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NOYES-GILMAN 
ANCESTRY 


BEING   A   SERIES   OF   SKETCHES,    WITH   A   CHART   OF  THE 

ANCESTORS   OF   CHARLES    PHELPS   NOYES   AND 

EMILY  H.   (oilman)  NOYES,  HIS  WIFE 


"Go  call  thy  sons,  instruct  them  what  a  debt 
They  owe  their  ancestors,  and  make  them  swear 
To  pay  it  by  transmitting  down  entire 
The  sacred  rights  to  which  themselves  were  born." 


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COPYRIGHT,    1907 
BY    CHARLES   P.    NOYES 


AUTHOR'S  NOTE 


To  My  Children: 


THIS  book  is  the  result  of  some  eighteen  years  of  research  begun  for  my 
own  pleasure  and  with  no  thought  of  pubHcation.  I  have  found  so  much, 
however,  that  is  interesting  about  your  ancestors,  especially  those  who 
bore  a  prominent  part  in  the  very  early  history  of  our  country,  that  I  am 
sure  you  would  be  deprived  of  a  great  inspiration  in  your  own  lives  if  you  had  no 
personal  acquaintance  with  them.  As  there  are  two  families  of  Noyes,  your 
uncle's  and  ours,  who  have  the  same  descent  from  all  these  ancestors,  the  number 
interested  seemed  to  warrant  publishing  my  notes  in  this  form,  which  has  been 
made  possible  only  by  the  invaluable  assistance  of  your  mother,  who  has  given 
much  time  and  thought  to  its  preparation. 

These  memoirs  of  your  ancestors  are  in  most  cases  brief,  only  enough  being 
given  to  show  when  and  where  they  lived,  their  occupation  and  public  service, 
and  so  far  as  possible  their  characteristics,  together  with  what  we  know  of  their 
wives  and  children.  Much  more  may  be  learned  regarding  many  of  them  by 
reference  to  the  authorities  given  in  the  bibliography.  The  sketches  of  your 
grandparents,  you  will  see,  are  quite  different  from  the  rest  and  are  in  narrative 
form,  fuller  and  more  personal.  This  was  done  purposely  that  you  might  know 
them  as  we  have  and  so  more  fully  appreciate  the  beauty  of  their  lives.  The 
sketch  of  your  grandfather  and  grandmother  Oilman  (136)  was  written  by  your 
mother. 

One  interesting  feature  of  my  work  has  been  the  discovery  that  so  many  of 
these  worthies  were  friends  and  associates.  For  instance,  in  Newbury  alone,  were 
living  at  the  same  time:  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2),  Nathaniel  Clarke  (139),  Henry 
SoMERBY  (140),  Edmund  Greenleaf  (140-A),  George  Little  (145),  and  Tristram 
Coffyn  (147-A),  while  through  correspondence,  intermarriage  and  public  service, 
these  men  were  in  communication  with  others  of  your  ancestors  on  both  sides, 
living  in  New  Hampshire,  Plymouth  Colony,  Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut. 


vi  AUTHOR'S  NOTE 

Unlike  the  usual  method  in  genealogical  work,  i.  e.  tracing  the  descendants 
of  an  emigrant  ancestor — the  chart  on  which  this  book  is  founded  begins  with  you 
(and  your  Noyes  cousins)  and  traces  your  ancestry.  No  names  appear  on  the  chart 
except  those  of  your  direct  ancestors,  and  in  the  sketches  these  names  are  printed 
in  capital  letters  and  numbered  for  convenience  of  reference.  Tracing  ancestry  is 
especially  difficult  because  in  some  cases  the  maiden  name  of  the  wife  cannot  be 
ascertained,  in  others  where  the  marriage  record  gives  her  complete  name,  unless 
a  will  or  some  document  of  the  kind  is  in  existence,  one  is  unable  to  find  her 

parentage.     The  seven  Elizabeths on  the  chart  are  examples  of  this.     1 

have  exhausted  every  resource  at  my  command  to  follow  out  their  lines,  but 
without  success. 

Counting  your  own  as  the  first,  we  have  the  names  of  all  your  ancestors 
for  seven  generations,  with  the  exception  of  the  surnames  of  four  wives,  three 
Elizabeths  and  one  Joanna.  The  chart  shows  nine  generations,  but  there  are 
sketches  of  some  emigrants  of  the  tenth  numbered  with  the  addition  of  A  and  B, 
and  where  we  trace  still  further  in  the  old  country,  the  notes  are  given  under 
headings  such  as  "The  Noyes  family  in  England,"  etc. 

The  numbers  on  the  chart  indicate  the  serial  number  followed  in  order 
throughout  the  book.  Numbers  i  to  7  bring  the  Noyes  ancestors  in  succession, 
then  follows  the  first  (Stanton)  intermarriage  and  so  on.  This  would  invariably 
bring  all  of  the  same  surname  together,  except  for  the  intermarriage  of  cousins. 
As  you  are  descended  from  two  children  of  Thomas  Lord  (67),  John  Sanford 
(15),  Samuel  Hyde  (75),  Nathaniel  Clarke  (139),  and  three  of  Hon.  John 
Oilman  (131),  the  numbering  is  necessarily  not  consecutive  in  all  cases. 

For  convenience  I  have  divided  the  book  into  eight  parts,  each  giving  the 
paternal  or  maternal  ancestors  of  your  grandparents. 

The  Noyes  ancestors  of  Daniel  Rogers  Noyes  (7),  your  grandfather,  were 
mainly  from  Rhode  Island,  and  many  of  them  went  there  originally  from  Boston 
on  account  of  their  sympathy  with  the  opinions  of  Anne  (Marbury)  Hutchinson 
(17).  This  line  brings  in  some  of  the  most  interesting  people  in  your  tree.  In 
six  generations  of  Noyes,  three  were  ministers  and  three  commissioned  army 
officers  who  had  active  military  service.  A  somewhat  curious  family  trait  appears 
in  nearly  every  generation  of  this  Noyes  line.  Two  brothers  marry  two  sisters 
or  a  brother  and  sister  marry  a  sister  and  brother.  This  occurred  in  the  family 
of  Rev.  James  Noyes  (3),  Captain  Thomas  Noyes  (4),  Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas 
Noyes  (6),  Daniel  Rogers  Noyes  (7)  and  in  the  family  of  your  uncle  Daniel 
Rogers  Noyes  in  the  present  generation. 

A  Noyes  genealogy  would  hardly  be  complete  without  mention  of  the 
epitaph  on   the  tomb-stone  of  Timothy  Noyes   of  Newbury,   son  of    Nicholas 


AUTHOR'S  NOTE  vii 

Noyes  and  grandson  of  Rev.  William  Noyes  (i)  of  Cholderton,  England,  which 
has  been  called  "  The  Noyes  Totem."  it  still  stands  in  the  old  grave-yard  of 
Newbury  and  the  last  lines  have  been  copied,  with  some  slight  modifications,  on 
many  other  Noyes  tombstones  throughout  New  England.     It  is  as  follows: 

"GOOD  TIMOTHY  IN 
HIS  YOUTHFVLL  DAYS 
HE  LIUED  MVCH 
VNTO  GODS  PRAYS 
WHEN  AGE  CAME  ONE 
HE  &  HIS  WIFE 
THEY  LIUED  A  HOLY 
&  A  PIOVS  LIFE 
THEREFOR  YOV  CHILDREN 
WHOS  NAMS  ARE  NOYES 
MAKE  J ESVS  CHRIST 
YOVR  ONDLY  CHOYES" 

The  Rogers  ancestry  of  Daniel  Rogers  Noyes  (7),  your  grandfather,  was 
practically  also  of  Rhode  island,  and  the  Rogers,  Sanfords  and  especially  Elder 
Pardon  Tillinghast  (65)  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  early  history  of  that 
colony.  There  has  been  a  tradition  in  the  family  that  we  are  descended  from 
John  Rogers,  the  martyr  of  Smithfield,  but  there  appears  to  be  no  foundation 
whatever  for  it,  nor  was  our  emigrant  ancestor,  James  Rogers  (37),  connected 
with  the  Ipswich  family  nor  with  that  of  the  James  Rogers  who  came  to  New 
Haven  and  whose  descendants  owned  a  Bible  believed  to  be  that  of  the  martyr 
which  is  now  treasured  in  the  archives  of  Alfred  University,  at  Alfred,  N.  Y. 

The  Lord  ancestry  of  Phoebe  Griffin  Lord  (7),  your  grandmother,  was 
of  Connecticut  and  Massachusetts.  Our  cousin,  Evelyn  (McCurdy)  Salisbury,  in 
her  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies  gives  a  full  record  of  them  all  and  my 
sketches  have  been  taken  largely  from  that  work,  with  occasional  side-lights  from 
other  authorities. 

The  Griffin  ancestry  of  Phoebe  Griffin  Lord  (7),  your  grandmother,  es- 
pecially that  of  her  great-grandmother  Phoebe  Comstock  (102),  was  difficult  to 
obtain,  and  was  found  largely  by  original  research  in  town  and  probate  records. 
That  of  Eve  Dorr  (103),  however,  was  taken  principally  from  Mrs.  Salisbury's  book. 

The  Gilman  ancestry  of  Winthrop  Sargent  Gilman  (136),  your  grand- 
father, has  been  taken  from  the  Gilman  Genealogy  by  your  uncle,  Arthur  Gil- 
man, with  some  additions  from  other  sources  not  obtainable  at  the  time  he  wrote. 
The  rest  of  that  portion  of  the  chart,  including  the  Hale,  Thing,  Ives,  Coffin 


viii  AUTHOR'S  NOTE 

and  other  families,  has  been  obtained  from  various  sources.  This  branch  of  your 
ancestry  lived  almost  entirely  in  towns  around  Boston  and  Exeter.  An  interest- 
ing date  in  this  connection  is  March  31, 1684,  when  Rev.  John  Hale  (156)  married 
(2)  Sarah  Noyes,  daughter  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2),  thus  uniting  the  two  families 
two  hundred  years  ago. 

The  RoBBiNs  ancestry  of  Winthrop  Sargent  Oilman  (136),  your  grand- 
father, was  principally  of  Massachusetts.  It  includes  a  number  of  interesting 
characters,  such  as  John  Dane,  Jr.  (171),  Governor  Thomas  Hinckley  (185), 
George  Bethune  (189)  and  the  Scotch  ancestry  of  the  latter. 

The  LiPPiNCOTT  ancestors  of  Abia  Swift  Lippincott,  your  grandmother, 
were  New  Jersey  Quakers  and  information  regarding  them  was  obtained  from  the 
old  records  of  Meetings  preserved  in  the  Friends'  Library  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and 
the  probate  records  in  the  State-House  at  Trenton,  N.J. 

The  Swift  ancestry  of  Abia  Swift  Lippincott,  your  grandmother,  was  orig- 
inally of  Plymouth  Colony  and  Massachusetts.  One  of  her  ancestors  was  Richard 
Warren  (234-A),  a  passenger  in  the  "Mayflower,"  while  the  Tuppers  and  the 
Mayhews  will  always  be  remembered  for  their  early  work  in  teaching  the  Indians 
of  Nantucket  and  Martha's  Vineyard  the  principles  of  the  Christian  religion. 

Aside  from  the  authorities  quoted  and  referred  to,  I  have  been  greatly  aided 
in  my  research  by  my  late  cousin,  Franklin  B.  Noyes  of  Stonington,  Conn.,  Miss 
Emily  Wilder  Leavitt  of  Boston  and  Charles  H.  Engle  of  Mt.  Holly,  N.  J.,  to  all  of 
whom  1  am  especially  indebted.  I  am  also  under  obligation  for  valuable  assistance 
to  \}HjTfam*^Atkins  Noyes  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  John  O.  Austin  of  Providence,  R. 
I.,  Mrs.  Caroline  E.  Robinson,  of  Wakefield,  R.  I.,  Mrs.  Harriet  Ruth  Cook,  author 
of  the  Driver  Genealogy,  Robert  Hale  Bancroft,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  Edward  Stanley 
Waters,  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  David  Pettit,  of  Beverly,  N.  J.,  Mrs.  Amelia  D. 
Stearns,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  George  A.  Taylor,  of  Albany,  New  York,  Charles  H. 
Fiske,  Jr.,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  and  Douglas  Putnam,  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  as  well  as 
to  many  members  of  our  family  circle. 

That  you  may  find  the  same  pleasure  in  the  perusal  of  this  book  that  I  have 
had  in  its  preparation,  is  the  earnest  wish  of  your  father, 

Charles  P.  Noyes. 
July,    1907 
St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 


CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Author's  Note v 

Contents ix 

List  of  Illustrations xi 

Chart  of  Ancestry xiii 

NoYEs  Ancestry  of  Daniel  Rogers  Noyes  [7] 3 

Rogers  Ancestry  of  Daniel  Rogers  Noyes  [7] 91 

Lord  Ancestry  of  Phoebe  Griffin  Lord  [7] 113 

Griffin  Ancestry  of  Phoebe  Griffin  Lord  [7] 162 

GiLMAN  Ancestry  of  WiNTHROP  Sargent  Gilman  [136] 185 

RoBBiNs  Ancestry  of  WiNTHROP  Sargent  GiLMAN  [136] 282 

LippiNcoTT  Ancestry  of  Abia  Swift  LippiNcoTT  [136] 333 

Swift  Ancestry  of  Abia  Swift  LippiNcoTT  [136] 370 

Bibliography \ 423 

Index  of  Persons,  Places,  etc 437 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

From  a  painting  of  her  children  by  Phoebe  Griffin  (Lord)  Noyes  [7]    Facing  title 

The  old  church  of  St.  Nicholas  at  Cholderton,  Eng 5 

Home  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  [2]  at  Newbury,  Mass Facing  12 

Inscription  on  the  Tombstone  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  [3] 22 

Commissions  and  Company  Roster  of  Lt. -Colonel  Thomas  Noyes  [6]     Facing  30 

Home  of  Lt.-Colonel  Thomas  Noyes  [6]  at  Westerly,  R.  1 "  32 

Facsimile  of  a  Bank  Note  of  the  Washington  Bank  of  Westerly,  R.  1.   .     "  33 

Daniel  Rogers  Noyes  [7]  and  his  wife,  from  Daguerreotypes    ..."  34 

Home  of  Daniel  Rogers  Noyes  [7]  at  Lyme,  Conn "  36 

The  Congregational  Church  of  Lyme,  Conn "  38 

Needle  work  of  Phoebe  Griffin  (Lord)  Noyes  [7] "  40 

Phoebe  Griffin  Noyes  Library  at  Lyme,  Conn.         "  42 

From  a  portrait  of  Governor  William  CoDDiNGTON  [19] "  66 

From  a  portrait  of  Honorable  Lewis  Latham "  88 

Home  of  Joseph  Lord  [72]  at  Lyme,  Conn. "  122 

From  a  Water  Color  of  Phoebe  (Griffin)  Lord  [72]         .      .      .      .      .     "  124 

Embroidery  on  linen  by  Eve  (Dorr)  Griffin  [103] "  166 

Commission  of  Judge  Joseph  GiLMAN  [134] "  198 

From  a  Portrait  of  Rebecca  (Ives)  Gilman  [134] "  200 

From  a  Pencil  Sketch  of  Fort  Harmer  by  Joseph  Gilman  [134]  ..."  202 

Silhouette  of  Judge  Joseph  Gilman  [134] "  204 


xii  LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

From  Portraits  of  Benjamin  Ives  Oilman  [135]  and  his  wife      .      .       Facing  206 

Home  of  Benjamin  Ives  Oilman  [135]  at  Marietta,  Ohio       .      .      .      .     "  208 

WiNTHROP  Sargent  Oilman  [136]  and  his  wife,  from  photographs  .      .     "  212 

Mrs.  WiNTHROP  S.  Oilman  [136]  and  two  daughters,  from  a  photograph     "  224 

Monument  of  Tristram  CoFFYN  [ 1 47-A]  in  Nantucket "  246 

Rev.  Chandler  Robbins  [167]  and  his  wife,  from  Daguerreotypes    .      .     "  286 

From  a  Portrait  in  black  and  white  of  Samuel  Prince  [181]       ..."  309 

From  a  Portrait  in  black  and  white  of  Mercy  Hinckley  [181]    ..."  310 


CHART  OF 
NOYES-GILMAN  ANCESTRY 


ANCESTRAL  CHART 

OF 

CHARLES 

PHELPS 

NOYES 


AND  OF  HIS  WIFE 

EMILY 

HOFFMAN 

(OILMAN) 

NOYES 


mm 


NOYES-GILMAN  ANCESTRY 


NOYES   ANCESTRY 

OF 

DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES 

[7] 


THE  NOYES  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

WE  begin  our  Noyes  line  of  ancestry  with  Rev.  William    Noyes  (i), 
born  in  1568,  Rector  of  the  Church  at  Cholderton,  Wiltshire,  Eng- 
land.   As  his  parentage  has  not  been  definitely  ascertained,  we  give 
the  result  of  the  researches  published  at  various  times  on  the  subject. 
The  Patronymica  Britannica  (p.  240)  says  of  the  family: 

"The  family  of  Noyes  of  Wiltshire  and  Sussex  have,  time  out  of  mind,  borne  the  same  arms 
as  that  of  Noye  of  Cornwall,  to  which  the  celebrated  Attorney-General  of  Charles  I  belonged. 
There  is  a  tradition  that  three  brothers  of  the  name  came  over  from  Normandy  about  the  time  of  the 
Conquest,  and  settled  in  the  Counties  of  Wilts,  Hants,  and  Cornwall.  The  name  is  supposed  to  be 
derived  from  Noye  or  Noyon  in  Normandy,  anciently  called 'Noyon-sur-Andelle,' but  now  Charleval, 
in  the  canton  of  Grainville,  but  there  are  several  localities  in  that  province  called  Noyers,  which 
may  have  an  equal  claim.  The  various  spellings  of  the  name  are  Noye,  de  Noye,  de  la  Noye, 
Noise,  Noys,  Noyse." 

The  Noyes  arms,  recorded  in  the  Herald's  College,  London,  are  those  of  Wil- 
liam Noy  of  Buryan,  Cornwall,  who  died  in  1593,  and  whose  grandson  was  William 
Noy,  the  Attorney-General.     These  arms  are: 

Coat,  Azure  three  crosses  botony  in  bend  Argent.     Crest,  on  a  chapeau  Azure,  turned  up  Er- 
mine, a  dove  Argent,  in  the  beak  an  olive  branch  Vert. 

This  family  is  extinct  in  the  male  line,  and  the  arms  by  inheritance  are  con- 
sequently also  extinct.  The  Sussex  branch  of  the  family  represented  by  Thomas 
Herbert  Noyes,  B.  A.,  Ch.  Ch.  Oxford,  claims  similar  arms  which  are  found  re- 
corded in  the  Archaeological  Collections  of  Sussex,  1857,  Vol.  IX,  p.  340,  but  which 
Dr.  Marshall,  Rouge  Croix,  Herald's  College,  London,  thinks  are  wrongfully  as- 
sumed, for  the  reason  that  in  the  Visitation  of  Berks  in  the  Herald's  College, 
no  arms  are  entered  with  a  partial  pedigree  of  this  branch  of  the  family. 

The  coat-of-arms  of  the  Cornwall  family  appears  on  the  tomb-stone  of  the 
Rev.  James  Noyes,  of  Stonington,  Conn.  (3),  which  was,  according  to  tradition, 
cut  in  England  about  the  year  17 19.  This  would  seem  to  show  that  both  Captain 
Thomas  Noyes  (4),  \yho  erected  the  stone,  and  his  father.  Rev.  James  Noyes  (3), 
regarded  the  arms  as  legitimately  their  own. 


4  THE  NOYES  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

While  our  connection  with  William  Noy  of  Cornwall  has  not  been  established, 
the  Cholderton  branch  of  the  family  were  evidently  of  the  same  stock  as  that  of 
Urchfort  (Urchfont),  Wilts,  and  James  Atkins  Noyes,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  who 
has  made  the  pedigree  a  study,  thinks  that  William  Noyes  of  Urchfont  was 
probably  the  great-grandfather  of  Rev.  William  Noyes,  of  Cholderton  (i). 
The  following  record  of  the  Urchfont  family  has  been  ascertained: 

I 

WILLIAM  NOYES  of  Urchfont,  Wilts,  yeoman,  was  assessed  for  the  sub- 
sidy of  ;^8o,  and  paid  £4  yearly,  in  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  years  of  the  reign 
of  Henry  VIII.  He  purchased  the  Prebend  of  Archesfronte  (Urchfont),  with  its 
dependencies,  in  1540,  from  the  Earl  of  Hertford,  afterwards  the  Protector  Somer- 
set.    This  was  at  the  time  of  the  suppression  of  the  monasteries  under  Henry  V 1 1 1 . 

His  will  is  dated  1557.     He  left  by  his  wife  Agnes ,  five  daughters  and  four 

sons.     His  sons  were: 

Robert,  see  below. 

John,  member  of  parliament  for  Calne  in  1600. 

Richard  of  Manningford  Bruce  in  the  Diocese  of  Sarum.     In  his  will  of  Feb.  2,  1590,  he  men- 
tions "the  sons  of  Robert  Noyes  of  Cholderton." 

William,  who  died  in  1596. 

ROBERT  NOYES,  son  of  William  and  Agnes  ( )  Noyes,  succeeded 

to  his  father's  estate  at  Urchfont  and  married  Joan  Attridge.  He  purchased 
in  1574  the  estate  of  Hatherdean  in  Weghill  near  Andover,  and  settled  his  eldest 
son  Robert  there  before  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1614.  He  left  Urchfont  to 
his  second  son.     His  sons  were: 

Robert,  see  below. 

William,  who  succeeded  to  the  Urchfont  estate. 

ROBERT  NOYES,  son  of  Robert  and  Joan  (Attridge)  Noyes,  is  re- 
ferred to  in  his  uncle  Richard's  will  as  "  Robert  noyes  of  Cholderton."  He 
received  from  his  father  the  estate  of  Hatherdean  in  Weghill,  near  Cholderton, 
purchased  in  1574.  He  died  in  1636  and  was  buried  in  the  chancel  of  the  An- 
dover Church.  He  left  a  numerous  family,  and  made  a  cousin,  Peter  Noyes 
of  Andover,  his  executor.  If,  as  is  conjectured,  he  was  the  grandfather  of  Rev. 
James  Noyes  (2),  of  Newbury,  Mass.,  he  was  still  living  when  his  noted  grandson 
married  and  left  his  native  country  for  New  England.  Probably  the  three 
brothers  whom  we  know  of  as  living  at  Cholderton  were  his  sons,  but  absolute 
proof  is  still  wanting.     They  are  as  follows: 

(i)  William,  born  in  1568,  married  Anne  Parker;  became  Rector  of  Cholderton  in   1601, 
and  died  in  1621. 
Robert,  born  in  1570;  styled  yeoman;  died  Jan.  20,  1659,  aged  eighty-nine,  and  was  buried 
at  Cholderton. 

Richard  also  called  yeoman;  married  Sara .     His  will  was  made  Aug.  25,    1639, 

and  the  inventory  Oct.  26,  of  the  same  year. 


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REV.  WILLIAM  NOYES  [i]  5 

REV.  WILLIAM  NOYES  [1568-1621] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ANNE  PARKER  [1575-1657] 

OF  CHOLDERTON,   ENGLAND 

ILLIAM  NOYES  was  born  in  England  about    1568,  and  was  prob- 
ably a  son  of  Robert  Noyes,  of  Cholderton,  mentioned  above.     At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  matriculated  at   University  College,  Oxford. 
The  record  there  is  as  follows: 
"Noyes,  William,  of  Wilts,  pleb.     University  College  Matric,    15   Nov.,    1588.     Aged  20. 

B.  A.  31  May,  1592.     Rector  Cholderton  Wilts,  1602."' 

He  married  about  1 595  Anne  Parker,  who  was  born  in  1 575.  She  was  a  sister 
of  Rev.  Robert  Parker,  a  non-conformist  minister,  father  of  Rev.  Thomas  Parker, 
mentioned  under  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2). 

Rev.  William  Noyes  became  rector  of  Cholderton,  according  to  the  Salis- 
bury Diocesan  Register,  in  1601. 
Cholderton  is  a  small  town  on  the 
Bourne,  eleven  miles  from  Salis- 
bury, five  from  Andover,  and  not 
far  from  Wilton  House,  the  seat  of 
the  Earl  of  Pembroke.  It  is  some- 
times called  West  Cholderton,  to  dis- 
tinguish it  from  Cholderton,  Hamp- 
shire, which  is  known  as  East  Chol- 
derton. The  present  parish  register 
was  begun  only  in  1651,  but  a  com- 
plete list  of  the  incumbents  from 
1297  is  preserved  in  the  Salisbury 
Diocesan  Register.  The  following 
records  are  taken  from  the  "  Parish 
Notes,"  published  in  1889  by  Rev. 
Edwin  P.  Barrow,  the  then  rector. 

"TheChurch  of  St.  Nicholas,  Cheldreton,  was  given  to  the  Monks  of  St.  Neots' (Huntingdon- 
shire) about  1 175  by  Roger  Burnard,  and  the  grant  was  confirmed  by  Pope  Alexander  III.  In 
1380,  1399  and  1401  John  Skylling,  lord  of  the  manor,  was  also  patron  of  the  church,  probably 
by  temporary  grants  from  the  Convent.  In  1445  it  was  again  in  St.  Neots'  Priory,  but  seems 
to  have  been  finally  alienated  to  John  Skylling  about  1449." 

Through  several  patrons  it  came  to  Sir  Thomas  Lovell,  lord  of  the  manor,  in 
1492  and  1494.  John  Thornborough  was  patron  in  1567,  and  by  him  and  Giles 
Hutchins  the  living  was  given  to  William  Noyes.     The  Advowson  now  belongs 


IHE   OLD  CHURCH  OF   ST.  NICHOLAS 
AT  CHOLDERTON 


^Voitsj's  Alumni  Oxonienses.     Vol.   i  500-1714.     p. 


REV.  WILLIAM  NOYES  [i] 


to  the  Provost  and  Fellows  of  Oriel,  Oxford,  having  come  into  their  possession  in 
1698. 

The  incumbents  from  1297  to  165 1  were: 


INCUMBENT 


1297  Stephen  le  Earon 

1305  John  Sylvester 

1306  John  de  Middleton 
1309  William  de  Gedyngton 
1324  Richard  de  Ledebury 

1 337  Richard  de  Forthyngton 

1348  Thomas  (Richard?)  Berde  de  Ledebury 

1399  Thomas  Hen  ton 

1 40 1  John  Forde 

1445  Robert  Thacham 

1449  John  Latton 

1452  John  Spencer 

1459  John  Facet 

1472  John  Graunte 

1492  William  Thorneburgh 

1494  Richard  Pemberton 

1525  Gilbert  Burton 

1567  Roger  Williams 

1 581  John  Bolde 

1 60 1  William  Noyes 

1603  William  Noyes 

1 62 1  Nathan  Noyes 

165 1  Samuel  Heskins 


Prior  of  St.  Neots 

The  Crown  (for  the  Prior) 

John  Skylling 

The  Crown  (for  the  Prior) 
Feoffees  of  John  Skylling 

John  Wynyard 
Thomas  Wayte 
Thomas  Lovell 

Anthony  Windsor 
John  Thornbrough 
Nullus  Patronus 
Giles  Hutchins ' 
George  Kingsmill 
Lord  Edward  Zouch 
Lady  Anne  Kingsmill 


In  the  time  of  Henry  VI 11  the  Rectory  was  valued  at  £\  i.ios.6d.,  and  during 
the  Commonwealth  at  ^60.  In  1536,  "Cholderton,  as  parcel  of  the  Priory  of 
Mottisfont,  was  given,  together  with  the  advowson,  in  exchange  for  other  lands, 
to  William  Sandes  Knt.  and  Dame  Margery  his  wife  and  their  heirs."  This  was 
at  the  time  of  the  sequestration  of  monasteries  having  an  income  under  ;^200.' 

Rev.  William  Noyes  became  rector  just  before  the  death  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth, and  held  the  living  until  his  death,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Nathan, 
who  was  rector  during  the  Civil  War.     The  record  reads: 

"  1651.  Mr.  Samuel  Heskins  was  by  the  Lady  Kingsmill  presented  to  the  Rectorie  of  Chold- 
rington  the  4th  day  of  December  in  the  year  165 1 — and  finding  the  parsonage-House,  the  Barne, 
stable  and  all  outhouses  out  of  Repaire  and  almost  fallen  to  the  Ground  thro'  the  neglect  of  the 

'"Ex  concessione  Johannis  Thorneborough  de  Chaddesden,  Hants,  Armigeri,  cuidam   Roberto  Noyes, 
yeoman,  de  Choldrington  et  per  eum  predicto  Egidio.     Hutchins  de  Sarum." 

'Patent  Roll  28,  Henry  8,  part   i.  P.  R.O. 


REV.  WILLIAM  NOYES  [i]  7 

former  incumbent,  [Rev.  Nathan  Noyes]  who  in  the  Civil!  Warr  was  some  years  Absent  from 
Choldrington,  and  never  after  Resident  there,  but  dwelt  at  Sarum,  because  the  parsonage-House 
at  Choldrington  was  not  Habitable,  he,  the  said  Mr.  Heskins  at  his  own  Cost  and  Charge  began 
toRepaire  and  build  up  thedwelling-House,  Barne,  Stable  and  outhouses."  The  account  of  the  mon- 
ey he  expended  is  in  the  register  which  was  begun  by  Mr. Heskins, "he  finding  none  before  that  time." 
1659.  "The  parish  Church  of  Choldrington  being  repaired,  and  the  Seats  of  ye  Church 
new  erected,  the  Seats  were  disposed  of  by  ye  Minister,  Church-warden,  Overseer,  and  other  ye 
parishioners  in  manner  following  September  24,  1659: 

The  Seats  On  Ye  North  Side  The  Seats  On  Ye  South  Side 

The  seate  adjoining  to  the  Chancel  belongeth  The  seat  adjoining  to  the  Reading  place  is  for 

to  ye  Upper  Farme.  the  Lower   Farme. 

The  nexte  seate  being  y*^  Second  fro  ye   Chan-  The  next  seate  below  is  for  the  One  Yard  Lands 

cell   belongeth   to   ye  2   Yard    Lands   and  belonging  to  Mr.   Jonathan   Hill. 

Half  of  Thomas  Rutter.  The  next  seate  below  the  former  is  for  the  Half 

The  next  seate  being  y^  3''  is  for  the  One  Yard  Yard  Lands  of  John  Beamon  and  for  the 

Lands  belonging  to  Robert  Noyes.  House  in  Hold  Close. 

The  next  Seate  belowe  is  for  the  Lower  Farme.  The  next  seate  below  is  for  the  yard  Lands  r.f 

The  next  seate  thereunto  is  for  ye  2  yard  Lands  Mr.  Hill. 

and  Half  of  Thomas  Rutter.  The  next  seate  below  is  for  the  Half  Yard  Lands 

The  next  seate  thereto  is  for  ye  one  yard  Lands  of  John    Beamon  and  for   the   House    in 

of  Robert  Noyes.  Hold  Close. 

The  lowest  seate  behinde  the  Church  door  is  The   Lowest   seate   next   to   the  Church   doore 

for    such    women     of    ye    parish    as    the  is  for  such   women   of  the  parish   as   the 

minister  and  Churchwarden  shall  adjudgfit  minister  and  Churchwarden  shall  adjudg  fit 

to  sit  there.  to  sitt  there. 

The  3   uppermost   seats  on   this   side   are  for  The  3   uppermost  seats   on   this  side    are    for 

men  and  ye  other  for  women.  men  and  the  other  for  women." 

The  old  church  is  described  by  Sir  Richard  Colt  Hoare  in  Modern  IVilts,  as 
a  "small  and  very  mean  structure,"  its  dimensions  being  40  ft.  2  in.  by  16  ft.  3  in. 
The  old  bell,  which  is  in  the  belfry  of  the  present  church,  is  described  in  Lukis' 
Some  Account  of  Church  Bells,  as  a  Pre-Reformation  bell.  It  has  inscribed  on  it 
"  Sancta  Anna,"  and  used  to  hang  in  a  sort  of  niche  at  the  west  end. 

When  Rev.  Thomas  Mozley  was  rector  of  the  parish  (1836-1847),  he  pro- 
posed to  the  Vestry  in  1840,  to  build  a  new  church,  making  himself  responsible 
for  the  whole  cost.  He  contributed  more  than  ;£5,ooo,  which  was  almost  entirely 
the  proceeds  of  his  well-known  books.  The  old  church  was  then  pulled  down, 
and  all  the  associations  for  the  Noyes  family  on  this  side  of  the  water  were  de- 
stroyed. 

In  the  Record  Book,  begun,  as  we  have  remarked,  by  Rev.  Samuel  Heskins 
about  165 1,  the  earliest  recorded  baptism  is  that  of  Joan,  daughter  of  Edmund  Noyes 
May  25,  1652,  and  a  terrier  or  inventory  of  the  property  belonging  to  the  Rectory, 
dated  Dec.  13,  1677,  is  signed  by  Richard  Noyes,  Edward  Noyes,  and  others, 
showing  that  the  family  still  lived  in  the  Parish  after  the  Restoration.  In  1662, 
is  a  record  reading  "The  King  [Charles  II]  wishes  Robert  Reade  of  Cholderton  to 


8  REV.    WILLIAM     NOYES  [i] 

be  apprehended  and  examined  on  Edw.  Jasper's  information."'  As  Robert 
Read  was  the  residuary  legatee  and  sole  executor  named  in  Anne  Noyes'  will, 
given  below,  we  would  like  very  much  to  know  what  the  "information"  was. 

Rev.  William  Noyes  died  probably  in  1621,  at  the  age  of  fifty-three,  some 
years  before  the  emigration  of  his  son.  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2)  to  New  England. 
The  entry  of  his  death  in  the  Parish  Register,  where  it  is  given  as  1616,  made  many 
years  after,  is  evidently  incorrect.  He  died  intestate.  The  inventory  of  his 
estate  was  made  April  30,  1622,  and  his  widow  Anne,  was  appointed  administra- 
trix. May  28th  of  the  same  year.^ 

Anne  (Parker)  Noyes  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-two,  and  was  buried  at 
Cholderton,  March  7,  1657.  Her  will,  dated  March  18,  1655,  and  proved  April  21, 
1658,  reads  as  follows: 

"I  give  and  bequeath  to  James  and  Nicholas  Noyes  my  two  sons,  now  in  New  England, 
twelve  pence  apiece  and  to  such  children  as  they  have  living  twelve  pence  apiece.  To  my  son 
in  law  Thomas  Kent  of  Upper  Wallop  twelve  pence,  to  his  wife  five  shillings  and  to  their  children 
trr^lve  pence  apiece.  To  Robert  Read  of  Cholderton  in  the  Co.  of  Southampton,  gen'  all  the  rest 
and  residue.  .  .  .  and  1  do  make  the  said  Robert  Rede  the  sole  executor."  ' 

Children  of  Rev.  William  and  Anne  (Parker)  Noyes 

Ephraim,  born  in    1596;  married Parnell;  lived  at  Orcheston,  St.   Mary,  and  was 

styled  Mr.   Ephraim  Noyes;  was  buried  at  Cholderton,  Oct.  28,    1659.     His  will 
was  dated  Oct.  5,  1659,  and  was  proved  July  24,  1660. 

Nathan,  born  in   1597;  married  Mary ;    matriculated  at  Lincoln  College,  Oxford, 

May  19,  161 5,  and  received  his  B.  A.  Oct.  26,  1616;  in  1622  succeeded  his  father  as 
rector  of  Cholderton,  but  during  the  Civil  War  lived  at  Sarum.  He  was  buried  at 
Salisbury,  and  the  inscription  on  his  tomb  reads:  "Here  lyeth  interred  the  body 
of  Mr.  Nathan  Noyes,  a  godly,  painful  and  constant  preacher  of  God's  word,  at  West 
Choldrington  in  this  county  for  the  space  of  32  yeares,  who  departed  this  Life  the 
6th  day  of  September  An  Do  165 1.  His  age  was  neare  54  yeares."  His  will  was  dated 
Aug.  28,  165 1,  and  proved  Nov.  18,  of  the  same  year,  by  his  widow  Mary. 
(2)  James,  born  in  1608;  married  in  1633,  in  England,  Sarah  Brown,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Brown,  of  Southampton,  England;  died  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  Oct.  22,  1656. 

,  a  daughter  married  Thomas  Kent,  of  Upper  Wallop,  Wiltshire. 

Nicholas,  born  in   161 5/6;  married  about  1640,  Mary  Cutting,  daughter   of    Captain  John 

and  Mary  ( )  Cutting,  of  Newbury,  Mass.;*  emigrated  to  New  England  in 

1633  with  his  brother  James;  was  deacon    of  the  First  Church  of  Newbury,  and 
deputy  in  1660,  1679,  1680,  and  1681.     He  died  at  Newbury,  Nov.  23,  1701. 

John,  married  and  lived  in  Newton,  Wiltshire;  was  mentioned  in  his  brother's  Ephraim's  will. 

^Calendar  of  State  Papers  Charles  II.     1662. 

'Court  of  Archdeacon  of  Sarum. 

'Water's  Genealogical  Gleanings.     II,  1013. 

■•In  1663  "Nicholas  Noyes' wife,  Hugh  March's  wife  and  William  Chandler's  wife  were  each  presented 
[to  the  Court]  for  wearing  a  silk  hood  and  scarf  ;  but  were  discharged  on  proof  that  their  husbands  were 
worth  .^200.  each."     Coffin's  History  oj  Newbury,  58. 


REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [2]  9 

[2]  REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [1608-1656] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

SARAH   BROWN  [.  .  .  .-1691] 

OF    ENGLAND    AND   NEWBURY,    MASS. 

JAMES  NOYES,  "the  blessed  light  of  Newbury,"  son  of  Rev.  William  and 
Anne  (Parker)  Noyes  (i),  was  born  Oct.  22,  1608,  at  Cholderton,  England, 
while  his  father  was  rector  there.  When  only  thirteen  or  fourteen  years 
of  age,  his  father  died,  and  a  few  years  later,  Aug.  22,  1627,  he  matriculated 
at  Brazenose  College.  He  did  not  graduate,  as  he  was  called  away  by  his  cousin 
Thomas  Parker  to  teach  in  the  Free  School  at  Newbury,  England. 

Soon  after  this.  Sir  Richard  Saltonstall,  Henry  Sewall,  Richard  and  Stephen 
Drummer,  and  others,  were  organizing  a  colony  for  the  purpose  of  stock-raising  in 
New  England,  and  they  interested  in  their  enterprise  many  Wiltshire  men.  These, 
with  Rev.  Thomas  Parker'  as  their  spiritual  guide  and  teacher,  became  the 
nucleus  of  the  colony,  and  through  their  cousin,  both  James,  then  but  twenty-five, 
and  his  younger  brother  Nicholas,  joined  the  colony. 

Before  emigrating,  James  Noyes  married,  in  1633,  Sarah  Brown,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Brown  (10),  of  Southampton,  England.  In  the  spring  of  1633/4 
the  Colonists  were  ready  to  embark,  but  the  ships,  nine  in  number,  were  de- 
tained at  the  last  moment  to  receive  the  new  orders  in  regard  to  passengers.  The 
ship-masters  were  required  to  furnish  bonds  of  ;^ioo  each  as  a  guarantee  that  they 
would  "putt  in  Execucion  these  Articles."     Two  of  them  read  as  follows: 

"  That  they  cause  the  Prayers  estabhshed  in  the  Church  of  England  to  be  said  daily  at 
the  usual  hours  of  Morning  and  Evening  Prayers,  and  that  they  cause  all  Persons  on  board  said 
Ships  to  be  present  at  the  same.  .  .  .  That  they  do  not  receive  aboard  or  transport  any  person 
that  hath  not  a  certificate  from  the  officers  of  the  Port  where  he  is  to  embark  that  he  hath 
taken  both  the  Oathes  of  Alleigeance  and  Supremacy." 

The  two  ships,  "Mary  and  John,"  and  the  "Hercules,"  held  the  little  colony 
from  Wiltshire.     The  cattle  and  those  in  charge  of  them  sailed  in  the  "  Hercules," 
while  among  the  passengers  in  the  "Mary  and  John,"  Robert  Sayres,  master,  the 
following  are  registered  as  having  taken  the  oath. 
"Nicholas  Noyce  took  the  oath  24  March,  1633. 

,  X,  [  took  the  oath  26  March,  \6^^." 

James  Noyce      \  ■'■' 

Besides  these,  on  the  ship  were  James  Barker  (29),  with  his  son  James  (30), 
and  Nicholas  Easton,  Philip  Fowler  (253  C),  and  Christopher  Osgood  (253  B). 

They  arrived  in  Boston  in  May,  1634,  and  Mr.  Parker  and  most  of  the  Wilt- 
shire people  went  directly  to  Agawam  (Ipswich).    There  they  joined  with  others 

'  Rev.  Thomas  Parker,  the  rehgious  leader  of  this  colony,  had  been  driven  away  from  Oxford  on 
account  of  his  father.  Rev.  Robert  Parlier's  non-conformity  with  the  forms  of  the  Church  of  England.  He 
studied  awhile  in  Ireland,  then  went  over  to  Leyden  and  finished  his  education  in  the  University  of  Holland 


10  REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [2] 

in  the  new  settlement  on  the  Quascacunguen  (now  Parker)  River,  just  north  of 
Ipswich,  and  named  the  new  town  Newbury,  from  Newbury,  England,  where  Mr. 
Parker  had  preached,  in  the  History  of  New  England  known  as  iVonder  IVorking 
Providence  of  S ion's  Saviour,  by  Edward  Johnson,  printed  in  London  in  1654,  he 
makes  this  mention  of  Rev.  James  Noyes: 

"In  the  latter  end  of  this  yeare  (1634)  two  sincere  servants  of  Christ  inabled  by  him  with 
gifts  to  declare  his  minde  unto  his  people,  came  over  this  broad  Ocean,  and  began  to  build  the 
Tenth  Church  of  Christ  at  a  Towne  called  Newbery,  their  names  being  Mr.  James  Noise  and  Mr. 
Thomas  Parker,  somewhat  differing  from  all  the  former,  and  after  mentioned  Churches  in  the 
preheminence  of  their  Presbytery,  and  it  were  to  be  wished  that  all  persons  who  have  had  any 
hand  in  those  hot  contentions  which  have  fallen  out  since,  about  Presbyterian  and  Independent 
Government  in  Churches,  would  have  looked  on  this  Example,  comparing  it  with  Word  of  God,  and 
assuredly  it  would  have  stayed  (all  the  godly  at  least)  of  either  part  from  such  unworthy  express- 
ions as  have  passed  to  the  grief  of  many  of  God's  people." 

The  following  sketch  of  Rev.  James  Noyes'  life  is  taken  from  Mather's  Mag- 
nalia,  and  was  written  by  his  nephew.  Rev.  Nicholas  Noyes,  minister  at  Salem. 
Rev.  Cotton  Mather  says  of  it:  "The  account  in  his  own  words  is  too  elegant  and 
expressive  to  need  any  alteration." 

"Mr.  James  Noyes  was  born  1608  at  Choulderton  in  Wiltshire  of  godly  and  worthy  parents. 
His  father  was  minister  of  the  same  town,  a  very  learned  man,  the  schoolmaster  of  Mr.  Thomas 
Parker.  His  mother  was  sister  to  the  learned  Mr.  Robert  Parker,  and  he  had  much  of  his  education 
and  tutorage  under  Mr.  Thomas  Parker.  He  was  called  by  him  from  Brazen-Nose-College  in  Oxford 
to  help  him  in  teaching  the  free  school  at  Newberry,  where  they  taught  school  together  till  the 
time  they  came  to  New  England.  He  was  converted  in  his  youth  by  the  ministry  of  Dr.  Twiss 
and  Mr.  Thomas  Parker,  and  was  admired  for  his  piety  and  his  vertue  in  his  younger  years.  The 
reason  of  his  coming  to  New  England  was,  because  he  could  not  comply  with  the  ceremonies  of 
the  Church  of  England.  He  was  married  in  England  to  Mrs.  Sarah  Brown,  the  eldest  daughter 
of  Mr.  Joseph  Brown  of  Southampton,  not  long  before  he  came  to  New  England,  which  was  in  the 
year   1634. 

In  the  same  ship,  came  Mr.  Thomas  Parker,  Mr.  James  Noyes  and  a  younger  brother  of  his, 
Mr.  Nicholas  Noyes,  who  then  was  a  single  man:  between  whom  there  was  more  than  ordinary  en- 
dearment of  aflFection,  which  was  never  shaken  or  broken  but  by  death.  Mr.  Parker  and  Mr. 
James  Noyes,  and  others  that  came  over  with  them,  fasted  and  prayed  together  many  times  be- 
fore they  undertook  this  voyage;  and  on  the  sea  Mr.  Parker  and  Mr.  Noyes  preached  or  expounded, 
one  in  the  forenoon,  the  other  in  the  afternoon,  every  day  during  the  voyage,  unless  some  extra- 
ordinary thing  intervened;  and  were  abundant  in  prayer. 

When  they  arrived  Mr.  Parker  was  first  called  to  preach  at  Ipswich  and  Mr.  Noyes  at  Mis- 
tick,  at  which  places  they  continued  nigh  a  year.  He  had  a  motion  made  unto  him  to  be  minister 
at  Watertown;  but  Mr.  Parker  and  others  of  his  brethren  and  acquaintance  settling  at  Newbury, 
and  gathering  the  tenth  of  the  churches  in  the  colony,  and  calling  Mr.  Noyes  to  be  the  teacher  ' 

'  In  answer  to  enquiries  from  ministers  in  England  as  to  the  distinction  between  pastors  and  teachers, 
the  following  was  written  in  August,  1639,  by  some  New  England  ministers;  "The  teacher  is  principally  to  attend 
upon  points  of  knowledge  and  doctrine  though  not  without  application,  and  therefore  his  work  is  thus  expressed 
'let  him  attend  upon  teaching,'  but  the  Pastor's  principal  duty  is  to  preach  'on  points  of  practice  though  not 
without  doctrine'  and  hence  his  work  is  'to  attend  on  exhortation'."  Hist.  First  Church  Hartjord,  Ci.  (1885),  3. 


REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [2]  n 

of  it,  he  preferred  that  place:  being  lothe  to  be  separated  from  Mr.  Pari<er  and  brethren  that  had 
so  often  fasted  and  prayed  together,  both  in  England  and  on  the  Atlantic  sea.  So  he  became  the 
teacher  of  that  church,  and  continued  painful  and  successful  in  that  station  something  above 
twenty  years  without  any  considerable  trouble  in  the  church.  Notwithstanding  his  principles 
as  to  discipline  were  something  differing  from  many  of  the  brethren,  there  was  much  condescension 
on  both  parts,  that  peace  and  order  was  not  interrupted.  He  was  very  much  loved  and  honored 
in  Newbury:  his  memory  is  precious  there  to  this  day,  and  his  catechism  (which  is  a  publick  and 
standing  testimony  of  his  understanding  and  orthodoxy  in  the  principles  of  religion)  is  publickly 
and  privately  used  in  that  church  and  town  hitherto.  He  was  very  learned  in  the  tongues  and  in 
Greek  excelled  most.  He  was  much  read  in  the  fathers  and  the  schoolmen,  and  he  was  much 
esteemed  by  his  brethren  in  the  ministry.  Twice  he  was  called  by  Mr.  Wilson  and  others  to 
preach  in  the  time  when  the  Antinomian  principles  were  in  danger  of  prevailing,  which  he  did  with 
good  success  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  those  that  invited  him.'  Mr.  Wilson  dearly  loved  him. 
His  conversation  was  so  unquestionably  godly,  that  they  who  differed  from  him  in  smaller  mat- 
ters, as  to  discipline,  held  a  most  amicable  correspondence  with  him,  and  had  an  high  estimation 
of  him.  Although  he  was  very  averse  to  the  ceremonies  of  the  Church  of  England,  accounting 
them  needless  many  ways  offensive  and  hurtful  at  the  best,  and  the  rigorous  imposition  of  them 
abominable  and  intolerable,  so  that  he  left  England  for  their  sake;  yet  he  was  not  equally  averse 
to  Episcopacy,  but  was  in  opinion  for  Episcopus  Praeses  [a  presiding  bishop]  though  not  Episcopus 
Princeps  [a  lord  Bishop].  His  own  words  testify  this,  for  he  so  wrote:  'It  seemeth  he  that  was 
called  Antistes  Praepositus  (the  presiding  Priest)  the  Bishop  in  a  Presbytery,  by  process  of  time  was 
only  called  Bishop,  though  all  elders  are  also  according  to  their  office  essentially  Bishops  and  differ- 
ing only  in  gradual  jurisdiction.'  He  no  ways  approved  of  a  governing  vote  in  the  fraternity,  but 
took  their  consent  in  a  silential  way.  He  held  ecclesiastical  councils  so  far  authoritative  and 
binding,  that  no  particular  elder  or  society  might  seem  to  have  independency  and  sovereignty 
or  the  major  part  of  them  have  liberty  to  sin  with  impunity.  He  was  equally  afraid  of  ceremonies 
and  of  schism,  and  when  he  fled  from  ceremonies  he  was  afraid  of  being  guilty  of  schism.  For  that 
reason  he  was  jealous  (if  not  too  jealous)  of  particular  church  covenants;  yet  he  accounted  them 
adjuncts  of  the  covenant  of  grace.  He  held  profession  of  faith  and  repentance  and  subjection 
to  the  ordinances,  to  be  the  rule  of  admission  into  church  fellowship:  and  that  such  as  show  a  will- 
ingness to  repent  and  be  baptized  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  without  known  dissimulation  are 
to  be  admitted  thereto,  and  that  it  depended  more  on  God's  providence,  than  his  ordinances,  to 
render  ch.  members  sound  in  faith:  and  that  God  took  into  covenant  some  that  were  vessels  of 
wrath,-  as  for  other  ends,  so  to  facilitate  the  conversion  of  their  elect  children. 

Hewas  as  religious  at  home  as  abroad,  in  his  family  and  in  secret,  as  he  was  publickly:  and 
they  that  best  knew  him,  most  loved  and  esteemed  him.  Mr.  Parker  and  he  kept  a  private  fast 
once  a  month  so  long  as  they  lived  together,  and  Mr.  Parker  after  his  death  till  his  own  departure. 

Mr.  Noyes  bitterly  lamented  the  death  of  K.  Charles  I,  and  both  he  and  Mr.  Parker  too  had 
too  great  expectations  of  K.Charles  1 1,  but  Mr.  Parker  lived  to  see  his  expectations  of  K.Charles 
n  frustrated. 

He  had  a  long  and  tedious  sickness  which  he  bore  patiently  and  cheerfully:  and  he  died 
joyfully  in  the  48th  yr.  of  his  age,  Oct  22,  1656.  He  left  6  sons  &  two  daughters,  all  of  which  lived 
to  be  married  and  have  children,  though  since  one  son  &  one  daughter  be  dead.  He  hath  now 
living  56  children,  grandchildren,  and  great-grandchildren. 

There  was  the  greatest  amity,  intimacy,  unanimity,  yea,  unity  imaginable  between  Mr. 
Parker  and  Mr.  Noyes.  So  unshaken  was  their  friendship,  nothing  but  death  was  able  to  part  them. 
'For  further  allusion  to  the  Antinomian  controversy,  see  (17). 


12  REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [2] 

They  taught  in  one  school:  came  over  in  one  ship:  were  pastor  and  teacher  in  one  church:  and  Mr. 
Parker  continuing  in  ceUbacy,  they  hved  in  one  house,  till  death  separated  them  for  a  time;  but 
they  are  both  now  together  in  one  heaven,  as  they  that  best  knew  them  have  all  possible  reason  to 
be  perswaded.  Mr.  Parker  continued  in  his  house  as  long  as  he  lived:  and  as  he  received  a  great 
deal  of  kindness  &  respect  there,  so  he  showed  a  great  deal  of  kindness  in  the  educating  of  his  ch. 
and  was  very  liberal  to  that  family  during  his  life  and  at  his  death. 

Mr.  Parker  and  Mr.  Noyes  were  excellent  singers,  both  of  them:  and  were  extraordinary 
delighted  in  singing  of  psalms.  They  sang  4  times  a  day  in  the  publick  worship  and  always  just 
after  evening  prayers  in  the  family,  where  reading  the  scriptures,  expounding  and  praying  were 
the  other  constant  exercises.  Mr.  Parker  and  Mr.  Noyes  were  of  the  same  opinion  with  Dr.  Owen 
about  the  Sabbath:  yet  in  practice,  were  strict  observers  of  the  evening  after  it." 

Rev.  Thomas  Parker,  his  cousin,  who  outlived  him,  quaintly  describes  him 
in  these  words: 

"Mr.  James  Noyes,  my  worthy  colleague  in  the  ministry  of  the  Gospel,  was  a  man  of  singular 
qualifications,  in  piety  excelling,  an  implacable  enemy  to  all  heresy  and  schism,  and  a  most  able 
warrior  against  the  same.  He  was  of  a  reaching  and  ready  apprehension,  a  large  invention,  a  most 
profound  judgment,  a  rare  and  tenacious  and  comprehensive  memory,  fixed  and  unmovable  in 
his  grounded  conceptions,  without  all  passion  or  provoking  language.  And  as  he  was  a  notable 
disputant,  so  he  never  would  provoke  his  adversary,  saving  by  the  short  knocke  and  a  heavy  weight 
of  argument.  He  was  of  so  loving  and  compassionate  and  humble  carriage,  that  I  believe  any  were 
acquainted  with  him  but  did  desire  the  continuance  of  his  society  and  acquaintance.  He  was  res- 
olute for  truth,  and  in  defence  thereof  had  no  respect  for  any  persons.  He  was  a  most  excellent 
counsellor  in  doubts,  and  could  strike  at  a  hair's  breadth,  like  the  Benjamites,  and  expedite  the 
entangled  out  of  the  briars.  He  was  courageous  in  dangers,  and  still  was  apt  to  believe  the  best, 
and  made  fair  weather  in  a  storm.  He  was  much  honored  and  esteemed  in  the  country,  and  his 
death  was  much  bewailed.     I  think  he  may  be  reckoned  among  the  greatest  worthies  of  this  age."  ' 

About  1646,  Rev.  James  Noyes  built  a  house  now  standing  on  what  is 
known  as  Parker  Street,  in  which  he  and  his  cousin  Thomas  Parker,  who  remain- 
ed unmarried,  lived  for  the  rest  of  their  lives,  and  which  has  remained  in  the 
possession  of  the  family  ever  since. 

When  the  writer  visited  the  old  house  in  iSgi.it  was  in  excellent  condition, 
and  belonged  to  Horace  P.  Noyes,  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  whose  daughters  still 
occupy  it  as  a  summer  home.  It  originally  had  a  small  entry  with  three  large 
rooms  on  the  first  floor,  and  above,  chambers  of  the  same  size.  The  chimney, 
in  the  center  of  the  house,  was  ten  by  twelve  feet  square,  and  a  number  of  years 
ago  had  been  cut  into  on  the  first  floor  to  make  room  for  a  closet,  when  the  masons 
found  a  large  open  space  leading  down  into  the  cellar,  with  a  doorway  which  had 
been  bricked  up.  It  had  been,  perhaps,  a  secret  closet  where  money  and  valuables 
were  placed  for  safe-keeping.  The  steep  roof  gave  a  large  attic,  where  they  used 
to  store  corn.  On  measuring  one  of  the  oak  roofing-timbers,  the  writer  found 
it  eighteen  inches  square,  and  hewed  out  by  hand.  The  house  first  passed  to 
Colonel  Thomas  Noyes,  then  to  his  son  Stephen,  and  to  his  grandson  Eben,  who  sold 

'Mather's  Magnalia,  I,  487. 


THE    OLD    NOYES    HOUSE    AT    NEWBURY,    MASS. 

HOME    OF    REV.    JAMES    NOYES    [l] 

BUILT    ABOUT     1 646 


REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [2]  13 

it  to  a  cousin,  Silas  Noyes,  who  was  fifth  in  the  regular  descent.     Silas  died  there 
September  18,  1870,  aged  eighty-three. 

Rev.  James  Noyes  died  at  Newbury,  October  22,  1656,  aged  forty-eight. 
Among  his  published  works  are:  A  Catechism  For  Children,  printed  in  1641,  and 
written  at  the  request  of  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts;  The  Temple  Meas- 
ured, printed  in  1647,  Moses  and  Aaron,  printed  in  1661.  The  MSS.  of  the 
last  two  are  in  the  Collection  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  The  fol- 
lowing is  his  will  with  the  inventory  of  his  estate. 

"The  last  Will  &  Testament  of  Revd  James  Noyes  of  Newbury,  Mass. 

My  will  is  that  my  wife  shall  have  the  rule  and  ordering  with  the  disposing  of  all  my  sub- 
stance while  she  keepeth  herself  in  an  unmarried  condition,  and  that  she  will  take  counsel  of  my 
loving  friend.  Cousin  Thomas  Parker,  my  brother  Nicholas  Noyes  and  William  Gerrish,  but  if  she 
disposeth  herself  in  way  of  marriage,  then  my  will  is  that  my  friends  above  mentioned  shall  have 
the  disposing  of  all  the  portions  of  my  wife  and  children  as  they  shall  see  meet. 
In  witness  whereof  I  have  put  my  hand  this  17th  October,  1656. 

James  Noyes." 
"Witnesses: 

William  Gerrish. 
Richard   Brown. 
Robert  Long. 
Proved  in  court  26th  gth  mo.  1656,  by  Capt.  William  Gerrish  and  Nicholas  Noyes. 

per  Elias  Stillman,  Clerk." 

Inventory  of  Real  Estate. 

£  s.  d. 

Mouse  &  7  acres  land  adjoining  with  the  orchard loo-o-o 

12  acres  Marsh  or  meadow 30-0-0 

2  acres  arable  land lo-o-o 

75  acres  upland 1 50-0-0 


290-0-0 


£   s.  d. 

Real  estate 290-  0-0 

Personal 307-1 1-4 

Debts  due 60-  0-0 


657-1 1-4 

His  widow  Sarah  died  at  Newbury,  September  13,  1691,  having  made  her 
will  November  11,  1681.  It  was  proved  September  29,  1691,  and  the  estate  was 
valued  at  ;£i  108. 

Children  of  Rev.  James  and  Sarah  (Brown)  Noyes 

Joseph,  born  Oct.  15,  1637;  married  (i)  in  1662,  Mary  Darvell,  daughter  of  Robert  Darvell 
married  (2)  July  14,  1680,  Mary  (Dunster)  Willard,  widow  of  Maj.  Simon  Willard 
lived  at  Sudbury,  Mass.,  and  was  selectman  there  from  1662  for  twenty-eight  years 


The  Temple  meafured  : 

q  R, 

A  brief  Survey  of  the  Temple  myjlical, 

which  is  the  Ififtituted 

CHURCH  of  CHRIST. 

Wherein  are  folidly  andmbdcftly  difcuffed^ 

Moft  of  the  material  Queftions  touching  the 
Conftituiion  and  Government  of  the  Vifiblc 
Church  Militant  here  on  Earth. 

Together  with 

The  (oliuion  of  all  forts  of  Objections  which 

are  ufually  framed  againft  ihe  Model  sod  Platform  of  Ecclefi- 

aftical  Polity,  which  is  hete  afTertcd  and  maintained. 

In  particular  here  are  debated. 

The  points  of  fb  much  Comroveifie,  touching 

the  Unity  of  the  Church,  The  Members  of   the 

Charch,  The  Form  of  the  Church?  and  Church  Covenant, 

The  Power  of  the  Church,  The  Officers  of  the  Churchy 

aad  their  Power  in  Church- Government ,  The  Power  of 

Magifttates  about  the  Church,and  fome  Church  A&s, 

as  Admifllon  of  Membcri>  and  other  things  fet 

down  in  the  Table  before  the  Book. 

By  James   Noyes  Teacher  of  the  Church  at 
iJewber-f  in  New  England. 


L    o  N  "D  o  N  i 

Printed  for  E  o  m  u  n  D    P  a  x  t  o  n,  and  are  to  be  fold  at  hit  Shop  in  Pauls 

chain  ,  oter  againft    the  Caftle  Tavern  neer  to  the  Duftors 

Commons.    <  6  4  7> 

FROM  J.  J.  currier's  "  HISTORY  OF  NEWBURY  " 


Mofes^d  Aaron: 

Or,  The  Rights  of 

CHURCH  and  STATE; 

Containing    two 

DISPUTATIONS. 

The  former  concerning  the  Church  ,  in  >ivhich 

are  examined  the  principles  of  Separation,  and  their 

inconliftency-witn  truth  and  peace  demonftrattfd : 

and  the  Government  of  the  Church  \'ihciicited 
into  ihe  hands  of  herproper  Rulers. 
The  latter  afferts  the  facrednefle  of  the  perfons  and  autho- 
rity of  Kings  ai^ainft  Sacrilegious  usurpation  and  King- killing. 

By  that  judicious  and  faithful  MiniftcrofChrift,Mr. 

James  notes,  fometimesofyVfu'W/in 

NEH^    E  Ng  L'A  ND. 

Publifhed  by  Benj.  modbridgi ,  Redor  of  T^ewhry 
in  the  County  ol^  E  RK  S.. 

Nuinb.16.5.  And,  they  gathered  themfelvts  together  agamfl  Moles 
and  agAinfl  Aaron,  and  [aid  unta  ihemy  Te  takj  teo_  much,  upon 
jau^  feeing  alt  the  Congregation  are  holy  every  one  of  them  ,.  and 
thiLord  ii among  them:  fvhereftre  thea  lift  ye  up  y bur  f elves 
above  the  Corigregatlon  of  the  Lord  } 

Judever.il.    Pertjhed  inthe  Qain-fapng  of  Coreh. 

ZO /NZDO  A/-, 
Printed  hyT.R.    for  Edmisnd  Paxte»y  m  Pauls-chain^  q\zv 
againft  the  Cafile  Tavern,  near  Dolors  Commopt  1661. 

FROM  J.  J.  currier's  "  HISTORY  OF  NEWBURY  " 


i6  REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [2] 

was  constable  in  1667  and  1668,  and  justice  of  the  peace  in  1679.  The  records  show 
that  he  had  a  number  of  slaves.  A  quaint  communication  signed  by  him  to  the 
Middlesex  County  Court,  recommends  a  Colonel  Samuel  How  for  license  to  keep  an 
inn  in  Sudbury  in  1692.  He  died  Nov.  16,  1717. 
(3)  James,  born  March  1 1,  1640;  H.  C.  1659;  married  Sept.  1 1,  1674,  Dorothy  Stanton,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Lord)  Stanton  (12),  of  Stonington,  Conn.  He  died 
Dec.  30,  17 19. 

Sarah,  born  Aug.  12,  1641;  died  Feb.  21,  1653. 

Moses,  born  Dec.  6,  1643;  H.  C.  1659;  married  in  1676,  Ruth  Pickett,  of  New  London, 
granddaughter  of  Elder  Brewster;  was  the  first  pastor  of  the  Lyme  Church,  and 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  town;  received  some  "cedar  swamp  lots"  for  service  in  the 
Narragansett  Volunteers,  during  the  Indian  War;  died  at  Lyme,  Nov.  10,  1729. 

John,  born  June  3,  1645;  married  in  1671,  Sarah  Oliver;  was  made  freeman  in  Boston  in 
1675,  constable  in  the  same  year,  second  sergeant  in  the  Ancient  and  Honorable 
Artillery  in  1678;  died  Nov.  9,  1678. 

Thomas,  born  Aug.  10,  1648;  married  (i)  Dec.  28,  1669,  Martha  Pierce,  who  died  in  1674; 
married  (2)  Sept.  24,  1677,  Elizabeth  Greenleaf,  daughter  of  Captain  Stephen  Green- 
leaf,  and  granddaughter  of  Edmund  Greenleaf  (140  A);  remained  in  Newbury, 
and  inherited  the  home  there;  was  selectman  in  1676  and  1677,  and  served  in  the 
French  and  Indian  War  as  captain,  major,  lieutenant,  and  colonel;  died  before 
Apr.  24,  1730.     His  estate  inventoried  at  ;£446o,  and  he  left  two  negro  slaves. 

Rebecca,  born  Apr.  i.  165 1 ;  married  Jan.  i,  1672,  John  Knight,  son  of  John  Knight,  Jr. 

William,  born  Sept.  22,  1653;  married  Nov.  6,  1685,  Sarah  Coggswell;  took  the  oath  of  al- 
legiance in  1678,  and  was  deacon  in  the  Newbury  Church  for  many  years;  served 
in  his  brother's  company  of  "snow-shoe  men";  his  will  was  proved  in  1744. 

Sarah,  born  Mar.  25,  1656;  married  Mar.  31,  1684,  as  his  second  wife,  Rev.  John  Hale  (156), 
of  Beverly,  Mass.  The  account  of  her  life  will  be  found  under  156.  She  died 
at  Beverly,  May  20,  1695,  aged  thirty-nine. 


[3]  REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [1640-17 19] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

DOROTHY  STANTON  [1651-1743] 

OF    STONINGTON,    CONN. 

JAMES  NOYES,  second  son  of  Rev.  James  and  Sarah  (Brown)  Noyes  (2),  of 
Newbury,  Mass.,  was  born  at  Newbury,  March  11,  1640.  He  was  but 
sixteen,  and  his  brother  Moses  but  thirteen,  when  together  they  entered 
Harvard  in  1656.  "His  most  Kind  Kinsman  the  Rev.  Mr.  Thomas  Parker, 
gave  him  his  Grammar  Learning,  and  fitted  him  for  the  College;  his  Father  dying 
not  long  after  his  admission." 

"The  Noyces"  James  and  Moses,  appear  as  "Noyces  Ambo"  on  the  Steward's  account-books 
and  are  noted  as  entering  college  "9,  4,  56."  As  their  accounts  were  always  kept  on  the  same  page, 
they  are  not  always  distinguishable,  some  items  apparently  belonging  to  one  of  them  only,  while 


REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [3]  17 

others  relate  to  the  two.  The  first  item  by  which  "the  Noyces  is  debtor,"  dated  5,  7,  56,  is  "detre- 
mentes  and  half  Tuitiones  for  a  whol  yeare  3  pounds  12  shillings."  Payments  were  made  by 
"mr  greenlefe,"  "mr.  Jewett,"  "goodman  alline,"  "captain  garesh,"  and  "Thomas  Longhorne." 
Among  the  credits  are  "wheatte,"  "malte,"  and  "barly,"  each  at  four  shillings  a  bushel;  "butter," 
"a  old  Cowe  4  pounds,"  "a  barrell  of  beafe  not  very  good,"  "two  cattell  8  pounds  3  shillings,"  and 
"backen;"  also  "5.  4.  57  Alowed  him"  (probably  James  Noyes)  "for  waitinge  in  the  hall  on 
wholl  yeare"  £1.  los;  and  for  each  of  the  quarters  in  1657-8,  12s.  6d.  As  a  monitor  for  six  quar- 
ters from  "5.  7.  57  to  12.  Q,  58"  he  was  allowed  15s.  a  quarter,  and  £;>,  "3.  7.  58  by  his  wages  in 
the  buttery."  ' 

It  appears  from  this  that  their  father's  friends  and  parishioners  contributed 
to  give  the  boys  the  best  education  then  obtainable,  while  they  worked  their  way 
through  college.  James  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1659,  and  in  the  summer  of 
1664  went  to  Stonington,  Conn.,  where,  in  November,  1666,  before  any  church 
was  established,  he  was  invited  by  the  town  to  become  their  minister  and  took 
the  freeman's  oath  October  5,  1669.  He  received  as  a  gift  from  the  town  a  grant 
of  250  acres  of  land,  called  Musqueta,  and  later  known  as  Noyes'  Point,  Westerly, 
R.  I.,  which  remained  in  the  family  for  several  generations.  He  was  ordained 
September  10,  1674,  as  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church,  which  had 
only  been  organized  in  June  of  that  year.  The  next  day  after  his  ordination, 
September  iith,  he  married  Dorothy  Stanton,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Ann 
(Lord)  Stanton  (12),  of  Stonington,  the  service  being  performed  by  Mr.  Samuel 
Willis,  assistant  and  member  of  Governor  John  Winthrop's  Council.  Dorothy 
was  born  in  1651.  Thomas  Stanton's  name  is  the  first  on  the  list  of  the  orig- 
inal members  or  founders  of  this  church. 

The  Council  of  Connecticut,  November  28,  1675,  appointed  "Mr.  James  Noyse 
to  be  minister  to  o'  army  and  therefore  we  desire  him  to  prepare  himselfe  to  go 
forth  w**"  them,"  but  on  December  1 1  following.  Major  Treat  informed  them 
"that  Mr.  James  Noyse  could  not  attend  to  goe  out  with  o'  army,"  and  his  nephew, 
Mr.  Nicholas  Noyes,  then  of  Haddam,  Conn,  (later  of  Salem,  Mass.),  was  sent. 
At  this  time  almost  every  able-bodied  man  in  Stonington  enlisted,  and  went  with 
Major  Treat  against  the  Narragansett  and  Wampenaug  Indians,  participating  in 
the  terrible  Swamp  Fight  on  December  19,  1675.  The  next  year,  however,  Rev. 
James  Noyes  accepted  the  appointment  as  chaplain  of  Captain  George  Denison's 
expedition  against  the  Narragansetts,  which  resulted  in  the  capture  of  Canonchet, 
chief  sachem  of  the  tribe,  on  Blackstone  River,  near  Pawtucket.  Captain  Den- 
ison  had  about  thirty  English  volunteers  and  a  number  of  Indians  from  Stoning- 
ton. In  one  account  of  this  event,  it  is  said  that  Mr.  Noyes  "advised  to  dispatch 
him  there  as  he  was  a  very  politic,  warlike  and  active  fellow,  and  had  done  a  great 
deal  of  mischief  in  the  country."  He  was  taken,  however,  to  Stonington,  and 
there  shot  by  three  Indians,  two  sachems  of  the  Pequots,  and  Oneco,  son  of  Uncas, 
his  lifelong  enemy.  Rev.  Mr.  Noyes  was  "an  eyewitness  of  the  manner  of  his 
execution." 

'Condensed  from  Sibley's  Harvard  Graduates,  II,  45. 


i8  REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [3] 

For  the  important  services  which  he  rendered  to  this  expedition  as  a  phy- 
sician as  well  as  chaplain,  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut,  May  22,  1685,  voted 
him  "200  acres  of  land  for  a  farme,"  and  he  also  received  an  equal  share  with  the 
volunteers  in  Voluntown,  Conn.' 

The  following  letter  written  by  him  to  Judge  Samuel  Sewall  in  1694,  is  an 
interesting  document,  and  is  an  evidence  of  the  friendship  which  the  two  men 
had  kept  up  since  their  early  life  in  Newbury.  The  letter  is  now  in  the  possession 
of  Samuel  B.  Doggett,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  who  published  it  in  the  hlew  England  His- 
torical Register,  and  is  superscribed : 

"These  For  the  hon'''  Mr.  Saml  Sewal  at  Boston. 

Mr.  Sewall  hon^''  S'- 

yours  I  received  by  the  post.  It  is  refresshing  to  haue  a  line  from  you,  &  I  would  haue 
giuen  an  answer  before  now,  but  that  we  haue  had  more  than  ordinary  sickness  amongst  vs  w'='' 
hath  excedingly  ouer  burdened  me  that  it  god's  greate  goodness  that  I  am  aliue,  hauing  so  litle 
sleep,  &  so  much  hardship  night  and  daye  taking  Care  of  my  flock  for  soul  &  body  beyond  my 
streneth,  &  hauing  had  a  cold,  sore  eyes  &  a  Cough  this  whole  winter.  And  as  I  lost  my  youngest 
son  in  the  su^er  in  y'  windy  Convulsions,  so  my  now  youngest  son  Joseph  hath  had  for  about 
five  weekes  in  a  malignant  putrid  Pluretic  fever,  besides  the  addition  of  wormes  of  w''*'  31  hath 
gradualy  bene  brought  awaye  by  variatie  of  means  vpward,  &  downward  Clysters  &  external  ap- 
phcations.  The  child  is  now  hopefull  but  in  a  Chacheasia  by  long  sickness  threatning  a  Consump- 
tion, it  is  about  five  years  old  &  was  as  promising  as  any  child  I  had,  we  now  Carry  it  about  in 
our  armes  to  stirr  y'  blood,  help  digestion  &  to  remoue  wind  from  y^  stomach,  it  cannot  yet 
stand  and  Cals  for  much  watching  &  vnwearied  tendance. 

The  Lord  sanctify  his  hand  to  vs,  &  make  vs  eternal  gainers  by  temporal  afflictions. 

We  haue  in  our  town  I  beleiue  neare  70  haue  bene  dangerously  sick  besides  lesser  ilness  of 
many  &  haue  Lost  about  12  persons  in  our  towne  in  this  distemper  and  of  all  disseases  about  15  in 
a  few  months.     My  cloths  haue  not  bene  off  aboue  once  or  twice  in  ten  dayes  time. 

Our  sorrows  and  disstress  haue  bene  greate  but  god  seemes  to  moderate  his  hand,  most 
lately  recouer  but  not  w%ut  Long  sickness  &  carefull  tendance. 

I  hope  it  may  be  obserued  that  god  hath  done  vs  good  by  his  rod,  yet  I  feare  some  harden 
vnder  judgments  as  well  as  ordinances. 

I  praye  S'  Praye  earnestly  for  vs.  We  haue  flying  news  from  Yorke  of  a  vessell  ariued 
from  England  &  that  M"'-  Dudley  is  Like  to  carrie  it,  &  that  our  Coll"  Winthrop  is  safe  arriued  in 
England  &  K.  Will"  is  designed  for  Flanders  w"'  fiftie  thousand,  Prouably  Letters  by  the  Post 
maye  giue  account  of  the  truth  &  circumstances  of  this  News.  Your  Motion  about  Ninegret  I  am 
at  worke  about  &  hope  to  effect  speedily  by  the  help  of  my  brother  Joseph  Stanton  whoe  hath  as 
much  interest  in  y^  Sachem  as  any  I  know  &  is  his  Neighbor.  I  haue  discoursed  my  Brother 
and  he  giues  good  encouragement  that  he  will  doe  his  vtmost  in  the  matter,  but  he  thinks  it  will 
hardly  be  accomplished  vnder  ten  pounds  money  or  goods  as  money,  he  doubts  corne  will  not 
take  because  not  wanted,  we  designe  to  joyntly  treat  y'  Sachem,  &  we  hauing  this  29  yeares 
euer  vnderstood  Point  Judith  was  Ninegret's  Countrey  we  apprehend  it  wisdome  to  settle  your 
Rights  in  y'  waye  you  propound  &  shall  serue  you  willingly  and  faithfully  according  to  our  abilities. 

I  would  be  glad  of  a  line  before  we  treat  him  &  if  you  can  an  account  of  y^  boundaries  more 
particularly  to  insert  in  y'  Quit  Claime  if  you  can  furnish  me,  Praye  send  by  the  Bearer  Benj. 

'Bodge.     King  Philip's  IVar,   383,  433. 


REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [3]  19 

Palmer  not  by  the  Post.  &  be  as  priuate  as  maye  be  vntill  y°  worke  is  done.     1  heard  but  now  that 
my  brother  Moses  is  well  &  his  family. 

S"'  I  am  your  great  debt''  for  many  fauors  &  your  last  kindness  is  so  handy  they  haue  kept 
my  hands  warme  two  winters  w'*'  Loue  of  your  1  haue  bene  to  backward  seasonably  &  thank- 
fully to  acknowledge.  You  maye  be  well  assured  I  am  alwayes  most  ready  &  couetuous  of  an  op- 
portunity to  serue  you.  I  craue  a  remembrance  of  me  and  mine  in  your  Closet  conuers  &  w'*" 
mine  &  my  wiues  hearty  loue  &  real  respects  to  you  &  yours 

I  rest  y" 

J  a.  Noyes. 

Stonning'.     March  12,  1693/4. 

Rev.  James  NoYES  bore  an  active  part  in  founding  Yale  College,  and  his  name 
was  the  first  of  "ten  of  the  principal  Ministers  in  the  Colony  nominated  and  agreed 
upon  by  a  general  consent  both  of  the  ministers  and  people  to  stand  as  Trustees 
or  Undertakers  to  found,  erect  and  govern  a  college."  He  is  also  named  first 
in  the  charter  of  incorporation  granted  in  1701.  "He  was  selected  to  be  one  of 
the  first  Trustees  and  founders  of  Yale  College;  for  though  he  was  an  old  man  and 
in  a  remote  corner  of  the  colony,  his  influence  was  deemed  essential  to  the  success 
of  the  undertaking."  ' 

For  nearly  twenty  years  the  new  college  had  a  hard  struggle.  Its  first  Pres- 
ident, Rev.  Mr.  Pierson,  continued  his  pastoral  work  at  Killingworth,  Conn., 
where  he  taught  the  senior  class.  He  was  soon  after  succeeded  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Andrew,  of  Milford,  and  a  portion  of  the  students  lived  in  Milford,  and  were  taught 
by  him  there.  The  greater  part,  however,  lived  at  Saybrook,  the  nominal  home 
of  the  college,  where  two  tutors  were  provided  in  the  house  given  for  the  purpose 
by  Judge  Nathaniel  Lynde  (79),  the  first  treasurer  of  the  college.  Rev. 
James  Noyes  worked  indefatigably  for  a  fixed  settlement  of  the  college,  and  many 
towns  of  Connecticut  vied  with  each  other  in  offers  of  money  and  land.  New 
Haven's  offer  of  ^700  was  the  largest,  and  it  was  finally  placed  there  by  the  Trus- 
tees. 

This  decision  met  with  so  much  remonstrance  and  opposition  that  they  sent 
a  memorial  to  the  General  Court  in  1717.  The  original  is  in  Hartford  with  the 
State  Papers,  and  a  copy  is  given  below: 

"A  memorial  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Collegiate  School  in  New  Haven  in  Connecticut  in  N. 
England  relating  to  their  undertaking  &  proceeding  therein. 

We  the  Underwritten  Trustees  of  the  sd  School,  not  a  Little  affected  to  hear,  that  any 
Dissatisfaction  hath  been  taken  at  our  proceedings  in  Erecting  the  Same,  do  in  this  manner  make 
them  publick  in  hopes,  that  our  So  Doing  will  give  Satisfaction  to  all,  that  wish  well  to  that  good 
Work  under  our  Care. 

Persuant  to  the  Charter  or  Grant,  whereby  we  were  Encouraged,  &  Fully  &  Compleatly 
Impowered  to  Undertake  the  Erecting  of  a  Collegiate  School  in  Some  Convenient  place  or  places, 
as  to  us  should  seem  meet,  in  sd  Colony:  And  soon  after  we  had  obtained  that  Grant,  tho  we  had 
not  a  Stock  Sufficient  for  Building  a  suitable  House  for  the  Students,  yet  we  had  Consideration 
of  a  Suitable  place  for  it,  &  agreed  it  would  be  best  to  Erect  it  in  some  Town  not  farther  East- 
'  Bacon's  Historical  Discourses. 


20  REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [3] 

ward  than  Saybrook,  or  Westward  than  New  Haven,  &  Resolved,  that  such  Students  as  offred 
themselvs,  should  be  Received  at  Kenelworth  under  the  Care  of  the  Late  Reverend  Mr.  Pierson, 
whom  we  Appointed  Rector,  which  was  accordingly  attended. 

Some  years  after  the  School  was  Removed  to  Saybrook,  where  Endeavours  were  used  to 
Erect  an  House  for  the  sd  School,  but  we  were  Obliged  to  desist,  for  want  of  Sufficient  Stock  for 
such  an  undertaking. 

While  the  School  was  in  these  Circumstances  at  Saybrook,  an  Unhappy  Dissension  in  the 
School,  Occasioned  the  Removal  of  several  Students,  notwithstanding  all  our  Endeavours  to  keep 
them  there.  We  hoped  to  Redress  this  Disorder  by  Building  an  House  for  the  Students  there, 
being  Encouraged  to  it  by  the  Generous  Contributions  of  the  Government  of  the  sd  Colony,  & 
of  Some  Particular  Persons,  with  which  we  Concluded  ourselvs  able  to  make  a  Beginning  in  the 
Work  &  accordingly  Resolved  upon  it. 

But  soon  after  we  met  with  Unexpected  Opposition  against  Settling  the  sd  School  at 
Saybrook,  which  Continuing  (after  we  had  used  many  Endeavours  to  Remove  it)  we  considered 
the  State  of  that  affairs  &  at  Length  (according  to  our  Discretion,  the  Rule  of  our  Doings  expressly 
mentioned  in  our  Charter  three  several  times)  we  Pitched  upon  New  Haven  (which  is  within  the 
Compass  of  the  Places  agreed  on  at  the  first)  to  Build  an  House  in,  for  the  School,  Where  we  have 
Raised  One  Convenient  &  Capable  of  Receiving  Fourty  Scholars,  &  hope  to  have  the  Same  Ready 
to  receive  the  Students  in  a  Short  time. 

We  were  Induced  to  Fix  upon  New  haven  for  the  Place  of  the  School,  from  the  Conveniency 
of  its  Situation,  Agreeableness  of  the  Air,  &  Soil,  the  Probability  of  Providing  what  will  be  Neces- 
sary for  the  Subsistence  of  the  Scholars  as  Cheap  or  Cheaper  than  at  other  Places,  together  with 
many  other  Weighty  Considerations  to  us  Satisfying,  whereunto  may  be  added  the  Largest  Summs 
of  Money  by  far  Subscribed  by  Particular  Gentlemen,  for  Building  an  House  for  the  School  in  the 
sd  Town,  which  are  Appropriated  by  the  Donors  to  That  Place,  &  without  which  (notwithstanding 
the  Sum  granted  by  the  Colony)  we  could  not  go  Through  with  so  Chargable  a  work. 

We  trust,  this  brief  Account  of  our  Proceedings  (so  well  known  to  Several  Gentlemen  in  the 
sd  Colony)  will  be  thought  Satisfactory  by  all  Impartial  Persons,  &  not  only  Remove  what  of- 
fences may  have  been  Taken  at  them,  but  Invite  the  Well-minded  (after  many  Examples  which 
we  must  always  mention  with  Gratitude  &  Honour)  to  Favour  this  Infant  Nursery  of  Learning, 
which  by  the  Blessing  of  Heaven  hath  not  proved  Unfruitful. 

From  our  particular  Acquaintance  with  the  passages  aforementioned,  or  from  Satisfaction 
received  from  Records  or  other  good  Information  of  Some  of  ourselvs.  We  have  Suffixed  our 
Names  in  New  haven  Oct.  22,  17 17. 

Your  most  Dutiful  &  Most  obedient  Servants 
James  Noyes 

Samuel  Andrew  Trustees 

Samuel  Russel       1  & 

Joseph  Webb  (  Associates 

John  Davenport  of  the  Said 

Thomas  Ruggles         Collegiate  School 

To  the  Hon''''  the  General  Assembly 

of  his  Ma""  Colony  in  General  Court 

Assembled  at  New-haven." 

On  September  20,  1708,  at  the  seventh  Commencement  of  Yale  College,  then 
called  the  Collegiate  School  of  New  Haven,  a  Synod  of  pastors  and  laymen  con- 


REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [3]  21 

vened  in  Saybrook,  according  to  tradition,  in  the  house  that  Mr.  Nathaniel 
Lynde  (79)  had  given  to  the  college.  The  senior  moderator  was  James  Noyes, 
then  in  his  sixty-ninth  year,  and  spoken  of  as  being  a  "venerated  father  among 
the  Clergy  of  Connecticut."  At  this  time  was  framed  the  Saybrook  Platform, 
a  declaration  of  principles  as  to  church  government  which  still  governs  the  Con- 
gregational Church.  So  that  while  his  father,  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2)  leaned  de- 
cidedly towards  Presbyterianism,  the  son  was  instrumental  in  the  formation  of 
the  Congregational  system.' 

There  is  much  of  interest  in  Mr.  Noyes'  long  pastorate  at  Stonington  of  over 
fifty-five  years.  At  first  he  was  paid  an  annual  salary  of  £50  currency  ($166.66), 
and  the  people  promised  to  give  liberally  towards  his  house,  which  was  built  about 
five  miles  from  the  first  church  building.  Later  his  salary  was  doubled,  making 
it  large  for  that  time,  especially  as  the  church  had  but  nine  members.  Five  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  had  originally  been  set  apart  by  the  town  for  the  support  of 
the  ministry,  and  Mr.  Noyes  had  also  the  use  of  that  tract. 

In  1670  the  people  decided  to  build  a  new  meeting-house,  and  they  voted 
"That  the  new  meeting  house  shall  for  time  to  come  be  set  up  and  stand  without 
removing  upon  Agreement  Hill,"  which  was  part  of  the  ministry  land.  The  new 
church  was  raised  in  January,  1673,  it  being  only  "forty  feet  long,  twenty-two 
feet  wide  and  fourteen  feet  posts  from  joint  to  joint."  It  was  never  lathed  or 
plastered,  and  at  first  there  were  no  pews,  except  for  the  families  of  the  minister, 
deacons  and  magistrates.  The  rest  of  the  congregation  were  seated  on  benches 
by  a  committee,  by  the  regular  method,  according  to  their  social  prominence. 
The  nine  members  who  organized  the  church  were:  Mr.  James  Noyes,  Pastor, 
Mr.  Thomas  Stanton  (12),  Mr.  Nathaniel  Chesebrough,  Mr.  Thomas  Minor,  Mr. 
Nehemiah  Palmer,  Mr.  Ephraim  Minor,  Mr.  Thomas  Stanton,  junior,  Mr.  Moses 
Palmer,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Wheeler. 

In  1690  the  town  voted  to  "build  near  the  church  a  small  house  fourteen  feet 
square  with  seven  foot  posts  and  fireplace,  for  Mr.  Noyes  to  warm  himself  in 
cold  weather  between  meetings."  ' 

In  Mr.  Noyes'  lateryears  his  health  began  to  fail,  and  to  relieve  him,  the  town 
voted  in  171 5: 

"and  agreed  to  call  Mr. Joseph  Noyes  to  be  helpfull  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  James  Noyes  in  carrying 
on  ye  work  of  ye  Ministery  in  this  town,  and  that  one  of  ye  two  Ministers  shall  preach  to  the  People 
living  remoat  from  the  Meeting  House,  at  sum  conveniant  place  where  they  ye  People  agreived 
shall  unanimously  agree  upon,  ...  It  was  also  voated  that  if  Mr.  Joseph  Noyes  shall  except  of  a 
call  of  this  town  to  be  minister  with  his  father  .  .  .  then  ye  Town  will  give  him  ye  sd  Mr.  Joseph 
Noyes  for  his  incuragement  ye  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  towards  setling  him  amongst  us,  and 
to  pay  him  annually  ye  sum  of  seventy  pounds  as  money  so  long  as  they  ye  sd  Mr.  James  and 
Mr.  Joseph  Noyes  shall  carry  on  ye  work  of  ye  ministry  amongst  us  in  this  town.  And  if  it  please 
God  that  Mr.  Joseph  Noyes  shall  succeed  ye  Revd.  Mr.  James  Noyes  and  doe  continnew  to  carry 

^Contributions  to  the  Ecclesiastical  History  of  Connecticut.     W.  L.  Kingsley.     (1861.) 
'History  of  the  First  Congregational  Church,  Stonington,  Ct.     Wheeler.     45. 


REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [3] 


In  Expectation 
of  A  Joyful  Resurredion 

to  Eternal  Life 
Here  lyeth  Interred^  Body 
of  the  Rev  'd  Mrjames  Yioyes 

Aged  80  years. 
Who  after  A  Faithful  Servliif^ 
of  the  Church  of  Christ 
In  this  Place, 
For  more  then:5'5'  ^ears 
Deceased   Dec;y.3o:;7^o 

Ma/eity   Meeknefs    yc  Humility 
Here  Meet  in, pne.roithgreatift Charity 


on  ye  work  of  ye  Ministry  amongst  us,  that  then  he  shall  have  his  salioroy  raised  to  make  it  a 
comfortable  and   credable  maintenance  from  this  Town."' 

In  spite  of  this  generous  offer,  Rev.  Joseph  Noyes  did  not  accept  the  call,  but 
went  instead  to  New  Haven. 

Mr.  Noyes  baptized  during  his  pastorate  1 1 76  persons  of  all  ages,  and  admitted 
to  his  church  239  new  members.    The  legal  right  to  marry  was  not  given  to  the 

clergy  in  Connecticut  until  1694,  and  after  that 
time  Mr.  Noyes  celebrated  forty-four  marriages. 
After  forty  years  of  controversy,  the  boundary 
line  between  Connecticut  and  Rhode  Island  was 
settled  in  1703,  dividing  Stonington,  and  bringing 
a  portion  of  it  into  the  town  of  Westerly.  This 
was  not  the  part  where  Rev.  James  Noyes  lived, 
but  we  find  that,  in  October,  1704,  he  was  deputy 
for  Westerly  to  the  Rhode  IslandGeneral  Assembly. 
He  preached  his  last  sermon  on  November 
22,  1 7 19,  and  died  December  30  following,  aged 
eighty,  "after  A  Faithful  Serving  of  the  Church 
of  Christ  In  this  Place  For  more  then  55  Years," 
as  his  tomb-stone  records.  He  was  buried  in  the 
old  graveyard,  about  two  and  a  half  miles  from 
Stonington,  between  that  place  and  Westerly, 
upon  a  sloping  hill  on  the  east  side  of  Wequetoquoc 
Cove.  The  light  brown  stone  tablet  was  erected 
by  his  son.  Captain  Thomas  Noyes  (4),  and  is 
said  to  have  been  cut  in  England.  After  170 
years  of  exposure  to  the  inclemency  of  our  New 
England  weather,  it  has  been  rescued  from  decay. 
The  cut  is  from  a  photograph  taken  after  it  had 
been  cleaned  from  moss,  and  recut.  The  epitaph 
was  written  by  Rev.  Eliphalet  Adams  of  New 
London,  and  the  original  draft  is  now  (1889)  in 
the  Sunday-School  Library  room  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Stonington,  of  which  Rev. 
James  Noyes  was  for  so  long  a  time  pastor. 

The  funeral  sermon  by  Eliphalet  Adams, 
H.  U.  1694,  and  an  obituary  in  the  Boston  News 
Letter,  contain  long  notices  of  him,  of  which  the 
following  are  extracts: 

"A  man  of  Extraordinary  Worth  and  Eminency  .  .  .  mighty  in  Prayer,  .  .  .  knew  the  art 
of  Wrestling  with  God  and  was  seldom  put  off  with  a  Denial."     "An  uncommon  fervency  and  hea- 

'  History  oj  the  First  Congregational  Church,  Stonington,  Ct.,  46. 


INSCRIPTION  ON   THE  TOMBSTONE 

OF  REV.  JAMES  NOYES  OF 

STONINGTON,   CONN. 


REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [3]  23 

venly  zeal  run  thro'  all  his  publick  performances,  but  peculiarly  a  flaming  Devotion  in  his  Prayers." 
He  was  "Zealous  against  Sin,  &  steadfastly  set  for  Order  &  Regularity  both  in  Church  and  State. 
His  Presence  was  grave  &  Venerable,  such  as  struck  an  awe  into  the  boldest  Offenders,  they  being 
afraid  or  ashamed  to  Discover  their  follies  in  his  sight.  He  had  an  happy  way  of  Engaging  People 
to  be  good,  by  supposing  them  to  be  so  &  treating  them  as  such,  for  then  they  would  be  very  much 
ashamed  to  disappoint  his  Expectations.  When  he  saw  any  entangled  in  a  Vicious  Course  of  Life, 
...  he  would  sometimes  try  to  disengage  them  by  laying  himself  under  voluntary  bonds  of  Self- 
denial  for  a  time  in  things  Indifferent  that  they  might  be  encouraged  the  more  to  try  to  recover 
the  government  of  their  unruly  Appetites,  while  he  bare  them  Company  in  their  abstemiousness 
&  traced  out  the  way  for  them  to  a  more  regular  life.  When  the  interest  of  Religion  or  Learning 
or  his  Country  lay  at  stake,  his  spirits  would  still  rise  by  Opposition,  till  the  right  side  got  the  better, 
or  he  was  Overborn  in  the  attempts.  ...  By  long  Observation  and  Experience"  he  became  skillful 
in  medicine,  visiting  and  praying  with  his  patients  "more  like  a  Father  than  a  Physician,"  and  "tis 
said,  he  gave  away  more  in  Medicines,  than  his  Annual  Salary  as  their  Minister  amounted  to  .  .  . 
He  was  universally  respected  wherever  he  came,"  and  the  people  "tho't  he  brought  a  Blessing 
along  with  him  whenever  he  took  up  his  abode  under  their  roof."  He  lived  in  the  time  of  Andros, 
was  a  great  friend  to  "  Liberties  both  Civil  &  Religious,  &  no  man  more  Vigorous  to  stand  up  when 
any  unjust  encroachments  were  made  upon  Either."  He  was  a  "successful  counsellor  of  the  gov- 
ernment in  some  critical  junctures.  .  .  .  His  Age,  Piety  &  Experience"  qualified  him  to  be  an  over- 
seer of  the  Churches,  "and  when  they  were  afflicted  with  breaches  and  Divisions,  he  had  the  true 
spirit  of  the  Peacemaker"  in  healing  them. 

"He  was  extraordinarily  Hospitable  to  all  Strangers,  and  as  he  was  remarkable  and  almost 
singular  in  his  constant  and  unwearied  industry,  so  he  was  likewise  in  the  favour  he  obtained  to  be 
serviceable  to  his  last,  his  Life  and  Service  ended  together." 

His  will,  dated  November  12,  1716,  and  probated  in  January,  1719/20,  is 
on  record  in  the  Probate  Office  in  New  London,  Conn.  The  provisions  concerning 
the  farm  "with  all  appurtenances  thereof  called  Muxquita  Neck"  were  not  carried 
out,  as  James,  the  eldest  son,  to  whom  it  was  left,  died  in  1718,  before  his  father. 
He  owed  large  sums  to  his  father  and  others,  aggregating  in  1716,  ^^296,  and  in  the 
will  provision  was  made  that  these  debts  should  be  paid  from  his  portion  before 
inheriting.  Rev.  James  sold  this  farm  in  17 18  to  Captain  Thomas  (4)  for 
;^2,ooo,  probably  in  order  to  pay  these  debts. 

He  left  elaborate  provisions  for  his  "deare  and  loving  wife,"  who  was  sixty-five  at  the  time, 
which  were  all  to  be  revoked  in  case  of  her  remarriage.  He  divided  the  rest  of  his  farm  property 
between  his  sons  Thomas,  John  and  Joseph,  and  bequeathed,  among  other  curious  things,  all  his 
bees  to  his  wife,  except  one  hive  which  he  left  to  Thomas.  The  latter  was  to  find  his  mother  fire- 
wood and  a  "boy  if  need  be  to  goe  to  mill  and  on  errands  for  her."  To  Joseph  he  left  "  all  his  books 
at  home  (except  English  Bibles  and  small  English  books  which  are  of  common  use  in  the  familie). 
.  .  .  Also  .  .  .  books  at  Lyme  in  [his]  brother  Moses  custody."  His  "wearing  cloaths"  he  left 
to  "son  Treat,"  his  only  son-in-law,  and  two  cows  to  his  "son  Treats  children."  His  executors 
were  his  wife,  his  son  Joseph  and  Captain  Nathan  Chesebrough. 

His  wife  Dorothy  lived  with  her  son  Thomas  (4)  on  the  home  farm  until 
her  death,  which  occurred  January  19,  1743,  in  her  ninety-first  year.  She  was 
buried  near  her  husband  in  the  old  graveyard. 


24  REV.  JAMES  NOYES  [3] 

Children  of  Rev.  James  and  Dorothy  (Stanton)  Noyes 

Dorothy,  born  Jan.  20,  1676;  married  April  12,  1698,  Rev.  Salmon  Treat,  son  of  James  and 
Rebecca  (Lattimer)  Treat  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  who  was  pastor  of  the  Church  at 
Preston,  Conn,  from  1698  to  1744.     She  died  at  Preston,  Dec.  6,  1 714. 

James,  born  Aug.  2,  1677;  married  in  1703,  Ann  Sanford,  daughter  of  Governor  Peleg  and 
Mary  (Coddington)  Sanford  (16);  lived  at  Noyes'  Point, Westerly,  R.  I.,  and  was 
a  physician.  He  died  in  1718,  and  his  widow  Ann  married  (2)  July  5,  1719, 
Captain  John  Mason,  son  of  Major  John  and  Abigail  (Fitch)  Mason. 
(4)  Thomas,  born  Aug.  15,  1679;  married  Sept.  3,  1705,  Elizabeth  Sanford,  sister  of  his 
brother  James'  wife;  died  June  26,  1755. 

Anna,  born  April  16,  1682;  died  June  28,  1694. 

John,  born  June  13,  1685;  married  (i)  March  16,  171 5,  Mary  Gallup;  married  (2)  in  1739, 
Elizabeth  (Bradford)  Whiting,  widow  of  Charles  Whiting  of  Montville,  Conn,  and 
great-granddaughter  of  Governor  William  Bradford,  the  second  governor  of  Ply- 
mouth Colony;  lived  at  Stonington  and  was  chosen  deacon  in  his  father's  church, 
June  19,  1723;  died  Sept.  17,  175 1. 

Joseph,  born  Oct.  16,  1688;  Y.  C.  1709;  married  Nov.  6,  1716  Abigail  Pierpont,  daughter  of 
Rev.  James  and  Sarah  (Haynes)  Pierpont,  who  was,  on  her  mother's  side,  a  descend- 
ant of  Thomas  Lord  (67).  Rev.  Joseph  Noyes  was  a  tutor  in  Yale  from  1710  to 
1715  and  on  July  4,  1716,  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  First  Church  of  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  succeeding  his  father-in-law.  He  served  there  for  forty-five  years,  and  died 
June  14,  1761. 

Moses,  born  March  19,  1692,  and  died  April  30  of  the  same  year. 


[4J  CAPTAIN  THOMAS  NOYES  [1679-1755] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  SANFORD  [1680-1762] 

OF    STONINGTON,    CONN. 


T 


HOMAS  NOYES,  second  son  of  Rev.  James  and  Dorothy  (Stanton) 
Noyes  (3),  was  born  August  15,  1679,  at  Stonington,  Conn.  The 
earliest  record  we  find  concerning  him  is  his  marriage  certificate  which 
reads  as  follows: 

"These  may  certify  all  of  whom  it  may  concern  that  Mr.  Thomas  Noyes  of  Stonington  in 
the  Colony  of  Connecticut  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Sanford  of  Newport  on  Rhode  Island  &c  was  Joined 
together  in  Matrimony  at  said  Newport  town  according  to  law  Sept.  3,  1705. 
per  me  Nathaniel  Coddington  Asst. 
Passed  to  record  in  the  book  of  Register  of  Marriages  Sept,  4,  1705  Page  12. 
Per  Nathaniel  Coddington  Register." 

Elizabeth  Sanford  was  the  daughter  of  Governor  Peleg  and  Mary 
(Coddington)  Sanford  (16),  of  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  was  born  about  1680.  Na- 
thaniel Coddington,  the  assistant  mentioned  above,  was  her  uncle. 

Thomas  Noyes  was  appointed  deputy  for  Stonington  to  the  General  Court 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  NOYES  [4]  25 

of  Connecticut  on  May  14,  1713,  "in  the  reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lady,  Anne,  Queen 
of  Great  Britain,"  and  again  in  1714,  1717,  1718,  1725,  1727,  1729  and  1733.  Dur- 
ing this  time  he  was  also  selectman.  In  1723  he  was  commissioned  as  captain  of 
the  Train  Band  of  Stonington,  and  "Justice  of  the  Peace  in  the  County  of  New 
London." 

He  was  one  of  the  prominent  and  wealthy  men  of  Stonington,  and  was  on 
the  committee  appointed  by  the  General  Court  in  1725  to  "partition  off  the 
parish  of  Groton  and  set  up  the  worship  of  God  there."  He  was  one  of  the  largest 
givers  when  the  third  meeting-house  was  built  in  the  Center,  after  his  father's 
death,  about  1726,  his  donation  being  £60. 

By  his  father's  will,  made  in  1716,  it  appears  that  he  intended  to  give  Mus- 
queta  Neck,  or  what  is  now  called  Noyes'  Point  in  Westerly,  to  his  son  Dr.  James 
Noyes,  but  that  son  dying,  he  sold  it  to  Thomas.  The  deed  bears  date,  July  3,  1718, 
and  reads  in  part  as  follows : 

"I  James  Noyes  Clerk  of  the  Town  of  Stonington  of  the  County  of  New  London  in  the 
Collony  of  Connecticut  in  New  England  for  Divers  good  causes  moving  me  thare  to,  and  more 
espetially  in  consideration  of  two  thousand  pound  in  bills  of  credit  currant  money  of  New  England 
in  hand  received  or  in  Law  received  to  full  satisfaction  have  and  hereby  doe  fully,  freely,  clearly  and 
absolutely  give,  grant,  bargain,  sell,  alline,  enfeof,  release,  convey  and  confirm  unto  my  beloved  Son 
Thomas  Noyes  of  the  same  town.  County  and  Collony,  his  heirs  &  assigns  forever,  two  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  of  land  formerly  given  to  me  by  the  said  Town  of  Stonington,"  etc. 

Captain  Thomas  Noyes  never  lived  at  Musqueta  Neck  (Westerly),  but  oper- 
ated the  farm  and  built  a  house  on  it.  He  bequeathed  the  property  to  his  sons 
Sanford  and  Joseph,  who  lived  there  later. 

About  the  time  of  his  marriage,  in  1705,  he  built  himself  a  new  house  in 
Anguilla  (in  Stonington),  near  his  father's  home,  in  which  he  lived  until  his  death. 

It  "is  set  back  from  the  road  some  little  distance  and  impresses  one  with  a  grand,  hospitable 
air.  It  is  large,  square,  unpainted,  with  a  hip  or  quail  trap  roof,  truly  in  style  a  mansion  house. 
The  broad  front  door  has  the  old-fashioned  iron  ring  for  the  knocker,  with  the  small  panes  of  glass 
over  the  top.  From  the  front  hall  below,  the  stairs  can  be  seen  winding  away  into  the  upper  story 
and  again  winding  on  into  the  garret.  The  great  east  room  seventeen  feet  square,  has  the  old- 
fashioned  corner  cupboard.  .  .  .  The  west  side  of  this  room  is  ceiled  from  top  to  floor;  the  width 
of  some  of  the  boards  are  beyond  belief  unless  they  are  seen."  ' 

Captain  Thomas  Noyes  died  June  26,  1755,  aged  seventy-six,  and  was  bur- 
ied in  the  old  graveyard  at  Wequetoquoc,  near  his  father  and  mother.  The  in- 
scription on  his  tombstone  reads:  "He  was  born  Aug.  15  1679.     died  June  26  1755." 

His  will,  dated  "the  tenth  day  of  February  in  the  twenty-eighth  year  of  the 
reign  of  George  the  2nd  King  of  Great  Britain  Anno  quo  Domini  1755,"  and  proved 
August  6,  1755,  reads  in  part  as  follows: 

"To  my  dearly  beloved  wife  Elizabeth  the  use  of  all  my  household  stuff  during  her  life,  and 
my  slave  called  Peter,  and  the  profit  of  one  third  part  of  my  real  estate,  and  also  the  one-half  of 

'  The  Homes  oj  our  Ancestors  in  Stonington.     Wheeler.     206. 


26  CAPTAIN  THOMAS  NOYES  [4] 

my  dwelling-house  and  cellar,  which  half  she  shall  choose,  during  her  natural  life.  ...  To  Mary 
Noyes  the  widow  of  my  son  Thomas  one  hundred  pounds  ...  to  the  three  sons  of  my  s"*  son  .  .  . 
Thomas,  William  and  Nathan  .  .  .  one  hundred  pounds  ...  to  my  son  James  ...  all  the  lands 
I  have  lying  in  Stonington  ...  He  paying  three  thousand  pounds  ...  to  my  Executors.  .  .  . 
I  also  give  to  my  s'*  son  James,  the  one-half  of  my  dwelling-house  during  the  life  of  my  s"*  wife,  and 
after  her  decease  I  give  the  whole.  .  .  to  him  ...  to  my  beloved  son  Sanford  during  his  natural 
life,  the  use  of  one-half  of  my  house  and  cellar  and  the  use  ...  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of 
land  all  lying  in  Westerly  ...  to  my  beloved  son  Joseph  Noyes  . .  .  the  other  one  half  of  my  house 
and  cellar  in  Westerly  afores**  and  all  the  residue  of  my  land  lying  in  s'' town  of  Westerly  ...  to  be 
equally  divided  between  my  sons  all  my  wearing  apparel  and  my  utensils  belonging  to  husbandry  .  .  . 
my  debts  and  funeral  charges  be  paid  out  of  my  moveable  estate  .  .  .  and  when  that  is  done  .  .  . 
two-thirds  of  my  moveable  estate  and  two-thirds  of  my  money  and  two-thirds  of  the  debts  due  to 
me  by  book,  bond  or  otherwise  shall  be  equally  divided  .  .  .  among  my  beloved  daughters  or  their 
children,  viz:  Elizabeth  Palmer,  Dorothy  Palmer,  Mary  Billing,  Rebecca  Denison,  Abigail  Hallan, 
Ann  Frink  and  Bridget  Denison  .  .  .  my  beloved  wife  Elizabeth  Executrix  and  my  sons  James 
.  .  .  and    Joseph  .  .  .  Executors  .  .  .  etc." 

His  widow  Elizabeth  died  October  23,  1762,  and  was  buried  by  her  hus- 
band. The  inscription  on  her  tombstone  gives  us  an  approximate  date  of  her  birth. 
It  reads:  "died  Oct.  23  1762  aged  about  77  years." 

Children  of  Captain  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Sanford)  Noyes 

Elizabeth,  born  Oct.  11,  1706;  married  April  29,  1728,  Ichabod  Palmer,  son  of  Ichabod  and 
Hannah  (Palmer)  Palmer  of  Stonington,  Conn.;  died  Dec.  24,  1760. 

Dorothy,  born  June  23,  1708;  married,  Dec.  26,  1728,  as  his  second  wife,  John  Palmer,  son 
of  Moses  and  Dorothy  (Gilbert)  Palmer  of  Stonington,  Conn. 

Thomas,  born  Jan.  26,  1710;  married  May  i,  1731,  Mary  Thompson,  daughter  of  Isaac  and 
Mary  (Holmes)  Thompson  of  Westerly,  R.  I.,  died  Nov.  22,  1754. 

Mary,  born  Jan.  28,  1712;  married  Nov.  20,  1733,  Ebenezer  Billings,  son  of  Lieutenant 
Ebenezer  and  Phoebe(Denison) Billings  of  Stonington,  Conn.;  died  in  November,  1753. 

James,  born  March  30,  1714;  married  June  22,  1739,  Grace  Billings,  a  sister  of  his  sister 
Mary's  husband;  died  April  19,  1793. 

Sanford,  born  Nov.  29,  171  5  and  died  the  following  spring,  March  i,  17 16. 

Sanford,  born  Feb.  12,  1717;  married  Nov.  24,  1738,  Mary  Lawton  of  Westerly,  R.  I. 

Rebecca,  born  March  15,  1719;  married  July  7,1743,  as  his  third  wife.  Captain  John  Denison, 

son  of  Edward  and  Mercy  (— )  Denison,  of  Stonington,  Conn.,  whose  second 

wife  had  been  her  double  cousin  Mary  Noyes,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  and  Ann  (San- 
ford) Noyes.  She  died  Sept.  11,  1754,  and  Captain  Denison  married  (4)  Sarah 
Chesebrough. 

Abigail,  born  May  12,  1721;  married  Aug.  26,  1737,  John  Hallum,  son  of  John  and  Pru- 
dence (Richardson)  Hallum  of  Stonington;  died  Oct.  6,  180 1. 

Ann,  born  June  10,  1723;  married  Nov.  6,  1738,  Isaac  Frink,  son  of  Samuel  and  Margaret 
(Wheeler)  Frink  of  Stonington. 

Bridget,  born  July  10,  1725;  married  (i)  April  9,  1746,  Isaac  Wheeler,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Mary  (Miner)  Wheeler  of  Stonington,  who  was  drowned  in  1747;  married 
(2)  April  23,  I75i,as  his  second  wife,  Joseph  Denison,  son  of  Joseph  and  Prudence 
(Minor)  Denison  of  Stonington;  died  March  1 1,  1772. 


COLONEL  JOSEPH  NOYES  [5]  27 

(5)  Joseph,  born  Oct.  9,  1727;  married  July  21,  1753,  Barbara  Wells,  daughter  of  Captain 
James  and  Mary  (Barker)  Wells  (24)  of  Westerly,  R.  I.,  died  March  13,  1802. 

[5]  COLONEL  JOSEPH  NOYES  [1727-1802] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

BARBARA  WELLS  [1734-1814] 

OF    WESTERLY,    R.    I. 

TOSEPH  NOYES,  son  of  Captain  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Sanford)  Noyes 

I       (4),  was  born  at  Stonington,  Conn.,  October  9,  1727.     At  the  age  of  t wen ty- 

I      five  he  married,  July   31,    1753,    Barbara    Wells,   daughter  of  Captain 

J      James   and   Mary    (Barker)   Wells  (24),  of  South   Kingston,  R.  L,  who 

was  born  August  i,  1734. 

They  settled  at  Westerly,  R.  I.,'  on  the  land  at  Musqueta  Neck  (Noyes' 
Point)  which  Joseph  inherited  from  his  father,  and  which  was  originally  given  to 
his  grandfather.  Rev.  James  Noyes  (3),  by  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut,  it 
being  then  a  part  of  Stonington,  and  in  Connecticut. 

He  took  the  oath  prescribed  "Against  Bribery  and  corruption  in  the  election 
of  Officers  of  the  Government"  in  1756,  but  does  not  appear  to  have  held  office 
until  some  years  later.  He  was  a  staunch  Whig,  known  for  his  patriotic  zeal  in 
the  cause  of  freedom,  was  opposed  to  slavery,  although  he  owned  slaves,  and  is 
said  to  have  given  them  their  freedom  before  the  time  prescribed  by  the  law.  The 
General  Assembly  of  Rhode  Island  in  1774  was  specially  engaged  in  a  plan  for  the 
union  of  the  Colonies  to  secure  their  own  rights,  but,  recognizing  personal  liberty 
as  an  essential  part  of  the  rights  of  all  mankind,  they  passed  a  bill,  the  preamble 
of  which  reads  as  follows: — "Those  who  are  desirous  of  enjoying  all  the  advan- 
tages of  liberty  themselves  should  be  willing  to  extend  personal  liberty  to  others." 

The  bill  provided  that  no  negro  or  mulatto  slave  should  be  thereafter  brought 
into  the  Colony. 

By  the  census  taken  that  year  [1774],  the  total  population  of  Rhode  Island 
was  59,678,  of  whom  54,435  were  white,  3,761  negroes,  and  1,482  Indians.  Wes- 
terly had  only  a  population  of  1,812,  and  Joseph  Noyes  a  family  of  17,  five  of  them 
black.  He  was  a  man  of  some  consequence,  as  he  owned  400  acres  of  land,  and 
kept  22  horses  and  25  cows  on  the  farm  where  his  son  Thomas  afterwards  is  said 
to  have  kept  52  cows. 

The  General  Assembly  of  Rhode  Island,  in  May,  1775,  appointed  Mr.  Joseph 
Noyes  colonel  of  the  First  Regiment,  Kings  County,  and  at  this  session,  in  "the 

'The  Indian  name  was  Misquamicut,  which  signifies  "  a  place  for  taking  salmon."  It  was  settled  in 
1661  by  Newport  men  and  was  the  first  town  incorporated,  on  May  14,  1669,  in  the  King's  Province,  which 
afterwards  became  King's  County,  R.  I.,  now  Washington  County.  In  i66g  the  name  was  changed  to  Westerly 
and  it  was  the  largest  town  in  the  county  from  1669  to  1674,  with  the  exception  of  Providence.  This  town- 
ship was  long  the  battleground  of  two  of  the  most  powerful  Indian  tribes  in  New  England,  and  it  is  a  curiou5 
fact   that  neither  of  these  tribes  ever  had,  so  far  as  is  now  known,  quiet  possession  of  the  soil. 


28  COLONEL  JOSEPH  NOYES  [5] 

boldest  act  of  legislation  recorded  in  any  of  the  Colonies  up  to  this  time,"  it  sus- 
pended Joseph  Wanton  from  the  office  of  governor  because  he  had  opposed  raising 
the  army  of  observation  and  refused  to  sign  the  commissions  for  the  officers  of 
the  new  army,  "by  all  which  he  hath  manifested  his  intentions  to  defeat  the  good 
people  of  these  Colonies  in  their  present  glorious  struggle  to  transmit  inviolate  to 
posterity  those  sacred  rights  they  have  received  from  their  ancestors." 

Colonel  Joseph  Noyes  was  a  member  of  several  committees  appointed  by 
the  General  Assembly  in  January  and  February,  1776;  one  to  purchase  "beef  hides 
and  tallow  for  the  use  of  the  colony"  and  one  to  "procure  gold  and  silver  coin  for 
the  operations  in  Canada."  He  served  for  ten  years  as  deputy  for  Westerly,  and 
took  his  seat  for  the  first  time  in  the  Assembly  which  met  at  Providence  May  i ,  1 776, 
memorable  for  its  action  in  passing  the  act  abjuring  allegiance  to  the  British  Crown ; 
in  effect  a  declaration  of  independence  passed  two  months  before  the  general  Dec- 
laration of  the  United  Colonies. 

In  the  Spirit  of  '76,  the  author  says: 

"Among  the  men  who  supported  this  declaration,  were  Hon.  John  Brown,  member  from 
Providence  and  subsequently  Representative  to  Congress,  Qjl.  Atwell,  Metcalf  Bowler,  speaker  of 
the  House  of  Representatives,  Col.  John  Waterman,  Col.  Chad  Brown  of  Providence  and  Col.  Joseph 
Noyes  of  Westerly,  all  pure-hearted  patriots.  All  these  men  took  an  active  part  in  the  great 
political  drama  which  then  began.  A  monument  ought  to  be  erected  on  which  the  name  of  every 
member  who  sat  in  that  General  Assembly  should  be  inserted."  ' 

The  bills  passed  at  this  session  were  manifestly  in  preparation  for  war,  such 
as  the  ones  to  purchase  "as  many  iron  or  shod  shovels,  iron  scoop  shovels  as  can 
be  got  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and  fifty,  and  fifty  good  spades  for  the  use  of  the 
Brigade";  "Towns  to  be  supplied  with  powder  and  lead";  "To  erect  a  powder  mill"; 
and  several  others  of  the  same  character. 

The  records  of  the  Assembly,  which  had  heretofore  closed  with  "God  save 
the  King,"  at  the  close  of  this  session  were  changed  to  read  "God  save  the  United 
Colonies." 

At  this  time  the  little  state,  with  less  than  sixty  thousand  population,  had 
five  regiments  in  the  field;  three  in  the  Continental  service  and  two  in  the  immediate 
service  of  the  State.  Colonel  Noyes  was  given  the  command  of  one  of  the  latter 
and  two  of  his  sons,  Joseph  and  Sanford,  were  in  his  regiment,  either  at  this  time 
or  later,  while  his  eldest  son  Thomas  (6),  only  twenty-one  years  of  age,  was  lieu- 
tenant in  Colonel  Lippitt's  regiment,  of  the  Continental  service.  In  December  of 
the  same  year.  Colonel  Noyes  was  directed  by  the  Assembly  to  accompany  the 
troop  of  horse  stationed  at  Boston  Neck  and  Point  Judith,  and  procure  convenient 
quarters  for  them,  and  from  this  time  on  throughout  the  war  he  was  actively 
engaged.  When  the  British  occupied  Newport  in  December,  1776,  Warwick  Neck 
was  defended  by  Colonel  John  Waterman,  Pawtuxet  by  Colonel  Aborn  and  Tower 
Hill  by  Colonel  Joseph  Noyes.     In  the  Battle  of  Rhode  Island, in  August,  1778, 

'Cowell's  Spirit  of  '76.     45. 


COLONEL  JOSEPH  NOYES  [5]  29 

he  commanded  a  regiment,  and  his  name  appears  among  the  list  of  colonels  who 
received  honorable  mention  at  that  time.' 

He  was  again  deputy  to  the  General  Court  in  1784,  and  after  the  war  was 
over,  in  March,  1786,  he  preferred  a  petition  to  that  body  as  follows: 

"That  in  the  late  war  he  was  employed  by  the  State  to  purchase  beef  for  the  army,  then  in 
great  want  of  provisions;  and  that  not  being  supplied  with  great  sufficiency  of  money  funded  on 
real  estate  to  pay  for  same,  he  was  induced,  from  the  necessity  the  army  was  in,  to  give  his  own 
note  of  hand  to  Messrs.  George  and  Samuel  Sheffield,  both  now  of  Stonington,  in  order  to  procure 
the  said  supplies;  that  after  repeated  applications  for  the  money  he  was  obliged  to  take  a  certificate, 
which  would  not  take  up  his  notes;  that  he  is  sued,  and  execution  is  now  against  him  for  one  hun- 
dred and  six  pounds;  and  thereupon  prayed  that  he  may  have  an  order  upon  the  general  treasurer 
for  the  said  sum;  that  the  said  execution  may  be  stayed  till  the  money  can  be  obtained,  and  that 
the  same  may  be  endorsed  on  a  note  he  holds  against  the  State  for  the  payment  of  the  said  pro- 
vision." It  was  voted  that  the  general  treasurer  pay  the  amount  and  'that  the  said  Joseph  Noyes 
in  case  an  alias  execution  issue  upon  the  said  judgment  be  not  committed  to  jail  thereon  until  the 
return  day  of  executions  at  the  inferior  Court  to  be  holden  in  Washington  County  in  August  next.' " 

It  was  evidently  paid  in  time  to  prevent  execution,  or  at  least  commitment 
to  jail. 

The  latest  mention  of  him  in  the  records  is  in  October,  1790,  when  he  was 
one  of  the  committee  for  superintending  the  affairs  of  the  Narragansett  Indians, 
and  running  and  ascertaining  certain  disputed  boundary  lines  between  them  and 
the  white  settlers. 

Colonel  Joseph  Noyes  died  at  Westerly,  March  13,  1802,  aged  seventy-five 
years,  and  was  buried  in  what  is  now  called  the  Noyes  burying-ground.  It  is 
on  a  high  knoll  in  a  pasture  on  the  old  Noyes  Farm,  enclosed  by  a  wall,  a  number  of 
rods  north  of  the  "shore  road."  In  the  same  place  were  buried  his  wife,  his  sons. 
Colonel  Thomas  (6)  and  Sanford  with  their  wives,  another  son.  Dr.  James,  and  a 
daughter,  Elizabeth  Noyes. 

It  is  rather  curious  that  three  of  his  children  married  their  cousins,  one  son 
married  two  wives  who  were  apparently  sisters,  and  may  have  been  his  cousins, 
and  two  sons  married  wives  who  were  cousins.  For  two  generations  in  the  Noyes 
line  preceding  and  three  generations  following,  either  two  brothers  married  two 
sisters,  or  a  brother  and  sister  married  a  brother  and  sister,  which  is  quite  as  unusual 
a  record  as  the  foregoing. 

Colonel  Noyes' will  was  dated  February  20,  1802,  and  proved  March  26th 
the  same  year.     His  provisions  for  his  wife  are  very  minute.     He  left  her: 

"  The  use  and  improvement  of  one-half  of  my  household  furniture  as  long  as  she  shall  remain 
my  widow  and  two  good  cows  to  be  kept  well  on  the  farm  ...  as  much  provisions  of  every  kind 
as  she  shall  choose  with  as  much  clothing  of  every  kind  .  .  .  and  all  kinds  of  fresh  meat  when  she 
wanteth  it  with  all  kinds  of  liquors  that  she  shall  choose  and  all  kinds  of  sauce  .  .  .  and  as  much 
firewood  delivered  to  her  in  her  room  as  she  needeth  and  when  she  wanteth  it  and  as  much  water 
delivered  to  her  .  .  .  Some  Suitable  Woman  to  wait  upon  her  and  do  such  work  as  she  wants  done 

'  Stone,  French  Allies,  71,  72,  84. 


30  COLONEL  JOSEPH  NOYES  [5] 

duringherWidowhood  .  .  .  and  also  a  good  steady  beast  for  her  to  ride  at  al!  times.  [She  had  also] 
her  choice  of  the  one-half  of  my  now  dwelling  house  ...  all  the  remainder  of  my  estate  both 
real  and  personal  with  my  Silver  tankard  and  Silver  hilted  sword  and  wearing  apparel  to  be  equally 
divided  for  quantity  and  for  quality  among  my  six  beloved  sons  .  .  .  forty-five  pounds  silver 
money"  for  his  two  daughters,  and  for  the  unmarried  one,  Betsey,  the  same  provision  as  for  her 
mother.     Thomas  and  Joseph  were  the  executors. 

Barbara  died  September  7,  1814,  aged  eighty,  and  was  buried  by  the  side 
of  her  husband. 

Children  of  Colonel  Joseph  and  Barbara  (Wells)  Noyes 

(6)  Thomas,  born  Oct.  3,   1754;  married   Jan.    31,   1781,  his  third    cousin,  Lydia  Rogers 

daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  (Sanford)  Rogers  (40);  died  Sept.  19,  1819,  aged 

sixty-five. 
Sanford,  born  Oct.  20,  1756;  died  Sept.  30.  1759. 
Joseph,  born  May  9,  1758;  married  Jan.  13  (another  record  says  Feb.  26),  1799,  Elizabeth 

Babcock,  daughter  of  Rouse  and  Ruth  Babcock;  served  in  his  father's  regiment. 

Captain  Gavitt's  Company,  and  received  in   i833,while  living  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  a 

government  pension  for  active  service  in  1776,  and  as  a  member  of  the  Coast  Guard 

up  to  1779;  died  in  1847,  aged  eighty-nine. 
Sanford,  born  Jan.  18,  1761;  married  Feb.  2,  1800,  Martha  Babcock,  daughter  of  Hezekiah 

and  Martha  Babcock,  of  Hopkinton,  R.  I.,  who  was  a  cousin  of  his  brother  Joseph's 

wife;  served  also  in  the  war  in  his  father's  regiment,  and  died  at  Westerly  Aug.  8, 

1843,  aged  eighty-two. 
Mary  (Polly),  born  Oct.  11, 1763;  married  April  14,  1799,  her  first  cousin  Thomas  Noyes,  son 

of  James  and  Grace  (Billings)  Noyes,  of  Stonington;  died  Sept.  2,  1854,  aged  ninety. 
James,  born  Feb.  8,  1768;  married  (i)  Fanny  H.  Wells;  married  (2)  Nancy  S.  Wells;  married 

(3)  Rebecca  Clark;  was  a  physician,  lived  at  Westerly  and  died  there  Nov.  6,  1856, 

aged  eighty-eight. 
Elizabeth  (Betsey)  born  July  30,  1770;  died  at  Westerly  Sept.  15,  1845,  aged  seventy-five. 
Joshua,  born  Dec.  5,  1772;  married  May  6,  1810,  his  second  cousin  Grace  Noyes,  daughter 

of  Col.  Feleg  and  Prudence  (Williams)  Noyes;  died  Oct.  13,  1856,  aged  eighty-three. 
Barker,  born  March   13,  1775;  married  March   18,  1810,  Margaret  Champlin  of  Westerly; 

died  in  1864,  aged  eighty-nine. 

[6]       LIEUT. -COLONEL  THOMAS  NOYES  [1754-1819] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

LYDIA  ROGERS  [1760-1798] 

OF    WESTERLY,    R.    I. 

THOMAS  NOYES,  son  of  Colonel  Joseph  and  Barbara  (Wells)  Noyes 
(5),  was  born  at  Westerly,  October  3,  1754.     He  was  only  twenty-one 
when  he  received,  in  January,  1776,  his  commission  as  ensign,  followed 
late  in  August  by  one  from  Congress  as  lieutenant. 
These  commissions  (see  facsimiles)  are  especially  interesting  because  the  first, 
as  ensign,  dated  January  18,  1776,  is  in  "His  Majesty's  Name  George  the  Third," 


EY   THE  HO  NOR  ABLE 

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Covcrnor,  Captnin-OaKml,  rinj  C^iniiuiukr  l.i  Cl.iuf,  of  ;inil  oviT  ll.c  &»///Z.  Culon/ 
oi  Rhode- IJImiJ,  and  I'lO'Mcntc  l'la„li,lki:<,  in  Ncvi-lia-.'lanil,  hx  /hmrka. 

To:iL,n»..\r,j..,.,,:.o..l C.«;.,. 

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liidfmtliliilSiilijcasIn  llinCololiv,  ^Hulllicotl.-r  <;-,'  ,ni.     ;,,      ■,■         ,■       ■ 
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Rc<;inlcD£  to  Seven  Hundred  and   Fifty  lifcn,'  cxxinlr/e  t/ an"  An,;!.:  ,  (  c,^; 
belongings   and   at    tlic    fame  Sellioii   palled  an   Art  lirderin'^  .ili.'Ik';   lU-.i.ii;/,    ■■      .     . 
of  Seveaflundrcd  and  Fifty  Men,   tu  \x  J^ifed,   and  einbodyini;  the  f.;,l   n'n  I',  ■•;a.-  r,  :  .-i, 
One  Brigade:   And  whereas  you  tile  iliij  .*. j,  („    ,,,  _  '.  au  ::;>j,. /iil^.r; ,,.     • 

11-  (u:^  A  (;„„.„,,:« :/  ':■.■<-  ..  .^.'.  :..■  ■  •■■■ ,..  ■■' 

\  I  dothts'cfore  iicriiiv,  in  ii;- ,^^.;  lir,  Nonu,  G'A  (5  flc;^ 

tKc  Tidal,  by  the  Grace  of  G  O  D,  Kjlig  of  Cv,'/-/.',-, „■;  ;,  cA.  .r-.V  ■.{:,•:,  <_,:;,  nuer,  w.y\ 
commiifion,  you  the  iaid//^-...  -^.  (  ,;y,..'  „,    .  to  li.ive,  t:Lkc,  y.-A  LXiiLife,  l!,e  Olil-.c  of 

;.-..,,. !/«,.- £.,::,.,„',  6,..,y ,...11..-.:.  .:..,  ,    ..    ,,._..',.,      ,  ,„j 

to  comn^nd,  guide  and  conduct  the  famejior  any  Part  theixol,  A;\i  in  eiile  ot  an  In\  nfion  or 
Affiiult  ||f  a  common  Enemy,  to  infcff  or  dilfnrb  this  or  atiy  othtr  ..,"11,  M,'  '?.■■.-  (-..K,.-. lis  in 
^mw/Vri^  you  are  to  alarm  and  gather  together  the  ,■;,.,,  ,  ..,,  uii.l  ,  \  ,;r  (  i MLorany 
Part  thereof,  asyou  fhall  deem  fuffieient,  aid  thcrcnirh,  totlic  ui,,:"l'  i     .    i  1        i.'.'vli'v, 

you  are  B  Refill,  E.xiiel,  Kill  and  Dcftroylthcm,  in  ord,T  to  p,-e!enc  ;ii_  !     i  :  J  I. ,  M.-ielU-, 

and  Hislood  Subjects,  in  thefe  Parts.  Yiu  are  alfo  to  I'ollov,-  I, id,  1:.:',:  .,;,.!.,  ];  ,..:;o!;;  and 
Orders,  [s  fliall  from  Time  to  Time  be  gil'cn  forth,  either  by  the  <;,  ■.  ■  u,  A  >.,,  i.v  or  vour 
fupcrior  Officcre.      And  foe  your  fo  doing'lbii  ConimiirioD  (hull  be  your  fuii«,  ,u  \\'.iiia,it. 

Gi-vm  under  my  Ihv:d,  a<:d  ihc  Seal  r.f  :hc  f.tij  C:.-.',   .-'.=    ■,'-'..  ■■  "- 

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-v  tlic  HunoiM^\c.y  Vt^/i^^.CiX^ '(^OK-^ Efqiiirc, 

'•.jvtrnor,   Cnptaiii-Gcneral,  and  Ccjinmandei-  in  Chitf,  of 
r.iul  tjvcr    th'J  r.ii'>iijh  State    of  Khodt-Ijland    and    Prrrol- 

O  (i    t!;i  l.i.ii  J''^^-,^^;ij .■■Y'l^cj -teing  chofu-n  and  acpointed  Ji'.-^^^tr- 

aii.d  i,li)lyn|>])rovfd  of,  r.n:  Iktc!^',',  Irt   tiic    mtjie   of   the  GovrxNo;. 

and  Cof.n'AiJv  of  tW:  l/.j-l  oi.iw,  aui:ii.jii/.vd,  empowcTecl,  and  «oniniiniftn«!,  to  liave,  falie  and 
excrcife,  t\KOnKci,ffi^<-id^^<Lc.^^x.Ulo(lU:Lom^M)y^ipit!&ilii,  widi  the  Rank  and  Privileges 
10  wliicli  yoii  are  entitled  by  the  Charter  of  tiie' faid  Com;iany,  tuid  to  command,  gindc  and  condufe 
the  fame,  or  any  Part  thereat  ;  And  in  Cafe  of  an  Invafion,  or  A'll'atilt  of  a  common  Enemy,  to  moIcH; 
of  dilburb  tins  Plantation,  you  are  to  alarm  and  gather  together  the  Company  under  your  Command, 
or  any  Part  tlicreof  you  lliali.  deem  lnHkicar,  and  with  chem,  to  tho  utmolt  of  your  Skill  and  Ability, 
you  are  to  refill-,  expel,  kill,  and  delkoy  the  fame,  in  order  to  pieferve  the  Intercft  of  the. good 
Penpit;  in  thele  Parts.  You,  are  alio  to  follow  fuch  further  .Inftru(Jions,  Direftions  and  Orders,  as 
fliall  from  Time  to  Time  bt:  given  forth,  either  by  the  General  -Aflcmbly  or  the  Governor  and 
Councd  of  this  State,  and  6ther  your  luperior  Officers ;  And  for  your  fo  doing,  this  Cumrr.ifTion  , 
fiiall  beyoiir  I'ufficient  Warrfintand  Difcharge. 

C  I  F  E  N    lui.hr  'viy  Hdii:!,  mid  the  Seal  of  th^  f.iid  Slali,  ihe '^'~t^i^- -^<^'^ t)aj 

ci] ULa^ _-..  ;■;,!  the  Year  cfOnr  Lord  On;  Th::ifi:i:d  Scva;  Hundred  cad S:v'r.ii-  J^tka-e,^. 

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Hi".  iIo:;on'3  Coipniand,      _  I  -,_^  ///       / 


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'■  ,  By  his  E^xcellencyc  9J /// ///~x~/'?yj^ir/'^^Q^,   Governor, 

Captain-f^eneral,  and  Commander  in  Chief,   of  and  over 
r  -"'  tbe__JStati  of  Rhocie-IJlaiid  and  Proz''u!cnce  Plantations. 

\  TO  JA//-/A,y.i\  }S.>/Cf  l^fq;   Greeting. 

■      \  "'^    >^0  U   the  laid    .^ ' i'/y  .n'^  ^i^j-^-f  being  elected  and  chofen  to 

-^"^ ,       /  .  w^     diePiaceaiKi  clffice  of, {/,.,. ,:1:,7^^.,;^.,;,,  .V^<.-r^./..^  <i-l':; /^J^^;,,..^ 

^i  /•/<l,'/iY.^/.~-     in  rJrc  County  of   '"/ ..y' ;'.';...  r^^  in  tlic  Slate  aforefaid, 

are  hereby,  in  t(ie  Name  of  tlic  Governor  and  Company  of  the  faid  State, 
authorized,  empowered  ahd  commiffioncd,  to  excrcife  the  Oflicc  of, '^r^.-^,  3^Zj -..^  of 
and  over  the'  ^^.'»v//,-.- '■  aforefaid:  And  to  command,  guide  and  conduft  the 
fame,  or  any  Part  thereof ,  And  in  cafe  of  an  Invafion,  o:  Aflault  of  a  common"- 
Enemy,  to  infeft  or  diflurb  this  Plantation,  you  arc  to  alarm  and  gather  together  the 
y'zc  ^ _,,■.  y,^,,/  under  you^'Command,  or  fucli  Part  thereof  as  you  ihall  deem  fufu- 
cicrit,  and  therewith,  to  tjc  utmoft  of  your  Skill  and  Ability,  you  are  to  rcfift,  expel,' 
kill  and  deftroy  the  fame,  1u  order  to  prcfcrvc  the  Intcrefl  of  the  good  People  in  thefe 
Parts.  You  are  alfo  to  flillow  fuch  InftiuiSions,  Diredions  and  Orders,  as  fliall  from 
Time  to  Time  be  further  feiven  forth,  cither  by  the  General. Afferablv,  the  Governor 
and  General  Council,  or  ifthcr  your  fupcrior  Ofheers.  An4  for  your  fo  doing,  this 
CornmifTion  fhall  be  your  /iifficicnt  Warrant  and  Difchargc. 

GIVEN  titidcr  my  HarJ  and  Seal  of  the  [aid  Stale,  tit  i  ■'■_■_    ,   ~:Dayof^//f^^.- 

hi  the  Year  of  Om-  Lord  One 'thotifand  Sa-cn  Hundred  and  ^)  ,.^^^_  ,    ^^ 

and  in  theJly/tL,^-r-4    Tear  oj  Incleft^ndinQC-, 

By  His  Excellency's  Coicniaud,  '  ,^ 


B/  his  ExC(illencyVl>-i^iW/</v7V.^>^-'^  Governor, 

Captain-deneral,  arid  Commander  in  Chief,   of  and  over 
fjie  SlTLtt  pi  Rhode-IJland  TinA-  Providence  Plantations. 
T  O  <a-^:77Z.*5/   ^X^f^'^Y'S^  -      -  —        E'^i;   Greeting. 

O'U    the  raid  .'^^^^y^ijC/  ^^■^■"y'>J fcciSg  eledcdand  chofen  to 

tJic  Place  and  Office  (^^.^y^yf/^^yY.-^y,-^  .->  '//<,  J^^^  ^or..,y:^^''-^r'^^'.^^' 


^/y4':/,.i  -in  dig  County  of    //,<^r  i//,,'A^^  '^^ 


m  tlie^tatfi^forefaid. 


arc  hereby,  in  thlrNamc  of  the  Governpj^a^d  Company  of, the  faid  State^, 
Authorized,  empowered  and'commiffioned,  to  exercifc  the  Oftce  of/  ■  '•■'  ■<■■'■■  ■■■'■^pf 
^nd  over  the  J^^-'-V^-'-^^'^?!'  aforefaid  :  And  to  command,  guide  and  conduft  the 
fame,  or  any  Ptff't  thereo'f^  Ahd  in  cafe  of  an  Invafion,  or  Affault  of  a  common 
Ejiemy,  to  infeft  or  difturb  this  Plantation,  you  are  .to  alarm^  and  gather  together  the 
//^,.,<J',>«^« /under  your  Command,  or  fuch  Part  thereof  ajt  you  ihall  deem  fufE- 
.cJejj^,  and  dierewirj\,  to  th(|utmoft;  of  your  Skill  and  Ability,  you  are  to  refift,  expel, 
kill  and  deftroy  the  fame,  \\%  order  to  prefcrvc  the  Intereft  of  the  good  People  in  thefe 
Parts.  You  are  aifo  to  foljow  fuch  Inftruftions,  Direftions  apd  Orders,  as  fhall  from 
Time  to  Time  be  further  gi^cn  forth,  cither  by  tlie  General  Affembly,  the  Governor 
and  General  Council,  or  otaer  your  fuperior  Officers.  And  Ifor  your  {o  doing,  this 
Commiffion  fliall  be  your  fJHcient  Warrant  and  Difcharge.     !  ^  .  '  ,,. 

GIVEN  under  my  Hand  and  Seal  of  the  /aid  Stats,  the,-  zj^  ^v%     tiay  ofc^'^^^l-'^ 
in  the  Year  U  Our  Lord  One  Thoufand  Seven  Hundrid  atsd.,//W^-.^-^£at^ 
and  in  the  ^^' ^'■''^^Tiar  oj  Indc^endviU,    '  /' 

'By  His  E-xcelkncy's  Coin^8ao4(  (7   /'  ,  7  ?  i  7 /"T^ 


V///' 


/       / 


By  his  Excellency  7  9 /' //j //.'\  /''.', VfV"  Efquire,  Governor, 
Captain-General,  and  Commander  in  Chief,  of  the  State  of  Rbode- 
Ijland  and   providence  Plantation. 


J/cYj.  ii'-HYJ 


Efa;  Grectir;;, 


Yo 


OIT  Hic  fai^ 
the  SclTion  E*lci  on  the.    '• 


■■•-■'      '  Raving_  bfcn  cWicd  by  the  QcncraJ  AlTcniblv,  ac 

,    , .  .  ' ■  ,         ,,  /to  ti.c  Office  of.< .'. ..'',.,.! .,/-  6.-  .^-..y  j^,,  ^; ,  .;i 

'.  ,  .■,,'..    .,..'.     .-;   '  .'...^'/l:-..:  :''.  in   the    Stntc   aforcf^ki/'are  ' 

iicVeby/in   iiic   Name  of  the  Governor   rm!' Cor.-,],  ry    of    t!,r  f.,id  .State,    auilior'izrj,  ■  fint.owjied  ami  u.iymHlionau J,    lo   exercifc 
the     Office   of     ,-  ,.-.--     ^    ■     ,•         ,      ,,.-,..  .  of  and    over  !iic  ,-•' -    '        ■■    • 

aforclaiil  ;    and  to   commarul    a-ad   c.iuiua    ihc    fn-v,    er    ,.iv    l':ii!    '.'.v.^^.f      And    in    rate    of  ai,    !nv,,i;.i;!,    of   All'jidt    of   a    common 
Enemy,    to  hifcll    or  diliurli  lifis  Maie,    \c.>      v     -'    ::im    m.I     ■■■•'■■■'V   i.-e!'.-     ii;t  evdc-  \o!!r  Command, 

or    fuch     I'aJt     thero'f  as     you    llull    dee.u     i:    :         ■;         .!     <^.v..■^.,.    :■■    1  ,e    i";...:!    .1    ^  nr     Sl.dl    vd     M-::.-,.    yea     are   to    rcllft, 

expel   and  cfcftroy  Ihcm,  in'order  to  pref,  1    <■   (:.    Mc:c::   M'l.:    ; I  I  :':,.■  r,  ,,i  ;;.-.    v.atr.      -.",,.1  au    alioif.  ;.  i!  -,v   fuh  inf.ruiiions 

and  Orderr.  K   fiiall,    from  Time  to  Time,    he    yp  c;i  f-..lh,   v\<V>',-  by   li.e   V.^-mA   Alle.iddv,    tlu^   (-l.-zernor  ,,;;d  r.e.ar,-.:    Council,    or 
otiltr  your  fijKrior  Officers.     Aud  for  j-oiai- ib  liointrv   fii;   <i..,:>ii)iila';;   llial!  i:e  your   luriiuent    Wlrvji-t  and   DUlhai^e. 

GIVEN  under  }ny  Band,  and  ik  Sea!  f,f  the  faij  Slate,    this   .     ,.  ,_/.  V"  Day  of 

0     ■  hi  the  Y.ar  of  o:n- L!,rd  0;,::Jho:ij:!!id  Seven  Hundred  and  Nit!Cty.  ^i.-f- 7 

end  in  the   .      ■       _  Tear  if  Indel>cndencc, 

By  Ms  EnctLLENcv's    ComnwiiJ,  ■,,y^T'^^/i^//''^/Y^'A^ 


LIEUT.-COLONEL  THOMAS  NOYES  [6]  31 

etc.,  commissioning  him  to  fight  against  the  common  enemy,  which  was  then  the 
King's  own  army.  The  second,  as  lieutenant,  August  26,  1776,  is  signed  by  John 
Hancock,  president  of  the  Congress  of  the  United  Colonies.  He  joined  the  Third 
Rhode  Island  Regiment,  first  under  command  of  Colonel  Harry  Babcock,  later 
under  Lieutenant-Colonel  Christopher  Lippitt.  It  was  enlisted  January  18,  1776, 
to  serve  for  one  year. 

The  regiment  was  stationed  at  various  points  on  the  Island  and  the  shores 
of  the  bay,  during  the  spring  and  summer  months,  as  protection  against  invasion, 
but  was  subject  to  the  call  of  Congress,  which  came  September  3,  1776,  when  it 
was  ordered  to  join  the  main  army  under  Washington.  At  that  time  the  officers 
were:  Colonel  Christopher  Lippitt,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Adam  Comstock,  Major 
James  Tew,  Adjutant  William  Tyler,  Quartermaster  Benj.  Bourne.  The  com- 
missioned officers  in  Captain  Arnold's  Company  were:  Captain  Thomas  Arnold, 
Lieutenant  Thomas  Noyes,  and  Ensign  Benjamin  Bourne.  The  muster  roll  of  his 
company  in  Thomas  Noyes' own  writing,  is  illustrated  on  opposite  page. 

They  broke  camp  at  Newport,  September  14,  and  reached  the  main  army  at 
Harlem  Heights,  N.  Y.  just  after  the  action  there.  The  regiment  was  assigned 
October  14,  to  General  Alexander  McDougall's  brigade,  which,  with  Nixon's,  was 
placed  by  Washington  under  the  command  of  Charles  Lee.  The  first  engagement 
in  which  they  took  part  was  the  battle  of  White  Plains,  October  28,  1 776. 

Colonel  Lippitt's  regiment  was  transferred  in  November  to  Nixon's  brigade. 
They  remained  with  Lee  on  the  Hudson  until  he  finally  moved  to  reinforce  Wash- 
ington in  New  Jersey.  After  the  capture  of  Lee  at  Baskenridge,  this  division, 
under  Major-General  John  Sullivan,  moved  rapidly  forward,  and  joined  Washington 
at  Trenton  Falls,  December  20,  and  was  commanded  by  General  Cadwallader. 
This  division  was  to  have  crossed  the  Delaware  on  the  same  night  with  Washington 
but  on  account  of  the  floating  ice  was  prevented.  They  crossed  the  next  day, 
however,  and  on  the  28th  were  at  Bordentown,  and  on  the  29th  at  Crosswicks, 
where  they  remained  until  the  31st.  On  this  day  the  term  of  enlistment  of  Hitch- 
cock's and  Varnum's  regiments,  the  First  and  Second  Rhode  Island,  expired. 
Lippitt's  had  eighteen  days  more  to  serve.  It  was  a  critical  time,  and  Washington 
sent  General  Mifflin  to  speak  to  the  brigades  and  persuade  them  to  volunteer  for 
another  month.  "  He  did  it  well,"  said  John  Howland,  an  eye-witness,  "  and  every 
man  poised  his  fire-lock  as  the  signal  of  assent." 

Within  two  hours  after  their  re-enlistment  they  were  on  the  march  to  Trenton, 
where  the  brigade,  now  under  the  command  of  General  Daniel  Hitchcock,  who 
had  succeeded  Nixon,  had  an  important  part  in  the  battle  of  Trenton.  "All  honor 
to  the  gallant  men,"  says  Arnold,  the  historian  of  Rhode  Island,  "who  there,  by 
the  side  of  Washington,  defended  the  pass  at  Trenton  Bridge;  upon  their  bravery 
for  one  short  but  pregnant  hour  hung  the  destiny  of  America."  They  had  an  ac- 
tive part  also  in  the  battle  of  Princeton,  January  3,  after  which  battle  Washington 
taking  Hitchcock  by  the  hand,  expressed  his  admiration  of  his  conduct  and  that 
of  his  troops,  and  desired  him  to  convey  his  thanks  to  the  brigade. 


32  LIEUT.-COLONEL  THOMAS  NOYES  [6] 

Soon  after,  on  January  13th,  Hitchcock  died  from  the  fatigues  and  exposure 
incident  to  the  campaign.  The  brigade  remained  in  the  vicinity  of  Morristown 
until  February  ist,  when,  their  time  of  re-enhstment  expiring,  the  First  and  Second 
Regiments  were  honorably  discharged,  and  returned  to  Rhode  Island.  On  the 
18th  of  February  Lippitt's  regiment  followed  in  small  parties,  as  it  was  said  they 
could  better  find  lodgings  for  a  night  on  the  road.  "So  they  made  their  way  home 
on  foot,  through  deep  snows,  unpaid,  half-clothed,  and  penniless,  ...  to  beg  their 
bread  through  realms  their  valor  saved."  They  crossed  the  Hudson  at  King's 
Ferry  (Stony  Point),  and  the  Connecticut  at  Hartford,  going  thence  to  Rhode 
Island. 

On  his  return  home,  his  father.  Colonel  Joseph  Noyes,  being  in  command  of 
the  First  Regiment  King's  Co.  Militia,  and  two  of  his  brothers  serving  in  the  same. 
Lieutenant  Thomas  Noyes  also  continued  to  serve  in  Rhode  Island.  His  later 
commissions  are:  that  of  1777  for  First  Lieutenant  of  Artillery,  of  1792  for  Second 
Major,  of  1793  for  First  Major,  and  1794  for  Lieutenant-Colonel. 

He  married,  January  31,  1781,  his  third  cousin,  Lydia  Rogers,  daughter 
of  William  and  Sarah  (Sanford)  Rogers  (40),  of  Newport,  R.  I.,  who  was  born 
May  19,  1760.  Probably  soon  after  he  built  the  house  near  his  father's  at  Noyes' 
Point,  Westerly,  where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life  as  a  farmer.  This  house  was 
still  standing  in  1873,  when  the  writer  visited  it  and  when  the  picture  shown  in 
the  illustration  opposite  page  34  was  made,  but  was  taken  down  ten  years  later. 

Lydia  died  November  15,  1798,  aged  thirty-eight,  leaving  him  with  a  family 
of  eight  children,  the  eldest  fifteen  and  the  youngest  but  one  year  old.  She  was 
buried  in  the  Noyes  burying-ground,  on  the  farm  in  Westerly. 

During  and  after  the  war  he  was  active  in  public  and  political  life,  serving 
for  about  twenty  years  as  a  representative  or  deputy  for  Westerly,  and  as  state 
senator,  part  of  the  time  being  the  candidate  of  both  parties.  He  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  celebrated  Hartford  Convention.  In  1801  he  was  "on  a  prox"  (ballot) 
of  the  Federalist  party  for  representative  to  the  Seventh  Congress,  the  first  held 
in  Washington.  The  ballot  reads:  "Thomas  Noyes  of  Westerly,  A  real  Farmer, 
and  an  uniform  Friend  to  the  Rights  and  Liberties  of  the  People."  He  was  not 
elected,  as  Rhode  Island  sent  a  republican  delegation,  and  its  General  Assembly 
sent  congratulations  to  President  Jefi"erson.  When  James  Madison  was  elected  in 
1808,  Thomas  Noyes  was  one  of  the  four  presidential  electors  for  Rhode  Island. 
They  cast  their  votes  for  C.  C.  Pinckney,  of  South  Carolina  for  President,  and  Rufus 
King,  of  New  York  for  Vice-President. 

He  was  chosen  president  of  the  bank  of  Westerly  in  1801,  soon  after  its  or- 
ganization. At  this  time  there  were  but  few  banks  in  Rhode  Island,  and  it  was 
an  honor  to  be  elected  by  his  associates  to  this  important  position  of  trust.  He 
evidently  filled  it  with  credit  to  himself,  as  he  continued  as  president  for  about 
nineteen  years,  until  his  death.  The  records  of  the  bank  show  the  following  reso- 
lution of  the  board  of  directors  on  September  23,  18 19,  a  few  days  after  his  death. 
"Voted,  That  the  members  of  this  meeting,  in  manifestation  of  their  respect  for 


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LIEUT.-COLONEL  THOMAS  NO  YES  [6]  33 

the  character  and  their  sympathy  and  regret  at  the  death  of  Thomas  Noyes  esq. 
late  president  of  said  Washington  bank,  wear  crape  on  the  left  arm  during  the 
period  of  thirty  days  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof." 

Thomas  Noyes  died  on  September  19,  1819,  aged  sixty-five,  and  was  buried 
in  the  "  Noyes  burying-ground  "  on  the  farm  in  Westerly,  by  the  side  of  his  wife. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Lydia  (Rogers)  Noyes 

Sarah,  born  Dec.  6,  1781 ;  died  April  23,  1782. 

William  Rogers,  born  March  19,  1783;  married  in  June,  1813,  Eliza  (Bosworth)  Dalton, 
widow  of  Walter  William  Dalton  and  daughter  of  Judge  Benjamin  Bosworth  of 
Bristol,  R.  I.;  lived  at  Bristol,  R.  I.,  was  a  merchant  there  and  had  shipping  interests; 
later  he  taught  school  in  Bristol,  New  Bedford,  Nantucket  and  Newport;  died  of 
paralysis  in  New  Bedford  in  December,  185 1.  (Another  authority  says  Jan.  18, 
1852.)' 

James  Wells,  born  Dec.  22,  1784;  married  Jan.  10,  1821,  Nancy  Phelps,  daughter  of  Joseph 
D.  and  Hannah  (Babcock)  Phelps  of  Stonington,  Conn.;  was  a  farmer  and  lived  at 
Stonington,  where  he  died  Dec.  13,  1864.     His  widow  died  March  22,  1882.= 

Thomas,  born  Nov.  22,  1786;  married  Feb.  28,  1813,  Hannah  Phelps,  sister  of  his  brother 
James'  wife;  went  about  1823  to  New  York  State,  accumulated  a  large  property 
and  lived  for  many  years  at  Big  Flats,  N.  Y.,  near  Elmira,  where  he  died  Oct.  19,  i860. 
His  widow  died  March  5,  1870.' 

Joseph,  born   Nov.  27,    1788;  married  (i)  March  30,  1814,  Martha  C.  Thompson,  daughter 

of  Samuel  and  Abigail  ( )  Thompson  of  Stonington,  Conn.,  married  (2)  Prudence 

Cory  of  Caton,  N.  Y.;  was  a  sailor,  and  in  1829  was  second  officer  of  the  Brig  Seraph 
of  which  William  Noyes  was  captain.'*  In  1831  he  went  as  mate  with  the  same 
captain  in  the  40-ton  sloop  "  Independence"  around  Cape  Horn  to  Valparaiso  and 
Juan  Fernandez  on  a  fishing  expedition,  and  among  other  things  brought  home  some 
pumpkin  seeds,  which  are  said  to  have  been  used  on  the  Noyes  farm  ever  since 
and  to  be  of  very  fine  quality.  His  brother  Thomas  induced  him  to  give  up  the  sea, 
and  he  went  to  Caton,  N.  Y.  (near  Elmira),  where  he  lived  for  some  years  and  died 
July  6,  1854. 

Martha,  born  April  25,  1791;  married  March  31,  1814,  Dr.  Richard  Noyes  of  Lyme,  Conn., 
son  of  Captain  Joseph  and  Jane  (Lord)  Noyes;  died  April  8,  1829.' 

'Their  children  were  Benjamin  Bosworth  Noyes,  born  in  1814,  William  Rogers  Noyes,  born  in  1816, 
Thomas  Noyes,  born  in  1818,  Alexander  Griswold  Noyes,  born  in  1820,  Seraphine  Noyes,  born  in  1825,  who  all 
lived  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

'Their  children  were  Thomas  Rogers  Noyes.,  born  Nov.  16,  1822;  died  unmarried  May  1 1,  1890.  Frank- 
lin Babcock  Noyes,  born  June  22,  1831 ;  married  (1)  Harriet  A.  Thompson,  married  (2)  Mrs.  Harriet  E.  Palmer; 
had  children  by  his  first  wife,  James  Franklin  Noyes,  born  Feb.  6,  1859;  died  Feb.  13,  1884;  Henry  Babcock 
Noyes,  born  June  18,  1873;  lived  in  Stonington,  where  he  died  Dec.  3,  1902. 

'Their  children  were,  (i)  Henry  Babcock  Noyes,  born  May  i,  1814,  married  May  14,  1845,  Sarah  A.  I. 
Holdridge;  lived  in  Big  Flats,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  July  25,  1889.  Children,  William  Lord  Noyes,  born  March 
16,  1846,  died  March  7,  1866,  and  Martha  Phelps  Noyes,  born  March  5,  1853,  married  in  1878,  Edward  F.  Lucas, 
of  Fall  River,  Mass.  and  had  children  Sarah  Lucas,  born  July  20,  1880,  Susan  and  Martha  Lucas  (twins)  born 
Feb.  19,  1882,  and  Rosalie  Howe  Lucas,  born  Aug.  7,  1891.  (2)  Charles  Phelps  Noyes,  born  Aug.  5,  1818;  lost  on 
the  Lexington  in  Long  Island  Sound,  Jan.  13,  1840,  with  his  uncle  Charles  Phelps,  while  on  their  way  to  Lyme. 

■•Captain  William  Noyes  was  a  grandson  of  Thomas  and  great-grandson  of  Captain  Thomas  Noyes  (4). 

"They  had  one  son,  Dr.  John  Noyes,  born  January  22,  i8ij,  m.  (i)  Ann  Coulton,  m.  (2)  Anna 
(ScheifFelin)  Sill.  Lived  at  Lyme,  and  died  there  Oct.  26,  1854.  Their  children  were,  George  Moore,  born  Feb. 
18,  1840;  Matthew,  born  June  11,  1844. 


34  LIEUT.-COLONEL  THOMAS  NOYES  [6] 

(7)  Daniel  Rogers,  born  Aug.  22,  1793;  married  May  16,  1827,  Phoebe  Griffin  Lord, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Phoebe  (Griffin)  Lord  (72);  died  Nov.  10,  1877. 

Abigail  Barker,  born  Sept.  29,  1795;  married  March  19,  1820,  as  his  second  wife,  Henry  Pur- 
kins,  of  Salem,  Conn.,  son  of  Dr.  Ehsha  and  Sarah  (Douglass)  Perkins;  removed  to 
Lyme,  Conn.,  where  he  died  Dec.  28,  1850.  She  died  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  July  4, 
1864.' 

Sanford  Barker,  born  Nov.  4,  1797;  died  Oct.  13,  1799. 


[7]  DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES   [1793-1877] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

PHOEBE  GRIFFIN  LORD  [1797-1875] 

OF    LYME,   CONN. 

DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES,  son  of  Colonel  Thomas  and  Lydia 
(Rogers)  Noyes  (6),  of  Westerly,  R.  I.,  was  born  at  Westerly,  Aug- 
ust 22,  1793,  in  the  old  house  illustrated  opposite  page  32.  His 
mother  died  when  he  was  but  five  years  old,  leaving  eight  children, 
the  oldest  fifteen,  and  the  youngest  but  a  year.  Miss  Polly  Bliven,  who  was  a 
distant  relative,  came  to  live  with  Colonel  Noyes,  and  took  care  of  the  children, 
who  were  greatly  attached  to  her,  and  spoke  of  her  in  after  years  with  much  af- 
fection. 

The  slight  details  of  my  father's  boyhood  that  we  have  are  taken  from  old 
letters  and  from  information  that  he  gave  his  children  from  time  to  time.  As 
grandfather  had  so  many  children  to  provide  for,  he  sent  father  to  Newport  when 
he  was  about  sixteen,  where  he  lived  with  his  uncle  Robert  Rogers  and  was  in  his 
employ.  Grandfather  wrote  him,  January  22,  1810,  commending  his  improve- 
ment in  penmanship,  and  urging  him  to  pay  particular  attention  to  his  studies, 
which  he  undertook  in  the  evenings  and  leisure  time.     He  says: 

"  I  regret  that  so  much  of  your  time  has  been  spent  on  my  farm,  it  has  been  more  owing  to 
hurry  of  farming  Business  than  want  of  Regard  for  your  welfare.  ...  I  hope  and  flatter  myself 
you  will  Chearfully  obey  all  Orders  and  requests  from  Messrs.  Mein  and  Rogers  and  your  cousin 
Daniel  not  forgetting  that  you  are  under  their  immediate  command  and  that  they  are  all  your 
friends.  Be  careful  not  to  brake  any  of  the  rules  of  your  Uncle  Robert's  House,  but  chearfully 
attend  to  all  the  requirements.  You  are  in  a  good  school  for  information  every  Day  if  you  will 
attend  to  it.  Your  brothers  are  obliged  to  work  on  a  farm  or  go  to  sea  for  a  lively  whood.  Wil- 
liam and  Joseph  I  suppose  sailed  about  10  or  12  Days  since  for  Europe.  Joseph  has  gone  out  in  a 
Brig." 

Father  did  not  stay  more  than  a  year  or  two  in  Newport,  as  it  appears  from 
a  letter  written  in  November,  181 1,  that  he  was  at  that  date  in  Mr.  Jabez  Averill's 

'  Their  daughter  Martha  Perkins  married,  as  his  second  wife,  Feb.  1 1,  1852,  William  Birnie,  of  Spring- 
field. Their  daughter  Elizabeth  Rogers  Perkins,  married  as  his  second  wife,  Nov.  21,  1867,  Seth  H.  Moseley,  of 
New  Haven,  Conn,  and  had  two  children,  Julia  Noyes  Moseley,  born  Oct.  6,  1868,  and  Dr.  Henry  Perkins  Mose- 
ley, of  New  York,  born  April  14,  1872. 


DANIEL    ROGERS    NOYES    [7] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

PHOEBE   GRIFFIN    (lORD)    NOYES 


DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7]  35 

store  in  Groton,  Conn.  Mr.  Averill  wrote  grandfather:  "I  am  perfectly  suited 
with  Daniel  in  all  respects,  and  feel  perfectly  safe  when  from  home,  as  respects 
my  business."  The  business  was,  evidently,  a  small  one,  and  he  received  but 
five  or  six  dollars  a  month,  which,  I  suppose,  was  the  reason  of  his  return  to  West- 
erly. 

He  must  have  been  working  on  his  father's  farm  in  the  exciting  days  during 
the  War  of  1812,  when  the  coast  of  Long  Island  was  threatened  by  the  British 
fleet  which  blockaded  the  Sound.  Grandfather's  house,  which  had  been  for  many 
years  military  headquarters  for  the  town,  was  again  a  scene  of  activity,  all  the 
available  men  of  the  vicinity  being  organized  for  the  defence  of  the  coast.  Father 
was  nearly  twenty-one  when  he  was  commissioned  lieutenant  of  the  Second 
Company  of  Westerly,  May  9,  18 14,  following  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father  and 
grandfather  in  his  military  interest. 

July  23,  1814,  when  one  of  the  British  ships  landed  some  marines  on  the 
sand  dunes  at  Noyes'  Point,  immediately  in  front  of  the  house,  the  alarm  was 
given,  and  the  Westerly  men  rallied  to  resist  them.  A  howitzer  was  placed  only 
a  few  rods  from  the  house,  and  an  engagement  began  which  lasted  about  two  hours, 
and  resulted  in  the  retreat  of  the  marines.  Pardon  Green,  a  Westerly  man,  and 
three  others,  were  taken  prisoners,  kept  for  three  days,  and  then  left  at  Block 
Island.  Green,  father  said,  "was  a  wicked  old  sinner,  but  represented  that  he 
was  a  Methodist  minister,  and  must  get  back  in  time  to  preach  on  Sunday."  About 
two  weeks  later  the  British  bombarded  Stonington  for  three  days,  but  were  driven 
off  with  severe  loss. 

I  think  this  was  the  only  engagement  father  participated  in,'  but  it  was 
sufficient  to  create  great  interest  in  the  family  circle,  and  a  younger  cousin,  Horatio 
Rogers,  of  Newport,  wrote  him,  August,  1814,  in  a  pleasurable  state  of  excitement: 
"I  understand  that  yourself,  Father  and  Brother  came  very  near  being  taken  by 
the  English,  relate  the  particulars  respecting  their  landing  &  their  inducement  &c." 
Father  continued,  however,  in  the  military  service  of  his  State,  and  was  promoted 
to  be  major  of  the  Third  Regiment  Rhode  Island  State  Troops,  his  commission 
bearing  the  date  of  May  12,  181 7;  and  later  was  lieutenant-colonel,  commissioned 
June  15,  1818. 

in  the  fall  of  1818  he  went  to  New  Orleans  and  was  with  Charles  Phelps,  a 
brother  of  his  two  sisters-in-law,  Hannah  and  Nancy,  who  was  about  his  own  age, 
and  in  business  there.  They  were  either  employed  by  Messrs.  Peleg  and  W.  R. 
Phelps,  or  operating  on  their  own  account.  The  next  summer,  when  the  yellow 
fever  was  very  severe  in  the  South,  father  was  very  ill  with  it.  His  brother  Thomas 
wrote  him,  December  12,  1819: 

'  The  record  in  the  Bureau  of  Pensions,  U.  S.  Pensions  Office,  Washington,  D.  C,  is  in  part  as  follows: 
"Daniel  R.  Noyes,  Lieutenant  2d  Co.  of  Infantry,  Capt.  Joseph  Gavitt,  Col.  Joseph  H.  Lew,  3d  Regt.  R.  L 
Mil."  "Two  witnesses  testify  that  Lt.  Noyes  was  engaged  in  a  severe  battle  at  Westerly  Beach  on  or  about 
23d  day  of  July  i8[4  andthatsaid  battle  lasted  two  (2)  hours."  When  the  bounty  land  was  given  by  the 
Government  for  service  in  the  War  of  1812,  he  applied  for  a  grant  Feb.  13,  1857,  and  the  warrant  issued  to 
him  was  No.  62144,  fo""  '60  acres. 


36  DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES   [7] 

"It  would  be  a  faint  description  of  our  feeling  should  I  attempt  to  describe  what  we  have 
suffered  on  your  acc°'  the  last  three  months  and  our  only  comfort  in  that  respect  has  been  your 
letters.  In  addition  to  the  dread  created  by  Newspaper  Acc°'^  we  have  often  heard  of  your  Death 
but  your  letters  would  soon  reach  us  &  wipe  away  that  report." 

The  letters  from  his  father  and  his  brothers  and  sisters  show  that  the  attach- 
ment between  them  all  was  very  strong,  and  it  is  easy  to  see  that  father's  sweet  dis- 
position, gentle  manners  and  brotherly  affection  endeared  him  in  a  peculiar  manner 
to  his  family,  who  were  never  reconciled  to  the  continual  separation  from  their 
youngest  living  brother.  They  wrote  many  pleading  letters  to  him,  asking  him  to 
return  north,  and  after  their  father's  death  in  September,  18 19,  they  urged  him 
more  strongly. 

In  the  spring  of  1820  he  came  back  to  Westerly,  and  soon  after  went  to  Lyme, 
where  his  sister  Martha  was  living,  she  having  married  Dr.  Richard  Noyes,  a  de- 
scendant of  Rev.  Moses  Noyes,  the  first  minister  in  Lyme,  and  son  of  Rev.  James 
Noyes  (2),  of  Newbury.  It  seemed  to  be  an  open  secret  between  the  brothers 
and  sisters  that  father  was  attracted  to  Lyme  by  the  bright  eyes  of  Miss  Phoebe 
Griffin  Lord,  for  in  all  the  letters  going  round  in  the  circle,  she  is  continually 
mentioned  in  a  very  significant  manner. 

She  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Phoebe  (Griffin)  Lord  (72)  of  Lyme, 
and  was  born  February  20,  1797.  Her  father,  too,  had  been  a  farmer,  but  had 
died  when  she  was  but  fourteen  years  old,  leaving  her  mother  with  the  great  re- 
sponsibility of  bringing  up  a  family  of  seven  daughters,  of  which  Phoebe  was 
next  to  the  oldest.  Only  part  of  her  young  life  had  been  spent  in  the  old  Lord 
house  at  the  end  of  the  street,  as  her  uncle,  George  Griffin,  of  New  York,  then  a 
prosperous  young  lawyer,  sent  for  her  to  visit  him.  For  several  years  she  spent 
much  of  her  time  in  New  York,  going  home  in  the  summer.  She  studied  hard,  and, 
with  a  naturally  brilliant  mind,  laid  the  foundation  of  an  intellectual  life  that  has 
had  its  influence  not  only  in  her  native  place,  but  has  reached  out  wherever  those 
who  came  in  contact  with  her  have  gone.  She  paid  much  attention  to  French 
and  painting,  taking  lessons  in  old-fashioned  miniature  painting  from  Mme.  Vaillant, 
a  teacher  then  much  thought  of.  Perhaps  the  social  life  that  she  enjoyed  at  her 
uncle's  had  as  much  effect  as  her  studies  in  polishing  her  mind,  for  Mr.  Griffin 
gave  her  every  advantage  of  the  kind.  She  was  very  handsome,  with  light  hair, 
beautiful  gray  eyes,  fair  skin,  and  rosy  cheeks,  was  full  of  fun,  fond  of  society,  and 
had  a  number  of  admirers. 

Her  letters  to  her  sisters  from  New  York  are  very  amusing,  with  pictures  of 
new  fashions,  descriptions  of  the  last  sleeve,  etc.,  but  through  them  runs  a  steady 
purpose,  and  when  she  returned  to  Lyme,  it  was  with  the  determination  to  lift 
some  of  the  burden  from  her  mother's  shoulders  by  the  only  profession  that  a  young 
lady  could  adopt  in  those  days — teaching.  She  began  with  her  younger  sisters, 
and  gradually  increased  her  scholars  until  she  had  quite  a  little  school. 

When  the  other  sisters  were  old  enough,  they  went  away  from  home  to  teach, 
and  mother  encouraged  and  assisted  them  in  every  way.     In  her  letters  we  seem 


HOME    OF    DANIEL    ROGERS    NOYES    [7] 
L^ME      CONN, 


DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7]  37 

to  see  the  strength  of  her  character  exhibited.  Her  admonitions  were  constant, 
and  her  watchfulness  over  their  work  and  lives  very  unusual.  She  was  ambitious 
that  they  should  not  sink  to  the  level  of  their  narrow  circumstances,  but  create  for 
themselves  an  environment  of  intellectual  life  that  would  uplift  their  surroundings 
and  enlarge  their  horizon. 

Her  artistic  talent  was  really  remarkable,  considering  the  limits  of  the  day. 
Even  when  she  was  a  child  she  used  to  paint  with  the  juices  of  flowers  she  expressed 
for  the  purpose.  Some  of  the  treasures  that  we  possess  are  paintings  of  mother's 
done  before  or  in  the  early  days  of  her  married  life,  in  the  quaint  style  that  she  had 
been  taught,  stippling  with  the  finest  hair  pencil  fruit  and  flower  pieces,  landscapes 
and  Biblical  subjects.  One  now  in  possession  of  my  brother,  Daniel  R.  Noyes,  of 
St.  Paul,  painted  over  sixty  years  ago,  is  shown  in  the  frontispiece,  and  repre- 
sents all  her  children  grouped  near  the  old  well. 

Many  of  the  homes  in  Lyme  possess  paintings  by  her  pupils,  done  under  her 
supervision,  and  perhaps  touched  by  her  at  the  finish.  It  is  a  delightful  coinci- 
dence that  Lyme  has  now  its  own  school  of  painters,  whose  exhibitions  every  au- 
tumn are  held  in  the  Library  built  in  her  memory,  and  on  the  very  spot  where  she 
lived  before  her  marriage. 

Soon  after  his  arrival  in  Lyme,  father  opened  a  general  store  with  Stephen 
J.  Lord,  grandson  of  Enoch  Lord  (71),  under  the  firm  name  of  "Lord  and  Noyes," 
and  the  first  building  occupied  by  them  was  near  and  almost  opposite  the  old 
Joseph  Lord  house,  where  her  sisters  used  to  accuse  Phoebe  of  sitting  at  the  win- 
dow to  see  the  handsome  young  merchant  go  back  and  forth.  They  finally  be- 
came engaged,  and  were  married  at  Lyme,  May  16,  1827,  when  father  was  thirty- 
four,  and  mother  thirty.  They  must  have  taken  a  wedding  journey  up  to  Whites- 
boro,  where  Aunt  Julia  was  teaching  school,  as  my  sister  Caro  (Noyes)  Kirby  writes: 

"  I  have  in  a  bit  of  old  yellow  paper,  two  locks  of  hair,  one  black  and  one  much  lighter  than 
I  should  have  thought  mother's  to  have  been,  with  something  of  a  golden  glint  in  the  sunlight, 
and  in  Aunt  Julia's  handwriting:  'Left  as  a  memento  of  their  visit  to  Whitesboro  at  my  particular 
request  by  my  beloved  brother  and  sister  Daniel  and  Phoebe  June  1827'." 

After  their  return  from  their  wedding  trip,  they  lived  first  in  a  house  just 
below  Dr.  Richard  Noyes  on  the  Lyme  Street,  and  it  was  here  that  their  two  eldest 
children  were  born,  Caroline  and  Edmund.  The  house  is  no  longer  standing. 
Father's  business  does  not  seem  to  have  been  very  satisfactory,  and  in  1830  he 
went  to  New  York  State  with  a  view  to  settling  thece.  He  made  the  journey  by 
boat  to  Albany,  and  by  stage  as  far  as  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  where  his  brother  Thomas 
was  then  living,  but  found  nothing  to  suit  him,  and  returned  to  Lyme.  In  the 
spring  of  183 1  he  bought  out  Mr.  Lord's  interest  in  the  business,  and  purchased 
the  house  which  was  originally  the  home  of  Rev.  Jonathan  Parsons,  pastor  in  Lyme 
one  hundred  years  before.  The  house  was  known  as  the  Old  Parsons'  Tavern,  and 
was  a  famous  gathering-place  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  through  the  first 
quarter  of  the  past  century.  Next  to  it  stood  the  Lyme  church,  built  in  18 17, 
which  is  considered  one  of  the  most  beautiful  of  the  New  England  churches.     Be- 


38  DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7] 

tween  the  house  and  the  church  can  still  be  seen  the  "Whitfield  Rock"  from  which 
George  Whitfield  preached  to  a  congregation  gathered  in  an  open  field  when  he 
visited  his  friend,  Rev.  Mr.  Parsons.  Father  added  a  new  front  part,  and  lived 
there  the  rest  of  his  life,  except  for  the  interval  mentioned  below.  We  do  not  know 
just  when  mother  resumed  teaching,  but  it  was  probably  about  this  time.  The 
large  room  over  the  kitchen  and  dining  room,  which  had  been  known  as  the  ball- 
room in  Parson's  Tavern,  was  used  for  her  school,  and  day-pupils  were  taken. 

There  was  a  great  revival  of  religion  in  1831,  and  it  was  at  this  time  that 
both  father  and  mother  united  with  the  Lyme  church,  although  from  an  early  age, 
interest  in  religious  subjects  seems  to  have  influenced  their  lives.  Rev.  Chester 
Colton  was  pastor  of  the  church  at  that  time,  the  sixth  successor  of  Rev.  Moses 
Noyes,  the  founder  of  the  church.  From  this  time,  father  and  mother  were  both 
most  active  and  earnest  workers  for  the  church,  and  their  influence  was  always 
given  to  the  best  side  of  Lyme  life. 

Our  eldest  brother,  Edmund,  died  in  1835,  and  mother's  grief  was  very  keen. 
We  have  some  sweet  verses  she  wrote  after  the  first  poignancy  of  her  sorrow  was 
past,  giving  an  insight  into  her  nature,  and  we  insert  the  last  few  lines: 
"And  then  bequeathing  to  the  poor  his  treasure — 

A  few  small  pieces — yet  his  little  all. 

And  in  His  sight  who  weighs  the  heart,  not  purse, 

Of  equal  value  with  the  rich  man's  gold,— 

His  gentle  spirit  left  its  earthly  prison 

And  in  life's  morning  found  its  way  to  God." 

Father  continued  in  business  until  1837,  a  time  of  general  financial  depression 
and  disaster,  when  he  sold  out  house  and  business  and  went  again  as  far  west  as 
Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  went  by  canal  to  Buffalo,  and  thence  by  the  Lakes.  In  his 
letters  he  gives  his  experience  in  a  severe  storm  on  the  lake  when  the  ship  was 
nearly  lost.  Our  Aunt  Josephine  Lord  had  married,  three  years  before,  Alexander 
Lynde  McCurdy,  and  was  living  at  Newburg  near  Cleveland.  She  and  Aunt 
Jane,  who  was  living  with  her,  tried  to  induce  father  to  buy  a  farm  near  them. 
The  log  houses  and  pioneering  did  not  please  him,  however,  and  with  no  taste  for 
farming,  he  tried  to  find  a  good  business  opening  in  the  western  country.  Induce- 
ments were  offered  him  to  go  to  Illinois,  Cleveland,  and  perhaps  the  most  attractive 
of  all,  Lockport,  N.  Y.  On  his  return  to  Lyme,  he  and  mother  took  some  weeks 
to  determine  what  it  was  best  to  do. 

He  evidently  hesitated  to  take  his  wife  and  young  children  to  the  far  west, 
even  when  the  business  prospects  were  so  alluring,  and  they  finally  decided  to 
remain  in  Lyme.  As  Aunt  Harriet  put  it  in  a  letter  of  March  12,  1838,  to  Aunt 
Catherine,  who  was  then  teaching  at  Sag  Harbor: 

"After  hesitating  and  deliberating  and  consulting  and  concluding  and  changing  every 
day  for  four  or  five  weeks,  Mr.  Noyes  finally  bought  back  his  house.  He  is  preparing  to  build 
a  store  on  the  corner  of  Stephen  Peck's  garden.  Aleck,  Josephine  and  Jane  have  written  urging 
their  coming  to  Ohio — Mr.  Noyes  was  more  averse  to  going  than  Phoebe." 


CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH,  LYME,  CONN. 
BUILT  1817 


DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7]  39 

As  Grandmother  Lord  was  still  living  at  the  age  of  seventy,  it  would  have 
been  hard  indeed  for  mother  to  leave  her  home  for  the  unknown  and  untried  ex- 
periences of  life  in  the  western  country. 

From  this  time  until  a  few  years  before  his  death,  father  continued  business 
in  this  store,  still  standing,  across  the  street  from  the  church.  While  he  was 
never  so  successful  that  he  was  able  to  accumulate  much,  and  had  indeed,  at  times, 
very  narrow  means,  yet  all  that  honest  industry  and  self-denial  could  do,  he  and 
mother  did  for  their  children.  It  was  not  from  lack  of  good  business  training, 
ability,  energy,  or  enterprise,  that  his  business  suffered,  but  from  the  limited 
possibilities  of  so  small  a  place,  growing  all  the  time  less  important  as  the  fishing 
and  shipping  interests  changed  their  centers,  and  also  from  his  sympathetic  in- 
terest in  his  friends,  which  rendered  him  unable  to  collect  his  bills  from  those  who 
were  often  better  able  than  himself  to  spare  the  money.  "  Benevolent  to  a  fault" 
was  once  inscribed  on  a  phrenological  chart  of  his  head,  and  if  there  is  such  a  thing, 
it  was  true  of  father.  Quite  a  collection  of  counterfeit  State  Bank  bills,  and  bills 
of  banks  that  had  failed,  were  found  among  his  papers,  all  marked  by  him  with  a 
cross,  and  stopped  when  they  reached  his  store.  These  are  preserved  now  as  a 
valuable  inheritance  by  the  writer. 

Father  was  chosen  deacon  of  the  church  in  1842,  and  for  many  years  looked 
after  the  poor  and  all  the  church  affairs,  and,  as  he  was  treasurer,  collected  the 
funds  for  maintenance.  It  seems  impossible  to  give  an  idea  of  the  home  when  we 
were  children  there,  conditions  are  so  changed.  Our  house  was  the  stopping-place 
for  all  the  ministers,  missionaries,  lecturers,  etc.,  who  passed  through  Lyme.  Al- 
though mother  had  the  poorest  of  aids  in  the  kitchen,  yet  they  were  all  made  wel- 
come, and  given  "hospitality  without  grudging."  There  was  always  a  prophet's 
chamber  in  our  house,  and  such  hospitality  was  a  matter  of  course,  although,  with 
children,  scholars  and  little  help  outside,  it  must  have  been  a  trial.  It  was  still  the 
time  in  New  England  when  plain  living  and  high  thinking  was  the  rule. 

My  sister,  Mrs.  Kirby,  tells  of  an  incident  which  occurred  after  her  marriage, 
when  she  was  at  home,  and  mother  had  a  specially  busy  day  entertaining  unex- 
pected guests.  Twenty-one  in  all,  between  breakfast  and  supper,  had  arrived,  a 
few  at  a  time;  all  to  be  received  and  most  of  them  invited  to  either  dinner  or  supper. 
While  she  was  in  the  kitchen  preparing  supper,  some  one  announced  the  arrival  of 
more,  when  mother  struck  an  heroic  attitude,  and  exclaimed: 

"Come  one,  come  all,  this  rock  shall  fly 
From  its  firm  base  as  soon  as  1 !" 

