THE TWINING FAMILY t_REVISED EDITIONI DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM TWINING,. SR. OF EASTHAM. MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE HE DIED 1659. \\"ITH XOTl£S OF EXGT,lSU, \\'Y.LSH AXD ~O\'A SCOTlA F.\:\IILtr:s OF THI-: XA:1.IE. l-'ONT ,Y,H":SE. l!'IPIA!'IA, CO)ll'l1.KP All'D Prnus1n:n II\' TIIO)IAS J El'l-"ENSO:S TWJNl:SG, 1'105. Twining, Thomas Jefferson, comp. The 11wining fsmily. (Rev.ed.) De­ scendants of William Twining, Sr. of Eastham, Mass., where he died 1659 ••• Fort Wayne, Ind., T.J.Twining,1905. 25l·p. · A NOBLE NAME. "l hold as reverend theme for rhyme The name that glorifies its time: A goodly heritage that will. Through fresh inheritors. distill Desire to wi'den wisdam's path. Virtue. so gi-,;en. to him who hath." "A lineage old. of lustre new. Moss-grown. yet green with latter due­ This is the glory J u:ould sing, Until 011r children's children bnirg, To match the name tliq won at birth. A name of wry present worth.'' ··He who cares nothing about his ancestors wz1/ rarely achieve anything worthy of being remembered by hi.r descendems." ··/Vo virtuousiy disposl!d mind can look back upon a long line of mJy venerable ancestors without feeling his rr.otive to a virtuaus life strengthened. He can scarcely help feeling that i1 is not for him to be the first to bnirg di'sgrac,? upon his li'nt.zge. It will. moreover. lead him to reflect that his posterity a!<;0 will bi! !ooking back and comparing his life with that of his progenitors.·· ~ l'OIIT WAVNll: PAPll:JI: AND IILAJUC f<OOX: CO, ~ t'Jl:IJl'TS1'SAlfP BIKPl!Jt: CONTENTS PACE UST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IV INTRODUCTION • V TWlNINCi NOTES XI FIRST GENERATION SECOND GENERATION 7 THIRD GENERATION 19 FOURTH GENERATION 29 FIFTH GENERATION 39 SIXTH GENERATION 74 SEVENTH-ELEVENTH GENERATION 112 ENCLISH TWININCS 210 WELSH TWYNINCS 222 NOVA SCOTIA TWININCiS 224 UNCLASSIFIED TWJNINCS 226 AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS 230 INDEX I-CHRISTIAN NAMES-TWINING 232 INDEX li - SURNAMES OTHER THAN TWININC 238 IV ILLUSTRATIONS Highland Light and Cliifs. 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 Ch~rch. Newtown 27- 34 David Twining Place 1787 37 Alice Graham and Children 40- 43 Congregational Churches of Orleans and Tolland. Mass. 47- so Barley Neck. on Pleasant Bay. Orleans 53 Friends Meeting House and Graveyard. Wrightstown. Pa. 56- 57 Washin~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 Snow•-WilJiam dnd. 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 T-,;,:ining 120-123 Elijah and Hiram Twining 125-129 Philander. Merrick and Cori:itha Twining 132-134 Rev. Edward W. Twining-Bemsley L. Twining 136-139 Rev. Harrison am: Mary Tw:ning 140 Nathan. Henry and Hattie Twining 147-148 Thomas. Dewitt, Susannah and Thomas Twining . lSl-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 ]77-180 Joseph Twining - Alfred Twining . 187-- 190 William and Rebecca T~ining-lsaac and Mary Twining 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 -Marqcis of Donegan 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-yat covering all essential s,Tound. 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. l VI THE TWI::-.ING F.\::'IIIL\." 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 hb:•oria.ns as well as antiquarians. Many his­ torical facts would remain in sedusion but for the light flashed on them by the touch of genealogy. ThPj' are important in certain legal cases where claims of inheritance are s01..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. How ever, the pride of ancestry is inborn in nearly all mankind. It is said that no nation was more careful to preserve its gene­ alogies 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 · ."c;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. In 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. In the revised work he wishes to acknowledge the kindly assistance of Mrs. Marinda S. Roberts IKirk Gen.J, Forest Grove. Penn. Mrs. Esther E. Walton. Wycombe. Penn. Geo. Lee Mahan. Stoopville. Penn. Mrs. E!·,ira Weston Cobu. Union. Maine. Smith Van Horn. Mt. Blanchard. Ohio. Mrs. John Twining Davis. Binghamton. N. Y. Mrs. Geo. Robert Twining. Gays Mills. Wis. ORIGIN OF NAMES The English historian. F're-eman, 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 TWINING FA:'IIILY VII (green fields), Holmes (meadow), Stanley (stone pasture), etc.; or (3) names dP.scripti-.•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 clan or tribe to settle in a stockaded village by itself, and all English towns whose names end in ham or ton. were Ol'iginally 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.