profits of Thompson's Island to the town of Dorchester for the support of a free school. 10 GENEALOGIES. From the Suffolk Registry of Deeds (Book ii., p. 218) :­ Thomas Makepeace to Roger "Williams, both of Dorchester "7 acres of land (in or ni) the great neck called Dorchester Neck," &c. The consideration £21-" 13th llmo. Anno 1648." Signed and delivered THO:il'1AS MAKEPEACE, in the presence of RoGER ·WILLIAMS, Thomas Makepeace (his eldest son). This writing aoknowledged by the within named Thomas Makepeace to be his Act and deed; this 5th day of January 1655. Before me. R1: BELLINGHA3I Dept Govr Entered and recorded the 21st January 1655. Enw. RA wsoN, Recorder; Among the early records of Boston can be found the follow­ ing: "Jno Brown was marryed to Ester Makepeace, the daughter of Thomas Makepeace of Boston, 23, 2. 55. By Hum: Atherton." For an account of the marriages of his other children see the Makepeace Genealogy, page 15. Elizabeth, daughter of ,Tno. and Ester Browne, married John Gustine. ( See Gustin pedigree.) Thomas Makepeace died in Boston, January or February, 1667. His will, dated Boston, June 30, 1666, is on record in the Probate Office in Boston. This will, a very long one, can be found in thB Makepeace Geneaology, p. 15. Extracts:- " I give and bequeath unto Thomas Makepeace mine eldest sonn beyond the seas, and to his heirs forever the debt of fifty pounds which be oweth mee, for which encl I have torn off the seal of his bill, and noe more, because I have given him his portion formerly, vizt. the house and land in England, he being the heir to it which he hath long possessed." He gives to each of his daughters three pounds, and the debts their husbands owe him. To each of his grandchildren he gives ten pounds to be given to the males when they come of age ( 21 yrs.) or clay of marriage, which comes first. To the females when they come of age ( 18 yrs.) or clay of marriage, which comes first. He appoints his wife Elizabeth, daughter 1Vaitawhile, and her husband, Josiah Cooper of Boston, his executors and executrixes, and directs that after all debts clue and owed are received and paid that the rest shall be divided in three equal parts among his executors. In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seale, in Bos- MAKE.FEACE FAMILY. 11 ton, this 30th day of June, in the eighteenth yeare of the Reign of our sovereign Lord Charles the Second 3.