She  was  equal  to  the  emergency,  and  the  various  guests  were  all  satisfactorily  en- 
tertained. 

For  many  years  mother  devoted  herself  to  teaching,  largely  for  the  purpose 
of  helping  towards  the  support  of  the  family,  but  even  more,  I  think,  because  of  her 
intense  desire  to  make  the  most  of  her  life  by  stimulating  and  encouraging,  intel- 
lectually and  morally,  the  many  who  might  thus  be  brought  under  her  influence. 


40  DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7] 

She  loved  young  people,  and  loved  to  have  them  around  her,  and  was  conscious  of 
her  power  over  them.  Her  many  cares  never  made  her  dull,  and  she  was  always 
ready,  no  matter  how  tired  she  was,  to  enter  into  the  spirit  of  their  frolics  and 
amusements.  She  assisted  in  tableaux,  concerts,  charades,  and  games  of  all  sorts, 
and  liked  to  join  in  the  poetry  games  that  we  used  to  play  in  those  days.  One  lit- 
tle rhyme  of  hers,  written  in  the  game  where  each  draws  a  question  and  a  word 
to  insert  in  a  rhyming  answer,  has  been  preserved.  We  had  just  returned  in  the 
rain  after  a  fishing  trip  with  Mr.  Miner,  and  the  question  was:  "Is  Mr.  Miner  one 
of  nature's  noblemen?"  the  word  "Rule." 

"Of  Nature's  nobles — Mr.  Miner, 
Just  let  me  look  in  my  definer 
To  see  the  marks  that  nature  uses 
To  show  the  great  ones  whom  she  chooses. 
First,  they  love  power  and  so  does  he; 
He  rules  on  land  and  on  the  sea, 
He  rules  at  home:  that  is,  he  tries 
He  rules  his  boat,  no  one  denies; 
Would  rule  creation — but  'tis  plain, 
Can't  rule  his  wife,  or  rule  the  rain." 

Mother  made  her  house  for  many  years  the  center  of  social  life  for  the  young 
people.  Dancing,  which  many  good  people  of  that  time  disapproved  of,  she  advo- 
cated strongly,  and  she  and  father  joined  with  us  often  in  the  Virginia  Reel  which 
terminated  our  evenings.  She  defended  this  so  vigorously  that  some  of  the  church 
people  who  opposed  it  were  greatly  incensed.  Old  Mr.  Manwaring  even  prayed 
in  prayer  meeting  that  she  might  be  led  to  see  "the  error  of  her  ways."  She  never 
was  led  to  see  it,  however,  but  always  thought  dancing  a  refining  influence  and  an 
excellent  substitute  for  the  kissing  games  and  rough  frolicking  that  were  so  prev- 
alent then. 

Our  home  life  was  very  different  from  that  of  traditional  New  England,  for 
there  was  an  understanding  between  parents  and  children,  a  patient  appreciation 
on  one  side,  and  an  affection  on  the  other  which  made  the  intercourse  freer  than 
ordinary. 

Our  Sundays  were  strictly  observed,  though  not  made  an  unpleasant  memory 
by  too  rigid  rules.  There  was  never  the  question,  "Who  is  going  to  church?"  It 
was  assumed  as  a  matter  of  course  that  all  would  go.  After  morning  service  my 
aunts  and  other  friends  came  to  our  house,  were  given  home-made  currant  wine 
and  cake  or  other  refreshments,  and  spent  a  little  time  talking  over  family  affairs. 
After  the  afternoon  service,  we  had  family  prayers,  reading  and  prayer,  and  then 
singing  for  an  hour  or  more.  Father  had  a  very  sweet  voice,  was  fond  of  singing, 
and  entered  into  it  with  his  whole  heart,  putting  in  all  the  quavers  that  he  had 
been  taught  in  early  life.  While  mother  did  not  sing,  she  knew  so  many  of  the 
hymns,  that  when  it  became  too  dark  for  us  to  read  the  words  she  would  line  them 
off  from  memory. 


LACE  WORK   AND   EMBROIDERED   COLLAR 
PHOEBE    GRIFFIN    (LORD)    NOYES    [7] 

OWNED   BY   MRS.    CHARLES    H.    LUDINGTON  OF  NEW  YORK 


DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7]  41 

Usually  after  singing,  if  it  was  pleasant,  father  took  us  for  a  walk  to  the 
burying-ground.  Sometimes  before  the  lights  were  lit,  mother  had  us  recite  the 
Shorter  Catechism.  She  knew  it  by  heart,  questions  as  well  as  answers,  and 
never  needed  to  refer  to  the  text.  She  generally  began  with  father,  asking,  "What 
is  the  chief  end  of  Man?"  and  went  around  the  circle  in  regular  succession. 

For  many  years  father  was  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School,  leading 
the  singing  as  well.  He  was  also  depended  upon  in  prayer-meeting  to  set  the  tunes, 
and  occasionally  in  the  Sunday  service.  One  rainy  Sunday  before  1  left  home, 
fixed  in  my  memory  because  of  my  extreme  embarrassment,  the  organist  and  leader 
of  the  choir  were  absent.  The  pastor  looked  down  to  father  to  set  the  tune,  and  for 
some  reason  he  asked  me  to  do  so.  I  started  it,  but  before  we  had  gone  far  I 
stopped  because  I  saw  there  was  going  to  be  trouble  ahead,  as  I  had  started  a  long 
metre  tune  to  common  metre  words.  Father,  however,  went  on,  well  supported 
by  a  goodly  number  all  over  the  church.  When  they  reached  the  end  of  the  second 
line  there  was  some  confusion,  and  apparently  no  agreement  as  to  the  method  of 
adjustment;  one  by  one  they  dropped  out  and  all  was  quiet — painfully  quiet  for 
a  moment,  when  father's  voice  was  heard  clear  and  strong,  giving  us  the  right 
tune,  in  which  we  joined  with  more  zeal,  perhaps,  than  if  nothing  had  happened. 

We  all  left  home,  except  my  sister  Julia,  while  we  were  quite  young,  but  we 
were  followed  out  into  the  world  with  letters  and  prayerful  interest.  Julia  de- 
voted all  her  youth  and  young  womanhood  to  father  and  mother,  but  finally  the 
time  came  when  they  were  no  longer  willing  to  accept  the  sacrifice,  and  she  married 
in  1869,  and  removed  to  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.  They  were  then  left  quite  alone  in  the 
winter,  but  in  summer  the  house  was  filled  with  the  little  grandchildren  from  New 
York.  But  their  lives  were  full  of  interest  in  everything  that  was  going  on  in  the 
world.  Mother  always  had  the  latest  book  which  she  read  aloud  to  father  in  the 
evenings,  and  letters  from  the  children,  which  were  read  and  discussed  with  my 
aunts,  who  came  down  every  day  from  the  other  end  of  the  street.  I  went 
once  to  see  them  unexpectedly  in  the  winter.  I  reached  Lyme  in  the  evening, 
walking  up  from  the  station,  and  passing  in  front  of  the  church  I  saw  mother 
sitting  at  her  table  in  the  window.  She  was  reading  aloud  to  father,  by  the  light 
of  her  lamp,  and  1  was  so  impressed  by  the  picture,  a  perfect  picture  of  peaceful 
old  age,  that  1  sat  for  quite  a  while  on  the  old  church  steps  watching  them  before  I 
went  in  and  interrupted  the  reading. 

Father  had  a  fancy  for  white  things,  and  the  grandchildren  were  very  much 
interested  in  his  white  chickens,  and  in  his  old  cat,  the  only  pet  he  ever  had.  Old 
Tom  was  a  very  intelligent  animal,  and  used  to  take  his  nap  up-stairs  in  the  store, 
but  when  it  came  time  for  the  mid-day  meal,  and  he  heard  the  bell,  he  would 
scamper  down  the  stairs  and  come  home  with  father,  running  just  ahead  of  him. 
Father  used  to  say  that  when  he  became  so  rheumatic  in  his  old  age  that  he  used 
crutches,  old  Tom  appreciated  the  difficulty  with  which  he  moved,  and  tried  to 
steady  his  lame  foot  by  putting  his  paw  on  it,  as  they  went  down-stairs  together. 

He  was  a  devoted  brother  to  my  aunts,  looking  after  their  business  affairs 


42  DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7] 

during  all  his  married  life,  and  caring  for  their  comfort  in  every  way.  When  a 
small  boy,  with  a  decided  aversion  to  getting  up  in  the  morning,  1  remember  be- 
ing called  early  after  a  snowfall  at  night,  to  "go  up  and  shovel  out  your  Aunt 
Harriet." 

Father  outlived  all  his  family  by  many  years,  and  in  1873,  when  he  was 
eighty  years  old,  my  sister  Mrs.  Kirby  and  1  took  him  back  to  Westerly,  the  home 
of  his  childhood.  The  house  where  he  was  born  had  long  since  passed  out  of  the 
hands  of  the  family,  and  the  exterior  was  somewhat  dilapidated,  although  it  was 
in  a  fair  condition  inside.  He  was  very  much  interested,  as  we  drove  along  the 
road  from  Westerly  village  to  Noyes'  Point,  and  pointed  out  the  places  where  var- 
ious incidents  of  his  boyhood  occurred,  telling  us  one  story  after  another.  When 
we  arrived  at  the  house,'  he  said,  pointing  to  the  stone  walls  in  front,  "We  built 
these  stone  walls — Tom  and  Jim  built  that,  and  Joe  and  I  this  one.  Here  is 
where  we  placed  the  old  howitzer  when  the  British  fired  on  us,"  and  showed  us 
where,  in  the  swamp  near  the  dunes,  Green  was  taken  prisoner.  On  entering  the 
house,  he  was  quite  overcome  with  emotion,  and  said  nothing  as  he  went  from 
room  to  room,  until  he  came  to  the  bedroom  in  which,  after  his  mother's  death,  he 
had  slept  for  years  with  his  father.  This  evidently  recalled  his  father  specially 
to  his  memory,  and  he  said,  "The  bed  stands  just  where  ours  did,  and  the  room 
does  not  seem  much  changed."  The  visit  was  one  of  the  greatest  pleasures  of  his 
later  life. 

The  last  summer  before  mother  died,  when  she  was  so  feeble  that  she  lay  on 
the  lounge  most  of  the  time,  she  showed  her  love  and  devotion  to  children  still. 
One  of  her  little  grandchildren  wanted  to  play  "dress-up,"  and  mother  was  found 
resting  on  the  attic  stairs,  exhausted  by  the  exertion  she  had  made  to  get  her  some 
of  the  old  treasures  from  the  trunks  up  there  The  last  day  of  her  life,  her  eldest 
son's  little  daughter  was  in  the  house,  and  mother  worried  about  her  visit,  saying 
several  times  to  Aunt  Jane,"  1  hope  someone  is  entertaining  the  child.  It  is  too  bad 
to  have  her  visit  spoiled."  So  she  was  always  thinking  of  every  one  but  herself, 
and  even  to  the  end  of  her  life  giving  out  affection  and  cheer  to  those  she  loved. 

She  died  October  12,  1875,  aged  seventy-nine,  and  was  buried  in  the  Lyme 
burying-ground.  After  her  death  her  children  erected  a  monument  to  her  on  the 
family  plot.  This  seems  the  fitting  place  to  mention  the  Lyme  Library,  built 
twenty-two  years  after  her  death,  on  the  site  of  the  Joseph  Lord  house,  where  my 
grandmother  brought  up  her  family  of  girls,  and  where  mother  spent  her  life  until 
she  was  married.  After  the  death  of  the  last  aunt,  Frances  Jane  Lord,  in  1888,  the 
heirs,  who  were  her  nephews  and  nieces,  gave  the  property  to  Lyme  for  a  Library, 
which  was  built  there  by  my  brother-in-law  and  sister,  Charles  H.  and  Josephine 
(Noyes)  Ludington,  of  New  York,  and  endowed  by  them  and  others  of  the  family. 
Nothing  could  have  been  more  fitting  as  a  memorial  to  mother  than  a  Library,  with 
the  addition  of  a  hall  for  social  affairs,  where  from  time  to  time  are  held  exhibitions 
of  paintings,  lectures,  readings,  etc.    We  believe  that  her  desire  to  be  useful  to  her 

'  See  illustration  of  the  old  Noyes  house  at  Westerly,  in  preceding  article. 


PHOEBE    GRIFFIN    NOYES    LIBRARY 
I/lME,    CONN. 


DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7]  43 

own  and  succeeding  generations  would  be  more  than  satisfied  with  the  memorial 
raised  by  her  children  in  the  Phoebe  Griffin  Noyes  Library. 

After  mother's  death,  father  had  a  daughter  with  him  most  of  the  time, 
either  Mrs.  Kirby  or  Mrs.  Ludington.     Mrs.  Kirby  writes  of  the  last  winter: 

"He  was  very  lame,  and  suffered  so  much,  but  was  always  cheerful  and  patient,  and  so 
considerate  of  others  and  afraid  of  giving  trouble.  He  would  go  to  church  even  when  the  ice  would 
have  discouraged  some  with  the  full  use  of  their  limbs.  The  young  minister  used  to  bring  church 
matters  to  him  for  advice  and  especially  I  remember  the  discouraged  salary-collector  coming  to 
tell  him  of  his  troubles.  Father  did  not  talk  much  about  his  religion,  he  only  lived  it.  He  showed 
me  a  little  bit  of  his  heart  one  day,  when  he  took  a  slip  from  his  pocket-book  containing  a  poem 
by  Dr.  Bonar — 

'  Beyond  the  watching  and  the  waiting 

I  shall  be  soon. 
Love,  rest  and  home.     Lord,  tarry  not  but  come — ' 
and  said  with  trembling  lip,  'that  is  my  thought  too'." 

He  lived  but  a  little  more  than  two  years  after  mother,  and  after  a  very  brief 
illness,  died  November  10,  1877,  aged  eighty-seven,  and  was  buried  by  mother's 
side.  His  funeral  sermon  was  preached  by  Rev.  Mr.  Gary,  of  Lyme,  and  we  quote 
from  it  as  follows: 

"He  breathed  a  gentle  atmosphere  of  godliness  upon  the  community.  He  lived  quietly, 
and  wrought  in  the  Master's  name  unobservedly,  and,  from  the  depths  of  my  conviction  I  say  it: 
He  blessed  his  day  and  generation  infinitely  more  than  he  knew,  and  more,  much  more  than  we 
appreciate.  .  .  .  Through  storms  of  snow  and  rain,  while  young  and  vigorous  people  staid  at  home, 
through  the  ice  of  winter  and  the  heat  of  summer,  he  has  been  in  his  place  at  public  worship.  .  .  . 
In  1828-9,  when  the  temperance  reform  spread  through  New  England,  Col.  Noyes  was  keeping  a 
grocery  and  general  store  in  Lyme.  The  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  was  countenanced  as  legitimate 
and  honorable  business  at  that  time  when  even  the  minister  .  .  .  drank  his  glass  of  rum.  Col. 
Noyes  had  just  received  a  fresh  invoice  of  rum  when  a  temperance  lecturer  came  here  and  presented 
the  cause.  He  immediately  reconsigned  the  liquor  to  the  dealers,  destroyed  the  remnants  of  his 
stock,  and  from  that  day  became  a  warm  advocate  of  temperance  reform.  ...  As  the  steady 
shining  of  a  light  gives  assurance  and  guidance  to  the  wanderer,  so  his  consistent  walk  illumined 
the  path  of  many  who  were  in  darkness." 

Children  of  Daniel  Rogers  and  Phoebe  Griffin  (Lord)  Noyes 

Caroline  Lydia,  born  May  4,  1828;  married  Sept.  i,  1858,  Eliab  Burgis  Kirby,  son  of  Elisha 
and  Betsey  (Spencer)  Kirby  of  Middletown,  Conn.,  who  was  born  Aug.  16,  1816;  Mr. 
Kirby  was  a  merchant  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  died  Dec.  27,  1896.     His  widow 
is  now  living  there.     Their  children  were: 
Edmund  Burgis  Kirby,  born  July  3,  1859. 
Julian  Noyes  Kirby,  born  Nov.  16,  1861. 
Daniel  Noyes  Kirby,  born  Aug.  22,  1864. 
Charles  Noyes  Kirby,  born  Dec.  19,  1867;  died  April  3,  1869. 
Robert  Spencer  Kirby,  born  Oct.  27,  1870;  died  Oct.  9,  1875. 
Winchester  Scott  Kirby,  born  Feb.  i,  1876;  died  March  23,  1885. 


44  DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7] 

Edmund,  born  Aug.  10,  1830;  died  Nov.  27,  1835. 

Julia  Lord,  born  Sept.  23,  1833,  married  Sept.  29,  1869,  George  Loveland,  son  of  Elijah  and 
Mary  (Buckingham)  Loveland,  of  Kingston,  Pa.,  who  was  born  Nov.  5,  1823;  she  died 
at  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  June  18,  1885.     Their  children  were: 
George  Loveland,  born  Oct.  25,  1871 ;  died  Nov.  30,  1871. 

Charles  Noyes  Loveland,  born  Nov.  26,   1872;  Y.  C.   1894;  married  June  7,   1900, 
Mabel  Huidekoper  Bond,  daughter  of  George  and  Rebecca  Calhoun  (Huide- 
f:^r  koper)   Bond,  of  Jamaica. Plain?,  Mass.     Their  children  are:  Rose  Cracroft 

'  Loveland,  born  July  28,  1903,  and  Charles  Noyes  Loveland,  born  Aug.  i,  1906. 

Josephine  Noyes  Loveland,  born  Nov.  5,  1874. 
Daniel  Rogers,  born  Nov.  10,  1836;  married  Dec.  4,  1866,  Helen  Abia  Gilman,  daughter  of 
WiNTHROP  Sargent  and  Abia  Swift  (Lippincott)  Gilman  (136)  of   New  York, 
who  was  born  Jan.  4,  1843;  now  living  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota.     Their  children  were: 
Helen  Gilman  Noyes,  born  Oct.   12,  1867;  married  March  30,   1892,  Rev.  William 
Adams  Brown,  son  of  John  Crosby  and  Mary  (Adams)  Brown  of  New  York. 
Their  children  are:  John  Crosby  Brown,  born  Dec.  23,   1892,  and  William 
Adams  Brown,  born  Nov.  14,  1894. 
Winthrop  Sargent  Gilman  Noyes,  born  April  7,  1869;  Y.  C.  1891. 
Evelyn  McCurdy  Noyes,  born  May  14,  1871;  married  May  29,  1895,  Rollin  Sanford 
Saltus,  son  of  Nicholas  and  Maria  Seymour  (Sanford)  Saltus  of  New  York. 
Their  children  are:  Rollin  Sanford  Saltus,  born  July  2,  1896,  and  Winthrop 
Noyes  Saltus,  born  March  5,  1903. 
Caroline  Lord  Noyes,  born  June  24,  1876;   married  June  3,  1904,  Thatcher  Magoun 
Brown,  brother  of  her  sister  Helen's  husband.     Their  children  are:  Moreau  De- 
lano Brown,  born  March  30,  1905,  and  Daniel  Noyes  Brown,  born  Oct.  10,  1906. 
Josephine  Lord  Noyes,  twin  with  Caroline;  died  Aug.  23,  1876. 
Daniel  Raymond  Noyes,  born  Aug.  20,  1883;  Y.  C.  1905. 
Josephine   Lord,  born   Sept.   18,   1839;   married  Aug.  i,  i860,  Charles   Henry  Ludington, 
son  of  Lewis  and  Polly  (Townsend)  Ludington,  of  Carmel,N.  Y.,who  was  born  Feb. 
I,  1825;  now  living  in  New  York.     Their  children  were: 
Mary  Louise  Ludington,  born  Aug.  17,  1862. 
William  Howard  Ludington,  born  Sept.  24,  1864;  Y.  C.  1887. 

Charles  Henry  Ludington,  born  Aug.  9,  1866;  Y.  C.  1887;  married,  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
April  24,  1895,  Ethel  Mildred  Saltus,  sister  of  his  cousin  Evelyn  Noyes'  hus- 
band, who  was  born  July  4,   1871.     Their  children  are:  Charles  Townsend 
Ludington,  born  in  New  York,  Jan.  16,  1896,  Wright  Saltus  Ludington,  born 
in  New  York,  June  10,  1900,  and  Nicholas  Saltus  Ludington,  born  in  Bryn 
Mawr,  Pa.,  Nov.  13,  1904. 
James  Elliott  Ludington,  born  Feb.  12,  1868;  died  March  7,  1870. 
Katharine  Ludington,  born  Oct.  16,  1869. 
Arthur  Crosby  Ludington,  born  March  6,  1880;  Y.  C.  1902. 
Helen  Gilman  Ludington,  born  May  5,  1882. 
Charles  Phelps,  born  April  24,  1842;  married  Sept.  i,  1874,  Emily  Hoffman  Gilman,  sister 
of  his  brother  Daniel's  wife,  who  was  born  March  10,  1854;  now  living  in  St.  Paul, 
Minnesota.     Their  children  were: 

Julia  Gilman  Noyes,  born  June  6,  1875;  married,  Aug.  22,  1898,  Henry  Wheeler 
de  Forest,  son  of  Henry  Grant  and  Julia  Mary  (Weeks)  de  Forest,  of  New 


N0>   S  FOR  CIRCUIT  JUDGE 

presia)ENT  appoints  jurist  from 
connecticut 


Oyster  Bay,  Sept.  20— President  Roose- 
velt announces  the  appointnnent  of  Walter 
C.  Noyes  of  New  London,  Conn.,  as  United 
States  Circuit  Judge  to  flU  the  vacancy 
caused  by  the  death  o£  William  K.  Town- 
send.  Judge  .Noyes  Is  at  present  Judge  ot 
the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  New  Lon- 
don County,  Conn. 

Judge  Noyes  is  a  descendant  of  Rev. 
WlUlam  Noyes.  who  was  rector  of  St. 
Nicholas's  Church  at  Choulderton,  England, 
from  1601  to  1021.  One  of  his  ancestors 
was  a  founder  ot  Yale,  another.  Rev.  Mosei 
Noyes,,  was  for  many  years  a  fellow  of 
that  college  and  for  sixty-three  years  a 
clergyman  in  Lyme.  Richard  Noyes,  the 
father  of  the  Judge,  was  the  great-great- 
grandson  of  Judge  Richard  Lord,  justice 
of  the  peace  and  of  the  quorum,  a  man  of 
distinction   in    the   last  century. 

Judge  Walter  Chadwlck  Noye?  was  born 
at  Lyme.  Conn.,  on  Aug.  8,  1865.  He  took 
a  special  course  at  Cornell  University,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  London  County 
in  1886,  and  at  once  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  New  London.  In  1891 
he  became  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Brandegee,  Noyes  and  Brandegee, 
now  Brandegee.  Noyes  &  Brennan.  In  l,Sfl.") 
he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas  for  New  London  County, 
which  office  he  has  held  continuously  to  the 
present  time.  In  1904  he  was  elected  pres- 
ident ot  the  New  London  Northern  RailT 
road  Company  to  succeed  the  late  Robert 
Colt,  which  place  he  has  held  to  this 
date.  In  1902  Judge  Noyes  published  a 
legal  work  entitled,  "The  Law  ot  Inter- 
corporate  Relations."  This  book  dealt  ex- 
haustively with  the  intricate  questions  in- 
volved in  the  relations  of  corporations  to 
each  other.  In  1905  Judge  Noyes  published 
another  legal  treatise,  under  the  name  of 
"American    Railroad    Rates." 

In  1896  Judge  Noyes  married  Miss  Luella 
S.  Armstrong,  daughter  of  Benjamin  A. 
Armstrong  of  New  London.  Judge  Noyes 
has  two  daughters.  He  has  a  pleasant 
home  In  New  London,  the  picturesque 
Noyes  homestead  and  farm  in  Lyme,  whlcu  ' 
had  been  owned  by  his  ancestors  for  250 
years.  In  the  twelve  years  during  which 
Judge  Noyes  has  occupied  the  bench  very 
few  of  his  decisions  have  been  overruled 
by  the   Supreme  Court.    - 


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missloners    this    afternoon   ,to    consider 
plans   for      tlie      Cambridge      subway 
Solicitor  Pevey  of  Cambridge  charged 
the  Elevated  had  broken  faith  with  the 
and    that    he    had    been    authorized    by 
mayor    to    say    that    no      further      prog 
would  be  made  until  the  location  and  n 
ber    of    stations    haVe    been    decided    u; 
Mr.   Pevey  said  that  last  week  conferei 
between    him    and    Attorney    Snow    of 
Elevated    had    been    held    at    which    it 
been  implied  that  the  Elevated  would  ! 
mit    compromise   plans   of   the    subway 
tlons. 

Instead    of   doing    this,    however,    so 
Pevey  charges,  the  company  submitted  ^ 
tltion  for  two  stations  only,   witTiout  te 
ing  a  plan.     "And,"  said  Mr.  Pevey,  "I 
tiiorefore    reauested    to    notlfv    vour    bo 


THE      A)?rOINTMENT    OF    JUDGE     WALTER 

C,  Notes,  ot  New  London,  Ct.,  to  succeed 
-the  lat?  William  K.  Townfeend  on  the 
l?encli  of  the  2d  judicial  circuit  of  the 
United  States,  is  an  exceedingly  fortunate 
one,  as  no  question  has  anywhere  been 
made  of  his  high  personal  character,  legal 
learning  and  judicial  temperament.  That 
he  had  the  indorsement  of  the  two  Con- 
riecticflt  United  States  senators,  one  of 
whom  has  been  his  law  partner,  is  as- 
suredly not  ■  to  be  necessarily  counted 
against  him,  for  he  had  at  the  same  time 
the  indorsement  of  six  of  the  nine  judges 
of  the  Connecticut  superior  court,  seven 
of  the  eight  state's  attorneys  of  Connecti- 
cut, and  others  who  looked  at  the  matter 
from  a  legal  rather  than  a  political  stand- 
point. Judge  Npyes  is  a  younger  man 
than  would  be  supposed  from  the  reputa- 
tion he  has  obtaiaed  in  railroad  affairs 
and  the  law — being  only  42.  He  was  born 
at  Lyme,  Ct.,  and  belongs  to  a  family 
long  prominent  in  Connecticut.  He  took 
a  special  course  at  Cornell  university,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1886,  and  in  1891 
became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Brandegee,  Noyes  &  Brandegee  of  New 
London,  w-hieh  later  became  Brandegee, 
Noyes  &  Brennau.  In  1895  he  was  ap- 
pointed judge  of  the  common  pleas  court 
for  New  London  county,  and  has  so  con- 
tinued ever  since.  Judge  Noyes  was  chosen 
president  of  the  New  London  Northern 
railroad  in  1904,  which  office  he  will  now 
pre"sumably  relinquish.  In  this  way  he  be- 
came acquainted  with  the  practical  work 
of  railroad  admiuisti-ation.  and  out  of  it 
grew  a  book  published  in  1905.  "American 
'Eailroad  Kates,"  which  attracted  wide 
and  favorable  attention  for  its  lucid  dis- 
cussion of  the  rate  question  and  thfe  lib- 
eral attitude  taken  in  regard  to  public 
regulation.  He  placed  emphasis  upon  the 
rights  of  the  public  in  the  conduct  of  the 
railroads  and  declared  that  instead  of  as- 
sailing all  f)ropositions  of  rate  regulation 
jrailroad  ofBcials  should  join  in  an  effort 
to  secure  reasonable  measures  of  such 
regulation.  He  is  the  author  of  another 
book  of  a  more  distinctly  legal  character, 
"The  Law  of  Intercorporate  Relations," 
which  was  frequently  quoted  by  Attoniey- 
General  Knox  in  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment's suit  to  dissolve  the  Northern 
securities  company.  His  friends  predict 
for  him  a  high  place  among  American 
jurists.  •       ■ 


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DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES  [7]  45 

York,  who  was  born  Oct.  29,  1855.  Their  children  are:  Julia  Mary  de  Forest, 
born  in  New  York,  Oct.  26, 1899,  Henry  Wheeler  de  Forest,  born  in  New  York, Jan. 
3,  1901,  Charles  Noyes  de  Forest,  born  in  Cold  Spring  Harbor,  L.  I.,  Aug.  7,  190^ 

Katherine  McCurdy  Noyes,  born  June  9,  1876;  died  July  3  i,  1884. 

Emily  Hoflfman  Noyes,  born  June  25,  1880;  died  Aug.  3,  1880. 

Charles  Reinold  Noyes,  born  May  2,  1884;  Y.  C.  IQ05. 

Robert  Hale  Noyes,  born  March  31,  1886;  Y.  C.  1908. 

Laurence  Oilman  Noyes,  born  May  26,  1893. 

[10]  JOSEPH  BROWN 

OF    SOUTHAMPTON,    ENGLAND 

ALTHOUGH  we  know  very  little  about  the  father  of  Rev.  James  Noyes' 
wife,  Sarah  Brown,  beyond  the  fact  that  his  name  was  Joseph 
Brown,  and  that  he  lived  in  Southampton,  we  can  gather  from  the 
will  of  one  of  his  sons,  Moses  Brown,  a  few  facts  about  the  family. 
As  they  were  from  adjacent  towns,  it  is  not,  perhaps,  surprising  that  there  seems 
to  have  been  a  connection  between  the  Browns  and  the  Willoughbys  (81). 
The  name  of  Willoughby  Brown  appears  in  the  will  as  a  cousin.  This  son,  "Moses 
Browne,  citizen  and  founder  of  London,"  appears  to  have  been  a  rich  man,  and 
one  of  a  large  family  connection.  Another  brother,  Mr.  James  Brown,  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  Newbury,  coming  over  with  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2)  and  his  wife. 

Children  of  Joseph  and  Brown 

Moses,  who  died  about  June,  1688;  bequeathed  to  his  "sister  Sarah  Noyse  of  New  England 
one  hundred  pounds,  to  her  two  sons  William  and  Joseph  Noyse  fifty  pounds  apiece," 
to  his  "cousin  Willoughby  Browne  two  hundred  pounds,"  to  his  "sister  Margaret 
Ventham  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,"  to  his  "sister  Dorothy  Riggs  the  like  sum," 
and  mentioned  his  "late  brother  Thomas  Browne." 

Thomas,  mentioned  in  the  above  will,  who  died  before  1688. 

James,  emigrated  to  New  England  in  1634,  and  probably  died  before  1656,  as  he  is  at  that 
time  called  "late  teacher  in  Portsmouth." 
(2)  Sarah,  married  in   1633,   Rev.  James  Noyes,  son  of  Rev.  William   and    Ann  (Parker) 
Noyes  (i)  of  Cholderton,  Eng.,  and  died  at  Newbury,  Mass.,  Sept.  13,  1691. 

[12]  THOMAS  STANTON  [1616-1677] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ANN  LORD  [1621-1688] 

OF    ENGLAND,    HARTFORD,    AND    STONINGTON,   CONN. 

THOMAS  STANTON,   born  in  England   about   1616,  was   in  early  man- 
hood designed  and  educated  for  a  cadet,  but  not  liking  the  profession 
of  arms,  and  taking  a  deep  interest  in  the  religious    principles   of   the 
Puritans,  he  emigrated  to  America,    sailing    from    London,    England, 
for  Virginia,  January  2,  1635/6,  in  the  merchantman  "Bonaventura."     He  came 


46  THOMAS  STANTON  [12] 

over  alone,  and  we  cannot  find  that  he  then  had  any  relatives  on  this  side  of  the 
water,  unless  Robert  Stanton,  of  Newport,  R.  ].,  was  one — perhaps  a  brother,  as 
Savage  and  Austin  believe. 

There  is  some  reason  to  think  our  Thomas  Stanton  may  have  been  the 
same  Thomas  Stanton  as  the  one  named  in  the  Washington  Family  Chart,'  the 
son  of  Thomas  Stanton,  Esq.,  of  Wolverton,  Warwickshire,  and  Katherine  Wash- 
ington, daughter  of  Walter  Washington,  and  niece  of  Laurence  Washington,  the 
ancestor  of  George  Washington,  first  President  of  the  United  States.  The  fol- 
lowing suggestive  coincidences  make  this  such  a  clue  as  is  often  followed  up  in 
genealogical  work  with  satisfactory  results.  First,  the  Washington  Chart  shows 
a  "Thomas  aet  3  1619,"  which  corresponds  exactly  with  Thomas'  age  of  twenty 
years  when  he  registered  as  a  passenger  on  the  "Bonaventura"  in  January,  1635, old 
style,  1636,  as  we  would  now  say.  Again,  the  Stanton  chart  in  the  "Visitation  of 
Warwickshire"  (p.  277) gives  the  same,  "Thomas fils  et  haeres  aetat  3  Annori  1619," 
and  both  the  father  and  grandfather  were  named  Thomas,  which  name  has  also 
comedown  in  every  succeeding  generation  on  this  side  of  the  water  through  Thomas, 
the  emigrant.  Again,  when  Thomas  Stanton  emigrated,  he  came  to  Jamestown, 
Virginia,  and  a  few  years  later  John  Washington,  General  Washington's  grand- 
father, came  to  the  same  place.  Unfortunately,  the  records  of  New  London  were 
destroyed  in  1781  by  Benedict  Arnold,  the  traitor,  when  he  sacked  and  burned 
that  town,  and  at  that  time  Thomas  Stanton's  will  was  lost.  This  would  un- 
doubtedly have  cleared  up  the  question  of  his  ancestry,  as  there  is  a  family  tradition 
that  before  his  death,  he  received  a  legacy  from  England. 

His  stay  in  Virginia  must  have  been  very  brief,  less  than  a  year,  as  he  was 
also  in  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1636.  It  has  been  suggested  that  he  acquired  his  know- 
ledge of  the  Indians,  their  languages  and  customs,  by  mingling  with  them  on  this 
journey  north,  but  his  proficiency  was  so  unusual  that  this  explanation  seems  hardly 
sufficient,  and  we  must  believe  that  he  traded  with  the  Indians  even  before  he  left 
Virginia.  It  seems  highly  probable,  too,  that  he  brought  with  him  letters  from 
England,  vouching  for  his  personal  character,  as,  on  his  arrival  in  Boston,  Gov- 
ernor Winthrop  and  his  associates,  learning  of  his  knowledge  of  the  Indian  lan- 
guage, although  he  was  then  a  mere  lad  of  twenty,  selected  him  as  interpreter  to 
accompany  Mr.  Fenwick  and  Rev.  Hugh  Peters  to  Fort  Saybrook,  Conn.,  on  an  im- 
portant mission  to  the  younger  Winthrop,  with  reference  to  a  treaty  with  the 
Pequots.  The  mission  was  evidently  not  successful,  as  the  Pequot  war  followed 
immediately,  in  which  Thomas  Stanton  served  throughout.  Special  mention 
of  his  bravery  in  the  battle  of  Fairfield  Swamp,  where  he  nearly  lost  his  life,  is 
found  in  the  New  London  Records,  and  for  this  service  he  received  some  years  later 
a  grant  of  land. 

In  1 637,  he  was  living  at  Newtowne(now  Cambridge,Mass.),and  wasoneof  the 
magistrates  who  examined  Rev.  John  Wheelright  when  tried  for  heresy  in  the  old 
church  there.     The  same  year  he  removed  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  perhaps  through 

'  Water's  Genealogical  Gleanings,  chart  facing  p.  396. 


THOMAS  STANTON  [12]  47 

the  influence  of  the  younger  John  Winthrop,  later  governor  of  Connecticut,  whose 
acquaintance  he  had  made  at  Fort  Saybrook,  and  who  became  his  intimate  and 
special  friend.  Soon  after  his  arrival  in  Hartford  he  married  Ann,  third  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Dorothy  (Bulkeley)  Lord  (67),  who  was  born  about  1621.  They 
also  had  removed  from  Newtowne  (Cambridge)  to  Hartford  but  a  short  time  before. 
Thomas  Stanton's  name  appears  as  one  of  the  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
seven  original  proprietors  of  Hartford  in  1637,  and  his  special  knowledge  made 
him  available  at  once  for  public  service.  The  next  year  the  General  Court  of  Con- 
necticut voted  him  ^10  "for  the  seruice  hee  hath  done  for  the  countrey  already 
past,"  also  appointed  him  "a  publicke  officer  for  to  attend  the  corte  vppon  all 
occasions"  as  interpreter,  with  a  salary  of  ^10  per  annum.  He  was  sent  with  Cap- 
tain Mason  on  a  mission  to  the 

"Warranocke  Indians  to  declare  vnto  tlicm  that  wee  have  a  desire  to  speake  with  them 
to  knowe  the  reasons  why  they  saide  they  are  aflfraide  of  vs  and  if  they  will  not  come  to  vs,  willingly, 
then  to  compell  them  to  come  by  violence." 

It  appears  he  did  not  always  agree  with  the  policy  of  Captain  Mason  and  the 
Court,  and  drew  upon  himself  their  displeasure.  Another  man  was  appointed 
interpreter  in  his  place,  but  after  two  years  he  was  reinstated. 

In  1640  or  1 64 1,  he  was  engaged  in  business  with  his  brother-in-law,  Richard 
Lord,  of  Hartford,  trading  with  the  Indians  on  Long  Island  and  elsewhere.  Dur- 
ing this  partnership  Richard  was  fined  £5  by  the  General  Court,  because  he  drew 
his  sword  on  Stanton  in  a  quarrel.  The  Court  stopped  their  trading  with  Long 
Island  in  1642,  giving  them  the  privilege  of  making  one  more  voyage  to  collect 
debts  due  them.  Possibly  it  was  about  this  time  that  he  again  visited  the  Vir- 
ginia Indians.  The  only  reason  we  have  for  supposing  that  he  made  such  a  visit, 
is  a  curious  document,  without  date,  but  probably  entered  in  1668  or  1669  on  the 
New  London  County  Records,  as  follows: 

"Whereas  Capt.  Morrice  hath  reported  and  informed  the  King's  Commissioner  that  Mr. 
Thomas  Stanton,  Senr.  did,  in  Virginia,  some  20  odd  years  since,  cause  a  massacre  among  the  Indians 
whereby  to  gain  their  Beaver  to  himself,  and  the  said  Morrice  named  Richard  Arye,  mariner,  to  be 
his  author:  These  may  certify  ail  of  whom  it  may  concern  that  the  said  Arye  being  examined 
concerning  said  report,  doth  absolutely  deny  that  he  knew  or  reported  any  such  thing  to  Morrice 
nor  ever  heard  of  any  such  thing  about  Mr.  Stanton  in  Virginia  to  his  rememberance." 

This  was  acknowledged  in  court  by  Richard  Arye,  and  attested  by  David  Wetherell, 
recorder. 

Mr.  Stanton  was  intimately  connected  with  Indian  affairs  during  his  whole 
life.  When  the  Yorkshire  colonists  bought  the  site  of  Quinipiac  or  New  Haven 
from  the  natives,  he  was  their  interpreter  (see  178),  acting  also  as  agent  for  the 
London  Missionary  Society,  and  interpreting  for  the  ministers  who  preached  to 
the  Indians.  He  also  aided  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson  in  translating  his  Catechism 
into  the  Indian  tongue,  and  certified  the  same  in  his  official  capacity.     Later  he 


48  THOMAS  STANTON  [12] 

became  the  interpreter-general  of  New  England,  appointed  by  the  Commissioners 
of  the  United  Colonies. 

On  one  of  his  journeys  with  Governor  Winthrop,  of  Connecticut,  he  visited 
Stonington  to  consult  with  Ninegret,  chief  sachem  of  the  Eastern  Niantics  (see  3). 
While  there  he  made  his  first  acquaintance  with  the  Pawcatuck  valley,  and  was  so 
pleased  with  it  and  its  situationfor  trading  purposes  that, on  his  return  to  Hartford, 
he  procured  from  the  General  Court,  February  6,  1649/50,  a  license  for  the  ex- 
clusive trade  of  Pawcatuck  river  with  "6  acres  of  planting  ground"  and  "libberty 
of  feed  and  mowing"  for  three  years,  and  was  the  first  white  man  who  joined  Mr. 
William  Chesebrough  in  this  new  settlement.  Here  he  erected  a  trading  house 
in  165 1,  trading  with  the  Indians  and  sendingfurs  to  Boston  and  the  West  Indies. 
The  business,  operated  with  coasting  vessels,  was  the  first  of  the  kind  between  New 
London  and  Newport,  and  was  continued  by  him  and  later  by  his  sons  as  they 
grew  up  to  manhood. 

He  does  not  appear  to  have  taken  his  family  to  Pawcatuck  at  this  time,  but 
in  1 65 1  he  removed  them  to  New  London,  and  in  1657  or  1658  moved  over  to  Paw- 
catuck, where  he  had  previously  built  a  dwelling-house.  At  this  time  Pawcatuck 
was  part  of  Southertown,  and  under  the  jurisdiction  of  Massachusetts,  and  he 
was  appointed  selectman  and  magistrate.  After  Pawcatuck  was  set  off  to  the 
Connecticut  Colony  by  the  charter  of  1662,  Mr.  Stanton  was  appointed  magis- 
trate and  commissioner,  and  re-appointed  every  year  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 
From  1666  to  1675  his  service  was  continuous  as  deputy  to  the  General  Assembly 
of  Connecticut. 

When  courts  were  first  established  in  New  London  County,  in  1666,  Major 
Mason,  Thomas  Stanton  and  Lieutenant  Pratt,  of  Saybrook,  were  appointed 
judges,  with  authority  to  hold  a  semi-annual  court  in  New  London  "to  issue  and 
determine  all  cases  brought  before  them,  ...  to  marry  persons,  and  punish  for 
criminal  matters  to  the  value  of  40s  or  by  stocks." 

Not  only  did  he  have  a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs,  being  elected  to  almost 
every  position  of  trust  in  the  new  settlement,  serving  his  county  and  state  as  well, 
but  he  was  also  active  in  the  foundation  of  the  First  Church  of  Stonington,  of  which 
Rev.  James  Noyes  (3),  his  son-in-law,  was  the  first  settled  pastor. 

An  interesting  document  in  the  handwriting  of  Thomas  Stanton  sent  to  the 
General  Court  at  Hartford  by  the  town  of  Stonington,  May  4,  1668,  refers  to  the 
boundary  between  Connecticut  and  Rhode  Island  mentioned  under  Rev.  James 
NoYES  (3),  Deputy  Governor  James  Barker  (30),  Governor  Peleg  Sanford  (16), 
and  others.     It  is  in  part  as  follows: 

"A  Companie  of  personnes  from  Road  Island  whoe  threatned  the  east  side  of  Paquatack 
River  (w*  seemed  at  first  to  vs  but  as  ridiculos)  yet  have  built,  fenced  improved  &  forsibly  settled 
&  ar  growing  numerovs;  &  doe  noe  les  threaten  the  west  side  of  Paquatack  River;  and  wee  know 
not  but  they  may  as  well  take  all  as  part,  nay,  our  houses  over  our  heades,  by  as  much  right  as  w' 
thay  at  present  injoye,  for  any  thing  the  Pattent  priviledges  more  to  one  side  of  the  River  then  the 
other    .     .     .     Least  multitude  of  business  might  ovrwhelme  you,  &  our  beeing  remoat  &  as  ovt 


THOMAS  STANTON  [12]  49 

of  sight  might  too  much  burie  us  in  oblivion,  or  want  of  information  might  render  you  the  les  sen- 
sible of  our  condition,  wee  make  bold  to  remind  you,  &  if  it  maye  bee  to  add  a  liteil  breath  to  the 
saylis  and  fethers  to  the  winges  of  your  sohcitous  indeavorsin  our  behalfe  ....  neither  can 
any  true  harted  &  fellow-feeHng  Christians  choose  but  movrne  to  see  &  heare  of  ovr  neighboring 
disorders,  &  acknoledg  ovr  condition  is  truHe  deplorable  to  have  personnesof  such  corrupt  prinsip- 
alls  &  praktises  to  live  so  neer  vs,  and  on  our  owne.  .  .  May  not  parents  hartes  bleed  when  abovt 
to  leave  the  world  to  thinke  how  they  leave  their  deer  children  in  the  movth  of  the  Lion  &  paw  of 
the  Beare,  and  worse,  as  beeing  daylie  tempted  by  exampells  to  folow  after  &  imbrace  lies,  to  live 
as  riotous,  wanton,  luxsurious,  and  even  no  better  than  to  bee  said  vnto,  Serve  other  Gods,  or  no 
God?  .  .  .  Surelie  if  this  case  be  made  as  your  owne,  you  will  not  spare  for  cost  or  paynes,  or  bee 
vnwilling  to  run  som  hassard  in  the  indeavour  of  our  speedie  redres."  ' 

This  vexed  question  as  to  boundaries  continued  to  agitate  Stonington  and 
Westerly  until  1728,  when  it  was  finally  settled,  after  a  controversy  of  sixty- 
five  years. 

From  the  year  1636,  when  he  was  Winthrop's  interpreter  with  the  Niantic 
Sachem,  to  1670,  when  Uncas,  the  Mohegan  Sachem,  accompanied  by  all  his  savage 
court  and  train  of  warriors,  as  witnesses,  came  from  Mohegan  to  Pawcatuck  to  get 
him  to  write  his  will,  Thomas  Stanton's  name  is  connected  with  almost  every 
Indian  transaction  on  record. = 

In  the  year  of  his  death  he  returned  to  the  Indian  Cassacinamon  "all  the 
wampum  that  he  holds  in  trust  for  him  from  Ninicroft."  This  transaction,  as 
well  as  the  visit  of  Uncas  mentioned  above,  shows  the  esteem  the  Indians  had  for 
him. 

He  died  December  2,  1677,  in  Stonington,  aged  sixty-two  years,  and  his 
will  was  probated  in  June,  1678,  but,  as  stated  above,  was  probably  destroyed  with 
the  New  London  records.  His  wife  lived  eleven  years  longer,  making  her  home  with 
her  daughter  Dorothy,  wife  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  (3),  and  died  in  1688,  aged  sixty- 
seven  years.  Both  were  buried  in  the  old  burying-ground  on  the  east  side  of  We- 
quetoquock  Cove,  where  were  also  buried  Rev.  James  Noyes  (3),  Mr.  Chesebrough, 
and  many  other  of  the  first  settlers  of  Stonington. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Lord)  Stanton 

Thomas,  born  in  Hartford  in  1638;  married  in  1658,  Sarah  Denison,  eldest  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain George  and  his  first  wife  Bridget  (Thompson)  Denison;  was  employed  as  in- 
terpreter by  the  United  Colonies  succeeding  his  father  and  died  at  Stonington,  April 
II,  1718. 

John,  born  in  Hartford  in  1641;  married  in  1664,  Hannah  Thompson,  sister  of  Rev.  William 
Thompson,  Jr.,  of  Braintree,  Mass.;  served  with  distinction  in  King  Philip's  War,  in 
the  Great  Swamp  Fight  and  later  was  in  command  of  one  of  the  companies  in 
Captain  George  Denison's  campaign  when  Canonchet  was  captured;  died  at  Stoning- 
ton Oct.  3,  1713. 

Mary,  born  in  Hartford  in  1643;  married,  Nov.  14,  1662,  Samuel  Rogers,  son  of  James  Rogers 
of  New  London,  Conn. 

^Colonial  Records  oj  Connecticut,   1,   530.     '^ History  oj  New  London,  Caulkins,  296. 


50  THOMAS  STANTON  [12] 

Hannah,  born  in  Hartford  in  1644;  married  Nov.  20,  1662,  Nehemiah  Palmer,  son  of  Walter 
and  Rebecca  (Short)  Palmer  of  Stonington;  died  Oct.  17,  1727. 

Joseph,  born  in  Hartford  in  1646;  baptized  March  21,  1646;  married  (i)  June  19,  1673, 
Hannah  Meade,  daughter  of  William  Meade  of  Roxbury,  Mass.;  married  (2)  Aug.  23, 
1677,  his  cousin  Hannah  Lord,  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  and  Hannah  (Thurston)  Lord 
of  Hartford  and  Wethersfield;  married  twice  more,  the  fourth  wife  probably  being  a 
Miss  Prentice,  and  died  in  1714. 

Daniel,  born  in  Hartford  in  1648;  married  and  died  in  the  Barbadoes,  where  he  had  gone  to 
establish  a  branch  of  Stanton  Bros.,  leaving  one  child,  Richard,  who  is  mentioned 
in  the  grandmother's  will  as  "the  fatherless  child  in  Barbadoes." 
(3)  Dorothy,  born  1651;  married  Sept.  n,  1674,  Rev.  James  Noyes,  son  of  Rev.  James  and 
Sarah  (Brown)  Noyes  (2);  died  in  Stonington,  Jan.  19,  1743. 

Robert,  born  in  Pequoit  (New  London)  in  1653;  married  Nov.  12,  1677,  Joanna  Gardiner, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Lucy  (Smith)  Gardiner  of  Roxbury,  Mass.;  lived  at  Paw- 
catuck  and  was  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  War  and  at  twenty-two  years,  when  Canon- 
chet  was  captured,  was  the  youth  who  received  this  contemptuous  reply  from  the 
Chief:  "You  much  child!  No  understand  war.  Let  your  brother  [Captain  John]  or 
Chief  come.     Him  I  will  answer;"  died  Oct.  25,  1724. 

Sarah,  born  at  Pequoit  (New  London)  in  1655;  married  (1)  Jan.  20,  1675,  Thomas  Prentice, 

Jr.,  son  of  Captain  Thomas  and  Grace  ( )  Prentice  of  Newtown,  Mass.;  married 

(2)  in  May,i686,Captain  William  Denison,  son  of  Captain  George  and  his  second  wife, 
Ann  (Borodell)  Denison,  and  the  brother  of  her  two  sisters-in-law. 

Samuel,  born  at  Pequoit  (New  London)  in  1657;  married  June  16,  1680,  Borodel  Denison, 
daughter  of  Captain  George  and  his  second  'wife  Ann  (Borodell)  Denison;  lived  in 
Stonington  on  that  portion  of  his  father's  estate  called  "Osbrook"  in  the  angle  of 
Pawcatuck  river  and  the  bay  and  served  in  the  early  colonial  wars.  His  wife  died  Jan. 
II,  1702,  but  the  date  of  his  death  is  not  known. 

[14]  SAMUEL  SANFORD  [....-....] 

AND   HIS  WIFE 

ELEANOR [....-....] 

OF    ALFORD,    ENGLAND 

WE  have  only  the  name  of  Samuel  Sanford  and  that  of  his  wife  Eleanor 
,  and  we  know  that  their  home  was  in  Alford,  Lincolnshire, 
England.     Although  their  son  emigrated  three  years  earlier  than  the 
Hutchinsons    from   the  same  town,   his  second  marriage  to  the 
daughter  of  William  and  Anne  (Marbury)  Hutchinson  (17),  in  1637,  would 
show  that  the  families  had  probably  known  each  other  in  the  old  country. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Eleanor  ( •)  Sanford 

(15)  John,  married  (i)  Elizabeth  Webb  of  Boston,  who  died  July  14, 1635;  married  (2)  about 
1637  in  New  England,  Bridget  Hutchinson,  daughter  of  William  and  Anne  (Mar- 
bury)  Hutchinson  (17);  died  between  June  22  and  Nov.  16,  1653. 


JOHN  SANFORD  [15]  51 

[15J  JOHN  SANFORD  [....-16=33] 

AND  HIS  WIVES 

ELIZABETH  WEBB  [....-1635] 
BRIDGET  HUTCHINSON  [1619-1698] 

OF    ENGLAND,    BOSTON,   MASS.,    AND    PORTSMOUTH,    R.    I. 

TOHN  SANFORD  (sometimes  spelled  Sampeford)  was  the  son  of  Samuel 
I  and  Eleanor  Sanford  (14),  of  Alford,  Lincolnshire,  England.  He  sailed 
I  for  America  in  the  ship  "  Lyon,"  Captain  Fierce,  about  the  middle  of  August, 
J  163 1,  and  had  as  fellow  passengers,  John  Eliot,  the  missionary  to  the  Indians, 
and  John  Winthrop,  Jr.,  afterward  governor  of  Connecticut.  They  arrived  out 
of  Boston  Harbor,  November  3rd,  after  a  three  months'  voyage.  His  name  appears 
as  No.  115  on  the  list  of  members  of  the  First  Church  of  Boston,  and  he  was 
made  freeman  April  3,  1632.  From  1632  to  1637  he  was  employed  at  the  Fort  as 
a  cannoneer,  and  in  1634  and  1636  as  surveyor  of  arms  and  ammunition,  when 
his  pay  was  fixed  at  £^0.  On  the  ist  of  March,  1636,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the 
selectmen  of  Boston,  to  which  office  he  was  re-elected  until  he  moved  elsewhere. 

Soon  after  his  arrival  he  married  (i)  Elizabeth  Webb,  or  Evered,  a  sister 
of  Henry  Webb,  a  prominent  merchant  of  Boston.  She  must  have  come  over  from 
England  some  time  before  he  did,  as  she  was  a  member  of  the  First  Church  in  1630. 
She  came  from  Salisbury,  Wiltshire,  England,  at  least  four  years  before  Mr.  Thomas 
Parker  and  Mr.  James  Noyes  (2),  and  was  one  of  the  family  of  Webb  mentioned 
by  Fuller.'  He  says:  "They  were  cloth-weavers  of  the  name  of  Evered,  refugees 
from  the  Netherlands  in  the  time  of  Edward  III,  who  called  them  Webb  on  account 
of  their  cloth  manufacture."  Elizabeth  died  on  July  14,  1635,  at  the  birth  of 
her  son  Samuel  (54). 

John  Sanford  then  married  (2),  probably  in  1637,  Bridget  Hutchinson, 
daughter  of  William  and  Anne  (Marbury)  Hutchinson  (17),  who  was  born  Jan- 
uary 15,  1618/9,  at  Alford,  Eng.,  her  husband's  birthplace,  and  left  there  with  her 
parents  in  1634.  This  marriage  occurred  theyearof  the  trial  of  Anne  Hutchinson, 
and  John  Sanford  came  under  the  condemnation  of  the  Court,  with  the  rest  of 
her  family  and  sympathizers.  He  was  one  of  the  fifty-eight  members  of  the  First 
Church  who  were  disarmed  in  1637  by  order  of  the  Council  "because  the  opinions 
and  revelations  of  Mr.  Wheelright  and  Mrs.  Hutchinson  have  seduced  and  led  into 
dangerous  errors  many  of  the  people  here  in  New  England."  He  was  banished 
with  the  Hutchinsons  in  1638,  and  on  March  7th  of  that  year  he  and  eighteen  others 
signed  the  compact  incorporating  themselves  into  a"  Bodie  Politick"  for  the  settle- 
ment of  Aquidneck  or  Rhode  Island.  He  lived  thereafter  in  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  and 
held  the  offices  of  recorder  in  1639,  constable  in  1640,  recorder  of  His  Majesty's 
Colony  of  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plantations  in  1642,  lieutenant  in  1644, 
assistant  in  1647-9,  ^"^  president  of  Portsmouth  and  Newport  in  1653. 

'  Church  History,  i  lo. 


52  JOHN  SANFORD  [15] 

He  died  some  time  between  June  22  and  November  16,  1653,  and  his  will, 
which  was  drawn  on  the  first,  and  proved  on  the  latter  date,  is  that  of  a  wealthy 
man.  He  left  his  property  divided  between  his  second  wife,  Bridget,  and  nine 
surviving  children,  with  the  special  provision  for  the  eldest  son  which  was  then 
customary.  The  estate  inventoried  £^24.  lis.  4d.  and  included  in  the  long  list 
of  property,  sixty  pounds  of  gunpowder,  valued  at  £,()/\.  los.,  five  pewter  plates  and 
a  flagon,  two  silver  spoons,  a  flock  bed  for  the  negroes,  two  negroes  and  a  negro  boy. 

His  widow,  Bridget,  was  but  thirty-five  years  old  at  the  time  of  her  husband's 
death,  and  married  (2)  about  two  years  later.  Major  William  Phillips,  whom  she 
outlived.  She  died  in  Boston,  probably  in  1698,  as  her  will,  dated  September  29, 
1696,  was  probated  August  18,  1698. 

Children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Webb)  Sanford 

John,  born  in  Boston  June  4,  1633;  baptized  July  26,  1633;  married  (i)  Aug.  8,  1654,  Eliza- 
beth Spatchurst,  eldest  daughter  of  Henry  Spatchurst  of  Bermuda;  married  (2)  April 
17,  1663,  Mary  (Gorton)  Greene,  widow  of  John  Greene  and  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Elizabeth  Gorton;  lived  at  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  and  held  many  public  offices;  was 
treasurer  of  the  Colony  of  Rhode  Island,  commissioner,  general  recorder,  attorney- 
general,  deputy,  assistant,  and  member  of  Gov.  Andros'  Council.  He  and  his  bro- 
ther Samuel  had  legacies  from  their  uncle  Henry  Webb  of  Boston.  He  died  in  1687. 
(54)  Samuel,  born  July  14,  1635;  married  (i)  Sarah  Waddell,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary 
Waddell  (Wodell);  married  (2)  Susanna  Spatchurst,  daughter  of  William  and 
Elizabeth  Spatchurst  (58)  of  Bermuda,  probably  a  cousin  of  his  brother  John's 
wife;  died  at  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  March  18,  1713. 

Children  of  John  and  Bridget  (Hutchinson)  Sanford 

Eliphal,  born  Dec.  9,  1637;  married  Bartho  Stratton.     She  died  Jan.  18,  1724. 
(16)  Peleg,  born  May  10,    1639;    married  (i)   Mary   Brenton,  daughter   of  Governor  William 
and  Martha  (Burton)  Brenton;  married  (2)  Dec.  i,  1674,  Mary  Coddington,  daughter 
of  Governor  William  and  Ann  (Brinley)  Coddington  (19);  died  at  Newport,  R.  1., 
in  1701. 

Endcome,  born  at  Portsmouth  Feb.  23,  1640  and  died  young. 

Restcome,  born  at  Portsmouth  Jan.  29,  1642;  lived  at  Portsmouth  and  died  unmarried  in 
1667,  leaving  a  will  dated  Aug.  12,  1667,  in  which  he  named  "Five  brothers  and  my 
sister  viz:  Samuel,  Peleg,  William,  Esbon  and  Elisha  Sanford  and  Eliphal  Stratton" 
and  said  "If  brother  Esbon  is  not  heard  of  for  a  year,  the  four  sheep  assigned  to  him 
to  be  divided  between  brother  Samuel  and  Sister  Eliphal,  provided  that  if  afterwards 
Esbon  shall  come  again  the  sheep  shall  be  returned  to  him." 

William,  born  March  4,  1644;  died  unmarried  after  the  date  of  Restcome's  will. 

Esbon,  born  Jan.  25,  1646;  evidently  went  to  sea  before  1667,  the  date  of  Restcome's  will 
above,  and  probably  married  in  England  and  perhaps  died  there,  as  his  mother  in 
1696,  left  a  legacy  in  her  will  "to  granddaughter  in  England,  my  son  Esbon  Sanford's 
daughter  a  gold  ring."  In  1701  Peleg  also  said  in  his  will,  "to  daughter  of 
brother  Esbon  deceased." 

Frances,  born  Jan.  9,  1648,  died  young. 


JOHN  SANFORD  [15]  53 

Elisha,  born  Dec.  28,  1650;  in  1676  had  a  deed  from  his  step-father  WilHam  Phillips,  of  1,000 
acres,  being  part  of  a  tract  8  miles  square  purchased  of  the  Indians  "joining  on  the 
northwest  end  of  the  town  of  Wells,  Maine."  The  name  of  the  plantation  was  "  Phil- 
iipston,"  afterwards,  when  incorporated  in  1758,  called  "Sanford."  He  probably  went 
there  to  live  and  died  before  1698,  the  date  of  his  mother's  will,  in  which  he  is 
not  mentioned. 

Ann,  born  March  12,  1652,  died  in  Boston,  Aug.  26,  1654. 

[16]         GOVERNOR  PELEG  SANFORD  [1639-1701] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

MARY  CODDINGTON  [1654- .  .  .  .] 

OF    PORTSMOUTH  AND  NEWPORT,  R.  I. 

PELEG  SANFORD,  son  of  John  and  Bridget  (Hutchinson)  Sanford  (15), 
was  born  at  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  May  10,  1639.  He  was  constantly  in 
public  life  from  early  manhood  till  his  death  at  the  age  of  sixty-two, 
serving  both  in  civil  and  military  positions  of  honor  and  prominence. 

He  inherited  a  large  property  for  that  time,  and  the  first  record  we  have  of 
him  is  his  receipt  dated  October  19,  1663,  to  his  "father-in-law,"  i.  e.  stepfather, 
William  Phillips,  for  his  portion  of  the  estate  left  by  his  own  father.  This  was  in- 
creased soon  after  by  a  legacy  of  a  large  amount  of  property  at  Portsmouth  from 
his  mother's  bachelor  uncle,  Samuel  Hutchinson,  of  Boston,  who  died  in  1667,  in 
Boston. 

On  May  2,  i666,  he  was  made  freeman,  and  from  that  time  held  ofiTice  con- 
tinuously. He  was  commissioned  "Captain  of  a  Troop  of  Horse"  on  July  24,  1667, 
and  the  same  year  was  chosen  assistant,  or  one  of  the  Governor's  Council,  to  which 
he  was  re-elected  in  1668  and  in  1669.  This  was  an  office  of  great  responsibility  for 
a  man  under  thirty  years  of  age.  He  was  re-elected  to  the  office  in  1670,  but  de- 
clined to  serve.  He  accepted  the  office  of  deputy  for  Newport,  to  which  he  was 
elected  the  same  year,  and  served  in  that  capacity  from  1670  to  1677. 

He  married  (i)  about  1670,  Mary  Brenton,  daughter  of  Governor  William 
and  Martha  (Burton)  Brenton.  Brenton  had  been  governor  of  Rhode  Island  from 
1666  to  1668  and  gave  his  daughter,  on  her  marriage,  one-three  hundredths  of  Ca- 
nonicut  and  Dutch  Islands.  She  died  in  1674,  having  had  three  children,  all  of 
whom  died  young.  Peleg  Sanford  married  (2),  December  i,  1674,  Mary  Cod- 
dington,  daughter  of  Governor  William  and  Ann  (Brinley)  Coddington  (19), 
who  was  born  May  16,  1654.  At  the  time  of  their  marriage.  Governor  Coddington 
was  the  governor  of  Rhode  Island.  Peleg  Sanford  purchased  Rose  Island  from 
Pessacus,  an  Indian,  about  this  time,  and  the  deed  was  recorded  May  i,  1675. 

While  his  public  service  later  was  mainly  political,  we  find  that  he  had  part 
in  the  final  capture  of  King  Philip  in  the  swamp  near  Mt.  Hope, a  few  months  after 
the  Great  Swamp  Fight,  as  the  following  record  shows.     "On  August  11,  1676, 


54  GOVERNOR  PELEG  SANFORD  [i6] 

Capt.  Goulding  and  Peleg  Sanford  informed  Capt.  Church  of  King  Philip's  hiding- 
place  and  the  next  day  that  warrior  was  killed." 

There  had  been  for  some  time  a  controversy  between  Rhode  Island  and  Con- 
necticut on  the  subject  of  their  boundary  lines,  and  it  had  reached,  in  May,  1677,  a 
point  that  made  an  appeal  to  the  King  necessary.  Peleg  Sanford  and  Richard 
Bailey  were  chosen  agents  for  Rhode  Island,  and  sent  to  England  to  present  the 
appeal,  and  to  represent  her  claims  to  the  territory  in  dispute.  He  was  again  called 
upon  for  similar  service  in  October,  1677,  when  a  royal  order  having  been  issued  to 
the  four  governors  of  the  New  England  Colonies  to  appoint  commissioners  to  settle 
the  Providence  and  Pawtuxet  boundary  dispute,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  eight 
commissioners,  who  were:  Judge  Simon  Lynde  (78),  and  Daniel  Henchman  of 
Massachusetts;  Thomas  Hinckley,  Esq.  (185),  and  James  Cudworth,  Esq.,  of 
Plymouth;  Captain  George  Denison  and  Daniel  Witherell  of  Connecticut;  and 
Peleg  Sanford,  Esq.,  and  John  Coggeshall  of  Rhode  Island.  It  is  interesting  to 
note  that  this  important  body  included  ancestors  of  both  the  Noyes  and  Gilman 
families.  Captain  George  Denison  was  the  noted  Indian  fighter  of  Stonington,  and 
a  friend  and  neighbor  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  (3). 

Peleg  Sanford  served  as  assistant  again  in  1677  and  1678,  and  from  1678  to 
i68iwasthe  treasurer  of  the  Colony.  He  was  major  commandant  of  all  themilitia 
of  Rhode  Island  from  May,  1679,  to  1680,  succeeding  Major  John  Cranston,  who  was 
elected  governor  in  1679.  The  latter  dying  in  office  in  1680,  Major  Sanford  was 
chosen  by  the  Assembly  to  fill  the  vacancy.  This  was  confirmed  by  the  people  at 
the  general  election  in  May  following,  and  he  was  re-elected  as  governor  in  1681, 
1682,  and  1683.  In  1683  he  declined  to  serve  and  his  brother-in-law,  William 
Coddington,  son  of  the  former  governor  (19),  was  elected  instead.  During  Gov- 
ernor Sanford's  administration  of  three  years,  there  occurred  a  renewal  of  the 
struggle  with  Connecticut  for  that  portion  of  the  soil  of  Rhode  Island  called  King's 
Province  (later  King's  County),  also  the  controversy  with  Plymouth  Colony  over 
the  possession  of  Hog  Island.  Thomas  Hinckley  (185)  was  at  that  time  governor 
of  Plymouth  Colony.  The  adjoining  colonies  of  Massachusetts,  Plymouth,  and 
Connecticut  laid  claim  to  nearly  all  the  territory  of  Rhode  Island,  refused  her 
admission  to  the  United  Colonies,  and,  in  fact,  threatened  her  very  existence.  Her 
admirable  resistance  was  conducted  by  Governor  Sanford  with  marked  executive 
ability.  In  1683  he  was  sent  again  to  England  with  Arthur  Fenner  to  present  an 
appeal  from  the  decision  of  Governor  Cranfield,  of  New  Hampshire,  who,  as  referee, 
had  decided  adversely  to  Rhode  Island  in  the  contest  with  Connecticut  above 
referred  to. 

He  received  a  commission  as  lieutenant-colonel  in  1687,  and  was  that  year 
appointed  a  member  of  Governor  Andros'  Council,  but  would  not  serve.  In  spite 
of  this  refusal,  however,  he  was  honored  later  by  the  King  with  a  commission 
dated  January  31,  1698,  to  the  important  office  of  judge  of  the  admiralty.  He 
presented  this  to  Governor  Clark,  who  refused  to  recognize  it.  Peleg  Sanford 
evidently  approved  of  the  Governor's  stand,  for  he  is  reported  as  saying,  in  1699, 


GOVERNOR  PELEG  SANFORD  [i6]  55 

that  "any  commission  direct  from  his  Majesty  is  considered  as  an  infringement  of 
the  charter  privileges,  and  those  who  take  them  are  looked  upon  as  enemies  to  the 
state." 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Newport  in  1701,  aged  sixty-two.  His  house  stood 
on  the  corner  of  Broad  and  Farewell  Streets,  opposite  the  State  House. 

His  will  was  dated  February  28,  1701,  and  proved  September  i,  1701,  the 
executors  being  Francis  Brinley,  Nathaniel  Coddington,  and  Andrew  Willett,  who 
were  also  guardians  to  his  children,  Peleg,  William,  Bridget,  and  Elizabeth.  It 
mentioned  his  wife  Mary,  his  sons  Peleg  and  William,  his  daughters  Ann,  Bridget 
and  Elizabeth,  his  sister  Eliphal  Stratton,  nieces  Mary  Brinley,  Mary  Cole  and 
Katherine  Vernon,  also  the  daughter  of  his  brother  Esbon.  He  left  a  very  large 
estate  consisting  principally  of  houses  and  lands  in  Portsmouth  and  Newport,  land 
on  the  Merrimac  River  and  the  Saco,  also  573  acres  on  Elizabeth  Island  and  the 
whole  of  Rose  Island,  a  quantity  of  plate  and  household  goods,  a  negro  woman 
named  Hull,  and  two  negro  men,  Diruke  and  George.  His  widow  Mary  survived 
him,  but  the  date  of  her  death  has  not  been  ascertained. 

Children  of  Governor  Peleg  and  Mary  (Brenton)  Sanford 

Peleg  (?). 

William  (?). 

Ann,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Bridget,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Catherine,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Children  of  Governor  Peleg  and  Mary  (Coddington)  Sanford 

Ann,  born  about  1675;  married  (i)  in  1703,  Dr.  James  Noyes,  son  of  Rev.  James  and  Doro- 
thy (Stanton)  Noyes  (3),  who  died  in  1718;  married  (2)  July  15,  1719,  Captain 
John  Mason,  son  of  Major  John  and  Abigail  (Fitch)  Mason. 

Bridget,  born  about  1678;  married  Dec.  3,  or  6,  1705,  Job  Almy  of  Tiverton,  R.  I.;  died  in 
1766. 
(4)  Elizabeth,  born  about  1680;  married  Sept.  3,  1705,  Captain  Thomas  Noyes,  son  of  Rev. 
James  and  Dorothy  (Stanton)  Noyes  (3);  died  Oct.  23,  1762. 

,  a  daughter,  born  about  1682;  probably  died  young. 

,  a  daughter,  born  about  1685;  probably  died  young. 

Peleg,  born  in  1687;  died  in  Boston  in  1703. 

William,  born  in  1690;  H.  C.  171 1;  married  March  i,  1714,  Grizzel  (or  Griselda)  ( )  Syl- 
vester. Their  daughter  Margaret,  born  June  10,  1777,  married  Governor  Thomas 
Hutchinson.'  Another  daughter  married  Lieutenant-Governor  Andrew  Oliver. 
He  died  April  24,  1721. 

'  Gov.  Thomas  Hutchinson,  the  historian  and  the  last  colonial  governor  of  Massachusetts,  was  a  great- 
grandson  of  Edward  Hutchinson;  and  his  wife  Margaret  Sanford  (see  above)  was  the  great-granddaughter  of 
Bridget  (Hutchinson)  Sanford,  Edward's  sister.  Gov.  Hutchinson  in  his  MSS.  speaks  of  this  relationship 
which  he  had  to  his  wife.  The  Oliver  family,  mentioned  above,  intermarried  with  the  Lyndes.  See  Chart 
No.  VHI,  SaMshnry,  Family  History  and  Genealogy. 


56  THE  HUTCHINSON  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 


THE  HUTCHINSON  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

THE  New  England  branch  of  the   Hutchinson  family  can  be  traced  back 
in  Lincolnshire  to  the  time  of  the  Tudors,  but  no  connection  is  found 
between  our  ancestors  in  England  and  those  of  Colonel  Hutchinson  the 
Puritan,  whose  family  came  from  Nottinghamshire,  or  still  another  branch 
in   Yorkshire.     We   are  indebted   to  Colonel  Joseph  Lemuel  Chester  for    tracing 
the  New  England  family  as  below.         , 

HUTCHINSON,  of  Lincoln,  the  great-grandfather  of  our  emigrant 

ancestor  William  Hutchinson  (17),  lived  at  Lincoln,  England,  and  while  he  has 
not  been  fully  identified  and  probably  never  will  be,  as  he  lived  before  the  period 
of  parish  registers  and  left  no  will,  yet  from  the  accounts  we  have  of  his  children 
and  their  occupations  in  their  very  full  wills,  we  cannot  believe  him  to  have  been 
a  peasant,  although  he  was  probably  of  humble  origin.  He  had  four  sons  and  a 
daughter,  as  follows: 

Christopher,  a  clergyman  of  South  Leasingham  in  1522;  died  about  1556  and  left  legacies 
to  his  sister  and  three  brothers  and  their  children,  thus  perfectly  identifying  them. 

Thomas,  of  whom  nothing  is  known,  except  that  he  is  mentioned  in  his  brother  Christopher's 
will  as  having  a  daughter  Margaret,  who  is  again  mentioned  in  her  uncle  William's 
will  as  still  living. 

William,  Sheriff  of  Lincoln  in  1 541;  in  March,  1545,  Alderman;  in  Sept.,  1552,  Mayor;  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death  a  "citizen  and  Alderman  of  the  city  of  Lincoln."  In 
his  will  of  1556/7,  he  leaves  to  his  brother  John  his  "official  scarlet  gown,"  and 
his  interest  in  certain  lands  in  Whisby.     His  wife's  name  was  Dorothy. 

John,  see  below. 

Alice,  married  James  Remington,  of  Branston,  near  Lincoln.  She  survived  him  and  made 
her  own  will  with  her  brother  John  as  executor. 


JOHN  HUTCHINSON,  son  of Hutchinson,  above,  was  born  in  Lin- 
coln about  1515.  From  corporation  records  it  appears  he  was  apprenticed  on  Sep- 
tember 23,  1529,  to  Edward  Atkinson  of  Lincoln,  glover,  for  seven  years,  which  es- 
tablishes his  birth  as  in  about  the  year  151 5.  He  is  frequently  mentioned  as  hold- 
ing minor  offices  in  connection  with  the  business  of  the  corporation,  and  became 
sheriff  of  Lincoln  in  September,  1547,  and  alderman  on  April  11,  1556.  In  the 
September  following  he  was  elected  mayor,  and  was  able  to  use  the  "scarlet  robe" 
his  brother  had  willed  him.  He  was  justice  of  the  peace  in  1558  and  1561,  and  in 
1564  was  elected  a  second  time  mayor  of  Lincoln,  dying  in  office  the  next  year. 
May  24,  1 565.  He  was  buried  in  the  church  of  St.  Mary-le-Wigford,  in  Lincoln.  He 
left  a  large  estate  in  houses  and  lands  to  his  eight  sons,  of  whom  the  first  six  are 
thought  to  be  children  of  his  first  wife,  as  only  the  younger  two  are  left  in  the 
guardianship  of  his  widow.     He  married  (i)  Margaret  Browne,  and  (2)  Ann  ( ) 


THE  HUTCHINSON  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  57 

Clinte,  a  widow,  as  in  her  will  she  mentioned  her  sons  William  Clinte,  Edward 
Kirkbie,  and  Thomas  Pindar,  the  two  latter  probably  being  sons-in-law.  Her  first 
husband's  name  was  probably  Clinte.  She  named  also  her  son,  Edward  Hutchin- 
son as  residuary  legatee,  and  as  one  of  her  executors.  His  children  by  his  first  wife 
were: 

William,  born  before  1544;  married  Aug.  26,  1565,  Margaret  Sisson,  and  died  Jan.  14,  1583/4. 
Thomas,  was  living  a  minor  at  the  date  of  his  father's  will  in  1565,  but  probably  died  be- 
fore 1582/3,  as  he  is  not  named  in  his  brother  William's  will.     He  is  mentioned  in 
the  corporation  records  in  1571  as  a  merchant  of  Ashby,  near  Horncastle. 
John,  a  minor  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death,  and  still  living  in  1583/4,  being  mentioned 

in  his  brother  William's  will. 
Arthur,  conveyed  on  Jan.  22,   1578/9  land  to  "Anne  Hutchynson,"  whom  he  called  his 
"mother-in-law,  relict  of  his  father  John  Hutchinson  of  Lincoln,  Alderman,"  and 
described  himself  as  an  "iron-monger  of   Newark,    Nottinghamshire."     In  1581/2 
he  called  himself  "of  Lincoln  fishmonger,"  and  was  still  living  in  161 1. 
Jane,  married  before  her  father's  death,  Edmund  Knight,  afterward  an  alderman  of  Lincoln, 

and  died  before  1583. 
Alice,  a  minor  in  1565,  married  before  1583,  Thomas  Dynyson,  and  was  living  in  1586. 

His  children  by  the  second  wife  were: 
Edward,  see  below. 

Mary,  married  (i)  at  Lincoln,  Sept.  13,  1578,  George  Treeston  of  Alford;  married  (2) ■ 

Cuthbert.  t 

EDWARD  HUTCHINSON.of  Alford,  son  of  John  and  Anne  (Clinte)  Hut- 
chinson, was  born  at  Lincoln,  England,  about  1564,  and  was  apprenticed  as 
"Edward  Hochynson  son  of  John  Hochyson  Alderman  deceased"  to  "Edmund 
Knyght  Alderman  and  Mercer  of  Lincoln  for  eight  years  from  the  Feast  of  Pente- 
cost 19  Elizabeth,"  about  May  27,  1577.  Later  the  apprentice  was  assigned  over 
to  Christopher  Dobson.  He  is  mentioned  in  his  brother  William's  will,  and  proved 
that  of  his  mother  in  1586,  when  he  must  have  been  of  age.  In  1592,  he  proved 
the  will  of  his  cousin  Christopher,  and  is  described  as  a  mercer  of  Alford,  so  he  must 
have  removed  there  after  completing  his  apprenticeship.  Here  he  remained  until 
his  death,  and  was  buried  in  Alford  February  14,  163 1/2.  He  left  no  will,  and 
there  is  no  administration  of  his  estate  on  record.  As  his  children  married  well  we 
assume  that    he  was  a  man   of  property.     He  married   about    1585,   Susanna 

,  and  had  eleven  children,  all  baptized  at  Alford.     She  survived  him,  and 

came  to  New  England  with  five  of  her  children.  She  went  from  Boston  to  Exeter, 
New  Hampshire,  with  her  daughter  Mary  and  son-in-law.  Rev.  John  Wheelright, 
and  her  daughter  Susanna  and  son-in-law  Augustine  Storre.  Later  they  all  moved 
to  Wells,  Maine,  where  she  died,  probably  about  1644.     Their  children  were: 

(17)  William,   baptized  Aug.    14,    1586;  married,  about    1612,   Anne  Marbury,    daughter  of 
Rev.  Francis  and  Bridget  (Dryden)  Marbury;  emigrated  to  Boston  in  1634,  and  in 
1638  moved  to  Rhode  island;  died  in  1642. 
Theophilus,  baptized  Sept.  8,  1588,  and  probably  died  young. 


58  THE  HUTCHINSON  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

Samuel,  baptized  Nov.  i,  1590;  came  to  Boston,  Mass.,  in  July,  1637,  arriving  just  at  the 
time  of  the  trial  of  his  sister-in-law  Anne  Hutchinson.  He  was  allowed  to  stay 
there  but  a  few  weeks,  was  in  Portsmouth  in  the  spring  of  1639,  but  later  went  to 
Exeter,  and  remained  there  a  year  or  two  with  his  mother,  the  Wheelrights  and  the 
Storres.  In  1644,  he  received  a  legacy  from  his  brother  John  in  England.  He  died 
in  Boston,  and  his  will,  dated  July  16,  1677,  is  of  especial  interest  because  he  makes 
bequests  to  so  many  of  his  nephews  and  nieces  and  their  children.  As  he  calls  them 
all  "cozen,"  it  has  led  to  some  confusion.  His  largest  bequest  is  to  "cozen  Peleg 
Sanford"  (16),  son  of  his  niece  Bridget.  He  also  mentions  "sister  Wheelright," 
"cozen  Edward  Hutchinson"  [a  nephew],  "cozen  Susan  Cole"  [a  niece],  and  "cozen 
Willis  of  Bridgwater."  He  makes  bequests  also  to  the  other  children  of  John  and 
Bridget  (Hutchinson)  Sanford  (15),  viz.,  Eliphal  Stratton,  Restcome,  William, 
Esbon  and  Elisha. 

Esther  (spelled  Easter),  baptized  July  22,  1593;  married  (i)  at  Alford,  Oct.  7,  1613,  Rev. 
Thomas  Rishworth  of  Laceby,  Lincolnshire;  married  (2) Harneis.' 

John,  baptized  May  18,  1595;  married  Oct.  5,  1626,  at  Little  Ponton,  Bridget,  daughter  of 
William  and  Emme  (Marbury)  Bury;  was  buried  at  Alford,  June  20,  1644. 

Richard,  baptized  Jan.  3,  1597/8;  married  Mary ;  and  is  known  as  "the  Ironmonger" 

of  London.  He  never  emigrated,  but  his  son  Eliakim  married  in  New  England  in 
1668. 

Susanna,  baptized  Nov.  25,  1599;  was  buried  at  Alford  Aug.  5,  1601. 

Susanna,  baptized  Aug.  9,  1601;  married  at  Alford,  Nov.  21,  1623,  Augustine  Storre  (or 
Story).  They  came  to  New  England,  and  were  of  the  "Exeter  Combination"  (the 
founders  of  Exeter,  N.  H.),  with  her  mother  and  the  Wheelrights,  and  moved  also 
with  them  to  Wells,  Maine. 

Anne,  baptized  June  12,  1603;  married  possibly  Ralph  Levet  (or  Leavitt). 

Mary,  baptized  Dec.  22,  1605;  married  as  his  second  wife  Rev.  John  Wheelright.^  She 
came  with  her  husband  and  five  children  to  Boston  in  1636,  and  accompanied  him 
to  Exeter,  N.  H.,  when  he  was  banished  for  sympathy  with  Anne  Hutchinson,  her 
sister-in-law.  When  Massachusetts  enforced  her  claim  to  the  part  of  New  England 
where  Exeter  was  situated,  the  Wheelrights  moved  again,  going  to  Wells,  Maine. 
Whether  she  accompanied  her  husband  to  England  in  1657,  we  do  not  know,  nor 
when  she  died. 

Edward,  baptized  Dec.  20,  1607;  went  to  Rhode  Island  with  his  brother  William,  and  was 
one  of  the  signers  of  the  compact  which  served  for  so  long  as  the  constitution  of 
Rhode  Island.  He  was  elected  sergeant  of  the  first  military  organization  at  Pocasset, 
but  must  have  returned  to  England  before  1644,  as  at  that  date  he  was  witness  in 
England  to  his  brother  John's  will.  He  was  in  business  in  London,  and  a  member 
of  the  Ironmongers  Company  in  1651. 

'Edward  Rishworth  of  the  "Exeter  Combination"  was  probably  a  relative.  This  Combination  was 
the  constitution  under  which  the  settlers  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  first  lived. 

'Rev.  John  Wheelright  married  (1)  iVlarie  Storre,  a  sister  of  Augustine  Storre,  mentioned  above.  He 
became  the  founder  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  taking  with  him  in  his  banishment  from  Massachusetts  several  relatives  and 
other  members  of  the  Boston  Church,  including  his  mother-in-law  Susanna  ( )  Hutchinson,  his  brother- 
in-law  Augustine  Storre,  Thomas  Leavitt  and  Edward  Rishworth,  who  were  probably  relatives,  William  Went- 
worth,  Christopher  Lawson  and  Christopher  Helme,  all  grandsons  of  Catherine  (Marbury)  Wentworth,  Anne 
Hutchinson's  aunt.  Mr.  Wheelright's  sentence  of  banishment  was  revoked  in  1644.  In  1646  he  moved  from 
Wells,  Me.,  to  Hampton,  N.  H.,  where  he  preached  until  he  returned  to  England  about  1657.  Later  became 
back  to  New  England  and  settled  at  Salisbury,  Mass.,  where  he  died  in  1679. 


WILLIAM  HUTCHINSON  [17]  59 

[17]  WILLIAM  HUTCHINSON  [1586-1642J 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ANNE  MARBURY  [1591-1643] 

OF    ENGLAND,    BOSTON,    MASS.,   AND    PORTSMOUTH,  R.  I. 

WILLIAM  HUTCHINSON,  son  of  Edward  and  Susanna  ( ) 
Hutchinson,  was  baptized  in  Alford,  Lincolnshire,  England,  August 
4,  1 586.  Of  his  early  life  we  know  but  little,  except  that  he  followed 
the  same  calling  as  his  father,  and  was  a  mercer.  His  celebrated  wife, 
Anne  Marbury,  daughter  of  Rev.  Francis  and  Bridget  (Dryden)  Marbury,  was 
born  in  Grigsby,  near  Alford,  about  July  20,  1591,  while  her  father  was  still  a 
country  gentleman.  William  and  Anne  were  married  by  license  August  9,  161 2,  at 
St.  Mary  Woolnoth,  London,  when  the  bride  was  just  twenty-one.'  At  the  time 
her  father  was  rector  of  St.  Martin's  Vintry,  London. 

William  Hutchinson  must  have  had  some  property  in  Alford,  as  he  was 
churchwarden  in  1620.  This  fact  and  the  dates  of  the  birth  of  fourteen  of  his 
children,  are  all  that  have  been  found  recorded  of  him  in  his  native  place.  Twenty- 
two  miles  to  the  south  of  Alford  is  the  town  of  Boston,  where  Rev.  John  Cotton  was 
rector  of  St.  Botolph's,  and  the  Hutchinsons  attended  his  church  for  some  years 
before  leaving  England. 

It  was  in  the  hope  of  finding  greater  religious  freedom  in  the  new  country  that, 
in  1634,  when  William  and  Anne  were  in  middle  life,  they  decided  to  emigrate  to 
New  England.  Their  eldest  son  Edward  had  sailed  some  months  before  with  Mr. 
Cotton  in  the  ship  Griffin.  William  took  passage,  with  his  family,  in  the  same  ship, 
and  arrived  in  Boston,  September  18,  1634,  in  company  with  Rev.  Zechariah 
Symmes  and  Rev.  John  Lothrop.  William  was  then  forty-eight,  and  his  wife 
about  thirty-four,  their  eleven  children  ranging  from  Susanna,  who  was  only 
one  year  old,  to  Edward,  just  twenty-one.  They  were  immediately  received  as 
members  in  the  First  Church  of  Boston,  as  we  see  by  the  following  entries.  "26 
Oct.  1634  William  Hutchinson  merchant  admitted  a  member,"  and  a  week  later, 
"2  Nov.  1634  Anne  Hutchinson  wife  of  our  brother  William  Hutchinson  merchant 
admitted  a  member."  This  short  delay  of  one  week  is  not  sufficient  foundation 
for  the  theory  that  Anne  was  not  acceptable  to  the  Church  authorities  from  the 
moment  of  her  arrival.  We  find,  on  the  contrary,  that  she  was  received  with  much 
friendliness,  and  she  is  spoken  of  as  a  most  willing  and  capable  help  in  the  sick-room 
and  thus  won  many  hearts. 

William  Hutchinson  was  made  a  freeman  March  4,  1634/5,  and  was  re- 
ceived at  once  to  an  honorable  position  by  the  little  community,  which  chose  him 
as  representative  or  deputy  from  Boston  to  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  in 
1635  and  1636.  He  was  also  made  selectman  in  1636,  and  as  magistrate  was  ap- 
pointed to  hold  the  county  court.     At  this  time  he  purchased  a  lot  and  dwelling- 

'  The  entry  of  this  marriage,  appears  in  the  united  registers  of  the  parishes  of  St.  Mary  Woolnoth  and  St. 
Mary  Woolchurch  Haw,  published  in  1886. — Water's  Genealogical  Cleanings,  452. 


6o  WILLIAM  HUTCHINSON  [17] 

house  in  Boston  from  John  Coggeshall,  which  he  sold  shortly  afterwards  for;£40o. 
He  had  also  a  farm  at  Mt.  Wollaston  (Braintree),  but  the  family  lived  quietly  in  Bos- 
ton until  the  famous  heresy  trials  forced  them  to  find  a  new  home  elsewhere. 

During  her  life  in  Boston  of  only  four  years,  Anne  held  classes  of  women  on 
Monday  afternoons  to  talk  over  the  sermons  of  the  day  before.  Such  classes  had 
been  held  for  men  for  some  time,  and  she  was  encouraged  in  her  work  among  the 
women  by  Sir  Henry  Vane,  Governor  Coddington  (19),  John  Wheelright,  and 
other  prominent  men.  Those  ministers  whose  doctrines  were  not  in  accordance 
with  her  views  of  the  higher  life,  and  whose  sermons  were  criticized  in  her  class, 
not  unnaturally  wished  to  silence  her,  and  the  struggle  between  liberty  for  the  in- 
dividual conscience  on  one  side,  and  the  hierarchy  that  would  have  ruled  Boston  on 
the  other,  was  brief  and  bitter.  The  Antinomian  heresy,  as  Anne  Hutchinson's 
religious  teaching  was  called,  had  taken  deep  root  in  Boston,  and  Anne  was  not 
the  only  person  brought  to  trial,  but  in  this  brief  biography  we  are  only  concerned 
with  her  story. 

John  Forster,  in  his  Life  of  Sir  Henry  Vane,  gives  a  statement  of  Anne 
Hutchinson's  views,  which  he  says,  "would  provoke  no  hostility  from  enlightened 
Christians  now,  of  whatever  denomination,"  in  these  words: 

"It  was  the  indwelling  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  the  believer's  heart  .  .  .  that  made  a  person 
acceptable  to  God,  .  .  .  the  great  end  of  the  religion  revealed  in  the  Scriptures  was  to  include  us 
under  a  covenant  of  grace  by  imparting  to  our  souls  the  Holy  Spirit  of  God." 

She  also  did  not  assent  to  the  doctrine  of  the  resurrection  of  the  body. 

For  these  opinions,  Anne  Hutchinson,  John  Wheelright,  and  others  were 
brought  to  trial.  The  Court  consisted  of  Governor  Winthrop,  Deputy  Governor 
Dudley,  Bradstreet,  Endicott,  and  other  assistants,  and  most  of  the  ministers  of  the 
adjacent  towns,  including  Rev.  Hugh  Peters.  Governor  Coddington  (19)  and 
Mary  Dyer  the  Quaker,  were  Anne's  only  supporters  as  she  stood  at  the  bar  during 
the  two  days  of  her  trial,  and  in  view  of  the  fact  that  she  was  at  the  time  expecting 
the  birth  of  another  child,  her  treatment  by  the  Court  can  only  be  called  inhuman. 
She  was  allowed  no  council  and  no  witnesses,  and  after,  as  Ellis  says,  "one  of  the 
most  shameful  proceedings  recorded  in  the  annals  of  Protestantism,"  Anne,  in 
great  distress  of  body  as  well  as  of  mind,  made  humble  submission  to  the  Court, 
acknowledging  faults  of  temper,  speech  and  conduct,  but  apparently  did  not  give 
up  her  adherence  to  the  doctrines  for  which  she  had  been  tried.  The  court  records 
run: 

"Mrs.  .  .  .  Hutchinson  (the  wife  of  Mr.  William  Hutchinson),  being  convented  for  tra- 
ducing the  mi"  &  their  ministery  in  this  country  shee  declared  volentarily  her  revelations  for  her 
ground,  &  that  shee  should  be  delivred  &  the  Court  ruined  w*  their  posterity  &  therevpon  was 
banished,  &  the  meane  while  was  coiriited  to  Mr.  Joseph  Weld  vntili  the  Court  shall  dispose  of  her." 

Mr.  Weld's  house  was  in  Roxbury,  at  a  distance  from  her  family  and  friends, 
and  while  there  she  was  subjected  to  continuous  "dealings"  from  the  ministers 
and  elders. 


WILLIAM  HUTCHINSON  [17]  61 

After  this,  a  sentence  of  disfranchisement  was  pronounced  on  all  her  ad- 
herents. The  order  reads  partly  as  follows  in  reference  iC  the  disarming  of  certain 
men:    they 

"Shall  before  the  30th  day  of  this  month  of  November  deliver  in  at  Mr.  Canes Hinr.,.; 
Boston,  all  such  guns,  pistols,  swords,  powder,  shot,  &  match  as  they  shalbe  owners  of  .  .  .  vpo.. 
paine  of  tenn  pound  for  evry  default  to  bee  made  thereof." 

They  were  also  forbidden  to  borrow  any  weapons  "for  the  present."  The 
names  in  the  list  include  William  Hutchinson,  his  two  sons,  Edward  and  Richard, 
John  Sanford  (15),  John  Odlin  (60),  and  Thomas  Savage,  William's  son-in-law. 
The  order  concludes:  "The  towne  of  Roxberry  is  required  to  take  order  for  the 
safe  custody  of  Mrs.  Hutchinson  and  if  any  charge  arise,  to  be  defrayed  by  her 
husband." 

Apparently  the  Sergeant  who  had  her  in  charge  was  her  son  Edward,  for  an- 
other entry  reads: 

"  E.  Hutchinson  Junior  is  bound  in  40?  that  none  but  such  as  the  counsel]  shall  give  leave 
vnto  shall  come  to  Mrs.  Hutchinson  &  shee  is  to  remaine  at  Mr.  Cottons  vntill  further  order." 

Although  he  was  disfranchised  with  the  others,  he  must  have  submitted  to 
the  Court,  as  he  continued  living  in  Boston. 

Mrs.  Hutchinson  was  formally  excommunicated  March  22,  1638.  The  sen- 
tence was  pronounced  by  Rev.  John  Wilson,  "that  old,  bloody  priest,"  as  a  chron- 
icle of  the  time  calls  him,  and  ended  with  these  words: 

"Therefore  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  and  in  the  name  of  the  Church  I  do  not  only 
pronounce  you  worthy  to  be  cast  out,  but  I  do  cast  you  out,  and  in  the  name  of  Christ  1  do  de- 
liver you  up  to  Satan  that  you  may  learn  no  more  to  blaspheme,  to  seduce,  and  to  lie.  And  I  do 
account  you  from  this  time  forth  to  be  a  heathen  and  a  publican,  and  so  to  be  held  of  all  the 
brethren  and  sisters  of  this  congregation  and  of  others.  Therefore  I  command  you  in  the  name  of 
Christ  Jesus  and  of  this  church,  as  a  leper,  to  withdraw  from  this  congregation."' 

Governor  Winthrop  says:^ 

"After  she  was  excommunicated,  her  spirits,  which  seemed  before  to  be  somewhat  dejected, 
revived  again,  and  she  gloried  in  her  sufferings,  saying  that  it  was  the  greatest  happiness,  next 
to  Christ,  that  ever  befel  her." 

Following  her  excommunication,  she  was  banished  from  the  Colony,  and 
the  records  read  as  follows: 

"Shee  shalbe  gone  by  the  last  of  this  month  .  .  .  &  for  the  charges  of  keeping  Mrs.  Hutch- 
inson order  is  to  bee  given  by  the  counsell  (if  it  bee  not  satisfied)  to  levy  it  by  distres  of  her  hus- 
band's goods." 

In  the  autumn  of  1637  William  Hutchinson,  William  Coddington  (19), 
John  Clark,  Deacon  Coggeshall,  and  othersof  thefifty-eight  church  members  disarmed 

'  Three  Episodes  of  Massachusetts  History.  C.  F.  Adams,  1 ,  531. 
^  Winthrop's  History  of  New  England,  I,  258. 


62  WILLIAM  jVuTCHINSON  [17] 

for  their  opinions,  had  left  Bost5n  to  seek  a  home  for  their  families.  On  the  advice 
of  Roger  Williams  thej' pufchased  from  the  Indians  the  Island  of  Aquidneck,  now 
Rhode  Island.'  .vVilliam  Hutchinson's  name  appears,  March  7,  1638,  as  one 
of  the  s.'g'iTfrs  of  the  agreement  which  formed  the  Aquidneck  settlers  into  a  "  Bodie 
P^l'itick."  It  seems  to  have  been  Anne's  intention  to  have  gone  with  the  Wheel- 
rights  and  other  members  of  the  family  connection  to  Exeter,  but  as  her  husband 
had  decided  to  settle  in  Aquidneck,  they  went  with  their  children  in  the  latter 
part  of  March  to  Pocasset.  It  was  a  perilous  journey  for  one  so  broken  in  health 
as  Anne,  and  the  weather  is  said  to  have  been  very  severe. 

William  Hutchinson  received  at  Pocasset  in  May,  1638,  six  lots  and  six 
acres  of  ground  for  himself  and  his  children,  and  on  June  27,  the  same  year,  he  was 
chosen  treasurer  of  the  new  Colony,  but  he  did  not  hold  the  office  long,  owing  to 
changes  in  the  settlement. 

In  April,  1639,  Coddington,  Coggeshall,  and  some  others  started  a  new 
town,  at  the  other  end  of  the  Island,  which  they  named  Newport.  When  they 
moved  they  carried  with  them  all  the  records,  making  it  necessary  for  the  people 
remaining  at  Pocasset  to  form  a  new  government.  This  they  did  at  once,  changing 
the  name  of  their  town  to  Portsmouth,  and  electing  William  Hutchinson  judge 
(or  chief  magistrate),  with  seven  assistants.  He  held  this  office  for  a  year,  until 
the  union  of  the  two  towns  under  one  government  in  the  spring  of  1640.  At  the 
first  election  of  the  united  towns  in  March,  1640,  the  title  judge  was  changed  to 
governor,  and  William  Coddington  was  elected  to  that  position,  while  William 
Hutchinson  was  made  assistant.  He  retired  the  next  year,  and  it  is  said  that 
his  wife  induced  him  to  give  up  the  office  on  account  of  her  extreme  views  as  to  the 
magistracy,  but  this  hardly  seems  probable. 

He  was  approached  while  living  at  Portsmouth  by  commissioners  from  the 
Boston  church,  who  offered  to  re-instate  him  and  his  family  in  their  communion 
if  he  would  only  abandon  Anne  to  her  punishment.  We  hear  so  little  about  him 
in  connection  with  his  wife's  troubles,  that  it  is  well  worth  while  to  hand  down  his 
answer  to  posterity.  He  said:  "1  am  more  nearly  tied  to  my  wife  than  to  the 
church,  and  think  her  to  be  a  dear  saint  and  servant  of  God." 

He  died  at  Portsmouth  in  1642,  aged  fifty-six.  It  was  before  this  that 
Francis,  the  third  son,  went  up  to  Boston  with  Mr.  William  Collins,  a  son-in-law, 
and  was  imprisoned.     Gorton  gives  us  the  story  in  these  words  := 

"They  went  down  to  advise  or  debate  the  matter  with  the  church,  though  they  were  come 
out  from  them  and  lived  on  Road  Island  in  the  Nanheganset  Bay,  and  when  they  came  to  Boston, 
and  the  Brethren  were  gathered  together  either  to  give  or  receive  satisfaction,  when  they  saw  the 
arguments  produced  by  the  Minister  and  his  brother  to  weigh  somewhat  heavy,  then  the  strongest 
of  their  church  members  of  Boston  (namely  the  Governor  and  Assistants)  cast  them  in  prison  to 
regulate  their  opinion  that  differed  from  them,  and  there  kept  them  in  durance  for  many  moneths." 

^See  under  William  Coddington  (19). 

'  Simplicity' s  Dejence  in  Force's  Historical  Tracts,  IV,  22. 


WILLIAM  HUTCHINSON  [17]  63 

Governor  Winthrop  tells  us:' 

"At  the  same  Court  Mr.  Collins  was  fined  ;£ioo.  and  Francis  Hutchinson  £'^0.,  and  to  re- 
main in  prison  till  they  gave  security  for  it.  We  assessed  the  fines  the  higher,  partly  that  by  occa- 
sion thereof  they  might  be  the  longer  kept  in  from  doing  harm  (for  they  were  kept  close  prisoners), 
and  also  because  that  family  had  put  the  country  to  so  much  charge  in  the  Synod  and  other  oc- 
casions to  the  value  of  ;£500.  at  least:  but,  after  because  the  winter  drew  on  and  the  prison  was 
inconvenient,  we  abated  them  to  £^0  and  ;£20.  But  they  seemed  not  willing  to  pay  anything. 
They  refused  to  come  to  the  church  assembly  unless  they  were  led,  and  so  they  came  duly.  At 
last  we  took  their  own  bonds  for  the  fine  and  so  dismissed  them." 

By  the  record  of  September  4,  1641,  we  find  that  they  were  banished  "  upon 
paine  of  death."     To  quote  again  from  Gorton: 

"The  yong  men  could  have  no  rest  in  their  spirits  day  or  night,  till  they  were  gone  out 
further  from  the  Massachusets  then  that  Island  was,  yea,  under  some  foreign  government  where 
the  Massachusets  could  not  pretend  to  have  anything  to  do;  for  they  had  heard  that  the  Massa- 
chusets had  intended  to  take  in  all  the  Nanheganset  Bay  under  their  Government  and  Jurisdiction: 
whereupon  Master  Collins  came  where  the  aforesaid  Gorton  and  his  family  were,  and  seriously 
advised  him  to  go  along  to  the  Dutch  Plantations  or  else  to  the  Sweads." 

Undoubtedly  this  was  the  cause  of  Anne's  move  towards  the  Dutch  Colony 
of  New  York,  after  her  husband's  death.  They  settled  in  East  Chester,  near  or  in 
Pelham  Bay  Park.  James  Sands  of  Block  Island  built  her  a  house  there. ^ 
One  of  her  unsparing  enemies  said,  with  a  grim  humor,  of  her  new  home,  that  she 
"had  settled  near  Hell-Gate."  An  unknown  author  in  the  New  York  Times  of 
July  14,  1904,  writes  that  the  Dutch  called  the  spot  "Annie's  Hoeck,"  after 
Anne. 

There  were  tribes  of  hostile  Indians  near  the  place,  and  the  settlers  were 
few  and  scattered.  Without  warning,  in  August  or  September,  1643,  the  little 
hamlet  was  attacked  by  the  red  men,  who  burned  the  houses  and  killed  most  of  the 
inhabitants,  among  them  Anne  Hutchinson  and  several  of  her  children.  Susanna, 
the  youngest,  is  supposed  to  have  been  captured  and  carried  away,  but  the  whole 
story  is  enveloped  in  uncertainty.  Governor  Winthrop  wrote  that  there  were  in  all 
sixteen  sufferers,  but  some  of  these  were  of  other  families,  and  probably  only  eight 
of  the  HuTCHiNSONS  were  massacred.  October  17,  1643,  the  governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts was  requested  to  write  the  Indians  and  ask  them  to  "send  us  the  Captives 
wch  they  have  taken  of  the  English  Mrs.  Hutchinsons  and  Mrs.  Samford's  chil- 
dren." 

Children  of  William  and  Anne  (Marbury)  Hutchinson 

Edward,  baptized  in  Alford,  England,  May  28,  1613;  married  (i)  Oct.  13,  1636,  Catherine 
Hamby,  daughter  of  Counsellor  Hamby  of  Ipswich,  England;  married  (2)  Abigail 
Button,  widow  of  Robert  Button;  came  to  Boston  with  Rev.  John  Cotton  in  1633,  and 
was  made  freeman    March  4,  1633/4;  was  captain  of  the  Ancient    and  Honorable 

'  Winthrop's  New  England,  II,  39.     '  See  Note  i.  No.  1 12. 


64  WILLIAM  HUTCHINSON  [17] 

Artillery  Company  in  1657.  He  was  mortally  wounded  in  battle  with  the  Indians 
Aug.  2,  1675,  v,/hile  serving  under  his  brother-in-law,  Major  Savage,  near  Brookfield, 
and  died  at  Marlborough  on  the  19th  of  the  same  month.  The  historian  says:  "Thus 
he  who  with  his  mother  was  persecuted,  poured  out  his  blood  in  the  service  of  that 
uncharitable  country."  Governor  Thomas  Hutchinson,  the  historian,  and  governor 
of  Massachusetts  from  1769  to  1774,  was  his  great-grandson. 

Susanna,  born  at  Alford,  Sept.  4,  1614;  buried  there  Sept.  8,  1630. 

Richard,  born  at  Alford,  Dec.  8,  1615;  was  made  freeman  in  Boston  March  4,  1634/5,  with 
his  father  and  admitted  to  the  First  Church  with  his  brother  Francis,  Nov.  9,  in  the 
same  year.  He  returned  to  England  before  the  family  removed  to  Rhode  island, 
and  kept  a  shop,  "The  Angel  and  Star,"  in  Cheapside,  London.  On  Dec.  28,  1645,  he 
was  dismissed  to  Rev.  Thomas  Goodwin's  church  in  London. 

Faith,  born  at  Alford,  Aug.  14,  1617;  married  in  1637,  Major  Thomas  Savage,  who  was  one 
of  the  purchasers  of  Aquidneck.  He  was  speaker  of  the  House  of  Deputies  in  Boston 
in  1659,  and  assistant  in  1680.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable 
Artillery  Co.  of  Boston,  and  commander-in-chief  of  the  Massachusetts  forces  in  King 
Philip's  War.  His  wife.  Faith,  died  in  Boston,  Feb.  20,  1652  and  he  married  (2)  a 
daughter  of  Rev.  Zechariah  Symmes,  one  of  Anne  Hutchinson's  most  zealous  per- 
secutors. Mr.  Savage,  the  genealogist,  and  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society,  was  proud  of  his  descent  from  Mrs.  Hutchinson. 
(15)  Bridget,  born  at  Alford,  Jan.  15,  1618/9;  married  (i)  about  1637,35  his  second  wife, 
John  Sanford,  son  of  Samuel  and  Eleanor  ( )  Sanford  (14),  of  Alford,  Eng- 
land, who  died  between  June  22  and  Nov.  16,  1653;  married  (2)  about  1655,  Major 
William  Phillips;  died  in  Boston,  probably  in  1698. 

Francis,  born  at  Alford,  Dec.  24,  1620;  was  made  freeman  March  4,  1634/5,  at  the  same 
time  as  his  father,  and  was  admitted  to  the  First  Church  with  his  brother  Richard, 
Nov.  9,  1634;  moved  to  East  Chester,  and  Gorton  says  that  he  was  massacred  with 
the  rest  of  the  family. 

Elizabeth,  born  at  Alford,  Feb.  17,  162 1 ;  buried  there  Oct.  4,  1630. 

William,  born  at  Alford,  June  22,  1623;  died  young. 

Samuel,  born  at  Alford,  Dec.  17,  1624;  is  mentioned  in  his  brother  Edward's  will  in  1675, 
and  had  a  son  Richard  at  that  time.     He  probably  lived  at  Portsmouth,  R.  1. 

Anne,  born  at  Alford,  May  5,  1626;  perhaps  married  in  1641  William  Collins.  They  were 
murdered  by  the  Indians  at  Mrs.  Hutchinson's  home  in  1643.' 

Mary,  or  Maria,  born  at  Alford,  Feb.  22,  1627/8;  perhaps  married  Henry  Willis.' 

Catherine,  born  at  Alford,  Feb.  7,  1629/30;  probably  murdered  by  the  Indians. 

William,  born  at  Alford,  Sept.  28,  163 1 ;  probably  murdered  by  the  Indians. 

Susanna,  born  at  Alford,  Nov.  15,  1633;  married  in  Boston,  Dec.  30,  1651,  John  Cole,  son 
of  Isaac  Cole;  was  mentioned  in  her  uncle  Samuel  Hutchinson's  will  in  1667,  and  in 
that  of  her  brother  Edward  in  1675,  and  was  probably  the  daughter  referred  to  in 
the  old  tradition  as  having  been  taken  captive  by  the  Indians.  It  is  said  that  when 
rescued,  she  could  only  speak  the  Indian  language. 

Zuryell,  born  in  Boston,  March  13,  1636;  probably  died  young. 

'  We  know  that  William  Hutchinson  had  two  daughters  married  to  men  by  the  names  of  Willis  and 
Collins,  but  can  only  judge  which  they  are  by  their  ages.  William  ColHns  was  a  young  minister  from  Glou- 
cester England,  who  had  been  persecuted  for  non-conformity  in  the  West  Indies  and  came  to  New  Haven 
in  the  summer  of  1640.     He  taught  school  for  a  time  at  Hartford  and  was  much  esteemed  for  his  piety. 


THE  MARBURY  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  65 

THE  MARBURY  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

THE  MARBURY   or  Merbury  family  were  from  Grigsby,  in  the  parish  of 
Burgh-upon-Bain,  about  fifteen  miles  northwest  of   Alford,  in  Lincoln- 
shire.    The  arms  borne  by  the  family  are  "Argent  on  a  fess  engrailed, 
gules  three  garbs  of  the  field."   The  ancestry  of  Anne  (Marbury)  Hutch- 
inson was  traced  by  Colonel  Joseph  Lemuel  Chester,  and  the  earliest  record  in 
her  family  is:  , 

WILLIAM  MARBURY  married  Agnes  Lenton,  daughter  of  John  Lenton, 
Esq.     His  children  were: 

Edward  who  was  knighted  in  1603,  and  died  in  1605,  while  High  Sheriflf  of  Lincolnshire, 
leaving  a  son  George,  who  was  also  knighted  in  1606. 

William  who  died  without  issue. 

Francis,  see  below. 

Mary. 

Anne. 

Catherine,  married  Aug.  19,  1583,  Christopher  Wentworth,  "Gentleman,"  at  St.  Peter  at 
Gowts,  in  the  city  of  Lincoln.  Their  three  grandchildren  were  with  Rev.  John  Wheel- 
right  in  the  settlement  of  Exeter,  N.  H.' 

2 

Francis  Marbury,  son  of  William  and  Agnes  (Lenton)  Marbury,  mar- 
ried (1)  Elizabeth  Moore,  by  whom  he  had  three  daughters.  She  apparently  died 
soon  after  the  birth  of  her  third  child.  He  married  (2)  in  1589,  Bridget  Dryden, 
third  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Cope)  Dryden  of  Canons  Ashby,  North- 
amptonshire. Elizabeth  (Cope)  Dryden  was  the  daughter  of  Sir  John  Cope,  Kt. 
John  Dryden's  eldest  son  was  Sir  Erasmus  Dryden,  created  a  Baronet  in  1619, 
grandfather  of  John  Dryden,  the  poet,  and  great-grandfather  of  Dean  Swift,  who 
were  thus  respectively, grand-nephew  and  great-grand-nephew  of  Bridget(Dryden) 
Marbury.  Francis  Marbury  and  his  second  wife  Bridget  had  eleven  children 
baptized  at  Alford.  Shortly  after  the  baptism  of  their  daughter  Elizabeth,  when 
he  was  still  designated  as  "Gentleman,"  he  must  have  taken  holy  orders  and  left 
Alford,  for  he  was  presented  with  the  living  of  St.  Martins  Vintry,  in  London,  Oc- 
tober 28,  1605,  and  on  February  29,  1607/8,  with  that  of  St.  Pancras,  Soper  Lane. 
This  latter  he  resigned  in  about  two  years,  and  received  on  January  15,  1609/10, 
the  rectory  of  St.  Margaret's,  New  Fish  Street,  which  he  held  until  his  successor 
was  presented  with  the  living  "per  Mort  Marbury,"  February  12,  1610/11.  He 
had  a  son  Anthony,  and  possibly  another  daughter  born  in  London.  It  is  prob- 
able that  he  died  in  London  in  1610/1 1.     His  children  by  his  first  wife  were: 

Mary,  buried  at  Alford,  Dec.  29,  1585. 

Susan,  baptized  Sept.  12,  1585;  married Twyford  of  Shropshire. 

Elizabeth,  buried  at  Alford,  June  4,  1601. 

'  See  page  58,  Note  2. 


66  THE  MARBURY  FAMILY  IN   ENGLAND 

His  children  by  his  second  wife  were: 

John,  baptized  Feb.  15,  1589/90. 
(17)  Anne,    baptized   July   20,    1591;   married    Aug.    9,    1612,  William    Hutchinson,  son   of 
Edward  and  Susanna  ( )  Hutchinson,  of  Alford;  was  murdered  by  the  In- 
dians at  East  Chester,  N.  Y.,  in  1643. 

Bridget,  baptized  May  8,  1593;  buried  at  Alford,  Oct.  15,  1598. 

Francis,  baptized  Oct.  20,  1594. 

Emme,  baptized  Dec.  21,  1595;  married  William  Bury,  Esq.,  of  Grantham,  Lincolnshire. 
Her  daughter  Bridget  later  married  John  Hutchinson,  of  Alford,  brother  of  William 
Hutchinson  (17). 

Erasmus,  baptized  Feb.  15,  1596/7;  matriculated  at  Brazenose,  Oxford,  April  12,  1616,  aged 
nineteen. 

Anthony,  baptized  Sept.  21,  1598;  was  buried  at  Alford,  April  9,  1601. 

Bridget,  baptized  Nov.  25,  1599. 

Jeremoth  (Jerimoth),  baptized  March  31,  1601;  matriculated  at  Brazenose,  Oxford,  June  11, 
1619,  aged  eighteen. 

Daniel,  baptized  Sept.  14,  1602. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  Jan.  20,  1604/5. 

Anthony,  born  in  London  about  1608,  matriculated  at  Brazenose,  Oxford,  Oct.  20,  1626, 
aged  eighteen. 

Catherine,  probably  born  in  London;  married  about  1638,  Richard  Scott,  son  of  Edward 
Scott,  of  Glemsford,  Suffolk,  England.'  They  came  over  in  1634  in  the  "Griffin,"  prob- 
ably at  the  same  time  with  William  and  Anne  (Marbury)  Hutchinson.  Richard 
Scott  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  Providence,  R.  1.,  in  1637.  Catherine  was 
imprisoned  in  Boston  in  1638,  and  publicly  flogged  for  remonstrating  against  the 
cruelty  inflicted  by  the  authorities  upon  three  Quakers,  whose  right  ears  were  cut  off. 
Her  daughters  Mary  and  Patience,  the  latter  eleven  years  old,  were  also  imprisoned 
in  1659,  for  the  same  offence. 

[19]    GOVERNOR  WILLIAM  CODDINGTON  [1601-1678] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ANN  BRINLEY  [1628-1708] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   NEWPORT,    R.    I. 

WILLIAM    CODDINGTON   was  born   in    1601,   and   lived   in    Boston, 
Lincolnshire,  England,  until  his  emigration  to  this  country.     The 
following  records  have  been  but  recently  found  at  Boston,  England, 
and  they  prove  that  place  to  have  been  his  English  home.     Before 
this  discovery,  made  by  Dr.  David  King,  of  Newport,  R.  I.,  it  was  supposed  that 
he  came  from  Alford  with  the  Hutchinsons. 

"  Borough  de  Boston 
In  Com.  Lincoln. 

'  Water's  Genealogical  Gleanings,   1 288. 


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GOVERNOR  WILLIAM  CODDINGTON  [19]  67 

An  assembly  holden  at  Boston  the  XXIV  Day  of  September,  1625,  being  Ember  Day,  be- 
fore the  maior,  Alderman  and  Comon  Counsaile. 

At  this  Assembly  Mr.  Will""  Coddington  is  made  a  freeman  of  this  Burrough  for  the  some 
of  V£  w''  he  hath  paid  and  the  same  is  putt  into  the  Treasury." 

As  he  was  then  but  twenty-four  years  of  age,  the  title  "  Mr."  indicates  that  his 
family  was  one  of  some  position  in  his  native  town.  He  married  about  this  time 
his  first  wife,  Mary  Moseley,  daughter  of  Richard  Moseley,  of  Ouseden,  Suffolk- 
shire.  In  the  records  of  St.  Botolph's,  Boston,  Lincolnshire,  the  church  of  which 
Rev.  John  Cotton  was  incumbent  before  coming  to  New  England,  are  found  the 
following  entries: 

"Christened  March  8,  1626  Micha  the  Sonne  of  William  Coddington."  "Buried  March  22, 
1626,  Micah  the  sonne  of  Mr.  Coddington."  "Christened  April  17  1628,  Samuel  the  sonne  of  Wil- 
liam Coddington."     "Buried  Aug.  21,  1629  Samuel  the  sonne  of  William  Coddington." 

They  were  therefore  probably  childless  when  he  and  his  wife  Mary  started 
the  next  year  for  New  England. 

Mr.  Coddington  was  chosen  an  assistant  of  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  in  1629 
before  leaving  England,  with  John  Winthrop  and  Thomas  Dudley  as  governor  and 
deputy-governor.  They  sailed  from  Southampton  March  22,  1630,  in  the  ship 
"Arbella,"  with  a  distinguished  company,  among  whom  were  Sir  Richard  Saltonstall, 
Governor  Winthrop,  Isaac  Johnson  and  his  wife.  Lady  Arbella,  who  was  a  daughter 
of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  George  Phillip  the  minister.  Deputy  Governor  Thomas 
Dudley,  and  Simon  Bradstreet,  later  known  as  the  "Nestor  of  New  England."  The 
ship  was  detained  near  the  coast  for  several  weeks  by  storms,  and  their  real  point 
of  departure  was  Yarmouth,  which  they  left,  April  8th.  Landing  at  Salem,  Mass., 
they  went  directly  to  Boston,  which  was  to  be  the  seat  of  government  for  the  Colony 
of  Massachusetts  Bay,  and  Mr.  Coddington  entered  at  once  upon  his  public  duties. 
His  wife  survived  the  voyage,  but  died  only  a  few  weeks  after  their  arrival  in  New 
England. 

The  next  spring,  April  i,  1 631,  he  returned  to  England,  taking  passage  in  the 
ship  "Lion"  with  Rev.  John  Wilson  and  Sir  Richard  Saltonstall.  While  there  he 
married  (2)  Mary,  surname  unknown,  and  had  a  child  born  in  England  in  1632. 
He  returned  in  1633,  became  a  prominent  merchant,  resumed  his  position  as  assist- 
ant, which  he  held  from  1630  to  1637,  and  is  said  to  have  built  the  first  brick  house 
in  Boston.  The  next  year  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  Colony,  serving  for  three 
years,  1634,  1635,  and  1636.  In  1635,  he  was  on  a  committee  on  military  affairs, 
and  in  1636,  was  appointed  "to  keep  particular  Court." 

In  1637  the  memorable  contest  occurred  when  Winthrop  was  elected  governor 
over  Sir  Henry  Vane.  Coddington  had  supported  Vane,  who  was  of  the  Antino- 
mian  party,  and  had  opposed,  politically,  his  old  friend  Winthrop,  and  for  this 
reason  was  dropped  from  the  government,  but  was  immediately  returned  by  the 
freemen  of  Boston  as  their  deputy. 

With  a  large  number  of  the  more  liberal  and  educated  people  of  Boston,  he 


68  GOVERNOR  WILLIAM  CODDINGTON  [19] 

espoused  the  Antinomian  cause,  and  in  the  trial  of  Rev.  John  Wheelright  and  of 
Mrs.  Anne  Hutchinson  (17)  Coddington  alone  of  all  the  magistrates  was  their 
firm  supporter.     Ellis,  in  his  Life  of  Anne  Hutchinson,  says: 

"He  was  a  man  of  great  influence  which  he  deserved  by  true  worth.  His  occasional  ex- 
pressions during  the  trial  looked  all  along  to  a  wise  indulgence  and  charity.  He  questioned  the 
policy  and  justice  of  the  proceedings.  His  firm  stand  is  the  more  remarkable  as  he  had  more  to 
lose  than  any  of  the  others  on  account  of  his  popularity,  wealth,  and  prominence,  and  he  would 
have  been  Governor  of  the  Colony  but  for  this." 

William  Coddington,  as  well  as  all  who  came  under  condemnation  for 
sympathy  with  Anne  Hutchinson,  was  now  warned  that  unless  he  removed  of 
his  own  accord  from  the  colony,  proceedings  would  be  taken  to  compel  him  to  do  so. 
With  William  Coddington,  William  Hutchinson  (17)  and  John  Clarke  (edu- 
cated as  a  physician)  as  their  leaders,  the  exiles  proposed  to  establish  themselves 
either  on  Long  Island  or  near  Delaware  Bay,  and  while  their  vessel  was  doubling 
Cape  Cod  they  went  by  land  to  meet  it.  Narragansett  Bay,  which  seemed  destined 
for  the  refuge  of  outcasts  of  every  faith,  attracted  these  wanderers  by  its  fertile 
shores  and  genial  climate,  and  Roger  Williams  advised  them  to  settle  at  Sowams 
(Barrington)  or  on  the  Island  of  Aquidneck  (now  Rhode  Island).  They  found 
that  Sowams  was  claimed  by  Plymouth  Colony  as  within  their  patent,  and  so  they 
purchased  of  Canonicus  and  Miantonomi,  chief  sachems  of  the  Narragansetts,  the 
beautiful  and  fertile  island  of  Aquidneck,  etc.,  for  "forty  fathoms  of  white  peag"; 
and  for  the  additional  gratuity  of  "ten  coats  and  twenty  hoes,"  the  Indians  agreed 
to  move  away.  The  title  was  taken  in  the  name  of  William  Coddington  though 
later,  in  1652,  he  executed  a  joint  deed  to  his  associates  in  the  purchase. 

These  men,  who  had  emigrated  from  England  because  they  could  not  worship 
under  the  forms  of  the  Established  Church,  were  thus  obliged  to  leave  their  homes 
again, — banished  because  of  their  sincere  belief  in  a  spiritual  life  which  was  not 
subject  to  the  political  powers;  and  again  they  began  a  settlement  in  the  name  of 
religious  liberty,  where  every  man  and  woman  might  hold  communion  with  their 
Maker  untrammelled  by  written  articles  of  faith  and  unawed  by  civil  power. 
Their  Civil  Compact  reads  as  follows : 

"The  7th  day  of  the  first  month  1638  [Mch.  7,  1638].  We  whose  names  are  underwritten 
do  here  solemnly,  in  the  presence  of  Jehovah  incorporate  ourselves  into  a  Bodie  Politick,  and  as  he 
shall  help  will  submit  our  persons,  lives  and  estates  unto  Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  King  of  Kings 
and  Lord  of  Lords,  and  to  all  those  perfect  and  most  absolute  laws  of  his  given  us  in  his  holy 
word  of  truth  to  be  guided  and  judged  thereby. 

Exod.  XXIV3,  4.     2Chron.  Xl,3.     2  Kings  XI,  17." 

Among  the  nineteen  signers  were  William  Coddington,  whose  signature 
comes  first,  William  Hutchinson  (17),  John  Sanford  (15),  and  several  others  of 
the  Hutchinson  family.  This  Compact  was  strictly  enforced,  and  Rhode  Island 
became,  as  we  know,  the  refuge  of  the  dissenters  from  the  other  colonies;  some- 


GOVERNOR  WILLIAM  CODDINGTON  [19]  69 

times  to  its  own  detriment,  as  we  shall  see  in  some  of  the  other  stories  of  our 
Rhode  Island  ancestry. 

On  the  same  day  that  this  paper  was  signed,  William  Coddington  was  chosen 
judge  or  chief  magistrate  with  three  elders  to  assist  him,  the  rest  covenanting  to 
yield  all  due  honor  to  him  according  to  the  laws  of  God,  etc.     He  in  turn  promised 

"To  do  justice  and  judgment  impartially  according  to  the  laws  of  God,  and  to  maintain 
the  fundamental  rights  and  privileges  to  this  Bodie  Politick  which  shall  hereafter  be  ratified  ac- 
cording unto  God,  the  Lord  helping  us  so  to  do." 

The  little  colony  at  Pocasset  (afterwards  called  Portsmouth)  increased  rapidly 
so  that  in  the  following  spring  some  of  their  number,  including  all  the  government, 
moved  to  the  southwest  end  of  the  Island,  and  began  the  settlement  of  Newport. 
On  April  28,  1639,  Coddington  as  judge  and  eight  others  signed  an  agreement 
upon  which  the  new  town  was  organized  as  a  part  of  the  old  colony  of  Aquidneck. 
In  imitation  of  the  form  of  government  during  the  Hebrew  Commonwealth,  the 
two  settlements  called  their  chief  magistrates  "Judge,"  William  Hutchinson  (17) 
being  judge  of  Portsmouth  and  Coddington  of  Newport. 

Coddington  acquired  here  750  acres  of  land,  conducted  a  farm  on  a  large 
scale,  raising  sheep,  cattle,  etc.,  and  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  person  in  New- 
port who  engaged  in  the  commerce  which  later  was  such  a  source  of  wealth  to  the 
colony.  He  shipped  a  quantity  of  horses  to  Barbadoes  at  various  times.  He 
also  owned  a  house  and  six  acres  of  land  at  Portsmouth. 

In  1640,  the  two  towns  united  under  one  government,  and  the  title  of  the 
chief  magistrate  was  changed  to  "Governor."  William  Coddington  was  elected 
to  this  office  on  March  12,  and  held  it  until  1647.  William  Hutchinson  (17)  was 
one  of  the  assistants,  and  John  Sanford  (i  5)  a  constable  for  Portsmouth.  A  free 
and  absolute  charter  was  granted  by  Parliament,  March  14,  1644,  as  the  incorpor- 
ation of  "Providence  Plantations  in  Narragansett  Bay  in  New  England,"  and  in 
May,  1647,  the  incorporators  met  at  Portsmouth  in  a  General  Court  of  Election  and 
accepting  the  charter,  proceeded  to  organize  a  government  in  harmony  with  its 
provisions.  This  new  government  was  truly  democratic,  as  all  questions  were 
submitted  to  the  final  decision  of  the  people  in  their  General  Assembly. 

In  spite  of  the  fact  that  Governor  Winthrop  was  bitterly  opposed  to  all  the 
heresies  that  took  root  in  the  new  colony,  there  is  in  existence  a  long  letter  of  August 
5,  1644,  to  him  from  Governor  Coddington,  written  in  the  most  friendly  spirit. 
It  says  that  the  winter  before,  he  lost  by  a  fire  a  large  corn  barn  that  cost  ;^I50, 
besides  his  farm  house,  twelve  oxen,  eight  cows  and  six  other  beasts,  the  servants 
hardly  escaping,  and  he  congratulates  himself  that  he  has  still  a  considerable  sur- 
plus, so  that  he  has  enough. 

In  1647  Coddington  was  chosen  one  of  the  four  assistants,  and  in  1648  and 
1649  he  was  elected  chief  magistrate,  the  title  then  being  "President."  He  ap- 
parently headed  the  unsuccessful  party  that  sought  a  union  with  the  United  Col- 
onies of  New  England,  and  his  attitude  on  this  subject  and  the  concessions  he  was 


70  GOVERNOR  WILLIAM  CODDINGTON  [19] 

willing  to  make  to  gain  his  end,  made  him  unpopular  with  the  majority.  Doubt- 
less, it  was  on  this  account  that  he  made  a  second  visit  to  England,  in  1649,  with 
his  daughter.  Mary,  his  second  wife,  had  died  in  1647,  and  on  this  visit  he  obtained 
another,  marrying  (3)  Ann  Brinley,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Anna  (\Vase) 
Brinley  (20),  of  Exeter,  England.  Ann  was  born  at  Datchet,  Buckinghamshire, 
in  1628,  and  was  twenty-seven  years  younger  than  her  husband. 

While  in  England  Governor  Coddington  obtained  from  the  Council  of  State, 
probably  with  the  help  of  his  friend  Sir  Henry  Vane,  a  commission  dated  April  3, 
165 1,  which  appointed  him  governor  of  the  Island  for  life  with  a  council  of  six 
to  assist  him.  This  apparently  annulled  the  Charter  of  the  Colony.  The  Island 
towns  submitted  silently  to  this  usurpation,  but  the  mainland  towns  refused  to 
recognize  his  authority,  met  as  before  in  the  General  Assembly,  and  created  a  very 
strong  feeling  against  him.  He  was  decidedly  aristocratic  in  his  tendencies,  and 
inclined  to  be  autocratic  in  his  dealings  with  his  fellow-colonists.  It  is  said  of 
him  by  one  who  thoroughly  appreciated  the  principles  and  the  men  of  early  Rhode 
Island,  that  "he  had  in  him  a  little  too  much  of  the  future  for  Massachusetts  and 
a  little  too  much  of  the  past  for  Rhode  Island  as  she  then  was." 

Roger  Williams  and  John  Clarke  were,  therefore,  sent  to  England  by  the 
Colony  to  get  Coddington's  commission  revoked,  which  after  much  opposition 
they  effected,  in  1652.  For  a  time  Coddington  now  retired  to  private  life.  He 
made  a  formal  acknowledgment  that  he  had  no  more  right  in  the  purchase  of  the 
Island  than  his  associates,  but  only  his  proportion,  and  delivered  the  deeds  of  pur- 
chase to  certain  men  who  were  chosen  by  the  freemen  to  receive  them.  In  1653, 
however,  he  refused  to  lay  down  his  commission  as  governor  or  surrender  the  statute 
books  and  records,  and  it  was  not  until  his  election  as  commissioner  from  Newport, 
March  11,  1656,  that  he  publicly  submitted  by  signing  the  following  declaration: 

"I  William  Coddington,  do  freely  submit  to  the  authority  of  his  Highness  in  this  Colony 
as  it  is  now  united  and  that  with  all  my  heart." 

About  this  time  he  became  a  Quaker  and  combated  vigorously  those  who 
differed  from  his  new  opinions.  He  was  greatly  distressed  by  the  persecution  of 
the  sect  in  Boston,  and  wrote  to  his  old  friend  Governor  Bellingham  on  the  subject 
in  1672.  As  Bellingham  burned  his  first  "letter  of  admonition"  without  showing 
it  to  anyone,  he  wrote  again  a  few  months  later,  and  also  published  a  tract  in  1674, 
now  very  rare,  called  "Demonstration  of  True  Love,"  which  defended  his  views. 

He  was  commissioner  from  1656  to  1663,  and  was  one  of  the  petitioners 
named  in  the  opening  words  of  the  Great  Charter  of  1663  granted  after  the  Resto- 
ration by  Charles  II.  This  incorporated  the  "Colony  of  Rhode  Island  and  Prov- 
idence Plantations,"  and  served  for  one  hundred  and  eighty  years  as  the  law  of  the 
State,  in  fact,  until  the  Constitution  was  adopted  in  1842. 

Governor  Coddington  was  elected  deputy  in  1666,  assistant  in  1666-67,  and 
deputy  governor  in  1673.  In  May,  1674,  at  the  age  of  seventy-three,  he  was  elected 
governor  of  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plantations,  under  the  Charter,  and  re- 


GOVERNOR  WILLIAM  CODDINGTON  [19]  71 

elected  in  1675,  thus  serving  during  the  critical  period  of  the  Narragansett  war. 
He  resented  very  vigorously  the  action  of  Massachusetts,  Connecticut,  and  Ply- 
mouth Colonies  in  declaring  war  on  the  Narragansetts  without  consulting  the  gov- 
ernment of  Rhode  island,  in  direct  violation  of  the  Great  Charter.  While  Rhode 
Island  protested,  there  were  many  volunteers  who  enlisted  with  the  Colonial  troops 
and  took  part  in  the  Great  Swamp  Fight.  Governor  Coddington,  of  course,  as 
a  Quaker,  disapproved  of  war,  and  in  the  next  general  election,  1676,  the  war  party 
was  successful,  and  he  was  defeated.  He  now  again  retired  from  public  life,  but 
on  the  death  of  Governor  Arnold,  in  1678,  while  in  office,  he  was  chosen  to  fill  the 
term. 

When  the  next  regular  session  of  the  Assembly  was  held  on  October  30,  1678, 
it  was  announced  that  Governor  Coddington  was  on  his  death-bed,  and  the  As- 
sembly adjourned.  He  died  on  November  i,  1678,  in  the  seventy-eighth  year  of  his 
age,  "a  good  man  and  full  of  days,"  as  is  written  in  Callender's  Dedication.  His 
portrait  hangs  in  the  State  House  at  Providence. 

Weedon  says  of  Governor  Coddington  : 

"The  greatest  of  the  controlling  ideas  of  the  Constitution,  as  finally  adopted,  was  in  the 
severance  of  religion  from  the  central  corporation  of  the  State.  .  .  .  Heretofore  the  essence  of 
government  and  of  religion  had  been  one  and  indivisible.  This  departure  originated  in  Rhode 
Island.  Small  in  territory,  this  little  government  had  established  the  fact,  by  a  century  and  a  half 
of  political  experience,  that  a  society  can  combine  'only  in  civil  things,'  leaving  each  individual 
soul  to  God.     So  much  Roger  Williams  and  William  Coddington  gave  to  mankind."' 

Governor  Coddington's  widow,  Ann,  died  May  9,  1708,  aged  eighty. 

Children  of  William  and  Mary  (Moseley)  Coddington 

Michael,  baptized  at  Boston,  Lincolnshire,  Eng.,  March  8,  1626;  buried  March  22,  the  same 

year. 
Samuel,  baptized  at  Boston,  Eng.,  April  17,  1628;  buried  Aug.  21,  1629. 

Children  of  William  and  Mary  ( )  Coddington 

a  child  born  in  England  in  1632. 

Mary,  born  Feb.  i,  1634;  baptized  at  the  First  Church,  Boston,  Mass.,  March  2.     She  may 

have  been  the  daughter  who  accompanied  her  father  to  England  in  1649,  although 

Austin  says  she  died  young. 
Benajah,  born  Jan.  3,  1636;  baptized  at  the  First   Church,  Boston,  Mass.     He  probably 

died  young,  as  we  find  no  further  mention  of  him.     His  name  is  given  in  the  Boston 

Records  as  "  Bodaiah." 

Children  of  William  and  Ann  (Brinley)  Coddington 

William,  born  in  England,  Jan.  18,  165 1;  was  deputy  for  Newport  in  1679,  1680;  assistant 
in  1681,  1682,  1683,  and  governor  of  Rhode  Island  from  May,  1683  to  1685;  died  un- 
married Feb.  4,  1689. 

Nathaniel,  born  at  Newport,  May  23,  1653;  married  Susanna  Hutchinson,  daughter  of 
^Economical  and  Social  History  oj  New  England,   11,841. 


72  GOVERNOR  WILLIAM  CODDINGTON  [19] 

Edward  and  Catherine  (Hamby)  Hutchinson,  and  granddaughter  of  William  and 
Anne  (Marbury)  Hutchinson  (17);  was  the  first  clerk  in  Admiralty  when  his 
brother-in-law  Peleg  Sanford  (16)  was  Admiralty  judge;  deputy  for  Newport  in 
1683,  1685,  1686,  1703,  1719;  assistant  in  1698,  1703,  4,  5,  6,  7,  15,  16,  17;  commis- 
sioned major  "for  the  Island"  in  1703,  and  the  same  year  was  clerk  of  the  Assembly. 
He  died  in  January,  1724,  aged  seventy. 
(16)  Mary,  born  in  Newport,  May  16,  1654;  married  Dec.  i,  1674,  Governor  Peleg  San- 
ford, son  of  John  and  Bridget  (Hutchinson)  Sanford  (15);  was  living  at  the 
time  of  her  husband's  death  in  1701. 

Thomas,  born  in  Newport,  Nov.  5,  1655;  married  (i)  Priscilla  Jefferay,  daughter  of  William 
and  Mary  (Gould)  Jefferay;  married  (2)  Nov.  22,  1689,  Mary  Howard;  was,  in  1686, 
one  of  the  signers  of  a  petition  to  the  King  in  regard  to  the  writ  of  "quo  warranto" 
and  died  March  4,  1693/4. 

John,  born  in  Newport,  Nov.  24,  1656  and  died  June  i,  1680,  probably  unmarried. 

Noah,  born  in  Newport,  Dec.  12,  1658  and  probably  died  young. 

Anne,  born  in  Newport,  June  26,  1660  and  died  soon  after. 

Anne,  born  in  Newport,  July  20,  1663;  married  May  30,  1683,  Andrew  Willett,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  (Brown)  Willett,  and  died  Dec.  4,  1751. 


[20]  THOMAS  BRINLEY  [1591-1661] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ANNA  WASH  [....-....] 

OF    DATCHETT,    ENGLAND 

THE  only  information  we  have  of  Thomas  Brinley  comes  from  his  tomb 
and  his  wilL    His  tomb,  in  the  middle  aisle  of  the  church  at  Datchett, 
near  Windsor,  tells  us  that   he  was  born  at    Exeter  in    1591,  was  an 
auditor  of  revenues  in  the  reigns  of  Kings  Charles  I  and  \\,  that  he  mar- 
ried Anna  Wase  of  Pettiworth,  Sussexshire,  had  five  sons  and  seven  daughters, 
and  died  in  1661. 

His  will  is  dated  September  13,  1661,  and  from  it  we  learn  that  he  owned  prop- 
erty at  Newcastle,  and  in  Yorkshire  as  well  as  in  Datchett,  and  that  but  five  of  his 
children  were  living  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Anna  (Wase)  Brinley 

(19)  Ann,  born  in  1628;  married  in  England  Governor  William  Coddington,  and  died  at 
Newport,  May  g,  1708. 

Mary,  mentioned  in  her  father's  will  in  1661  as  widow  of  Peter  Sylvester,  of  Shelter  Island, 
N.  Y. 

Francis,  born  at  Datchett,  Nov.  15,  1632;  married  in  1656,  in  Newport,  R.  I.,  Hannah  Carr. 
He  came  to  Newport  in  1652,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  visited  England  in  1655,  but  re- 
turned the  next  year  to  Newport,  when  he  was  married;  was  a  prominent  and  wealthy 
man  and  large  land  owner,  and  was  assistant  in  1672  and  1673;  in  1674  he  and  his 


THOMAS  BRINLEY  [20]  73 

wife  Hannah  executed  a  deed  of  a  house  and  land  in  Newport  "bounded- north  by 
land  of  my  sister  Ann  Coddington,  west  by  land  given  to  my  cousin  [/.  e.,  nephew] 
William  Coddington,  etc";  was  a  member  of  Sir  Edmund  Andros' Council  in  1687, 
and  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  in  Rhode  island  and  died  in  Boston  in 
1719,  aged  eighty-seven. 

Grizel,  or  Griselda,  mentioned  in  her  father's  will  in  1661  as  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  Sylvester, 
of  Shelter  island,  N.  Y. 

Thomas,  named  in  his  father's  will;  married  (i) Reape,  a  daughter  of  William  and 

Sarah  Reape;  married  (2)  Mary  Sanford,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Wodell) 
Sanford  (54);  lived  at  Newport  from  1676  until  his  death;  was  commissary  and 
bore  the  title  of  captain;  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Trinity  Church  in  Newport; 
his  will  was  proved  June  4,  1704;  executors  Nathaniel  Sylvester,  his  brother-in-law, 
and  Robert  Gardner  of  Newport. 

William,  mentioned  in  his  father's  will  in  1661. 


[22]  PETER  WELLS  [....-1715] 

OF   JAMESTOWN    AND    KINGSTON,    R.    I. 

WE  have  not  been  able  to  ascertain  the  ancestry  of  Peter  Wells, 
nor  do  we  know  whether  he  was  the  emigrant  of  his  family.  There 
was  a  Joseph  Wells  (or  Welles)  of  Boston  in  1636,  who  went  thence 
into  Rhode  Island,  and  was  at  Wickford  about  1640,  who  is  supposed 
to  have  been  the  first  emigrant  of  the  family.  He  is  said  to  have  fled  from  London 
about  1629,  to  avoid  religious  persecution,  and  later  was  followed  by  his  seven  sons 
or  brothers,  Isaac,  Edward,  Thomas,  Richard,  George,  William,  and  Hugh.  These 
are  supposed  to  be  the  progenitors  of  the  Wells  family,  but  which,  if  any,  was  the 
father  of  Peter  is  unknown. 

The  first  record  of  Peter  Wells  is  in  1678,  when  he  was  in  Jamestown,  R.  1., 
and  was  one  of  the  signers  of  a  petition  for  a  homestead.  The  General  Assembly 
granted  the  petition,  and  on  June  12,  1678,  voted  that  he  be  "accommodated  in  the 
next  division  of  the  ten  thousand  acres  formerly  granted,  on  the  same  conditions 
others  are."  He  must  have  been  then  a  man  of  mature  years,  as  six  of  his  child- 
ren were  born  previous  to  this  time,  and  in  a  deed  to  his  son  twenty-four  years 
later,  he  calls  himself  "aged  and  feeble." 

In  1684,  the  Town  Council  gave  him  all  of  the  estate  of  William  Salter,  on  con- 
dition of  his  assuming  the  care  of  the  aged  mother,  Jone  Salter,  who  was  alone  in 
the  world.  As  this  estate  inventoried  £,2^  4s.  viz.,  three  mares  and  colts,  a  heifer, 
forty-five  sheep,  a  gun,  etc.,  it  somewhat  increased  Peter's  property. 

He  probably  left  Jamestown  and  went  to  Kingston  before  1687,  for  we  find 
him  taxed  4s.  3d.  at  Kingston  on  September  6  of  that  year.  It  was  not  until 
1693,  however,  that  he  reteived  the  grant  he  had  applied  for  five  years  before. 
He  was  then  allotted  one  hundred  acres  in  what  was  called  "Hall's  Purchase," 


74  PETER  WELLS  [22] 

sometimes  also  called  Westerly  Manor.'  His  tract  bordered  on  the  Great  Swamp, 
and  the  road  into  the  Indian  Fort  led  past  where  his  house  stood  later.  In  all  old 
deeds  and  wills  this  place  was  called  "Little  Rest,"  the  tradition  being  that  the 
troops  on  their  return  from  the  Great  Swamp  Fight  stopped  here  to  rest. 

The  General  Assembly  of  Rhode  Island,  November  2,  1698,  voted  that: 

"Whereas  some  difference  doth  appear  betwixt  the  towns  of  Westerly  and  Kingston  con- 
cerning bounds  of  jurisdiction;  this  assembly  do  declare  that  Ensigns  John  Crandall  and  Peter 
Wells  with  others  there  settled,  some  of  them  having  paid  duties  to  Kingston,  that  they  are  to  be 
within  the  Jurisdiction  of  Kingston  until  further  order." 

September  11,  1702,  Peter  Wells  deeded  to  his  son  Peter,  the  homestead 
above  mentioned,  the  deed  running  partly  as  follows: 

"The  farm  I  now  live  on,  one  hundred  acres,  housing,  orchard,  &c.  ...  for  love  to  him, 
he  having  behaved  himself  dutifully  to  his  said  father  in  this  my  aged  and  feeble  condition." 

The  last  record  we  find  of  him  is  in  171 5,  when  he  testified  as  to  his  know- 
ledge of  lands  in  Jamestown,  forty-two  years  before.  How  much  longer  he  lived 
we  do  not  know,  nor  is  there  any  mention  of  the  place  of  his  death,  or  his  wife's 
name. 

Children  of  Peter  and Wells 

a  daughter,  born  May,  1667. 

Thomas,  born  September,   1669;  married  Sarah  Rogers,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 

Rogers,  and  granddaughter  of  James  Rogers  (37);  lived  at  East  Greenwich,  R.  I., 

and  died  October  16,  1727. 

,  a  daughter,  born  December,  1672. 

,  a  daughter,  born  July  20,  1673. 

John,  born  May,  1676;  married  Elizabeth  Congdon,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth 

(Albro)  Congdon;  lived  at  North  Kingston,  and  died  in  1732. 

,  a  daughter,  born  Jan.  31,  1678. 

,  a  daughter,  born  June,  1680. 

(23)  Peter,  born    in    1681;    married    (i)  Ann    Watson,  daughter   of    John    and     Dorcas 

(Gardiner)  Watson   (27);  married   (2)  Susanna  (Peckham)   Barker,  widow  of 

Peter  Barker  (31),  and  daughter  of  John  and  Eleanor  Peckham  (34);  died  in  1732. 
Susanna,  born  Nov.  2,  1684;  married  Dec.  q,  1708,  Abner  Spencer,  son  of  John  and  Susanna 

Spencer;  died  July  25,  1782. 

'Mr.  J.  G.  Clark,  Sr.,  a  descendant  of  Jeremiah  and  Frances  (Latham  Dungan)  Clark  (32),  who 
owned  and  lived  on  this  farm,  says  of  it  in  a  letter  written  in  October,  1859:  "This  farm  previous  to  1715  was 
in  what  was  called  Hall's  Purchase.  Job  Babcock  and  Peter  Wells  were  among  the  original  purchasers.  One 
hundred  acres  were  allotted  to  Peter  Wells  Sen.  The  eastern  part  of  the  farm  on  which  the  house  stands  was 
allotted  to  Peter  Wells  and  the  western  part  on  which  the  Fort  stood  to  Job  Babcock.  James  Wells,  son  of  Peter  [Jr.] 
in  1755  sold  tojohn  Whitehorneof  Newport.  He  enlarged  the  house  to  its  present  size.  The  part  of  the  house  that 
you  were  in  was  built  by  Peter  Wells  [Sr  J  and  was  one  and  one-half  stories  high.  Whitehorne  mortgaged  the  farm 
to  his  son-in-law  H.J.  Overing  of  Newport  and  soon  after  Whitehorne  died  and  Overing  took  possession  and 
sold  to  my  father.  You  recollect  noticing  an  old  barn  to  the  westward  of  where  we  stopped,  that  is  the  nearest 
upland  and  we  are  no  doubt  correctly  informed  by  tradition  that  the  Indran  path  went  from  there  on  to  the 
Fort  and  that  the  English  entered  it  [i.  e.  the  swamp]  in  the  same  way.  It  is  probably  100  rods  from  the 
Fort."       [The  Fort  was  the  Indian  Fort  captured  on  Dec.  25,   1675,  in  the  Great  Swamp  Fight.] 


PETER  WELLS,  JR.  [23]  75 

[23J  '  PETER  WELLS,  JR.  [ibSi-ij}!] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ANN  WATSON  [....-....] 

OF    SOUTH    KINGSTON,    R.    I. 

PETER  WELLS,  son  of  Peter  and  Wells  (22),  was  born  in 
Kingston,  R.  L,  in  1681.  He  was  made  a  freeman  there  in  1712. 
Before  this  time  and  probably  about  1705,  he  married  (1)  Ann 
Watson,  daughter  of  John  and  Dorcas  (Gardiner)  Watson  (27), 
by  whom  he  had  eight  children.  She  died  before  1728,  as  appears  from  her  father's 
will  of  that  date,  and  soon  after  he  married  (2)  Susanna  (Peckham)  Barker,  widow 

of  Peter  Barker  (31),  and  daughterof  John  and  Eleanor  ( )  Peckham  (34), 

by  whom  he  had  no  children.  Susanna  must,  however,  have  brought  with  her 
four  of  her  own  children  under  sixteen,  and  possibly  several  of  her  first  husband's 
by  his  first  wife. 

We  know  but  little  regarding  Peter  Wells,  Jr.,  but  he  lived  on  and  culti- 
vated the  homestead  farm  of  one  hundred  acres  at  South  Kingston,  known  as 
"Little  Rest,"  given  him  by  his  father  in  1702,  "for  love  to  him  he  having  be- 
haved himself  dutifully  to  his  said  father  in  this  my  aged  and  feeble  condition,"  as 
the  deed  reads.  Evidently  he  was  not  in  public  life,  but  he  seems  to  have  been 
successful  as  a  farmer.  He  died  in  1732,  as  his  will  was  dated  November  13,  1732, 
and  proved  December  1 1  of  the  same  year.  The  executor  was  his  son  James  (24), 
to  whom  was  devised  a  quarter  of  the  farm  in  South  Kingston,  with  the  guardian- 
ship of  the  minor  children,  and  the  "rest  of  the  moveables,"  after  the  bequests  of 
money,  etc.,  were  made  to  the  other  children.  The  inventory  was  £372  los.  6d. 
and  included  a  riding  horse,  nine  cows,  a  heifer,  five  yearlings,  a  mare,  thirty-seven 
sheep,  ten  books  worth  ;^i  5s.,  three  beds,  a  gun,  17s.  in  money,  fowl,  a  loom, 
etc. 

The  date  of  his  widow  Susanna's  death  is  not  known,  but  she  gave  a  receipt 
"to  son-in-law  James  Wells"  (24),  on  February  i,  1733. 

Children  of  Peter  and  Ann  (Watson)  Wells 

(24)  James,  born  Sept.  30,  1706;  married  April  22,  1731,  Mary  Barker,  daughter  of 
Peter  and  Susanna  (Peckham)  Barker  (31);  died  at  Hopkinton,  R.  I.,  in 
1778. 

Ann,  born  Oct.  20,  1708;  married  Nov.  26,  1735,  Tliomas  Frazer. 

Rebecca,  born  Dec.  30,  1710;  married  Sept.  4,  1731,  William  Clarl<e. 

Peter,  born  May  4,  171 3. 

Jolin,  born  April  14,  1716. 

Mary,  who  was  mentioned  in  her  father's  will,  but  whose  birth  date  is  not  found. 

Dorcas,  born  Sept.  17,  1720. 

Samuel,  born  Feb.  2,  1725/6. 


76  CAPTAIN  JAMES  WELLS  [24] 

[24]  CAPTAIN  JAMES  WELLS  [1706- 1778] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

MARY  BARKER  [....-....] 

OF    SOUTH    KINGSTON,    AND    HOPKINTON,    R.    I. 

JAMES  WELLS,  son  of  Peter  and  Ann  (Watson)  Wells  (23),  was  born  at 
South  Kingston,  R.  L,  September  30,  1706.  Like  his  father,  he  was  a  farmer, 
and  seems  to  have  passed  a  quiet  and  uneventful  life  on  the  portion  of  the 
homestead  at  South  Kingston  which  came  to  him  by  his  father's  will. 

He  was  the  eldest  of  eight  children,  and  his  mother  dying  when  he  was  about 
twenty-two,  his  father  married  (2)  in  1729  or  1730,  a  well-to-do  widow,  Susanna 
(Peckham)  Barker  (31),  of  Westerly.  Mrs.  Barker  brought  with  her  to  the 
Wells  home  her  own  children,  and  perhaps  one  or  two  of  her  first  husband's. 
Mary,  her  eldest  daughter,  was  under  twenty,  and  she  and  James  soon  after  fol- 
lowed their  parents'  example,  and  were  married  April  22,  1731. 

The  record  of  their  marriage  is  in  the  Town  Clerk's  office  at  South  Kingston 
[Wakefield],'  and  while  it  appears  that  they  lived  until  1755  on  the  homestead  in 
South  Kingston,  we  find  the  births  of  all  their  children  recorded  at  Westerly.  The 
records  of  the  First  Sabbatarian  Church  at  Hopkinton  show  that  they  were  mem- 
bers there.  This,  however,  is  not  strange,  as  the  three  villages  were  but  a  few  miles 
apart. 

James  Wells  was  captain  of  the  Westerly  Company  (4th)  Rhode  Island 
Militia,  from  June,  1746  to  1749.  In  1755,  he  sold  his  homestead  farm  to  John 
Whitehorne,  of  Newport,'  and  moved  to  Hopkinton,  where  he  and  his  four  sons 
were  all  living  in  1774  as  heads  of  families,  according  to  the  census  of  that  year. 

Captain  James  Wells  died  probably  in  1778,  at  Hopkinton,  R.  I.,  where  his 
will  is  filed  in  the  Probate  Records.  It  bears  date  of  March  16,  1773,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  probate  December  7,  1778.  In  it  he  provided  for  his  wife  Mary,  and 
divided  his  estate  among  his  sons  James,  Joshua,  Barker,  and  Peter,  and  his  daugh- 
ter "  Barbary  Noyes,  wife  of  Joseph  Noyes,  of  Westerly."  He  named  his  son 
Joshua  as  executor. 

His  wife  Mary  survived  him,  but  the  date  of  her  death  has  not  been  ascer- 
tained. 

Children  of  Captain  James  and  Mary  (Barker)  Wells 

James,  born  Nov.  i,  1732,  married  Mary ;  he  was  lieutenant  of  the  Hopkinton  Com- 
pany in  1765  and   1766,  and  deputy  to  the  General  Assembly  from  Hopkinton   for 
several  years. 
(5)  Barbara,   born   Aug.   i,   1734;  married  July   31,  1753,  Colonel   Joseph   Noyes,   of  West- 

'  In  Arnold's  yital  Statistics  the  name  is  given  as  "Mary  Barber,"  but  the  fact  that  Mary  named  one 
of  her  sons  "  Barker"  caused  the  writer  to  look  the  matter  up  and  he  found  that  the  original  records  read  plainly 
"Mary  Barker."  Under  Peter  Barker  (31)3  receipt  is  mentioned  which  is  given  by  Susanna  (Peckham 
Barker)  Wells  to  her  "  son-in-law  "  James  Wells. 

^No.  22,  Note  I. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  WELLS  [24]  -    77 

eriy,  R.  I.,  son  of  Captain  Thomas  and   Elizabeth  (Sanford)  Noyes  (4)  of  Ston- 

ington,  Conn.;  died  Sept.  7,  1814. 
Peter,  born  Aug.  29,  1737;  married  March  i,  1759,  Elizabeth  Carpenter. 
Barker,  born  May  16,  1750;  married  Rebecca ;  was  captain  of  the  First  Hopkinton 

Company  in  his  brother-in-law  Colonel  Joseph  Noyes's  regiment,  First  Kings  County, 

in  1775  and  1776,  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 
Joshua,  born  Aug.  24,  1753;  married  (1)  Deborah ;  married  (2)  Sylvia ■;  was 

ensign  in  1768,  lieutenant  in    1769  and   1770,  and  captain  in  1774  of  the  Hopkinton 

Company,  which  his  brother  commanded  later. 

[27]  JOHN  WATSON  [....-1728] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

DORCAS  GARDINER  [....-...  .] 

OF    NORTH    KINGSTON,    R.    I. 

T  OHN  WATSON  was  probably  born  in  this  country,  but  we  have  been 
I  unable  to  trace  his  ancestry.  Savage  says  that  John  Watson,  of 
I      Hartford,  Conn.,  the   son   of  John    Watson,   of  the  same    place,    by  his 

J      wife  Ann ,  had  a  son  John,  who  was    born    in    1680.     The    newly 

opened  country  of  Narragansett  was  much  coveted  by  the  Connecticut  colonists, 
and  there  was  frequent  emigration  into  it,  and  it  may  be  that  our  John  Watson 
was  the  first  named,  although  the  date  of  his  son  John's  birth  does  not  correspond 
with  the  one  we  have. 

The  first  record  of  John  Watson  is  when  he  and  his  wife  Dorcas  Gardiner, 
daughter  of  George  and  Herodias  (Long  Hicks)  Gardiner  (28),  were  witnesses 
to  a  deed  from  Dorcas'  brother  George  and  his  wife  Tabitha  to  her  brother 
Nicholas  Gardiner,  in  1673.  John  Watson  was  then  a  tailor  in  North  Kingston, 
R.  1.,  and  in  1687  was  elected  constable,  the  next  year  was  on  the  grand  jury,  in 
1689  and  1690  was  "conservator  of  the  peace,"  and  deputy  to  theGeneral  Assembly. 
His  wife,  Dorcas,  was  probably  the  mother  of  all  his  children,  but  died  before  1702, 
as  about  that  year  he  married  (2)  her  sister,  Rebecca,  the  next  younger  daughter 
of  George  Gardiner  (28).  On  August  4,  1702,  he  and  his  wife,  Rebecca,  deeded 
to  his  son  John  all  his  "farm  of  ninety  acres,  orchard,  housing,  &c."and,  on  No- 
vember 17,  1705,  he  and  Rebecca  signed  a  deed  with  her  brothers.  His  wife 
probably  died  before  him,  as  she  is  not  mentioned  in  his  will. 

John  Watson  died  in  1728,  and  in  his  will,  which  was  proved  the  same 
year,  he  mentions  his  daughters,  Frances  Brown  and  Herodias  Sheldon,  his  sons 
John,  William,  and  Samuel  Watson,  and  his  sons-in-law  John  Sheldon  and  Daniel 
Brown.  He  leaves  to  his  granddaughter,  Ann  Wells,  a  kettle,  a  brass  warming-pan, 
etc. 

Children  of  John  and  Dorcas  (Gardiner)  Watson 

John,  born  July  22,  1676;  married  (i)  April  8,  1703,  Hannah  Champlin,  daughter  of  Jeffrey 


78  JOHN  WATSON  [27] 

Champlin;  married  (2)  in  1722,  Abigail  (Northrup)  Eldred,  widow  of  Samuel  Eldred 
and  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Mary  (Thomas)  Northrup;  married  (3)  in  1738,  Sarah 
Money;  lived  at  South  Kingston,  and  in  1708,  his  wife  Hannah  joining,  deeded  land 
that  came  to  him  through  the  Gardiners,  his  mother's  family;  was  deputy  to  the 
General  Court  in  1718,  1721,  1723,  1724,  1725,  1726;  died  Nov.  8,  1772,  aged  ninety-six. 

Samuel,  born  in  1686;  married  (i)  Mercy  Helme,  daughter  of  Rouse  and  Mary  Helme; 
married  (2)  Hannah  (Carr)  Slocum,  widow  of  Samuel  Slocum,  and  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward and  Hannah  (Stanton)  Carr;  died  at  North  Kingston,  R.  I.,  Nov.  24,  1779, 
aged  one  hundred  and  thirteen. 

William,  married  Mary ;  lived  at  Kingston  and  Chariestown,  R.  I.;  died  after  1740. 

Frances,  married  Daniel   Brown,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary  (Gardiner)  Brown;   probably 
lived  at  Westerly,  R.  I.,  and  both  died  in  1726. 
(23)  Ann,  married  Peter  Wells,  Jr.,  son  of  Peter  and  Wells  (22),  of  South  King- 
ston, R.  I.;  died  before  1728. 

Herodias,  married  April  1 1,  1706,  John  Sheldon. 

[28]  GEORGE  GARDINER  [....-1677] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

HERODIAS  (LONG)  HICKS  [....-...  .] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   NEWPORT,    R.    I. 

ALTHOUGH  we  know  nothing  of  George  Gardiner's  antecedents  in 
England,  there  is  a  tradition  in  the  family  that  he  emigrated  to  New 
England  with  Roger  Williams  in  1631,  sailing  in  the  "Lion"  from  Bristol 
to  Nantasket.  He  came  to  Rhode  Island  from  Quincy,  or  Braintree, 
Mass.,  with  Governor  Coddington  (19),  and  we  find  his  name  among  those  who 
were  admitted  as  inhabitants  of  Aquidneck  in  October,  1638,  "having  submitted 
himself  to  the  Government  that  is  or  shall  be  established."  This  was  the  first  year 
of  the  colony  at  Pocasset  (Portsmouth),  where  he  settled  and  was  made  freeman  on 
December  17,  1639,  when,  of  course,  he  was  of  age. 

On  March  10,  1640,  it  was  recorded  that  he  owned  fifty-eight  acres  of  land, 
and  two  days  later  he  was  present  at  the  General  Court  of  Elections.  He  was  made 
constable  and  senior  sergeant  in  1642,  and  in  1644  he  received  a  commission  as 
ensign. 

It  was  about  this  time,  in  1645  o""  1646,  that  Herodias  (Long)  Hicks  be- 
came his  wife  by  common-law  marriage,  and  that  he  settled  in  Newport.  Hero- 
dias was  interested  at  this  time  in  the  Quakers,  although  there  is  no  evidence  that 
she  ever  joined  that  society.  She,  however,  was  persecuted  in  consequence,  as  is 
recorded  in  a  Quaker  tract  of  the  time,  Bishop's  New  England  Judged.  With  a 
somewhat  strained  idea  of  her  own  responsibility  in  the  cause  of  religious  liberty, 
she  went,  accompanied  by  Mary  Stanton'  as  nurse  to  her  babe,  from  Newport  to 

•  Probably  the  young  girl  Mary  Stanton  who  accompanied  Herodias  to  Boston  was  Robert  Stanton's 
daughter.    Savage  says  Robert  was  a  brother  of  our  ancestor  Thomas  Stanton  (12). 


GEORGE  GARDINER  [28]  79 

Weymouth,  Mass.,  to  deliver  testimony  for  the  Quakers.     Bishop  says  she  was 

"the  mother  of  several  children,  and  a  woman  of  good  report,  .  .  .  she  was  hurried  by  the 
baser  sort  to  Boston,  before  your  Governour,  John  Endicot,  who,  after  he  had  entertained  iier  with 
much  abusive  language,  and  the  girl  that  came  with  her  to  help  bear  her  child,  he  committed  them 
both  to  prison,  and  ordered  them  to  be  whipped  with  ten  lashes  apiece.  .  .  .  with  a  three-fold- 
knotted  whip  of  cords.  .  .  .  The  woman  came  a  very  sore  Journey,  and  (according  to  man)  hardly 
accomplishable,  through  a  Wilderness  of  above  Sixty  Miles,  between  Rhode  Island  and  Boston.  .  .  . 
[She]  .  .  .  after  the  Savage,  Inhumane  and  Bloody  Execution  on  her,  of  your  Cruelty  aforesaid. 
Kneeled  down  and  Prayed — The  Lord  to  Forgive  you."' 

While  Herodias  may  have  been  entirely  sincere  in  this  religious  fervor,  the 
story  of  her  life  would  lead  us  to  regard  her  as  a  most  erratic  character,  and  this  is 
confirmed  by  the  fact  that  George  Gardiner  made  no  objection  to  the  subsequent 
divorce  proceedings  which  she  instituted. 

In  1660,  George  Gardiner  was  witness  to  a  deed  from  Socho,  an  Indian 
Chief,  which  conveyed  a  tract  of  land  called  Misquamicoke,  now  Westerly,  and  in 
1662  he  was  commissioner,  as  the  deputies  were  then  called,  from  Newport  to  the 
General  Assembly.  Soon  after  this  time  he  probably  moved  with  his  family  to 
Pettacomscott  or  Pettaquomskutt,  now  South  Kingston,  R.  1.,  as  Herodias  gave 
it  as  her  residence  when  she  petitioned  the  Court  for  a  divorce  on  May  5,  1665. 

In  this  suit  she  gave  the  story  of  her  life,  and  said  that  when  her  father  died 
in  England  she  was  sent  to  London,  and  there  married,  unknown  to  her  friends, 
John  Hicks,  in  the  under  Church  of  St.  Paul's,  called  St.  Faith's,  being  only  be- 
tween thirteen  and  fourteen  years  old.  She  told  how  she  came  to  New  England 
with  her  husband, _and  lived  at  Weymouth  two  and  a  half  years,  thence  coming  to 
Rhode  Island  about  the  year  1640.  Soon  after  this  there  happened  a  difference 
between  herself  and  her  husband,  and  he  went  away  to  the  Dutch  Colonies,  carry- 
ing with  him  most  of  her  estate  which  had  been  sent  her  by  her  mother,  and  her  boy.' 
She  acknowledged  that  she  had  not  been  formally  married  to  George  Gardiner, 
but  that  she  had  lived  with  him  for  eighteen  or  twenty  years,  and  by  him  had  had 
several  children.  Her  petition  was  that"  the  house  upon  my  land  I  may  enjoy  with- 
out molestation  and  that  he  may  allow  me  my  child  to  bring  up."  The  Court  acted 
upon  the  only  point  that  she  made:  that  she  had  not  been  legally  married  to  her 
husband.  George  Gardiner  admitted  the  fact,  but  said  that  he  considered 
Herodias  his  wife.     Robert  Stanton  testified  that: 

"One  night  being  at  his  house  both  of  them  did  say  before  him  and  his  wife  that  they  did 
take  one  the  other  as  man  and  wife." 

'  Many  men  and  women  went  from  Rhode  Island  to  Boston  to  protest  against  the  persecution  of  the 
Quakers  beside  "  Horred  Gardiner  "  as  Bishop  calls  her;  among  others  Catherine  (Marbury)  Scott,  a  "Grave, 
Sober,  Ancient  Woman"  and  the  sister  of  Anne  Hutchinson  (17). 

^  John  Hicks  was  the  son  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Morgan)  Hicks,  the  emigrant.  He  married  (i)  Hero- 
dias Long;  married  (2),  1662,  Rachel  Starr,  a  widow,  and  died  in  1672.  The  children  of  John  and  Herodias 
were:  (1)  Thomas,  born  in  1640,  married  Mary  (Butler)  Washburne.  (2)  Hannah,  married  William  Haviland,  (3) 
Elizabeth,  married  Josias  Starr.  In  the  Council  Minutes  of  New  York,  June  i,  1655,  is  the  following:  "Divorce 
granted  to  John  Hicks  of  Flushing,  L.  I.,  from  his  wife  Harwood  Long,  on  the  ground  of  adultery  with  permis- 
sion to  said  Hicks  to  re-marry."  John  Hicks  was  a  delegate  from  Flushing  to  Hartford  in  1663,  and  in  1665 
was  member  of  the  Assembly  from  Hempstead. 


8o  GEORGE  GARDINER  [28] 

The  Court  granted  the  divorce,  and  fined  them  both  for  not  having  been  mar- 
ried according  to  the  custom  of  the  place.' 

Herodias  subsequently  married  for  her  third  venture  John  Porter,  a  man 
of  some  prominence  in  Pettacomscott,  but  whose  first  wife  Margaret  had  just  secured 
a  divorce,  in  May,  1665,  on  the  ground  of  cruel  neglect.  He  and  his  wife  Herod, 
in  1671,  deeded  large  tracts  of  land  to  her  sons  by  George  Gardiner — William  and 
Nicholas. 

George  married  (2)  Lydia  Ballou,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Susanna  Ballou, 
of  Portsmouth,  R.  I.  In  1668  he  was  made  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  will  of  his 
father-in-law,  Robert  Ballou,  with  Governor  William  Brenton,  Deputy  Governor 
Nicholas  Easton,  and  William  Vaughan  as  co-executors.  In  May,  1671,  he  and  his 
three  sons,  Benoni,  Nicholas  and  Henry,  were  in  the  list  of  residents  of  Pettacomscott. 
He  died  probably  about  the  year  1677,  in  Pettacomscott.  His  second  wife, 
Lydia,  survived  him,  and  married  (2)  June  14,  1678,  William  Hawkins,  of  Prov- 
idence, R.  1.,  who  seems  to  have  assumed  the  care  of  her  children.  The  date  of  the 
death  of  Herodias  (Long  Hicks  Gardiner)  Porter  is  unknown. 

Children  of  George  and  Herodias  (Long  Hicks)  Gardiner 

Benoni,  married  Mary ;  lived  at  Kingston,  and  on  Nov.  17,  1705,  with  his  brothers 

and  sisters  and  his  brother-in-law,  John  Watson  (27),  sold  John  Potter  410  acres 
of  land,  bounded  partly  by  a  branch  of  Point  Judith  Pond,  for  ;£i50.  This  money 
was  to  be  paid  to  Thomas  Hicks  of  Flushing,  L.  I.,  their  half-brother.  Benoni,  in 
1727,  calls  himself  "aged  90  years  and  upwards,"  and  died  after  1731. 

Henry,  born  1645;  married  (i)  Joan ;  married  (2)  Abigail  (Richmond)  Remington, 

widow  of  John  Remington,  and  daughter  of  Edward  and  Abigail  (Davis)  Richmond; 
died  at  Kingston  in  1744,  aged  ninety-nine.  His  will  was  dated  Oct.  25,  1732,  and 
proved  May  5,  1744.  The  estate  inventoried  ;£i, 016.  is.,  and  comprised  silver  money, 
pewter,  five  cows,  a  heifer,  furniture,  and  five  negroes  valued  at  ;£570. 
George,  married  Tabitha  TefTt,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Tefft;  was  one  of  the  signers  of 
a  petition  to  the  King  in  1679;  died  at  Kingston  in  1724. 

William,  married  Elizabeth ;  in  1671  received  by  deed  from  his  mother  Herodias 

(Gardiner)  and  her  third  husband,  John  Porter,  two  hundred  acres  in  Narragansett, 
adjoining  the  property  of  his  brother  Henry;  was  also  one  of  the  signers  of  the  peti- 
tion to  the  King  in  1679,  and  died  at  Kingston  in  171 1,  leaving  an  estate  inventoried 
at  ;£368.  9s.  lod. 

Nicholas,  born  in  1654;  married  Hannah ;  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  in  1671,  and 

bought  some  land  of  John  and  Herodias  (Gardiner)  Porter;  in  1673  received  a 
deed  of  one  hundred  acres  of  land  from  his  mother  and  her  third  husband;  signed 
the  petition  to  the  King  with  his  brothers  in  1679,  and  died  at  Kingston  intestate, 
but  left  a  large  amount  of  property. 
(27)  Dorcas,  married  John  Watson,  and  lived  at  South  Kingston,  R.  I.  The  exact  date  of 
her  death  is  unknown,  but  it  was  before  1702. 

'  As  there  were  evidently  other  cases  of  the  same  kind,  the  General  Assembly  enacted  a  new  Marriage 
Law  at  this  time,  requiring  formal  marriage  in  the  future  and  providing  that  "all  such  marriages  at  present  ex- 
isting, however  there  may  have  been  some  neglect  of  the  due  observance  of  the  rules  and  directions  to  that  end 
prescribed"  should  be  regarded  as  "good,  firm  and  authentic,  .. .  neither  shall  any  take  advantage  thereby  to  leave 
either  such  wife  or  such  husband,  neither  shall  the  children  be  reputed  illegitimate." 


GEORGE  GARDINER  [28]  81 

Rebecca,  married  about  1702,  as  his  second  wife,  John  Watson  (27),  and  probably  died 
before  1728. 

Samuel,  married  Elizabeth  (Carr)  Brown,  widow  of  James  Brown,  and  daughter  of  Robert 
Carr;  lived  at  Freetown,  Swansey,  Mass.,  and  was  selectman,  town  clerk,  and 
deputy.     He  died  Dec.  8,  i6g6. 

Children  of  George  and  Lydia  (Ballou)  Gardiner 

Joseph,  born  1669;  married  Nov.  30,  1693,  Catherine  Holmes,  daughter  of  John  and  Francis 
(Holden)  Holmes;  lived  in  Newport,  and  was  lieutenant  and  deputy;  died  Aug.  22, 
1726,  and  he  and  his  wife  were  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Newport. 

Lydia,  married  April  4,  1689,  Joseph  Smith,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Whipple)  Smith. 

Mary,  probably  married  Jeremiah  Brown,  son  of  Elder  Chad  Brown.  Their  son 
Daniel  married  his  first  cousin  Frances  Watson,  daughter  of  John  and  Dorcas 
(Gardiner)  Watson  (27).  Mary  gave  a  receipt  in  1688  to  her  "father-in  law,"  i.  e., 
step-father,  William  Hawkins,  for  her  share  in  her  father  George  Gardiner's  estate. 

Peregrine.  In  1684  William  Hawkins,  his  step-father,  made  an  agreement  with  William 
Turpin,  of  Providence,  about  his  schooling,  and  he  is  also  mentioned  in  a  deed  from 
Joseph  Gardiner,  his  eldest  brother,  to  William  Hawkins  in  1699. 

Robert,  married  a  daughter  of  his  step-father,  William  Hawkins;  died  at  Providence  in  1690, 
leaving  his  property  to  his  brothers,  Joseph  and  Peregrine,  and  his  step-father,  who 
was  also  executor  of  his  will.     , 

Jeremiah,  married  Sarah  . 

[29]  JAMES  BARKER  [....-1634] 

OF    HARWICH,    ENGLAND 

TAMES  BARKER  was  a  son  of  James  Barker,  of  Harwich,  Essexshire, 
I  England.  Of  his  early  life  we  know  nothing,  but  that  he  married,  had  at 
I  least  one  child,  and  was  probably  a  widower  when  he  started  for  New 
•I  England  with  his  young  son  James.  They  came  over  in  the  ship  "  Mary  and 
John,"  in  1634,  with  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2),  Rev.  Thomas  Parker,  Nicholas  Easton 
and  his  two  sons,  Peter  and  John  Easton. 

James  Barker  died  on  the  passage  over,  and  before  his  death,  confided  the 
care  of  his  young  son  to  his  sister  Christianna,'  then  the  wife  of  Captain  Thomas 
Beecher,  and  living  at  Charlestown,  Mass.  Nicholas  Easton,  who  was  undoubtedly 
a  friend  of  the  Barkers,  brought  the  boy  to  his  aunt  at  Charlestown. 

Child  of  James  and  Barker 

(30)  James,  born  probably  at  Harwich,  England,  about  1623;  married  in  1644,  Barbara 
Duncan,  daughter  of  William  and  Frances  (Latham)  Dungan  (32).  He  died  in 
1702,  probably  at  Newport. 

'  Christianna  married  in  England  (i)  Thomas  Cooper  of  Wapping,  who  left  her  a  freehold  estate  in  Har- 
wich; married  (2)  Captain  Thomas  Beecher,  who  was  Captain  of  the  ship  "Talbot "  in  1629;  with  him  she  came  to 
New  England  in  1630  and  settled  at  Charlestown;  after  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1637,  married  (3)  probably 
about  1639,  as  his  second  wife,  Nicholas  Easton  and  removed  to  his  home  in  Newport,  R.  \.  Nicholas  Eas- 
ton was  associated  with  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2)  in  the  first  settlement  of  Newbury,  Mass.;  was  later  disarmed 
because  of  his  sympathy  with  the  "opinions  and  revelations"  of  Anne  Hutchinson  (17),  became  associated 
with  Governor  William  Coddington  (19)  and  others  in  the  purchase  of  the  Island  of  Aquidneck  in  1638,  and  was 
governor  of  Rhode  Island  from  1672  to  1674.  Both  Governor  Easton  and  his  second  wife  Christianna,  were 
Quakers  and  they  were  buried  in  the  Friends'  burial-ground  at  Newport. 


82  DEPUTY  GOVERNOR  JAMES  BARKER  [30] 

[30]    DEPUTY  GOVERNOR  JAMES  BARKER  [1623-1702] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

BARBARA  DUNGAN  [1628-....] 

OF    NEWPORT,    R.     I. 

JAMES  BARKER,  son  of  James  and Barker  (29),  was  born  probably 
at  Harwich,  England,  about  1623.  In  1634,  when  only  about  eleven  years 
of  age,  he  came  to  New  England  with  his  father,  who  died  on  the  voyage. 
He  was  brought  by  Nicholas  Easton  to  his  aunt,  Mrs.  Thomas  Beecher, 
then  living  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  remained  in  her  family  when  she  removed  to 
Newport,  R.  I.,  after  her  third  marriage  to  Mr.  Easton,  in  1638. 

He  married,  in  1644,  Barbara  Dungan,  daughter  of  William  and  Frances 
(Latham  Weston)  Duncan  (32),  who  was  born  in  London  about  1628.  At  this 
time  Barbara  was  living  with  her  step-father,  Mr.  Jeremiah  Clarke,  a  prominent 
citizen  of  Newport.  Through  this  marriage  James  Barker  became  connected  with 
a  number  of  the  principal  people  in  the  Colony,  as  will  be  seen  later. 

The  same  year,  1644,  he  was  commissioned  corporal,  and  four  years  later, 
in  1648,  ensign,  in  Newport.  He  was  also  the  latter  year  a  member  of  the  General 
Court  of  Elections,  and  in  1655,  1661  and  1663  a  member  of  the  Court  of  Commis- 
sioners. 

In  1661  he  was  one  of  a  committee  to  receive  contributions  toward  the  ;^20o 
needed  to  send  Roger  Williams  and  Rev.  John  Clarke  to  England  to  obtain  a  charter 
for  Rhode  Island,  and  the  revocation  of  Governor  Coddington's  (19)  commission 
as  governor  for  life.  The  same  year  he  and  others  had  shares  of  land  allotted  to 
them  at  Misquamicut  (Westerly),  but  not  many  actually  settled  there.  The 
General  Assembly  ordered  "that  all  the  affairs  of  Misquamicut"  be  left  to  a  com- 
mittee, one  of  which  was  James  Barker. 

Connecticut  always  considered  Westerly  as  within  her  jurisdiction,  and  in  1670 
she  made  an  effort  to  enforce  her  claim,  which  was  resisted  by  the  people  of  Rhode 
Island.  James  Barker  was  sent  with  others  to  meet  the  Connecticut  commissioners, 
and  secure  a  settlement  of  the  controversy.  His  name  also  appears  in  the  Royal 
Charter  granted  by  Charles  II  in  1663. 

He  served  as  deputy  in  1667,  1669-71,  1674,  1676,  1677,  1681,  1683-86, 
and  as    assistant    in   1663-66,  1671,  1672,  1676-78; 

He  and  a  number  of  the  family  connection  were  on  the  committee  appointed 
by  the  General  Assembly  in  1676,  when  it  was  voted: 

"That  in  the  troublesome  times  and  straits  in  this  Collony  [King  Philip's  War]  the  Assembly 
desiringe  to  have  the  advice  and  concurrence  of  the  most  juditious  inhabitants  if  it  may  be  had, 
for  the  good  of  the  whole,  doe  desire  at  their  sittinge,  the  company  and  counsel  of  Mr.  Benedict 
Arnold,  Mr.  John  Clark,  Mr.  James  Barker,  Capt.  John  Albro,  William  Carpenter,  Capt.  Randall 
Holden  [James'  brother-in-law],  Obadiah  Holmes,  William  Vaughan  [his  wife's  step-father],  Wil- 


DEPUTY  GOVERNOR  JAMES  BARKER  [30]  83 

liam  Hiscox,  Christopher  Holder,  Philip  Shearman,  William  Wodell  [see  No.  54  ,Note  i],  George 
Lawton  [brother  of  Thomas  Lawton  (46)],  Robert  Hodgson,  Capt.  John  Greene,  Gregory  Dexter 
and  the  General  Sergeant  [James  Rogers  (37)],  was  directed  to  inform  the  several  persons  the 
Assembly's  desire  therein."' 

During  the  short  ascendancy  of  the  war  party — 1676  to  1678 — a  commission 
was  appointed  to  order  "watch  and  ward  of  the  Island,"  and  James  Barker  was 
a  member.  At  this  time  Walter  Clark,  who  was  a  half-brother  of  James's  wife,  was 
governor,  and  Major  John  Cranston,  who  had  married  her  half-sister,  Mary  Clark, 
was  deputy  governor.  After  the  death  in  office  of  Governor  Coddington,  in  No- 
vember, 1678,  Deputy  Governor  John  Cranston  succeeded  as  governor,  and  James 
Barker  was  elected  deputy  governor. 

In  1687,  James  and  his  son  James  were  overseers  of  the  will  of  John  Peabody, 
who  had  married  the  widow  of  James  Rogers  (37).  A  family  N[S  calls  him  a 
"teaching  brother  among  the  Baptists  many  years."  He  was  an  intimate  friend 
and  elder  in  the  church  of  Rev.  John  Clarke,  referred  to  above.  In  the  records  of 
this  church  (the  First  Baptist)  it  is  stated  that  the  ordination  of  Rev.  Richard 
Dingley,  in  1690,  was  performed  by  Mr.  Thomas  Skinner,  pastor  of  a  church  in 
Boston,  and  "James  Barker  a  ministering  brother  belonging  to  this  church." 
His  son  James  joined  the  Second  Baptist  Church,  Peter,  and  probably  Joseph,  the 
Seventh  Day  Baptist,  and  William  became  a  Quaker. 

James  Barker  died  in  1702,  probably  in  Newport.  The  date  of  his  wife's 
death  is  not  known. 

Children  of  James  and  Barbara  (Duncan)   Barker 

Elizabeth,  married,  Nov.  30,  1666,  Nicholas  Easton,  son  of  Peter  and  Ann  (Coggeshall) 
Easton,  and  grandson  of  Nicholas  Easton,  the  third  husband  of  her  grand-aunt 
Christianna.     She  lived  at  Newport,  and  died  July  5,  1676. 

James,  born  in  1648;  married  in  1673,  Sarah  JefFeray,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Gould) 
Jefferay;  was  deputy  and  assistant  many  years;  was  commissioned  captain,  and 
is  spoken  of  in  an  old  family  MS  as  "  a  very  bold  man" ;  died  in  September,  1 722. 

Mary,  married  (i)  Elisha  Smith,  son  of  Edward  Smith;  married  (2)  April  16,  1677,  Israel 
Arnold,  son  of  Stephen  and  Sarah  (Smith)  Arnold;  died  Sept.  19,  1723. 

Sarah,  was  unmarried  at  the  death  of  her  father. 

Joseph,  married  Sarah  Read;  lived  at  Newport,  and  died  after  1725. 
(31)  Peter,  married  (1)   in    1692,    Freelove   Bliss,  daughter   of   John    and    Damaris   (Arnold) 
Bliss,  and  granddaughter  of  Benedict  Arnold,  mentioned  above;  married  (2)  in  1712, 

Susanna  Peckham,  daughter  of  John  and  Eleanor  ( )  Peckham  (34),  of 

Newport;  died  in  1725. 

Christianna,  married  William  Phillips,  son  of  Michael  and  Barbara  Phillips. 

William,  born  in  1662;  married  Elizabeth  Easton,  sister  of  the  husband  of  his  sister  Eliza- 
beth; was  deputy  for  five  years,  and  became  a  Quaker;  died  Nov.  3,  1741. 

'These  men  had  all  been  prominent  in  public  life;  Arnold  as  governor,  Rev.  John  Clarke  as  deputy  gov- 
ernor and  English  agent  for  the  Colony,  and  the  others  as  assistants,  deputies,  etc.  They  were  ail  past  middle 
life. 


84  ^  CAPTAIN  PETER  BARKER  [31] 

[31]  CAPTAIN  PETER  BARKER  [.  ..-1725] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

SUSANNA  PECKHAM  [....-....] 

OF    NEWPORT   AND   WESTERLY,    R.    I. 

PETER  BARKER,  son  of  Deputy  Governor  James  and  Barbara 
(Duncan)  Barker  (30),  was  born  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  but  the  date  of 
his  birth  has  not  been  found.  He  married  about  1692,  perhaps 
earlier,  Freelove  BHss,  daughter  of  John  and  Damaris  (Arnold)  Bliss, 
and  granddaughter  of  Benedict  Arnold,  who  was  born  in  1672.  In  1692  Peter  and 
his  wife  Freelove  were  members  of  the  Seventh  Day  Baptist  Church,  of  Newport. 

The  earliest  record  we  find  of  him  is  in  1696,  when  he  was  made  freeman.  His 
wife,  Freelove,  died  after  1708,  and  before  17 12  he  had  married  (2)  Susanna  Peck- 
ham,  daughter  of  John  and  Eleanor  ( )  Peckham  (34),  of  Newport,  as  in 

February,  1712,  she  signed  with  him  a  deed  for  ten  acres  of  land  sold  to  Jeremiah 
Clarke.     This  Jeremiah  Clarke  was  Peter's  mother's  step-brother. 

In  1 7 14  he  was  elected  captain  of  the  Second  Company,  Newport,  "  ist  Reg. 
of  the  Militia  of  the  Islands,"  but  before  1718  he  and  his  wife  had  removed  to 
Westerly,  as  their  names  then  appear  as  members  of  the  church  there. 

Peter  died  probably  in  1725.  He  left  no  will,  but  the  administration  of 
his  estate  is  dated  December  7,  1725.  The  bondsmen  were  his  son-in-law  Edward 
Bliven,  and  Joseph  Barker,  his  eldest  child  by  Susanna.  The  inventory  of  his 
property  is  that  of  a  prosperous  farmer,  and  amounted  to  ;£902.5s.2d.  Some  of 
the  items  are:  "Wearing  apparel  £\4.  8s."  a  pair  of  oxen,  four  cows,  and  many 
other  farm  animals,  spinning  wheels,  guns,  a  sword  and  belt,  three  Bibles,  etc. 
He  was  buried  in  Westerly,  in  what  is  called  "the  Bliven  burying  ground."  In 
a  description  of  the  place  Mr.  Denison  says,  "  Here  were  [buried]  the  earlier  owners 
of  this  farm,  John  Barker  and  his  wife,  Peter  Barker  and  his  wife,  Edward  Bliven, 
etc."' 

His  widow  Susanna  married  (2)  about  1729  or  1730,  as  his  second  wife, 
Peter  Wells  (23)  of  South  Kingston,  R.  I .  Peter's  first  wife  had  been  dead  about 
two  years,  and  he  had  eight  children,  the  eldest  about  twenty-four,  and  the  young- 
est two  or  three  years  old.  Mary,  Susanna's  eldest  daughter,  married  in  1731, 
James  Wells,  Peter  Wells'  eldest  son.  Susanna's  second  husband  only  lived 
a  year  or  so  after  her  marriage,  dying  in  1732.  In  the  settlement  of  his  estate, 
Susanna  gave  a  receipt  to  her  step-son,  James  Wells  (24),  dated  February  i,  1733, 
for  ;^8  which  he  had  paid  as  executor  to  her  own  daughter  Sarah  Barker.  In  this 
receipt  she  calls  James  her  "son-in-law."  From  other  receipts  given  by  Susanna, 
we  obtain  the  names  of  her  other  children  by  Peter  Barker,  as  given  below. 

Children  of  Captain  Peter  and  Freelove  (Bliss)   Barker 
Penelope,  born  at  Newport,  in  1698. 
'  Denison's  IVesterly  and  Us  Witnesses,  277. 


CAPTAIN  PETER  BARKER  [31]  85 

Freelove,    twin    with    Penelope;    married  (i) Swares;    married    (2)  May   12,  1719, 

Edward  Bliven.' 
Peter,  born  at  Newport,  in  1701. 
Thomas,  born  at  Newport,  Dec.  31,  1703. 
Hannah,  born  at  Newport. 

Children  of  Captain  Peter  and  Susanna  (Peckham)  Barker 

Joseph,  bondsman  of  his  father's  estate  in  1725. 

John,  who  died  about  1738.     The  original  of  a  bill  of  Edward  Bliven,  his  brother-in-law, 

dated  Dec.  27,  1738,  against  his  estate,  for  expenses  incurred  in  his  last  illness,  is  in 

the  Pawcatuck  Valley  Historical  Collections. 
(24)  Mary,  married  April  21,   1731,  her  step-brother  James  Wells,  son  of  Peter  and  Ann 

(Watson)  Wells  (23). 
Sarah,  who  received  a  bequestjrom^her  step-father,  Peter  Wells  (23),  for  which  her  mother 

gave  a  receipt  in  1733. 
Barbara. 
Susanna. 
Patience. 

[32]  WILLIAM  DUNGAN  [....-1636] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

FRANCES  (LATHAM)  WESTON   [1609-1677] 

OF    LONDON,    ENGLAND 

WILLIAM  DUNGAN  or  DUNGIN,  as  the  name  is  sometimes  spelled, 
lived  in  the  parish  of  St.  Martins  in  the  Fields,  London,  one  of  the 
oldest  in  England.     It  was  open  country  in  his  day,  and  game  of  all 
sorts  was  preserved  there.     He  was  a  perfumer,  according  to  his  will, 
and  probably  his  business  was  in  the  city.     Near  the  church  were  the  Royal  Mews, 
where  the  King's  falcons  were  kept. 

He  married  Frances  (Latham)  Weston,  widow  of  Lord  Weston,  and  daugh- 
ter of  Lewis  and Latham,  Sergeant  Falconer  to  King  Charles  I.     Frances 

was  born  at  Kempston,  in  1609,  and  later  lived  with  her  father  at  Elstow,  a  mile 
from   Bedford. 

His  will  was  made  September  13,  1636,  and  proved  October  5  of  the  same  year, 
so  that  he  must  have  died  between  those  dates.  It  names  his  wife  Frances  as 
executrix,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Gibbon  and  Mr.  Samuel  Smith  as  overseers.  He  left 
to  his  four  children,  Barbara  (30),  William,  Frances,  and  Thomas,  each  £70,  to  be 
paid  at  their  coming  of  age  or  marriage.  His  wife  was  made  guardian  of  the  children 
and  manager  of  the  estate,  with  the  provision  that  if  she  "marry  again  she  is  to 

'A  paper  exists  in  the  Pawcatuck  Valley  Historical  Society  dated  Aug.  i  i,  1740,  and  signed  by  William 
Babcock,  Surveyor  and  others,  which  says  that  they  "were  appointed  by  the  Town  Council  to  make  a  dividend 
on  ye  real  estate  of  ye  late  deceased  Mr.  Peter  Barker  .  .  .  Mr.  Edward  Bleavin  come  and  forewarned  us  of  run- 
ning any  line  there  and]so  we  desisted."  He  was  probably  trying  to  protect  his  wife's  interest  in  her  father's 
estate. 


86  WILLIAM  DUNCAN  [32] 

give  good  security  to  the  overseers  for  the  true  and  sure  payment"  of  the  legacies 
to  the  children.  He  gave  Frances  "all  other  my  estate  whatsoever  be  it  in  goods, 
chattels,  leases,  ready  money,  plate  or  other  my  substance'  whatsoever,"  and  to 
the  two  overseers  los.  apiece  to  "buy  them  rings." 

Frances  was  but  twenty-seven  years  old  when  she  was  left  a  second  time  a 
widow,  with  four  small  children.  She  soon  after  married  (3)  Mr.  Jeremiah  Clarke, 
with  whom  she  came  to  New  England  before  1638,  with  her  family.  They  settled 
at  Newport,  and  had  five  sons  and  two  daughters.'  Jeremiah  Clarke,  who  held 
the  office  of  treasurer  of  the  Colony  for  some  years,  and  was  president  regent  in  1 648, 
when  Governor  Coddington  went  to  England  to  secure  a  charter,  died  in  1652.  Be- 
fore 1656,  Frances  married  (4)  Rev.  William  Vaughn,  of  Newport,  by  whom  she 
had  no  children.  In  a  letter  written  September  2,  1677,  by  Samuel  Hubbard,  of 
Newport,  to  his  children  at  Westerly,  he  says:  "  For  news,  Mr.  Vahan  is  gone  to  his 
long  home  and  his  wife  is  like  to  follow  him  if  not  dead."  In  fact,  she  outlived 
her  fourth  husband  but  a  day  or  two. 

Her  tombstone  is  still  standing  in  the  old  cemetery  at  Newport.  The  in- 
scription reads  as  follows: 

"  Here  Lyeth  ye  Body  of  Mrs.  Frances  Vaughan,  Alius  Clarke,  Ye  mother  of  ye  only  children 
of  Cap'"  Jeremiah  Clarke.     She  died  ye  i  week  in  Sept  1677  in  ye  67th  year  of  her  age." 

Children  of  William  and  Frances  (Latham  Weston)  Dungan 

(30)  Barbara,  born  about  1628;  married  in  1644,  Deputy  Governor  James  Barker,  son  of 
James  and ( )  Barker  (29),  of  Harwich,  England. 

William,  born ,  came  over  to  this  country  with  his  mother. 

Frances,  born  about  1630;  married  in  1648,  Randall  Holden,  a  prominent  man  of  Warwick, 
R.  I.;  died  in  1697.^ 

Thomas,  married  in  Newport,  Elizabeth  Weaver,  daughter  of  Clement  and  Mary  (Freeborn) 
Weaver;  was  made  a  freeman  at  Newport  in  1656,  and  on  jury  there  in  1671 ;  in  1677 
moved  to  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.;  was  sergeant  in  1678,  and  deputy  in  1678  and  1681; 
in  1684  he  removed  to  Cold  Spring,  Bucks  Co.,  Pa.,  and  was  "the  first  Baptist  min- 
ister in  them  parts."  Morgan  Edwards,  writing  in  1770,  says:  "The  Rev.  Thomas 
Dungan,  the  first  Baptist  minister  in  the  province,  now  exists  in  a  progeny  of  be- 
tween 600  and  700."     He  died  at  Cold  Spring,  Pa.,  in  1688. 

'Frances'  children  by  Jeremiah  Clarke  were:  i.  Walter,  married  (i)  Content  Greenman;  married  (2) 
Hannah  Scott,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Catherine  (Marbury)  Scott;  married  (3)  Freeborn  (Williams)  Hart,  widow 

of  Thomas  Hart  and  daughter  of  Roger  and  Mary  ( )  Williams;  married  (4)  Sarah  (Prior)  Gould.  2.  Mary, 

married  (i)  Dep.  Gov.  John  Cranston;  (2)  John  Stanton,  son  of  Robert  and  Avis  Stanton,  brother  of  Thomas 

Stanton  (12).  3.   Jeremiah,  married  Ann    Audley,  daughter  of  John  and   Margaret  ( )  Odlin  (60).    4, 

Latham,  married  (1)  Hannah  Wilbur;  married  (2)  Anne  (Collins)  Newbury.  5.  Weston  married  (1)  Mary  Easton, 
daughter  of  Peter  and  Ann  (Coggeshall)  Easton  and  granddaughter  of  Nicholas  Easton  (see  No.  30);  married  (2) 
Rebecca  (Thurston)  Easton,  the  widow  of  his  brother-in-law  Peter  Easton,  Jr.  6.  James,  married  Hope  Power. 
7.  Sarah,  married  (1)  John  Pinner;  married  (2)  Caleb  Carr.  So  that  the  mother  married  four  times,  one  son 
four  times,  two  daughters  twice,  two  other  sons  twice  and  two  sons  each  once,  making  eighteen  marriages 
among  eight  people.  See  Austin's  Genealogical  Dictionary. 

^ The  portrait  of  Lewis  Latham  mentioned  in  the  article  on  the  Latham  Family  in  England  came 
through  this  granddaughter  into  the  possession  of  the  Holden  family,  who  still  own  it. 


THE  LATHAM  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  87 

THE  LATHAM  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

LEWIS  LATHAM,  of  Elstow,  Bedfordshire,  Sergeant-Falconer  to  King 
Charles  I,  is  said  to  have  descended  from  a  junior  branch  of  the  house  of 
Latham  in  Lancashire,  and  bore  the  same  coat  of  arms.  At  the  death 
of  Sir  Thomas  Latham  of  Latham,  in  1385,  the  senior  branch  was  repre- 
sented by  his  daughter  and  heiress,  who  married  Sir  John  Stanley,  Kt.,  from 
whom  came  the  Stanleys,  Earls  of  Derby.  The  part  of  the  Latham  estate  called 
Knowsley  is  the  present  seat  of  Lord  Derby. 

The  name  of  Lewis  Latham's  father  and  the  date  and  place  of  his  birth  have 
not  been  ascertained,  but  he  had  a  brother  William,  who  died  at  Elstow,  March  20, 
1632,  Lewis  being  the  executor  of  his  will.  He  had  also  a  brother  Simon,' who 
died  at  Bletsoe,  and  two  sisters,  Ursula,  the  wife  of  William  Carter,  and  Elizabeth, 

wife  of  Thomas ,  all  three  of  whom  are  mentioned   in  this  will  of  William 

Latham. 

Lewis  Latham  was  married  before  1609,  as  his  eldest  daughter  Frances  was 
baptized  at  Kempston,  February  15,  1609.  Before  161 7  he  had  settled  at  Elstow, 
and  undoubtedly  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  there.  Elstow  is  a  small  town 
two  miles  from  Bedford. 

The  office  of  falconer,  which  was  held  by  Lewis  Latham  during  the  reign  of 
Charles  I,  was  one  of  importance  and  distinction  at  that  time.  The  Master  Fal- 
coner was  Sir  Patrick  Hume,  and  associated  with  him  as  falconers  were  thirty- 
three  gentlemen,  of  whom  one  was  "Lewis  Latham  of  Elstow,  Co.  Bedford,  Gent.," 
as  he  was  designated.  The  King's  falcons  were  kept  in  London,  where  the  Na- 
tional Gallery  now  stands,  in  the  Mews  afterwards  used  for  stables.  In  falconer's 
parlance,  mew  means  to  moult.  The  falconers  were  in  attendance  at  any  of  the 
Mews  where  the  King  might  desire,  and  we  suppose  that  it  was  while  Lewis  Latham 
was  in  attendance  in  London  that  his  daughter  Frances  met  her  husband,  who  lived 
in  the  parish  of  St.  Martin  in  the  Fields,  near  the  Mews. 

July  15,  1625,  a  warrant  was  issued  to 

"pay  Andrew   Pitcairn  master  of  the   Hawks   to   the  use  of   Lewis   Latham,  Eustace  Norton, 
and  the  rest  of  the  under  falconers  the  stipend  formerly  allowed  them  when  the  King  was  Prince  of 

Wales." 

Lewis  was  promoted  August  18,  1627,  as  appears  from  a  warrant  from  Sec- 
retary Conway  to  Attorney-General  Heath  "to  prepare  grants  of  the  place  of  Ser- 
geant of  the  Hawks  to  Lewis  Latham  with  £65  per  annum." 

From  the  parish  register  at  Elstow  we  learn  that  "Lewys  Lathame  Gent, 
deceased  ye  15th  day  of  May  1655."  His  wife  Winnifred  survived  him,  and  was 
the  executrix  of  his  will.  She  was  evidently  his  second  and  possibly  his  third 
wife. 

'Simon  Latham  was  the  author  of  The  Fauhon's  Lure  and  Cure,  published  in  163^,  which  is  quoted 
in  the  article  on  Falconry  in  the  Encyclopedia  Briiannica. 


88  THE  LATHAM  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

His  will  was  dated  May  6,  1653,  and  proved  at  London,  September  i,  1655. 
It  begins  "  In  the  name  of  God  Amen,"  and  after  the  usual  preamble  continues: 

"To  my  sons  Henry  Latham  and  John  Latham  i2d.  apiece  if  they  demand  it.  .  .  .  To 
my  daughters  Ann  Seager,  Frances  Clarke,  Katharine  Garrett  and  EHzabeth  Bibble,  i2d.  apiece 
if  they  come  to  demand  it.  .  .  .  To  Winnifred  Dewnes  [probably  a  daughter  of  his  wife  by  a  former 
husband,  he  gave]  one  bedstead  with  all  furniture  thereto  belonging.  ...  all  the  rest  of  my  goods, 
chattels,  and  cattle  whatsoever  I  give  and  bequeath  to  Winnifred  my  loving  wife." 

His  widow,  called  "wife  of  Latham  the  King's  Sergeant-Falconer,"  petitioned 
on  May  9,  1662,  for  the  arrears  of  her  husband's  salary.  Her  patron.  Sir  Lewis 
Dyve  (the  royalist  and  defender  of  Sherborne  Castle),  desired  a  warrant  for  her  of 
fyo  or  £40,  "from  the  late  Privy  Seal,"  and  it  was  issued  May  13,  1662,  for  the 
last  named  sum. 

A  portrait  in  oils  of  Lewis  Latham  has  been  preserved  through  many  gener- 
ations. Brought  to  this  country  by  his  daughter  Frances,  then  wife  of  Captain 
Jeremiah  Clarke,  it  descended  to  her  daughter  Frances,  who  married  Randall 
Holden,  and  is  now  (1894)  in  the  possession  of  a  descendant,  Francis  A.  Holden, 
of  Washington,  D.  C.  The  inscription  in  the  corner  of  the  portrait  states  that  he 
died  aged  one  hundred  years,  but  whether  he  was  as  old  as  that  may  be  doubted. 
The  portrait  is  certainly  that  of  an  extremely  old  man. 

Children  of  Lewis  and Latham 

Henry,  married  (i) ;  married  (2)  May  10,  1656,  Anne  Goodwin. 

John,  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  Bedford,  in  1657. 

Ann,  married Seager. 

(32)  Frances,  baptized  Feb.  15,  1609,  at  Kempston,  England;  married  (i)  Lord  Weston; 
married  (2)  William  Duncan,  of  the  parish  of  St.  Martin  in  the  Fields,  London,  who 
died  in  1636;  married  (3)  Mr.  Jeremiah  Clarke,  who  died  in  1652;  married  (4)  before 
1656,  Rev.  William  Vaughn,  of  Newport,  R.  I.;  died  in  September,  1677. 

Katherine,  married Garrett. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  in  1617,  at  Elstow;  married Bibble. 

Sarah,  baptized  in  1618,  at    Elstow;   probably  died   before  1655,  as   she  is  not   mentioned 
in  her  father's  will. 

Ellen,  married Sherringham;  probably  died  before   1655,35  she  is  not   mentioned 

in  her  father's  will. 

[34]  JOHN  PECKHAM  [....-1681] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

ELEANOR  [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   NEWPORT,    R.    I. 

JOHN  PECKHAM  probably  was  born  in  SuflFolkshire,  England,  about  the  year 
1600.     Whether  he  was  connected  with  Sir  George  Peckham  of  Denham, 
Buckinghamshire,  who  was  interested  in  colonizing  in  America  with  Gilbert 
and  a  partner  in  his  voyage  in  1583,  is  not  known,  but  it  is  quite  possible 
that  such  a  connection  may  yet  be  established. 


HON.    LEWIS    LATHAM 
B.     1555.    D.     1655 


JOHN  PECKHAM  [34]  89 

He  married  in  England  (i)  Mary  Clarke,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Rose 
(Kerridge)  Clarke,  of  Suffolk,  who  was  baptized  July  17,  1607.'  He  emigrated 
with  his  wife,  and  probably  her  four  brothers,  to  New  England,  and  we  find  his  name 
as  well  as  those  of  the  four  Clarkes,  in  the  list  of  those  admitted  as  inhabitants  of  the 
Island  of  Aquidneck  in  1638,  the  first  year  of  the  settlement  at  Pocasset.  in  1640 
his  bounds  were  established,  and  in  1641  he  was  made  a  freeman  at  Newport. 

His  wife  Mary  died  about  this  time,  and  he  married (2)before  1648,  Eleanor 

— .     He  is  named  in  1648  as  one  of  the  ten  men  who  were  members,  or  the 

founders,  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Newport,  of  which  his  brother-in-law,  Rev. 
John  Clarke,  was  pastor,  and  his  "wife  Eleanor"  was  baptized  the  same  year,  in 
1655  his  name  appears  on  a  list  of  the  freemen  of  Newport,  ninety-six  in  all,  and  he 
was  taxed  there  in  1680. 

His  death  occurred  probably  in  1681.  Although  his  will  has  not  been  found, 
it  is  mentioned  in  a  list  of  seventeen  wills  having  but  two  witnesses.  It  bore  the 
date  of  January  6,  1681;  witnesses  John  Clark  and  Henry  Tew.  These  were  all 
proved  between  the  dates  of  1676  and  1695,  and  were  presented  to  the  Court  by 
interested  parties,  as  the  law  required  three  witnesses. 

His  residence  was  in  that  part  of  Newport  which  is  now  the  town  of  Middle- 
town,  and  a  stone  marked  "1.  P."  on  what  was  then  his  land  (now  owned  by 
William  F.  Peckham),  is  supposed  to  mark  his  grave. 

Children  of  John  and  Mary  (Clarke)  Peckham 

John,  born  about  1645;  married  Sarah  • ;  had  eleven  children,  and  lived  at  Newport; 

died  about  1712. 
William,  born  about  1647;  married  (1)  his  cousin,  daughter  of  Joseph  Clarke;  married  (2) 

Phoebe  Weeden,  daughter  of  William  Weeden;  was  ordained  the  pastor  of  the  First 

Baptist  Church  of  Newport,  Nov.  1 1,  171 1,  probably  after  the  death  of  his  uncle,  and 

died  June  2,  1734.     His  wife,  Phoebe,  survived  him. 

Children  of  John  and  Eleanor  ( )  Peckham 

Stephen,  married,  about  1682,  Mary ;  moved  to  Dartmouth,  Mass.,  about  1686,  and 

died  there  April  23,  1724. 

Thomas,  married  (i) ;  married  (2)  after  1683,  Hannah  (Weeden)  Clarke, 

widow  of  William  Clarke,  son  of  Joseph  Clarke,  and  sister  of  his  half-brother  William's 
wife;  was  deputy  for  Newport  in  1708,  and  one  of  the  proprietors  of  common  lands. 
He  died  in  1709. 

Clement,  married  Lydia ;  was  a  weaver;  lived  at  Newport,  and  owned  lands  at  Tiv- 
erton; died  in  1712. 

James,  probably  unmarried;  died  at  Newport,  Feb.  26,  1712;  left  a  large  property,  the 
inventory  of  his  real  estate  in  Little  Compton  alone  amounting  to  ;£644  9s.  6d.  His 
sister  Susanna,  and  her  husband,  Peter  Barker  (31),  signed  among  others  as  his 
legal  representatives. 

'  Rev.  John  Clarke,  mentioned  frequently  in  these  articles,  and  Carew,  Thomas,  and  Joseph,  Clarke  all  of 
Newport,  R.  I.,  were  her  brothers.  The  fact  that  Carew  Clarke's  first  wife  died  at  Ruffum,  Suffolk,  England,  indi- 
cates that  they  came  from  that  county. 


90  JOHN  PECKHAM  [34] 

(31)  Susanna,  married  (1)  Peter  Barker,  son  of  James  and   Barbara  (Duncan)    Barker 
(23)  (30),  who  died  probably  in  1725;  married  (2)  about  1730,  Peter  Wells  (23),  son  of 

Peter  and Wells  of  Kingston,  R.  I.  (22);  died  after  1733. 

Sarah,  married  probably  John  Greene,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Jefferay)  Greene. 
Rebecca,  married  John  Spooner,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Partridge)  Spooner. 
Deborah,  married  Robert  Taylor,  son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Hodges)  Taylor. 
Phoebe,  born  in  1666;  married  Thomas  Gray,  son  of  Edward  and  Dorothy  (Lettice)  Gray; 

died  in  1746. 
Elizabeth,  married  Peter  Taylor,  son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Hodges)  Taylor,  a  brother  of 
her  sister  Deborah's  husband;  died  May  24,  1714. 


ROGERS   ANCESTRY 

OF 

DANIEL  ROGERS  NOYES 
[7] 


[37]  JAMES  ROGERS  [..-1676] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARY   [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND  AND    NEWPORT,    R.  I. 

TAMES  ROGERS  is  thought  by  many  to  be  one  of  the  sons  of  Thomas 
I  Rogers  who  came  over  in  the  "Mayflower"  to  New  England  in  1620 
I  with  his  son  Joseph  and  died  the  next  winter.  Governor  Bradstreet 
J  says,  "the  rest  of  the  children  came  over,  are  married,  and  have 
(1650)  many  children."  Unfortunately  he  does  not  give  the  names  of  these  chil- 
dren, but  it  is  now  settled  beyond  question  that  John  Rogers  of  Duxbury,  Mass., 
was  one,  and  there  is  some  reason  to  believe  that  James  of  Newport  was  another, 
although  it  has  not  yet  been  satisfactorily  proved. 

James  came  to  Newport  about  1638,  and  was  one  of  the  very  early  settlers. 

He  was  at  that  time  married  to  Mary ,  and  had  one  daughter,  Sarah.     He 

was  made  freeman  in  Newport  in  1640,  and  was  then  a  miller,  probably  the  first 
of  his  business  in  Rhode  Island. 

He  was  elected  general  solicitor  for  the  Colony  from  1657  to  1659,  and  gen- 
eral sergeant  from  1659  to  1676.'  In  August,  1659,  he  complained  that  being  both 
general  sergeant  and  town  sergeant,  and  being  also  infirm  in  body,  etc.,  there- 
fore he  "desireth  the  Court  to  allow  him  to  constitute  a  deputy  upon  occasion  for 
executing  some  writs  belonging  to  his  office  of  General  Sergeant,"  he  to  be  respon- 
sible for  the  deputy.  This  was  granted  by  the  Assembly. 
He  was  ordered,  July  20,  1669: 

"To  apprehend  the  Indian  Sachem  Ninecraft,  and  bring  him  before  the  Governor  and  Council 
on  Thursday  next  at  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning  to  answer  the  charge  of  a  plot  among  the  Indians 
to  cut  off  the  English.  He  was  empowered  to  take  assistance  of  a  boat  and  two  men  for  trans- 
portation," and  also  "two  men  and  three  horses  in  the  King's  Province." 

During  his  service  as  general   sergeant   the  famous  Harris  litigation  took 

•  See  No._:5o. 


92  JAMES  ROGERS  [37] 

place,  in  the  course  of  which  James  Rogers  went  to  the  house  of  one  John  Harrud 
to  serve  an  execution.    The  following  curious  affidavit  was  sworn  to  later: 

"Tolleration  Harris  aged  25  yeares  or  thereabouts  being  Engaged  testefieth  That  upon  the 
21  day  of  Aprill  in  this  presant  yeare  1670:  hee  goeing  along  with  James  Rogers  Gennerall  Serjant 
unto  Mashantatat  where  John  Harrud  dwelleth,  the  sayd  serjant  goeing  thither  to  serve  an  Exe- 
cution agaynst  John  Harrud,  but  when  thither  the  came,  and  about  tenn  rodd  of  the  howse  where 
John  Harrud  dwelleth,  the  sayd  John  Harrud  called  to  them  &  bid  them  to  stand,  he  the  sayd 
John  Harrud  standing  by  the  sayd  howse,  &  presented  a  gunn  at  them  Commanding  them  in  his 
majestyes  name  to  stand,  telling  them  if  they  would  not  stand  hee  would  shoote  them;  The  serjant 
then  demanded  of  John  Harrud  to  deliver  possession  of  the  howse  unto  him,  that  he  might  state 
William  Harris  therein.  But  Harrud  smiting  his  hand  upon  his  breast  answered  that  he  would  not 
yeeld  possession  whilst  he  had  life  in  his  body  There  being  present  John  Weekes  Sen''  Edmund  Cal- 
verly,  John  Weekes  jun''  Benjamin  Barton  Roger  Burlingham  &  divers  others  in  all  to  the  number 
of  ffifteene  or  there  abouts;  And  when  John  Harrud  declared  himself  that  he  would  not  yeeld  pos- 
session whilst  he  had  breath  in  his  body,  John  Weekes  Sen[':  Replyed  that  it  was  well  spoken;  the 
said  John  weekes  sen'':  John  weekes  ju'^"':  &  Edmund  Calverly  Encouraging  the  sayd  John  Harrud 
not  to  yeeld  possessi"  but  with  Cudgells  in  theire  handes  stood  in  resistance  of  the  Execution. 
May  the  first  1670:  Taken  before  me  The:  Olney  jun'': 
Assiss':"' 

A  court  martial  of  certain  Indians  was  held  August  24,  1676,  in  Newport,  at 
which  James  Rogers  was  present.  These  Indians  were  charged  with  being  en- 
gaged in  King  Philip's  designs,  and  several  were  convicted  and  executed. 

James  Rogers  died  in  the  fall  of  1676,  during  a  season  of  general  sickness,  to 
which  these  new  settlements  seemed  to  be  occasionally  subject.  Arnold  men- 
tions it  as  follows: 

"A  fatal  epidemic  prevailed  in  the  Island  at  this  time  (October,  1676),  so  sudden  in  its  effects 
that  two  or  three  days  sufficed  to  destroy  its  victim,  and  so  general  that  but  few  families  escaped  with- 
out the  loss  of  some  of  their  number.  Among  the  deaths  that  occasioned  business  for  the  Assembly, 
was  that  of  J  ames  Rogers,  who  had  been  longer  and  more  steadily  in  public  office  than  any  other  man 
in  the  Colony,  having  been  elected  for  twenty  successive  years,  the  first  three  as  General  Solicitor 
and  the  last  eighteen  as  General  Sergeant, — for  one  year  he  filled  both  offices." 

A  petition  was  made  by  his  widow  Mary  Rogers,  October  25,  1676,  for 
moneys  due  her  husband  in  his  lifetime  from  the  Colony,  and  a  committee  was  ap- 
pointed to  audit  the  account.  In  1677  Mary  married  (2)  as  his  second  wife,  John 
Peabody  of  Newport,  and  died  between  1678  and  1687. 

Children  of  James  and  ^Iary  Rogers 

Sarah,  married  Richard  Knight,  who  was  keeper  of  the  prison  in  Newport  in  1648  and  1649, 
and  general  sergeant  for  seven  years  before  his  father-in-law  held  the  office.  The 
date  of  this  marriage  is  not  known,  but  they  had  at  least  two  children  in  1648.  Sarah 
died  a  widow  after  1685. 

^Harris  Papers,  R.  I.  Hist.  Collections,  X. 


JAMES  ROGERS  [37]  93 

Thomas,  born  in  1639;  married  Sarah ;  in  1696  he  bought  lands  in  Dartmouth,  and 

in  the  records  is  sometimes  called  "of  Portsmouth,"  but  his  residence  was  chiefly 
at  Newport,  where,  in  1702,  he  was  a  proprietor  in  common  lands,  and  where  he 
died  Nov.  23,  1719.  He  had  a  daughter  Sarah,  who  married  Thomas  Wells,  son  of 
Peter  Wells  (22). 

(38)  John,    born    Oct.   8,    1641,   married    about    1667,   Elizabeth  ,  and    died  March 

27,  1716. 

[38]  CAPTAIN  JOHN  ROGERS  [1641-1716] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH  [....-1676] 

OF    NEWPORT,    R.    I. 

JOHN  ROGERS,  son  of  James  and  Mary  ( )  Rogers  (37),  was  born  at 

I      Newport,  R.  1.,  October  8,  1641,  and  made  freeman  in    1668.     He  married 

I      in  Newport,  probably  about    1667,  Elizabeth  ,  who   died    October 

J      24,  1676. 

John  Rogers  was  deputy  for  Newport  in  1678,  and  again  from  1701  to  1705. 
In  1690  he  was  commissioned  as  captain,  and  commanded  the  Second  Company  of 
the  Newport  Militia.  From  1701  to  1705  he  was  justice  of  the  peace,  and  the  last- 
named  year  was  speaker  of  the  House  of  Deputies  and  assistant,  which  important 
office  he  held  again  in  1707,  and  until  171 2. 

With  three  others,  he  was  empowered,  in  1708,  to  "proportion  and  affix  rates 
of  grain  and  other  specie  for  a  tax."  They  appointed  Indian  corn  to  be  taken  at 
2s.  a  bushel,  barley  at  is.  8d.,  rye  at  2s.  6d.,oats  at  i4d.,  wheat  at  3s.  and  wool  at 
9d.  a  pound. 

He  died  at  Newport  March  27,  17 16,  and  was  buried  on  the  homestead  farm. 
The  Holy  Cross  Chapel,  in  Middletown,  R.  1.,  occupies  part  of  this  homestead,  and 
his  gravestone  may  still  be  seen  in  the  churchyard  to  which  place  this  and  several 
other  stones  were  moved,  some  years  since,  from  a  part  of  the  farm  not  far 
distant. 

Children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Rogers 

(39)  John,  born  Aug.  26,  1668;  married  Nov.  4,  1698,  Sarah  Lawton,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Elizabeth  (Tallman)  Lawton  (47);  died  Aug.  11,  1727. 

Joseph,  born  in  1670;  married  (i)  Elizabeth  Smith,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Mary  Smith; 
married  (2)  Mary  (Wilkins)  Jenkins,  widow  of  Richard  Jenkins,  and  daughter  of 
John  and  Anstis  (Gold)  Wilkins;  died  Oct.  2,  1710,  and  was  buried  in  the  Newport 
Cemetery,  although  for  a  time  he  lived  at  Tiverton. 

Samuel,  born  April  25,  1673;  married  Jan.  31,  1706,  Lydia  Holmes,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  Sarah  (Borden)  Holmes;  was  Captain  of  the  Second  Newport  Company  in  1722  and 
1723;  was  a  farmer,  and  lived  on  the  homestead  in  that  part  of  Newport  now  called 
Middletown;  died  Nov.  14,  1752,  and  with  his  wife  is  buried  in  the  Holy  Cross  Chapel. 
His  estate  inventoried  £  1,925.  12s.  id. 


94  JOHN   ROGERS,  JR.  [39] 

[39]  JOHN  ROGERS,  JR.  [1668-1727J 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

SARAH  LAWTON  [i  676-1 731] 

OF   NEWPORT,    R.    I. 

TOHN  ROGERS,  son  of  Captain  John  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Rogers  (38), 

I      was   born    at   Newport,  August  26,    1668,  and  married   there,  November 
I      4,    1698,  Sarah  Lawton,  daughter   of    Isaac  and    Elizabeth  (Tallman) 

J      Lawton  (47),  of  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  who  was  born  October  25,  1676. 

He  was  a  proprietor  in  common  lands  in  1 702,  and  in  1 709  to  1 7 1 4  was  deputy 

for  Newport  to  the  General  Assembly,     in  17 14  he  was  commissioned  as  ensign. 

He  was  a  deacon  in  the  First  Baptist  Church,  under  the  pastorate  of  Rev.  William 

Peckham,  son  of  John  Peckham  (34). 

His  death  occurred  August  1 1,  1727,  at  Newport.     His  wife  Sarah  survived 

him,  and  died  February  20,  1 73 1 .     Both  were  buried  in  the  Newport  Cemetery. 

Children  of  John  and  Sarah  (Lawton)  Rogers 

(40)  William,  born  July    14,    1709;  married   (i)  July    ii,    1734,  Abigail  Lyndon,   who  died 

March  4,  1747;  married  (2)  Nov.  1,  1748,  Sarah  Sanford,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 

Lydia  (Odlin)  Sanford  (55);  died  Oct.  i,  1772. 

Elizabeth,  married Barker. 

Sarah,  born  June  14,  1706;  married  (i)  Jan.  20,  1726,  John  Comer;  married  (2)  Samuel 

Miller;  died  Aug.  10,  1758. 
James,  born  in  1714;  married  (i)  Dec.  i,  1734,  Charity  Brayton;  married  (2)  Sept.  28,  1746, 

Abigail  Arnold,  daughter  of  Oliver  Arnold;  died  Aug.  22,  1776. 
Isaac,  born  April  4,  1716;  married  (i)  Nov.  10,  1751,  Mary  Ingraham;  married  (2)  Jan.  17, 

1754,  Sarah  Bennetland. 

[40]  WILLIAM  ROGERS  [i 709-1 772] 

and  his  wife 
SARAH  SANFORD  [1723-1776] 

OF   NEWPORT,    R.    I. 

WILLIAM  ROGERS,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Lawton)  Rogers  (40), 
was  bopn  at  Newport,  July  14,  1709,  and  married  there  (i)  July  11, 
1734,  Abigail  Lyndon.     She  died  March  4,  1747,  and  he  married  (2) 
November  i,  1748,  Sarah  Sanford,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Lydia 
(Odlin)  Sanford  (55),  of  Newport,  who  was  born  September  28,  1723. 

He  was  made  a  freeman  in  Newport  in  1731,  and  in  1747  was  justice  of  the 
peace.  He  was  lieutenant  of  the  Newport  Company  in  1755,  and  captain  later. 
Both  he  and  Joseph  Sanford,  his  father-in-law,  were  signers  of  a  petition  to  the 
King  in  1750,  relative  to  bills  of  credit. 


WILLIAM  ROGERS  [40]  95 

He  died  at  Newport,  October  i,  1772,  leaving  a  large  family.  His  wife  Sarah, 
survived  him  and  died  May  1 1,  1776.  Newport  was  then  occupied  by  the  British 
for  about  three  years,  and  his  family  became  scattered,  and  none  returned  to  live 
there.  All  of  his  sons  but  one  served  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  as  well  as  his 
son-in-law,  Thomas  Noyes  (6). 

Children  of  William  and  Sarah  (Sanford)  Rogers 

Abigail,  born  July  18,  1749;  married  Nov.  28,  1768,  Richard  Reynolds  Barker;  lived  in 
Charleston,  S.  C,  where  she  died  Sept.  27,  1797. 

Joseph,  born  July  4,  1750;  died  July  20,  1751. 

William,  born  July  22,  1751;  married  (i)  June  29,  1773,  Hannah  Gardner;  married  (2) 
Jan.  15,  1795,  Susannah  Marsh;  was  the  first  student  in  Rhode  Island  College,  and 
for  some  months  the  only  one;  graduated  in  1769;  was  the  pastor  of  the  Philadelphia 
Baptist  Church  from  1772  to  1775,  and  professor  of  Belles  Lettres  in  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania.  The  General  Assembly  of  Pennsylvania  commissioned  him  as 
chaplain  in  1776,  and  he  served  as  brigade  chaplain  in  1778.  He  died  at  Philadelphia 
April  7,  1824. 

Daniel,  born  Feb.  2,  1753;  married  June  10,  1773,  Anne  Saunders;  served  as  corporal  in  the 
Second  Regiment  Rhode  Island  State  Troops,  with  Colonel  Archibald  Crary  in  1776, 
and  died  at  Newport,  Aug.  31,  1792. 

Joseph,  born  March  21,  1754;  married  (i)  April  19,  1781,  Martha  Hazard;  married  (2)  Ruth 
Sears;  married  (3)  July  i,  1804,  Elizabeth  Sayre;  lived  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  died 
there  Dec.  31,  1825. 

Martha,  born  Aug.  21,  1755;  died  Oct.  3,  1756. 

John,  born  Dec.  16,  1756;  married  Dec.  5,  1779,  Elizabeth  Rodman;  was  ensign  in  Colonel 
Ezek  Hopkins'  regiment  in  1775;  lived  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  died  there  July  17, 
1810. 

Robert,  born  April  18,  1758;  married  April  2,  1780,  Mary  Rhodes;  was  lieutenant  in  Col- 
onel Benjamin  Tallman's  regiment  in  1776,  and  served  also  as  lieutenant  in  the 
First  Rhode  Island  Battalion  in  the  campaign  of  1779;  died  Aug.  6,  1835. 
(6)  Lydia,  born  May  19,  1760;  married  Jan.  31,  1781,  Lieutenant  Colonel  Thomas  Noyes, 
son  of  Colonel  Joseph  and  Barbara  (Wells)  Noyes  (5),  of  Westerly,  R.  I.  She 
died  at  Westerly,  Nov.  15,  1798. 

Sarah,  born  May  28,  1762;  married  John  Young,  of  Providence,  R.  I.;  died  in  Providence, 
April  13,  1800. 

Sanford,  born  Jan.  22,  1764;  died  Aug.  30,  the  same  year. 

Martha,  born  Aug  11,  1765;  died  Oct.  12,  1766. 

[46]  THOMAS  LAWTON  [....-1681] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    PORTSMOUTH,    R.    I. 

THOMAS  LAWTON   and  his  brother    George    were  at  Pocasset,  R.  I.  in 
the  spring  of  1639,  but  when  they  emigrated  or  from  what  part  of   Eng- 
land  they  came,  has   not    been  discovered.     Both  were  signers  of  the 
agreement  to  organize  a  new  government   at  Pocasset,  when  William 
CoDDiNGTON  (19),  John   Clarke,  Nicholas    Easton,  and  others  left   to  settle  at 


96  THOMAS  LAWTON  [46] 

Newport,  taking  with  them  the  records  of  the  colony.  The  name  of  the  town 
was  at  once  changed  to  "Portsmouth." 

As  it  appears  that  Thomas  Lawton  owned  rights  at  Martha's  Vineyard,  he 
may  have  settled  there  first,  and  later  removed  to  Portsmouth.  He  married  either 
just  before  coming  to  Portsmouth,  or  immediately  after,  his  first  wife  whose  name 
is  not  known.  She  was  the  mother  of  all  his  children,  and  died  after  1650,  which 
is  the  date  of  birth  of  her  last  child,  Isaac. 

Thomas  Lawton  was  made  freeman  in  1655,  and  was  also  commissioner  that 
year,  and  in  1656,  1658,  1661.  In  1657,  he  sold  a  house  and  land  in  Warwick,  but 
it  is  not  supposed  that  he  ever  lived  there.  He  received,  in  1660,  a  deed  of  lands 
in  Narragansett  from  Cadganaquant,  chief  sachem,  who  had  "formerly  received 
several  kindnesses"  from  him.  In  1666  he  was  deputy  to  the  General  Assembly 
of  Rhode  Island. 

He  married  (2),  sometime  before  1674,  Grace  (Parsons)  Bailey,  widow  of  Wil- 
liam Bailey,  and  daughter  of  Hugh  and  Elizabeth  Parsons.  This  proved  an  unhappy 
union,  and  he  appears  to  have  left  her,  and  failed  to  provide  for  her  maintenance. 
There  is  no  explanation  of  this  affair,  unless  it  be  the  statement  made  in  his  will. 

On  June  14,  1676,  his  wife  Grace,  having  often  presented  her  many  griev- 
ances to  the  town  and  several  times  to  the  Assembly,  asking  for  "due  and  suffi- 
cient maintenance,  she  being  much  neglected  in  her  husband's  absence,"  it  was 
ordered  by  the  Assembly  that  6s.  per  week  be  paid  her  by  her  husband's  agent, 
Daniel  Lawton,  probably  his  eldest  son,  and  future  provision  for  her  maintenance 
was  made  a  charge  against  his  estate.  The  next  year  Thomas  Lawton  made  an 
agreement  with  her  by  which  she  accepted  ;£io  a  year  in  silver,  "for  term  of  time 
she  liveth  without  changing  her  name  by  marriage,"  and  acquitted  him  of  all 
"dowry,  thirds,  portions  or  legacies,  etc." 

He  died  about  1681,  as  his  will,  dated  June  6,  1674,  was  proved  September  29, 
1681.  His  son  Daniel  was  executor,  and  William  Wodell'  and  George  Sisson, 
overseers.  This  will,  made  two  years  before  the  action  of  the  court  mentioned 
above,  is  in  part  as  follows; 

"'I  do  hereby  declare  that  although  Grace  have  not  behaved  herself  towards  me  as  a  wife 
ought  to  do  towards  an  husband,  yet  for  the  manifestation  of  my  care  of  her,  I  do  hereby  give,  be- 
queath unto  her  all  the  goods  that  are  yet  remaining  in  my  custody  of  those  that  were  hers  when 
I  married  her  and  also  one  good  feather  bed  and  boulster';  also  £\2.  per  annum  for  life  in  lieu  of  all 
right  she  has  [in  my  estate].  To  son  Daniel  farm  now  in  his  possession  called  'Long  Swamp  farm' 
and  confirmation  of  another  farm  called  'Hunting  Swamp  farm'  at  expiration  of  William  Wodell's 
lease  of  it.  To  son  Isaac  a  farm  at  Puncatege  and  all  rights  at  Martha's  Vineyard.  To  daughter 
Elizabeth  Sherman  .  .  .  a  quarter  of  a  share  in  Dartmouth,  and  a  piece  of  land  in  Portsmouth  .  .  . 
also  all  that  my  now  dwelling  house  with  land  about  it,  and  a  pasture  called  'fifty  acres.'  To 
daughter  Ann  Slocum  5s.  with  what  she  had  already  received.  To  daughter  Sarah  Sisson  ;^50. 
To  overseers  £^  apiece.     To  daughters  Elizabeth  .  .  .  and  Sarah,  the  rest  of  real  and  personal."' 

'  See  No.  54,  Note" I. 

'  Austin's  Genealogical  Dictionary  of  Rhode  Island. 


THOMAS  LAWTON  [46]  97 

From  the  fact  that  his  daughter  EHzabeth,  wife  of  Peleg  Sherman,  received 
a  larger  share  than  the  others,  it  seems  probable  that  he  made  his  home  with  her 
after  his  separation  from  his  wife,  and  until  his  death.  His  widow  Grace  died  after 
1677. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  — Lawton 

Elizabeth,  married  July  25,  1657,  Peleg  Sherman,  son  of  Philip  and  Sarah  (Odding)  Sherman. 
They  lived  at  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  Dartmouth  and  Swanzey,  Mass.,  and  at  Kingston, 
R.  I.     She  died  after  171 1. 

Daniel,  married   Rebecca ;  lived  at  Portsmouth,  and  was    a   farmer.     He    was    a 

deputy  in  1674,  on  the  Grand  Jury  in  1687,  and  died  June  28,  1719. 

Ann,  married  May  26,  1669,  Giles  Slocum,  son  of  Giles  and  Joan  Slocum.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent Quaker,  and  held  many  important  public  offices.  They  lived  at  Portsmouth 
and  Newport,  R.  I. 

Sarah,  married  Aug.  i,  1667,  George  Sisson,  son  of  Richard  and  Mary  Sisson;  died  July  5,1718. 

(47)  Isaac,  born  at    Portsmouth,    Dec.   11,    1650;    married    (i)    Mary    Sisson,    sister   of   his 

brother-in-law,  and  daughter  of  Richard  and  Mary  Sisson;  married  (2)  March  3, 

1673/4,  Elizabeth  Tallman,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Ann  ( )  Tallman  (50), 

who  died  May  20,  1701;  married  (3)  Oct.  11,  1701,  Naomi  (Hunt)  Lawton,  widow 

of  his  cousin  George  Lawton,  and  daughter  of  Bartholomew  and  Ann  ( )  Hunt. 

He  died  January  25,  1732. 

[47]  ISAAC  LAWTON  [16=^0-1732] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH  TALLMAN  [....-1701] 

OF    PORTSMOUTH,    R.    I. 

ISAAC  LAWTON,  son  of  Thomas  and  Lawton,  was  born  at  Ports- 
mouth, December  ii,  1650.  He  married  (i)  Mary  Sisson,  sister  of  his 
brother-in-law,  and   daughter    of  Richard  and  Mary  ( )  Sisson.    She 

died  without  children,  and  he  married  (2)  March  3,  1673/4,  Elizabeth  Tall- 
man, daughter  of  Peter  and  Ann  ( )  Tallman  (50).    By  her  he  had  eleven 

children.  She  died  May  20,  1701,  and  in  less  than  five  months  he  married  (3) 
October  11,  1701,  Naomi  (Hunt)   Lawton,  widow  of  his  cousin  George  Lawton, 

and  daughter  of  Bartholomew  and  Ann   ( )   Hunt.     She  had  four  children 

by  herfirst  husband,  but  none  by  Isaac  Lawton.  In  1676,  Isaac  Lawton  was 
made  freeman,  was  on  the  Grand  Jury  in  1688,  was  assistant  in  1690  and  1691, 
and  deputy  for  Portsmouth  in  the  years  1696,  1698,  1699,  1702,  1704  to  1706  and 
1708.     His  third  wife,  Naomi,  died  January  13,  1721. 

He  died  at  Portsmouth,  January  25,  1732,  aged  eighty-one.  In  his  will,  made 
January  20,  1727,  and  proved  February  14,  1732,  he  appointed  his  son  John  as  ex- 
ecutor.    As  given  by  Austin,  it  is  as  follows: 

"To  eldest  son  Isaac  5s.  he  already  having  had  house  and  farm  he  lives  on  in  Ports- 
mouth.    To  son  Thomas  5s.  he  already  having  received  house  and  farm  in  Bristol.     To  son  Job 


98  ISAAC  LAWTON  [47] 

all  the  house  and  land  he  now  hath  improvement  of  in  Portsmouth  and  negro  boy  Jamme.  To 
five  daughters,  Sarah  Rogers,  Anne  Almy,  Mary  Vaughan,  Susanna  Pearce  and  Ruth  Hall,  each  5s., 
they  having  had  already.  To  five  daughters  of  Elizabeth  Smith  deceased  .  .  .  each  5s.  To  .  .  . 
'two  children  of  my  daughter  Isabel  Cory  late  deceased' 5s.  each.  To  daughter  Ruth  Hall,  negro 
girl  Phillis.  To  son  John  all  my  farm  whereon  I  'dwell  in  Portsmouth  with  dwelling-house, 
orchard,  &c,  and  all  money,  silver  plate,  bonds,  household  goods,  husbandry  gear,  negro  servants, 
cattle,  horses,  sheep,  &c."' 

The  inventory,  considering  the  fact  that  most  of  his  children  had  been  pro- 
vided for  already,  was  large,  amounting  to  ;^  1,780  i6s.  and  consisting  of,  besides 
the  articles  already  mentioned,  a  gold  ring  and  three  pieces  of  gold,  £4,  wrought 
plate  £6j.,  bonds  ;^886.,  and  negro  man,  girl,  boy,  and  child  of  two  months,  ;^300. 

Children  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Tallman)  Lawton 

Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  16,  1674/5;  married  Edward  Smith,  son  of  Philip  and  Mary  Smith; 

died  Dec.  17,  171 1. 
(39)  Sarah,  born    Oct.    25,    1676;    married    Nov.  4,    1698,    John    Rogers,    son   of    Captain 

John  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Rogers  (38),  of  Newport;  died  Feb.  20,  1731. 

Ann,  born  April  25,  1678;  married  in  March,  i6g6.  Captain  Job  Almy,  son  of  Christopher 

and  Elizabeth  (Cornell)  Almy.     They  lived  at  Newport,  where  he  was  deputy  for  eight 

years,  and  captain  of  Militia.     She  died  Feb.  12,  1739. 
Isaac,  born  May  25,  1681 ;  married  Dec.  25,  1705,  Mary  Hill,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Hill. 
Mary,  born  April  3,  1683;  married  John  Vaughan,  son  of  Daniel  and  Susanna  (Grimes) 

Vaughan.     They  lived  at  Newport,  where  she  died  after  1734. 
Isabel,  born  March  12,  1684/5;  married  Sept.  11,  1718,  William  Cory  (Corey);  died  Jan.  24, 

1722. 
Thomas,  born  April  25,  1687. 

Susanna,  born  April  3,  1689;  married  May  22,  1723,  Richard  Pearce. 
Job,  born  April  28,  1691;  married  Sept.  10,  171 3,  Abigail  Dexter,  daughter  of  John  Dexter; 

was  justice  of  the  peace  in  Newport  in  1721,  and  later. 
Ruth,  born  April  9,  1694;  married  March  24,  1714/5,  Nathaniel  Hall. 
John,  born  Sept.  2,  i6g6;  married  March  10,  1719/20,  Abigail  Abbott,  daughter  of  Josiah 

Abbott. 

[50]  PETER  TALLMAN  [. . .  .-1708] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

ANN [....-....] 

OF   NEWPORT    AND    PORTSMOUTH,    R.    I. 

PETER  TALLMAN,  orTAELMAN,  as  it  is  sometimes  spelled,  was  probably 
an   emigrant  from  the   Netherlands,  as   one  Jan   Taelman   is   recorded 
as  coming  from  the  Netherlands    to    New  York   in    1664/5.     A    Peter 
Tallman  had  clearance  of  a  vessel  from  Manhattan  to  South  (or  Delaware) 
River  on  June  27,  165 1,  and  on  January  25,  1656,  the  same  man  was  complained 

'  Genealogical  Dictionary  of  Rhode  Island,  1 23.  j 


PETER  TALLMAN  [50]  99 

of  by  the  magistrate  of  Middleborough  (Newtown),  L.  I.,  for  removing  tobacco  at- 
tached by  order  of  the  Court  at  Flushing,  L.  I.  Whether  this  is  the  PeterTallman 
of  Newport  and  Portsmouth  is  not  known,  but  Austin  believes  him  to  be  the 
same. 

He  married  (i)  before  coming  to  Rhode  Island,  Ann ,  who  was  the 

mother  of  several  of  his  children.  In  1655  he  was  a  freeman  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  and 
in  1658  he  bought  land  at  Portsmouth,  in  these  deeds  he  is  called  Peter  Tallman 
of  Newport. 

In  1661  we  find  him  at  Portsmouth,  and  he  was  this  year  elected  general 
solicitor  for  the  Colony,  in  this  office  following  James  Rogers  (37).  In  1661  and 
1662  he  was  commissioner  for  Warwick  and  Portsmouth,  and  in  1662  and  1665  was 
deputy  to  the  General  Assembly  of  Rhode  Island. 

He  received  a  divorce  from  his  wife  Ann  in  1665.  She  was  ordered  by  the 
Court  to  be  "whipt  at  Portsmouth  15  stripes  and  after  an  interval  of  a  week,  at 
Newport  15  stripes,"  but  she  escaped  and  a  year  later  it  was  ordered  "that  she  be 
apprehended  and  punished." 

The  same  year,  on  July  24,  1665,  an  ante-nuptial  agreement  was  made  be- 
tween Peter  and  Joan  Briggs,  of  Taunton,  by  which  he  agreed  to  give  her  a  house 
and  certain  land,  all  to  be  hers  and  her  heirs'  born  of  their  marriage.  He  also  gave 
her  certain  household  goods,  but  "if  she  die  without  issue,"  the  estate  given  her 
was  to  revert  to  his  eldest  son,  Peter,  and  if  the  latter  died  without  issue,  then  to 
his  eldest  daughter  Mary  and  her  heirs.  To  Joan,  "absolutely  as  a  free  gift  of 
donation"  he  gave  three  good  cows  and  a  good  breeding  mare. 

He  must  have  married  (2)  Joan  Briggs  this  year,  1665,  and  she  was  un- 
doubtedly the  mother  of  most  of  his  children,  as  we  have  the  record  of  her  son 
Benjamin  born  in  January,  1683/4,  eighteen  or  nineteen  years  later  than  the  mar- 
riage. 

In  1674  PeterTallman  was  imprisoned  in  Plymouth  Colony,  for  violation  of 
a  law  of  Massachusetts  prohibiting  the  receipt  of  land  from  Indians  by  deeds  of  gift, 
but  after  relinquishing  all  claim  to  the  land  and  giving  up  the  deeds,  the  Court  re- 
leased him  July  7,  1674. 

In  1681  he  bought  lands  in  Warwick,  but  probably  never  lived  there.  His 
son  Benjamin,  however,  was  there  in  1747,  and  died  there  in  1759. 

He  was  on  a  coroner's  jury  in  Portsmouth  in  1683,  in  the  case  of  a  man 
found  dead  by  hanging.  The  verdict  was:  "That  we  do  not  find  but  that  the 
said  man  said  to  be  named  John  Crags  was  absolutely  the  only  actor  of  his  own 
death." 

His  wife  Joan  died  about  1685,  and  he  married  (3)  probably  in  1686,  Esther 

.     She  was  the  mother  of  only  one  of  his  children,  Samuel,  and  died  before 

1708. 

Peter  Tallman  died  at  Portsmouth,  probably  in  1708.  No  will  is  found,  but 
in  this  year  the  inventory  of  his  estate  was  presented  by  his  son  James.  Admin- 
istration having  been  given  to  another  son,  Jonathan,  he  took  acquittances  May  3, 


100  PETER  TALLMAN  [50] 

1709,  from  his  brothers  and  sisters,  the  signers  of  the  instrument  being  as  follows: 
William  Wilbur,  Israel  Shaw,  Jonathan  Tallman,  James  Tallman,  Benjamin  Tall- 
man,  Mary  Pearce,  Susanna  Beckett,  Peter  Tallman,  Isaac  Lawton  (47),  William 
Potter,  John  Tallman,  Joseph  Tallman,  Samuel  Tallman. 

It  is  impossible  to  give  the  exact  order  in  which  the  children  were  born,  no 
record  of  the  date  of  birth  of  some  having  been  found.  Neither  can  it  be  definitely 
stated  which  of  the  children  were  by  his  first  wife,  but  the  following  arrangement  of 
them  is  probably  correct. 

Children  of  Peter  and  Ann  ( ~ )  Tallman 

Mary,  married  John  Pearce,  son  of  Richard  and  Susanna  (Wright)  Pearce.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  they  lived  at  Portsmouth  and  Tiverton,  R.  I.  He  died  in  1707,  leaving 
an  estate  valued  at  £'y\q.  3s.     Mary  died  in  1720. 

(47)  Elizabeth,  married    March    3,     1673/4,  Isaac    Lawton,    son    of    Thomas    and 

Lawton  (46),  of  Portsmouth,  R.  L;  died  May  20,  1701. 

Peter,  born  March  22,  1657/8;  married  Nov.  7,  1683,  Ann  (Wright)  Walstone,  widow  of 
John  Walstone,  and  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Jane  (— )  Wright;  was  a  phy- 
sician, and  a  deputy  in  171 5;  they  lived  at  Portsmouth,  R.  1.,  and  Guildford,  Conn. 
He  died  July  6,  1726. 

Ann,  married  March  8,  1679,  Stephen  Brayton,  son  of  Francis  and  Mary  ( )  Brayton. 

They  lived  at  Newport  and  Portsmouth,  R.  I. 

Children  of  Peter  and  Joan  (Briggs)  Tallman 

Joseph,  of  whom  nothing  is  known  except  that  his  name  appears  among  the  children  in  the 
administration  of  his  father's  estate. 

Susanna,  married  ■ Beckett. 

,  a  daughter,  married  William  Wilbur,  son  of  William  Wilbur.  They  lived  at  Ports- 
mouth, and  Little  Compton,  and  she  died  before  1732. 

Jonathan,  married  Sarah ;  lived  at  Dartmouth,  Mass.  and  died  in  1762. 

James,  married  (i)  March  18,  1689,  Mary  Davol,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Brayton) 
Davol;  married  (2)  Sept.  14,  1701,  Hannah  Swain,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Wyer)  Swain,  of  Nantucket;  was  a  physician,  lived  at  Portsmouth,  and  died  there 
in    1724. 

,  a  daughter,  married  William  Potter. 

John,  married  Mary ;  lived  at  Flushing,  N.  Y.  and  died  in  1709. 

,  a  daughter,  married  in   1689,  Israel  Shaw,  son  of  Anthony  and  Alice  (Stonard) 

Shaw. 

Benjamin,  born  Jan.  28,  1683/4;  married  (i)  Sept.  23,  1708,  Patience  Durfee,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Deliverance  (Hall)  Durfee;  married  (2)  June  7,  1724,  Deborah  Cook, 

daughter  of  Captain  John  and  Mary  ( )  Cook,  of  Tiverton;  lived  at  Warwick, 

R.  I.,  and  died  May  20,  1759. 

Children  of  Peter  and  Esther  ( )  Tallman 

Samuel,  born  Jan.  14,  1688,  of  whom  nothing  more  is  known. 


SAMUEL  SANFORD  [54]  loi 

[54]  SAMUEL  SANFORD  [1635-17 13] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

SUSANNA  SPATCHURST  [.  .  .  .-1723] 

OF    PORTSMOUTH,    R.     I. 

SAMUEL  SANFORD  was  born  in  Boston,  July  14,  1635,  and  was  a  son  of 
John  Sanford  (15)  by  his  first  wife  Elizabeth   Webb,  who  is  said  to 
have  died  at  the  time  of  his  birth.     On  the  i8th  of  May,  1658,  he  and 
others  "being    freemen    of    Portsmouth,  are    admitted  freemen  of    this 
Colony,"  that  is,  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plantations. 

He  married  (i)  in  October,  1662,  Sarah  Wodell  (or  Waddell),  a  daughter  of 
William  and  Mary  Wodell,  of  Boston,' who  died  December  15,  1680.  He  is  re- 
corded at  Portsmouth  as  a  juryman  June  7,  1671.      He  married  (2)  April  13,  1686, 

Susanna  Spatchurst,  daughter  of  William  and   Elizabeth  ( )  Spatch- 

URST  (58),  of  "the  Bermudas,"  who  survived  him. 

He  died  at  Portsmouth,  March  18,  171 2/3  in  his  seventy-eighth  year.  His 
will,  dated  April  30,  1709,  proved  April  13,  1713,  appointed  his  wife  Susanna  exe- 
cutrix. He  gave  to  the  children  of  his  first  wife,  viz.,  his  "daughters  Elizabeth 
Allen  and  Mary  Arnold,  and  his  sons  John,  William,  and  Samuel,  each  one  shilling," 
and  to  those  of  Susanna,  viz.,  "sons  Restcome,  Peleg,  Elisha,  Endcome,  Esbon, 
Francis,  Joseph,  Benjamin,  and  Joshua,  and  daughter  Elizabeth  Sanford  each  five 
shillings."  To  his  wife  Susanna  he  left  the  rest  of  his  estate  "within  doors  and 
without." 

His  wife  Susanna  died  November  13,  1723. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Wodell)  Sanford 

Elizabeth,  born  Oct.  2,  1663;  married  Samuel  Allen,  probably  a  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Bacon)  Allen.     She  survived  him,  and  died  April  4,  1743. 

John,  born  June  10,  1668;  married  Sept.  6,  1689,  Frances  Clark,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and 
Ann  (Audley)  Clark,  and  granddaughter  of  John  and  Margaret  Audley  (or  Odlin) 
(60),  as  well  as  granddaughter  of  Frances  Latham  (32),  and  her  third  husband, 
Jeremiah  Clark.     John  died  Oct.  23,  1723. 

Bridget,  born  June  27,  1671;  named  for  her  step-grandmother  Bridget  (Hutchinson) 
Sanford  (15);  died  young. 

Mary,  born  April  27,  1674;  married  (i)  as  his  second  wife,  William  Brinley,  son  of  Francis 
and  Hannah  (Carr)  Brinley  and  grandson  of  Thomas  and  Anna  (Wase)  Brinley  (20); 
married  (2)  Feb.  12,  1704,  as  his  second  wife.  Captain  Josiah  Arnold,  son  of  Gov- 
ernor Benedict  Arnold,  of  Rhode  Island.  They  lived  at  Jamestown,  R.  I.,  and  she 
died  there  July  15,   1721. 

William,  born  May  21,  1676;  married  Jan.  26,  1699,  Hope  Sisson,  daughter  of  George  and 
Sarah  (Lawton)  Sisson,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  and Lawton  (46). 

'William  Wodell  was  one  of  the  supporters  of  Anne  Hutchinson  (17)  and  was  banished  from  Massa- 
chusetts on  that  account.  He  was  one  of  the  original  purchasers  of  Warwick  with  Gorton,  and  was  deputy  for 
Warwick  and  Portsmouth  for  many  years.  He  was  also  elected  assistant  "but  positively  declined  to  engage." 
He  died  in  1692.     He  was  executor  of  the  will  of  Thomas  Lawton  (46).     See  also  (30). 


02  SAMUEL  SANFORD  [54] 

Samuel,  born  July  14,  1678;  died  in  October,  1704,  aged  twenty-six. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Susanna  (Spatchurst)  Sanford 

Restcome,  born  Feb.  26,  1687;  married  Oct.  27,  1710,  Honora  Stringer  or  Strange;  died  at 

sea  July  6,  1713. 
Peleg,  born  Aug.  16,  1688;  married  Dec.  1 1,  1718,  Sarah  Arnold,  daughter  of  Captain  Josiah 

and  his  first  wife  Sarah  (Mills)  Arnold.     This  connection  is  noticeable  as  Captain 

Josiah  was  at  the  time  of  the  marriage  the  second  husband  of  Peleg's  half-sister 

Mary.     Peleg  died  at  Sandy  Point,  St.  Christopher's,  W.  I.,  May  6,  1730. 
Elisha,  born  Feb.  24,  1689/90;  married  March  5,  1714/ 5,  Rebecca  (Wood)  Ware,  widow  of 

Charles  Ware,  and  daughter  of  William  and  Martha  Wood. 
Endcome,  born  Nov.  19  (or  29),  1691 ;  died  at  sea,  June  13,  1717. 
Esbon,  born  Oct.  20  (or  26),  1693;  married  Sept.  27,  1716,  Mary  Woodward;  was  captain 

of  the  Third  Newport  Company  in  1735,  deputy  in  1740,  and  died  Aug.  22,  1743. 
Francis,  born  Oct.  24,  1695,  married  Freelove  Arnold,  daughter  of  Captain  Josiah  and  Sarah 

(Mills)  Arnold,  and  so  a  sister  of  his  brother  Peleg's  wife,  Sarah  (see  above).     Francis 

died  Oct.  20,  1748. 
(55)  Joseph,  born  Aug.   13,   1698;  married  Feb.  8,   1721/2,  Lydia  Odlin,  daughter  of  John 

and  Lydia  (Tillinghast)  Odlin  or  Audley  (62);  died  Oct.  i,  1765. 
Benjamin,  born  June  4,  1700;  drowned  at  St.  Eustatius,  W.  I.,  Nov.  21,  1733. 
Joshua,  born  April  18,  1702;  died  at  Martinique,  W.  I.,  Nov.  13,  1721. 
Elizabeth,  born  Dec.  7,  1706;  married  Dec.  20,  1736,  Simeon  Clark,  of  Westerly,  R.  I. 


[35]  JOSEPH  SANFORD  [1698-1765] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

LYDIA  ODLIN  [1702-1781] 

OF    PORTSMOUTH    AND   NEWPORT,    R.    I. 

TOSEPH  SANFORD,  son  of  Samuel  and  Susanna  (Spatchurst)  Sanford 
I  (54),  was  born  at  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  August  13,  1698.  He  married  Feb- 
I      ruary  8,  1721/2,  Lydia  Odlin,  daughter  of  John  and  Lydia  (Tillinghast) 

J      Odlin  or  Audley   (62),  of  Newport,  R.   I.  Lydia  was  born  January  29, 

1701/2. 

Joseph  Sanford  was  made  freeman  in  Newport  in  1738.     He  was  ensign  of 

the  Second  Company  of  the  Newport  Militia,  and  served  under  Captain  Robert 

Lillibridge,  Jr.      He  and  his  son-in-law  William  Rogers  (40)  were  signers,  in  1750, 

of  a  petition  to  the  King  relating  to  bills  of  credit. 

He  died  at  Newport,  October  i,  1765,  and  his  wife  Lydia  survived  him,  and 

died  May  20,  1781. 

Children  of  Joseph  and  Lydia  (Odlin)  Sanford 

(40)  Sarah,  born  Sept.  28,  1723;  married  William  Rogers,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Lawton) 
Rogers  (39);  died  May  11,  1776. 


JOSEPH  SANFORD  [55]  103 

Joseph,  born  in  1725;  married  Sept.  18,  1752,  Esther  Fleet;  died  May  26,  1759. 

Daniel,  born  Aug.  5,  1729. 

Martha,  born  July  10,  1732;  married  May  25,  1759,  Gardiner  Thurston. 

John,  born  in   1735. 

Odiin,  born  in  1738. 

[58]  WILLIAM  SPATCHURST  [....-....] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH [.  ...-....] 

OF    BERMUDA 

WILLIAM  SPATCHURST  is  mentioned  in  the  Rhode  Island  records  as 
being  "of  the  Bermudas,"  i,  e.,  it  is  stated  that  Susanna  Spatchurst, 
who  married  Samuel  Sanford,  as  given  below,  "was  the  daughter  of 
William  and  Elizabeth  Spatchurst,  of  the  Bermudas." 
It  should  be  noted  that  Samuel  Sanford's  own  brother  John'  married  an 
Elizabeth  Spatchurst,  "daughter  of  Henry  Spatchurst  of  the  Bermudas."  Henry 
and  William  Spatchurst  were  probably  brothers.  Neither  are  mentioned  as  hav- 
ing been  residents  of  Rhode  Island  at  this  or  any  time.  We  cannot  help  wishing 
that  there  was  some  fuller  information  to  be  had,  so  that  we  might  know  whether 
the  two  brothers  John  and  Samuel  met  and  married  their  wives  in  Bermuda,  where 
perhaps  they  had  gone  on  one  of  the  trading  vessels  from  Portsmouth,  or  whether 
the  marriages  occurred  in  Rhode  Island. 

Children  of  William  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Spatchurst 

(54)  Susanna,  born ,  married  April  13,  1686,  Samuel  Sanford,  of  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  son 

of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Webb)  Sanford  (15);  died  Nov.  13,  1723. 

[60]  JOHN  ODLIN  (OR  AUDLEY)  [1602-1685J 

and  his  wife 
MARGARET [....-....] 

of    ENGLAND   AND    BOSTON,    MASS. 

THE  name  Odlin  is  spelled  in  the  Boston  Records,  OdIin,  Odlen,  Audlin, 
Audlyn,    Audling,    Audley,   and    Awdley.      The    town    clerk    wrote    it 
Odlin,    probably    by    sound,  while  in    the    First  Church    Records  it  is 
usually    written    Audlyn,  which    is  perhaps   the  original    spelling.     In 
later  generations  it  has  become,  however,  "Odlin,"  so  we  use  that  form. 

John  Odlin's  name  was  No.  139  on  the  list  of  the  original  members  of  the 
First  Church  of  Boston,  in  1630.  We  do  not  know  when  he  came  to  America,  but 
he  was  the  founder  of  the  Odlin  family  here. 

'See  No.  15. 


104  JOHN  ODLIN  (or  AUDLEY)  [6o] 

He  married,  probably  about  1634,  Margaret  ,  whom  he  survived. 

By  occupation  he  was  a  cutler  or  armorer.  At  that  time  this  was  a  most  lucrative 
business,  and  in  some  cases  a  large  bonus  was  paid  to  induce  expert  workmen  to 
come  from  England  to  supply  the  colonists  with  arms  so  sorely  needed  to  protect 
themselves  and  their  families. 

He  was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  remonstrance  against  the  decision  of  the 
Synod  of  Boston,  which  banished  Anne  Hutchinson  (17);  and  for  signing  it,  was 
disarmed  with  others  May  15,  1637.  He  was  afterwards  restored  to  citizenship 
and  to  his  church  membership. 

In  1636  he  owned  land  in  Boston,  as  December  24,  1637,  we  find  the  record  of 

"a  wryting  under  the  hand  of  John  Odhn  dated  19th  of  5  mo,  [July]  last  past,  that  for  the  sum  of 
£  29.  8s.  he  hath  sould  his  great  Lott  of  84  acres  att  Romely  Marsh  [Chelsea]  &c." 

August  6,  1636,  John  Odlin  with  Mr.  William  Coddington  (19),  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Hutchinson  (17),  John  Sanford  (15),  William  Brenton,  father-in-law  of 
Governor  Peleg  Sanford  (16),  and  others  contributed  "towards  the  maintenance 
of  a  free  school  master  for  the  youth  with  us."  This  was  at  a  "general  meeting 
of  the  richer  inhabitants."  In  1638  he  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honor- 
able Artillery  Company  of  Boston. 

He  lived  to  be  one  of  the  oldest  citizens  of  his  adopted  town.  On  the  loth  of 
June,  1684,  with  three  other 

"ancient  dwellers  and  inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Boston  from  the  time  of  the  first  planting  and 
settling  thereof  and  continuing  so  until  this  day," 

he  testified  respecting  the  purchase  of  Blackstone's  rights  in  1634,  and  gave  his  age 
as  "about  82  yeares." 

John  Odlin  died  December  18,  1685,  aged  eighty-three.  In  Judge  Samuel 
Sewall's  Diary  is  the  following  mention  of  his  death  and  burial : 

"Decemb"'  18  1685.  Father  John  OdUn  one  of  the  very  first  Inhabitants  of  Boston  dies. 
Know  not  of  above  one  more  besides  the  Governour"  [Bradstreet].  "Satterday  Dec''  19  Father 
Jno.  Odlin  buried  in  the  first  Burying  place".  [Corner  of  Tremont  and  School  streets] 

His  will,  dated  March  3,  1685,  was  proved  January  1 1,  1686.  The  executor 
was  his  son  Elisha.  In  it  he  mentioned  his  sons  Elisha,  John,  and  Peter,  and  a 
granddaughter,  Hannah  Bumstead.  Though  he  did  not  mention  any  daughter, 
it  is  known  that  he  had  at  least  the  two  mentioned  below,  and  probably  a  third,  who 
married  a  Bumstead. 

Children  of  John  and  Margaret  ( )  Odlin 

John,  born  June  3,  baptized  June  28,  1635,  and  died  soon  after. 
Hannah,  born  Feb.  g,  baptized  March  4,  1638,  and  died  soon  after. 

Elisha,  born  July  i,  baptized  July  5,  1640;  married  in  August,  1659,  Abigail  Bright,  daughter 
of  Henry  and  Ann  ( )  Bright,  of  Watertown.     Their  son.  Rev.  John  Odlin, 


JOHN  ODLIN  (OR  AUDLEY)  [60]  105 

founder  of  the  town  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  was  the  friend  and  pastor  of  Edward  Oilman 
(130),  and  his  son  Hon.  John  Oilman  (131).     Elisha  was  a  tailor,  living  in  Bos- 
ton, and  died  there  about  1724. 
(61)  John,  born  Feb.  3,  baptized  Feb.  13,  1641/2;  married  Martha and  died  at  New- 
port, R.  1.,  Dec.  13,  171 1. 

Hannah,  born  July  31,  baptized  Aug.  8,   1643;  married  Jonathan  Davol,  son  of  William 
Davol.     They  lived  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  Dartmouth,  Mass. 

Peter,  born  Aug.  2,  1646;  died  March  9,  1647. 

Peter,  mentioned  in  his  father's  will  in  1685. 

Ann,  married  Jeremiah  Clark,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Francis  (Latham)  Clark  (32).      Ann 
died  Dec.   15,   1732. 


[61]  JOHN  ODLIN  JR.  [1642-171 1] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARTHA  [1640-1711] 

OF    NEWPORT,    R.    I. 

JOHN  ODLIN,  son  of  John  and  Margaret  ( )  Odlin  (or  Audley)  (6o), 
was  born  at  Boston,  Mass.,  February  3,  and  baptized  February  13,  164 1/2. 
Of  his  early  life  we  know  nothing  except  that  he  learned  his  father's  trade  of 
cutler  and  armorer.  He  married  about  1665,  Martha ,  probably  be- 
fore leaving  Boston  for  his  new  home  in  Newport,  R.  I.,  where  his  first  child,  John, 
was  born  in  1666.     Martha  was  born  May  13,  1640. 

The  first  record  we  find  of  him  in  Newport  is  on  May  13,  1667,  when  "he  and 
others  skilled  therein,"  were  ordered  "to  repair  all  arms  brought  to  them  by  order 
of  the  Captain  or  Lieut,  of  the  Train  Band  of  Newport."  In  1672,  his  servant  hav- 
ing been  beaten  by  an  Indian,  the  latter  was  fined  ;^ii.  20s.  If  the  Indian  was 
unable  to  pay  the  fine,  he  was  to  be  sold  for  a  slave  to  the  Barbadoes. 

John  Odlin  had  a  legacy  in  1685  of  certain  land  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  by  the 
will  of  his  father,  and  deeded  it  two  years  later  to  his  brother  Elisha,  of  Boston. 
The  same  year  he  had  land  laid  out  to  him  at  East  Greenwich,  but  never  went 
there  to  settle.     This  land  he  deeded  to  his  son  Robert  in  1698. 

He  was  one  of  the  signers,  July  16,  1686,  with  Peleg  Sanford  (16),  Francis 
Brinley,  Thomas  and  Nathaniel  Coddington,  and  others,  of  the  address  to  King 
James  II  in  relation  to  the  writ  of  "Quo  Warranto."  In  1702,  he  was  a  proprietor 
in  the  common  lands,  and  in  1707,  was  appointed  on  the  committee  to  audit  the 
Colony's  and  general  treasurer's  account.  In  1708  he  with  two  others  were  chosen 
to  oversee  the  repairing  and  finishing  of  the  Colony  House,  for  which  ;^ioo  was  ap- 
propriated by  the  Assembly. 

John  Odlin  died  at  Newport,  December  13,  171 1,  aged  seventy,  and  about 
two  weeks  later,  December  30,  his  widow  Martha  died,  aged  seventy-one.  They 
were  both  buried  in  the  Newport  cemetery. 


io6  JOHN  ODLIN,  JR.  [6i] 

Children  of  John  and  Martha  ( )  Odlin 

(62)  John,  born  in  1666;  married  (i)  in  1687,  Lydia  Tillinghast,  daughter  of  Pardon  and 
Lydia  (Taber)  Tillinghast  (65),  who  died  June  30,  1707;  married  (2)  before  1711, 
Elizabeth  Arnold,  daughter  of  Captain  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Mills)  Arnold,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Governor  Benedict  Arnold;  died  June  29,  1738. 
Robert,  the  only  record  of  whom  is  the  deed  from  his  father  mentioned  above,  dated  June 
6,  1698. 

[62]  JOHN  ODLIN  3RD  [1666-1738] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

LYDIA  TILLINGHAST  [1665-1707] 

OF    NEWPORT,    R.    I. 

T  OHN  ODLIN,  son  of  John  and  Martha  ( )  Odlin,  was  born  in  Newport 

I      in  1666.     We  have  no  record  of  his  early  life,  which  was  probably  spent  at 
I      Newport,  but  soon  after  he  came  of  age,  about  1687,  he  married  (i)  Lydia 
J      Tillinghast,  daughter  of  Elder  Pardon  and  Lydia  (Taber)  Tillinghast 
(65).     She  was  born   February  18,  1665,  and  by  her  John  Odlin  had  eight  chil- 
dren.    She  died  June  30,  1707,  aged  forty-two. 

He  married  (2)  before  171 1,  Elizabeth  Arnold,  daughter  of  Captain  Josiah  and 
Sarah  (Mills)  Arnold,  and  granddaughter  of  Governor  Benedict  Arnold.'  This 
marriage  made  a  curious  relationship,  as  Captain  Josiah  had  as  second  wife,  Mary 
Sanford,  whose  half-brother  Joseph  later  married  John  Odlin's  daughter  Lydia 
(see  below).     Elizabeth  was  born  May  19,  1684. 

John  Odlin  was  a  proprietor  in  common  lands  March  4,  1702,  and  in  1716 
was  allowed  £3  for  services  in  building  the  Newport  jail.  He  became  deputy  for 
Newport  to  the  General  Assembly  in  1724.  His  second  wife  Elizabeth  died  Oc- 
tober I,  1726. 

March  18,  1728,  he  gave  a  deposition  about  Aquidneck  Point  in  a  suit  of 
Jonathan  Marsh  vs.  Job  Carr,  and  then  called  himself  sixty-two  years  of  age,  which 
gives  us  the  date  of  his  birth  as  1666.  He  died  at  Newport,  June  29,  1738,  aged 
seventy-two.     He  and  both  of  his  wives  were  buried  in  the  Newport  cemetery. 

Children  of  John  and  Lydia  (Tillinghast)  Odlin 

John,  born  in  March,  1688/9. 

Elisha,  born  in  November,  i6go. 

Martha,  born  in  1692. 

Mary,  born  in  1694. 

,  a  son,  born  July  8,  1700;  died  young. 

'Governor  Benedict  Arnold  was  a  prominent  man  in  the  Colony  of  Rhode  Island.  He  was  president  of 
the  four  towns  of  Providence,  Portsmouth,  Newport,  and  Warwick  from  1657  to  1663,  was  named  as  governor  of 
the  Colony  in  the  second  Charter  and  elected  to  that  office  for  many  years  after.  In  politics  and  theology  alike, 
Governor  Arnold  was  opposed  to  Governor  Coddington  (19)  and  was  the  friend  of  Rev.  John  Clarke  (see  No. 
30)  and  of  Deputy  Governor  James  Barker  (30).    The  latter  was  one  of  the  executors  of  his  will. 


JOHN  ODLIN  3RD  [62]  107 

(55)  Lydia,  born  Jan.  29,  1701/2;  married  Feb.  8,  1721/2,  Joseph  Sanford,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Susanna  (Spatchurst)  Sanford  (54),  the  brother  of  her  step-mother's  step- 
mother.    Lydia  died  May  20,  1781. 

Abigail,  born  Sept.  30,  1703. 

EHzabeth,  born  in  October,  1706. 

Children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Arnold)  Odlin 

Sarah,  born  in  October,  1711. 
Josiah,  born  Sept.  12,  1714. 
Jonathan,  born  in  July,  171 5. 
John,  born  March  12,  1718/9. 

[65]         ELDER  PARDON  TILLINGHAST  [1622-1718] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

LYDIA  TABER  [1640-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    PROVIDENCE,    R.    I. 

ELDER,  or  Rev.,  Pardon  Tillinghast  was  born  at  Seven  Cliffs,  near  Beachy 
Head,  Sussex,  England,  about  the  year  1622.  Nothing  is  certainly  known 
of  his  parentage,  but  he  is  thought  to  have  been  a  descendant  of  the 
Norseman  Tillinghast,  who,  under  William  the  Conqueror,  landed  at 
Strachy  Head  in  1066,  and  settled  in  that  region  after  the  battle  of  Hastings. 

There  is  a  tradition  that,  before  coming  to  this  country,  Pardon  Tillinghast 
served  in  Cromwell's  army.  He  was  but  twenty-three  years  old  when  he  emigrated 
to  New  England  in  1645,  ^^id  he  settled  first  in  Connecticut,  but  his  stay  there  must 
have  been  short,  as  we  find  his  the  second  name  in  a  list  of  citizens  of  Providence, 
R  L,  dated  January  19,  1646.  This  document  is  a  receipt  for  twenty-five  acres  of 
land  apiece  as  a  gift  to  the  signers,  who  pledge  themselves  to  be  loyal  to  the  gov- 
ernment under  whose  protection  they  had  placed  themselves. 

On  May  9,  1649,  Pardon  Tillinghast  bought  the  lot  called  "Mrs.  Lea's" 
in  the  record,  "paying  her  presently  30s.  therefor."  This  Mrs.  Lea  has  been 
thought  to  be  Phoebe  (Browne)  Lee,  widow  of  Thomas  Lea  (or  Lee)  (76),  until 
recently,  but  now  it  seems  improbable.     (See  No.  76.) 

Pardon  Tillinghast  married  (i)  in  1653,  Sarah  Butterworth,  of  Rehoboth, 
Mass.,  born  in  1623,  by  whom  he  had  three  children.  She  died  in  1660,  at  Newport. 
They  had  removed  from  Providence  to  Newport  in  1658,  and  he  seems  to  have  re- 
mained there  after  the  death  of  his  wife  Sarah  until  the  spring  of  1664.  He  then 
married  (2)  April  16,  1664,  Lydia  Taber,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Lydia  (Masters) 
Taber  (or  Tabor)  (66),  who  was  born  at  Tiverton,  R.  L,  in  1640. 

Soon  after  this,  probably  in  1665,  they  returned  to  Providence,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  trade  as  a  merchant  and  cooper.  His  land  and  that  of  John  Whipple, 
Sr.,  were  the  boundaries  in  the  town  between  which  "no  man  should  presume  to 
ride  a  gallup  on  a  horse." 


io8  ELDER  PARDON  TILLINGHAST  [65] 

He  was  a  deputy  for  Providence  in  1672,  1680,  1690,  1694,  1697,  and  1700, 
member  of  the  town  council  from  1688  to  1707,  and  also  held  the  office  of  overseer 
of  the  poor  in  1687.  The  fact  that  he  was  chosen  for  these  important  offices  while 
conducting  his  various  business  enterprises  and  discharging  his  duties  as  pastor  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church,  shows  that  he  was  considered  a  man  of  exceptional  ability. 

In  1680  he  was  granted  on  his  petition  twenty  feet  square  of  land  "for  build- 
ing him  a  warehouse  with  privilege  of  a  wharf  over  against  his  dwelling-house." 

After  the  death  of  Rev.  Thomas  Olney,  in  1681,  he  was  chosen  to  succeed  him 
as  the  sixth  ordained  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Providence,  the  same 
church  over  which  Roger  Williams  had  served  as  pastor.  Many  years  later  he 
erected  on  the  corner  of  North  Main  and  Smith  Streets,  at  his  own  expense,  their 
first  meeting-house,  his  people  having  worshipped  for  more  than  half  a  century  in 
a  grove  and,  when  the  weather  was  inclement,  in  private  houses.  On  April  14, 
171 1,  he  deeded  this  meeting-house,  called  the  Baptist  meeting-house,  together 
with  the  lot  on  which  it  stood,  to  the  church  and  its  successors 

"in  the  same  faith  and  order"  for  "the  christian  love,  good-will  and  affection  which  I  bear 
to  the  church  of  Christ  in  Providence,  the  which  I  am  in  fellowship  with  and  have  the  care  of  as  being 
elder  of  the  said  church."  To  this  was  added  the  following  memorandum:  "I  do  intend  by  the 
words  same  faith  and  order  such  as  do  truly  believe  and  practice  the  six  principles  of  the  doctrines 
of  Christ  mentioned  in  Heb.  6:  2:  such  as  after  their  manifestation  of  repentance  and  faith  are  bap- 
tized in  water  and  have  hands  laid  on  them." 

Pardon  Tillinghast  would  receive  no  salary  for  his  services  as  pastor,  as 
he  was  in  comfortable  circumstances,  but  he  always  maintained  the  right  of  pastors 
to  a  support  from  the  churches  they  served.  It  is  said  of  him  that  "he  was  re- 
markable for  his  piety  and  his  plain  dress,"  and  also  that  "he  was  a  man  exemplary 
for  his  doctrine  as  well  as  of  unblemished  character." 

In  1684  he  deeded  to  his  son  John,  of  Newport,  then  a  married  man  and 
twenty-seven  years  old,  his  portion,  consisting  of  certain  lands  in  Newport  with 
houses,  brew-house,  warehouse,  etc.  He  was  still  a  merchant  in  1688,  as  in  his 
ratable  estate  are:  shop-goods  assessed  at  ;£40.,  enclosed  land  4  acres,  vacant  land 
80  acres,  2  shares  of  meadow,  4  cows,  3  heifers,  24  sheep,  5  horsekind,  2  swine,  part 
of  2  boats,  and  "a  little  sorry  housing." 

Having  reached  the  great  age  of  ninety-six,  he  died  at  Providence,  January  29, 
1718,  leaving  a  widow  and  nine  children,  and  was  buried  in  his  own  lot  at  the  south 
end  of  the  town,  which  is  still  kept  as  the  burial  lot  of  his  family.  His  will,  dated 
December  15,  1715,  and  proved  February  11,  1718,  names  as  executors  his  wife 
Lydia  with  his  "  sons  Philip  and  Benjamin  to  help  her."  The  will  opens  with  these 
words : 

"  I  do  bequeath  my  life  and  spirit  into  the  hands  of  the  Fountain  of  Life  and  Father  of  Spirits 
from  whom  1  have  received  it  and  my  body  to  the  dust  from  whence  it  came,  in  hope  of  a  resurrec- 
tion to  eternal  life." 

He  left  to  his  sons  Pardon,  :Philip,  and  Benjamin  ^'^o.  each,  and  to  his  son 


ELDER  PARDON  TILLINGHAST  [65]  109 

Joseph,  his  dwelHng-house  and  lot  after  his  mother's  death.  To  his  five  daughters 
Mary  Carpenter,  Abigail  Sheldon,  Mercy  Power,  Hannah  Hale,  and  Elizabeth 
Taber  £\o.  each,  and  to  each  grandchild  5s. 

Theinventory  of  his  personal  property  amounted  t0;gi,542.4s.  3d.,  viz.,  silver 
money  ;£88.  i8s.,  due  by  bonds  ;£i,  133.  i8s.,  due  by  book  £91.,  bills  of  credit  £155. 
4s.,  etc. 

There  is  a  marriage  recorded  under  the  date  of  November  4,  17 18,  at  Provi- 
dence, of  a  "  Mrs.  Lydia  Tillinghast,  to  Samuel  Mason,  of  Swanzey."  This  may  pos- 
sibly be  a  second  marriage  of  the  widow  of  Elder  Pardon  Tillinghast,  although  it 
hardly  seems  probable,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  she  was  then  seventy-eight  years  of 
age,  and  it  was  only  nine  months  after  her  husband's  death. 

Children  of  Pardon  and  Sarah  (Butterworth)  Tillinghast 

Sarah,  born  Sept.  17,  1654;  died  unmarried  at  Providence,  in  1671. 

John,  born  July  i,   1657;  married  in  1678,  Isabella  Sayles,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 

(Williams)  Sayles;  was  a  cooper  and  was  deputy  for  Newport  at  the  time  of  his  death, 

which  occurred  Dec.  16,  1690.     His  widow  married  (2),  Robert  Hicks,  perhaps  the 

brother  of  John  Hicks  (see  28). 
Mary,  born  in  August,  1659;  married  Benjamin  Carpenter,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth 

(Arnold)  Carpenter,  of  Pawtucket,  R.  I.;  died  after  171 5. 

Children  of  Pardon  and  Lydia  (Taber)  Tillinghast 

(62)  Lydia,  born  Feb.  18,  1665;  married  in  1687,  John  Odlin  (or  Audley),  son  of  John  and 
Margaret  Odlin  (61);  died  June  30,  1707. 

Pardon,  born  Feb.  18,  1667;  married  (1)  in  1688,  Mary  Keech,  daughter  of  George  and 
Mary  Keech,  who  died  Feb.  7,  1726;  married  (2)  April  28,  1728,  Sarah  Ayers,  of  West 
Greenwich,  Mass.;  was  deputy  from  East  Greenwich  for  eleven  years  between  1702 
and  1725;  was  also  justice  of  the  peace,  and  a  man  of  considerable  means;  died  at 
East  Greenwich,  Oct.  15,  1743. 

Philip,  born  Aug.  15,  1669;  married  May  3,  1692,  Martha  Holmes,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
and  Sarah  (Borden)  Holmes;  was  a  merchant  in  Providence,  and  served  in  Captain 
Samuel  Gallup's  Company,  in  the  expedition  against  Canada  in  1690.  He  was  jus- 
tice of  the  peace,  and  for  many  years  deputy  and  assistant  in  171,4;  he  died  March  14, 
1732. 

Benjamin,  born  Dec.  3,  1671 ;  married  in  1700,  Sarah  Rhodes,  daughter  of  Malachi  and  Mary 
(Carder)  Rhodes;  was  a  merchant  in  Providence;  died  Sept.  14,  1726,  and  both  he 
and  his  wife  were  buried  in  the  North  Burial  Ground  in  Providence. 

Abigail,  born  Jan.  30,  1674;  married  in  1691  Nicholas  Sheldon,  son  of  John  and  Joan  (Vin- 
cent) Sheldon;  died  Nov.  23,  1747. 

Joseph,  born  June  11,  1677;  married  (i)  in  1703,  Freelove  Stafford,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Mercy  (Westcott)  Stafford;  married  (2)  in  1720,  Mary  (Paris)  Hendron,  probably 
daughter  of  Abraham  Paris,  mariner,  of  Barbadoes;  was  a  merchant  in  Providence 
and  Newport,  and  died  Dec.  i,  1763. 

Mercy,  born  in  July,  1679;  married  in  1699  as  his  second  wife.  Colonel  Nicholas  Power,  son 
of  Nicholas  and  Rebecca  (Rhodes)  Power;  died  Nov.  13,  1769. 


no  ELDER  PARDON  TILLINGHAST  [65] 

Hannah,  born  in  1682;  married  John  Hale,  son  of  Richard  and  Mary  (Bullock)  Hale,  of 

Swansea,  Mass. 
Elizabeth,  born   in  1685;  married   her  first  cousin,  Philip  Taber,  son  of  her   uncle  Thomas 

and  Mary  (Thompson)  Taber  (see  No.  66). 


[66]  PHILIP  TABER  [1605-1672] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

LYDIA  MASTERS  [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   TIVERTON,    R.    I. 

FROM  what  place  in  England  Philip  Taber  emigrated,  or  in  what  ship  he 
came  over  we  do  not  know,  but  it  was  probably  in  1633.  The  first  record 
found  of  him  is  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  on  April  i,  1634,  when  he  made  a 
subscription  of  two  hundred  feet  of  four-inch  plank  towards  the  sea  fort, 
Boston,  or  as  Savage  puts  it,  "towards  building  the  galley  for  the  security  of  the 
harbour."  He  was  made  a  freeman  at  Watertown,  May  14,  1634,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Watertown  Church.  He  must  have  removed  soon  after  to  Yarmouth,  as  he 
is  named  as  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  that  place,  and  in  March,  1639,  was  on  a 
committee  to  make  an  equal  division  of  the  planting  land  in  the  first  allotment. 

He  married  (i),  before  1639,  Lydia  Masters,  daughter  of  John  and  Jane 
( )  Masters  (66-a),  of  Cambridge,  Mass.  He  represented  Yarmouth  as  dep- 
uty in  the  earliest  Assembly  of  Plymouth  Colony  in  1639,  and  again  in  1640.  The 
latter  year  he  appears  to  have  moved  to  Barnstable,  and  to  have  remained  there 
several  years,  as  four  of  his  sons  were  baptized  there  between  1640  and  1646. 
Soon  after  1646  he  removed  to  Martha's  Vineyard,  where  he  stayed  until  1651, 
when  he  went  to  New  London,  Conn.  He  must  have  been  there  but  for  a  few 
years,  as  in  1656  we  find  him  in  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  where  he  was  made  freeman 
the  same  year.  He  was  a  deputy  for  Portsmouth  in  1660, 1661,  and  1663.  In  1663 
he  was  on  a  committee  for  raising  the  money  to  be  paid  Rev.  John  Clarke  by  the 
Colony  for  his  services  as  agent  to  England.  This  was  at  the  time  that  Governor 
Coddington  tried  to  set  aside  the  Charter.  The  record  reads:  "Two  men  from 
each  town  shall  be  chosen  to  draw  up  their  thoughts  how  the  money  shall  be  pay'' 
to  Mr.  John  Clarke." 

in  1664,  Philip  Taber  had  again  moved  and  was  living  in  Newport,  as  we 
see  by  a  deed  of  a  house  in  Portsmouth,  in  which  he  called  himself  "of  Newport." 
He  also  deeded,  in  1665,  another  house  and  10  acres  of  ground  in  Portsmouth,  evid- 
ently his  former  home  there,  for  the  consideration  of  "£40  and  three  hundred 
good  boards." 

His  first  wife  Lydia  died  when  and  where  we  do  not  know,  and  he  married  (2) 
Jane  Masters,  a  sister  of  Lydia.  He  then  went  to  Providence  to  live  and  on  June 
10,  1669,  he  made  deposition  regarding  a  child  drowned  in  a  river  near  his  house, 


PHILIP  TABER  [66]  iii 

and  gave  his  age  as  sixty-four.     His  wife  Jane  also  gave  testimony,  also  giving  her 
age  as  sixty-four.     She  died  soon  after  at  Providence. 

In  the  William  Harris  case,  which  has  been  referred  to  under  General  Sergeant 
James  Rogers  (37),  Philip  Taber  gave  testimony,  February  24,  1672,  to  be  read 
before  the  General  Assembly.  About  this  time  he  is  said  to  have  settled  in  Tiver- 
ton, R.  I.,  where  he  died  in  1672,  leaving  six  children,  all  supposed  to  be  by  his 
first  wife. 

Children  of  Philip  and  Lydia  (Masters)  Taber 

John,  baptized  in  Barnstable,  Nov.  8,  1640,  and  died  young. 
(65)  Lydia,  born  in  1640;  married  April  16,  1664,  as  his  second  wife.  Pardon  Tillinghast. 

Joseph,  baptized  in  Barnstable,  in  February,  1646;  was  a  mason  by  trade,  and  lived  at 
Tiverton,  R.  I. 

Philip,  baptized  at  Barnstable  in  February,  1646;  married  Feb.  2g,  1675,  Alary  Cooke, 
daughter  of  Elder  John  and  Sarah  (Warren)  Cooke,'  and  granddaughter  of  Richard 
Warren  (234-A)  of  the  "Mayflower";  lived  at  Dartmouth,  Mass.,  where  he  died  after 
1693.     His  widow  survived  him,  and  married  (2) Davis. 

Thomas,  baptized  at  Barnstable  in  February,  1646;  married  (i)  in  1667,  Esther  Cooke, 
sister  of  his  brother  Philip's  wife  who  died  in  1672;  married  (2)  June,  1672,  Mary 
Thompson,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  John  and  Mary  (Cooke)  Thompson,  first  cousin 
to  his  first  wife.  Thomas  was  a  mason  by  trade,  was  town  clerk  in  Dartmouth  (now 
Fairhaven),  Mass.,  in  1679,  and  selectman  for  many  years;  was  captain  in  1689, 
deputy  in  1693,  and  died  Nov.  11,  1730. 

Job,  so  given  in  the  Leonard  Papers,  in  the  New  Bedford  Public  Library. 


[66-Al  JOHN  MASTERS  [i 585-1639] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

JANE  [....-1639] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   CAMBRIDGE,    MASS. 

JOHN  MASTERS  was  born  about  1585,  and  came  to  America  with  the  Win- 
throp  fleet  in  1630,  probably  with  his  wife  Jane  and  some  or  perhaps  all 
of  his  children.  He  is  mentioned  in  Winthrop's  diary  as  one  who  accom- 
panied him  on  an  exploring  tour  up  the  Charles  River  in  1631.  Masters 
Brook,  one  of  the  tributaries  of  Charles  River,  was  named  after  him,  he  being  the 
oldest  man  in  the  company.     He  was  then  forty-six  years  of  age. 

He  was  made  freeman  May  18,  1 631,  at  Cambridge,  his  name  appearing  with 
the  significant  prefix  of  "Mr."  The  same  year  he  engaged  to  construct  a  canal 
from  the  Charles  River  to  Newtowne  (Cambridge),  12  feet  broad  and  7  feet  deep, 
for  which  the  Court  promised  him  satisfaction  "according  as  the  charges  thereof 
shall  amount  unto."     The  cost  of  the  canal  was  fyo. 

John  Masters  died  at  Cambridge  December  21,  1639,  and  his  wife  Jane 

'Savage  says  that  John  Cooke  "was  the  latest  male  survivor  of  the  passengers  of  the  blessed  Mayflower." 


112  JOHN  MASTERS  [66-a] 

died  only  five  days  later,  on  December  26.  His  will  is  dated  "19th,  loth  month,  1639" 
(December  19,  1639),  or  only  two  days  before  his  death,  and  reads  as  follows: 

"This  is  the  minde  &  will  of  me  John  Masters.  Item.  I  give  to  my  wife  all  my  estate  for 
the  terme  of  her  life  &  after  hir  decease  I  will  &  bequeathe  vnto  my  Daughter  Sarah  Dobyson  ten 
pounds. 

Item,  to  my  daughter  Lidya  Tabor  ten  pounds.  Item,  to  my  grandchild  John  Lockwood  ten 
pounds.  Item,  to  Nathaniel  Masters  ten  pounds,  to  Abraham  Masters  ten  shillings,  also  my  minde 
&  will  is  that  the  ten  pounds  I  give  to  John  Lockwood  and  the  ten  pounds  I  give  to  Nathaniel 
Masters  shall  be  layde  out  vpon  somethinge  that  may  turne  to  the  encrease  of  theire  portions, 
ffurthermore  my  will  is  that  these  leagacyes  shal  be  well  &  truly  discharged  within  six  monthes 
after  my  wives  decease,  these  &  all  other  my  debt  beinge  discharged  I  give  all  the  remainder  of  my 
estate  vnto  my  daughter  Elizabeth  Latham." 

Nathaniel  and  Abraham  may  have  been  sons,  but  more  likely,  as  Savage 
thinks,  Nathajiiel  was  a  grandson  and  son  of  Abraham. 

Children  of  John  and  Jane  ( )  Masters 

Jane,  born  in  1605;  married  as  his  second  wife,  Philip  Taber,  her  brother-in-law,  and  died 

in  1669. 

Sarah,  married Dobson  or  Dobyson. 

(66)  Lydia,  married  about  1639,  Philip  Taber,  of  Yarmouth,  Mass. 
Elizabeth,  married  Gary  Latham. 
Abraham,  mentioned  in  his  father's  will,  and,  Savage  says,  had  a  son  Nathaniel  living  at 

Beverly,  Mass.,  in  1659. 
,  probably  another  daughter,  who  married Lockwood,  and  was  the  mother 

of  the  John  Lockwood  mentioned  in  her  father's  will. 


LORD  ANCESTRY 

OF 

PHOEBE  GRIFFIN  LORD 

[7] 


[67]  THOMAS  LORD  [1585-..] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

DOROTHY  BULKELEY  [i  589-1675] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  HARTFORD,  CONN. 

IT  is  to  be  regretted  that  so  little  can  be  ascertained  with  regard  to  the  Eng- 
lish home  of  Thomas  Lord,  as  we  are  descended  from  him  through  two  of  his 
children;  his  daughter  Anna,  who  married  Thomas  Stanton  (12),  and  his  son 
William  (68).  Hinman  and  Porter  agree  in  saying  that  he  was  the  son  of 
John  Lord  who  "  was  in  the  division  of  lands  at  Hartford  in  '39," '  but  we  can  find  no 
other  authority  for  the  statement.  It  has  been  conjectured  by  some  that  he  came 
from  Essexshire,  England,  as  his  friends  Governor  Haynes  and  Rev.  Mr.  Hooker 
were  from  that  county,  and  numerous  Lord  gravestones,  inscriptions,  etc.,  still 
exist  in  the  village  of  Braintry,  Essex. ^ 

He  was  registered  as  a  "smith"  in  his  sailing  papers  in  1635,  which  seems 
to  correspond  with  a  record  found  by  E.  Stanley  Waters,  of  a  "Thomas  Lord 
Armiger"  who  in  1634  conveyed  a  large  amount  of  landed  property  in  Milton,  near 
Gravesend,  Kent,  England.'  He  sailed  from  London,  and  from  the  fact  that  his 
son  Richard  devised  in  his  will  lands  in  that  city  worth  ;£8o,  we  suppose  that 
Thomas  Lord  owned  property  there.  It  may  be  that  he  sold  the  land  mentioned 
above  in  preparation  for  his  emigration.  Savage  conjectured  that  his  registering 
himself  as  "A  smith"  was  a  "godly  deception"  to  facilitate  his  leaving  his  mother 
country,  but  it  seems  more  probable  that  it  was  his  trade  in  England. 

He  married  in  England  Dorothy,  perhaps  Dorothy  Bulkeley,  daughter 
of  William  Bulkeley  of  Bury,  England,  and  all  his  children  were  born  before 
his  emigration.  His  eldest  son  Richard  came  to  New  England  in  1632,  when  he  was 
twenty-one  years  old,  and  Thomas  Lord    followed  in  about  three  years.     His 

'  Hinman's  Puritan  Settlers  oj  Connecticut  47.  Porter's  Hartford  in  1640. 

^  Family  Histories  andCenealogies,  SiMshmy,  1,254,  note.  > 

^  Ibid.,  255  note. 


114  THOMAS  LORD  [67] 

family  were  registered,  April  29, 1635,  from  the  port  of  London  to  New  England  in 
the  "Elizabeth  and  Ann,"  Roger  Cooper,  Master,  as  follows: 

"Thomas   Lord  A  smith  aged  50. 


Dorothy  Lord  Uxor 

"     46 

Thomas  Lord 

"     16 

Ann  Lord 

"     14 

WiUiam  Lord 

"      12 

John  Lord 

"      10 

Robert  Lord 

"      9 

Aymie  Lord 

"      6 

Dorothy  Lord 

"       4' 

He  settled  first  at  Newtowne,  afterwards  Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  his  son 
Richard  had  already  established  himself.  Savage  says  that  Thomas  Lord  "per- 
haps had  sent  him  to  look  out  the  most  desirable  place  for  his  friends  Gov.  Haynes 
and  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker, "who  came  over  in  1633  with  "two  hundred  other  pas- 
sengers of  importance  to  the  colony." 

He  remained  in  Newtowne  but  a  year  or  so  and  in  1636  the  whole  family  with 
that  "pious  band"  led  by  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  made  their  way  through  a  track- 
less wilderness  across  to  the  Connecticut  Valley  and  founded  a  new  settlement  on 
the  Connecticut  River  at  Hartford.  Thus  Thomas  Lord  became  one  of  the 
original  proprietors  and  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Hartford.  His  name  and 
that  of  his  son  Richard  are  inscribed  on  the  granite  monument  in  the  old  grave- 
yard, as  prominent  among  the  first  settlers. 

A  near  neighbor  to  his  friends  Governor  Haynes,  Rev.  Mr.  Hooker  and  Mr. 
Matthew  Allyn,  he  lived  on  the  "north  side,"  fronting  Mill  River.  His  son's  lot 
was  next  to  his.  That  part  of  Hartford  called  Lord's  Hill  took  its  name  from  his 
family.  He  was  a  merchant  and  mill-owner  in  Hartford.  In  the  description  of  the 
Burnham  estate,  Burnham  mentioned  his  half-interest  in  a  mill  with  "  Mr. "  Thomas 
Lord.     We  know  that  this  title  was  then  used  as  significant  of  respect. 

The  date  of  his  death  and  the  place  of  his  burial  are  not  known,  but  Porter 
says  he  "died  early."  His  widow  Dorothy  died  in  1675,  aged  eighty-six  years. 
She  was  therefore  born  about  1 589  and  was  three  or  four  years  younger  than  her 
husband.  Her  will,  dated  February  8,  1669,  is  on  file  in  the  probate  records  at 
Hartford.  The  seal  affixed  to  the  original  shows  the  Lord  coat-of-arms  which 
correspond  with  the  Laward  alias  Lord  arms  given  in  Berry's  Encyclopedia  and 
Burke's  Armory.  The  fact  that  Dorothy  (Bulkeley)  Lord  owned  a  seal  cut 
with  these  arms,  executed,  of  course  in  England,  is  presumptive  evidence  that 
Thomas  Lord  descended  from  this  family. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Dorothy  (Bulkeley)  Lord 

Richard,  born  about  161 1;  married  Sarah  Graves,  probably  a  daughter  of  George  Graves, 
of  Hartford;  preceded  his  father  to  New  England,  and  was  in  Cambridge  in  1632; 
was  made  a  freeman  in  1635,  and  came  to  Hartford  in  1636;  commanded  as  captain 


THOMAS  LORD  [67]  115 

the  first  troop  of  horse  raised  in  the  Colony,  and  distinguished  himself  in  the  Indian 
Wars;  was  deputy  from  1656  until  his  death;  was  named  in  the  Royal  Charter  of 
Connecticut  as  one  of  the  Patentees,  and  was  "the  richest  man  in  the  Colony,"  and 
one  of  the  most  influential.     He  died  at  New  London,  May  17,  1662. 

Thomas,  born  about  1619;  married  in  Boston,  in  1652,  Hannah  Thurston;  was  a  physician 
and  surgeon,  probably  the  first  regularly  educated  one  in  the  Colony,  but  had  served 
as  schoolmaster  in  the  pay  of  the  Colony  for  a  time  before  entering  upon  his  practice; 
later  the  court  granted  him  ;£i5  a  year  "for  setting  of  bones  and  otherwise  as  at  all 
times  occasions  or  necessityes  may  or  shall  require";  died  in  1662. 
(12)  Ann  (or  Anna),  born  about  1621;  married  Thomas  Stanton  in  1637;  died  in  1688. 

(68)  William,  born    about    1623;  married  (i) ;  married  (2)  in    1664,   Lydia    Brown  of 

Rehoboth,  Mass.;  died  May  17,  1678. 

John,  born  about  1625;  married  (i)  perhaps  Rebecca  Bushnell  of  Guildford,  Conn.;  married 
(2)  May  15,  1648,  Adrean  or  Adrienne  Baysey,  of  Hartford,  Conn.;  removed  to  Appo- 
mattox, Va.,  before  1648,  and  was  living  there  in  1663. 

Robert,  born  about  1627;  married  Rebecca  Stanley,  daughter  of  Captain  Christopher  and 
Susanna  Stanley,  of  Boston;  was  a  master-mariner,  sailing  between  Boston  and 
London;  was  living  in  Boston  in  1670,  and  evidently  died  abroad,  probably  in  Eng- 
land. He  could  not  have  been  the  Captain  Robert  Lord  who  was  reprimanded  for 
bringing  over  Mrs.  Anne  Hutchinson  (17),  as  has  been  suggested,  as  he  was  but 
seven  years  old  when  she  came  over  in  1634. 

Aymie  (or  Amy),  born  about  1629;  married  May  6,  1647,  Corporal  John  Gilbert,  of  Hartford; 
died  Jan.  8,  1691. 

Dorothy,  born  about  1631,  married  in  1651,  John  Ingersoll,  of  Hartford,  and  died  at  North- 
ampton, Mass.,  in  January,  1657. 


[68]  WILLIAM  LORD  [1623-1678J 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  SAYBROOK,  CONN. 

AS  we  have  seen  in  the  record  of  his  father,  William  Lord  was  twelve  years 
of  age  when  he  came  over  in  1635  with  his  parents  Thomas  and  Dorothy 
(Bulkeley)  Lord  (67),  in  the  ship  "Elizabeth  and  Ann,"  so  that  he  was 
born  about  1623.     They  lived  first  at  Newtowne  (Cambridge),  Mass.,  and 
went  a  year  later  to  Hartford,  Conn. 

He  appears  to  have  married  about  1642  while  in  Hartford,  but  the  name  of 
his  first  wife  has  not  been  ascertained.  Their  first  child  was  born  in  October,  1643. 
Soon  after,  probably  about  1645,  he  went  down  the  river  and  settled  at  Say- 
brook,  Conn.,  was  there  at  the  division  of  lands  in  1648,  and  remained  there  the 
rest  of  his  life.  During  this  time  his  first  wife  died,  and  he  married  (2)  in  1664, 
Lydia  Brown,  of  Rehoboth,  Mass. 

In  1666  the  portion  of  Saybrook  on  the  east  side  of  the  Connecticut  River 
was  set  off  as  a  separate  township  and  named  Lyme.  In  April,  1669,  Chapeto,  a 
kinsman  of  Uncas,  gave  to  William  Lord  a  tract  of  land  eight  miles  square, 
within  or  adjacent  to  the  town  of  Lyme,  the  deed  of  gift    reading  as  follows: 


ii6  WILLIAM  LORD  [68] 

"Having  had  long  acquaintance  with  William  Lord,  my  very  loveing  friend:  and  having 
singular  respects  to  him,  did  move  me  to  him  rather  than  to  any  other  man  to  sell  my  land  for  a 
certain  sum  and  sums  of  money,  already  received." 

This  tract  was  subsequently  known  as  the  Paugwonk  lands  and  appears  to 
have  included  all  or  nearly  all  of  the  present  township  of  Salem.  Chapeto's  title  was 
derived  from  Ananpau,  his  father,  and  Woncohus,  his  grandfather,  "both  of  them 
Sachems  of  Paugwonk"  (i.  e.,  Crooked  Pond).  The  land  was  afterwards  disposed 
of  to  the  town  of  Lyme  by  his  sons  Thomas  and  Richard  in  exchange  for  other 
land,  and  a  controversy  arose  between  the  town  and  Uncas  about  the  boundaries, 
which  was  finally  settled  by  the  General  Court  in  1681. 

William  Lord  died  at  Saybrook  May  17,  1678. 

Children  of  William  and Lord 

William,  born  Oct.  1643;  married  Mary  (or  Sarah)  Shayler.     He  had  "a.  dwelling-house," 

a  "home  lot,"  and  other  lands  in  Lyme  in  1666-7,  ^^^  moved  to  East  Haddam,  and 

died  there  Dec.  4,  1696.     His  widow  married  (2)  Samuel  Ingram. 
Thomas,  born  in  December,  1645;  married  Dec.  22,  1693,  Mary  Lee,  daughter  of  Lieutenant 

Thomas  and  Mary  (DeWolfe)  Lee,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  Lee  (76);  lived  at 

Lyme,  and  died  there  June  27,  1730. 
(69)  Richard,  born  in  May,  1647;  married  in  1682,  Elizabeth  Hyde,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 

Jane  (Lee)  Hyde  (75),  and  first  cousin  of  his  brother  Thomas'  wife;  died  Aug.  20, 

1727. 
Mary,  born  May,  1649;  married  Samuel  Olmstead. 
Robert,  born  in  August,   1651;    married  Esther  ,  and  lived  at  Saybrook,  Conn,  in 

1677,  and  at  Lyme  in  1688;  sold  to  his  brother  Thomas  in  1685,  one-fourth  part  of  the 

lands  bought  from  the  Indians  by  their  father,  William  Lord,  and  soon  after  moved 

to  Fairfield,  Conn. 
John,  born  in  September,  1653;  of  whom  we  know  nothing  more. 
Joseph,  born  in  September,  1656;  probably  never  married;  was  captain  of  a  sailing-vessel; 

lived  at  Lyme,  and  died  there  Dec.  20,  1687. 

Children  of  William  and  Lydia  (Brown)  Lord 

Sarah,  born ;  married  John  Coult  (or  Colt);  inherited  some  of  the  Lord  land  in  Lyme, 

which  is  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Coult  family. • 

,  a  daughter,  perhaps  named  Abigail,  and  married  to  Ebenezer  Skinner. 

Benjamin,  born  in  1667;  married  April  16,  1693,  Elizabeth  Pratt,  daughter  of  Ensign  John 
and  Sarah  (Jones)  Pratt,  of  Saybrook;  was  deputy  from  Saybrook  for  many  years, 
and  died  there  in   1714. 

Dorothy,  married  Oct.  26,  1701,  John  Hopson,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  Hopson,  of  Guildford, 
Conn.,  where  she  died  Oct.  12,  1705. 

Daniel,  was  living  in  Saybrook  in  1727. 

James,  was  ensign  of  the  Saybrook  Train  Band,  under  Major  John  Clark  in  1716;  died  Feb. 
10,  1 730/ 1. 

Samuel,  married  Susannah ,  and  died  at  Saybrook,  Oct.  8,  1707.     His  widow  mar- 
ried (2)  Daniel  Bartlett. 
'John  Coult  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Colt  family  of  Hartford 


LIEUTENANT  RICHARD  LORD  [69]  117 

[69]         LIEUTENANT  RICHARD  LORD  [1647-1727] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ELIZABETH  HYDE  [1660-1736] 

OF    SAYBROOK    AND    LYME,    CONN. 

RICHARD  LORD,  son  of  William  and Lord  (68),  was  born  in  May, 
1647.  He  served  in  King  Philip's  War  in  1675,  and  many  years  later, 
in  1 70 1,  received  a  portion  of  the  lands  set  aside  in  Voluntown  by  the  Gen- 
eral Court  for  these  services.  He  evidently  removed  from  Saybrook  to 
Lyme  after  his  father's  death,  which  occurred  in  1678,  taking  possession  of  the 
extensive  lands  there  left  him  by  his  father.  The  first  record  we  find  of  him  is  as 
a  landholder  in  Lyme  in  1680,  when  he  was  thirty-three  years  old.  In  1682,  he 
married  Elizabeth  Hyde,  eldest  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Lee)  Hyde  (75) 
of  Norwich,  Conn.  Elizabeth  was  born  in  August,  1660,  and  was  "the  first 
child  born  of  English  parentage  in  Norwich." 

In  1703  his  public  service  began  when  he  was  commissioned  ensign  of  the 
Lyme  Train  Band.  Two  years  later,  as  "Mr.  Richard  Lord"  he  was  appointed 
justice  of  the  peace  and  Quorum,  the  latter  a  court  subsequently  known  as  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  or  County  Court.  The  following  year  as  "Richard  Lord 
Gent,"  he  was  made  judge  and  justice.  He  was  commissioned  lieutenant,  the 
title  by  which  he  is  ordinarily  known,  by  Governor  Saltonstall  in  1708,  and  com- 
manded the  New  London  Company  for  service  in  Queen  Anne's  War,  in  the  Colony 
of  Connecticut. 

About  two  and  a-half  years  before  his  death,  in  1725,  he  deeded  more  than 
a  thousand  acres  of  land  to  his  sons,  his  eldest  son  Richard  (70)  receiving  one-half 
of  the  entire  estate.  A  few  days  later  he  made  a  will  bequeathing  one-third  of  his 
moveable  estate  to  his  wife  "to  be  hers  forever."  To  Deborah,  the  only  unmarried 
daughter,  he  gave  ;^ioo  worth  of  "household  goods  and  moveables"  as  a  marriage 
portion.  His  other  six  daughters  had  evidently  each  received  a  similar  sum  on 
their  marriages.  He  then  divided  all  the  rest  of  his  moveable  estate  among  the 
seven  daughters  alike. 

The  land  in  Lyme  lay  along  the  river,  and  included  the  properties  known  as 
Lord's  Hill,  now  owned  by  Z.  Stiles  Ely,  Tantamehege,  owned  by  the  late 
Richard  Griswold,  and  Henry  Noyes' property  on ''the  Neck."  The  old  Lord 
house  commanded  a  fine  view  up  and  down  the  river. 

Lieutenant  Richard  Lord  died  August  20,  1 727,  at  Lyme.  His  wife  survived 
him  and  died  there  July  23,  1736.  Their  gravestones  are  still  standing  in  the  Duck 
River  burying-ground  at  Lyme,  with  the  following  inscriptions: 

"Here  lyeth  interred  the  Body  of  Lev'  Richard  Lord  who  deceased  August  the  20,  1727, 
aged  80  years  and  3  months." 


ii8  LIEUTENANT  RICHARD  LORD  [69] 

"Here  Lieth  y^  Body  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  y^  Remains  of  Lev'  Richard  Lord,  who  died  July 
y'  22,  1736,  aged  76  years." 

Children  of  Lieutenant  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Hyde)  Lord 

Elizabeth,  born  Oct.  28,  1683;  married  about  1700,  Isaac  Watrous,  eldest  son  of  Isaac  and 

Sarah  (Pratt)  Watrous,  of  Lyme. 
Phoebe,  born  about  1686;  married  in  1705,  Joseph  Sill,  eldest  son  of  Captain  Joseph  and 

his  second  wife,  Sarah   (Clark  Marvin)  Sill;  see    under    Lieutenant    Reinold 

Marvin  (85).     Phoebe  died  Jan.  4,  1772. 
Jane,  born  about  1688;  married  Samuel  Ely,  son  of  Richard  and  Mary  (Marvin)  Ely,  and 

grandson  of  Lieutenant  Reinold  Marvin  (85);  lived  at  Saybrook. 
(70)  Richard,  born  about   1690;  married  July  11,  1720,  Elizabeth  Lynde,  daughter  of  Judge 

Nathaniel  and  Susanna  (Willoughby)  Lynde  (79);  died  Aug.  26,  1776. 
Mary,  born  about  1692;  married  Sept.  20,  1716,  Peter  Pearson  (or  Pierson),  of  Lyme,  son  of 

Samuel  and  Dorcas  (Johnson)  Pearson,  of  Newbury,  Mass.;  died  about  1737. 
Lydia,  born  about  1694;  married  Dec.  6, 1720,  "Mr."  John  Reynolds,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 

(Edgerton)  Reynolds,  of  Norwich,  Conn.;  lived  at  Norwich,  where  she  died  July  16, 

1786.     The  tablet  to  her  memory  bears  this  inscription'  "Here  lies  a  lover  of  truth." 
Deborah,  born  about  1698;  married,  Dec.  23,  1729,  Captain  Nathan  Jewett,  son  of  Joseph 

and  Mary  (Hibbert)  Jewett,  of  Rowley,  Mass.;  settled  in  North  Lyme,  and  died  in 

1777. 
Abigail,  born  about  1700;  married  Dec.  24,  1719,  Colonel  Stephen  Lee,  son  of  Thomas  and 

Mary  (DeWolfe)  Lee.     He  was  her  mother's  first  cousin,  and  also  a  grandson  of 

Thomas  Lee  (76). 
John,  born  about   1703;  married  Nov.   12,  1734,  Hannah  Rogers,  daughter  of  Lieutenant 

Joseph  and  Sarah  Rogers,  of  Milford,  Conn.     His  father  gave  him  three  hundred  acres 

of  land  in  North  Lyme,  where  he  died  in  January,  1776.' 

[70]  JUDGE  RICHARD  LORD  [1690-1776] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ELIZABETH  LYNDE  [1694-1778] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

RICHARD  LORD,  son  of  Lieutenant  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Hyde)  Lord 
(69),  was  born  in  Lyme  in  1690.  Inheriting  a  large  fortune  and  connected 
with  many  of  the  best  families  of  Connecticut,  he  was  undoubtedly  am- 
bitious and  discriminating,  and  we  are  not  surprised  to  find  that  he  mar- 
ried, July  11,1720,  Elizabeth  Lynde,  daughter  of  Judge  Nathaniel  and  Susanna 
(Willoughby)  Lynde  (79),  by  far  the  wealthiest  and  most  prominent  man  in  that 
part  of  the  State.  She  was  born  December  2,  1694.  He  was  thirty  years  of  age 
when  he  was  married,  and  it  was  not  until  nine  years  later  that  he  appears  to  have 
taken  any  prominent  part  in  public  life. 

From  1729,  he  was,  as"  Mr. "  Richard  Lord,  chosen  as  deputy  from  Lyme  for 

'Their  daughter  Anna  married  Col.  Zebulon  Butler,  of  Wyoming  massacre  fame. 


JUDGE  RICHARD  LORD  [70]  119 

several  years,  and  in  1 731,  he  was  made  one  of  the  justices  of  the  peace  in  New 
London  County,  an  office  held  then  by  the  foremost  men.  In  1740  he  was  ap- 
pointed justice  of  the  peace  and  Quorum.  These  offices  he  held  during  most  of  the 
remainder  of  his  life. 

Mrs.  Salisbury  says  of  him: 

"We  infer  that  like  his  famous  great  uncle,  Captain  Richard  Lord,  of  Hartford,  he  also  'in 
composing  Paroxysmes  was  cheife'  for  we  read  of  several  instances  in  which  he  was  chosen  by  the 
Governor  and  Assembly  either  singly  or  together  with  others,  to  decide  between  disagreeing  parties 
and  to  select  places  for  'meeting  houses,'  a  duty  requiring  no  small  amount  of  tact,  good  sense,  fair- 
mindedness,  good  temper,  patience  and  firmness."' 

On  a  deed  made  by  him  in  1761,  he  used  a  seal  on  which  was  the  coat  of 
arms  of  Laward  alias  Lord,  referred  to  as  belonging  to  his  great-grandfather, 
Thomas  Lord  (67). 

He  "was  a  kind,  genial  man,  affectionate  in  his  family  and  inclined  to  pleasantry.  He  had 
a  large  household,  with  many  slaves,  entertained  a  good  deal,  and  was  fond  of  making  hand- 
some gifts.  There  are  several  silver  tankards  still  in  the  family  which  were  his  gifts  to  his  grand- 
daughters and  other  pieces  of  silver  bearing  his  initials  and  those  of  his  wife,  as  well  as  some  pieces 
which  came  from  the  Lyndes.  There  are  also  still  preserved  rich  pieces  of  mahogany  furniture 
with  which  he  supplied  his  daughters  on  their  marriages."^ 

He  died  at  Lyme,  August  26,  1776.  His  wife  survived  him  and  died  June  22, 
1778.  Both  are  buried  in  the  Duck  River  burying-ground  at  Lyme,  their  head- 
stones bearing  the  following  inscriptions: 

"This  Monument  Sacred  to  the  Memory  of 
Richard  Lord  Esq.  who  in  Life  was  an  eminent 
Example  of  Piety  and  Public  Spirit,  and  after 
Sustaining  the  offices  of  Dea",  Justice  of  y^  Peace, 
and  Judge  of  the  Quorum,  for  many  years,  departed 
this  Life  in  peace  August  26th  A.  D.  1776  aged  86  years" 

"  In  Memory  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Lord  wife  of  the  late 
Richard  Lord  Esq.  who  departed  this  Life  June  22  A.  D. 
1778  In  the  83d  year  of  her  Age." 

Judge  Richard  Lord's  will  is  published  in  full  in  Mrs.  Salisbury's  Family 
Histories,  I,  295. 

Children  of  Judge  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Lynde)  Lord 

Richard,  born  April  17,  1722;  died  Sept.  3,  1742;  unmarried. 

Susannah,  born  Jan.  16,  1724;  married  Jan.  23,  1746,  Elijah  Lothrop,  of  Norwich,  Conn.,  a 

descendant  of  Rev.  John  Lothrop,  first  minister  at  Scituate,  Mass.     They  lived  at 

Norwich,  and  she  died  Feb.  3,  1808. 
(71)  Enoch,  born    Dec.  15,  1725;  married  March    31,  1749,  Hepzibah    Marvin,  daughter  of 

Joseph  and  Jane  (Lay)  Marvin  (87)  of  Lyme;  died  Feb.  16,  1814. 

^Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  I,  292. 
'  Ibid.,  293. 


120  JUDGE  RICHARD  LORD  [70] 

Elizabeth,  born  Nov.  14,  1727,  and  died  April  23,  1731. 

Ann,  born  Dec.  22,  1729;  married  Jan.  16,  1752,  John  McCurdy,  of  Lyme;  died  Sept.  3,  1802.' 

Lynde,  born  Feb.  2,  1733;  married  July  7,  1757,  his  second  cousin  Lois  Sheldon,  daughter 

of  General  Elisha  Sheldon;  settled  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  and  was  high  sheriff  of  Litch-. 

field  County  for  twenty-nine  years;  died  June  15,  1801. 
Elizabeth,  born  Nov.  9,  1735;  married  April  17,  1760,  Jared  Eliot,  Jr.,  son  of  Rev.  Jared 

Eliot,  minister  of  Killingworth  (Clinton),  Conn.,  and  great-grandson  of  Rev.  John 

Eliot,  the  apostle  to  the  Indians.     Elizabeth  died  Nov.  5,  1820. 

[71]  CAPTAIN  ENOCH  LORD  [1725-1814] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

HEPZIBAH  MARVIN  [1731-1813] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

ENOCH  LORD,  son  of  Judge  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Lynde)  Lord  (70), 
was  born  at  Lyme,  Conn.,  December  15,  1725.  He  received  by  deed  from 
his  father,  probably  when  he  became  of  age,  as  appears  from  his  father's 
will,  a  large  tract  of  land  on  "the  Neck"  and  on  this  land  he  lived  all 
his  life  as  a  farmer. 

He  married,  March  31,  1749,  Hepzibah  Marvin,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Jane  (Lay)  Marvin  (87),  who  was  born  March  1 1,  1731.  Her  parents  had  several 
children  who  died  young,  and  she,  the  only  survivor,  was  idolized  by  them.  Her 
"christening  blanket  of  a  rich  yellow  satin  brocade  for  which  her  parents  sent  to 
London  ...  is  now  owned  by  her  great-granddaughter,  Mrs  Daniel  Chadwick, 
of  Lyme."=  Traditions  do  not  represent  her  as  a  woman  of  much  force  or  ambition. 

She  inherited  a  large  property  in  lands  from  her  father,  which  was  divided 
among  her  children,  to  whom  she  is  reputed  to  have  been  almost  over-indulgent. 
Her  sweetness  of  character  made  her  carry  the  same  quality  into  her  treatment  of 
the  servants  and  negro  slaves  of  the  family,  who  were  regarded  as  almost  members 
of  the  household. 

Captain  Enoch  Lord  received  his  appointment  as  captain  in  the  Third  Regi- 
ment of  the  Colony  in  1769,  when  he  was  forty-three  years  of  age,  but  no  record  of 
special  service  is  found. 

The  writer's  grandmother,  Phoebe  (Griffin)  Lord  (72),  used  to  describe 
him  (her  father-in-law)  to  her  daughters  thus,  as  recalled  by  the  eldest.  Miss  Harriet 
Lord : 

"He  was  a  man  of  strong  mind  and  more  than  common  information,  very  conversant  with 
Bible  History  and  ecclesiastical  matters,  though  quiet  and  unobtrusive.  A  constant  attendant  on 
public  worship,  no  storm   keeping  him  at  home  though  he  lived  five  miles  from  the  meeting-house. 

'John  McCurdy  was  the  ancestor  of  Evelyn  McCurdy  Salisbury  of  Lyme  and  New  Haven,  Conn.,  joint 
author  with  her  husband,  the  late  Professor  Edward  E.  Salisbury,  of  the  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies  from 
which  we  have  quoted  so  extensively  in  the  Lord,  Lynde,  Willoughby  and  Lee  families. 

^ Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  SaWshury,  HI,  131. 


CAPTAIN  ENOCH  LORD  [71]  121 

He  was  remembered  by  his  grandchildren  in  his  quaint  costume,  consisting  of  a  three-cornered 
hat  and  a  wig,  a  sky-blue  over  coat  with  many  capes,  and  small  clothes,  in  which  he  bestrode  an 
old  mare,  often  followed  by  her  colt."' 

His  wife  Hepzibah  died  in  Lyme,  October  19,  1813,  and  he  only  survived  her 
a  few  months  and  died  February  16,  1814,  aged  eighty-eight.  The  Lord,  Marvin 
and  Lay  properties  which  he  and  his  wife  had  inherited  were  divided  among  their 
children,  giving  a  large  farm  to  each  of  the  sons  and  other  tracts  to  each  of  the 
daughters,  where  all  but  one  of  their  sons  settled,  bringing  up  their  families  in 
comfort. 

Children  of  Captain  Enoch  and  Hepzibah  (Marvin)  Lord 

Richard,  born  Sept.  15,  1752;  married  Dec.  9,  1790,  Ann  Mitchell,  daughter  of  Captain 
William  Mitchell,  of  Chester,  Conn.;  served  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  owned 
Tantomehege  farm,  and  built  a  house  on  the  banks  of  the  Connecticut  River;  died 
at  Lyme,  July  29,  1818.^ 

Ann,  born  Dec.  4,   1754;  married  Sept.   i,   1774,  Captain  Stephen  Johnson,  son  of  Rev. 
Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Diodate)  Johnson;  died  at  Lyme,  Oct.  29,  1838. 
(72)  Joseph,  born  June  3,  1757;   married,  Nov.  25,  1794,  his    third  cousin,  Phoebe   Griffin, 
daughter  of  George  and  Eve  (Dorr)  Griffin  (103);  died  March  15,  1812. 

Enoch,  born  July  28,  1760;  married  (i)  June  3,  1790,  Esther  Durfey,  daughter  of  Richard 
Durfey,  of  Waterford,  Conn.;  married  (2)  his  second  cousin,  Phoebe  Sill,  daughter  of 
Richard  Sill,  of  Saybrook;  lived  at  Millington,  Conn.,  and  died  there  Dec.  22,  1834. 

William,  born  June  17,  1763;  Y.  C,  1784;  married  (i)  Sept.  4,  1790,  Anna  Mather,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Lois  (Griswold)  Mather;  married  (2)  Nancy  Howe,  of  Stonington;  for 
nearly  half  a  century  was  a  leading  physician  at  Stonington,  Conn.  Late  in  life 
he  returned  to  Lyme,  and  died  there  Feb.  13,  1852. 

Jane,  born  Aug.  13,  1764;  married  about  1786,  Captain  Joseph  Noyes,  son  of  Judge  William 
and  Eunice  (Marvin)  Noyes;  died  in  1843. 

Lynde,  born  July  17,  1767;  married  Mehitable  Marvin,  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Elizabeth 
(Deming)  Marvin;  died  May  19,  1856,  at  Lyme. 

Hepzibah,  born  June  30,  1770;  married  Sept.  30,  1793,  Dr.  James  Lee;  died  Oct.  22,  1805. 

[72]  JOSEPH  LORD  [1757-1812] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

PHOEBE  GRIFFIN  [1768-1841] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

JOSEPH  LORD,  son  of  Captain  Enoch  and  Hepzibah  (Marvin)  Lord  (71), 
was  born  in  Lyme,  Conn.,  June  3,  1757.     His  early  life  was  spent  assisting 
his  father  in  the  care  of  his  property.     He  was  about  thirty-seven  years  old 
when  he  married,  November  25,  1794,  Phoebe  Griffin,  daughter  of  George 
and  Eve  (Dorr)  Griffin  (103)  of  East  Haddam,  Conn.,  who  was  born  May  4, 

'  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  I,  303. 

^  He  was  the  maternal  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Edward  E.  Salisbury,     See  No.  70,  Note  2. 


122  •  JOSEPH  LORD  [72] 

1768.  The  young  couple  settled  on  one  of  the  Marvin  farms,  and  lived  in  the 
old  house  at  the  head  of  the  Lyme  Street,  where  all  their  children  were  born  and 
where  the  last  daughter,  Frances  Jane,  died  unmarried,  in  1888. 

This  house  was  built,  probably,  by  General  or  Colonel  Sheldon  in  1730,  and 
is  said  to  have  been  purchased  by  the  grandfather  of  Joseph  Lord,  Joseph  Marvin 
(87).  It  was  one  of  the  old  style  of  New  England  shingled  houses  built  around  a 
huge  chimney,  and  as  it  was  pulled  down  a  few  years  ago  to  make  way  for  the 
Phoebe  Griffin  Noyes  Library,  a  short  description  of  it  as  it  remains  in  the  memory 
of  more  than  one  of  Joseph  Lord's  great-grandchildren,  will  not  be  out  of  place. 

In  our  time,  the  chimney  was  not  only  the  center  of  the  house,  but  was  the 
main  support  of  the  structure,  all  the  rooms  sagging  away  from  it  on  every  side. 
Walking  over  the  waving  floors  almost  gave  one  a  sensation  of  sea-sickness,  so  much 
had  the  old  beams  sunk.  The  shingles  on  the  sides  of  the  house,  being  cedar  and 
handmade,  lasted  for  many  years,  much  longer  than  those  upon  the  roof,  and 
when,  during  Aunt  Harriet's  life,  they  were  replaced,  the  writer  kept  one  of  them 
as  an  interesting  souvenir  of  the  old  house.  It  was  worn  by  the  weather  down  to 
the  thickness  of  heavy  paper.  The  front  door  opened  into  a  small  hall,  with  a  stair- 
case going  around  it  at  the  back,  enclosing  a  seat  just  large  enough  for  two,  built 
in  the  woodwork  of  the  stairs.  The  view  from  this  seat  was  directly  down  the 
village  street,  and  when  the  writer  took  his  bride  for  the  first  time  to  see  the  house. 
Aunt  Harriet  insisted  that  they  should  sittheresideby  side,  with  the  front  door  open, 
just  as  her  father  and  mother  had  sat  so  often  together.  Upstairs  the  wall-paper  in 
one  of  the  bed-rooms  was  a  particularly  quaint  old-fashioned  one,  with  the  god- 
dess Minerva,  helmet  and  all,  repeated  over  its  surface.  It  is  a  pleasure  to  think 
that  the  old  Aunts  lived  beyond  the  days  when  old  furniture,  etc.,  was  cast  aside,  to 
the  times  when  it  was  again  appreciated,  so  that  they  had  the  pleasure,  as  few  of  that 
generation  had,  of  themselves  seeing  the  value  that  their  descendants  put  upon 
their  possessions. 

Joseph  Lord  was  a  farmer,  owned  and  operated  about  one  hundred  and  eighty 
acres  of  land  and  kept  a  large  number  of  cattle,  sheep  and  other  stock.  He  appears 
to  have  been  fairly  successful,  as  the  inventory  of  his  estate,  which  amounted  to 
111,923.98,  included  over  $3,000  in  notes  and  mortgages  held  by  him  for  money 
loaned  to  several  of  his  neighbors  and  relatives.  He  died  at  Lyme,  March  15,  1812, 
aged  fifty-five  years,  leaving  eight  daughters,  the  eldest,  Harriet,  being  only  sixteen. 

His  widow,  Phoebe,  managed  the  farm  for  years  and  it  is  said  managed  it 
well,  but  with  no  sons  to  aid  her,  and  with  more  land  than  money,  it  was  necessary 
for  her  to  study  the  closest  economy.  She  evidently  had  business  capacity  and  kept 
her  accounts  well,  and  her  hand-writing,  as  seen  in  her  account-books  and  her 
letters  is  sufficiently  remarkable  to  be  specially  mentioned,  with  its  great  distinction 
and  almost  manly  character,  so  unusual  at  a  time  when  women  generally  wrote  with 
such  a  fine  pen  that  their  letters  now  preserved  are  almost  illegible. 

In  her  youth  she  had  kept  up  with  the  college  studies  of  her  talented  brothers, 
Rev.  Edward  Dorr  Griffin,  D.  D.  and  George  Griffin,  LL.D.,  of  New  York,  and  was 


HOME    OF    JOSEPH    LORD    [72] 
L-lME,    CONN. 


JOSEPH  LORD  [72]  123 

considered  their  equal  in  mental  ability.  She  had  been  specially  devoted  to  her 
youngest  brother  George,  who  was  ten  years  her  junior,  and  had  had  much  to  do 
with  his  education.  She  encouraged  him  in  his  studies  and  is  said  to  have  carried 
him  his  dinner  when  he  was  hidden  away  under  a  big  cheese-press  with  a  book, 
instead  of  being  at  work  in  the  fields.  The  letters  from  her  brothers  during  her 
widowhood  show  their  affection  and  respect  for  her,  and  their  aid  and  counsel  was 
given  her  most  generously. 

She  devoted  her  life,  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  to  her  daughters,  and 
while  they  had  the  extraordinary  industry  of  the  women  of  their  time  with  more 
than  common  intellectual  capacity,  it  was  the  influence  of  their  mother  that  gave 
the  home  its  atmosphere  of  refinement.  In  later  life,  Aunt  Harriet,  in  her  reminis- 
cences to  her  nieces  and  nephews,  often  recalled  the  family  circle  in  the  evening, 
when  one  daughter  would  be  spinning,  another  engaged  in  the  beautiful  needle- 
work of  which  so  many  specimens  have  come  down  to  the  present  generation,  her 
mother  taking  care  of  the  baby,  Josephine,  born  four  months  after  the  father's 
death,  and  she  herself  reading  Byron  or  some  other  poet  aloud  to  the  circle  of  in- 
telligent listeners. 

Mrs.  Lord  was  a  handsomer  woman  than  any  of  her  daughters,  and  a  strong 
character,  honored  and  loved  by  all  who  knew  her.  In  some  of  her  letters  written 
to  her  daughters  when  away  from  home,  teaching,  we  see  with  what  a  firm  hand  she 
dealt  with  them,  in  some  cases  her  guidance  amounting  to  absolute  commands. 

"If  a  high  and  wide  sphere  had  opened  to  her,  she  would  have  been  able  to  fill  it  with  dis- 
tinction, and  the  same  may  be  said  of  several  of  her  daughters.  She  was  the  leader  in  the  intel- 
ligent society  that  surrounded  her,  was  a  wise  and  kind  adviser  to  her  neighbors,  and  especially 
in  times  of  sickness  and  death.     As  far  as  tradition  shall  carry  her  name  it  will  be  held  in  respect." 

When  her  brother  George,  then  a  successful  lawyer,  had  a  home  in  New 
York,  he  sent  for  one  of  the  daughters  to  come  and  live  with  him.  Why  Phoebe 
was  chosen  (see  No.  7)  we  do  not  know,  but  perhaps  because  the  eldest,  Harriet,  was 
needed  at  home.  Aunt  Harriet  seems  to  have  inherited  her  mother's  ability  to  com- 
mand, and  was  always  the  leader  among  the  unmarried  sisters.  As  she  was  like  a 
second  mother  to  her  sister  Phoebe's  children,  and  was,  outside  the  home,  their 
center  of  interest,  we  must  give  more  than  a  passing  mention  of  her.  She  was  de- 
voted to  each  child,  and  used  to  come  down  to  the  Noyes  house  almost  every  day, 
to  hear  about  the  affairs  of  those  who  had  left  the  old  home.  She  was  sharp  and 
bright  in  her  speech,  full  of  fun,  and  interested  not  only  in  the  family,  but  in  all  the 
affairs  of  the  world  at  large.  An  amusing  story  is  told  of  her  in  her  old  age,  when 
her  niece,  Mrs.  Daniel  R.  Noyes,  of  St.  Paul  was  staying  at  Lyme  one  summer. 
Aunt  Harriet  wanted  to  go  to  Middletown  by  cars,  her  first  experience  of  railroad 
travel.  Mrs.  Noyes,  who  was  going  away  that  morning,  volunteered  to  see  her  to  her 
train  at  Saybrook  junction,  where  they  had  to  part.  Unfortunately  Mrs.  Noyes' 
train  came  in  first  and  she  had  to  take  her  seat,  but  she  carefully  instructed  Aunt 
Harriet  and  watched  her  as  she  stood  on  the  platform  when  the  train  came  in.     But 


124  JOSEPH  LORD  [72] 

Aunt  Harriet  seemed  to  be  too  dazed  to  move,  and  the  train  pulled  out  again,  leaving 
her  still  standing  there.  She  always  insisted  that  the  train  did  not  stop  at  all  that 
morning.  Aunt  Harriet  was  a  link  between  the  old  times  and  the  new  that  was 
sorely  missed  when  at  last  she  laid  down  the  burden  of  life,  in  her  eighty-eighth 
year,  having  outlived  all  but  two  of  her  younger  sisters. 

Phoebe  (Griffin)  Lord  lived  to  see  her  youngest  daughter,  Josephine, 
married  and  to  look  on  the  faces  of  many  of  her  grandchildren.  She  died  No- 
vember 25,  1841,  aged  seventy-three. 

Children  of  Joseph  and  Phoebe  (Griffin)  Lord 

Harriet,  born  Sept.  25,  1795;  died  unmarried,  Jan.  5,  1882. 
(7)  Phoebe   Griffin,  born   Feb.  20,  1757;  married  May    16,   1827,  Colonel    Daniel   Rogers 

NoYES,  son  of  Colonel  Thomas  and  Lydia  (Rogers)  Noyes  (6);  died  Oct.  12,  1875. 
Hepzibah,  born  March  17,  1799;  died  unmarried,  March  29,  1844. 
Joseph,  born  May  13,  1801;  died  Sept.  8,  1802. 
Julia  Ann,  born  March  6,  1803;  died  unmarried  Dec.  23,  1865. 
Lucy,  born  March  6,  1805;  died  unmarried,  Aug.  31,  1884. 
Catherine,  born  March  7,  1807;  married  as  his  second  wife,  her  first  cousin,  Enoch  Noyes,  son 

of  Captain  Joseph  and  Jane  (Lord)  Noyes,  and  grandson  of  Enoch  and  Hepzibah 

(Marvin)  Lord  (71),  of  Lyme.     She  died  Nov.  25,  1844. 
Frances  Jane,  born  Oct.  10,  1810,  died  unmarried,  Feb.  13,  1888. 
Josephine,  born  July   12,    1812;  married  March    17,    1834,  her  second  cousin,  Alexander 

Lynde  McCurdy,  son  of  Richard  and  Ursula  (Griswold)  McCurdy,  and  great-grandson 

of  Judge  Richard  Lord  (70).    They  lived  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  she  died  Aug.  8, 

1866.     After  her  death,  Mr.  McCurdy  removed  in  1872  to  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.,  where 

he  died  Sept.  17,  1886.     Their  children  were: 

Alice  Josephine  McCurdy, born  July  25,  1840;  married  in  1867,  Mortimer  Edgerton 
Hart,  who  died  March  7,  1876.  They  had  one  daughter,  Louise  Edgerton 
Hart,  who  is  now  living  with  her  mother  in  Santa  Barbara. 

Catherine  Lord  McCurdy,  born  July  4,  1844;  died  July  22,  1866. 

Gertrude  Griffin  McCurdy,  born  April  27,  1847;  now  living  in  Santa  Barbara. 

Alexanna  McCurdy,  born  March  21,  1851;  died  Nov.  25,  1861. 

[74]  WILLIAM  HYDE  [....-1681] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   NORWICH,    CONN. 

THE  first  record  of  William  Hyde  is  found  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1636, 
where  he  had  lands  assigned  to  him  as  one  of  the  original  proprietors. 
His  name  also  appears  on  the  monument  to  the  first  settlers  in  the  old 
cemetery  in  Hartford.  Chancellor  Walworth  is  our  authority  for  the 
statement  that  he  came  over  with  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker  in  1633,  and  that  he  and  his 
family,  consisting  then  of  his  wife  and  at  least  one  child,  were  of  the  brave  com- 
pany that  traversed  the  wilderness  from  Massachusetts  to  the  Connecticut  River  in 
1636/7.    The  marriage  of  his  granddaughter  Elizabeth  Hyde,  to  Lieutenant  Rich- 


PHOEBE    (griffin)    LORD  [72] 

FROM    A    WATER    COLOR    SKETCH     BY    HER    DAUGHTER 

PHOEBE    GRIFFIN     (LORD)    NQ-lHS    [7] 


WILLIAM  HYDE  [74]  125 

ARD  Lord,  the  grandson  of  Thomas  Lord  (67),  makes  it  interesting  to  note  that  the 
latter  was  also  of  this  company. 

William  Hyde  remained  in  Hartford  until  1640,  as  at  that  time  he  received 
twenty  acres  in  the  division  of  lands  east  of  the  river  (East  Hartford),  and  was 
surveyor  of  highways  in  1641.  About  this  time,  very  likely  with  William  Lord 
(68)  he  went  down  the  river  to  Saybrook.  In  1660  he  was  one  of  the  original  pro- 
prietors of  Norwich,  Conn.,  where  he  was  "a  man  of  considerable  importance,"  and 
selectman  in  1674. 

He  died  at  Norwich  in  168 1.  No  information  has  been  obtained  as  to  the 
name  of  his  wife.  It  is  thought  that  she  died  either  at  Hartford  or  Saybrook  and 
perhaps  soon  after  1637,  the  date  of  the  birth  of  her  son. 

Children  of  William  and Hyde 

Hester,  born  probably  in  England;  married  John  Post. 
(75)  Samuel,  born  at  Hartford,  about   1637;   married  in   June,  1659,  Jane    Lee,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Phoebe  (Browne)  Lee  (76);  died  in  1677. 


[75]  SAMUEL  HYDE  [1637-1677] 

and  his  wife 
'  JANE  LEE  [....-1723] 

of    NORWICH,    CONN. 

SAMUEL  HYDE  was  born  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  about  1637,  and  was  the 
only  son  of  the  first  William  Hyde  (74).  As  we  are  descended  from 
two  of  his  children,  it  is  a  matter  of  regret  that  we  know  so  little  about 
his  life  and  character. 
He  married  in  June,  1659,  at  Saybrook,  Jane  Lee,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Phoebe  (Browne)  Lee  (76)  of  East  Saybrook  (now  Lyme).  With  his  father, 
William  Hyde,  they  removed  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  in  1660.  Their  daughter 
Elizabeth,  born  in  August  of  that  year,  was  the  first  white  child  born  in  Nor- 
wich. 

Samuel  Hyde  was  a  farmer  and  had  lands  assigned  to  him  at  Norwich  West 
Farms.  The  General  Court  in  1677  voted  to  remit  his  rates  "for  these  two  last 
yeares  for  his  person  he  being  disinabled  by  ilness." 

He  died  at  Norwich  in  1677,  aged  forty  years,  and  his  friend  John  Birchard' 
became  guardian  of  his  children,  who  were  all  minors,  and  afterward  married  the 
widow.  They  removed  in  1698  to  Lebanon,  Conn.,  and  John  Birchard  died  there 
in  1702.  Jane  (Lee  Hyde)  Birchard  continued  her  residence  at  Lebanon  and 
died  there  January  21,  1722/3. 

'John  Birchard  was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  Norwich,  a  widower  with  a  large  family  of  children, 
and  a  man  of  importance.  He  was  a  commissioner  or  justice  of  the  peace,  deputy  to  the  General  Court,  etc.  See 
also  76- a. 


126  SAMUEL  HYDE  [75] 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Lee)  Hyde 

(69)  Elizabeth,  born  in  August,  1660;  married  in    1682,  Lieutenant    Richard  Lord,  son   of 

William  and ■  Lord  (68);  died  July  23,  1736. 

(125)  Phoebe,  born   in   January,  1663;  married   May    21,   1683,    Matthew  Griswold,  son   of 

Matthew  and  Anna  (Wolcott)  Griswold  (124),  of  Lyme;  died  Nov.  29,  1704. 
Samuel,  born  in  May,  1665;  married  Elizabeth  Caulkins. 
John,  born  in    December,  1667;   married   Experience  Abel;  died  in  1727;  was  the  ancestor 

of  President  Grover  Cleveland. 
William,  born  in  January,  1670;  married  Anne  Bushnell. 
Thomas,  born  in  July,  1672;  married  Mary  Backus. 
Sarah,  born  in  February,  1675,  and  died  the  same  year. 
Jabez,  born  in  May,  1677;  married  Elizabeth  Bushnell. 


[76]  THOMAS  LEE  [....-1645] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

PHOEBE  BROWNE  [.  .  .  .-1664] 

OF    ENGLAND 

WE  know  nothing  of  Thomas  Lee's  life  in  England,  but  that,  in  1645,  he 
sailed  to  this  country  with  his  wife  Phoebe  (Browne)  Lee  and  their 
three  children  in  company  with  his  father-in-law,WiLLiAM  Browne 
(76-a).Thomas  Lee, his  mother-in-law,  and  herson  John  Browne, all  died 
of  small-pox  on  the  voyage  and  were  buried  at  sea.  His  widow,  Phoebe,  with  her 
children,  Phoebe,  Jane  and  Thomas,  came  at  once  to  Saybrook  (Lyme)  and  lived 
there  for  some  years.  Until  recently  it  has  been  supposed  that  Phoebe  was  the 
daughter  of  Chad  Brown,  of  Providence,  R.  L,  but  an  interesting  document  has 
been  found  lately  among  the  family  papers  of  a  descendant  of  Henry  Browne  of 
Providence,  called  "A  genealigie  of  my  Mother  Taken  from  Aunt  Barthard," 
which  appears  to  show  conclusively  that  her  father  was  "Old  William  Browne" 
(76-A)  of  Rusper,  England  and  Southampton,  L.  i. 

About  1647  Phoebe  (Browne)  Lee  married  (2)  Greenfield  Larrabee  of  Say- 
brook  and  moved  to  Preston,  Conn.  She  had  five  children  by  her  second  husband, 
Greenfield,  born  April  20,  1648,  John,  Elizabeth,  born  January  23,  1653,  Joseph, 
and  Sarah. 

Her  husband,  Greenfield  Larrabee,  died  at  Preston,  and  she  married  (3) 
about  1 66 1, James  Cornish  "by  whom  she  had  a  son  whose  descendants  remain  to 
this  time  in  Simsbury,  Conn."     She  died  in  Northampton,  December  22,  1664. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Phoebe  (Browne)  Lee 

Phoebe,  born  in  England;  married  Nov.  i,  1659,  John  Large,  son  of  William  Large,  of  Hing- 
ham,  and  Cape  Cod,  Mass.;  lived  at  Lyme,  and  afterwards  on  Long  Island. 
(75)  Jane,  born  in  England;  married  (i)  in  June,  1659,  Samuel  Hyde,  only    son  of  William 


THOMAS  LEE  [76]  127 

and Hyde  (74);  married  (2)  John    Birchard;  died  at  Lebanon,  Conn.,  Jan. 

21,  1722/3. 
Thomas,  born  in  England;  married  (i)  Sarah  Kirtiand,  of  Saybrootc,  who  died  May  21,  1676; 
married  (2)  July  13,  1676,  Mary  DeWolf,  daughter  of  Balthazar  DeWolf;  was  ensign  and 
lieutenant  of  the  Lyme  Train  Band;  representative  in  1676;  died  at  Lyme,  Jan.  5, 
1704/5.  He  is  said  to  have  inherited  one-eighth  of  the  township  of  Lyme  and  was  a 
man  of  prominence.  His  widow  Mary  married  (2)  for  his  second  wife,  Matthew 
Griswold,  Jr.  (125).     She  died  in  1724. 

[76-A]  WILLIAM  BROWNE  [....-1650] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  SOUTHAMPTON,  L.  I. 


W 


ILLIAM  BROWNE  came  from  Rusper,  Sussex,  England.  The  date  and 
place  of  his  birth  are  not  known,  but  he  was  a  schoolmaster  in  Rus- 
per in  1727,  as  appears  from  the  following  record: 

"April  3rd.  1627.  Mary  WorfFelde,  widow  of  William  Worffelde,  of  Rusper,  Sussex  Co., 
he  late  deceased,  yeoman.  Bound  in  £(>40 —  to  Wm.  Browne,  Schoolmaster  of  Rusper,  to  faith- 
fully administer  and  execute  the  last  will  and  testament  of  William  Worffelde;  on  her  bond  are  Wm. 
Browne  &  William  Willett  of  Horsham,  Sussex  Co.,  yeoman.  Mentions  George,  Lord  Bishop  of 
Chirchester,  signed  in  presence  of  Joseph  Browne,  John  Bardine  (?)  and  Wm.  Simined  (?)."  • 

The  old  document  entitled  "A  genealigie  of  my  Mother,"  referred  to  in  the 
previous  sketch,  can  be  found  treated  at  length  by  Lieutenant-Colonel  C.  D.  Park- 
hurst  in  the  published  records  of  the  New  London  Historical  Society,  HI,  part  \, 
p.  112.     We  give  it  in  full: 

"A  genealigie  of  my  Mother  Taken  from  Aunt  Barthard  [Birchard],  1723.  The  following 
I  took  from  my  father's  Joshua  Hempsteds  e/q  papers  my  Grandmother  was  the  Daughter  of  old 
William  Brown  he  Lived  In  the  County  of  Essex  [Sussex]  and  town  of  Rusper  in  England  Come 
over  to  New  England  in  y'  year  1645  her  Grandmother  come  also  and  Grandmother  Died  with  the 
Smallpox  on  board  and  their  eldest  son  John;  they  had  3  Children  that  come  over  (viz.)  Hennery 
Phebe  &  Mary  Hennery  Lived  att  providence  had  three  sons:  Phebe  had  three  Husbands  the  first 
was  Lee  the  Second  Larribie  the  third  Cornish.  Lee  died  with  the  Smallpox  a  comeing  over,  and 
Left  3  children  (viz.)  Jane  (sic)  Pheebe  and  Thomas — Laribie  had  five  children  (viz.)  Greenfield 
John  Elizabeth  Joseph  &  Sarah  Joseph  Died  Young:  Cornish  had  two  Sons  (viz.)  James  and  one 
still  Born —  with  which  She  Died  In  Child  bead  att  Northampton;  mary  Brown  married  Robert 
Marvin  Lived  att  Southampton  on  Long  Island  and  att  Hempsted  Old  Great  Grandfather  Brown 
Died  att  Long  Island  with  his  Daughter  mary  marvin  their  pradissosors  were  ministirs  ever  since 
Queen  mary  Time." 

From  this  it  appears  that  William  Browne  came  over  to  New  England  in 
1645,  probably  well  advanced  in  years,  bringing  with  him  his  wife  and  four  children. 
His  wife,  his  eldest  son  John,  and  his  son-in-law  Thomas  Lee  (76)  all  died  of  small- 
pox on  the  voyage.     He  with  his  other  children  came  to  Saybrook  (Lyme), where 

'  Family  Papers  of  Henry  Browne,  of  Providence. 


128  WILLIAM  BROWNE  [76-A] 

probably  he  remained  until  about  1647,  when  his  daughter  Phoebe  married  (2) 
Greenfield  Larrabee  and  removed  from  Lyme.  He  appears  then  to  have  gone  to 
Southampton,  L.  I.,  with  his  other  daughter  Mary,  when  she  married  Robert 
Marvin  and  settled  there.  He  made  his  home  with  them  and  perhaps  engaged  in 
business  to  some  extent  as  a  merchant.  As  he  was  secretary  to  the  Supreme  Court 
and  also  Register,  it  is  evident  that  he  was  a  man  of  education. 

At  Southampton  there  are  the  following  records  concerning  him: 

"  1648.     Oct.  7  William  Browne  with  others  was  chosen  freeman  of  Southampton. 

1648,  Nov.  6,  William  Browne  and  Robert  Marvin,  with  others  in  division  of  the  "great 
plaine"  Southampton. 

1648,  Feb^  8  [1648/9]  Mr.  William  Browne  and  ten  others,  are  bound  to  pay  for  the  house 
which  they  have  bought  from  John  Mulford. 

1650,  July  2,  William  Browne,  Register,  Southampton. 

1650,  July  23,  Administration  granted  to  Robert  Marvin  and  Mary  his  wife,  upon  estate 
of  William  Browne,  just  deceased. 

1650,  July  24"'.     Inventory  of  his  estate,  total  ;£i6o-o-8,  includes  Books  £5." 

He  died,  evidently  quite  suddenly  or  after  but  a  brief  illness,  between  July  2 
and  23,  1650,  at  Southampton,  L.  I. 

Children  of  William  and Browne 

John,  died  in  1645,  on  the  voyage  from  England. 
(76)  Phoebe,  married  (i)  in  England,  Thomas  Lee,  who  died  on  the  voyage  in  1645;  married 
(2)  about  1647,  in  Lyme,  Conn.,  Greenfield  Larrabee;  married  (3)  about   1661,  James 
Cornish;  died  Dec.  22,  1664. 

Henry,  born  1625;  married  (i)  Waite  Waterman,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Bethia  ( ) 

Waterman;  married  (2)  Hannah  (Field)  Mathewson,  daughter  of  John  Field;  lived 
in  Providence,  R.  L  after  1651  until  his  death;  was  commissioner,  town  treasurer, 
deputy,  and  assistant;  died  Feb.  20,  1703. 

Mary,  married  in  1648,  at  Lyme,  Conn.,  Robert  Marvin;  lived  at  Southampton  and  Hemp- 
stead, L.  ].,  where  her  husband  held  various  offices  in  the  town.     He  died  about  1683. 

THE  LYNDE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

THE  family  of  Lynde  is  undoubtedly  of  Dutch  origin,  and  is  a  branch  of  the 
Van  Der  Lindens  of  Holland,  as  the  arms  which  our  ancestor  Enoch  Lynde 
bore  are  "almost  identical  with  those  granted"  that  family  "as  recorded  in 
the  College  of  Arms  at  the  Hague."  A  branch  of  this  family  is  said  to  have 
emigrated  to  England  in  the  sixteenth  century.  At  the  time  that  Enoch  Lynde  (77) 
lived,  the  assuming  of  spurious  arms  was  unknown,  and  the  fact  that  he  bore  these 
arms  is  proof  that  he  came  from  the  Holland  family.  As  with  the  Van  Der  Linden 
arms,  he  also  impaled  the  Digby  arms  after  his  marriage  with  the  heiress  of 
Everard  Digby,  our  belief  in  his  Dutch  origin  is  further  confirmed.'    The  only 

'See  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  1,  366. 


THE  LYNDE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  129 

names  we  have  of  the  Lynde  family  in  England  are  those  of  Enoch  Lynde's  grand- 
father and  grandmother,  Nathan  and  Elizabeth  Lynde.  These  are  recorded  in  an 
old  Bible  (date  1595)  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Cornelia  (Walter)  Richards  of  Boston, 
who  wrote  Mrs.  Salisbury  that  on  the  fly-leaf  is  the  following  record,  as  nearly  as 
can  be  made  out: 

"July  5th  1658.     This  Bible  given  to  Enoch  Linde,  ye  gr  son  of  Nathan  Linde  by  his  grand- 
mother Mrs.  Elizabeth  Linde." ' 


[77]  ENOCH  LYNDE  [i 580-1636] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  DIG  BY  [i  584-1669] 

OF  LONDON,  ENGLAND 

THE  following  brief  sketch  is  condensed  from  the  monograph  on  the  Lynde 
family  in  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies  by  Mrs.  E.  E.  Salisbury,  where 
we  find  a  very  full  and  interesting  record,  including  the  careful  and  thor- 
ough investigation  made  by  the  late  Colonel  Chester  and  others  for  Mrs. 
Salisbury. 

Enoch  Lynde  was  the  grandson  of  Nathan  and  Elizabeth  Lynde,  but  the 
names  of  his  father  and  mother  have  not  been  ascertained,  nor  the  date  and  place 
of   his    birth. 

He  married,  October  25,  1614,  at  the  Church  of  St.  John,  in  the  Parish  of  Hack- 
ney, near  London,  Elizabeth  Digby,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Everard  Digby, 
then  thirty  years  of  age.  The  record  reads,  "Enocke  Lyndlye  and  Elizabeth 
Dygbye."  The  ancestry  of  Elizabeth  Digby  is  not  clearly  made  out,  but  there 
seems  to  be  the  best  of  proof  that  she  belonged  to  the  Roman  Catholic  family  which 
was  so  distinguished  in  the  time  of  Charles  I,  and  that  she  was  in  all  probability  a 
great-great-granddaughterof  Sir  John  Digby  of  Eye-Kettleby.  For  Colonel  Chester's 
painstaking  search  into  her  pedigree,  we  refer  to  the  monograph  on  Digby-Lynde 
in  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies.  Her  mother  was  Catherine  Stockbridge 
De  Vandershaff,  a  Dutch  lady,  and  both  her 

"Parents  dying  while  she  was  young,  she  was  sent  into  Holland  for  Education,  and  there 
Instructed  in  the  Protes'  Religion,  her  relations  being  generally  Roman  Catholics.  She  was  a  near 
Relation  of  Jno.  Digby  ist  Earl  Bristol,  who  Introduced  her  son  Simon  Lynde  to  Kiss  K.  Charles 
hand."^ 

Enoch  Lynde  and  his  wife  apparently  lived  all  their  lives  in  a  rented  house 
in  Buttelan  (St.  Botolph's  Lane)  owned  by  a  kinsman,  "Giles  de  Butt  of  Hack- 

^  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  I,  360. 

^Old  Pedigree  owned  by  Mrs.  S.  S.  Chalker,  Say  brook,  Ct.     Ihid.,  363.  j 


130  ENOCH  LYNDE  [77] 

ney  Middlesex,  Gent."  as  appears  from  the  latter's  will  proved  in  1632.'  We  quote 
as  follows: 

"And  whereas  I  hold  by  lease  from  the  parishioners  of  the  parish  of  St.  Andrew  Hubart  in 
East  cheape  a  Messuage  or  Tenement  wth  the  appurtenances  and  beinge  in  Bottellane  in  London 
and  now  in  the  occupation  of  my  kinsman  Mr.  Enoch  Lynde."  He  gives  "to  my  brother-in-law 
Mr.  Peter  Bonny  ten  pounds  and  unto  my  kinsman  Enoch  Lynde  likewise  ten  pounds,  with  mourn- 
ing apparel  to  them,  and  their  wives  and  children.  To  Mathew  Lynd  son  unto  Enoch  Lynd  if  in 
case  he  continues  his  study  and  shall  follow  it  so  long  till  he  proceeds  Master  of  Arts,  then  at  his 
going  out  Master  I  do  give  him  twenty  pounds." 

The  whole  tenor  of  this  will  indicates  that  there  was  a  colony  of  Dutch  and 
French  people  in  Hackney  among  whom  the  Lyndes  were  prominent.  Their  con- 
tinued connection  with  the  place  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  their  last  child  was 
baptized  in  St.  John's  church  in  that  parish,  in  1630,  two  years  before  the  date  of 
this  will. 

Enoch  Lynde  was  "engaged  in  foreign  trade"  and  was  a  shipping-merchant 
of  London.  He  evidently  had  purchased  with  others  from  the  English  Govern- 
ment concessions  to  carry  the  mails  to  the  Low  Countries  and  other  foreign  places, 
as  the  following  record  shows : 

"  1632.     Petition  of  Samson  Bates,  Enoch  Lynde, Job  Allibond  and  others  on  behalf 

of  the  'ordinary  posts  for  the  Low  Countries'  to  have  a  settlement  'of  reglements  and  orders  for  the 
posts  for  foreign  service;  the  petitioners'  having  'paid  great  sums  for  their  places,  and  of  late  have 
been  much  wronged,  pray  to  be  heard  before  the  settling  of  the  orders'."  ^ 

In  1627,  during  the  French  War,  Enoch  Lynde  seems  to  have  been  concerned 
with  naval  matters,  having  probably  a  clerkship  of  some  kind,  as  this  letter  would 
indicate  which  was  addressed  to  Nicholas,  Secretary  to  the  Duke  of  Buckingham. 

"Right  WoPP: 

My  seruis  rememb.  —  these  are  to  lett  you  knowe  that  M''-  Mason  [Treasurer  of  the 
Army]  was  w*''  me  about  the  Inventary  of  the  ffreinch  pries  brought  into  the  port  of  Shoram,  w'^'^ 
Inventary  of  the  salle  of  the  goodes  is  not  yett  maid  parfett,  because  some  thinges  are  not  sould, 
and  monneys  are  scarse,  but  w"^  all  speed  it  shal  be  ended.  I  am  to  go  to  Shoram  one  Mundaye, 
and  then  1  will  hasten  this  bussenes;  and  when  all  is  done  I  will  repayer  to  you  w*''  all  the 
perticulers.  I  haue  cast  al  thinges  vpp  att  randon,  and  I  make  account  ther  wil  be  about  ffive 
hundreth  and  ffowr  skore  poundes  or  there  aboutes,  whereof  the  Sauers  clames  the  moyete;  but 
yo''  WoPP;  knowe  best  what  you  have  to  doe  w**"  them,  soe  not  having  els  I  rest  wishing  yo''  Wo^P; 
all  and  as  much  hapines  as  he  whoe  remaynes 

Y""^  flfreinde  to  command, 
Buttelan  this  Enoch  Lynd 

4th  of  January  1627  (Endorsed) 

To  the  Right  WoPP: 

Nicholas,  Secretary  vnto  my  Lord 
Admirale  the  Duke  of  Buckingham." 
'  Genealogical  Gleanings,  Waters,  574. 

'^Calendar  oj  Slate  Papers,  Domestic  Series  1631-1633.  London,  1862.  Quoted  from  Family  Histories 
and  Genealogies. 


ENOCH  LYNDE  [77]  131 

Enoch  Lynde  died  in  London  April  23,  1636,  and 

"On  the  7"^  of  October  1636,  in  the  Commissary  Court  of  the  Bishop  of  London,  letters  to 
administer  the  estate  of  Enoch  Lyne  late  of  the  parish  of  St.  Andrew  Hubbard  in  the  City  of 
London  deceased,  were  granted  to  his  relict  Elizabeth."  ' 

She  died  in  1669,  aged  85  years. 

Children  of  Enoch  and  Elizabeth  (Digby)  Lynde 

Matthew,  born  about  1620;  was  a  surgeon  in  the  navy  in  1650,  and  mentioned  in  his  brother 
Simon's  will,  as  well  as  in  that  of  Giles  de  Butt  quoted  above. 

James,  baptized  June  23,  1622;  buried  March  3,  1622. 
(78)  Simon,  born  in  1624;  baptized  at  St.  Andrew    Hubbard,  June,    1624;   married    February 
22, 1652/3,  Hannah  Newdigate,  daughter  of  John  and  Anne  (Hunt  Draper)  New- 
digate  (80);  died  Nov.  22,  1687,  aged  sixty-three. 

Enoch,  born  probably  between  1625  and  1630. 

James,  baptized  July  28,  1630,  in  the  church  of  St.  John  in  Hackney. 

I78]  JUDGE  SIMON  LYNDE  [1624-1687] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

HANNAH  NEWDIGATE  [1635-1684] 

OF    LONDON,    ENGLAND,    AND    BOSTON,    MASS. 

SIMON  LYNDE  was  the  third  son  of  Enoch  and  Elizabeth  (Digby)  Lynde 
(77)  and  was  baptized  in  June,  1624,  at  the  Church  of  St.  Andrew  Hub- 
bard, Eastcheap.     He  was  for  a   time  apprenticed  to   a  Mr.  Delaney,  a 
merchant  of  London,  and   sent  by  him  to  Holland,  where  Simon  Lynde 
"keept  his  books  in  y*  Dutch  toungue."    As  we  have  seen  in  his  father's  biography, 
he  was  presented  by  his  relative,  Sir  John  Digby,  ist  Earl  of  Bristol,  to  kiss  the 
hand  of  King  Charles  I. 

In  1650  he  came  to  Boston,  Mass.,  but  returned  to  England  for  a  brief  visit 
in  165 1.  He  married  in  Boston,  February  22,  1652/3,  Hannah  Newdigate, daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Anne  (Hunt  Draper)  Newdigate  (80),  who  was  born  in  Boston, 
June  28  (or  July  i),  1635.  He  made  his  home  in  the  house  of  his  father-in-law, 
to  which  he  added  "a  fair  large  structure."  This  house  stood  on  the  corner  of 
Hanover  Street  and  Wings  lane  (now  Elm  Street),  it  was  the  home  of  the  New- 
digates  and  Lyndes  for  at  least  four  generations,  and  Simon's  son  Samuel  later  put 
the  Lynde  arms  on  the  front  wall. 

In  the  list  of  soldiers  of  Captain  Oliver's  Company  in  King  Philip's  War  (1675) 
appears  the  name  of  "Mr.  Simon  Lynde,"  and  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
and  Honorable  Artillery  Company. 

"At  a  Council  held  in  Boston  N.  E.  on  Wednesday  the  8th  of  Dec.  1686,  Ordered, 
'  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  I,  366. 


132  JUDGE  SIMON  LYNDE  [78] 

"  That  Wait  Winthrop  Esq.,  Simon  Lynde  Esq.,  Benjamin  Bullivant,  Mr.  Isaac  Addington 
and  Mr.  Daniel  Allen  be  a  Committee  with  the  Secretary,  to  receive  and  sort  and  form  the  records 
of  the  country,  now  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Edward  Rawson,  late  Secretary,  so  that  they  may  be  ready 
and  apt  for  service;  and  that  the  persons  above  named  be  all  sworn  to  the  faithful  discharge  of  their 
trust  in  this  matter,  and,  to  the  end  it  may  be  forthwith  proceeded  in,  Mr.  Lynde  and  Mr.  Bullivant 
are  empowered  and  hereby  ordered,  to  take  the  same  from  Mr.  Rawson  to-morrow  and  remove 
them,  in  the  posture  they  are  now  in  into  the  Library  Chamber."' 

During  the  thirty  years  of  Simon  Lynde's  Hfe  in  the  Colony  he  was  a  man  of 
prominence,  and  acquired  large  possessions  in  Massachusetts,  Connecticut  and 
Rhode  Island. 

In  1677  he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  appointed  to  hear  the  dispute  be- 
tween Pawtuxet  and  Providence,  R.  I.,  which  had  reached  such  a  degree  of  violence, 
that,  upon  appeal  to  the  Crown,  a  Royal  order  was  issued  to  the  four  governors  of 
Massachusetts,  Connecticut,  Plymouth  Colony  and  Rhode  Island  to  appoint  a 
commission.  It  consisted  of  Simon  Lynde  and  Daniel  Henchman  of  Massachu- 
setts, Thomas  Hinckley,  Esq.  (185),  and  James  Cudworth,  Esq.,  of  Plymouth, 
Captain  George  Denison  and  Daniel  Witherellof  Connecticut,  and  Peleg  Sanford, 
Esq.  (16),  and  John  Coggeshall  of  Rhode  Island.  This  celebrated  case' was  con- 
ducted by  William  Harris  and  others  for  Pawtuxet,  Randall  Holden  (see  No.  32) 
and  John  Greene  for  Warwick  and  Roger  Williams,  Gregory  Dexter  and  Arthur 
Fenner  for  Providence.  An  interesting  account  is  given  in  Arnold's  History  of 
Rhode  Island,  I,  429-438. 

In  1686  Simon  Lynde  was  appointed  one  of  the  assistant  justices  of  the  Court 
of  Pleas  and  Sessions,  the  first  colonial  court  established  after  the  vacating  of  the 
colonial  charter,  and  in  the  following  year  was  one  of  the  justices  assistant  of  the 
Superior  Court,  with  Samuel  Shrimpton  and  Charles  Lidgett. 

He  died  November  22,  1687,  in  Boston,  aged  sixty-three  years.  Chief  Justice 
Sewall  notes: 

"On  Wednesday  come  home  &  hear  of  Justice  Lynde's  death  yesterday  about  noon.  .  . 
Satterday  Nov.  26 — Mr.  Simon  Lynde   is  buried.      Bearers,  Col.  Shrimpton,  Mr.  Nowel,  Justice 
Bullivant,  Justice    Hutchinson,  Mr.    Addington,  Mr.  SaflFin.     His    Excellency   there,  went    in  a 
Scarlet  Cloak." 

Hannah  (Newdigate)  Lynde  had  died  about  three  years  before,  December 
20,  1684,  aged  forty-nine.  Judge  Lynde  left  the  very  large  fortune  of  £'],(i22.  i8s. 
5d.  according  to  the  inventory.  Of  this  there  was  "Plate  in  an  Iron  bound  chest, 
^204.  15s."  In  his  will  he  divided  his  property  among  his  children,  noting  the 
provision  already  made  for  his  sons  Samuel  and  Nathaniel.     He  also  gave  "fore 

'  Massachiiselts  Historical  Society  Collections,  Series  III. 

'  It  is  interesting  to  note  how  many  of  our  ancestors  were  in  one  way  or  another  involved  in  this  case. 
William  Coddington  (iq)  as  Governor  of  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plantations,  was  named  by  the  King 
among  those  to  appoint  the  commission,  Simon  Lynde  (78),  Thomas  Hinckley  (185)  and  Peleg  Sanford  (16) 
were  commissioners,  John  Sanford  (15),  recorder,  and  James  Rogers  (37),  general  sergeant.  See  references  to 
this  case  under  James  Rogers  (37).  The  decision  being  against  Harris,  he  sailed  in  1679  for  England  to  appeal  to 
the  King.  On  the  voyage  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  a  Barbary  corsair  and  carried  to  Algiers,  where  he  was  held  for 
ransom.     In  the  summer  of  1681,  he  was  redeemed  and  died  three  days  after  reaching  London. 


JUDGE  SIMON  LYNDE  [78]  133 

score  Pounds  unto  fforty  poor  families  such  as  are  Godly  and  have  reall  need  of 

relief  " 

Children  of  Simon  and  Hannah  (Newdigate)  Lynde 

Samuel,  born  Dec.  i,  1653;  married(i)  Oct.  20,  1674,  Mary  Ballard, daughterof  J arvis  Ballard; 
married  (2)  Mary  Brick;  married  (3)  Mary  Anna  (Bendall)  Allen,  widow  of  Dr.  Daniel 
Allen,  and  daughter  of  Freegrace  and  Mary  (Lyall)  Bendall;  was  a  rich  merchant  of 
Boston,  and  justice  for  Suffolk  county;  died  Oct.  2,  1721.   His  widow  died  in  1727. 

Simon,  born  Sept.  27,  1655;  died  in  infancy,  Feb.  4,  1656. 

John,  born  Nov.  9,  1657;  died  Sept.  20,  1671. 
(79)  Nathaniel,  born  Nov.  22,  1659;  married  (1)  in  1683,  Susannah  Willoughby,  daughterof 
Deputy  Governor  Francis  and  Margaret  (Locke   Taylor)  Willoughby  (82); 
married  (2)  in  1725,  Sarah  (Lee)  Buckingham,  widow  of  David  Buckingham,  and 
daughterof  Thomas  Lee,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  Lee  (76);  died  Oct.  5,  1729. 

Elizabeth,  born  March  25,  1662;  married  "Mr."  George  Pordage,  of  Boston,  and  died  in 
June,  1746. 

Joseph,  born  Aug.  2,  1664;  died  Aug.  21,  1676. 

Benjamin,  born  Sept.  22,  1666;  H.  C.  1686;  married  April  27,  1699,  Mary  Browne,  daughter 
of  Judge  William  Browne,  of  Salem,  Mass.;  went  to  England,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Middle  Temple,  Oct.  18,  1692;  was  called  to  the  Bar  in  1697,  and  received  a  commis- 
sion as  a  King's  advocate  the  same  year;  sailed  to  New  York  in  November,  1697;  was 
judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Massachusetts  from  1712  until  his  death,  and  from 
1 728  to  1 739  was  chief  justice,  succeeding  J udge  Sewall ;  was  also  councillor  from  1 7 1 2 
to   1737.     He  died  Jan.  28,  1745. 

Simon,  born  Nov.  3,  1668;  died  Aug.  13,  1669. 

Hannah,  born  May  19,  1670;  married  (i)  "Mr."  John  Bigg,  of  London,  England;  married 
(2)  "Mr."  Jonathan  Mitchell, of  Cambridge,  Mass.;  married  (3)  Colonel  Edmund  Goffe, 
H.  C,  1690.     She  died  Aug.  9,  1725. 

Sarah,  born  May  25,  1672;  married  June  5,  1688,  her  cousin  Nathaniel  Newdigate,  son  of 
Nathaniel  and  Isabella  Newdigate.  Judge  Sewall  writes  thus  of  the  wedding: 
"Mr.  Nath'  Newgate  marries  Mr.  Lynde's  daughter,  before  Mr.  Ratcliff,  with  Church 
of  England  ceremonies:  Mr.  Payson  and  Mr.  Farwell  his  bridemen;  a  great  wedding." 
She  died  July  18,  1727,  at  Newport,  R  .1. 

Enoch,  born  Jan.  27,  1673/4;  died  Sept.  7,  1674. 

James,  born  Nov.  24,  1675;  died  Jan.  29,  1676. 

[79]  JUDGE  NATHANIEL  LYNDE  [1659-1729] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

SUSANNAH  WILLOUGHBY  [1664-1710] 

OF    SAYBROOK, CONN. 

NATHANIEL    LYNDE,  son   of   Judge  Simon  and  Hannah  (Newdigate) 
Lynde    (78),  was    born    in    Boston,  November  22,   1659,  and  was  ap- 
parently named  for  his  uncle,  Mr.  Nathaniel  Newdigate.     After  having 
served  as  an  apprentice  for  some  years  to  his  father,  who  was  a  merchant 
in   Boston,   he   married   (i)  in    1683,  Susannah    Willoughby,  only   daughter 


134  JUDGE  NATHANIEL  LYNDE  [79] 

of  Deputy  Governor  Francis  and  Margaret  (Locke  Taylor)  Willoughby 
(82),  who  was  born  August  19,  1664.  The  young  couple  then  removed  to  Saybrook, 
Conn.,  where  Nathaniel  had  been  given  by  his  father  a  deed,  April  16,  1685,  of 
several  hundred  acres  of  land,  "including  what  is  now  known  as  Lynde  Point,  the 
site  of  Fenwick  Hall  and  the  Lighthouse."  Lady  Fenwick's  monument  stood 
within  the  bounds  of  Nathaniel  Lynde's  estate,  but  it  was  removed  and  the  grave 
desecrated  to  make  way  for  the  Valley  Railroad.  This  land  was  sold  to  Simon 
Lynde  in  1674,  by  Benjamin  Batten  of  Boston  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  Cullick,  to 
whom  it  had  descended  from  her  uncle,  Colonel  Fenwick,  of  Saybrook. 

The  greater  part  of  the  time  from  1689  to  172 1,  Nathaniel  Lynde  was  judge 
of  the  Quorum.  In  1 701  he  was  the  first  treasurer  of  the  infant  College  which 
afterwards  took  the  name  of  Yale.     On  September  9,  1703,  he  gave 

"A  dwelling-house  and  lot  containing  about  two  acres  with  upland  and  meadow  adjoining 
[for  the  use  of  the  Collegiate  school]  as  long  as  it  should  be  continued  at  Saybrook."'  The  deed 
reads:  "For  and  in  consideration  of  the  Promoting  and  Incouragement  of  Learning  and  good  Lit- 
erature of  the  Collegiate  School  now  erected  in  Saybrook,  for  the  Liberall  Education  of  youth  that 
by  God's  blessing  may  be  fitt  for  publick  service." 

His  first  wife  died  February  22, 1709/10,  aged  forty-five,  and  over  fifteen  years 
later,  when  he  was  about  sixty-six  years  of  age,  he  married  (2)  in  1725,  Sarah  (Lee) 
Buckingham,  widow  of  David  Buckingham,  and  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
(Kirtland)  Lee  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  Lee  (76). 

He  died  at  Saybrook,  October  5,  1729,  aged  seventy  years.  Among  the 
papers  of  his  brother,  Chief  Justice  Benjamin  Lynde,  was  the  following  note  on 
Nathaniel's  death: 

"  I  visited  him  at  his  Mansion  House  on  his  farm  at  Saybrook,  Every  year  since  I  rode  the 
Springfield  Circuit  till  he  dyed,  and  left  him  wel  at  Potapaug  [Saybrook]  where  he  accompanied  me, 
and  there  we  took  Solem  leave  and  last  farewell  of  Each  other  w**'  Affectionate  Tears,  for  he  dyed 
about  a  fortnight  after,  in  the  70'''  year  of  his  Agecompleat,  lacking  a  Month  and  12  d  ." 

His  grave  and  that  of  his  first  wife  and  son  Samuel  are  marked  by  three  table 
gravestones  at  the  west  end  of  the  Saybrook  burying-ground.  The  inserted  slate 
tablets  with  the  inscriptions  have  disappeared. 

Nathaniel  Lynde  left  a  very  large  estate  for  that  time,  the  inventory 
amounting  to  ^9,430.     Among  other  items  of  personal  property  are  the  following: 

"  I  pair  of  Holland  sheets  £i'j.,  one  large  Holland  counterpane  £^.,  one  red  velvet  trunk  £\o., 
one  silver  tankard  ;£30.ios.iod.,one  sugar  box,  waight  17  oz.one  salt  seller  waight  30  oz.,  Sarver. 
tumblers,  spice  box,  poringers,  eight  spoons,  a  ladle  and  two  forks,  two  cocoanut  cups  silvar  tops 
&  bottom,  one  turtle  shel'd  box  bound  with  silvar  ;£3.,Corrall  set  in  gold  ;£7.,perl  necklace  £40,, 
Diamond  lockett  £(>^.,  Queen  Elizabeth's  Cup  £<;,." 

It  is  interesting  to  note  the  high  value  placed  upon  Dutch  linen  sheets.  In 
some  of  the  Verney  wills  of  the  same  period  in  England  one  finds  them  bequeathed 

'  See  paper  re  Yale  College  under  Rev.  James  Noyes  (^). 


JUDGE  NATHANIEL  LYNDE  [79]  135 

with  the  same  care,  among  the  valuable  family  possessions.     Some  of  the  other 

items  in  this  will  suggest  a  more  luxurious  home  and  furnishing  than  was  common 

in  the  day.    It  is  unfortunate  that  there  is  little  trace  at  the  present  time  of  these 

old  pieces  of  plate  which  were  distributed  among  different  members  of  the  family. 

The  Queen  Elizabeth  Cup,  Mrs.  Salisbury  thinks  came  from  the  Willoughby 

family,  and  a  full  account  of  her  researches  on  the  subject  may  be  found  in  the 

monograph  Willoughby  in  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  I,  399,  400,  560,  et  seq. 

Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Susannah  (Willoughby)  Lynde 

Samuel,  born  Oct.  29,  1689;  Y.  C.  1707;  married  (1)  Rebecca  Clark,  daughter  of  Major  John 

Clark,  of  Saybrook;  married  (2)  Lucy  (Palmes)  Gray,  widow  of  Samuel  Gray  and 

daughter  of  Major  Palmes  of  New  London;  married  (3)  Hannah  ( )  Huntington, 

of  Norwich,  Conn.;  was  judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  councillor,  and  colonel;  died 
Sept.  19,  1754. 
Nathaniel,  born  Oct.  21,  1692;  married  Sarah  Pratt,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Pratt,  of  Say- 
brook;  died  in  1749/50. 
(70)  Elizabeth,  born  Dec.  2,  1694;  married  July  11,  1720,  Judge  Richard  Lord,  son  of  Lieu- 
tenant Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Hyde)  Lord  (69);  died  June  22,  1778. 
Willoughby,  born  Jan.  8,  1696/7;  died  April  23,  1704. 
Hannah,  born  Sept.  10,  1698;  married  June  22,  1725,  Rev.  George  Griswold,  son  of  Matthew 

and  Phoebe  (Hyde)  Griswold  (125),  of  Lyme;  died  before  1736. 
Susannah,  born  April  14,  1700;  married  (i)  Rev.  Joseph  Willard;  married  (2)  Mr.  Andrew 

Gardner;  died  at  Winchester  in  1748. 
Sarah,  born  Feb.  2,  1702;  married  Nov.  23,  1730,  as  his  second  wife,  Joshua  Raymond,  Esq., 

of  New  London,  Conn.;  died  Oct.  19,  1771. 
Joseph,  born  March  23,  1704;  married  May  8,  1729,  Ann  Lord,  daughter  of  Mr.  Benjamin 

Lord,  of  Saybrook;  died  July  4,  1779,  at  Saybrook. 
Ann,  born  Dec.  29,  1706;  married  Colonel  John  Prescott,  H.  C.  1727,  a  physician  of  Con- 
cord, Mass.     He  raised  one  hundred  men  whom  he  commanded  in  the  unfortunate 
expedition  to  Cuba  in  1740.     She  received  a  pension  from  the  British  Government 
for  his  services,  and  died  after  1752. 

THE  NEWDIGATE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

THE  elder  branch  of  the  Newdigates  of  England  had  their  seat  in  Arbury, 
Warwickshire.  The  most  distinguished  members  were  Mr.  Sergeant 
Newdigate,  later  chief  justice  of  England  under  Cromwell,  and  Sir  Rich- 
ard Newdegate  of  the  Restoration.  Our  ancestor,  John  Newdigate 
(80),  owned  lands  in  Suffolk,  both  at  Great  Horningsheath  and  Bury  St.  Edmunds. 
He  was  probably  of  a  younger  branch  of  the  Newdegate  family  as  Judge  Simon 
Lynde  (78),  who  married  Hannah  Newdigate  of  Boston,  quartered  the  New- 
degate arms  with  those  of  his  own  family. 

The  earliest  ancestor  of  our  branch  of  the  family  is  given  by  Mrs.  Salisbury'  as 

I 
William  Newgate,  born  before  1500,  of  Ickworth,  near  Bury  St.  Edmunds, 

'  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,   1 ,  479. 


136  THE  NEWDIGATE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

Suffolk,  who  married  Katherlne  .     His  will  mentions  his   children  as  all 

"under  sixteen  the  28th  of  September  1528."     His  children  were: 

"  Robert  the  elder,"  see  below. 

Richard. 
"Robert  the  younger." 

Elizabeth,  married  in  1558,  John  Hande. 

2 

Robert  Newgate,  married  Thomasine ,  who  was  buried  December  5, 

1599.     In  his  will  Robert  calls    himself  "of  Great  Horningsheath,  Co.  Suffolk 
Yeoman."     His  children  were: 

Phillipe,  see  below. 

Robert,  married  Feb.  21, 1586,  Elizabeth  Buckinham,  and  had  a  son  William  who  married  a  sis- 

terofANNE( Hunt) Draper,  third  wife  ofhisnephew,  John  Newdigate  (80). 

Anne,  married  Oct.  4,  1601,  Henry  Frost. 

Phillipe  Newegate,  married  December  13,  1578,  Joane  Hoo,  daughter  of 
GuALTHER  [Walter]  Hoo,  of  Hessett,  Co.  Suffolk.  Joane  was  buried  October  10, 
1620,  and  Phillipe  Newegate  was  buried  August  i,  1636.  His  will  was  dated 
July  5,  1636,  and  in  it  he  bequeathed  all  his  estate  to  his  daughter  Andrey,  who 
was  made  executor.  One  of  the  witnesses  was  John  Newegate,  probably  one  of  the 
sons.     His  children  given  from  "records  and  wills"'  were: 

(80)      John,  married  (i)  Lidia ,  who  died  in  1620;  married  (2)  Nov.  i,  1620,  at  All  Hallows 

Church,  London  Wall,  Thomasine  Hayes,  who  died  in  1625;  married  (3)  in  England, 
Anne  ( Hunt)  Draper;  died  in  Boston,  Sept.  4,  1665. 

Andrey,  (or  Andrianne),  baptized  Feb.  25,  1581. 

John,  baptized  Nov.  24,  1583;  married  Sarah ;  was  a  maltster  of  Bury  St.  Edmunds, 

and  left  his  property  to  his  widow  for  her  life,  then  to  his  brother  Joseph  for  his  life, 
and  "After  decease  of  said  Joseph  Then  the  same  to  be  and  remain  unto  my  brother 
John  Newgate  now  living  resident  in  the  parts  beyond  the  seas  called  New  England 
and  to  his  heirs  forever."     His  will  was  dated  Oct.  12,  1642.' 

Joseph,  baptized  Dec.  8,  1585;  died  after  1642. 

[80]  JOHN  NEWDIGATE  [i  580-1665] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

ANN  (....    HUNT)   DRAPER  [....-1679] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  BOSTON,  MASS.] 

JOHN    NEWDIGATE,  son    of  Phillipe   and    Joane   (Hoo)    Newegate,  of 
Great  Horningsheath,  Suffolk,  England,  was  born  about  1580. 
He  married  (i)  Lidia who  died  in   1620;  married  (2)  November 
I,    1620,  Thomasine   Hayes    at   All    Hallows    Church,  London   Wall.      She 
died  in  1625  and  he  married  (3)  Anne  ( Hunt)  Draper,  then  a  widow  for 

•  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  I,  480. 


JOHN  NEWDIGATE  [80]  137 

the  second  time.  This  marriage  also  took  place  before  leaving  England.  He  lived 
in  St.  Olave's  parish  near  London  Bridge,  where  the  records  of  his  family  are  found, 
until  he  emigrated  to  America.  From  an  early  will,  which  was  never  proved,  dated 
in  1638,  it  appears  that  at  this  time  he  owned  "lands  and  tenements  lying  in  Horn- 
ingsheath  in  the  County  of  Suffolk  in  England  our  native  country,"  and  in  1639  he 
and  his  wife  sold  houses  and  lands  in  Tymworth,  Suffolkshire. 

He  came  to  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1632,  being  then  fifty-two  years  of  age,  bring- 
ing with  him  his  third  wife  Anne,  and  probably  his  six  children  then  living.  He 
was  made  freeman  March  4,  1634/5  and  became  a  member  of  the  First  Church  in 
Boston.  He  was  a  merchant  hatter  and  a  prominent  citizen.  At  the  time  the 
Book  of  Possessions  was  compiled,  he  had  in  Boston  "one  house  and  garden  con- 
taining about  K"  of  an  acre,"  on  the  west  slope  of  Beacon  Hill  a  little  east  of 
Cambridge  Street.  This  is  the  house  to  which  Simon  Lynde  came  when  he  had 
married  Hannah  Newdigate,  John's  daughter,  and  to  which  he  added  "a  fair 
large  structure,"  as  noted  before.  Chief  Justice  Lynde  says  the  "old  house"  was 
pulled  down  in  1730,  "in  which  all  we  children  .  .  .  were  born."  John  Newdi- 
gate also  owned  a  large  farm  of  four  to  five  hundred  acres  at  Rumney  Marsh 
(Chelsea),  near  Boston,  and 

"there  is  still  extant  the  original  unrecorded  deed  of  release  [of  this  property,  dated  April  9,  1685, 
twenty  years  after  his  death,]  from  the  widow,  children  and  grandchildren  of  Sagamore  George  an 
Indian  to  Simon  Lynde  for  the  use  of  the  heirs  of  John  Newgate."' 

At  this  later  date  the  Bostonians  were  acquiring  title  from  the  Indians,  as, 
after  the  overthrow  of  their  first  charter  they  feared  that  their  lands  might  other- 
wise revert  to  the  King. 

It  does  not  appear  from  any  of  the  wills  now  known  that  John  Newdigate 
or  any  of  his  heirs  benefited  from  the  will  of  his  brother  John,  mentioned  above, 
who  remained  in  England. 

John  Newdigate  died  in  Boston  September  4,  1665,  aged  eighty-five.  His 
last  will  was  dated  November  25,  1664. 

In  it  he  gave  to  his  wife  Anne  the  "farme  at  Rumly  Marsh.  .  .  .  my  house  at  Charlestowne," 
the  house  "in  which  I  now  dwell,"  and  the  house  "in  which  my  sonne  in  lawe  Simon  Linde  now 
dwells"  with  all  the  ground  and  appurtenances,  during  her  natural  life  if  she  remained  a  widow. 
This  was  charged  with  a  legacy  to  the  "College  at  Cambridge"  of  £'j.,  which  continued  to  be  a 
charge  on  the  farm  at  Charlestown,  even  after  it  went  to  his  son  Nathaniel.  He  mentioned  all  his 
children,  his  sons-in-law,  and  grandchildren,  gave  £'^  to  his  "wife's  sister  that  married  with  William 
Newgate  my  vncl's  sonn  liveing  in  London.  .  .  .  Mr.  John  Wilson  Pastor  of  the  Church  of  Boston 
£^.  to  bee  paid  within  3  moneths  after  my  decease.  .  .  .  Vnto  such  Ministers  within  this  Juris- 
diction as  are  conscionable  in  their  places,  and  yet  have  but  small  Mayntenance  £^0.,  to  be  paid 
to  the  said  Mr.  John  Wilson,  and  he  to  dispose  thereof  as  he  shall  see  meete  to  the  intent  aforesaid 
...  to  the  poor  of  the  church  of  Boston  £\o." 

'  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies  1 ,  479. 


138  JOHN  NEWDIGATE  [80] 

Anne  ( Hunt  Draper)  Newdigate,  his  widow,  survived  him  for  four- 
teen years  and  died  in  1679.  Her  will  was  dated  August  6,  1676,  and  was  proved 
April  8,  1679.  The  witnesses  were  Penelope  Bellingham  and  Anne  (Manning) 
Gerrish.  In  it  she  called  herself  a  "widow,  being  now  well  stricken  in  age."  Among 
other  bequests  she  gave  to  "Grand  Dau.  Elizabeth  Lynde  silver  girdal,"  and  her 
silver  plate  and  gold  rings  to  be  divided  among  the  Lynde  grandchildren.  She 
left  a  bequest  to  Hannah  Smith,  her  "made,"  and  one  to  "Gordg  Hale." 

Children  of  John  and  Lydia  ( )  Newdigate 

Thomas,  baptized  in  England  in  161 3;  died  young. 

John,  baptized  in  England  in  1616;  died  young. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  in  England  Jan.  1,  1617/8;  married  (i)  Rev.  John  Oliver,  first  minister 
of  Rumney  Marsh  (Chelsea,  Mass.),  son  of  Thomas  Oliver,  ruling  elder  of  the  First 
Church,  Boston.  He  died  aged  thirty,  in  1646,  and  she  married  (2)  in  1648,  Edward 
Jackson,  a  merchant  of  Boston. 

Lydia,  baptized  in  England  in  1620;  died  young. 

Children  of  John  and  Thomasine  (Hayes)  Newdigate 

Sarah,  baptized  in  England,  Sept.  23,  162 1;  married  Captain  Peter  Oliver,  brother  of  her 

sister  Elizabeth's  husband,  and  a  prominent  merchant  of  Boston;  died  in  1692,  aged 

seventy-one.' 
John,  baptized  in  England,  March  25,  1624;  was  named  in  his  father's  first  will  of  1638  as  his 

eldest  son,  but  was  not  mentioned  in   the  second,  from  which  we  infer  that  he  died 

before  his  father. 

Children  of  John  and  Anne  (Hunt  Draper)  Newdigate 

Nathaniel,  baptized  in  England,  April  4,  1627;  married  Isabella  Lewis,  daughter  of  Richard 
Lewis,  Esq.,  of  Ledston,  Yorkshire.  Their  son  Nathaniel  emigrated  and  lived  and 
died  in  Newport,  R.  L  Nathaniel  Sr.,  was  a  merchant  of  London,  and  died  there 
in  1668;  in  his  will,  dated  Sept.  8,  1668,  he  left  his  property  inherited  from  his 
father  John  Newdigate  in  New  England,  to  his  son  there.  Out  of  a  third  part  of  the 
property  of  which  he  died  possessed,  he  left  bequests  of  £10.  to  his  "  Mother  Anne  New- 
gate," ;£io.  to  his  "Aunt  Anne  Newgate,"  £if).  to  his  "  Brother  Simon  Line  and  his 
wife,"  and  to  "each  of  his  children  now  liueing,  £\o.  apiece." 

Joseph,  born  in  England  about  1630;  married  Elizabeth ■  and  died  in  Boston,  Nov.  12, 

or  Dec.  14,  1658.     He  is  supposed  to  be  the  same  as  the  Joshua  mentioned  by  Sav- 
age. 

Hannah,  born  in  Boston,  Aug.  i,  1633;  baptized  in  the  First  Church  there  Aug.  6,  and  "dyed 
the  nth  month  thereafter." 
(78)  Hannah,  born  in  Boston,  June  28,  or  July  i,  1635;  baptized  in  the  First  Church,  July  19, 
of  the  same  year;  married  Feb.  22,  1652/3,  Judge  Simon  Lynde,  son  of  Enoch  and 
Elizabeth  (Digby)  Lynde  (77);  died  Dec.  20,  1684. 

'Their  son  Daniel  was  the  father  of  Lieutenant  Governor  Andrew  Oliver,  who  married  Mary  Sanford, 
granddaughter  of  Governor  Peleg  Sanford  (i6). 


THE  HOO  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  139 


THE  HOO  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

THE  only  certain  information  that  we  have  about  the  family  of  Joane  Hoc 
who  married  Phillipe  Newegate,'  is  from  the  will  of  her  father, 
GuALTHER  Hoc,  found,  in  the  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  I,  499. 
From  this  it  appears  that  the  property  that  Gualther  Hoc  bequeathed 
to  his  sons  had  descended  to  him  through  several  generations  of  ancestors.  Mrs. 
Salisbury  thinks  that  his  descent  from  "John  at  Hoo"  (1558)  and  earlier  from 
"John  off  Hoo"  (1485)  can  be  proved  from  the  similarity  of  the  descriptions  of 
these  lands,  which  would  seem  to  have  been  alienated  lands  from  the  monastery 
of  St.  Edmunds.  Gaulther  Hoo's  will,  dated  1587  and  proved  in  1589,  is  in 
part  as  follows : 

"  I  Gualther  Hooe  of  Hessett  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  yeoman,  [to  eldest  son  John  and  his 
heirs  male]  Freehold  in  Hessett,  Beighton  and  Rougham  .  .  .  Ande  for  defaulte  of  suche  yssue 
make  the  remainder  to  the  heires  males  of  the  bodye  of  Robte  Hoo  for  ever."^  After  some  further 
bequest  of  copyhold  lands  to  the  same  son,  with"Limatacons"or  payments  of  money  to  the  younger 
brothers  Jeremy  and  John  and  the  sister  Joane,  he  bequeathed  to  Joane  his  "best  round  table.  .  .  . 
Unto  Philipe  Newgate  of  Horningheath  my  sonne-in-lawe  my  best  hose  and  doublett.  .  .  .  my 
pewter  dish  to  their  son,  my  wife's  god-son  [i.e.,  John  Newdigate  (80).]  .  .  .  charging  him 
[his  son  John]  as  he  will  answer  before  God,  at  the  great  dale  of  Judgment,  that  he  break  not  the 
true  meaninge  of  this  my  will,  nor  the  entayles  in  the  same,  my  plaine  intent  being  to  continue  my 
lannds  and  tenements  to  the  heir  male  as  my  Ancestors  left  yt  to  me." 

The  family  of  Hoo  is  now  extinct  in  England.     His  children  were: 

John. 

Jeremy. 

John. 

Joane,  see  The  Newdigate  Family  in  England. 

[81]    COLONEL  WILLIAM  WILLOUGHBY  [i 588-165 1] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH [.  .  .  .-1662] 

OF  PORTSMOUTH,  ENGLAND 


W 


ILLIAM  WILLOUGHBY, born  in  Chiddingstone,Kent,  England,  about 

1588,  was  a  son  of  Christopher  and  Martha  ( )  Willough- 

BY  of  Chiddingstone.     He  married  his  wife  Elizabeth before 

1613. 
He    is  mentioned  in  the  Calendar  of  State  Papers  as  early  as  1628  and  for 

'See  The  Newdigate  Family  in  England. 

'  This  Robert  Hoo  was  probably  a  brother  of  Gualther. 


I40  COLONEL  WILLIAM  WILLOUGHBY  [8i] 

many  years  later,  as  Purveyor  of  timber  for  the  Royal  Navy,  a  Government 
office,  and  is  frequently  referred  to  as  an  owner  of  vessels  which  he  put  at  the 
disposal  of  the  Government. 

When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  in  1643,  he  raised  a  company  of  one  hundred 
"well  affected  and  stout  youngsters"  whom  he  commanded  and  who  rendered 
efficient  service.  During  the  succeeding  year  Captain  Willoughby,  with  the  rank 
of  colonel,  was  given  command  of  a  regiment  known  as  the  "  Regiment  of  (Yellow) 
Auxiliaries  of  the  Hamlets  of  the  Tower."  His  military  service  under  the  Parlia- 
ment was  important  and  varied,  and  an  interesting  account  of  it  is  to  be  found  in 
Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  I,  510-513. 

He  was  appointed  by  the  House  of  Commons  on  February  16,  1648/9  master 
attendant  for  Portsmouth  and  commissioner  of  the  Royal  Navy  there,  but  held  this 
office  for  only  a  short  time,  dying  March  30,  165 1.  He  was  buried  in  St.  Thomas' 
Church,  Portsmouth  and  the  inscription  on  his  tombstone  is  as  follows: 

"  Heere  vnder  lyeth  ye  body  of  Willi:  Willovby  Esq.  formerly  Collo:  of  a  Regiment  belonging 
to  the  Hamlets  of  ye  Tower  (London)  and  at  his  deceas  a  Commissioner  of  ye  Navie,  aged  63  yearrs, 
who  departed  this  life  ye  30  March  1651.     Mors  mihi  Lvcrum." 

Above  are  emblazoned  the  old  Willoughby  de  Eresby  arms. 
William  Willoughby 

"  Born  under  Queen  Elizabeth,  lived  through  the  reigns  of  James  I  and  Charles  I,  and  through 
the  restless  times  which  followed  the  beheading  of  the  latter  did  active  service  to  his  country  under 
Parliamentary  rule,  but  did  not  survive  to  see  the  Protectorate  of  Cromwell." 

We  have  no  knowledge  of  his  ancestry,  but  the  fact  that  the  Willoughby  de 
Eresby  arms  were  engraved  on  his  tombstone  leads  us  to  believe  that  he  belonged 
to  that  family. 

"On  examination  of  Colonel  William  Willoughby's  accounts,  it  was  found  that  ;£i622.  i6s.  4A 
for  the  hire  of  ships  to  guard  the  Thames  during  the  insurrections  in  Kent  and  Essex,  were  due  at 
the  time  of  his  death;  and  the  Council  of  State  on  October  31  ordered  that  it  should  be  paid  to  his 
wife  out  of  the  excise  in  course,  with  an  allowance  at  six  per  cent  until  paid.  'On  petition  of 
Elizabeth  widow  of  Col.  William  Willoughby,  November  165 1,  search  was  made  to  see  if  warrant 
was  issued  for  payment  of  ;£300.  to  Col.  Willoughby  and  Company  (Maurice  Thompson  and  Wil- 
liam Pennoyer)  for  the  loan  of  two  ships  for  the  service  of  Ireland;  and  if  so  cancel  it.  .  .  .  and 
;£i50.  still  due  to  his  estate  to  be  raised,  etc.,  etc'  "' 

His  will,  dated  August  1,  1650,  signed  November  28  and  proved  at  London 
May  6,  1651,  made  his  wife  Elizabeth  the  executrix,  and  left  most  of  his  property 
to  her  and  his  eldest  son  Francis,  making  provision  for  his  other  son  William, 
whose  condition  is  mentioned  as  "deboisht"  and  wicked.     Other  bequests  are: 

"To  my  cousin  Lawrence  Hammond  the  sum  of  twenty  pounds  to  be  paid  him  when  he 
shall    be  twenty    [see    (82)]  ...  to  poor   housekeepers  here   in  Portsmouth  the  sum  of  five 

'  Calendar  of  State  Papers.     Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  1,  516. 


COLONEL  WILLIAM  WILLOUGHBY  [8i]  141 

pounds.  ...  To  poor  housekeepers  in  the  hamlet  of  Wapping  in  Middlesex  where  1  formerly  dwelt 
.  .  .  unto  John  Greene  the  sum  of  five  pounds  for  his  rare  helpfulness  and  assistance  to  my  fore- 
mentioned  wife  in  the  management  of  my  business,  and  settling  my  accounts." 

His  widow  Elizabeth  continued  to  reside  for  awhile  in  Portsmouth,  but  after 
the  Restoration  was  living  in  Seething  Lane,  London,  whence  she  accompanied 
her  son  Francis  to  New  England  in  the  summer  of  1662.  She  died  soon  after  at 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  September  15,  1662.  Her  will  was  made  in  London  in  May, 
1662,  and  had  the  unusual  provision  that  upon  her  death 

"There  Shall  be  no  mourneing  Apparrell  or  Habitts  given  at  anie  time,  nor  to  anie  psons,  no 
not  in  the  family,  for  or  by  reason  of  my  death  .  .  .  vpon  my  late  Sonn  William's  Reformac°",  I 
did  formerly  paie  him  the  Legacie  .  .  .  w'''  his  father  my  late  husband  did  by  his  last  will  and 
Testament  bequeath  vnto  him  .  .  .  Item  .  .  .  [legacies  to  her  grandchildren  and  daughter-in-law] 
I  giue  and  bequeath  vnto  my  sister  Anna  Griffin  of  Portsmouth  .  .  .  my  sister  Jane  Hammond 
of  Virginia  .  .  .  my  kinsman  Laurance  Hammond,  Sonn  to  my  Sister  Jane  aforesaid.  .  .  .  John 
Greene  of  Charlestowne  in  New  England  (formerly  servant  to  my  late  Husband  and  my  Selfe  and 
Since  that  to  my  Said  Sonn  francis),  .  .  .  all  ye  Residue  of  my  goods  and  Chattells  and  estate  what- 
soever .  .  .  vnto  my  Said  sonn  francis,  his  heirs.  .  .  .  and  1  make  my  much  respected  and  Singular 
good  freinds  Robert  Thomson  and  John  Taylor  both  of  ye  Citty  of  London  Esq''^  Ouerseers." 

John  Taylor  was  probably  her  son  Francis'  father-in-law.  Naval  Commis- 
sioner under  Cromwell.  Major  Robert  Thompson  was  in  Boston  in  1639,  and  had 
been  also  a  Commissioner  of  the  Navy  under  Cromwell.  Pepys  writes  of  him  under 
date  of  January  6,  1662,  as  follows: 

"Thence  to  the  Exchange,  where  we  met  Major  Thompson,  formerly  of  our  office,  who  do 
talk  very  highly  of  liberty  of  conscience,  which  now  he  hopes  for  by  the  King's  declaration,  and 
that  he  doubts  not  that  if  he  will  give  him,  he  will  find  more  and  better  friends  than  the 
Bishopps  can  be  to  him,  and  that  if  he  do  not,  there  will  be  many  thousands  in  a  little  time  go 
out  of  England,  where  they  may  have  it."' 

Children  of  William  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Willoughby 

(82)  Francis,  born  about  1613;  married  (i)  Mary ,  who  died  in  1640;  married  (2)  about 

1640  or  41,  Sarah  Taylor,  daughter  of  John  Taylor  (or  Tailer),  shipwright  and  Com- 
missioner of  the  Navy,  Wapping,  England,  who  died  in  1654;  married  (3)  about  1658 
or  1659,  Margaret  (Locke)  Taylor,  widow  of  Daniel  Taylor  and  daughter  of 
William  and  Susanna  (Cole)  Locke  (83),  of  Wimbledon,  Surrey.  Francis  died 
April  3,  1 67 1,  aged  fifty-eight. 
William,  in  his  father's  will  made  in  1650,  is  given  the  sum  of  ;£io.  "and  no  more  till  it 
shall  please  God  to  give  him  grace  ...  to  live  in  the  world  as  a  man  should  do,"  also 
a  larger  sum  if  he  should  reform.  He  married,  probably  about  1655,  Mary  James,  and 
died  in  December,  1657,  at  Portsmouth.  His  mother's  will  in  1662,  mentions  "my 
late  son  William's  Reformac™"  and  the  payment  by  her  of  the  legacy  left  by  his 
father  to  be  given  in  that  event.  His  widow  Mary  married  (2)  John  Brickenden,  and 
outlived  her  second  husband,  dying  about  June,  1688.^ 

'  Pepys' Diary  (iQO^),  III,  5;  edited  by  Henry  B.  Wheatly,  F.  S.  A. 
'  Waters'  Genealogical  Cleanings  in  England,  972. 


142  DEPUTY  GOVERNOR  FRANCIS  WILLOUGHBY  [82] 

[82]     DEPUTY  GOVERNOR  FRANCIS  WILLOUGHBY 

[1613-1671] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

MARGARET  (LOCKE)  TAYLOR  [....-1683] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  BOSTON,  MASS. 

FRANCIS  WILLOUGHBY,  son  of  Colonel  William  and  Elizabeth  ( ) 
WILLOUGHBY  (8i ),  was  bom  in  England  about  1613.  Of  his  early  life  in 
England  we  know  nothing  but  that  he  married  there,  probably  about  1634, 

Mary .     They  had  one  child,  Jonathan,  aged  three  years  when  they 

came  to  New  England,  which  was  probably  in  1638.  He  is  spoken  of  by  Governor 
Hutchinson  in  his  History  of  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  as  a  "gentleman  from 
England."  He  was  admitted  as  an  inhabitant  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  August  22, 
1638,  and  he  and  his  wife  united  with  the  church  there  December  8,  1639.  His 
property  at  this  time  was  a  house  and  lot  facing  north  on  Elbow  or  Crooked  Lane, 
afterward  Bow  Street.  He  also  owned  three  hundred  acres  in  "the  land  of  Nod" 
which  was  later  part  of  Wilmington,  besides  other  property.  He  was  ensign  in  the 
Militia,  joined  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  and  was  made 
freeman,  May  13,  1640,  the  record  showing  his  name  there  with  the  prefix  "Mr." 

In  1640  his  wife  Mary  died,  and  it  appears  that  he  then  went  back  to 
England,  where  he  soon  after  married  (2)  Sarah  Tailer,  daughter  of  John  Tailer 
(or  Taylor),  shipwright,  of  Wapping,  and  commissioner  of  the  Navy  under  Parlia- 
ment.    They  returned  to  Boston  the  same  year. 

He  was  chosen  selectman  of  Boston  in  1640  and  for  seven  years  thereafter 
At  this  time  he,  with  others, invested  a  large  amount  in  "building  warehouses  and 
framing  wharves,"  and  he  owned  a  shipyard  on  Warren  Avenue  where  the  Fitch- 
burg  station  is  now.  He  was  building  a  ship  in  1641,  and  the  town  gave  him  per- 
mission to  "  take  timber  from  the  common  .  .  .  without  being  bound  to  cut  up  the 
tops  of  the  trees."  1 1  was  probably  at  this  same  shipyard  and  wharf  where  "  a  road 
was  laid  out  to  the  landing  so  that  boats  might  go  to  the  low  water  mark, "  he  "agree- 
ing to  build  wharf  and  stairs  for  passengers  and  maintain  them."  He  was  deputy 
for  Charlestown  in  1642.  In  1646  the  General  Court  appointed  Mr.  Francis  Wil- 
LouGHBY  to  be  a  "close  co^ittee"  to  draw  up  instructions  to  Deputy  Governor 
Thomas  Dudley  and  two  others,  who  were  to  be  sent  on  a  mission  to  Penobscot 
"there  to  treat  w'*'  Mouns'  D'Aulney  or  his  agents  concerning  ye  p'tended  differ- 
ences between  him  and  this  Govern'."  Mr.  Willoughby  was  appointed  a  reserve 
if  Captain  Hathorne  could  not  go.' 

"He  was  undoubtedly  in  England  again  during  the  year  1648,  if  we  understand  Winthrop 
aright,  who  mentions  an  altercation  between  Willoughby  and  Dr.  Robert  Child,  which  took  place 
on  the  Exchange  in  London,  the  latter  speaking  disparagingly  of  the  New  Englanders,  and  re- 
^  Massachusetts  Bay  Colonial  Records,  il,  15Q. 


DEPUTY  GOVERNOR  FRANCIS  WILLOUGHBY  [82]  143 

spending  to  the  epithet  of  knave  with  a  box  on  the  ear,  whereupon,  ere  W.  could  resent  the  afTront 
in  any  way,  the  parties  were  separated.  Subsequently  the  Doctor  was  obHged  'to  give  Mr.  W. 
satisfaction  in  the  full  Exchange,  and  to  give  five  pounds  to  the  poor  of  New  England,  for  Mr.  W. 
would  have  nothing  of  him,'  and  to  promise  in  writing  that  he  would  never  speak  evil  of  New  Eng- 
land nor  cause  the  country  trouble.  We  also  see  that  Willoughby  loaned  the  Colonial  agent,  Mr. 
Winslow,  five  pounds  in  1648,  a  circumstance  which  doubtless  took  place  in  London."' 

Francis  Willoughby  was  deputy  again  in  1649  and  1650.  He  was  on  a 
committee  appointed  May  6,  1649 

"To  consider  of  a  way,  &  drawe  vp  a  lawe,  (Tor  dividing  ye  shieres,  &  treasury  in  each  shier, 
bringing  all  Courts  to  an  aequality  for  power  &  noumber,  yt  what  maybe  ye  country  be  eased,  & 
the  p'iudice  of  the  negative  vote  p'vented," 

and  in  1650  on  another  to  draw  up  a  code  of  maritime  laws  for  the  Colony.  He 
was  made  assistant  in  1650  and  165 1. 

During  the  year  1651,  he  went  again  to  England  to  arrange  for  the  settle- 
ment of  his  father's  estate,  but  none  of  his  family  accompanied  him.  Jonathan, 
his  eldest  son,  had  just  entered  Harvard  College,  from  which  he  never  graduated. 
After  the  birth  of  their  son  William,  his  wife  Sarah,  with  the  three  children,  Sarah, 
aged  ten,  Nehemiah,  seven,  and  the  baby,  followed,  reaching  Portsmouth,  Eng., 
December  21,  1653.  The  vessel  narrowly  escaped  being  taken  into  Brest  by  the 
French.  This  removal  was  no  doubt  caused  by  Francis  Willoughby's  appoint- 
ment as  one  of  the  naval  commissioners  at  Portsmouth.  He  continued  to  hold 
this  office  during  the  seven  years  of  the  Protectorate,  and  received  repeated  letters 
of  commendation  from  the  Admiralty.  Sarah  died  soon  after  her  arrival  in  England. 
When  war  was  declared  between  England  and  Holland  in  June,  1652,  Francis 
Willoughby,  Ex-Governor  Edward  Winslow,  and  Ex-Governor  Edward  Hopkins, 
all  in  England,  "petitioned  that  they  might  be  allowed  to  send  a  ship  with  store  of 
powder  shot  and  swords  to  New  England,"  and  give  the  Colonists  notice  of  the  war. 
The  receipt  given  was  for  "one  ton  of  shot  and  fifty-six  bbls.  of  powder."  Other 
records  of  his  service  while  naval  commissioner  are: 

"An  order  on  a  report  from  the  Admiralty  Committee.  .  .  that  there  be  allowed  to  ...  . 
Thos.  Smith,  Robert  Thompson  [see  81],  Peter  Pett,  Neh.  Bourne,  Edw.  Hopkins  and  Eras. 
Willoughby,  Navy  Commissioners  over  and  above  their  ;£250,  salary,  ;£i5o  each  for  their  extraor- 
dinary care  last  year  for  despatching  the  affairs  of  the  fleet. "^ 

Soon  after  in  asking  for  the  appointment  of  a  master  attendant  he  says 
"being  unable  to  do  the  service  of  both  places,  the  state  suffers."  He  was  elected 
one  of  the  two  members  of  Parliament  from  Portsmouth,  January  8,  1658/9,  and 
"had  the  unanimous  suffrages  of  the  Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Burgesses,"  but  served 
only  a  few  months,  as  this  Parliament  was  dissolved  in  April,  by  Richard  Crom- 
well, then  the  Protector. 

He  married  (3)  about  1658  or  1659  Margaret  (Locke)  Taylor,  daughter  of 

'  MSS  papers  of  Isaac  J.  Greenwood,  Esq.     Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  I,  526. 
''Col.  oj  State  P.  Dom.  S.  351.    Ibid.,  530. 


144  DEPUTY  GOVERNOR  FRANCIS  WILLOUGHBY  [82] 

William  and  Susanna  (Cole)  Locke  (83),  of  Wimbledon,  Surrey,  and  widow  of 
Daniel  Taylor,  a  wealthy  merchant  of  London.  Daniel  Taylor  had  died  in  1655, 
after  only  a  few  months  of  married  life,  and  had  left  his  wife  a  large  fortune  and  had 
given  her  numerous  jewels, including  "a  necklace  of  pearls,  a  Gold  Watch,  a  ring 
set  with  diamonds  and  a  Ring  with  about  eight  diamonds." 

In  the  Parish  register  of  St.  Olave's,  Hart  Street,  London,  is  an  entry  of  the 
birth  of  their  first  son,  Francis,  February  29,  1659/60.  Shortly  after  this  Charles 
1 1  returned  to  England,  and  Francis  Willoughby  left  the  Naval  office.  We  note 
with  interest  that  he  had  as  successor  no  less  famous  a  person  than  Samuel  Pepys, 
who  says,  July  1 1,  1660: 

"  I  borrowed  a  pair  of  sheets  of  Mr.  Howe,  and  by  coach  went  to  the  Navy  office,  and  lay 
(Mr.  Hater,  my  clerk  with  me)  at  Commissioner  Willoughby's  house,  where  I  was  received  by  him 
very  civilly  and  slept  well." 

July  26th  of  the  same  year,  he  writes: 

"Went  to  Wood's  at  the  Pell  meli  (our  old  house  for  clubbing)  and  there  we  spent  till  10  at 
night,  at  which  time  I  sent  to  my  Lord's  for  my  clerk  Will  to  com.e  to  me,  and  so  by  link  home  to 
bed.  Where  I  found  Commissioner  Willoughby  had  sent  for  all  his  things  away  out  of  my  bed- 
chamber, which  is  a  little  disappointment,  but  it  is  better  that  than  pay  too  dear  for  them."' 

For  two  years  Francis  Willoughby  lived  in  a  house  in  Seething  Lane  with 
his  mother,  and  was  a  merchant  in  the  city.  He  sailed  for  New  England  again  in 
the  spring  of  1662,  having  been  absent  for  twelve  years.  He  received  a  license  to 
embark  in  the  ship  "Society,"  with  his  family  and  goods.  Captain  John  Leverett 
accompanied  the  family  party,  which  consisted  of  Francis'  mother,  his  third 
wife  Margaret  and  her  baby  Francis,  and  probably  his  three  children  by  his  second  . 
wife,  Sarah,  Nehemiah,  and  William. 

In  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  held  October  20,  1663,  he  sat  again 
as  assistant  and  was  chosen  the  succeeding  year.  He  was  elected  deputy  governor 
in  May,  1665,  which  office  he  held  until  his  death.  He  was  much  interested  in 
Harvard  College  and  in  October  21,  1663,  was  on  a  committee  to  inquire  into  the 
state  of  the  College,  and  give  directions  for  disposing  of  its  estate  for  the  future. 
In  May,  1664,  he  and  others  were  appointed  to  draw  up  letters  to  settle  differences 
between  Connecticut  and  New  Haven.  We  find  in  the  following  record  an  early 
mention  of  the  troubles  which  the  colonists  had  in  reference  to  their  charters: 

"Whereas  this  Court  hath  passed  anorderfor  making  an  humble  addresse  &  petition  to  his 
majesty  for  the  contjnuance  of  our  priuiledges  granted  by  charter,  it  is  ordered  that  Mr.  Francis 
Willoughby,  Mao''  General!  Jn°  Leueret  &  Mr.  Jonathan  Michell  be  a  co^ittee  to  prepare  and  draue 
vp  a  petition,  filled  wth  such  rationall  arguments  they  can  fmde  to  the  end  aforesajd,  &  present  it  to 
this  Court  for  theire  approbation." 

At  the  time  of  the  English  war  with  Holland,  which  began  in  1664,  Mr. 
Francis  Willoughby  and  others  appointed  a  minister  and  chirurgeon  for  the  New 

'  Pepys'  Diary  (1903),  I,  183,  IQ4. 


DEPUTY  GOVERNOR  FRANCIS  WILLOUGHBY  [82]  145 

England  troops  which  were  to  be  raised  for  service,  and  on  the  tenth  of  the  same 
month,  he  was  on  a  committee  to  "raise  two  hundred  volunteers  against  the  Dutch." 
The  treasury  of  England  was  completely  drained  by  the  expenses  of  the  Court,  and 
when,  in  1666,  Parliament  voted  a  subsidy  of  nearly  two  millions  to  refit  the  fleet, 
the  money  came  in  but  slowly.  At  this  juncture,  in  September,  1666,  while  deputy 
governor,  Francis  Willoughby  was  chairman  of  a  committee  to  procure  two 
masts  to  be  sent  to  England  from  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  to  be  presented  "to 
His  Majesty  by  Sir  William  Warren  and  Capt.  John  Taylor  [see  81]  as  a  testimony 
of  loyalty  and  affection  from  ye  country."  With  what  gratitude  they  were  re- 
ceived, is  shown  in  Pepys'  Diary,  when  he  writes: 

"  Dec.  I,  1666.  There  is  also  the  very  good  news  come  of  four  New  England  ships  come  home 
safe  to  Falmouth  with  masts  for  the  King,  which  is  a  blessing  mighty  unexpected,  and  without 
which  (if  for  nothing  else)  we  must  have  failed  the  next  year."' 

When  in  the  fall  of  1666,  the  Royal  Commissioners  who  were  sent  by  Charles 
II  to  inquire  into  the  rebellious  disposition  of  the  Colonies,  demanded  that  the 
General  Court  of  Massachusetts  send  to  England  "five  able  and  meet  persons  to 
answer  for  refusing  the  jurisdiction  of  his  Commissioners  the  previous  year,"  a  long 
debate  ensued,  in  which  Willoughby  argued  thus: 

"  If  this  be  allowed,  how  easily  may  the  King  in  one  year  undo  all  that  he  hath  done;  and  we 
must  as  well  consider  God's  displeasure  as  the  King's,  the  interest  of  ourselves  and  God's  things 
as  his  Majesty's  prerogative;  for  our  liberties  are  of  concernment,  and  to  be  regarded  as  to  the  pre- 
servation; for  if  the  King  may  send  for  me  now,  and  another  tomorrow,  we  are  a  miserable  people." 

The  Colony,  as  we  know,  returned  an  evasive  answer,  and  continued  to  ad- 
minister their  affairs  under  the  Royal  Charter. 

For  all  these  public  services,  in  this  country  as  well  as  in  England,  Francis 
Willoughby  was  granted  by  the  Court,  October  12,  1669,  one  thousand  acres  of 
land  "in  any  place  that  may  not  prejudice  a  plantation."  He  died  April  3,  1671, 
and  was  buried  on  the  7th, 

"with  much  ceremony.  Noadiah  Adams  describes  the  funeral,  where  eleven  foot  companies 
were  in  attendance, 'with  the  doleful  noise  of  trumpets  and  drums,  in  their  mourning-posture,  three 
thundering  volleys  of  shot  discharged,  answered  with  the  loud  roaring  of  the  great  guns  rending 
the  heavens  with  noise  at  the  loss  of  so  great  a  man.'" 

In  Rev.  Simon  Bradstreet's  diary  it  says  that: 

"He  desired  to  be  buried  ten  foot  deep,  and  to  haue  ye  top  of  his  graue  plain  only  couered 
wth  ye  turfes  of  ye  grasse." 

The  inventory  of  his  estate  amounting  to  £4,812.  i8s.  7d.,  included  "a  Man- 
sion House  and  Stable  and  Grounds  about  the  House  ;^550  .  .  .  in  money  and 
plate  ;£320."  An  interesting  item  in  the  will  with  reference  to  Harvard  College 
is  as  follows: 

>  Pepys'  Diary  (1003),  VI,  86. 


146  DEPUTY  GOVERNOR  FRANCIS  WILLOUGHBY  [82] 

"  Now  for  as  much  as  the  College  hath  been  a  Society  that  I  have  had  much  affection  to,  and 
desires  for  the  prosperity  of,  having  made  it  my  work  to  solicit  the  country  in  generall,  &  perticular 
persons  to  take  care  thereof  in  order  to  the  advantage  of  posteritie.  It  might  be  expected  that  I  should 
manifest  myselfe  to  be  cordial  in  sume  more  than  the  ordinary  beneficence:  But  my  estate  being 
very  uncertaine,  as  it  is  abroad  in  other  mens  hands,  &  so  not  knowing  what  the  Lord  may  doe 
with  it;  And  a  vessel  being  lost  that  I  had  bequeathed  to  that  use:  But  cheefly  considering  the  back- 
wardness and  indisposition  that  is  in  the  country  to  consider  their  owne  interest  with  reference 
to  posterity;  ...  I  find  not  any  inclination  to  doe  what  my  heart  and  soul  is  free  for;  Desiring 
the  Lord  to  pardon  &  forgive  that  backwardness  and  indisposition  that  seemes  to  appear  in  the 
generality  of  persons  to  so  worthy  a  worke  as  it  is." 

One  of  the  overseers  of  his  will  was  his  cousin  and  most  intimate  friend  Cap- 
tain Lawrence  Hammond,  whom  his  widow  later  married  (3)  as  his  third  or  fourth 
wife.    To  quote  from  Captain  Hammond's  diary: 

"  I  was  marryed  in  Charlestowne  to  Mrs.  Margaret  Willoughby,  widow  of  Francis  Willoughby 
Esq.  on  ye  8th  day  of  February,  1674/5,  who  dyed  of  a  feaver  on  ye  2nd  day  of  February  1682/3. 
By  my  wife  Margaret  I  had  no  child." 

Her  only  living  child,  Susannah,  then  nineteen  years  old,  Margaret  (Wil- 
loughby) Hammond,  entrusted,  together  with  all  her  property,  to  her  "dear  hus- 
band's [Captain  Hammond]  care  and  dispose."  She  left  bequests  to  the  poor  of 
Charlestown  and  a  large  amount  to  the  Free  School  of  the  same  place. 

Children  of  Francis  and  Mary  Willoughby 

Jonathan,  born  in  England  about  1635;  married  in  December,  1661,  "Grizzle  Goldesborough 
of  St.  Gregory's  by  St.  Paul's,  Spinster,  about  twenty-five,  daughter  of  John  and  Anne 
Goldesborough  of  Godmanchester,  Huntingdonshire."  He  preached  at  Wethersfield 
from  1664  to  1666,  and  afterwards  at  Haddam,  Conn.,  for  a  short  time,  and  is  referred 
to  in  his  father's  will  as  having  had  a  "treble  portion"  and  having  wasted  it;  was 
living  in  1677,  when  he  was  mentioned  in  his  brother  William's  will. 

Children  of  Francis  and  Sarah  (Tailer)  Willoughby 

Sarah,  born  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  baptized  June  11,  1641;  married  Samuel  Campfield  (or 

Canfield),  eldest  son  of  Matthew  Canfield,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.     They  removed  to 

Virginia. 
Hannah,  born  May  17,  1643;  died  Sept.  4,  1643. 
Nehemiah,  born  June  18,  1644;  married  Jan.  2,  1672,  Abigail  Bartholomew,  daughter  of 

Henry  Bartholomew;  was  a  merchant  in  Salem,  Mass.,  and  selectman  and  constable 

there;  died  Nov.  6,  1702. 
Jerinnah,  (or  Jeremiah),  born  July  29,  1647;  died  young. 
William,  born  about  1652;  died  of  small-pox  Sept.  9,  1677. 

Children  of  Francis  and  Margaret  (Locke  Taylor)  Willoughby 

Francis,  born  Feb.  29,  1659/60,  in  London;  died  at  sea  on  the  way  home  from  London  of 

small-pox,  June  15,  1677. 
Nathaniel,  died  Feb.  6,  1662/3. 
(79)  Susannah,  born  Aug.  19,  1664;  married  in  1683,  Nathaniel  Lynde,  son  of  Judge  Simon  and 
Hannah  (Newdigate)  Lynde  (78);  died  Feb.  22,  1709/10. 


THE  LOCKE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  147 


THE  LOCKE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

THE  Locke  family  were  identified  with  Merton,  a  small  village  about 
eight  miles  from  London,  in  Surrey,  England,  from  very  early  times, 
perhaps  even  from  1291.  But  while  they  call  themselves  "of  Merton," 
they  were  mercers  of  London,  and  members  of  that  powerful  guild.  They 
were  people  of  wealth,  as  we  see  from  their  wills,  which  contain  valuable  bequests, 
such  as:  "my  bedsteed  with  fine  taffetas  silk  curtains  of  a  crimson  color,"  "my 
chain  of  pearl  which  cost  me  fourscore  pounds,"  "mine  armor  complete,"  "my 
hoop  ring  with  a  diamond  which  I  wear,"  as  well  as  large  sums  of  money  and  lands.' 
These  wills  are  to  be  found  in  Waters'  Genealogical  Gleanings,  1225-1234. 

The  Mercer's  Chapel  of  St.  Thomas  of  Acre,  West  Cheape,  London,  was  rich 
with  memories  of  the  Locke  family,  as  one  descendant  after  another  wills  that  he 
or  she  shall  be  buried  there  "as  nigh"  as  possible  to  the  family  group.  It  was,  un- 
fortunately, destroyed  with  all  its  records  in  the  Great  Fire  of  London. 

I 

Thomas  Lok. 

2 

Sir  William  Locke,  son  of  Thomas  Lok,  was  born  about  i486,  and  was  an 
alderman  of  London  and  sheriff  in  1548.  He  was  also  receiver  general  of  the 
County  of  Cornwall. 

"  In  the  25th  year  of  Henry  VII I  he  undertook  to  go  over  to  Dunkirk  and  pulldown  the  pope's 
bull  which  had  been  there  posted  up  by  way  of  a  curse  to  the  king  and  kingdom.  For  this  exploit 
the  king  granted  him  a  freehold  of  ;£ioo  per  annum,  dubbed  him  knight,  and  made  him  one  of  the 
gentlemen  of  his  privy  chamber.  'He  was,'  says  Collins,  'particularly  employed  by  Queen  Anne 
Bullen  privately  to  gather  the  Epistles,  Gospels  and  Psalms  from  beyond  sea,  in  which  he  ran  great 
hazard,  some  having  been  secretly  made  away  with  for  attempting  the  same  thing'."' 

Sir  William  married  (i)  Alice  Spencer  or  Elizabeth  Spence,  by  whom 
he  had  nine  children.  She  died  in  1532;  married  (2)  Catherine  Cooke,  daughter  of 
William  Cooke,  of  Salisbury,  who  died  at  the  birth  of  her  eleventh  child,  October 

14,  1537,  and  was  buried  at  Merton.     He  married  (3)  Eleanor  ( )  Marsh, 

who  died   in    1546,  when    he   married  (4)  Elizabeth  ( Hutton)  Meredith, 

widow  of  Robert  Meredith  (see  below),  who  died  November  30,  155 1.  He  died 
between  March  15,  1549,  when  his  will  was  written,  and  September  11,  1550,  when 
it  was  proved.  He  bequeathed  to  his  five  sons,  "my  dwelling  house  in  Bow 
Lane  and  my  house  at  the  Lock  in  Cheape  and  my  house  at  the  Bell  in  Cheape, 
with  all  the  shops  ...  to  the  intent  that  they  .  .  .  may  dwell  in  them  and 
keep  the  retailing  shop  still  in  my  name  to  continue  there,"  also  a  number  of 

'  "Elizabeth  re-enacted  several  of  the  sumptuary  laws  of  Henry  VIII  by  a  proclamation  of  1565  .... 
None  but  those  worth  over  /lOO  a  year  might  wear  satin,  damask,  silk  camlet  or  XsStXdiS." Social  England, 
Creighton,  111,  389. 

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148  THE  LOCKE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

other  houses.  To  his  son  Thomas  "land  at  Martyn  and  Wymbilton."  "The 
lease  of  my  garden  betwixt  my  five  sons  to  be  kept  in  their  hands  for  all  their 
recreations  in  Grub  Street."  He  was  buried  in  the  Mercer's  Chapel,  West  Cheape, 
London,  "in  the  middle  of  the  body  of  the  church  where  lieth  buried  my  father 
and  mother  and  my  first  wife."     His  children  by  his  first  wife  were: 

William,  died  in  infancy. 

Peter,  died  in  infancy. 

Thomas,  see  below. 

Richard,  died  in  infancy. 

William,  died  in  infancy. 

Edmund,  lived  until  1 545.     "  He  died  for  love  of  Sir  Brian  Take's  daughter,"  unmarried. 

Philip,  died  unmarried  in  1524. 

Joane,  or  Jane,  married  Robert  Meredith,  and  had  daughter  Mary,  from  whom  descends 
the  present  earl  of  Romney.  Robert  Meredith  after  her  death,  married  (2)  Eliza- 
beth ( )  Hutton,  and  died;  when  his  widow  married  (3)  Sir  William  Locke, 

Robert  Meredith's  father-in-law. 

Matthew,  married  (i)  Elizabeth  Baker;married  (2)  Johan ;  died  in  1552. 

Sir  William  Locke's  children  by  his  second  wife  were: 

Dorothy,  married  probably,  Otwell  Hill,  "citizen  and  mercer  of  London,"  who  died  in  1543. 

Catherine,  married. 

John. 

Alice. 

Thorn  azin. 

Francis. 

John. 

Elizabeth,  married  (i)  Richard    Hill,  Mercer,  who  died    in   1568;  married  (2)  Right  Rev. 

Nicholas  Bullingham,  Bishop  of  Worcester. 
Rose, married (i) Anthony  Hickman, of  London;  married  after  1556(2)  Simon  Throckmorton. 
Michael,  married  (i)  Joane  Wilkinson,  daughter  of  William  Wilkinson,  sheriff  of  London, 

who  died  in  1571;  married  (2)  Margery  ( )  Adelmare. 

Henry,  married  Anne  Vaugn;  died  before   1571. 

3 

Thomas  Locke,  son  of  Sir  William  and  Alice  (Spencer)  Locke,  was  born 
February  8,  15 14/5,  married  January  19,  1544/5  at  St.  Peter's,  Cheapside,  London, 
Mary  Long,  daughter  of  Simon  and  Alice  (Huglett)  Long,  of  the  Isle  of  Wight. 
"In  1 552  he  obtained  from  King  Edward  VI  a  grant  of  the  rectory  of  Merton  which 
remained  in  the  family  for  about  one  hundred  years,  when  it  was  sold."  His 
descendants  for  some  generations  lived  at  Merton  Abbey  while  continuing  in  business 
in  London.  He  died  at  his  London  house  in  Walbrook,  and  was  buried  in  the 
Mercer's  Chapel,  October  30,  1556.  His  will,  dated  March  21,  1553,  and  proved 
December  11,  1556,  leaves  "houses,  lands  etc  in  the  city  of  London  and  the 
Suburbs  and  in  the  counties  of  Middlesex  and  Surrey."  His  wife  to  have,  among 
other  property,  "my  best  ring  of  gold  set  with  a  diamond  that  was  my  father's." 


THE  LOCKE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  149 

His  widow,  Mary  (Long)  Locke,  married  (2)  Dr.  Owen,  married  (3)  Sir  William 
Allen,  Knt.,  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  her  son  Matthew's  father-in-law.  Thomas 
Locke's  children  were: 

William. 

Rowland. 

Matthew,  see  below. 

Thomas,  died  between  1553  and  1556. 

Mary. 

John,  born  after  1552. 

Anne,  born  after  1553. 

Matthew  Locke,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Long)  Locke,  was  born  about 
1558  and  succeeded  to  the  estate  of  Merton  on  the  death  of  his  brothers.  He 
married  Margaret  Allen,  third  daughter  of  his  step-father.  Sir  William  and  his 
first  wife,  Joan  (Daborne)  Allen.  Sir  William  Allen  was  the  son  of  William 
Allen,  citizen  and  poulterer  of  London.  He  was  sheriff  in  1562/3,  and  Lord 
Mayor  in  1 571/2. 

"He  was  at  first  free  of  the  Leathersellers,  afterwards  a  Mercer.  And  dwelled  when  he  was 
sheriff  in  Bow-Lane;  when  he  was  Maior  in  Tower-strete.  But  buried  at  St.  Botulphes  without 
Bishopgate,  in  which  parish  he  was  born."' 

Matthew  Locke  died  in  June,  1599,  and  was  buried  in  the  Mercer's  Chapel, 
London.  In  his  will  among  bequests  of  land  at  Dowgate,  in  the  Vintry  and 
in  Stepney,  he  left  "To  my  son  William  my  free  land  at  shore  ditch,  now  in  the 
tenure  of  Humfrey  Bigges,"  a  legacy  to  "Mr.  Gaily,  my  curate"  and  "To  my 
good  friend  Serg'  Muschampe  ten  pounds  to  buy  a  gelding."  His  wife  Mar- 
garet married  (2)  Sir  Thomas  Muschampe,  Knt.,  whom  she  survived,  dying 
August  25,  1624.     She  was  buried  with  her  first  husband.     His  children  were: 

Thomas,  who  succeeded  to  the  estate  at  Merton,  which  he  sold  in  1646;  married  Jane 

and  died  in  1656/7. 
Robert,  married  Elizabeth  ;  succeeded  to  the  business  in  London,  and  died  there. 

He  was  buried  at  St.  Alphege,  Sept.  9,  1625,  "a  good  parishioner." 
Francis,  probably  died  Nov.  3,  1620. 
(83)  William,  married  Susanna  Cole,  daughter  of  Roger  and  Anne  (Maister)  Cole;  lived 

at  Wimbledon,  where  he  died  in  1664. 
Mary,  married  Edward  Thrille  and  died  in  March,  1637.    She  bequeathed  to  her  sister-in-law 

Susanna  (Cole)  Locke,  "my  satin  gown  and  my  crimson  velvet  petticoat,"  and 

to  her   niece,  Hannah  Locke  "my  Turkey  tannett  petticoat   and   waistcoat   and 

my  orange  colored  satin  damask  petticoat." 
Elizabeth,  died  unmarried  before  1623. 
Anne,  died  unmarried,  between  April  13  and  May  23,  1623,  and  was  buried  in  the  Mercer's 

Chapel. 
•  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  1,613. 


I50  WILLIAM  LOCKE  [83] 

[83]  WILLIAM  LOCKE  [....-1664] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

SUSANNA  COLE  [....-....] 

OF  WIMBLEDON,  SURREY,  ENGLAND 

WILLIAM  LOCKE  was  a  son  of  Matthew  and  Margaret  (Allen) 
Locke,  of  Merton  Abbey,  Surrey.  He  married  Susanna  Cole,  one 
of  the  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Roger  and  Anne  (Maister)  Cole, 
of  St.  Savior's,  Southwark,  Surrey.  They  lived  for  a  time  at  Merton 
and  afterwards  went  to  Wimbledon,  where  his  condition  was  "that  of  a  country 
gentleman  in  comfortable  circumstances."  His  will,  made  June  10,  1661,  was 
proved  June  7,  1664,  by  his  widow  Susanna,  who  was  the  executrix.  She  was 
still  living  in  1 670,  when  she  proved  the  will  of  her  daughter  Jane. 

Children  of  William  and  Susanna  (Cole)  Locke 

Thomas,  was  living  March  18,  1669/70,  with  two  children,  Henry  and  Susanna. 

Mary,  died  young. 

Hannah,  married  before  1661,  Thomas  Bragne.     Both  were  living  in  1669. 

Susanna,  married  at  Wimbledon,  Oct.  8,  1657,  as  his  second  wife,  Rev.  James  Stephenson, 

the  Puritan  Vicar  of  Martock,  Somerset.     She  was  buried  at  Martock,  April  25,  1662. 

(82)  Margaret,  married  (i)  at    Clapham,  Surrey,  Aug.  8,   1654,  Daniel  Taylor,  of  London, 

who  died  in  April,  1655,  married  (2)  Francis  Willoughby,  son  of  Colonel  William 

and    Elizabeth  {— )  Willoughby  (81),  of   Portsmouth,  England,  who   died 

April  3,  1671;  married  (3)  in  New  England,  Feb.  8,  1674/5,  Captain  Lawrence  Ham- 
mond, of  Charlestown,  Mass.     She  died  Feb.  2,   1682/3. 

Elizabeth,  unmarried  at  the  date  of  her  sister  Margaret's  will  in  1680. 

Sarah,  unmarried  in  1661 ;  probably  died  before  March  19,  1669/70,  as  she  was  not  mentioned 
in  her  sister  Jane's  will. 

Jane,  died  unmarried  in  1670;  her  will,  dated  Wimbledon,  March  19, 1669/70,  was  proved 
Oct.  25,  1670. 

THE  COLE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

THE  ancestry  of  Roger  Cole,  father  of  Susanna  Cole  (83),  is  carried,  in  the 
Visitations  of  Surrey,  back  to  the  early  part  of  the  sixteenth  century,  and 
in  the  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Mrs.  Salisbury  traces  it  to  1243. 
It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  all  the  wills  found  in  Waters'  Genealogical 
Gleanings  (from  which  we  take  a  number  of  details  about  the  family)  indicate  that 
the  Cole  family  as  well  as  the  Lockes,  were  among  the  supporters  of  the  Reformed 
religion,  as  in  no  case  do  they  make  any  bequests  for  masses  to  be  said  for  the  repose 
of  their  souls.  They  do  not  seem  to  have  been  people  of  special  wealth,  and  many 
are  designated  as  yeomen,  but  none  except  John  were  engaged  in  mercantile  pur- 


THE  COLE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  151 

suits.     In  these  wills  there  is  less  picturesque  color  of  satin,  velvet  and  jewels  than 

in  those  of  the  Lockes,  but  a  liberal  devising  of  houses  and  lands.     The  descent  is 

as  follows: 

I 

William  Cole,  of  Hittesleigh,  Devon,  living  in  1243,  whose  heir  was 

2 

Roger  Cole,  of  Coleton,  Chulmleigh,  Devon,  whose  son  and  heir  was 

3 

Roger  Cole,  whose  son  and  heir  was 

4 

John  Cole,  of  Devon  and  Cornwall,  described  as  "de  Tamer,  Man-at-Arms," 

whose  son  and  heir  was 

5 

Sir  John  Cole,  Knt.,  of  Brixham,  married  Anne  Bodrigan,  daughter  of  Sir 
Nicholas  Bodrigan,  of  Cornwall.     His  son  was 

6 
Sir  William  Cole,  Knt.,  married  Margaret   Beaupell,  daughter  of  Sir 
Henry  Beaupell,  Knt.     Their  son  was 

7 

Sir  John  Cole,  married  Agnes  Fitzwarine,  daughter  of  Sir Fitz- 

warine.     Their  third  son  was  „ 

William  Cole,  whose  younger  son  was 

9 
William  Cole,  whose  son  was 

10 

John  Cole,  "marchauntma,"  married  Elizabeth  Martyn,  daughter  of 
John  Martyn.  He  was  of  Sudbury,  Suffolk,  and  owned  houses  there.  Their 
nine  children  were  as  follows: 

Martyn,  married  Elianor  Hancock.  He  died  between  Aug.  9  and  Oct.  29,  1 588,  leaving  a  be- 
quest to  "the  poor  of  Sudbury,  viz.,  the  halt,  lame,  blind,  sick  and  such  others  as  be 
comfortless.  I  will  that  upon  the  day  of  my  funeral,  when  the  people  are  gathered 
together,  some  learned  man  shall  make  a  sermon  unto  them  and  I  do  give  unto  him, 
for  his  pains  in  that  good  exercise  taken,  six  shillings  and  eight  pence." 

William,  see  below. 

Robert,  Richard,  Mary,  Thomas,  Giles,  John,  Edward. 

1 1 

William  Cole,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Martyn)  Cole,  married  (i)  a 


152  THE  COLE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

Spanish  lady,  Catalina  De  Gallegos,  daughter  of  Ferdinando  De  Gallegos. 
She  died  and  he  married  (2)  Elizabeth  Russham,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Thom- 
asine  Russham.  Thomas  Russham  was  an  Alderman  of  Sudbury  and  a  man  of 
some  means.  He  bequeathed  to  his  daughter  "my  other  bowl  of  silver  and  three 
silver  spoons  and  ten  pounds  in  money.  To  William  Cole  her  husband  my  black 
gown  faced  with  budge." ' 

William  Cole  died  between  October  17  and  January  9,  1588,  O.  S.  His 
children  by  his  first  wife  were: 

Robert,  married  Anna  Cooke  of  Kersey,  Suffolk. 
Roger,  see  below. 

His  children  by  his  second  wife  were: 

John,  married  Temperance  Heywood  (r),  and  died  in  1620. 

JVlartyn. 

William. 

Ellen. 

Parnell,  married Fettiplace,  and  was  a  widow  before  1620. 

Edward. 

Jeffrey. 

Mary   married  Anthony  Thomas. 

^12 

Roger  Cole,  second  son  of  William  and  Catalina  (De  Gallegos)  Cole, 
lived  in  the  parish  of  St.  Savior,  Southwark.     He  married  Anne  Maister,  daughter 

of and  Magdalen  Maister  of  Rotherhithe,  Surrey.     Magdalen  Mais- 

ter's  will  was  proved  January  18,  1614,  and  we  note  that  she  signed  it  with  a 
mark,  the  only  case  of  the  kind  in  the  Locke  and  Cole  family  connection.  She 
gave  to  her  daughter  Anne  Cole  ;^i6o,  and  after  specific  bequests  to  the 

"Poor  sisters  of  the  Trinity  House  in  Deptford  .  .  .  the  poor  in  the  Clink  Liberty  in  St. 
Savior's^ .  .  .  every  poor  widow  in  Reddrith,  [she  leaves  the  residue  of  her  estate  and  goods]  To  my 
son  Olave  Maister,  one  of  his  Majesty's  yeoman  warders  of  the  Tower  of  London  [and]  my  said  son 
and  daughter  Roger  Cole  and  Anne." 

Roger  Cole,  Gent.,  was  one  of  the  proctors  of  the  court  of  Arches.'  He  was 
a  man  of  some  wealth,  as  appears  from  his  brother  John's  will,  in  which,  after  be- 
queathing to  Roger  and  his  daughters  five  pounds  apiece,  he  says 

"Hoping  that  they  being  in  so  good  case  to  live  in,  in  this  age,  and  the  blessing  of  Riches 
being  upon  them  more  than  upon  the  others  of  my  kin,  they  will  take  in  good  part  this  poor  gift  and 
legacy  given  them  by  me." 

'"  Budge,  lambskin  dressed  with  the  wool  outward,  much  used  'in  the  Elizabethan  era  ...  as  an  in- 
expensive fur  for  the  edging  of  garments." — Century  Dictionary. 

'The  Clink  Liberty  was  an  outskirt  on  the  Southwark  side.  "In  one  way  or  another,  the  Liberties  or 
skirts  of  London,  all  around  the  walls,  had  filled  up  with  a  comparatively  poor  and  often  vicious  class,  living  in 
mean  tenements  who 'must  live  by  begging  or  of  worse  means.'  " — Social  England,  C.  Creighton,  111,373. 

'  "A  staircase  in  the  porch  [of  St.  Mary  Le  Bow]  leads  to  the  Norman  Crypt  which  was  used  by  Wren  as  a 
support  for  his  church.  Some  of  the  columns  have  been  partially  walled  up  to  strengthen  the  upper  building,  but 
the  crypt  is  of  great  extent,  and  in  one  part  the  noble  Norman  pillars  are  seen  in  their  full  beauty,  with  the  arches 
above,  which  have  given  the  name  of  'Court  of  Arches'  to  the  highest  ecclesiastical  court  belonging  to  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury,  which  formerly  met  in  the  vestry  of  this  church." — IValks  in  London,  A.  J.  C.  Hare,  I,  232. 


THE  COLE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  153 

Roger  Cole  died  before  May  3,  1628,  at  which  date  his  will  was  proved.  In 
this  will  he  leaves  most  of  his  estate  to  his  wife  Anne  for  her  life,  to  revert  to  his 
daughter  Susan  Locke,  with  a  house  to  be  divided  between  the  other  two  daughters 
and  some  small  legacies.     Their  children  were: 

Roger. 

Roger. 

John. 

Elizabeth,  married  (i)  William  Oland,  proctor  of  the  Civil  Law,  married  (2)  William  Ays- 
cough,  Register  of  the  Court  of  Audience  to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
(83)  Susanna,  married  William  Locke,  son  of  Matthew  and  Margaret  (Allen)  Locke,  of 
Wimbledon,  Surrey. 

Catalina,  married  John  Johnson. 

[84I  REINOLD  MARVIN  [....-1662] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARY- [.  ...-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    LYME,    CONN. 

THE  ancestry  and  English  home  of  Reinold  Marvin  have  not  been  ascer- 
tained, although  Mrs.  Salisbury  has  made  every  effort  in  that  direction. 
A  Matthew  Marvin,-  Husbandman,  who  may  have  been  Reinold's 
brother,  came  over  in  the  "Increase,"  April  15,  1635,  and  was  an  original 
proprietor  in  Hartford,  and  a  somewhat  important  citizen.  But  nothing  is 
known  of  Reinold  and  his  family  until  we  find  him  mentioned  in  the  Hartford 
Records  as  a  member  of  the  First  Church,  before  1639.  He  was  a  married  man 
when  he  emigrated,  but  we  know  only  the  first  name,  "Mary,"  of  his  wife. 

In  The  Memorial  History  of  Hartford  County,  by  President  Porter,  he  is 
spoken  of  as  a  land  owner  at  Farmington,  but  he  is  not  known  to  have  lived  there, 
although  he  built  a  house,  described  as  "new"  when  he  sold  it  to  John  Warner. 
He  was  made  a  freeman  at  Lyme,  May  20,  1658,  and  owned  property  on  both  sides 
of  the  river,  living  in  Lyme. 

The  name  of  Reinold  Marvin  is  frequently  mentioned  in  the  Colonial  Re- 
cords of  Connecticut,  but  it  is  not  always  easy  to  tell  which  Reinold  is  referred  to. 
The  following  entries  undoubtedly  refer  to  Reinold  the  elder,  when  he  and  his 
son-in-law,  William  Waller,  in  1660,  had  trouble  with  a  man  named  Parker  about 
some  "jades"  (horses)  which  were  claimed  by  the  "country."  Matthew  Gris- 
wold  (124)  was  also  mixed  up  in  the  affair  adversely  to  Reinold  Marvin.  The 
Court  ordered  Reinold  Marvin  to  surrender  the  horses,  but  he  refused,  and  insisted 
that  the  claim  was  unjust.     The  records  read: 

"Oct.  4th  1660.  This  court  doe  further  order  the  Secretary  to  send  downe  summons  to  Rey- 
nold Marvin  Sen''  to  appear  at  the  Perticuler  Court  in  March  next,  to  answer  both  for  loosing  the 
mare  into  ye  woods,  and  likewise  for  disposeing  of  any  of  those  horses  wch  ye  Court  had  ordered 
to  be  marked  for  ye  Countrey,  and  likewise  to  prohibit  him  for  medling  any  more  with  those  horses. 


154  RE  I  NOLO  MARVIN  [84] 

May  16  1661.  This  Court  approves  of  ye  returne  of  ye  Committee  respecting  Math.  Griswold  and 
Renold  Marvin  and  confirm  their  determination  about  the  Horses.  This  Court  grants  that  the  one 
half  of  ye  horses  in  controversy  shalbe  devided  twixt  Math.  Griswold  and  Reynold  Marvin  equally, 
and  ye  other  half  the  Court  ord''  to  be  to  ye  Countrey.  And  its  ordered  that  ye  said  company  of 
horses  shalbe  lookd  up  by  Marvin,  and  that  Rob'  Chapman,  John  Clark  Sen^  Math.  Griswold  and 
Reynold  Marvin  shal  sell  the  Horses  to  make  paym'  and  distribution  according  to  this  Order. 
Goodm"  Marvin  is  to  see  ye  Horses  brought  in  that  see  this  order  may  be  effected.  And  ye  value 
of  what  has  bin  sold  is  to  come  into  this  distribution.  And  this  is  to  issue  that  controversy. 
Oct.  3  1661.  Rob'  Chapman  and  John  Clark  Sen''  are  appointed  to  require  Reynold  Marvin  and 
Math.  Griswold  to  bring  in  ye  horses  soe  ordered  for  ye  countrey,  and  to  require  ye  pay  for  what 
are  sold,  and  this  to  be  effected  by  ye  first  of  December  next,  and  to  inquire  after  ye  number  of 
them,  and  to  make  returne  to  ye  Court  in  Decemb''  what  is  done  herein.  March  1 1  1662/3.  This 
Court  doth  order  the  Marshall  to  goe  downe  to  Sea  Brook,  and  to  destrein  the  sum  of  Fifty  pounds 
of  the  estate  of  Reynold  Marvin,  for  y'  wc'^  ye  Countrey  should  have  receaved  of  the  said  Reynold 
for  horses  that  he  was  ordered  to  seek  up  to  be  sold,  and  for  neglect  in  attending  their  ord''  herein. 
May  14,  1663.  This  Court  ordered  that  'William  Waller  as  Renol  Marvens  Agent,  should  be  al- 
lowed one  quarter  part  of  this  bill  of  50I.  as  his  part  of  the  horses,  and  Math.  Griswold  is  not  to 
trouble  W"  Waller  or  Renol  Marven,  for  any  part  of  those  horses  for  which  the  bill  is  made." 

Reinold  Marvin  died  at  Lyme  between  May  23,  the  date  of  his  will,  and 
October  28,  1662,  the  date  of  the  inventory.  It  is  evident  from  the  will  that  his 
wife  died  before  he  did,  as  he  gives  "wearing  cloathes  and  linen  belonging  to  her 
...  to  my  daughter  Mare's  dispose."  He  also  wills  that  "unto  each  of  my 
Grandchildren  there  be  provided  and  given  a  Bible  as  soon  [as  they  are]  capeable 
useing  of  them."  The  will  is  badly  torn.  The  inventory  includes  live  stock, 
lands,  a  house,  "2  guns  &  2  swords,  a  Pillion,  A  silver  spoon,  2  brushes,  an  hower 
glasse  &  a  looking  glasse." 

Children  of  Reinold  and  Mary  ( )  Marvin 

Mary,  married  Lieutenant  William  Waller,  who  came  from  Salem,  Mass.     They  lived  in 
Lyme,  and  he  was  ensign  in  1661,  lieutenant  in  1671,  and  representative  in  1665. 

(85)  Reinold, born  about  1633  or  1634;  married  (i)  Mary ,who  died  in  1661;  married  (2) 

about   1663,  Sarah  Clark,  daughter  of  George  and   Sarah  ( )  Clark,  of 

Milford,  Conn.  (88).     He  died  in  1676. 

[85]      LIEUTENANT  REINOLD  MARVIN  [1633-1676] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

SARAH  CLARK  [.  .  .  .-1715] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  LYME,  CONN. 

LIEUTENANT  REINOLD  MARVIN  was  probably  only  a  babe  a  year  or 
two  old  when  he  came  from  England  with  his  father  and    mother,  Rein- 
old and  Mary  ( )  Marvin  (84).     His  early  life  was  spent  in  Hart- 
ford, and  with  his  parents   he  went    to   Lyme,  and  was  made   freeman 
there  in  1658,  on  the  same  day  with  his  father. 


LIEUTENANT  REINOLD  MARVIN  [85]  155 

He  married  (i)  Mary  ,  by  whom  he  had  no  children.     She  died  in 

1661   "under  circumstances  which  led  some  to  think  she  had  been  bewitched." 

He  married  (2)  about  1663,  Sarah  Clark,  daughter  of  George  and  Sarah  ( ) 

Clark  (88),  of  Milford,  Fairfield  County,  Conn.  The  date  of  her  birth  is  not 
known,  but  she  was  baptized  in  1644. 

After  his  father's  death  in  1644,  Lieutenant  Reinold  inherited  his  estate, 
and  became  one  of  the  largest  land  owners  in  Lyme.  He  was  prominent  in  town 
affairs,  and  representative  to  the  General  Court  in  1670,  and  from  1672  until  his 
death  in  1676.  In  1666  he  was  one  of  the  committee  to  set  oflF  the  new  town  of 
Lyme  from  Saybrook.     On  February  13th  of  the  same  year: 

"The  two  divisions  of  Saybrook  made  a  'loving  parting,'  and  the  names  of  Reinold  Marvin 
the  second,  and  his  brother-in-law  Waller  were  two  of  the  six  signed  to  the  parting  covenant  for 
Lyme."' 

He  with  Matthew  Griswold  (124),  attested  the  first  land  records  after  the 
separation. 

At  the  same  time  (1661)  that  Waller  was  appointed  ensign,  Reinold  Marvin 
was  made  "Sergeant  of  ye  Band  at  Seabrook,"  and  he  soon  became  lieutenant, 
by  which  title  he  is  generally  referred  to,  as  it  distinguishes  him  from  his  father, 
the  first  Reinold,  and  his  son  "Lyme's  Captain." 

He  died  in  1676,  and  was  buried  in  Duck-River  Burying-Ground. 

"  I  believe  there  is  no  stone  there  with  an  earHer  date.  His  grave  is  placed,  somewhat  singu- 
larly, nearly  at  right  angles  with  all  the  others  about  it,  except  that  of  his  widow,  and  the  grave 
of  her  second  husband  which  is  between  the  two. "^ 

His  widow,  Sarah,  married  (2)  February  12,  1678,  as  his  second  wife,  Cap- 
tain Joseph  Sill,  the  Indian  fighter,  and  by  him  had  several  children.  She  died 
in  171 5  or  1 7 16. 

Children  of  Lieutenant  Reinold  and  Sarah  (Clark)  Marvin 

(86)  John,  born  in  1664/5;  married  May  7, 1691,  Sarah  Graham,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Mary 
Graham  (90);  died  in  Lyme,  Dec.  11,  171 1. 
Mary,  born  in  1666;  married  (i)  Richard  Ely,  of  Saybrook;  married  (2)  June  6,  1699,  Cap- 
tain Daniel  Starling  (Sterling). 
Reinold,  known  as  Captain  Reinold,  born  in  1669;  married  (i)  in  1695  or  1696,  Phoebe 
Lee,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Thomas  and  Mary  (DeWolfe)  Lee,  and  granddaughter 
of  Thomas  and  Phoebe  (Browne)  Lee  (76);  married  (2)  in  1708,  Martha  Waterman, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Miriam  (Tracy)  Waterman.  He  must  have  had  some 
military  service,  as  on  the  town  records  he  is  called  "Capt.  Reinold."  He  died 
Oct.  18,  1737.  The  epitaph  on  his  tombstone  in  the  Duck-River  Burying-Ground, 
is  as  follows: 

'  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  III,  113. 
^Ibid.,  Ill,  114. 


156  LIEUTENANT  REINOLD  MARVIN  [85] 

"This  Deacon 
Aged  68 
Aged  68  ferving 

.  '  Is  Freed  on  earth  from 

May  for  a  Crown  no  longer  wait 

Lyme's  Captain 

Renold  Marvin" 

Samuel,  known  as  "  Deacon,"  born  in  1671 ;  married  May  5,  1699,  Susannah  Graham,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  and  Mary  Graham  (90),  a  younger  sister  of  his  brother  John's  wife. 
He  was  representative  to  the  General  Court  in  171 1  and  1722;  died  at  Lyme,  March 
15  (or  May),  1743. 

Sarah,  perhaps  born  in  1673;  or  possibly  a  daughter  by  the  first  wife.' 

[86]  JOHN  MARVIN  [1665-1711] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

SARAH  GRAHAM  [1670- 1760] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

TOHN  MARVIN,  son  of  Lieutenant  Reinold  and  Sarah  (Clark)  Marvin  (85), 
I  was  born  in  1664/5,  ^^^  ^^^  but  ten  or  eleven  years  old  when  his  father  died. 
I      At  the  age  of  twenty-six,  he  married,  May  7,  1691,  Sarah  Graham,  daugh- 

J      ter  of  Henry  and  Mary  Graham    (or  Grihmes)  (90),  who  was  born  in  1670. 

He  settled  down  as  a  farmer  on  his  lands  at  Grassy  Hill,  Lyme.     His 

"estate  as  given  in  lists  of  the  time  when  the  people  of  Lyme  were  taxed  by  Gov.  Andros, 
shows  that  as  a  young  man  he  was  in  prosperous  circumstances,  and  was  in  the  upper  half  of  the 
rate-payers."^ 

He  does  not  appear  to  have  taken  the  same  interest  in  public  affairs  that  the 
older  generations  of  his  family  had  done. 

He  died  at  Lyme,  December  11,  171 1,  aged  forty-seven,  and  was  buried  in 
the  Duck  River  Burying-ground,  with  the  rest  of  his  family.  The  inventory  of 
his  estate,  mostly  in  land,  was  ;^69i  8s.  6d. 

His  widow  Sarah  married  (2)  Mr.  Samuel  Sears,  of  Lyme,  whom  she  sur- 
vived.    She  died  December  14,  1760,  and  was  buried  by  her  first  husband. 

Children  of  John  and  Sarah  (Graham)  Marvin 

,  a  daughter,  born  April  12,  1692;  died  young. 

Sarah,  born  Feb.  28,  1694;  married  (i)  John  Lay,  son  of  John  Lay,  Sen.  (93),  and  Abigail 

( ),  his  second  wife;  married  (2)  Dec.  23,   1725,  her  cousin  Deacon  Reinold 

Marvin,  son  of  Captain  Reinold  and  Phoebe  (Lee)  Marvin. 
Mary,  born  July  23,  1696;  married  Samuel  Smith,  probably  son  of  Samuel  Smith,  of  Farm- 

ington.  Conn. 

^  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  SaWsbury,  III,  117,  Note. 
^  Ibid.,  119. 


JOHN  MARVIN  [86]  157 

John,  born  Aug.  9,  1698;  married  Feb.  24,  1726,  Mehitable  Champion. 

Ehzabeth,  born  Nov.  23,  1701 ;  married  Dec.  28,  1727,  John  Tinker. 
(87)  Joseph,  born  June  16,  1703;  married  May  28,  1730,  Jane  Lay,  daughter  of  John  and  Jo- 
hanna Lay  (94);  died  April  7,  1791. 

Benjamin,  born  March  14,  1706;  married  Nov.  1 1,  1742,  Deborah  Mather,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel and  Deborah  (Champion)  Mather;  died  Jan.  21,  1775. 

Mehitable,  born  Sept.  12,  1709. 

Jemima,  born  July  20,  171 1 ;  married  Jan.  25, 1732,  William  Peck,  son  of  Samuel  and  Eliza- 
beth (Lee)  Peck,  and  grandson  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Peck  (106). 

[87J  JOSEPH  MARVIN  [1703-1791] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

JANE  LAY  [1 706-1 795] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

TOSEPH  MARVIN,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Graham)  Marvin  (86),  was  born 

I      June  i6,  1703,  in  Lyme.     He  was  but  eight  years  old  when  his  father  died, 

I      and  when  of  age  he  inherited  and  lived  upon  his  portion  of  the  estate.     Like 

J       his  father  he  seems  to  have  been  content  to  live  quietly  and  comfortably 

in  Lyme,  as  a  farmer. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-seven,  Joseph  married,  on  May  28,  1730,  Jane  Lay, 

daughter  of  John  and  Johanna  ( )  Lay  (94),  of  Lyme,  who  was  born  in 

1706.  He  died  April  7,  1791,  aged  eighty-eight,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  bury- 
ing-ground  on  Meeting  House  Hill.  His  widow  Jane  died  four  years  later,  Octo- 
ber 21,  1795,  aged  eighty-nine. 

Children  of  Joseph  and  Jane  (Lay)  Marvin 

(71)  Hepzibah,  born  March  11,  1731,  married  March  31,  1749,  Captain  Enoch  Lord,  son  of 
Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Lynde)  Lord  (70).     She  died  Oct.  19,  1813. 
several  other  children  who  died  in  infancy. 

[88]  GEORGE  CLARK  [....-1690] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

SARAH [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   MILFORD,    CONN. 

OUR  first  record  of  George  Clark  is  as  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of 
Milford,  Conn.,  in   1639,  and,  as  Hinman  says,  "one  of  its   most    re- 
spectable citizens."     He  is  called  in  the  Milford  records  "George  Clark 
Junior,"  or  "George  Clark  farmer,"  to  distinguish  him  from  "George 
Clark  carpenter  and  deacon,"  whose  son  Samuel,  his  daughter  Mary  married. 


158  GEORGE  CLARK  [88] 

He  was  evidently  a  young  man,  not  long  married,  when  he  came  from 
England  with  his  wife  Sarah  ( )  and  one  child  John,  as  he  lived  fifty- 
one  years  in  this  country.  They  probably  went  directly  to  Connecticut,  following 
his  brother  John  Clark,  who  came  from  Cambridge,  Mass.,  to  Hartford,  Conn., 
with  Hooker's  company,  in  1636.  It  is  thought  that  another  brother,  Daniel 
Clark,  who  was  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  in  1639,  may  have  come  from  England  with 
George. 

George  Clark  was  a  deputy  from  Milford  to  the  General  Court  of  Connecti- 
cut and  New  Haven  eight  times  between  1666  and  1676.  In  the  records  he  is  desig- 
nated as  "Mr.  George  Clark." 

He  died  in  1690  at  Milford,  and  Savage  says  he  "left  a  good  estate."  Sarah, 
his  wife,  survived  him,  but  the  date  of  her  death  is  not  known.  On  the  handsome 
stone  bridge  in  Milford,  erected  August  28,  1889,  to  celebrate  the  250th  anniversary 
of  its  settlement,  is  carved  the  names  of  the  earliest  settlers,  among  which  are 
"George  Clark  and  Sarah  his  wife." 

George  Clark  mentions  in  his  will  his  three  brothers,  John,  Edward, 
and  Daniel.  Of  these,  Edward  had  apparently  remained  in  England,  and  had 
left  a  legacy  of  one  hundred  pounds  to  George's  children  some  years  before. 
John  is  supposed  to  be  Mr.  John  Clark,  of  Hartford,  who  was  one  of  the 
most  influential  settlers  in  the  colony.  He  was  a  soldier  in  one  of  the  battles 
with  the  Pequots  in  1637,  one  of  the  patentees  of  the  Royal  Charter  in  1662,  and 
deputy  almost  continuously  from  1641  to  1665.  The  brother  Daniel  may  pro- 
bably have  been  the  Hon.  Daniel  Clark,  who  as  a  boy  came  to  Windsor,  Conn., 
about  1639,  with  his  uncle  Rev.  Ephraim  Huit,  and  was  the  second  husband 
of  Martha  (Pitkin)  Wolcott,  widow  of  Simon  Wolcott,  son  of  Henry  Wolcott 
(126). 

Children  of  George  and  Sarah  ( )  Clark 

John,  born  in  England  before  1639;  was  admitted  to  the  Church  of  Milford,  Conn.,  in  1673, 
and  was  either  unmarried  or  childless  when  his  father  died,  as  the  estate  was  left 
to  "my  Grand  Child  Samuel!  Clark"  in  default  of  heirs  of  John. 

Hannah,  born  in  Milford  in  1640;  married  in  1660,  John  Piatt,  son  of  Richard  Piatt. 

Ruth,  baptized  in  Milford,  in  1642;  married  (1)  Thomas  Fitch,  son  of  Thomas  Fitch;  mar- 
ried (2)  John  Plumb;  married  (3)  John  Wheeler,  of  Woodbury,  Conn. 
(85)  Sarah,  baptized  in  1644;  married  (i)  Lieutenant  Reinold  Marvin,  son  of  Reinold  and 

Mary  ( )  Marvin  (84),  who  died  in  1676;  married  (2)  Feb.  12,  1678,  as  his 

second  wife.  Captain  Joseph  Sill,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  afterwards  of  Lyme,  Conn.; 
and  died  in  1715  or  1716. 

Rebecca,  baptized  in  1646;  married  Browne. 

Mary,  baptized  in  165  i;  married  in  1673,  Samuel  Clark,  son  of  Deacon  George  Clark. 

Abigail,  baptized  Feb.  5,  1653/4;  married,  probably  about  1673,  Rev.  Abraham  Pierson, 
Rector  of  Yale  College;  died  in  Killingworth,  March  15,  1726/7. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  in  1656;  and  probably  died  young,  as  she  is  not  mentioned  in  her  father's 
will. 


HENRY  GRAHAM  [90]  159 


[90]  HENRY  GRAHAM  [....-1684] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARY  [....-1685] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   HARTFORD,   CONN. 

HENRY  GRAHAM'S  ancestry  has  not,  to  my  knowledge,  been  looked  up, 
and  it  would  be  an  interesting  study.  From  the  phonetic  spelling  in 
the  records,  where  it  is  written  "Grihmes,"  it  suggests  the  royalist 
Border  family  of  Esk  and  Netherby  in  Cumberland.  In  their  wills  we 
find  it  spelled  Grahme.  There  is  a  suggestion  of  relationship  in  the  name  of 
Susanna,  one  of  Henry  Graham's  daughters,  to  the  Ranald  Grahme, of  Nunington, 
Yorkshire,  and  London,  England,  whose  wife  was  Susanna,  daughter  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Washington.  No  mention,  however,  is  made  in  these  wills  of  any  member  of 
the  family  who  had  crossed  the  Atlantic,  and  they  are  dated  at  just  about  the  time 
of  Henry  Graham's  life  in  this  country. 

The  first  known  of  him  is  when  he  lived  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  where  he  was 

chimney-viewer  or  fire-warden.     He  married,  probably  about  i66i,Mary , 

by  whom  he  had  several  children.     He  lived  south  of  Little  River,  in  Hartford,  was 
surveyor  of  highways  in  1662,  and  made  freeman  there  in  1667. 

He  died  in  1684,  leaving  a  good  estate  for  that  time,  amounting  to  ^^745. 
His  widow  Mary  survived  him,  but  died  the  next  year,  1685.  In  her  will  she  pro- 
vided for  the  education  and  upbringing  of  her  three  daughters,  Sarah,  Elizabeth, 
and  Susanna,  by  asking  her  brothers  Benjamin,  and  Joseph,  to  take  two,  and  her 
friend  John  Watson  the  third. 

Children  of  Henry  and  Mary  ( )  Graham 

Benjamin,  born  in  1662;  married  (i)  in  1684,  Abigail  Humpiirey,  daughter  of  Michael  and 
Priscilla  (Grant)  Humphrey,  of  Windsor;  married  (2)  in  1698,  Sarah  (Mygatt)  Web- 
ster, widow  of  John  Webster  and  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Sarah  (Whiting)  Mygatt; 
lived  in  Hartford,  and  was  lieutenant;  died  there  in  1725. 

John,  born  in  1665. 

Joseph,  born  in  1667. 

Mary,  born  in  1668. 
(86)  Sarah,  born  in  1670;  married  (i)  May  7,  1691,  John  Marvin,  son  of  Lieutenant  Reinold 
and  Sarah  (Clark)  Marvin  (85),  who  died  Dec.  11,  171 1 ;  married  (2)  Mr.  Richard 
Sears,  whom  she  survived,  dying  Dec.  14,  1760,  aged  ninety-one. 

Elizabeth,  born  in  1674. 

Susanna,  born  in  1677;  married  May  5,  1699,  Deacon  Samuel  Marvin,  son  of  Lieutenant 
Reinold  and  Sarah  (Clark)  Marvin  (85),  brother  of  her  sister  Sarah's  husband. 
She  outlived  her  husband,  and  died  after  1743. 
Rebecca,  born  in  1680. 


i6o  JOHN  LAY  [93] 

[93]  .  JOHN  LAY  [....-1675] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  LYME,  CONN. 

JOHN  LAY,  commonly  called  "John  Lay,  Sr.,"  emigrated  to  New  England 
in, or  prior  to,  1648,  and  was  in  Saybrook.on  the  east  side  of  the  "Great  River," 
afterwards  called  Lyme,  in  that  year.  John  Lay  spelled  his  name  as  above, 
but  it  is  supposed  by  many  that  it  is  identical  with  Laigh,  Leigh  or  Lee. 
He  married  (i),  probably  before,  or  soon  after,  coming  to  this  country,  but 
the  name  of  his  wife  is  unknown.     By  her  he  had  three  children. 

He  married  (2)  Abigail  ,  by  whom  he  had  five  children.     The  fact 

that  the  eldest  sons  of  both  wives  were  named  John  has  caused  some  confusion, 
but  the  practice  was  not  an  unusual  one  at  that  time. 

John  Lay,  Sr.,  died  at  Lyme,  January  18,  1674/5.  In  his  will,  made  two 
days  before  his  death,  he  calls  himself  "aged."  He  mentions  his  "dear  and  loving 
wife  Abigail,"  his  son  "John  that  I  had  by  a  former  wife,"  " Jeams,"  his  daughters 
"Abigail,"  Susanna  and  Elizabeth,  and  his  sons  "Petter  and  John  whom  1  had  by 
my  present  wife."  His  will  was  witnessed  by  Rev.  Moses  Noyes,  of  Lyme,  a  son 
of  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2),  of  Newbury,  Matthew  Griswold  (124),  and  Reinold 
Marvin  (84).     His  wife  Abigail  died  in  1686. 

Children  of  John  and  Lay 

(94)  John,  married  (i)  Sarah;  married  (2)  May  26,  1686,  Johanna ;  died  Jan.  25,  1711/12. 

James,  died  about  1683. 

Sarah,  married  (i)  — ;  married  (2)  Dec.  3,  1696,  Nathaniel  Clark,  who  subsequently 

married  Martha  ( )  De  Wolf. 

Children  of  John  and  Abigail  ( — — — )  Lay 
John,  born  Sept.  21,  1670;  married  Sarah  Marvin,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Graham) 
Marvin  (86).     After  his  death  she  married  (2)  her  cousin  Deacon  Reinold  Marvin. 
John's  will  was  probated  in  1723. 
Peter,  mentioned  in  his  father's  will. 
Abigail,  married  Aug.  3,  1687,  William  Worman. 
Susanna,  mentioned  in  her  father's  will. 
Elizabeth,  mentioned  also  in  her  father's  will. 

[94]  JOHN  LAY,  JR.  [....-1712] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

JOHANNA [....-...  .] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

OHN  LAY,  Jr.,  son  of  John  and Lay,  was  probably  a  native  of  Eng- 
land.    As  his  first  child  was  born  in  January,  1664/5,  it  is  supposed   that 
his  own    birth  occurred  before  1644.     He  married  (i)  Sarah ,  prob- 
ably about  1663/4,  by  whom  he  had  nine  children. 
In  the  Great  Swamp  Fight,  December  19,  1675,  he  was  badly  wounded  and 


J 


JOHN  LAY  [94]  161 

carried  to  Newport  or  Portsmouth,  with  the  troops  under  command  of  Major 
Cranston.  Mrs.  Abigail  Lay,  his  step-mother,  filed  a  petition  with  the  General 
Court  of  Connecticut,  May,  1676,  asking  for  relief,  saying  that: 

"Her  son  having  been  impressed  in  the  country's  service,  was  wounded  at  the  Swamp  Fight 
in  Dec,  1675.  He  had  been  conveyed  to  Rhode  Island  and  remained  there  with  Major  Cranston 
until  his  wounds  were  cured;  and  he  was  now  desirous  to  return  home,  but  was  without  money 
to  satisfy  the  charge  for  his  board  and  expenses.  [The  court  ordered  the  Treasurer  to]  send  to 
Captaine  Cranston  the  thankes  of  this  Court  for  his  care  and  paynes  about  o'  wounded  men,  and 
to  desire  him  to  release  the  sayd  Lays  sonn  that  he  may  com  home  ...  to  send  him  [Major  Cran- 
ston] a  barell  of  oate  meale  and  forty  bushells  of  Indian  corn  in  part  of  pay,  and  to  desire  him  to 
send  acco'  of  what  is  due  to  him,  &c." 

After  his  return  to  Lyme  he  was  known  as  the  "Drummer,"  as  he  was  as- 
signed   to  call    the    people    to  worship,  and  probably  by  drumming  to  give  the 

alarm    in   case  of   danger.     He  married  (2)  May  26,  1686,  Johanna — ,  by 

whom  he  had  six  children. 

John  Lay,  Jr.,  died  at  Lyme,  January  25,  171 1/12. 

Children  of  John  and  Sarah Lay 

Sarah,  born  Feb.  4,  1664/5;  married  Nov.  12,  1682,  Simon  DeWolf,  son  of  Balthazar  and 
Alice  DeWolf. 

Rebeckah,  born  Sept.  9,  1666;  married  (1) Sage;  married  (2)  in  1686,  Daniel  Ray- 
mond, of  Lyme. 

Edward,  born  Jan.  26,  1668;  married  Mary ,  and  died  in  1758. 

Catherine,  born  Feb.  1 1,  1671/2;  married  Aug.  18,  1690,  Deacon  Jonathan  Copp. 

Abigail,  born  Sept.  9,   1673;  married  in  1692,  Thomas  Baldwin. 

Marah,  born  March  21,  1678. 

Elizabeth,  born  Dec.  18,  1681 ;  married  before  1699,  Samuel  Tubbs. 

John,  born  March  25,  1683;  died  young. 

Phoebe,  born  Jan.  13,  1684/5. 

Children  of  John  and  Johanna  ( )  Lay 

Johanna,  born  Oct.  8,  1687. 

John,  born  Oct.  4,  1692;  married  (i)  Jan.  27,  1736/7,  Sarah  (or  Hannah)  Lee;  married  (2) 

Mary  Lewis;  died  April  14,  1788. 
Joseph,  born  in  1702;  married  Feb.  5,  1734,  Mercy  (or  Mary)  Deeming,  daughter  of  David 

Deeming;  died  in  1797. 
(87)  Jane,  born  in  1706;  married  May  28,  1730,  Joseph,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Graham) 

Marvin  (86);  died  Oct.  21,  1795. 
Mary,  married  June  i,  1726,  Joseph  Robbins. 
Robert,  born  in  171 1 ;  married  in  1739,  Lydia  Tinker:  died  Feb.  3,  1792. 


GRIFFIN    ANCESTRY 

OF 

PHOEBE  GRIFFIN  LORD 

[7] 


[loo]  JASPER  GRIFFING  [1648-1718] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

HANNAH  — [1652-1699] 

OF   WALES,    AND   SOUTHOLD,    L.    I. 

THE  Griffing  (or  Griffin)  family  are  of  Welsh  origin,  and  a  large  number 
of  them  emigrated  to  Virginia.    We  know  nothing  of  Jasper  Griffing's 
antecedents,  but  suppose  him  to  be  also  from  Wales,  and  that  he  came 
to  this  country  while  quite  young.     He  appears  first  in  Essex  County, 
Mass.,  in  1670,  when  he  was  twenty-one,  and  four  years  later,  in  1674, at  Marblehead, 

Mass.,  when   he  probably    married    Hannah  ,  of  "Manchester,  N.   E.," 

undoubtedly  Mass.     About  1675,  he  and  his  wife  settled  in  Southold,  L.  I.,  where 
they  remained. 

In  1683  he  was  rated  for  a  tax  on  ^i  1 1  in  Southold.  He  was  commissioned 
lieutenant  of  a  Militia  Company  in  1693,  and  later  was  made  major.  Two  cannon 
were  mounted  on  his  farm,  near  the  banks  of  the  Sound,  and  with  them  salutes  were 
fired  on  holidays. 

He  was  a  farmer,  and  also  had  the  trade  of  mason,  as  he  was  so  called  in  a 
deed  in  1680.  In  a  deposition  made  by  him  March  5,  1710/1 1,  he  speaks  of  himself 
as  "aged  about  sixty-four  years." 

He  died  at  Southold,  April  7,  1718,  aged  seventy.  His  wife,  Hannah,  died 
before  him,  April  20,  1699,  and  the  inscription  on  her  tombstone  is  as  follows: 

"Here  lyeth  the  body  of  Hannah  Griffing  wife  of  Jasper  Griffing,  born  at  Manchester  N.  E. 
aged  46  years  and  8  months,  and  was  the  mother  of  18  children  and  departed  this  hfe  in  Southold 
the  20th  day  of  April  1699." 

Children  of  Jasper  and  Hannah  ( )  Griffing' 

(loi)  Jasper,  born  in  1675;  married  April  29,  1696,  Ruth  Peck,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 
Peck  (106);  died  in  1728. 
John,  settled  in  Riverhead,  L.  1.,  and  was  drowned  in  1741. 

Edward,  married  (i)  Irene ,  who  died  Nov.  8,  1716;  married  (2)  Oct.  i,  1717,  Sarah 

Meeker,  of  Southold,  L.  1. 

'We  have  only  record  of  four  sons  and  one  daughter  of  the  eighteen  children.  Some  of  them  probably 
died  in  infancy. 


JASPER  GRIFFING  [loo]  163 

Susanna,  married  Oct.  4,  1704,  Joseph  Peck,  Jr.,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah    Peck  (106) 

brother  of  her  sister-in-law,  Ruth  Peck. 
Robert,  born  in  1687;  married  (i)  Susanna ;  married  (2)  in  1708,  Lydia  Kirtland, 

daughter  of  Lieutenant  John  and  Lydia  (Pratt)  Kirtland,  of  Saybrook.     He  was  a 

bricklayer,  and  died  at  the  old  homestead,  March  28,  1729.     His  widow  married  (2) 

in  1732,  Joseph  Conkling. 

[loi]  JASPER  GRIFFING,  JR.  [1675-1728] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

RUTH  PECK  [1676-....] 

OF  SOUTHOLD,  L.  I.,  AND  LYME,  CONN. 

JASPER  GRIFFING,  son  of  Jasper  and  Hannah  ( )  Gripping  (ioo), 
was  born  in  1675,  at  Southold,  L.  I.,  where  he  probably  learned  his  trade  of 
cordwainer  (shoemaker).  He  married  at  Lyme,  April  29,  1696,  Ruth 
Peck,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  ( )  Peck  (106),  who  was  born 

August  19,  1676.     Not  long  after  he  bought  land  in  Lyme,  and  settled  there. 

In  the  Southold  records  we  find  a  deed  of  lands  at  Wading  River,  dated 
April  10,  1706,  given  by  Jasper  Gripping,  Jr.,  cordwainer,  and  on  June  21,  1718, 
another  by  him  to  his  brother,  "Robert  Griflfing  bricklayer,"  of  land  at  Southold, 
L.  I.     The  latter  piece  was  evidently  what  he  had  inherited  from  his  father. 

He  died  at  Lyme  before  November  12, 1728,'  when  Ruth  Gripping,  his  widow, 
and  Jasper,  his  son,  were  appointed  administrators  of  his  estate.  The  inventory 
amounted  to  £479.  19s.  i  id.,  which  indicates  that  his  trade  as  shoemaker  was  not 
his  principal  occupation,  but  that  he  was  also  a  successful  farmer.  On  December 
24,  1728,  Joseph,  Lemuel,  Samuel,  and  Nathan  Griffing  of  Lyme  "discharge  our 
brother  Jasper  Griffing  of  Lyme  from  all  claim  in  estate  of  our  honored  father 
Jasper  Griffing,  late  of  Lyme  deceased."' 

The  date  of  the  widow's  death  is  not  known. 

Children  of  Jasper  and  Ruth  (Peck)  Griffing 

Jasper,  born  Jan.  28,  1698;  married  Jan.  7,  1725,  Mary  Reed;  lived  at  Lyme,  where  he  died 

in  1783. 
Ruth,  born  Dec.  28,  1699. 
Hannah,  born  Feb.  26,  1700. 
Sarah,  born  April  13,  1702. 
Joseph,  born  May  6,  1704. 
(102)  Lemuel,  born  March  23,  1706/7;  married  Phoebe  Comstock,  daughter  of  William  and 

Naomi  (Niles)  Comstock  (no);  lived  at  East  Haddam,  Conn.,  where  he  died  in 

Millington  Parish,  Aug.  15,  1788. 
Hezekiah,  born  Jan.  21,  1707/8;  died  Feb.  29,  the  same  year. 

Nathan,  born  in  1716;  lived  in  East  Haddam,  Conn.;  died  in  Millington  Parish,  Sept.  5,  1799. 
^New  London  County  Probate  Journal,  III,  85. 
'  Lyme  Land  Records. 


i64  LEMUEL  GRIFFIN  [102] 

[102]  LEMUEL  GRIFFIN  [1707-1788] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

PHOEBE  COMSTOCK  [1705-1790] 

OF    EAST    HADDAM,   CONN. 

LEMUEL    GRIFFING,  son   of  Jasper  and  Ruth  (Peck)  Griffing  (ioi), 
was  born  in  Lyme,  March  23,  1706/7.     He  probably  lived  there  until 
about  1733,  when  he  married  Phoebe  Comstock,  daughter  of  William 
and  Naomi  (Niles)  Comstock   (i  10),  of  Lyme.     Phoebe  was  born  about 
January  i,  1705,  and  was  said  to  be  "a  woman  of  rare  grace  and  artistic  taste." 

Soon  after  his  marriage,  Lemuel  appears  to  have  moved  to  East  Haddam, 
and  settled  there  as  a  farmer.  We  find  a  record  of  his  purchase,  April  27,  1736,  for 
;^200,  of  fifty-five  acres  on  the  west  side  of  the  Eight-Mile  River,  in  East  Haddam, 
and  in  1740,  of  six  acres  "in  the  south-east  course"  of  the  town. 

In  1765,  when  he  was  fifty-nine,  and  both  his  surviving  sons  were  married, 
he,  George,  and  Lemuel,  his  sons,  bought  what  was  called  a  mansion-house,  a  barn, 
and  one  hundred  and  fifty-nine  acres  of  land,  in  Millington  Society  or  Parish,  which 
is  on  the  borders  of  North  Lyme.  Here  the  three  families  lived  together  through 
the  old  age  of  the  parents. 

Lemuel  Gripping,  the  subject  of  our  sketch,  died  August  15,  1788,  and  his 
widow  soon  followed  him,  dying  December  i,  1790.  They  are  buried  in  the  old 
cemetery  on  the  highway  between  Hamburg  and  North  Lyme,  and  the  inscriptions 
on  their  tomb-stones  read  as  follows: 

"In  memory  of  Mr.  Lemuel  Griffm,  who  departed  this  life  August  15,  1788,  in  the  82d 
year  of  his  age."  "  In  memory  of  Mrs.  Phebe  Griffin  relict  of  Mr.  Lemuel  Griffin,  dec''  who  departed 
this  life  December  i  1790  in  the  86th  year  of  her  age." 

His  will,  made  August  24,  1785,  reads  in  part  as  follows: 

"To  my  beloved  wife  Phebe  the  use  and  improvement  of  one-third  of  all  my  Real  Estate 
.  .  .  one  feather  bed  and  ye  furniture  thereof  during  her  life  .  .  .  the  use  ...  of  the  great  room 
in  my  dwelling  house  ...  to  my  beloved  son  George  Griffing  the  farm  and  buildings  on  which  I 
now  live  ...  to  my  beloved  son  Lemuel  Griffing  ...  in  Foxtown  ...  ye  farm  I  bought  of 
Pearson  where  he  now  lives  ...  to  my  two  daughters  Irene  Harris  and  Phebe  Comstock  all  my 
moveable  and  Personal  Estate  saving  the  use  of  those  articles  .  .  .  bequeathed  to  my  wife  .  .  . 
1  hereby  order  that  .  .  .  Phebe  [Comstock,  then  a  widow]  have  the  privilege  of  living  in  my  now 
dwelling  house  so  long  as  she  shall  remain  unmarried." 

Children  of  Lemuel  and  Phoebe  (Comstock)  Gripping 

(103)  George,  born  July  ro,  1734;  married  March  9,  1762,  Eve  Dorr,  daughter  of  Edmund  and 
Mary  (Griswold)  Dorr  (i  18);  died  Aug.  6,  1814. 
Irene,  married  Dec.  27,  1753,  John  Harris,  of  Plainfield,  Conn. 
Lemuel,  born  in  1738;  married  about  1764,  Lydia  Wiley  and  died  July  9,  1810. 


LEMUEL  GRIFFIN  [102]  165 

Phebe,  born  Jan.  26,  1741;  married Comstock,  and  was  a  widow  in  1785,  the  date 

of  her  father's  will. 
Josiah,  born  July  21,  1742;  died  Sept.  29,  1765,  "in  the  twenty-fourth  year  of  his  age,"  as 

appears  from  his  tombstone,  which  is  near  those  of  his  parents. 

[103]  GEORGE  GRIFFIN  [1734-1814] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

EVE  DORR  [1733-1814] 

OF  EAST  HADDAM,  CONN. 

GEORGE   GRIFFIN,  son   of  Lemuel  and  .Phoebe  (Comstock)  Griffin 
(102),  was  born  July  lo,  1734,  at    East    Haddam,  Conn.     He  was  a 
farmer  all  his  life,  staying  in  the  old  home  with  his  parents.     At   the 
age  of  twenty-seven  he  married,  March  9,  1762,  Eve  Dorr,  daughter  of 
Edmund  and  Mary  (Griswold  )Dorr  (118),  who  was  born  March  4,  1733. 

At  the  time  of  this  marriage  Eve  Dorr  was  twenty-nine,  and  long  before  this 
her  brothers  had  become  prominent  in  their  professions,  George  as  King's  Attorney, 
and  Edward  as  the  pastor  of  the  Hartford  church,  and  had,  by  their  marriages  into 
the  families  of  Marvin  and  Talcott,  enlarged  the  agreeable  circle  already  open  to 
them  through  their  mother,  Mary  Griswold.  The  home  atmosphere  was  stim- 
ulating to  Eve  intellectually,  and  cultivated  her  aesthetic  nature,  but  her  life  be- 
came narrowed  after  her  marriage.  Her  husband  was  also  above  the  ordinary,  and 
their  son,  Rev.  Edward  Dorr  Griffin,  wrote  of  him  later  as  follows: 

"George  Griffin  was  a  man  of  strong  mental  ability,  of  rare  judgment,  and  decided 
character.  He  endeavored  to  develop  the  mental  powers  of  his  children  by  giving  them  subjects 
to  write  upon,  and  not  infrequently  required  from  them  poetical  eflfusions.  I  well  remember  the 
dreaded  ordeal  1  sometimes  passed  in  my  early  childhood  in  his  critical  examinations  of  my 
progress  in  my  studies."  ' 

Eve  (Dorr)  Griffin  had  an  extraordinary  artistic  ability,  which  must  have 
had  some  special  training.  It  is  said  that  she  was  sent  to  Boston  to  learn  the 
then  fashionable  art  of  embroidery,  and  the  very  remarkable  pieces  of  her  work  which 
have  come  down  to  this  generation,  are  done  in  a  stitch  which  is  the  same  on  both 
sides  of  the  material.  They  are  worked  on  hand-woven  linen  in  home-dyed  crewels, 
in  patterns  that  she  unquestionably  designed  herself,  and  the  colors  are  still  perfectly 
bright.  One  of  these,  in  the  possession  of  the  writer,  is  a  bedspread  covered  with 
pinks  and  other  flowers  in  the  natural  colors  in  the  old  crewel  stitch.  Another, 
of  more  elaborate  design,  owned  by  Daniel  R.  Noyes,  of  St.  Paul  (see  illustration), 
was  probably  intended  for  the  front  of  a  toilet  table.  Others  of  her  great-grand- 
children have  as  interesting  specimens  of  her  needle-work. 

Her  long  married  life  of  fifty-two  years  was  spent  in  the  mansion-house  on 

'  Sprague's  Memoirs  of  Rev.  E.  D.  Griffin,  D.  D. 


i66  GEORGE  GRIFFIN  [103] 

Lemuel  Griffin's  farm  at  East  Haddam.  Mrs.  E.  B.  Kirby  (Caroline  Lord  Noyes) 
her  great-granddaughter,  visited  it  with  Aunt  Harriet  Lord  about  forty  years  ago. 
It  has  since  been  torn  down,  and  although  then  in  bad  repair,  Mrs.  Kirby  saw 
enough  of  the  decorations  to  be  impressed  with  Eve  Dorr's  talent  and  her  instinct- 
ive love  for  the  beautiful.  She  was  probably  unable  to  afford  the  then  expensive 
covering  of  wall-paper,  and  painted  the  walls  of  her  living  room  with  an  imitation 
of  it  in  a  floral  design,  with  a  scene  over  the  mantel  set  in  a  painted  frame  imitating 
the  gold  ones  then  in  use.  Those  of  us  who  are  fortunate  enough  to  have  mem- 
ories of  her  daughter  Phoebe's  family,  realize  that  her  artistic  sense  and  inventive 
genius  descended  to  them  in  double  portion. 

The  children  of  George  and  Eve  (Dorr)  Griffin  were  all  born  in  the  life- 
time of  the  grandparents.  In  1788  Lemuel  died,  and  George  and  his  wife  inher- 
ited the  property  and  continued  to  operate  the  farm.  After  their  death  it  passed 
to  their  son.  Colonel  Josiah  Griffm,'  whose  descendants  remained  in  East  Haddam. 

Eve  (Dorr)  Griffin  died  April  3,  1814,  and  her  husband  died  four  months 
later,  August  6,  1814.     Both  were  buried  at  East  Haddam. 

Children  of  George  and  Eve  (Dorr)  Griffin 

Mary,  born  June  15,  1763;  married  her  third  cousin,  Nathan  Hibbert  Jewett,  son  of  David 
and  Sarah  (Selden)  Jewett,  of  East  Haddam;  died  at  Ogden,  N.  Y.^ 

Livia,  born  Oct.  12,  1764;  married  Sept.  26,  1791,  Barzillai  Beckwith,  son  of  Deacon  Bar- 
zillai  and  Mary  (Butler)  Beckwith,  of  East  Haddam;  died  June  14,  1840. 

Josiah,  born  June  7,  1766;  married  Feb.  21,  1791,  Dorothy  Gates,  daughter  of  Timothy 
and  Hannah  (Percival)  Gates,  of  East  Haddam.  He  was  colonel  of  militia,  judge 
of  the  County  Court,  and  representative  to  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut  for 
many  years,  and  died  Sept.  30,  1843. 
(72)  Phoebe,  born  May  4,  1768;  married  Nov.  25,  1794,  her  third  cousin,  Joseph  Lord,  son  of 
Enoch  and  Hepzibah  (Marvin)  Lord  (71);  died  Nov.  25,  1841. 

Edward  Dorr,  born  Jan.  6,  1770;  Y.C.  1790;  married  May  17,  1796,  Frances  Huntington, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Devotion)  Huntington,  of  Coventry,  Conn. 
He  was  pastor  of  churches  at  New  Hartford,  Conn.,  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  Boston 
(the  Park  St.  Church);  was  president  of  Williams  College  for  fifteen  years  from  182 1, 
and  was  one  of  the  most  eloquent  preachers  of  his  time;  received  his  degree  of  D.  D. 
from  Union  College,  and  died  Nov.  8,  1837,  at  the  home  of  his  son-in-law.  Dr.  Lyndon 
A.  Smith,  in  Newark,  N.  J. 

Lucy,  born  March  21,  1773;  married  Jan.  14,  1806,  Rev.  Elijah  Gardner  Welles;  died  at 
Davenport,  la.,  Dec.  9,  1852. 

Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  23,  1775;  married  (i)  in  1800,  Montgomery  Austin,  son  of  Judge  Aaron 
and  Esther  (Kellogg)  Austin,  of  New  Hartford,  Conn.,  who  died  in  1808;  married  (2) 
in  1811,  Rev.  John  Wilder,  of  Attleborough,  Mass.,  and  died  March  12,  1847. 

George,  born  Jan.  14,  1778;  Y.  C.  1797;  married  July  3,  1801,  Lydia  Butler,  daughter   of 

•  Colonel  Josiah  Griffin's  daughter,  known  to  the  Noyes  family  of  Lyme  as  Aunt  Dolly,  became  the  second 
wife  of  Dr.  Richard  Noyes  of  Lyme,  whose  first  wife  had  been  my  Aunt  Martha  Noyes,  sister  of  my  father  Daniel 
R.  Noyes  (7). 

^  Their  son,  William  Jewett,  was  a  well-known  portrait  painter  of  New  York  in  the  early  part  of  the 
nineteenth  century 


GEORGE  GRIFFIN  [103]  167 

Colonel  Zebulon  and  Phoebe  (Haight)  Butler,  of  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.;  began  the  practice 
of  law  in  Wilkesbarre,  but  removed  to  New  York  in  1806,  where  he  was  active  pro- 
fessionally for  fifty-two  years,  and  became  one  of  the  most  distinguished  members 
of  the  bar  in  both  state  and  city;  died  May  6,  i860,  and  was  buried  with  most  of  his 
family  in  the  Marble  Cemetery  on  1st  Ave.  and  1st  St.,  New  York. 

[105]  DEACON  WILLIAM  PECK  [1601-1694] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH  [.  .  .  .-1683] 

OF    LONDON,    ENGLAND,    AND    NEW    HAVEN,   CONN. 

WILLIAM  PECK  was  bom  in  or  near  London,  England,  and  married 
there  about  1622,  Elizabeth .  With  her  and  their  one  son, 
Jeremiah,  he  came  to  New  England  in  the  "Hector,"  probably  on  the 
voyage  with  Governors  Eaton  and  Hopkins,  Rev.  John  Davenport, 
and  others,  arriving  in  Boston,  June  26,  1637.  Savage  calls  William  Peck  "a 
merchant  of  London,"  the  occupation  of  many  of  his  fellow  emigrants.  They 
came  from  different  parts  of  England,  but  were  bound  together  by  the  suffering  they 
had  endured  under"  the  intolerance  and  persecution  of  Archbishop  Laud,"  and  the 
object  of  their  emigrating  was,  like  most  of  the  better  class  of  emigrants,  the  enjoy- 
ment of  civil  and  religious  liberty. 

William  Peck  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  New  Haven  Colony  in  1638, 
and  his  name,  written  "William  Peckke,  "is  signed  to  the  "foundamentall  agreem' 
thatt  church  members  onely  shall  be  free  burgesses  and  they  onely  shall  chuse 
among  them  selues  magistrates  etc.,"  dated  June  4,  1639. 

He  was  made  a  freeman  October  20,  1640,  and  the  same  year  was  member  of 
the  Court  of  Elections,  and  on  July  i,  1644,  he  took  the  oath  of  fidelity.  He  was 
assigned  the  "8th  seate  in  the  meeting  howse"  on  November  10,  1646.  This  was 
in  "the  midle  seates"  where  the  deputy  governor,  governor,  and  magistrates  sat. 

He  became  a  merchant  in  New  Haven,  and  was  a  trustee,  treasurer,  and  gen- 
eral business  agent  for  the  Colony's  Collegiate  School,  now  Yale  College,  a  full 
notice  of  which  is  found  under  Rev.  James  Noyes  (3).  From  1659  to  the  time  of 
his  death  in  1694,  he  was  deacon  of  the  church  in  New  Haven.  His  dwelling  and 
store  in  New  Haven  were  on  what  is  now  the  corner  of  Church  and  Centre  Streets. 

In  the  New  Haven  Colonial  Records  we  find  the  following  notice  of  some 
trouble  that  Deacon  William  Peck  had  with  the  authorities  about  his  son-in-law, 
Samuel  Andrews.  It  does  not  seem  to  have  been  at  all  serious,  and  finally  blew 
over. 

"  Deacon  Pecke  came  and  ppounded  to  the  court  that  sometimes  since  he  had  put  in  security 
to  the  deputy  gouernr  for  the  appearance  sonne  Samuell  Andrews,  he  thought  the  court  would  haue 
called  him  to  answer,  he  knew  noe  reason  why  he  should  stand  for  the  thing  being  long  since  he 
desired  the  court  to  consider  it.   Mr.  Treate  sayd  to  the  gouernr  that  it  was  he  that  had  done  it  and 


i68  DEACON  WILLIAM  PECK  [105] 

he  might  release  it,  but  nothing  was  done  at  that  time.  Afterwards  Deacon  Pecke  came  and  pre- 
sented his  son  Andrewes  to  the  court  according  to  his  security,  and  desired  them  to  free  him.  Mr. 
Fen  and  Mr.  Treate  answered  that  they  lootted  vpon  him  free.  The  gouer""'  answered  that  he  did 
not  know  but  he  was,  and  he  sayd  he  thought  they  might  leaue  it  soe,  and  he  sayd  he  thought 
Deacon  Peckes  plea  was  good  enough.   Mr.  Treate  sayd  bethought  he  had  fully  discharged  his  duty." 

While  on  a  visit  to  her  sister  at  Lyme,  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  died,  December 

5,  1683,  and  not  long  after  he  married  (2)  Sarah  ( )  Holt,  widow  of  William 

Holt. 

He  died  in  "Lyme  at  the  house  of  his  son  Joseph,"'  October  4,  1694,  aged 
ninety-three.  His  will,  dated  March  9,  1688/9,  mentions  his  second  wife,  Sarah, 
and  his  children,  all  of  whom  survived  him.  His  grave  is  in  that  part  of  the  old 
burial  ground  which  is  now  under  the  Centre  Church,  but  the  headstone  was  moved 
with  others  to  the  new  cemetery  in  1821. 

Children  of  Deacon  William  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Peck 

Jeremiah,  born  in  England  in  1623;  married  Nov.  12,  1656,  Joanna  Kitchell,  daughter  of 

Robert  Kitchell;  was  the  first  minister  at  Greenwich,  Conn.,  and  died  at  Waterbury, 

June  7,  1699. 
John,  born  in  New  Haven  in  1638;  married  Nov.  3,  1664,  Mary  Moss,  daughter  of  John  Moss. 
(106)  Joseph,  born  in  January;  baptized  Jan.  17,  1640/1;  married  Sarah ;  died  Nov.  25, 

1718. 
Elizabeth,  born  in  April,  1643;  baptized  May  7,  of  the  same  year;  married  in  1661,  Samuel 

Andrews,  son  of  William  Andrews. 

[106]  JOSEPH   PECK  [1641-1718] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

SARAH [1636-1726] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

JOSEPH   PECK,  son  of  Deacon  William   and    Elizabeth    Peck  (105),  was 
born  in   New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  January,  1641,  and  baptized  there  on  the 
17th  of  the  same  month. 
About  the  year  1662  he  married  Sarah  ,  who  was  probably  born 

about  1636.  They  later  removed  to  East  Saybrook  (Lyme),  Conn.  He  was  a 
prominent  and  useful  citizen  in  Lyme,  holding  the  offices  of  town  clerk,  surveyor, 
recorder,  justice  of  the  peace,  and  deacon  of  the  church  for  many  years.  He  was 
commissioned  as  ensign  in  May,  1678,  and  was  deputy  for  Lyme  to  the  General 
Court  of  Connecticut  in  1690  and  1691,  and  from  1695  to  1706  inclusive,  fourteen 
years  in  all.  In  1700  he  was  on  a  committee  of  five  (Rev.  Thomas  Hooker  being 
one)  to  audit  the  accounts  of  the  Colony.  In  Governor  Andros'  tax-list  for  Lyme 
we  find  "  Ensign  Jos.  Peck  £98  lystable  estate." 

'  Lyme  Records. 


JOSEPH  PECK  [io6]  169 

He  died  at  Lyme,  November  25,  17 18,  aged  seventy-seven.  His  wife  Sarah 
lived  until  September  14,  1726,  when  she  died,  aged  ninety.  Their  gravestones 
are  still  standing  (1877)  in  the  old  Lyme  Cemetery,  on  Meeting-House  Hill. 

Children  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  ( )  Peck 

Sarah,  born  Aug.  4,  1663;  married  May  2,  1684,  Matthew  Gilbert. 

Joseph,  born  March  12,  1667;  died  Oct.  10,  1677. 

Elizabeth,  born  Sept.  9,  1669;  married  Dec.  6,  1686,  as  his  second  wife,  Samuel  Pratt;  died 

Aug.  29,  1688. 
Deborah,  born  July  31,  1672;  married  April  3,  1694,  Daniel  Sperry. 
Hannah,  born  Sept.  14,  1674;  married  June  25,  1696,  Thomas  Anderson. 
(101)  Ruth,  born  Aug.  19,  1676;  married  April  29,  1696,  Jasper  Griffing,  son  of  Jasper  and 

Hannah  ( )  Griffing  (100). 

Samuel,  born  July  29,  1678;  married  (i)  Dec.  28,  1699,  Elizabeth  Lee,  daughter  of  Thomas 

and  Mary  (DeWolf)   Lee,  of  Lyme,  and  granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Phoebe 

(Browne)  Lee  (76);  married  (2)  Jan.  25,  1732,  Martha  ( )  Barber;  died  Jan. 

28,  1735. 
Joseph,  born  March  20,  1680;  married  Oct.  3,  1704,  Susanna  Griffing,  daughter  of  Jasper 

and  Hannah  Gripping  (100),  sister  of  his  brother-in-law,  Jasper  Gripping,  Jr. 


[108]  WILLIAM  COMSTOCK  [....-1663] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH  — [1608-. . . .] 

OF    WALES,    HARTFORD   AND    NEW    LONDON,   CONN. 

WILLIAM  COMSTOCK  is  thought   to  have  emigrated  from  Wales  to 
New  England  about  1639,  with  his  wife  Elizabeth ^ — ,  who  was 
born  about  1608,  and  probably  his  four  children.     He  stopped  first 
in  Weymouth,  Mass.,  and  thence  removed  to  Wethersfield,  Conn., 
where  we  find  he  owned  land  in  1641.     From  later  details  of  his  life,  it  is  evident 
that  he  was  past  middle  life  at  this  time. 

He  remained  there  and  in  Hartford  for  some  time,  but  the  only  record  of  him 
is  that  he  and  John  Sadler  were  in  Court  in  Hartford  for  slandering  Richard  Myles 
of  Windsor.  In  1649  he  removed  to  New  London,  Conn.,  where  he  applied  for  a 
house  lot  in  1650,  and  voted  on  aiding  Mr.  Winthrop  to  establish  a  corn-mill  there. 
In  165 1  he  appears  to  have  become  a  settled  citizen  in  New  London,  and  "wrought 
at  the  mill-dam  with  Tabor  (Philip  Taber,  66)  and  the  other  inhabitants  of  New 
London." 

When  he  had  become  somewhat  advanced  in  life,  on  February  25,  1661/2, 

"Old  Goodman  Comstock  [was  elected  sexton]  to  order  youth  in  the  meeting  house,  and 
beat  out  dogs,  at  forty  shillings  a  year,  dig  all  graves  and  have  4  shillings  for  a  grave  for  a  man  or 
woman  and  2  shillings  for  children." 


170  WILLIAM  COMSTOCK  [io8] 

His  home  in  New  London  was  on  Post  Hill  near  the  north  corner  of  William 
and  Vauxhall  Streets.  He  died  there  about  1663,  at  a  very  great  age,  but  the 
exact  date  has  not  been  ascertained  of  either  his  or  his  wife's  death.  His  lands 
were  inherited  by  his  son  Daniel,  and  grandson  William,  son  of  his  deceased  son 
John. 

Children  of  William  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Comstock 

(109)  John,  born  in  England  or  Wales  about  1626  or  27;  married  about  1660,  Abigail  — ■ , 

and  died  at  Lyme  before   1680. 
Daniel,  born  about  1632;  married  Paltiah  Elderkin,  daughter  of  John  Elderkin;  lived  in  New 

London,  where  he  died  in  1685. 
Elizabeth,  married  in  January,  1651,  Edward  Shipton  (or  Shipman).     She  died  July,  1659. 
Samuel,  married  Ann  — — — ;  moved  to  Providence,  R.  I.,  where  he  died  about  1660. 
Christopher,  of  Fairfield,  Conn.,  in  1661,  was  also  probably  a  son.     He  died  Dec.  28,  1702. 


[109I  JOHN  COMSTOCK  [1627-1680] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

ABIGAIL [....-... .] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

JOHN  COMSTOCK,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Comstock  (i  08), 
came  to  New  England  with  his  parents  about  1639,  and  was  then  probably 
about  twelve  years  old.  The  first  mention  we  find  of  him  is  in  the  will  of 
Henry  Russell,  of  Weymouth,  Mass.,  dated  November  28,  1639,  to  whom  he 
had  been  apprenticed.  He  went  from  Weymouth  to  "Saybrook  East  Side"  or 
Lyme,  and  his  name  is  found  among  the  Lyme  proprietors  in  1645.  Here  he  set- 
tled permanently  and  married  about  1660  or  1661,  Abigail ,  or  Abbegall, 

as  it  is  spelled  in  the  records. 

In  February,  1665/6,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  committee  of  six,  with 
Matthew  Griswold  (124)  and  Lieutenant  Reinold  Marvin  (85),  to  divide  the 
town  of  Saybrook,  setting  off  the  town  of  Lyme.  He  died  at  Lyme  about  1680, 
and  his  widow  married  (2)  January  18,  1 680/1,  Moses  Huntley  of  Lyme. 

Children  of  John  and  Abigail  ( )  Comstock 

Abigail,  born  April  12,  1662;  married  June  24,  1679,  William  Peck  or  Peake,  of  Lyme. 
Elizabeth,  born  June  9,  1665. 
(no)  William,  born  Jan.  9,  1669;  married,  Sept.  10,  1695,  Naomi  Niles,  daughter  of  Benjamin 

and  Ruth  ( )  Niles  (i  13);  died  March  15,  1728. 

Christian,  born  Dec.  11,  1671. 

Hannah,  born  Feb.  22,  1673. 

John,  born  Sept.  30,  1676;  died  in  1747  or  8. 

Samuel,  born  July  6,  1678;  married  July  5,  1705,  Martha  Pratt;  died  in  1743. 


WILLIAM  COMSTOCK  [no]  171 

[no]  WILLIAM  COMSTOCK  [1669-1728] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

NAOMI  NILES  [....-....] 

OF    LYME,   CONN. 


W 


ILLIAM  COMSTOCK,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  ( )  Comstock 

(109),  was  born  January  9,  1669.  He  was  but  ten  or  eleven  years  of 
age  when  his  father  died,  and  about  three  years  later  he  was  bound 
out  to  John  Lay  (probably  John  Lay,  Jr., 94).  The  record  is  as  follows  : 


"March  i,  1683.  Agreement  of  Indenture  binding  out  William  Comstock  son  of 
John,  deceased,  of  Lyme,  to  John  Lay  until  he  is  21,  or  his  marriage  if  before  that  age. 
Said  William  agrees  with  the  consent  of  his  parent  and  guardians."  Signed  by  William  Com- 
stock, John  Laye,  Moses  Huntley  and  Abigail  ( — — —Comstock)  Huntley  [his  step-father  and 
mother]. 

He  married  September  10, 1695,  Naomi  Niles  (or  Neomy  Noiles),  daughter  of 

Benjamin  and  Ruth  ( )  Niles  (i  13).    His  death  occurred  at  Lyme,  March  1 5, 

1728.  His  widow  Naomi  outlived  him.  In  her  will,  dated  April  3,  1754,'  pro- 
bated February  10,  i76i,she  made  a  bequest  to  her  daughter  Phoebe  (Comstock) 
Griffin  (102). 

In  the  Lyme  Records  there  are  only  two  dates  of  birth  of  their  children, 
the  names  being  faded  out.  The  following  list  may  not  be  in  the  proper  order, 
but  is  taken  from  the  wills  of  both  father  and  mother,  and  in  the  order  given  by 
them. 

Children  of  William  and  Naomi  (Niles)  Comstock 

Ruth,  born  probably  Aug.  g,  1696;  married — ■  Clark. 

Abigail,  born  probably  June  15,  1698;  married  (i)  Joseph  Lord,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(Lee)  Lord,  and  grandson  of  William  Lord  (68);  married  (2)  in  1724/5,  Josiah  De- 
Wolf,  son  of  Simon  and  Sarah  (Lay)  DeWolf  and  grandson  of  John  and  Johanna 
Lay  (94);  she  died  in  1773. 

John,  married  Feb.  17,  1725,  Rebecca  Bates. 

William,  married  (i)  Elizabeth ;  married  (2)  Hepzibah  Lord  and  died  in  Sullivan, 

N.  H.,  in  1773. 

Samuel,  mentioned  in  his  father's  and  his  mother's  wills. 

Elizabeth,  married McCrary. 

(102)    Phoebe,  born  about  1705;  married  Lemuel  Griffin,  son  of  Jasper  and  Ruth  (Peck) 
Griffin  (ioi);died  Dec.  i,  1790. 

Naomi,  married Tiffany. 

Mary,  married Beckwith. 

^Lyme  Records 


172  JOHN  NILES  [112] 


[112J     .  JOHN  NILES  [1603-1694J 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

JANE  REED  [....-1654] 

OF   WALES   AND    BRAINTREE,    MASS. 

JOHN  NILES  is  believed  to  be  the  ancestor  of  all  bearing  the  name  of  Niles 
in  this  country.  It  is  said  that  he  came  from  Wales  and  was  born  about 
1603.  We  find  the  first  record  of  him  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  in  1634.  He 
married  (i)  about  1635,  Jane  Reed,  by  whom  he  had  seven  children. 
In  1638  he  was  in  Braintree,  and  made  freeman  there  May  26,  1647.  His 
wife  Jane  died  May  15,  1654,  at  Braintree.     He  married  (2)  about  1656  or  57, 

Hannah  ( )  Ames,  widow  of  William  Ames.     His  occupation  was  that  of 

weaver. 

The  record  reads  "Old  John  Niles," aged  about  ninety-one, died  at  Braintree 
Feb.  8,  1693/4,  and  "Old  Goodwife  Niles"  died  January  31,  1702/3. 

Children  of  John  and  Jane  (Reed)  Niles 

Hannah,  born  Feb.  16,  1636/7;  married,  perhaps, Cowing. 

John,  born  June  I,  1638/9;  was  made  freeman  at  Block  Island  in  1678,  and  was  living  there 

in  1684. 
Joseph,  born  Aug.  15,  1640;  married  Nov.  2,  1662,  Mary  Mycall;  died  at  Braintree. 
Nathaniel,  born  Aug.  16,  1642;  married  about  1671  Sarah  Sands,  daughter  of  James  Sands, 

of  Block  Island,  and  settled  there.     He  was  deputy  for  New  Shoreham,  R.  I.  (Block 

Island),  in  1705;  after  this  appears  to  have  moved  to  South  Kingston,  R.  I.,  and  later 

back  to  Braintree,  where  he  died,  Dec.  22,  1727.' 
Samuel,  born  Feb.  3,  1644;  married  April  20,  1680,  Mary  (Billings)  Belcher,  widow  of  Samuel 

Belcher  and  daughter  of  Roger  Billings;  was  buried  Sept.  5,  1724. 
Increase,  born  Dec.  16,  1646;  married  Dec.  4,  1677,  Mary  Purchas;  was  in  Captain  Johnson's 

Company  in  the  Indian  War,  October,  1675,  and  died  Sept.  i,  1693. 
(i  13)    Benjamin,  born  Jan   i,  1650/1 ;  married  Ruth ;  died  about  1712  in  Lyme,  Conn. 

Children  of  John  and  Hannah  ( Ames)  Niles 

Isaac,  born  April  2,  1658;  died  Jan.  30,  1659/60. 

•  Captain  Nathaniel's  son  was  Rev.  Samuel  Niles,  the  author  of  Indian  Wars.  He  was  born  at  Block 
Island, May  i,  1674,  and  tells  us  that  when  Anne  Hutchinson  (i7)came  to  East  Chester  she  engaged  his  maternal 
grandfather  Sands,  then  living  on  the  Island,  to  go  to  East  Chester  and  build  her  house.  This  was  the  house  which 
was  destroyed  by  the  Indians  when  she  and  her  family  were  murdered.  The  second  wife  of  Rev.  Samuel  Niles 
was  Ann  Coddington,  daughter  of  Major  Nathaniel  and  Susanna  (Hutchinson)  Coddington,  and  granddaughter  both 
of  William  and  Anne  (Marbury)  Hutchinson  (17)  and  Governor  William  and  Mary  ( )  Coddington  (19). 


BENJAMIN  NILES  [113]  173 


[113]  BENJAMIN  NILES  [\6^i-....\ 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

RUTH  [....-....] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

BENJAMIN  NILES,  son  of  John  and  Jane  (Reed)  Niles  (i  12),  was  born 
January  1,  1 650/1.  When  probably  he  was  not  over  twenty-one  he 
went  from  Braintree,  Mass.,  to  Block  Island  with  his  brothers  John  and 
Nathaniel,  where  he  was  made  freeman  in  1678.     He  was  still  a  resident 

there  in  1684,  and  married  either  at  Block  Island  or  before  going  there,  Ruth 

and  by  her  had  three  daughters. 

He  moved  to  Lyme,  Conn.,  as  early  as  1692,  and  from  that  time  until  his 
death  the  Lyme  records  have  numerous  curious  entries  of  deeds,  mortgages,  etc., 
showing  that  having  little  education  and  no  patrimony,  he  tried  to  acquire  a  living 
by  buying  and  selling  real  estate.  His  transactions  were  not  always  successful, 
as  we  find  that  at  first  he  was  obliged  to  mortgage  even  the  homestead.  After  the 
year  1700,  various  deeds  of  sale  are  recorded,  as  well  as  "covenants"  for  new  pur- 
chases. Two  executions  were  filed  in  1705  and  1707,  on  land  "lying  one  the  noth 
and  south  sid  of  beaver  brook  in  Lyme,"  and  also  on  some  other  of  "Benjamin 
Noyles  land."  But  apparently  his  schemes  would  have  turned  out  very  well  if 
he  had  lived  long  enough,  as  after  his  death  the  family  profited  by  them,  and  di- 
vided a  good  estate.  One  hardly  knows  which  is  the  most  admirable,  Niles' 
faith  in  the  future  of  Lyme,  or  the  spelling  of  the  Lyme  Recorder.  We  quote  one 
or  two  records  as  examples;  one  conveying  a 

"Cartaine  tenement  .  .  .  situat  in  the  township  of  Lym  .  .  .  The  above  said  tenemente 
hous  and  land  was  delivered  by  turfe  and  twigie  [turgie]  unto  Thomas  Anderson  26th  Sept.  1700. 
In  presents  of  Amos  Tinker  and  Joseph  Peck  (106).'  ...  A  Deed  of  saile  from  Benjamin  Noyls 
to  Thomas  Lee  Juner  conveying  tenn  acers  of  upland  and  meadow  in  the  second  division  lying  one 
brid  plain  [signed  &c]  Justis  pece." 

Benjamin  Niles  also  appears  as  plaintiff  in  several  law  suits,  but  as  the 
records  say  "the  Court  find  for  the  plaintiff"  it  is  fair  to  presume  he  used  this  means 
mainly  to  protect  his  rights.  In  one,  however,  where  he  (as  attorney  for  the  heirs 
of  John  Comstock,  109)  brings  suit  against  Moses  Huntley,  who  had  married 
John  Comstock's  widow,  "to  am'  of  50  pounds  for  suffering  to  go  to  ruin  the  house 
of  the  deceased  John  Comstock, "  the  record  reads,  "  non  suit  granted." 

Benjamin  Niles  died  at  Lyme  before  1712,  leaving  no  will.  His  widow 
Ruth  survived  him,  and  entered  into  an  agreement  with  the  other  heirs  as  to  the 
division  of  the  estate,  which  takes  up  much  space  in  the   town  records,  and  which 

'  "  By  turf  and  turgie,"  was  an  old  English  method  of  transfer  where  the  grantor,  standing  on  the  ground 
took  grass  and  gave  it  to  the  grantee  to  convey  the  real  estate,  and  also  a  twig  from  some  bush  to  represent  all 
pertaining  thereto. 


174  BENJAMIN  NILES  [113] 

is  interesting  to  us  in  one  particular,  in  that  only  two  of  the  heirs,  the  sons-in-law, 
William  Comstock  (no)  and  Ebenezer  Coleman,  wrote  their  names,  the  others 
including  the  widow,  making  their  mark.  The  division  was  a  very  fair  one,  as  it 
gave  the  widow  one-third  of  all  the  estate  for  life,  after  the  debts  were  paid.  The 
date  of  Ruth's  death  is  not  known. 

Children  of  Benjamin  and  Ruth  {— )  Niles 

(110)  Naomi,  born  probably  at  Block  Island;  married  Sept.  10,  1695,  at  Lyme,  William  Com- 
stock, son  of  John  and  Abigail  Comstock  (109);  died  before  Feb.  10,  1761,  the  date 
of  probate  of  her  will. 

Ruth,  born  probably  at  Block  Island;  married  March  11,  1704/5,  Ebenezer  Coleman,  and 
lived  at  Colchester,  Conn.,  where  their  four  children,  "Nieles,  Ruth,  Mahitabel  and 
Mary,"  were  born. 

Deborah,  married  John  Reed  before  17 12. 

[117]  EDWARD  DORR  [1648-1734J 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  HAWLEY  [1656-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  ROXBURY,  MASS. 

EDWARD  DORR,  the  emigrant  ancestor  of  all  the  Dorrs  in  New  England, 
came  to  this  country  from  the  west  of  England  about  1670,  and  settled 
in  Boston,  when  he  was  about  twenty-two  years  of  age. 
He  was  in  Pemaquid,  Maine,  at  the  time  of  the  organization  of  the 
County  of  Devon  by  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  and  took  the  oath  of  fidelity 
there  July  22,  1674.  Soon  after  he  removed  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  probably  on  ac- 
count of  King  Philip's  War,  which  put  all  the  more  remote  settlements  in  great 
peril.  He  married  (i)  in  Roxbury,  about  1679,  Elizabeth  Hawley,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Dorothy  (Harbottle  Lamb)  Hawley  (121).  She  was  born  at 
Roxbury,  baptized  there  June  29,  1656,  and  was  the  mother  of  all  his  children. 

He  apparently  lived  in  Boston  for  a  year  or  two  after  his  marriage,  but  re- 
turned to  Roxbury  before  the  close  of  1683,  where,  in  the  drawing  for  town  lots  in 
1695,  he  received  eighteen  and  one-half  acres  of  land.  In  1697  he  was  on  a  com- 
mittee to  lay  out  bounds  of  land  in  dispute  in  Roxbury,  and  in  1 722  was  a  selectman. 

His  wife,  Elizabeth,  died  at  Roxbury  after  1700,  and  he  married  (2)  Eliza- 
beth (Dickerman)  Clapp,  widow  of  Ebenezer  Clapp,  of  Milton,  and  daughter  of 
Thomas  Dickerman,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  Dickerman  (176),  an  ancestor  on  the 
Oilman  side.  She  died  in  1733,  the  same  year  that  Edward  Dorr  received  the 
portion  of  the  lands  granted  to  Thomas  Hawley  (121),  his  father-in-law,  for  service 
in  the  Indian  War.  These  lands  were  situated  in  Narragansett  Township,  and  in 
Manchester  and  Merrimac,  N.  H. 

Edward  Dorr  died  at  Roxbury  in  1734,  aged  eighty-six. 


EDWARD  DORR  [117]  175 

Children  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  (Hawley)  Dorr 

Edward,  baptized  July  4,  1680;  died  in  1683. 

Ann,  died  Oct.  5,  1683. 

Edward,  born  at  Roxbury,  Nov.  15,  1683;  died  Jan.  10,  1685. 

Ebenezer,  born  Jan.  25,  1688;  probably  died  young. 

Joseph,  born  in  1690;  H.  C.  171 1 ;  married  April  9,  1724,  Mary  Rawson,  daughter  of  Grindal 

Rawson;  was  ordained  the  pastor  of  the  First  Church  of  Mendon,  Mass.,  Feb.  25,  1716, 

and  died  there  March  9,  1768. 
(i  18)    Edmund,  born  Oct.  19,  1692;  married  at  Lyme,  Sept.  4,  1719,  Mary  Griswold,  daughter  of 

Matthew  and  Phoebe  (Hyde)  Griswold  (125);  died  at  Lyme  after  1745. 
Harbottle,  born  May  1 1,  1696;  married  Dorothy  Weld,  and  settled  in  Boston. 
Elizabeth,  born  in  1698;  married  James  Scott  of  Boston. 
Clemence,  born  July  17,  1700;  married  Edmund  Weld,  son  of  Edmund  and  Elizabeth  (White) 

Weld,  of  Roxbury. 

[118]  EDMUND  DORR  [1692-.... 1 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARY  GRISWOLD  [1694-1776] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 

EDMUND   DORR,  son  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  (Hawley)  Dorr  (117), 
was  born  October  19,   1692.     He    learned    the    trade    of   cloth-dresser, 
probably  in   Roxbury  or  Boston,  and   settled  in   Lyme   when    less  than 
twenty-five  years  old. 
He  married  at  Lyme,  September  4,   17 19,  Mary  Griswold,  daughter  of 
Matthew  and  Phoebe  (Hyde)  Griswold  (125).    His  wife  was  born  April  22,  1694. 
He  is  said  to  have  been  a  man  of  intellect  and  indomitable  perseverance. 
He  was  called  "Sarvant  Dorr"  by  his  contemporaries,  from  an  ironical  remark 
made  to  him  during  the  persistent  ecclesiastical  controversy  in  the  Lyme  Church, 
which  lasted  from  1741  to  1745,  following  the  great  revival  of  1740.     It  ended  in 
the  resignation  of  the  minister.  Rev.  Jonathan  Parsons,  in  1746.     Slight  as  the  cir- 
cumstance was,  the  soubriquet  has  clung  to  him. 

He  carried  on  the  business  of  cloth-dresser  in  Lyme,  and  died  there.     The 
date  of  his  death  is  not  known,  but  his  wife  died  February  21,1 776. 

Children  of  Edmund  and  Mary  (Griswold)  Dorr 

George,  born  Aug.  4,  1720;  married  March  16,  1742,  Sarah  Marvin,  daughter  of  "Lyme's 
Captain  Reinold  Marvin,"  and  granddaughter  of  Reinold  and  Sarah  Clark  Marvin 
(85).  He  was  a  lawyer  and  King's  Attorney  for  more  than  twenty  years;  had  a 
stroke  of  paralysis  while  in  Court  in  1767,  but  lived  for  about  twenty  years  after; 
died  at  Lyme,  Jan.  i,  1787. 

Edward,  born  in  Lyme,  Nov.  2,  1722;  H.  C.  1742;  married  Helena  Talcott,  daughter  of  Gov- 


176  EDMUND  DORR  [118] 

ernor  Joseph  Talcott;  was  pastor  of  the  First  Church  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  preached 
the  election  sermon  in  1765;  died  in  Hartford,  Oct.  20,  1772. 
(103)  Eve,  born  March  4,  1733;   married  March  9,  1762,  George  Griffin,  son  of   Lemuel  and 
Phoebe  (Comstock)  Griffin  (102);  died  April  3,  1814. 
Elizabeth,  was  living  in  1772,  when  she  was  mentioned  in  her  brother  Edward's  will. 

[121J  THOMAS  HAWLEY  [....-1676] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

DOROTHY  (HARBOTTLE)  LAMB  [....-1699] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    ROXBURY,    MASS. 

THOMAS  HAWLEY  came  from  England,  and  was  one  of  the  early  settlers 
of  Roxbury,  Mass.  He  married  there  (i)  about  1650,  Amy  or  Emma 
• .     He  bought  of  Thomas   Beckwith  a  house   and  "one   rood  of 

land"  in  Roxbury,  the  deed  being  dated  September  29,  1651.  Soon 
after  this  their  son  Thomas  was  born,  and  Emma  (Amy)  died  about  two  months 
later.  She  died,  according  to  Rev.  John  Eliot's  record,  November  29,  i65i,bui; 
this  is  given  as  the  date  of  her  burial  in  the  Hawley  Records. 

He  married  (2)  February  2,  1652,  Dorothy  (Harbottle)  Lamb,  widow  of 

Thomas  Lamb,  and  daughter  of Harbottle.     The  Eliot  record  to  which 

we  have  just  alluded  says  of  Dorothy's  first  husband: 

"Thomas  Lamb  came  over  in  1630  with  his  wife  and  2  children  Thomas  and  John.  She 
died  &  he  afterward  July  16  1640  married  Dorothy  Harbitle,  a  godly  maide  a  sister  of  o''  church." 

So  it  would  appear  that  she  had  also  been  the  second  wife  of  her  first  husband. 

Thomas  Hawley  was  probably  forty-five  or  fifty  years  of  age  when  he  served 
in  1676,  in  King  Philip's  War.  He  was  at  the  Sudbury  fight  in  Captain  Cowell's 
Company  of  Dragoons,  where  about  two  hundred  Englishmen  held  at  bay  over  one 
thousand  Indians  during  an  entire  day.  They  saved  the  town  of  Sudbury,  and 
finally  drove  off  the  Indians  with  fearful  loss  on  both  sides.  Beside  the  two  com- 
manding officers,  Captain  Wadsworth  and  Captain  Brocklebank,  there  were  thirty- 
two  private  soldiers  slain,  among  whom  was  Thomas  Hawley,  killed  at  the  first 
assault  of  the  Indians.  The  following  deposition  of  Captain  Edward  Cowell  in- 
terests us  as  a  description  by  an  eye-witness.  It  is  in  the  Massachusetts  Archives, 
and  was  first  published  in  the  Hawley  Records. 

"This  deponantt  upon  oath  testifieth  that  I  being  upon  the  Counteries  Searvis  in  Aprill  last 
and  haveing  under  my  conduct  Eighteen  men;  Upon  our  Returning  from  Malberough  to  Boston; 
and  about  three  Millesfrom  Sudbeury  Wee  ware  surprised  with  divers  Hundred  of  Indians;  Wheere 

of  this  Indian  Tom  was  one  [ ]  by  a  grombling  signe,  or  Noyes  thatt  hee  mayde;  as  in  My 

Judgement  was  the  Cause  of  our  being  ffiored  upon;  at  which  tyme  fower  of  my  Company  was  killed 
and  one  Wounded;  beside  ffive  horses  were  disenabled  they  Being  Shott  upon  Capt.  Wadsworths 
Ingadgine  with  the  Indian  I  went  Backe  and  Beuryed  the  fower  men  which  were  killed  whereof 


THOMAS  HAWLEY  [121]  177 

[Lt?]Thomas  Haw[Ie]y,and  Hopkinsies  son, both  of  Roxbeury  (Edmund  Rice'),  Goodman  [Baker's] 
son  and  Robert  Wayle[s]  of  Dorchister. 

Sworn  to  before  the  Council  19  June  1676. 

Edward  Rawson  Secretary." 

Thomas  Hawley's  death  occurred  April  21,  1676,  and  he  was  buried  by 
his  comrades  where  he  fell.  As  we  have  mentioned  elsewhere,  his  portion  of  the 
lands  given  for  service  in  the  Indian  War  was  granted  to  his  son-in-law,  Edward 
Dorr  (i  17),  claimant.     His  widow  Dorothy  died  January  28,  1699. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Emma  (Amy)  ( )  Hawley 

Thomas,  baptized  Oct.  8,  165 1 ;  at  seventeen  years  of  age,  while  Mving  with  his  step-mother 
on  his  father's  lands,  near  the  mill,  the  accident  occurred  to  him  which  Rev.  John 
Eliot  records:  "1669,  10,  ist  mo.  Thomas  Hawley,  a  youth,  was  drawn  under  both 
ye  mill-wheels:  but  one  of  the  ladders  broke,  and  so  his  life,  through  God's  merciful 
Providence,  was  spared." 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Dorothy  (Harbottle  Lamb)  Hawley 

Joseph,  born  Nov.  12,  1652;  baptized  Jan.  30,  1653;  died  young. 
Joseph,  born  June  7,  and  baptized  June  1 1,  1654;  H.  C.  1674. 
(117)  Elizabeth,  baptized  June  29,  1656;  married  Edward  Dorr,  probably  in  1679,  and  died 
after  1700. 
Dorothy,  baptized  June  20,  1658;  married  John  Booth. 

[123J  GEORGE  GRISWOLD  [....-....] 

OF    KENILWORTH,    ENGLAND 

THERE  is  now  in  existence  a  MS  containing  a  deposition  made  January  19, 
1737/8,  by  Captain  George  Griswold,  aged  seventy-two,  and  Mr.  John 
Griswold,  aged  sixty-nine,  at  Windsor,  Conn.,  which  has  been  inherited 
by  succeeding  generatioris  of  Griswolds,  and  which  is  the  only  clue  to 
the  English  ancestry  of  the  family.     George  and  John  Griswold  were  grandsons 
of  Edward  Griswold,  who,  with  our  ancestor  Matthew,  emigrated  to  this  country 
in  1639.    The  deposition  is  as  follows: 

"Viz:  that  our  Grandfather's  name  was  Edward  Griswold,  and  it  was  formerly  and  has  ever 
since  been  always  accepted  and  reputed  that  our  said  grandfather's  father's  name  was  George  Gris- 
wold, and  the  said  George  Griswold  ourGreat  Grandfather  had  three  sons,  the  eldest  named  Edward, 
the  second  named  Matthew,  and  the  third  or  youngest  son  named  Thomas;  and  the  said  Edward 
the  eldest  son,  and  the  said  Matthew  the  second  son,  came  into  New  England  from  Killingsworth 
in  Warwickshire  in  England;  and  in  all  our  discourses  amongst  the  families  of  said  Griswolds  in 
New  England,  together  with  other  elderly  observing  gentlemen,  they  are  and  ever  have  been  so 
accepted  and  reputed  to  be,  without  contradiction  or  gainsaying,  according  to  the  best  of  our 
remembrance." 

'  In  a  note,  Mr.  Elias  S.  Hawley  says  that  the  name  of  Edmund  Rice  is  in  the  margin,  probably  inserted 
afterwards  as  being  one  of  Sudbury's  dead. 


lyS  GEORGE  GRISWOLD  [123] 

As  the  parish  register  prior  to  1630,  of  Killingsworth  or  Kenilworth  was 
destroyed  in  the  time  of  the  Civil  War,  and  there  is  no  mention  of  Griswolds  after 
165 1,  there  is  no  opportunity  to  discover  anything  there  about  George  Griswold, 
our  Enghsh  ancestor.  However,  in  the  Parish  Register  of  Solihul,  eight  or  ten  miles 
distant,  which  appears  to  have  been  the  residence  of  Griswolds  for  many  gener- 
ations, there  is  a  record  of  baptism  of  a  "George  Gresold,"  April  23,  1548. 

Children  of  George  and Griswold 

Edward,  born  about  1607;  married  (i)  in  England,  Margaret  -^ who,  died  Aug.  23, 1670, 

in  Windsor,  Conn.;  married  (2)  in  1672/3  ( )  Bemis,  widow  of  James 

Bemis  of  New  London,  Conn.;  came  to  this  country  in  1639,  was  deputy  to  the  Gen- 
eral Court  of  Connecticut  in  1662;  removed  to  Kiiiingworth  in  1663;  was  deputy  for 
that  place  to  the  General  Court  in  1667,  and  from  1678  to  1689;  died  in  1691. 
(124)  iVlATTHEW,  born  about  1620;  married  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  Oct.  16,  1646,  Anna  Wolcott, 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Saunders)  Wolcott  (126);  died  at  Lyme, Sept. 
27,  1698. 
Thomas,  born  about  1621;  remained  in  Kenilworth,  England. 

[124]  MATTHEW  GRISWOLD  [1620-1698] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ANNA    WOLCOTT  [1620- 1700] 

OF    ENGLAND    AND    LYME,    CONN. 


M 


ATTHEW  GRISWOLD,  son  of  George  Griswold  (123),  was  but  nine- 
teen when  he  came  to  New  England  from  Kenilworth,  Warwickshire, 
England,  with  his  brother  Edward,  in  the  year  1639.     The  date  of  their 
emigration  is  fixed  by  an  affidavit  of  Edward's  sworn  to  May  15,  1684, 
when  he  says  he  was  "aged  about  77  years."     It  reads  in  part 

"About  the  yeare  1639  Mr.  W""  Whiteing  (deceassed)  was  undertaker  for  a  shipp  in  England, 
in  which  shipp  I  came  to  New  England." 

Matthew's  affidavit,  taken  at  the  same  time,  says: 

"Further  I  testifie  that,  when  I  came  ouer  to  New  England  about  the  year  1639,  land  was 
at  an  high  price,"  &c.     He  gives  his  age  as  "about  64  years." 

The  brothers  settled  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  Matthew  married  there  October 
16,  1646,  Anna  Wolcott,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Saunders)  Wol- 
cott (126),  who  was  born  in  1620. 

About  this  time,  perhaps  earlier,  he  went  to  Saybrook  as  agent  for  Governor 
Fenwick.  It  is  supposed  that  he  received  his  lands  in  Saybrook  from  the  Governor, 
so  that  it  must  have  been  previous  to  1645,  as  at  that  time  Fenwick's  rights  under 
the  Warwick  Patent  were  extinguished  by  an  agreement  with  the  Colony  of  Con- 
necticut.    At  any  rate  he  was  living  in  Saybrook  in  1650,  as  a  petition  was  pre- 


MATTHEW  GRISWOLD  [124]  179 

sented  by  Matthew  Griswold  and  Thomas  Leifingwell  from  Saybrook,  March  20, 
1649/50. 

At  some  time  he,  according  to  the  affidavit  already  referred  to,  must  have 
contemplated  returning  to  Windsor,  Conn.,  for  he  says, 

"John  Bissell,  sometimes  of  Windsor,  now  deceassed,  did  offer  to  sell  mee  al  that  part  of  Mr. 
Ludlowe's  accomodations,  both  of  houseing  and  lands,  which  hee  bought  of  Mr.  W"  Whiteing 
(as  hee  told  mee),  which  lay  on  the  west  side  Connecticut  Riuer  in  the  townshipp  of  Windsor  .... 
and  1  beeing  not  accomodated  to  my  mind  where  I  then  liued  at  Saybrook,  and  hauing  kindred  of 
my  owne  and  my  wiues  at  Windsor,  was  willing  to  dwell  at  Windsor  .  .  .  also  I  went  and  aduised 
with  my  father-in-law  Mr.  Wolcot,  who  told  mee  I  had  bid  high  enoffe."  ' 

So  he  remained  at  Saybrook  and  became  identified  with  the  little  town  of  Lyme. 

In  1654  he  was  deputy  for  Saybrook,  and  the  same  year  was,  with  Major 
Mason,  ordered  to 

"Goe  to  Pequett  &  joyne  with  Mr.  Wintrop  to  draw  the  line  betwne  Pequett  &  Vncus  ac- 
cording to  the  bounds  graunted  that  towne.  ...  &  indeavo"'  to  compose  differences  bet:  Pequett 
&  Vncus  in  loue  and  peace."  ^ 

May  17,  1660,  the  Court 

"Granted  that  y*  Dep:  Gouverno"'  &  Math:  Griswold  shal  lend  vnto  N.  London  two  great 
Guns  from  SeaBrooke  w""  shot." 

Matthew  Griswold  was  one  of  the  first  owners  of  land  on  the  "  East  Side," 
or  Lyme,  and  was  with  Lieutenant  Reinold  Marvin  (85)  and  others,  one  of  the 
signers  of  the  articles  of  agreement  between  Saybrook  and  Lyme.  For  a  number  of 
years  after  this,  there  was  trouble  between  the  two  towns  about  their  division  lines, 
and  Matthew  Griswold  was  one  of  the  most  active  participants  in  the  dispute. 
Mrs.  Salisbury  says: 

"Family  tradition  among  the  Griswolds,  .  .  .  runs  to  the  effect  that  the  rights  of  the  re- 
spective parties  were  finally  made  to  depend  on  the  issue  of  a  personal  combat  ...  a  son  of  our 
first  Matthew  Griswold,  the  second  of  the  name  .  .  .  being  the  representative  of  Lyme.  And  the 
result  was  in  favor  of  his  town." 

He  was  deputy  to  the  General  Court  in  1667  and  1668,  and  at  that  time  had 
first  the  prefix  of  Mr.  on  the  Colonial  Records.  In  Governor  Andros'  tax-list  his 
"lystable  estate"  appears  as  ;£20o.  He  was  chosen  commissioner  in  1669  and  in 
1677  was  lieutenant  of  the  Train  Band,  in  which  capacity  he  must  have  had  some 
service,  as  in  the  list  of  volunteers  in  the  Narragansett  War  who  were  to  receive 
lands  in  Voluntown  in  1701,  his  name  appears  with  those  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  (3), 
of  Stonington  and  Richard  Lord,  of  Lyme  (69). 

At  the  County  Court  in  Hartford,  March  12, 167 1/2,  Mr.  Matthew  Griswold 
and  Lieutenant  William  Waller  presented  complaints  against  "sundry  of  New  Lon- 

'  Family  Histories  and  Genealogies,  Salisbury,  II,  3. 
^Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut,  I,  257. 


i8o  MATTHEW  GRISWOLD  [124] 

don  "for  attempts  "by  violence  to  drive  them  off  their  lands,"  resistance  to  author- 
ity, and  assault.  John  Prentice,  probably  of  New  London,  complained  at  the 
same  Court,  of  Mr.  Matthew  Griswold,  Lieutenant  William  Waller,  Matthew 
Griswold,  Jr.  (125),  John  Lay,  Jr.  (94),  Reinold  Marvin  (85),  and  others  for 
"riotous  practices"  and  assaults  on  the  New  London  people.  The  Court  seems 
to  have  been  in  some  doubt  about  the  merits  of  the  case,  as  it  fined  New  London  £q. 
and  Lyme  £5.     Both  fines  were  remitted  later. 

He  was  granted  one  hundred  acres  of  land  in  1681  by  the  General  Court,  and 
in  1686  the  Court 

"Confirmed  to  him  and  others  a  tract  of  land  eight  miles  square  'lyeing  and  being  near  unto 
Connecticut  River'  which  had  been  deeded  to  them  in  1674  by  Captain  Sannup  (or  Sanhop)  of  the 
Niantics." 

It  seems  that  all  his  life  he  owned  a  house  in  Kenilworth,  England,  as  we  see 
by  the  following  affidavit  of  his  nephew,  George  Griswold,  son  of  Edward  Griswold, 
given  in  1700.     It  reads: 

"Georg  Griswold,  aged  about  67  years,  testifyeth  as  followeth — that  in  his  youthfull  years 
he  lived  with  his  father  in  England,  in  a  town  called  Keillinsworth  in  Warrackshire;  he  did  severall 
times  since  hear  his  father  Edward  Griswould  say  that  the  house  that  they  then  lived  in,  and  lands 
belonging  thereto  was  his  brother  Mathew  Griswould's;  and  have  lately  seen  a  letter  under  the 
hand  of  Thomas  Griswould  of  Keillinsworth  aboves**'  directed  to  his  brother  Mathew  Griswould 
aforesaid,  wherein  the  said  Thomas  Griswould  intimated  that  he  did  then  live  in  the  abovesaid 
house  belonging  to  his  said  brother  Mathew  Griswould  aforesaid." 

In  Lyme  Matthew  Griswold  owned  the  largest  estateof  any  of  the  first  set- 
tlers, and  his  house  stood  a  little  south  of  the  Charles  C.  Griswold  house,  in  the  part 
of  Lyme  now  known  as  Black  Hall. 

He  died  at  Lyme,  September  27,  1698,  aged  seventy-eight.  His  widow 
Anna  died  there  in  1700. 

Children  of  Matthew  and  Anna  (Wolcott)  Griswold 

Elizabeth,  born  about  1652;  married  (i)  Oct.  17,  1670,  John  Rogers  of  New  London,  founder 
of  the  sect  of  "Seventh  Day  Baptists,"  called  "Rogerenes."  From  him  she  ob- 
tained a  divorce  on  account  of  his  "being  so  hettridox  in  his  opinion  and  practice." 
She  married  (2)  Aug.  5,  1679,  Peter  Pratt,  and  married  (3),  soon  after  1688,  Matthew 
Beckwith. 
(125)  Matthew,  born  in  1653;  married  (i)  May  21,  1683,  Phoebe  Hyde,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Jane  (Lee)  Hyde  (75);  married  (2)  May  30,  1705,  Mary  (De  Wolf)  Lee,  widow 
of  the  first  Thomas  Lee  of  Lyme,  and  probably  daughter  of  Balthazar  DeWolf; 
died  Jan.  13,  1715/6. 

John,  born  probably  about  1654;  was  witness  to  a  deed  of  sale  April  25,  1681. 

Sarah,  born  about  1655;  married  before  1675,  Thomas  Colton,  of  Springfield,  Mass. 

Anna,   born    about    1656;    married  Sept.    2,    1674,    Lieutenant   Abraham    Brownson,  of 
Lyme. 


MATTHEW  GRISWOLD  [125] 

[125]         MATTHEW  GRISWOLD,  JR.  [1653-1716] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

PHOEBE  HYDE  [1663-1704] 

OF    LYME,    CONN. 


M 


ATTHEW  GRISWOLD,  son  of  Matthew  and  Anna  (Wolcott)  Gris- 

WOLD  (124),  was  born   in    1653.     Of  his  early  life  we  can  only  surmise 

that  it  was  spent  in  Lyme,  and  he  had  reached  the  age  of  thirty  before  he 

married  (i)  May  21  (or  as  given  by  another  authority,  July  21),  1683, 

Phoebe  Hyde,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Lee)  Hyde  (75),  of  Norwich,  Conn. 

and  sister  of  Elizabeth  Hyde,  who  married  Lieutenant  Richard  Lord  (69),  of 

Lyme.     Phoebe,  the  second  daughter,  was  born  in  January,  1663. 

A  most  interesting  though  incomplete  letter  from  Matthew  to  Phoebe, 
written  before  his  marriage,  and  revealing  his  true  affection  for  her,  and  it  must  be 
said  not  a  little  evidence  of  coquetry  on  her  part,  is  given  in  Family  Histories  and 
Genealogies,  II,  27,  but  is  too  long  to  quote  here.  Another  in  the  same  volume, 
written  to  Rev.  Cotton  Mather  on  the  return  and  death  of  his  eldest  son,  Matthew 
Griswold,  3rd,  who  had  run  away  from  home,  and  caused  his  father  most  poignant 
grief,  is  couched  in  the  stilted  language  of  the  time,  but  is  a  touching  revelation  of 
a  father's  heart.  On  the  facts  suggested  by  this  letter,  Mr.  Mather  wrote  a  tract 
called  "Repeated  Warnings.  Another  Essay  to  warn  Young  People  against  Re- 
hellions  that  must  he  Repented  of  .  .  .  With  a  Pathetical  Relation  of  what  occur'd 
in  the  Remakrahle  Experiences  of  a  Young  Man  who  made  an  Hopeful  End  lately  in 
Lyme  Conn.  Boston,  1712."  This  tract  is  now  very  rare,  but  there  is  a  copy  in 
the  Yale  Library. 

In  public  life,  Matthew  Griswold  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father. 
The  "Mr.  Matthew  Griswold"  named  in  the  Colonial  Records  of  1696  as  deputy 
and  commissioner,  and  in  1697  as  commissioner,  is  probably  he  and  not  his  father, 
and  certainly  he  was  the  deputy  for  Lyme  in  1704,  1707,  1708,  and  17 10.  He, 
however,  was  less  of  a  public  man  than  his  father. 

His  father,  Matthew  Griswold,  Sr.,  had  deeded  to  him,  a  few  days  before 
his  death,  large  estates.  To  these  he  added  by  purchase,  and  they  descended 
mainly  to  his  son  John,  of  Black  Hall,  whose  landed  estate  is  said  to  have  been 
4,550  acres. 

His  wife,  Phoebe,  died  November  29,  1704,  aged  forty-one,  and  he  married  (2) 
May  30,  1705,  as  her  second  husband,  Mary  (DeWolf)  Lee,  widow  of  his  first  wife's 
uncle,  the  first  Thomas  Lee, of  Lyme,  who  was  son  of  Thomas  and  Phoebe  (Browne) 

Lee  (76).    Mary  was  probably  a  daughter  of  Balthazar  and  Alice  ( )  DeWolf, 

the  emigrant  ancestor  of  tbe  family. 

Matthew  Griswold  died  at  Lyme,  January  13,  171 5/6,  and  his  widow  Mary 
died  there  eight  years  later,  in  1724. 


i82  MATTHEW  GRISWOLD  [125] 

Children  of  Matthew  and  Phoebe  (Hyde)  Griswold 

Phoebe,  born  Aug.  15,  1684;  died  unmarried  in  1702. 

Elizabeth,  born  Nov.  ig,  1685;  died  unmarried  in  1704. 

Sarah,  born  May  19,  1687;  died  unmarried,  Jan.  4,  1760. 

Matthew,  born  Sept.  15,  1688;  ran  away  to  sea  in  1707  and  after  five  years  of  thrilling  ad- 
venture returned  repentant  and  died  at  his  father's  home  in  1712,  a  few  weeks  after. 

John,  born  Dec.  22,  1690;  married  June  23,  1713,  his  step-sister,  who  was  also  his  mother's 
first  cousin,  Hannah  Lee,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (DeWolf)  Lee,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Thomas  and  Phoebe  (Browne)  Lee (76);  was  justice  of  the  peace  and 
quorum  in  Lyme,  for  many  years;  died  Sept.  22,  1764. 

George,  born  Aug.  13,  1692;  Y.  C.  1717;  married  (i)  June  22,  1725,  Hannah  Lynde,  daughter 
of  Judge  Nathaniel  and  Susanna  (Willoughby)  Lynde  (79),  who  was  a  sister  of 
the  wife  of  his  first  cousin  Judge  Richard  Lord  (70);  married  (2)  July  20,  1736, 
his  second  cousin,  Elizabeth  Lee,  great-granddaughter  of  Thomas  and  Phoebe 
(Browne)  Lee  (76);  was  pastor  of  the  Church  at  East  Lyme,  or  the  second  parish  of 
Lyme;  died  Oct.  14,  1761. 
(118)  Mary,  born  April  22,  1694;  married  Sept.  4,  1719,  Edmund  Dorr,  son  of  Edward  and 
Elizabeth  (Hawley)  Dorr  (i  17);  died  Feb.  21,  1776. 

Deborah,  born  in  1696;  married  Oct.  19,  1721,  Colonel  Robert  Denison,  of  New  London, 
Conn.,  a  captain  in  General  Roger  Wolcott's  brigade  at  the  taking  of  Louisburg; 
died  between  1730  and  1733. 

Samuel,  born  in  December,  1697;  died  unmarried  June  10,  1727. 

Patience,  born  in  1698;  married  between  Nov.  2,  1724,  and  March  28,  1728,  John  Denison, 
brother  of  her  sister  Deborah's  husband;  died  Nov.  8,  1776. 

Thomas,  born  in  February,  1700;  died  July  27,  1716. 


[126-A]  JOHN  WOLCOTT  [....-....] 

OF   TOLLAND,    SOMERSET,    ENGLAND 

THE  WoLCOTT  family  have  been  found  in  Tolland,  Somerset,  England,  the 
seat  of  our  ancestor  John  Wolcott,  as  early  as  1525,  when  they  were 
devoted   Roman    Catholics.     It   may  be  that   the  John  Wolcott  whose 
will  was  proved  in  1572,  mentioning  his  children,  John,  Alice  and  Mary, 
and  his  wife  Agnes,  was  the  father  of  John  Wolcott  (126-A),  but  there  are  no 
means  of  ascertaining  exactly.     We  know  the  date  of  John  Wolcott's  will  to  be 
1623,  and  in  it  he  mentioned  his  three  sons. 

Children  of  John  and  Wolcott 

Christopher,  who  inherited  Golden  Manor,  Tolland,  and  died  in  1639. 
(126)  Henry,  baptized  Dec.  6,   1578,  in  the  parish  church  of  Tolland;  married  Jan,  19,   1606, 

Elizabeth  Saunders,  daughter  of  Thomas  and Saunders    of  Lyard,  St. 

Laurence,  Somerset.  He  died  at  Windsor,  Ct.,  May  30,  1655. 
John. 


HENRY  WOLCOTT  [126]  183 


[126]  HENRY  WOLCOTT  [1578-1655] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH  SAUNDERS  [1574-1655] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   WINDSOR,    CONN. 

HENRY  WOLCOTT,  son  of  John  Wolcott  (i26-A),of  Tolland,  Somerset, 
England,  was  baptized  December  6,  1 578,  in  the  parish  church  of  Tol- 
land. 

Henry  Wolcott  married  January  19,  1606,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
eight,  Elizabeth  Saunders,  daughter  of  Thomas  Saunders,  of  Lyard  (or  Lydiard), 
St.  Laurence,  Somersetshire,  England.  She  was  born  in  1574.  They  lived  at 
Tolland  until  1630,  when  he  came  with  his  wife  and  three  sons  to  New  England. 
Their  voyage  was  made  in  the  "Mary  and  John,"  in  company  with  Rev.  John  War- 
ham,  afterwards  pastor  of  the  church  in  Windsor,  Conn.,  and  they  formed  a  part 
of  the  " Dorchester  Company"  in  Massachusetts  Colony. 

At  this  time  Henry  Wolcott  was  fifty-two  years  old,  and  he  sacrificed  a 
good  position  and  a  large  estate  in  the  old  country,  where  he  was  a  magistrate, 
to  seek  a  home  in  the  new.  Trumbull  says  he  sold  "  about  ;£8,ooo  worth  of  estate  in 
England"  before  leaving.  He  could  have  come  over  from  no  spirit  of  adventure, 
but  only  impelled  by  the  desire  that  actuated  so  many  of  the  better  class  of  emi- 
grants, to  find  a  spiritual  liberty  that  was  denied  them  in  England. 

He  settled  first  in  Dorchester,  was  on  the  jury  in  1631,  and  permitted  to  select 
a  farm  in  1634.  He  was  at  once  called  to  public  duties,  being  elected  a  member  of 
the  first  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  Colony.  But  he  did  not  stay  long  in  Massa- 
chusetts, as  in  1635  he  was  one  of  the  "principal  gentlemen"  interested  in  the  enter- 
prise of  forming  a  new  colony  on  the  Connecticut  River,  and  finally  settled  at 
Windsor. 

The  first  officer  named  in  the  records  of  Connecticut  is  "26  Aprl  1636  Henry 
Wolcot  Constable."  He  was  also  deputy  for  Windsor  in  the  first  General  Assembly 
of  Connecticut.  In  1643  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  House  of  Magistrates, 
and  was  annually  re-elected  during  the  rest  of  his  life.  "  He  was  probably  after 
the  Pastor,  the  most  distinguished  man  in  Windsor." 

He  died  at  Windsor  May  30,  1655,  aged  seventy-seven.  His  wife  died  a  few 
weeks  later,  July  17,  1655,  aged  seventy-three.  Both  were  buried  in  the  graveyard 
in  Windsor,  where  a  tombstone,  bearing  the  following  inscription  and  erected  by 
his  son-in-law,  Matthew  Griswold  (124),  is  now  standing. 

"Here  under  lyeth  the  body  of  Henry  Wolcot  sometimes  a  Maiestrate  of  this  Jurisdiction 
who  died  y^  30th  day  of  May  Anno  Salutis  1655  AEtatis  77."  ' 

By  the  death  of  his  brother  Christopher  in  1639,  Henry  Wolcott  had  in- 

'/V.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Reg.,  V,  463. 


i84  HENRY  WOLCOTT  [126] 

herited  "Golden  Manor,"  the  principal  estate  of  Tolland,  England.  This  he  be- 
queathed to  his  son  Henry.  The  value  of  his  whole  estate,  exclusive  of  his 
English  property,  was  only  ^^764. 

Children  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Saunders)  Wolcott 

John,  born  Oct.  i,  1607;  was  living  in  England  in  163 1  and  apparently  never  emigrated.  He 
had  died  without  issue,  before  1655. 

Henry,  born  Jan.  21,  1610/1;  married  Nov.  18,  1641,  Sarah  Newberry,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Thomas  Newberry,  of  Dorchester,  Mass.;  was  an  importing  merchant  of  Windsor; 
inherited  his  father's  English  property;  was  deputy  in  1660,  and  is  named  in  the 
Charter  of  Connecticut;  was  magistrate  from  1662  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
July  12,  1680. 

George,  married  Elizabeth  Treat,  and  settled  in  Wethersfield,  Conn. 

Christopher,  who  inherited  the  family  homestead  in  Windsor,  and  died  unmarried  Sept.  7, 
1662. 
(124)  Anna,  born  about  1620;  married  Oct.  16,  1646,  Matthew  Griswold,  son  of  George  Gris- 
WOLD  (123);  died  in   1700. 

Mary,  married  June  25,  1646,  Sergeant  Job  Drake,  of  Windsor,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Rodgers)  Drake;  died  Sept.  11,  1689. 

Simon,  born  "between  Sept.  11,  1624,  and  Sept.  11,  1625";  was  only  seven  at  the  time  of 
his  father's  emigration;  was  left  in  England,  but  came  over  afterwards;  married  (i) 
March  19,  1657,  Joanna  Cook,  daughter  of  Aaron  Cook;  married  (2)  Oct.  17,  1661, 
Martha  Pitkin,  sister  of  William  Pitkin,  Esq.,  of  East  Hartford,  Attorney-general 
and  treasurer  of  the  Colony.  Simon  moved  to  Simsbury,  Conn,,  in  167 1,  but  re- 
turned to  Windsor,  and  died  there  Sept.  11,  1687.  His  widow  married  (2)  Daniel 
Clark,  a  brother  of  George  Clark  (88). 


OILMAN  ANCESTRY 


From  a  letter  of  April  i8,  1884,  written  by  Winthrop  Sargent  Oilman  (136)  to 
his  daughter,  on  receipt  of  a  pamphlet  regarding  the  Coffin  family. 

"Genealogies  are  matters  of  curiosity — and  something  more  in  that  the  survival  of 
the  strongest  blood,  like  that  of  the  Coffins  &  Bethunes,  oft  manifests  itself  in  many 
subsequent  generations.  It  is  interesting  also  that  the  ancestors,  who  'stood  equiv- 
alent with  mighty  kings,'  married  their  likes  in  blood,  position  and  character,  so  that 
the  final  issue  is  apt  to  partake  of  the  good  qualities  of  the  many^The  physical  ten- 
dency in  derivations  always  is  to  health,  so  that  with  care  descendants  overcome  the 
seeds  of  maladies  from  which  their  ancestors  suffered.  This  rule  1  think  holds 
good  also  in  morals  with  this  most  important  proviso  that  each  generation  takes  care 
that  the  children  shall  be  so  trained  as  to  continue  the  improvement — where  that  care 
is  not  exercised  deterioration  is  sure  to  exert  a  powerful  adverse  influence.  'An  idle 
life,'  said  Goethe,' is  death  anticipated' — 'from  him  who  hath  not  shall  be  taken  away 
even  that  which  he  hath;'  the  governing  principle  in  nature  which  applies  to  all  vag- 
rants being  that  'any  life  which  secures  food,  ease  &  comfort  without  the  expenditure 
of  personal  labor  of  some  kind  always  produces  physical  and  moral  degradation.'  A 
good  &  vigorous — a  moral  and  religious  ancestry  has  given  us  the  benefit  of  an  im- 
proving tendency,  so  that  each  generation  is  destined  to  be  better  &  more  useful  than 
the  last,  I  trust." 


GILMAN     ANCESTRY 

OF 

WINTHROP  SARGENT  GILMAN 

[136] 


THE  GILMAN  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

FOR  our  information  about  the  Oilman  family  before  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury we  are  indebted  to  Alexander  W.  Giliman,  Esq.,  of  London,  Eng- 
land, who  published  in  1895  the  results  of  seven  years'  labor  on  pedigrees 
and  documents  of  the  Giliman  or  Gilman  families  in  England  and  Ire- 
land. Mr.  Giliman  refers  all  the  various  branches  of  the  family  to  one  root,  the 
"Cilmin  tribe"  of  Wales,  named  from  Cilmin  Droed-dhu,  a  more  or  less  legendary 
personage  of  A.  D.843.  '"  corroboration  of  this  theory,  Mr.  Giliman  points  out  that 
all  the  scattered  branches  of  the  family  in  England  have  borne  at  all  times  the  same 
Cilmin  arms;  viz.:  an,  a  man's  leg  couped  at  the  thigh,  sa.,  and  that  these  arms 
have  also  been  borne  by  the  Glynne  family  of  England,  who  claim  descent  from 
Cilmin  Droed-dhu  through  a  second  marriage  of  Robert  ap  Meredydd,  his  descen- 
dant in  the  fifteenth  century.  He  also  remarks  that  the  common  pronunciation 
of  the  name  has  always  followed  the  old  spelling  of  the  last  syllable,  myn  (or  mun), 
not  man. 

Mr.  Gillman's  researches,  however,  are  more  interesting  to  the  antiquarian 
or  the  historical  student  than  to  the  genealogist,  as,  with  the  exception  of  the 
Irish  Gilmans,  who  trace  their  descent  from  Richard  the  son  of  Robert  ap  Meredydd, 
he  has  discovered  no  unbroken  line  of  descent  in  any  branch  of  the  family.  Richard 
took  the  surname  of  his  ancestor  Cilmin  on  removing  to  London,  about  1500, 
where  he  became  one  of  the  Yeomen  of  the  King's  Guard.'  His  family  for  several 
generations  had  positions  about  the  Court,  or  in  London. 

The  Norfolk,  Kent  and  Essex  families,  however,  were  in  existence  two  or 
three  hundred  years  before  this  time,  and  no  explanation  is  given  of  their  assump- 
tion of  the  Gilman  name.     The  most  ancient  of  all  Gilman  records  in  existence  is 

'The  Yeomen  of  the  Guard  were  "instituted  in  Henry  VII's  reign,  in  the  year  1485,  as  a  special  body 
guard  of  the  King,  and  consisted  of  50  men  of  the  best  rank  under  gentry,  and  of  larger  stature  than  ordinary,  each 
man  being  required  to  be  six  feet  high.  The  number  was  afterwards  increased  to  250  men,  and  they  for- 
merly had  diet  as  well  as  wages  when  in  waiting,  but  this  privilege  was  withdrawn  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne 
and  the  numbers  reduced  to  140;" — Searches  into  the  History  of  the  Giliman  or  Gilman  family,  21. 


i86  THE  GILMAN  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

of  a  John  Gylemyn  of  Kent,  King's  Marshal  in  Henry  Ill's  reign,  or  1261.  In 
Norfolk,  the  county  of  the  American  Gilmans,  Geoffrey  Gylemyn  is  recorded  as 
belonging  to  the  Lete  of  St.  Peter's,  Norwich,  about  1300-1 3 10. 

Mr.  Gilman  has  discovered  a  number  of  documents  and  wills  in  Norfolk 
from  this  time  on  to  that  of  our  ancestor  Edward  Gilman  of  Gaston  (1550),  one 
being  the  second  oldest  Gilman  will  on  record,  dated  the  Feast  of  Saints  Fabian  and 
Sebastian,  in  the  year  1426.  Direct  descent  from  these  early  Gilmans  cannot  now 
be  established  as  the  parish  register  began  in  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century, 
and  our  tree  must  still  start  with  Edward  Gilman  of  Gaston  (1550),  descent  from 
whom  was  traced  with  accuracy  by  Arthur  Gilman,  Esq.,  of  Cambridge,  Mass., 
eldest  son  of  Winthrop  Sargent  and  Abia  Swift  (Lippincott)  Gilman  (136), 
who  published  in  1869  a  Gilman  Genealogy,  which  has  been  ever  since  the  authority 
on  the  subject. 

At  the  present  time,  the  Gilman  descendants  in  America  of  Edward  Gilman, 
(130),  our  emigrant  ancestor,  and  a  grandson  of  Edward  of  Gaston,  number  several 
thousand,  while  there  are  but  few  left  of  that  name  among  all  the  many  branches 
in  the  old  country. 

EDWARD  GILMAN  of  Gaston,  Norfolk,  England,  married  June  22,  1550,  at 
Gaston,  Rose  Rysse.  His  will,  dated  February  5,  1573,  was  proved  by  his  widow, 
July  7,  of  the  same  year.  In  it  he  gave  to  his  eldest  son  John,  his  houses  and  lands 
in  Gaston,  and  divided  his  other  landed  property  (land  at  Saham  Toney  being 
mentioned)  among  his  other  three  sons  and  five  daughters.  His  widow  married 
(2)  at  Gaston,  April  3,  1578,  John  Snell,  and  was  buried  there,  October  3,  1613. 
Their  children  were: 

John,  who  inherited  his  father's  estate  in  Caston. 

Edward. 

Robert,  see  below. 

Lawrence,  baptized  at  Caston,  Nov. 3,  1561;  married  (1)  June  20,  1588,  EHzabeth  James,  of 

Caston,  who  was  buried  Dec.  20,  1602;  married  (2)  Joan  Sponer,  who  outHved  him; 

was  buried  at  Caston  Aug.  21,  1629.     His  will,  dated  Aug.  1,  1629,  was  proved  Dec. 

8,  of  the  same  year.  , 

Margaret,  Katherine,  Rose,  Jone,  Elizabeth. 


ROBERT  GILMAN,  son  of  Edward  and  Rose  (Rysse)  Gilman,  was  bap- 
tized at  Caston,  July  10,  1559;  married  Mary ,  who  was  buried  March  9, 

1618.  Robert  Gilman  is  mentioned  in  his  brother  Lawrence's  will  in  1629.  On 
March  2,  1 631,  he  enfeoffed  his  son  John  with  the  lands  left  to  him  by  his  father. 
He  was  buried  at  Caston,  March  6,  1631.     His  children  were: 

Robert,  married  (i)  May   14,   161 1,   Rose  H awes,  at  Hingham,  Norfolkshire;  married  (2) 
Mary ,  who  survived  him.     His  will,  dated  Sept.  27,  1658,  was  proved  Jan.  21, 


THE  OILMAN  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  187 

1659,  by  his  widow.     It  appears  from  the  pedigree  of  Norfolk  Gilmans'  that  all  the 

Gilmans  of  the  Norfolk  branch  now  living  in  England  come  from  a  great-grandson  of 

Robert,  named  Samuel  who  married  Frances  Heyhoein  1740. 
(130)  Edward,  born   about  1587  married  at   Hingham,  June  3,  1614,  Mary  Clark;  emigrated 

to  New  England  in  1638  and  died  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  June  22,  1681. 
Lawrence,  baptized  at  Caston,  Dec.  i,  1594;  married  Anne ;  was  mentioned  in  his 

brother  John's  will  in  1639.      His  own   will,  proved    Feb.  8,    1647,   mentions   two 

daughters,  Margaret  and  Katherine. 
John,  baptized  at  Caston,  Feb.  28,  1598;  married  Anne ;  received  in  163 1  his  father's 

Caston  property.     His  will  was  proved  June  14,  1639,  by  his  widow.    He  apparently 

left  no  descendants. 

[130]  EDWARD  GILMAN  [i 587-1681] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

MARY  CLARK  [....-....] 

OF  ENGLAND,  HINGHAM,  MASS.,  AND  EXETER,  N.  H. 

EDWARD  GILMAN,  son  of  Robert  and  Mary  ( )  GiLMAN.of  Caston, 
Norfolkshire,  England,  was  born  about  1587  at  Caston.  He,  with 
some  of  the  family,  moved  to  Hingham,  a  small  market  town  near 
Caston,  and  there  he  married,  June  3,  1614,  Mary  Clark,  whose  parent- 
age is  unknown. 

In  1638  he  emigrated  to  New  England  with  a  company  of  Hingham  people, 
sympathizers  with  the  Rector  of  the  Parish  Church,  Rev.  Robert  Peck,  who  had 
been  prosecuted  by  Bishop  Wren,  because  in  his  Puritan  zeal  "he  pulled  down  the 
rails  and  levelled  the  altar  and  the  whole  chancel  a  foot  below  the  church."  One 
hundred  and  thirty-three  men,  women  and  children,  among  whom  were  Edward 
Gilman,  his  wife,  three  sons,  two  daughters,  and  three  servants,  and  John  Foul- 
sham,  who  afterward  became  his  son-in-law,  sailed  from  Gravesend  in  the  ship 
"Diligent," of  Ipswich,  Mass., on  April  26,i638,and  arrived  at  Boston, Mass., August 
10,  1638.  They  settled  at  Hingham,  Mass.,  where  some  of  their  town-folk  had 
started  a  colony  five  years  previously.  Edward  Gilman  is  said  to  have  sacrificed 
one-half  the  value  of  his  property  in  England  in  order  to  emigrate,  but  he  must 
still  have  had  considerable  means,  as  he  made  investments  immediately  on  his 
arrival.     He  was  admitted  freeman  at  Hingham,  March  13,  1638. 

Plymouth  Colony,  in  1641,  granted  to  Edward  Gilman  and  others  a  tract  of 
land  eight  miles  square,  called  Seekonk,  now  Rehoboth,  on  the  borders  of  Rhode 
Island,  and  it  is  possible  that  he  went  there  to  live  for  a  time.  He  is  also  connected 
with  the  early  history  of  Scituate,  as  the  following  extract  shows: 

"The  name  of  Edward  Gilman,  first  ancestor  of  that  distinguished  family,  is  perpetuated 
in  Scituate,  and  'Gillman  Plain'  received  its  name  from  his  trespass.  Sett.  Rec.  V.  4.  (old  leaf). 
'Recovered  of  Edward  Gyllman  for  damage  done  to  the  Town  Swamps,  £26.  los.  6d.  Rec'd  of  Ed. 
Gyllman  for  damages,  &c. 

^The  Gillman  or  Gilman  Family,  148. 


1 88  EDWARD  GILMAN  [130] 

Eleven  ffirkins  of  sope  at  i8s ■  ■  £9-    18.0 

In  Cassel  sope  and  shoes 3.     0.0 

In  tobacco i .   6  '  "  ' 

It  is  possible  that  this  Edward  Gilman  was  the  son,  as  it  is  not  always  easy 

to  distinguish  between  them  in  the  records. 

In  1645  he  was  again  at  Hingham,  and  later  was  among  the  earliest  settlers 

of  Ipswich,  Mass.,  with  his  two  sons,  Edward  and  John.     Edward,  Junior,  married 

there  Elizabeth  Smith,  but  removed  in  1647  to  Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  on  July  28,  1648, 

deeded  to  his  father  the  property  in  Ipswich  received  from  his  father-in-law. 

Edward  Oilman,  senior,  sold  some  of  his  land  in  Ipswich  to  his  son  John  (131) 

in  1650,  and  in  1651,  other  land,  perhaps  that  referred  to  above,  to  his  "brother 

Richard  Smith,"  i.  e.,  his  son's  father-in-law. 

He  finally  moved  his  family  to  Exeter,  N.  H.,  in  1652  or  1653,  ^"^  there 

remained  the  rest  of  his  life.     He  had  acquired  large  grants  of  land  there  which 

were  conditional,  as  appears  from  the  Exeter  records: 

"July  8,  1652.  Edward  Gilman,  Sr.,  John  Leavitt,  John  Gilman  and  Moses  Gilman  200 
[acres]  'those  of  them  that  come  not  to  live  with  us  by  the  next  summer  to  forfeit  their  shares  again 
to  the  town.' 

In  apparent  preparation  for  this  move,  he  and  his  wife,  Mary,  deeded,  Oc- 
tober 14,  1652,  their  house  and  three  acres  of  land  in  "Bachelor's  Rowe"  in  Hing- 
ham (supposed  to  be  the  homestead),  to  their  son-in-law,  Daniel  Gushing.  Ed- 
ward, junior,  had  moved  to  Exeter  in  1647,  and  John  (131)  in  1648,  at  which  time 
they  built  together  the  first  saw-mill  in  Exeter. 

Edward  Gilman,  Sr.,  first  appears  on  the  records  of  Exeter,  May  10,  1652, 
when  he  and  his  son  Edward,  Edward  Colcord,  and  Humphrey  Wilson,  were 
granted  liberty  to  set  up  a  saw-mill  at  the  "lower  falls  in  Lamprey  river  by  the 
bridge,"  and  to  take  timber  on  the  common  land  there  for  their  mill,  on  payment 
of  five  pounds  a  year  to  the  town.  This  place  was  later  the  site  of  the  town  of 
Newmarket.  Edward,  junior,  was  lost  at  sea  the  following  year  (1653),  and  the 
father  and  two  other  sons,  John  (131)  and  Moses,  managed  the  three  saw-mills  and 
continued  the  business. 

Edward  Gilman  took  "ye  oath  of  Allegiance  &  Fidelity"  November  30,  1677, 
at  Exeter,  at  the  same  time  with  his  sons  John  (131)  and  Moses,  his  son-in-law 
Sergeant  John  Foulsham  and  Jonathan  Thing  (141). 

On  February  18,  1679,  the  selectmen  of  Exeter  gave  an  order  that  Edward 
Gilman,  Jonathan  Thing  (141),  and  others  should  be  allowed  to  build  in  the 
church  a  gallery  at 

"the  end  of  the  men's  gallery  for  their  wives    .  .  .  provided  they  build  the  same  upon  their  own 
charge,  leaving  also  room  to  build  another  end  gallery  if  the  same  be  required. 

^At  Exeter  by  vote  of  the  town  "any  inhabitant  who  should  find  a  marsh  of  less  than  twenty  acres 
might  enjoy  it  as  his  own  forever."  Some  such  rule  probably  existed  in  other  parts  of  Massachusetts  and 
perhaps  accounts  for  this  "trespass."  In  the  History  of  Sciluate,  p.  4,  the  author  says:  "A.  D.  1685  the  town 
of  Scituate  voted  'to  block  up  the  highway  leading  from  Scituate  common  lands  to  Hingham,  to  prevent  the  great 
trespasses  by  those  of  Hingham.'     They  had  several  times  recovered  damages  of  individuals." 


EDWARD  OILMAN  [130]  189 

On  March  1 1,  of  the  same  year,  Edward  Smith,  Edward  Oilman  and  Peter 
Folsom  were  appointed  by  the  town  a  committee  to  ascertain  the  town  debts  and 
their  legaHty,  among  which  were  those  due  to  Honorable  John  Oilman  (131)  as 
captain  of  the  Exeter  Military  Company. 

Edward  Oilman  died  in  Exeter,  June  22,  1681.  The  date  of  his  wife's  death 
is  not  known. 

Children  of  Edward  and  Mary  (Clark)  Oilman 

Mary,  baptized  Aug.  6,  1615;  married  John  Foulsham,  a  fellow-passenger  on  the  "Diligent" 
in  1638. 

Edward,  baptized  Dec.  26,  1617;  married  Elizabeth  Smith,  daughter  of  Richard  Smith,  of 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  formerly  of  Shropham,  Norfolkshire,  England;  moved  from  Ipswich 
to  Exeter,  N.  H.,  in  1647,  and  built  the  first  saw-mill  there.  Before  1650  he  had  the 
grant  for  another  mill  on  the  other  side  of  the  river  at  the  Falls.  In  1653  he  went  to 
England  for  mill-gearing,  etc.,  and  was  lost  at  sea. 

Sarah,  baptized  Dec.  26,  1617. 

Lydia,  married  at  Hingham,  Mass.,  Jan.  19,  1645,  Daniel  Cushing,  son  of  Matthew  Cushing, 
Sr. 
(131)  John,  born  Jan.  10,  1624;  married  June  20,  1657,  Elizabeth  Treworgye,  daughter  of  James 
and  Katherine  (Shapleigh)  Treworgye  (137);  died  July  24,  1708. 

Moses,  baptized  March  11,  1630;  married  (i)  Anne ;  married  (2)  Elizabeth  Hersey, 

daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Hersey,  of  Hingham,  Mass.;  went  to  Exeter,  N.  H., 
with  his  father  in  1652,  and  lived  there  until  his  death  in  1702. 

[131]  HON.  JOHN  OILMAN  [1624-1708] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  TREWOROYE  [1639-1719] 

OF  ENGLAND,  HINGHAM,  MASS.,  AND  EXETER,  N.  H. 

JOHN  OILMAN,  son  of  Edward  and  Mary  (Clark)  Oilman  (130),  was  born 
January  10,  1624,  at    Hingham,  Norfolkshire,  England,  where  he  was   bap- 
tized May  23,  1626.     He  was  but  fourteen  years  old  when  he  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  the  ship  "Diligent"  with  his  parents,  and  he  went  with  them  first  to 
Hingham,  and  thence  to  Ipswich,  Mass. 

About  1648  he  joined  his  brother  Edward  in  Exeter,  N.  H.,  who  had  built  a 
saw-mill  there.  After  Edward  was  lost  at  sea  in  1653,  John  inherited  much  of  his 
property,  and  the  management  of  the  milling  business  fell  largely  upon  him.  From 
this  time  he  was  prominent  in  town  affairs. 

On  January  2,  1 650/1,  his  name  appears  on  a  dissenting  vote  with  regard  to 
a  proposition  to  let  Rev.  Mr.  Dudley  "go  free  without  payment  for  his  third"  in 
a  matter  of  town  taxation.  In  1652,  he  was  elected  selectman,  and  served  almost 
continuously  until  1687.  On  October  23,  1652,  he  and  John  Robinson  were  chosen 
as  overseers  of  the  work  on  the  first  meeting-house.     It  is  a  pathetic  illustration 


190  HON.  JOHN  OILMAN  [131] 

of  the  poverty  of  the  early  settlers  of  New  England,  that,  though  the  people  of 
Exeter  wished  to  build  a  log-house  only  twenty  feet  square,  it  took  them  two  years, 
and  required  the  work  of  every  able-bodied  inhabitant.  The  meeting-house  then 
built  served  them  for  over  forty  years. 

One  of  the  diificulties  of  these  new  settlements  was  to  provide  for  the  support 
of  the  minister,  and  in  Exeter  various  methods  were  tried  before  the  tithing-men 
were  given  the  responsibility  of  making  the  collections.  In  1656  all  the  saw-mills 
were  taxed  for  this  purpose,  and  a  new  mill  of  John  Oilman's  was  rated  six  pounds. 
While  this  seems  a  large  tax,  the  mills  were  relieved  of  all  town  taxes,  and  undoubt- 
edly the  milling  industries  were  the  most  flourishing  in  Exeter. 

John  Oilman  married  June  20,  1657,  Elizabeth  Treworgye,  daughter  of 
James  and  Katherine  (Shapleigh)  Treworgye  (137),  who  was  born  in  1639. 
About  this  time  he  built  opposite  the  Oreat  Bridge  the  "Log-House"  which  was 
standing  in  1888,  and  was  then  the  oldest  house  in  Exeter.' 

In  1667  and  1668,  John  Oilman  was  on  committees  to  lay  out  the  boundaries 
of  Exeter,  as  there  were  encroachments  on  every  side.  The  matter  was  long  in  ad- 
justment, and  it  was  not  until  April  29,  1672,  that  a  committee  of  which  he  was  one 
settled  the  line  between  Exeter  and  Hampton,  and  as  late  as  January  16,  1710/1 1, 
that  another  committee,  on  which  was  his  son  Nicholas  (132),  settled  that  be- 
tween Exeter  and  Dover. 

John  Oilman  was  a  lieutenant  of  the  Exeter  Military  Company  in  1669,  and 
October  24,  1676,  he  received  £5  15s.  6d.,  for  his  military  service.  In  1678  he 
was  made  captain,  and  the  committee  appointed  by  the  town  to  examine  into  its 
debts  (see  Edward  Oilman,  130),  reported  March  11,  1678/9, 

"haveing  tryed  &  examined  ye  accounts,  charges  and  disbursements  of  Cap*"  John  Gillman  doe 
find  for  &  allow  unto  him.  Errors  excepted, — 77L.  19s.  ood.  The  last  Bar'"  of  powder  w'^'' 
Cap'"  Gillman  bought  for  ye  Towne  stock  is  not  included  in  ye  Sume  aboue  written." 

He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  and  fidelity  on  November  30,  1677,  with  his 
father  and  brother  Moses.  He  was  repeatedly  appointed  commissioner  to  try 
small  causes,  and  was  on  several  committees  to  care  for  the  interests  of  the  town. 
For  the  two  years  before  New  Hampshire  was  separated  from  the  Massachusetts 
government,  he  held  the  office  of  associate  (or  judge)  of  the  Norfolk  County  Court 
and  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  ablest  men  in  Exeter. 

In  January,  1680,  the  new  government  of  the  Royal  Province  of  New  Hamp- 
shire went  into  operation  under  the  Crown,  and  a  governor  and  six  councillors  were 
appointed  by  King  Charles  II.  Captain  John  Oilman  was  appointed  one  of  the 
councillors,  and  served  for  three  years.  In  1682  he  was  also  made  judge  of  the 
Court  of  Pleas,  but  was  suspended  from  both  offices  by  Oovernor  Cranfield,  "an 
arrogant  and  thieving  ruler  "who  "goaded  New  Hampshire  to  acts  of  insurrection. "^ 

Cranfield  determined  to  levy  taxes  in  1684,  without  referring  them  to  the  as- 
sembly, relying  upon  the   subserviency  of  the  remaining  councillors.     In  Exeter 

'See  further  description  under  Colonel  John  Oilman   (i  6i). 
^  Fiske's  Beginnings  of  New  England,  287. 


HON.  JOHN  OILMAN  [131]  191 

the  constable,  John  Folsom,  returned  his  warrant,  saying  that  the  people  refused  to 
pay  the  taxes,  as  they  were  illegal,  in  the  Provincial  Papers  we  find  the  following 
on  this  subject: 

" Thomas  Thurton,  Provost  marshal!  of  the  Prov.  of  N.  H.,sent  to  demand  a  fine  of  50s.  upon 
John  Foulsham  constable  of  Exeter  for  neglecting  the  duty  of  his  office,  saith:  .  .  .  'this  deponent 
being  at  the  house  of  Edward  Oilman  [son  of  Edward  Oilman,  jr.]  in  Exeter  aforesaid,  there  came 
thither  the  wife  of  John  Oilman  sent  of  Exeter  and  told  this  deponent  that  she  had  provided  a  kettle 
of  scalding  water  for  him  if  he  came  to  her  house  to  demand  anyrates,and  thewife  of  Moses  Oilman 
did  say  that  she  had  provided  a  kettle  of  scalding  water  for  him  if  he  came  to  her  house  which  had 
been  over  the  fire  for  two  days'." 

The  marshal  returned  without  much  satisfaction  and  without  collecting  the  taxes. 
After  the  Revolution  of  1689  in  England,  the  affairs  of  the  Province  ran  more 
smoothly. 

In  1683,  Rev.  Mr.  Dudley  died  and  was  succeeded  by  Elder  William  Went- 
worth.  His  death  occurring  after  a  pastorate  of  ten  years.  Honorable  John  Oilman, 
as  he  was  then  called,  was  put  on  a  committee  to  procure  a  new  pastor.  They 
agreed  upon  Rev.  John  Clarke,  a  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Somerby) 
Clarke  (139),  of  Newbury,  and  called  him  June  23,  1693.  It  is  interesting  to 
notice  that  two  of  John  Oilman's  sons,  Nicholas  (132)  and  John  (161),  married 
sisters  of  their  pastor,  a  few  years  later,  and  it  was  probably  in  the  home  of  Nich- 
olas that  the  aged  Elizabeth  (Somerby  Clarke)  Hale,  then  the  widow  of  Rev. 
John  Hale  (i  56),  spent  her  last  years. 

A  new  meeting-house  was  finished  in  December,  1696,  but  the  business  of 
seating  the  congregation  was  a  difficult  one,  and  it  was  not  until  February  3,  1698, 
that  the  places  were  assigned.     One  pew  was  given  to 

"Nicholas  Oilman  and  his  wife,  and  John  Oilman,  and  Alice  and  Catherine  Oilman,  joining  to  Mr. 
Wilson's  pew  and  to  the  east  door." 

Two  or  three  months  later  the  minister  was  ordained,  and  the  church  re-organized, 
when  John  Oilman's  name  appears  first  on  the  list  of  members.  Mr.  Clarke's  pas- 
torate was  a  short  one,  as  he  died  in  1705.     His  successor.  Rev.  John  Odlin,  who 

married  Mr.  Clarke's  widow  in  1706,  was  a  grandson  of  John  and  Margaret  ( ) 

Odlin  (60). 

From  1693  to  1697,  Hon.  John  Oilman  was  representative  to  the  Provincial 
Assembly  of  New  Hampshire,  and  was  speaker  of  the  House  in  1695.  His  death 
occurred  in  Exeter,  July  24,  1708,  in  his  eighty-fifth  year.  His  will  was  dated 
July  16,  1700,  and  the  inventory  was  made  July  9,  1709.  His  landed  property, 
which  was  inventoried  at  £2<yj,  was  divided  between  his  only  living  sons  Nicholas 
(132)  and  John  (161).  He  left  to  his  daughter  Elizabeth  Wadleigh,;£5,  to  be  paid 
her  by  her  brothers,  and  to  the  daughters  Sarah  Dudley,  Lydia  White,  Abigail 
Thing,  Joanna  Coffin,  Alice  Oilman,  and  Katherine  Oilman,  each  ;^2o,  to  be  paid 
them  by  their  brothers,  Nicholas  paying  ;^8  and  John  ;^i2.  The  sons  were 
also  to  pay  their  mother,  who  was  sole  executrix,  £20  apiece,  and  she  was  also  to 


192  HON.  JOHN  OILMAN  [131] 

receive  the  remainder  of  the  estate,  both  real  and  personal,  and  to  give  to  the  two 
unmarried  daughters  who  had  not  yet  received  their  portion,  £30  apiece. 

Elizabeth  (Treworgye)  Oilman  died  at  Exeter,  September  8,  1719,  aged 
eighty  years. 

Children  of  Hon.  John  and  Elizabeth  (Treworgye)  Oilman 

(142)  Mary,  born  Sept.  10,  1658;   married  July  26,  1677,   Captain  Jonathan  Thing,  son   of 

Jonathan  and  Joanna  ( )  Thing  (141);  died  in  August,  1691.' 

James,  born  Feb.  6,  1660,  died  young. 

Elizabeth,  born  Aug. 16,  1661 ;  married  (i)  July  12,  1678,  Nathaniel  Ladd,  who  was  mortally 

wounded  in  a  fight  with  the  Indians  at  Macquoit,  Maine,  and  died  Aug.  11,  1691; 

married  (2)  Dec.  3,  1693,  Henry  Wadleigh. 
John,  born  Oct.  6,  1663,  died  young. 
Katherine,  born  March  17,  1664/5;  died  Sept.  2,  1684. 
Sarah,  born  Feb.  25,  1666/7;  married  Dec.  24,  1684,  Stephen  Dudley, and  had  ten  children, 

three  of  whom  married  Gilmans. 
Lydia,  born  Dec.  12,  1668;  married  Oct.  24,  1687,  Captain  John  White. 
Samuel,  born  March  30,  1671 ;  died  Aug.  9,  1691. 

(132)  Nicholas,  born  Dec.  26,  1672;  married  June  10,  1697,  Sarah  Clarke,  daughter  of  Nathan- 

iel and   Elizabeth  (Somerby)  Clarke  (139)    of    Newbury,    Mass.,  married    (2) 

Judith ;  was  a  captain  in  Queen  Anne's  War,  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common 

Pleas,  and  of  the  Superior  Court  of  New  Hampshire;  died  at  Exeter  in  1749. 
Abigail,  born  Nov.  3,  1674;   married  July  8,  1696,  Samuel  Thing,  son  of  Jonathan   and 
Joanna  ( )  Thing  (141)  and  brother  of  her  sister  Mary's  husband;  died  Nov. 

7.  >725- 
(161)  John,  born  Jan.  19,  1676/7;  married  (i)  June  5,  1698,  Elizabeth  Coffin,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Peter  and  Abigail  (Starbuck)  Coffin  (162),  who  died  July  4,  1720;  married  (2) 
Dec.  29,  1720,  Elizabeth  (Clarke)  Hale,  widow  of  Dr.  Robert  Hale  (157),  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Somerby)  Clarke  (139),  and  sister  of  his  brother 
Nicholas'  wife.  He  died  probably  at  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  between  1739  and 
1742. 

Deborah,  born  April  30,  1679;  died  Sept.  30,  1680. 

Joanna,  twin  with  preceding;  married  (i)  Henry  Dyer;  married  (2)  Captain  Robert  Coffin, 
son  of  Hon.  Peter  and  Abigail  (Starbuck)  Coffin  (162)  and  brother  of  her 
brother  John's  first  wife;  died  Dec.  24,  1720. 

Joseph,  born  Oct.  28,  1680,  died  young. 

Alice,  born  May  23,  1683;  married  in  November,  1702,  Captain  James  Leavitt.  In  the 
seating  of  the  church  in  1698,  her  name  and  that  of  her  younger  sister  Katherine  are 
mentioned  with  their  father's.     She  died  Jan.  2,  (June  2)  172 1. 

Katherine,  born  Nov.  27,  1684;  married  (i)  Peter  Folsom;  married  (2)  Richard  Calley. 

'  Dr.  Daniel  C.  Oilman  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  son  of  William  C.  Oilman  of  New  York,  is  related  through  so 
many  lines  to  the  family  of  Winthrop  Sargent  Oilman  (136),  that  we  notice  it  here.  He  is  descended  from 
three  of  the  children  of  Hon.  John  and  Elizabeth  (Treworgye)  Oilman  (13  i),  and  twice  from  two  of  them;  i.e.. 
Col.  John  Oilman  (161)  by  both  his  wives;  Judge  Nicholas  Oilman  (132)  from  two  of  his  sons,  Rev.  Nicholas 

(133)  and  Samuel;  and  Mary  Oilman  who  married  Captain  Jonathan  Thing  (142).  Also  descended  from  two 
children  of  Tristram  Coffin  (147-A),  Mary,  who  married  Joseph  Little  (146)  and  Hon.  Peter  Coffin  (162) 
and  also  descended  from  three  of  the  children  of  Nathaniel  Clarke  (139),  R.ev.  John  Clarke,  Elizabeth  Clarke 
who  married  (i)  Dr.  Robert  Hale  (157)  and  (2)  Col.  John  Oilman  (161)  and  Sarah  Clarke,  who  married 
Judge  Nicholas  Oilman  (132). 


JUDGE  NICHOLAS  OILMAN  [132]  193 

[132]         JUDGE  NICHOLAS  OILMAN  [1672-1749] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

SARAH  CLARKE  [1678-1741] 

OF    EXETER,    N.    H. 

NICHOLAS  OILMAN,  son  of  Hon.  John  and  Elizabeth  (Treworgye) 
Oilman  (131),  was  born  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  December  26,  1672,  and  was 
probably  named  for  his  great-uncle,  Nicholas  Shapleigh.  He  married 
(i),  June  10,  1697,  Sarah  Clarke,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Somerby)  Clarke  (i39),of  Newbury,  who  was  born  January  7  or  12,1677/8. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  merchant,  and  lived  on  the  south  side  of  Front  Street,  where 
an  elm  planted  by  his  son.  Rev.  Nicholas  Oilman  (133),  during  his  father's  life- 
time, was  still  standing  in  1888. 

When  the  important  business  of  seating  the  meeting  in  the  new  house  of  wor- 
ship was  concluded,  February  3, 1698,  a  pew  was  assigned  to  Nicholas  Oilman  and 
his  wife  with  his  father  and  sisters  "  joyning  to  Mr.  Wilson's  pew  and  the  east  door." 
These  pews  were  given  "to  whom  they  seem  meet,"  and  they  were  to  "sit  in  them 
with  their  families"  and  "not  be  seated  nowhere  else."'  Nicholas  was  a  member 
of  the  church,  and  subscribed  with  his  father  to  the  confession  of  faith  and  covenant 
on  September  21,  1698,  the  Sunday  before  the  new  pastor.  Rev.  John  Clarke  (his 
brother-in-law)  was  ordained. 

At  this  time  the  Indians  were  very  hostile  to  the  frontier  towns,  and  Exeter 
suffered  from  constant  raids.  The  men  of  the  town  were  formed  into  a  militia, 
and  as  early  as  1695,  Nicholas  Oilman  was  among  the  men  trained  for  service. 
Later,  in  1710,  he  was  captain  of  one  of  the  scouting  parties  almost  continually  kept 
on  duty.  He  was  also  in  command  of  a  part  of  the  garrison,  and  when  Colonel 
Hilton  was  killed  by  the  Indians,  he  and  his  brother  John  (161)  went  out  with  the 
company  in  pursuit  of  the  murderers. 

In  171 1  he  was  appointed,  with  Jonathan  Wadleigh  and  his  nephew  Jonathan 
Thing,  a  committee  to  "procure  the  settlement  of  the  line  between  Dover  and 
Exeter." 

The  next  town  business  that  we  find  Nicholas  Oilman  connected  with,  opens 
up  the  interesting  subject  of  the  financial  aiTairs  of  the  early  Colonists,  and  the  ex- 
periments with  paper  currency  that  were  carried  on  for  many  years  in  all  parts  of 
New  England.  In  I7i7,the  province  of  New  Hampshire  issued  £15,000  of  paper 
money  to  be  lent  to  the  people  in  small  sums  on  land.  Nicholas  Oilman,  his 
brother-in-law,  Samuel  Thing  (son  of  Jonathan  and  Joanna  Thing,  141),  his 

'  The  extreme  care  used  in  seating  the  congregation  seems  to  us  very  amusing  but  was  not  peculiar  to  the 
New  England  people.  We  find  in  Pepys's  Diary  that  there  was  as  exact  a  rule  in  old  England.  He  mentions 
frequently  the  relative  position  of  his  wife  and  Lady  Batten  and  Mrs.  Pen.  On  Aug.  24,  1662  he  writes:  "  Found 
Will  Griffin  and  Thomas  Hewitt  got  into  the  pew  next  to  our  backs,  where  our  maids  sit,  but  when  1  come  they 
went  out,  so  forward  some  people  are  to  out-run  themselves." 


194  JUDGE  NICHOLAS  OILMAN  [132] 

nephew,  Jonathan  Thing  (son  of  Captain  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Oilman)  Thing, 
142),  Nicholas  Cordon,  and  Moses  Leavitt,  were  made  a  Committee  for  Exeter, 
to  superintend  the  loan  there,  and  to  appraise  the  land  offered  as  security.  We 
have  no  record  of  the  success  or  failure  of  this  plan  to  provide  the  colonists  with 
ready  money,  but  it  probably  met  with  the  same  fate  as  in  Massachusetts  and 
Rhode  Island.' 

In  1730  a  larger  meeting-house  was  built,  with  a  broad  aisle  through  the 
centre,  on  each  side  of  which  were  benches  for  those  who  did  not  own  pews.  The 
pews  on  the  sides  of  the  house  were  sold,  and  eleven  of  the  thirty-two  were  bought 
by  Gilmans.  The  four  pews  bringing  the  highest  prices  were  those  of  Major  Nich- 
olas Oilman,  £21,  Lieutenant  Bartholomew  Thing  (143), £21,  Jonathan  Oilman, 
£2^,  and  Captain  John  Oilman,  Jr.,  ;^2i. 

As  compensation  for  services  rendered  in  defence  of  the  country,  the  town  of 
Oilmanton  was  granted  in  1727,  to  one  hundred  and  seventy-seven  persons,  twenty- 
four  of  whom  bore  the  name  of  Oilman.  Nicholas  Oilman  is  first  on  the  list  of 
grantees,  and  all  of  his  sons'  names  appear  also.  He  evidently  never  removed  there. 
In  1729  he  was  commissioned  justice  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  in  Exeter.  He 
only  held  office  for  a  year,  resigning  in  order  to  give  his  entire  time  to  his  private 
business. 

In  1732  he  accepted  the  appointment  of  judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  and 
performed  the  duties  until  1740,  when  he  again  retired  from  the  bench.  He  seems 
to  have  been  also  justice  of  the  peace  in  1734,  at  the  time  of  the  "Mast  Tree  Riot." 
The  white  pine  of  mast  size,  twenty-four  inches  in  diameter  three  feet  from  the 
ground,  were  then  valued  at  over  £\oo,  and  the  colonists  of  New  Hampshire  did 
not  always  pay  proper  regard  to  the  king's  broad  arrow  when  cutting  in  the  forests. 
This  was  a  continual  source  of  conflict  between  officials  and  people,  and  on  this 
occasion  the  three  justices,  Nicholas  Oilman,  John  Oilman  (perhaps  161),  and 
Bartholomew  Thing  (143),  were  ordered  by  the  lieutenant-governor  to  accom- 
pany his  representative  to  the  various  saw-mills  (one  of  which  belonged  to  John 
Oilman,  161),  and  look  up  boards  sawed  from  mast-trees.  The  three  justices,  after 
a  few  weeks,  answered  that  they  had  sent  a  man  with  the  official, 

"but  as  to  fiis  demand  that  some  of  them  should  go,  they  could  not,  upon  the  most  deliberate 
consideration,  find  any  authority  to  support  them  in  so  doing." 

In  1739,  when  Nicholas  Oilman  was  holding  court  in  Portsmouth,  he  sen- 
tenced Sarah  Simpson  and  Penelope  Kenney  for  the  murder  of  an  infant  child. 
The  execution  of  these  women  was  the  first  that  had  occurred  in  New  Hampshire.^ 

His  first  wife,  Sarah,  died  August  25,  1741,  and  he  married  (2)  Judith , 

to  whose  identity  we  have  no  clue.    She  is  mentioned  in  the  "mutual  agreement" 

'  In  Weeden's  Social  and  Economic  History  oj  New  England  will  be  found  a  full  discussion  of  this  sub- 
ject. 

^  While  Exeter  had  a  Court  House  and  an  Act  had  been  passed  in  1730  providing  for  a  term  to  be 
held  in  Exeter,  Dover,  and  Hampton,  it  is  not  known  that  even  a  single  Court  was  held  outside  of  Portsmouth.  It 
is  supposed  that  Exeter  was  thereby  snubbed  for  her  resistance  to  the  English  authorities. 


JUDGE  NICHOLAS  OILMAN  [132]  195 

between  the  heirs  as  "Mrs.  Judeth  Oilman,  ...  the  Widow  of  the  Said  Nicholas 
Oilman  Esq'  deceased." 

Judge  Oilman  died  at  Exeter  in  1749,'and  left  a  large  estate  which  was  valued 
at  ;i£33,93i  7s.  lod.  From  the  probate  records  we  should  judge  that  he  died  in- 
testate.    In  the  inventory  the  landed  property  amounts  to  £30,917. 

"the  Pew  in  the  old  meating  house  ;£ioo.  .  .  the  Genelogy  in  the  Parler  100/.  .  .  one  Negro  man 
named  Tom  ;£26o.  and  a  Melater  Woman  named  Jenee  and  her  child  ;£28o." 

The  eldest  son,  Samuel,  was  executor  and  administrator,  and  the  "mutual  agree- 
ment" provides  that  there 

"Shall  Remain  in  his  hands  So  much  of  Said  Estate  as  he  Shall  See  Cause  to  keep,  in  order  for  de- 
fraying the  funeral  Charges  of  the  Said  Nicholas  Oilman  Esq''  and  paying  all  Just  debts  due  from 
Said  Estate  and  for  paying  Mrs.  Judeth  Oilman  her  thirds  or  Right  of  dowry  as  she  is  the  Widow 
of  the  Said  Nicholas  Oilman  Esq''  deceased,  and  also  for  defraying  all  Nessesary  Charges  of  what 
kind  So  Ever  Relating  to  Said  Estate." 

The  widow  received  ;£945  "in  part  of  her  thirds." 

Children  of  Judge  Nicholas  and  Sarah  (Clarke)  Oilman 

Samuel,  born  May  1,  1698;  married  (i)  Sept.  2,  1719,  Abigail  Lord,  daughter  of  Robert 
Lord,  of  Ipswich;  married  (2)  Feb.  19,  1746/7,  Mary  ( )  Woodbridge;  was  cap- 
tain of  the  First  Exeter  Company  of  Foot  in  1732,  justice  of  the  peace  in  1740,  judge 
of  the  Superior  Court  from  1740  to  1749,  and  colonel  of  the  Fourth  Regiment  of  Foot 
in  1755;  died  at  Exeter  Jan.  3,  1785. 

John,  born  Dec.  24,  1699;  married  Nov.  8,  1720,  Mary  Thing,  daughter  of  his  first  cousin, 
John  Thing,  and  granddaughter  of  Captain  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Oilman)  Thing 
(142);  died  Dec.  6,  1722.  His  widow  married  (2)  Dec.  8,  1724,  another  cousin,  Hon. 
Peter  Oilman,  son  of  Colonel  John  and  Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Oilman  (161). 

Daniel,  born  Jan.  28,  1702;  married  (i)  Sept.  2,  1724,  Mary  Lord,  daughter  of  Robert  Lord 
of  Ipswich,  a  sister  of  his  brother  Samuel's  wife;  married  (2)  Sept.  23,  1736,  Abigail 
Sayer;  was  colonel  of  Militia  in  1755,  and  was  also  a  farmer  and  trader;  was  a  friend 
of  Rev.  Oeorge  Whitefield,  who  died  at  his  house.  He  died  suddenly  in  the  Exeter 
Church,  of  apoplexy,  Oct.  15,  1780. 

Nathaniel,  born  March  2,  1704;  married  Sept.  16,  1725,  Sarah  Emery,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Emery, of  Wells,  Me.  and  died  before  1749.  His  wife  survived  him  and  mar- 
ried (2)  Hon.  John  Phillips,  the  founder  and  benefactor  of  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter. 
Sarah  (Emery  Oilman)  Phillips  died  in  October,  1765,  and  Mr.  Phillips  married  (2) 
in  1767,  Elizabeth  Hale. 
(133)  Nicholas,  born  Jan.  18,  1707/8;  H.C.  1724;  married  Oct.  22,  1730,  Mary  Thing,  daughter 
of  his  first  cousin,  Bartholomew  and  Sarah  (Kent)  Thing  (143);  died  April  13, 
1748,  in  Durham,  N.  H.,  and  was  buried  at  Exeter. 

Josiah,  born  Feb.  25,  1710;  married  Dec.  2,  1731,  Abigail  Coifin,  daughter  of  Captain  Elipha- 
let  and  Judith  (Coffin  Noyes)  Coffin;  was  a  practicing  physician  in  Exeter  for  nearly 
half  a  century,  and  died  there  Jan.  i,  1793. 

'This  date  in  the  Probate  records  reads  in  several  places  1749,  but  has  been  erroneously  copied  as  1741 
in  different  genealogies. 


196  JUDGE  NICHOLAS  GILMAN  [132] 

Sarah,  born  June  25,  1712;  married  Aug.  26,  1730,  Rev.  James  Pike,  of  Somersworth,  N.  H. 
Trueworthy,  born  Oct.   15,   1714;  married  (i)  June  17,  1736,  Susannah    Lowe,  daughter  of 

Daniel  Lowe, of  Ipswich;  married(2)Jan.8, 1752,  Hannah  ( )  Ayers,  died  in  1765. 

Elizabeth,  born  Nov.  5,  1717;  died  April  25,  1740. 

Joannah,  born  July  20,  1720;  married  Dec.  9,  1742,  Hon.  John  Wentworth,  of  Somersworth, 

N.  H.,  died  April  3,  1750. 

[133]  REV.  NICHOLAS  GILMAN  [1708-1748] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARY  THING  [1713-1789] 

OF    EXETER   AND   DURHAM,    N.    H. 

NICHOLAS  GILMAN,  son  of  Judge  Nicholas  and  Sarah  (Clarke)  Gil- 
man  (132),  was  born  at  Exeter,  January  18,  1707/8.  He  went  to  the 
Latin  school  of  Newburyport,  when  he  was  eight  years  old,  probably 
because  that  of  Exeter  was  hardly  more  than  started  at  the  time. 
It  was  built  the  year  of  his  birth,  and  the  first  record  of  the  engagement  of  a  master 
(Jonathan  Pierpont)  was  the  year  that  Nicholas  began  his  education  at  Newbury- 
port, the  home  of  his  mother.  He  graduated  at  Harvard  when  but  seventeen, 
in  the  class  of  1724,  and  began  to  teach  school  at  Stratham  immediately  after. 

He  entered  the  ministry,  and  three  years  later  preached  his  first  sermon  at 
Kingston,  N.  H.,  October  30,  1727.  The  next  year  he  was  called  to  the  Newmarket 
church,  which  had  been  set  off  the  year  before  from  Exeter,  but  he  did  not  accept 
the  call. 

He  married,  October  22,  1730,  Mary  Thing,  daughter  of  his  first  cousin,  Bar- 
tholomew and  Sarah  (Kent)  Thing  (143)  of  Exeter,  who  was  born  January  11, 
1713.  It  seems  from  his  diary  that  his  health  was  never  good,  which  may  account  for 
the  long  delay  before  his  taking  a  parish.  He  mentions  in  1730  that  he  "went  to 
Doctor  Hales,  at  Beverly,  to  drink  the  mineral  waters."  He  finally  accepted  a 
permanent  pastorate  at  the  church  of  Durham,  N.  H.,  where  he  was  ordained  March 

3,  1742- 

Among  his  papers  is  a  "Carnal  Scheme,"  relating  to  the  details  of  his 
salary,  which  is  very  curious.     It  includes 

"Pork  500  lbs.  .  .  Beef  600  lbs.  that  is  well-fatted.  .  .  Candles,  Winter  Rye  and  other  grains, 
Molasses,  Malt  for  Beer.  .  .  Cyder  10  Barrells.  .  .  Rum — Gallons  or  Wine.  .  .  Apples  and  Turnips 
.  .  .  Pasturing  &  Wintering  4  Cows  &  an  horse,  etc.  .  .  Wood  40  Cord,  If  I  should  need  so  much 
for  firewood,  to  be  hauled  to  my  door  in  4  foot  length.  .  .  no  pounds  per  year  for  this  first  year, 
and  then  the  additions  of  10  pounds  pr.  year  for  four  years,  &  y"  150;^  per  year  to  be  paid  in 
payable  Bills  of  Credit  in  this  province,  &c." 

If  there  was  any  disagreement  on  the  subject  between  the  minister  and  his  parish- 
ioners, the  matter  was  to  be  referred  to  "three  neighboring  Ministers  and  three 
next  Justices." 


REV.  NICHOLAS  OILMAN  [133]  197 

Rev.  Mr.  Oilman  was  an  ardent  friend  of  Oeorge  Whitefield,  who  came  to  New 
England  in  1744,  and  wrote  earnestly  in  his  defence  to  those  ministers  who  were 
opposed  to  his  mission.  While  his  correspondence  gives  the  impression  of  sweetness 
of  disposition,  he,  perhaps  in  consequence  of  ill-health,  appears  to  have  been  un- 
duly influenced  by  a  fanatic  named  Woodbury  from  Rowley,  with  whom  he  was 
accustomed  to  pass  nights  in  prayer  in  the  woods  outside  the  town.  It  is  said  that 
these  "exercises"  shortened  his  life,  as  he  was  but  forty-one  when  he  died,  leaving  a 
widow  and  several  young  sons. 

Hedied  April  13,  1748,  and  was  buried  at  Exeter.  The  inventory  of  his  estate 
amounted  to  £i,,iyi.  13s.  4d.  His  books  were  inventoried  at  £p,C)2,  the  real  estate 
at  ;^i  ,800,  and  "  Peter  a  negro  man  "  dX  £\  50. 

His  widow,  Mary  (Thing)  Oilman,  was  left  at  the  age  of  thirty-five  to  care 
for  at  least  three  sons,  Tristram,  who  was  probably  the  eldest  living,  being  only 
thirteen.  She  evidently  managed  a  farm  in  Exeter,  as  we  have  letters  from  both 
Tristram  and  Joseph  (134),  writing  of  the  farm  products,  which  were  bartered 
in  Boston  for  their  maintenance.  Tristram  went  to  Harvard,  and  wrote  her  just 
before  the  Christmas  vacation  in   1754: 

"Mr.  Hancock.  .  .advis'd  me  to  go  Home  because  he  said  it  would  cost  me  6  Pounds  pr  weei<  for 
my  Board,  &c.  Tho'  I  am  not  of  his  Opinion  as  to  that,  because  Parsons  can  board  in  Town  & 
will  this  Winter  For  Five  Shillings  Sterling  pr  Week.  .  .  Our  Vacancy  begins  on  the  first  Day  of 
January  before  which  Time  there  is  a  Necessity  of  my  Having  some  Money.  50  Dollars  if  possible  .  .  . 
[1757]  This  in  the  utmost  haste  by  Mr.  Little  informs  you  the  Overseers  are  going  to  set  again  to- 
morrow to  vote  whether  we  shall  have  a  Commencement.  .  .  If  we  have  Commencement  it  will 
be  on  July  14th,  I  suppose." 

The  difficulty  of  paying  for  the  maintenance  of  her  boys  was  increased  by 
the  depreciation  in  currency.  In  1753,  Joseph  writes  her  that  his  employer,  Mr. 
Savage,  "told  me  to  write  you  that  you  may  have  £500.  worth  of  Ooods  &  pay  in 
Hamp.  Money  at  the  rate  of  three  £  lo/a  Dollar."  This  correspondence  between 
herself  and  her  sons  ceased  in  1760,  when  Tristram's  education  was  finished,  and 
Joseph,  having  lost  his  first  wife  in  Boston,  was  preparing  to  return  to  Exeter. 

Mary  died  February  22,  1789,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six. 

Children  of  Rev.  Nicholas  and  Mary  (Thing)  Oilman 

Bartholomew,  born  Aug.  26,  173 1. 

Nicholas,  born  June  13,  1733. 

Tristram,  born  Nov.  24,  1735;  H.  C.  1757;  married  May,  1771,  Elizabeth  Sayer,  daughter 

of  Hon.  Joseph  Sayer,  of  Wells,  Me. ;  was  the  pastor  of  the  church  at  North  Yarmouth, 

Me.,  in  1769,  and  one  of  the  first  trustees  of  Bowdoin  College,  also  the  first  president 

of  the  Maine  Missionary  Society;  died  April  i,  1809. 
(134)  Joseph,  born  in  E.xeter  May  5,  1738;  married  (i)  Jane  Tyler,  supposed  to  have  died  in  1760; 

married  (2)  Sept.  21,  1763,  Rebecca    Ives,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth 

(Hale)  Ives  (151),  of  Beverly;  died  May  14,  1806. 
Josiah'  born  Sept.  2,  1740;  married  Nov.  30,  1763,  Sarah  Oilman,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
'  Col.  Josiah  Oilman  is  the  great-grandfather  of  Dr.  Daniel  Coit  Oilman  of  Baltimore,  Md. 


REV.  NICHOLAS  OILMAN  [133] 

Tabitha  (Gilman)  Gilman.     Josiah  was  first  cousin  of  his  wife's  mother,  Tabitha, 
while  Tabitha  and  her  husband  were  also  cousins.     He  was  one  of  the  firm  of  Folsom, 
Gilman  and  Gilman,  of  Exeter;  was  captain  of  the  N.  H.  Militia  in  1771,  justice  of 
the  peace  in  1800,  and  town  clerk  of  Exeter  for  many  years;  died  there  Feb.  8,  i8oi . 
John,  born  May  10,  1742;  died  June  8,  1752. 


[134]  JUDGE  JOSEPH  GILMAN  [1738-1806] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

REBECCA  IVES  [1746-1823] 

OF    EXETER,    N.    H.,    AND   MARIETTA,    OHIO 

JOSEPH  GILMAN,  son  of  Rev.  Nicholas  and  Mary  (Thing)  Oilman  (133), 
was  born  at  Exeter,  May  5,  1738.  His  father  died  when  he  was  but  ten 
years  old,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  he  was  placed  in  the  counting-house  of 
Mr.  Samuel  P.  Savage,  in  Boston. 

His  letters  to  his  mother  begin  quaintly,  "Honored  Mother,"  and  are  as  full 
of  requests  for  money  as  those  of  most  lads  of  his  age.  He  apologized  in  one  for 
the  "lowness  of  ye  stile  .  .  .  This  being  the  First  Letter  ever  I  wrote."  They  are 
filled  with  directions  for  making  his  clothes  in  the  Boston  fashions,  which  Exeter 
probably  did  not  receive  very  quickly. 

"I  should  be  glad  you  would  get  me  a  Jacket  made  Either  blue  or  Black  Broad  Cloth  let 
Stephen  Sweet  make  it  I  would  have  it  made  Long  Wasted  the  Skirts  scarce  Deep  Enough  Fora  Poc- 
ket Let  the  Skirts  be  Cut  like  my  Duroy  [corduroy?]  only  more  rounding.  I  would  not  have  it 
made  without  Shapes,  let  the  pocket  Flaps  be  quite  a  good  Deal  larger  than  my  Duroy  let  the  button 
holes  be  pretty  long  &  the  pocket  Flap  to  button." 

He  also  wants  a  watch  that  he  left  behind,  possibly  his  father's,  for  he  says: 

"  I  do  not  know  how  the  Day  passeth  away  there  is  no  Clock  near  me  I  do  not  want  it  for 
the  Ornement  of  it  but  to  know  how  the  Times  passeth  away." 

In  1754,  when  he  was  sixteen,  he  writes: 

"  I  should  be  Exceeding  glad  if  you  Cou'd  Let  Mr.  Josiah  Folsome  make  my  Wigg  as  soon  as 
he  can  I  want  One  for  Sundays  very  much  this  I  have  will  serve  for  every  day  a  great  while  Tho' 
it  is  not  fit  for  Sunday.  .  .  I  have  one  of  the  Four  things  which  are  grievous  to  the  Eye-sight  Viz, 
an  empty  purse." 

While  he  was  working  in  the  daytime  he  also  went  to  the  evening  school  of 
Master  Leach,  to  study  higher  mathematics,  his  reason  being: 

"I  am  Contented  to  go  ordinarily  Clad,  but  I  am  not  Contented  with  Ordinary  Learning.  .  .  . 
I  am  not  discouraged  about  Ventureing  to  Sea  because  the  Gilmans  hitherto  have  met  with  misfor- 
tunes thereby,  luck  &  chance  says  Solomon  happen  to  all  men.  ...  I  have  studied  my  Temper 
a  great  deal  &  find  it  is  much  easier  to  draw  than  to  drive  me  to  anything." 


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JUDGE  JOSEPH  OILMAN  [134]  199 

His  mother  wished  him  to  attend  Mr.  Whitefield's  preaching  services,  and  he 
writes  her: 

"  I  inform  you  that  1  rose  at  4  in  the  morning  to  hear  him,  and  the  Morning  he  preached  his 
farewel  Sermon  I  rose  at  half  after  twelve  at  Midnight  for  fear  of  oversleeping  myself,  and  before 
4  In  the  morning  was  att  the  Old  South  and  waited  for  his  coming.  The  meeting  was  exceeding 
full  and  were  singing  when  I  got  there." 

During  his  stay  in  Boston  he  married  (i)  Jane  Tyler,  by  whom  he  had  no 
children.  Very  httle  is  known  of  this  marriage,  but  in  one  letter  of  February  7,  1 760, 
he  writes: 

"My  Jenny  is  now  launching  into  the  eternal  world.  .  .  'Tis  hard,  my  Brother, 'tis  very  hard 
to  bear,  but  I  beg  and  desire  that  1  may  be  able  to  resign  her  to  God,  who  gave  her  to  me." 

The  young  husband  was  but  twenty-two  at  this  time,  so  could  not  have  been  mar- 
ried long. 

About  1 76 1  he  returned  to  Exeter,  and  in  partnership  with  his  brother.  Cap- 
tain Josiah  Oilman,  and  Nathaniel  Folsom,  under  the  firm  name  of  Folsom,  Oilman 
and  Oilman,  engaged  in  the  general  merchandise  and  shipping  business.  Their 
trade  with  the  ports  of  the  West  Indies  and  with  London  was  considerable. 

Ever  since  the  death  of  Rev.  John  Hale  (156),  in  1700,  when  his  widow 
Elizabeth  (Somerby  Clarke)  Hale  had  come  to  Exeter  to  live  with  her  son-in- 
law,  Judge  Nicholas  Oilman  (132),  the  relations  between  the  Oilmans  and  Hales 
had  been  intimate.  Judge  Nicholas  Oilman's  brother.  Colonel  John  Oilman  (161), 
had  married  (2),  in  1720,  Elizabeth  (Clarke)  Hale,  the  widow  of  Dr.  Robert 
Hale  (i  57),  and  now  again  the  families  were  united,  when  Joseph  Oilman  married 
(2),  September  21,  1763,  Rebecca  Ives,  daughter  of  his  second  cousin,  Elizabeth 
Hale  and  Benjamin  Ives  (151),  of  Beverly,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Eliza- 
beth (Clarke  Hale)  Oilman  (157-161). 

Rebecca  IvEswas  bornin  Beverly,  June  12, 1746,  and  probably  had  lived  with 
her  grandfather.  Colonel  Robert  Hale  (158),  until  her  marriage  at  seventeen,  as 
her  father  died  when  she  was  eleven.  Colonel  Hale  gave  her  a  very  fine  education 
for  that  time.  She  spoke  French  fluently,  and  had  a  genuine  love  for  the  best  liter- 
ature of  the  day.     Her  grandson,  Dr.  Oilman,  of  New  York,  tells  this  story: 

"Among  her  early  friends,  Timothy  Pickering,  the  son  of  a  near  neighbor,  was  one  of  the 
most  highly  valued,  and  1  well  remember  the  amusement  which  her  descendants.  .  .  derived 
from  hearing  the  old  gentleman  on  a  visit  to  Philadelphia,  give  in  the  presence  of  his  aged  friend, 
an  account  of  the  sensation  produced  in  church  when  pretty  Miss  Ives  was  led  up  the  aisle  by  Cap- 
tain Pickering  in  his  continental  uniform."' 

It  is  supposed  that,  after  his  second  marriage,  Joseph  Oilman  set  up  his  es- 
tablishment in  a  handsome  gambrel-roofed  house  occupying  the  position  of  the 
present  town-hall  in  Exeter.  The  house  was  originally  built  in  1724  by  Judge 
Nicholas  Oilman  (132)  for  his  son  Nathaniel  Oilman,  Joseph's  uncle.     Soon  after 

'  Letter  of  Dr.  Chandler  R.  Gilman  to  Dr.  S.  P.  Hildreth,  Aug.  12,  1845,  Port  Chester. 


200  JUDGE  JOSEPH  OILMAN  [134] 

taking  possession  Joseph  discovered  between  the  flues  of  the  great  chimney  a  secret 
place  in  which  was  a  deer-skin  pouch  filled  with  French  crowns.  He  was  never  able 
to  learn  the  history  of  the  pouch,  but  supposed  that  some  former  occupant  had  hid- 
den it  when  ordered  off  for  duty,  and  had  never  returned  to  reveal  the  secret. 

Joseph  Oilman  was  selectman  in  the  years  1769,  1770,  and  1771.  A  letter 
from  Rebecca  (Ives)  Oilman  to  her  brother.  Colonel  Robert  Hale  Ives,  of 
Beverly,  has  recently  come  to  light,  and  is  now  in  possession  of  Arthur  Oilman,  Esq., 
of  Cambridge,  Mass.  It  gives  so  charming  a  picture  of  the  family  life  at  this  period 
that  there  is  no  apology  needed  for  introducing  it  here,  giving  also  Mr.  Oilman's 
notes. 

"Dear  Brother 

I  have  not  had  an  orpt  to  write  Since  1  Received  your  Last  kind  Letter  of  invitations. 
It  is  Needless  to  tell  you  that  1  was  Greatly  Disappointed  in  not  going  at  the  appointed  time.  You 
my  Dear  Brother  that  know  how  fond  1  am  of  visiting  my  native  place  &  Relations  will  Easily 
Conceive  of  it.  We  all  made  Great  Dependence  upon  going,  but  Everything  Conspired  to  prevent 
us.  I  think  I  never  saw  Brother  Josiah  so  set  upon  going  anywhere  Since  I  knew  him.  1  suppose 
it  was  partly  oweing  to  his  being  a  Brother  officer,  it  is  natural  you  know  for  people  of  the  same 
profession  to  have  a  peculiar  Simpathetic  Regard  for  Each  other,  we  were  full  of  Company  at  Both 
houses  mr  Gilmans  Brother'  was  up  which  was  a  principal  hinderance  he  Lives  at  Such  a  distance 
that  it  is  verry  Seldom  he  can  visit  us  &  they  tho't  he  would  be  Troubled  if  they  went  out  of  town 
when  he  was  here  &  mr  Pike  &  wife  was  here  mr  Gilman's  only  Aunt  &  another  minister's  &  wife 
daughter  to  mrs  Pike'  so  that  we  could  not  Leave  home  with  any  propriety  Collo  Folsom'  did  not 
want  inclination  but  he  was  just  Returned  from  a  Fatiguing  journey  to  Coos  however  1  belive  if 
Either  of  the  Brothers  his  partners  Could  have  gone  you  would  have  seen  him  at  Beverly  upon  so 
agreeable  an  occasion  you  Cant  imagin  how  pleased  they  are  with  your  having  a  Commission.  I 
Cant  Conceive  what  the  reason  is,  unless  it  is  because  they  are  so  Excessive  fond  of  military 
affairs  that  they  are  glad  to  hear  of  its  prosperity  anywhere  &  think  that  you  will  be  a  means  of  Re- 
viveing  there  Beloved  art  in  a  place  where  it  is  almost  Extinct.  I  hope  my  Dear  Brother  will  Excuse 
my  dwelling  so  Long  upon  one  Subject  our  Sex  you  men  say  is  given  to  prolixity  &  1  frely  Confess 
your  sisterisone  instance  of  it  however  my  Dear  1  am  in  a  hurry  as  I  always  am  when  1  write  &  have 
not  time  to  put  my  Ideas  in  so  few  words  as  1  should  be  glad  to  both  for  your  Ease  &  my  own 
satisfaction — I  had  a  verry  agreable  visit  from  our  aunt  Lee''  this  summer,  it  Refreshed  my  Spirites 
more  than  1  can  express.  I  was  in  a  poor  state  of  health  but  the  unexpected  Sight  of  her  &  Polly 
Really  made  me  forget  my  infirmitys — if  1  had  Time  1  would  Divert  you  and  Sister  a  little  with  a 
Detail  of  some  things  that  Transpired  while  they  were  here  Relative  to  parson  Rogers,'  you  would 
have  Laughtif  you  could  have  seen  him  Apeing  the  Gallant  mustring  up  all  his  old  Fashion  Congees 
&  Compliments  that  he  us'd  to  practise  forty  or  fifty  years  ago  not  neglecting  the  most  triffling  piece 
of  Complysance  that  he  thot  would  make  him  appear  Sprightly  &  young,  but  you  shall  have  the 
whole  again  at  Larey  when  you  &  Sally  Comes  for  Come  you  must  my  Dear  Brother  &  Sister  dont 

'Rev.  Tristram  Oilman,  of  North  Yarmouth,  Me.,  aged  thirty-seven.    See  (133). 

^Sarah  Oilman,  daughter  of  Judge  Nicholas  Oilman  (132). 

'Colonel  Nathaniel  Folsom  (afterwards  General),  partner  of  Joseph  Oilman. 

'' Elizabeth  (Ives)  Lee.     See  (150). 

'  Rev.  Daniel  Rogers,  aged  eighty-five,  pastor  of  the  Second  Parish  of  Exeter,  which  seceded  from  the 
First  Parish  on  account  of  their  sympathy  with  Rev.  Oeorge  Whitefield,the  evangelist.  His  daughter  Elizabeth 
Rogers  married  Thomas  Oilman,  son  of  John  and  Jane  (Deane)  Oilman  and  grandson  of  Col.  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Oilman  (161). 


REBECCA    (IVES)    OILMAN    [134] 
FROM    AN    OIL    PAINTING 
OWNED    BY   THEODORE    OILMAN   OF   YONKERS,    N. 


JUDGE  JOSEPH  OILMAN  [134]  201 

say  no  I  cant  bear  a  Denial  your  Friends  here  all  of  them  are  impatient  to  see  you  both  here  as 
well  as  1  indeed  my  Dear  I  Shall  hardly  have  the  Courage  to  go  to  Beverly  again  if  Sister  dont  Come. 
1  dont  think  She  will  ever  be  able  to  Leave  home  better  than  now.  do  pray  oblige  us&  Come  when  the 
Govener  Comes  to  Review  the  Regement  perhaps  there  will  be  something  to  be  seen  that  will  amuse 
&  please  you  at  Least  there  cant  be  so  much  expected  here  as  in  more  populous  places  but  they  are 
taking  Considerable  pains  to  have  there  men  behave  properly,  your  Brother  has  been  planing  the 
Review  &  marshalling  of  them  in  order  as  they  are  to  stand  &  if  the  officers  &  men  get  there  several 
parts  perfect  they  will  make  a  verry  pretty  appearance — Collo  Folsom  is  to  make  the  Entertain- 
ment for  his  Excelency  &  the  officers  &  Gentlemen  he  is  very  Desirous  to  have  you  come  then  if  you 
can  possibly,  but  dont  let  there  be  any  ifs  in  the  way,  mr  Hale  offers  to  go  &  waite  upon  you  here 
if  you  will  come  &  that  will  be  of  any  service  I  beleive  it  will  be  the  week  after  next  &  I  dont  know 
but  sooner  your  Brother  or  I  will  write  a  Line  &  let  you  know  the  Day  the  Governer  has  not  De- 
termined yet  but  they  Expect  it  will  be  fixed  very  soon  adieu  my  Dear  Brother  &  Sister  i&  accept 

of  the  affeca  r,  ,      r  r-- 

Regards  of  your  Sister 

Rebecca  Gilman 

P.  S.  Capt.  Gilman  Desired  the  favor  to  write  a  postscript  to  this  but  he  is  not  come  &  I  cant 
waite  any  Longer  for  him  as  Sammy  is  impatient — I  cant  pretend  to  say  what  he  would  have 
wrote  but  I  can  say  this  much  that  he  will  be  heartily  Glad  to  see  you  and  your  Spouse  at 
Exeter  mr  Gilman  sends  a  deal  of  love  to  you  Both  &  the  Little  ones  Benja  Desires  his  Duty  to 
uncle  &  Aunt  &  Love  to  Betsey  &  Tommy  he  says  he  dont  know  the  other  with  the  strange 
name." 

Joseph  Gilman  was  a  prominent  man  in  Exeter,  and  during  the  Revolution 
his  house  was  the  meeting-place  of  the  state  committee,  and  a  resort  for  the  whigs 
in  the  vicinity.  His  wife  was  known  for  her  charming  and  graceful  manners,  and 
their  hospitality  was  extended  to  the  many  distinguished  men  who  visited  the 
town.  Mrs.  Gilman's  fluency  in  the  French  language  made  her  an  agreeable  com- 
panion for  the  French  officers  who  came  to  Exeter  in  the  war-time. 

In  1776  Joseph  Gilman  was  appointed  treasurer  of  Rockingham  County;  in 
1779,  justice  of  the  peace,  and  in  1782,  judge  of  probate.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Committee  of  Safety  for  a  number  of  years,  and  at  some  time  chairman. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  sub-committee  on  claims  in  1777.  He  was  still  a 
member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  in  1 781,  as  is  shown  by  his  correspondence 
with  Colonel  Alex.  Scannell,  an  aide  de  camp  of  General  Washington.  He  was 
member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  New  Hampshire  in  1783,  1784,  and 
1787,  and  the  latter  year  was  one  of  the  governor's  council. 

An  anecdote  told  in  the  family  illustrative  of  the  intensity  of  feeling  by  which 
the  men  of  the  revolution  were  animated  is  as  follows: 

"Soon  after  the  retreat  of  Washington  through  Jersey  (one  of  the  darkest  hours  of  the  Revo- 
lution) Samuel  Adams  visited  Exeter  and  called  on  Joseph  Gilman  to  consult  as  to  supplies.  Mr. 
G.  not  being  at  home  Adams  was  received  by  Mrs.  Gilman,who,  after  a  few  minutes' conversation 
finding  her  guest  too  much  preoccupied  to  talk,  applied  herself  to  her  needle  while  Adams  paced 
up  and  down  the  room.    After  a  few  minutes  of  silence  her  attention  was  attracted  to  her  guest  by 


202  JUDGE  JOSEPH  OILMAN  [134] 

a  deep  sigh,  almost  a  groan.  The  tears  were  rolling  down  his  cheeks,  he  wrung  his  hands,  and  in  a 
broken  voice  exclaimed:     'Oh,  my  God!     Must  we  give  it  up.'"' 

The  Committees  of  Safety  in  the  revolution  collected  and  purchased  arms, 
ammunition  and  clothing  for  the  State  troops,  and  Mr.  Oilman  made  large  advances 

"from  his  own  private  purse,  at  a  very  pressing  period,  for  the  purchase  of  blankets  for  the  New 
Hampshire  line,  which  was  repaid  in  continental  paper,  and  became  a  dead  loss,  entirely  ruining 
his  family  estate."^ 

At  the  end  of  the  war,  as  he  found  himself  no  longer  able  to  maintain  his  family  in 
Exeter  in  the  way  they  had  been  accustomed  to  live,  he  associated  himself  with  the 
Ohio  Company,  formed  in  1786, 

"to  raise  a  fund  in  continental  certificates  ...  to  be  appropriated  to  the  entire  use  of  purchasing 
lands  in  the  Western  Territory." 

in  the  discussion  of  their  future,  his  wife  is  said  to  have  remarked  that  she  "could 
go  anywhere  in  the  world  with  Ben  Ives"  (her  only  child).  Oeneral  Rufus  Putnam 
was  superintendent  of  the  settlement,  and  Major  Winthrop  Sargent,  secretary,  both 
revolutionary  soldiers,  and  the  latter,  at  least,  known  to  Mr.  Oilman. 

In  the  autumn  of  1788  they  emigrated  to  the  new  territory  and  were  among 
the  original  settlers  of  Marietta,  Ohio,  at  Fort  Harmer. 

From  an  old  letter  in  one  of  his  grandson's  Commonplace  Books,  marked  from 
"an  old  resident  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,"  we  take  the  following: 

"One  night,  unknown  to  everybody,  save  two  friends  .  .  .  she  and  her  husband,  with  all 
their  moveables,  left  the  town  on  their  way  to  Ohio  and  the  morning  showed  only  a  deserted  home. 
Had  an  earthquake  happened  it  could  not  have  occasioned  more  consternation.  .  .  After  enduring 
the  hardship  incident  to  the  emigrant  life,  and  to  which  her  delicate  constitution  was  little  suited, 
.  .  .  her  son  with  his  family  moved  to  Philadelphia,  and  there  1  saw  her  for  the  last  time.  She  was 
an  old  lady,  bowed  by  afflictions  more  than  by  years,  but  still  retained  her  lovely  expression  and 
beautiful  eyes.  .  .  .  She  told  me  that  [in  Ohio]  she  would  sit,  and  looking  up  to  heaven  Say:  'Are 
these  the  stars  and  the  moon  1  used  to  see  in  Exeter?'  and  sob  and  cry  as  a  child  and  then  wipe  her 
tears  and  appear  before  her  husband  as  cheerful  as  if  she  had  nothing  to  give  her  pain.  She  once 
came  to  New  England  as  far  as  Providence,  but  she  could  not  come  to  Exeter — it  was  more  than 
she  could  bear.  .  .  .  Mrs.  Josey  [as  she  was  called  in  Exeter]  was  the  beau-ideal  of  elegance 
and  beauty:  and  yet  so  little  did  she  owe  to  external  embellishments  that  her  usual  dress  was  a 
black  silk  skirt  with  a  short  white  loose  gown.  She  was  a  little  above  the  usual  height  with  the 
most  beautiful  black  eyes.  The  expression  was  loveliness  itself.  ...  It  was  remarked  that 
[her  husband]  stept  as  if  he  thought  the  ground  was  not  good  enough  for  him  to  tread  upon." 

At  this  time  Joseph  Oilman  was  fifty  years  of  age,  and  his  wife  forty-three. 
The  life  they  began  in  Ohio  was  that  of  their  ancestors  in  New  England  three  gener- 
ations before.  They  cleared  the  forests,  built  log-huts  with  stockades  as  protection 
against  the  Indians,  and  endured  great  hardships,  but  the  soil  was  wonderfully  fer- 

'  MS.  letter  to  Dr.  S.  P.  Hildreth  of  Marietta,  O.,  June  29,  1846,  by  Dr.  C.  R.  Oilman. 

^MS.  notes  by  Dr.  C.  R.  Gilman  for  articles  in  Dr.  Hildreth's  Lives  of  the  Early  Settlers  of  Ohio. 


JUDGE  JOSEPH  OILMAN  [134]  203 

tile  in  these  bottom  lands,  and  those  who  became  farmers  raised  phenomenal  crops. 
Joseph  Oilman  and  his  son  became  traders,  and  laid  the  foundation  of  a  very 
successful  business. 

In  1790,  his  son  Benjamin  (135)  went  east  for  his  bride,  Hannah  Robbins, 
and  while  there  wrote  to  his  cousin,  Hon.  Nicholas  Oilman,  then  in  Congress,  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1790,  as  follows; 

"  I  mention  my  having  had  the  pleasure  of  effecting  a  settlement  of  my  father's  accounts 
as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  War.  Contrary  to  the  expectation  of  the  General  Court,  particularly 
the  Portsmouth  interest  (who  most  cordially  hate  every  person  connected  with  Exeter)  the  Com- 
mittee reported  a  balance  due  my  father." 

This  confirms  the  statement  above  that  Mr.  Oilman  lost  his  fortune  by  the  war.  . 

In  December  of  the  next  year  (1791)  Judge  Oilman  and  his  son  built  a  block 
house  on  the  west  side  of  the  Muskingum,  near  Fort  Harmer,  and  lived  there  for 
a  number  of  years.  There  were  several  small  settlements  within  twenty  miles  of 
each  other,  and  this  year  they  were  in  great  danger  from  the  Indian  war  which 
broke  out  around  them.  In  General  Putnam's  report  to  President  Washington, 
dated  January  8,  1791,  asking  that  the  little  garrison  of  twenty  soldiers  be  increased, 
he  writes:  "All  the  men  in  our  settlements,  including  civil  and  military  officers,  do 
not  exceed  two  hundred  and  eighty-seven."  But  they  were  saved  from  a  general 
massacre,  undoubtedly,  by  the  military  counsels  of  the  old  revolutionary  officers, 
of  whom  General  Putnam  was  one. 

The  friendships  formed  at  this  time,  in  the  intimate  relations  of  the  small 
colony,  were  perpetuated  in  the  names  of  two  of  Judge  Oilman's  grandsons,  Arthur, 
named  for  Governor  Arthur  St.  Clair,  and  Winthrop  Sargent  (136),  named  for 
the  Secretary  of  the  Ohio  Company. 

In  1790,  Governor  St.  Clair  appointed  Judge  Oilman,  judge  of  probate,  judge 
of  the  quarter  sessions,  justice  of  the  peace,  and  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas. 

In  a  letter  dated  January  6,  1793,  Mr.  Oilman  wrote  to  Hon.  Nicholas  Gil- 
man  of  the  speculative  land  company  which  brought  so  much  odium  on  the  settle- 
ment in  Ohio: 

"  I  shall  make  no  apology  for  troubling  you  with  this  Letter,  your  own  benevolent  heart  will 
apologize  for  me  the  moment  you  are  informed  that  the  Subject  of  it  is  in  favour  of  Strangers  who 
have  been  grossly  imposed  upon  by  some  Speculating  Americans.  As  you  have  been  for  a  long 
time  at  the  Seat  of  Government,  you  must  have  heard  that  Certain  persons  calling  themselves 
the  Scioto  Comp^  by  their  Agent  Mr.  Barlow  in  France,  sold  large  tracts  of  land  in  this  part  of 
the  Country  to  a  number  of  Gentlemen  there  ...  In  full  confidence  in  the  Right  of  the  said  Comp^ 
to  dispose  of  said  lands  a  number  of  respectable  Gentlemen  embarked  bring  with  them  numbers  of 
Servants  ...  In  this  Situation  they  arrived  here  and  began  (two  years  ago)  a  settlement  at  a 
place  called  Gallipolis,  and  perhaps  no  people  were  ever  more  industrious  in  clearing,  building,  &c 
in  a  new  country  than  they  were,  till  on  compleating  the  Survey  of  the  Ohio  Company's  purchase 
it  was  found  to  include  not  only  the  Ground  where  their  town  stands  but  also  a  great  part  of  the 
lands  purchased  of  the  Scioto  Company  ...  in  this  distressed  situation  they  have  determined  to 
apply  to  Congress  for  relief.     Two  of  their  agents.  Monsieur  De  Rome  and  Monsieur  Vandelbergen 


204  JUDGE  JOSEPH  OILMAN  [134] 

are  now  here  on  their  way  to  PhiP  .  .  .  and  as  such  my  dear  Friend  permit  me  to  introduce  them 
to  you  .  .  .  Nor  do  1  mean  to  include  all  the  persons  who  are  Associates  in  the  Scioto  Company 
many  of  whom  are  Gent"  of  known  and  acknowledged  worth,  but  the  immediate  Actors  have  my 
utmost   detestation." 

In  1796,  General  Putnam  was  made  surveyor-general  of  the  United  States, 
and  Timothy  Pickering,  then  secretary  of  state,  wrote  him  as  follows: 

"  (Private)  Department  of  State,  Sept.  30,  1796 
"Dear  Sir, 

Accompanying  this  you  will  receive  a  letter  covering  a  commission  constituting  you  Surveyor 
General  of  the  United  States:  1  hope  the  appointment  will  be  acceptable  to  you.  The  Act  of 
Congress  establishing  this  office  and  describing  its  duties  you  will  receive  with  your  commission. 
Contemplating  a  vacancy  by  this  appointment  on  the  judicial  bench  of  the  North  Western  Ter- 
ritory, I  take  the  liberty  of  asking  from  you  the  names  and  places  of  residence,  in  the  territory,  of 
the  gentlemen  who  may  be  considered  as  candidates  for  the  office  of  judge,  with  your  opinion  of 
those  who  for  their  character,  talents  and  integrity  are  entitled  to  a  preference:  but  particularly  I 
request  your  opinion  of  Mr.  Gilman,  your  neighbor,  I  forget  his  christian  name;  but  I  mean  the 
gentleman  who  married  Miss  Ives  of  Salem.  I  once  knew  them  both,  &  that  they  were  much  re- 
spected. Mr.  Gilman  must  be  now  more  than  fifty  years  old.  I  beg  you  to  write  me  freely  and 
fully,  as  you  may  in  confidence,  only  for  the  President's  information.  I  consider  Sobriety  in  a 
judge  as  an  essential  quality  to  enforce  respect  for  the  law  &  government.  The  notorious  want  in 
one  of  your  bench  may  occasion  another  vacancy,  which  is  the  reason  that  1  enquire  for  more  than 
one  candidate.     Be  so  good  as  to  write  me  an  early  as  possible. 

I  am  with  sincere  respect  &  esteem 
Dr  Sir  yourobt  Sert 

T.  Pickering. 
Gen.  Rufus  Putnam. 

Do  you  know  of  any  respectable  man  qualified  for  a  judge  who  is  not  at  present  but  is  going 
to  become  an  inhabitant  of  your  territory?" 

November  7,  1796,  Judge  Gilman  received  his  commission  as  judge  of  the 
North-Western  Territory,  signed  both  by  President  Washington  and  Timothy 
Pickering,  which  is  now  owned  by  his  great-grandson,  Benjamin  Ives  Gilman,  of 
Boston,  Mass.  He  held  this  office  until  his  death.  The  sittings  of  this  court  were 
held  at  Point  Vincent,  Detroit,  Cincinnati  and  Marietta,  and  the  judges  and  lawyers 
rode  together  on  horseback  to  them  through  the  woods.  The  journey  to  Cincinnati 
was 

"usually  made  in  a  canoe  or  large  pirogue,  and  occupied  eight  or  ten  days.  They  slept  at  night 
under  a  hut  on  the  shore,  and  cooked  their  food  in  the  woods."' 

Judge  Gilman  died  at  Marietta,  May  14,  1806,  aged  sixty-eight.  He  was 
buried  in  the  cemetery  on  the  west  side  of  the  Muskingum. 

His  wife  continued  living  in  their  home  near  her  son,  Benjamin  Ives  Gilman 
(135),  until  seven  years  later,  when  he  moved  to  Philadelphia  in  order  to  educate 
his  children.     His  mother  accompanied  him  there,  and  made  her  home  with  him 

'  MS.  notes  by  Dr.  C.  R.  Gilman  for  articles  in  Dr.  Hildreth's  Lives  of  the  Early  Settlers  oj  Ohio. 


JUDGE    JOSEPH    OILMAN    [134] 
FROM    A    SILHOUETTE 


JUDGE  JOSEPH  OILMAN  [134]  205 

until  her  death,  the  object  of  the  devoted  care  and  aflfection  of  all  the  family  and 
connection. 

It  is  a  matter  of  the  greatest  regret  that  we  have  in  Mrs.  Oilman's  own  hand 
so  little  remaining  to  the  present  generation.  Her  intellect  was  vigorous,  and  her 
interest  in  the  world  about  her  lasted  until  the  end  of  her  life.  In  a  little  hand-sewn 
diary  of  1818,  she  writes  thus  of  the  books  she  had  been  reading,  at  seventy-three: 

"  After  tiring  myself  with  sewingforthefamily,  I  took  up  the  port  Folio  and  was  much  pleased 
by  reading  Dr.  Johnson's  preface  to  the  Evangelical  History  of  Jesus  Christ  explained  and  illustrated . 
It  is  not  included  in  the  edition  by  Murphy  which  we  own,  may  be  found  in  the  P  F  for  Novem"' 
1818  No.  215.  — likewise  an  extractfrom  Schlegel  on  the  character  of  Christianity  and  Wellwood  on 
Jewish  and  Christian  Revelation  .  .  .  Novem''  1819  13  Cousins  Robert  Ives  and  Thomas  Bancroft 
[see  151]  with  Mr.  John  Brown  set  out  for  the  western  country,  R.  H.  G.  [her  grandson  Robert  H. 
Oilman]  accompanyed  them  as  far  as  the  Buck  tavern." 

Mrs.  Oilman  died  in  Philadelphia,  after  a  painful  illness  of  four  months,  May 
20,  1823,  and  was  buried  in  the  Noble  Street  burial-ground  of  the  Second  Presbyte- 
rian Church,     in  a  letter  of  her  daughter-in-law's  of  June  10,  1823,  she  writes: 

"She  had  never  told  us  where  she  wished  to  be  buried  .  .  .  [but]  her  bosom  friend  Mrs. 
Latimer.  .  .  told  us  that  she  had  had  many  conversations  with  ma'am  on  this  subject — and  she 
had  always  said  it  was  quite  a  matter  of  indifference  to  her.  And  Mrs.  L.  said  as  we  were  all 
presbyterians  she  thought  we  had  better  put  her  body  where  all  her  children  would  probably  lie  .  .  . 
We  sent  for  all  her  Methodist  friends  belonging  to  her  Class." 

When  this  burial-ground  was  vacated,  her  body  was  removed  with  others  to  Mt. 
Vernon,  and  deposited  in  Lot  No.  273.  As  her  son's  family  left  Philadelphia  the 
same  year,  and  never  returned,  none  of  her  descendants  lie  near  her.  Copied  into 
one  of  Hannah  (Robbins)  Oilman's  letters  to  her  husband,  is  an  obituary  notice 
of  Mrs.  Joseph  Oilman,  which  reads  in  part  as  follows: 

"During  the  troubles  of  those  early  times  [in  the  Marietta  settlement]  her  house  was  a  con- 
tinued scene  of  hospitality.  Among  those  who  partook  of  it  most  largely,  and  recollected  it  with 
deepest  gratitude,  were  the  late  Gov"  Sargent,  then  secretary  to  Gov"  St.  Clair,  and  the  pious  and 
lamented  Heckwelder'  .  .  .  She  lived  in  Ohio  from  the  time  when  it  was  the  abode  of  savages, 
until  it  had  become  a  civilized  and  powerful  state  .  .  .  Her  dwelling  from  being  a  scene  of  am- 
bush, 'where  the  war  whoop  interrupted  the  sleep  of  the  cradle,'  became  the  quiet  home  of  domes- 
tic enjoyment  surrounded  by  every  comfort  and  luxury." 

Her  portrait,  taken  in  her  later  years,  belongs  to  Theodore  Oilman, of  Yonkers^ 
N.  Y.,  her  great-grandson.  The  only  portrait  of  Joseph  Oilman  is  the  silhouette 
opposite  page  204. 

Children  of  Judge  Joseph  and  Rebecca  (Ives)  Oilman 

Robert  Hale,  born  Dec.  7,  1764;  died  May  5,  1766. 

(135)    Benjamin  Ives,  born  July  29,  1766;  married  Feb.  4,  1790,  Hannah  Robbins,  daughter  of 

Rev. Chandler  and  Jane  (Prince)  Robbins (167),  of  Plymouth,  Mass.;  died  at  Alton, 

111.,  Oct.  13,  1833. 

'Rev.  John  Heckwelder  was  a  Moravian  missionary  employed  many  years  among  the  Delaware  Indians. 
He  played  a  very  important  part  in  the  early  history  of  the  Ohio  settlement. 


2o6  BENJAMIN  IVES  OILMAN  [135] 

[135]  BENJAMIN  IVES  OILMAN  [1766-1833] 

AND   HIS  WIFE 

HANNAH  ROBBINS  [1768-1837] 

OF   MARIETTA,    OHIO,    AND    PHILADELPHIA,  PA. 

BENJAMIN  IVES  OILMAN,  son  of  Joseph  and  Rebecca  (Ives)  Oilman 
(134),  was  born  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  July  29,  1766.  He  was  educated  at 
Phillips  Academy  there,  and,  after  leaving  school,  was  supercargo  for 
one  voyage  on  a  vessel  bound  to  Antigua,  W.  I.  He  became  engaged 
to  the  third  daughter  of  Rev.  Chandler  and  Jane  (Prince)  Robbins  (167)  of 
Plymouth,  Mass.,  when  he  was  about  twenty-two  years  old.  Hannah  Robbins 
was  born  September  29,  1768.  Probably  the  engagement  was  made  the  year  that 
Hannah  visited  her  grandmother  (182),  then  Mrs.  Peter  Oilman,  in  Exeter,  and 
wrote  the  inscription'  on  the  window  pane  in  the  Oarrison  House,  built  about 
1657  by  Honorable  John  Oilman  (131).  A  story  is  told  of  a  love  quarrel  between 
Benjamin  and  his  "amiable  Hannah,"  and  how  he  went  early  in  the  morning  to 
her  window,  probably  in  the  old  home,  and  threw  pebbles  at  it  until  the  fair  occu- 
pant looked  out  and  the  quarrel  was  made  up.  It  is  said  that  Tirzy  Brooks,  the 
old  housekeeper,  was  the  peacemaker. 

In  1788  Benjamin  went  with  his  parents  to  Marietta,  Ohio,  and  remained 
there  a  year  preparing  for  his  bride.  A  letter  addressed  to  "my  sweet  girl,"  gives 
some  idea  of  the  trial  of  the  separation,  as  he  only  heard  from  her  once  in  eleven 
months.  He  returned  in  1790  to  Plymouth,  and  they  were  married  February  4,  by 
the  bride's  father.  There  are  letters  in  existence  from  the  mother  and  grandmother 
to  Hannah,  expressing  their  anxiety  about  her  long  and  dangerous  journey  over  the 
mountains  on  horseback  to  Pittsburg.  From  there  they  went  by  boat  down  the 
Ohio  River  to  Fort  Harmer,  as  Marietta  was  then  called.  Both  the  young  husband 
and  wife  were  active,  energetic  and  cheerful,  and  Hannah  Oilman  often  told  her 
children  that  she  was  never  happier  in  her  life  than  in  her  log  cabin,  protected  by 
a  stockade  from  the  Indians,  whose  voices  she  could  plainly  hear  as  they  prowled 
around  the  defences.     Her  husband  was  fired  at  more  than  once,  and  she  was  once 

"eye-witness  to  the  death  of  a  little  boy  who  was    tomahawked  just  above  the  old   Block  House. 
She  often  said  that  his  death  scream  disturbed  her  sleep  for  years  afterwards."^ 

The  last  man  killed  in  the  Indian  War  of  1791  was  a  woodsman  in  her  hus- 
band's employ,  who  was  chopping  wood  at  his  side.  Only  Mr.  Oilman's  superior 
strength  and  agility  saved  his  life,  as  the  Indians  pursued  him  up  to  the  fence,  which 
he  cleared  at  a  jump,  finding  his  wife  and  mother  both  at  the  window  of  their  Block 
House,  watching  for  him. 

'See  under  No.  i6i. 

'MS.  Letter  from  Dr.  Chandler  R.  Gilman  to  Dr.  Hildreth,  June  2Q,  1846. 


BENJAMIN    IVES   OILMAN    [135] 

FROM  A   MINIATURE    PORTRAIT  BY   ST.  MEMIN 

OWNED    BY  ARTHUR   GILMAN    OF   CAMBRIDGE,    MASS. 

HANNAH     (ROBBINS)    GILMAN    [I35] 

FROM    A    MINIATURE    ON     IVORY 

OWNED    B'l'    MRS.    CHARLES    P.    NOYES,    ST.    PAUL,    MINN. 


BENJAMIN  IVES  OILMAN  [135]  207 

Dr.  Chandler  R.  Gilman,  of  New  York,  wrote  of  his  father  as  follows: 

"A  peculiarity  of  his  character  to  which  his  descendants  revert  with  pride  &  pleasure  was, 
that  tho'  he  had  suffered  much  from  Indian  outrages,  losing  many  dear  friends  and  much  valuable 
property  in  Indian  wars,  he  ever  felt  a  strong  sympathy  for  the  Red  Man,  keeping  his  mind  entirely 
free  from  the  Indian  Hating  which  was  and  is  too  common  among  those  who,  in  resenting  the  in- 
juries hy  the  savages,  forget  the  far  greater  wrongs  inflicted  on  that  unfortunate  race." 

"Soon  after  the  peace  of  '84  [1795]  a  band  of  Indians  visited  Fort  Harmer  and  came  to  my 
father's  store  to  trade.  One  of  the  chiefs  of  the  party  was  pointed  out  as  the  individual  who  headed 
the  party  at  the  unfortunate  defeat  of  Gen.  St.  Clair.  My  father  obtained  from  him  many  details 
of  that  memorable  day;  the  savage  assured  him  that  neither  he  nor  his  warriors  expected  to  destroy 
the  army  as  they  eventually  did,  their  only  hope  being  to  drive  in  the  outposts  and  get  a  few  scalps. 
My  father  took  this  Indian  home  to  dine,  and  named  him  to  my  mother;  the  savage  advanced  with 
extended  hand  to  give  the  usual  greeting,  but  the  recollection  of  the  many  friends  she  had  lost  at  the 
defeat  was  too  strong  in  the  mind  of  his  hostess;  she  withdrew  her  hand  and  turned  away.  The 
equanimity  of  the  savage  was  not  at  all  disturbed  by  this  breach  of  decorum;  he  received  the  apolo- 
gies of  his  host,  predicated  on  the  youth  and  inexperience  of  the  offender,  with  great  good  humor. 
This  Indian  and  several  of  his  band,  slept  that  night  around  my  father's  fireside,  so  perfectly  was 
confidence  restored  between  parties  who  had  so  recently  been  ruthless  enemies."' 

It  was  in  1792  that  Joseph  Oilman  and  his  son  opened  a  store  at  Fort  Harmer, 
which  was  gradually  enlarged,  until  they  had  the  most  extensive  business  in  Marietta. 
They  dealt  largely  in  furs,  especially  in  bear-skins,  having  trading  stations  on  the 
Big  Sandy  and  Wyandotte  Rivers. 

He  was  also  in  public  affairs,  being  clerk  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  in  1796, 
and  sent  as  a  delegate,  in  1802,  to  the  convention  which  formed  the  Constitution  of 
Ohio. 

He  began  ship-building  in  i8oi,and  was  the  first  to  engage  in  that  business 
on  the  Ohio  River.  His  vessels  sailed  down  the  Mississippi  to  New  Orleans  and 
thence  to  cities  on  the  Atlantic  coast  and  other  parts  of  the  world.  In  the  Diary  of 
Rev.  Thomas  Robbins,  D.  D.,  a  cousin  of  Mrs.  Oilman,  reference  is  made  to  this 
business  under  the  date  of  November  20,  1805,  when  he  was  visiting  in  their  hospi- 
table home  in  Marietta. 

"Mr.  Gilman  has  a  very  good  rope-walk,  in  which  business  is  done  extensively  .  .  .  Feb.  i, 
1806.  Afternoon.  Mr.  Gilman's  fine  brig  sailed  down  the  river  for  New  Orleans  and  Phila- 
delphia.    Yesterday  saw  a  large  cable  layed  for  it  in  his  rope-walk." 

'Later  in  June,  1807,  he  writes: 

"My  friend  Gilman  of  Marietta,  has  lately  had  a  fine  ship  wrecked  at  the  Falls  of  the  Ohio." 
and  "March  22,  1808,  Saw  an  account  of  the  launching  of  two  elegant  ships  belonging  to  Mr.  Gilman 
at  Marietta.     1  fear  the  embargo  will  ruin  him." 

His  business  was  indeed  stopped  by  the  embargo  of  1807,  but  he  had  accu- 
mulated a  competency  for  the  times,  and  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  could 
give  his  children  greater  social  and  educational  advantages. 

'MS.  Letter,  Dr.  C.  R.  Gilman  to  Dr.  Hildreth,  Aug.  12,  1845. 


2o8  BENJAMIN  IVES  OILMAN  [135] 

The  eldest  daughter,  Jane,  married  at  seventeen,  and  died  just  at  this  time, 
leaving  to  their  care  a  little  granddaughter,  Jane  Woodbridge,  the  age  of  their 
youngest  child,  Winthrop  Sargent  (136).  Joseph,  the  eldest  son,  was  engaged  in 
mercantile  pursuits  in  Kentucky,  and  made  his  home  at  towns  along  the  river, 
visiting  his  parents  at  Philadelphia  from  time  to  time.  He  and  his  brothers,  Ben- 
jamin Ives  and  Robert  Hale,  were  educated  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and 
later  at  Harvard  and  Brown  Universities.  Chandler  was  also  at  Andover  and  Har- 
vard, and  studied  medicine  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  The  youngest,  Win- 
throp Sargent,  went  to  school  in  Philadelphia. 

Mr. Oilman  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Oilman  and  Ammidon,in  Phila- 
delphia, and  did  an  extensive  commission  business  for  a  number  of  years.  The 
family  circle  was  a  happy  one,  and  the  two  young  sisters,  Rebecca  Ives  and  Eliza- 
beth Hale,  were  the  centre  of  a  group  of  friends  and  lovers.  Elizabeth  played  on  the 
harp  and  piano,  the  father  played  the  old  violoncello  now  owned  by  Charles  Park 
Oilman,  of  Palisades,  and  one  of  the  memories  that  clung  to  Winthrop  Sargent  in 
after  life,  was  of  standing  by  the  piano  singing  with  his  sister.  Burns'  verses  "O'all 
the  airts  the  wind  doth  blaw."  Elizabeth,  afterwards  Mrs.  Martin  Hoffman,  of 
New  York,  used  to  tell  her  nieces  that  her  grandmother  was  so  charming  in  conver- 
sation that  the  young  men  who  called  on  her  sister  and  herself  would  always  leave 
them  to  talk  to  the  grandmother  if  they  had  the  opportunity.  They  lived  in  sev- 
eral houses  in  Philadelphia,  and  in  a  letter  from  Joseph  to  Chandler,  a  student  in 
Andover,  he  says  of  one: 

"  I  am  writting  at  our  Market  Street  window — the  noisey  market  at  my  elbow,  and  the  old 
shrill  cry  of  'buy  my  peaches,'  'hot  corn,'  'pepper  pot  right  hot'  stunning  my  ear." 

The  daughter,  Rebecca,  married  November  3,  1817,  John  S.  Miller,  a  planter 
of  Lebanon,  near  Natchez,  Miss.,  and  about  the  same  time  the  third  son,  Benjamin 
Ives,  entered  his  father's  business.     But 

"after  the  close  of  the  War  with  Great  Britain  (1815)  the  times  became  very  disastrous.  Goods 
had  been  too  freely  sold  to  the  West  on  credit,  and  the  Western  merchants  were  unable  to  pay. 
Money  became  very  scarce  from  1818-1823,  and  father's  firm  and  your  uncle  Benjamin  lost  their 
property  at  Philadelphia.  Our  oldest  brother  Joseph  .  .  .  died  at  Louisville  Aug.  10,  1823.  Soon 
your  grandfather  became  interested  in  steamboat  building  in  Cincinnati.  First  the  Rob  Roy  and 
then  the  Helen  McGregor  became  very  successful  ventures  .  .  .  Benjamin  [became  interested)  in 
porkpacking  in  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,and  Chandler,  having  completed  his  medical  studies,  settled  in 
New  York,  where  he  married  .  .  .  Your  Aunt  Eliza  had  many  suitors,  but  rejected  them  all  until 
in  New  York  she  married  .  .  .  in  1830.  I  came  to  New  York  in  August,  1823,  and"  became  a  clerk 
in  the  commission  business  in  which  Robert  Hale  Gilman  was  partner  under  the  name  of  Mactier 
&Co.' 

From  Mrs.  Oilman's  letters  it  is  easy  to  see  that  she  regarded  a  return  to  "the 
western  country"  as  very  distasteful,  and,  from  one  reason  and  another,  while  often 
visiting  her  husband  and  sons  in  Cincinnati  and  elsewhere,  she  spent  much  time 

^Commonplace  Book  of  W.  S.  Oilman  (136). 


HOME    OF    BENJAMIN    IVES    OILMAN    [I35] 

IN    MARIETTA,    OHIO 

THE   HOUSE   TO  THE    RIGHT   IS  THAT  OF   HIS    FATHER,   JUDGE   JOSEPH    GILMAN    [134] 


BENJAMIN  IVES  OILMAN  [135]  209 

with  the  children  who  lived  in  the  more  congenial  atmosphere  of  New  York,  New 
Haven,  Boston  and  Norfolk,  Conn.  The  family,  after  Mr.  Oilman's  failure,  had  no 
settled  home,  although  they  kept  house  in  several  places  at  different  times.  The 
death  of  their  eldest  and  dearly  loved  son  Joseph  was  a  terrible  grief  to  both  father 
and  mother,  coming  as  it  did  also  when  they  were  separated,  and  Mr.  Oilman's  let- 
ters to  his  wife  are  very  pathetic.  We  learn  much  about  his  character  from  this 
correspondence,  a  delicate  humor  appearing  in  it,  dignity  of  character,  and  noble 
purpose.  He  was  a  tall,  handsome  man,  very  stately  and  courteous  in  his  manner, 
and  an  appreciator  of  the  good  things  of  this  life.  Many  traditions  came  down  to 
his  grandchildren  of  the  way  his  larder  was  cared  for,  the  length  of  time  certain  ar- 
ticles were  kept  before  using,  and  how,  sometimes,  he  even  expressed  his  dis- 
pleasure if  the  table  was  not  according  to  his  liking.  His  wife  was  vivacious  and 
rather  small,  warm-hearted,  sweet-tempered,  with  active,  lively  ways,  and  a  very 
religious  mind.  She  was  always  glad  to  do  for  others,  and  her  children  used  to  say 
that  whenever  any  one  wanted  something  in  another  part  of  the  house,  she  was  al- 
ways "just  going  in  that  direction."  Her  granddaughter,  Elizabeth  (Miller)  Coe, 
was  often  in  New  York  with  her  grandmother  after  her  mother's  death,  and  re- 
members now  this  little  incident,  transcribed  by  her  daughter  in  a  letter  of  April 
18,  1905. 

"  When  she  was  a  little  girl  nine  years  old,  her  grandmother  took  her  shopping  in  the  Arcade, 
Maiden  Lane,  which  mother  thought  quite  the  most  beautiful  place  in  the  world  with  its  number 
of  little  shops.  Her  grandmother  wished  to  buy  a  cloak  for  her  grandfather,  whom  mother  remem- 
bers as  a  fine  tall  handsome  man,  so,  of  course,  it  was  important  that  the  cloak  be  such  as  would  set 
off  his  good  looks  and  they  had  quite  a  search  for  it,  and  finally  grandmother  chose  one  of  invisible 
green  cloth,  of  good  size  and  fulness  so  that  he  could  fling  one  end  over  his  shoulder  when  he  wrapped 
up  in  it.  It  had  a  velvet  collar  and  fastened  with  frogs.  The  price  was  $29. 00  and  thrifty  grand- 
mother beat  down  the  shopkeeper  one  dollar,  so  took  it  for  $28.00  and  mother  remembers  her  grand- 
father wearing  it  for  several  winters." 

Mr.  Oilman,  though  not  a  member  of  any  church,  was  a  Christian,  as  was 
evidenced  to  his  family  when,  in  1 816,  on  one  of  his  many  journeys  to  the  west,  he 
was  taken  with  spotted  fever  at  Marietta,  and  came  near  death.  His  son  Robert 
then  wrote  to  his  mother: 

"After  I  left  him,  his  friends  called  to  see  him  and  he  said  to  them,  'Gentlemen,  you  see  here 
what  you  are  all  coming  to,  and  be  assured  there  is  no  other  foundation  on  which  it  will  do  to  build 
a  hope  of  future  happiness,  but  the  Rock  of  Ages.' " 

He  died  at  Alton,  111.,  October  13,  1833,  while  visiting  his  sons,  Winthrop 
Sargent  and  Arthur,  who  were  engaged  there  in  business.  Forty  years  after- 
wards, Winthrop  (136)  told  the  story  to  a  daughter  as  follows: 

"  Forty  years  ago  to-morrow  my  father  lay  on  his  death-bed  at  Upper  Alton.  My  mother 
had  been  sent  for  and  he  was  anxiously  expecting  her  coming.  I  was  worn  out  with  watching, 
having  been  constantly  with  him  since  his  sickness,  night  and  day.  About  at  sunset,  I  saw 
a  boat  coming  up  the  river.     I  rushed  as  quickly  as  possible  to  the  dock.     Mother  was  on  board 


2IO  BENJAMIN  IVES  OILMAN  [135] 

and  as  we  walked  up  to  the  house  together,  I  told  her  Father  was  very  sick.  A  little  further  on  1 
told  her  he  was  dying.  She  nerved  herself  up  wonderfully  to  meet  the  shock  and  when  she  entered 
the  room,  it  was  with  a  cheerful  smile.  Walking  up  to  the  bedside,  she  said  to  my  Father,  'Do  you 
know  me?'  With  the  greatest  effort  he  rallied  all  his  strength,  and  whispered,  'Mrs.  Oilman.'  She 
was  always  called  Mrs.  Oilman  by  him.  About  an  hour  after  that  he  died.  He  had  been  for  some 
time  on  a  visit  to  me  at  Alton,  taking  the  greatest  possible  interest  in  my  business  there,  advising 
me  about  the  purchase  of  lots,  etc." 

He  was  buried  in  Alton,  but  many  years  afterwards  his  body,  with  those  of 
his  wife,  and  other  members  of  the  family,  were  transferred  to  Greenwood 
Cemetery,  New  York,  by  his  son,  Winthrop. 

His  widow  spent  the  rest  of  her  life  with  her  sons  and  daughter  in  their  dif- 
ferent homes.  Several  of  her  children  had,  as  we  have  seen,  died  before  their  father, 
and  the  next  year  her  son  Arthur  was  taken  with  fever,  while  alone  in  Alton,  and 
also  passed  away.  She  had  the  care  of  her  daughter  Rebecca's  two  little  girls,  Jane 
and  Elizabeth  Miller,  a  large  part  of  the  time,  and  was  visiting  her  daughter 
Elizabeth  (Mrs.  Martin  Hoffman)  in  New  York,  in  1837,  when  Jane  died.  A  few 
weeks  later,  Mrs.  Gilman  died  also,  August  24,  1837,  aged  sixty-nine.  She  was 
buried  in  a  vault  in  St.  Mark's  Church,  Second  Avenue,  New  York,  but  later 
placed  in  the  family  lot  in  Greenwood. 

Children  of  Benjamin  Ives  and  Hannah  (Robbins)  Oilman 

Jane  Robbins,  born  Nov.  9,  1790;  married  Nov.  10,  1807,  Dudley  Woodbridge,  son  of  Judge 
Dudley  and Woodbridge  of  Marietta,  Ohio;  died  Sept.  18,  1808,  aged  eighteen. 

Joseph,  born  June  23,  1792;  was  educated  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  at  Harvard; 
was  a  merchant  in  Kentucky  and  died  unmarried  at  Louisville,  Aug.  10,  1823. 

Benjamin  Ives,  born  at  Plymouth,  Mass.  Oct.  3,  1794;  married  in  April,  1837,  Mary  E.  Miles; 
was  educated  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  and  graduated  at  Brown  University 
in  1813;  was  a  merchant  in  Philadelphia,  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  and  finally  became  a 
partner  in  his  brother,  Winthrop  S.  Oilman's  business  in  Alton,  111.,  and  St.  Louis, 
Mo.  After  the  dissolution  of  this  partnership,  he  lived  in  Monticello,  111.,  where 
he  died  Jan.  11,  1866. 

Rebecca  Ives,  born  Sept.  i,  1796;  married  Nov.  3,  1817,  at  Philadelphia,  John  S.  Miller, 
of  Lebanon,  Miss.;  died  and  was  buried  at  sea,  on  a  voyage  from  New  York  to 
New  Orleans,  Oct.  5,  1827. 

Robert  Hale,  born  May  25,  1798,  married  at  Boston,  Sept.  20,  1823,  Mary  Bordman,  daughter 
of  William  Bordman,  of  Boston;  was  a  merchant  in  New  York  and  died  there  Sept.  20, 
1830.     His  widow  married  (2)  John  0.  Bates,  of  Boston. 

Elizabeth  Hale,  born  April  3,  1800;  married  Oct.  28,  1830,  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  Martin 
Hoffman,  son  of  Martin  and  Beulah  (Murray)  Hoffman,  of  New  York;  died  Oct.  22, 
1874. 

Chandler  Robbins,  born  Sept.  6,  1802;  married  (i)  Nov.  3,  1825,  Serena  Hoffman,  daughter 
of  Martin  and  Beulah  (Murray)  Hoffman,  and  sister  of  his  sister  Eliza's  husband, 
who  died  Feb.  28,  1842;  married  (2)  Sept.  19,  1844,  Hannah  Hawkshurst  Marshall, 
daughter  of  David  and  Sarah  (Hawkshurst)  Marshall.  He  was  educated  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover;  Harvard,  and  the  Medical  School  of  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 


BENJAMIN   IVES  OILMAN  [135]  211 

vania;  practised  medicine  for  forty  years  in  New  York  and  was  also  professor  of  the 
diseases  of  women  and  children  and  obstetrics  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons there.  He  had  great  literary  ability,  and  his  Lije  on  the  Lakes,  a  description  of 
a  tour  to  the  Pictured  Rocks  by  canoe,  in  1834,  is  charmingly  written.  His  health 
broke  down  in  1863,  and  the  following  year  he  retired  to  Middletown,  Conn.,  where 
he  died  Sept.  26,  1865. 
Arthur,  born  June  28,  1806;  died  unmarried  at  Alton,  July  26,  1834. 
(136)  WiNTHROP  Sargent,  born  March  28,  1808;  married  at  Carrolton,  111.,  Dec.  4,  1834,  Abia 
Swift  Lippincott,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  Patty  (Swift)  Lippincott  (199); 
died  Oct.  3,  1884,  at  his  home  at  Palisades,  N.  Y.,and  his  wife  died  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  March  2,  1902. 

[136]     WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN  [1808-1884] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

ABIA  SWIFT  LIPPINCOTT  [1817-1902] 

OF    ALTON,    ILL.,    ST.    LOUIS,    MO.,    AND   NEW    YORK 

WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN,  the  youngest  child  of  Benjamin  Ives 
and  Hannah  (Robbins)  Oilman  (135),  was  born  March  28,  1808,  in 
Marietta,  Ohio.     His  parents  moved  from  that  city  to  Philadelphia 
five  years  after  his  birth,  and  lived  there  until  he  was  fifteen. 
His  eldest  son  owns  a  letter  from  him,  marked  in  grandmother  Oilman's 
writing,  "The  first  letter  my  dear  little  boy  ever  wrote."     Another,  written  at  the 
age  of  eleven  to  his  elder  brother  Chandler,  who  was  at  Harvard,  is  rather  amusing, 
and  we  give  an  extract. 

"Now  my  dear  Brother  I  am  agoing  to  tell  some  news  which  I  think  will  make  you  feel  very 
glad  this  day  mama  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Miller  with  the  Pleasing  Intelligence  that  our  dear 
Sister  Rebecca  had  a  fine  fat  fair  skinned  dark  ey'd  Black  hair'd  daughter  Born  the  30th  Day  of 
September  in  the  year  of  our  lord  One  thousand  Eight  hundred  and  Nineteen  Being  the  forty  third 
year  of  the  Independence  of  the  United  States  of  America.  We  were  not  Informed  the  name  of  the 
child,  but  from  all  accounts  we  expect  it  to  be  Elizabeth  Hannah  .  .  .  lizzy  is  in  the  dumps  she  has 
lately  Parted  with  a  dear  friend  not  to  mention  any  names  .  .  .  Ben  remains  in  Statu  quo  Some- 
times waites  upon  a  certain  lady  home  from  Church.  Robert  has  a  Season  ticket  and  goes  to  the 
Theatre  almost  every  night  it  is  open  .  .  .  Our  family  are  all  very  well  and  send  a  great  deal  of  love 
to  you." 

He  was  a  very  pretty  boy,  with  rosy  cheeks  and  black  curls,  and  was  a  great 
pet.  He  recollected  grandmother's  tea-parties  in  Philadelphia,  and  that  he  was 
kissed  and  fondled  by  her  friends  and  finally  fell  asleep  under  the  tea-table  at  their 
feet.  He  had  a  dim  memory  of  the  many  guests  at  his  father's  house,  and  often 
spoke  of  the  amelioration  of  manners  since  his  youth,  recalling  the  drinking  at  that 
time  in  good  society  and  the  coarseness  of  speech  among  men,  and  he  also  recalled 
the  visit  of  Timothy  Pickering  to  his  grandmother  (134). 


212  WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN  [136] 

After  those  curls  had  grown  thin  and  grey,  he  received  a  letter  from  a  forgotten 
school-mate,  telling  him  that  the  memory  of  their  boyish  friendship  had  Been  an  in- 
spiration to  the  writer  all  his  life,  because  even  then,  father's  active,  eager  life  had 
been  devoted  to  everything  noble  and  good.  To  the  younger  children  who  had 
only  known  him  as  an  invalid,  his  stories  of  his  school-days,  of  swimming  in  the 
Schuylkill,  and  of  his  vigorous  appetite,  seemed  very  strange. 

At  fifteen  this  school-life  ended,  as  grandfather  failed  in  business,  and  he  was 
placed  in  the  counting-house  of  Alexander  Mactier  and  Company,  of  New  York,  in 
which  his  older  brother,  Robert,  was  a  partner.  This  was  in  August,  1823,  and 
from  that  time  until  he  retired  in  1880,  he  was  an  active  business  man.  After  a 
year  he  went  into  Ebenezer  Stevens'  Sons'  office,  where  he  was  trained  in  book- 
keeping "under  one  of  the  best  of  accountants."  In  April,  1827,  when  he  was 
nineteen,  Mr.  Mactier  sent  him  to  Cincinnati  and  Kentucky  to  invest  money  for  the 
firm  in  tobacco  and  provisions,  part  of  which  he  sold  in  New  Orleans,  and  the  re- 
mainder shipped  to  New  York.  The  voyage  back  to  New  York  in  the  packet  "Ten- 
nessee," took  twenty-six  days  from  New  Orleans.  He  was  so  successful  in  this  ven- 
ture that  Mactier  recommended  him  to  Burnand,  an  English  importer,  who  en- 
trusted him  with  his  custom-house  business,  and  offered  him  an  interest,  which  he 
declined. 

For  two  years  he  continued  this  life,  going  west  each  winter,  and  spending 
the  summer  visiting  his  relatives  in  New  England,  especially  his  Aunt  Battell,  as 
she  was  called  by  the  children  of  her  cousin,  my  grandmother  (see  166).  She  had  a 
large  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  who  were  full  of  fun  and  most  hospitable,  and 
the  two  groups  of  cousins  spent  many  happy  days  together  in  Norfolk,  Conn. 

Travel  to  the  "western  country,"  as  it  was  called, was  then  an  arduous  under- 
taking. Father  used  first  to  go  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  spent  a  night  in  order 
to  get  the  morning  packet  for  Wilmington,  whence  stages  took  him  to  Havre  De 
Grace.  There  he  met  the  Baltimore  steamer,  and  reached  that  city  the  same  night, 
when,  if  he  were  fortunate  enough  to  get  a  seat  in  the  first  stage,  he  started  the 
next  morning,  and  in  three  days  and  three  nights,  crossed  the  Alleghenies  to  Wheel- 
ing. The  horses  were  changed  every  ten  or  twelve  miles,  and  at  these  stops  the 
travellers  got  their  meals  and  the  mails  were  left.  They  were  crowded  three  on  a 
seat,  driving  night  and  day,  only  moving  when  some  passenger  got  out  to  walk 
up  a  hill,  and  it  was  so  fatiguing  that  it  was  the  custom  to  go  to  bed  as  soon  as  they 
reached  Wheeling.  There  they  waited  to  catch  a  boat  for  the  three  days  journey  to 
Cincinnati.  The  boats  on  the  Ohio  were  often  so  heavily  laden  that  the  guards 
touched  the  water,  and  some  were  so  small  that  they  were  put  out  of  trim  if  eight 
people  were  on  one  side.  Although  excessively  tiresome,  this  mode  of  travel  was 
so  superior  to  that  of  going  on  horseback,  that  no  one  complained. 

One  of  these  winters  father  was  at  Laurenceburg,  Ind.,  and  grandfather,  after 
joining  him  there,  wrote  to  grandma  as  follows: 

"  I  found  Winthrop  busily  engaged  in  casting  up  the  weight  of  some  Hogs  and  surrounded 
by  half-a-dozen  farmers,  in  linsey  hunting  Shirts.     He  did  not  see  me  until  1  had  hold  of  his  hand 


WINTHROP    SARGENT    OILMAN    [136] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 
ABIA    SWIFT    (LIPPINCOTT)    OILMAN 


WINTHROP  SARGENT  GILMAN  [136]  213 

and  spoke.  You  can  judge  of  his  surprise.  He  says  his  health  is  excellent,  and  that  he  has  gained 
ten  pounds  in  weight.  Of  his  prospects  in  business  1  must  refer  to  his  Letters.  The  tavern  where 
we  reside  at  first  sight  does  not  appear  promising.  The  bar-room  answers  all  purposes,  parlour, 
Hall,  etc.  in  one  of  the  recesses  (by  the  side  of  the  fire)  is  a  large  wash-stand  (or  Sink)  to  which  all 
the  guests  resort  in  the  morning.  There  are  three  doors  to  the  room,  one  opening  onto  the  street, 
and  all  are  generally  open.  On  an  average  there  are  half-a-dozen  Back  Woodsmen  around  the  fire, 
and  sometimes  they  take  a  little  whiskey.  Now  for  the  bright  side  of  the  picture.  The  beds  are 
neat  and  clean:  the  table  pretty  good  and  the  Landlady  very  handsome,  well-dressed  and  very  fond 
of  flowers.  .  .  .  What  is  better  she  has  a  little  Son  2  %  years  old  whose  voice  so  perfectly  resembles 
that  of  our  dear  Grandson  Ives  that  you  could  not  distinguish  them  by  their  speaking  .  .  .  the 
first  page  was  written  at  Winthrop's  warehouse  where  for  want  of  a  chair  I  sat  on  a  Lard-Keg,  but 
finding  the  situation  rather  unpleasant,  I  adjourned  to  the  Bar-room  where  I  am  now  writing." 

This  unsettled  life,  only  busy  for  a  part  of  the  year,  was  a  poor  training  for 
young  men,  and  grandfather  advised  his  two  younger  sons  to  begin  a  regular  busi- 
ness somewhere,  recommending  the  west,  where  he  thought  the  opportunities  better 
for  those  without  much  capital.  A  cousin  of  grandma's,  Philemon  R.  Starr  (see  166), 
an  old  bachelor  of  wealth,  lent  father  $7,000  to  start  with,  and  after  some  consider- 
ation, he  shipped  a  stock  of  goods  to  St.  Louis,  intending  to  begin  his  business  in  the 
small  settlement  of  Upper  Alton.  St.  Louis  was  then  a  straggling  French  and  Amer- 
ican town,  of  6,000  inhabitants,  and  Alton  so  small  that  father  rode  past  it  without 
knowing  there  was  a  town  there.  It  took  six  hours  to  get  his  goods  from  St.  Louis 
to  Alton,  in  a  tiny  steamboat,  and  finding  no  building  there,  he  covered  them  as  they 
lay  on  the  ground  with  the  boards  he  had  brought  for  counters,  crept  under,  and 
went  to  sleep.  There  grandfather  found  him  the  next  morning,  when  he  wrote 
grandma  that  it  went  to  his  heart  to  see  his  son  in  such  a  predicament,  but  that 
father  was  full  of  enthusiasm,  and  had  enjoyed  the  novel  experience.  He  finally 
procured  an  ox  team  to  haul  the  goods  to  Upper  Alton,  two  miles  away. 

At  first  his  business  was  really  barter,  and  the  people  around  brought  furs, 
hogs,  cattle,  etc.,  to  the  young  New  Yorker  who  had  ready  money  to  purchase. 
Father  was  so  fastidious  and  refined  that  it  is  difficult  to  imagine  him  under  such 
circumstances,  but  his  health  and  animal  spirits  carried  him  through  many 
rough  experiences.  Every  spring  he  went  to  New  Orleans  to  sell,  and  in  the  winter 
to  New  York  to  buy  goods,  thus  avoiding  the  hot  and  sickly  season  in  Alton.  In 
1832  Uncle  Arthur  and  Captain  Godfrey  joined  him  in  business,  he  putting  in  for 
himself  and  his  brother  $14,000,  and  Captain  Godfrey,  $30,000. 

Cholera  decimated  Alton  in  1832  and  1834,  and  father  often  spoke  of  his 
nursing  under  the  doctors,  with  a  friend  who  also  gave  up  all  his  time  to  the  work. 

In  1830,  mother  was  a  young  girl  of  twelve,  going  to  school  in  Jacksonville, 
near  Alton.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  Patience  (Swift)  Lip- 
PINCOTT  (199),  and  was  born  July  3,  1817,  at  Lumbertown,  N.Y.,  where  grandfather 
LiPPiNcoTT  was  a  clerk  in  her  uncle's  store.  When  she  was  about  three  months 
old,  she  was  brought  by  her  parents  to  St.  Louis,  the  journey  being  described  under 
199.     Her  mother  died  when  she  was  fifteen  months  old,  and  grandfather  married 


214  WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN  [136] 

again  in  a  year,  but  his  second  wife  lived  but  a  few  months.  Her  only  recollection 
of  a  mother's  care  in  her  early  childhood,  was  of  this  step-mother's  mother,  Mrs. 
Slater,  who  took  her  to  her  home  in  1820,  for  the  year  of  grandfather's  second  wid- 
owhood. When  he  married  for  the  third  time,  he  was  living  in  Edwardsville,  111., 
and  then  mother  was  sent  home  to  live. 

Mrs.  Lippincott  was  a  sweet  woman,  but  she  had  the  old-fashioned  ideas  of 
training  children,  and  her  discipline  sometimes  caused  mother,  who  was  the  most 
timid  of  beings,  a  great  deal  of  misery.  One  story,  which  we  were  never  tired  of 
hearing,  was  this:  Mrs.  Lippincott  used  to  send  her  to  get  milk  at  a  neighbor's 
(probably  not  far),  but  the  path  led  through  the  woods  where  there  was  a  great 
dog  that  frightened  her  terribly.  One  day,  when  almost  paralyzed  with  fear, 
it  seemed  to  her  suddenly  that  her  own  mother  was  by  her,  and  quite  secure  in  her 
protection,  she  went  on  through  the  darkness.  Mother  was  the  least  fanciful  of 
people,  and  this  story  impressed  her  children  the  more  in  consequence. 

One  day  when  grandfather  Lippincott  took  her  through  Alton  on  her  way  to 
school  at  Jacksonville,  they  stopped  at  Deacon  Long's  where  grandfather  Oilman 
and  father  boarded.  They  had  been  out  hunting,  and  were  talking  of  their  sport, 
while  the  little  dark-eyed  girl  sat  by  and  listened.  Later  she  went  to  the  house  on 
an  errand,  and  was  very  much  abashed  when  grandpa  Oilman  rose  when  she  entered 
the  room.  She  had  a  fair,  clear  skin,  soft  color,  and  dark,  beautiful  eyes,  "like  a 
fawn,"  as  grandpa  wrote  grandma  Oilman.  Somewhere  about  this  time,  she  and 
father  stood  up  at  a  wedding  together,  he  tall  and  handsome,  with  sparkling  eyes, 
she  fair  as  a  lily.  Father  always  spoke  of  the  little  black  velvet  ribbon  she  wore 
at  her  throat  that  day,  and  he  probably  remembered  it  because  of  the  extreme  fair- 
ness of  her  skin,  a  quality  it  retained  to  her  last  days. 

In  1833,  grandpa  Oilman  paid  his  last  visit  to  his  sons  at  Alton,  expecting 
that  grandma  would  come  out  later,  and  that  they  might  keep  house  together  for 
the  winter.     In  a  letter  to  her  of  September  5,  1833,  he  wrote: 

"Winthrop  has  encountered  difficulties  sufficient  to  break  down  a  common  character.  He 
will  be  relieved  in  the  commercial  department  when  Arthur  and  Captain  Godfrey  arrive,  and  the 
watchful  care  and  assiduities  of  his  dear  mother  I  trust  will  soon  restore  him  to  his  wonted  good 
health." 

As  has  been  told  under  sketch  number  135,  grandfather  died  a  few  days 
later,  of  the  prevalent  fever,  and  grandma  arrived  only  an  hour  or  two  before  his 
death. 

About  this  time  the  strong  religious  influence  came  into  father's  life  that  so 
completely  transformed  it,  and  turned  it  into  a  current  that  swept  away  for  a  time 
all  other  interests.  There  was  a  revival  in  Illinois,  and  through  the  means  of  his 
friends,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Long,  father  joined  the  church  of  which  he  was,  for  the  rest 
of  his  life,  not  only  a  consistent,  but  a  prominent  and  most  useful  member,  giving 
the  best  of  his  life  to  its  interests. 

His  admiration  for  theminister's  little  daughtercontinued  without  abatement. 


WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN  [136]  215 

and  when  he  built  a  new  house,  and  she  was  reported  to  have  said  that  it  "looked 
like  a  chicken-coop,"  Uncle  Arthur  laughingly  answered,"  1  think  1  know  the  chicken 
he'd  like  to  put  in  it."  Mother  must  have  been  conscious  of  his  state  of  mind, 
for  she  told  us  how  he  disconcerted  her  once  when  she  was  busied  with  some  work  in 
the  room  where  he  was  sitting,  and  turning  suddenly,  met  an  eloquent  glance  from 
his  dark  eyes.  Father  had  made  up  his  mind  that  he  would  not  marry  her  unless 
she  was  a  professing  Christian,  and  it  was  not  until  she  was  seventeen  years  old, 
and  had  joined  her  father's  church,  that  he  took  advantage  of  v/alking  home  with 
her  one  rainy  night  holding  an  umbrella  over  her,  and  asked  her  to  be  his  wife. 
She  was  not  quite  approved  of  by  the  church  people,  who  thought  her  proud. 
This  was,  perhaps,  true  in  a  sense,  as  she  had  a  great  deal  of  personal  dignity,  which 
was  often  sorely  offended  by  the  curiosity  and  gossip  of  a  little  neighborhood  that 
probably  considered  the  affairs  of  the  minister's  family  as  public  property. 

Grandmother  Oilman  had  returned  to  New  York  before  this,  and  in  1834, 
when  father  was  there  on  business,  they  received  through  the  newspapers  their  first 
intelligence  of  uncle  Arthur's  death  by  fever.  He  was  very  dear  to  them  both, 
and  their  grief  was  great.  Uncle  Ben  then  came  to  Alton  to  help  father,  who  seems 
to  have  been  the  most  successful  of  the  family.  It  was  certainly  a  well-earned 
success,  caused  by  his  untiring  industry,  for,  as  the  business  grew,  father  often 
worked  in  the  counting-house  until  after  midnight,  and  took  long  tours  on  horse- 
back, regardless  of  heat  and  cold,  purchasing  produce. 

Father  and  mother  were  married  December  4,  1834,  after  an  engagement  of 
about  three  months,  a  very  impatient  time  for  father.  They  boarded  at  first  in 
their  own  house,  but  later  went  to  housekeeping.  Grandma  Oilman  came  out  to 
visit  them  in  1836,  and  when  she  returned  to  New  York  took  mother  and  her  first 
baby  with  her.  Grandma  was  very  proud  of  mother's  beauty,  and  enjoyed  the  ad- 
miration she  received  when  they  were  sight-seeing  in  the  city. 

In  1839,  at  thirty-one,  father's  health  was  so  broken  that  he  consulted  our 
uncle.  Dr.  Chandler  R.  Oilman,  in  one  of  his  frequent  visits  to  New  York,  and  in 
a  letter  sent  to  mother  from  there,  we  hear  the  first  mention  of  the  frailty  that 
made  his  life  that  of  an  invalid  for  forty-five  years.     He  says: 

"Dr.  Gilman  says  that  I  can  only  get  along  by  abandoning  business  in  a  good  degree,  that 
the  difficulty  is  that  the  machine  is  run  down  from  expending  its  powers  too  fast,  and  that  rest  can 
alone  give  rehef." 

To  the  two  subjects  of  temperance  and  slavery  father  gave  much  time  and 
thought.  He  was  chairman  of  the  state  temperance  work,  and  as  an  ardent  be- 
liever in  free  speech,  became  involved  in  the  Lovejoy  Riot  of  1837,  in  Alton.  A 
full  account  of  this  may  be  found  in  the  books  The  Alton  Trials,  by  William  S.  Lin- 
coln (1838),  and  The  Martyrdom  of  Lovejoy,  by  Henry  A.  Tanner  (1881),  and  it 
will  be  sufficient  for  our  purpose  if  we  quote  the  story  as  told  by  his  son  in  the 
Gilman  Genealogy. 

"During  his  residence  in  Alton  the  excitement  rose  high  on  the  subject  of  the  abolition  of 


2i6  WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN  [136] 

negro  slavery,  and  Rev.  Elijah  Lovejoy,  editor  of  a  religious  newspaper  called  the  Alton  Observer, 
was  violently  persecuted,  and  his  printing-press  destroyed.  A  new  press  was  procured  by  his 
friends,  and,  on  its  arrival,  Mr.  Gilman,  though  not  a  member  of  the  Abolition  Society,  opened  his 
warehouse,  and  received  it  on  storage.  An  enraged  and  armed  mob  determined  to  destroy  the 
press.  Under  the  authority  of  the  Mayor  of  the  city,  a  number  of  citizens  assembled  in  the  building 
to  defend  the  press,  among  whom  was  Mr.  Gilman.  On  the  night  of  Nov.  7,  1837,  the  celebrated 
Lovejoy  Riot  occurred,  which  resulted  in  the  killing  of  Mr.  Lovejoy,  the  wounding  of  others,  the 
firing  of  the  building  and  the  destruction  of  the  press." 

Father  was  just  behind  Mr.  Lovejoy  when  he  went  out  to  address  the  mob, 
and  received  him  into  his  arms  when  lie  fell.  The  men  who  were  protecting  the 
warehouse  were  later  tried  for  riot,  but  were  acquitted  triumphantly.  "This  trag- 
edy of  the  Mississippi  bluff,  with  its  sacrificial  pillage,  aroused  discussion  eastward, 
and  gave  to  the  abolition  cause  an  advocate  more  thrilling  than  a  hundred  presses" 
— Wendell  Phillips,  who  made  his  maiden  speech  in  Faneuil  Hall  on  the  subject. 
Father's  connection  with  this  episode  was  remembered  all  his  life  by  those  interested  in 
the  abolition  movement.  Many  years  later,  in  1865,  my  eldest  sister  went  to  the  In- 
augural Ball  with  Senator  and  Mrs.  Lyman  Trumbull,'  of  Illinois,  intimate  friends  of 
father.  Mr.Trumbull  was  determined  that  she  should  have  a  word  with  the  President. 

"Just  as  we  were  pressed  onward  by  the  crowd  and  when  Mr.  Lincoln  was  reached,  Mr. 
Trumbull  said  quickly,  'This  is  a  daughter  of  Winthrop  S.  Gilman,  whom  you  know.'  Leaning  over 
towards  me,  for  his  great  height  made  that  necessary,  he  grasped  my  hand,  and  smiling  said,  '  I  am 
glad  to  see  a  daughter  of  Mr.  Gilman.  Your  father  is  well  known  and  respected  all  over  the  West, 
and  1  honor  and  admire  him  almost  more  than  any  man  1  have  known.'  The  sad  face,  the  kind 
smile  and  gentle  manner,  and  the  lovely  expression  of  his  large  brown  eyes,  thrilled  me  then, 
as  they  thrill  me  now  as  I  think  of  him." 

While  he  did  not  mention  father's  connection  with  the  anti-slavery  cause,  it 
was  undoubtedly  that  which  Mr.  Lincoln  had  in  mind. 

In  1840  the  firm  of  Godfrey,  Gilman  and  Company  failed,  owing  to  the 
depreciation  in  values  after  the  failure  of  the  State  Bank  of  Illinois.  Father  im- 
mediately retrenched  in  his  personal  expenses,  sold  his  large  house  and  moved  into 
the  small  one  that  he  had  built  for  his  father-in-law.  It  is  quite  probable  that  this 
forced  retirement  from  active  business  for  a  time,  saved  his  life.  At  any  rate, 
mother  felt  great  relief  at  his  decreased  responsibilities,  and  people  were  surprised 
at  the  calm  way  she  took  her  reverses.  Passionate  devotion  to  her  husband  tided 
her  over  many  rough  places  in  her  life,  and  she  felt  no  need  at  this  time  for  the 
condolences  that  her  friends  extended  to  her. 

After  a  few  years  devoted  to  clearing  up  the  affairs  of  his  firm,  father  started 
a  wholesale  grocery,  commission  and  shipping  business  in  St.  Louis.  Hon.  Nicholas 
Brown,  a  partner  in  the  firm  of  Brown  and  Ives,'  of  Providence,  R.  1.,  was  inter- 

'  Mrs.  Trumbull  was  a  cousin  of  grandfather  Lippincott's  second  wife. 

'Thomas  Poynton  Ives  of  this  firm  was  grandfather's  cousin.  His  son,  Robert  Hale  Ives,  his  nephew 
Thomas  Poynton  Bancroft  and  uncle  Ben  Gilman,  went  to  Brown  University  together,  and  all  lived,  during  their 
college  course,  with  Mr.  Ives  in  Providence.  Robert  H.  Ives  succeeded  his  father  in  the  firm,  and  was  a 
life-long  friend  and  business  associate  of  father's.  He  left  no  Ives  descendants,  as  his  only  son  was  killed  at 
Antietam.     His  daughter  married  Professor  William  Gammell  of  Providence  and  had  children. 


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ested  in  father  on  account  of  his  anti-slavery  and  temperance  work  in  Illinois, 
and  the  firm  consequently  loaned  him  $3,000,  at  six  per  cent,  which,  with  |2,ooo 
from  Uncle  Martin  Hoffman  (see  135),  gave  him  $5,000  for  his  second  venture. 

In  a  record  now  lost,  father  wrote  of  his  first  real  success  in  his  St.  Louis  life. 
He  had  bought  a  cargo  of  wheat  to  be  shipped  to  New  Orleans,  when  the  steamboat 
sprung  a  leak,  and  the  whole  cargo  had  to  be  transferred  to  another,  causing  a 
delay  of  many  days.  Father  was  in  despair  as  the  time  passed,  thinking  that  the 
wheatwould  come  so  late  into  market  that  he  might  lose  very  heavily,  which  would 
mean  practically  ruin.  Probably  the  reference  made  in  his  notes  to  the  Irish  famine 
raising  the  price  of  wheat,  is  to  this  transaction,  as,  when  the  boat  finally  arrived  at 
New  Orleans,  the  price  of  wheat  had  greatly  advanced,  and  he  cleared  |20,ooo  by 
the  sale.     He  wrote  later: 

"Coming  as  I  did  into  a  ricii  community  of  slave-holders,  I  had  something  of  prejudice  to 
overcome  in  consequence  of  my  attempt  to  defend  Lovejoy  and  the  freedom  of  the  press  ...  1 
never  worked  harder  in  my  hfe  than  for  the  first  two  or  three  years  we  were  at  St.  Louis  as  I  strove 
to  build  up  a  business  under  adverse  circumstances." 

During  the  first  year,  he  returned  to  Alton  every  Saturday,  but  after  that  he 
removed  his  family  to  St.  Louis,  where  in  1844  they  went  to  housekeeping  on  Walnut 
Street.  At  this  time  mother's  health  became  very  delicate,  and  father  took  her 
and  the  children  several  winters  to  New  Orleans,  or  in  the  summer  to  New  Eng- 
land. Later  they  put  their  three  eldest  boys  at  school  in  Lee,  Mass.,  to  relieve 
mother  of  their  care. 

In  five  years  he  had  amassed  a  capital  of  about  $50,000,  which  was 

"the  net  results  after  giving  away  according  to  a  scale  of  my  own,  from  one  tenth  to  one  quarter 
of  my  net  profits  every  month.  Of  course  this  necessitated  taking  account  of  stock  every  month  .  . 
From  a  small  beginning  in  1843  in  a  most  unpretentious  and  economical  way,  I  had  become  one  of 
the  largest  wholesale  groceries  firm  in  St.  Louis." 

In  1846  we  find  his  first  mention  of  an  article  on  Systematic  Beneficence,  a 
subject  that  took  up  much  of  his  time  and  interest  from  this  year  until  he  was  made 
chairman  of  a  committee  of  General  Assembly  in  1874,  on  Benevolence  and  Finance. 
His  unflagging  interest  in  the  political  world  is  also  noted  from  time  to  time,  and 
he  was  made  a  trustee  of  Illinois  College  and  other  institutions. 

His  health  becoming  more  and  more  enfeebled,  he  decided  to  remove  his 
family  to  New  York  in  1849,  having  "amassed  a  competency  for  those  days."  He 
continued  the  business  in  St.  Louis  for  several  years,  the  resident  partners  being  his 
brother,  Benjamin  Ives  Gilman,  of  Monticello,  111.,  and  his  nephew,  William  H. 
Oilman,  son  of  his  brother  Robert.  Finding,  however,  the  constant  separations 
from  his  family  very  trying,  especially  to  mother,  who  was  thus  left  with  a  great 
responsibility  in  the  care  of  their  large  family  at  the  age  when  they  needed  the 
father's  guidance,  he  finally  sold  out  his  interest.  He  then  occupied  himself  in 
New  York  in  managing  his  own  property,  and  western  land  interests  for  Brown 


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and  Ives  of  Providence.     At  first  the  family  boarded  with  "uncle  doctor,"  as  the 
children  called  Dr.  Oilman,  but  in  March,  1851,  he  wrote: 

"Our  dear  children  are  becoming  of  an  age  demanding  our  personal  attention — we  need  to 
have  a  home  around  which  shall  center  the  interests  and  affections  of  the  children  and  over  which 
we  may  feel  that  the  most  important  duties  of  our  remaining  days  are  to  preside  with  fidelity,  with 
cheerfulness  and  with  a  divinely  appointed  wisdom." 

In  consequence  of  this  desire,  he  rented  the  house  at  74  West  21st  Street, 
into  which  he  moved  in  August,  1 85 1 .  The  following  winter,  mother  suffered  terribly 
from  apprehension  about  father's  health,  and  often  walked  the  floor  at  night  in  an 
agony  of  mind  about  their  future.  She  suffered  only  the  more  because  her  anxiety 
was  locked  up  in  her  own  heart,  as  she  never  betrayed  either  to  father  or  to  us  her 
fears.  In  1857  father  bought  the  house  at  5  West  32nd  Street,  not  quite  finished  at 
the  time,  and  we  moved  into  it  in  April.  All  the  family  life  of  nineteen  years,  when 
the  older  children  were  marrying,  when  the  little  grandchildren  were  coming  into 
the  home  life,  and  Thanksgiving  Days  and  other  family  reunions  brought  us  all 
together,  cluster  in  loving  memories  about  this  house,  now,  alas,  fallen  to  commer- 
cial uses  in  the  business  district  of  New  York. 

Their  first  church  connection  was  with  the  old  19th  Street  Church,  of  which 
Dr.  James  W.  Alexander  was  pastor,  but  in  1859,  father  began  his  attendance  on 
the  Brick  Church,  of  which  he  was  for  many  years  an  elder,  elected  in  1861. 

Our  eldest  brother  Arthur  had  been  in  the  banking  firm  of  Halsted,  Oilman 
and  Company,  but  that  partnership  was  dissolved  in  1861,  and  father  started  the 
private  banking  house  of  Oilman,  Son  and  Company,  taking  in  each  son  as  he  left 
college,  his  nephew  Thomas  P.  Oilman,  and,  at  one  time,  his  son-in-law,  Daniel  R. 
Noyes. 

Perhaps  it  is  as  well  to  stop  here  and  tell  about  the  home  life  in  these  days, 
so  radically  different  from  that  of  the  later  years  when  father  lived  in  the  country, 
and  had  retired  from  active  life.  At  this  time  he  was,  although  very  delicate,  and 
his  health  in  a  most  precarious  condition,  still  busily  engaged  in  Wall  Street,  in 
his  western  land  and  railroad  matters,  in  work  for  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
was  a  large  and  rather  awe-inspiring  part  of  the  family  circle,  at  least  to  the  little 
ones. 

A  brother  gives  us  these  memories:  "To  ask  what  our  recollections  of  home 
would  be  without  mother,  would  be  like  asking  what  the  world  would  be  without 
the  sky,  equally  overshadowing  and  equally  unrealized.  The  solicitude  and  sym- 
pathy with  which  she  followed  each  one  of  her  children  are  an  atmosphere  of  the 
past,  rather  than  a  specific  memory."  She  had  been  brought  up  in  the  old-fash- 
ioned Quaker  manner,  and  was  intensely  shy,  and  of  an  anxious  temperament,  but 
had  been  taught  to  repress  her  feelings,  so  that,  in  all  her  life,  we  never  heard  her 
complain  of  pain  or  weakness. 

What  father  was  to  us  is  more  difficult  to  tell.  "One  picture  I  have  is  as  he 
came  to  us  in  the  summer,  say  at  Canaan,  hot  from  the  city,  and  dusty  from  the 


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tedious  train.  His  linen  duster  always  an  interesting  garment  to  us  children, 
because  there  might  be  things  in  the  pocket,  and  a  basket  of  fruit  half  hidden  in 
the  folds  as  he  walked."  He  had  a  fund  of  the  most  satisfactory  tales  that  children 
ever  listened  to.  For  the  elder  ones  in  the  St.  Louis  days  it  was  the  story  of  Jabez 
Ibez,  and  how  real  it  was  to  us  is  shown  in  a  letter  to  mother  at  New  York  in  1846, 
where  they  stopped  at  the  Astor  House.  He  writes,  "How  pleasant  it  must  have 
been  to  Arthur  to  spend  so  much  time  in  the  Astor  House,  perhaps  in  the  very 
room  where  Jabez  Ibez  used  to  hear  the  young  lady  play."  Later  it  was  for  us 
younger  ones,  the  fascinating  story  of  Susy  Williams  and  Julia  Peabody  who  did 
everything  that  we  had  to  do,  and  once  he  took  us  down  to  Stewart's  to  buy  some 
"pink  and  white  striped  calico  dresses,"  just  like  those  the  little  heroines  had  worn. 

One  of  his  prominent  characteristics  was  his  tender  consideration  for  women, 
especially  for  dependents  and  the  women  servants.  I  so  well  recall  when 
Ann,  our  maid,  was  asked  whether  father  was  a  minister,  that  she  replied,  "No, 
he's  a  great  deal  better  than  most  ministers."  He  had  an  impatient  disposition, 
often  making  it  hard  for  those  who  wanted  to  help  him,  to  do  so,  for  if  one  did 
not  get  his  idea  at  once  he  would  whisk  away  the  paper  or  letter,  and  say,  "  Well,  I 
had  better  do  it  myself."  He  could  not  bear  to  wait,  and  wrote  to  mother  char- 
acteristically: "I  think  Arthur  and  I  will  come  up  to-morrow,  and  pass  the  fourth 
with  you,  so  please  have  a  carriage  waiting  (mind  1  do  not  want  to  wait  for  it,  and 
shall  not  if  it  be  not  there)." 

After  the  Bible,  and  religious  books,  in  the  study  of  which  he  was  un- 
remitting, his  favorite  author  was  Shakespeare,  and  with  his  plays  he  had 
a  most  marvellous  familiarity.  At  every  juncture,  on  every  occasion,  he  had 
an  apt  quotation,  and  for  his  children  to  see  a  Shakespeare  play  is  to  have  all 
the  beautiful  lines  come  back  to  them  as  father  used  to  speak  them.  Hardly  a 
family  letter  of  his  later  years  exists  without  some  words  of  his  favorite  poet  ap- 
pearing in  it.  His  suggestions  for  naming  the  numerous  girl  babies  that  came  into 
the  family  Were  always,  Portia,  Miranda,  Jessica,  etc.  At  first  his  serious  reading 
was  mainly  Biblical,  and  we  have  in  his  hand-writing  manuscript  notes  on  every  part 
of  the  Bible;  but  it  "later  developed  into  a  wide  range  of  Christian  thinking.  This 
reading,  always  with  a  pen  in  his  hand,  was  a  real  following  of  his  author's  thought; 
but  he  was  always  alone,  for  the  family  did  not  accompany  these  mental  journeys, 
except  afar,  in  occasional  reading  of  his  notes." 

Mother's  and  father's  responsibilities  left  them  little  time  for  recreation,  and 
mother's  real  distaste  for  social  life  kept  them  out  of  the  pleasant  intimacies  they 
would  naturally  have  had  in  New  York.  How  hospitable  they  were  always  to  their 
kin,  we  all  remember.  Their  religious  life,  for  it  was  that  rather  than  church 
interests,  satisfied  all  other  desires.  "It  seems  remarkable  on  looking  back,  that 
they  should  have  been  able  to  maintain  family  prayers  morning  and  evening, 
through  all  the  vicissitudes  of  the  life  of  such  a  family.  Mother's  reading  of  the 
Bible  was  always  intelligent,  and  with  father  as  a  leader,  we  had  a  family  altar  in  the 
patriarchal  sense.     The  lofty  style  and  Biblical  fulness  of  father's  prayers  are  an 


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inestimable  heritage  to  his  children.  Happy  are  the  children  whose  mother  can  say 
in  all  naivete  and  sincerity, '  1  believe  your  father  is  as  good  a  man  as  ever  lived.'" 

Mother  was  very  strict  in  her  rule  that  no  Roman  Catholic  servants  should  be 
engaged  in  her  household,  and  the  old-fashioned  relations  existed  between  herself 
and  the  family  connections  of  maids  who  used  to  file  in  to  family  prayers  in  the 
32nd  Street  house.  One  of  my  early  recollections  is  of  mother  teaching  one  maid 
to  read  in  the  evenings,  and  how  very  dull  she  was,  and  how  patient,  mother.  The 
frequent  marriages  were  as  much  of  an  event  to  us  children  as  if  indeed  of  mem- 
bers of  the  family,  and  one  was  celebrated  in  our  parlor. 

Father's  interest  in  the  war  was  intense,  but  in  spite  of  temptations,  he  never 
bought  a  Sunday  paper,  the  printing  of  which  was  begun  in  those  days.  I  well 
remember  the  excitement  over  Dr.  Hoge,  a  Richmond  man,  who  was  the  assistant 
at  the  Brick  Church  at  the  commencement  of  the  war,  and  who  resigned  almost  im- 
mediately. Father  records  that  he  would  not  attend  his  farewell  reception,  as  he 
considered  him  a  traitor  to  his  country.  This  is  only  mentioned  as  an  instance 
of  his  unyielding  nature  where  a  principle  was  involved. 

Any  description  of  those  early  days  would  be  incomplete  without  a  mention 
of  our  joyous  Thanksgiving  dinners,  with  the  sisters-in-law,  little  grandchildren, 
nephews  and  nieces,  from  sixteen  to  twenty-four  in  number,  sitting  down  at  the 
table,  when  all  care  was  thrown  aside  for  the  day.  Father  wrote  of  one  such  occa- 
sion: "I  do  not  think  I  ever  enjoyed  any  company  at  dinner  at  my  own  house  so 
much  as  the  company  of  these  our  dear  children  and  friends." 

We  younger  children  were  usually  sent  out  of  town  for  some  weeks  in  the  hot 
weather,  under  the  care  of  the  older  ones  and  our  faithful  nurse,  Ella  Score.  One 
of  these  times  is  deeply  impressed  on  my  memory,  when  we  were  in  Canaan  boarding 
with  old  Mrs.  Franklin  in  the  delightful  home  that  had  a  ball-room  with  a  mu- 
sicians' gallery  in  it,  and  a  flag-stone  at  the  door-step  with  the  names  and  dates  of  its 
first  owners.  Father  and  mother  came  up  to  see  us  and  the  same  evening  heard  of 
the  draft  riots  in  New  York.  The  next  morning,  finding  the  reports  confirmed, 
father  decided  that  he  must  return  to  the  city,  as  our  brothers  were  there  and  the 
maids  alone  in  the  32nd  Street  house.  Mother  would  not  let  him  go  without  her, 
and  1  remember  my  terror,  as  we  heard  dreadful  rumors  of  what  the  mob  was  doing. 
Although  they  had  to  leave  the  train  at  Mott  Haven,  and  take  a  Harlem  boat  to 
Peck's  Slip,  still  they  reached  the  office  in  Exchange  Place  and  later  drove  to  the 
house  in  safety.  The  mob  was  too  near  for  sleep  the  first  night,  and  hanged  a  negro 
on  the  corner  above  the  house.  The  excitement  continued  for  three  days,  no  one 
being  allowed  to  pass  above  32nd  Street  on  Fifth  Avenue,  and  a  fight  occurring  one 
night  when,  as  father  wrote,  "twenty-five  mobbites  were  killed."  With  mother's 
timidity,  she  must  have  suffered  extremely,  but  she  never  thought  of  letting  father 
go  alone  to  town.  He  was  uneasy  about  his  property  because  of  the  uncomprom- 
ising stand  he  had  taken  on  slavery  and  his  distinctly  republican  principles. 

In  the  spring  of  1865,  father  had  an  attack  of  pneumonia  which  came  near 
ending  his  life,  and  during  his  illness  Mr.  Lincoln  was  assassinated.     It  was  diifi- 


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cult  to  drape  the  house  in  mourning  for  the  great  funeral  without  his  knowledge, 
yet  the  family  feared  for  his  life  should  he  hear  of  the  catastrophe.  Finally  his 
old  friend  and  physician,  Dr.  Austin  Flint,  broke  the  news  to  him.  While  recovering 
from  this  illness,  he  wrote: 

"June  18.  My  wife  and  1  passed  six  days  at  West  Point  lately.  We  witnessed  the  first 
interview  between  Maj.  Gen.  Scott  and  Gen.  Sherman  after  Sherman's  great  march  through  Alabama 
and  Georgia  to  the  seashore.  Only  a  few  guests  were  present  in  front  of  Cozzens  Hotel,  so  we  were 
within  a  few  feet  of  Scott  who  was  also  living  at  the  hotel,  it  was  affecting.  Scott  embraced 
Sherman  as  a  son,  saying,  'You  have  broken  the  back  of  the  rebellion,' and  Sherman  replied  'I 
have  only  done  my  duty.'     It  was  an  exceedingly  interesting  scene." 

It  was  father's  great  pleasure,  with  increased  means,  to  give  his  children 
every  opportunity  of  travel  that  he  could.  Although  we  find  many  jokes  in  his 
commonplace  books  about  the  "  Europe,"  an  infectious  disease  that  took  his  family 
quite  frequently,  yet  we  used  to  say  playfully  that  he  was  never  happy  unless  some 
child  was  away  from  home.  Although  he  and  mother  did  not  accomplish  the 
journey  to  Europe  that  he  would  so  much  have  enjoyed,  the  family  letters  brought 
them  the  enlarged  horizon  that  travel  procures.  His  own  ever-increasing  burden 
of  ill-health  was  borne  with  such  patience  that  it  was  never  the  dark  spot  in  our 
circle  that  it  might  easily  have  become, — only  something  that  was  ever  present. 
in  one  entry  he  says: 

"  1  have  felt  miserably  several  evenings  lately,  it  seemed  as  if  the  machinery  of  my  body 
worked  with  real  friction.  .  .  .  that  life  was  even  a  burden  for  the  time.  Let  me  think  of  what 
I  have — not  what  I  have  not — and  then  there  will  be  no  room  for  sorrowing  over  present  ills." 

In  1867,  the  Brick  Church  becoming  dissatisfied  with  its  old  hymn-book 
(called  Watts  and  Select),  Dr.  Murray,  the  assistant  pastor.  Dr.  Spring,  Dr.  Shedd, 
Mr.  Daniel  Lord,  and  father,  were  chosen  a  committee  to  prepare  a  new  one.  To 
this  work  father  gave  an  immense  amount  of  time  for  two  years,  selecting  hymns, 
corresponding  with  English  hymn-writers  in  an  effort  to  get  the  most  correct  copy, 
writing  the  biographical  notes  and  the  three  dedicatory  prayers.  The  new  book 
was  called  the  "  Sacrifice  of  Praise,"  and  was  used  for  many  years  in  several  churches 
until  it  was  superseded  by  still  newer  collections,  but  it  was  almost  the  first  in 
this  country  to  make  the  standard  of  excellence  both  poetical  and  spiritual.  Father's 
exquisite  taste,  cultivated  for  so  many  years  by  his  study  of  Shakespeare,  made 
him  a  valuable  coadjutor  in  this  work. 

In  the  union  of  the  New  and  Old  School  branchesof  the  Presbyterian  Church, 
father  took  an  active  part,  and  his  resolutions  in  favor  of  it  were  adopted,  after  discus- 
sion, by  the  New  York  Presbytery.  As  in  every  stand  he  made,  he  took  the  highest 
ground  he  knew,  so  ensuring  for  his  decisions  a  remarkable  forehandedness.  At 
this  time  he  wrote  that  he  believed  that  the  efficiency  of  the  church,  economy  of 
management  and  the  fulfilment  of  the  Redeemer's  prayer,  "  that  they  may  be  one," 
all  demanded  the  union.  This  was  the  more  remarkable  because  father  was  a  very 
strong  Old  School  Presbyterian,  and  had  no  leanings  towards  the  new  theology,  but 


222  WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN  [136] 

he  was  capable  of  putting  on  one  side  all  small  matters,  and  of  looking  simply  at 
great  principles.  This  was  undoubtedly  the  reason  that  he  kept  up  with  the  times 
and  put  so  many  of  his  fixed  habits  of  thought  aside  in  his  old  age. 

After  the  union,  in  1870,  he  was  made  chairman  of  the  General  Assembly's 
committee  to  raise  a  five  million  dollar  Thankoflfering,  when  he  was  closely  asso- 
ciated with  Dr.  Ellinwood,  now  secretary  of  the  Foreign  Board,  John  E.  Parsons, 
Dr.  William  Adams  and  others.  This  occupied  his  time  for  two  years,  and  was 
completed  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  church,  giving,  as  a  member  of  one  of  the  Boards 
said  lately,  a  standard  of  what  the  Presbyterian  Church  could  do  for  its  benevolent 
work  from  which  it  has  never  receded. 

He  was  later  (in  1874)  on  a  committee  to  plan  more  business-like  and  econ- 
omical methods  of  raising  funds  for  the  benevolent  work  of  the  church.  Father 
believed  in  systematic  beneficence,  and  in  "giving  as  an  act  of  worship,"  and  ad- 
vanced the  thought  that  if  church  members  could  be  taught  to  give  a  tenth  of  their 
incomes  to  a  central  committee,  that  body  could  divide  it  among  the  Boards  pro 
rata,  thus  saving  the  great  expense  of  eight  treasuries.  In  this  opinion  his  com- 
mittee, consisting  of  Hon.  Justice  Strong,  of  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,  Dr.  John 
Hall,  William  E.  Dodge,  John  Taylor  Johnston,  George  de  Forest  Lord, 
all  of  New  York,  and  others,  agreed,  but  they  met  with  so  much  opposition  from 
the  Secretaries  of  the  Boards,  with  the  exception  of  Dr.  Ellinwood,  that  the  plan 
was  given  up  after  two  years'  work.  The  publications  which  the  committee  put  out 
have  had  their  effect  in  the  more  systematic  methods  of  the  present  day.  Old  Dr. 
Musgrave,  at  that  time  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Home  Missions,  was  one  of  the 
most  vigorous  opponents,  and  said  in  a  public  speech  that  "Mr.  Gilman  will  want 
to  be  introducing  reforms  into  heaven  when  he  gets  there." 

This  public  life  was  not  at  all  to  father's  taste,  for  while  he  was  willing  to  use 
his  influence  for  the  right,  he  was  exceedingly  modest,  and  speaking  in  public  was 
always,  he  wrote,  "a  trial  to  his  nerves."  He  entered  into  all  public  questions, 
whether  religious  or  political,  with  great  energy,  and  wrote  constantly  to  the  press 
in  different  states,  trying  to  uplift  the  moral  tone  on  questions  of  importance.  Thus 
he  records  that  he  wrote  newspaper  letters  to  all  parts  of  Kentucky,  when  repu- 
diation was  discussed,  trying  to  urge  upon  the  Kentuckians  the  adoption  of  an 
honorable  course  with  regard  to  their  indebtedness. 

In  i87i,he  bought  the  old  place  on  the^west  bank  of  the  Hudson,  near  the 
home  of  a  son,  which  was  named  by  a  whimsical  daughter,  Heyhoe,  after  a  Gilman 
name  in  the  old  country.  This  farm-house,  altered  to  suit  his  large  family  and 
many  visitors,  became,  after  the  financial  reverses  of  1874,  his  permanent  home. 
In  that  year  his  banking-house  suspended  payments  during  the  great  panic,  and  he 
sold  his  city  house  to  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Brown  and  Ives,  who  came  to  his  aid. 
He  rented  it  for  a  year  that  a  daughter,  whose  life  had  been  spent  there,  might  be 
married  from  it,  but  in  the  spring  of  1875  the  family  moved  to  Palisades.  He 
records: 

"In  leaving  the  places  to  which  we  have  become  attached  and  in  breaking  associations  to 


WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN  [136]  223 

some  extent  with  which  our  affections  are  entwined,  we  have  still  left  all  that  is  best  of  place  and 
association.     The  place  where  God  is,  the  place  of  communion  with  Him." 

As  the  years  crept  on,  his  growing  weakness  made  him  resign  all  business 
cares,  his  many  directorates  of  every  kind,  and  even  his  position  as  elder  in  the 
Brick  Church.  In  order  to  accomplish  the  last,  he  was  obliged  to  transfer  his 
membership  to  the  little  church  at  Palisades,  as  the  Brick  Church  refused  to  ac- 
cept his  resignation.  His  life  became  more  and  more  retired,  and  he  found  his 
happiness  in  the  gay  and  merry  group  of  young  people  who  gathered  in  Heyhoe, 
in  his  books,  writing,  and  correspondence  with  the  absent  members  of  the  family. 
While  the  long  summers  were  spent  thus,  the  winter  months  were  passed  in  one  place 
and  another,  trying  to  find  some  climate  where  the  cold  would  not  be  too  much  for 
his  feeble  vitality. 

Every  year,  on  his  wedding-day,  he  wrote  a  few  lines  about  mother  in  his  note- 
book, and  on  July  3,  1883,  one  of  the  last  of  her  birthdays  they  passed  together, 
he  wrote: 

"My  darling  wife  is  sixty-six  to-day,  and  she  deserves  sixty-six  kisses  from  her  husband  and 
her  30  children  and  grandchildren,  many  times  told.  What  a  blessing  she  has  proven  herself  in  the 
family.  A  prudent  wife — and  she  is  one — is  from  the  Lord,  and  we  rejoice  in  her  as  his  gift.  The 
stock  from  which  she  came — the  Lippincotts,  Quakers  from  principle,  and  the  Swifts,  people  of  fine 
fibre — made  her  by  nature  to  abhor  all  sorts  of  impurity,  so  that  she  grew  up,  as  it  were,  in  the 
wilds  of  the  frontier,  like  those  wild  roses  that  I  admired  so  much  in  my  horseback  tours  in  Illinois. 
They  gave  sweet  fragrance  to  the  atmosphere  long  before  I  could  reach  them.  Blessed  be  God,  that 
she  has  not  gone  into  the  'wastes  of  time''  like  the  roses,  but  still  gives  out  the  moral  beauty  and 
fragrance  of  a  close  walk  with  God." 

He  was  intensely  interested  in  the  campaign  of  1884  against  Mr.  Blaine,  to 
whom  he  was  much  opposed,  and  wrote  to  a  paper  just  before  the  election,  an- 
nouncing that  he,  a  life-long  Whig  and  republican,  should  vote  for  Mr.  Cleveland. 
This  action  called  out,  after  his  death,  the  following  stirring  words  from  Dr.  Fabian 
Franklin,  assistant  professor  in  Mathematics  in  Johns  Hopkins,  and  a  friend  of  one 
of  my  brothers. 

"When  I  hear  a  young  man  who  admits  Blaine's  dishonesty  and  unscrupulousness  say  that 
he  cannot  vote  the  democratic  ticket,  1  cannot  help  wondering  what  mental  defect  it  may  be  that 
makes  it  impossible  for  him  to  see  what  it  must  have  been  a  thousand  fold  more  difficult  and  more 
painful  for  this  old  Republican  with  his  heart  and  mind  filled  with  the  stirring  memories  of  that  past, 
in  which  he  had  manfully  borne  his  part,  to  admit,  that  the  republican  party  had  forfeited  every 
claim  to  his  allegiance." 

Father's  last  days  were  peaceful,  and  his  mind  was  alert  to  the  end.  A 
slight  earthquake  shock  was  felt  at  Heyhoe  the  day  before  his  death,  and  the  family 
were  much  startled,  but  before  they  could  recover  their  equanimity,  father's  feeble 
voice  was  heard,  explaining  the  cause.  His  ill-health  had  been  of  such  long  stand- 
ing that  to  none  of  his  children  was  the  news  unexpected,  when  finally  the  mes- 

' Shakespeare  Sonnet,  XII. 


224  WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN  [136] 

sages  came  telling  that  he  had  passed  away,  October  3,  1884.  His  funeral  was  of 
the  simple  character  that  fitted  best  with  his  retiring  nature,  and  was  held  in  the 
little  church  at  Palisades,  where  his  feeble  and  bent  form,  wrapt  in  a  large  army 
cape,  had  been  a  familiar  figure,  seated  in  a  recess  by  the  pulpit  protected  from  the 
wandering  breeze.  Dr.  James  O.  Murray,  Dean  of  Princeton,  and  his  dear  friend, 
came  to  hold  the  services,  and  he  was  buried  in  the  plot  in  Greenwood,  where  are 
gathered  many  of  his  family. 

After  father's  death,  which  occurred  within  three  months  of  their  golden 
wedding,  mother  went  to  Colorado  Springs,  with  two  of  her  daughters  and  a  grand- 
child. There  she  lived  for  six  years,  but  the  climate  proving  too  stimulating  for  her, 
she  was  obliged  to  move  again,  and  this  time  made  herself  a  home  in  St.  Paul.  Here 
she  lived  for  eight  years,  surrounded  by  a  circle  of  devoted  children  and  grand- 
children, a  blessing  to  all  who  came  in  contact  with  her,  making  the  constant  effort 
to  be  the  guide  and  help  to  all  her  children  that  father  had  been.  Ten  great-grand- 
children came  into  her  life,  and  her  pride  in  them  was  very  great.  Her  beauty 
of  face,  and  evenness  of  disposition  increased  with  years,  and  she  bore  her  great 
age  so  gracefully  that  she  was  the  admiration  of  all  who  met  her.  At  the  end  of 
this  time,  in  1899,  it  seemed  best  for  her  to  make  another  change,  and  she  moved  to 
the  home  of  her  son-in-law.  Captain  Richard  G.  Davenport,  U.  S.  N.,  in  Washington, 
where  she  remained  for  the  last  two-and-a-half  years  of  her  life.  During  all  this 
time,  she  frequently  visited  the  homes  of  her  other  children,  and  some  grandchildren, 
and  spent  many  happy  summers  in  the  country.  The  changes  of  home  that  she  had 
experienced  during  her  long  life,  never  troubled  her  placidity,  and  her  pronounced 
characteristic  of  making  a  home  wherever  she  was  staying,  kept  her  environment 
restful.  Her  life  in  Washington  was  most  happy,  as  she  was  nearer  to  many  of  her 
children,  and  she  was  in  that  home,  as  always,  the  object  of  devoted  love. 

An  accident  in  the  street  in  New  York  in  the  fall  of  1900,  gave  her  a  nervous 
shock  which  brought  on  a  slight  stroke  of  paralysis  from  which  her  wonderful 
vitality  never  quite  recovered.  All  her  children  and  the  beloved  granddaughter 
who  had  been  under  her  care  for  many  years,  were  around  her  bedside  when,  on 
March  2,  1902,  she  passed  away,  leaving  behind  her  only  the  sweet  memories  of  a 
lovely  and  consistent  life.  The  short  service  in  Washington  by  Bishop  Satter- 
lee,  was  followed  by  one  in  the  Brick  Church  in  New  York,  by  her  granddaughter's 
husband,  Rev.  William  Adams  Brown,  at  which  a  number  of  her  old  friends  and 
those  who  loved  her  were  present.     She  was  laid  by  father's  side  in  Greenwood. 

Children  of  Winthrop  Sargent  and  Abia  Swift  (Lippincott)  Oilman 

Arthur,  born  in  Alton,  111.,  Sept.  8,  1835;  died  Oct.  i,  1836,  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Arthur,  born  in  Alton,  111.,  June  22,  1837;  M.  A.  Williams  1867;  married  (i)  April  12,  i860. 
Amy  Cook  Ball,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Experience  (/^'"^^^i^Ball,  of  Lee,  Mass.,  who 
died  Jan.  13,  1875;  married  (2)  July  11,  1876,  Stella  Scott,  daughter  of  David  and 
Stella  (Houghton)  Scott,  of  Tuscaloosa,  Ala.;  lives  in  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Children  by  his  first  wife  : 
Grace,  born  June  6, 1861;  entered  the  sisterhood  of  St.  John  Baptist,  New  York, in  1894. 


PHOTOGRAPH  TAKEN   DURING  HER  RESIDENCE  IN   ST.  PAUL  OF  MRS.  GILMAN, 
HER   DAUGHTERS   ALICE   AND   SERENA   AND   GRAND- 
DAUGHTER  SERENA    MARSHALL 


WINTHROP  SARGENT  GILMAN  [136]  225 

Winthrop  Sargent,  born  May  24,  1862;  died  March  14,  1863. 

Rose  Rysse,  born  Aug.  23,  1863;  married  Dec.  6,  1884,  Henry  O.  Houghton,  son  of 
Henry  O.  Houghton,  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  who  died  June  14,  1906.  Their 
children  are:  Henry  Oscar  Houghton,  born  May  25,  1888,  died  May  26,  1888; 
RosamtJnd  Houghton,  born  Aug.  23,  1894;  Virginia  Houghton,  born  July  29, 
i8g8;  Henry  Oscar  Houghton,  born  Jan.  3,  1903. 
Margaret,  born  May  22,  1866. 

Children  by  his  second  wife  : 
Dorothy,  born  May  30,  1877. 
Alice,  born  Aug.  26,  1878;  died  May  10,  1890. 
Arthur,  born  Oct.  25,  1879. 
Winthrop  Sargent,  born  in  Alton,  Sept.  28,  1839;  married  Oct.  23,  1861,  Anna  A.  Park, 
daughter  of  Charles  F.  and  Caroline  (Doremus)  Park,  of  New  York;  is  living  at 
Palisades,  N.  Y. 

Children: 
Bertha  De  La  Vergne,  born  June  8,  1863;  married  Sept.  8,  1892,  Anthony  James 
Bleecker,  son  of  James  and  Jane  Clarkson  (Hill)  Bleecker,  of  New  York.  Their 
children  are:  Anthony  Lispenard  Bleecker,  born  Nov.  4,  1893;  Winthrop 
Oilman  Bleecker,  born  Oct.  18,  1897;  Helena  Roosevelt  Bleecker,  born  Jan. 
31,  1899. 
Charles  Winthrop,  born  July  19,  1865. 

Anna  Park,  born  Feb.  25,  1872;  married  June  2,  1894,  Robert  Carmer  Hill,  son  of 
William  and  Harriet  (Chapin)  Hill,  of  Philadelphia. 
Theodore,  born  in  Alton,  Jan.  2,  1841;  Williams,  1862;  married  Oct.  22,  1863,  Elizabeth 
Drinker  Paxson,  daughter  of  Samuel  C.  and  Elizabeth  (Drinker)  Paxson,of  New  York; 
lives  in  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

Children: 
Samuel  Paxson,  born  Nov.  23,  1864;  died  in  Florence,  Italy,  March  27,  1876. 
Winthrop  Sargent,  born  March  16,  1867;  died  in  New  York,  Oct.  28,  1870. 
Frances  Paxson,  born  Dec.  13,  1870. 
Theodore,  born  Feb.  21,  1873. 

Edith  Lippincott,  twin  with  Theodore,  died  May  29,  1874. 
Beverly  Hale,  born  Aug.  28,  1874,  died  Aug.  2,  1875. 
Helen  Ives,  born  Feb.  23,  1877. 
Robbins,  born  March  30,  1878. 

Harold  Drinker,  twin  with  Robbins,  died  Sept.  12,  1886. 

Elizabeth  Bethune,  born  June  16,  1881;  married  Henry  Herbert  Law,  son  of  Walter 
W.  and  Georgiana  Hitt  (Ransom)  Law,  of  Briarcliff  Manor,  N.  Y.     Their 
children  are:  Theodore  Oilman  Law,  born  June  5,  1906. 
Helen  Abia,  born  in  Alton,  Jan.  4,  1843;  married  Dec.  4,  1866,  Daniel  Rogers  Noyes,  son 
of  Daniel  Rogers  and  Phoebe  Oriffin  (Lord)  Noyes  (7).    See  record  of  their 
children  under  Number  7. 
Virginia,  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Feb.  16,  1845;  died  Oct.  3,  1845. 
Alice  Ives,  born  in  New  Orleans,  La.;  April  3,  1848. 

Julia  Robbins,  born  in  New  York,  May  6,  1850;  married  May  18,  1881,  Henry  Rutgers 
Marshall,  L.  H.  D.,  son  of  Henry  Perry  and  Cornelia  Elisabeth  (Conrad)  Marshall, 
of  New  York;  died  in  Colorado  Springs,  Col.,  Jan.  2,  1888. 


226  WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN  [136] 

Children: 

Serena  Oilman  Marshall,  born  March  24,  1882. 
Benjamin  Ives,  born  in  New  York,  Feb.  19,  1852;  M.  A.  Johns  Hopkins,  1902;  married  Sept. 

14,  1892,  Cornelia  Moore  Dunbar,  daughter  of  James  M.  and  Cornelia  A.  (Moore) 

Dunbar,  of  New  York  City;  is  living  in  Boston,  Mass. 
Children: 

Edith,  born  July  10,  1893. 

Alice,  born  Sept.  23,  1896. 
Emily  Hoffman,  born  in  New  York,  March  10,  1854;  married,  Sept.  i,  1874,  Charles  Phelps 

Noyes,  son  of  Daniel  Rogers  and  Phoebe  Griffin  (Lord)  Noyes  (7).     See  record 

of  their  children  under  Number  7. 
Serena  Hale,  born  in  New  York,  March  10,  1856;  married  Nov.  19,  1884,  Captain  Richard 

Graham  Davenport,  U.  S.  N.,  son  of  Captain  Henry  K.  and  Jennie  Brent  (Graham) 

Davenport;  living  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mary  Elizabeth,  born  Nov.  14,  1857,  died  Dec.  24,  1857. 
Edith  Lippincott,  born  Dec.  12,  1858,  died  Dec.  4,  1859. 

[137]  JAMES  TREWORGYE  [. . . .-1650] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

KATHERINE  SHAPLEIGH  [1608-1676] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    KITTERY,   MAINE 

JAMES  TREWORGYE"  was  the  son  of  John  and  grandson  of  Robert  Tre- 
WORGYE  of  Kingsweare,  England,  on  the  Dart  River  opposite   Dartmouth, 
where  he  was  born,  date  unknown.     He  was  a  merchant  in  Cornwall,  and 
married    in  England,  March    16,  1616,  Katherine  Shapleigh,  daughter  of 
Alexander  Shapleigh  (137-A),  who  was  born  about  1608. 

They  had  three  children  born  in  England  before  they  came  over,  John,' 
Joane  and  Samuel.  James  Treworgye  sailed  for  New  England  about  1635,  on  one 
of  his  father-in-law's  ships,  as  supercargo.  He  purchased  lands  in  Piscataqua  in 
the  same  year,  and  was  in  Kittery,  Me.,  as  early  as  1636,  where  he  probably  lived 
until  his  death.  He  was  engaged  in  business  as  Mr.  Shapleigh's  representative, 
buying  lands  for  him,  and  disposing  of  goods  sent  over  in  his  vessels.  On  his  own 
account  he  carried  on  a  fishing  and  trading  business. 

The  business  affairs  of  Alexander  Shapleigh  and  the  two  Treworgyes  are 
inextricably  mixed  in  the  records.      The  wills  of  the  elder  men  have  not  been  found, 

'The  name  Treworgye  is  variously  spelled  in  the  Maine  records  as  Treworgye,  Trueworgy,  Treworthie 
and  Trueworthy. 

'John  Treworgye  has  been  confused  with  his  father  James,  as  he  came  over  almost  as  early  and  was  also 
an  agent  for  his  grandfather  Alexander  Shapleigh.  That  and  the  fact  that  only  James  Treworgye's  three 
daughters  inherited  from  their  uncle  Nicholas  Shapleigh,  has  led  some  to  the  conclusion  that  in  all  the  affidavits 
about  John  Treworgye's  business  relations  with  his  grandfather,  there  was  a  mistake  in  the  name.  The  explanation 
may  be  that  the  sons  of  James  Treworgye  inherited  their  father's  property,  and  that  the  daughters  expected 
to  receive  an  equivalent  from  their  grandfather.  The  affidavits  are  perfectly  clear  in  mentioning  John  as  a 
grandson  of  Alexander  and  his  existence  is  proved  by  other  deeds  and  records.  His  marriage  is  also  on 
record. 


JAMES  TREWORGYE  [137]  227 

and  probably  they  died  intestate.  Their  partnership  relations,  added  to  the  con- 
fusion of  titles  to  Maine  lands  in  that  early  day,  prevent  our  having  a  clear  under- 
standing of  the  disposition  of  their  property.  There  are  two  deeds  on  the  records 
(York  Co.,    Me.,   Deeds)    that    show  the   transfer  of    estates  mentioned   under 

(I37-A)- 

In  1641  James  Treworgye,  "now  resident  of  N.  E.,"  deeded  for  £1,500  to 

"Nicholas  Shapleigh  of  Kingsweare  in  the  County  of  Deavon  (Eng)  Marchant all 

my  Lands  Houses  goods  chatells  Fish  Fishing  coast.  Bates  etc.  ...  in  New  England  in  America." 

This  deed  is  dated  "April  2  Anno  16  James,"  and  appended  is  a  memorandum 
made  April  22,  1641. 

In  1642  "  Mr.  Alexander  Shapleigh,  Merchant,  agent  for  Sir  Ferdinando 
Gorges,"  conveyed  to  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  James  Treworgye,  all  his  estate  in 
Kittery,  Me.,  the  deed  being  dated  May  20,  1642. 

James  Treworgye  died  in  Newfoundland  before  1650,  having  probably 
gone  there  for  trade.  The  record  says  he  was  "but  35  years  old."  This  is,  of 
course,  an  error,  as  his  son  John  was  thirty-two  at  this  date.  His  widow  Katherine 
married  (2)  after  1654,  as  his  second  wife,  Edward  Hilton,  of  Dover  and  Exeter, 
N.  H.,  who  had  a  plantation  in  163 1  at  Dover  Neck,  about  ten  miles  above  Kittery 
on  the  Piscataqua.  Katherine  Hilton  died  May  29,  1676.  She  made  a  nun- 
cupative will  attested  at  Hampton  Court,  Me.,  May  30,  1676,  in  which  she  be- 
queathed to  James,  son  of  John  Treworgye,  a  silver  beaker,  which  was  to  be  kept 
by  her  daughter,  Elizabeth  Oilman,  until  he  was  of  age.  She  also  mentioned 
Edward  Hilton,  Jr.,  her  daughters  Joanna  Meredeth,  Elizabeth  Oilman,  and  Lucie 
Wills,  her  grandchildren  Samuel  and  Mary  Oilman,  Joanna  Meredeth,  Betty, 
Katherine,  Sarah  and  Lydia  Oilman,  Mr.  Samuel  Dudley,  her  pastor,  Abigail,  wife 
of  Edward  Oilman,  and  her  sons-in-law.  Captain  John  Oilman  and  Mr.  Wills. 

Children  of  James  and  Katherine  (Shapleigh)  Treworgye 

John,  baptized  at  Kingsweare,  Eng.,  Dec.  30,  1618;  married  Jan.  15,  1646,  at  Newbury, 
Mass.,  Penelope  Spenser,  daughter  of  Mr.  Thomas  and  Penelope  (Filiall)  Spenser,  of 
Westminster,  Eng.;  came  over  as  agent  to  John  Winter  before  1639,  and  later  was 
associated  with  his  father  at  Kittery,  Me.;  had  a  son  John,  born  in  Newbury,  in  1649; 
was  commissioner  for  Newfoundland,  April  8,  1651. 

Joane,  married  John  Ameredeth,  of  Kittery;  was  living  in  1690,  when  her  husband's  will 
was  made. 

Samuel,  born  in  1628;  married  Dorcas  Walton;  was  a  mariner  of  Portsmouth,  Me.,  in  1674;  in 
a  deed  of  Nov.  6,  of  that  year,  he  speaks  of  land  at  Sturgeon  Creek  "wh  tract  of  land 
my  Mother  Mis  Katherine  Hilton  bought  of  Mr.  Rowles  the  Indian  while  shee  was 
my  father  Mr.  James  Treworgys  widow."' 

Lucy,  born  probably  at  Kittery  about  1632;  married  (i)  Humphrey  Chadbourne,  of  Kittery, 
and  had  seven  children.  His  will  was  dated  May  25,  1667;  married  (2)  in  1669, 
Thomas  Wills;  married  (3)  in  1688,  Hon.  Elias  Stileman,  of  Portsmouth;  died  in  1708. 

'Maine  Hist,  and  Gen.  Register,  III,  130. 


228  JAMES  TREWORGYE  [137] 

(131)    Elizabeth,  born  probably  in   Kittery  in  1639;  married  June  20,  1657,  Hon.  John  Oilman, 
son  of  Edward  and  Mary  (Clark)  Oilman  (130);  died  Sept.  8,  lyig. 
Samuel,  born  in  New  England.     This  second  son  Samuel  is  mentioned  in  records  as  hav- 
ing been  "born  in  New  England,"  no  dates  given. 

[137-A]       ALEXANDER  SHAPLEIGH  [i585-i6=,o] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    KITTERY,    MAINE 

ALEXANDER  SHAPLEIGH,  as  agent  for  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges,  was  con- 
cerned in  the  settlement  at  the  mouth  of  the  Piscataqua  River,  Maine, 
a  settlement  that  differed  radically  from  those  with  which  our  ances- 
tors were  identified  in  Massachusetts,  Plymouth,  Rhode  Island,  or  Connec- 
ticut. This  colony  was  made  up  of  artisans,  laborers,  and  farmers,  who  were  sent 
out  from  England  by  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges  and  Captain  John  Mason,  two  wealthy 
Englishmen,  whose  schemes  of  settlement  were  strictly  business  ventures.  Gorges 
was  a  soldier  and  Mason  a  sailor,  and  it  is  perhaps  true  as  stated  by  some  author- 
ities that  the  other  New  England  Colonies  have  had  "no  nobler  founders,  wise,  able, 
patriotic,  self-sacrificing,"  than  these  men.  They  were  both  strict  adherents  of  the 
English  Church,  and  so  they  and  all  associated  with  them  were  regarded  with 
disfavor  by  Winthrop  and  the  other  Massachusetts  Bay  Colonists.  The  greater 
number  of  these  settlers  came  from  Devonshire,  William  Pepperell,  the  first,  being 
among  them,  as  well  as  the  Shapleighs,  Treworgyes,  and  John  Ameredeth. 

The  name  Shapleigh  is  an  unusual  but  ancient  one  of  Devon  and  Cornwall,  and 
while  we  have  not  been  able  to  trace  the  ancestry  of  Alexander  Shapleigh,  the 
first  of  that  name  in  New  England  and  the  ancestor  of  all  the  Shapleighs  in  this 
country,  it  has*been  ascertained  that  he  lived  at  Kingsweare  on  the  Dart,  and  was  a 
man  of  means,  a  merchant  and  ship-owner,  his  ships  clearing  from  Dartmouth. 

In  the  early  records  of  Maine  he  is  called  the  agent  of  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges, 
and  he  built,  about  1635,  the  first  house  at  Kittery  Point,  Maine,  so-called  from  the 
Point  of  the  same  name  at  Kingsweare,  England.    Of  this  house  we  have  this  record : 

"  1650.  Forasmuch  as  the  house  at  the  Rivers  mouth  wher  Mr.  Shapleig's  Father  first  built 
&  Mr.  William  Hilton  now  Dwelleth:  In  regard  it  was  the  first  ther  bylt  and  Mr.  Shapleig  intendeth 
to  build  and  enlarge  it  and  for  further  consideration  it  is  thought  fit  it  should  from  time  to  time  be 
for  a  house  of  entertainment  or  ordinary,  etc." 

In  1635  James  Treworgye,  his  son-in-law,  came  over  in  one  of  his  ships  as 
supercargo,  and  apparently  Alexander  Shapleigh  then  returned  to  England, 
leaving  his  affairs  in  the  hands  of  Treworgye.  Through  the  latter  he  purchased 
large  tracts  of  land  extending  from  the  Piscataqua  half-way  to  the  York  River,  and 
in  1638,  also  five  hundred  acres  at  Kittery  Point. 

According  to  an  affidavit  of  Thomas  Jones,  an  old  servant,  Alexander 
Shapleigh  must  have  come  back  before  1639,  as  Jones  affirms  that  "  he  was  living 
with  his  family  near  Sturgeon  Creek  (in  Kittery  proper),  in  1639."     To  this  period 


ALEXANDER  SHAPLEIGH  [137-A]  229 

of  his  life  belongs  the  occurrence  to  which  his  daughter  Katherine  (Treworgye) 
Hilton  alludes  in  a  petition  she  made  to  theCourt  in  1674.  At  this  time  Nicholas 
Shapleigh,  her  brother,  was  imprisoned  and  fined  two  hundred  pounds  for  shel- 
tering two  men  accused  of  piracy.     His  own  statement  gives  it  as  follows: 

"  I  did  inconsiderately  and  out  of  foolish  pity  receive  and  conceale  William  fforest  and  two 
others  being  in  a  sudden  hurry  my  compassion  overcoming  my  reason." 

Katherine  Hilton's  petition  reveals  to  us  something  of  the  man  Alexander 
Shapleigh,  as  Nicholas'  statement  does  of  himself.  In  pleading  for  her  brother 
she  reminds  the  Court  that 

"38  years  since,  in  a  time  of  great  scarsity  in  this  land,  our  father  layd  out  a  good  estate  for  the 
supply  of  this  Country,  &  the  setleing  some  part  of  it,  &  in  a  season  of  there  want  supplyed  them 
soe  reasonabley  with  provisions  that  it  was  thankfully  accepted  and  acknowledged  by  the  Author- 
ity then  in  being." 

In  the  spring  of  1642  Alexander  Shapleigh  conveyed  the  whole  of  his  estate 
in  Maine  to  James  Treworgye,  and  subsequently  the  latter  made  it  all  over  to 
his  brother-in-law,  Nicholas  Shapleigh,  for  ;^i  ,500. 

Alexander  Shapleigh  died  before  July  5, 1650,  but  whether  in  this  country 
or  in  England  is  not  known.  At  that  date  his  estate  was  administered  at  Agamenti- 
cus.  Me.  His  daughter,  Katherine  Treworgye,  whose  husband  died  about  the 
same  time,  could  then  get  no  share  of  her  father's  estate,  as  the  amount  James 
Treworgye  had  received  (;^i,500,  above  mentioned)  was  considered  as  her  portion. 
Her  brother  Nicholas  had  practically  adopted  their  nephew  John,  and  at  Nicholas' 
death  in  1682,  he  left  his  large  property,  one-third  to  his  widow  and  two-thirds  to 
John.  Katherine  had  died  in  the  meantime,  and  her  children  renewed  the  claim. 
Finally,  in  1684,  administration  was  granted  to  Mr.  John  Shapleigh,  Mrs.  Joane 
Meredeth,  Mrs.  Lucia  Wills  and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Oilman  (131),  daughters  of  Mr. 
James  Treworgye,  and  to  the  widow  of  Nicholas,  Alice  Shapleigh. 

Children  of  Alexander  and Shapleigh 

Alexander,  born  about  1606;  did  not  emigrate  to  this  country;  died  in  1642,  leaving  one  son 
John,  who  was  adopted  by  his  uncle  Nicholas.  John  was  sergeant  in  Kittery  in  1659, 
ensign  in  1665,  and  held  many  important  civil  offices;  was  killed  by  the  Indians, 
April  29,  1706,  when  his  son  Nicholas  was  carried  away  by  them  to  Canada,  and 
treated  with  great  cruelty. 
(137)  Katherine,  born  about  1608;  married  (1)  March  16,  1616,  in  England,  James  Treworgye, 
who  died  before  1650;  married  (2)  after  1654,  Edward  Hilton,  one  of  the  fathers  of 
New  Hampshire;  died  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  May  29,  1676. 

Nicholas,  born  about  1610;  married  Alice  Masant,  daughter  of  "Widow  Mesant";  came  to 
Kittery  before  his  father,  and  its  early  prosperity  was  due  as  much  to  him  as  to  any 
other.  He  was  one  of  Gov.  Vine's  council  in  1644,  which  violently  opposed  sub- 
mission to  Massachusetts.  In  spite  of  this  fact,  he  was  later  appointed  by  the  Massa- 
chusetts commissioners,  collector,  county  treasurer,  and  commissioner  to  hold  County 
Court;  was  commissioned  commandant  of  the  First  Regiment  Yorkshire,  Me.,  by  the 


230  ALEXANDER  SHAPLEIGH  [137-A] 

General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  in  i656,,and  in  1678  was  one  of  the  commissioners  who 
made  a  treaty  of  peace  with  the  Sagamores.  He  belonged  to  the  Church  of  England, 
and  was  not  favorably  disposed  to  the  Puritans.  From  his  kindly  treatment  of  three 
Quakeresses  who  had  received  much  cruelty  from  New  Hampshire  towns,  he  was  at 
one  time  deposed  from  office  and  disfranchised.  His  last  important  civil  office  was 
that  of  representative  to  the  General  Court  at  Boston  in  1682,  but  shortly  after  his 
election,  he  was  struck  on  the  head  at  the  launching  of  a  small  vessel,  and  killed, 
April  29,  1682.  He  apparently  died  intestate,  and  left  no  children.  For  the  settle- 
ment of  his  affairs  see  above. 


[139]  NATHANIEL  CLARKE  [1644-1690] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  SOMERBY  [1646-1716] 

OF    NEWBURY,    MASS. 

NATHANIEL  CLARKE  was  a  merchant  in  Newbury,  and  the  earliest 
record  we  find  of  him  is  when  he  married  November  23,  1663,  Eliza- 
beth SoMERBY,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Judith  (Greenleaf)  Somerby 
(140),  in  the  Coffin  house  at  Newbury,  then  occupied  by  Elizabeth's 
step-father,  Tristram  Coffin,  Jr.  (147).  Elizabeth  was  born  November  i,  1646. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  church  over  which  Rev.  Thomas  Parl<er  and  Rev. 
James  Noyes  (2)  were  settled,  and  was  one  of  Mr.  Parker's  ardent  friends  and  sup- 
porters in  the  controversy  of  1665  to  1669,  when  Mr.  Edward  Woodman  asserted 
that  Mr.  Parker  wished  to  "set  up  a  Prelacy  &  have  more  power  than  the  Pope,  for 
the  Pope  had  his  council  of  Cardinals." 

In  1667  and  1668,  Nathaniel  Clarke  was  constable  and  in  1682  and  1688 
selectman.  In  1679  he  "proposed  for  a  parcel  of  the  flats  on  the  south  side  of  the 
point  of  Rocks"  for  a  wharf.     This  was  granted  in  1680,  reserving  to  the 

"Towne's  Inhabitants  free  liberty  to  land  goods  upon  it  provided  they  do  not  let  them  ly  to  Dam- 
nify the  Owner." 

He  was  appointed  naval  officer  for  the  ports  of  Newbury  and  Salisbury  by  the 
General  Court,  May  7,  1684,  and  promoted  from  sergeant  to  ensign  of  Captain 
Daniel  Pierce's  Company  of  Rowley,  in  1685.  Robert  Mason  of  the  Governor's 
council  wrote  to  Governor  Edmund  Andros,  on  August  13,  1689,  asking  that  "his 
friend  Nathanl  Clark"  be  appointed  justice  of  the  peace,  also  among  other  military 
appointments,  that  he  be  made  captain  of  the  Second  Company.  He  is  called 
ensign  in  the  Newbury  records,  and  "Hon''"'^"  when  mentioned  by  his  contem- 
poraries. 

He  died  in  Newbury,  August  25,  1690,  at  his  home,  which  was  on  the  Merrimac 
River,  towards  what  is  now  called  West  Newbury.  His  will,  made  four  days  before 
his  death,  was  dated  August  21,  and  probated  September  30,  1690.     In  it  he  gave 


NATHANIEL  CLARKE  [139]  231 

to  his  son  Nathaniel  (then  absent  on  the  expedition  to  Canada)  "if  he  Hves  to  come 
home,"  certain  lands.     To  his  son  Thomas,  he  gave  lands 

"provided  that  his  father  Noyes  [his  father-in-law  Thomas  Noyes,  son  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2)] 
shall  give  and  confirm  five  acres  of  salt  marsh,  making  his  daughter's  portion  worth  one  hundred 
pounds." 

To  his  son  Henry  he  left  the  homestead,  his  mother  to  live  with  him,  and  to  his 
sons  Daniel  and  Josiah,  lands,  and  he  further  gave 

"my  brigandine  and  all  ye  rest  and  residue  of  my  personal  estate  [to  his  wife  and  son  John  for] 
ye  bringing  up  of  my  four  youngest  children." 

He  also  mentioned  his  daughters  Sarah,  Elizabeth  and  Judith.  The  overseers  of 
his  will  were  his  "  honoured  father-in-law,  Trustr"  Cofm  "  and  "  loving  friends  Henry 
Somerby  [son  of  Abiel  and  grandson  of  Anthony  Somerby]  and  William  Noyes" 
(another  son  of  Rev.  James  Noyes  2).     His  estate  inventoried  ;^7i4.  9s. 

His  widow,  Elizabeth  (Somerby)  Clarke,  married  (2)  August  8, 1698,  as  his 
third  wife.  Rev.  John  Hale  (156).  The  family  relationships  begun  with  this  mar- 
riage became  somewhat  complicated  later,  as  will  appear  in  a  note  on  Rev.  John 
Hale.  Her  second  husband  died  May  15,  1700.  She  probably  spent  her  last  years 
at  the  home  of  one  of  her  sons-in-law.  Judge  Nicholas  Oilman  (132),  as  she 
died  at  Exeter,  March  15,  1716. 

Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Somerby)  Clarke 

Nathaniel,  born  Dec.  5,  1664;  died  June  6,  1665. 

Nathaniel,  born  March  13,  1666;  married  Dec.  15,  1685,  Elizabeth  Toppan,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Peter  and  Jane  (Batt)  Toppan;  was  mortally  wounded  on  the  ship  "Six  Friends"  in 
Sir  William  Phipps'  expedition  to  Canada  and  died  there  in  October,  i6go.  Rev. 
John  Hale  (156),  chaplain  of  the  expedition,  made  his  will,  and  brought  it  home  to 
his  father-in-law.  Dr.  Toppan.  His  widow  Elizabeth  married  (2)  James  Wise,  of 
Newbury. 

Thomas,  born  Feb.  9,  1668;  married  in  1689  or  1690,  Sarah  Noyes,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Thomas  and  Martha  (Pierce)  Noyes,  of  Newbury,  and  granddaughter  of  Rev.  James 
Noyes  (2);  is  called  sergeant  in  the  records;  died  April  25,  1722. 

John,  born  June  24, 1670;  H.  C.  1690;  married  June  19,  1694,  Elizabeth  Woodbridge,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Benjamin  and  Mary  Woodbridge,  of  Windsor, Ct., Rev.  John  Cotton  preaching 
the  marriage  sermon;  was  ordained  in  1698,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Newbury,  as 
assistant  to  Rev.  John  Richardson  ;  later  went  to  Exeter,  N.  H.,  on  the  invitation 
of  Hon.  John  Gilman  (131),  his  sister's  father-in-law,  and  Hon.  Peter  Coffin 
(162),  and  became  the  pastor  of  the  First  Church  there,  Rev.  John  Hale,  his  mother's 
second  husband,  to  whom  she  was  just  married,  preaching  the  installation  sermon; 
died  at  Exeter,  July  25,  1705,  aged  thirty-five.  His  widow  Elizabeth  married  (2)  Rev. 
John  Odlin,  of  Exeter,  son  of  Elisha  and  Abigail  (Bright)  Odlin,  and  grandson  of 
John  and  Margaret  Odlin  (60),  who  became  the  next  pastor  of  the  Exeter  Church. 

Henry,  born  July  5,  1673;  married  (i)  Nov.  7,  1695,  Elizabeth  Greenleaf,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Gerrish)  Greenleaf,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Captain 


232  NATHANIEL  CLARKE  [139] 

Edmund  and  Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf  (140-A);  married  (2)  Jan.  24,  1724,  Mary 
Pierce;  removed  to  Greenland,  N.  H.,  about  1727,  and  died  there  June  9,  1749. 

Daniel,  born  Dec.  16,  1675;  died  before  1709,  s.  p. 
(132)  Sarah,  born  Jan.   7,  1677/8;    married  June  10,  1697,  Judge    Nicholas   Gilman,    son   of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Treworgye)  Gilman  (131);  died  Aug.  25,  1741. 

Josiah,  born  May  7,   1682;  married  Jan.  24,   1706,  Sarah  Chamberlin,  daughter  of  John 
Chamberlin,  of  Hull,  Mass.;  was  a  "Taylor"  in  Boston,  and  died  there  April  29,  1717. 
His  widow  married  (2)  May  26,   1720,  at  Hingham,  Mass.,  Joseph  Woodwell,  of 
Bridgewater. 
(157)  Elizabeth,  born  May  15,  1684;  married  (i)  about  1700,  Dr.  Robert  Hale,  of  Beverly,  son 
(161)  of  Rev.  John  and  Rebecca  (Byley)  Hale  (156),  who  died  Jan.  12,  1719;  married  (2) 

Dec.  29,  1720,  Colonel  John  Gilman,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Treworgye) 
Gilman  (131),  the  brother  of  her  sister  Sarah's  husband.  He  died  between  1738 
and  1742,  and  she  went  back  to  the  home  of  her  son  Robert,  who  had  married  Eliz- 
abeth Gilman,  the  daughter  of  her  second  husband  by  his  first  wife,  and  died  at 
Beverly,  Jan.  24,  1762. 

Judith,  born  Jan.  3, 1686/7;  married  Thomas  Moody, son  of  Caleb  and  Sarah  (Pierce)  Moody, 
of  Newbury. 

Mary,  born  March  25,  1689;  and  died  before  Aug.  21,  1690. 

THE  SOMERBY  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

THE  family  of  Somerby  were    settled    in    the  village  of  Somerby,  Lincoln- 
shire, England,  since    before    the  Conquest.     The  first  of    the  name  of 
which  we  have  any  record    is  Adam   de  Somerby,  who  is  mentioned  in 
the  Domesday  Book  as  a  landholder  in  Lincolnshire.     We  do  not  trace 
beyond  the  latter  half  of  the  sixteenth  century,  when  Henry  Somerby  was  living 
in  the  village  of  Little  Bytham,  Lincolnshire. 

I 

Henry  Somerby,  of  Little  Bytham,  a  village  of  South  Heath,  eight  miles 

from  Stamford,  Lincolnshire,  married  Margaret ,  and  died  in  1609.     His 

children  were: 

Richard,  see  below. 

,  a  daughter. 

,  a  daughter. 

2 

Richard  inherited  his  father's  estate,  and  died  March  1,  1639.     His  children 
were: 

Anthony,  baptized  at  Little  Bytham,  Aug.  16,  1610;  was  a  graduate  of  Clare  Hall,  Cam- 
bridge, England,  and  emigrated  to  New  England  in  1639,  sailing  with  his  brother 
Henry  in  the  ship  "Jonathan";  became  the  town  clerk,  and  the  first  school  master 
in  Newbury,  Mass.;  died  July  31,  1686. 
(140)  Henry,  baptized  at  Little  Bytham,  Eng.,  March  17,  1612;  married  Judith  Green- 
leaf,  daughter  of  Edmund  and  Sarah  (Dole)Greenleaf  (140-A);  died  Oct.  2,  1652. 


HENRY  SOMERBY  [140]  233 


[140]  HENRY  SOMERBY  [1612-1652] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

JUDITH  GREENLEAF  [1625-1705] 

OF    ENGLAND    AND   NEWBURY,    MASS. 

HENRY  SOMERBY,  son  of  Richard  and Somerby,  was  bap- 
tized at  Little  Bytham,  Lincolnshire,  England,  March  17,  1612.  He 
sailed  from  England,  with  his  brother  Anthony,  in  the  ship  "Jonathan" 
in  1639,  landed  at  Boston  and  proceeded  immediately  to  Newbury.  There 
he  established  himself  as  a  merchant  tailor,  having  been  in  the  same  business  in 
Bristol,  England.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman  May  18,  1642,  and  soon  after 
married  Judith  Greenleaf,  daughter  of  Edmund  and  Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf 
(140-A),  who  was  born  September  2,  1625. 

In  1650  he  was  licensed  "to  keep  an  ordinary  instead  of  Mr.  Greenleaf," 
his  father-in-law.     He  died  October  2,  1652,  at  Newbury,  aged  forty  years. 

His  widow  Judith  married  (2)  March  2,  1653,  Tristram  Coffin,  Jr.  (147), 
son  of  Tristram  and  Dionis  (Stevens)  Coffin  (i47-A),who  had  been  an  apprentice 
to  her  first  husband.  As  there  were  no  Somerby  descendants,  the  house  and  estate 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Coffin  family. 

Children  of  Henry  and  Judith  (Greenleaf)  Somerby 

Sarah,  born  Feb.  10,  1645;  married  Dec.  8,  1663,  John  Hale,  son  of  Thomas  and    Rebecca 
1*"  (Lowie)  Hale,  of  Newbury;  died  June  19,  1672. 

(139)  Elizabeth,  born  Nov.  1,  1646;   married  (i)  Nov.  25,  1663,  Nathaniel  Clarke,  who  died 
(156)  Aug.  25,  1690;  married  (2)  Aug.  8,  1698,  as  his  third  wife,  Rev.  John  Hale  of  Beverly; 

died  at  Exeter  March  15,  1716. 
John,  born  Dec.  24,  1648;  died  Dec.  14,  1650. 

Daniel,  born  Nov.  18,  1650;  was  mortally  wounded  in  the  Great  Swamp  Fight  at  Mt.  Hope, 
R.  I.,  Dec.  19,  1675,  reached  home,  and  died  there  unmarried.  His  death  extin- 
guished the  male  line  of  descent  from  Henry  Somerby. 

[140-A]  EDMUND  GREENLEAF  [1574-1671] 

and  his  wife 
SARAH  DOLE  [.  .  .  .-1663] 

of    ENGLAND   AND   NEWBURY,    MASS. 

THE  original  name  of  the  Greenleaf  family  is  supposed  to  be   Feuillevert, 
and  they  were  probably  French  or  Flemish  refugees  who  came  to  England 
in  the  sixteenth  century.     The   name    is  found  only  in  the  parish  of 
Ipswich,  Suffolkshire,  and   that  county,  from  its  position,  received  most 
of  the  French  emigrants  of  that  time. 


234  EDMUND  GREENLEAF  [140-A] 

Edmund  Greenleaf  was  the  son  of  John  and  Margaret  Greenleaf,  and 
was  baptized  at  St.  Mary's-la-Tour,  Ipswich,  Eng., on  January  2, 1573/4.  He  was  by 
trade  a  silk-dyer  and  married,  in  Ipswich,  Sarah  Dole,  who  was  probably  a  sister 
of  the  first  Richard  Dole,  later  of  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  also  of  foreign  extraction." 

The  record  of  baptism  of  his  nine  children  is  to  be  found  also  at  St.  Mary's- 
la-Tour,  so  that  he  must  have  remained  in  Ipswich  until  he  emigrated  to  Massa- 
chusetts. 

He  came  to  Newbury  immediately  after  reaching  New  England,  and  his 
name  is  found  in  the  first  division  of  home  lots,  with  that  of  Rev.  James  Noyes 
(2).  His  house  was  near  the  "Old  Towne  bridge."  In  1638  he,  with  John  Pike 
and  two  others,  was  appointed  to  direct  the  defence  of  the  church  against  Indians 
during  worship.  The  able-bodied  inhabitants  of  the  town  were  divided  into  four 
companies  under  the  four  men,  and  were  required  to 

"  Bring  their  armes  compleat  one  Sabbath  day  in  a  month  and  the  lecture  day  following,  in 
order  successively  one  after  another  ...  to  stand  sentinell  at  the  doores  all  the  time  of  the  pub- 
lick  meeting  every  one  after  another  either  by  himself  in  person  or  by  a  sufficient  substitute  to  be 
allowed  by  the  overseer  of  the  ward." 

In  1639  he  was  admitted  freeman  and  was  made  ensign.  On  May  22  of  the 
same  year  "  Edmond  Greenlyf  of  Newberry  was  p'mitted  to  keep  a  house  of  in- 
tertainment."  He  was  made  lieutenant  of  the  Massachusetts  provincial  forces  in 
1642,  and  was  said  to  be  "An  ancient  and  experienced  Lieutenant  and  head  of  the 
Militia"  under  Captain  William  Gerrish  in  1644.  In  1647  he  applied  for  his  dis- 
charge from  military  service,  probably  on  account  of  his  age,  as  he  was  then  seventy- 
three.     This  was  granted  by  the  Court  November  1 1,  1647.^ 

He  removed  to  Boston  about  1650  with  his  wife  Sarah,  and  she  died  there 
January  18,  1663.  He  married  (2)  in  his  old  age,  for  her  third  husband,  Sarah 
(Jurdaine  Wilson)  Hill,  daughter  of  Ignatius  Jurdaine,^  of  Exeter,  England,  and 

widow  (i)  of Wilson  and  (2)  of  William  Hill  of  Fairfield,  Conn.     She  had 

several  children  by  her  second  husband,  and  after  her  third  marriage  they  seem 
to  have  been  a  cause  of  dissension  in  the  family. 

Edmund  Greenleaf  died  March  24,  1671,  aged  ninety-eight.  His  will 
dated  December  25,  1668,  was  proved  February  12,  1671. 

In  it  he  says:  "Next  my  will  is  being  according  to  God's  will  and  revealed  in  his  word,  that 
wee  must  pay  what  wee  owe  and  live  of  the  rest,  unto  whose  rule  the  sons  of  men  ought  to  frame 
their  wills  and  actions,  therefore,"  etc. 

'  Richard  Dole,  son  of  William  and  grandson  of  Richard  Dole,  of  Bristol,  Eng.,  was  the  first  of  the  name 
in  America,  although  he  came  to  Newhury  in  1639,  after  the  arrival  of  Edmund  Greenleaf  and  his  wife, 
whom  we  conjecture  to  have  been  Richard's  sister.  He  was  baptized,  Dec.  31,  1622,  at  Ringworthy  near  Bristol. 
Eng.;  married  ([)  May  3,  1647,  Hannah  Rolfe,  who  died  Nov.  16,  1678.  Their  son  Richard,  born  Sept.  6,  1650, 
married  Sarah  Greenleaf,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Greenleaf,  one  of  Edmund's  sons.      Richard 

Dole  married   (2)  March  4,   1679,    Hannah   ( )   Brocklebank,  widow  of  Captain   Samuel  Brocklebank  of 

Rowley,  Mass.;  married  (3)  Patience  Walker,  of  Haverhill,  Mass.  For  other  intermarriages  see  the  children  of 
Tristram  Coffin,  Jr.  (147). 

2  Mass.  Bay  Col.  Rec,  II,  215. 

'  For  Jourdaine  and  Hill  wills  see  Waters'  Genealogical  Gleanings,  1073-5. 


EDMUND  GREENLEAF  [140-A]  235 

It  mentions  his  son  Stephen,  his  "daughter  Browne  widow,  daughter 
Coffin,"  his  grandchildren,  Elizabeth  Hilton,  Enoch  Greenleaf,  Sarah  Winslow  and 
"eldest  son's  son  James  Greenleaf."  After  devises  to  these  members  of  his  fam- 
ily, he  leaves  the  rest  of  his  estate  to  his  son  Stephen  and  his  two  daughters,  Eliza- 
beth Browne  and  Judith  Coffin,  "equally  to  be  divided  amongst  them  and  their 
children."  The  estate  inventoried  at  £\^i  5s.  gd.  His  son  Stephen  and  son-in-law 
Tristram  Coffin,  Jr.,  were  the  executors. 

The  following  paper  was  recorded  with  the  will  and  probably  explains  why 
the  second  wife,  who  seems  to  have  outlived  her  husband,  was  not   mentioned. 

"When  I  married  my  wife,  I  i<ept  her  Grand  Child,  as  I  best  remember,  3  yeare  to  Scooh'ng 
Dyet  &  appareil,  and  Wilham  Hill,  her  son  had  a  bond  of  six  pound  a  yeare  whereof  I  Receiued  no 
more  than  a  barrel!  of  porke  of  ;£3.o.o.  of  that  £6.  0.0.  a  yere  he  was  to  pay  mee  &  I  sent  to  her  son 
Ignatius  Hill,  to  the  Barbadoes,  in  Mackrell,  Sider  &  bred  &  pease,  as  much  as  come  to  twenty 
pound  I  neuer  receaued  one  penny  of  itt;  his  Aunt'  gaue  to  the  three  Brothers  £^0.  apeice —  I 
know  not  whether  they  receaued  it  or  noe  but  I  haue  not  receaued  any  p'  of  it. 

Witness  my  hand 

Edmund    Greenleaf 

Beside — when  I  married  my  wife,  she  brought  mee  A  siluer  bowle  a  siluer  porringer  a  siluer 
spon — she  Lent  or  gaue  them  to  her  son  James  Hill  without  my  consent." 

Children  of  Edmund  and  Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf 

Enoch,  baptized  Dec.  i,  1613,  at  St.  Mary's-la-Tour,  Ipswich,  Eng.;  was  buried  at  St.  Mar- 
garet's in  the  same  place,  Sept.  2,  1617. 

Samuel,  was  buried  at  St.  Margaret's,  March  5,  1627. 

Enoch,  born  about  1617  or  1618;  married  Mary ,  and  was  living  in  1683;  lived  in 

Maiden  and  Boston,  Mass. 

Sarah,  baptized  March  26,  1620,  at  St.  Mary's-la-Tour;  married  William  Hilton,  of  Newbury, 
Mass.,  and  later  of  Charlestown;  died  in  1655. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  Jan.  16,  1622,  at  St.  Mary's-la-Tour;  married  (i)  in  1642,  Giles  Badger, 
of  Newbury,  Mass.,  who  died  July  10,  1647;  married  (2)  Feb.  16,  1648/9,  as  his  second 
wife,  Richard  Browne,  of  Newbury;  died  after  1688. 

Nathaniel,  baptized  June  27,  1624,  at  St.  Mary's-la-Tour;  buried  at  St.  Margaret's,  July  24, 
1634. 
(140)  Judith,  born  Sept.  2,  1625,  baptized  Sept.  29,  1626,  at  St.  Mary's-la-Tour;  married  in  New- 
(147)  bury,  Mass.,  Henry  Somerby,  who  died  Oct.  2,  1652;  married  (2)  March  2,  1653, 

Tristram  Coffin,  son  of  Tristram  and  Dionis  (Stevens)  Coffin  (147-A),  of  New- 
bury; died  Dec.  15,  1705. 

Stephen,  baptized  Aug.  10,  1628,  at  St.  Mary's-la-Tour;  married  (i)  Nov.  13,  1651,  Eliz- 
abeth Coifm,  daughter  of  Tristram  and  Dionis  (Stevens)  Coffin  (147-A),  and  sister 
of  his  sister  Judith's  husband,  who  died  Nov.  19,  1678;  married  (2)  March  31,  1679, 
as  her  second  husband,  Esther  (Weare)  Swett,  widow  of  Benjamin  Swett,  of  Hamp- 
ton, and  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Weare,  of  Hampton,  N.  H.;  was  ensign  in  1670, 
lieutenant  in  1685,  deputy  in  1676,  and  many  times  later,  also  a  member  of  the  Coun- 

'  This  Aunt  was  Mary  ( )  Godwyn  of  Lyme  Regis,  Eng.     Her  will  is  given  in  Waters'  Genealogical 

Cleanings,  70. 


236  EDMUND  GREENLEAF  [140-A] 

cil  of  Safety  in  1689;  was  captain  in  Sir  William  Phipps'  unsuccessful  expedition 
for  the  conquest  of  Canada  in   1690,  and  was  drowned  with  nine  others  at  Cape 
Breton,  in  the  fall  of  that  year^  (Dec  i). 
Daniel,  baptized  Aug.  14,  1631,  at  St.  Mary's-la-Tour;  died  at  Newbury,  Dec.  5,  1654.^ 

[141]  JONATHAN  THING  L1621-1670J 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

JOANNA [....-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  EXETER,  N.  H. 

JONATHAN  THING  was  at  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1641,  and  left  there  under 
charge  of  a  serious  misdemeanor.  In  his  youth,  he  evidently  was  not  a 
man  of  good  character,  but  as  later  he  held  various  important  offices,  in 
middle  life  he  commanded  some  respect.  He  was  among  the  few  (six  only) 
at  Wells,  Me.,  who  voluntarily  submitted  to  the  government  of  Massachusetts, 
July  4,  1653.  Most  of  the  inhabitants  sympathized  with  their  pastor.  Rev.  John 
Wheelright,  who  had  come  to  Wells  from  Exeter  to  get  away  from  the  jurisdiction 
of  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony. 

He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  Massachusetts  September  14,  1653,  and  the 
same  year  was  made  constable  at  Wells,  and  the  next  year  was  appointed  to  see 
that  the  adjacent  towns  each  paid  their  part  towards  the  building  of  a  prison  at 
Wells.  He  was  also  made  commissioner  to  try  small  causes  for  the  Isle  of  Shoals 
in  1655.  The  same  year  he  was  required  to  give  bonds  for  his  good  behavior. 
There  were  four  indictments  against  him: 

"For  telling  a  lie.  .  .  .  For  being  a  common  disturber  of  order.  .  .  .  For  serving  a  notice 
on  the  Lord's  day.  .  .  .  For  speaking  discornfully  of  the  Court,  [saying]  no  question  but  you 
may  cast  any  cause  at  the  court  at  York  so  long  as  Harry  the  coachman  sits  Judge." 

His  name  appears  among  the  early  settlers  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  he  was 
selectman  there  in  1658  and  for  seven  years  thereafter. 

He  married  probably  at  Exeter,  Joanna ,  but  the  date  has  not  been 

found.     In  1667  he  gave  his  age  as  forty-six  years. 

According  to  the  records  he  died  suddenly  about  1670.  After  his  death, 
his  widow  Joanna  and  her  son  Jonathan 

"Agree  that  the  children  of  Jonathan  and  Joanna;  Samuel,  Elizabeth  and  Mary  shall  have 
a  good  education  and  that  they  will  jointly  care  for  them  until  either  Joanna  or  Jonathan  may 
marry." 

'  He  was  an  ancestor,  through  his  son  Tristram,  of  John  Greenleaf  Whittier.  The  poet  was  also  descended 
from  Tristram  Coffin,  Jr.  (147).  A  writer  in  the  Boston  Transcript  signing  himself  "S.  V.  C."  gives  the  place  of 
Stephen  Greenleaf's  death  as  the  Island  of  Anticosti. 

'  Possibly  two  more  children  should  be  added.  John,  born  about  1632,  married,  July  26,  1665,  Hannah 
Veazie,  daughter  of  William  Veazie  of  Braintree,  Mass.,  and  Mary,  who  married  March  5,  1669,  John  Wells,  of 
Newbury. 


JONATHAN  THING  [141]  237 

In  the  old  Norfolk  Deeds  we  also  find  the  following:  "whereas  Jonathan 
Thing  died  suddenly  Joanna  his  widow  and  Jonathan  Jr.,"  may  sell  his  land  in 
Exeter.    This  was  dated  June  18,  1674. 

Children  of  Jonathan  and  Joanna  [ ]  Thing 

(142)  Jonathan,  born  about  1654;  married  (i)  July  26,  1677,  Mary  Oilman,  daughter  of  Hon. 

John    and    Elizabeth   (Treworgye)    Oilman  (131),   who  died  in  August,   1691; 

married  (2)  in   1693,  Martha  (Denison)  Wiggin,  widow  of  Thomas    Wiggin,  and 

daughter  of  John  Denison,  of  Ipswich;  died  Oct.  31,-  1694. 
Elizabeth,  born  June  5,  1664,  of  whom  nothing  more  is  known. 
John,  born  Sept.  20,  1665;  died  Nov.  4,  of  the  same  year. 
Samuel,  born  June  3,  1667;  married  July  8,  1696,  Abigail  Oilman,  daughter  of  Hon.  John 

and  Elizabeth  (Treworgye)  Oilman  (131)  and  sister  of  his  brother   Jonathan's 

wife;  was  called  captain,  and  lived  at  Exeter. 
Mary  (or  Mercy),  born  March  6, ,  of  whom  nothing  more  is  known. 

[142]        CAPTAIN  JONATHAN  THING  [1654-1694] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARY  OILMAN  [1658-1691] 

OF    EXETER,  N.  H. 

JONATHAN  THING,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Joanna  ( )  Thing  (141),  was 

I      born  about  1654.     We  find  him  first  mentioned  with  his  father  at  Exeter, 

I      N.  H.,  in  a  list  of  residents,  on  March  30,  1670.     He  was   called  Jonathan 

J      Thing,  Jr.,  and  was  then  about  sixteen  years  old.     He  seems  to  have  served 

as  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  War,  as   he   received    pay   for   military   services  on 

October  24, 1676. 

He  married  (i)  July  26,  1677,  Mary  Oilman,  daughter  of  Hon.  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Treworgye)  Oilman  (131),  who  was  born  September  10,  1658. 

In  April,  1678,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  tithing  men  of  Exeter,  who  were  to 
collect  the  salary  of  Rev.  Mr.  Dudley.  A  year  later,  February  18,  1679,  the  fol- 
lowing order  was  given : 

"At  the  request  of  Jonathan  Thing,  Edward  Oilman  [130],  Edward  Smith,  Peter  Folsom, 
Nathaniel  Ladd,  Moses  Leavitt,  for  the  erecting  of  a  gallery  at  the  end  of  the  men's  gallery  for  their 
wives  it  is  granted,  etc.  .  .  .  provided  they  build  the  same  upon  their  own  charge." 

Jonathan  Thing  served  on  the  grand  jury  in  1684  and  was  constable  in 
1685,  and  the  same  year  was  named  as  one  of  the  royal  councillors  in  the  commis- 
sion of  James  1 1  to  Joseph  Dudley,  as  president  of  His  Majesty's  Territory  and 
Dominion  in  New  England,  etc.,  with  Simon  Bradstreet,  John  Pyncheon,  Waite 
Winthrop,  Nathaniel  Saltonstall  and  others.  In  December,  1689,  he  was  town 
clerk  and  was  elected  as  delegate  from  Exeter  to  the  Convention  at  Portsmouth 
which  assembled  January  24,  1690,  to  provide  a  method  of  protection  against  the 


238  CAPTAIN  JONATHAN  THING  [142] 

Indians.  The  massacre  at  Cochecho  in  1689  was  probably  the  immediate  cause. 
He  was  made  ensign  in  1690,  captain  in  1692  and  served  in  King  William's  War  as 
captain  of  the  Exeter  Company. 

His  wife,  Mary  Oilman,  died  in  August,  1691,  aged  thirty-three,  leaving 
seven  children,  the  eldest  of  whom  was  thirteen.  He  married  (2)  in  1693,  Martha 
(Denison)  Wiggin,  widow  of  Captain  Thomas  Wiggin,  a  very  early  settler  of  Exeter, 
and  a  daughter  of  John  Denison  of  Ipswich. 

One  year  later  Captain  Jonathan  Thing  died,  October  31,  1694,  "aged 
forty"  as  stated  on  his  tombstone.  He  was  riding  in  the  woods  in  company  with 
his  brother  Captain  Samuel  Thing,  and  Peter  Folsom,  when  he  was  killed  by  the 
accidental  discharge  of  his  gun.  The  inquest,  which  was  held  next  day  by  Coroner 
Redfield,  found  that 

"Capt.  Jon^  Thing  was  on  the  30th  of  this  inst.  (Oct.)  shot  to  death  by  his  own  gun 
accidentally  going  off  and  that  no  other  reason  was  the  cause  of  his  death." 

He  was  buried  with  his  first  wife  Mary  in  the  oldest  existing  graveyard  in  Exeter. 
The  following  memorandum  of  the  expenses  for  his  funeral  was  found  among 
the  papers  of  his  son  Bartholomew  (143). 

"Funeral  Chargs.  ii   s   d 

13  pair  wash  leather  gloves  a  5/6  3   '■  3 

13  ditto                 a  3/  I    19  o 

1 1   dito                  a  2/6  I     7  6 

2  pair  dito           34/  80 

4  pair  dito           a  4/6  18  o 


840 

10  galonsofWine  3.  5.  o  3     5° 

Sugar  spice  and  other  nesseries  1     5  o 

I  bareilsyder     10/  10  o 

3  galonsrum     18/  18  o 

crape  for  whood  vails  and  weeds  769 

to  diging  the  grave  10  o 

the  coffin     8/  80 
7  yard  of  black  42/,  &  10  yards  of  black  duerance 
40/,  and  2  yards  of  lude  string  22/,  and  3  pair  of 
Gloves  4/,  for  the  a  suit  of  cloths  with  the 

makeing  and  other  nessary  in  all  600 


28    6  9" 

Jonathan  Thing  evidently  died  intestate,  for  a  very  complete  inventory 
was  taken  by  "Mr.  Nicholas  Gillman  [his  brother-in  law  132]  Peter  Coffin  [prob- 
ably 162]  and  Moses  Levite,"  and  the  property  was  divided  among  the  heirs  by 
"William  Partridge  Esq'  Lt.  Gouv"'."  There  was  live  stock  worth  £\'].  15s. 
"wearing  apparel  of  Capt.  Things  former  wife  deceased  £^.0.0.",  real  estate  £215, 


CAPTAIN  JONATHAN  THING  [142]  239 

and  "lumber  and  >^  of  a  sawmill  £74,"  altogether  £4^  i .  3s.  i  id.  Of  this  the  widow 
received  during  her  life  £150.  9s.,  the  eldest  son  Jonathan  £'j!j.  4s.,  and  the  other 
five  children  £37.  12s.  apiece,  being,  as  the  settlement  says  "as  the  law  in  such 
cases  directs." 

Children  of  Captain  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Oilman)  Thing 

Jonathan,  born  Sept.  21,  1678;  married  his  second  cousin,  Abigail  Giiman,  daughter  of 
Edward  and  Abigail  (Maverick)  Giiman  and  great-granddaughter  of  Edward  and 
Mary  (Clark)  Oilman  (130);  died  at  Exeter  about  1735. 

John,  born  June  6  (or  16),  1680;  married  (i)  Mehitable  Stevens;  married  (2)  Love  ( ) 

Wentworth,  widow  of  Thomas  Wentworth. 
(143)  Bartholomew,  born  Feb.  25,  1681/2;  married  (i)  Dec.  7,  1705,  Abigail  Coffin,  daughter  of 
Tristram  and  Deborah  (Colcord)  CofTin  and  granddaughter  of  Hon.  Peter  and 
Abigail  (Starbuck)  Coffin  (162);  married  (2)  April  2,  1712,  as  her  second  husband, 
Sarah  (Little)  Kent,  widow  of  John  Kent  and  daughter  of  Captain  Joseph  and 
Mary  (Coffin)  Little  (146);  died  April  28,  1738. 

Joseph,  born  in  March,  1684;  married  Mary  Foulsham  or  Folsom. 

Elizabeth,  born  about  1686;  married  (i)  Edward  Stevens;  married  (2)  Daniel  Young. 

Benjamin,  born  Nov.  12,  1688;  married  (1)  in  January,  1712,  Pernel,  or  Parnell,  Coffin, 
daughter  of  Tristram  and  Deborah  (Colcord)  Coffin  and  sister  of  his  brother  Bar- 
tholomew's first  wife;  married  (2)  Oct.  21,  1725,  Deborah  (Hilton)  Thing,  widow  of 
his  cousin  Captain  Samuel  Thing  and  daughter  of  Colonel  Winthrop  Hilton,  who  was 
noted  in  the  early  Indian  wars.  He  was  grandson  of  the  Edward  Hilton  who  mar- 
ried (2)  Katherine  (Shapleigh)  Treworgye  (137). 

Josiah,  born  about  1690,  and  died  in  infancy. 

Children  of  Captain  Jonathan  and  Martha  (Denison  Wigcin)  Thing 

Daniel,  born  May  12,  1694;  married  March  3,  1718,  Elizabeth  Clarke,  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Elizabeth  (Greenleaf)  Clarke  of  Newbury,  granddaughter  of  Nathaniel  and 
Elizabeth  (Somerby)  Clarke  (139)  and  great-granddaughter  of  Captain  Edmund 
and  Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf  (140-A). 


[143J  BARTHOLOMEW  THING  [1682-1738] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

SARAH  (LITTLE)  KENT  [1683-1754] 

OF  EXETER,  N.  H. 

BARTHOLOMEW  THING,  son  of  Captain  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Gilman) 
Thing  (142),  was  born  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  February  25,  1681/2.    He  was  but 
twenty-three  years  of  age  when  he  married  (i)  December  7,  1705,  Abigail 
Coflfin,  daughter  of  Tristram  and   Deborah  (Colcord)  Coffin    and  grand- 
daughter of  Hon.  Peter  and  Abigail  (Starbuck)  Coffin  (162). 

She  died  May  29,  171 1,  leaving  no  children,  and  he  married  (2)  April  2,  17 12, 


240  BARTHOLOMEW  THING  [143] 

Sarah  (Little)  Kent,  widow  of  John  Kent  and  daughter  of  Captain  Joseph  and 
Mary  (Coffin)  Little  (146),  who  was  born  in  1683. 

As  "Lieut.  Bartholomew  Thing"  he  appears,  Octobers,  1729,  on  the  com- 
mittee appointed  to  build  the  new  meeting-house  in  Exeter.  He  paid  £21,  on 
November  7,  1731,  for  pew  No.  15,  and  later  bought  pew  No.  5  in  the  lower  gallery 
for  ;^io.  5s.  This  would  indicate  that  he  was  one  of  the  wealthy  and  important 
members  of  the  church. 

He  served,  like  his  father,  for  many  years  as  selectman,  holding  that  office 
in  1721,  26-29,  33,  36,  37.  He  was  town  clerk  from  1729  to  1737,  justice  of  the 
peace  in  1734  and  representative  in  1727,  28  and  1731  to  35.  In  1738  Elisha  Odlin 
was  chosen  town-clerk  in  his  place,  but  Bartholomew  Thing  declined  to  give  up 
the  books.  Sometimes  such  an  action  had  the  general  approval,  but  in  this  case 
the  majority  of  the  inhabitants  objected,  a  town  meeting  was  called,  and  it  was 
voted  that  the  "books  should  be  removed  out  of  Things  hands  &  put  into  Odlins." 
The  cause  of  the  trouble  may  have  been  the  then  engrossing  question  of  the  equit- 
able division  of  the  town  lands.  Bartholomew  Thing's  name  is  on  the  committee 
of  1724  to  act  on  this  subject,  but  the  people  were  dissatisfied  with  the  report,  and 
he  was  not  re-elected. 

Bartholomew  Thing  died  soon  after  at  Exeter  on  April  28,  1738,  leaving 
a  very  large  estate,  amounting  to  £^,C)C)C,.  los.  4d.  His  widow  Sarah  and  his  uncle 
Judge  Nicholas  Oilman  (132)  were  the  administrators. 

Sarah  (Little  Kent)  Thing  married  (3)  Colonel  John  Downing,  of  Exeter 
and  died  early  in  1754. 

Probably  among  our  ancestors  only  Judge  Simon  Lynde  (78)  and  Francis 
Willoughby  (82)  were  as  wealthy  men  as  Bartholomew  Thing.  The  inventory 
of  seven  pages  shows  the  large  amount  of  supplies  that  a  rich  man  was  obliged  to 
keep  in  his  house.  His  property  was  almost  all  in  goods,  lands  and  live  stock.  A 
selection  from  the  items  will  be  interesting  to  show,  not  only  the  articles  owned,  but 
the  extraordinary  values  put  upon  some  of  them. 

The  inventory  gives  his  "home  lot  house  barn  and  other  buildings  £800. 
.  .  .  meadows,  pastures  wast  swamp,  etc,  £3,060,  cows,  oxen,  yearlings,  sheap, 
etc.,  £300.  .  .  .  negro  man  &  woman  £\^o.  .  .  Jersey  boy  ;^20.  About  a  lode 
of  hay  £'y,  2  barills  of  pork  ;£24,  two  pews  in  ye  meating  house  ;£40,  Cash  in 
the  house  ;^i03,  plate  ;£92,  105  lb  puter  at  5s.  per  lb  ;£26.  50s.,  36  lbs  Do.  3/6  pr 
lb  £j.  7s.  A  clock  &  watch  ;^40,  Table  linen  ;£i5.  8s,  i  pr  fine  sheats  £^.  los. 
[probably  Holland],  2  pr  coton  Do  £'j,  2  pr  fine  sheats  £8,  27  Sheats  ;^27,  Waring 
aprell  ;£io2,  i  pr.  Camblet,  Calimanco,  42.V  blk  crape  in  remnants  £7.  7s., 
flannen,  Druget,  54 J-  Russia  linen,  61  yd  Linen,  i  ps  of  Mens  hat  band  ^8, 
10  silk  handkerchifs  £<j,  part  of  ps  Cyprus,  Tape  Ribins  Goloon  bobins  a'  thred 
;^i3.  los.,  1 1  silk  muslin  H'kerchifs  a'  7s,  Coton  20s  [spools?]  thimbels  &  needles, 
Buckels,  31  knives  6  rasors,  28  Duble  Gross  Botons,  i  gros  jact  [jacket]  Do,  [alto- 
gether ;£i  7.  I  IS.  in  buttons]  15  prs.  Gloves  &  some  od  ones,  56!  yds  of  Chintz  and 
Calico  £42.   7  yds  brodcloth  ;^8.  8s.,  i^  Ream  Paper  ;£3,  ^- doz  cards  £2.  los.,  2 


BARTHOLOMEW  THING  [143]  241 

beaver  hats  ;^6.  los.,  4  beveret  Do  £8,  10  caps  ;£2.  los.,  furniture  ;£223,  Books  fji^, 
3  bibles  36/,  16  psalters  &  6  psalm  book  £1.  i8s.,  Shaies  £50,  Slaie  £,^,  Sadie  & 
bridle  and  portmanteu  Whippe&  spurs  £6.  6s.,  136  lb  Sheap  wool  ;^23. 12s.,  2  hog'd 
Salt  as  computed  £4,"  besides  numberless  small  household  utensils,  and  many 
more  items. 

Children  of  Bartholomew  and  Abigail  (Coffin)  Thing 

Tristram,  born  Oct.  26,  1707;  died  June  22,  1709. 
Josiah,  born  Aug.  18,  1710;  died  March  5,  1710. 

Children  of  Bartholomew  and  Sarah  (Little   Kent)  Thing 

(133)  Mary,  born  Jan,  11   (or  3),   1713;  married  Oct.  22,   1730,  Rev.  Nicholas  Oilman,  son  of 
Judge  Nicholas  and  Sarah  (Clarke)  Oilman  (132)  of  Exeter;  died  Feb.  22,  1789. 

[145I  GEORGE  LITTLE  [....-1694] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ALICE  POOR  [....-1680] 

OF   ENGLAND  AND  NEWBURY,   MASS. 

GEORGE  LITTLE,  the  first  of  the  Newbury  family  of  that  name,  is  supposed 
to  have  been  a  tailor  from  Unicorn  Street  near  London  Bridge,  London, 
England.  His  parentage  has  not  been  learned  and  he  does  not  seem 
to  have  worked  at  his  trade  after  he  came  to  this  country. 

Mr.  John  Woodbridge,  nephew  of  Rev.  Thomas  Parker,  and  his  immediate 
successor  as  pastor  of  the  church  at  Newbury,  advanced  him  his  passage  money, 
and  after  his  arrival  about  1640,  he  worked  out  his  debt  by  making  fences,  etc., 
for  Mr.  Woodbridge,  who  also  aided  him  in  acquiring  his  first  land,  entered  as  "four 
acres  of  upland  laid  out  to  George  Little  on  behalf  of  Mr.  John  Woodbridge."  In 
1650  he  bought  the  freehold  right  of  John  Osgood,  Sr.,  perhaps  a  brother  of  Chris- 
topher Osgood  (253-B).  In  165 1  he  bought  of  Nicholas  Noyes,  brother  of  Rev. 
James  Noyes  (2),  fourteen  acres  of  land. 

He  married  (i)  about  165 1,  Alice  Poor  (also  spelt  Power),  who,  with  her 
younger  brothers,  Samuel  and  Daniel  Poor,  came  from  Wiltshire,  Eng.,in  May,  1638, 
in  the  "Bevis"with  Mr.  Samuel  Dummer.  Mr.  Dummer  was  a  connection  of  Judge 
Sewall's,  and  Alice  Poor  may  have  been  also  a  cousin,  as  we  find  that  his  grand- 
father's sister,  Anne  Sewall,  married  "Anthonie  Power."  In  Judge  Sewall's  Diary 
he  mentions  calling  on  "Goodman  and  Goodwife  Little"  in  one  of  his  visits  to  New- 
bury and  says  that  "she  lived  in  sore  pain  for  many  years  before  her  death." 

George  Little  owned  land  in  Quinabaug  County,  Conn.,  and  also,  it  is 
believed,  at  Stonington,  Conn.  In  1669  he  received  a  patent  for  eighty  acres  in 
Woodbridge,  N.  J.,  which  he  afterward  deeded  to  his  son  Joseph  (146)  and  his 
grandson  John.     In  1688  he  petitioned  Sir  Edmund  Andros,  then  governor  of  New 


242  GEORGE  LITTLE  [145] 

England,  for  confirmation  of  his  title  to  four  hundred  acres  of  land  "on  the  north 
side  of  Swan  Pond  westward  from  the  Saco  River"  which  he  had  bought  some  years 
before  from  Rev.  Seaborn  Cotton.  The  petition  states  that  he  had  expended 
;^40  upon  it  without  any  returns  as  yet,  and  that  he  owned  meadow  lands  adjacent. 
In  fact  he  acquired  land  so  rapidly  that  in  the  Town  Meeting  of  1670  it  was  voted 
"That  the  selectmen  shall  take  care  that  George  Little  fence  in  no  more  land  than 
is  his  due." 

He  and  his  son  Moses  were  taxed  in  1688  on  two  houses,  twelve  acres  of 
ploughed  land,  thirty-four  acres  of  meadow,  eight  acres  of  pasture,  two  horses, 
twenty-three  head  of  cattle,  forty  sheep  and  six  hogs. 

He  served  frequently  on  juries  at  Ipswich  and  Salem  and  as  administrator 
of  several  estates.  He  held  no  public  office,  but  appears,  like  the  majority  of  our 
first  settlers,  to  have  turned  his  attention  mainly  to  farming,  and  his  farms  contain 
some  of  the  best  land  in  Newbury  and  are  still  held  by  his  descendants. 

Tradition  says  that  he  was  not  an  educated  man,  but  was  exceptionally 
strong  in  both  body  and  mind.  It  is  said  that  he  "could  carry  a  plough  on  his 
shoulder  from  his  home  [in  the  town]  to  his  farm  at  Turkey  Hill  over  three  miles 
away."  He  "was  well  versed  in  scripture,  being  able  to  give  the  book  and  chapter 
of  any  text  that  might  be  quoted."     He  was  the  first  Baptist  in  Newbury. ' 

The  house  that  he  built  in  1679,  which  was  his  home  until  his  death,  was 
taken  down  in  185 1.     In  December,  1680,  his  wife  Alice  died,  aged  sixty-two,  and 

he  married  (2)  July  19,  1681,  Eleanor  ( )  Barnard,  widow  of  Thomas  Barnard 

of  Amesbury,  Mass. 

The  exact  date  of  his  death  is  not  known,  but  it  was  between  March  15,  1693, 
and  November  27,  1694.  As  no  legal  administration  of  his  estate  is  found,  it  is  prob- 
able that  he  divided  his  property  before  his  death.  He  was  buried  in  the  grave- 
yard adjoining  the  First  Church.  All  traces  of  the  grave  have  long  since 
disappeared  as  a  new  church  was  built  very  near  it. 

His  second  wife  Eleanor  survived  him  but  a  short  time,  dying  November  27, 
1694. 

Children  of  George  and  Alice  (Poor)  Little 
Sarah,  born  May  8,  1652;  died  Nov.  19,  of  the  same  year. 
(146)  Joseph,  born  Sept.  22,  1653;  married  Oct.  31,  1677,  Mary  Coffin,  daughter  of  Tristram 
Jr.,  and  Judith  (Greenleaf  Somerby)  Coffin  (147);  died  Sept.  6,  1740. 
John,  born  July  28,  1655;  died  July  20,  1672. 

Moses,  born  March  1 1,  1657;  married  Lydia  Coffin,  daughter  of  Tristram,  Jr.,  and  Judith 
(Greenleaf  Somerby)  Coffin  (147),  and  sister  of  his  brother  Joseph's  wife;  lived 
at  Newbury  on  the  homestead,  was  town  collector,  and  served  in  King  Philip's  War; 
died  of  small-pox  March  8,  1691,  leaving  an  estate  of  £1,0^^.  His  son  Moses  bought 
the  Turkey  Hill  farm  from  his  uncle  Joseph  (146),  and  later  went  with  his  brother 
John  to  Monmouth  County,  N.  J.,  where  their  descendants  remained. 
Sarah,  born  Nov.  24,  1661 ;  married  March  3,  1682,  Joseph  Ilsley,  son  of  William  and  Barbara 
Ilsley,  of  Newbury;  died  after  1718. 
'See  Christopher  Osgood  (253-B)fora  letter  to  him  from  Thomas  Osborne. 


JOSEPH  LITTLE  [146]  243 


[146]  JOSEPH  LITTLE  [165  3- 1740] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

MARY  COFFIN  [1657-1725] 

OF   NEWBURY,   MASS. 

JOSEPH  LITTLE,  son  of  George  and  Alice  (Poor)  Little  (145),  was  born  in 
Newbury,  September  22,  1653.  He  married  October  31,  1677,  Mary  Coffin, 
daughter  of  Tristram  and  Judith  (Greenleaf  Somerby)  Coffin  (147), 
who  was  born  November  12,  1657.  It  is  supposed  that  they  lived  upon  the 
farm  on  Turkey  Hill  owned  by  his  father,  from  the  time  of  their  marriage  until 
he  moved  to  Newburyport  in  1730. 

Joseph  Little  was  a  farmer,  but  was  more  interested  in  town  affairs  than 
his  father.  He  was  tithing  man  in  1685,  and  selectman  for  many  years  between 
1692  and  1705.  He  and  his  wife  were  members  of  the  church  of  which  Rev.  Thomas 
Parker  and  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2)  were  pastor  and  teacher.  In  1700  a  new  meet- 
ing-house was  built,  and  Joseph  Little  was  given  a  prominent  pew,  according  to 
their  custom  of  seating  the  congregation  by  their  importance  in  the  town. 

He  acquired  by  inheritance  and  purchase  a  large  estate  and  became  one  of 
the  largest  landholders  in  Newbury.  He  was  lieutenant  in  1705  and  was  later 
spoken  of  in  the  records  as  "Capt.  Joseph  Little." 

His  wife  Mary  died  November  20,  1725,  and  about  1730  he  sold  his  farm  at 
Turkey  Hill  to  his  nephew,  Moses  Little,  and  moved  to  that  part  of  Newbury  which 
is  now  called  Newburyport,  where  several  of  his  sons  were  in  business. 

Joseph  Little  died  at  Newburyport  September  6,  1740.  He  distributed  his 
land  among  his  sons  before  his  death,  and  in  his  will,  which  was  dated  January  27, 
1737,  and  proved  October  i,  1740,  he  divided  his  household  goods  between  his 
daughters,  Judith  Moody  and  Sarah  Thing.  Of  the  remainder  of  his  estate, 
which  inventoried  ;^i73.8s.,he  gave  one-third  to  his  daughter-in-law,  Mary  Little, 
and  one-third  to  each  of  his  grandsons,  Nathan  and  Ebenezer. 
Children  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Coffin)  Little 
Judith,  born  July  19,  1678;  married  March  25,  1696,  Cutting  Moody,  son  of  Samuel  and 

Mary  (Cutting)  Moody;  died  April  30,  1761. 
Joseph,  born  Feb.  23,  1680;  died  Aug.  14,  1693. 
George,  born  Jan.  12,  1682;  married  (i)  Feb.  22,   171 1,  Edna  Hale,  daughter  of  Captain 

Thomas  and  Sarah  (Northend)  Hale;  married  (2)  Oct.  19,  1736,  Mehitabel  ( ) 

Clement,  a  widow  of  Haverhill,  Mass.;  lived  for  a  time  at  Newbury,  was  lieutenant 
in  the  militia  there;  lived  also  at  Boscawen,  Haverhill  and  Plaistow,  N.  H.;  died 
July  2,  1760. 
(143)  Sarah,  born  Oct.  23,  1683;  married  (i)  Jan.  14,  1702,  John  Kent,  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Hobbs)  Kent;  married  (2)  April  2,  1712,  Bartholomew  Thing,  son  of  Captain 
Jonathan  and  Mary  (Oilman)  Thing  (142),  who  died  April  28,  1738;  married  (3) 
Colonel  John  Downing,  and  died  in  1754. 


244  JOSEPH  LITTLE  [146] 

Enoch,  born  Dec.  g  (or  16),  1685;  married  May  19,  1707,  Elizabeth  Worth,  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Webster)  Worth;  is  spoken  of  in  the  records  as  "Ensign  Enoch 
Little,"  who,  with  Captain  James  Smith,  was  a  first  settler  at  Craneneck  Hill,  West 
Newbury.     He  died  April  28,  1766. 

Tristram,  born  April  7,  1688;  married  April  10,  171 1,  Anna  Emery,  daughter  of  Stephen 
and  Ruth  (Jacques)  Emery;  was  in  business  at  Newburyport,  and  owned  a  mill 
and  some  land  at  Biddeford,  Me.;  died  in  April,  1762. 

Moses,  born  May  5,  1690;  married  June  5,  171 5,  Mary  Hale,  daughter  of  Captain  Thomas  and 
Sarah  (Northend)  Hale,  and  so  sister  of  his  brother  George's  wife  Edna;  was  a  shop- 
keeper at  Newburyport,  and  died  there  Aug.  15,  1725. 

Daniel,  born  Jan.  13,  1692;  married  (i)  in  1712,  Abiah  Clement,  daughter  of  John  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Ayer)  Clement  of  Haverhill,  Mass.;  married  (2)  Feb.  11,  1768,  Hannah  (Mor- 
rill) Currier,  widow  of  Jacob  Currier,  of  Hampstead,  N.  H.;  was  a  tanner;  was 
named  in  the  charter  of  Hampstead  and  was  magistrate  there;  died  in  November,  1777. 

Benjamin,  born  Oct.  13,  1696;  was  a  man  of  literary  tastes,  and  one  of  the  largest  sub- 
scribers to  Prince's  Chronology.  Among  other  property  he  owned  a  mill  and  land  at 
Saco  Falls,  York  Co.,  N.  H.  He  died  at  Newbury  in  February,  1737,  and  left  his  es- 
tate, valued  at  ;£i,i44.  3s.  6d.,to  his  father  and  to  Rev.  Mr.  Lowell's  church,  at  New- 
bury. 

THE  COFFIN  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

WE  can  trace  the  ancestry  of  Tristram  Coffyn  for  three  generations  in 
England,  but  the  attempts  to  connect  him  with  the  different  CoflFyns 
who  have  held  places  of  importance  there  since  the  Conquest  when  they 
are  supposed  to  have  come  to  England  from  Falaise,  Normandy,  have 
been  unsuccessful.     The  name  was  originally  spelled  CoflFyn  and  it  appears  also 
as  Colvin,  Covin  and  Cophin.     The  descent  is  as  follows: 

I 
John  Coffyn  of  Brixton,  a  small  place  near  Plymouth,  Devon,  died  in  1575, 
and  was  probably  the  father  of 

Tristram,  Lionel,  Philip  and  Nicholas. 

2 

Nicholas  Coffyn,  born  about  1550,  of  Brixton,  Devon,  married  Joan . 

He  was  buried  October  8,  1613.  Joan  was  buried  February  5,  1614/5.  in  the  will 
of  his  brother  Tristram,  called  of  Butler's  parish  of  Brixton,  which  was  made  No- 
vember 16,  i6oi,and  proved  in  1602  at  Totness,  an  ancient  town  5^  miles  from 
Brixton,  legacies  are  left  to  the  following  relatives.  To  Joan,  Anne  and  John, 
children  of  Nicholas  Coffyn,  to  Richard  and  Joan,  children  of  Lionel  Coffyn,  to 
Philip  Coffyn  and  to  Tristram,  his  son. 

The  will  of  Nicholas  Coffyn,  dated  September  12,  1613,  proved  Novem- 
ber 3,  161 3,  mentions  his  wife  Joan,  his  sons  Peter,  Nicholas,  Tristram  and  John, 

and  his  daughter  Anne.     The  children  of  Nicholas  and  Joan  ( )  Coffyn 

were  as  follows: 


THE  COFFIN  FAMILY  IN   ENGLAND  245 

Peter,  see  below. 

Joan,  Anne,  John,  who  died  unmarried  in  1628,  Nicholas,  Tristram. 

3 

Peter  Coffyn,  born  about  1580,  probably  at  Brixton,  evidently  succeeded 
to  his  father's  estate.  He  married  about  1604,  Joan  Kember  (or  Thember)  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  and  Anna  Kember,  and  by  her  had  two  sons  and  four  daughters. 
His  brother  John  of  Brixton  died  in  1628,  unmarried,  and  in  his  will  appointed  his 
nephew  Tristram  Coffyn  his  executor  and  gave  legacies  to  each  of  his  brother 
Peter's  daughters,  all  at  that  time  under  twelve  years  of  age.  Peter  Coffyn 
was  Churchwarden  in  Brixton. 

He  died  in  the  beginning  of  1628.  His  will,  dated  December  i,  1627,  proved 
March  13,  1628,  provided  that  his  wife  Joan  should  have  possession  of  his  land  during 
her  life  and  that  it  should  then  go  to  his  son  and  heir  Tristram,  "who  is  to  be  pro- 
vided for  according  to  his  degree  and  calling."  His  son  John  was  to  have  certain  other 
property  when  he  was  twenty,  and  he  mentions  his  daughters  Joan,  Deborah, 
Eunice  and  Mary,  and  refers  to  his  "tenement  in  Butler's  parish  called  Silferhay." 

His  widow  Joan  came  to  New  England  in  1642  with  her  son  Tristram  and 
two  of  her  daughters,  who  married  here.  She  died  in  Boston,  Mass.,  May  30, 
1 66 1 ,  aged  seventy-seven.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Wilson,  who  preached  her  funeral  sermon, 
spoke  of  her  as  a  woman  of  extraordinary  character.     Their  children  were: 

(147-A)  Tristram,  baptized  March  11,  1609/10;  married  in  England  about  1629,  Dionis  Stevens, 

daughter  of  Robert  and  Dionis  ( )  Stevens;  died  in  Nantucket  Oct.  2,  i68i. 

Joan,  born  before  Dec.  29,  1612;  probably  married  before  1642,  and  remained  in  England. 

Peter,  baptized  Feb.  20,  16 13/4;  probably  died  young. 

Deborah,  born  about  1616;  died  in  England. 

Eunice,  baptized  March  22,  1617/8;  married  William  Butler,  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  of 

Hartford,  Conn.;  died  sometime  previous  to  1648. 
Mary,  born  about  1620;  married  Alexander  Adams,  of  Boston  and  Dorchester,  Mass.;  died 

before  1678. 
John,  born  about  1622;  died  in  England  from  a  wound  received  at  Plymouth  Fort  during 

the  Civil  War.     This  occurred  before  1642. 

[147-A]  TRISTRAM  COFFYN  [1610-1681] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

DIONIS  STEVENS  [1610-1682] 

OF    ENGLAND,    NEWBURY,    MASS.,    AND    NANTUCKET 

TRISTRAM  COFFYN  was  the  eldest  son  of  Peter  and  Joan  (Kember) 
Coffyn  of   Brixton  Parish,  Plymouth,  Devon,  England,  and  was  bap- 
tized there  March   11,  1609/10.     In  1628,  when  he  was  about  eighteen 
years  old,  he  was  the  executor  of  his  uncle  John's  estate. 
He  married  about  1629,  Dionis  Stevens,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Dionis 
Stevens,  of  Brixton.     She  was  baptized  March  4,  1609/10.     He  was  churchwarden 


246  TRISTRAM  COFFYN  [147-A] 

in  the  Brixton  Church  in  1639.  The  expression  in  his  father's  will  that  he  should 
be  "provided  for  according  to  his  degree  and  calling,"  has  created  much  conjec- 
ture, but  his  profession  or  occupation  has  not  been  discovered. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  in  1642,  Tristram  Coffyn,  at  the  age  of 
thirty-seven,  left  his  property  and  friends  in  England  and  embarked  for  the  new 
world.  He  was  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  five  small  children,  his  mother,  then 
fifty-eight  years  of  age,  and  two  unmarried  sisters.  Whether  or  no  he  was  a  royal- 
ist, as  some  have  thought  from  his  quitting  England  just  at  that  time,  cannot  be 
ascertained.  We  incline  to  the  belief  that  his  sympathies  leaned  to  the  other  side, 
as  his  associations  in  New  England  do  not  seem  to  have  been  with  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land party.  Devon  and  Cornwall  during  the  War,  were  altogether  in  the  hands  of 
the  Cavaliers,  although  Plymouth  Fort  held  out  for  four  years  against  them.  When 
Tristram's  mother  died  in  1661,  Rev.  Mr.  Wilson  preached  her  funeral  sermon, 
which  he  would  certainly  not  have  done  had  she  been  a  sympathizer  with  the 
English  Church,  and  the  Coffins  were  valued  friends  of  Judge  Sewall  and  other 
strict  Puritans. 

Tristram  came  first  to  Salisbury,  Mass.,  but  the  same  year  (1642)  he  with 
others  received  a  deed  from  Passaquo  and  Saggahew  of  their  lands  at  Pentuckett, 
(Haverhill)  several  miles  square.  He  was  called  a  planter  at  Haverhill,  where 
he  lived  for  several  years,  and  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  person  who  ever  used  a 
plough  there.  He  sold  that  property  in  1647,  and  about  1648  removed  to  New- 
bury.    Here  he  was  allowed 

"to  keepe  an  ordinary  at  Newberry,  &  to  retayle  wine  paying  according  to  ord"";  &  also  he  is  granted 
liberty  to  keepe  a  ferry  on  Newberry  side,  ov''  Merrimack." 

In  1653  his  wife  Dionis  "was  presented  for  selling  beer  at  his  ordinary  in 
Newbury  for  three  pence  a  quart."  Having  proved  by  the  testimony  of  Samuel 
Mooers  that  she  put  six  bushels  of  malt  into  a  hogshead  she  was  discharged.  The 
law  required  four  bushels,  and  the  price  per  quart  was  not  to  exceed  twopence,  so, 
as  she  kept  the  proportion  good,  she  was  not  held  liable  to  a  fine. 

About  1654  or  1655,  Tristram  Coffyn  moved  back  again  to  Salisbury, 
leaving  his  son  Tristram  (147),  then  a  married  man,  in  Newbury.  In  1655  his 
signature  to  certain  documents  was  "Tristram  Coffyn  Commissioner  of  Salisbury." 
While  there,  he,  with  Thomas  Macy  and  other  Salisbury  men,  planned  to  purchase 
the  Island  of  Nantucket  from  Thomas  Mayhew  (238).  Early  in  the  year  1659  he 
took  Peter  Folger  (a  grandfather  of  Benjamin  Franklin)  as  an  interpreter,  and 
went,  accompanied  possibly  by  some  of  his  sons,  to  Nantucket  on  a  tour  of  observa- 
tion to  find  out  about  the  resources  of  the  Island  and  the  disposition  of  the  Indians 
towards  the  whites.  On  his  return  he  made  his  report  with  a  statement  of  terms 
offered  by  Governor  Mayhew,  and  the  purchase  was  made  July  2,  1659. 

The  deed  ran  to  Tristram  Coffyn,  Senr.,  Thomas  Macy,  Richard  Swain, 
Thomas  Barnard,  Peter  Coffin  (162),  Christopher  Hussey,  Stephen  Greenleaf 
[son-in-law  of  Tristram  Coffyn,  Sr.,  and  son  of  Captain  Edmund  Greenleaf 


MONUMENT    ERECTED    IN    NANTUCKET    IN    MEMORY    OF 

TRISTRAM    COFFYN    [147-A] 

FIRST    CHIEF    MAGISTRATE    OF    THE    ISLAND,     1 67 1 


TRISTRAM  COFFYN  [147-A]  247 

140-A],  John  Swain  and  William  Pile.  Governor  Mayhew  retained  one-twentieth 
interest  for  himself,  and  the  consideration  was  "£30  and  also  two  Beaver  Hatts 
one  for  myself  and  one  for  my  wife." 

The  first  settlers  to  take  actual  possession  were  Thomas  Macy  and  his  family, 
Edward  Starbuck  (162-A),  Isaac  Coleman  and  James  Coffm,  son  of  Tristram,  Sr. 
In  1 659  Tristram  and  his  sons  Peter,  Tristram,  Jr.,  and  James  bought  also  of  Gov- 
ernor Mayhew,  Tuckernuck  Island  for  ;£6. 

Tristram  Coffyn,  Sr.,  did  not  move  his  family  to  Nantucket  until  1661  or 
1662.  It  was  then  under  the  jurisdiction  of  New  York,  and  June  29,  1671,  Gover- 
nor Lovelace  appointed  Tristram  Coffyn  chief  magistrate  of  Nantucket  and 
Thomas  Mayhew  (238),  of  Martha's  Vineyard;  the  two,  with  two  assistants  from 
each  Island,  constituting  the  General  Court  over  both  Islands.  At  its  first  sitting, 
this  General  Court 

"enacted,"  says  Mr.  Allen  Coffin,  "a  law  prohibiting  the  sale  of  intoxicating  drinks  to  Indians.  It 
is  probably  the  first  prohibitory  liquor  law  on  record." 

At  this  time  the  commission  of  Thomas  Macy  as  magistrate  had  run  out,  but 
he  continued  to  act.  Opposition  to  him  developed,  and  a  conflict  of  authority 
ensued.  To  quell  this  disturbance.  Governor  Andros  again  called  Tristram 
Coffyn  to  the  office  of  chief  magistrate,  September  16,  1677.  The  oath  of  office 
has  the  autograph  of  Tristram  affixed  and  is  itself  written  by  Peter  Coffyn 
(162),  then  assistant.     It  is  as  follows: 

"Whereas  I,  Tristram  Coffin,  senior,  have  Received  a  Com'n  baring  date  the  16  of  September, 
1677,  Investinge  me  with  power  to  be  chefe  magistrate  one  the  I'L'd  of  Nantucket  and  dependances, 
for  this  ye  one  yeare  ensuinge,  or  til  further  order,  I,  Tristram  Coffin,  above  said,  doe  engage  my 
selfe,  under  the  penalty  of  perjury,  to  doe  Justise  in  all  causes  that  come  before  me,  according  to  law 
and  endeavor  to  my  best  understanding  and  heareunto  I  have  subscribed 

Tristram  Coffyn  chefe    magstrat" 

During  this  term  of  his  magistracy,  in  September,  1678,  occurred  the  wreck- 
ing of  a  French  ship  on  the  Island,  laden  with  hides.  At  that  time  salvage  from 
wrecks  was  the  property  of  the  Crown,  and  as  the  islanders  appropriated  the  wreck- 
age with  Tristram  Coffyn's  sanction.  Governor  Andros  ordered  a  Court  of  Ad- 
miralty, which  was  held  August  28,  1680,  to  investigate  the  matter.  No  one  would 
own  to  the  business  but  Mr.  Coffyn,  and,  in  fact,  he  seems  to  have  freely  given  all 
the  testimony  they  received.  Consequently  he  was  held  responsible  for  the  whole 
amount  of  the  cargo,  "fouer  hundred  seuenty-seuen  pounds  fourteen  shillings," 
less  the  salvage  fy^.  los., 

"and  what  was  disbursed  by  the  said  Tristram  Coffin  on  Accoumpt  of  some  Duch  Prissiners  left 
one  the  Island,  and  what  was  paid  by  him  to  William  Worth  for  his  Wound,"  {^/^o  is. — 

in  all  £135.  IIS.;  leaving  about  three  hundred  pounds  for  Tristram  Coffyn  to 
pay  to  the  Crown.     He  had  given  almost  all  of  his  property  to  his  children  some- 


248  TRISTRAM  COFFYN  [147-A] 

time  before  and  being  unable  to  pay  it  he  petitioned  Governor  Andros  for  an  abate- 
ment, in  the  following  words: 

"Nantuckett   30th  of   August,    1680. 

"  Right  Honerabell  Sir: 

My  liumball  Service  presented  unto  your  Exceiiencye  humblie  shewing  my  hartie  Sorow  yt 
I  should  in  any  way  giue  your  Exelency  just  occasion  of  Offence,  as  I  now  plainly  see,  in  actinge 
contrary  to  the  Law,  as  I  am  conuinced  I  did,  throw  Ignorance  in  regard  of  not  beinge  acquainted 
with  the  maretime  Lawes,  and  yet  I  humblie  intreat  your  Exelency  to  consider  yt  in  on  Respect 
my  weeackness  I  hope  may  bee  a  littell  born  with:  for  I  did  tender  diuerse  Persons  the  on  halfe 
to  saue  the  other  halfe,  and  I  could  not  get  any  to  doe  it;  and  for  the  Hides  1  could  not  get  any 
to  goe  but  for  to  tacke  all  for  their  Labor,  because  it  was  judged  by  many  yt  the  weare  not  worth 
the  sauing;  so  I  was  nesesetated  to  doe  as  I  did  or  else  the  had  bin  quite  lost.  Tharefore  I  humblye 
intreat  your  Excelency  not  to  think  yt  I  did  it  for  any  bye  Respects  orselfe  Ends;  for  I  doe  assure 
your  Excelency  yt  theare  was  not  any  on  Person  yt  did  indent  with  me  for  any  on  Shillinge 
Proffit,  only  I  did  tell  foure  of  them  yt  if  I  should  bee  by  any  cal'd  to  accot,  the  should  bee 
accountabell  to  me.  But  now  the  will  not  owne  it  and  I  cannot  proue  it,  so  I  by  law  am  caust 
to  beare  all,  only  my  hop  is  yt  your  Exelency  will  bee  pleased  out  of  your  Leniency  and  Fauor  to 
me  to  except  of  int.  Money,  and  Bill  is  sent  for  the  answeringe  of  the  Judgment  of  the  Court; 
for  had  not  my  Sonn,  James  Coflfyn  borrowed  Money  and  ingaged  for  the  rest  of  my  Bill,  I  could 
not  have  done  it,  but  I  must  have  gone  to  Prison.  Now  I  humblye  intreat  your  Excelency 
to  heare  my  louinge  Nighbor  Capt.  John  Gardiner,  in  my  behalfe  and  wth  your  Exelency  shall 
bee  pleased  to  order  Concerning  the  Case,  I  shall  thankfulye  except,  knowing  your  Excelency 
to  be  a  compashonate,  mercyeful  Man.  And  I  hop  I  shall  for  Time  to  com.  ...  to  be  more 
wiser  and  doe  kept  your  Excelency's  humbell  Saruant  whylst  I  Hue  to  my  Power. 

Tristram  Coffyn  " 

The  governor  compromised  with  him  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds, 
of  which  his  son  seems  to  have  paid  half. 

Although  at  one  time  Tristram  Coffyn  had  owned  a  very  large  amount  of 
land,  as  we  have  noticed,  he  gave  away  most  of  it  to  his  children  in  1677  and  1678, 
the  consideration  always  being  his  "regard  and  natural  affection."  In  1677  he 
conveyed  to  his  son  Stephen  a  house  and  lands,  his  son  on  his  part  agreeing  to  "be 
helpful  to  me  and  his  mother  in  our  old  age  and  sickness,  what  he  can."  He 
deeded  to  his  daughter  Mary  and  her  husband  Nathaniel  Starbuck  about  half  of 
his  estate  "in  regard  of  my  fatherly  affection."  In  1678  he  gave  to  his  son  John 
a  new  dwelling  house  and  to  each  grandchild  ten  acres  of  land  for  planting  on  the 
Island  of  Tuckernuck. 

He  died  at  Nantucket  October  2,  or  3,  1681,  aged  seventy-two.  His  wife  Dio- 
Nis  survived  him  but  a  short  time,  but  the  exact  date  of  her  death  is  not  known. 
He  left  no  will,  and  administration  was  granted  November  29,  1681,  to  his  sons 
James,  John  and  Stephen,  they  giving  bonds  for  one  hundred  pounds.  An  inven- 
tory was  presented  August  8,  1682,  and  the  Court  ordered  the  use  of  the  estate  to 
his  wife  Dionis  for  her  life. 

Children  of  Tristram  and  Dionis  (Stevens)  Coffyn 
(162)  Peter,  baptized  July   18,   1630,  at   Brixton,   England;  married  in  New  England,  Abigail 


TRISTRAM  COFFYN  [147-A]  249 

Starbuck,  daughter  of  Edward  and   Katherine  (Reynolds)  Starbuck  (162-A); 
died  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  March  21,  1715. 
(147)  Tristram,  born  about  1632,  at  Brixton,  England;  married  March  2,  1653,  Judith  (Green- 
leaf)  SoMERBY,  widow  of  Henry  Somerby  (140)  and  daughter  of  Edmund  and 
Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf  (r40-A);  died  at  Newbury,  Feb.  4,  1704. 

EHzabeth,  born  about  1634  at  Brixton,  England;  married  Nov.  13,  165 1,  at  Newbury, 
Captain  Stephen  Greenleaf,  son  of  Edmund  and  Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf  (140-A), 
and  brother  of  her  brother  Tristram's  wife;  died  Nov.  19,  1678,  at  Newbury. 

John,  born  at  Brixton,  England;  and  died  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  Oct.  30,  1642. 

James,  baptized  Sept.  11,  1639,  at  Brixton,  England;  married  Dec.  3  (Nov.  i),  1663,  Mary 
Severance,  daughter  of  John  and  Abigail  Severance  of  Salisbury,  Mass.;  came  to 
Nantucket  with  the  first  settlers,  afterwards  moved  to  Dover,  N.  H.,  where  he  lived 
from  1668  to  1671;  returned  soon  after  to  Nantucket,  where  he  held  several  offices, 
judge  of  the  probate  court  and  chief  justice  of  the  court  of  common  pleas;  died  July 
28,  1720.  From  him  descended  the  branch  of  the  family  that  were  loyalists  in  the 
American  Revolution. 

Deborah,  born  Nov.  16,  1642,  at  Haverhill;  died  Dec.  8,  the  same  year. 

Mary,  born  Feb.  20,  1645,  at  Haverhill;  married  in  1662  Nathaniel  Starbuck,  son  of  Edward 
and  Katherine  (Reynolds)  Starbuck  (162-A),  and  brother  of  her  sister-in-law 
Abigail.  She  was  a  remarkable  woman,  and  in  the  language  of  a  preacher  of  the  day, 
"The  Islanders  esteemed  her  as  a  judge  among  them,  for  little  of  moment  was  done 
without  her."  She  attended  town  meetings  and  took  part  in  the  debates,  usually 
beginning,  "my  husband  thinks  "so-and-so,  or  "my  husband  and  I,  having  considered 
the  matter,  think"  so-and-so;  in  1701  became  a  Quaker,  and  was  distinguished  as  a 
teacher;  died  Nov.  13,  1717. 

John,  born  Oct.  30,  1647,  in  Haverhill;  married  Deborah  Austin,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Sarah  Austin;  was  elected  to  some  minor  offices  in  Nantucket;  after  his  father's  death 
removed  to  Edgartown,  was  lieutenant  of  Militia  there;  died  Sept.  5,  171 1. 

Stephen,  born  May  10,  1652,  at  Newbury;  married  about  1668  or  1669  Mary  Bunker,  daugh- 
ter of  George  and  Jane  (Godfrey)  Bunker;  succeeded  to  the  management  of  the  farm, 
and  took  care  of  his  father  and  mother  in  their  old  age;  died  May  18,  1734. 

[147]  TRISTRAM  COFFIN,  JR.  [1632-1704] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

JUDITH  (GREENLEAF)  SOMERBY  [1625-1705] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  NEWBURY,  MASS. 

TRISTRAM  COFFIN,  JR.,  the  second  son  of  Tristram  and  Dionis  (Stev- 
ens) Coffin  (147-A),  was  born  in  Brixton,  Devonshire,  England,  about 
1632,  and  was  about  ten  years  old  when  he  came  to  New  England  with 
his  parents. 
When  his  father  kept  the  inn  at  Newbury,  he  was  apprenticed  to  Henry 
Somerby  (140),  to  learn  the  tailor's  trade.     On  the  death  of  Mr.  Somerby  he  had 
acquired  sufficient  knowledge  of  the  business  to  carry  it  on,  and  he  married,  March 


250  TRISTRAM  COFFIN,  JR.  [147] 

2,  1653,  ^he  widow,  Judith  (Greenleaf)  Somerby,  daughter  of  Edmund  and 
Sarah  (Dole)  Greenleaf  (140-A).  Judith  was  at  least  seven  years  older  than 
her  husband,  as  she  was  born  September  2,  1625,  and  had  three  children  by  her 
first  marriage. 

They  lived  in  what  is  now  known  as  the  old  Coffin  house  in  Newbury,  by 
some  authorities  supposed  to  have  been  built  by  Tristram  himself  in  1654,  while 
others  place  it  earlier,  thinking  that  Henry  Somerby  built  it  in  1649.  it  is  one 
of  the  best  specirnens  of  the  early  New  England  houses  now  existing.  When,  in  the 
process  of  papering  the  house  not  many  years  ago,  the  old  paper  was  taken  off,  beau- 
tiful landscape,  foliage  and  figure  frescoes  were  found  underneath,  such  as  were  used 
by  wealthy  people  of  that  early  day.  The  house  was  also  Tristram  Coffin,  Sr.'s, 
home  for  a  short  time  before  going  to  Nantucket. 

Tristram  Coffin,  Jr.,  was  made  a  freeman  April  29,  1668.'  In  a  deposition 
given  in  1671,  his  age  is  said  to  be  thirty-nine,  which  is  our  authority  for  the  date 
of  his  birth  as  given  above.  The  records  show  that  he  was  actively  interested  in 
public  affairs  and  filled  many  positions  of  trust  and  honor  in  Newbury.  He  was 
in  1683  lieutenant  in  the  second  company  of  Newbury  Militia,  Captain  Thomas 
Noyes,  and  was  deputy  to  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  in  1695, 
1700,  1702.  He  was  a  friend  of  Judge  Sewall's  and  was  one  of  the  pall-bearers 
at  the  funeral  of  Judge  Sewall's  father  in  1700. 

Tristram  Coffin,  Jr.,  was  a  deacon  in  the  First  Church  of  Newbury  (Rev. 
James  Noyes  (2),  teacher),  for  twenty  years,  and  was  a  firm  supporter  of  Rev. 
Thomas  Parker,  his  pastor,  during  the  church  troubles  to  which  allusion  has  been 
made  under  Nathaniel  Clarke  (139). 

He  died  at  Newbury  February  4,  1 704,  aged  seventy-two.  His  will,  dated  May 
12,  1703,  proved  February  23,  1704,  and  evidently  written  by  himself,  desires  his 

"son  Nathanuel  to  take  spesshail  care  of  my  wife  his  mother  to  prouid  for  har  in  all  Respectes 
duoring  har  life  all  things  nessary  for  har  comfortabell  being  both  In  sicknes  and  in  heleth." 

To  his  sons  Nathaniel,  James,  Stephen  and  "Petar"  he  gives  certain  lands, 
to  his  grandson  Tristram  "Sambron"  £4, 

"to  be  paid  him  by  his  father  out  of  the  money  1  lent  him  to  by  meddow  with,  and  the  Re- 
mainder I  geue  to  my  daftar  Judeth." 

He  also  leaves  portions  to  his  daughters  Deborah  Knight,  "Marey  Littel,"  "Lidea 
Pike,"  and  to  his  granddaughter  "  Marey  Littel." 

He  was  buried  in  the  old  graveyard  in  Newbury,  with  his  wife  who  died 
December  15,  1705.     Judge  Sewall  mentions  Judith's  death  in  his  diary  as  follows: 

"Cousin  Noyes  brings  the  News  of  Mrs.  Coffin's  death  the  15th  ins'  to  be  buried  the  19th, 
went  away  very  suddenly  &  easily,  A  very  good  woman  of  Newbury." 

The  inscriptions  on  their  tombstones  read  as  follows: 

'The  application  to  the  General  Court  to  be  made  freeman  contains  the  following:  "  I  judge  the  foresaid 
Tristram  CoflTm  to  be  orthodox  and  he  also  is  a  member  of  our  church. 

{Signed)  Thomas  Parker." 

Mass.  Archives,  CVI,  487. 


TRISTRAM  COFFIN,  JR.  [147]  251 

"To  the  memory  of  Tristram  Coffin,  Esq.,  who  having  served  the  first  church  of  New- 
bury in  the  office  of  a  Deacon  20  years  died  Feb.  4,  1703/4  aged  72  years. 

On  earth  he  pur-chas-ed  a  good  degree, 

Great  boldness  in  the  faith  and  liberty. 

And  now  possesses  immortality." 
"To  the  memory  of  Mrs.  Judith  late  uirtuous  wife  of  Deac. Tristram  Coffin  Esqr.  who  having 
lived  to  see  177  of  her  children  and  children's  children  to  the  3d  generation  died  Dec.  15,  1705  aged  80. 

Graue,  sober,  faithfull  fruitful  vine  was  she, 

A  rare  example  of  true  piety. 

Widow'd  awhile  she  wayted  wisht-for  rest 

With   her  dear  husband  in   her  Savior's  breast." 

Children  of  Tristram,  Jr.,  and  Judith  (Greenleaf  Somerby)  Coffin 
Judith,  born  Dec.  4,  1653;  married  Nov.  19,  1674,  John  Sanborn,  of  Hampton,  N.  H. 
Deborah,  born  Nov.  10,  1655;  married  Oct.  31,  1677,  Joseph  Knight,  son  of  John  and  Bathshua 

(Ingersoll)  Knight,  of  Newbury. 
(146)  Mary,  born  Nov.  12,  1657;  married  Oct.  31,  1677,  Captain  Joseph  Little,  son  of  George 

and  Alice  (Poor)  Little  (145);  died  Nov.  20,  1725. 
James,  born  April  22,  1659;  married  Nov.  16,  1685,  Florence  Hooke,  daughter  of  Horace 

Hooke,  of  Newbury;  died  March  4,  1736. 
John,  born  Sept.  8,  1660;  died  May  13,  1677. 
Lydia,  born  April  22,  1662;  married  (i)  Moses  Little,  brother  of  her  sister  Mary's  husband, 

who  died  March  8,  1691;  married  (2)  March  18,  1695,  John  Pike,  son  of  John  and 

Mary  Pike. 
Enoch,  born  Jan.  21,  1663;  died  Nov.  12,  1675. 
Stephen,  born  Aug.  18,  1664;  married  Oct.  8,  1685,  Sarah  Atkinson,  daughter  of  John  and 

Sarah  (Mirick)  Atkinson,  of  Newbury;  died  Aug.  31,  1725. 
Peter,  born  July  27,  1667;  married  Apphia  Dole,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Rolfe) 

Dole,  of  Newbury;'  moved  to  Gloucester,  Mass.,  but  died  at  Newbury,  Jan.  19,  1746/7. 
Nathaniel,  born  March  22,  1669;  married  March  29,  1693,  Sarah  (Brocklebank)  Dole,  widow 

of  Henry  Dole  and  daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  and  Hannah  ( )  Brocklebank, 

of  Rowley;' was  town  clerk,  deacon  of  the  church,  representative  in  1719,  1720,  172  i, 

councillor  in  1730,  and  special  justice  of  the  Essex  court  of  common  pleas  in  1734; 

died  Feb.  20,  1748/9. 

[149I  THOMAS  IVES  [1648-1695] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH  METCALF  [1654-.  .  .  .] 

OF    ENGLAND    AND   SALEM,    MASS. 

THOMAS  IVES  was  an  inhabitant  of  Salem  in  1668,  and  in  that  year  in  a 
deposition  gave  his  age  as  twenty  years,  which  fixes  the  date  of  his  birth 
as  1648.     It  is  not  known  in  what  ship  he  emigrated  from  England,  nor 
his  parentage  in  the  old  country.     There  is  a  family  of  Eve  or  Ive  in  the 
parish  of  St.  Pancras,  London,  which  is  of  great  antiquity,  and  as  the  name  is  an 

'  See  note  on  No.  140-A. 


252  THOMAS  IVES  [149] 

unusual  one,  Thomas  Ives  may  have  belonged  to  it,  but  no  connection  has  been 
discovered. 

He  married  (i)  in  Salem,  Mass.,  April  i,  1672,  Martha  Withe.  After  the 
birth  of  three  children,  she  died  and  he  married  (2)  about  1679,  Elizabeth  Met- 

CALF,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  ( )  Metcalf,  of  Ipswich,  Mass.  (152). 

Elizabeth  was  born  in  Ipswich  about  1654. 

Thomas  Ives  was  baptized  and  received  into  the  membership  of  the  First 
Church  on  November  7,  1682.  According  to  the  statement  of  his  business  made  in 
the  settlement  of  his  estate,  he  was  a  "Slaughterer,"  but  in  his  inventory  nothing 
to  indicate  that  he  carried  on  such  a  business  is  found. 

He  died  at  Salem  in  1695,  aged  only  forty-seven,  and  administration  of  his 
estate  was  granted  to  his  widow  Elizabeth,  August  5,  1695.  He  was  insolvent, 
and  the  property  he  left  paid  only  about  eight  per  cent,  of  his  debts. 

Six  months  after  his  death,  his  widow  Elizabeth  married  (2)  January  16, 
1696,  John  White,  of  Salem.  In  her  account  of  administration,  December  6,  1697, 
one  item  was  "for  keeping  two  young  children,  two  years  to  this  time, ^12."  These 
were  Elizabeth  and  Benjamin  Ives  (150).  In  1698/9  she  sold  to  Simon  Willard 
the  house  in  which  she  had  lived  with  her  first  husband,  and  which  is  now  called 
the  Narbonne  house,  and  moved  into  one  nearly  opposite,  a  gift  from  her  father, 
Thomas  Metcalf  (152),  which  remained  in  the  possession  of  her  descendants  in 
the  Philpot  family  until  after  1800. 

The  date  of  Elizabeth  (Metcalf  Ives)  White's  death  is  not  known. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Martha  (Withe)   Ives 

Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  8  (or  12),  1672/3;  died  July  21,  the  same  year. 

Thomas,  born  March  31,  1674,  baptized  in  March,  1683;  married  Elizabeth  Matthews;  set- 
tled in  Marblehead,  Mass. 
-    Deborah,  born  Dec.  8,  1675;  baptized  in  March,  1683,  with  her  brother  Thomas  and   her 
step-brothers  Joseph  and  John,  in  the  First  Church  of  Salem. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Metcalf)  Ives 

Joseph,  baptized  in  March,  1683. 

John,  baptized  in  March,  1683. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  Dec.  4,  1687;  married  Dec.  11,  1718,  as  his  second  wife.  Captain  John 

Philpot,  of  Salem,  Mass. 
(150)  Benjamin,  born  about  1692,  baptized  Aug,  2,  1702,  after  his  father's  death;  married  Jan.  2, 

1717/8,  Ann  Derby,  daughter  of  Roger  and  Elizabeth  (Haskett)  Derby  (154); 

died  in  1752. 


CAPTAIN  BENJAMIN  IVES  [150]  253 

[150]  CAPTAIN  BENJAMIN  IVES  [1692-1752] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ANN  DERBY  [1695-1752] 

OF    SALEM,   MASS. 

BENJAMIN  IVES,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Metcalf)  Ives"(i49), 
was  born  about  1692,  and  was  baptized  in  the  First  Church  of  Salem,  Aug. 
9,  1702,  six  years  after  the  death  of  his  father.  He  was  a  master  mariner, 
and  also  called  himself  in  his  will  a  tanner.  His  shipping  interests  seem 
to  have  been  extensive,  and  his  career  was  increasingly  prosperous  until  he  held  a 
prominent  position  among  the  principal  merchants  of  Salem.  He  acquired  a  large 
estate  on  what  is  known  as  "  Very's  Plain"  and  "  Butt's  Brook,"  Dan  vers,  in  17 15 
he  bought  of  the  Beadle  Estate  a  house  and  lot  on  the  corner  of  Essex  and  Ives' 
Lane,  now  Pleasant  Street. 

He  married  January  2,  1717/8,  Ann  Derby,  daughter  of  Roger  and  Eliza- 
beth (Haskett)  Derby  (154),  who  was  born  December  10,  1695.  They  lived 
in  the  house  mentioned  above,  which  has  been  the  home  of  his  descendants  to  the 
present  day,  and  "  the  centre  of  an  unusual  degree  of  family  life  and  feeling." 

Captain  Benjamin  Ives  was  one  of  the  founders  and  a  prominent  and  effi- 
cient member  of  the  Second  or  East  church  for  many  years.  Their  meeting  house, 
which  was  built  on  Essex  Street  the  year  of  his  marriage,  was  but  a  few  doors  from 
his  house. 

He  died  at  Salem  in  1752.  His  will,  dated  June  19,  1752,  was  proved  July  16, 
of  the  same  year.  He  left  a  large  property,  which  amounted  t0;^2,3ii.  los.  lid. 
His  wife  Ann  survived  him  but  a  short  time,  and  died  in  their  home  where  all  their 
children  had  been  born. 

Children  of  Captain   Benjamin  and  Ann  (Derby)  Ives 

Ann,  born  March  20,  1719;  died  after  1752. 
(151)  Benjamin,  born  Nov.  2,  1720;  married  Oct.  12,  1743,  Elizabeth  Hale,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Oilman)  Hale  (158);  died  Dec.  26,  1757. 

Samuel,  born  Dec.  22(1722  ?);  married  July  4,  1745,  Mary  Berry;  died  about  December, 
1750. 

Elizabeth,  born  July  5,  172-;  married  (1)  as  his  second  wife,  Richard  Lee,  of  Salem;'  mar- 
ried (2)  after  1772,  Josiah  Oilman,  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

Mary,  born  about  1728;  married  July  12,  1750,  John  Crowninshield,  son  of  Clifford  and 
Martha  (Hillard)  Crowninshield,  of  Salem;  died  June  4,1794.  Her  descendants  in- 
herited the  Ives  homestead  at  Salem. 

Abigail,  mentioned  in  herfather's  will  in  1752.     She  may  have  married- John  Foster. 

John,  born  about  1732;  married  March  13,  1755,  Sarah  Ward. 

Martha,  married  Nov.  23,  1760,  Daniel  Cheever,  of  the  same  family  as  Peter  Cheever,  men- 
tioned below. 
'See  No.  134,  Note  5. 


254  CAPTAIN  BENJAMIN  IVES  [150] 

Margaret,  married  Peter  Cheever,  son  of  Peter  and  Margaret  (Caiton)  Cheever  of  Salem; 
died  before  1762,  as  her  husband  married  (2)  Dec.  23,  1762,  Martha  Osgood. 

[151J       CAPTAIN  BENJAMIN  IVES,  JR.  [1720-1757] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  HALE  [1725-1767] 

OF    BEVERLY,    MASS. 

BENJAMIN  IVES,  son  of  Captain  Benjamin  and  Ann  (Derby)  Ives  (150), 
was  born  November  2,  1720,  at  Salem,  Mass.  He,  with  his  younger 
brother  Samuel,  was  educated  at  the  grammar  school  of  John  Nutting  in 
Salem,  where  their  boyhood  was  spent. 
He  married  October  12,  1743,  in  Beverly,  Elizabeth  Hale,  eldest  and  only 
surviving  daughter  of  Colonel  Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Oilman)  Hale  (158),  who 
was  born  July  18,  1725.  This  marriage  brings  into  the  Oilman  family  the  Oilman 
blood  for  the  third,  and  the  Shapleigh,  Treworgye,  Greenleaf,  Somerby, 
Clarke,  and  Coffin  blood  for  the  second  time. 

Benjamin  Ives  engaged  in  business  in  Beverly  and  lived  with  his  father- 
in-law.  Colonel  Robert  Hale.  In  February,  1744/5,  the  latter  was  commissioned 
colonel  of  the  5th  Mass.  Regiment  for  the  expedition  against  Louisburg,  and  Ben- 
jamin Ives  was  commissioned  captain,  February  12,  1744/5, of  the  Tenth  Company 
raised  in  Beverly.  He  served  throughout  the  campaign,  returning  after  the  cap- 
ture of  Louisburg.  His  title  of  captain  was  doubtless  derived  from  this  service,  al- 
though, like  his  father,  he  was  a  master  mariner. 

It  appears  that  he  went  later  with  his  family  to  Halifax,  N.  S.,  where  his 
youngest  child,  Benjamin,  was  born  April  24,  1750.  The  following  extracts  seem 
to  show  that  he  was  resident  there  from  1749  until  the  time  of  his  death. 

"At  this  time  (1751)  Captain  Benjamin  Ives,  whose  name  we  find  in  the  list  of  Pepperell's 
officers  at  the  siege  of  Louisburg  in  1745, and  again  in  the  list  of  settlers  of  Halifax  in  1749,  appears  to 
have  held  an  office  called  'Captain  of  the  Port,'  as  there  is  on  date  22  Oct.  1751,  a  receipt  for  de- 
livering to  him  6  men's  provisions  for  one  month.  In  1754  Charles  Hay  Esq  was  Captain  of  the 
Port."' 

"July  7  1750  Joseph  Pierpont,  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  Merchant,  principal  &  Benjamin  Ives 
Esq.  of  the  same  place,  surety,  who  were  bound  unto  James  Foster  of  Salem  Mass.,  Mariner,  in 
the  sum  of  ;£230  lawful  money  of  Halifax,  to  be  paid  unto  the  said  James  Foster  his  heirs,  etc."= 

Captain  Benjamin  Ives,  Jr.,  received,  April  2,  1757,  a  commission  as  lieu- 
tenant of  the  "Prince  of  Wales,"  an  armed  vessel  of  a  class  called  Snow,  belong- 
ing to  the  province,  but  before  the  day  of  sailing  he  was  taken  suddenly  ill  and  died 
December  26,  1757.     The  vessel  was  afterwards  taken  by  the  enemy.' 

'  History  of  Nova  Scotia,  1 1 ,  204. 
''Halifax  Notarial  Records,  II,  75. 
*  Felt's  Annals  of  Salem. 


CAPTAIN  BENJAMIN  IVES,  JR.  [151]  255 

His  wife  Elizabeth  survived  him  and  remained  in  Beverly  with  her  father, 
Colonel  Robert  Hale,  who  undertook  the  education  of  her  children.  Their 
names  are  written  with  a  diamond  on  a  pane  of  glass  in  the  south  window  of  the 
dining-room  in  the  Hale  house  in  Beverly:  "R  H  Ives  A  26  Rebecca  Oilman 
A  25  July  1770." 

Elizabeth  (Hale)  Ives  died  October  18,  1767,  at  Beverly. 

Children  of  Captain   Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Hale)   Ives 

Robert  Hale,  born  at  Beverly,  July  18,  1744;  married  March  20,  1766,  Sarah  Bray,  daughter 
of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Driver)  Bray,  of  Salem,  Mass.;  died  at  sea  Oct.  19,  1779. 
His  descendants,  Robert  Hale  Bancroft  and  his  sister  Miss  Ellen  Bancroft,  of  Boston, 
occupy  the  Hale  house  at  Beverly,  which  is  in  perfect  preservation. 
(134)  Rebecca,  born  in  Beverly,  June  12,  baptized  June  15,  1746;  married  Wednesday,  Sept.  21, 
1763,'  as  his  second  wife,  Joseph  Oilman,  son  of  Rev.  Nicholas  and  Mary  (Thing) 
Oilman  (133),  of  Durham,  N.  H.;  died  in  Philadelphia  May  20,  1823,  at  the  home  of 
her  son  Benjamin  Ives  Oilman  (135). 

Benjamin,  born  in  Halifax,  N.  S.,  April  24,  1750;  died  Feb.  27,  1763. 

[1S2-A]     CAPTAIN  JOSEPH  METCALF  [1605-166=,] 

and  his  wife 
ELIZABETH  [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    IPSWICH,    MASS. 

JOSEPH  METCALF  was  born  in  England  in  1605,  and  came  here  before  1634 
with  his  wife  Elizabeth and  young  son  Thomas.  From  what  part 
of  England  he  sailed  or  what  was  the  date  of  his  arrival  has  not  been 
ascertained. 

The  first  record  we  find  of  him  is  as  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  Ipswich, 
Mass.,  when  the  town  granted,  January  5,  1634,  to  Matthias  Currin  (Curwen), 
Philip  Fowler  (253-c),  Christopher  Osgood  (253-B),  William  Moody,  Thomas 
Dorman  and  Joseph  Metcalf,  "to  each  of  them  four  acres  of  meadow  and  marsh 
grounds,  etc." 

He  was  made  freeman  March  4,  1634/5,  and  the  same  year  was  elected 
deputy  to  the  General  Court.  He  also  served  as  deputy  in  1644,  1645,  1654,  1655, 
and  1661.  He  was  a  mariner  and  thus  acquired  his  title  of  captain.  John  Dane 
(171)  came  from  Boston  to  Ipswich  in  one  of  Captain  Metcalf's  vessels,  as  he 
says  in  his  Remarkable  Prouidences. 

"So  I  came  to  ipswich  and  agred  with  goodman  medcafes  vesel  to  bring  me  from  boston 
whare  1  had  brout  my  Ooods." 

Captain  Joseph  Metcalf  and  his  son  Thomas  were  among  the  yearly  subscri- 
bers to  the  salary  of  Major  Daniel  Denison,  military  leader  of  Ipswich  and  major 

'  Col.  Robert  Hale's  Family  Notes. 


256  CAPTAIN  JOSEPH  METCALF  [152-A] 

general  of  the  Massachusetts  forces  from  1652  to  1680.  At  a  general  town  meet- 
ing December  19,  1648,  the  inhabitants  voted  to  pay  "theur  Lader"  the  sum  of 
;^24  7s.  yearly  "in  way  of  gratuitye."  He  was  on  a  committee,  May,  1665,  ap- 
pointed by  the  General  Court  to  collect  gifts  made  in  England  by  friends  of  the 
Colony. 

On  February  16,  1658,  he  was  on  a  committee  of  the  town  for  a  rather  unin- 
telligible purpose,  as  follows:  to 

"give  their  apprehensions  and  commonages,  and  who  not,  and  what  else  they  conceive  may  con- 
duce to  the  good  of  the  town,  and  when  they  are  ready,  the  Selectmen  to  call  the  Town  together,  to 
hear  what  they  conceive.  This  Committee  Are  as  followeth,  viz: — Our  two  honored  Magistrates, 
our  teaching  and  ruling  Elders,  Mr.  Wade,  George  Giddings,  Philip  Fowler  [253-c],  Joseph  Medcalf, 
Thomas  Hart." 

We  can  only  hope  that  their  "apprehensions  and  commonages"  were  of  value  to 
the  town. 

There  is  on  record  a  deed  of  June  5,  1665,  to  "Edward  Nealand  Irishman," 
of  a  sale  of  seven  acres  of  land  by  "Joseph  Metcalf  seaman,  of  Ipswich"  which  is 
signed  by  Joseph  and  Thomas  Metcalf,  to  which  Joseph's  wife  Elizabeth  made 
her  mark. 

Joseph  Metcalf  died  at  Ipswich,  July  21,  1665.  In  his  will,  dated  June  3, 
1665,  proved  September  26,  of  the  same  year,  he  gives  his  age  as  sixty  years,  thus 
giving  us  the  date  of  his  birth.  He  names  his  wife  Elizabeth  as  executrix,  and 
gives  her  the  estate  for  life,  the  house  and  land  to  go  to  his  grandson  Joseph  after 
her  death.  Joseph  is  then  to  pay  ;^io  to  his  sister  Mary.  He  mentions  also  his 
granddaughter  Elizabeth.     The  inventory  of  his  estate  amounted  to  fy^jo.  13s. 

His  widow  Elizabeth  married  (2)  November  8,  1670,  as  his  second  wife,  Ed- 
ward Beauchamp  (afterwards  spelled  Beacham),  of  Salem,  Mass. 

Children  of  Captain  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Metcalf 

(152)  Thomas,  born  in  England,  about  1630;  married  (i)  Abigail ;  married  (2)  in  1689, 

Lydia  (Ehzabeth  or  Liddea)  ( )  Davis;  died  in  Ipswich  before  1714. 

[152J  THOMAS  METCALF  [1630-1714] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ABIGAIL  [....-1688] 

OF    IPSWICH,    MASS. 

THOMAS   METCALF,  son   of  Captain  Joseph   and   Elizabeth    ( ) 
Metcalf  (152-A),  was  probably  but  two  or  three  years  old  when  he  came 
from  England  with  his  father  and  mother  to  Ipswich,  Mass.     At  the  age 
of  eighteen,  in  1648,  he  subscribed  to  the  fund  voted  Major  Daniel  Denison. 
His  gift  was  the  same  as  his  father's,  2s.  annually. 


THOMAS  METCALF  [152]  257 

He  married  (i)  about  1653,  Abigail ,  who  was  the  mother  of  all  his 

children.  He  is  mentioned  as  owning  a  share  in  Plum  Island  near  Newbury,  in 
1664,  but  he  lived  in  Ipswich,  undoubtedly  in  the  dwelling  house  which  he  bought 
October  2,  1666,  of  Christopher  Osgood  (253-B). 

In  1673  he  united  with  the  Ipswich  church,  and  was  made  a  freeman  May  27, 
1674.  He  voted  in  town  affairs  in  1679,  was  on  a  trial  jury  in  1681,  and  on  a  grand 
jury  in  1685.  He  was  a  farmer  and  does  not  appear  to  have  taken  the  interest  in 
town  affairs  that  his  father  did. 

His  wife  Abigail  died  December  6,  1688.  He  signed  a  deed  alone,  on  Feb- 
ruary 18,  1688/9,  in  which  he  gave  his  son  Joseph  one  half  of  his  farm  in  Ipswich. 

He  married  (2)  about  1689,  Lydia  (Elizabeth  or  Liddea)  ( )  Davis,  a 

widow  with  one  son,  Jacob  Davis.  With  the  consent  of  his  wife  Lydia  and  his  son 
Joseph,  June  6,  1692,  he  sold  some  of  his  lands  for  £^^0.  He  also  sold  lands  to  his 
step-son  Jacob  Davis  in  1699.  On  March  18,  i70i,he  gave  to  his  daughter  Eliza- 
beth (Ives)  White  "a  widow  for  loving  affection.  .  .  a  certain  shop  called  a 
butcher's  shop  with  the  land  belonging  to  it,"  and  in  1703  he  divided  all  his  re- 
maining property  among  his  children. 

He  died  in  Ipswich  before  1714.  His  widow  Lydia  died  May  5,  1727,  aged 
eighty-eight. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  ( )  Metcalf 

(149)  Elizabeth,  born  about  1654;  married  (i)  about  1679,  as  his  second  wife,  Thomas  Ives, 
of  Salem;  married  (2)  Jan.  16,  1696,  John  White,  of  Salem;  survived  him  and  died 
after  1701. 

Abigail,  born  about  1656;  married  Oct.  3,  1713,  when  fifty-seven  years  of  age,  as  his  third 
wife.  Lieutenant  William  Butler,  of  Ipswich. 

Mary,  born  June  23,  1658. 

Joseph,  born  Jan.  27,  1660/1;  married  Rebecca ■;  lived  at  Ipswich,  and  died  in  Aug- 
ust,  1714. 

Thomas  born  Dec.  4,  1667;  and  was  living  in  1683. 

[154]  ROGER  DERBY  [1643- 1698] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH   (HASKETT)  DYNN  [. . .  .-1740] 

OF    ENGLAND,    IPSWICH    AND   SALEM,    MASS. 

ROGER    DERBY'S  home  in  England  was  at  Topsham,  Devonshire,  near 
Exeter  and  he  may  have  been  a  grandson  of  a  Roger  Derby  who  was  living 
in   Stonell,  England,  in  1 588,  and  who  had  three  sons,  Roger,  Richard, 
and  Thomas. 
He  married  (i)  at  Topsham,  England,  August  23,  1668,  Lucretia  Hilman  (or 
Kilman  or  Kilham),  who  was  born  in  Topsfield  in   1643.     They  had  one  child, 
Charles,  when  they  emigrated  to  New  England  in  1671. 


258  ROGER  DERBY  [154] 

They  arrived  in  Boston  July  18,  1671,  and  soon  after  removed  to  Ipswich, 
where  in  January,  1673,  Roger  bought  of  Philip  Fowler  (253-c),  for  £100,  his 
dwelhng  house  and  land.  This  deed  runs  to  "Roger  Darby  sope  boyler,"  and  is 
witnessed  by  Andrew  Peters  (250).  His  business  seems  to  have  been  that  of 
keeping  a  chandler's  shop,  with  general  merchandise. 

Both  he  and  his  wife  were  strict  non-conformists,  and  affiliated  with  the 
Quakers.  On  March  30,  1675,  they  were  fined  for  absence  from  meeting  on  the 
Sabbath,  and  November  6,  1677,  they  were  fined  forty  shillings  for  the  same 
off'ence  and  "stand  committed  to  prison  till  payd."  This  persecution  was  in  all 
likelihood  the  cause  of  their  removal  to  Salem  in  1681.  Here  they  bought  land 
of  John  Darland,  seaman,  on  February  8,  1679,  for  £27  in  silver.  Soon  after 
he  built  the  house  known  for  years  as  the  Old  Derby  Homestead  in  Salem,  which 
stood  not  far  from  the  western  corner  of  Monroe  and  Essex  Streets,  and  probably 
lived  in  it  the  rest  of  his  life. 

His  wife  Lucretia  died  May  25,  1689,  leaving  eight  living  children,  and  in  1691 
he  married  (2)  Elizabeth  (Haskett)  Dynn,  widow  of  William  Dynn  and  daughter 
of  Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Langdon)  Haskett  (155).  Elizabeth  Haskett 
was  born  in  England. 

Roger  Derby  died  at  Salem,  September  26,  1698,  aged  fifty-five.  His  will, 
dated  July  26,  1698,  proved  October  24,  1698,  named  his  wife  Elizabeth  executrix 
and  left  her  the  dwelling  house  "for  natural  life  if  she  does  not  marry  again,"  to 
revert  to  the  sons  and  "to  be  kept  in  the  name  of  the  Darbys,"  and  also  one  third 
of  the  entire  estate.  He  mentioned  his  daughters  Experience,  Lucretia,  Elizabeth, 
Margaret,  Ann,  and  Martha,  his  sons  Samuel,  John  and  Richard.  He  mentioned  a 
debt  to  be  paid  to  his  wife's  children  by  her  former  husband  (i.e.,  John  and  Wil- 
liam Dynn).  In  the  inventory  is  a  house,  a  wharf  and  warehouse,  a  stock  of  goods, 
some  money  and  a  silver  tankard. 

His  widow  Elizabeth  died  at  Salem  in  March,  1740. 

Children  of  Roger  and  Lucretia  (Hilman)    Derby 

Charles,  born  at  Topsham,  England,  July  27,  1669;  died  on  the  unsuccessful  expedition  for 

the  conquest  of  Canada,  Oct.  8,  1690. 
Experience,  born  in  Ipswich,  JVlass.,  Dec.  18,  1671;  married  June  22,  1698,  Captain  Joseph 

Flint,  mariner,  son  of  Ensign  Edward  and  Elizabeth  (Hart)  Flint,  of  Salem;  died  in 

January,  1715. 
Samuel,  born  in  Ipswich,  Nov.  24,  1673;  married  at  Southold,  L.  I.,  about  1699,  Hannah 

Young;  died  at  sea.     His  widow  Hannah  married  (2)  Jan.  7,   1728,  Daniel  Clark, 

yeoman,  from  Topsfield. 
Roger,  born  in  Ipswich,  Jan.  i,  1675;  died  before  1698,  unmarried. 
John,  born  in  Ipswich,  Feb.  25,  1677.     The  administration  of  his  estate  was  granted  June  7, 

1708. 
Richard,  born  in  Ipswich,  Oct.  8,  1679;  married  Feb.  25,  1702/3,  Martha  Haskett,  daughter 

of  Stephen  and   Elizabeth  (Langdon)   Haskett  (155),  his  step-mother's  sister. 

He  died  Feb.  25,  171 5.     Their  grandson,  Elias  Haskett  Derby,  first  established  the 


ROGER  DERBY  [154]  259 

East  India  Trade  in  New  England.  Another  grandson,  Captain  John  Derby,  carried 
in  the"Quero"  the  news  of  the  battle  of  Lexington  to  England,  and  arrived  before 
the  English  messenger  sent  by  General  Gage.  He  also,  in  1783,  brought  back  to 
this  country  the  first  news  of  the  treaty  of  Paris. 

Lucretia,  born  in  Salem,  Aug.  17,  1681;  was  published  to  Joseph  Bolles  of  Ipswich  on  March 
29,  1707. 

Ebenezer,  born  in  Salem,  Sept.  9,  1683,  and  died  Jan.  20,  1687/8. 

Children  of  Roger  and  Elizabeth  (Haskett  Dynn)  Derby 

Elizabeth,  born  March  10,  1692;  married  April  17,  1718,  Thomas  Palfrey,  son  of  Walter  and 

Mary  (Manning)  Palfrey;  died  in  1721,  as  her  will  was  proved  Dec.  29  of  that  year. 
Margaret,  born  Aug.  14,  1693;  married  Feb.  8,  1710,  William  Osborn,  Jr.,  of  Danvers,  son 

of  William  and  Hannah  (Burton)  Osborn;  died  July  1 1,  1765. 
(150)  Ann,  born  Dec.   10,   1695;  married  Jan.  2,   1717/8,  Benjamin  Ives,  son  of  Thomas  and 

Elizabeth  (Metcalf)  Ives  (149),  of  Salem;  died  about  1752. 
Martha,  born  Sept.  30,  1697;  married  Oct.  22,  1719,  Joshua  Hicks,  merchant  of  Salem;  died 

in  September,  1757. 

[155]  STEPHEN  HASKETT  [....-....] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  LANGDON  [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    SALEM,    MASS. 


T 


HE  only  information  we  have  of  the  parentage,  youth  and  marriage  of 
Stephen  Haskett  is  contained  in  a  deposition  made  by  his  widow, 
Elizabeth  (Langdon)  Haskett,  May  30,  1698,  which  we  transcribe 
from  the  Notarial  Records  of  Salem,  Mass. 

"Mrs.  Elizabeth  Haskitt,  Widow,  formerly  the  wife  of  Stephen  Haskitt  of  Salem,  person- 
ally appeared  ye  subscriber  &  made  Oath  that  she  hath  six  children  living  one  sonne  whose  name 
is  Elias  Haskitt  aged  about  twenty-eight  yeares  &  five  Daughters,  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Sarah,  Hannah, 
&  Martha,  all  which  she  had  by  her  husband  ye  aforesaid  Mr.  Stephen  Haskitt  &  were  his  children 
by  him  begotten  by  her  body  in  lawf  uU  wedlock  being  married  to  him  by  Doctor  Clavell  in  Exiter 
in  ye  Kingdom  of  England  &  whose  sd  Husband  served  his  time  with  one  Mr.  Thomas  Oburne  a 

chandler  &  sope  boyler  in  sd  place  &  was  ye  reputed  sonne  of —  Haskitt  of  Henstredge  in 

Summersetshire  in  sd  Kingdome  of  England  &  have  often  heard  my  sd  husband  say  that  he  had 
but  one  brother  whose  name  was  Elias  Hasket  &  that  he  lived  in  said  towne  of  Henstridge. 

Elizabeth   Haskitt." 

Stephen  and  Elizabeth  Haskett  seem  to  have  come  to  America  soon  after 
their  marriage  and  to  have  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.,  where  in  1664  he  desired  "ad- 
mittance to  ye  Towne,"  and  was  accepted.  In  1675  he  was  in  Captain  George  Cur- 
win's  Troop  of  Horse,  and  in  October  of  that  year,  having  been  impressed  with  seven 
other  men  for  service,  Haskett  refused  to  obey  and  charged  his  captain  with  acting 
from  prejudice.  The  General  Court  required  him  to  apologize  to  Captain  Curwin,  and 


26o  STEPHEN  HASKETT  [155] 

to  pay  a  fine  of  £t^o.  In  December  of  the  same  year  ten  of  the  troopers,  Haskett 
again  among  them,  were  impressed  for  the  expedition  against  the  Narragansetts. 
They  left  Dedham,  December  9,  with  the  other  forces,  and  were  engaged  in  the 
Great  Swamp  Fight. 

The  date  of  his  death  has  not  been  ascertained,  but  it  was  before  1698,  the 
datepf  the  deposition  mentioned  above.  This  deposition  was  probably  in  refer- 
ence to  a  will  of  Elias  Haskett  in  England,  whose  estate  the  Elias  of  this  country 
had  some  claim  upon.  The  will  is  to  be  found  in  Waters'  Genealogical  Glean- 
ings, 1438. 

Children  of  Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Langdon)  Haskett 

(154)  Elizabeth,  married  (i)  June  6,  1684,  William  Dynn,  son  of  John  Dynn;  married  (2)  about 
1690,  Roger  Derby,  of  Ipswich;  died  at  Salem  about  March,  1740. 

Stephen,  born  March,  1668/9;  died  two  weeks  later. 

Elias,  born  April  25,  1670;  was  living  in  Boston  in  1702;  was  later  governor  of  New  Provi- 
dence in  the  Bahamas. 

Mary,  born  March  13,  1671/2. 

Sarah,  born  Feb.  5,  1672/3. 

Hannah,  born  Aug.  2,  1675;  married  May  11,  1704,  Richard  Symmes;  died  June  24,  1744. 

Martha,  married  Feb.  25,  1703,  Richard  Derby,  son  of  her  brother-in-law,  Roger  Derby 
(154)  by  his  first  wife,  Lucretia  Hilman;  died  May  2,  1746. 

[156-A]  ROBERT  HALE  [....-1659] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

JOAN  CUTLER  [1603-1681] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   CHARLESTOWN,    MASS. 

ROBERT  HALE  is  said  to  have  come  from  Kent,  England,  in  the  fleet  of 
ships  that  brought  over  Winthrop,  Governor  Coddington  (19)  and 
others,  in  1630.  He  was  an  inhabitant  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in  the 
same  year. 
He  married  before  1632,  and  possibly  before  leaving  England,  Joan  or 
Joanna  Cutler,  who  was  born  in  1603,  and  both  were  among  the  earliest  members 
of  the  First  Church  of  Boston.  Robert's  name  was  No.  18  on  the  church  list. 
They  were  later  among  "those  set  off  from  the  First  Church  of  Boston  to  form 
the  First  Church  of  Charlestown"  on  October  14,  1632,  and  he  was  No.  17  and  she 
No.  18,  on  that  list.  He  was  also  one  of  the  two  first  chosen  deacons  of  the  new 
church. 

He  appears  to  have  had  a  variety  of  occupations,  as  he  is  mentioned  as  a 
carpenter  and  a  blacksmith,  and  also  was  appointed  by  the  General  Court  to  be  sur- 
veyor of  the  new  plantations  of  Charlestown. 

He  was  made  freeman  May  14,  1634,  and  was  selectman  in  Charlestown  for 
eleven  years.     In  1637  he  was  one  of  the  appraisers  of  the  estate  of  Henry  Harwood, 


ROBERT  HALE  [156-A]  261 

of  Charlestown.     He  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Com- 
pany in  1644,  and  ensign  in  1659. 

He  died  July  16,  1659.  His  will,  dated  June  26,  1647,  proved  October  4,  '659, 
left  his  estate  to  his  wife  and  children,  John,  Samuel,  Mary  and  Joanna.  The 
inventory  amounted  to  £407.  His  widow  Joan  married  (2)  in  1662,  Richard 
Jacob,  of  Ipswich,  and  died  at  Charlestown,  November  28,  1681,  aged  seventy-eight 
years. 

Children  of  Robert  and  Joan  (Cutler)  Hale 

(156)  John,  born  June  3,  baptized  June  5,  1636;  H.  C,  1657;  married  (i)  Dec.  15,  1664,  Re- 
becca Byley,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Rebecca  (Swayne)  Byley  (156-0),  of  New 
Sarum,  England,  who  died  April  13,  1683;  married  (2)  March  31,  1684,  Sarah  Noyes, 
daughter  of  Rev.  James  and  Sarah  (Brown)  Noyes  (2)  of  Newbury,  who  died 
May  20,  1695;  married  (3)  Aug.  8,  1698,  Elizabeth  (Somerby)  Clarke,  widow 
of  Nathaniel  Clarke  (139),  and  daughter  of  Henry  and  Judith  (Greenleaf) 
Somerby  (140);  was  the  minister  of  the  church  at  Beverly  and  died  there  May 
15,  1700. 

Mary,  born  May  17,  baptized  May  ig,  1639;  married  Edward  Wilson. 

Zechary  (or  Zecharias),  born  April  3,  1641;  died  June  5,  1643. 

Samuel,  born  April  9,  1644;  married  March  19,  1668/9,  Lydia  Maynard;  died  in  1677.  His 
widow  married  (2)  in  March,  1681,  William  Marshall;  married  (3)  in  March,  1691, 
Samuel  Ballat. 

Joanna,  married  Nov.  9,  1664,  John  Larkin. 

[156]  REV.  JOHN  HALE  [1636-1700] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

REBECCA  BYLEY  [1638-1683] 

OF    BEVERLY,    MASS. 

TOHN  HALE,  son  of  Robert  and  Joan  (Cutler)  Hale  (156-A),  was  born  in 
I  Charlestown,  Mass.,  June  3,  and  baptized  June  5,  1636.  He  probably  re- 
I  ceived  his  early  education  at  that  place.  He  graduated  from  Harvard  in 
J  1657.  The  record  of  his  college  accounts  show  the  following  credits  from  the 
steward's  books:  "a  ferking  of  soop  20s.,"  "tobacko"  entered  three  times,  and  on 
"8th  10th  54  Geven  by  the  corporation  for  waitinge  and  his  monitor  work  £2.  i  is." 
After  this  he  is  credited  for  the  same  work,  fifteen  shillings  a  quarter,  until  his  grad- 
uation. This  is  the  first  record  on  the  college  books  of  credit  for  such  service,  al- 
though two  years  later,  in  1656,  the  two  "Noyces,"  James  (3)  and  his  brother 
Moses,  rendered  similar  service. 

John  Hale  married  (1)  December  15,  1664,  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  Rebecca 
Byley, daughter  of  Henry  and  Rebecca  (Swayne)  Byley  (i  56-B),of  New  Sarum, 
England,  and  Salisbury,  Mass.  She  was  born  in  1638.  The  record  at  Ipswich 
reads; 


262  REV.  JOHN  HALE  [156] 

"Mr.  John  Hale  son  of  Robert  Hale  late  deacon  of  ye  church  at  Charlestown  &  Rebecca 
Byley  late  of  Salisbury  in  Eng.,  were  married  Dec.  15  1664  before  me  Samuel  Symonds." 

This  was  Deputy  Governor  Symonds,  whom  Rebecca  Hale's  mother  Rebecca 
(Swayne)  Byley  had  married  the  year  before,  for  her  fourth  husband. 

About  1664,  Rev.  John  Hale  began  to  preach  at  Salem  on  the  Bass  River 
side,  now  called  Beverly.  After  three  years,  on  August  28,  1667,  he  was  called  as 
pastor  and  the  church  was  set  oflF  as  a  separate  parish  by  the  Salem  church.  He 
was  installed  September  20,  1667.  His  salary  was  agreed  upon  two  years  before  his 
ordination,  and  the  contract  bears  the  date  of  "3rd  Mo.  15th  1665."  The  church 
engaged  as  follows:  "we  doe  promise  and  engage  to  pay  unto  him  ^70  p. a.  and  his 
fierwood  raised  amongst  us  by  a  rate"  and  also  a  house  and  two  acres  of  home  lot 
and  pasturing.'  At  the  time  of  King  Philip's  War,  in  1676,  he  gave  through  the 
selectmen  one-twelfth  of  this  small  salary  for  public  uses,  such  as  fortifications, 
ammunition,  etc. 

In  1683,  he  preached  the  sermon  on  the  occasion  of  the  election  of  officers  of 
the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  from  Judges  III,  i,  2. 

His  wife  Rebecca  died  on  April  13,  1683,  aged  forty-five,  leaving  only  two 
living  children.  In  less  than  a  year  he  married  (2)  March  31,  1684,  Sarah  Noyes, 
youngest  daughter  of  Rev.  James  and  Sarah  (Brown)  Noyes  (2),  of  Newbury. 
The  same  year  he  preached  the  Election  Sermon  from  Haggai  II,  4,  by  appointment 
of  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  and  on  May  17  we  find  the  following  record: 

"This  Court  taking  notice  of  the  great  paynes  &  labour  of  the  Reverend  Mr.  John  Hale 
in  his  sermon  vpon  the  last  election  day  .  .  .  desire  coppy  that  it  may  be  printed  &c  at  the  pub- 
lick  charge." 

No  copy,  however,  is  now  known  to  be  in  existence. 

Rev.  Mr.  Hale  was  appointed  one  of  the  chaplains  in  Sir  William  Phipps' 
expedition  for  the  conquest  of  Canada  in  1690.  His  congregation  protested,  but 
he  accepted  the  appointment,  and  gave  as  his  reason,  that  there  were  so  many  of 
the  young  men  in  his  own  church  in  the  Beverly  Company  under  Captain  Rayment, 
that  he  thought  it  his  duty  to  watch  over  and  care  for  them.  He  served  as 
Chaplain  from  June  4  to  November  20,  1690,  and  also  acted  as  interpreter.  While 
in  Canada  he  drew  up  the  will  of  Nathaniel  Clarke,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Eliza- 
beth (Somerby)  Clarke  (139),  who  was  wounded  on  the  ship  "Six  Friends."  Mr. 
Hale  brought  the  will  home  to  the  young  man's  father-in-law.  Dr.  Peter  Top- 
pan,  of  Newbury.' 

During  his  absence,  his  son  Robert  (157)  preached  in  Beverly  and  per- 
formed other  ministerial  duties.  Thirty-four  years  after  the  death  of  Rev.  John 
Hale,  December  31,  1734,  on  petition  of  his  grandson  Colonel  Robert  Hale  (158), 
the  legislature  granted  to  the  heirs  three  hundred  acres  of  land  in  the  township  of 
Methuen,  for  this  service  as  chaplain.     In  1694,  Rev.  Mr.  Hale  built  the  house 

'  The  First  Book  of  Beverly  Records. 
^  See  Nos.  140-A,  130  and  154. 


REV.  JOHN  HALE  [156]  263 

at  Beverly  which  is  still  occupied  by  one  of  his  descendants,  Robert  Hale  Ban- 
croft, Esq.,  of  Boston.' 

His  name  is  prominently  connected  with  the  Salem  witchcraft  cases  in  1692, 
and  the  following  quotations  from  well-known  authorities  best  present  the  story. 
Upham  writes  of  his  responsibility  in  the  Salem  trials: 

"If  any  surmise  is  justifiable  or  worth  while  as  to  the  author  of  the  advice  to  Goodwin  to 
prosecute  Glover,  the  old  Irish  woman  who  was  executed  for  bewitching  Goodwin's  children,  I 
should  be  inclined  to  suggest  that  it  was  John  Hale.  .  .  .  When  Goodwife  Nurse  was  brought 
before  the  magistrates  March  24,  1692,  to  be  examined  in  the  meeting  house  the  Reverend  Mr. 
Hale  began  with  prayer." 

He  was  present,  as  he  says  in  his  pamphlet  written  later,  the  Modest  Enquiry 
Into  the  Nature  of  Witchcraft,''  at  "several  Examinations  and  Tryals  &  knew  sundry 
of  those  that  Suffered."  Four  of  his  own  parishioners  were  accused  and  condemned, 
but,  although  he  entirely  approved  the  findings  of  the  court,  he  was,  as  Bentley 
remarks,  in  a  manuscript  note  to  a  copy  of  the  Modest  Enquiry,"  "the  first  to  sus- 
pect the  proceedings  against  Witchcraft." 

Probably  he  first  appreciated  the  real  condition  of  affairs  only  when,  in 
October,  his  own  wife  Sarah,  then  enceinte,  was  accused  of  being  a  witch.  To 
quote  again  from  Upham: 

"Her  genuine  and  distinguished  virtues  had  won  for  her  a  reputation,  and  secured  in  the 
hearts  of  the  people,  a  confidence,  which  superstition  itself  could  not  sully  nor  shake.  Mr.  Hale 
had  been  active  in  all  the  previous  proceedings,  but  he  knew  the  innocence  and  piety  of  his  wife,  and 
he  stood  forth  between  her  and  the  storm  he  had  helped  to  raise.  .  .  .  The  whole  community  be- 
came convinced  that  the  accusers  in  crying  out  upon  Mrs.  Hale  had  perjured  themselves,  and  from 
that  moment  their  power  was  destroyed:  the  awful  delusion  was  dispelled  and  a  close  put  to  one  of 
the  most  tremendous  tragedies  in  the  history  of  real  life.  The  wildest  storm,  perhaps,  that  ever 
raged  in  the  moral  world,  became  a  calm:  the  tide  that  had  threatened  to  overwhelm  every  thing 
in  its  fury,  sank  back  to  its  peaceful  bed.  There  are  few,  if  any,  other  instances  in  history  of  a 
revolution  of  opinion  so  sudden,  so  rapid  and  so  complete." 

Until  this  complaint  against  his  wife,  says  Rantoul, 

"Mr.  Hale  held  to  the  opinion  that  when  through  the  instrumentality  of  any  one,  the  devil 
afflicted  others,  it  was  conclusive  evidence  that  the  person  thus  made  use  of  to  gratify  his  malignity, 
was  in  league  with  him,  and  so  no  longer  to  be  permitted  to  live  among  a  Christian  people.  But  after 
the  accusation  of  his  wife,  instead  of  suspecting  the  truth  and  sincerity  of  her  accusers,  he  adopted 
the  opposite  opinion,  which  would  reconcile  the  fidelity  of  her  accuser  with  the  entire  innocence 
of  his  wife,  and  throw  the  whole  blame  on  the  devil.  He,  however,  contended  that  the  devil  might 
and  did  make  use  of  the  true  Christian  in  aflRicting  others,  who  would  accuse  the  instrument  which 

'  Dr.  William  Bentley,  pastor  of  the  East  Church,  of  Salem,  writes  in  his  Diary  "April  13,  17QO.  I  spent 
this  day  agreeably  at  M'^-  Dane's  in  Beverly.  In  the  morning  with  several  Ladies  I  visited  Woodberry's  Head  & 
the  noted  Willow  Grove  belonging  to  Hale  s  Estate.  The  Grove  is  below  the  house  near  the  Shore.  It  is  nearly 
surrounded  by  a  pond  of  fresh  water,  which  is  separated  from  the  Sea,  only  by  the  Beach  thrown  up  by  the  Sea, 
through  which  Beach  when  the  earth  is  full  of  water  a  rivulet  runs  to  the  Sea.  The  Grove  is  upon  the  skirts  of  a 
conical  hill  which  the  pond  surrounds  except  on  the  part  toward  the  Town." 

^  This  little  book  is  a  rare  bit  of  Americana,  a  reprint  of  it  having  been  quoted  in  a  late  catalogue  of  Mc- 
Clurg  (Chicago)  at  1 160.00. 


264  REV.  JOHN  HALE  [156] 

he  made  use  of  against  their  will,  of  his  own  diabolical  acts.  This  opinion  prevailed  extensively 
and  gave  a  new  turn  to  the  prosecutions." 

Rev.  John  Hale's  change  of  sentiment  prompted  him  to  write  his  Modest 
Enquiry,  in  which  he  states: 

"  I  have  been  from  my  Youth  trained  up  in  the  knowledge  &  belief  of  most  of  those  principles 
I  here  question  as  unsafe  to  be  used  .  .  .  the  reverence  I  bore  to  the  aged,  learned  and  judicious 
persons  caused  me  \o  drink  in  these  things  with  a  kind  of  Implicit  Faith.  .  .  .  [He  bewails]  the 
errors  &  mistakes  that  have  been  in  the  year  1692.  .  .  .  [resulting  in]  the  apprehending  too  many 
we  may  believe  were  innocent,  and  executing  of  some,  I  fear,  not  to  have  been  condemned.  ...  I 
am  abundantly  satisfied  that  those  who  were  most  concerned  to  act  and  judge  in  these  matters  did 
not  willingly  depart  from  the  rules  of  righteousness.  But  such  was  the  darkness  of  that  day,  the 
tortures  and  lamentations  of  the  afflicted,  and  the  power  of  former  precedents,  that  we  walked 
in  the  clouds  and  could  not  see  our  way." 

Thus  admitting  his  error  with  candor  and  firmness,  he  endeavored  to  prove, 
with  the  strongest  arguments  in  his  power,  the  fallacy  of  those  principles  which  had 
governed  his  own  conduct  as  well  as  that  of  many  of  the  principal  men  with  whom 
he  had  co-operated  in  the  strange  scenes  just  enacted.  A  Fast  Day  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  General  Court  to  be  observed  on  January  14,  1697,  on  account 
of  what  had  been  done  amiss  "in  the  late  tragedy  raised  us  by  Satan  &  his  instru- 
ments through  the  awful  judgment  of  God,"  at  which  Judge  Sewall,  an  intimate 
friend  of  Mr.  Hale,  by  a  Bill  of  Repentance,  made  a  public  confession  of  his  re- 
gret for  his  verdicts  in  these  cases.  In  Judge  Sewall's  diary  of  November  19,  of 
the  same  year,  he  makes  the  following  entry: 

"Mr.  Hale  and  I  lodg'd  together:  [at  Salem]  He  discours'd  me  about  writing  a  History  of  the 
Witchcraft;  I  fear  lest  he  go  into  the  other  extream." 

An  examination  of  the  church  records  during  the  whole  term  of  his  ministry 
gives  evidence  of  his  liberality  and  freedom  from  the  prevailing  narrowness  of  the 
time  in  all  other  regards. 

His  wife,  Sarah,  died  May  20,  1695,  aged  forty-one,  leaving  four  children.  It 
is  said  that  her  death  was  hastened  by  the  excitement  through  which  she  had 
passed.  He  married  (3)  August  8,  1698,  Elizabeth  (Somerby)  Clarke,  widow 
of  Nathaniel  Clarke  (139)  and  daughter  of  Henry  and  Judith  (Greenleaf) 
Somerby  (140).' 

Two  years  later.  May  15,  1700,  Rev.  John  Hale  died  at  Beverly,  aged  sixty- 
four.     His  widow  Elizabeth  died  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  March  15,  17 16,  possibly  at 

'  This  marriage  is  referred  to  in  the  Essex  Historical  Collections,  VI  1,72,  under  the  caption  Curious  Geneal- 
ogical Coincidences  in  the  Hale  Family,  as  follows: 

"  Rev.  John  Hale  married  (3)  Elizabeth  (Somerby)  Clarke,  widow  of  Nathaniel  Clarke. 

Sarah  Somerby,  only  sister  of  Elizabeth,  married  another  John  Hale  of  Newbury  (not  of  the  same  family). 

Dr.  Robert  Hale,  son  of  Rev.  John,  married  Elizabeth  Clarke,  daughter  of  his  step-mother. 

Col.  Robert  Hale,  his  son,  married  as  his  second  wife,  still  another  Elizabeth  Clarke  of  Boston.  The  first 
wife  of  Col.  Robert  Hale  was  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Col.  John  Oilman,  who  had  married  the  mother  of  Col.  Hale 
after  Dr.  Robert  Hale's  death.  Thus  we  find  two  sisters  each  married  a  John  Hale, — a  father,  son  and  grandson 
each  marrying  an  Elizabeth  Clarke, — and  a  father  and  a  son  each  marrying  the  daughter  of  his  step-parent." 


REV.  JOHN  HALE  [156]  265 

the  home  of  her  son-in-law,  Judge  Nicholas  Oilman  (132).     The  epitaph  on  her 
tombstone  is  as  follows : 

"Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hale  Relict  of  ye  Reverend  Mr.  John  Hale  Late  Pastor  of  ye  church  in 
Beverly  and  sometime  wife  to  Nathaniel  Clark  Esq.  Late  of  Newbury  Dec'd  who  died  March  ye 
15th  1716  aged  71  yers." 

Children  of  Rev.  John  and  Rebecca  (Byley)  Hale 

John,  born  April  21,  baptized  April  23,  1665;  died  of  small-pox  Dec.  30,  1690. 

Rebecca,  born  April  28,  1666;  died  May  7,  1681. 
(157)  Robert,  born  Nov.  3,  1668;  H.  C.  1686;  married  about    1700,  his  step-sister  Elizabeth 
Clarke,  daughter  of    Nathaniel  and   Elizabeth    (Somerby)  Clarke   (139),  of 
Newbury;  was  a  physician  and  died  at  Beverly,  Jan.  12,  1718/19. 

Children  of  Rev.  John  and  Sarah  (Noyes)  Hale 

James,  born  Oct.  14,  1685;  H.  C.  1703;  married  Sarah  Hathaway;  was  ordained  in  1718 
as  pastor  of  the  church  at  Ashford,  Conn.,  and  died  there  Nov.  22,  1743. 

Samuel,  born  Aug.  13,  1687;  married  May  29,  1714,  Apphia  Moody,  daughter  of  John  and 

Hannah  ( )  Moody,  of  Newbury,  Mass.     One  of  their  sons,  Richard  Hale,  of 

Coventry,  Conn.,  was  the  father  of  Captain  Nathan  Hale,  who  was  executed  as  a  spy 
by  the  English  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

Joanna,  born  June  15,  1689. 

John,  born  Dec.  24  (or  Aug.  24),  1692. 

[157]  DR.  ROBERT  HALE  [1668-1719] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  CLARKE  [1684-1762] 

OF    BEVERLY,    MASS. 

ROBERT  HALE,  son  of  Rev.  John  and  Rebecca  (Byley)  Hale  (156), 
was  born  at  Beverly,  November  3,  1668.  On  his  mother's  death  in  1683, 
he  came  into  possession  of  property  in  England  which  she  had  inherited 
from  her  grandfather  Bennett  Swayne.  He  finally  sold  it  for  ;£ioo, 
after  long  negotiations  and  delays,  to  his  greatuncle  Bennett  Swayne,  merchant 
of  London,  England,  who  had  managed  the  property  for  him  for  many  years. 
This  sum  is  said  to  have  paid  approximately  the  London  bills  for  drugs  and  medi- 
cines, when  he  became  a  physician. 

He  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1686,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  and  prepared 
for  the  ministry.  His  step-uncle  John  Hall,  a  wealthy  goldsmith  of  London,  left 
in  his  will  in  1691 : 

"to  my  cousin  Robert  Hale,  my  sister  Rebecca  Hale's  son  deceased,  my  five  volumes  of  Poole's 
Synopsis  Criticorum,  Ainsworth's  Annotations  and  MeUificiuni  Theologicum," 

probably  intended  as  a  foundation  of  a  theological  library. 


266  DR.  ROBERT  HALE  [157] 

In  1690,  when  he  was  but  twenty-two,  he  supplied  his  father's  pulpit,  when 
Rev.  John  Hale  was  absent  as  chaplain  to  the  Expedition  to  Canada.  Soon 
after,  however,  his  health  forced  him  to  give  up  "that  best  of  employments," 
as  he  calls  the  ministry,  and  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine,  in  which  he 
was  very  successful.  For  some  years  he  appears  to  have  been  in  delicate 
health,  and  in  a  letter  to  his  father  dated  "Preston  22d  nth  1693"  he  says: 
"1  find  myself  heir  to  my  mother's  distempers:  would  to  God  1  might  of  her 
graces." 

He  married  about  1700,  his  step-sister,  Elizabeth  Clarke,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Somerby)  Clarke  (139).  She  was  born  May  15,  1684, 
and  was  therefore  fifteen  years  his  junior,  and  had  probably  lived  in  his  father's 
home  for  two  years. 

In  1701,  Dr.  Robert  Hale  became  master  of  the  grammar  school  and  was 
practically  the  founder  of  grammar  school  education  in  Beverly.  He  served  the 
town  as  master  in  1702  for  the  pittance  of  £10,  in  order  that  the  school  might  be 
established,  and  a  few  years  later  the  building  of  the  first  school  house  was  at  his 
cost.  Colonel  Robert  Hale  (158),  his  son,  took  also  an  active  interest  in  the 
Beverly  schools. 

Subsequently  to  this  he  filled  many  important  offices,  was  selectman,  justice 
of  the  peace  and  deputy  from  Beverly  to  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  for 
three  years.  He  was  the  author  of  some  verses  on  Nathaniel  Mather  to  be  found 
at  the  end  of  Liber  IV  of  Cotton  Mather's  Magnalia. 

He  died  at  Beverly,  January  12,  1718/9.  His  gravestone  is  still  in  the 
Hale  burial-plot  in  Beverly.  In  the  course  of  village  improvements,  the  family 
graves  in  the  old  graveyard  were  all  removed  some  years  since  to  the  burial  plot 
which  was  fenced  ofi"  from  the  village  burial-ground  by  Colonel  Robert  Hale 
(158).  The  village  road,  newly  laid  out  at  that  time,  circles  around  the  small 
enclosure  which  contains  all  of  the  older  members  of  the  family. 

Dr.  Robert  Hale's  widow  Elizabeth  married  (2)  December  29,  1720,  as 
his  second  wife.  Colonel  John  Gilman  of  Exeter,  N.  H.  (161),  son  of  Honorable 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Treworgye)  Gilman  (131),  and  brother  of  her  sister  Sarah's 
husband.  She  had  four  children  by  her  second  husband,  whom  she  outlived, 
dying  at  Beverly,  January  24,  1762. 

Children  of  Dr.  Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Clarke)  Hale 

Rebecca,  born  Nov.  19,  1701;  married  Feb.  12,  1719,  Rev.  John  Chipman,  H.  C,  171 1, 
pastor  of  the  church  at  North  Beverly.  She  died  July  4,  175  i. 
(158)  Robert,  born  Feb.  12,  1702/3;  H.  C.  1721;  married  (i)  Dec.  12,  1723,  his  step-sister  Eliza- 
beth Gilman,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  and  Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Oilman  (161), 
of  Exeter,  N.  H.  She  died  Aug. _  19,  1736;  married  (2)  Dec.  21,  1737,  Elizabeth 
Clarke,  daughter  of  Hon.  John  Clarke,  of  Boston;  died  March  20,  1767. 

Henry,  born  Dec.  19,  1712;  H.  C.  173 1;  married  Aug.  25,  1735,  Anna  Ober,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  Ober,  of  Beverly;  died  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  before  1740. 


COLONEL  ROBERT  HALE  [158]  267 

[158J  COLONEL  ROBERT  HALE  [1703-1767] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  OILMAN  [1702-1736] 

OF    BEVERLY,    MASS. 

ROBERT  HALE,  son  of  Dr.  Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Clarke)  Hale  (157), 
was  born  February  12,  1702/3,  at  Beverly,  Mass.  When  between  fif- 
teen and  sixteen  years  of  age  he  was  employed  to  keep  the  Grammar 
School  in  Beverly  that  his  father  had  been  master  of  in  earlier  years. 
He  entered  Harvard  College,  and  while  he  was  there  his  father  died  and  his  mother 
married  (2)  Colonel  John  Oilman  (161),  and  removed  to  Exeter  with  her  other 
two  children.  He  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1721,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  and 
taught  in  the  Exeter  grammar  school,  open  only  three  months  of  the  year,  during 
1720,  1 72 1  and  1722.  He  studied  medicine  under  Dr.  Manning,  of  Ipswich,  and 
about  1723  engaged  in  practice  as  a  physician,  attending  families  not  only  in 
Beverly,  but  in  all  the  neighboring  towns. 

He  married  (i)  December  12, 1723,  his  step-sister  Elizabeth  Oilman,  daughter 
of  Colonel  John  and  Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Oilman  of  Exeter,  N.  H.  (161),  who  was 
born  February  5,  1701/2.  Three  years  later,  in  1726,  he  united  with  the  First 
Church  of  Beverly,  and  was  an  earnest  member  for  the  rest  of  his  life. 

His  account-book,  begun  in  1723,  is  still  in  existence.  It  contains  an  inven- 
tory of  his  property,  amounting,  on  June  10,  1729,  to  £1,155.  •3^-  3^- 

"free  from  incumbrance.  ...  Of  this  he  had  received  from  his  father's  estate  £']()0.  los.  5d.  and 
from  his  mother's  thirds  ;£300.  In  a  note  to  this  inventory  he  writes:  'As  my  father  died  5  years 
before  I  came  of  age,  it  cost  me  ;£3oo  at  least  out  of  my  estate  for  my  education,  so  that  by  marrying 
&  industry,  with  God's  blessing,  I  have  gained  £'^()'y  in  about  six  years.'"' 

Dr.  Hale  became  a  prominent  citizen  of  Beverly  at  an  early  age.  He 
was  a  man  of  great  natural  capacity  for  leadership,  of  dignity  of  character  and  very 
energetic.  Every  detail  of  his  private  life  known  to  his  descendants  confirms  the 
impression  of  his  refined  and  aristocratic  tastes.  His  plan  for  "seating  the  meeting" 
which  was  drawn  up  after  the  second  meeting-house  of  the  First  Church  was  built, 
is  entirely  based  on  "degrees"  of  dignity,  and  by  it  Dr.  Hale,  then  called  Colonel 
Hale,  had  the  first  seat.  This  seems  to  have  been  in  a  special  pew,  called  "the 
foremost  magistrate  seat, "and  the  women  of  his  family,  while  seated  according  to 
his  degree,  were  in  a  difi'erent  part  of  the  church. 

Colonel  Hale  was  at  different  times  elected  to  many  offices,  as  surveyor, 
selectman,  assessor,  town  clerk,  treasurer,  justice  of  the  peace  and  collector  of 
excise  for  Essex  County.  He  was  representative  to  the  Oeneral  Court  of  Massa- 
chusetts for  fifteen  years,  and  was  often  chosen  for  committee  work. 

'■History  of  Beverly,  E.  M.  Stone,  39. 


268  COLONEL  ROBERT  HALE  [158] 

His  wife,  Elizabeth  Oilman,  died  August  19,  1736,  aged  thirty-five,  leaving 
one  daughter,  and  he  married  (2)  December  21,  1737,  Elizabeth  Clarke,  youngest 
daughter  of  Hon.  John  Clarke,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

Colonel  Hale  was  at  this  time  prominently  connected  with  the  "Land  Bank" 
or  "manufactory  scheme"  which  afterward  proved  a  failure.  It  was  started  in 
1740,  because  of  the  financial  difficulties  of  the  Province  of  Massachusetts,  and  the 
capital  of  £150,000  was  secured  on  real  estate,  the  principal  asset  of  the  colony  at 
that  time.  The  enterprise  was  one  by  which  "it  was  hoped  to  put  farther  off  the 
day  when  financial  affairs  should  be  brought  to  a  specie  basis."'  Colonel  Hale 
was  one  of  the  managers  and  drafted  the  plan  of  operations.  While  it  was  illegal  in 
England,  the  colonists  claimed  that  the  act  of  parliament  had  no  application  to 
colonial  affairs.  Governor  Belcher,  however,  issued  a  proclamation  declaring  that 
every  officer  of  the  Colony,  civil  or  military,  who  was  in  any  way  concerned  in  the 
Bank  or  in  passing  its  notes  should  be  dismissed.  Colonel  Hale  did  not  wait  for 
the  governor  to  take  action,  but,  on  November  10,  1740,  wrote  him  as  follows: 

"May  it  please  your  Excellency: 

It  is  not  a  contempt  of  the  authority  of  your  Excellency  and  his  Majesty's  Council, 
but  a  hearty  desire  to  the  interest  of  my  country,  that  inclines  me  steadily  to  pursue  the  affair 
of  the  Manufactory  scheme,  in  which  I  am  engaged;  and  as,  by  your  Excellency's  proclamation  of 
the  5th  instant,  that  is  made  incompatible  with  my  holding  a  commission  under  the  government, 
I  do  now  most  readily  and  cheerfully  resign  the  trust  of  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  which  I  received  by 
your  Excellency's  favor,  and  always  endeavored  to  execute  to  the  honor  of  His  Majesty  and  the 
good  of  his  subjects,  so  far  as  concerned  me. 

I  am  your  Excellency's  most  obedient  and 
Most  dutiful  humble  serv't 

Robert  Hale. 
To  his  Excellency  Governor  Belcher. 
Boston,  Nov.  loth,  1740." 

Samuel  Adams,  Sr.,  and  other  justices  of  high  character  resigned  their  offices, 
and  all  officers,  civil  and  military,  interested  in  the  Bank,  were  dismissed.  This 
usurpation  of  power  by  Governor  Belcher  was  resented  by  the  people,  and  resulted 
in  a  universal  remonstrance,  which  culminated  in  his  removal  from  office,  and  the 
appointment  in  1741  of  Shirley  to  succeed  him. 

In  the  expedition  against  Louisburg,  which  took  place  in  1745,  Robert  Hale 
commanded  the  5th  Mass.  Regiment  as  Colonel.  He  caused  a  company  to  be 
enlisted  in  Beverly,  of  which  his  son-in-law  Benjamin  Ives  (151)  was  captain,  and 
it  became  the  Tenth  Company  of  Colonel  Hale's  regiment.  The  troops  for  this 
expedition  were  raised  in  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut,  and  com- 
manded by  General  William  Pepperell  of  Kittery,  Me.  They  were  transported  to 
Nova  Scotia  in  British  ships  which  took,  however,  no  part  in  the  siege. 

"The  hardships  of  this  siege  were  without  parallel   in  all  preceding  American  operations. 
The  army  was  employed  fourteen  nights  successively  in  drawing  cannon,  mortars,  &c.,  for  two  miles 
'  Story  of  Boston,  Arthur  Oilman,  230. 


COLONEL  ROBERT  HALE  [158]  269 

through  a  morass  to  their  camp.  The  Americans  were  yotied  together,  and  performed  labor  be- 
yond the  power  of  oxen,  which  labor  could  be  done  only  in  the  night  or  on  a  foggy  day;  the  place 
being  within  clear  view  and  random  shot  of  the  enemy's  walls."' 

Colonel  Hale's  regiment  was  actively  engaged  and  although  part  of  the  time 
ill  from  exposure,  he  was  able  to  render  efficient  service.  From  this  time  on  he  was 
always  designated  as  Colonel  Hale.  It  is  said  that  while  at  Louisburg,  where 
the  troops  were  kept  for  some  months,  he  had  a  piece  of  ground  cultivated  which 
is  still  known  in  that  locality  as  "Colonel  Hale's  garden."  In  a  letter  to  Colonel 
Pickman,  referring  to  an  account  of  the  taking  of  Louisburg  in  an  English  maga- 
zine, where  the  whole  credit  was  given  to  the  English  ships,  he  wrote: 

"  It  is  well  known  to  every  one  engaged  in  the  expedition,  that  the  British  fleet  never  fired 
a  gun,  nor  lost  a  man  except  by  sickness,  though  they  have  the  credit  of  taking  the  place." 

and  he  points  out  that  the  great  mistake  of  the  government  in  former  unsuccessful 
military  etforts  was  that  they  put  British  officers  over  the  provincial  troops. 

At  this  time,  the  general  financial  stringency  in  Massachusetts  was  relieved 
by  the  mother  country.  Large  sums  of  money  in  coin  were  sent  to  the  colonies  in 
recognition  of  their  part  in  the  capture  of  Louisburg,  and  it  was  used  to  redeem 
the  paper  currency,  thus  accomplishing  what  Colonel  Hale  and  others  had  striven 
for  unsuccessfully  in  the  Land  Bank  scheme. 

In  1747,  Colonel  Hale  was  sent  by  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  as 
commissioner  to  a  meeting  held  in  New  York  for  the  consideration  of  plans  for  the 
common  defence  of  the  colonies.  In  1755,  Shirley  and  other  Royal  governors  in- 
augurated a  scheme  for  the  conquest  of  the  French,  which  contemplated  four  cam- 
paigns,— one  at  Crown  Point,  one  in  Ohio  and  the  Northwest,  one  at  Fort  Niagara, 
and  one  in  Nova  Scotia,  to  recapture  Louisburg  which  had  been  ceded  to  the  French 
by  the  Treaty  of  Aix-la-Chapelle.  For  the  accomplishment  of  this  the  aid  of  New 
Hampshire  was  needed,  and  Colonel  Hale  was  selected  to  lay  the  matter  before  the 
General  Court  of  that  Colony.  His  mission  was  finally  successful,  but  in  the  course 
of  the  negotiations  he  had  many  discouragements.  In  his  first  letter  to  the  gov- 
ernor he  mentions  being  sent  for  by  the  committee  of  the  House  and  that  they  had 
informed  him  that  they  would  agree  to  send  one  hundred  men.  Later  in  the  same 
letter,  he  wrote: 

"This  morning  early.  Col.  Oilman  of  Exeter  (one  of  the  committee),  came  to  my  lodgings' 
as  I  had  desired  him  over  night.  We  began  upon  it  again  and  went  through  everything,  but  it  did 
not  then  appear  to  make  any  real  impression  on  him." 

He  adds  that  through  arguments  which  he  advanced  to  Colonel  Gilman  later,  the 
Committee  had  decided  to  send  five  hundred  men,  which,  although  one  hundred 
less  than  they  had  asked  for.  Colonel  Hale  finally  agreed  to.  It  is  interesting  to 
us  to  note  that  this  Colonel  Gilman  was  undoubtedly  Peter,  step-brother  and 
brother-in-law  of  Colonel  Hale,  who  later  commanded  a  regiment  in  this  war. 

'Adams'  History  of  New  England,  123,  124. 


270  COLONEL  ROBERT  HALE  [158] 

On  his  return  from  New  Hampshire,  Shirley  expressed  by  letters  a  very  flat- 
tering appreciation  of  this  service.  Colonel  Hale  entered  into  the  arrangements 
for  the  expedition  with  great  enthusiasm  and  evidently  expected  to  have  a  com- 
mand offered  him.  Probably  his  health  was  not  considered  good  enough  for  such 
an  arduous  campaign,  for  only  a  medical  position  was  tendered  him,  which  he 
declined.  When  the  shattered  army  returned,  Louisburg  had  been  again  acquired, 
and  in  order  to  protect  it,  a  large  number  of  soldiers  were  needed.  The  unpopular 
method  of  impressment  was  resorted  to  by  the  British,  and  riots  ensued  in  Boston. 
Colonel  Hale,  at  that  time  a  deputy  to  the  General  Court,  served  on  a  committee 
to  report  on  these  outrages. 

In  1764  he  presented  to  the  Philosophical  Department  of  Harvard,  his 
Alma  Mater,  a  solar  microscope  and  a  magic  lantern.  He  was  sheriff  of  Essex 
County  from  1745  to  1766,  and  discharged  the  responsibilities  of  the  office  with  the 
same  fidelity  as  his  other  public  duties. 

He  died,  after  a  lingering  illness,  March  20,  1767,  at  Beverly,  aged  sixty-five. 
His  death  was  a  serious  loss  to  the  community  in  which  he  had  been  for  forty  years 
a  leading  citizen. 

In  his  will  he  left  to  his  widow  Elizabeth  certain  goods  which  she  had  brought 
to  his  home,  and  an  annuity  of  £\6.  One  item  referring  to  the  family  plot  in  the 
graveyard  reads  as  follows : 

"  Item.  I  will  that  a  small  piece  of  land  in  said  Beverly,  in  the  Lott  called  Morgans  Lott 
adjoining  to  the  East  side  of  the  publick  burying  Place:  which  I  have  fenced  off  for  a  burying  place 
together  with  the  stone  wall  fence  which  1  have  built  about  it  shall  be  kept  inviolable  for  a  burying 
place  for  myself  and  my  descendants;  their  husbands  and  wives  respectively  forever;  for  which 
use  alone  I  give  it  to  my  said  daughter  and  her  heirs  for  the  space  of  one  thousand  years,  and 
1  will  that  no  part  of  the  said  stone  wall  be  removed  or  demolished  on  any  pretence  what- 
ever." 

This  provision  has  been  faithfully  carried  out  by  his  descendants  in  Beverly. 

The  inventory  of  his  estate,  dated  1767,  is  on  file  at  the  probate  office  in 
Salem,  and  amounted  to  £2,452.  12s.  gd.  "old  tenour."  Among  the  items  in  the 
long  list  of  personal  effects  are  seven  gold  rings,  an  old  chaise,  one  riding  chair, 
and  two  or  three  slaves. 

His  widow,  Elizabeth  (Clarke)  Hale,  evidently  went  back  to  her  own  family 
after  his  death.  She  survived  her  husband  twenty-eight  years  and  died  in  Boston, 
in  September,  1795.     Her  will  was  proved  October  13,  1795. 

Children  of  Colonel  Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Oilman)  Hale 

(151)  Elizabeth,  born  July   18,   1725;  married  Oct.   12,   1743,  Captain   Benjamin   Ives,  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Ann  (Derby)  Ives  (150);  died  Oct.  18,  1767. 
Rebekah,  born  May  27,  1730;  died  April  27,  1732. 
Rebekah,  born  Feb.  5,  1732/3;  died  Aug.  23,  1736. 


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THE  BYLEY  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

WE  cannot  trace  the  Byley  family  back  of  "  Henry  Biley  the  elder,  Gen'" 
who  must  have  been  born  at  least  as  early  as  1 550,  as  in  his  will,  dated 
October  18,  1633,  and  proved  June  23,  1634,  he  mentions  four  great- 
grandchildren. He  was  of  St.  Edmund's  Parish,  in  New  Sarum  (Sal- 
isbury), Wiltshire,  England.  The  rector.  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  who  married  Alice 
Batt,  a  granddaughter  of  Henry  Byley's,  was  chosen  for  the  position  by  the 
Puritan  party  in  the  parish  in  1622/3,  a  party  to  which  we  suppose  Henry  Biley 
belonged. 

He  was  a  tanner,  and  was  married  February  19,  1582,  to  Alice  ( ) 

Bytheway,  widow  of  Robert  Bytheway,  of  New  Sarum,  who  was  also  a  tanner. 
Henry  Byley  was  buried  April  23,  1634,  and  his  widow  Alice  on  June  4,  1635. 

In  his  will  mentioned  above  he  divided  his  property  among  a  large  number 
of  heirs.     His 

"lands  and  tenements  in  Wellowe.  .  .  .  Dwelling  house,  tan  house,  orchards  and  gardens  in  New 
Sarum  and  on  the  West  side  of  the  river  Avon.  .  .  .  and  .  .  .  stock  of  money,  bark,  hides,  leather 
&c" 

he  left  to  his  grandsons  Christopher  Batt  and  Henry  Byley  (156-B),  and  his 
granddaughter  Alice  Batt  (afterwards  Mrs.  Peter  Thacher)  to  hold  and  use  and 
receive  the  rents  of  for  the  maintenance  of  his  wife  and  family.  It  seems  extra- 
ordinary when  his  son  and  executor  Henry  Byley  was  still  living,  that  the  estate 
should  be  devised  to  three  grandchildren,  but  Henry  had  probably  already  received 
his  portion.  He  gave  money  to  the  parish  church  of  St.  Edmund's  and  to  the  poor 
of  the  parish,  and  also  to 

"the  Mayor  and  Commonalty  of  the  City  three  pounds  six  shillings  eight  pence  to  be  employed  in 
the  working  house  within  the  said  city  towards  the  setting  of  the  poor  there  at  work." 

He  gave  to  his  grandson  Henry  Byley  (156-B)  ten  pounds,  and  [a.  number  of 
pieces  of  furniture, 

"and  one  of  my  silver  beakers,  and  my  biggest  brass  pot,  save  one  which  is  to  the  Lymbeeke,  and 
my  biggest  brass  kettle,  and  my  second  tyled  house  or  standing  in  the  Row  by  the  Corn-market, 
next  to  the  pillowry," 

and  other  articles  pertaining  to  the  business.  He  gave  bequests  to  all  of  his  son 
Henry's  children,  Henry,  John,  and  Mary,  children  of  the  first  marriage,  and 
Edward,  Elizabeth,  and  William,  of  the  second.  Also  to  his  grandchildren,  Chris- 
topher, Thomas,  Mary,  Alice,  Elizabeth,  Margery,  and  Dorothy  Batt,  "children  of 
Thomas  Batt  Gen'  deceased."     The  bequest  to  Christopher  was 

"twenty  pounds  in  money  and  my  uppermost  tyled  house  or  standing  in  the  Market-place  near 
to  M''  Thomas  Elliott's    house  there,  ...  to  my  granddaughter    Alice  Batt  .  .  .  one  hundred 


272 


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pounds  in  money  and  my  bowl  of  silver  and  gilt  having  a  Poesy  about  it  and  my  biggest  brass  pot 
and  lymbecke  thereto  used,  etc." 

He  also  bequeathed  forty  shillings  each  to  his  great-grandchildren  Christopher, 
Anne,  and  Jane  Batt,  children  of  Christopher,  and  to  his  great-granddaughter 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Batt.  His  son  Henry  was  sole  executor,  and 
Thomas  Hill,  Michael  Mackerell,  and  grandson  Christopher  Batt  were  overseers. 
Their  children  were: 

Henry,  see  below. 

Jone,  married  Sept.  29,  1600,  Thomas  Batt,  son  of  Christopher  Batt;  had  six  children, 
Christopher,  Thomas,  Mary,  Alice,  Elizabeth,  Margery,  and  Dorothy.  She  was 
buried  Dec.  24,   1623.     Her  husband  also  died  before  the  date  of  her  father's  will 

(■633)- 

2 

HENRY  BYLEY,  son  of  Henry  and  Alice  (Bytheway)  Byley,  married 
(i)  January  23,  1610,  Elizabeth  Reade,  by  whom  he  had  four  children.     She  was 

buried  November  6,  1620,  and  he  married  (2) ,  by  whom  he  had 

three  children.  He  was  executor  of  his  father's  will  in  1634,  and  was  buried  at 
St.  Edmund's  Church,  April  19,  1638.     His  children  by  his  first  wife  were: 

(156-B)  Henry,  see  below. 

Mary,  baptized  May  8,  161 5;  married  after  April,  1643,  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley,  of  Exeter, 

N.  H.,  son  of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley;  came  to  New  England  with  her  brothers 

in  1638. 
John,  baptized  Nov.  19,  1617;  came  to  New  England  in  the  "Bevis"  in  1638  with  Henry 

and  Mary,  but  died  before  October  of  the  same  year. 
Thomas,  baptized  Sept.  7,  buried  Sept.  9,  1620. 

His  children  by  his  second  wife  were: 

Edward,  Elizabeth  and  William. 

[156-B]  HENRY  BYLEY  [1612-1640] 

and  his  wife 
REBECCA  SWAYNE  [. . .  .-1695] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   SALISBURY,    MASS. 

HENRY  BYLEY,  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Reade)  Byley,  was  born 
in  New  Sarum  (Salisbury),  Wiltshire,  England,  about  1612.     Like  his 
father  and  grandfather  he  was  a  tanner  and  lived  in  New  Sarum.     He 
married  at  the  Parish  church  of  St.  Edmund's,  January  21,  1632,  Re- 
becca Swayne,  daughter  of  Bennett  and  Bridget  Swayne,  of  New  Sarum. 

After  his  father's  death,  which  occurred  in  April,  1638,  he  left  his  wife  with 
their  two  young  children  in  New  Sarum,  and  with  his  cousin  Christopher  Batt, 


HENRY  BYLEY  [156-B]  273 

his  brother  John  Byley,  and  his  unmarried  sister  Mary,  he  sailed  from  Southamp- 
ton in  May,  1638,  in  the  ship  "  Bevis."     The  register  reads: 

Henry  Byley  of  SarQ  Tanner  aged  26 
Mary  Byley  "  "    22 

John  Byley  "  "     20 

On  their  arrival  they  went  at  once  to  Newbury,  Mass.,  where  the  Noyes, 
Parker,  Kent  and  other  Wiltshire  families  had  already  settled.  Winthrop  says  of 
the  emigration  at  this  time  to  Newbury: 

"this  summer  there  came  over  twenty  ships  and  at  least  three  thousand  persons  so  as  they  were 
forced  to  look  out  new  plantations." 

Henry  Byley  wrote  to  his  wife  Rebecca  from  Newbury,  on  October  1 1,  1638, 
and  tells  of  the  death  of  his  only  brother  John,  but  adds  that  his  sister  Mary  and 
their  servant  Thomas  Reeves  were  well.  He  asks  her  to  come  over  with  Mr.  Doue 
(Dove)'  and  other  friends  who  were  preparing  to  sail,  or  with  Mr.  Peter  Noyes, "who 
is  now  about  to  take  ship,"  i.e.,  to  go  to  England  to  bring  his  family  back.  He 
also  expresses  the  hope  that  she  "had  been  safely  delivered  of  her  child  &  thus 
made  a  joyful  mother  of  children."  From  this  we  concliide  that  their  eldest  child 
William  died  in  babyhood. 

Soon  after  he  joined  with  members  of  Governor  Dudley's  family  and  others  in 
establishing  a  "plantation  at  Merrimack,"  the  land  for  which  was  granted  by  the 
General  Court  September  6,  1638.  The  plantation  was  first  named  "Colechester" 
on  September  4,  1639,  but  was  afterwards  changed  to  "Salsbury  "  October  7,  1640. 
Four  of  the  twelve  original  grantees  were  related  to  Governor  Dudley,  viz.:  Simon 
Bradstreet,  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley,  Captain  Daniel  Denison  and  Rev.  John  Wood- 
bridge,  while  three  were  of  the  Byley  connection:  Henry  Byley,  Christopher  Batt, 
his  cousin,  and  Edmund  Batter,  a  more  distant  relative.  Five  only  of  the  twelve 
received  lands  and  settled  in  Salisbury.  "Mr.  Henry  Biley,"  Christopher  Batt, 
Rev.  Samuel  Dudley,  who  later  married  Mary  Byley,  and  two  others. 

it  is  probable  that  his  wife  Rebecca  and  her  two  children  came  over  in  1639, 
but  the  date  has  not  been  ascertained.  Henry  Byley  died  at  Salisbury  about 
1640.  His  widow  married  (2)  April  3,  1641,  Mr.  John  Hall,  of  Salisbury,  who  died 
before  1647.  They  had  one  son,  John  Hall,  who  became  a  wealthy  goldsmith  in 
London.  She  married  (3)  July  22,  1650,  as  his  second  wife.  Rev.  William  Wor- 
cester, the  first  minister  of  the  Salisbury  church,  who  died  October  28,  1662.  She 
married  (4),  in  1663,  Deputy  Governor  Samuel  Symonds.  She  gave  ;£ioo  to  be 
distributed  among  those  who  had  lost  by  the  great  fire  of  Boston,  and  those  who 
suffered  in  the  Indian  war  of  1682.  Rebecca  died  in  Ipswich  July  21,  1695, 
where  her  gravestone  is  still  to  be  found. 

'This  was  undoubtedly  Mr.  Francis  Dove,  a  man  held  in  high  esteem  in  Salisbury,  England,  who  was 
twice  Mayor  there,  and  a  connection  of  Henry  Byley  through  his  marriage,  Oct.  IQ,  1641,  to  Alice  (Batt)  Thacher, 
widow  of  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  rector  of  St.  Edmund's,  Salisbury,  and  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Jone  (Byley)  Batt. 
See  Waters'  Genealogical  Gleanings,  676. 


274  HENRY  BYLEY  [156-B] 

Children  of  Henry  and  Rebecca  (Swayne)   Byley 

William,  baptized  in  England,  Aug.  20,  1633,  probably  died  young. 
(156)  Rebecca,  baptized  in  England,  Dec.  8,  1636;  married  Dec.  15,  1664,  Rev.  John  Hale,  of 

Beverly,  Mass.;  died  April  13,  1683. 
Henry,  baptized  Aug.  26,  1638;  was  at  Barbadoes  in  1664,  in  London  in  1666,  Barbadoes 

again  in  1667,  and  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1668. 

THE  SWAYNE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

BENNETT  SWAYNE,  who  lived  in  Winchester  Street,  New  Sarum,  England, 
and  whose  will  gives  us  all  the  information  we  possess  about  the  Swayne 
family,  died  in  1630,  leaving  a  family  of  children,  some  of  whom  were 
then  under  age,  while  two  had  families.     He  must  have  been  born  late  in 

the  sixteenth    century,  perhaps    1575    to    1580.     He    married  Bridget  , 

who  outlived  him,  and  is  mentioned  as  still  living  in  the  will  of  her  sister  Grace 

( )  Heath  proved  in  London,  February  16,  1654. 

"Bennett  SwAYNEgen'"  was  a  man  of  considerable  property  and  left  large 
bequests  for  that  time.  He  gave  to  the  poor  of  four  parishes,  and  to  five  servants 
as  well  as  to  one  who  was  superannuated.  He  left  to  his  four  children,  who  were 
under  age,  Jane,  Jone,  Richard  and  Rebecca,  each  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds 
and  a  silver  bowl.  To  his  daughter-in-law  Anne  "my  double  gilded  salt  having  a 
top  and  bottom,"  and  to  her  husband  John,  his  eldest  son  (who  evidently  had  had 
his  portion),  his  signet  ring.  He  described  the  home  in  Winchester  Street  as  a 
"messuage"  furnished  with  "glass,  wainscot  and  benches  in  and  about  the  same," 
rented  from  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Sarum.  This  was 
left  for  the  use  of  his  wife  Bridget  as  long  as  she  remained  a  widow,  and  then  it  was 
to  revert  to  his  sons  John,  Bennett  and  Richard.  Bridget  and  Bennett  were 
residuary  legatees  and  executors.  To  five  friends  whom  he  named  as  overseers 
he  gave  "in  token  of  my  love  twenty  shillings  apiece  to  make  each  of  them  a 
ring." 

His  children  were: 

John,  married  Anne ,  and  had  children  at  the  date  of  the  will. 

Christian,  married  William  Pewde,  and  had  children  at  the  date  of  the  will. 
Margaret,  married  Thomas  Batt,  probably  son  of  Thomas  and  Jone  (Byley)  Batt. 
Bennett,  later  guardian  of  the  London  property  of  his  great-nephew  Robert  Hale  (157). 
Jane. 
Jone. 
(156-B)  Rebecca,  married  (1)  Jan.  21,  1632,  Henry  Byley,  who  died  about    1640;  married  (2) 

April  3,  1641,  Mr.  John  Hall,  of  Salisbury,  Mass.,  who  died  before  1647;  married  (3) 

July  22,  1650,  as  his  second  wife,  Rev.  William  Worcester,  who  died  Oct.  28,  1662; 

married  (4)  in   1663,  Deputy  Governor  Samuel  Symonds;  died  in   Ipswich,  Mass., 

July  21,  1695. 


COLONEL  JOHN  OILMAN  [i6i]  275 

[161]  COLONEL  JOHN  OILMAN  [1676-1742] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH  COFFIN  [1680-1720] 

OF    EXETER   AND   GILMANTON,    N.    H. 

JOHN  OILMAN,  son  of  Hon.  John  and  Elizabeth  (Treworgye)  Oilman 
(131),  was  born  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  January  19,  1676.  He  married  (1)  June  5, 
1698,  Elizabeth  Coffin,  daughter  of  Hon.  Peter  and  Abigail  (Starbuck) 
Coffin  (162),  who  was  born  January  27,  1680.  She  had  seven  children  and 
died  in  Exeter,  July  4,  1720,  aged  forty. 

In  1703/4  the  government  of  New  Hampshire  sent  out  scouting  expeditions 
against  the  Indians  in  Queen  Anne's  War,  and  Captain  John  Oilman  and  Captain 
Winthrop  Hilton  were  the  commanding  officers  of  the  two  Exeter  companies. 
John  Oilman  reported  in  a  week  that  he  had  enlisted  twenty  men  and  expected 
twelve  more,  exclusive  of  officers.  They  went  out  on  snowshoes  in  quest  of  the 
savages,  but  did  not  meet  them.  The  council  declared  it  honorable  service,  and 
ordered  gratuities  to  each  of  the  officers.  He  had  similar  service  again  in  1710, 
when  he  went  with  a  company  of  ninety-one  men  to  pursue  the  Indians  who  had 
killed  Colonel  Hilton.  From  this  time  until  1712,  there  is  record  that  his  company 
was  employed  on  similar  duty  at  various  dates. 

Colonel  John  Oilman  owned  several  saw-mills,  and  later  a  grist-mill  as  well. 
The  latter  was  situated  on  the  west  side  of  the  island,  and  in  order  to  make  the  ap- 
proach to  his  mill  as  convenient  as  to  those  of  his  rivals,  he  asked  permission  to 
build  a  bridge  over  that  part  of  the  river.  On  the  first  Monday  of  April,  1709, 
the  town  voted  to  give 

"all  the  right  the  town  have  in  the  stream  and  island  to  Captain  John  Oilman,  where  the  said  Gil- 
man's  corn-mill  now  stands,  with  privilege  for  a  bridge  to  go  on  the  island;  and  the  above  said  John 
Oilman  doth  oblige  himself  to  grind  the  inhabitants'  corn  when  wanted,  for  two  quarts  in  every 
bushel." 

This  bridge  has  ever  since  been  known  as  the  "string  bridge,"  and  it  was  for  a  cen- 
tury only  timbers  laid  across  the  channel,  with  a  hand  rail. 

On  the  death  in  1708,  of  Colonel  John's  father,  Hon.  John  Oilman  (131), 
he  inherited  the  homestead  in  Exeter,  at  that  time  called  the  "Oarrison  House," 
now  known  as  the  Clifford  house.  He  lived  in  it  for  many  years,  probably  until  he 
moved  to  Oilman  ton,  after  which  he  gave  it  to  his  son  Peter,  in  1732.  The  follow- 
ing interesting  description  of  the  house  is  taken  from  the  History  of  Exeter  by  C.  H. 
Bell. 

"The  oldest  house  in  the  town  is  undoubtedly  that  on  the  northerly  corner  of  Water  and 
Clifford  Streets,  now  (1888)  owned  by  Manly  W.  Darling.  It  was  built  by  Councillor  John  Oilman. 
He  was  living  in  it  in  1676,  and  there  is  ground  for  the  belief  that  it  dates  back  to  1658.  It  was 
constructed  of  square  logs,  the  upper  story  projected  a  foot  or  more  beyond  the  lower,  and  the 


276  COLONEL  JOHN  OILMAN  [161] 

windows  were  scarcely  more  than  loop-holes.  It  was  thus  completely  adapted  for  the  defence  of 
its  inmates  against  the  attacks  of  the  savages,  and  is  known  as  a  'garrison  house.' 

The  original  structure  was  small  and  constitutes  the  main  body  of  the  present  house. 
No  doubt  additions  must  have  been  soon  made  to  it,  for  the  first  occupant  had  sixteen  children,  all 
but  four  of  whom  lived  to  maturity.  The  wing  which  protrudes  towards  the  street  was  a  much 
later  appendage.  In  this  wooden  castle  lived  Councillor  Oilman  till  his  death  in  1708.  His  son, 
Colonel  Oilman,  succeeded  him  in  the  ownership  of  the  house.  He  was  then  about  thirty-two 
years  of  age,  with  a  wife  and  three  or  four  children.  He  was  active  and  energetic,and  acquired 
property  and  influence.  In  1719  and  1720  he  was  licensed  by  the  Provincial  Assembly  to  keep 
a  place  of  public  entertainment  in  "his  log  house  by  the  bridge."  Colonel  Oilman  was  the  father 
of  eleven  children,  and  died  in  1740.  His  eldest  son  was  Peter,  born  in  1703,  and  married  seven 
days  after  reaching  the  age  of  twenty-one.  His  father,  realizing  that  no  house  is  large  enough 
for  two  generations,  then  proceeded  to  build  himself  another  dwelling  near  by,  to  which  he  pres- 
ently removed;  and  in  1732  executed  to  Peter  a  deed  of  gift  of  the  old  mansion. 

It  was  during  Peter  Oilman's  occupation  of  the  house  that  the  front  wing  was  added  to  it. 
It  was  probably  built  in  1772  or  1773,  while  he  was  a  councillor."' 

Colonel  Oilman  was  still  living  in  the  old  house,  when  he  married  (2)  at 
Beverly,  December  29,  1720,  Elizabeth  (Clarke)  Hale,  widow  of  Dr.  Robert 
Hale  (157),  of  Beverly,  and  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Somerby) 
Clarke  (139),  of  Newbury.  She  was  born  May  15,  1684,  and  had  three  children 
by  Dr.  Hale,  two  of  whom,  Robert  (158)  and  Henry  Hale,  accompanied  their 
mother  to  her  new  home. 

Very  early  in  the  history  of  the  old  "Garrison  House"  began  the  series  of  mar- 
riages in  which  our  family  is  specially  interested.  In  1677,  the  year  Colonel  John 
Oilman  was  born,  Mary  Oilman,  his  eldest  sister,  was  married  to  Captain  Jona- 
than Thing  (142),  undoubtedly  under  the  old  roof.  In  that  large  family  the 
house  must  have  seen  more  than  the  ordinary  number  of  weddings,  but  the  next  in 
our  own  line,  comes  forty-six  years  later,  when  Elizabeth  Oilman,  Colonel  John 
Oilman's  eldest  surviving  daughter,  married  in  1723  her  step-brother,  Colonel 
Robert  Hale  (158),  whom  we  have  just  mentioned.  The  next  year  her  brother 
Peter  Oilman  became  the  owner  of  the  house,  after  his  first  marriage  with  his 
cousin,  Mary  (Thing)  Oilman,  granddaughter  of  his  Aunt  Mary  mentioned  above. 
Many  years  later,  in  September,  1761,  Peter  Oilman  married  for  the  third  time, 
Jane  (Bethune)  Prince,  widow  of  Captain  Moses  Prince  (182),  and  took  into 
his  home  his  wife's  daughters  Jane  and  Deborah  Prince.  In  October  of  the  same 
year,  Jane  was  married  from  this  house  to  Rev.  Chandler  Robbins  (167).  The 
following  still  legible  inscription  was  scratched  with  a  diamond  on  one  of  the  window 
panes  in  1788,  by  Hannah  Robbins,  the  daughter  of  Rev.  Chandler  and  Jane 
(Prince)  Robbins  (167),  who  became,  two  years  later,  the  wife  of  Benjamin  Ives 
Oilman  of  Marietta,  Ohio  (135),  who  was  a  great-grandson  of  Elizabeth  Oilman 
and  Colonel  Robert  Hale  (158),  mentioned  above. 

"Hon'''^  Peter  Oilman  Esq''  and  Mrs.  Jane  Prince  were  married  Sept.  1761 
Chandler  Robbins  and  Jane  Prince  were  married  October  1761 
^History  of  Exeter,  C.  H.  Bell,   416. 


COLONEL  JOHN  OILMAN  [i6i]  277 

Thomas  Gary  and  Deborah  Prince  were  married  Sept.  1783 
Hannah  Robbins  Apl  9th  1788" 

Colonel  John  Oilman  continued  to  live  in  Exeter  until  about  1727,  when  he 
removed  to  Gilmanton,  where  he  was  a  large  landowner.  This  town  was  granted 
for  services  rendered  in  defence  of  the  country.  The  name  of  his  brother  Judge 
Nicholas  (132)  appears  first  on  this  grant,  and  his  own  second,  as  "Major  John 
Oilman." 

He  was  chairman  of  the  first  board  of  selectmen  of  Oilmanton,  and  moderator 
of  the  first  meeting  of  the  proprietors  in  1728. 

The  exact  date  of  his  death  is  not  known,  but  it  was  probably  early  in  1742. 
His  will,  dated  June  19,  1738,  was  probated  April  28,  1742.  The  inventory  was  a 
large  one,  and  gives  household  goods,  real  estate,  etc.,  and  amounted  to  £(),^']2.  is. 
The  only  executor  who  acted  in  that  capacity,  his  widow  refusing,  was  his  son  Hon. 
Peter  Oilman,  and  the  bequests  areas  usual,  except  for  those  leaving  his  "Silver  hilt 
Sword  to  his  son  John,  and  £100.  to  his  granddaughter  Elizabeth  Hale  (151), 
and  a  silver  tankard  to  Peter." 

His  widow  Elizabeth  died  at  Beverly,  January  24,  1762,  probably  at  the 
homeof  her  son,  Colonel  Robert  Hale  (158). 

Children  of  Colonel  John  and  Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Oilman 

Joanna,  born  Sept.  10,  1700;  probably  died  young. 
(158)  Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  5,  1701/2;  married  Dec.  12,  1723,  Colonel  Robert  Hale,  son  of  Dr. 
Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Clarke)  Hale  (157),  of  Beverly,  Mass.;  died  Aug.  19,  1736. 

Peter,  born  Feb.  6,  1703/4;  married  (i)  Dec.  8,  1724,  Mary  (Thing)  Oilman,  widow  of  his 
first  cousin  John  Oilman,  son  of  Judge  Nicholas  and  Sarah  (Clarke)  Oilman  (132), 
and  daughter  of  his  first  cousin  John  Thing,  son  of  Captain  Jonathan  and  Mary 
(Oilman)  Thing  (142);  married  (2)  Dorothy  (Sherburne,  Rymes,  Rogers)  Taylor, 
three  times  a  widow,  who  died  Jan.  25,  1761;  married  (3)  September,  1761, 
Jane  (Bethune)  Prince,  widow  of  Captain  Moses  Prince  (182),  and  daughter  of 
George  and  Mary  (Waters)  Bethune  (189).  Peter  Oilman  was  Colonel  of  a  regi- 
ment in  the  French  War  of  1755,  a  mandamus  councillor  in  New  Hampshire,  and 
speaker  of  the  Provincial  Assembly.  Under  Colonel  Robert  Hale  (158),  will  be 
found  mention  of  him  in  connection  with  the  preparations  for  the  French  War.  In 
the  Revolution  he  adhered  to  the  British  cause.  He  died  Dec.  i,  1788.  His  widow 
survived  him  and  died  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  March  9,  1795. 

Abigail,  born  Aug.  19,  1707;  married  William  Moore,  of  Strathan,  N.  H. 

Robert,  born  June  2,  1710;  married  Priscilla  Bartlett;  was  a  physician  and  volunteered  as  a 
surgeon  in  the  expedition  against  Louisburg  in  1745.  In  a  letter  from  his  brother 
Peter  to  his  step-brother  Colonel  Robert  Hale,  of  May  3,  1745,  Peter  wrote:  "  I  beg 
D''  Brother  that  you  will  have  an  Eye  over  D""  Robert  &  Councill  and  Direct  him  in 
that  that  may  be  Best  for  him  If  he  stands  in  need  at  any  time  for  any  Thing  that 
may  be  for  his  Comfortable  Subsistance."  Dr.  Robert  Oilman  was  wounded  at 
Louisburg  in  the  leg  by  a  piece  of  shell,  and  on  account  of  this  service  the  Assembly 
voted  him  an  allowance.     His  wife  died  in  1743. 


278  COLONEL  JOHN  OILMAN  [161] 

John,"  born  Oct.  25,  1712;  married  in  1738,  Jane  Deane,  daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  and 
Deborah  (Clarke)  Deane,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth 
(Somerby)  Clarke  (139).     Was  major  in  the  French  and  Indian  War. 

Joanna,  born  October  27,  1716. 

Children  of  Colonel  John  and  Elizabeth  (Clarke  Hale)  Oilman 

Nicholas,  born  Jan.  20,  1721;  married  his  cousin  Mary  Oilman,  daughter  of  Colonel  Daniel 
Oilman  and  granddaughter  of  Judge  Nicholas  and  Sarah  (Clarke)  Oilman  (132); 
died  April  4,  1746. 

Sarah,  born  July  23,  1724. 

Samuel,  born  April  20,  1725;  married  (i)  in  1743,  his  cousin  Tabitha  Oilman,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Sarah  (Emery)  Oilman  and  granddaughter  of  Judge  Nicholas  and 
Sarah  (Clarke)  Oilman  (132);  married  (2)  May  4,  1761,  Lydia  (Robinson)  Oid- 
dings;  died  in  1778. 

Nathaniel,  born  June  18,  1726;  married  (i) Russell;  married  (2) Howe. 

[162]  HON.  PETER  COFFIN  [1630-1715] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

ABIGAIL  STARBUCK  [....-...  .] 

OF  ENGLAND,  DOVER  AND  EXETER,  N.  H. 

PETER  COFFIN  was  the  eldest  son  of  Tristram  and  Dionis  (Stevens) 
Coffin  (147-A).  He  was  born  in  Brixton,  Devonshire,  England,  and  was 
baptized  July  18,  1630.  He  was  but  about  twelve  years  of  age  when  he 
sailed  for  New  England  with  his  parents  in  1642.  They  came  first  to  Salis- 
bury, thence  to  Haverhill  and  probably  went  in  1648  to  Newbury.  Soon  after  this 
Peter  appears  to  have  started  off  to  make  a  home  for  himself,  as  we  find  him  in 
Dover,  N.  H.,  before  1650,  and  on  the  tax  list  there  in  1657.  He  was  then  a  mer- 
chant and  was  interested  with  Major  Richard  Waldron  in  "a  trucking  house  for 
dealing  with  the  Indians." 

He  married  about  1656,  Abigail  Starbuck,  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Catherine  (Reynolds)  Starbuck  (162-A),  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  afterwards  of  Nan- 
tucket. 

When  the  company  was  formed  in  Salisbury  to  purchase  the  island  of  Nan- 
tucket from  Governor  Thomas  Mayhew  (238),  of  which  his  father  Tristram 
Coffin,  Sr.  (147-A),  Thomas  Macy,  and  others  were  the  leading  members,  Peter 
Coffin  appears  to  have  had  an  interest  in  the  enterprise.  He  is  named  as  one  of 
the  original  purchasers  and  tradition  says  the  wealthiest  of  them  all,  owning  a 
large  mill  property  there. 

He  lived  for  a  short  time  in  Nantucket  about  1661,  but  soon  returned  to 
Dover  where  he  was  made  freeman  in  1666.     He  was  elected  to  various  town  offices 

'  Major  John  Oilman  is  great-grandfather  of  Dr.  Daniel  Coit  Oilman,  who  is  also  the  great-great-grand- 
son of  Samuel  Oilman,  his  younger  step-brother. 


HON.  PETER  COFFIN  [162]  279 

and  accumulated  a  large  property.  He  also  received  at  this  time  some  of  the  minor 
judicial  appointments,  in  1672  he  was  a  lieutenant  and  served  in  King  Philip's 
war  in  1675.  He  was  deputy  from  Dover  to  the  Massachusetts  General  Court  in 
1672,  1673,  again  in  1679,  and  in  1680  held  the  same  office  in  the  first  New  Hamp- 
shire Assembly. 

In  1675  or  early  in  1676,  he  went  again  to  Nantucket  and  was  there  at  the 
time  of  a  most  exciting  election,  when  he  was  the  candidate  of  the  younger  element 
for  associate  magistrate.  The  method  of  election  was  by  ballots  of  corn  and 
beans,  and  Peter  Coffin's  ballot  was  corn.  There  must  have  been  considerable 
electioneering  and  an  exciting  time  about  the  old  Parliament  house,  as  one  of  his 
enthusiastic  partizans  called  out  "Corn  Peter  Coffin!  if  he  don't  serve  we  will  get 
his  fine."  The  objection  to  him  was  that  he  held  a  commission  in  Massachusetts 
and  so  could  not  legally  serve  as  magistrate  in  Nantucket,  but  he  was  elected  in 
spite  of  this,  a  triumph  of  the  young  men  over  the  older. 

His  stay  in  Nantucket  must  have  been  brief,  as  he  was  in  Dover  before  1679, 
and  in  1680.  On  March  13,  1683/4,  his  house  was  made  a  garrison  house  as  we  see 
by  the  records — "the  houses  of  Peter  Coffin,  Esq.,  and  Richard  Otis  be  by-garrisons 
for  Cocheco  [Dover]  for  securing  the  inhabitants  that  dwell  thereabout."  In  1689 
this  house  and  that  of  his  son  Tristram  were  both  destroyed  by  the  Indians  in  an 
attack  on  the  town  in  which  Major  Waldron  was  killed,  on  June  27.  The  story  goes 
that  squaws  came  one  night  and  asked  to  sleep  by  the  fire  in  Peter's  house  and 
that  in  the  night  they  let  in  the  Indians  who  burned  it.  They  then  brought  the 
family  to  the  front  of  the  son  Tristram's  house  and  threatened  to  kill  them  there 
unless  he  surrendered,  which  he  did.  It  is  said  that  Peter  was  forced  to  open  a 
bag  of  silver  money  and  throw  it  out  to  them  by  handfuls  and  that  while  they 
scrambled  for  it  the  family  escaped. 

In  consequence  of  this  disaster  he  shortly  after  removed  to  Exeter  in  1690. 
He  was  appointed  councillor  in  1692,  a  position  he  held  for  ten  years,  until  he  was 
senior  member  of  the  governor's  council.  In  1697  he  was  chief  justice  of  the 
superior  court  and  assistant  justice  from  1699  to  17 14  or  practically  until  his  death. 

He  died  in  Exeter,  March  21,  1715,  aged  eighty-four.  The  date  of  his  wife's 
death  is  not  known. 

Children  of  Hon.  Peter  and  Abigail  (Starbuck)  Coffin 

Abigail,  born  Oct.  20,  1657;  married  Dec.  16,  1673,  Major  Daniel  Davison  or  Davidson,  of 
Ipswich,  afterwards  of  Newbury. 

Peter,  born  Aug.  20,  1660;  married  Aug.  15,  1682,  his  double  cousin  Elizabeth  Starbuck, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Coffin)  Starbuck,  and  granddaughter  of  Tristram 
and  DioNis  (Stevens)  Coffin  (147-A),  and  also  of  Edward  and  Catherine  (Rey- 
nolds) Starbuck  (162-A).  A  tradition  says  that  Peter  moved  to  Nantucket  as  he 
did  not  wish  to  stay  in  Dover  to  be  killed  by  the  Indians.     He  died  there  in  1699. 

Jethro,  born  Sept.  16,  1663;  married  Mary  Gardner,  daughter  of  John  Gardner  and  lived  in 
Nantucket.  The  lumber  for  his  house,  now  the  oldest  in  Nantucket,  was  the  product 
of  one  of  his  father's  mills,  and  was  still  standing  in  IQ03.     He  died  in  1726. 


28o  HON.  PETER  COFFIN  [162] 

Tristram,  born  Jan.  18,  1665;  married  Deborah  Colcord,  daughter  of  Edward  Colcord,  of 

Hampton.     It  was  his  house  that  was  destroyed  by  the  Indians  with  his  father's, 

on  June  27,  1689.     He  inherited  his  father's  Dover  property. 
Robert,  born  in  1667;  married  Joanna  (Gilman)  Dyer,  widow  of  Henry  Dyer,  and  daughter 

of  Hon.  John   and  Elizabeth  (Treworgye)  Oilman  (131);  lived  at  Exeter,  and 

died  there  May   19,   1710,  leaving  no  children. 
Edward,  born  Feb.  20,  1669;  married  Anna  Gardner,  daughter  of  John  Gardner  and  sister 

of  his  brother  Jethro's  wife. 
Judith,  born  Feb.  4,  1672;  probably  died  young  as  no  further  record  of  her  is  found. 
Parneli,  died  in  infancy. 
(161)  Elizabeth,  born  Jan.  27,  1680;  married  June  5,  1698,  Colonel  John  Gilman,  son  of  Hon. 

John   and   Elizabeth   (Treworgye)  Gilman   (131),   and  brother  of  her  brother 

Robert's  wife;  lived  in  Exeter,  N.  H.,  and  died  there  July  4,  1720. 
Eliphalet,  was  one  of  the  original  grantees  of  Gilmanton,  in  1727,  and  died  unmarried  Aug. 

16,  1736. 


[162-A]  EDWARD  STARBUCK  [1605-1691] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

CATHERINE  REYNOLDS  [....-... .] 

OF  ENGLAND,  DOVER,  N.  H.,  AND  NANTUCKET 

EDWARD  STARBUCK  is  said  to  have  come  to  this  country  from  Derby- 
shire, England,  but  the  date  of  his  arrival  is  not  known.  He  married 
in  England,  Catherine  (some  authorities  say  Eunice)  Reynolds,  who 
was,  it  is  said,  from  Wales.  Probably  some  of  his  children  were  born  be- 
fore emigrating  to  New  England. 

The  first  mention  of  him  is  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  on  August  30,  1643,  when  he  was 
granted  forty  acres  of  land  on  each  side  of  "Fresh  River  at  Cutchechoe"  (Dover). 
He  had  other  grants  at  different  times,  one  of  a  marsh  in  Great  Bay  in  1643,  one 
in  1650  of  the  mill  privileges  at  "Cutchechoe  second  falls"  with  Thomas  Wiggins 
and  of  timber  "to  accommodate."  Tradition  says  that  he  was  a  man  of  substance 
both  as  to  his  possessions  and  as  to  his  person. 

In  1643  and  1646  he  was  deputy  from  Dover  to  the  General  Court  of  Mas- 
sachusetts. He  was  an  elder  in  the  Dover  church,  but  was  prosecuted  in  1648 
for  his  Baptist  tendencies,  or  as  the  court  put  it,  was  charged  "with  p'fession  of 
Anabaptistry."  The  persecution  became  so  determined  that  he  was  forced  to  seek 
a  new  home  in  a  more  congenial  atmosphere. 

He  went  on  an  exploring  expedition  in  1659,  meeting  Thomas  jMacy,  who  was 
in  similar  trouble  in  Newbury,  and  who  interested  him  in  the  project  to  purchase 
the  island  of  Nantucket.  Macy  already  owned  a  tenth  interest,  and  sold  Edward 
Starbuck  half  of  it.  They  set  sail,  with  James  Coffin,  son  of  Tristram  (147-A) 
and  Isaac  Coleman,  two  boys,  in  an  open  boat  in  the  autumn  of  1659  and  in  due 


EDWARD  STARBUCK  [162-A]  281 

time  arrived  at  the  island,  where  they  found  the  natives  disposed  to  be  friendly. 
They  were  the  first  actual  settlers  among  the  purchasers. 

The  following  spring  (1660)  Edward  Starbuck  went  back  to  Dover  for  his 
family.  His  daughters  Sarah  and  Abigail  were  married  and  remained  in  Dover, 
but  his  wife  Catherine  and  three  children  Nathaniel,  Dorcas,  and  Jethro,  went 
with  him  and  Dover  lost  a  good  and  useful  citizen  by  this  persecution. 

The  rest  of  his  life  was  spent  in  Nantucket,  where  he  was  at  one  time  chief 
magistrate  of  the  island.  He  became  a  Quaker,  and  was  for  many  years  a  member 
of  that  Society  and  prominent  in  its  councils.  He  died  February  4,  1691,  aged 
eighty-six. 

Children  of  Edward  and  Catherine  (Reynolds)  Starbuck 

Nathaniel,  born  in  1636;  married  in  1662  Mary  Coffin,  daughter  of  Tristram  and  Dionis 
(Stevens)  Coffin  (147-A).*     He  died  at  Nantucket,  April  2,  or  Aug.  6,  1719. 

Dorcas,  married  William  Gayer;  died  in  i6q6. 

Sarah,  married  (i)  William  Storey  (or  Storre),  probably  son  of  Augustine  Storre  of  the 
Exeter  Combination;^  married  (2)  Joseph  Austin;  married  (3)  March  2,  1665,  as  his 
second  wife,  her  brother-in-law,  Humphrey  Varney. 
(162)  Abigail,  married  about  1656,  Hon.  Peter  Coffin,  son  of  Tristram  and  Dionis  (Stevens) 
Coffin  (147-A)  and  a  sister  of  his  brother  Nathaniel's  wife. 

Jethro,  was  killed  at  Nantucket,  May  27,  1663,  by  being  run  over. 

Esther,  married  Humphrey  Varney.     After  her  death  he  married  (2)  her  sister  Sarah. 

'See  No.  147-A,  for  further  mention  of  her. 
^See  No.  17 


ROBBINS  ANCESTRY 

OF 

WINTHROP  SARGENT  OILMAN 

[136] 


[163]  RICHARD  ROBBINS  [1610-....] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

REBECCA    [....-....] 

OF    SCOTLAND   AND   CAMBRIDGE,  MASS. 

THE  first  record  found  of  Richard  Robbins  is  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in  1639, 
where  he  evidently  settled  when  he  arrived  in  New  England.     It  is  said 
that  he  came  from  Scotland,  but  it  has  not  been  definitely  ascertained. 
The  name  is  sometimes  entered  as  Roberts,  and  also  as  Robinson,  but 
usually  as  Robbins. 

Richard  and  his  wife  Rebecca  were  admitted  to  the  church  at  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  the  24th  3d  mo.  1640.  Soon  after,  and  before  1643,  they  removed  to  Cam- 
bridge, where  they  seem  to  have  lived  for  a  time  on  the  south  side  of  the  river. 
In  1662  he  gave  his  age  as  fifty-two,  which  would  fix  the  date  of  his  birth  at  16 10. 
His  wife  Rebecca,  the  mother  of  all  his  children,  died  before  1673,  and  he 
married  (2)  March  26,  1673,  Elizabeth  ( )  Crackbone,  widow  of  Gilbert  Crack- 
bone.  Soon  after  he  moved  to  the  town  itself,  perhaps  living  on  the  Crackbone  place. 
He  was  tithing  man  of  Cambridge  in  1680,  and  the  same  year  served  as  juror 
in  the  trials  for  witchcraft.  He  executed  deeds  on  March  14,  1679,  to  his  son 
Samuel,  of  thirty-six  acres  of  land,  to  Nathaniel,  thirty-four  acres,  and  later  June 
7,  1 68 1,  to  his  daughter  Rebecca  and  her  husband  John  Woodward,  thirty  acres, 
all  apparently  on  the  south  side  of  the  river. 

Richard   Robbins  probably  died  at  Cambridge  after  April,  1683,  but  the 
date  of  his  death  has  not  been  found. 

Children  of  Richard  and  Rebecca  ( )  Robbins 

John,  baptized  at  Charlestown,  May  31,  1640;  the  record  calls  him  Robinson;  was  killed  in 
1 680,  by  a  terrific  storm. 

Samuel,  born  in  Cambridge,  May  22,  1643;  married  Ebenezer ,  so  it  appears  twice  in 

the  record;  served  in  King  Philip's  War  in  Captain  Thomas  Prentice's  Company;  died 
in  1708. 
(164)  Nathaniel,  born  in  Cambridge  in  1649;  married  Aug.  4,  1669,  Mary  Brazier.     The  mar- 
riage is  recorded  at  Lexington,  Mass.     He  died  in  December,  1719. 
Rebecca,  born  in  Cambridge;  married  before  1674,  John  Woodward,  and  was  livingin  1681. 


NATHANIEL  ROBBINS  [164]  283 

[164]  NATHANIEL  ROBBINS  [1649-1719] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

MARY  BRAZIER  [....-....] 

OF    CAMBRIDGE,    MASS. 

NATHANIEL  ROBBINS,  son  of  Richard  and  Rebecca  ( )  Robbins 
(163),  was  born  at  Cambridge  in  1649.    He  married  August  4,  1669,  Mary 
Brazier.     This  name  is  given  in  Paige's  Cambridge  as   Braside,  but  is 
written  Brazier  in  the  Middlesex  County  manuscript  copy  of  the  returns 
to  the  clerk  of  the  court,  and  also  in  the  late  printed  issue  of  Lexington  births,  etc. 
The  clerk  of  the  court  reports  the  marriage  as  having  taken  place  in  Cambridge,  but 
the  latest  issue  of  the  Lexington  Records  gives  it  as  in  Lexington. 

Mary  Brazier  may  have  been  a  daughter  of  Edward  Brazier,  of  Charlestown, 
who  died  May  3,  1689,  "aged  about  87  years"  and  who,  it  is  thought,  was  a 
descendant  of  the  John  Brachier  who  married  Alice  Mayhew,  the  aunt  of  Governor 
Thomas  Mayhew  (238). 

Nathaniel  Robbins  received  by  deed  from  his  father  March  14,  1679, 
thirty-four  acres  on  the  south  side  of  the  river  (Cambridge)  and  evidently  settled 
there,  as  he  was  one  of  the  hog-reeves,  the  same  year.  He  was  made  freeman 
in  1690.  He  died  in  December,  1719,  and  his  wife  Mary  survived  him,  but  the 
date  of  her  death  is  unknown. 

Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Brazier)  Robbins 
Rebecca,  born  Jan.  6,  1671/2;  married  Joseph  Cheney. 
Mary,  born  May  31,  1673;  died  at  Lexington,  Mass.,  Nov.  30,  1676. 
Deborah,  born  June  6,  1674;  married  (i)  Thomas  Squire;  married  (2)  William  Brown. 
(165)  Nathaniel,    born  Feb.  28,   1677/8;  married  (i)  Hannah    Chandler,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  (Dane)  Chandler  (170),  who  died  Sept.  15,  1718;  married  (2)  Mary 

( — )  Prentice,  widow  of  Thomas  Prentice;  died  at  Cambridge,  Jan.  16,   1741/2. 

John,  born  Nov.  21,  1680. 

Thomas,  born  Nov.  6,  1683;  died  at  Lexington,  Mass.,  Jan.  31,  1700/1. 

Samuel,  born  May  30,  1686. 

Joseph,  born  Nov.  8,  1689. 

[163]  NATHANIEL  ROBBINS,  JR.  [1678-1742] 

AND  his  wife 

HANNAH  CHANDLER  [1673-1718] 

OF  CAMBRIDGE,  MASS. 

NATHANIEL  ROBBINS,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Brazier)  Robbins 
(i64),was  born  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  February  28, 1677/8.    He  married  (i) 
about  1695,  Hannah  Chandler,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Dane) 
Chandler  (170)  of  Andover,  Mass.     Hannah  was  born  February  5,  1673, 
and  was  the  mother  of  all  his  nine  children. 


284  NATHANIEL  ROBBINS,  JR.  [165] 

Nathaniel  Robbins  moved  to  Charlestown  about  1700,  as  the  birth  and 
baptism  of  several  of  his  children  are  recorded  there.     His  wife  died  September  15, 

1718,  and  he  married  (2)  Mary  ( )  Prentice,  widow  of  Thomas  Prentice,  who 

was  born  about  1677.     At  some  time  later  he  returned  to  Cambridge. 

He  died  at  Cambridge,  January  16,  I74i/2,in  the  sixty-fourth  year  of  his  age, 

according  to  the  inscription  on  his  tombstone.    His  will,  made  March  19,  1736/7, 

was  proved  March  29,  1742.  His  wife  Mary  survived  him  and  married  (2)  November 

24,  1742,  Samuel  Lyon,  of  Roxbury.     She  died  March  2,  1760,  aged  eighty-three. 

Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Hannah  (Chandler)  Robbins 

Thomas,  born  in  Cambridge  about  1696,  and  died  young. 

Nathaniel,  baptized  in  Cambridge  June  19,  1698;  married  Martha ;  died  "suddenly 

of  small-pox"  in  July,  1721.     His  only  child  died  Nov.  10,  and  his  wife  Martha  Nov. 
22,  of  the  same  year,  of  the  same  disease. 
Mary,  born  in  Charlestown,  July  22,  baptized  July  27,  1701 ;  married  in  1724,  Joseph  Russell. 
Thomas,  born  in  Charlestown,  Aug.   11,   1703;  married  (i)  May  2,   1723,  Ruth  Johnson; 
married  (2)  Oct.  24,  1737,  Xenia  Jackson;  lived  at  Lexington,  Mass.,  and  died  there 
June  30,  1791. 
Hannah,  born  in  Charlestown,  June  30,  1705;  married  Zebediah  Johnson. 
Rebecca,  baptized  in  Cambridge,  Sept.  7,  1707;  married  in  1727,  Luxford  Patten. 
(166)  Philemon,  born  in  Charlestown,  Sept.  19,  baptized  Sept.  25,  1709;  H.  C.  1729;  married  (i) 
Dec.  24,  1735,  Hannah  Foote,  daughter  of  Dr.  Isaac  and  Rebecca  (Dickerman) 

FooTE  (174),  who  died  June  16,   1776;  married  (2)  Oct.  21,   1778,  Jane  ( ) 

Mills,  of  Kent,  Conn.;  died  at  Branford,  Conn.,  Aug.  13,  1781. 
Deborah,  born  in  Charlestown,  March  24,  baptized  March  30, 171 1/2;  married  Joseph  Rob- 
bins.    They  were  published  in  November,  173 1/2. 
Sarah,  married  William  Butterfield. 

[166]  REV.  PHILEMON  ROBBINS  [1709-1781] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

HANNAH  FOOTE  [1712-1776] 

OF  BRANFORD,  CONN. 

PHILEMON    ROBBINS,   son    of    Nathaniel   and    Hannah    (Chandler) 
Robbins  (165),  was  born  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  September  19,  1709.     He 
graduated  at   Harvard  College  in  1729  and  taught  school  for  some  time 
at  Andoyer  after  his  graduation.     Later  he  studied  theology  under  Rev. 
Nathaniel  Appleton,  of  Cambridge  and  commenced  preaching  near  Boston. 

His  first  call  was  to  a  church  at  Harvard,  Mass.,  which  he  declined.  Shortly 
after  he  went  with  one  of  his  classmates  to  attend  Commencement  at  Wooden 
College,  as  Yale  was  then  sometimes  called,  and  while  there  was  invited  to  go  to 
Branford,  Conn.,  as  a  candidate.  He  accepted  this  call,  and  was  ordained  as  the 
pastor  of  the  Branford  Church  on  February  7,  1732.  He  remained  there  all  his 
life,  and  preached  for  fifty  years. 

He  married  (i)  December  24,  1735,  Hannah  Foote,  daughter  of  Dr.  Isaac 


REV.  PHILEMON  ROBBINS  [i66]  285 

and  Rebecca  (Dickerman)  Fooxe  (174)  of  Branford,  Conn.  She  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1 71 2,  and  was  the  mother  of  all  his  children. 

Rev.  Philemon  Robbins  was  a  man  of  remarkably  mild  and  benevolent 
spirit  and,  while  in  strong  sympathy  with  Rev.  George  Whitefield  and  the  religious 
revival  which  spread  over  New  England  in  1740,  he  was  opposed  to  all  the  extrava- 
gance of  demeanor  which  accompanied  it.  As  he  went  to  the  meeting-house  one 
morning  a  local  celebrity  named  Davenport  broke  out  into  loud  and  boisterous 
singing,  and  was  reproved  by  Rev.  Mr.  Robbins  for  having  made  a  breach  of 
Christian  decorum. 

His  fearless  and  devoted  action  during  this  religious  excitement,  then  called 
"newlightism,"  is  worthy  of  record.  The  Connecticut  Legislature,  wishing  to 
check  the  progress  of  the  revival,  enacted  a  law  forbidding  any  minister  to  preach 
within  the  limits  of  any  other  minister's  parish,  on  penalty  of  forfeiting  his  right 
to  collect  his  salary.  After  this,  it  happened  that  a  little  congregation  of  Baptists 
in  Wallingford,  just  over  the  boundary  line  of  Branford,  had  a  religious  interest 
with  which  the  pastor  did  not  sympathize.  They  asked  Mr.  Robbins  to  hold  ser- 
vices for  them,  which  he  conceived  it  to  be  his  duty  to  do.  He  was  at  once  arraigned 
by  the  Consociation  to  which  he  belonged,  and  the  trial  lasted  several  years.  He 
was  deposed  from  his  oifice,  but  as  the  mass  of  his  people  sustained  him,  and  treated 
him  most  generously,  he  continued  to  preach  and  perform  all  his  ministerial  duties 
to  his  own  people.  His  first  sermon  after  his  sentence  was  from  the  text,  "Woe  is  unto 
me  if  I  preach  not  the  gospel."  The  civil  authorities  interfered,  and  he  was  brought 
before  the  Legislature,  where,  pleading  his  own  cause,  he  gained  his  point  and  in- 
creased his  popularity.  Although  he  was  for  a  short  time  shut  out  from  ministerial 
fellowship,  he  lived  on  kindly  terms  with  his  fellow  ministers,  who  gradually  fell 
back  into  recognition  of  his  proper  position  among  them.  His  popularity  and  in- 
fluence increased  steadily  during  his  long  and  useful  pastorate. 

His  wife  Hannah  died  Sunday,  June  16,  1776.  As  she  passed  away,  her 
husband  stayed  by  her  bedside,  while  their  son.  Rev.  Ammi  Ruhamah  Robbins, 
preached  in  his  father's  pulpit. 

He  married  (2)  October  21, 1778,  Jane  ( )  Mills,  of  Kent,  Conn.,  a  woman 

of  "most  devoted  piety."  He  died  at  Branford  very  suddenly,  August  13,  1781, 
aged  seventy-two.  He  preached  as  usual  on  Sunday,  but  on  Monday,  while  sitting 
in  his  armchair  with  his  pipe,  he  passed  away,  probably  without  a  pang. 

His  grandson.  Rev.  Thomas  Robbins,  says  of  him: 

"In  his  person  he  was  about  middle  height  but  rather  incHned  to  corpulency.  ...  He  had 
a  strong  and  pleasant  voice  and  his  manner  was  free  and  engaging  and  breathed  much  of  the  natu- 
ral benevolence  of  his  spirit." 

Two  of  his  sermons  were  published,  one,  preached  at  the  ordination  of  his 
son  Chandler  in  1760  at  Plymouth,  the  other,  at  that  of  his  son  Ammi  Ruhamah 
at  Norfolk,  Conn.,  in  1761.     Besides  these  he  also  published: 

"A  plain  Narrative  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Rev.  Association  &  Consociation  of  New  Haven 


286  REV.  PHILEMON  ROBBINS  [i66] 

County,  against  the  Rev.  Mr.  Robbins  of  Branford  since  the.year  1741,  and  the  doings  of  his  church 
and  people;  with  some  remarks  by  another  hand  in  a  letter  to  a  friend.     1743." 

Children  of  Rev.  Philemon  and  Hannah  (Foote)  Robbins 

Philemon,  born  Nov.  i,  1736;  died  Sept.  6,  1757,  while  a  student  in  Yale. 
(167)  Chandler,  born  Aug.  24,  1738;  Y.  C.  1756;  married  Oct.  8,  1761,  Jane  Prince,  daughter 
of  Captain  (or  Dr.)  Moses  and  Jane  (Bethune)  Prince  (182);  died  at  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  June  30,  1799. 

Ammi  Ruhamah,  born  Sept.  3,  1740  (O.S.  Aug.  25);  Y.  C.  1760;  married  at  Plymouth,  May 
16,  1762,  Elizabeth  LeBaron,  daughter  of  Dr.  Lazarus  and  Lydia  (Bradford)  Le- 
Baron;  was  for  fifty-two  years  pastor  of  the  church  at  Norfolk,  Conn.,  and  was  chap- 
lain in  the  Revolution.  He  had  a  son,  Rev.  Thomas  Robbins,*  and  a  daughter 
Sarah,  who  married  Joseph  Battell,  of  Norfolk.     He  died  at  Norfolk,  Oct.  31,  1813. 

Hannah,  born  Sept.  i,  1742;  died  Nov.  11,  1747. 

Rebecca,  born  July  27,  1744;  died  Feb.  7,  1751. 

Irene,  born  Nov.  16,  1746;  married  George  D.  Thompson,  of  Halifax,  N.  S.,  who  died  at 
Plymouth  in  July,  1797.     She  died  at  Plymouth,  Jan.  6,  1800. 

Sarah,  born  Jan.  1 1,  1749;  married  Rev.  Peter  Starr,  and  had  a  son  Philemon  (see  No.  136). 

Hannah  Rebecca,  born  April  18,  175 1 ;  married  (i)  Rev.  John  Keep,  of  Long  Meadow,  Mass.; 
Y.  C.  1769;  pastor  of  the  church  at  Sheffield,  Conn.,  who  died  Sept.  3,  1784;  married 
(2)  Hon.Jahleel  Woodbridge,  of  Stockbridge,  Mass.;  died  at  Warren,  Conn.,  Feb.  9, 1799. 

Rebecca  Hannah,  born  April  7,  1753;  married  March  2,  1775,  Dr.  William  M.  Gould,  Jr., 
of  Manchester,  Vt.;  Y.  C.  1771 ;  Surgeon  in  the  Continental  Army  underGen.  Schuyler; 
died  at  Branford,  Sept.  I,  1789. 

[167]         REV.  CHANDLER  ROBBINS  [1738-1799] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

JANE  PRINCE   [1740-1800] 

OF    PLYMOUTH,    MASS. 

CHANDLER   ROBBINS,  son  of  Rev.  Philemon  and   Hannah   (Foote) 
Robbins  (i66),was  born  at  Branford,  August  24,  1738.     He  entered  Yale 
College  in  1752  and  was  graduated  in  1756,  at  the  age  of  eighteen.     He 
was  very  proficient  in  French,  which  was  an  unusual  acquirement  at 
that  time. 

'  Rev.  Thomas  Robbins'  voluminous  diary,  full  of  family  allusions,  was  printed  in  1886  by  his 
nephew,  the  late  Robbins  Battell  of  Norfolk,  Conn.  Thomas  Robbins  was  intimate  in  the  family  of  his  cousin 
Hannah  Robbins,  wife  of  Benjamin  Ives  Oilman  (135)  of  Marietta,  Ohio,  and  was  called  uncle  by  her  children. 
There  is  a  very  charming  allusion  to  him  in  the  last  pages  of  Dr.  Chandler  Robbins  Oilman's  (see  No.  135)  little 
book  Lije  on  the  Lakes  or  a  Trip  to  the  Pictured  Rocks  (1836)  which  needs  no  excuse  for  its  introduction  here.  "  Post- 
script. After  the  greater  portion  of  this  book  had  been  printed,  a  friend,  who  was  looking  over  the  sheets,  said  to  me: 
'There  are  many  things  here  which  express  only  the  whims  and  vagaries  of  the  author,  they  are  of  no  value;  'tis 
a  pity  you  cannot  strike  them  out  and  make  the  thing  read  more  like  other  books.'  'My  friend,'  I  replied,  '1 
will  tell  you  a  story — My  uncle  Thomas,  who  is  a  clergyman  of  the  old  New  England  school,  had  ail  his  coats  made 
with  very  wide  tails;  they  were  not  like  Quaker  coats,  nor  indeed  like  any  other  coats  but  uncle  Thomas's; 
he  had  worn  them  of  the  same  pattern  all  his  life,  and  uncle  Tom  is  no  longer  young.  On  one  occasion,  when 
he  contemplated  a  new  coat,  his  sister  remonstrated  with  him  on  the  pattern;  she  urged,  that  if  made  like  those 
commonly  worn,  it  would  be  not  only  handsomer  but  more  becoming.  'Sister,'  said  uncle  Thomas,  'what 
you  say  may  be  very  true;  the  new-fashioned  coat  may  be  handsomer,  and  it  may  be  that  I  should  look  more 
genteel  in  it,  but  should  1  look  as  much  like  uncle  Thomas  ?  No,  No,  I  will  wear  my  coats  as  I  have  always  worn 
them,  and  look — not  handsome,  not  genteel — but  like  uncle  Thomas.'  ". 


REV.    CHANDLER    ROBBINS    [167] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

JANE    (prince)    ROBBINS 

FROM   DAGUERREOTYPES 

OWNED    BY      BENJAMIN    IVES   GILMAN    OF    BOSTON 


REV.  CHANDLER  ROBBINS  [167]  287 

For  a  time  after  his  graduation  he  Hved  in  the  family  of  Rev.  Dr.  Sproat  of 
Guilford,  Conn.,  afterwards  pastor  of  a  Presbyterian  Church  in  Philadelphia.  Dr. 
Sproat  recommended  him  to  Rev.  Dr.  Wheelock  for  a  teacher  in  the  Indian  School, 
at  Lebanon,  Conn.,  which  became  Dartmouth  College,  and  there  he  served  for  a 
time. 

While  there,  he  determined  upon  studying  for  the  ministry,  and  under  the 
direction  of  Dr.  Bellamy  of  Bethlehem,  Conn.,  he  studied  theology  and  in  due  time 
was  licensed  to  preach.  Dr.  Sproat  then  recommended  him  to  the  people  of  Ply- 
mouth, Mass.,  as  their  minister,  considering  him  particularly  adapted  to  promote 
among  them  the  harmony  that  diversity  of  religious  opinion  had  endangered.  They 
received  him  as  a  candidate  and  called  him  October  30,  1759.  He  accepted  the 
call  and  was  installed  January  30,  1760,  when  his  father  preached  the  ordination 
sermon,  which  was  afterwards  published. 

In  Davis'  Ancient  Landmarks,  it  is  stated  that  in  this  year  he  was  published 
to  "Mrs.  Thankful  Hubbard,"  but  if  so  the  engagement  was  broken  off.  He  mar- 
ried, October  8,  1761,  Jane  Prince,  daughter  of  Captain  Moses  and  Jane  (Be- 
thune)  Prince  (182),  who  was  born  September  7,  1740.  Before  this,  Captain 
Prince  had  died  and  his  widow  had  married  (2)  Hon.  Peter  Oilman  of  Exeter  (see 
161),  and  was  living  in  the  old  Garrison  House,  where  the  marriage  probably  took 
place. 

April  I,  1782,  we  find  that 

.  "The  request  of  the  Rev''  Chandler  Robbins  was  read  requesting  liberty  to  fence  in  the  bury- 
ing hill  that  he  might  pasture  the  same.  After  which  the  Town  voted  that  the  Rev"*  IVlr.  Robbins 
have  liberty  to  fence  in  the  said  hill  he  to  have  the  benefit  of  pasturing  the  same  for  so  long  a  time 
as  the  Town  think  proper,  he  to  have  liberty  to  take  off  the  fence  when  he  pleases." 

They  lived  until  1788  in  the  parsonage  built  for  them  in  Plymouth.  He  then 
built  and  moved  into  a  new  house,  still  standing,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  street. 
Here  he  resided  until  his  death.  He  preached  the  election  sermon  in  1791,  and  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Dartmouth  in  1792,  and  the  same  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Edinburgh  in  1793.  In  reference  to  the  latter,  Mrs.  Robbins  wrote  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  Benjamin  Ives  Gilman  (135),  then  living  in  Marietta: 

"Hannah,  I  believe,  I  will  tell  you.  .  .  .  your  Par  has  a  diploma  from  the  University  of 
Edinburgh  conferring  on  him  the  honour  of  a  Doctorate.  Par,  looking  over  my  shoulder,  says, 
poh,  what  did  you  say  anything  about  it  for.  I  tell  him  because  Children,  must  be  pleased  with 
evry  expression  of  respect  paid  their  parents." 

He  was  pastor  of  the  Plymouth  church  for  thirty-nine  years,  and  probably 
had  the  largest  congregation  of  any  minister  in  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachu- 
setts. There  were  at  least  twenty-five  hundred  people  in  his  extended  field  in  1795, 
and  he  succeeded  in  preserving  harmony  and  ministering  to  the  satisfaction  of  his 
church  until  his  death.  That  this  successful  ministry  was  not  without  its  sterner 
side  is  manifested  by  the  church  books,  where  we  find  that  Dr.  Robbins  read  a  man 


288  REV.  CHANDLER  ROBBINS  [167] 

called  "Apostle"  Jesse  Churchill  out  of  church,  consigning  him,  as  was  usual  in  that 
time,  to  "the  buffetings  of  Satan." 

From  the  diary  letters  written  to  their  absent  daughter,  we  have  a  very  good 
picture  of  the  active  life  of  Rev.  Mr.  Robbins  and  his  devoted  wife.  He  was  in  cor- 
respondence for  many  years  with  ministers  in  England,  and  one  letter  from  Birming- 
ham gives  a  description  of  the  first  foreign  missionaries  leaving  Spithead  on  Thurs- 
day, September  22,  1796,  for  Otaheite.  Mrs.  Robbins  expresses  their  interest  in 
the  then  new  missionary  movement. 

Mr.  Robbins  was  the  object  of  his  wife's  anxious  care  for  several  years  before 
his  death,  as  he  suffered  from  lung  trouble  complicated  with  nervous  disorders,  but 
he  was  able  to  preach  until  near  the  close  of  his  life.  He  died  June  30,  1799,  aged 
sixty,  and  was  buried  in  the  burying-ground  on  the  Hill.  Rev.  Mr.  Sanger  preached 
the  funeral  sermon,  and  "The  whole  ceremony  exhibited  a  melancholy  &  affecting 
scene  altogether  unprecedented  in  the  P.  Colony."  His  body  was  followed  to  the 
grave  by  a  large  concourse  of  his  friends  and  parishioners. 

In  Dr.  Robbins'  last  sermon  preached  April  7,  1799,  he  "spoke  of  the  Har- 
mony that  had  subsisted  between  him  and  this  people  near  forty  years."  He 
was  not  a  great  preacher,  but  even  in  his  extempore  addresses,  spoke  with  more 
than  common  ease  and  grace.     His  nephew.  Rev.  Thomas  Robbins,  wrote  of  him: 

"There  was  not  the  semblance  of  sternness  either  in  his  face  or  in  his  nature.  In  his  manners, 
he  was  a  fine  model  of  a  Christian  gentleman.  .  .  .  With  great  urbanity  and  respect  for  the  feel- 
ings of  others,  he  united  a  remarkable  degree  of  simplicity,  that  made  him  accessible  as  well  to  the 
lower  as  to  the  higher  classes." 

His  wife  lingered  for  a  year  after  her  husband's  death,  and  died  at  Plymouth, 
September  12,  1800.     She  was  buried  by  him,  in  the  burying-ground  on  the  Hill. 

Children  of  Rev.  Chandler  and  Jane  (Prince)  Robbins 

Chandler,  born  Aug.  ig,  1762;  H.  C.  1782;  married  Sept.  4,  1793,  Harriet  Lothrop,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Lydia  (Goodwin)  Lothrop,  of  Plymouth;  died  in  Boston,  May  18,  1834. 

Jane  Prince,  born  Feb.  7,  1764;  married  June  28,  1787,  at  Plymouth,  Dr.  Francis  LeBaron 
Goodwin,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Lydia  (LeBaron)  Goodwin.  Dr.  Goodwin  was 
surgeon  in  the  Revolution  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 
She  died  at  Frankfort,  Me.,  July  29,  1801. 

Hannah,  born  Sept.  24,  1765;  died  July  17,  1766. 

George,  born  March  8,  died  March  13,  1767. 
(135)  Hannah,  born  Sept.  29,  1768;  married  Feb.  4,  1790,  Benjamin  Ives  Gilman,  son  of  Joseph 
and  Rebecca  (Ives)  Gilman  (134),  of   Exeter,  N.  H.;  died  Aug.  24,  1837,  at  the 
home  of  her  son-in-law,  Martin  Hoffman,  Esq.,  in  New  York. 

Isaac,  born  June  19,  1770;  married-in  Alexandria,  Va.,  Sept.  3,  1803,  Mary  Douglas  Howell, 
daughter  of  David  and  Mary  (Douglas)  Howell;  was  a  Methodist  minister  at 
Alexandria,  and  agent  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Book  Concern;  lived  in  a  house 
still  standing,  called  Robin's  Nest,  and  died  May  27,  1846. 

Philemon,  born  March  23,  1777;  died  unmarried,  April  10,  1827. 

Samuel  Prince,  born  April  20,  1778;  H.  C.  1798;  married  in  Marietta,  Ohio,  Sept.  13,  1810, 


REV.  CHANDLER  ROBBINS  [167]  289 

Martha  Burlingame,  daughter  of  Christopher  and  Susanna  (Putnam)  Burlingame,  and 
granddaughter  of  Gen.  Rufus  Putnam,  of  Revolutionary  fame,  who  belonged  to  the 
Marietta  Colony.  Mr.  Robbins  was  pastor  of  the  church  at  Marietta,  O.,  being  or- 
dained Jan.  8,  1806.  In  Dr.  Thomas  Robbins' D/ar^V  he  speaks  of  his  long  ride  of 
five  hundred  miles  taken  in  order  to  be  present  at  the  ordination  of  this  cousin. 
Rev.  Samuel  P.  Robbins  died  in  Marietta,  Sept.  2,  1823. 
Peter  Oilman,  born  Dec.  10,  1781 ;  H.  C.  1801 ;  married  at  Lynn,  Mass.,  Jan.  18,  1807,  Abba 
Dowse;  was  a  physician  in  Lynn,  and  Roxbury,  Mass.,  and  died  in  1850. 

[169]  WILLIAM  CHANDLER  [....-1641] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  ROXBURY,  MASS. 

WILLIAM  CHANDLER'S  name  first  occurs  in  the  records  of  Roxbury, 
Mass.     He  emigrated  to  New  England  in    1637  with  his  four  small 
children,  and  settled  in  Roxbury.     The  name  of  his  first  wife  is  not 
known,  and  she  is  supposed  to  have  died  before  he  left  England.     He 
married  (2)  in  New  England,  Annis  Alcock,  a  sister  of  "Deakon"  George  Alcock, 
who  had  come  over  in  the  "Abigail"  in  July,  1635,  at  the  age  of  eighteen. 

William  Chandler  was  a  small  landed  proprietor  in  Roxbury  and  was  taxed 
on  twenty-two  acres  of  land,  one  goat  and  one  kid  in  1640.  He  took  the  freeman's 
oath  the  same  year  on  May  13.  From  the  diary  of  Rev.  John  Eliot  we  extract  the 
following: 

"W"  Chandler  he  came  to  N.E.  aboute  the  yeare  1637  he  brought  4  small  child"  Thomas, 
Hana,  John,  Willia:  his  child  Sarah  was  borne  here,  he  lived  a  very  religious  &  Godly  life  among  us 
&  fell  into  a  consumption,  to  w*^  he  had  been  long  inclined,  he  lay  neare  a  yeare  sick,  in  all  w'' 
time,  his  faith,  patiens  &  Godlynesse  &  Contentation  so  shined,  y'  Christ  was  much  gloryfied  in  him, 
he  was  a  man  of  weake  p'^  but  excellent  fath  &  holyness  he  was  a  very  thankfull  man  &  much 
magnified  Gods  goodnesse,  he  was  pore,  but  God  so  opened  the  hearts  of  his  naybe  to  him,  y'  he 
never  wanted  y'  w""  was  (at  least  in  his  esteeme)  very  plentifull  &  comfortable  to  him:  he  dyed 
about  the  in  y'^  yeare  1641  &  left  a  sweet  memory  &  savor  behind  him." 

The  records  of  the  Eliot  Church  of  Roxbury  say:  "William  Chandler  a  Christian 
Godly  brother,  died  of  consumption  month  11,  day  26  1641"  (i.  e.,  January  26, 
1641/2). 

After  William  Chandler's  death,  his  widow  Annis,  under  the  name  of  Ann, 
married,  July  2,  1643,  as  his  second  wife,  John  Dane  (171-A).  The  Massachusetts 
General  Court,  October  17,  1649,  gave  John  Dane  the  house  and  land  that  had 
formerly  been  William  Chandler's,  for  payment  on  account  of  his  support  of  the 
wife  and  children  of  Chandler. 

John  Dane  died  in  1658,  and  Annis  married  (3)  at  Roxbury,  August  9,  1660, 
John  Parmenter  of  Sudbury.  Rev.  John  Eliot,  in  mentioning  this  marriage,  calls 
her  "Mrs.  Annice  Dane."  John  Parmenter,  who  died  in  1671,  in  his  will  mentions 
her  as  his  wife  "Annisce"  to  whom  he  gave  "the  use  of  my  warming  pan  so  long  as 


290  WILLIAM  CHANDLER  [169] 

she  remain  mywiddow."  Annice  died  March  15, 1683,  and  the  Church  Records  men- 
tion it  thus:  "  1683.  m.  i.  d.  17.  died  old  mother  Parminter  a  blessed  saint." 

Children  of  William  and Chandler 

Hannah,  born  about  1629;  married  (i)  Dec.  13,  1646,  George  Abbott,  who  is  said  to  have 
come  from  Yorkshire,  England,  in  1637,  in  the  same  ship  with  William  Chandler 
and  his  family.  He  died  Dec.  24,  1681,  and  in  his  will  he  left  his  whole  estate  to 
Hannah,  "considering  the  great  love  &  affection  I  bear  her  and  the  tender  love  & 
respect  she  hath  had  to  me  and  her  care  &  diligence  in  helping  to  gett  and  save 
what  God  hath  blessed  us  withal  and  her  prudence  in  management  of  the  same." 
Hannah  married  (2)  in  1690,  as  his  third  wife,  her  step-brother.  Rev.  Francis  Dane, 
the  second  minister  of  the  church  at  Andover,  and  died  June  2,  171 1. 

Thomas,  born  about  1630;  married  Hannah  Brewer;  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Andover  Com- 
pany of  Foot  under  the  command  of  Captain  Dudley  Bradstreet;  was  a  representa- 
tive to  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  in  1678  and  1679;  in  the  records  he  was 
called  Captain  Thomas  Chandler;  died  in  Andover,  in  1703. 
(170)  William,  born  about  1633  married  (i)  Aug.  24,  1658,  Mary  Dane,  daughter  of  his 
step-brother.  Dr.  John  and  Eleanor  (Clark)  Dane  (171),  who  died  May  10,  1679; 
married  (2)  Oct.  8,  1679,  Bridget  (Henchman)  Richardson;  died  in  Andover,  in  i6g8. 

John,  born  about  1635;  married  Feb.  16,  1659,  Elizabeth  Douglas,  daughter  of  William 
and  Anna  (Mattle)  Douglas,  of  New  London,  Conn.;  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of 
New  Roxbury  (Woodstock),  Conn.,  a  deacon  in  the  church  there,  and  one  of  the  first 
selectmen;  died  in  Woodstock,  April  15,  1703.  His  daughter  Hannah  married 
Moses  Draper  (see  No.  246). 

Children  of  William  and  Annis  (Alcock)  Chandler 

Sarah,  born  in  Roxbury,  Mass.;  married  (i)  Nov.  4,  1659,  William  Cleaves,  who  was  killed 
in  the  Sudbury  Fight  on  April  21,  1676,  at  the  same  time  as  Thomas  Hawley  (121); 

married  (2) Wilson;  married  (3)  Oct.  1 1,  1688,  Ephraim  Stevens;  married  (4) 

Allen.     In  1692  she  was  accused,  with  several  others,  of  witchcraft,  but  they 

were  all  released  on  the  petition  of  the  town  people  because  of  their  "good  report,"  etc. 


[170]  WILLIAM  CHANDLER,  JR.  [1633-1698] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARY  DANE  [1636- 1679] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  ANDOVER,  MASS. 

WILLIAM  CHANDLER,  son  of  William  and Chandler  (169), 
was  born  in  England  about  1633.     He  came  to  New  England  with 
his  father  in  1637.     After  his  father's  death  in  1641  he  was  cared  for 
with  his  brothers  and  sisters,  by  his  mother  and  his  step-father,  John 
Dane  (171-A)  until  his  marriage. 

He  married  in  Andover,  Mass.,  August  24,  1658,  Mary  Dane,  a  granddaugh- 


WILLIAM  CHANDLER,  JR.  [lyo]  291 

ter  of  his  stepfather  and  daughter  of  Dr.  John  and  Eleanor  (Clark)  Dane  (171), 
of  Ipswich.  She  was  born  about  1636.  They  settled  in  Andover,  and  he  as  a  hus- 
bandman, and  his  brother  Thomas  as  a  blacksmith,  were  among  the  most  promi- 
nent of  the  first  settlers  of  the  place. 

William  held  several  minor  offices  in  the  town,  was  "fence-viewer  for  the 
southerly  parts  of  the  town,"  constable  in  1670,  grand  juryman  in  1672,  and 
selectman  in  1678  and  1679.  His  wife  Mary  died  in  Andover,  May  10,  1679,  aged 
forty-three,  having  had  eleven  children,  and  five  months  later  he  married  (2)  Oct- 
ober 8,  1679,  Bridget  (Henchman)  Richardson.  Bridget  was  the  widow  of  Lieu- 
tenant James  Richardson  (or  Francis  Richardson  of  Chelmsford),  and  sister  of 
Thomas  Henchman,  of  the  same  place.  In  Bodge's  King  Philip's  War,  he  gives 
her  father  as  another  Thomas. 

In  1683  he  called  himself  a  brickmaker,  in  a  deed  of  land  to  Joseph  Ballard 
of  Andover,  but  soon  after  he  became  an  inn-keeper  on  the  Ipswich  road  to  Bil- 
lerica.  His  sign  was  a  "Horse  Shoe."  Complaint  was  made  to  the  Court  in  1691 
that  he  sold  strong  drink  without  a  license,  which  proved  unfounded,  as  his  license 
was  dated  February  2,  1686,  and  had  been  issued  by  "Jon"  Tyng  one  of  his  Majes- 
tys  Councils."  Twelve  prominent  citizens  sent  in  a  petition  to  have  it  revoked, 
claiming  that  it  had  been  granted  on  the  recommendation  of  selectmen  who  were 
"pickt  out  for  that  end,"  and  adding: 

"At  his  first  setting  up  he  seemed  to  have  some  tendernesse  upon  his  conscience  not  to  admit 
of  excess  nor  disorder  in  his  house:  but  custom  in  his  way  of  dealing  and  the  earnest  desire  of 
money  hath  proved  an  evil  root  to  him.  ...  If  he  be  not  restrained  from  the  selling  of  drink  our 
town  will  be  for  the  greatest  part  of  our  young  generation  so  corrupted  thereby  that  wee  can  ex- 
pect little  else  but  a  cours  of  drunkenness  of  them  and  what  confort  will  that  be  to  parents  to  see 
such  a  posterity  coming  on  upon  the  stage  after  them." 

The  friends  of  William  Chandler,  however,  got  the  start  of  the  petitioners, 
secured  a  sufficient  number  of  selectmen,  and  the  license  was  issued  January  17, 
1692,  before  the  petition  reached  the  court.  Mr.  Andrew  Peters  (250)  was  one 
of  his  two  bondsmen,  and  later  succeeded  him  as  inn-keeper. 

In  1696  he  was  also  interested  with  Andrew  Peters  in  the  "ware  for  y" 
catching  of  fish." 

William  Chandler  died  at  Andover  in  1698,  aged  sixty-four  or  five  years. 
His  will,  dated  September  15,  1697,  proved  December  12,  1698,  was  witnessed  by 
John  Dane,  Abigail  Dane  and  Richard  Walker.  The  executors  were  his  wife 
Bridget,  his  son  William  and  his  "loving  friend  John  Barker." 

His  widow  died  March  6,  173 1, and  we  have  the  authority  of  her  pastor.  Rev. 
Samuel  Phillips,  for  her  attaining  the  age  of  one  hundred  years. 

Children  of  William  and  Mary  (Dane)  Chandler 

Mary,  born  July  5,  1659;  married  Sept.  30,  1691,  John  Sherwin,  of  Ipswich,  Mass.;  died  there 
Jan.  18,  1745. 


292  WILLIAM  CHANDLER,  JR.  [170] 

William,  born  Jan.  31,  1661;  married  Dec.  28,  1682,  Sarah  Buckminster  (or  Buckmaster); 

died  at  Andover,  Oct.  27,  1727. 
Sarah,  born  Jan.  29,  1662;  died  May  12,  1668. 
Thomas,  born  in  1663;  died  young. 
John,  born  in  1665;  died  Dec.  28,  1681. 
Philemon,  born  Aug.  24,  1667;  died  May  6,  1668. 
Thomas,  born  March  2,  1668;  died  Oct.  6,  1670. 
Philemon,  born  Sept.  4,  1671 ;  married  (i)  Hannah  Clary;  married  (2)  May  2,  1739,  Patience 

( )  Griggs,  of  Woodstock,  Conn.;  was  deacon  of  the  church  at  Pomfret,  Conn., 

where  he  died  May  7,  1752,  in  the  eighty-first  year  of  his  age. 
(165)  Hannah,  born  Feb.  5,  1673;  married  about  1695,  Nathaniel  Robbins,  son  of  Nathaniel 

and  Mary  (Brazier)  Robbins  (164),  of  Cambridge,  Mass.;  died  Sept.  15,  1718. 
Thomas,  born  Dec.  5,  1676;  married  Mary  Stevens,  daughter  of  Deacon  Joseph  Stevens, 

of  Andover;  died  at  Andover  Nov.  7,  1751. 
Joseph,  born  in  1679;  died  young. 

Children  of  William  and  Bridget  (Henchman  Richardson)  Chandler 

Phoebe,  born  Sept.  17,  1680;  married,  June  14,  1708,  Jonathan  Tyler.     At  the  age  of  twelve 

she  was  one  of  the  principal  witnesses  against  Martha  Carrier  who  was  hanged  for 

witchcraft,  Aug.  19,  1692. 
Joseph,  born  July  17,  1682;  married  in  Andover,  June  10,  1708,  Mehitable  Russell;  died 

April  23,  1734. 
Rhoda,  born  Sept.  26,  1684;  married  April  19,  1705,  Timothy  Holt,  son  of  James  and  Hannah 

(Allen)  Holt,  of  Andover;  died  Aug.  14,  1765,  aged  eighty-one. 


[171-A]  JOHN  DANE  [1587-1658] 

OF  ENGLAND,  IPSWICH  AND  ROXBURY,  MASS. 

JOHN  DANE  was  probably  born  in  Barkhamstead,  Hertsfordshire,  but  re- 
moved from  there  to  Bishop  Stortford  in  the  same  county,  about  1620,  as 
appears  from  the  Narrative  of  his  son  John  (171).  He  probably  continued 
living  there  until  he  and  his  family  emigrated  to  New  England. 
He  was  a  tailor,  devoutly  religious,  and  a  strict  disciplinarian.  He  mar- 
ried (i)  in  England,  but  the  name  of  his  wife  is  not  known.  She  was  the  mother 
of  his  three  children.  Her  son  says  of  her  that  she  was  "a  serious  woman"  and  had 
"bene  saruant  to  the  Ladie  denney."  There  was  a  Lady  Margaret  Denny,  Maid 
of  Honor  to  Queen  Elizabeth  and  wifeof  Sir  Edward  Denny,  Knt.,  who  died  in  April, 
1648,  aged  eighty-eight,  and  to  whose  memory  a  monument  is  erected  at  Bishop 
Stortford,  who  may  be  this  Lady  Denny. 

John  Dane  came  to  New  England  after  1635,  bringing  with  him  his  wife 
and  two  children,  his  eldest  son  John  (171)  having  emigrated  a  short  time  before. 
He  settled  first  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  where  his  son  John  was  then  living.  In  April, 
1639,  a  house  and  lot  was  granted  to  him  in  the  street  called  the  West  End,  on  the 


JOHN  DANE  [171-A]  293 

side  of  Ipswich  River.  He  was  made  freeman  in  1641,  and  the  same  year  he  re- 
moved to  Roxbury,  where  his  wife  died. 

He  married  (2)  July  2,  1643,  Annis  (Alcock)  Chandler,  widow  of  William 
Chandler  (169).  On  October  17,  1649,  the  General  Court  settled  upon  John 
Dane  the  house  and  lands 

"in  all  five  accres  and  a  halfe  more  or  lesse,  lately  belonging  to  tlie  ineirs  of  William  Chandler.  .  .  . 
Ye  said  Dayn  having  paid  more  debts  of  Chandlers  than  ye  house  and  land  was  worth  and  also 
brot  up  ye  children  of  Chandler  which  have  been  chargeable  to  him." 

February  2,  165 1/2,  he  made  a  deed  of  gift  to  his  "deare  &  loving  wife  Annis 
Dane  formerly  wife  of  William  Chandler"  of  all  the  housing  and  lands  that  had  been 
her  first  husband's.  The  same  year  he  bought  lands  in  Dorchester,  twenty-three 
and  one-half  acres  in  all,  from  Thomas  Beckwith  and  Joseph  Patchin,  some  of  it 
lying  near  a  lot  belonging  to  the  Chandler  heirs. 

John  Dane  died  at  Roxbury  and,  according  to  the  church  records,  was 
buried  September  14,  1658.  His  will,  dated  September  7,  1658  and  proved  October 
16,  of  the  same  year,  is  in  his  own  writing,  and  is  on  file  in  the  Probate  Office  of 
Boston.     It  is  as  follows: 

"Vpon  the  sevth  day  of  the  seveth  month  in  1658. — To  son  John  Dane  ten  pounds  out  of 
my  now  dwelling  house,  which  will  appear  in  deed,  dated  2d  feberi  in  fift  one  [1651]. — To  son 
Francis  my  woodlot  about  two  and  twentie  ackers,  mor  or  les,  as  it  doth  appeer  in  Town  book — To 
dafter  Elizabeth  How,  a  black  cow  now  att  Andiver  in  the  hand  of  George  Abet  to  be  deliuered  to 
her  after  my  deseas  emediately — To  son  John  Dane  on  feather  bede  &  on  feather  boster  &  two 
fether  pillows  &  a  yellow  rugg  &  also  a  pewter  platter. — To  son  Francis  on  great  ketle,  also  on 
flaxen  sheet  &  a  saser — To  dafter  Elizabeth  How' a  litl  kittle,  &  on  pewter  candlestick — To  son 
Frances,  my  old  black  cow  now  at  Roxburie  &  my  bible — To  louing  wifF  Anic  whom  I  mak  sooll 
exseekitrix  all  my  movable  goods — that  is  not  expressed." 

signed  John  Dane, 
witnesses  Isaac  Heath 

John  Johnson    Isaak  Morrell. 

His  widow  Annis  married  (3)  August  9,  1660  John  Parmenter  of  Sudbury. 
She  died  March  15,  1683.  The  church  records  say  "1683  m.  i.  d.  17  died  old 
mother  Parminter  a  blessed  saint." 

Children  of  John  and Dane 

(171)  John,  born  about  1612  or  1613;  married  (i)  in  England,  Eleanor  Clark;  married  (2)  Alice 
;  died  at  Ipswich,  Sept.  29,  1684. 

Elizabeth,  married  James  How,  or  Howe,  of  Ipswich;  died  in  Ipswich  Jan.  21,  1693. 

Francis,  born  about  1616;  married  (i)  before  1645,  Elizabeth  Ingalls,  daughter  of  Edmund 
Ingalls,  who  died  June  6,  1676;  married  (2)  Sept.  21,  1677,  Mary  Thomas,  who  died 
Feb.  18,  i688/g;  married  (3)  in  1690,  at  seventy-four,  his  step-sister  Hannah  (Chan- 
dler) Abbott,  widow  of  George  Abbott  and  daughter  of  William  and  Chandler 
(169).  Rev.  Francis  Dane,  in  1648,  succeeded  Rev.  Mr.  Woodbridge  at  the  And- 
over  Church,  and  was  its  pastor  forty-eight  years,  until  his  death.  He  died 
Feb.  17,  1696/7 


294  JOHN  DANE,  JR.  [171] 

[171]  JOHN  DANE,  JR.  [1613-1684] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

ELEANOR  CLARK  [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    IPSWICH,    MASS. 

WE  have  an  unusual  record  of  the  early  hfe  of  John  Dane,  "the  tayler 
of  Wood  Roe  in  Hatfield,  England,  and  the  chirurgeon  of  Ipswich, 
Mass."  in  his  Declaration  of  Remarkabell  Prouedenses  in  the  Corse  of 
my  Lyfe.  This  curious  little  volume,  in  his  own  handwriting  and 
consisting  of  132  leaves  3X  by  6  inches,  is  well  preserved  and  has  been  handed 
down  from  one  generation  to  another  as  an  heirloom.  It  is  now  in  the  possession 
of  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Society,  of  Boston.  No  dates  are 
given  in  it  but  we  have  been  able  to  cull  those  from  other  sources. 

John  Dane,  son  of  John  and Dane,  was  born  in  Barkhamstead,  Hert- 
fordshire, England,  in  1612  or  1613.  From  the  Narrative  we  learn  that  in  his  in- 
fancy, his  father  John  Dane  (171-A)  moved  from  Barkhamstead  to  Bishop  Stort- 
ford.  His  parents  were  "serious  pepell "  who  attended  Rev.  John  Norton's  preach- 
ing.    He  says  of  his  early  boyhood : 

"When  I  was  but  a  lettell  boy,  being  edicated  under  godly  parents,  my  Conshans  was  ueary 
apt  to  tell  me  of  euells  that  I  should  not  doe.  .  .  .  Not  longe  after,  I  being  alone  on  the  shopbord 
Repping  open  a  payer  of  bretches  of  a  Gintilmans  who  had  had  a  hole  in  his  pocut  and  sewed  up 
againe,  thorow  which  hole  he  had  lost  or  dropt  into  his  knes  of  his  linings  a  pese  of  gould,  which, 
when  I  saw,  I  thought  I  myt  haue  it,  for  I  thout  nobody  knew  of  it,  nor  could  know  of  it.  I 
toke  the  Gould  and  hed  it,  and  sat  upon  the  shopbord  to  worke;  but,  thinking  of  it,  I  thout  it  is 
none  of  myne.  I  fetcht  it  againe,  but  upone  more  pondring  I  went  and  hed  it  againe.  When  I 
had  dun  so,  I  could  not  be  quiet  in  my  mynd,  but  fetcht  it  againe,  and  thout  thow  nobody  could 
know  of  it,  yet  god,  he  knew  of  it.  So  I  gaue  it  to  my  fatther,  hoe  gaue  it  to  the  gintelman.  I 
cant  but  take  notes  of  gods  goodness  in  then  giving  me  Restrayning  grace  to  presarue  from 
sutch  a  temptation,  though  then  I  slytly  passed  ouer  many  sutch  prouedenses." 

When  about  sixteen  or  eighteen  years  old,  he  ran  away  from  home  because 
his  father  "basted"  him  for  going  to  a  "dansing  scoll  to  learne  to  dans."  As 
he  had  learned  tailoring  he  found  no  difficulty  in  securing  employment  at 
Barkhampstead.  Later  he  went  to  Hertford,  where  his  temptations  and  trials 
were  severe,  and  writes: 

"But  when  I  conseder  my  Retched  hart,  and  what  I  myt  with  shame  and  blushing  speke 
that  waie,  I  cannot  but  sa,  O,  wonderfull,  unspekeable,  unsarchabl  marseys  of  a  god  that  taketh 
care  of  us  when  we  take  no  Care  of  ourseluese." 

One  Sunday,  instead  of  going  to  church  because,  as  he  says,  he  was  not 
properly  dressed,  he 

"walkt  in  filds  close  by  a  meadow  sid.     Thare  was,  whetther  fly,  wasp,  or  hornet,  I  cannot  tell. 


JOHN  DANE,  JR.  [171]  295 

but  it  struck  my  finger,  and  waiter  and  blod  cam  out  of  it  and  paind  me  mutch.  1  went  up  to 
a  hous  and  shoud  it,  but  thay  knew  not  what  a  sting  1  had  at  my  harte.  Now  1  thout  of  my 
mothers  words,  that  god  would  find  me  out.-  I  hastened  home  to  the  Chamber  I  lay  in,  at  my 
master's  house;  and  when  i  cam  thare  I  toke  my  bybell  and  lokt  ouer  sum  instructions  my  father 
had  Ret,  and  I  wept  soriy.  The  payne  and  swelling  increast  &  sweld  up  to  my  shoulder.  1  prayd 
ernistly  to  god  that  he  would  pardon  my  sinn  and  heall  my  arme." 

John  Dane's  besetting  sin  seems  to  have  been  a  love  of  dancing,  and  the 
companionship  into  which  this  led  him  troubled  his  conscience.  His  confessions 
read  not  unlike  those  of  Bunyan  at  the  same  period. 

in  his  "Restles  condishon"  he  thought  of  going  to  St.  Christophers,  but 

"when  the  time  was  cum  that  we  shoud  goe,  thare  came  nuse  that  saint  Christifars  was  taken 
by  the  spanyard."  [October  1629].  He  then  decided  to  goe  and  work  Jurney  work  thorow  all 
the  Counties  in  ingland,  and  so  walk  as  a  pilgrim  up  and  doune  on  the  earth," 

but  he  first  went  home,  where  his  parents  received  him  "ueary  louingly."  He  then 
became  a  butler  at  Mr.  Barenton's,  "a ueary  Religious  famely  as  euer  I  came  in," 
and  he  shortly  after  married  (1)  Eleanor  Clark  and  settled  in  Wood  Roe,  Hatfield. 
There  he  was  a  tailor,  "toke  a  prentis  and  kept  a  gurniman."     He  says 

"Sone  after  I  had  the  paisie  taking  me,  which  did  mutch  weaking  my  brayne  and  spoyle 
my  memory.  ...  I  went  to  a  phisishon,  and  he  tould  me  that  it  was  too  latte  to  doe  me  annie 
good.  I  was  so  as  that  I  could  scarce  goe  to  bed  or  from  bed  without  helpe.  And  my  mother 
hauing  bene  seruant  to  the  Ladie  denney,  she  speaking  of  it  to  the  Ladie,  she  tould  hur  of  a  mead- 
son  that  had  cuered  an  ould  woman  of  thre  score  yeres  ould.  My  mother  diligently  atending  to 
the  meathod  of  the  besenes,  cam  to  me  and  aplyed  the  same  to  me,  and  it  ceuerd  me;  though  I 
have  the  marks  of  it  on  my  face  to  this  day." 

Finally  he  bent  himself  to 

"cum  to  nu  ingland,  thinking  that  I  should  be  more  fre  here  than  thare  from  temptations;  but 
I  find  here  a  deuell  to  tempt  and  a  corupt  hart  to  deseue.  .  .  .  When  I  was  mutch  bent  to  cum, 
I  went  to  starford  to  my  fatther  to  tell  him.  .  .  .  My  fatther  and  motther  showd  themselfs  un- 
willing. I  sat  close  by  a  tabell  whare  thare  lay  a  bibell.  I  hastily  toke  up  the  bybell,  and  tould 
my  fatther  if  whare  I  opend  the  bybell  thare  i  met  with  anie  thing  eyther  to  incuredg  or  dis- 
couredg  that  should  settell  me.  I  oping  of  it.  .  .  .  the  first  I  cast  my  eys  on  was:  Cum  out 
from  among  them,  touch  no  unclene  thing,  and  I  will  be  your  god  and  you  shall  be  my  pepell. 
My  fatther  and  motther  neuer  more  aposd  me  but  furdered  me  in  the  thing;  and  hasted  after  me 
as  sone  as  thay  could.  My  first  cuming  was  to  Roxburey.  Thare  I  toke  a  pese  of  ground  to 
plant  of  afrind." 

He  sailed  for  New  England  in  the  spring  of  1635  and  settled  as  he  says  at 
Roxbury,  Mass.  About  1638  he  moved  to  Ipswich,  Mass.,  because  Rev.  Mr. 
Morton  was  there  and  he  "had  a  mynd  to  hue  under  him."  He  brought  his  family 
and  goods  to  Boston  and  went  from  there  to  Ipswich,  in  one  of  "goodman  med- 
cafes  "  vessels.     This  was  Captain  Joseph  Metcalf  (152-A). 

In  the  records  his  name  is  sometimes  spelled  Dane  and  sometimes  Dean, 
and  he  is  spoken  of  as  a  chirurgeon  and  called  Doctor.     He  probably  worked  at 


296  JOHN  DANE,  JR.  [171] 

his  trade  of  tailor  as  well.  In  1648  he  was  one  of  the  subscribers  towards  the  com- 
pensation to  Major  Denison,  his  name  appearing  with  Captain  Joseph  Metcalf 
(152-A)  and  Thomas  Metcalf  (152).     He  says 

"In  sixty  one,  my  house  was  burnt,  as  nere  as  I  can  Remember;  and  it  was  a  most  uialant 
fier.  At  that  time  I  could  not  but  take  notes  of  seuarall  prouedensis  concuring  with.  I  doe  not 
know  that  I  did  murmer  at  it,  but  was  silent  loking  up  togod  to  santifie  it  to  me.  It  pleased 
god  to  stur  up  the  harts  of  my  louing  frinds  to  help  me  to  the  careyng  on  of  another.  I  had 
bene  ill  before,  and  not  well  fitting  to  goe  abrod,  and  could  not  indewer  weat  on  my  fete."  How- 
ever he  says  that  he  was  enabled  to  do  the  work  that  was  necessary,  and  "thus  god  hath  all  along 
presarud  and  cept  me  all  my  dales." 

He  was  a  selectman  from  1664  to  1669  and  had  one  and  a  half  shares,  in  1664, 
in  the  division  of  Plum  Island,  that  is,  he  was  in  the  class  in  Ipswich  who  paid 
between  6s.  8d.  and  i6s.  tax. 

His  first  wife  died,  and  he  married  (2)  Alice ,  who  survived  him.  He  died 

at  Ipswich,  September  29,  1684,  aged  seventy-one.  His  will,  labeled  "Dr.  Dane's 
will,"  dated  May  31,  proved  September  30,  1684,  speaks  of  his  wife  Alice,  his  sons 
John  and  Philemon,  his  daughters  Elizabeth  and  Sarah  and  grandchildren  Mary 
Chandler  and  Daniel  Hovey.     The  following  sentence  in  his  will 

"my  will  is  that  me  sone  John  and  Philemon  have  my  books  and  manuscripts,  and  that  Philemon 
diuide  them  and  John  chuse" 

shows  that  he  appreciated  the  frailties  of  others  as  well  as  his  own.  His  estate  in- 
ventoried £469.  IIS.  5d. 

His  sons  effected  a  separation  of  the  two  names  Dean  and  Dane,  Philemon 
using  the  former,  and  John  retaining  the  spelling  Dane. 

Children  of  Dr.  John  and  Eleanor  (Clark)  Dane 

(170)  Mary,  born  about  1636;  married  Aug.  24,  1658,  William  Chandler,  son  of  William  and 

Chandler  (169).     By  this,  Mary  married  the  step-brother  of  her  father. 

She  died  at  Andover,  May  10,  1679. 

John,  born  in  1644;  married  Dec.  27,  1671,  Abigail  Warner,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Eliza- 
beth (Denne)  Warner;  lived  at  Ipswich,  and  was  a  juror  in  the  witchcraft  cases  there; 
died  before  Jan.  23,  1707/8. 

Philemon,  born  about  1646;  married  (i)  Oct.  7,  1685,  Mary  Thompson;  married  (2)  Dec.  25, 
1690,  Ruth  Convers  (or  Converse),  daughter  of  James  Convers,  of  Woburn;  was  a 
physician,  and  served  in  the  Narragansett  war  in  1675;  died  in  Ipswich,  Oct.  18,  1716. 

Elizabeth,  married  Reginald  Foster,  son  of  Reginald  Foster. 

Sarah,  married  Sept.  23, 1668,  Daniel  Warner,  son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Denne)  Warner, 
and  brother  of  her  brother  John's  wife. 

Rebecca,  married  James  Hovey,  son  of  Daniel  and  Abigail  (Andrews)  Hovey.  He  was 
killed  at  Brookfield  in  the  engagement  with  the  Indians  Aug.  2,  1675.  He  left 
one  son  Daniel,  who  was  brought  up  by  his  grandparents,  Daniel  and  Abigail 
Hovey. 


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THE  FOOTE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

WHILE  nothing  positive   can   be  asserted  about  the  EngHsh  ancestry 
of   Nathaniel    Foote  (172)  data   furnished  by  Henry    F.  Waters 
in  his  Genealogical  Gleanings  give  us  a  clue  to  the  family  history. 
We  state  below  the  reasons  which  lead  us  to  suppose  that  the  English 
Footes  are  the  parents  and  grandparents  of  our  ancestors,  whose  descent  has  never 
before  been  traced  to  our  knowledge. 

The  story  of  two  generations  of  English  Footes  is  as  follows.  According  to 
wills  on  pp.  1 275-1 285  of  the  Genealogical  Gleanings,  Robert  Foote,  of  Shalford, 
Essex,  yeoman,  and  his  brother  John  Foote,  "citizen  and  grocer  of  London,"  came 
originally  from  Royston,  Cambridgeshire  and  Herts.     They  were  sons  of  Robert 

and  Foote,  of  Royston  and  married  sisters,  Joane  and  Margaret  Brooke, 

of  London.  The  will  of  their  mother-in-law,  Elizabeth  Brooke,  of  London, 
widow  of  John  Brooke,  1599,  would  show  that  John  Brooke  was  of  the  Com- 
pany of  Leathersellers.  Elizabeth  Brooke  lived  in  East  Cheap  and  was  buried 
in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Leonard  there,  one  of  the  many  churches  which  were 
burned  in  the  Great  Fire,  about  seventy  years  later.  In  the  will  of  Elizabeth  Brooke 
she  leaves  to  her  daughter  Joane  Foote  "her  wedding  ring  of  gold"  and  remainder 
of  a  "messuage  in  Gracious  [Gracechurch]  Street  commonly  called  or  known  by 
the  name  of  the  sign  of  the  Star  and  Stirrup."  She  leaves  to  Mary  Foote,  after- 
wards Hewes,  a  daughter  of  Joane  Foote,  "one  other  ale  pot  of  silver  gilt  with 
two  ears,  to  be  delivered  unto  her  father  or  mother  for  her  use."  She  desires  her 
son  Thomas  Brooke  to 

"pay  to  my  son  in  law  Robert  Foote,  within  two  years  after  my  decease,  twenty  six  pounds  thir- 
teen shiHings  four  pence  at  the  foresaid  messuage  or  tenement  called  the  sign  of  theStar  and  Stirrup" 

in  release  of  a  legacy  given  him  by  her  husband  John  Brooke. 

The  next  will  is  that  of  Robert  Foote,  of  Shalford,  Essex,  January  27,  1608. 
He  calls  himself  "yeoman"  and  was  the  son-in-law  of  Elizabeth  Brooke.  He 
leaves  to  his  wife  Joane  (Brooke)  Foote  the  yearly  rent,  amounting  to  eight 
pounds,  of  tenements  which  he  holds  "for  divers  years  yet  enduring  by  the  grant 
of  Sir  Robert  Chester  Knight,  and  lying  and  being  in  the  town  of  Royston,"  his 
native  place.  His  children,  named,  are  Robert,  Joseph,  Mary,  wife  of  John  Hewes, 
"chandler,  of  Royston,"  James,  Daniel,  Nathaniel,  Francis,  Josua  and  Elizabeth. 
Direct  legacies  are  left  to  Robert,  Joseph  and  James,  while  Mary  Hewes  has  a  resi- 
duary interest  in  the  estate,  from  which  we  should  infer  she  had  had  her  portion 
on  marriage.  He  then  leaves  "To  son  Daniel  forty  pounds  at  four  and  twenty," 
and  the  same  to  sons  Nathaniel,  Francis  and  Josua.  To  his  daughter  Elizabeth 
forty  pounds  at  the  day  of  her  marriage  or  at  thirty. 

The  eldest  son  Robert  was  made  sole  executor,  and  John  Foote  of  London, 
his  brother,  and  John  Hewes  of  Royston,  his  son-in-law,  were  supervisors. 


298  THE  FOOTE  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

Of  the  children  mentioned  in  this  will,  Joshua,  who  was  a  citizen  and  iron- 
monger of  London,  is  known  to  have  emigrated  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  and  afterwards 
to  Providence,  R.  1.  His  will  was  administered  by  Joshua  Hewes,  of  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  who  was  his  nephew  and  a  son  of  Mary  (Foote)  Hewes.  In  a  note  on  page 
1284,  Mr.  Waters  says,  "1  would  suggest  also  that  Nathaniel  Foote  of  Watertown 
(Mass.)  may  have  been  another  son  of  Robert  Foote,  of  Shalford."  This  seems  to 
us  to  be  confirmed  by  the  names  of  five  of  Nathaniel's  children,  which  repeat  those 
of  his  brothers  and  sisters,  viz:  Elizabeth,  Daniel,  Mary,  Robert,  and  Frances. 
Another  daughter,  Sarah,  may  have  been  named  for  her  aunt  Sara  (Brooke)  Storye. 
The  dates  also  confirm  this  theory.  The  five  younger  children  were  not  twenty- 
four  in  1608,  and,  as,  according  to  our  records,  Nathaniel  was  born  about  1593, 
he  would  have  been  about  fifteen  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death. 

The  London  family  of  the  other  son  of  Robert  Foote,  of  Royston,  John 
Foote, "citizen  and  grocer  of  London, "became  a  prominent  and  important  one. 
His  son  Thomas  was  created  a  baronet  and  was  once  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  in 
which  office  probably  he  was  knighted.  Sir  Thomas  Foote's  daughters  married 
into  the  Onslow,  Lewis  and  Rowles  families,  all  of  distinction. 

The  pedigree  is  as  follows,  if,  as  we  suppose,  our  Nathaniel  was  the  son 

of  Robert  Foote  of  Shalford. 

I 

Robert  Foote,  of  Royston  "descended  out  of  Lincolnshire,"  married ,  who 

afterwards  married •   Hall,   Sergeant  Trumpeter  of  Queen    Elizabeth.     His 

son  was 

2 

Robert  Foote,  of  Shalford,  married  Joane  Brooke,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
( )  Brooke,  of  London.     His  will  was  proved  Feb.  15,  1608.     His  son  was 

3 

Nathaniel  Foote,  see  below. 

[172J  NATHANIEL  FOOTE  [1593-1644] 

and  his  wife 
ELIZABETH  DEMING  [i 595-1683] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   WETHERSFIELD,    CONN. 

NATHANIEL    FOOTE,  probably    son   of    Robert  and  Joane   (Brooke) 
Foote  of  Shalford,  Essex,  was  born  about  1593.      He  was  married  in 
England,  about  161 5,  to  Elizabeth  Deming.     Elizabeth  was  born  in 
1 595,  and  was  a  sister  of  John  Deming,  who  was,  in  1636,  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  a  prominent  magistrate  and  one  of  the  patentees 
named  in  the  charter  of  Connecticut. 

Nathaniel  Foote  came  to  New  England  before  1634,  when  he  was  about 
forty  years  old,  and  brought  with  him  his  wife  and  six  children.     Their  youngest 


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child  Rebecca  was  born  in  this  country.  The  first  record  we  have  of  him  is  at  Water- 
town,  Mass.,  where  he  was  made  freeman  September  3,  1634,  and  was  granted  "an 
home-stall  of  sixteen  acres"  as  well  as  "two  acres  of  marsh."  He  did  not  remain 
there  long,  but  joined  the  pioneers  who  made  the  long  and  perilous  journey 
through  New  England  to  the  Connecticut  River,  where  they  made  a  settlement  at 
Wethersfield,  Conn. 

Trumbull,  in  his  Memorial  History  of  Hartford  County,  says  of  him: 

"With  Nathaniel  Foote  the  list  of  the  known  adventurers  closes.  Although  he  had  the 
largest  share  of  adventure  land,  his  coming  to  Connecticut  was  not  the  earliest,  having  been, 
according  to  all  indication,  about  1635.  He  was  an  elderly  man  and  among  his  posterity  have 
been  some  of  Connecticut's  most  distinguished  sons." 

Among  other  commissary  supplies  for  the  "designe  against  the  Pequoitts" 
in  1637,  the  General  Court  gave  the  following  order, 

"there  shalbe  1  hogg  prvided  att  Wythersfeild  for  the  designe  in  hande,  wch  is  conceiued  to  be 
Nathaniel  Footes  20  lbs  of  Butter,  half  C  of  Cheese  :  &c." 

In  the  original  distribution  of  lands  in  Wethersfield  in  1640,  he  was  assigned 
a  house  lot  of  ten  acres  on  the  east  side  of  Broad  Street,  near  the  south  end  of  the 
street.  He  owned  over  four  hundred  acres  in  cultivation,  and  also  gave  attention 
to  public  matters.  He  was  deputy  to  the  General  Court  in  1641,  and  juror  in  1643 
and  1644. 

He  died  at  Wethersfield  in  1644,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  graveyard  behind 
the  meeting-house,  where  are  now  the  ashes  of  nine  generations  of  the  Foote  family. 
He  had  made  no  will  and  an  inventory  was  made  November  20,  of  the  same  year, 

"being  truly  taken  and  Indifferently  prised  by  Richard  Tratte,  Samuel  Smith  and  Nathaniel 
Dickinson." 

The  estate,  of  over  ;£8oo,  consisted  of  lands  worth  ;£400,  loans  ;£29, 

"horsse  flashe  and  a  young  mare  _£4i.  .  .  In  neat  cattell  and  in  hay  .  .  .  goats  sows  and  young 
shoats  ;£i79  .  .  .  Pewter  and  Brasse  and  other  vseful  vessells  ;£i2  .  .  .  fyne  Lynnen  £'^.,  beside 
furniture  etc." 

"The  wyddowe  is  admitted  to  administer  the  Estate,  and  the  eldest  sonne  is  to  have  the 
lands  before  mentioned  as  they  are  valued  at  ;£i26.ios.  wch  is  to  be  made  vppe  ;£i48.  &  the 
youngest  sonne  the  pticuler  landes  above  mentioned  for  him  at  £6^.  wch  is  to  be  made  vppe  £j4. 
and  the  daughters  disposed  in  marriedge  are  to  have  the  £^0  a  peece  wch  they  have  receaued 
made  vppe  £^4.  and  the  other  children  are  to  have  £74  a  peece.  Pruided  it  is  lefte  at  the  dispose 
of  their  mother  to  detracte  from  any  of  them  if  shee  see  just  cause  £1^.  of  the  portion  here  sett 
downe,  and  to  adde  yt  to  such  of  the  other  as  best  desearue  yt." 

His  widow  Elizabeth  married  (2),  about  two  years  later,  Thomas  Welles, 
who  was  governor  of  Connecticut  in  1655  and  1658.  He  died  January  14, 
1659/60,  leaving  a  large  estate.  Elizabeth  died  July  28,  1683,  aged  eighty-eight 
years. 


300  NATHANIEL  FOOTE  [172] 

Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Deming)   Foote 

Elizabeth,  born  in  England  in  1616;  married  in  1638,  Josiah  Churchill,  of  Wethersfield; 
died  Sept.  8,  1700. 

Nathaniel,  born  in  England  in  1620;  married  in  1646,  Elizabeth  Smith,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant Samuel  Smith,  of  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  and  Hadley,  Mass.  He  died  in  1655, 
and  his  widow  married  (2)  William  Gull,  also  of  Wethersfield,  and  Hadley,  iVlass. 

Mary,  born  in  England  in  1623;  married  (i)  in  1642,  John  Stoddard,  of  Wethersfield,  who 
died  in  1674;  married  (2)  in  1674,  as  his  second  wife,  John  Goodrich,  Sr.,  of  Wethers- 
field, who  died  in  1680;  married  (3)  Lieutenant  Thomas  Tracy,  of  Norwich,  Conn. 

(173)  Robert,  born  in   England  about  1628;  married  in  1659,  Sarah ;  died  at  Branford, 

Conn.,  in  1681. 

Frances,  born  in  England,  in  1629;  married  (i)  in  1648,  John  Dickenson,  of  Wethersfield, 
and  later  of  Hadley,  Mass.,  who  died  in  1676;  married  (2)  in  1677,  Francis  Barnard, 
of  Hartford. 

Sarah,  born  in  England  in  1632;  married  in  1652,  Jeremiah  Judson,  of  Stratford,  Conn., 
son  of  William  Judson,  who  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Concord,  Mass.,  and  later 
of  New  Haven,  Conn.     She  died  in  1673. 

Rebecca,  born  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  in  1634;  married  (i)  in  1657,  Lieutenant  Philip  Smith, 
of  Hadley,  Mass.,  a  brother  of  her  brother  Nathaniel's  wife  Elizabeth;  married  (2) 
in  1688,  as  his  fourth  wife.  Major  Aaron  Cook,  first  of  Winsor,  Conn.,  later  of  North- 
ampton, Mass.;  died  at  Hadley,  Mass.,  April  6,  1701. 

[173]  ROBERT  FOOTE  [1629-1681] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

SARAH [....-....] 

OF  BRANFORD,  CONN. 

ROBERT   FOOTE,  son    of    Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth   (Deming)   Foote 
(172),  was  born  in  England  about  1628  and  came  to  New  England  before 
1634  with  his  father  and  mother,  when  he  was  four  or  five  years  of  age. 
He  was  made  a  freeman  at  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  May  21,  1657,  his  father 
having  been  one  of  the  original  settlers  there.     He  married  in  New  Haven  in  1659 

Sarah ,  and  appears  to  have  settled  there  for  a  time,  as  the  births  of  five  of 

his  children  are  recorded  there. 

He  probably  removed  to  Branford  about  1668  as  his  other  children  were 
recorded  there  in  1670  and  1672.  He  was  freeman  at  Branford  in  1668,  but  later 
appears  to  have  gone  to  Wallingford,  according  to  the  following  record: 

"20th  Oct.  1674,  voted  that  Good"  Foote  shall  have  liberty  to  buy  the  lott,  y'  is  Joseph 
Fives  provided  he  procure  sufficient  testimony  of  his  good  conversation  in  ye  plase  where  he 
now  pretendeth  to  remove."  January,  1675:  "The  testimony  of  Good"  foote  being  severente  and 
axepted,  he  was  admitted  a  planter  upon  the  lott  that  was  Joseph  eives." 

Robert  Foote  was  appointed  by  the  General  Court,  May  10,  1677,  lieutenant 


ROBERT  FOOTE  [173]  301 

of  the  Train  Band  of  Branford,  so  that  he  must  have  gone  back  there.  As,  however, 
the  towns  of  Wallingford  and  Branford  were  adjoining,  changes  in  the  boundaries 
may  have  brought  his  home  back  into  the  precincts  of  Branford. 

He  died  at  Branford  in  1681,  aged  fifty-two.     His  widow  Sarah  married  (2) 
in  1686,  Aaron  Blackley  (or  Blachley)  of  Branford  and  Guilford. 

Children  of  Lieutenant  Robert  and  Sarah  ( )  Foote 

Nathaniel,  born  in  New  Haven,  April  16,  1660;  married  Tabitha  Bishop,  daughter  of  Stephen 
Bishop,  of  Guilford;  died  at  Branford  in  1714. 

Sarah,  born  in  New  Haven,  Feb.  12,  1662;  married  (i)  Aug.  13,  1682,  Isaac  Curtis,  son  of 
Richard  Curtis,  of  Wallingford;  married  (2)  Aug.  9,  1 714,  Nathaniel  How,  Sr.,  of 
Wallingford,  Conn. 

Elizabeth,  born  in  New  Haven,  March  8,  1664;  married  Jan.  12,  1685,  John  Graves,  of 
East  Guilford;  died  in  iVlay,  1730. 

Joseph,  born  in  New  Haven,  March  6,  1666;  married  (i)  in  1690,  Abigail  Johnson,  daughter 
of  John  Johnson,  of  New  Haven;  married  (2)  in  1710,  Sarah  Rose,  daughter  of  Dea- 
con John  Rose,  of  Branford;  married  (3)  Dec.  8,   1741,  Susanna  ( )  Frisbie, 

widow  of  John  Frisbie  of  Branford;  was  a  lieutenant  of  the  Branford  Train  Band 
in  1713,  captain  in  1715,  deputy  in  1714  and  1715;  died  March  6,  1751. 

Samuel,  born  in  New  Haven,  May  14,  1668;  married  in  1694,  Abigail  Barker,  daughter  of 
William  Barker,  of  Branford;  died  in  Branford  in  1696. 

John,  born  in  Branford,  July  24,  1670;  married  in  1696,  Mary ;  died  in  Branford  in 

1713. 

Stephen,  born  in  Branford,  Dec.  14,  1672;  married  (i)  in  1702,  Elizabeth  Nash,  daughter  of 

John  Nash,  of  Branford;  married  (2)  Jan.  27,  1739,  Hannah  ( )  Howd,  widow 

of  Lieutenant  John  Howd;  died  Oct.  23,  1762. 
(174)  Isaac,  twin  with  Stephen;  married  in  1709,  Rebecca  Dickerman,  daughter  of  Lieutenant 
Abraham  and  Mary  (Cooper)  Dickerman  (177);  died  Feb.  11,  1758. 


[174]  DR.  ISAAC  FOOTE  [1672-1758] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

REBECCA  DICKERMAN  [1679-1757] 

OF    BRANFORD,    CONN. 

ISAAC   FOOTE,  son  of  Robert  and  Sarah  ( )  Foote  (173),  was  born 
December  14,  1672  at  Branford,  Conn.     He  was  educated  as  a  physician  and 
devoted  his  life  to  that  profession.     He  married  in  1709,  Rebecca  Dicker- 
man,  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Mary  (Cooper)  Dickerman  (177),  of  New 
Haven,  who  was  born  February  27,  1679.      They  settled  in  the  north  parish  of 
Branford,  called  Northford  Society. 

Rebecca  died  October  15,  1757,  and  her  husband  survived  her  only  a  few 
months.  He  died  at  Northford,  February  1 1, 1758,  aged  eighty-five.  Of  their  three 
children,  but  one  outlived  them. 


302  DR.  ISAAC  FOOTE  [174] 

Children  of  Dr.  Isaac  and  Rebecca  (Dickerman)  Foote 

Jacob,  born  Feb.  19,  1710;  died  while  a  student  at  Yale,  July  8,  1731. 
(166)  Hannah,  born  Feb.  28,  1712;  married  Dec.  24,  1735,  Rev.  Philemon  Robbins,  son  of 
Nathaniel  and  Hannah  (Chandler)  Robbins  (165);  died  June  16,  1776. 
Isaac,  born  July  16,  1717;  married  Jan.  28,  1738,  Mary  Hall,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Street)  Hall,  of  Wallingford,  Conn.;  was  lieutenant  in  1750,  major  in  1755,  mem- 
ber of  the  Council  of  War  in  1755;  while  serving  under  General  Shirley  near  Lake 
Champlain,  he  was  taken  sick,  and  died  Oct.  7,  1755;  was  buried  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

[176]  THOMAS  DICKERMAN  [....-1657] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELLEN [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    DORCHESTER,   MASS. 

THE  place  and  time  of  the  birth  of  Thomas  Dickerman  and  his  wife 
Ellen have  not  been  ascertained,  but  it  is  supposed  that  they  sailed 
from  Bristol,  England,  in  1635,  with  Rev.  Richard  Mather's  company 
of  emigrants,  in  the  ship  "James." 
His  name  appears  among  the  first  settlers  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  as  owner  of 
a  homestead,  and  on  the  roll  of  the  church,  in  1636.  In  January,  1637,  and  in  April, 
1640,  he  received  portions  in  the  division,  so  that  finally  he  had  a  comfortable  home- 
stead, with  a  barn,  two  small  orchards,  five  acres  around  the  house,  and  a  twenty- 
acre  lot.     He  was  a  tailor  but  also  cultivated  his  farm. 

"  Dorchester  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  community  known  to  make  public 
provision  for  a  free  school  by  direct  tax  on  its  inhabitants."  Thomas  Dicker- 
man's  is  the  twenty-fourth  name  among  the  seventy-one  signed  to  an  instrument 
agreeing  that 

"a  Rente  of  Twentie  pound  pr  ann  shall  issue  &  be  pay**  by  the  sayd  Inhabitants  &  their  heires 
from  &  out  of  a  Certaine  porcon  of  land  in  Dorchester  called  Tomsons  Hand  for  &  towards  the 
maintenance  of  a  schoole  in  Dorchester  aforsayd." 

They  further  agreed  that,  as  this  rent  was  not  sufficient,  all  the  subscribers 
would  give  up  all  the  future  benefits  from  the  Island  and  bequeath  it  forever  to 
the  town 

"for  &  Towards  the  maintenance  of  a  free  schoole  in  Dorchester  aforesayd  for  the  instructinge  & 
teachinge  of  Children  &  youth  in  good  literature  &  Learninge." 

One  cannot  help  wondering  whether  spelling  was  one  of  the  studies  contem- 
plated. 

In  165 1,  Thomas  Dickerman  was  chosen  one  of  the  three  selectmen.  He 
acquired  land  on  Boston  Neck  in  1652  and  purchased  more  in  1656.  All  this 
property,  as  well  as  his  homestead  in  Dorchester,  are  now  within  the  limits  of 
Boston. 


THOMAS  DICKERMAN  [176]  303 

He  died  at  Dorchester  June  11,  1657.  The  inventory  of  his  estate  amounted 
to  £235.  1 1.  4.  of  which  the  Boston  Neck  property  was  ^^150.,  and  the  farm  and 
buildings  at  Dorchester  £47.  His  widow  Ellen  bought  of  her  sons  their  rights 
in  the  Dorchester  homestead,  September  10,  1659.  She  married  (2)  John  BuUard 
and  went  to  Hve  with  him  in  Medfield  before  July  14,  1663.  On  February  26,  1663, 
she  and  her  second  husband  sold  the  homestead  for  £65.  to  "Jacob  Hewens  of 
Said  Dorchester  husbandman." 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Ellen  ( )  Dickerman 

Thomas,  born  about  1623;  married  (i)  Elizabeth ,  who  died  May  10,  1671;  married 

(2)  in  March,  1673/4,  Anna ;  lived  at  Maiden,  Mass.,  and  died  before  1691. 

His  daughter  Elizabeth  married  (2)  Edward  Dorr  of  Roxbury  (see  117). 
(177)  Abraham,  born  about  1634;  married  Jan.  2,  1658/9,  Mary  Cooper,  daughter  of  John  and 
Cooper  (178),  of  New  Haven;  died  Nov.  2,  171 1. 

Isaac,  born  9th  mo.  1637;  died  in  Boston  and  was  buried  April  22,  1726. 

John,  baptized  Oct.  29,  1644,  died  young. 

[177]  ABRAHAM  DICKERMAN  [1634-171 1] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARY  COOPER  [1637-1703] 

OF  NEW    HAVEN,  CONN. 


A 


BRAHAM  DICKERMAN,  son  of  Thomas  and  Ellen  ( )  Dicker- 
man  (176),  was  probably  born  about  1634  while  his  parents  were 
still  in  England,  but,  if  so,  he  was  but  a  babe  when  they  reached  this  coun- 
try.   Of  his  early  life  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  we  know  nothing. 

He  married  January  2,  1658/9  Mary  Cooper,  daughter  of  John  and  

Cooper  (178),  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  who  was  born  about  1636,  probably  in  Eng- 
land. At  the  time  of  her  marriage,  John  Cooper  gave  his  daughter  about  twenty 
acres  of  land  in  East  New  Haven,  but  they  probably  lived  in  the  Cooper  homestead 
for  about  nine  years.  April  17,  1668,  Abraham  bought  the  place  on  the  corner  of 
Church  and  Elm  streets,  where  there  was  a  house  and  barn,  and  lived  there  from 
that  time  on. 

The  next  year,  1669,  he  was  chosen  townsman,  as  the  selectmen  were  called 
in  New  Haven,  and  served  for  twenty-seven  years.  His  father-in-law  had  served 
for  nine  years  previously,  and  now  for  many  years  their  names  occur  together. 
From  1683  to  1696  he  was  also  deputy  to  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut  and  was 
lieutenant  of  the  Train  Band  in  1683,  and  at  least  until  1690,  perhaps  longer. 

When  the  town  of  Wallingford  was  started  by  a  colony  from  New  Haven, 
Abraham  Dickerman  and  his  father-in-law  John  Cooper  were  both  on  the  com- 
mittee to  lay  out  the  borders  of  the  new  town.  In  1669,  he  was  put  on  the  stand- 
ing committee  of  New  Haven  which  had  charge  of  the  affairs  of  Wallingford,  hold- 


304  ABRAHAM  DICKERMAN  [177] 

ing  the  lands  in  trust,  and  acting  as  trustee  in  all  the  public  affairs,  which  at  that 
time  included  also  those  of  the  church.  He  was  interested  in  all  New  Haven  mat- 
ters and  was  continually  on  town  committees. 

The  "ordinary"  or  tavern  at  New  Haven  did  not  pay,  as  the  patronage  was 
so  small,  and  in  1671,  when  John  Harriman  gave  it  up,  Lieutenant  Dickerman 
was  appointed  to  try  it.  He  found  it  so  unprofitable,  that  he  wished  to  give  it 
up,  but  no  one  could  be  found  to  take  his  place.  After  several  warnings,  April  27, 
1680,  he 

"did  again  give  notice  (as  he  had  done  formerly)  of  his  purpose  to  leave  off  keeping  the  ordinary 
.  .  .  but  did  desire  it  might  not  be  offensive  if  he  left  it  off  which  he  did  intend  to  do." 

For  fifty-three  years  he  lived  in  New  Haven  and  continuously  served  the 
town  in  its  public  affairs,  and  was  also  an  active  member  of  Rev.  James  Pierpont's 
church. 

His  wife  Mary  died  January  4,  1705/6.  He  died  at  New  Haven,  November 
2,  171 1,  aged  seventy-seven.  His  will  is  dated  April  20,  1710,  and  gives  his 
real  property  to  his  sons  Abraham  and  Isaac,  and  to  his  daughters 

"Mary  Bassett,  Sarah  Spery,  Ruth  Bradley,  Abigaill  Spery,  Rebeccah  Foot  in  addition  to  what 
they  have  had,  all  my  moveables  in  ye  House  to  be  equally  divided  to  them." 

He  also  mentions  his  grandchildren  Daniel,  Caleb,  Abram,  and  Mary  Chidsey, 
the  children  of  his  daughter  Hannah  deceased  and  "Rebeccah  Sperrie,"  another 
granddaughter. 

Children  of  Abraham  and  Mary  (Cooper)  Dickerman 

Mary,  born  about  1659;  married  June  21,  1677,  Samuel  Bassett,  son  of  William  Bassett,  of 
New  Haven;  died  Nov.  28,  1728. 

Sarah,  born  July  25,  1663;  married  Oct.  2,  1683,  Nathaniel  Sperry,  son  of  Richard  Sperry; 
lived  at  Amity,  now  Woodstock,  Conn. 

Hannah,  born  Nov.  6,  1665;  married  July  6,  1693,  Deacon  Caleb  Chidsey  (or  Chedsey),  son 
of  Deacon  John  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Chedsey;  died  Dec.  25,  1703. 

Ruth,  born  April  5,  1668;  married  in  1687/8,  Nathaniel  Bradley,  son  of  William  and  Alice 
(Pritchard)  Bradley;  died  May  15,  1725. 

Abigail,  born  Sept.  26,  1670;  married  Jan.  21,  1689/90,  Ebenezer  Sperry,  son  of  Richard 
Sperry,  and  brother  of  her  sister  Sarah's  husband;  died  about  175 1/2. 

Abraham,  born  Jan.  14,  1673;  married  (i)  Jan.  16,  1697/8,  Elizabeth  Glover,  daughter  of 

John  and  Joanna  (Daniels)  Glover;  married  (2)  Susannah  ( )  Hotchkiss,  widow 

of  Joshua  Hotchkiss  Sr.,  of  New  Haven;  was  sergeant  in  1710,  later  lieutenant,  and 
captain  in  1722;  died  in  May  or  June,  1748. 

Isaac,  born  Nov.  7,  1677;  married  (1)  June  30,  1709,  Mary  Atwater,  daughter  of  Jona- 
than and  Ruth  (Peck)  Atwater;  married  (2)  Elizabeth  (Ailing)  Morris,  widow  of 
John  Morris  and  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Chidsey)  Ailing;  was  deputy  for 
New  Haven  from  1718  to  1757;  ensign  in  1713,  and  captain  in  1722;  served  as  deacon 
in  the  First  Church  from  1727  to  1754,  and  died  at  New  Haven,  Sept.  7,  1758. 
(174)  Rebecca,  born  Feb.  27,  1679;  married  in  1709,  Dr.  Isaac  Foote,  of  Branford,  son  of  Lieu- 
tenant Robert  and  Sarah  ( ■ — )  Foote  (173);  died  Oct.  15,  1757. 


JOHN  COOPER  [178]  305 


[178J  JOHN  COOPER  [....-1689] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   NEW    HAVEN,    CONN. 

WHEN  the  colony  of  New  Haven  was  founded,  the  name  of  John  Cooper 
is  recorded  among  the  first  settlers,  and  he  was  also  a  signer  of  the 
"Fundamental  agreement"  the  next  year  (1639).  He  was  at  this  time 
a  young  married  man  with  one  child,  but  the  name  of  his  wife  and  his 
earlier  history  is  not  known.  In  a  list  of  emigrants  from  London  in  the  ship  "  Ex- 
pedition," November  20,  1635,  we  find  a  "Jo  Coop  of  21  yeeres"  in  company  with 
"Jo  Davenport  30  yeeres."  It  is  possible  that  this  is  our  John  Cooper,  but 
his  companion  could  not  have  been  the  Rev.  John  Davenport,  who,  with  Eaton, 
was  the  leader  of  the  New  Haven  Colony,  as  he  did  not  come  over  until  1637.  There 
are  several  Coopers  who  emigrated  about  this  time  or  later,  but  no  connection  can 
be  traced  with  them.  Our  John  Cooper  was  an  uneducated  man  and  his  ever  in- 
creasing importance  in  town  affairs  must  have  been  due  entirely  to  a  sturdy  charac- 
ter. He  was  never  able  to  sign  his  name,  and  it  appears  in  all  committee  matters 
as  "The  marke  of  John  (1.  C.)  Cooper  Senr." 

His  first  appearance  in  New  Haven  alTairs  was  in  the  humble  position  of 
"chimney  viewer"  in  1643.  This  was  an  office  created  for  fire  protection.  Next 
he  was  poundmaster  and  fence-viewer,  then  surveyor.  In  1654,  when  it  became 
necessary  to  raise  a  company  of  militia  on  account  of  troubles  with  the  Dutch,  he 
was  chosen  corporal.  The  next  year  John  Winthrop  and  Stephen  Goodyear  es- 
tablished iron  works  at  the  outlet  of  Lake  Saltonstall,  where  they  set  up  a  "bloom- 
ery  and  forge."  They  put  John  Cooper  in  charge  of  it  and  he  remained  as  their 
agent  until  1679  or  1680. 

From  1655  his  public  duties  appear  to  have  been  of  a  more  important  charac- 
ter. He  acted  as  attorney  in  cases  before  the  General  Court,  appraiser  of  estates, 
commissioner  in  adjusting  disputes  as  to  boundaries  and  land  titles,  and  in  1661 
and  1662  he  was  deputy  to  the  General  Court. 

After  the  union  of  the  two  colonies  of  New  Haven  and  Hartford,  he  served 
from  1665  to  1674  as  deputy  from  New  Haven  to  the  Connecticut  General  Court 
and  was  assistant  in  1676. 

John  Cooper  also  served  as  townsman  or  selectman  for  twenty-seven  terms, 
and  had  one  experience  during  these  years  that  showed  the  stuff  the  man  was  made 
of.  The  Regicides,  Goffe  and  Whalley,  were  in  hiding  in  New  Haven  while  he  held 
this  office,  and  escaped  the  officers  of  the  King  sent  to  arrest  them,  through  the  con- 
nivance of  the  people.  Edward  Rawson,  the  Royal  Secretary  at  Boston,  wrote 
a  very  threatening  letter  to  Governor  Leete,  which  was  to  be  presented  to  the  next 
General  Court.  This  made  the  office  of  deputy  difficult  to  fill  and  several  elections 
were  had  before,  August  i,  1661,  John  Cooper  and  James  Bishop  dared  to  accept  it. 
His  position  of  selectman  of  New  Haven  made  him  responsible  for  the  actions  of  the 
people,  and  they  appreciated  his    bravery.     He  was  further   honored  by  being 


3o6  JOHN  COOPER  [178] 

chosen  one  of  the  two  commissioners  to  proceed  to  Boston  with  the  reply  of  the 
General  Court  to  the  Secretary.  He  must  therefore  have  been  a  man  of  unusual 
tact  and  prudent  diplomacy. 

John  Cooper's  home  lot  in  New  Haven  was  on  the  southwest  corner  of 
Church  and  Grove  streets,  extending  nearly  to  the  present  corner  of  Wall  street. 
This  property  passed  to  his  only  son.  We  have  already  noticed  that  he  gave 
a  dowry  of  certain  lands  to  his  daughter  Mary  on  her  marriage  to  Lieutenant 
Abraham  Dickerman  (177).  During  his  superintendence  of  the  iron  Works  at 
East  Haven  he  lived  there,  but  he  kept  up  his  house  in  town  and  his  daughter 
Mary  and  her  husband  lived  there  for  about  nine  years. 

John  Cooper  died  at  New  Haven,  November  23,  1689.  Nothing  further  is 
known  about  his  wife. 

Children  of  John  and Cooper 

f  I']'])  Mary,  born  probably  in  England  about  1636;  baptized  in  New  Haven,  Aug.  15,  1641;  mar- 
ried Jan.  2,  1658/g,  Lieutenant  Abraham  Dickerman,  son  of  Thomas  and  Ellen 
( )  Dickerman  (176);  died  Jan.  4,  1705/6. 

Hannah,  born  about  1638,  baptized  in  New  Haven  Aug.  15,  1641;  married  in  1661  John 
Porter,  Jr.,  son  of  John  Porter,  of  New  Haven;  died  June  15,  1675. 

John,  baptized  in  New  Haven,  May  28,  1642;  married  Dec.  27,  1666,  Mary  Thompson, 
daughter  of  John  Thompson,  of  New  Haven. 

Sarah,  baptized  Sept.  21, 1645;  married  March  23,  166 1/2,  Samuel  Hemenway  or  Hemingway. 

[179]  REV.  JOHN  PRINCE  [....-1644J 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  TOLDERVEY  [....-... .] 

OF    EAST   SHEFFORD,    BERKSHIRE,    ENGLAND 

IN  the  IVorthies  of  Devon,  published  in  1701  by  Rev.  John  Prince,  the 
Vicar  of  Berry-Pomeroy,  Devonshire,  is  the  statement  that  the  Prince 
family  is  descended  from  a  knightly  family  of  the  same  name  still  flourish- 
ing in  Shropshire.  V/e,  however,  know  nothing  of  Rev.  John  Prince's 
ancestry,  or  early  life.  He  was  educated  at  the  University  of  Oxford,  was  B.  A. 
Magdalen,  July  6,  1601.  About  1609  he  married,  probably  at  Oxford,  Elizabeth 
ToLDERVEY,  daughter  of  Walter  and  Ann  Toldervey  and  granddaughter  of 
Rev.  John  Toldervey,  "Bedell  of  Arts,  University  of  Oxford,"  and  his  wife 
Alyce. 

Rev.  John  Prince  was  ordained  in  Oxford, September,  161 1,  and  was  curate 
of  Little,  or  East,  SheflTord,  Berkshire  in  1613.  In  1619  be  became  the  rector,  and 
held  this  office  for  twenty-five  years  or  until  his  death.  This  was  during  the  reigns 
of  James  1  and  Charles  1  and  he  was  one  of  the  party  which  continued  loyal  to  the 
Church  of  England,  while  greatly  desiring  a  reformation  within  it.  Rev.  Thomas 
Prince  says  of  this  circumstance: 


REV.  JOHN  PRINCE  [179]  307 

"Yet  every  one  of  the  children  proved  conscientious  non-conformists,  even  while  their 
parents  Hved,  but  without  any  breach  of  amity  or  affection.  Thus  they  continued  pretty  near  to- 
gether till  the  furious  and  cruel  Archbishop  Laud  dispersed  them,  and  drove  their  eldest  son  with 
so  many  others  into  this  country  in  the  early  times  of  the  Massachusetts  Colony." 

Rev.  John  Prince  died  at  East  Shefford,  England,  and  was  buried  there"  XVI 
day  of  Sept.  1644."  Rev.  Thomas  Prince,  who  was  a  great-grandson,  says  that 
"they  had  4  sons  &  7  daughters  that  all  grew  up,"  but  record  only  of  three  sons  and 
five  daughters  has  been  found. 

Children  of  Rev.  John  and  Elizabeth  (Toldervey)  Prince 

(180)  John,  born  about   1610;  married  (i)  Alice  Honour,  of  Watertown,  Mass.;  who  died  in 

1668;  married  (2)  Ann  ( )  Barstow,  widow  of  William   Barstow,  of  Scituate, 

Mass.;  died  at  Hull,  Mass.,  Aug.  16,  1676. 

Joane,  baptized  at  West,  or  Great,  Shefford,  Oct.  9,  1614. 

Dorothye,  baptized  at  West  Shefford,  March  2,  161 5. 

Ursula,  baptized  at  West  Shefford,  Feb.  20,  1619. 

Edward,  born  at  East  Shefford,  Feb.  7,  1622,  baptized  there  Nov.  24,  1622. 

George,  born  at  East  Shefford,  Feb.  4,  1626,  baptized  there  the  same  day. 

Katherine,  baptized  at  East  Shefford,  July  26,  1629. 

Maria,  baptized  at  East  Shefford,  Sept.  26,  1630. 


[180]  ELDER  JOHN  PRINCE  [1610-1676] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ALICE  HONOUR  [....-1668] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    HULL,    MASS. 

T  OHN  PRINCE,  son  of  Rev.  John  and  Elizabeth  (Toldervey)  Prince  (179), 
I  was  born  in  Little  Shefford,  Berkshire,  England,  about  1610.  In  1633,  when 
I  he  was  but  about  twenty-three  years  old,  he  was  obliged  to  leave  England 
J  because  of  non-conformity,  and  emigrated  to  New  England.  He  had 
studied  at  the  University  of  Oxford  for  two  or  three  years,  intending  to  take  orders, 
but  had  not  made  sufficient  progress  at  the  time  of  his  leaving  to  do  so,  and  became 
a  farmer  on  his  arrival  in  this  country. 

He  settled  first  at  Watertown,  Mass.,  where  he  married  (i)  Alice  Honour, 
by  whom  he  had  seven  sons  and  two  daughters.  Soon  after  their  marriage  they 
removed  to  Hingham,  thence  in  1638  to  Nantasket,  and  finally  settled  in  Hull, 
Mass.  There  he  was  one  of  the  original  planters,  and  in  1644  was  chosen  the  first 
ruling  elder  of  the  church. 

Each  of  his  seven  sons,  as  they  grew  up,  took  to  a  seafearing  life  for  a  shorter 
or  longer  period.     John,  the  eldest,  died  at  Hull,  Joseph  at  Quebec,  Job  was  "lost 


3o8  ELDER  JOHN  PRINCE  [i8o] 

in  ye  channel  of  England,"  Benjamin  died  in  Jamaica,  Isaac  at  Boston,  and  Thomas 
at   Barbadoes. 

The  home  lot  of  Elder  John  Prince  in  Hull  was  on  the  present  Spring  Street 
opposite  to  the  head  of  Willow  Street.  He  was  empowered  to  solemnize  marriages 
in  Hull  in  May,  1670,  and  the  following  restriction  is  attached  to  the  record: 

'  In  answer  to  the  question  whether  it  be  lawful  for  a  man  that  hath  buried  his  first  wife  to 
marry  with  her  that  was  his  first  wife's  natural  sister,  the  court  resolves  it  in  the  negative." 

Alice  (Honour)  Prince  died  at  Hull  in  1668   and   Elder  John   married 

(2)  not  long  after,  Ann   ( )  Barstow,  widow  of  William  Barstow,  of  Scit- 

uate. 

He  died  at  Hull,  August  16,  1676.  His  will,  made  May  9,  1676,  was  proved 
October  16,  of  the  same  year,  and  the  inventory  of  his  estate  amounted  to  £315. 
In  1890  a  memorial  stone  was  erected  to  his  memory  and  that  of  his  first  wife  in  the 
old  cemetery  at  Hull,  by  one  hundred  and  fifty  of  his  descendants. 

Children  of  Elder  John  and  Alice  (Honour)  Prince 

John,  baptized  May  6,  1638;  married  in  1672,  Rebecca  Vickerow,  daughter  of  George  and 
Rebecca  (Phippeny)  Vickerow,  of  Hull;  was  a  sailor,  but  served  in  King  Philip'sWar 
in  1675  and  1676,  in  Captain  Joseph  Gardiner's  Company;  died  in  Hull,  in  1690. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  Aug.  9,  1640;  married  in  July,  1662,  Josiah  Loring,  son  of  Thomas 
Loring,  of  Hingham,  Mass.;  died  May  13,  1727. 

Joseph,  baptized  Nov.  26,  1642;  married  Dec.  7,  1670,  Joanna  Morton,  daughter  of  Colonial 
Secretary  Nathaniel  and  Lydia  (Cooper)  Morton,  of  Plymouth,  Mass. ;  died  at  Quebec 
in  1670. 

Martha,  baptized  Aug.  10,  1645;  married  in  1674,  Christopher  Wheaton,  son  of  Robert 
and  Alice  Wheaton,  of  Salem,  Mass. 

Job,  baptized  Aug.  22,  1647;  married  in  1678,  Rebecca  Phippeny,  daughter  of  Gabriel 
Phippeny,  of  Boston  and  cousin  of  his  brother  John's  wife;  was  lost  "in  ye  channel  of 
England  in  1694." 
(181)  Samuel,  born  in  Boston  in  May,  and  baptized  in  Hull,  Aug.  19,  1649;  married  (i)  Dec.  9, 
1674,  his  step-sister,  Martha  Barstow,  daughter  of  William  and  Ann  ( )  Bar- 
stow, of  Scituate,  who  died  Dec.  18,  1684;  married  (2)  Sept.  1,  1686,  Mercy  Hinck- 
ley, daughter  of  Governor  Thomas  and  Mary  (Smith  Glover)  Hinckley  (185),  of 
Plymouth  Colony;  died  in  Middleboro  East  Precinct,  Mass.,  July  3,  1728. 

Benjamin,  baptized  March  25,  1652;  was  unmarried  and  died  in  Jamaica,  W.  I.,  before 
his  father. 

Isaac,  baptized  July  19,  1654;  married  Dec.  23,  1679,  Mary  Turner,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  (Brewster)  Turner,  and  granddaughter  of  Elder  Brewster,  of  the  "Mayflower"; 
served  in  the  Narragansett  campaign  in  Captain  Johnson's  Company;  and  died  in 
Boston,  Nov.  7,  17 18. 

Thomas,  baptized  Aug.  8,  1658;  married  in  1685,  Ruth  Turner,  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  (Brewster)  Turner,  and  a  sister  of  his  brother  Isaac's  wife;  died  in  Barbadoes, 
in  1696. 


SAMUEL    PRINCE    [l8l] 

FROM    A    PORTRAIT 

OWNED    BY    CHARLES    H.     FISKE.    JR.,    OF    BOSTON 


SAMUEL  PRINCE  [i8i]  309 


[181]  SAMUEL  PRINCE  [1649-1728] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MERCY  HINCKLEY  [1663-1736] 

OF    SANDWICH    AND    ROCHESTER,    MASS. 

SAMUEL  PRINCE,  son  of  Elder  John   and  Alice  (Honour)  Prince  (180), 
was   born   in  May,  1649.     While  his  parents  lived  in  Hull,  Mass.,  he  was 
born  in  Boston  when  his  mother  was  visiting  there  and  baptized  in  Hull, 
August  19,  1649.     He  passed  his  early  life  in  Hull,  and  like  his  brothers, 
went  to  sea  in  a  coasting  vessel  before  his  marriage.     Afterward  he  applied  himself 
"to  Domestic  Trade  &  Merchandise." 

Hemarried  (i)  December  9,  1674,  his  step-sister,  Martha  Barstow,  daughter  of 
William  and  Ann  Barstow,  of  Scituate.  By  her  he  had  three  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters. She  died  at  Hull,  December  18,  1684,  and  he  married  (2)  September  i,  1686, 
Mercy  Hinckley,  daughter  of  Governor  Thomas  and  Mary  (Smith  Glover) 
Hinckley  (185),  who  was  born  January  i,  or  31,  1662/3. 

They  soon  removed  to  Sandwich,  Mass,  where  he  had  acquired  property  in 
1682.  In  1710  we  find  him  at  Rochester,  Mass.,  where  it  appears  the  greater  part 
of  his  estate  lay.  "He  was  ye  principal  Proprietor  of  ye  township  and  their  first 
Representative."  For  these  two  towns  of  Sandwich  and  Rochester  he  served  as 
representative  to  the  General  Court  nineteen  times  and  was  chosen  several  times 
when  he  was  excused  from  serving. 

His  son.  Rev.  Thomas  Prince,  says  of  him: 

"He  was  healthy  &  strong  in  body,  of  a  vigorous  &  active  spirit,  of  a  thoughtful  &  pene- 
trating mind,  religious  from  his  youth,  much  improved  in  scripture  knowledge,  esteemed  for  his 
Abilities  and  Gifts,  and  especially  for  his  powers  of  arguing;  a  zealous  Lover  &  Asserter  of  the 
New  English  Principles  &  Liberties,  with  charity  to  others,  of  a  Public  Spirit,  of  an  Open  Heart, 
of  an  instructive  Conversation,  of  strict  integrity,  a  very  affectionate  husband  &  father:  In  his 
former  years  pretty  severe  in  governing  his  family,  of  later,  ruled  them  with  great  ease  &  gentleness." 

The  portraits  of  Samuel  and  Mercy  (Hinckley)  Prince  shown  in  the  il- 
lustrations, were  obtained  through  the  kindness  of  Charles  H.  Fiske,  Jr.,  of  Boston, 
a  descendant  and  the  owner  of  the  originals.  An  inscription  on  the  margin  of  that 
of  Samuel  Prince,  which  is  partly  illegible,  reads 

"Samuel  Prince  [fourth]  son  of  M""'  John  Prince  [eldest]  son  of  Rev''  M''-  John  Prince  of 
E[ast  SheflFord]  parish  Berkshire  England.     Born  at  Boston  in  y''  year  1649.     Brought  up  at  [Hul]l." 

In  1723  he  and  his  wife  went  to  Middleboro  to  live  with  their  daughter 
Mary  who  had  married  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  pastor  of  the  church  there,  and 
they  spent  the  few  remaining  years  of  their  lives  under  her  roof. 

Samuel  Prince  died  at  Middleboro  East  Precinct,  Mass.,  on  Wednesday, 
July  3,  1728 


310  SAMUEL  PRINCE  [i8i] 

"a  little  after  the  break  of  day,  after  ten  days  illness  of  a  fever,  in  the  8oth  year  of  his  age.  .  .  . 
His  remains  were  decently  interred  here  this  after-noon  Friday  July  5th.  Five  of  the  Justices  of 
the  county  and  an  ancient  Captain  of  the  Town  being  bearers.  ...  As  he  used  to  express  his 
Desire  to  have  his  Body  laid  with  that  of  his  dear  son  Enoch,  an  extraordinary,  pious  knowing  &  in- 
dustrious Youth  who  coming  on  a  Visit  died  here  on  August  31  1713  aged  23.  It  was  laid  by  the 
side  of  that  of  his  beloved  Son,  between  &  under  the  shade  of  two  pretty  tall  Oaks  at  the  West- 
ern End  of  the  New  Burying  Place  to  sleep  together  in  the  same  large  grave."' 

His  house  was  built  on  land  given  him  by  the  town  in  1683,  on  the  common 
near  the  mill,  and  was  still  standing  a  few  years  ago. 

Mercy  (Hinckley)  Prince,  his  widow,  survived  him  and  died  April  25, 
1736,  aged  seventy-four. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Martha  (Barstow)  Prince 

Samuel,  born  Sept.  20,  1675;  probably  never  married;  had  farms  in  Milford  and  Coventry, 
Conn.,  and  died  in  Rochester,  Mass.,  in  1722. 

Martha,  born  March  15,  1678;  married  in  Sandwich,  Dec.  27,  1698,  Ezra  Bourne,  of  Sand- 
wich. 

John,  born  Oct.  i,  1680;  died  young. 

Anna,  born  in  February,  1683;  died  the  same  year. 

Nathan,  born  Sept.  17,  1684;  died  in  1685. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Mercy  (Hinckley)  Prince 

Thomas,  born  May  15,  1687;  H.C.  1707;  married  at  Leicester,  Mass.,  Oct.  20,  1719,  Deborah 
Denny,  youngest  daughter  of  Thomas  Denny,  of  England,  who  came  to  New  Eng- 
land with  her  brother  in  1717.  Rev.  Thomas  Prince  was  pastor  of  the  Old  South 
Church  in  Boston  from  17 18  to  1758;  the  author  of  the  Chronological  History  of  New 
England,  the  History  oj  the  Prince  Family  and  other  works;  died  in  Boston,  Oct. 
22,  1758. 

Mary,  born  Jan.  8,  1688/9;  married  Jan.  24,  1710/1,  Rev.  Peter  Thacher,  of  Middleboro, 
Mass.     She  died  Oct.  i,  1771. 

Enoch,  born  Sept.  ig,  1690;  died  unmarried  at  Middleboro,  Aug.  31,  1713. 

John,  born  Nov.  26,  1692,  baptized  March  5,  1693;  married  in  1713,  Elizabeth  Wooden;  was 
lost  at  sea  in  1717. 

Joseph,  born  April  i,  1695;  married  July  4,  1732,  Hannah  Beach;  was  a  mariner  and  died 
at  Stratford,  Conn.,  Dec.  4,  1747. 
(182)  MosES,  born  Feb.  22,  1696/7;  married  Feb.  i,  1737/8,  Jane  Bethune,  daughter  of  George 
and  Mary  (Waters)  Bethune  (189),  of  Boston;  died  at  Antigua,  Leeward  Islands, 
W.  I.,  July  6,  1745. 

Nathan,  born  Nov.  30,  1698;  H.  C.  1718;  and  was  fellow  of  the  college  for  many  years; 
probably  never  married  and  died  at  Rattan,  W.  I.,  July  25,  1748. 

Mercy,  born  Dec.  21,  1700;  "Feeble  &  infirm  was  living  single  in  1738,"  and  died  at  Middle- 
boro, Aug.  9,  1748. 

Alice,  born  Aug.  13,  1703;  married  Sept.  23,  173 1,  Samuel  Gray,  of  Little  Compton,  Mass.; 
died  July  2,  1733. 

Benjamin,  born  Feb.  23,  1705/6;  died  the  following  July. 

^History  oj  the  Prince  Family.     Rev.  Thomas  Prince,  1728. 


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MERCY    (HINCKLEY)    PRINCE    [l8l] 

FROM    A    PORTRAIT 

0\VNi;n    BY    CHARLES    H.    FISKE,    JR.,    OF    BOSTON 

MOSES  PRINCE  [182]  311 


[182]  MOSES  PRINCE  [1697-1745] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

JANE  BETHUNE  [1714-1795] 

OF    BOSTON,   MASS. 


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OSES  PRINCE,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mercy  (Hinckley)  Prince  (181), 
was  born  February  22, 1 696/7,  at  Sandwich,  Mass.  He  may  possibly  have 
been  educated  as  a  physician,  as  in  many  genealogies  and  in  some 
records  of  deeds  he  is  called  "Doctor,"  but  he  was  certainly  a  mariner, 
and  is  more  frequently  spoken  of  as  Captain  Moses  Prince  or,  "Moses  Prince  Mar- 
iner." 

From  his  own  diary  it  appears  he  made  a  trip  to  England  in  1729.  On  his 
return  he  left  Oxford,  England,  July  30,  and  rode  on  horseback  to  Chester.  Thence 
he  came  by  ship  to  Dublin  and  sailed  from  Dublin,  August  27,  for  New  England, 
arriving  at  Boston,  October  14,  1729.  There  he  lodged  at  "Cousin  Loring's"  on  Oc- 
tober 1 9.  The  following  winter  he  made  a  voyage  to  North  Carolina,  trading  merchan- 
dise for  tar,  pitch  and  rozin.  In  the  same  diary  he  writes  of  his  attending  service 
in  1730  in  the  new  church  just  built  and  dedicated  in  Boston  and  of  sitting  in  "our 
pew"  to  the  left  of  the  pulpit,  which  he  says  cost  the  family  ;!£i  10,  "being  our  con- 
tribution to  ye  meeting  house."  This  meeting  house  is  the  present  Old  South 
Church,  corner  of  Washington  and  Milk  Streets,  where  his  brother  was  pastor. 

Moses  Prince  married  February  i,  1737/8,  Jane  Bethune,  daughter  of 
George  and  Mary  (Waters)  Bethune  (189)  of  Boston,  who  was  born  June  15,  1714. 

While  his  residence  seems  to  have  been  in  Boston,  he  had  a  farm  and  grist 
mill  at  Wareham,  land  at  Rochester,  and  also  owned  a  one-half  interest  in  the  sloop 
"Success"  and  her  cargo. 

On  one  of  his  voyages  to  the  West  Indies  he  died  at  Antigua,  Leeward  Is- 
lands, July  6,  1745,  leaving  a  widow  of  twenty-nine  and  four  children,  one  of  whom 
was  born  after  his  death.  An  inventory  of  his  estate  was  taken  October  9,  1745, 
covering  the  property  referred  to  above,  personal  property  of  all  sorts,  and  one- 
half  of  the  pew  in  the  Old  South  church. 

His  widow  Jane  married  (2)  in  September,  1761,  as  his  third  wife,  Hon. 
Peter  Oilman,  son  of  Colonel  John  and  Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Oilman  (161).  In 
a  description  of  the  old  Oilman  Garrison  house  in  Exeter  earlier  in  these  annals, 
mention  is  made  of  the  record  of  this  marriage  scratched  on  the  window  pane  by 
Jane's  granddaughter,  Hannah  Robbins,  afterwards  the  wife  of  Benjamin  Ives 
Oilman  (135).  Jane  (Bethune  Prince)  Oilman  died  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  March 
9,  1795,  probably  at  the  home  of  her  daughter  Deborah  (Prince)  Gary. 
Children  of  Captain  Moses  and  Jane  (Bethune)  Prince 

Samuel,  born  Oct.  29,  1739;  chose  his  mother  as  guardian  Aug.  8,  1755,  when  he  was  "aged 
above  15  years.       In  1758  his  uncle  Rev.  Thomas  Prince  the  Annalist,  bequeathed  to 


312  MOSES  PRINCE  [182] 

him  large  amounts  of  land,  of  which  some  was  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  some  in  Hampshire 
County,  and  some  in  Sheepscot  County,  or  York.  He  joined  in  a  deed  of  land  with 
his  two  sisters  at  Rochester,  June  25,  1774;  in  which  he  is  called  "Samuel  Prince 
merchant  of  Boston." 
(167)  Jane,  born  Sept.  7,  1740;  married  October  8,  1761,  Rev.  Chandler  Robbins,  of  Plymouth, 
Mass.,  son  of  Rev.  Philemon  and  Hannah  (Foote)  Robbins  (166),  of  Branford, 
Conn.;  died  Sept.  12,  1800. 

George,  born  July  22,  1743;  died  probably  before  1755,  as  he  is  not  mentioned  in  the  adminis- 
tration of  his  father's  estate. 

Deborah,  born  about  1746;  was  aged  "about  9  years"  when,  in  1755,  she  chose  her  mother  as 
guardian;  married  in  September,  1783,  Rev.  Thomas  Cary,  son  of  Samuel  Cary,  and 
pastor  of  the  Third  Church  of  Newburyport.  Their  son,  Rev.  Samuel  Cary,  was 
pastor  of  King's  Chapel,  Boston,  in  181 5. 

[184]  SAMUEL  HINCKLEY  [....-1662] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

SARAH [....-1656] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  BARNSTABLE,  MASS. 

SAMUEL  HINCKLEY  lived  at  Tenterden,  Kent,  England,  and  was  married 
there  before  emigrating  to  New  England,  to  Sarah .  He  had  four 
children  born  in  England  and  three  of  them  were  baptized  at  Tenterden 
between  1625  and  1629. 

In  1628,  Elder  Nathaniel  Tilden,  of  Tenterden,  a  man  of  wealth  and  promi- 
nence, came  to  New  England  and  purchased  lands  in  Scituate,  Mass.  He  then  re- 
turned for  his  family,  and  in  the  latter  part  of  March,  1635,  he  sailed  again  for  New 
England  in  the  ship  "Hercules,"  bringing  also  Samuel  Hinckley,  his  wife  and  four 
children,  John  Lewis,  James  Austin  and  their  families,  all  from  Tenterden,  together 
with  others  from  the  county  of  Kent,  one  hundred  and  two  persons  in  all.  It  is 
said  that  it  had  been  the  intention  of  this  party  to  come  over  the  previous  summer 
with  Rev.  John  Lothrop  in  the  "Griffin,"  at  the  same  time  with  William  and  Anne 
Hutchinson  (17). 

More  than  half  of  the  passengers  of  the  "  Hercules"  settled  in  Scituate,  some 
going  there  at  once,  and  others  later.  Samuel  Hinckley  went  immediately,  and 
built  a  house  there  in  1635,  on  Kent  Street.  In  order  to  leave  England  he  had  been 
obliged  to  swear  that  he  "conformed  to  the  order  and  discipline  of  the  church"  of 
England,  and  all  the  party  brought  certificates  from  the  ministers  where  they  had 
last  lived,  of  "their  conversation  and  conformity"  and  of  the  fact  that  they  had 
taken  the  oath  of  allegiance  and  supremacy. 

He  was  possessed  of  some  means,  as  he  acquired  considerable  property  in 
Scituate,  in  addition  to  his  house  lot.  He  owned  the  marsh  "between  his  house 
and  the  third  cliff"  and  some  land  near  "Rotten  Marsh  on  the  S.  E.  next  to  Mr. 
Vassall's  Brook  Hall  field." 


SAMUEL  HINCKLEY  [184]  313 

He  was  a  church  member,  and  his  wife  "Goody  Hinckley  joyned  Aug.  30th, 
1635."  Their  first  child  born  in  this  country,  Elizabeth,  was  baptized  the  follow- 
ing Sunday.  He  was  twice  indicted  for  "entertaining  strangers  &  foreigners," 
so  he  probably  belonged  to  the  liberal  party  of  which  his  friends  Cudworth,  Hath- 
erly,  Robinson  and  his  son-in-law.  Rev.  John  Smith,  were  prominent  members. 

In  1639  or  1640  they  removed  to  West  Barnstable,  and  were  among  the  first 
settlers  there,  helping  to  establish  the  church.  He  purchased  land  of  Rev.  Joseph 
Hull,  but  had  some  trouble  with  the  title,  which  was  finally  cleared.  His  farm 
at  Barnstable  is  said  to  have  been  one  of  the  best  in  the  town.  The  records  show 
that  he  rendered  continual  service  in  town  offices,  such  as  juryman,  surveyor  of 
highways,  etc.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Barnstable  Military  Company  in 
1643. 

His  wife  Sarah  died  at  Barnstable  August  18, 1656,  and  he  married  (2)  Decem- 
ber 15,  1657,  Bridget  ( )  Bodfish,  widow  of  Robert  Bodfish,  of  Sandwich. 

He  died  at  Barnstable,  October  31,  1662.  In  his  will,  dated  October  31,  1662,  he 
gave  his  wife  Bridget  the  use  of  his  house,  garden  and  some  land,  his  two  cows 
Prosper  and  Thrivewell,  and  all  the  household  stuff  she  brought  with  her.  He 
mentions  his  daughters  Susannah,  Mary,  Sarah,  and  Elizabeth,  and  his  grand- 
children Samuel,  Thomas,  Mary  (Mercy?),  and  Bathshua,  children  of  his  son 
Thomas,  also  his  grandsons  Samuel  and  Jonathan  Cobb.  All  his  real  estate  was 
given  to  his  sons  Thomas,  Samuel  and  John. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  ( )  Hinckley 

(185)  Thomas,  born  in  England,  in  1618;  married  (i)  Dec.  4,  1641,  Mary  Richards,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Welthean  (Loring)  Richards,  of  Weymouth,  Mass.,  who  died  June 
24,  1659;  married  (2)  March  16,  1659/60,  Mary  (Smith)  Glover,  widow  of  Nathaniel 
Glover,  and  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Ryder)  Smith  (186);  died  April  25,  1705. 

Susannah,  baptized  in  Tenterden,  England,  Nov.  6,  1625;  married  before  1643,  Rev.  John 
Smith,  of  Sandwich  and  Barnstable,  Mass. 

Mary  (or  Marie),  baptized  in  Tenterden,  England,  March  23,  1627;  never  married  and  was 
living  in  1662. 

Sarah,  baptized  in  Tenterden,  England,  Nov.  22,  1629;  married  Dec.  12,  1649,  as  his  second 
wife.  Elder  Henry  Cobb,  of  Barnstable,  Mass.;  died  after  1679. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  in  Scituate,  Sept.  6,  1635;  married  July  15,  1657,  Elisha  Parker. 

Samuel,  baptized  in  Scituate  Feb.  4,  1637/8,  died  soon  after. 

Samuel,  baptized  in  Scituate,  Feb.  10,  1638/9;  died  at  Barnstable,  March  22,  1640/1. 

,  a  daughter  born  at  Scituate.     The   Barnstable   Burial   record  reads  as  follows: 

"Goodman  Hinckley's  child,  a  dau,  uppon  their  comeing  hither,  buryed  unbaptized 
July  8  1640." 

,  a  son.  Burial  record  reads:  "Goodman  Hinckley's  child,  a  twinn,  buryed  unbap- 
tized Feb.  6  1 640/ 1." 

,  a  son.     Burial  record  reads:   "Goodman  Hinckley's  other  twinn  buryed  March  19 

1 640/ 1." 

Samuel,  born  in  Barnstable,  July  24,  1642,  baptized  the  same  day;  married  (i)  Dec.  14,  1664, 
Mary  Goodspeed,  daughter  of  Roger  Goodspeed,  who  died  Dec.  20,  1666;  married  (2) 


314  SAMUEL  HINCKLEY  [184] 

Jan.  15,  1668,  Mary  Fitzrandle,  daughter  of  Edward  Fitzrandle  (or  Fitzrandolph); 
served  in  the  Narragansett  war,  and  died  Jan.  2,  1727. 
John,  born  in  Barnstable,  May  24,  was  baptized  May  26,  1644;  married  (i)  in  July,  1668, 
Berthia  Lathrop,  daughter  of  Thomas  Lothrop  (or  Lathrop),  who  died  July  10,  1694; 

married  (2)  Nov.  24,  1697,  Mary  ( — )  Goodspeed,  perhaps  widow  of  Benjamin 

Goodspeed;  died  Dec.  7,  1709. 

[185]    GOVERNOR  THOMAS  HINCKLEY  [1618-1705] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARY  (SMITH)  GLOVER  [1630-1703] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  BARNSTABLE,  MASS. 

THOMAS  HINCKLEY,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  ( )  Hinckley  (184), 
came  from  Tenterden,  Kent  County,  England,  to  New  England  with 
his  parents  in  1635,  and  lived  a  few  years  at  Scituate,  Mass.,  thence 
removing  with  them  in  1639  or  1640,  to  Barnstable  in  Plymouth  Colony. 
He  was  at  that  time  about  twenty-one  years  of  age.  He  married  (i)  December  4, 
1641,  Mary  Richards,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Welthean  (Loring)  Richards,  of 
Weymouth,  Mass.' 

In  1643  he  became  a  member  of  the  Barnstable  Military  Company,  and  took 
the  oath  of  fidelity  and  served  on  the  grand  jury  in  1644.  The  next  year  he  was 
sent  to  the  General  Court  of  Plymouth  Colony  as  deputy  fom  Barnstable.  From 
this  time  for  more  than  forty  years  he  was  continuously  in  office,  serving  in  various 
civil  capacities  in  both  the  town  and  the  colony.  He  acquired  large  grants  of 
land  from  the  Indians  in  the  country  around  Barnstable,  and  was  an  agent  for  the 
Colony  in  many  of  its  purchases  from  them.  He  held  the  office  of  deputy  for  ten 
years,  and  was  assistant  for  more  than  twenty.  He  was  first  elected  to  the  latter 
office  in  1658,  because  Cudworth  and  Hatherly,  the  two  then  in  office,  opposed  the 
extreme  measures  adopted  against  the  Quakers,  and  Thomas  Hinckley's  views  on 
the  subject  were  those  of  the  majority  of  his  fellow  colonists.  It  was  while  he  was 
assistant  that  further  dignity  was  given  the  office  by  the  order,  in  1674,  "that  four 
halberts  attend  the  Governor  and  assistants  on  election  days  and  two  during  the 
continuance  of  the  court." 

His  wife  Mary  died  June  24,  1659,  three  months  after  the  birth  of  their 
daughter  Mehitable,  her  eighth  child.  He  married  (2)  March  16,  1659/60,  Mary 
(Smith)  Glover,  widow  of  Nathaniel  Glover,  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  and  daughter 
of  Quartermaster  John  and  Mary  (Ryder)  Smith  (186)  of  Dorchester.     She  was 

'Thomas  Richards  was  born  in  England  about  15QO  and  lived  in  Boston,  Dorchester,  and  Weymouth. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company  in  1648,  and  died  in  1651.  He  left  a  number 
of  grown  children  :  John,  who  married  Ann  Winthrop,  daughter  of  Governor  John  Winthrop,  of  Connecticut ;  Alice, 
who  married  Major  William  Bradford,  son  of  Governor  Bradford,  of  Plymouth  Colony;  and  several  others.  So 
Governor  Hinckley  was  connected  through  his  first  wife  with  these  families,  as  well  as  the  Saltonstalls,  Endi- 
cotts,  Winthrops,  Allisons,  Davis  and  Alfords.  Major  John  Richards  died  without  heirs  and  left  bequests  to  the 
children  of  his  late  sister  Mary,;£50oin  money,  as  well  as  to  many  others  of  the  large  family  connection. 


GOVERNOR  THOMAS  HINCKLEY  [185]  315 

born  in  Toxteth,  England,  in  1630,  and  "sent  to  school  at  Boston,  w'  she  enjoy'd 
Mr  Wilson  and  Cotton's  ministry."  She  had  at  the  time  of  her  second  marriage 
three  children,  Nathaniel,  John,  and  Anna  Glover,  who  were  amply  provided  for 
by  their  father's  estate,  which  was  held  in  trust  and  rented  for  their  benefit. 

Thomas  Hinckley  had  been  a  member  of  the  Council  of  War  held  in  Boston 
in  1658,  and  during  the  desperate  troubles  with  the  Narragansett  Indians  from  1673 
to  1678,  he  was  one  of  the  federal  commissioners  who  had  the  entire  responsibility 
of  protecting  the  infant  colonies.  There  were  a  number  of  Christian  Indians  in 
Plymouth  Colony,  and  the  people  there  feared  that  they  would  attack  Mr.  Hinck- 
ley's house  during  his  attendance  on  the  meetings  in  Boston.  Therefore,  on  Oc- 
tober 27,  1675,  the  General  Court  of  the  Colony  "considering  the  publicke  imploy 
of  Mr.  Hinckley"  ordered  a  guard  to  be  set  over  his  house  "Especially  in  his 
absence  on  the  countreys  service  in  this  time  of  danger."  Finally  Governor  Win- 
slow  enlisted  a  thousand  men  and  went  as  commander  of  the  forces,  and  Hinckley 
accompanied  them  as  commissary-general.  He  was  present  at  the  Great  Swamp 
Fight  on  Sunday,  December  19,  1675,  and  on  the  same  day  his  daughter  Reliance, 
only  four  days  old,  was  baptized  at  Barnstable  by  Rev.  Mr.  Russell,  who  gave  the 
name  to  express  Mary  Hinckley's  reliance  on  God  to  protect  her  husband  in  his 
danger. 

In  1680  on  account  of  Governor  Winslow's  ill-health  and  the  extreme  old  age 
of  the  first  assistant,  John  Alden,  Thomas  Hinckley  was  specially  made  deputy 
governor.  The  following  year  he  was  elected  governor,  and  was  re-elected  every 
year  until  1686,  when  James  II  supplanted  all  the  governors  of  the  colonies  by 
sending  over  Sir  Edmund  Andros  as  governor  of  New  England.  Hinckley,  with 
Bradford,  Lothrop,  Whalley,  and  others  accepted  positions  on  Andros'  Council,  an 
act  which  has  been  severely  condemned  by  the  historians  of  New  England.  The 
administration  of  Andros  was  most  tyrannical,  and  with  the  exception  of  Nathaniel 
Clark,  the  councillors  soon  stopped  attending  the  meetings  of  the  council.  Andros 
ordered  that  as  all  the  titles  derived  from  the  Indians  were  "no  better  than  the 
scratch  of  a  bear's  paw,"  the  colonists  should  apply  for  new  ones,  paying  large 
fees  to  his  government  for  them.  Hinckley  thereupon  petitioned  the  King 
for  redress,  saying  that  all  the  money  of  the  colony  would  hardly  suffice  "to  pay 
one-half  of  the  charges  for  warrants,  surveying  and  patents." 

Whatever  the  opinion  of  later  historians  may  be,  Hinckley's  course  did 
not  injure  him  in  the  eyes  of  his  contemporaries,  as,  immediately  upon  Andros' 
recall  he  was  re-instated  as  governor  and  remained  in  that  position  until  Plymouth 
Colony  was  merged  into  that  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  in  169 1.  At  the  same  time, 
Nathaniel  Clark  was  imprisoned  by  the  people,  and  the  next  year  sent  to  England 
in  the  same  ship  with  Andros. 

His  course  with  regard  to  the  annexation  of  the  colony  to  Massachusetts  Bay 
was  not  a  popular  one,  and  it  brought  upon  him  some  odium,  but  it  was  certainly 
the  act  of  an  upright  statesman.  The  little  colony  had  no  charter,  and  England 
considered  connecting  it  with  New  York,  with  whom  it  had  no  possible  affiliations, 


3i6  GOVERNOR  THOMAS  HINCKLEY  [185] 

so  that  Governor  Hinckley  threw  his  influence  on  the  side  of  Massachusetts,  as 
King  William  had  determined  for  military  reasons  to  bring  the  colonies  more  closely 
together.  He  was  thenceforward  one  of  the  councillors  in  Massachusetts  Bay  for 
Plymouth. 

A  little  picture  of  his  later  life  when  living  alone  with  his  wife  in  Barnstable, 
all  their  children  having  gone  out  into  the  world,  is  given  in  a  fragment  of  Judge 
Sewall's  Diary  in  the  early  part  of  April,  1702.  He  was  on  his  way  to  Martha's 
Vineyard  as  one  of  the  commissioners  of  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the 
Gospel  to  the  Indians,  in  which  Governor  Hinckley  was  also  very  much  interested, 
and  was  to  visit  there  Rev.  Experience  Mayhew,  grandson  of  Governor  Mayhew 
(238).     He  writes: 

"Apl  4th.  Visit  Mr.  Russell,  Mr.  Hinckley.  Madame  Hinckley  reads  to  us  a  very  pious 
Letter  of  her  daughter  Lord:  and  Gov.  Hinckley  of  his  daughter  Exper  Mayhew.  .  .  .  Sabbath 
Apl  5.  Very  cold  still  but  fair,  as  go  home  at  night  Gov.  Hinckley  invites  me  to  breakfast  with  him 
next  day." 

Mary  (Smith  Glover)  Hinckley  died  at  Barnstable,  July  29,  1703,  aged 
seventy-three  years.  She  was  buried  in  the  old  burying-ground  and  the  inscription 
on  the  gravestone  has  been  preserved  although  the  stone  has  long  since  crumbled 
away. 

"HERE  LYETH  Y' 

BODY  OF  Y' TRULY 

VIRTUOUS  AND  PRAISE 

WORTHY  MRS:  MARY 

HINCKLEY,  WIFE  TO 

MR.  THOMAS  HINCKLEY 

DIED  JULY  Y'  2Q,  1703, 

IN  Y' 73d  YEAR  OF 

HER  AGE." 

Rev.  Thomas  Prince,  the  Annalist,  her  grandson,  says  of  her: 

"to  ye  day  of  her  Death  she  appearid  &  shone  in  ye  eyes  of  all,  as  ye  loveliest  &  brightest  woman 
for  Beauty,  Knowledg,  wisdom,  majesty,  accomplishments  &  graces  throughout  ye  Colony." 

We  give  a  few  lines  from  the  verses  written  at  the  time  of  her  death  by  her 
husband. 

"God  righteous  is  in  all  yt  he  hath  done 
Yea  good  in  lending  her  to  me  so  long. 
A  Blessing  rich  forty  three  years  &  more 


The  only  child  her  gracious  mother  bore." 


When  he  wrote  these  verses  he  records  the  fact  that  he  was  85  years  old, 
which  gives  us  the  date  of  his  birth,  1618. 

Governor  Hinckley  died  suddenly  at  Barnstable,  April  25,  1705,  aged 
eighty-seven,  and  was  also  buried  in  the  old  or  upper  burying-ground.     His  tomb- 


GOVERNOR  THOMAS  HINCKLEY  [185]  317 

stone  and  epitaph  were  placed  at  his  grave  by  his  descendants  in  1829,  and  an 
error  is  made  in  the  date  of  his  death.  His  character  can  be  judged  by  his  Hfe,  as 
one  of  great  energy,  rigidly  religious  and  with  sterling  qualities.  He  was  re- 
puted the  best  lawyer  of  the  time  in  the  colony,  and  although  severe  to  the  Quakers, 
he  is  given  the  credit  of  establishing  a  more  humane  system  of  dealing  with  them. 
While  he  was  deputy  a  law  was  passed  that  was  called  "Hinckley's  Law,"  to  the 
effect  that 

"  If  any  neglect  the  worship  of  God  in  the  place  where  he  lives,  and  set  up  a  worship  contrary  to 
God  and  the  allowances  of  this  Government,  .  .  .  he  shall  pay  10  shillings." 

He  Started  the  system  of  free  schools  in  Plymouth,  and  was  the  steward  of  the 
first  public  school  in  1672.  He  also  began  a  movement  to  provide  for  the  salaries  of 
the  ministers  of  the  colony. 

Children  of  Governor  Thomas  and  Mary  (Richards)  Hinckley 

Mary,  born  Aug.  3,  baptized  Aug.  4,  1644;  married  John  Weyborne,  probably  son  of  Thomas 

Weyborne,  who  came  from  Tenterden,  England,  to  Boston  in  1638;  was  living  in  1688. 
Sarah,  born  Nov.  4,  baptized  Dec.  6,  1646;  married  March  27,  1673,  Nathaniel  Bacon,  Jr., 

of  Barnstable;  died  Feb.  16,  1686/7. 
Meletiah,  born  Nov.  25,  baptized  Nov.  26,  1648;  married  Oct.  23,  1668,  Josiah  Crocker,  of 

West  Barnstable;  died  Feb.  2,  1714/5. 
Hannah,  born  April   15,  baptized  April  27,   1651;  married  in   1672/3,  Captain  Nathaniel 

Glover,  the  son  of  her  step-mother;  died  in  Dorchester,  Aug.  20,  1730. 
Samuel,  born  Feb.  14,  baptized  Feb.  20,  1652/3;  married  Nov.  13,  1676,  Sarah  Pope,  of 

Sandwich;  served  in  the  Narragansett  War,  and  died  March  19,  1697/8. 
Thomas,  born  Dec.  5,  1654;  died  unmarried  in  1688.     His  will  was  proved  the  same  year. 
Bathshua  (or  Bathsheba),  born  May  15,   1657;    married  June  6,   1681,  Samuel  Hall  (or 

Shearjashub  Bourne),  of  Dorchester;  died  May  27,  1714. 
Mehitable,  born  March  24,  1658/9;  married  (1)  Samuel  Worden,  of  Yarmouth,  afterwards 

of  Boston;  married  (2)  Aug.  25  (or  Oct.  13),  1698,  as  his  third  wife,  William  Avery, 

of  Dedham. 

Children  of  Governor  Thomas  and  Mary  (Smith  Glover)  Hinckley 

Admire,  born  Jan.  28,  1660/1 ;  died  two  weeks  after,  and  was  buried  Feb.  16,  1660/1. 

Ebenezer,  born  Feb.  22,  1661/2,  died  two  weeks  after. 
(181)  Mercy  (or  Mary),  born  Jan.  i  (or  31),  1662/3;  married  Sept.  i,  1686,  as  his  second  wife, 
Samuel  Prince,  son  of  Elder  John  and  Alice  (Honour)  Prince  (180);  died  April 
25,  1736. 

Experience,  born  Feb.  2  (or  Feb.  28),  1664/5  married  James  Whipple,  of  Barnstable;  died 
soon  after  1688. 

John,  born  June  9,  1667;  married  in  Barnstable,  May  i,  1691,  Thankful  Trott,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Trott,  of  Dorchester;  died  in  February  (or  March),  1706.  His  widow  mar- 
ried (2)  February,  171 1,  Mr.  Jonathan  Crocker. 

Abigail,  born  April  i  (or  April  8),  1669;  married  Jan.  2,  1697/8,  Rev.  Joseph  Lord,  of  Dor- 
chester; H.  C.  1691;  afterwards  minister  of  the  church  of  Chatham  on  Cape  Cod; 
died  Dec.   14,   1725. 


3i8  GOVERNOR  THOMAS  HINCKLEY  [185] 

Thankful,  born  Aug.  20,  1671;  married  Nov.  12,  1695,  Rev.  Experience  Mayhew,  of  Martha's 

Vineyard,  son  of  John  and  great-grandson  of  Governor  Thomas  Mayhew  (238). 
Ebenezer,  born  Sept.  23,   1673;  married  at  Sudbury  in  November,   1706,   Mary  ( ) 

Storn  (or  Stone),  of  Sudbury;  died  Oct.  17,  1721.     His  widow  married  (3)  Nov.  5, 

1722,  John  George. 
Reliance,  born  Dec.  15,  baptized  Dec.   19,  1675;  married  Dec.  15,  1698,  Rev.  Nathaniel 

Stone,  of  Harwich,  Cape  Cod. 

[186]  JOHN  SMITH,  Q.M.  [....-1678] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARY  RYDER  [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   DORCHESTER,    MASS. 

TOHN  SMITH  probably  lived  in  Toxteth  Park,  Lancashire,  England,  before 

I      emigrating  to  New  England,  and  he  is  said  to  have  been  a  quartermaster  in 

I      the  British  army  in  the  Netherlands.     He  married  in  Toxteth  (i)  about  1629, 

J      Mary  Ryder,  "a  gentlewoman  of  a  creditable  Family  and  eminent  natural 

Powers,  Piety  and  acquir'd  accomplishments."' 

When  their  daughter  Mary  was  about  five  years  old  they  came  to  New  Eng- 
land in  the  ship  "James,"  in  August,  1635,  in  company  with  Rev.  Mr.  Richard 
Mather,  their  parish  clergyman  in  Toxteth.  Rev.  Thomas  Prince  in  his  MSS  Notes 
writes  of  his  great-grandparents  as  follows:  they  lived 

"undr  ye  ministry  of  ye  Rev"^  Mr.  Richard  Mather  at  Toxteth  in  that  shire  [Lancashire]  they  came 
up  and  brought  Her  [Mary]  with  them  to  Bristol  in  order  for  N.  E.  in  April  1635;  Young  Mr. 
Nathaniel  a  son  of  ye  sd  Mr.  Mather  being  carried  on  One  side  a  Horse  in  a  Pannier  and  this  young 
Mrs.  Mary  Hinckley  on  ye  other;  as  I  have  often  heard  her  say." 

In  Rev.  Mr.  Mather's  journal  of  his  voyage,  he  gives  us  a  picture  of  the  party 
on  board  ship  before  leaving  England  in  these  words: 

"  Monday  June  i  5  1635.  1  went  on  shore  to  Nangle  with  my  wife  and  children,  John  Smith 
and  his  wife  and  Mary,  Susan  Michel  and  divers  others.  It  was  a  fair  day  and  we  walked  in  the 
fields  and  at  a  house  got  some  milk  &c  wherewith  we  were  much  refreshed  and  came  on  board 
again  at  evening." 

They  set  sail  from  Bristol  May  23,  1635,  but  did  not  arrive  at  their  destina- 
tion until  August. 

"In  ye  night  between  Aug'  14  &  15  coming  on  ye  N.  E.  coast  y'  arose  an  extream  Hurri- 
cane w''  in  y^  w''  in  y'  utmost  Danger  and  wondrously  delivered  (see  ye  acct  in  ye  Life  of  ye  sd 
Mr.  Richard  Mather  in  Y=  Magnalia)  and  on  Aug'  17  arrived  at  Boston."  ^ 

The  quartermaster  and  his  family  settled  in  Dorchester,  where  he  was  made 
a  freeman,  December  7,  1636,  as  Rev.  Mr.  Mather  became  the  teacher  of  the  church 

'  MSS.  Notes  of  Rev.  Thomas  Prince. 
2  Ibid. 


JOHN  SMITH  [i86]  319 

there.     Soon  after  their  arrival,  his  wife  died,  and  he  married  (2)  Mary ,  of 

Dorchester.     She  died  January  11,  1658,  and  he  married  (3)  Katherine  ( ) 

Pelton,  who  outHved  him. 

John  Smith  is  called  in  the  Dorchester  Records,  quartermaster,  in  view  of 
his  service  in  the  British  army,  and  also  perhaps  to  distinguish  him  from  another 
John  Smith  living  in  Boston  at  the  time. 

He  died  at  Dorchester,  April  29,  1678.  in  his  will,  dated  28th  loth  mo.  1676, 
proved  July  25,  1678,  he  says  of  his  two  daughters  Mary, 

"da  Mary  to  be  understood  Mary  Pelton  not  da.  Mary  Hinckley.     Shee  is  paid  what  I  promised  vpon 
her  mar  to  Mr.  Nathaniel  Glover." 

His  widow,  Katherine  ( Pelton)  Smith,  was  "the  ancient  school  mistress  of 

Dorchester."     She  died  in  Boston,  July  17,  1710,  aged  "about  90  years."     Her 
gravestone  is  in  the  cemetery  at  Dorchester. 

Children  of  John  and  Mary  (Ryder)  Smith 

(185)  Mary,  born  in  Toxteth,  England,  in  1630;  married  (i)  Nathaniel  Glover,  son  of  John  and 

Ann  ( )  Glover  of  Dorchester,  Mass.,  who  died  May  21,  1657,  leaving  three 

children,  Nathaniel,  John  and  Ann  Glover;  married  (2)  March  16,  1659/60,  as  his 
second  wife,  Governor  Thomas  Hinckley,  of  Barnstable,  Mass.;  died  in  Barnstable, 
July  29,  1703. 

Children  of  John  and  Mary  ( )  Smith 

John,  married  Miriam  Deane;  died  in  Boston  in  1676. 
Mary,  married  16  (5th  mo.)  1673,  Samuel  Pelton. 

Children  of  John  and  Katherine  ( Pelton)  Smith 

Sarah,  born  9th,  2nd  mo.  1665. 

Abigail,  born  31st,  6th  mo.  1668. 

Joseph,  born  30th,  3rd  mo.  1671,  died  about  a  month  after. 

THE  BETHUNE  FAMILY  IN  FRANCE  AND  SCOTLAND 

IN   his    later   life,  Winthrop    Sargent    Gilman  (136)  prepared  a  sketch  and 
chart  of    his   Bethune  ancestry,  which  appealed  greatly  to  his  romantic 
imagination.      It  was  founded  largely  on  the  ancient  published  genealogy 
of  Maximilien  de  Bethune,  due  de  Sully,  minister  of  Henri  IV  of    France, 
which  carried  it  down  to  the  point  at  which  the  Scotch  tree  began.    Mr.  Gilman's 
Chart  had  the  following  characteristic  inscription: 

"  Honors  best  thrive 
When  rather  from  ourselves  we  them  derive 
Than  our  foregoers."         (Much  Ado  About  Nothing.) 

From  this  chart  we  take  the  ancestry  of  George  Bethune  (189),  our  emi- 


320  THE  BETHUNE  FAMILY   IN  FRANCE  AND  SCOTLAND 

grant  ancestor  of  the  name,  omitting  a  great  deal  of  interesting  information  on 
collateral  lines  which  Mr.  Oilman  had  gathered.  The  family  takes  its  name  from, 
or  gave  the  name  to,  the  town  of  Bethune  in  Artois,  about  thirty-six  miles  southwest 
of  Calais,  called  by  the  Romans  "  Bethunia  in  Gallis." 


Robert,  Lord  of  Bethune  and  Richebourg,  loi  1-1036,  was  descended  from 
the  younger  branch  of  the  Counts  of  Flanders.  One  of  his  ancestors  is  said  to  have 
been  Edward,  Count  of  Artois,  who  married  Gisle,  granddaughter  of  Charle- 
magne, through  which  royal  connection  the  Bethunes  bore  the  fleur-de-lys  in 
their  arms.  In  loi  i  Robert  was  chosen  "Defender  of  the  Church  of  Arras,"  and 
was  allowed  to  have  the  banner  of  the  church  borne  before  him  in  war.     His  eldest 

son  was 

2 

Robert,  who  bore  the  title  from  1038-1072.  In  Baldric's  Chronicles  he  was 
called  "  One  of  the  greatest  nobles  of  the  time."     His  eldest  son  was 

3 
Robert,  Lord  of  Bethune  and  Richebourg,  1075-1  loi,  who  went  with  God- 
frey de  Bouillon  to  the  Holy  Land.     His  three  sons  were 

Robert,  see  below. 

Adam. 

Conon,  King  of  Adrianople. 

4 

Robert,  surnamed  Le  Gros,  1106-1128,  who  married  Adelise  De  Pe- 
RouiNE,  daughter  of  Robert  De  Perouine,  Lord  of  Warneston.  His  second  son 
was 

5 
William,  Lord  of  Warneston,  from  1 129-1 144,  married  Clemence  D'Oisy, 
daughter  of  Simon,  Lord   D'Oisy  and  Crevecoeur.     William's  tomb  is  in   the 
church  of  St.  Bartholemy  of  Bethune  near  the  high  Altar.     His  son  was 

6 

Robert,  surnamed  Le  Roux,  1145-1191,  who  married  Adelaide,  daughter 
of  Hughes,  count  of  St.  Pol.  Robert  went  to  the  Holy  Land  with  Philip,  Count 
of  Flanders,  and  returned  with  him  in  1 177.     His  sons  were 

Robert,  who  inherited  the  estate,  but  died  childless. 

Baudouin,  who  accompanied  Richard  Coeur  de  Lion  to  the  Holy  Land;  returning  with  him, 
he  was  captured  in  Germany  and  shared  the  imprisonment  of  the  King  until  they  es- 
caped together  to  England.  There  Baudouin  married  the  cousin  of  the  King,  the  Coun- 
tess d'Aumale. 

William,  who  succeeded  his  brother  Robert,  see  below. 


THE  BETHUNE  FAMILY  IN  FRANCE  AND  SCOTLAND  321 


William,  married  Matilda,  Lady  of  Tenremonde,  only  daughter  and  heiress 
of  David,  prince  of  Tenremonde.     His  sons  were 

Daniel,  who  held  the  estates,  121 5-1225,  and  died  childless. 

Robert,  married  Isabella  of  Moreaume,  daughter  of  Nicholas  of  Conde.     He  held  the  es- 
tates from  1226-1242,  and  had  a  daughter  Matilda,  who  married  the  Count  of  Flanders 

,  see  below. 

o 

,  whose  son  William  succeeded  to  the  estate,  see  below. 

9 
William,  Lord  of  Molembeque,  1243-1255,  succeeded  to  the  estates  after  the 
death  of  his  uncle  Robert,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Lord 
Pontrohart.     His  son  was 


William,  125 5-1 279,  who  married  Beatrice,  Lady  of  Hebuterne.     His  son 


was 


William,  Lord  of  Locres  and  Hebuterne  from  1 294-1 344.  He  married 
Jeannette  de  Neelle,  daughter  of  Jeannette,  Princess  of  France,  and  the 
Count  of  Ponthieu.  Jeannette,  Princess  of  France,  had  married  (i)  St.  Fer- 
dinand, first  King  of  the  united  kingdoms  of  Leon  and  Castile,  by  whom  she  had 
Alfonso  X,  El  Sabio.     William's  son  was 


William,  Lord  of  Locres  (1348),  married  Marie  of  Roye,  Lady  of  Vendeuil. 
His  son  was 

John,  Lord  of  Locres,  Vendeuil,  and  La  Fontaine  (1373),  married  Jeannette 
DE  CoucY,  who  was  descended  in  the  male  line  from  the  Counts  of  Guines  and  in 
the  female  from  the  Kings  of  France.    John's  son  was 

14 

John,  Lord  of  Locres,  Autresche  and  Mareuil,  and  eight  other  titles  (1380- 
141 5),  married  Isabella  D'Estouteville,  daughter  of  Robert  Lord  D'Es- 
touteville  and  Margaret  Montmorenci  of  the  royal  family  of  France.  He 
had  three  sons 

Anthony,  died  unmarried. 

Robert,  Lord  of  Haye  and  Marieul,  &c.,  married  Michelle  d'Estouteville,  became  counsellor 

and  chamberlain  to  King  Charles  VII,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  Maximilien  de  B6- 

thune,  Due  of  Sully,  five  generations  later. 
James,  see  below. 


322  THE  BETHUNE  FAMILY  IN  FRANCE  AND  SCOTLAND 

•5 

James,  Baron  of  Baltour,  Scotland,  married  the  heiress  of  Balfour,  daughter 
of  Sir  William  Balfour,  sheriff  of  Fife,  who,  according  to  Burke's  Landed  Gentry, 
was  fourth  in  descent  from  Siward  (1033),  the  general  of  the  English  forces  in  the 
battle  when  Macbeth  was  slain.  James  quartered  the  arms  of  the  French  Be- 
THUNES  with  those  of  the  Balfours  of  Scotland.  He  came  to  Scotland  in  the 
train  of  Marie  of  Gueldres  (1450),  when  that  princess  married  James  II,  of  Scot- 
land.    Iames's  eldest  son  was 

•^  16 

John,  who  succeeded  to  the  Barony  and  married  Katherine  Sterling, 
daughter  of  Lord  Keir.     His  eldest  son  was 

'7 

John,  who  succeeded  to  the  Barony,  and  married  Margaret  Boiswald. 
Their  sons  were: 

John,  see  below. 

David,  married  Janet  Dudiston,  daughter  of  the  Laird  of  St.  Ford;  founded  the  family  of 
the  Bethunes  of  Criech;  was  controller  of  the  household  and  treasurer  of  the  King- 
dom to  James  IV. 

Robert,  first  Abbot  of  Cupar  in  Angus,  and  afterwards  Abbot  of  Melrose. 

Andrew,  Prior  of  St.  Andrews. 

Archibald,  who  purchased  the  lands  of  Pitlochie  and  Cape  Dree. 

James,  Archbishop  of  Glasgow,  and  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews,  Chancellor  under  James  IV,  and 
during  the  minority  of  James  V.  He  was  later  Primate  of  all  Scotland.  In  an  af- 
fray between  the  Hamilton  and  Douglas  families  in  1520,  which  was  called  "Cleanse 
the  Causeway"  and  took  place  just  outside  the  Archbishop's  house  in  Glasgow, 
"  Beaton,"  as  he  is  called  in  Scottish  history,  protested  to  the  Bishop  of  Dunkeld,  a 
Douglas,  with  his  hand  upon  his  heart,  that  he  could  not  stop  the  quarrel.  "Ha! 
my  lord,  said  Dunkeld,  who  heard  a  coat  of  mail  rattle  under  the  archbishop's 
rochet,  "methinks  your  conscience  rattles."     James  Bethune  died  in   1539. 


John,  Baron  of  Balfour,  married  Elizabeth  Moneypenny,  daughter  of 
Lord  Moneypenny,  of  Kinkell.  They  had  seven  sons  and  five  daughters.  The 
following  record  is  of  three  of  the  sons: 

John,  see  below. 

James,  Lord  Balfarge,  whose  son  was  James,  Archbishop  of  Glasgow,  one  of  the  ambassadors 
to  arrange  for  the  marriage  of  Mary  Stuart  about  1547,  to  the  Dauphin  of  France. 
He  was  later  ambassador  to  France,  and  lived  in  Paris  during  the  reigns  of  Francis  I, 
Charles  IX,  Henry  HI,  and  Henry  IV.  He  died  in  Paris,  April  25,  1603,  and  was 
buried  there  in  the  church  of  St.  Jean  of  Latran.     The  daughter  of  another  son  was 


THE  BETHUNE  FAMILY  IN  FRANCE  AND  SCOTLAND  323 

Mary  Beaton,  one  of  Queen  Mary's  ladies,  about  whom  the  old  ballad  sings: 

"Yestreen  the  Queen  had  four  Maries 

This  night  she'll  hae  but  three: 
There  was  Mary  Beaton  and  Mary  Seaton, 

And  Mary  Carmichael  and  me." 

David,  born  in  1494,  became  Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews  on  the  death  of  his  uncle,  was 
created  cardinal  by  Pope  Paul  III,  and  afterwards  became  Primate  of  all  Scotland. 
He  was  ambassador  to  France  in  1533,  to  arrange  a  marriage  between  James  V  of 
Scotland,  and  Madeleine,  daughter  of  Francis  I.  During  the  minority  of  Mary 
Stuart  he  was  leader  of  the  Roman  Catholic  party,  and  a  determined  enemy  of 
England.  His  persecutions  of  the  Protestants  culminated  in  his  assassination  by  a 
band  of  fifteen  men,  in  his  castle  of  St.  Andrews,  May  28,  1546.  The  murderers 
shut  themselves  up  with  others,  who  were  in  complicity  with  the  plot,  in  the  castle, 
and  were  besieged  there.  Among  the  number  was  John  Knox,  who  was  sent  to  the 
galleys  when  the  castle  was  taken  by  the  French. 

19 

John,  Baron  of  Balfour,  married  Christina  Stewart,  daughter  of  Lord 

RosYTH.     His  eldest  son  was: 

20 

John,   Baron  of  Balfour,  married  Agnes  Anstruther,  daughter  of  Lord 
Anstruther.     Their  sons  were: 

John,  married  Elizabeth  Pitcairn,  daughter  of  Lord  Forther.     They  had  no  children,  and 

the  title  passed  to  his  brother,  Robert. 

Robert,  see  below. 

21 

Robert,  Baron  of  Balfour,  married  Agnes  Trail,  daughter  of  Lord  Blebo. 

His  eldest  son  was: 

22 

David,  Baron  of  Balfour,  married  Margaret  Wardlaw,  daughter  of  Lord 
Torrie,  who  claimed  descent  from  Robert  11,  King  of  Scotland.     His  sons  were: 

John,  married  Katherine  Haliberton,  daughter  of  Lord  Piteur.     They  had  six  sons  and  two 

daughters. 

Robert,  see  below. 

23 

(187)  Robert,  married  Marion    Inglis,  daughter  of  Thomas   Inglis,  of 
Atherney.     His  second  son  was: 

(188)  William,  married ;  was  an  advocate  in  Craigfurdie.     His 

sons  were : 

David,  married  Anna  Wardlaw.  His  eldest  son  having  no  children,  the  estate  passed  to  the 
second  son  Henry,  who  had  but  one  daughter.     This  daughter  married Col- 


324  THE  BETHUNE  FAMILY  IN  FRANCE  AND  SCOTLAND 

gerton,  when  her  father  Henry  Bethune  petitioned  ParHament  to  have  the  entail 
set  aside  in  her  favor,  the  name  being  changed  to  Colgerton-Bethune.  This  peti- 
tion was  granted  in  favor  of  Mrs.  Colgerton  and  her  heirs  male,  but  no  farther. 
Her  heirs  failing,  the  heirs  male  of  George  Bethune  (189)  would  have  come  into  the 
estate. 
(189)  George,  see  below. 

[189]  GEORGE  BETHUNE  [....-1735] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

MARY  WATERS  [1692-....] 

OF  SCOTLAND  AND  BOSTON,  MASS. 

GEORGE  BETHUNE,  son  ofWiLLiAM  and  grandson  of  Robert  and  Marion 
(Inglis)  Bethune,  of  Craigfurdie,  Scotland,  arrived  in  Boston  about  1710, 
and  "established  himself  as  a  banker  there."  In  Sewall's  Diary  under 
the  date  of  March  11,  1710/1,  we  find  the  note  "Thomas  Lee  and  George 
Bethune  fm'd  for  constables;"  that  is,  for  refusing  to  act  as  such. 

In  the  Bethune  Family  by  Mrs.  J.  A.  Weisse,  which  is  the  most  complete  and 
valuable  record  of  the  family  published,  it  is  stated  that  "he  came  to  Boston  about 
1724"  and  "married  a  Miss  Carey."  Both  statements  are  evidently  incorrect. 
After  a  most  thorough  search  in  Boston  for  the  ancestry  of  Miss  Carey  I  became  satis- 
fied that  the  name  was  an  error,  and  my  later  discovery  of  the  following  records 
proves  it  to  be  so.  In  the  Boston  Book  of  Marriage  Intentions  we  find  George  Be- 
thune was  published  June  10,  i7i3,to  Mary  Waters  of  Marblehead, while  in  the 
Marblehead  Marriages  appears  this  record,  "George  Bethune  of  Boston  and  Mrs. 
Mary  Waters  Je  3  [30]  1713."  Mary  Waters  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  William 
and  Elizabeth  (Latimer)  Waters  (192)  of  Marblehead,  Mass.  She  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 25, 1691/2,  and  baptized  at  Marblehead,  April  24,  1692.  Further  confirmation 
of  the  marriage  was  found  in  the  Essex  Deeds  where  George  Bethune  of  Boston 
deeded  property,  September  10,  1722,  to  Nathaniel  Norden,  Mary  Waters'  uncle, 
to  settle  the  estate  which  Nathaniel  Norden  held  in  his  own  right,  and  which,  on  his 
decease,  was  to  go  to  Latimer  Waters  (Mary's  brother)  and  his  heirs.  In  default  of 
such  heirs  it  was  to  go  to  the  next  of  kin  of  Latimer's  deceased  mother,  Elizabeth 
(Latimer)  Waters  (192).  There  is  also  another  deed  of  September  14,  of  the 
same  year,  in  which  Nathaniel  Norden,  of  Marblehead,  "for  love  of  his  kinswoman 
Mary  wife  of  Geo.  Bethune,"  deeded  to  her  a  certain  house  "now  in  possession 
of  Benjamin  Stacy  called  The  Three  Codds  Tavern." 

The  same  year,  1722,  George  and  Mary  (Waters)  Bethune  received  in  the 
division  of  the  estate  of  Christopher  Latimer  (193),  Mary's  grandfather,  a  share 
with  other  heirs  named,  in  two  dwellings  which  were  a  part  of  the  estate.  There 
are  also  other  records  in  connection  with  this  estate  in  which  their  names  appear 
as  heirs. 


GEORGE  BETHUNE  [189]  325 

George  Bethune  lived  in  Boston  and  in  1723  bought  land  there.  In  1726 
in  a  further,  and  perhaps  final  distribution  of  Christopher  Latimer's  estate,  he 
and  his  wife  received  one-half  and  Latimer  Waters,  Mary's  brother,  the  other. 
The  discovery  of  all  these  deeds  places  it  beyond  doubt  that  George  Bethune 
came  to  this  country  in  1710,  instead  1724,  and  that  he  married  Mary  Waters, 
June  30,  1713. 

He  was  undoubtedly  engaged  to  some  extent  in  the  shipping  trade,  as,  De- 
cember 18,  1727,  he  bought  of  Daniel  Law  "the  sloop  Mayflower  all  ready  for  a 
voyage  to  Honduras."  He  was  one  of  the  members  of  the  Scottish  Charitable 
Society  of  Boston.  In  1732  he  was  justice  of  the  peace  and  was  guardian  of  Francis 
Borland,  son  of  John  Borland. 

The  date  of  his  death  is  not  known,  but  it  was  probably  in  1735,  as  an  in- 
ventory of  his  estate  was  taken  in  Boston,  February  20,  1735/6. 

His  grandson,  Mr.  George  Bethune,  of  Boston,  son  of  George  and  Mary 
(Faneuil)  Bethune,  collected  all  the  family  memoranda  obtainable,  in  the  year  1830, 
such  as  family  Bibles,  extracts  from  church  registers,  etc.  Among  other  interest- 
ing documents  he  found  a  letter  from  Henry  Bethune  of  Craigfurdie,  father  of  Mrs. 
Colgerton-Bethune,  and  nephew  of  our  ancestor.  This  letter,  dated  1754,  and 
written  on  the  occasion  of  George  Bethune,  Jr.'s  marriage  to  Mary  Faneuil,  con- 
tained a  genealogical  and  historical  sketch  of  the  Bethunes  in  Scotland,  which  is 
the  same  as  the  French  chart  given  in  the  preceding  chapter  entitled  "The  Be- 
thune Family."  Henry  Bethune  also  wrote  that  after  the  heirs  male  of  Mrs.  Col- 
gerton-Bethune, George  was  the  heir  to  the  Craigfurdie  estate,  which  in  a  lawyer's 
letter  confirming  this  statement,  was  valued  at  1 100,000  a  year. 

Children  of  George  and  Mary  (Waters)  Bethune 

(182)  Jane,  born  June  15,  1714;  married  (i)  Feb.  i,  1737/8,  Dr.  or  Captain  Moses  Prince,  son 
of  Samuel  and  Mercy  (Hinckley)  Prince  (181),  who  died  July  6,  1745,  at  Antigua, 
W.  I.;  married  (2)  in  September,  1761,  as  his  third  wife,  Hon.  Peter  Oilman,  son  of 
Colonel  John  and  Elizabeth  (Coffin)  Oilman  (161);  died  at  Newburyport,  Mass., 
March  9,  1795. 

Nathaniel,  born  July  25,  1715;  married  probably  Hannah  (or  Abigail)  Lewis,  daughter  of 
Job  and  Sarah  (Palmer)  Lewis;  was  justice  of  the  peace  in  1760,  and  died  in  Boston; 
his  will  was  dated  Feb.  i,  and  probated  March  15,  1771. 

Mary,  born  April  27,  1717;  died  young. 

Eliza,  or  Elizabeth,  born  June  i,  1718;  married  in  1758  (published  Oct.  26),  Ezekiel  Lewis; 
died  probably  before  1 771,  as  in  her  brother  Nathaniel's  will  he  mentions  only 
"Brother  Ezekiel  Lewis." 

George,  born  in  1719,  died  the  same  year. 

George,  born  Dec.  7,  1720;  married  in  1754  (published  July  15,  1751),  Mary  Faneuil,  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin,  and  niece  of  Peter  Faneuil,  of  Boston;  was  justice  of  the  peace  in 
1774;  died  in  Little  Cambridge  prior  to  1775.  His  widow  continued  living  on  the 
Faneuil  farm  there  until  her  death  in  June  or  July,  1797.  She  was  the  "Aunt 
Bethune"  whose  ring  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Daniel  R.  Noyes,  of  St.  Paul, 
George  Bethune's  great-great-grandniece. 


326  GEORGE  BETHUNE  [189] 

Susanna,  born  Dec.  1 1,  1722;  married  Benjamin  Pemberton. 

Henry,  born  Aug.  18,  1724. 

Sarah,  born  June  27,  1728;  married  in  1760  (published  June  30),  Rev.  Syivanus  Conant,  of 

Middleboro,  Mass. 
Mary,  born  Oct.  7,  1730. 

[191]  WILLIAM  WATERS  [....-1684] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

HANNAH  (PEACH)  BRADSTREET  [....-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  MARBLEHEAD,  MASS. 

WHILE  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  William  Waters  was  an  early 
settler  in  Marblehead,  Mass.,  his  name  does  not  appear  on  the 
Marblehead  petitions  and  lists  of  1637,  1648,  1668,  or  1673,  but 
does  on  the  list  of  householders  in  1674.  On  the  petition  dated 
1668  against  imposts,  beginning  "  Free  trade  hath  been  the  chief  motive  that 
drew  us  hither,"  we  should  expect  to  find  his  name  as  it  has  one  hundred  and 
fifty  signatures,  but  it  is  not  there. 

In  Salem  Deeds  we  find  a  record  of  a  "William  Waters  sen.  husbandman" 
and  "William  Waters,  Jr.,  mariner,"  both  of  Boston,  who,  13th  (loth  mo.)  1661, 
together  borrowed  ;£ioo  of  John  Croade  of  Salem,  agreeing  to  pay  in  fish.  It  may 
be  that  our  William  Waters  was  the  mariner  and  lived  in  Boston  as  well  as  Mar- 
blehead. This  would  explain  why  his  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Marblehead 
lists.  The  fact  that  our  William's  son  Thomas  was  a  mariner,  suggests  that  he 
succeeded  his  father. 

William  Waters  married  in  Marblehead,  about   1661,  Hannah   (Peach) 

Bradstreet,  daughter  of  John  and  Alice  ( )  Peach  (191-A),  and  widow  of 

John  Bradstreet,  son  of  the  Humphrey  Bradstreet  of  Rowley  who  was  arrested  for 
witchcraft  in  1652,  but  released.  John  Bradstreet  was  born  in  1631  and  died  in 
1660,  leaving  his  widow  childless  and  evidently  still  a  young  woman. 

William  Waters  died  probably  at  Marblehead,  about  1684,  as  an  inventory 
of  his  estate  was  taken  November  19  of  that  year.  His  eldest  son  William  Waters, 
Jr.  (192), filed  the  inventoryinwhich  he  mentions  his  brother  Thomas,  and  his  sisters 
Hannah  and  Mary,  "being  all  the  children  of  the  late  deceased."  In  the  division 
William,  as  the  eldest  son,  had  a  double  portion  in  the  house  and  lands  in  Marble- 
head. 

As  the  dates  of  the  births  of  the  children  have  not  been  found,  the  following 
list  may  not  be  in  the  correct  order. 

Children  of  William  and  Hannah  (Peach   Bradstreet)  Waters 

(192)  William,  married  (i)  in   Marblehead,  Aug.  4,  1686,  Elizabeth  Latimer  (or  Lattimore), 
daughter  of  Christopher  and   Mary  (Pitts)  Latimer  (193),  who  died   Feb.   10, 


WILLIAM  WATERS  [191]  327 

);  married  (2)  July  17,  1699,  Mary  ( )  Doliber,  widow  of  Peter  Doliber, 

of  Marblehead;  he  died  about  1704. 
Thomas,  married  in  Marblehead,  Oct.  7,  1687,  Alice  Bartoll;  was  a  mariner  and  sold  out 

in  Marblehead  and  removed  to  Salem  about  1686.     He  was  buried  May  15,  1728. 
Hannah,  married  May  25,   1682,  Elias  Stratton. 
Mary,  married  Oct.  2,  1685,  Robert  TefTord  or  Jefford. 


[192J  WILLIAM  WATERS,  JR.  [....-1704] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH  LATIMER  [1663-1699] 

OF    MARBLEHEAD,    MASS. 

WILLIAM  WATERS,  son  of  William  and  Hannah  (Peach  Brad- 
street)  Waters  (191),  was  probably  born  in  Marblehead  and  passed 
his  early  life  there.  He  married  (1)  August  4,  1686,  Elizabeth 
Latimer,  daughter  of  Christopher  and  Mary  (Pitts)  Latimer 
(193),  of  Marblehead,  who  was  born  in  1663,  and  baptized  in  the  First  Church  of 
Salem,  January  6,  1677. 

He  was  a  cordwainer,  i.  e.  shoemaker,  in  Marblehead.  In  1690,  he  and  his 
wife  gave  a  receipt  for  property  to  Nathaniel  Norden,  in  which  they  call  him  "our 
brother-in-law."  The  property  so  conveyed  was  described  as  that  of  "our  father- 
in-law  Christopher  Latimer." 

Elizabeth  died  at  Marblehead,  February  10, 1698/9,  aged  thirty-five,  and  her 
gravestone  is  still  standing  in  the  "Pond  street  burial  ground  on  the  hill."     A 

few  months    later    he    married   (2)  July    (or    August)    17,   1699,  Mary   ( ) 

Doliber,  widow  of  Peter  Doliber,  of  Marblehead,  by  whom  he  had  one  child.  He 
died  at  Marblehead  about  1704.  His  will,  dated  March  16,  1702,  mentions  his  two 
children  by  his  first  wife,  Latimer  and  Mary,  and  bequeaths  to  them  what  was 
left  them  in  their  grandfather  Latimer's  will.  The  other  children  were,  probably, 
not  then  living.  He  also  mentions  his  wife  Mary  and  her  daughter  Hannah. 
His  estate  was  administered  by  the  widow,  May  15,  1705. 

Mary  ( Doliber)  Waters  died  December  11,  1728. 

Children  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Latimer)  Waters 

Mary,  baptized  Oct.  9,  1687,  died  young. 

Jane,  baptized  July  28,  1689;  died  April  22,  i69-(illegible  in  the  records). 
(189)    Mary,  born  Feb.  25,  1691/2,  baptized  April  24,  1692;  married  June  3  or  30,  1713,  George 
Bethune,  of  Boston,  son  of  William  and Bethune,  of  Craigfurdie,  Scot- 
land. 

Latimer,  baptized  Oct.  6  or  14,  1694,  probably  never  married.  The  administration  of  his 
estate  was  granted  Dec.  28,  1752,  to  Nathaniel  Bethune  of  Boston,  eldest  son  of 
George  and  Mary  (Waters)  Bethune  (189). 


328  WILLIAM  WATERS,  JR.  [192] 

William,  baptized  Sept.  12,  1696  (another  authority  gives  Aug.  15,  1697);  probably  died 
before  1702,  the  date  of  his  father's  will. 

Children  of  William  and  Mary  ( • — •  Doliber)  Waters 

Hannah,  baptized  Aug.  ii,  1700;  may  possibly  have  been  the  "young  woman  Hannah 
Waters"  who  was  one  of  the  victims  of  the  dreadful  scourge  of  small-pox  in  1730,  or 
she  may  have  been  the  Hannah  Waters  who  married  Nov.  29,  1720,  Philip  Tewkes- 
berry,  of  Marblehead. 


[191-A]  JOHN  PEACH  [1 604- 1 68-] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ALICE    [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   MARBLEHEAD,    MASS. 

T  OHN  PEACH  is  said  to  have  come  from  Dorsetshire,  England,  to  New 
I  England,  in  1630.  He  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Marblehead,  arriving 
I  there,  according  to  the  deposition  mentioned  below,  about  1639.  In  the 
J  records  of  Marblehead,  he  is  called  "jr."  while  his  older  brother,  also  named 
John,  who  came  over  earlier,  was  called  "sen'."  Both  he  and  his  brother  were 
selectmen  at  Marblehead  at  the  same  time,  and  the  records  mention  the  fact  that 
they  were  brothers. 

He  married,  before  1644,  Alice ,  as  her  name  appears  as  a  witness  to 

a  document  in  that  year.     By  her  he  had  one  son  and  three  daughters. 

In  the  deposition  above  referred  to,  made  25th  (ist.  mo.)  1672,  he  gave  his 
age  as  "about  58  years"  and  stated  that  he  had  lived  in  Marblehead  about  thirty- 
three  years. 

The  record  of  his  death  at  Marblehead  reads  "August  20,  168-,"  probably 
1689.  His  will,  dated  January  10,  1687/8,  was  not  probated,  however,  until  May 
21,  1694.  In  it  he  mentioned  his  wife  Alice,  the  grandchildren  left  by  his  daughter 
Hannah  Waters,  also  his  daughters,  Mary  Woods  and  Elizabeth  Legg.  Be- 
quests were  made  "to  my  only  son  William  Peach,"  his  wife  Emma  and  their  two 
sons  John  and  Thomas.  As  the  dates  of  birth  of  their  children  have  not  been  found, 
the  following  is  only  approximately  correct. 

Children  of  John  and  Alice  ( )  Peach 

(191)  Hannah,  married  (i)  John  Bradstreet,  son  of  Humphrey  Bradstreet,  of  Rowley,  who 
died  in    1660;  married  (2)  about    1661,  William    Waters,  Sr.,   of    Marblehead. 

Mary,  married Woods 

Elizabeth,  married Legg. 

William,  born  in  April,  1650;    married  Emma ;  died  June  10,  1713,  "aged  63  yrs 

2  mo  &  8  ds." 


CHRISTOPHER  LATIMER  [193]  329 

[193]  CHRISTOPHER  LATIMER  [1620-1690] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

MARY  PITTS  [1632-1681] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  MARBLEHEAD,  MASS. 

CHRISTOPHER  LATIMER  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Marblehead, 
Mass.,  and  according  to  Savage,  was  there  in  1648.  He  married  Mary 
Pitts,  daughter  of  William  and  Pitts  (193-A)  of  Marblehead, 

who  was  born  in  1632,  probably  in  Bristol,  England. 

The  first  record  of  him  in  Marblehead  was  when  in  1659  it  was  voted  "to 
have  the  meeting  house  sealed"  and  "Mr.  Christopher  Lattimore"  was  on  the 
committee  appointed  to  make  the  improvement.  The  same  year,  his  father-in-law, 
William  Pitts  (193-A)  of  Boston  deeded  February  i,  to  Christopher  and  Mary, 
his  house,  seven  parcels  of  land,  stage,  fishing  land  and  appurtenances  "now  in 
possession  of  said  Christopher  Latimer." 

He  sold  to  Robert  Hooper  in  1663,  his  wife  Mary  joining  him  in  the  deed, 
a  dwelling  house  in  Marblehead  "on  the  hill  where  John  Coytes's  [Coite]  house 
stood,  which  he  sold  to  my  father  Pitts,"  probably  the  one  mentioned  above.  He 
mentions  his  fishyard,  and  from  these  deeds  we  suppose  that  he  and  his  father-in- 
law  conducted  fisheries.  In  a  later  deed  to  William  Pitts  he  calls  himself  a  vintner. 

October  21,  1662,  he  was  present  at  a  meeting  of  the  commoners  and  was  one 
of  the  six  signers  to  an  agreement.  Probably  the  others  could  not  write  and  the 
six  signed  in  the  name  of  all.  His  name  appears  in  a  list  of  householders  in  Mar- 
blehead in  1674,  with  the  prefix  of  distinction  "Mr."  In  the  same  list  are  William 
Pitts  (193-A)  his  father-in-law,  William  Waters  (192)  his  son-in-law  and  John 
Peach,  Jr.  (191-A). 

April  5,  1679, he  and  his  wife  joined  in  an  agreement  to  pay  "father  Pitts  50s. 
for  the  half  or  £^  for  the  whole"  use  of  the  property  in  Boston  (see  193-A)  "per 
annum  as  long  as  we  live  or  as  long  as  William  Pitts  lives."  Mary  died  at  Mar- 
blehead May  8,  1681 ,  aged  forty-nine  years,  as  appears  from  her  gravestone  in  Pond 
Street  burial-ground  on  the  hill,  the  most  ancient  stone  in  the  ground. 

In  February,  1686/7, Christopher  Latimer  deeded  to  his  son-in-law  Nathan- 
iel Norden,  "the  house  formerly  occupied  by  my  father  William  Pitts."  Appar- 
ently the  same  property  was  deeded  back  to  the  grandchildren  in  1722  by  their 
uncle  Norden,  possibly  on  the  death  of  his  wife.     This  deed  conveys 

"to  Latimer  Waters,  Mary  Petherick  spinster  of  Marblehead,  George  Bethune  and  his  wife 
Mary  of  Boston  [two  dwelHngs  which  were]  part  of  the  estate  of  Christopher  Latimer  and  were 
set  off  to  Norden  in  lieu  of  a  debt." 

Christopher  Latimer  died  at  Marblehead,  October  5,  1690,  aged  about  sev- 
enty years,  as  appears  from  his  gravestone  in  the  Pond  Street  burial-ground.  In  his 


330  CHRISTOPHER  LATIMER  [193] 

will  dated  November  8,  1688,  he  gave  to  his  daughters  "  Joane  Baker,  Jean  Norden, 
Elizabeth  Waters  and  Susanna  Pederick  .  .  .  land  my  father  Pitts  gave  me." 

Children  of  Christopher  and  Mary  (Pitts)  Latimer 

Joan,  married Baker. 

Jeane,  or  Jane,  married  Nathaniel  Norden,  son  of  the  Samuel  Norden,  cord-wainer,  men- 
tioned in  Judge  Sewall's  Diary  a.s  one  of  the  earliest  aristocrats  of  the  town.  He 
"held  no  great  correspondence  with  other  families,"  had  a  coat  of  arms,  was  coun- 
cillor, &c.  Jane  died  2d  mo.  1722,  and  her  husband  married  (2)  Sept.  20,  1722, 
Mary  (Browne)  Brattle,  daughter  of  Captain  John  Browne  and  widow  of  Captain 
Edward  Brattle. 
(192)  Elizabeth,  born  in  1663  in  Marblehead,  and  baptized  in  Salem  First  Church  Jan.  6,  1677; 
married  Aug.  4,  1686,  William  Waters,  son  of  William  and  Hannah  (Peach 
Bradstreet)  Waters  (191);  died  Feb.  10,  1698/9  aged  thirty-five. 

Susanna,  baptized  in  Salem  First  Church  Jan.  6,  1677;  married  Nov.  29,  (or  30),  1682, 
John  Pederick  (Petherick). 

[193-A]  WILLIAM  PITTS  [1592-1680] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND   MARBLEHEAD,    MASS. 

AMONG  the  passengers  in  the  ship  "Diligent,"  of  Ipswich,  Captain  Martin, 
which  brought  over  Edward  Oilman  (130)  from  Hingham,  Norfolk, 
England,  in  1638,  was  a  William  Pitts,  who  Savage  believed  to  be  our 
ancestor  William  Pitts,  of  Marblehead.  He  gives  him  a  wife,  Elizabeth, 
and  a  daughter  of  the  same  name.  He  came,  with  Edward  Mitchell,  as  an  employee 
of  Philip  James,  and  is  said  to  have  been  of  near  kin  to  the  Edmund  Pitts  of  Nor- 
folkshire  (probably  Hingham)  who  came  to  Hingham,  Mass.,  a  year  earlier,  and  to 
Captain  Leonard  Pitts,  also  of  that  place. 

There  is  no  direct  proof  that  this  is  our  William  Pitts,  who  was  first  heard 
of  in  Marblehead  in  1647,  ^^^  whose  wife's  name  is  not  on  record,  and  who  had 
no  daughter  Elizabeth.  We  think  a  more  probable  connection  is  with  the  large 
Pitts  family  of  Bristol,  England,  whose  wills  are  to  be  found  in  Waters'  Gene- 
alogical Gleanings,  and  who  used  William  very  frequently  as  a  Christian  name. 
Edward  Batten,  who  was  connected  with  these  Pitts,  had  two  cousins,  Edward 
Batten  and  William  Pitts,  whom  he  commends  to  the  care  of  his  executor  in  his 
will  of  1638.  It  seems  as  if  this  William  might  be  our  ancestor,  as  he  chose  Ed- 
ward Batten  of  Salem,  Mass.,  as  one  of  the  trustees  for  his  daughter  Grace  Oxford 
in  1679.  Our  William,  too,  witnessed  a  deed  for  Richard  Russell,  of  Charlestown, 
treasurer  of  Massachusetts  Colony,  who  was  husband  of  Maude  Pitts,  a  daughter 
of  William  Pitts,  merchant  of  Bristol,  England.  There  is  also  a  connection  be- 
tween the  English  Pitts  and  the  Aldworth  and  Elbridge  families  with  whom  our 
William  had  business  later  in  Pemaquid.  It  is  curious  that  in  this  way  he  is 
brought  into  relation  with  William  Peters  (see  250). 


WILLIAM  PITTS  [193-A]  331 

As  we  have  mentioned  above,  William  Pitts  first  appears  in  Marblehead  in 
1647,  when  he  purchased  land  of  John  Coite  near  the  cove,  which  he  subsequently 
conveyed  to  his  son-in-law,  Christopher  Latimer  (193).  He  must  have  been 
married  when  he  emigrated,  as  his  daughter  Mary  was  born  in  1632.  In  1647,  ^^ 
was  also  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  public  lands.  He  was  a  merchant  in  Mar- 
blehead and  later  in  Boston,  for  a  time  doing  business  in  both  places. 

Our  only  information  about  his  life  comes  from  the  many  deeds,  etc.,  that 
are  found  in  the  Suffolk  and  Salem  Collections,  which  run  as  follows. 

5th  9th  mo.  1650,  William  Pitts  and  Frances  Johnson,  of  Marblehead 
witness  a  deed  given  by  Thomas  Elbridge,  of  Pemaquid  to  Richard  Russell,  of 
Charlestown.  ,  In  1654,  he  as  "merchant  of  Marblehead"  mortgages  to  Robert 
Brick,  his  house  and  land  "near  the  new  meeting  house"  in  Boston.  This  is  prob- 
ably the  one  that  was  built  on  Washington  Street  in  1640.' 

We  do  not  know  when  his  first  wife  died,  but  he  married  (2)  December  7, 

1655,  Susanna  ( )  Eley  (or  Aealy),  widow  of  Philip  Aealy  of  Boston,  Mass., 

who  left  her  a  considerable  estate.  By  her  William  Pitts  had  no  children.  They 
appear  to  have  removed  to  Boston,  at  least  for  a  time,  as  he  is  called  "of  Boston" 
in  a  deed  by  James  Standish  conveying  to  him  certain  lands  in  Manchester,  Octo- 
ber 29,  1657;  in  one  already  mentioned  under  Christopher  Latimer  (193)  in 
1659,  ^"d  again  in  a  mortgage  of  December  3,  the  same  year,  to  Francis  Smith. 
This  mortgage  is  for  £50  "to  be  paid  on  his  [William  Pitts]  return  from  New- 
foundland" and  was  secured  on  the  same  house  in  Boston  near  the  new  meeting 
house.     In  this  his  wife  Susanna  joined. 

It  appears  from  the  above  that  his  trading  took  him  to  various  places.  He 
was  at  Pemaquid  in  1650,  in  Newfoundland  in  1659  and  in  1663,  at  Kittery,  Maine, 
where  he  witnessed  a  deed  for  Mrs.  Gunnison.  May  18,  1665,  an  inventory  of  the 
estate  of  John  Slater  was  taken  by  William  Pitts,  John  Peach  (191-A)  and 
John  Coiner,  the  two  latter,  old  residents  of  Marblehead. 

His  wife  Susanna  died  in  Marblehead  while  there  "on  a  visit"  September  28, 
1668.  She  made  her  will  September  7,  "being  in  a  dying  condition  her  husband 
present  and  consenting,"  but  it  was  not  signed  until  September  20,  eight  days  before 
her  death,  and  was  probated  on  the  29th.  In  it  she  gives  one-half  of  her  estate  to 
her  husband,  and  the  other  half  to  her  step-daughter  "Mary  Lattimore,"  for 
whom  there  were  "many  good  things  in  her  chest  in  her  house  in  Boston  now  in 
possession  of  Robert  Carver."  The  administration  of  her  estate  was  granted,  25th 
(ist  mo)  1670,  to  John  Bundy,  of  Taunton  "as  he  appears  to  be  nearest  of  kin." 
An  inventory  was  taken  in  Boston,  Septembers,  1670. 

In  1674  his  name  appears  on  the  recorded  list  of  householders  in  Marble- 
head and  on  May  7,  1675,  "William  Pitts  merchant  of  Boston"  deeded  to  his  son- 
in-law  Christopher  Latimer  (193),  of  Marblehead,  his  house  in  Marblehead  of 
which  Latimer  was  then  in  possession.  With  this  deed  is  recorded  an  "account 
rendered"  dated  February  2,  1659,  to  which  Susanna  Pitts  consented. 

'  The  Story  oj  the  City  of  Boston.     Arthur  Gilman  (1889),  1 16. 


332  WILLIAM  PITTS  [193-A] 

After  the  death  of  his  wife,  William  Pitts,  who  must  have  been  aged,  prob- 
ably went  to  Marblehead  to  live  with  his  daughter  Mary  Latimer.  We  conclude 
this  as  he  evidently  divided  his  property  between  his  two  daughters  in  considera- 
tion of  their  paying  him  an  annuity.  The  deeds  are  as  follows:  April  30,  1679, 
William  Pitts  of  Marblehead  deeded  to  Anthony  Checkley,  of  Boston,  and  Ed- 
mund Batten  of  Salem 

"in  trust  for  my  daughter  Grace,  now  wife  of  Thomas  Oxford  and  Susanna  and  Margaret  Porter 
daughters  of  my  daughter  Grace  by  her  former  husband  William  Porter" 

one-half  the  land  formerly  owned  by  his  wife  Susanna  and  given  him  in  her  will, 
on  consideration  of  an  annuity  of  £,'^.  The  other  half  of  the  land  he  deeded, 
loth  (ist  mo.)  1679/80,  to  Christopher  Latimer,  "Vintner"  (193),  and  Mary 
his  wife,  for  the  same  consideration.' 

He  probably  died  soon  after  this,  but  the  date  has  not  been  ascertained. 

Children  of  William  and Pitts 

(193)   Mary,  born  in  1632;  married  Christopher  Latimer,  of  Marblehead;  died  May  8,  1681, 
"aged  49  years." 
Grace,  married  (i)  William  Porter;  married  (2)  Thomas  Oxford,  and  died  before  1708. 

'  Susanna  (Porter)  Campbell,  widow  of  Duncan  Campbell  of  Boston,  Merchant,  and  daughter  of  William 
and  Grace  (Pitts)  Porter,  at  a  Superior  Court  of  Judicature  held  May  4,  1708,  deeded  to  Samuel  and  Eneas  Salter 
the  estate  lately  held  at  the  southerly  end  of  Boston  by  her  deceased  mother  Grace  Oxford. 


LIPPINCOTT    ANCESTRY 

OF 

ABIA  SWIFT  LIPPINCOTT 

[136] 


[194-A]  RICHARD  LIPPINCOTT  [....-1683] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

ABIGAIL  [....-1697] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    SHREWSBURY,    N.    J. 

RICHARD  LIPPINCOTT,  probably  the  ancestor  of  all  of  the  name  in  this 
country,  came  from  Devonshire,  England,  where  the  name  has  been 
found  from  earliest  times  in  various  forms.  His  parentage  has  not  been 
discovered.  On  account  of  religious  persecution  he  moved  from  place 
to  place  both  in  England  and  this  country,  throughout  a  long  life,  and  the  names 
of  his  children  are  curiously  significant  of  his  wanderings  and  many  trials. 

He  came  from  Plymouth,  Devonshire,  England,  to  New  England  in  1639,  with 

his  wife  Abigail and  settled  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  where  their  eldest  son 

Remembrance  was  born  in  1641.  He  was  made  freeman  in  Boston,  May  13,  1640, 
at  the  same  time  and  place  as  Deputy-Governor  Francis  Willoughby  (82).  He 
appears  to  have  removed  to  Boston  later,  as  their  son  John  was  born  in  that  city 
in  1644.  Richard's  name  is  also  on  the  list  of  property  holders  in  the  Boston 
Book  of  Possessions. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Church  of  Boston,  but  was  excommunicated 
July  6,  1651,  for  "his  conscientous  scruples."  He  was  probably  inclining  towards 
the  Quaker  beliefs  which  he  afterwards  adopted. 

After  suffering  much  oppression  from  the  Boston  Puritans,  he  returned 
to  England  in  1652,  where  he  undoubtedly  hoped  for  more  liberty  of  conscience 
under  Oliver  Cromwell.  He  appears  to  have  gone  at  once  to  Plymouth,  perhaps 
his  old  home,  and  there  his  son  Restored  or  Restore  was  born  in  1653,  named 
evidently  to  commemorate  his  restoration  to  his  native  land  and  kindred. 

Soon  after  this  he  joined  the  religious  Society  of  Friends,  which  was  just 
emerging  from  the  various  sects  around  them,  and  casting  in  his  lot  with  them  he 
encountered  new  persecutions,  as  under  the  Puritans  they  were  thrown  into  prison 
for  refusing  to  swear  allegiance  to  the  Commonwealth  and  to  serve  in  the  army. 
In  February,  1655,  Richard  Lippincott  was  imprisoned  in  the  jail  near  the  castle 
of  Exeter.     It  has  been  said  that  his  offence  was  that  he  said  "that  Christ  was  the 


334  RICHARD  LIPPINCOTT  [194-A] 

word  of  God  and  the  Scriptures  a  declaration  of  the  mind  of  God,"  but  it  is  more 
likely  that  his  testimony  against  the  civil  authorities  occasioned  it,  as  in  May,  1655, 
we  find  that  he  was  among  those  who  resented  the  wrongs  inflicted  on  the  Quakers 
and  testified  against  the  acts  of  the  Mayor  of  Plymouth  and  the  falseness  of  the 
charges  brought  against  the  sect.  His  son  Freedom  was  born  in  this  year,  and 
the  name  may  have  been  given  in  memory  of  his  new  faith. 

On  January  20,  1660,  he,  with  other  Friends,  was  taken  from  their  meeting- 
house in  Plymouth  and  committed  to  prison  by  Oliver  Creely,  the  Mayor.  How 
long  he  remained  in  prison  we  do  not  know,  but  his  release  was  secured  by  Margaret 
Fell,  the  widow  who  afterwards  married  George  Fox.  She  and  others  interceded 
with  the  newly  restored  king,  Charles  1 1 ,  securing  the  release  of  many  of  the  Friends. 

In  1663  he  emigrated  again  with  his  family  and  went  to  Rhode  Island,  where 
freedom  was  offered  to  the  Friends  to  worship  God  after  their  own  method.  He 
remained  there  in  safety  for  a  number  of  years,  and  there  his  son  Preserved  was 
born.  He  was  a  man  of  education,  character,  and  influence,  a  consistent  and 
exemplary  Friend,  and  was  a  welcome  assistant  and  companion  to  George  Fox 
on  his  missionary  journeys  through  the  new  country.  On  one  of  these  trips  from 
New  England  to  Virginia  he  may  have  visited  that  part  of  New  Jersey  where  he 
settled  later. 

In  1665  a  patent  was  granted  to  Friends  from  Long  Island,  for  land  in  what 
is  now  New  Jersey,'  and  Richard  Lippincott  and  others  of  Rhode  Island  joined 
them  in  the  purchase  of  land  from  the  Indians  on  the  Shrewsbury  River.  He 
was  the  largest  shareholder  in  the  Colony  and  his  homestead  was  on  Passequeneiqua 
Creek,  a  branch  of  South  Shrewsbury  River.  It  was  not  far  from  that  of  his  son-in- 
law  Samuel  Dennis  and  near  the  present  town  of  Shrewsbury. 

Richard  Lippincott  was  an  active  officer  of  the  Colony,  a  deputy  to  Gov- 
ernor Carteret's  first  assembly  in  1668,  and  in  1669  and  1670  an  overseer  of  Shrews- 
bury town.  In  the  latter  year  the  first  meeting  for  worship  was  established  by  the 
Friends,  and  in  1672,  George  Fox  visited  them  and  was  entertained  at  the  house  of 
his  friend,  Richard  Lippincott. 

In  1675  when  John  Fenwick  bought  out  Sir  George  Carteret's  interest  in  New 
Jersey  for  ;^iooo, Lippincott, it  is  said, purchased  1000  acres  of  the  grant  and  ad- 
vanced the  money  to  aid  Fenwick.  The  land  was  in  Cohansey  Precinct,  on  the 
south  side  of  Cohansey  river  in  Shrewsbury  Neck.  The  title  was  conveyed  the  next 
year,  1676,  and  the  consideration  was  ;£20,  with  a  quitrent  of  2  bushels  of  wheat 
annually.  He  conveyed  this  land  to  his  five  sons  in  1679,  but  they  never  occupied  it. 

He  died  at  his  home  near  Shrewsbury,  N.  J.,  November  25,  1683.  His  will, 
dated  November  23,  1683,  was  probated  January  2,  1684.  He  divided  his  estate 
between  his  sons  Freedom,  Jacob,  and  the  widow  Abigail,  Freedom's  portion 

'  When  the  new  Province  of  Nova  Caesarea  (New  Jersey)  was  established  (1665),  the  form  of  government, 
known  as  the  "Concessions,"  limited  the  power  of  the  governor,  Philip  Carteret,  by  a  council  and  an  assembly  elected 
by  the  people.  Very  liberal  terms  for  purchasing  lands  were  offered  to  settlers,  and  what  attracted  Quakers  was 
the  complete  civil  and  religious  liberty  promised.  The  result  was  an  immediate  influx  from  New  England,  notably 
that  from  Davenport's  New  Haven  colony. 


RICHARD  LIPPINCOTT  [194-A]  335 

reverting  to  a  grandson,  Richard  Lippincott.     To  his  other  children  he  gave  five 
shilhngs  apiece,  having  probably  provided  for  them  in  his  lifetime. 

His  widow  Abigail  died  at  the  homestead, 6th  mo.  2nd.  1697,  leaving  a  large 
estate.     Extracts  from  her  will  are  as  follows: 

"  I  give  &  bequeath  .  .  .  unto  ye  children  of  my  afores''  son  freedom  desesed  ...  ye 
sum  of  fiufty  pounds  all  curant  mony  ...  &  also  my  negro  woman  calid  bess  being  put  to  sale  & 
soald  ye  ouir  plush  thairof  is  to  return  to  ye  stock  .  .  .  unto  ye  off  spring  of  my  daughtir  increas 
dennes  ...  I  give  tin  pounds  [apiece]  ...  I  give  &  bequeath  unto  my  son  Remembrance 
Lippincott  my  negro  boy  Zilbe  .  .  .  Unto  my  son  John  .  .  .  my  young  negro  boy  called  olever 
.  .  .  also  I  do  give  to  ye  meeting  of  friends  in  Shrewsbury  ye  sum  of  thirty  shiliins  for  friends  to 
dispos  of  as  yt  may  see  fitt  .  .  .  further  it  is  my  will  that  my  to  negros  olever  cosen  &  his  wife 
CifFah  have  thair  freedom  after  my  desece  .  .  .  [note  after  the  signature]  1  did  promis  thomas 
hewit  y*  he  should  y'  refusal  of  my  negro  bess  after  my  deseas." 

Children  of  Richard  and  Abigail  ( )  Lippincott 

Remembrance,  born  in  Dorchester,  Mass.  7th  mo.  1641;  married  Margaret  Barber,  of 
Boston;  was  an  active  and  prominent  member  of  the  Shrewsbury,  N.  J.,  Colony;  a 
clerk  of  the  monthly  and  quarterly  meeting  for  many  years;  died  at  Shrewsbury, 
2nd.  mo.  (i  i)  1723. 

John,  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  9th  mo.  (6)  1644;  baptized  in  the  First  Church  Qth  mo.  (10), 
the  same  year;  married  (i)  Anne  Barber,  who  died  in  1707;  married  (2)  in  1710 
Jennett  (or  Janetta)  Austin,  probably  a  daughter  of  William  Austin  (Austen  or 
Asten)  whose  land  adjoined  the  Lippincott's  in  New  Jersey;  was  a  yeoman,  lived  at 
Shrewsbury  and  died  there,  2nd  mo.  (16)  1720. 

Abigail,  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  nth  mo.  (17)  1646,  died  ist.  mo.  (9)  1647. 

Restore,  born  in  Plymouth,  England  5th  mo.  (3)  1653;  married  (i)  in  1674  Hannah  Shat- 

tuck,  of  Boston,  Mass.;  married  (2)  loth  mo.  (24)  1729  Martha  Owen,  of  Mt.  Holly, 

N.  J.;  was  a  member  of  the  governor's  council  of  West  New  Jersey;  died  5th  mo.  1741. 

(194)    Freedom,  born  at  Stonehouse,  England,  in  January,  1655;  married  Oct.  14,  1680,  Mary 

Austin;  died  in  1697. 

Increase,  born  in  Stonehouse,  England  loth  mo.  (5)  1657;  married  Samuel  Dennis,  of 
Shrewsbury,  N.  j.;  died  9th  mo.  (29)  1695. 

Jacob,  born  in  England,  3d.  mo.  1660;  married  Grace ;  died  in  1689. 

Preserved,  born  in  Rhode  Island,  12  mo.  (25)  1663,  died  in  1666. 

[194]  FREEDOM  LIPPINCOTT  [1655-1697] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARY  AUSTIN  [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    BRIDGBORO,    N.   J. 

FREEDOM    LIPPINCOTT,  son    of  Richard   and  Abigail   ( )    Lip- 
pincott (194-A),  was  born  at  Stonehouse,  Plymouth,  Devon,  England,  in 
January,  1655,  the  same  year    that  his  father  was  imprisoned  in  the  jail 
near  Exeter.     It  has  been  conjectured  that  the  name  Freedom  was  given 
by  his  father  when  released  from  imprisonment,  but  as  his  birth  occurred  before  that 


336  FREEDOM  LIPPINCOTT  [194] 

event,  it  seems  more  likely  that  it  was  used  entirely  in  a  spiritual  sense  and  had 
reference  to  his  adoption  of  the  new  faith. 

Freedom  came  to  Rhode  Island  in  1663,  when  he  was  eight  years  old,  with 
his  parents.  In  1669  they  removed  to  Shrewsbury,  N.  J.,  and  there  he  married 
14th  day  (8th  mo.)  1680,  Mary  Austin,  of  Burlington,  N.  J. 

This  marriage  appears  in  Book  A  of  the  Burlington  Records  in  the  Friend's 
Library,  Philadelphia,  but  Mary's  last  name  is  so  written  that  it  has  been  vari- 
ously read  as  Curtis,  Curtin  and  Austin.  No  such  name  as  Curtin  appears  in  the 
early  records  of  New  Jersey.  If  the  name  is  Curtis,  no  Mary  is  to  be  found  in  the 
families  of  John  or  Thomas  Curtis  who  were  then  living  near  Burlington.  There 
was,  however,  a  William  Austin  who  lived  near  the  Lippincotts  in  Shrewsbury, 
whose  daughter  Jannetta  married  Freedom's  elder  brother  John,  in  17 10.  There 
was  also  a  Francis  Austin  of  Evesham,  Burlington  Co.,  who  married  Mary  Borton, 
daughter  of  John  Borton  (200-B),  and  whose  sister  Elizabeth  Austin  married 
Thomas  Haines,  son  of  Richard  Haines  (200-A.)  If  Freedom's  wife  was  Mary 
Austin,  as  I  am  inclined  to  think,  she  may  have  been  another  daughter  of  William 
above,  or  another  sister  of  Francis  above.     The  record  is  as  follows: 

"Thes  are  to  Certifie  whome  it  may  conserne  that  Freedome  Lippingcott   of  Shrewsbury 
&  Mary  Austin  of  Burlington  hath  declared  their  intentions  of  Marriage  at  two  severall  Monthly 
Meetings  heare  &  after  ye  consideration  &  consent  of  ffriends  &  relations  thay  weare  Joyned  in 
Marriage  at  a  Publique  Meeting  in  Burlington  ye  day  &  yeare  above  written  in  ye  presence  of  us— 
Tho.  Ollive  Robert  Stacy 

Remembrance  Lippincott  Tho.  Ellis 

Tho.  Palmer  John  Pallcoast 

&  others 
"  Burlington  Monthly  Meeting  ye  14th  of  ye  8  mo.  1680." 

In  1683,  his  father,  Richard  Lippincott,  died,  and  in  his  will  left  to  Free- 
dom the  homestead  in  these  words: 

"I  doe  give  to  my  sonn  freedom  Lippincott  after  the  deses  of  myself  and  my  wife  all  and  singular 
my  new  dwelling  housing  out  housing  or  shanty  and  my  farms  thereunto  adjoining  deuering  his 
neateurall  Life  and  noe  longer  and  after  his  desese  then  I  give  it  to  my  grandsonn  Richard  Lip- 
pincott to  him  his  hairs  or  asoines  forever." 

This  Richard  was  the  son  of  Remembrance.  It  does  not  appear  why  Free- 
dom received  practically  nothing  by  his  father's  will.  As  he  died  before  his  mother, 
he  never  came  into  possession  of  the  homestead,  but  Abigail  left  to  his  widow  and 
children  £55.  She  excepted  the  eldest  son  Samuel  from  this  legacy,  probably  be- 
cause he  inherited  Freedom's  homestead,  as  she  writes:  Samuel  "being  exspted 
against  for  som  reasons  his  father  diing  without  a  will." 

About  the  time  of  his  father's  death  Freedom  joined  Fenwick's  Colony  in 
West  New  Jersey,  where  we  find  his  descendants  permanently  settled.  He  was 
a  tanner  by  trade  and  lived  for  a  time  in  Salem,  N.  J.,  but  in  1687  seems  to  have 
sold  his  Salem  lands  and  purchased  a  tract  of  288  acres  on  Rancocas  Creek  at  the 


FREEDOM  LIPPINCOTT  [194]  337 

Crossing  of  the  King's  Highway,  where  Bridgboro  is  now.  Here  he  settled  and 
spent  the  remaining  years  of  his  Hfe.  To  the  trade  of  tanner  he  added  that  of 
smith,  and  could  shoe  a  horse  or  "upset"  the  axes  of  his  neighbors  with  some  skill. 
He  was  killed  by  a  stroke  of  lightning  while  shoeing  a  horse  in  the  summer  of 
1697.  He  left  no  will,  but  his  estate,  amounting  to  ;^i88  1 5s.  6d.,  was  administered 
to  his  widow  and  five  children,  the  eldest  son  receiving  the  homestead. 

Children  of  Freedom  and  Mary  (Austin)  Lippincott 

Samuel,  born  loth  mo.  (24)  1684;  married  Hope  Wills,  of  Evesham  (Medford),  N.  J.  As 
eldest  son,  he  inherited  his  father's  homestead,  but  in  1708  sold  it  to  his  brother 
Thomas. 
(195)  Thomas,  born  loth  mo.  (28)  1686;  married  (i)  in  171 1  Mary  Haines,  daughter  of  John  and 
Esther  (Borton)  Haines  (200),  who  died  before  1732;  married  (2)  2nd.  mo.  (19) 
1732  Mercy  Hugg;  married  (3)  Rachel  Smith;  died  5th  mo.  (9)   1757. 

Judith,  born  6th  mo.  (22)  1689;  married  at  Newton  Meeting,  in  1710,  Joseph  Stokes,  son 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Bernard)  Stokes. 

Mary,  born  Sept.  29,  1691,  married  Edmund  Peake. 

Freedom,  born  12th  mo.  (6)    1693/4;   married    9th  mo.  (17)    1715,  Elizabeth  Wills,  of 
Evesham,  N.  J.,  settled  in  Cropwell,  Burlington  Co.,  N.  J. 


[195]  THOMAS  LIPPINCOTT  [1686-1757] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARY  HAINES  [1693-....] 

OF  CHESTER,  N.  J. 

THOMAS  LIPPINCOTT,  second  son  of  Freedom  and  Mary  (Austin)  Lip- 
pincott (194),  was  born  loth   mo.  (28)  1686,  probably  in  Salem,  N.  J. 
His  father  died  intestate  when  Thomas  was  but  eleven  years  of  age,  and 
left  only  a  small  property,  the  greater  part  of  which  went,  apparently, 
to  the  eldest  son  Samuel. 

Thomas  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter,  and  must  have  been  industrious  and 
thrifty,  as  he  soon  had  accumulated  some  money.  He  inherited  in  1697  his  share 
of  £50,  his  grandmother's  legacy,  and  on  March  6,  1708,  bought  the  homestead  on 
Rancocas  Creek  from  his  brother  Samuel  for  fyo  and  other  considerations.  Three 
years  later,  8th  mo.  (24)  17 11,  he  made  a  much  larger  and  more  important  purchase 
of  Thomas  Stevenson,  a  tract  of  1034  acres  extending  from  Penisaukin  Creek  to 
Swede's  Run,  joining  the  No-se-ne-men-si-on  (Cinnaminson)  tract  reserved  for  the 
New  Jersey  Indians.  On  the  northern  border  of  this  tract  the  village  of  Westfield 
now  stands,  taking  its  name  from  the  meeting-house  built  in  1800  in  Thomas  Lip- 
pincott's  western  field. 

He  married  (i)  at  Newton  Meeting,  loth  mo.  (19)  171 1,  Mary  Haines, 
daughter  of  John  and  Esther  (Borton)  Haines  (200),  who  was  born  June  20, 


338  THOMAS  LIPPINCOTT  [195] 

1693,  at  Evesham  (Medford),  Burlington  County,  N.  J.  Soon  after  he  built  his 
first  house  on  the  newly  purchased  land  in  Chester  township.  This  house  and  the 
second  one  built  in  1800  on  the  same  site  by  his  great-grandson,  were  occupied  by 
Thomas  Lippincott  and  his  descendants  for  one  hundred  and  thirty  years.  The 
first  meeting  of  Friends  in  this  district  was  held  in  this  house,  and  continued  to  be 
held  there  until  1800,  when  the  Westfield  meeting-house  was  built. 

He  was  an  active  and  useful  citizen  and  was  repeatedly  elected  to  fill  im- 
portant offices  in  the  township  of  Chester  from  171 5  to  1743.  He  was  overseer 
of  highways  in  171 5, constable  in  1720  and  collector  in  1719,  1725  and  i73itoi733. 

His  first  wife  Mary,  who  was  probably  the  mother  of  all  his  children,  died 
before  1732,  as  he  married  (2)  at  Burlington  Meeting,  2nd  mo.  (19)  1732  Mercy 
Hugg.     She  died  and  he  married  (3)  Rachel  Smith,  whom  he  also  outlived. 

He  died  5  th  mo.  (9)  1757,  aged  seventy-one  years.  His  will,  dated  July  23,  1755, 
probated  October  7,  1757,  has  provisions  as  follows,  which  are  interesting  because 
they  show  his  determination  to  found  an  entailed  estate  in  the   English  manner. 

"  I  give  unto  my  son  Isaac  all  that  my  land  situate  on  the  Sweads  run  [part  of  the  1034  acre  tract, 
and  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  on]  pesnawkin  Creek  .  .  .  during  his  natural  Life  and  after  his 
decease  unto  my  said  Son  Isaac's  Son  being  grandson  Thomas  Lippincott  and  to  his  heirs  males 
.  .  .  and  for  Default  of  such  Issue  unto  the  use  and  behoofe  of  the  Second,  third,  [to  the  tenth]  son 
Successively  one  after  another  .  .  .  forever." 

He  bequeathed  in  the  same  way  all  the  rest  of  the  land  on  which  he  lived,  to 
be  entailed  forever  in  his  son  Nathaniel's  family.  He  mentioned  three  daughters, 
Abigail,  Esther  and  Mercy,  to  whom  he  gave  thirty  pounds  apiece,  and  his  grand- 
children Thomas,  Isaac  and  John  Lippincott,  Mary  and  Hope  Wills,  Meribah 
Ruddero,  his  deceased  son  Thomas's  daughter  Phoebe  and  his  deceased  daughter 
Patience's  two  daughters,  Hannah  and  Phoebe  Andrews.  He  also  mentioned  his 
daughter-in-law  Rebecca  Middleton,  to  whom  he  left  fifteen  pounds  for  "services 
Done  for"  him.  His  sons  Nathaniel  and  Isaac  were  executors  and  John  Mat- 
lack  (205)  was  one  of  the  witnesses. 

As  the  dates  of  birth  of  the  children  have  not  been  found,  the  following  list 
may  not  be  in  the  correct  order. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Haines)  Lippincott 

Isaac,  married  at  Haddonfield    Meeting  in    1739,  Hannah  Engle,  daughter  of  John  and 

Mary  (Ogborn)  Engle  (202). 
(196)   Nathaniel,  born  5th  mo.  (2)   1715;  married  at  Haddonfield  Meeting,  May  4  (or  July   12), 

1736,  Mary  Engle,  sister  of  his  brother  Isaac's  wife;  died  June  17,  1790. 
Abigail,  married  Thomas  Wills. 

Esther,  married  at  Chester  Meeting  in  1742,  John  Roberts. 
Mary,  died  in  infancy. 

Mercy,  married  Ephraim  Stiles,  son  of  Robert  Stiles. 
Patience  married  in  1742,  Ebenezer  Andrews;  died  before  1755. 
Thomas,  married  at  Evesham  (Medford)  Meeting  in   1745,  Rebecca  Eldridge;  died  before 

1755,  as  Rebecca  married  (2)  at  that  date, Middleton. 


NATHANIEL  LIPPINCOTT  [196]  339 

[iq6]  NATHANIEL  LIPPINCOTT  [1715-1790] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARY  ENGLE  [1715-1787] 

OF  HADDONFIELD  AND  WATERFORD,  N.  J. 

NATHANIEL  LIPPINCOTT,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Haines)  Lippin- 
COTT  (195),  was  born  at  Chester,  N.  J.,  5th  mo.  (2)  171 5.  His  early  life 
was  spent  in  Chester,  where  his  father  owned  a  large  amount  of  land. 
He  married  May  4  (or  July  12),  1736,  at  the  Haddonfield  Monthly  Meet- 
ing, Mary  Engle,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Ogborn)  Engle  (202)  of  Eve- 
sham (Medford),  N.  J.,  who  was  born  9th  mo.  (14)  1716. 

Soon  after  their  marriage  they  removed  to  Goshen,  Chester  County,  Pa.,  and 
settled  on  lands  bequeathed  to  Nathaniel's  mother  by  her  father,  John  Haines 
(200).  Here  their  sons  John  and  Caleb  were  born.  After  a  few  years'  residence 
in  Pennsylvania,  he  returned  to  New  Jersey  and  purchased  of  Richard  Haines, 
perhaps  his  great-uncle,  a  tract  of  land  on  the  north  side  of  Cooper's  Creek.  It  is 
a  few  miles  east  of  Haddonfield  and  on  a  road  leading  thence  to  Milford,  Camden 
County.  He  lived  there  for  many  years,  but,  before  his  death,  moved  to  Water- 
ford,  Gloucester  County,  N.  J.  He  was  a  farmer  and  acquired  considerable 
property.  He  seems  never  to  have  lived  on  the  tract  inherited  from  his  father 
and  entailed  on  his  eldest  son  John,  but  to  have  passed  it  at  once  over  to  him,  as 
he  was  then  twenty  years  old  and  married. 

His  wife  Mary  died  before  him  and  was  buried  12  mo.  (i)  1787  in  the  Friends' 
burial-ground  in  Haddonfield.  Nathaniel  died  at  Waterford,  N.  J.,  June  17,  1790, 
aged  seventy-seven. 

His  will  was  made  October  8,  1787,  and  probated  August  16,  1790.  His  pro- 
visions for  his  wife's  maintenance  were  very  minute,  but,  as  she  died  first,  were  not 
carried  out.     They  were  as  follows: 

"Two  rooms  below  stairs  in  the  stone  part  of  my  dwelling  house  .  .  .  and  half  the  cellar 
under  the  same,  the  free  use  of  the  oven,  water  at  the  pump,  a  cow  and  a  horse  at  her  choice 
and  keeping  for  the  same  winter  and  summer,  firewood  cut  and  laid  at  her  door  fit  for  her  fireplace, 
the  garden  at  the  front  side  of  the  house  fenced  in,  apples  and  cyder  for  her  family  from  the  orchard; 
all  the  above  privileges  are  to  continue  to  her  as  long  as  she  remains  my  widow  (and  no  longer), 
.  .  .  the  use  of  as  much  of  my  household  &  kitchen  furniture  as  she  may  think  sufficient  to  fur- 
nish her  rooms,  .  .  .  rents  and  profits  of  my  said  home  plantation  ...  to  support  .  .  .  her 
handsomely,  .  .  .  [devises]  .  .  ,  pewter,  china,  delf  ware  and  glasses,  .  .  .  house  and  lot  in 
fifth  street  a  little  above  arch  street  in  Philadelphia,  which  1  purchased  of  Lazarus  Pine,  .  .  .  my 
clock,  ...  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Preparative  meeting  of  Haddonfield  Five  pounds  for  the  repair 
of  the  Grave  yard  belonging  to  friends  at  that  place.  And  it  is  my  desire  that  none  of  the  legacies 
which  1  have  above  given  should  be  paid  in  any  depreciated  currency,  etc." 

The  executors  were  Caleb  Lippincott,  his  son,  and  Joshua  Borton,  his  son-in-law. 


340  NATHANIEL  LIPPINCOTT  [196] 

Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Engle)   Lippincott 
(197)  John,  born  6th  mo.  (31)  1737;  married  (i),  3rd.  mo.  1756,  Anna  Matlack,  daughter  of 

John  and  Hannah  (Shivers)  Matlack  (206),  of  Haddonfield,  who  died   11  mo. 

(3)  1762;  married  (2),  iith  mo.  (4)  1766,  Hannah  Tilton,  daughter  of  Peter  Tilton, 

of  Shrewsbury,  N.  J.,  died  nth  mo.  (7)  1780. 
Caleb,  born  12th  mo.  (8)  1739/40;  married  (i)  in  1764,  Anna  Vinicum;  married  (2)  in  1775, 

Zilpah  Shinn;  married  (3),  Sarah  Lippincott. 
Martha,  born  2nd.  mo.  (8)  1742;  married  in  1771,  Isaac  Busby. 

Barzillai,  born  8th  mo.  (15)  1744;  "departed  this  life  about  the  third  year  of  his  age." 
Grace,  born  6th  mo.  (17)  1747;  married  Jabez  Busby. 
Seth,  born  12th  mo.  (14)  1749/50;  married  Hope  Wallace;  probably  died  before  his  father 

as  his  son  Wallace  received  his  portion  of  Nathaniel  Lippincott's  estate. 
Mary,  born  7th  mo.  (3)  1753;  married  Joshua  Borton. 

[197]  JOHN  LIPPINCOTT  [1737-1780] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ANNA  MATLACK  [1737-1762] 

OF    CHESTER,    N.   J. 

JOHN    LIPPINCOTT,   son  of  Nathaniel    and    Mary    (Engle)    Lippincott 
I       (196),  was  born,  6th  mo.  (31)  1737,  in  Goshen,  Pa.,  where  his  parents  lived 
I      for  a  few  years  after  their  marriage.     They  returned  to  New  Jersey  while  he 
J      was  still  young. 

He  married  at  Chester  Monthly  Meeting  3rd  mo.  1756,  Anna  Matlack, 
daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Shivers)  Matlack  (206),  whose  property  in 
Chester  adjoined  his  father's.  Anna  was  born  7th  mo.  (25)  1737.  They  settled, 
on  the  death  of  his  grandfather,  Thomas  Lippincott  (195),  in  the  old  home  on 
Pennesaukin  Creek,  which  was  part  of  Thomas  Lippincott's  tract  of  1034  acres. 

Anna  had  four  sons  and  died  when  the  last,  Aquila,  was  but  a  few  days  old, 
1  ith  mo.  (3)  1762.  John  married  (2),  i  ith  mo.  (4)  1766,  Hannah  Tilton,  daughter 
of  Peter  Tilton,  of  Shrewsbury,  N.  J. 

This  second  marriage  is  said  to  have  been  an  unhappy  one,  and  to  have  em- 
bittered and  shortened  his  life.  He  made,  however,  such  very  careful  provision 
for  his  widow  in  his  will,  calling  her  his  "dear  and  well-beloved  wife  Hannah," 
that  this  seems  improbable. 

He  died  at  Chester  1 1  mo.  (7)  1780,  and  was  buried  in  the  Friends'  burial- 
ground  on  the  tenth  of  the  same  month.     John  Hunt's  diary  says 
"James  Thornton,  David  Sands,  George  Dilwyn  and  many  other  public  Friends  were  there.     It 
was  a  very  open  time,  the  gospel  ministry  flowed  forth  freely  through  the  ministers  and  abundance 
was  said  to  the  large  gathering  of  people  on  this  occasion." 

An  official  testimony  to  his  religious  and  social  worth  was  issued  by  the 
Friends,  among  whom  he  was  an  elder.     They  said 

"he  was  given  up  to  serve  the  church  according  to  his  abilities,  was  of  a  free,  open  disposition,  a 
good  neighbor  and  a  man  generally  beloved." 


JOHN  LIPPINCOTT  [197]  341 

His  will  was  dated  September  30,  1780,  with  a  codicil  of  October  10,  the  same 
year,  and  was  probated  December  i,  1780.  After  making  provision  for  his  wife 
Hannah  about  as  his  father  did  in  his  will,  he  makes  minute  provision  for  his  family, 
from  which  we  extract  the  following: 

"I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  son  Thomas  Lippincott  the  Mare  he  now  Rides  with  a 
bridle  and  Saddle,  a  Feather  Bed  and  furniture  and  a  Large  Book  Called  William  Penns  Se- 
lect Works  .  .  .  unto  my  Son  Barzillai  ...  a  Large  Book  Called  George  Foxes  Journal  .... 
I  order  my  Executors  to  finish  the  House  where  Abraham  Johnston  now  lives  that  is  to  build 
a  Chimney  lay  the  floors  and  Carry  up  the  Stairs  and  discharge  the  Expence  out  of  my  perso- 
nal Estate  ...  I  do  hereby  order  my  Son  Thomas  Lippincott  to  pay  unto  my  Son  Barzillai 
.  .  .  the  Sum  of  Fifty  five  pounds  in  hard  money  when  he  Arives  to  the  age  of  twenty  one  years 
...  I  give  .  .  .  unto  my  said  Son  Thomas  all  the  rest  ...  of  all  my  lands  .  .  .  whereon  I 
now  dwell  with  the  Buildings  and  appurtenances  thereunto  belonging  To  hold  to  him  ...  his 
heirs  and  Assigns  for  Ever." 

As  he  had  promised  Barzillai's  master  to  provide  him  with  "Cloaths 
during  his  apprenticeship"  he  orders  his  executors  to  carry  out  the  promise,  and 
in  a  codicil  he  directs  them 

"to  deliver  up  to  my  Son  Barzillai  Lippincott  my  New  Coat  and  Jackett  to  be  appraised  to  him  by 
the  Appraisers  and  whatsoever  Sum  they  are  appraised  at  to  be  deducted  out  of  the  Expences  my 
Executors  would  be  at  to  find  him  Cloaths  till  he  arive  at  age." 

Children  of  John  and  Anna  (Matlack)  Lippincott 

Thomas,  born  nth  mo.  (14)  1756;  married  2nd.  mo.  (14)  1782,  Lydia  Burr,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Rachel  Burr,  of  Westfield,  N.  J.;  died  loth  mo.  (15)  182 1. 

John,  born  4th  mo.  (24)  1758.     His  will  was  dated  Nov.  16,  1789. 
(ig8)    Barzillai,    born   loth    mo.  (28)   1760;  married    5th  mo.  (27)    1782,   Elizabeth   Ellet, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Wetherby)  Ellet  (214);  died  in  1812. 

Aquila,  born  loth  mo.  (22)  1762;  married  Agnes  Inskeep. 

Children  of  John  and  Hannah  (Tilton)  Lippincott 

Abigail,  born  12th  mo.  (15)  1772;  was  living  in  1780  when  her  father's  will  was  made,  but 

died  in   1784,  aged  twelve  years. 
Amos,  born  in  1776;  probably  died  young  as  he  is  not  mentioned  in  his  father's  will. 

[198J  BARZILLAI  LIPPINCOTT  [1760-1812] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ELIZABETH  ELLET  [1761-1799] 

OF    SALEM,    N.   J. 

BARZILLAI  LIPPINCOTT  was  the  third  son  of  John  and  Anna  (Matlack) 
Lippincott  (197)  and  was  born   loth  mo.  (28)    1760,  at    Chester,  Bur- 
lington County,  N.  J.,  in  the  old  homestead  inherited  from  his  great- 
grandfather, Thomas   Lippincott   (195).     When   he  was  about  fifteen 
years  old,  his  father,  who  was  a  wealthy  farmer,  indentured   him  to  Charles 


342  BARZILLAI  LIPPINCOTT  [198] 

Ellet  (214)  to  learn  the  "art  and  mystery  of"  tanning  and  currying.  His 
father  died  in  1780,  leaving  him  a  good  property  in  land  and  money. 

After  serving  Charles  Ellet  for  seven  years,  as  Jacob  served  Laban, 
Barzillai  sought  a  similar  reward.  When  he  reached  the  age  of  twenty-one,  he 
married  at  Salem  Monthly  Meeting,  5th  mo.  (27)  1782,  Elizabeth  Ellet,  daughter 
of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Wetherby)  Ellet  (214),  who  was  born  9th  mo.  (30) 
1761. 

At  the  Salem  Meeting,  5th  mo.  (27)  1782,  a  certificate  of  removal  was  granted 
to  them  to  the  Haddonfield  Meeting.  They  moved  to  Camden,  where  he  established 
a  "currying  and  sale  shop"  near  the  ferry-house,  and  for  a  time  did  a  profitable 
business.  A  year  later,  1783,  Charles  Ellet  died,  and  left  to  his  daughter 
Elizabeth  I700.  From  the  following  extracts  from  the  records  of  the  Haddon- 
field Monthly  Meeting  (1781-1804)  which  included  Camden,  we  judge  that  Bar- 
zillai began  soon  to  incur  the  criticism  of  the  Friends  because  of  his  habits. 

"  14th  of  3rd.  mo.  1785.  Barzillai  Lippincott  requested  a  certificate  for  himself,  Elizabeth  his 
wife  &  two  children  to  the  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  at  Crooked  Run  in  Virginia,  which  appear- 
ing a  matter  of  weight  and  having  brought  an  exercise  on  the  meeting,  Joseph  Kaighn,  Benjamin 
Test,  Joshua  Evens  &  Samuel  Webster  are  appointed  to  tak  a  solid  opportunity  with  him;  en- 
quire into  the  circumstances  &  cause  of  his  proposed  removal  and  produce  a  certificate  if  they  think 
best  to  next  meeting  .  .  .  nth  of  4th  mo.  1785.  Report  was  made  that  the  Committee  appointed 
to  visit  Barzillai  Lippincott  have  had  a  solid  opportunity  with  him  to  some  degree  of  satisfaction 
but  some  obstruction  appeared  respecting  his  having  a  certificate  at  present  .  .  .  8th  of  8  mo. 
1785.  A  testimony  of  disunion  was  produced  against  Barzillai  Lippincott  and  being  read,  with 
some  amendment  approved,  and  signed  by  the  clerk  .  .  .  12th  of  6  mo.  1786.  The  Women  re- 
quest assistance  to  prepare  a  certificate  for  Elizabeth  Lippincott  &  children  to  Salem  .  .  .  loth 
of  7  mo.  1786.  A  certificate  was  produced  for  Elizabeth  Lippincott,  wife  of  Barzillai  and  her  two 
children,  Charles  and  Samuel  to  Salem,  which  was  read  and  with  some  alteration  approved  and 
signed  by  the  clerk  and  sent  to  the  women  for  their  signing." 

At  this  time  there  was  an  exodus  from  the  western  part  of  New  Jersey  to 
the  new  settlements  in  the  west,  and  Barzillai  was  induced  by  the  reports  of  those 
who  had  been  out  there  to  sell  out  his  business.  He  obtained  about  |2,ooo  in  cash 
from  the  sale  and  went  alone  to  Kentucky,  where  he  bought  lots  in  Lexington 
and  started  a  tannery.  Not  long  after,  his  wife  followed  on  horseback  over  the 
mountains  with  her  two  boys,  Charles,  but  three  years  old,  and  Samuel.  After  the 
long  and  perilous  journey,  she  arrived  at  Lexington  only  to  discover  that  her 
husband  had  returned  east.  Exhausted  by  the  fatigue,  she  rested  for  awhile,  and 
as  soon  as  her  health  would  permit,  she  started  again  and  made  her  way  back  as  she 
came,  enduring  severe  hardships  and  at  times  nearly  prostrated  by  her  anxie- 
ties. Her  husband  had  become  intemperate  and  had  lost  all  in  his  venture  in  Ken- 
tucky, but  when  his  wife  finally  reached  her  home  at  Camden,  N.  J.,  she  found  that 
he  had  been  there,  and  on  learning  that  she  had  gone  west,  he  had  followed  her. 
He  finally  returned  to  Camden  and  was  for  a  time  the  keeper  of  the  prison  there. 

In  1799  his  wife  died  of  consumption  in  Camden,  aged  thirty-eight,  and  was 


BARZILLAl  LIPPINCOTT  [198]  343 

buried  under  the  "old  oak"  there.  Her  Hfe  was  shortened  by  the  exposures  and 
hardships  of  her  dreadful  journey  west  and  all  that  she  had  been  called  on  to  en- 
dure. 

Barzillai  died  at  Salem,  in  1812,  aged  fifty-two. 

Children  of  Barzillai  and  Elizabeth  (Ellet)  Lippincott 

Charles  Ellet,  married  Amelia  Dubre. 

Samuel,  married  Phoebe  Rose  and  lived  in  Texas;  died  in  1822. 
Josiah. 
(199)   Thomas,  born  Feb.  6,  1791 ;  married  (i)  April  15,  1816,  Patience  (or  Patty)  Swift,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Isaac  and  Patience  (Case)  Swift  (230),  who  died  Oct.  14,  1819;  married 

(2)  March   25,   1820,  Henrietta  Maria    Slater,  who  died    Sept.  11,   1820;  married 

(3)  Oct.  21,  1821,  Catherine  Wyley  Leggett,  who  died  May  8,   1850;  married  (4) 
Nov.  27,  185 1,  Lydia  (Fairchild)  Barnes;  died  April  13,  1869,  aged  seventy-eight. 

Josiah. 

Sarah,  married  Robert  Cameron. 


[199]         REV.  THOMAS  LIPPINCOTT  [1791-1869] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

PATIENCE  SWIFT  [1784-1819] 

OF    ILLINOIS 

THOMAS  LIPPINCOTT  was  the  fourth  son  of  Barzillai  and  Elizabeth 
(Ellet)  Lippincott  (198)  and  was  born  in  Salem,  N.  J.,  February  6, 
1 79 1.  His  mother  died  when  he  was  a  boy  of  nine  years,  and  he  was 
brought  up  by  relatives.  He  lived  in  Philadelphia  with  his  uncle 
Charles  Ellet  until  181 2,  acting  as  clerk  for  him  part  of  that  time.  Dur- 
ing the  War  of  1812  he  enlisted  in  a  corps  of  Philadelphia  volunteers  and  was 
dealt  with  and  dropped  from  the  Friend's  Meeting  in  consequence.  Some  time 
in  1814  he  went  to  Lumbertown  in  northern  New  York,  where  he  was  employed 
in  the  store  of  Jesse  Crissey,  a  dealer  in  lumber.  He  was  then,  according  to  his 
own  statement,  a  "godless  young  man  and  a  Universalist."  There  he  came  under 
the  influence  of  Patty  Swift,  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Crissey,  with  whom  she  was  living. 

He  married  (i)  at  Lumbertown,  N.Y.,  August  15,  1816,  Patience  (or  Patty) 
Swift,  daughter  of  Dr.  Isaac  and  Patience  (Case)  Swift  (230)  of  Kent  and 
Cornwall,  Conn.  She  was  born  March  13,  1784,  so  was  seven  years  older  than  her 
husband.  She  was  always  called  Patty  although  her  name  as  given  in  her  father's 
will  was  Patience.  On  the  records  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  St.  Louis, 
for  some  unknown  reason,  it  appears  as  Martha.  She  lost  her  parents  at  the  age 
of  twenty-two,  and  took  up  teaching  as  a  livelihood.  She  continued  this  occupa- 
tion in  New  England  and  Philadelphia  until  shortly  before  her  marriage. 

The  following  year,  July  3,  1817,  their  daughter,  Abia  Swift   Lippincott 


344  REV.  THOMAS  LIPPINCOTT  [199] 

(136),  was  born,  and  when  she  was  three  months  old,  they  left  Lumbertown, 
October  28,  to  seek  a  new  home  in  the  west,  reaching  St.  Louis,  in  what  was  then 
called  Missouri  Territory,  February  17,  1818.  Mr.  Lippincott's  journal  gives 
us  some  idea  of  the  difficulties  of  travel  at  that  time.  They  started  in  a  one- 
horse  wagon,  which  contained  the  three  with  all  their  belongings,  and  went  over 
rough  roads,  sometimes  only  eight  miles  a  day,  never  more  than  twenty-six, 
through  Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  New  Jersey,  and  finally  over  the  Alleghenies  to 
Youngstown  and  Pittsburg,  which  they  reached  the  twenty-fifth  day  after  starting. 
When  they  crossed  the  mountains,  Mr.  Lippincott  writes: 

"Cold  blustering  weather.  Set  out  at  9  o'clock  A.  M.  and  arrived  at  Dennison's  at  the 
foot  of  Laurel  Hill  13  miles.  Laurel  Hill  still  before  me.  (20th)  Set  out  from  Dennison's  to  go 
up  the  dreaded  Laurel  Hill,  about  8  o'clock,  after  a  mile  of  level  road,  but  very  bad  traveling, 
came  to  the  mountain.  Ascended  by  the  old  road,  much  easier  than  I  had  calculated,  but  found 
the  hill  on  the  west  side  much  worse  than  the  east." 

They  then,  December  i,  1817,  with  a  party  of  twenty-five  persons,  embarked 
on  a  fiat-bottomed  boat  twenty-five  feet  long,  with  a  cabin  ten  feet  square  roofed 
over,  which  formed  a  sort  of  deck.  They  evidently  carried  with  them  their  own 
bedding,  for  he  writes  that  they  contrived  to  fix  one  bed  for  the  women  and  chil- 
dren of  the  party,  "six  persons  in  one  bed."  The  men  took  turns  in  watching,  as 
Mr.  Lippincott  records  that  once  he  did  not  sleep  for  forty-two  hours  "on  account 
of  the  high  winds  and  the  smoky  chimney."  How  much  sleep  the  mothers  got  he 
does  not  say.  The  river  was  full  of  ice  and  they  were  delayed  for  days  near  Ra- 
venna, Ohio,  where  he  tried  to  communicate  with  his  wife's  brother.  Dr.  Isaac 
Swift  of  that  place.  They  passed  Marietta,  the  birthplace  of  the  baby  Abia's 
future  husband,  and  stopped  at  Cincinnati,  where  it  is  noted  in  the  diary,  "Saw 
Mr.  Robbins  of  Connecticut.  Very  polite  and  agreeable."  This  must  have  been 
Rev.  Samuel  P.  Robbins,  pastor  of  the  First  Church  of  Marietta,  O.,  son  of  Rev. 
Chandler  Robbins  (167)  and  uncle  of  Winthrop  S.  Oilman  (136).  They  made 
in  one  day,  fifty-five  miles,  which  "is  great  running  and  very  pleasant." 

December  30,  they  arrived  at  Shawneetown,  111.,  expecting  to  traverse  the 
state  of  Illinois  by  land,  but  the  season  was  so  bad  that  they  remained  there  until 
February  6.  They  then  started  out  again  in  a  wagon  and  drove  for  nine  days, 
depending  on  reaching  the  cabin  of  a  settler  for  each  night's  entertainment.  Twice 
they  were  obliged  to  prolong  their  ride  because  of  whooping-cough  in  the  family 
where  they  intended  to  stop,  but  they  finally  reached  the  Mississippi  on  the  17th, 
and  crossed  the  river  in  a  ferry-boat.  At  St.  Louis  they  were  welcomed  by  Mr. 
Lippincott's  brother,  Samuel,  with  whom  they  staid  for  a  time.  They  had  been 
traveling  with  a  baby  less  than  six  months  old,  by  land  and  water  for  three 
months  and  nineteen  days. 

Soon  after  they  reached  St.  Louis  they  joined  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
being  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth  members  on  its  roll.  Mr.  Lippincott  entered 
into  business  there,  but  did  not  stay  long,  as  some  time  in  the  summer  he  formed 


PATIENCE   (swift)    LIPPINCOTT  [  I  99] 

FROM   A   SILHOUETTE   OWNED    BY   MRS.    CHARLES    P.    NOYES,    ST.    PAUL,   MINN. 


REV.  THOMAS  LIPPINCOTT  [199]  345 

a  partnership  with  Colonel  Easton,  as  Lippincott  &  Co.,  dealing  in  general  mer- 
chandise at  Milton,  near  Alton,  111.  They  boarded  at  first  in  a  cabin  which  was 
the  only  inn,  but  later  in  the  year  moved  into  a  small  house.  Here  they  gathered 
every  Sunday  the  twenty  or  more  children  of  the  little  settlement  for  Sunday 
School.     This  was  the  first  Sunday  School  held  in  the  State  of  Illinois. 

Within  a  few  months  after  his  arrival,  Mr.  Lippincott  received  a  commission 
as  justice  of  the  peace,  and  as  there  was  no  minister  there  he  frequently  performed 
the  marriage  ceremony  in  Milton  and  the  surrounding  country. 

The  picture  Charles  Dickens  drew  of  Eden  in  Martin  Chu{^lewiU  would  not 
be  too  highly  colored  as  a  description  of  Milton.  There  was  a  pond  near  that  was 
a  breeder  of  malaria,  and  the  place  was  hopelessly  sickly.  Years  afterward,  Patty's 
cousin.  Rev.  J.  M.  Sturtevant  of  Jacksonville,  111.,  wrote  as  follows: 

"Our  carriage  passed  through  the  then  ruined  little  village  of  Milton.  The  houses  were 
tenantless  and  in  decay.  1  asked  the  driver  where  the  people  were.  He  pointed  to  the  little 
graveyard  on  the  side  of  the  hill,  and  said:     'They  are  there.'  " 

After  one  summer  spent  in  Milton,  Patty  Lippincott  became  so  enfeebled 
that  her  husband  was  thoroughly  alarmed,  and  attempted  to  give  her  the  only 
change  of  air  that  was  possible.  He  took  her  in  a  buggy  on  the  first  of  October,  and 
drove  ten  or  twelve  miles  a  day  into  the  country  back  from  the  river.  At  first  she 
seemed  to  improve,  but  when  they  reached  a  friend's  house  on  Silver  Creek,  in 
St.  Clair  County  near  Shiloh,  she  was  taken  very  ill  and  died  October  14,  1819, 
nine  days  after  giving  birth  to  a  son,  who  did  not  survive  her.  She  was  buried 
in  the  old  cemetery  at  Shiloh,  but  no  gravestone  marked  her  resting-place,  and  the 
cemetery  itself  has  been  cut  in  two  by  a  road  to  Belleville. 

Thomas  Lippincott  married  (2)  March  25,  1820,  Henrietta  Maria  Slater, 
daughter  of  Elijah  Slater  of  Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  and  Milton,  111.  She  died 
September  1 1,  of  the  same  year,  of  the  same  low  fever.  Mr.  Lippincott  then  re- 
moved to  Edwardsville,  111.,  on  account  of  the  unhealthy  climate  of  Milton,  and 
was  employed  in  a  land  agency  office  and  later  in  the  U.  S.  Land  Office. 

He  married  (3;  October  21,  1821,  at  Edwardsville,  Catherine  Wyley  Leggett, 
daughter  of  Captain  Abraham  Leggett,  of  New  York  and  Edwardsville. 

In  December,  1822,  he  was  elected  secretary  of  the  Illinois  State  Senate. 
He  also  became  editor  of  a  newspaper  in  Edwardsville  and  through  this  medium, 
and  in  his  public  life,  took  every  opportunity  to  aid  in  the  struggle  then  going  on 
in  Illinois  over  slavery.  During  the  winters  of  1822  and  1823,  there  was  a  proposal 
to  call  a  convention  to  change  the  state  constitution  and  thus  admit  slavery  into 
its  borders.  Mr.  Lippincott  ardently  opposed  the  convention,  and  wrote  some  of 
the  most  influential  articles  in  the  Edwardsville  Spectator  on  the  subject,  which 
contributed  to  the  signal  victory  won  by  his  party. 

He  was  elected  January  17,  1824,  by  the  anti-convention  party  to  fill  a 
vacancy  in  the  Court  of  the  County  Commissioners.  During  the  short  term  that 
this  court  survived,  the  commissioners  refused  licenses  to  all  the  applicants  who 
designed  to  keep  saloons. 


346  REV.  THOMAS  LIPPINCOTT  [199] 

He  was  active  and  earnest  in  Christian  work  and,  a  few  years  later,  gave 
himself  entirely  to  the  work  of  a  missionary.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  October  8, 
1828,  and  ordained  as  a  Presbyterian  minister,  October  19,  1829,  at  a  meeting  of 
Presbytery  at  Vandalia.  He  worked  under  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  (having 
always  several  churches  under  his  charge)  until  old  age  prevented  him  from  longer 
carrying  on  the  work.  He  organized  the  present  Presbyterian  Church  of  Alton, 
June  19,  183 1 ,  and  supplied  that  pulpit  over  a  year.  He  was  also  at  the  same  time, 
a  general  agent  of  the  Philadelphia  Sunday  School  Union  for  all  Illinois. 

He  moved  to  Carrollton,  December  i,  1832,  where  he  lived  for  three  years. 
There  his  eldest  daughter,  Abia  Swift  Lippincott,  was  married  December  4, 
1834,  to  WiNTHROP  Sargent  Oilman  (136). 

In  the  anti-slavery  struggles  in  Illinois  and  Missouri,  he,  as  well  as  his  son-in- 
law,  was  a  firm  friend  of  Elijah  Lovejoy,  of  St.  Louis  (see  under  136).  His  third 
wife  died  at  Middle  Alton,  May  8,  1850,  after  a  long  illness,  and  was  buried  at 
Upper  Alton. 

He  married  (4)  November  27,  185 1,  Lydia  (Fairchild)  Barnes,  who  outlived 
him.  In  1853,  ^^^Y  removed  to  Chandlersville  and  thence  to  Duquoin,  where 
they  lived  somewhat  longer  than  at  any  of  their  former  places  of  residence.  This 
self-denying  Home  Missionary,  working  up  new  fields  for  his  church,  of  necessity 
moved  frequently.  He  had  besides  these  pastorates,  many  shorter  ones  which 
have  not  been  mentioned  in  this  sketch.  In  1868,  when  he  was  seventy-seven 
years  old,  he  at  last  gave  up  active  ministerial  work,  and  went,  with  his  wife,  to 
Pana,  111.,  where  they  lived  with  his  son,  Thomas  W.  Lippincott. 

He  died  there  April  13,  1869,  and  was  buried  in  Upper  Alton  beside  his  third 
wife. 

Children  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  Patty  (Swift)   Lippincott 

(136)  Abia,  born  July  3,  1817;.  married  Dec.  4,  1834,  at  Carrollton,  111.,  Winthrop  Sargent 
Oilman,  son  of  Benjamin  Ives  and  Hannah  (Robbins)  Oilman  (135),  of  Marietta, 
Ohio;  died  March  2,  1Q02,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

Children  of  Rev.  Thomas  and  Catherine  Wyley  (Leggett)   Lippincott 

Sarah  Louisa,  born  at  Edwardsville,  May  12,  1823;  died  July  11,  1833,  at  Carrollton. 

Charles  Ellet,  born  at  Edwardsville,  Jan.  26,  1825;  married  Dec.  25,  1851,  Emma  W. 
Chandler,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Carroll)  Chandler,  of  Chandlers- 
ville, Cass  County,  111.;  was  a  physician,  and  for  many  years  in  public  life;  Brigadier- 
General  in  the  Civil  War,  Door-Keeper  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Thirty- 
Ninth  Congress  and  later  Auditor  of  the  State  of  Illinois;  died  in  Quincy,  111.,  Sept. 
II,  1887. 

Mary  Jane,  born  at  Edwardsville,  Nov.  2,  1826;  married  Nov.  2,  1852,  Charles  W.  Saunders; 
lived  in  DeWitt,  Iowa,  and  died  April  18,  iqoi. 

William  Leggett,  born  at  Edwardsville,  June   18,  1828;  died  at  Waverly,  111.,  March  6,  1845. 

Alexander  Lockwood,  born  at  Edwardsville,  July  13,  1830;  died  at  Alton,  June  15,  1852. 

Elizabeth  Todd,  born  at  Carrollton,  June  22,  1833;  died  July  1 1,  1837,  at  Upper  Alton. 

Abraham  Leggett,  born  at  Upper  Alton,  Aug.  i,  1835;  married  Nov.  i,  1859,  Penelope  P. 


REV.  THOMAS  LIPPINCOTT  [199]  347 

Fountain;  was  wounded  before  Vicksburg,  May  22,  1863,  and  died  in  Duquoin  from 
the  effects  in  the  October  following. 

Thomas  Winthrop,  born  at  Upper  Alton,  Dec.  24,  1837;  married  Oct.  31,  i860,  Martha  Ann 
Bird,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  H.  Bird;  has  lived  in  Pana,  111.,  and  Boscobel,  Wis. 

George  Allen,  born  at  Marine,  111.,  Feb.  17,  1843;  died  April  21,  1844. 

Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  at  Marine,  111.,  March  5,  1845;  married  Oct.  24,  1867,  Abraham  Cal- 
vin Bird,  son  of  Rev.  William  H.  Bird;  lives  in  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

Julian  Post,  born  Oct.  27,  1847;  married  March  12,  1874,  Clara  Adams,  daughter  of  Professor 
Samuel  and  Mary  J,  (Moulton)  Adams;  is  living  at  Jacksonville,  111. 

[200- a]  RICHARD  HAINES  [....-1682] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

MARGARET [,...-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  EVESHAM,  N.  J. 

RICHARD  HAINES  (or  Haynes)  lived  at  Aynho  on  the  Hill,  on  the  borders 
of  Northamptonshire  and  Oxfordshire,  England.  He  married  Margaret 
,  date  unknown,  and  all  we  know  of  his  occupation  is  that  he  was 

called  a  "husbandman"  in  a  deed  of  1682. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends  sometime  prior  to  the  4th  mo. 
(June)  18,  1676  O.  S.,  when  the  birth  of  a  daughter  was  recorded  at  the  Banbury 
(Oxfordshire)  Monthly  Meeting.  On  the  5th  mo.  (July)  5,  1679  O.  S.  he  signed  the 
certificate  of  removal  of  his  neighbor  John  Borton  (200-B),  who  with  his  family 
was  emigrating  to  New  Jersey.  Richard  Haines'  eldest  son  John  (200)  either 
accompanied  or  followed  the  Borton  family  and  afterwards  married  John  Borton's 
daughter  Esther. 

Richard  Haines  was  evidently  induced  by  the  reports  received  from  his 
son  John  to  follow  him  to  the  new  province  of  West  New  Jersey  in  America. 
Edward  Byllinge,  an  English  Quaker,  had  joined  with  John  Fenwick  in  the  purchase 
of  Lord  Berkeley's  share  of  West  Jersey,  and  Richard  Haines  either  bought  or 
received  as  a  grant  from  Byllinge,  two  tracts  for  one  hundred  acres  there.  The 
deeds  are  now  in  possession  of  one  of  his  descendants,  Mr.  Reuben  Haines  of  Ger- 
man town.  Pa.     They  are  dated  April  20,  and  21,  1682,  and  are  endorsed 

"For  Richard  Hayns,  an  Oxfordshire  ffriend  at  Graves  End  .  .  .  or  on  board  Richard  Diamonds 
ship  .  .  .  [The  consideration  named  was]  out  of  the  good  will  and  kindness  for  the  truths  sake  he 
had  and  beareth  to  the  said  Richard  Hayns." 

He  embarked  with  his  wife  and  children  in  the  ship  "Amity,"  Richard  Dia- 
mond, Master,  and  they  sailed  from  the  Downs  April  23,  1682.  He  died  during  the 
voyage,  but  his  wife  and  children  arrived  in  safety.  His  youngest  son  Joseph 
was  born  on  shipboard,  but  whether  before  or  after  the  father's  death  we  do 
not  know.  They  joined  the  eldest  son  in  West  Jersey  and  settled  in  Evesham,  Bur- 
lington County. 


348  RICHARD  HAINES  [200-A] 

The  widow  Margaret    married  (2)  3rd.  mo.  (6)  1685,  Henry  Bircham,  of 
Buck's  County,  Pa. 

Children  of  Richard  and  Margaret  ( )  Haines 

(200)  John,  born  in  Aynho  on  the  Hill,  England;  married  (i)  loth  mo.  (10)  1684,  Esther  Bor- 

TON,  daughter  of    John  and    Ann  ( )  Borton    (200-B),  who   died    in  1719; 

married  (2)  in  1722,  Hannah  (Whitall)  Wood;  died  in  November,  1728. 

Richard,  born  in  Aynho  on  the  Hill;  married  Mary  Carlisle.  Three  of  their  children 
married  children  of  William  Matlack  (204).  He  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  his 
brother  John,  and  died  in  1746. 

Thomas,  born  in  Aynho  on  the  Hill;  married  in  1692  Elizabeth  Austin,  said  to  have  been  a 
sister  of  Francis  Austin,  who  married  Mary  Borton,  daughter  of  John  Borton 
(200-B)  and  in  that  case  also  probably  a  sister  of  Freedom  Lippincott's  wife 
(194).     He  died  in  1753. 

William,  born  in  Aynho  on  the  Hill  in  1672;  married  in  1695,  Sarah  Payne  (or  Paine);  died 
in  1754. 

Mary,  born  in  Aynho  on  the  Hill,  4th  mo.  (18)  1676. 

Joseph,  born  on  the  ship  "Amity"  in  1682;  married  (i)  about  1703,  Patience ;  mar- 
ried (2)  in  1721,  Elizabeth  Thomas,  of  Nottingham,  Chester  County,  Pa.;  settled  in 
Maryland. 

[200]  JOHN  HAINES  [....-1728] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ESTHER   BORTON  [1667-1719] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  EVESHAM,  N.  J. 

TOHN   HAINES,  the  eldest  son  of  Richard  and  Margaret  ( )  Haines 

I  (200-A)  was  born  at  Aynho  on  the  Hill,  on  the  borders  of  Northampton- 
I  shire  and  Oxfordshire,  England.  He  was  probably  only  a  boy  when  he 
J  emigrated  with  his  father's  friend  and  neighbor,  John  Borton  (200-B), 
to  West  New  Jersey,  in  1679. 

The  Bortons  settled  at  Evesham  and  after  a  time  John  Haines  induced 
his  father  Richard  (200-A)  to  bring  his  family  to  the  new  country.  Richard 
had  bought  land  in  Evesham  in  1682  before  leaving  England,  but  died  on  the  way 
over.  John  purchased  land  for  himself  on  the  south  side  of  Rancocas  River, 
then  called  Northampton.  The  deed  of  100  acres  was  recorded  nth  mo.,  1683, 
and  we  suppose  that  he  was  by  that  time  twenty-one  years  of  age. 

The  following   year,  he   married    loth   mo.   (10)    1684,  Esther    Borton, 

daughter  of  John    and  Ann  ( )  Borton  (200-B).     The   witnesses    to   the 

marriage  were  Margaret  and  Thomas  Haines  (probably  his  mother  and  brother) 
and  Ann  Haines.  Esther  Borton  was  born  7th  mo.  (25)  1667,  and  so  was  but 
seventeen  at  the  time  of  her  marriage. 

They  settled  on  the  tract  of  land  above  mentioned  and  he  became  a  success- 


JOHN  HAINES  [200]  349 

ful  farmer  and  mill-owner.  There  is  a  tradition  in  the  family  that  he  lived  in  a  cave 
in  the  bluffs,  on  the  Rancocas  River,  but  it  is  not  probable  that  it  was  his  only 
home,  although  no  mention  of  any  house  is  found  in  his  will.  The  log  houses  built 
and  occupied  by  his  brothers  William  and  Richard,  on  the  other  side  of  the  river, 
are  still  standing,  and  in  use. 

John  Haines  bought  in  1691,  50  acres  near  his  home,  and  5th  mo.  (21)  1702, 
965  acres  in  Chester  County,  Pa.,  from  the  executors  of  Thomas  Lloyd.  This 
latter  tract  is  now  in  the  borough  of  West  Chester,  south  of  Gay  Street,  and  it  con- 
tinued in  the  Haines  and  Matlack  families  many  years. 

In  1706  he  was  one  of  the  signers  to  a  petition  from  the  proprietors  and 
purchasers  of  West  Jersey,  who  were  all  Quakers,  to  Lord  Cornbury,  then 
governor  of  New  York  (which  included  West  Jersey),  who,  desiring  to  curry  favor 
with  the  Episcopalians  of  New  York,  was  very  severe  on  all  other  sects,  and 
especially  on  the  Quakers. 

He  bought  in  i7iomore  land  in  Goshen  Township,  Pa.,  of  Isaac  Morris  and 
David  Lloyd,  where  his  son  John  afterwards  settled. 

His  wife  Esther  died  in  1719,  having  been  the  mother  of  twelve  children, 
most  of  whom  grew  up.     She  was  said  by  the  Friends  to  have  been  a  "zealous 

woman."     He  married  (2)  Hannah  (Whitall)  Wood,  widow  of Wood  and 

daughter  of  John  Whitall,  by  whom  he  had  no  children. 

John  Haines  died  at  Evesham  in  November,  1728.  His  will,  dated  Novem- 
ber 4,  probated  November  21,  1728,  gave  to  his 

"dearly  beloved  wife  Hannah  Haines,  the  use  ...  of  that  part  of  my  plantation  whereon 
I  now  dwell  .  .  .  during  the  time  of  her  widowhood,  and  if  she  sees  cause  to  remove  .  .  . 
my  will  is  that  my  son  Josiah  Haines  do  pay  unto  my  said  wife  forty  shillings  a  year  .  .  .  Josiah 
Haines  .  .  .  farm  and  Plantation  containing  about  400  acres  of  land  .  .  .  saw  mill  and  land 
thereunto  belonging  .  .  .  Jonathan  .  .  .  plantation  .  .  .  containing  about  two  hundred 
and  forty  acres  of  meadow  ground  .  .  .  grandson  John  Haines  .  .  .  seventy  acres  of  land  .  .  . 
called  Haylanding  .  .  .  son  Caleb  Haines  .  .  .  full  equal  half  of  the  above  saw  mill  .  .  .  son 
Jonathan  ...  all  my  part  of  the  above  mill  pond  or  the  land  that  said  pond  of  water  covers, 
that  is  to  say,  after  the  owners  of  said  mill  will  let  it  go  down  and  the  water  out  of  said  pond  .  .  . 
son  Caleb,  twenty-five  acres  of  land  ...  to  my  above  said  sons  ...  all  my  lots  ...  of  cedar 
swamps  with  the  reversion  of  my  proprietary  rights  to  lands  in  West  Jersey  .  .  .  daughter  Re- 
becca Matlack  .  .  .  daughter  Esther  .  .  .  Evans  .  .  .  sons  John  .  .  .  and  Isaac  .  .  .  and 
my  daughter  Mary,  the  wife  of  Thomas  Lippincott  ...  all  the  remaining  part  of  my  said  land 
purchased  of  Morris  and  Loyd  and  containing  three  hundred  acres  of  land,  etc." 

Children  of  John  and  Esther  (Borton)  Haines 

John,  born  in  1685;  married  (i)  in  1709,  Elizabeth  Satterthwaite;  married  (2)  in  1728, 
Jane  Smith;  married  (3)  Ann  Ashmead;  lived  at  Goshen,  Pa.,  on  part  of  the  land 
purchased  by  his  father  in  1710,  and  signed  a  petition  in  1732,  as  a  resident  there. 

Jonathan,  born  1688;  married  ist  mo.,  171 1,  at  Newton  Meeting,  Mary  Matlack,  daughter 
of  William  and  Mary  (Hancock)  Matlack  (204).  He  died  before  1731,  as  his 
widow  married  (2),  5th  mo.  173 1,  Daniel  Morgan. 


350  JOHN  HAINES  [200] 

Isaac,  born  in  1690;  married  in  1714,  Catherine  David;  was  living  in  Goshen  County,  Pa., 

in  1732. 
(195)   Mary,  born  June  20,    1693;  married  loth  mo.  (19)   171 1,    at  Newton  Meeting,   Thomas 

LippiNCOTT,  son  of  Freedom  and  Mary  (Austin)  Lippincott  (194);  died  before  1732. 
Caleb,  born  in  1695;  married  in  1719,  Sarah  Burr. 

Esther,  born  in  1697;  married  in  1715  at  Evesham  Meeting,  Thomas  Evans. 
Hannah,  born  in  1699;  probably  died  before  1728,  as  she  is  not  named  in  her  father's  will. 
Joshua,  born  in  1701,  died  in  1714. 

Josiah,  born  in  1703;  married  in  1723,  Martha  Burr,  daughter  of  Henry  Burr. 
Rebecca,  born    in    1705;  married    in   1722,  Joseph  Matlack,  son  of  William  and  Mary 

(Hancock)  Matlack  (204),  so  brother  of  her  brother  Jonathan's  wife  Mary.     They 

were  living  in  Goshen,  Pa.,  in  1732. 
Abigail,  born  in  1708,  died  in  1717. 
Phebe,  born  in  1710;  married  in  1726,  at  Haddonfield  Meeting,  John  Burrows,  son  of  John 

Burrows  (or  Burroughs). 

[200-B]  JOHN  BORTON  [  ...-1687] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ANN [....-1688] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  EVESHAM,  N.  J. 

JOHN  BORTON    lived    in    England    at  Aynho  on    the  Hill,  a  parish  on  the 
borders  of   Oxfordshire  and    Northamptonshire,  twenty  miles  south  of  the 
town  of  Northampton.     John   Haines  (200-A)  came  from  the  same  place, 
as  well    as    Daniel  Wills,  one  of    the    most    prominent    Friends    in    West 
New  Jersey. 

In  Besse's  Sufferings  of  Friends  in  England  we  find  these  notices  of  him: 

"In  December  1660  John  Borton  of  Aino  (and  others)  were  taken  out  of  their  own  houses 
by  soldiers  and  committed  for  refusing  the  oaths  .  .  .  Anno  1665.  In  this  year  also  John  Borton 
and  others  had  their  goods  taken  by  destress  for  a  fine  of  4  shillings  each  imposed  for  4  weeks 
absence  from  their  parish  church." 

He  married,  probably  about  1660  to  1665  (as  their  eldest  son  was  married  in 
1681),  Ann .  They  lived  at  Aynho  on  the  Hill  until  1679,  when  they  emi- 
grated to  West  New  Jersey  with  their  children.  This  was  only  a  few  years  after 
John  Fenwick  had  made  the  first  settlement  of  Friends  there,  and  was  many  years 

prior  to  William  Penn's  colony.     John  and  Ann  ( )  Borton  brought  with 

them  the  following  certificate  of  removal  from  the  Monthly  Meeting  at   Barton, 
Oxfordshire. 

"To  all  friends  or  any  other  persons  whom  it  may  concern. 

Whereas  the  bearer  hereof,  John  Borton  of  Aynoe  belonging  to  Aderbury  Meeting  in  ye 
County  of  Oxon,  doth  now  intend  to  leave  this,  his  native  country  of  England,  and  to  goe  with 
Ann  his  wife  and  his  family;  for  the  Isle  called  New  Jersey;  these  are  to  certerfie  all  whom  it  may 


JOHN  BORTON  [200-B]  351 

concerne  that  we  whose  names  are  hereunto  subscribed  have  known  ye  said  John  and  Ann  Borton 
these  many  years  and  that  they  have  wali<ed  honestly  among  us,  living  in  the  fear  of  God  and  in 
obedience  to  the  blessed  truth  revealed  in  this  our  day  and  have  been  of  a  good  savor  to  friends  and 
to  their  neighbors  in  ye  village  where  they  dwell  and  also  serviceable  to  the  truth  in  their  place 
and  therefore  their  intentions  being  laid  before  us  at  our  monthly  meeting  at  Barton  in  ye  said 
county  of  Oxon  the  5th  day  of  ye  3rd  month  1679.  We  and  other  friends  found  freedom  in  our- 
selves to  give  this  testimony  concerning  them,  Witness  our  hands. 

Richard  Treadwell  Timothy  Burber  Jr. 

Richard  Parkes  Thomas  Marcer 

Bray  Doiley  Richard  Haines  [200-A] 

Christoph^  Barrett  John   Butcher 

Ralph  Hill  James  Treppes" 

&c  &c. 

John  Borton  was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  in  what  is  now  Mt.  Laurel 
(formerly  Evesham),  Burlington  County,  N.  J.  He  bought  a  large  tract  on  the 
south  side  of  Northampton  or  Rancocas  River,  just  below  the  present  village  of 
Centreton,  extending  southwards  two  or  more  miles  and  west  of  Masonville.  This 
he  called  Hillsdown  Plantation.  The  buildings  were  on  a  high  elevation  over- 
looking the  surrounding  country.  Portions  of  this  original  Borton  Tract  remained 
in  possession  of  the  family  as  late  at  1882.  From  a  letter  from  Mr.  C.  H.  Engle  of 
Mount  Holly,  N.  J.,  we  take  the  following: 

"On  the  west  side  of  the  railroad  at  Masonville  stands  the  ancient  house  built  of  logs,  that 
was  moved  in  1852  from  off  the  Borton  lands.  It  no  doubt  is  the  house  occupied  by  John  Borton  the 
emigrant.  It  has  been  covered  outside  with  boards  but  inside  can  be  seen  the  old  logs,  as  I  lately 
saw  the  interior.  A  person  now  living  near  told  me  he  moved  it  there  ...  It  is  now  used  as  a 
store  and   dwelling." 

He  was  one  of  the  signers,  March  3,  1676/7,  of  the  "Grants  and  Concessions" 
of  West  New  Jersey,  the  first  constitution  of  the  settlers,  which  was  later  incorpor- 
ated into  the  permanent  laws  of  the  Colonial  Government.  He  also  served  on  the 
first  grand  jury  of  Burlington  County  in  1684. 

John  Borton  died  at  Hillsdown  in  1687.  His  will,  dated  5th  mo.  (28)  and 
proved  i  ith  mo.  (14)  1687,  had  the  following  provisions: 

"I  give  to  my  son  John  that  Setlement  called  Hilsdown  .  .  .  being  in  quantity  300  Acres 
and  somewhat  more  together  with  house.  Barn  and  all  other  Out  houses  with  Garden,  Orchard 
.  .  .  Except  one  Third  part  thereof;  which  I  give  to  my  dear  Wife  Anne  Bourton;  Or  five  Pound  a 
Year  w'^'^  shee  will  due  her  Natural  life  and  Widdowhood  ...  to  my  son  John  a  Two  and  thirtieth 
part  of  a  Propriety  thorowout  y'  County  and  one  Yoak  of  Oxen  ...  to  my  Sonne  William  y*  Set- 
lement fronting  upon  Northampton  River  Northward  .  .  .  Three  Lotts  upon  Burlington  Island 
.  .  .  Two  and  Thirtieth  part  of  a  Propriety  etc.  ...  to  my  Grandchildren  ten  shillings  apiece 
...  All  y^  rest  of  my  Cattle  &  Goods  I  give  to  my  Wife  and  six  daughters  .  .  .  One  third  part  to 
my  Wife  etc." 

His  widow  Ann  died  9th  mo.  1688. 


352  JOHN  BORTON  [200-B] 

Children  of  John  and  Ann  ( )   Borton 

Ann,  married  loth  mo.  (6)  1681,  to  Thomas  Barton,  of  Essisconk  Creek;  died  loth  mo.  (16) 

1688. 
John,  married  at  Salem    Meeting,  3rd  mo.  (27)  1717,  Ann  Darnelly;  died    4th    mo.  (13) 

1759- 
William,  married  2nd  mo.  (20)  1699,  Hannah  Coale  (or  Cole). 
(200)    Esther,  born  7th  mo.  (25)  1667;  married  loth  mo.  (10)  1684,  John  Haines,  son  of  Richard 

and  Margaret Haines  (200-A);  died  in  1719. 

Elizabeth,  married  8th  mo.  (16)  1684,  John  Woolman. 

Mary,  married  7th  mo.  (15)  1699,  Francis  Austin,  of  Evesham  (now  Medford). 

Jane,  living  in  1687,  as  appears  from  her  father's  will. 

a  daughter,  living  in  1687,  as  appears  from  her  father's  will. 

[201]  ROBERT  ENGLE  [....-1696] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

JOAN  HORNE  [....-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  EVESHAM,  N.  J. 

IT  appears  from  Robert  Engle's   will   that   he  came  from  Melborne,  a  small 
town  in  Cambridgeshire,  about    nine  miles   south  of  the  University  town, 
but  the  family  is  undoubtedly  of  German   origin.     We  do  not  know  what 
year  he  emigrated,  but  suppose  it    to   be  about  1682  or  1683,  as  in  Revel's 
Book  of  Surveys  in  the  Secretary  of  State's  office  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  there  is  a  re- 
cord of  land  surveyed  for  him  as  early  as  1683.    He  had  a  brother,  Paul  Engle,  who 
settled  at  Germantown,  Pa. 

He  married  at  Burlington  Open  Court,  5th  mo.  (4)  1684,  Joan  Horne:  the 
record  taken  from  the  oldest  Book  of  Marriages  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of 
State,  being  as  follows: 

"The  Marriage  between  Robert  Ingaii  and  Joan  Horne  being  first  published  according  to 
order  was  solempnized  ye  fourth  of  ye  fifth  month  called  July  1684  before  Robert  Stacy  Justice. 

Thomas  Revel 
Thomas  Butcher 
John   Day 
Elizabeth  Day." 

Of  these  witnesses,  John  Day  was  his  life-long  friend  and  executor  of  his  will, 
Elizabeth  Day  a  "minister  among  friends"  and  Thomas  Butcher  a  neighbor  living 
in  the  same  township. 

Soon  after  he  had  located  his  first  land  in  Evesham,  N.  J.,  he  bought  rights 
to  one  hundred  acres  in  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  but  sold  it  again  two  years  later  with- 
out locating  it.  After  his  marriage  he  settled  on  the  land  first  surveyed  to  him  in 
Evesham  township,  where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life,  probably  shortened  by  the 
hardships  of  a  pioneer. 


ROBERT  ENGLE  [201]  353 

He  died  at  Evesham,  May  21,  1696.  His  will,  dated  April  4,  probated  June 
I,  1696,  has  these  provisions: 

"I  give  unto  my  son  John  Ingle  ...  all  my  house  land  and  plantation  being  .  .  .  one 
hundred  and  fifty  acres,  when  he  comes  to  the  age  of  twenty  .  .  .  the  young  gray  colt  to  be  his 
own  presently  after  my  decease;  .  .  .  unto  my  wife  Joane  Ingles  the  young  bauld  horse  besides 
one  third  of  my  goods  and  chattels  and  my  will  is  that  my  said  wife  shall  have  the  use  of  all  my 
Estate  soe  long  as  she  keeps  herselfe  A  widdow  ...  for  the  bringing  up  of  my  son  .  .  .  and  that 
he  shall  learn  to  write  and  Read  .  .  .  and  if  my  son  shall  die  before  he  comes  to  the  Age  of  twenty 
years  then  the  one  half  .  .  .  shall  be  for  my  wife  .  .  .  and  the  other  half  for  my  two  bretheren 
Peeter  Nevell  and  Henry  Nevell  of  iVlilborn  in  Cambridgeshire  in  old  England  their  heirs  and 
Assigns  forever  .  .  .  And  if  my  wife  marry  .  .  .  then  the  use  of  my  Estate  and  the  bringing  up  of 
my  son  shall  be  at  the  Discretion  of  John  day  and  John  Sharp  both  of  the  County  of  Burlington,  etc." 

The  guardians  were  also  executors,  and  signed  the  letters  of  administration, 
with  Freedom  Lippincott  (194).  Their  bond  was  for  ;^352  in  silver.  The  es- 
tate inventoried  £\']6  13s.  6d.  He  signed  his  name  to  the  will  "Robert  Ingle," 
but  his  son  always  spelled  it  "Engle,"  which  has  continued  to  be  the  family  name. 

His  widow  Joan  married  (2)  (before  her  son  attained  the  age  of  twenty) 
9th  mo.  (23)  1703,  Henry  Clifton,  of  Philadelphia.     She  died  before  1727  as,  4th 

mo.  (15)  1727,  Henry  Clifton  married  (2)  Sarah  ( )  Drum,  of  Philadelphia, 

and  in  1730  married  (3)  Sarah  ( )  Maule,  all  three  of  his  wives  being  widows. 

Children  of  Robert  and  Joan  (Horne)   Engle 

(202)  John,  married  at  Evesham  Meeting,  loth  mo.  (4)  1707,  Mary  Ogborn,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Jane  (Harvey)  Ogborn  (203),  of  Burlington  County;  died  i  ith  mo.  (19)  1721/2. 

[202]  JOHN  ENGLE  [....-1722] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

MARY   OGBORN  [....-....] 

OF  EVESHAM,  N.  J. 

JOHN  ENGLE,  son  of  Robert  and  Joan  (Horne)  Engle  (201),  was  born 
at  Evesham,  N.  J.,  probably  about  1685.  He  was  perhaps  ten  years  old 
when  his  father  died.  His  mother  married  (2),  before  he  was  twenty,  Henry 
Clifton,  of  Philadelphia,  but  it  does  not  appear  that  he  accompanied  her 
to  her  new  home.  He  lived  on  the  property  inherited  from  his  father,  all  rights 
to  which  his  mother  had  forfeited  by  her  second  marriage,  and  managed  his  prop- 
erty under  the  guardianship  of  his  father's  two  friends,  John  Day  and  John  Sharp. 
He  married  at  Evesham  Monthly  Meeting,  loth  mo.  (4)  1707,  Mary 
Ogborn,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Harvey)  Ogborn  (203).  Mary's  father 
had  died  in  1694,  and  her  mother  was  at  this  time  married  to  her  third  husband, 
Nathaniel  FitzRandolph,  of  Woodbridge,  N.  J.  Among  the  fifteen  witnesses  to 
the  marriage  record  are  Joan  (Horne  Engle)  Clifton  (John  Engle's  mother),  John 


354  JOHN  ENGLE  [202] 

Sharp,  his  guardian  (and  his  mother-in-law'sfourth  husband),  and  John  Haines  (200). 

They  settled  on  his  inherited  property,  and  his  short  hfe  was  spent  in  farming 
there.  One  of  the  earliest  of  the  Byllinge  transactions  was  a  transfer  by  "Thomas 
and  Joan  Ward  to  Hugh  Sharp  of  America  a  nineteenth  part  of  ninety-hundredths 
of  a  tract  in  West  New  Jersey,  a  portion  of  the  Fenwick  purchase."  One-fourth 
part  of  this  was  sold  by  Hugh  Sharp  on  January  18,  171 5,  to  John  Engle.  The 
next  year  John  sold  a  small  part  of  these  purchased  rights,  but  reserved  312  acres 
for  himself.  He  also  acquired  other  lands,  as  several  surveys  for  him  are  found  in 
the  old  records.     He  was  a  surveyor  of  highways  for  Evesham  in  1 720. 

He  died  at  Evesham  i  ith  mo.  (19)  172 1/2,  when  he  could  not  have  been  more 
than  thirty-six  years  old.  His  will,  made  the  day  of  his  death,  proved  ten  days 
later,  i  ith  mo.  29,  is  in  part  as  follows: 

"  I  give  unto  .  .  .  my  son  Robert  Engle  all  that  my  plantation  whereon  1  now  dwell  .  . 
when  he  shall  attain  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  .  .  .  unto  my  son  John  Engle  all  that  my  tract  of 
land  lying  in  the  said  township  etc.  .  .  .  my  share  of  the  sloop  be  sold  and  the  money  be  equally 
divided  among  my  said  daughters  .  .  .  unto  my  son  Robert  ...  all  my  shares  ...  of  property 
which  are  due  with  the  reversion  .  .  .  unto  [a  posthumous  child]  all  that  my  land  ...  in  Glou- 
cester County  ...  if  said  child  be  a  son  ...  if  ...  a  daughter,  then  .  .  .  the  same  be  sold  and 
divided  among  my  daughters  when  they  shall  come  to  their  respective  shares,  etc." 

The  estate  was  a  large  one,  the  inventory  of  personal  property  alone  being 
;£6o5  i6s.  The  child  born  after  his  death  being  the  daughter  Hannah,  twenty- 
three  years  later  the  land  mentioned  above  was  advertised  by  Robert  Engle  in 
the  Pennsylvania  Gazette  of  October  18,  1744,  as  a  "Tract  of  Land  containing 
1400  acres  etc"  to  be  sold  at  public  vendue  November  13,  following. 

His  widow  IVIary  married  (2)  at  Haddonfield  Meeting,  in  1726,  Jonas  Ketle, 
as  the  name  is  spelled  in  her  mother's  will  (203),  or  Jonas  Cattle,  as  it  reads  in  the 
records  of  the  Friends'  Library  in  Philadelphia. 

Children  of  John  and  Mary  (Ogborn)  Engle 
Robert,  born  loth  mo.  (2)  1708;  married  5th  mo.  (17)  1728,  Rachel  Vinicum,  daughter  of 

William  and  Sarah  (Stockton  Jones)  Vinicum;  died  in  August,  1774. 
Jane,  born  in  1710;  married  (i)  in  1729,  John  Turner;  married  (2)  in  1741,  William  Albert- 
son;  married  (3)  in  1749,  as  his  third  wife,  Samuel  Nicholson,  son  of  Joseph  Nichol- 
son; married  (4)  in  1753,  Thomas  Middleton;  died  a  widow  5th  mo.,  1761,  it  is  said, 
five  days  after  her  last  husband,  having  taken  cold  riding  on  horseback  in  her  duty 
as  nurse.     She  was  buried  at  Moorestown.' 
John,  married  i  ith  mo.  (i)  1737,  Hannah  Middleton, 
(196)    Mary,  born  gth  mo.  (14)  1716,  married  May  4  (or  July  12),  1736,  Nathaniel  Lippincott, 
son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Haines)  Lippincott  (195);  was  buried  12th  mo.  (i)  1787. 
Hannah,  born  probably  in  1721/2;  married  at  Haddonfield  in  1739  Isaac  Lippincott,  son 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Haines)  Lippincott  (195),  and  so  a  brother  of  her   sister 
Mary's  husband. 
'  "Jane  had  four  husbands,  her  mother  Mary  (Ogborn  Engle)  Ketle  had  two,  her  grandmother  Joan 
(HoRNE  Engle)  Clifton    (201)  two,  her  grandmother  Jane  (Harvey  Ogborn  Hampton  Fitz  Randolph)  Sharp 
had  four,  making  twelve  husbands  in  all  that  these  four  women  of  one  family  made  happy." — From  a  letter  of 
Charles  H.  Engle,  April  23,   iQoo. 


SAMUEL  OGBORN  [203]  355 


[203J  SAMUEL  OGBORN  |. .  ..-1094] 

AND  HIS    WIFE 

JANE  HARVEY  [....-1731] 

OF  BURLINGTON,    N.    J. 

NO  record  has  been  found  of  the  time  when  Samuel  Ogborn  came  to  this 
country.     He  Hved  in  Burlington  County,  was  probably  a  farmer,  and 
certainly  owned  property  there.     John  Ogborn,  a  farmer  who  had  his 
cattle-marks  recorded  in  Trenton,  N.  J.,  in  1684  and  was  town-clerk  of 
Burlington  in  1701,  may  have  been  his  brother. 

Samuel  Ogborn  married  Jane  Harvey,  a  sister  of  Peter  Harvey.  Peter 
Harvey  married  Sarah  Curtis,  daughter  of  Thomas  Curtis,  of  Buggbrook,  West 
New  Jersey. 

Samuel  Ogborn  died  at  Burlington  in  November,  1694.  His  will,  dated 
November  4,  and  probated  December  6,  1694,  named  his  wife  Jane  as  sole  executrix, 

"giving  unto  her  power  to  Sell  &  Dispose  of  all  or  anny  p^  of  my  Estate  both  Reall  and  personall 
as  shee  shall  See  occasion  for  the  maintenance  of  her  selfe  &  my  said  Children  ...  I  do  appoynt 
my  Brotherinlaw  Peter  Harvey  to  be  trustee  Desiringe  him  to  be  assistant  to  my  Saide  Executrix, 
etc." 

He  did  not  mention  his  children  by  name. 

His  widow  Jane  had  married  (2)  before  May  12,  1698,  as  his  second  wife, 
John  Hampton.  She  joined  him  on  that  day  in  a  deed  to  John  Borradaill,  of  a  lot 
in  Burlington  "formerly  belonging  to  Samuel  Ogborne  former  husband  of  Jane 
Hampton."  She  had  a  son  Joseph  by  this  husband.  John  Hampton  was  promi- 
nent among  the  early  pioneers,  and  died  at  Freehold,  Monmouth  County,  in  1702, 
leaving  a  legacy  to  Sarah  and  Mary  Ogborn,  "children  of  wife  Jane  before  our 
marriage." 

Jane  married  (3)  at  Shrewsbury  Monthly  Meeting,  4th  mo.  (12)  1707,  Na- 
thaniel FitzRandolph.  Among  the  witnesses  to  her  marriage  were  her  three 
children,  Samuel,  Mary  and  Sarah  Ogborn.  She  seems  to  have  had  a  son  by  this 
marriage,  Benjamin  FitzRandolph.  Her  third  husband  died  in  1714,  and  in  his 
will,  dated  May  5,  1713,  and  proved  May  12,  17 14,  he  left  a  legacy  to  his  "son- 
in-law  Joseph  Hampton." 

Jane  married  (4)  at  Haddonfield  Monthly  Meeting,  loth  mo.  (24)  1719, 
John  Sharp,  of  Evesham,  a  prominent  and  useful  citizen  and  lifelong  friend  of  the 
family.  He  was  one  of  the  executors  of  the  will  of  Robert  Engle  (201),  guardian 
of  Jane's  son-in-law  John  Engle,  was  a  witness  to  John's  marriage,  and  to  that 
of  his  widowed  mother  Joan  (Horne)  Engle  to  Henry  Clifton.  Among  the 
witnesses  to  this  fourth  marriage  were  John  and  Mary  (Ogborn)  Engle  (202)  and 
William  and  Hannah  (Coale)  Borton  (see  200-B). 

John  Sharp  died  in  1729  and  his  widow  Jane  died  in  12th  mo.  173 1/2.     Her 


356  SAMUEL  OGBORN  [203] 

will,  dated  Buckingham,  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  August  8,  1729,  and  probated  Decem- 
ber 13,  1 73 1,  has,  among  others,  the  following  provisions: 

"I  give  ...  to  my  son  Samuel  Ogborn  the  sum  of  8  pound  proclamation  money'  .  .  . 
to  my  son  Joseph  Hampton  12  pound  and  to  my  son-in-law  Edmond  Kinsey  5  pound  ...  to 
my  son-in-law  Jonas  Ketle  5  pound  and  to  my  son  Benjamin  Fitzrandle  twenty  pound  and  also 
one  bed  and  2  pairs  of  sheets,  2  pillows  &  2  pair  of  pillow  cases,  i  diper  table  cloth,  3  blankets, 
one  birdeyed  coverlidd,  one  silver  spoon,  one  great  Bible,  one  great  looking  glass,  one  pair  iron  doggs; 
and  to  my  granddaughter  Jane  Engle,  great  pev/ter  dish  ...  to  my  daughter  Mary  Ketle  25 
pound  ...  to  my  daughter  Sarah  Kinsey  25  pound;  if  any  money  remains,  let  it  be  given  to  my 
two  daughters  &  Jo.  Hampton  ...  to  granddaughters  7  pound  in  silver  &  gold,  twenty  shillings 
a  piece  each  ...  to  Mary  ...&...  Elizabeth  Kinsey  .  .  .  one  trunk  ...  all  my  horses  & 
mares  be  sold  or  valued,  and  the  value  of  them  to  pay  all  charges  ...  by  funeral  expenses  etc. 
...  if  anything  remains  of  value  ...  I  hereby  leave  it  to  Edmond  Kinsey  ...  I  hereby  make 
.  .  .  my  son-in-law  Edmond  Kinsey  &  Joseph  Fell  my  Sole  &  whole  Executors  etc." 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Jane  (Harvey)  Ogborn 

(202)   Mary,  married  (i)  lothmo.  (4)  1707  John  Engle,  son  of  Robert  and  Joan  (Horne)  Engle 
(201);  married  (2)  in  1726,  Jonas  Ketle. 
Samuel,  was  living  in  1729  when  his  mother's  will  was  made. 
Sarah,  married  Edmund  Kinsey;  was  living  in  1729,  when  her  mother's  will  was  made. 

[204J  WILLIAM  MATLACK  [1647-....] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

MARY  HANCOCK  [1665-1728] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  CHESTER,  N.  J. 

WILLIAM  MATLACK  came  from  Cropwell  Bishop,  Nottinghamshire, 
England,  about  seven  miles  southeast  of  the  city  of  Nottingham. 
He  was  probably  born  about  1647  or  1648,  as  he  was  about  thirty 
years  of  age  when  he  emigrated  in  1677. 
He  was  one  of  the  passengers  in  the  ship  "Kent,"  Gregory  Marlow,  Master,  the 
first  that  brought  settlers  to  West  New  Jersey.  Among  his  fellow  passengers  were 
Daniel  Wills,  Thomas  Olive,  and  the  other  commissioners  sent  over  by  the  proprie- 
tors of  the  new  colony.  Nearly  all  were  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  There  is  a  tra- 
dition that  while  the  "Kent"  was  coming  down  the  Thames,  King  Charles  H  went 
past  them  in  his  pleasure  barge.  He  asked  where  they  were  bound  and  being  told 
West  New  Jersey,  he  asked  further  whether  they  were  all  Quakers  and  gave  them 
his  blessing.  On  the  14th  of  August  the  same  year,  they  sighted  land  at  Sandy 
Hook  and  dropped  anchor  there,  while  the  commissioners  went  up  to  New  York 
to  pay  their  respects  to  Governor  Andros.     As  he  held  his  authority  from  the  Duke 

'  This  seems  to  be  so  called  from  the  proclamations  issued  by  Queen  Anne  in  1 704,  and  by  some  of  the  pro- 
vincial governors  later,  attempting  to  fix  the  values  of  money  passed  in  the  Colonies.  A  great  deal  of  clipping  was 
done,  and  the  coinage  was  depreciated,  and  finally  passed  by  weight. 


WILLIAM  MATLACK  [204]  357 

of  York  over  all  that  part  of  the  country,  the  commissioners  were  in  trouble  with 
him  at  once,  but  by  some  concession  they  were  allowed  to  go  on  to  their  destina- 
tion, and  sailed  up  the  Delaware  River  as  far  as  Rancocas  Creek,  where  some 
of  the  passengers  were  landed.  William  Matlack,  however,  went  on  with  the 
Commissioners  in  a  small  boat  to  Chygoes  Island,  and  was  the  first  to  land  on  the 
shore  where  is  now  the  city  of  Burlington.  The  other  emigrants  found  their  way 
up  to  the  new  settlement  after  suffering  many  privations. 

He  came  over  as  servant'  to  Daniel  Wills  and  after  his  arrival  appears  to 
have  served  Thomas  Olive  for  four  years.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  built  or  helped 
to  build  the  first  two  frame  houses  erected  in  Burlington,  one  for  John  Woolston, 
the  other  for  Thomas  Gardner,  both  finished  in  1 678.  In  this  latter  the  Friends  held 
their  meetings  for  many  years.  He  also  helped  to  build  Thomas  Olive's  corn-mill, 
the  first  of  the  kind  in  West  New  Jersey.  His  name  appears  as  one  of  the  signers 
at  Burlington,  loth  mo.  (5)  1678,  of  a  petition  of  Thomas  Olive  and  others  in  favor 
of  Henry  Jacobs,  tenant. 

He  married  in  March,  1681,  Mary  Hancock,  a  sister  of  Timothy  Hancock, 
with  whom  she  came  over  in  the  ship  "Paradise,"  Captain  Evele.  She  is  said  to 
have  been  sixteen  years  old  at  the  time,  and  William  Matlack  is  said  to  have 
paid  her  passage  money,  so  that  she  came  in  free.  The  brother  and  sister  came  from 
Brayles  in  Warwickshire. 

William  bought  in  1684  of  Thomas  Olive  a  one  hundred  acre  tract  on  Penis- 
aukin  Creek  in  Chester  Township,  Burlington  County,  the  consideration  being 
"four  years  service  and  fy  current  country  pay,"  and  built  a  house  upon  it. 
The  greater  part  of  this  tract  is  still  owned  by  his  descendants,  having  been  in  the 
family  for  over  two  hundred  years.  Dr.  A.  M.  Stackhouse,  a  descendant,  writes 
that  near  this  house  Tallaca,  the  Indian  chief,  signed  a  contract  with  John  Roberts, 
Timothy  Hancock  and  William  Matlack,  whereby  in  consideration  of  "one  match 
coat,  one  little  runlet  of  rum,  and  two  bottles  of  rum"  he  agreed  to  defend  them  in 
their  rights  from  all  other  Indians. 

Timothy  Hancock,  his  brother-in-law,  bought  about  the  same  time,  one 
hundred  acres  adjoining  William's  piece,  and  in  his  house  "worship  was  set  up" 
by  the  Friends  in  1685,  so  it  appears  that  he  and  his  sister  were  also  of  that  sect. 
Later,  in  1695  William  purchased  this  tract  of  his  brother-in-law,  and  a  hundred 
acres  more  of  Thomas  Olive,  giving  him  in  all  three  hundred  acres  of  land. 

William  Matlack  was  one  of  the  overseers  who  laid  out  the  highway  in 
Chester  in  1698,  and  held  the  office  for  many  years.  He  was  constable  in  1696,  and 
1 7 19,  and  collector  in  1726.  In  1727  as  one  of  the  grand  jury,  he  signed  a  petition 
to  King  George  II,  beginning  "We  of  the  Grand  Jury  being  of  the  people  called 

'  "The  term  'servant'  was  applied  to  several  kinds  of  service.  It  covered  farm  and  house  workers,  to- 
gether with  persons  who  came  out  attending  to  the  business  of  their  principals  in  England.  These  were  agents, 
as  we  should  say.  Then  apprentices,  and  those  contracting  their  labor  were  called  servants.  Lechford  notes  in 
detail  many  contracts  of  apprenticeship,  and  almost  always  one  contractor  is  a  'servant.'  Contracts  brought  many 
over  who  worked  out  their  passage  money  in  apprenticeship." — Economic  and  Social  History  of  New  England,  1 620- 
174Q,  84.     By  William  B.  Weeden. 


358  WILLIAM  MATLACK  [204] 

Quakers."  In  1701  he  purchased  about  one  thousand  acres  of  land  from  Richard 
Heritage,  situated  in  Waterford  and  Gloucester  townships,  Camden  County  (then 
Gloucester  County),  lying  on  both  sides  of  the  south  branch  of  Cooper's  Creek, 
near  the  White  Horse  Tavern.  In  1717  he  bought  two  hundred  acres  more  in 
Waterford  and  Delaware  townships. 

December  10,  1720,  he  made  a  deposition  in  the  court  of  common  pleas  in 
Burlington  County,  in  which  he  gave  his  age  as  about  seventy-two.  He  said  that 
he  came 

"to  Burlington  about  the  latter  end  of  October  1677  with  his  then  master  Daniel  Wills,  one  of  the 
commissioners  for  laying  out  the  lands  in  the  Western  division  of  New  Jersey  and  several  others  in 
the  first  boate  that  came  there  to  settle  the  said  Towne  of  Burlington,  etc." 

In  1722  he  sold  his  plantation  to  his  son  William,  who  gave  back  a  life-lease 
in  it.  For  some  reason  this  was  not  satisfactory  and  in  1729  William  Matlack,  St., 
leased  it  back  again  to  the  same  son,  the  consideration  being  £6  in  money,  and  10 
pounds  of  wool  and  a  bushel  of  winter  apples  yearly. 

His  wife  Mary  died  i  ith  mo.  (20)  1728,  aged  about  63,  if,  as  tradition  says, 
she  was  sixteen  when  she  married  in  1681.  She  may  have  been  buried  in  the 
Matlack  burying-ground  near  Haddonfield,  where  her  husband  was  later  interred, 
although  it  is  said  that  her  body  rests  in  the  Friends'  graveyard  at  Moorestown, 

The  date  of  William's  death  is  not  known,  but  it  is  supposed  to  have  occurred 
at  the  home  of  his  son  John  about  1729.     It  is  said  that 

"he  died  in  his  bed  in  his  ninetieth  or  ninety-first  year,  and  would  have  lived  longer  if  his  tools 
had  not  been  hid  away  from  him.  When  he  could  not  have  them  he  went  away  like  a  snuff  of  a 
candle." 

William  and  Mary  lived  to  see  their  youngest  child  the  mother  of  seven 
children.  All  of  their  nine  children  grew  up  and  married,  five  of  them  married 
twice  and  five  of  them  married  into  the  Haines  family. 

Children  of  William  and  Mary  (Hancock)  Matlack 

(205)   John,  married  (i),  3rd.  mo.  (20)   1708,  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  Hannah  Horner,  daughter 

of   Isaac  and   Lydia   ( )   Horner  (207)  of    Northampton,   N.  J.  ;  married 

(2)  in  1721,  Mary  Lee,  daughter  of  Francis  and Lee;  died  in  1765. 

George,  married  (1)  in   1709,  Mary  Foster;  married  (2)  Mary  Hancock;  settled  on  a  five 

hundred  acre  tract  given  him  by  his  father  in  1714,  in  Waterford  Township. 
Mary,  married  (i),  ist  mo.   171 1,  Jonathan   Haines,  son   of  John  and  Esther  (Borton) 

Haines  (200);  married  (2)  5th  mo.,  1731,  Daniel  Morgan. 
William,  born    12th  mo.  (2)   1690;  married  9th   mo.  (17)  1713  (Friends'  Records   1709), 

Ann  Antrim  (or  Antrum),  daughter  of  John  and  Francis  Antrim;  died  7th  mo.  (25) 

1730. 
Richard,  married  (i),  iith   mo.    1721,  Rebecca   Haines,  daughter  of   Richard  and  Mary 

(Carlisle)   Haines,  of    Evesham   and    granddaughter  of    Richard  and  Margaret 


WILLIAM  MATLACK  [204]  359 

( )  Haines  (200-A);  married  (2),  loth  mo.  1745,  Mary  Cole.     His  fatiier  gave 

him  tiie  two  hundred  acre  tract  he  had  bought  in  1712,  in  Waterford  and  Delaware 
townships;  he  settled  there  in  1721,  and  died  there  in  1778. 

Joseph,  married  at  Chester  Meeting,  6th  mo,  1725  (or  1722),  Rebecca  Haines,  daughter 
of  John  and  Esther  (Borton)  Haines  (200),  a  sister  of  his  sister  Mary's  husband; 
removed  to  Chester  Co.,  Pa. 

Timothy,  married  (i),  3rd.  mo.  1720,  at  Haddonfieid  Meeting,  Mary  Haines,  daughter 
of  Richard  and  Mary  (Carlisle)  Haines,  a  sister  of  his  brother  Richard's  first  wife; 
married  (2),  ist  mo.  1730,  at  Haddonfieid  Meeting,  Martha  Burr  Haines,  another 
daughter  of  Richard  above;  was  left  by  his  father  the  remaining  part  of  the  large  tract 
in  Waterford  township  bought  of  Richard  Heritage.  He  staid  there  after  he  was 
married  for  a  time  but  sold  it  in  1726  and  removed  to  Haddonfieid.  His  son 
Timothy  was  a  prominent  citizen,  a  colonel  in  the  Revolution,  and  lost  his  stand- 
ing in  the  Friends'  Meeting  in  consequence,  was  also  secretary  to  the  Continental 
Congress,  in  Philadelphia,  where  his  portrait  hangs  in  Independence  Hall. 

Jane,  married Irvin,  and  removed  to  Chester  Co.,  Pa. 

Sarah,  married  loth  mo.  1721,  Carlisle  (or  Carlyle)  Haines,  son  of  Richard  and  Mary 
(Carlisle)  Haines,  and  brother  of  her  brother  Richard's  first  wife,  and  of  both  wives 
of  her  brother  Timothy. 

[205]  JOHN  MATLACK   [..-1765] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

HANNAH   HORNER  [1686-....] 

OF  CHESTER  AND  WATERFORD,  N.  J. 

T  OHN  MATLACK,  the  eldest  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Hancock)  Mat- 
I  LACK  (204),  was  born  probably  about  1682,  in  Chester,  Burlington  County, 
I  N.  J.  His  early  life  was  undoubtedly  spent  on  his  father's  farm  in 
J      Chester  township. 

In  1705  he  purchased  of  Francis  Collins,  two  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Water- 
ford township,  on  the  "north  side  of  the  most  northerly  branch  of  the  main  south 
branch  of  Cooper's  Creek." 

He  married  (i),3rd  mo.  (20)  1708,  in  Burlington,  Hannah  Horner,  daughter 

of  Isaac  and  Lydia  ( )  Horner  (207),  of  Northampton,  N.  J.  Hannah  was 

born  I  ith  mo.  (16)  1686.  They  settled  on  the  tract  of  land  in  Waterford  mentioned 
above,  about  three  miles  east  of  Haddonfieid.  He  built  a  house  there  which  was 
his  home  until  he  died,  all  of  his  twenty-two  children  being  born  there.  It  must 
have  been  well  built,  as  it  lasted  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  years,  only  being  pulled 
down  a  few  years  before  1877,  when  Clement  wrote  his  notes  on  the  Matlack 
family. 

John  Matlack's  marriage,  while  perfectly  legal,  was  not  according  to  the 
Friends'  manner,  as,  loth  mo.  (12)  171 5,  he  "made  acknowledgement  of  his  offence 
in  marrying  his  wife  contrary  to  the  method  settled  among  friends."  His  wife  Han- 
nah died  after  having  borne  him  three  children,  and  he  married  (2)  in  1721,  Mary 


36o  JOHN  MATLACK  [205] 

Lee,  daughter  of  Francis  and Lee,  who  came  with  her  parents  from  Eng- 
land.    They  had  nineteen  children,  but  we  have  only  the  names  of  ten  of  them. 

After  the  death  of  his  mother  in  1728,  his  father,  William  Matlack,  is  said 
to  have  lived  with  him,  and  to  have  died  not  long  after,  at  his  house  in  Waterford 
township. 

John  Matlack  died  in  1765.  His  will,  dated  February  26,  was  probated 
March  14,  1765.  He  gave  to  his  sons  Isaac,  John,  the  heirs  of  his  son  Jacob,  his 
daughters  Hannah  Maxell,  Keziah  Heritage,  widow,  Esther  French,  Sarah  Brown- 
ing, and  the  heirs  of  his  daughter  Bathsheba,  each  five  shillings  as  they  had  already 
received  their  shares  during  his  lifetime.  To  Benjamin  and  Ephraim  he  gave 
tracts  of  land,  and  to  his  daughter  Lydia  Matlack  his  "chest  of  drawers  and  spinning 
wheel,  and  seven  pounds  current  money."  The  residuary  legatees  were  his  two 
daughters  Lydia  Matlack  and  Mary  Hillman.  The  executors  were  his  "esteemed 
friend  Nathaniel  Lippincott  (196)  and  his  son  Caleb  Lippincott." 

Children  of  John  and  Hannah  (Horner)  Matlack 
Isaac,  born  istmo.  (14),  1708/9;  married  in  1733,  Rebecca  Bates,  of  Gloucester  County,  N.J. 
Jacob,  married  in  1733,  Ruth  Woodathall,  of  Burlington  County;  died  before  1765. 
(206)   John,  married  in  1736,  Hannah  Shivers,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  ( )  Shivers 

(209);   died  in  1774  or  1775. 

Children  of  John  and  Mary  (Lee)  Matlack 
Keziah,  married    at    Chester  Meeting    in    1743,  Benjamin  Heritage,  son   of  Joseph    and 

Hannah  (Allen)  Heritage. 
Hannah,  married  at  Chester  Meeting  8th  mo.  1737,  John  Maxfield  (or  Maxell). 
Abigail,  married  in  1 741,  Thomas  Stokes,  son  of  Thomas  and  Deliverance  (Horner)  Stokes 

and  grandson  of  Isaac  and  Lydia  ( )  Horner  (207). 

Bathsheba,  married  4th  mo.  1756,  Ezekiel  Lippincott;  died  before  1765. 

Lydia,  married  in  1767,  Benjamin  Graysbury. 

Sarah,  married  (i)  John  Rowand;  married  (2)  before  1765,  Joseph  Browning. 

Esther,  married  (1)  Jonathan  French;  married  (2)  Vespasian  Kemble. 

Benjamin,  married  Jane  Cheesman. 

Ephraim,  who  inherited  his  father's  homestead. 

Mary,  married  in  1761,  Joab  Hillman. 

[206]  JOHN  MATLACK,  JR.  [....-1774] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

HANNAH  SHIVERS  [....-....] 

OF  WATERFORD  AND  HADDONFIELD,  N.  J. 

OHN  MATLACK,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  (Horner)  Matlack  (205), 
was  born  at  Waterford,  N.  J.,  about  1711.  He  received  his  portion  of  land 
in  Waterford  from  his  father,  probably  at  the  time  of  his  marriage. 

He  married  in   1736,  Hannah  Shivers,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah 

)  Shivers  (209),  and  settled  on  the  land  mentioned  above  in  the  township 


J 


JOHN  MATLACK,  JR.  [206]  361 

of  Waterford.  Sometime  later  he  removed  to  Haddonfield,  although  it  appears 
he  retained  his  interest  in  "a  certain  saw  mill  situated  in  the  Township  of  Water- 
ford"  as  well  as  lands  there  which  are  specified  in  his  will. 

He  died  at  Haddonfield  in  1774  or  1775.  His  will,  dated  May  24,  1774, 
probated  March  22,  1775,  has  the  following  provisions: 

"Item  1  Give  and  Bequeath  unto  my  Beloved  Wife  Hannah  all  my  Household  Goods  and 
Kitchen  Furniture  .  .  .  my  house  and  Lands  where  I  now  live  and  the  Privilidge  to  Cut  her  fire 
wood  on  the  Twenty  Acres  of  Waterford,  .  .  .  unto  my  Grandsons  Thomas,  John,  Barzillai, 
and  Aquillai,  Lippencotts  the  Sum  of  Twenty  Pounds  Proclamation  Money  each  in  One  Year  Next 
the  Same  shall  desend  to  him  or  them  as  af*,  .  .  .  unto  my  daughter  Amy  Ellis  .  .  .  plantation 
Situate  in  the  Township  of  Waterford,  .  .  .  to  my  daughter  Hannah  Gibbs  .  .  .  my  share  ...  of 
a  Certain  Saw  Mill,  ...  1  further  Give  unto  my  said  daughter  Hannah  the  Sum  of  Four  Hundred 
Pounds  Proclamation  Money,  .  .  .  unto  my  daughter  Sarah  ...  all  the  aforesaid  House  and 
Lands  where  1  now  live  .  .  .  and  all  that  Tract  or  Twenty  Acres  of  Land  .  .  .  in  .  .  .  Waterford, 
unto  my  said  daughters  Amy  and  Sarah,  ...  all  that  my  Piece  of  Cedar  Swamp  Situate  near 
Long  a  Coming  (sic),  etc." 

Children   of  John   and   Hannah    (Shivers)   Matlack 
(197)    Anna,  born  7th  mo.  (25)  1737;  married  at  Chester  Monthly  Meeting,  3rd.  mo.  1756,  John 
LippiNCOTT,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Engle)  Lippincott  (196);  died  i  ith  mo. 
(3)  1762. 

Hannah,  married  Edward  Gibbs. 

Amy,  married  in  1756,  William  Ellis,  Jr. 

Sarah,  married  John  Middleton. 

[207]  ISAAC  HORNER  [....-....] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

LYDIA [1659-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  NORTHAMPTON,  N.  J. 

ISAAC  HORNER  probably  came  from  England,  but  the  first  record  of  him 
is  found  in  Northampton  township,  N.  J.,  which  now  includes  the  town  of 
Mt.  Holly,  and  joins  Evesham  on  the  northeast.  It  is  the  record  of  the 
marriage  of  his  daughter  Deliverance  to  Thomas  Stokes,  and  was  made  in  1704. 

Isaac  Horner  married  about  1680  Lydia ,  who  was  born  about  1659. 

He  died  probably  about  1 709,  as  a  census  taken  of  the  township  gives  the  names  and 
ages  of  his  wife  and  unmarried  children,  but  omits  mention  of  him.  From  this 
census  we  get  the  dates  of  birth  of  the  younger  children.  In  his  will,  which  is  not 
dated,  but  was  probated  September  5,  1709,  he  mentions  his  wife  Lydia,  who  was 
executrix,  his  daughters,"  Deliverance  Stoakes  wife  of  Thomas  Stoakes,"  "Hannah 
Matlack  wife  of  John  Matlack,"  and  Rachel,  and  his  sons  Isaac,  Jacob  and  Bar- 
tholomew. 

Children   of   Isaac  and   Lydia  ( )  Horner 

Deliverance,  married  in  1704,  Thomas  Stokes,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Bernard)  Stokes, 


362  ISAAC  HORNER  [207] 

who  came  over  in  the  "Kent"  with  William  Matlack  (204).     Deliverance's  son 
Thomas  married  in  1741,  Abigail  Matlack,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Lee)  Mat- 
lack  (205). 
(205)    Hannah,  born  nth  mo,  (16)   1686;    married  in   1708,  John    Matlack,  son  of  William 
and  Mary  (Hancock)  Matlack  (204),  and  died  before  1721. 

Rachel,  born  in  1690;  married  in  171 1,  Joshua  Humphreys. 

Isaac,  born  in  1695;  living  in  1709. 

Jacob,  twin  with  Isaac,  living  in  1709. 

Bartholomew,  born  in  1700;   married  in  1721  Elizabeth  Wills. 


[209J  JOHN  SHIVERS  [....-1716] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

SARAH  [....-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  WATERFORD,  N.  J. 

JOHN  SHIVERS  was  an  early  emigrant  to  West  New  Jersey,  and  must  have 
come  over  as  a  servant'  with  some  one,  as  his  name  is  not  on  the  lists  of 
passengers.  He  was  called  a  butcher,  probably  from  the  fact  that  he  was  one 
in  the  old  country  as  he  could  hardly  have  continued  that  occupation  in  the  un- 
broken forests  where  he  settled.  It  is  possible  that  he  carried  meat  for  sale  to 
Philadelphia,  which  was  the  nearest  settlement  of  any  size. 

He  married,  probably  about  1690  to  1692,  Sarah .    In  1692,  he  bought 

of  Mordecai  Howell  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Waterford  township,  on  the  north  side 
of  Cooper's  Creek,  on  which  Howell  had  built,  or  was  about  to  build,  a  mill.  The 
next  year  John  Wright,  an  owner  of  adjoining  land,  released  to  John  Shivers  the 
privilege  of  flooding  the  meadow  for  the  use  of  his  saw-mill.  On  this  tract  he 
built  the  house  in  which  he  lived  until  his  death.  The  house  was  occupied  after 
his  death  by  his  son  John,  who  kept  a  tavern  there,  as  it  was  on  the  ferry  road 
leading  out  of  Evesham  and  other  parts  of  Burlington  County  to  Philadelphia. 
Parts  of  the  house  occupied  in  1877  by  Richard  Shivers,  are  said  to  have  been 
taken  from  the  one  built  by  John  Shivers,  and  the  site  is  the  same. 

He  purchased  also  other  lands,  among  which  was  a  tract  of  two  hundred 
acres  bought  from  Anthony  Sturgiss  in  1699,  in  which  he  and  Henry  Johnson  had 
undivided  half  shares. 

He  died  intestate  January  13,  1716,  leaving  a  large  estate.  An  inventory 
was  taken  February  12,  and  was  filed  February  18,  1716,  by  his  widow  Sarah. 
There  is  some  doubt  as  to  the  names  and  marriages  of  his  children,  as  there  was 
no  will,  but  the  following  list  is  thought  to  be  correct. 

Children  of  John  and  Sarah  ( )  Shivers 

Samuel,  married  3rd    mo.  (22)    1723,  in   Burlington   Monthly  Meeting,  Martha  (or  Mary) 
Deacon,  daughter  of  George  Deacon;   settled  in  Newton  Township  on  the  property 
'  See  note  on  William  Matlack  (204). 


T 


JOHN  SHIVERS  [209]  363 

his  father  bought  of  Anthony  Sturgiss  in  1699  and  was  surveyor  of  highways  there 
in  1724;  removed  to  Greenwich,  Gloucester  County,  where  he  became  wealthy  and 
a  prominent  citizen;  died  in  1771. 
John,  married  in  1736,  Mary  Clement,  of  Gloucester  County;   remained  on  the  homestead 
and  kept  a  tavern  there.     The  property  is  still  in  the  possession  of  his  descendants. 
Mary,  married  in  1732,  Thomas  Bates,  probably  a  son  of  Joseph  Bates. 
(206)    Hannah,  married  in   1736,  John  Matlack,  son  of  John  and    Hannah  (Horner)  Mat- 
lack  (205);  died  after  1775. 
Josiah,  married  in  1729,  Ann  Bates  of  Gloucester  County,  N.  J. 

[213]  CHARLES  ELLET  [....-....] 

AND    HIS  WIFE 

ELIZABETH [....-....] 

OF  IRELAND  AND  NEW  SALEM,  N.  J. 

HE  name  Ellet  is  supposed  to  have  been  originally  Elliott  and  there  is  a 
tradition  in  the  family  that  Charles  Ellet  came  from  Ireland  with  his 
wife  and    two    children,  when    his    son  was  ten  years  old.     His  wife's 

name  was  Elizabeth . 

He  was  a  merchant  at  New  Salem,  N.  J.,  and  he  traded  at  Greenwich,  N.  J., 
Dutch  Creek,  Del.,  and  in  Connecticut.  He  and  his  wife  are  said  to  have  been  lost 
at  sea  returning  from  New  York  to  New  Salem,  N.  J.,  while  his  children  were  still 
young.  A  John  Ellet  who  may  perhaps  have  been  a  brother,  made  an  application, 
3  mo.  (7)  1722,  to  the  Burlington  Meeting  for  a  certificate  of  removal  to  the 
Nottingham  Meeting  in  Pennsylvania. 

Children  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  ( )   Ellet 

(214)   Charles,  born  in  Ireland;   married  (i)  Jan.  22,  1757,  Sarah  (Wetherby)  Austin,  widow 

of Austin  and  daughter  of  Edmund  and  Elizabeth  (Pledger)  Wetherby 

(221),  who  died  in  1767;  married  (2)  Hannah  Carpenter,  daughter  of  Judge  Preston 
and  Hannah  (Smith)  Carpenter;   died  in  1783. 
Elizabeth,  married  April  9,  1768,  Andrew  McCullom  of  Salem,  N.  J. 

[214]  CHARLES  ELLET,  JR.  [....-1783] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

SARAH  (WETHERBY)  AUSTIN  [1729-1767] 

OF  SALEM,  N.  J. 

CHARLES   ELLET,  Jr.,  was  the  only    son    of   Charles  and    Elizabeth 
( )    Ellet   (213)   and    it    is    said    came   from    Ireland   with    his 
parents  when  ten  years  of  age.     They  probably  died  before  his  marriage. 
He  married  (i)  January  22,  1757,  Sarah  (Wetherby)  Austin,  daughter 
of  Edmund  and   Elizabeth  (Pledger)  Wetherby  (221)  and  widow  of ■ 


364  CHARLES  ELLET,  JR.  [214] 

Austin,  whose  sister,  Sarah  Austin,  was  the  wife  of  Commodore  Barry.  His  wife 
Sarah  was  born  June  6,  1729. 

They  hved,  during  their  brief  married  Hfe,  on  the  property,  "a  house  and  lot 
of  eight  acres,"  in  Mannington,  Salem  Co.,  bequeathed  to  them  in  Edmund 
Wetherby's  will.  It  was  possibly  given  Sarah  to  occupy  on  her  first  marriage, 
as  after  their  deaths  it  was  to  go  to  her  son  Samuel  Austin.  She  died  September 
24,  1767. 

Charles  Ellet  married  (2)  in  1768,  Hannah  Carpenter,  daughter  of  Judge 
Preston  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Carpenter,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Thomas 
Lloyd,  governor  of  Pennsylvania  under  William  Penn. 

He  was  received  into  the  Friends'  Meeting  at  Salem,  12th  mo.  (25)  1769, 
with  his  two  children  under  age.  He  was  a  tanner  and  had  a  tannery  at  Salem, 
N.  J.  Barzillai  Lippincott  (198)  was  apprenticed  to  him  for  seven  years  to 
learn  the  trade.  Just  before  his  death  Barzillai  married  his  daughter  Elizabeth 
and  continued  the  business. 

He  was  evidently  a  man  of  more  than  usual  business  ability,  as  in  addition  to 
his  tannery,  he  owned  a  large  amount  of  land  or  farm  property,  which  he  operated 
successfully. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Mannington  township  in  1783,  and  was  buried  in 
Salem  "beneath  the  oak  tree."  His  will,  dated  November  12,  1777,  with  a  codicil 
of  June  14,  1783,  was  probated  December  15,  1783.  He  left  a  large  property  to  his 
son-in-law,  i.  e.  step-son,  Samuel  Austin,  who  also  inherited  the  house  in  which 
Charles  Ellet  had  been  living.  He  divided  his  other  real  property  between 
his  four  sons  John,  Thomas,  William,  and  Charles.  He  left  his  daughter  Elizabeth 
in  the  will  ;^iooo,  but  considering  it  too  large  a  proportion  after  her  marriage,  he 
reduced  it  to  ;£700.  He  left  to  his  daughter  Sarah,  ;^20o,  and  in  the  codicil,  to  his 
two  daughters  Rachel  and  Mary  who  were  born  after  the  date  of  the  will,  he  gave 
^200  apiece.  The  wife,  the  step-son,  and  all  the  children  except  Elizabeth,  were 
made  residuary  legatees,  and  Hannah  and  Samuel  Austin  were  the  executors. 
The  witnesses  were  Edmund  Wetherby  (221),  Judge  Preston  Carpenter  and  others. 
The  inventory  amounted  to  ;£2,533.  2s.  4d. 

His  widow  Hannah  married  (2)  Jedediah  Allen,  and  died  in  1820. 

Children  of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Wetherby  Austin)  Ellet 

(ig8)    Elizabeth,  born  9th  mo.  (30)  1761;  married  in  1782,  Barzillai  Lippincott,  son  of  John 
and  Anna  (Matlack)  Lippincott  (197);  died  in  1799. 

Children  of  Charles  and  Hannah  (Carpenter)  Ellet 

John,  born  2nd  mo.  (30)  1769;  married  Mary  Smith,  daughter  of  William  Smith. 

Sarah,  born  nth  mo.  (15)  1770;   married  Joseph  Reeves. 

Thomas,  born  3rd  mo.  (2)  1772;  was  hving  at  the  date  of  his  father's  will. 

Samuel,  born  ist  mo.  (16)  1774;   died  7th  mo.  (15)  the  same  year. 

William,  born  7th  mo.  (3)  1775;   married  Elizabeth  Taggert. 

Charles,  born  3rd  mo.  (4)   1777. 


•    CHARLES  ELLET,  JR.  [214]  365 

Hannah,  twin  with  Charles,  died  the  same  day. 
Hannah,  born  ist  mo.  (3)  1779;  died  gth  mo.  (9),  the  same  year. 
Rachel,  born  9th  mo.  (12)  1780;  married  James  Wainwright,  of  Maryland. 
Mary  (or  Margaret),  born  loth  mo.  (23)  1782. 

[220]  JOHN  WETHERBY  [....-....J 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

YEARNS  [....-....] 

OF  penn's  neck,  N.  J. 

JOHN  WETHERBY,  the  emigrant  ancestor  of  the  family  of  Wetherby, 
purchased  in  1735  of  William  Penn  a  tract  of  land  containing  five  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  at  Penn's  Neck,  Salem  County,  N.  J.,  lying  along  the  Dela- 
ware River. 

He  is  said  to  have  married  Yearns,  whose  parents  lived  at  Finn's 

Point.  It  is  possible  that  she  belonged  to  the  Swedish  Colony  which  antedated 
John  Fenwick's  by  some  twenty  or  thirty  years,  and  settled  along  that  part  of  the 
Delaware  River.     They  had  the  two  children  given  below  and  perhaps  more. 

The  date  of  John  Wetherby's  death  has  never  been  found,  nor  have  we  any 
further  record  of  his  life  or  occupation. 

Children  of  John  and (Yearns)  Wetherby 

(221)    Edmund,  born  Feb.  8,  1701;   married  Elizabeth  Pledger,  daughter  of  John  and 

Pledger  (224);  married  (2)  Martha  Pledger,  sister  of  Elizabeth,  died  Nov.  4,  1766. 
Henry,  mentioned  in  his  brother  Edmund's  will;  was  living  in  1760. 

[221]  EDMUND  WETHERBY  [1701-1766] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ELIZABETH  PLEDGER  [1700-.  . .  .] 
OF  penn's  neck,  N.  J. 

EDMUND   WETHERBY,  the  eldest  son  of  John   and  (Yearns) 
Wetherby  (220),  was  born    February  8,   1701,  at  Penn's  Neck,  Salem 
County,  N.  J.     He  evidently  inherited  property  from  his  father  at  that 
place. 
He  married  (i)  about   1728,  Elizabeth  Pledger,  daughter  of  John  and 

Pledger  (224),  who  was  born  February  18,  1700.     By  her  he  had  two 

children,  Sarah  and  Edmund.  She  died  before  1743,  and  he  married  (2)  her  sister 
Martha  Pledger,  who  survived  him,  but  left  no  children. 

From  his  will  it  appears  that  he  was  a  man  of  considerable  means,  and  was 
probably  a  lawyer  as  well  as  farmer. 


366  EDMUND  WETHERBY  [221] 

He  died  November  4,  1766,  aged  sixty-five.  His  will,  dated  July  5, 1760,  was 
probated  December  27,  1766.     Some  of  the  provisions  are  as  follows: 

"Item,  I  Give  unto  my  beloved  Wife  Martha  (over  and  above  what  the  Law  allows  her) 
the  best  Bed  and  Furniture  in  my  House  and  her  Horses  Bridle  and  Saddle.  Item  I  Give  unto 
my  brother  Henry  Wetherby  the  Sum  of  Ten  Pounds  and  also  the  Gray  Horse.  Item  I  Give  unto 
my  Son  Edmund  Wetherby  my  high  Dusk  or  Scrutour  [i.  e.  escritoire]  &  my  Law  Books,  Clock, 
riding  Mare  Saddle  &  Bridle,  and  all  my  wearing  Apparrel.  Item,  it  is  my  Will  that  my  wife 
do  keep  the  Clock  while  she  remain  my  Widow.  Item  ...  I  give  unto  my  Son  Edmund  Weth- 
erby and  my  daughter  Sarah  Elliott,  [the  residue]  my  Daughter  Sarah  to  have  two  parts  thereof 
and  my  son  Edmund  one  part.  Item  I  give  .  .  .  unto  Charls  Elliott  and  my  daughter  ...  all 
that  House  and  Lott  of  Land  .  .  .  whereon  they  now  live  during  their  natural  lives  and  after 
their  Dec^^  I  give  ...  all  the  above  s**  House  .  .  .  unto  my  Granson  Samuel  Ashton  [Austin] 
.  .  .  Item  I  give  .  .  .  unto  my  son  Edmund  Wetherby  all  that  plantation  whereon  he  now 
lives,  etc." 

Children  of  Edmund  and  Elizabeth  (Pledger)  Wetherby 

(214)    Sarah,  born  June  6,  1729;   married  (1) Austin,  married  (2)  Jan.  22,  1757,  Charles 

Ellet,  son  of  Charles  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Ellet  (213);  died  Sept.  24,  1767. 

Edmund,  born  Oct.  26,  1733;  married  (i)  in  1755,  Phoebe  Quinton;  married  (2)  Ann  Gibbon, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  and  Ann  (Grant)  Gibbon;  married  (3)  Jane  Skeer;  was  sheriff 
of  the  county  in  1744,  commissioner  of  the  Loan  Office,  member  of  the  General  Free 
Assembly  of  West  New  Jersey  for  the  Salem  tenth  in  i776^and  1786,  judge  and  justice 
of  the  peace;  died  in  March  1796. 

[223]  JOHN  PLEDGER  [....-1694] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ELIZABETH [....-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  SALEM,  N.  J. 

N  the  Salem  Monthly  Meeting  Records  we  have  the  following  specific  note, 
which  is  also  found  in  the  Records  of  Births  and  Deaths,  1 686-1 798,  in  the 
Friends'  Library  in  Philadelphia. 

"John  Pledger  of  Portsmouth  in  Hampshire  intending  to  transporte  himselfe  and  his 
family  to  the  province  of  West  New  Jersey  shiped  himselfe  abord  the  shipp  called  the  Joseph  and 
Benjamin  the  masters  name  was  Mathew  paine  bound  to  Maryland  the  said  John  pledger  arived 
at  West  new  Jersey  the  13th  day  of  the  first  month  in  the  year  1674/5  .  .  .  Elizabeth  pledger  the 
wife  of  the  Abovesaid  John  pledger  and  Joseph  pledger  their  sonn  who  was  born  the  fourth  day 
of  the  sixth  month  1672  were  shipped  abord  the  shipp  called  the  griffm  Robert  Griffin  being  master, 
bound  for  Delaware  river  who  arrived  in  the  said  river  the  23rd  day  of  the  9th  month  at  or  near 
New  Salem  in  the  year  1675  .  .  .  John  Pledger  the  sonn  of  John  Pledger  by  Elizabeth  his  wife  was 
borne  in  West  New  Jersey  in  the  county  of  New  Salem  the  27th  day  of  the  9th  month  1680." 

From  this  it  appears  that  John  Pledger  came  first  to  the  colony  in  the 
"Joseph  and  Benjamin"  and  that  his  wife  followed  in  the  "Griflfith"  (or  "Griffin") 


1 


JOHN  PLEDGER  [223]  367 

with  John  Fcnwick,  the  founder  of  the  colony.  There  has  been  some  confusion 
about  their  emigration  which  these  records  settle  authoritatively. 

John  Pledger  had  married  in  1671,  Elizabeth  ,  and  was  living  in 

Portsmouth,  Hampshire,  England,  where  he  was  a  ship-carpenter.  He  had  be- 
come acquainted  with  Hippolite  Lefevre,  a  French  Huguenot  of  St.  Martin  in  the 
Fields,  London,  and  they  had  together  purchased  in  the  fall  of  1674,  of  John 
Fenwick,  6000  acres  in  Packa-go-mack,  or  what  is  now  known  as  Mannington 
Township, N.J.  Lefevre  had  become  a  Friend  while  in  England,  it  is  not  known 
whether  John  Pledger  settled  on  this  tract  or  not,  as  he  owned  a  large  amount  of 
land. 

His  name  appears  March  3,  1676/7,  as  one  of  the  signers  of  the  document 
called  "Concessions  &  Agreements  of  the  Proprietors  &  Freeholders  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  West  Jersey."  In  1682  and  1684,  he  was  a  member  "for  Salem  tenth"  of 
the  Assembly  called  by  Jennings,  who  was  deputy  for  Governor  Edward  Byllinge. 
This  Assembly  convened  first  in  1681,  and  "agreed  on  certain  fundamentals  in 
government  and  passed  a  number  of  laws." 

He  was  a  member  of  Fenwick's  Council  and  one  of  the  ablest  of  the  emigrants 
of  the  Fenwick  Colony.  In  the  Friends'  records  we  find  John  and  Elizabeth 
Pledger  as  witnesses  at  the  wedding  of  John  Battle  at  Salem,  9th  mo.  (20)  1687. 

He  died  at  his  home  in  Mannington  Township  near  the  village  of  Salem, 
in  1694.  His  will  was  dated  8th  mo.  (17)  and  probated  probably  the  same  month 
(28)  1694.  He  left  all  his  property  to  his  wife  and  designated  portions  to  be 
given  to  his  two  sons  after  her  death. 

"If  either  of  my  Children  be  onduetifull  to  my  wife,  and  doe  render  himself  unworthie  of  the 
portion  that  I  Doe  Intend  to  leave  him  then  I  Doe  Give  power  to  my  wife  to  take  away  part 
or  all  if  she  please  of  ye  land  yt  1  intended  to  give  to  him  And  Give  it  to  him  yt  is  most  worthy 
of  it.  If  my  wife  continue  herself  a  widdow  &  have  need  of  Mainetaineance  Then  I  give  her  power 
to  sell  any  pt  or  parcell  of  my  land,  as  her  need  may  require  But  my  request  to  my  children  is  yt 
they  be  duetifuU  to  my  wife  &  live  wth  her  &  Assist  her  &  love  one  another,  and  then  I  thinck 
there  will  not  be  need  of  selling  nor  altering  ye  given  portions  of  land  to  my  Children.  .  .  Item, 
I  Give  to  my  servt  Joseph  Nicholes  five  pounds  currt  money  of  this  river  when  he  is  at  ye  age  of 
one  &  twenty  years  And  I  Desire  if  he  be  honest  &  deseruing  y'  it  may  be  doubled  or  more,  .  . 
Item,  I  Give  fourty  shillings  to  frends  towards  repaireing  of  the  Meeting  house  at  Salem.  .  .  I  Doe 
give  one  half  of  my  personall  Estate  to  my  son  Joseph.  .  .  &  Ye  other  half  to  my  son  John  Pledger, 
and  I  desire  Frends  of  Truth,  I  meane  frends  w^'^  are  reprochfully  called  Quakers,  belonging  to 
Salem  Meeting.  That  they  have  a  Concerne  on  them  for  my  son  John  &  receive  him.  That  he 
may  be  at  yor  tueition  my  frends,  &  I  desire  my  son  Joseph  to  pay  &  deliver  to  frends  yt  will  be 
appointed  to  be  in  trust  for  my  son  John  &  all  the  personall  Estate  Yt  I  have  Given  him  wthin 
a  yeare  if  they  demand  it,  and  I  Desire  frends  at  yor  monthly  Meeting  to  appoynt  a  man  or  two 
to  Officiate  &  to  demand  &  receive  for  my  son  John  the  Goods  &  Chatties  yt  I  have  left  him  till 
he  is  of  Cappassity  or  of  Age  to  dispose  of  himself  &  w'^'  I  leave  him.  If  friends  by  their  In- 
spection doe  find  that  my  two  sons  doe  love  &  agree.  Then  it  may  be  meet  y'  they  live  to  together 
but  lett  it  be  by  the  ord''  of  frends  and  while  he  is  un''"'  their  tueition.  he  may  be  placed  by 
them." 


368  JOHN  PLEDGER  [223] 

He  also  gave  his  son  John  twenty  pounds.  The  will  is  very  confused,  and 
reads  as  if  written  or  dictated  by  a  very  old  man. 

John  Pledger  was  buried  in  Salem  with  the  most  prominent  of  the  early 
colonists,  "in  the  yard  under  the  oak  tree."  This  sacred  spot  near  the  meeting 
house,  has  belonged  to  Salem  Monthly  Meeting  for  two  centuries,  and  the  old  white 
oak,  still  standing,  in  1876,  was  then  twenty  feet  in  circumference.  Under  it  also 
were  buried  Charles  Ellet,  Jr.  (214),  and  his  daughter  Elizabeth  (Ellet)  Lip- 
piNCOTT  (198). 

Children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Pledger 

Joseph,  born  in  England,  6th  mo.  (4)  1672;  married  in  1695,  Mary  ( )  Hurley,  widow 

of  Henry  Hurley.  At  the  marriage  Joseph  gave  bonds  of  ;£40,  to  be  paid  to  his  step- 
daughter, Sarah  Hurley,  "when  she  is  married  or  comes  of  age."  He  died  in  July, 
1697. 

(224)  John,  born  in  Salem,  N.  J.,  9th  mo.  (27)  1680;  married  (i) ,  married  (2)  in 

1731,  Hannah  ( )  Champness,  probably  widow  of  James  Champness;  died  in 

1743- 

[224]  JOHN  PLEDGER,  JR.  [1680-1744J 

OF  SALEM,  N.  J. 

JOHN  PLEDGER,  the  second  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Pledger 
(223),  was  born  9  mo.  (27)  1680,  soon  after  the  arrival  of  his  parents  in 
West  New  Jersey. 
He  probably  married  (i)  about  1699,  but  the  name  of  his  first  wife  and  the 
record  of  their  marriage  has  not  been  found.  All  his  children  were  of  this  first 
marriage,  and  the  eldest  one  was  born  in  February,  1700. 

In  1727,  he  built  what  is  known  as  the  Pledger  Homestead,  which  remained 
in  the  family  for  nearly  two  hundred  years,  and  was  still  standing  in  1888.  It  is  a 
large  brick  dwelling  and  had  originally  a  double  roof.  It  is  situated  about  a  mile 
from  Salem  in  the  township  of  Mannington,  on  the  Netherland  farm  left  him  by 
his  father,  as  his  portion  of  the  3000  acres  John  Pledger,  Sr.,  and  Hippolite 
Lefevre  bought  of  John  Fenwick. 

He  married  (2)  in  1731,  Hannah  ( )  Champness,  probably  widow  of 

James  Champness,  son  of  Nathaniel  Champness,  of  Salem.  At  the  Salem  Meeting, 
loth  mo.  (27)  1 73 1,  they  declared  their  intentions  of  marriage  and  were  proposed 
the  second  time  i  ith  mo.  (31)  1731.     At  that  meeting  a  committee  was 

"appointed  to  see  that  the  Widow  Champness  children  may  be  justly  dealt  with  according  to  what 
personal  estate  was  left  by  their  father  at  his  decease," 

John  Pledger  to  give  security  for  the  same. 

Another  record  of  the  Salem  Meeting  says  that  "John  Pledger  is  appointed 
to  get  a  hearse  made." 


JOHN  PLEDGER,  JR.  [224]  369 

He  died  at  his  home,  probably  about  1744.  His  will,  made  December  30, 
1743,  was  not  probated.  He  left  to  his  daughter  Martha  and  her  husband  Edmund 
Wetherby  (221)  and  to  their  heirs  the  homestead  and  other  property.  As  Martha 
had  no  children,  her  step-children,  who  were  also  John  Pledger's  grandchildren, 
got  no  share  in  the  estate,  and  the  land  soon  passed  out  of  the  family.  He  left 
an  ample  provision  to  his  wife,  also 

"a  New  Bed  and  Furniture  (that  is  to  say)  the  Bed  in  the  little  Chamber  and  the  Bedstead  and 
Calico  Curtins  in  the  great  Chamber  .  .  .  her  riding  Horse  and  Saddle  the  peace  of  Worstead  she 
is  making  and  an  Iron  Pot  and  pot  Hooks  .  .  .  Item,  my  will  is  that  my  said  Loving  wife  shall 
have  the  free  Priviledge  &  Use  of  the  Inner  Room  and  Inner  Seller  of  the  said  dwelling  House 
During  the  Term  of  her  Natural  Life  and  if  it  should  happen  that  the  Persons  who  shall  live  in  the 
other  part  of  the  said  House  should  refuse  to  let  her  have  the  Priviledge  of  going  through  the 
House  to  the  said  Room  and  Seller  that  then  she  shall  have  the  Liberty  of  makeing  a  front  Door 
to  the  Room  and  likewise  a  Door  to  the  Celler  where  she  shall  think  proper  .  .  .  Item,  I  give  unto 
my  Daughter  Elizabeth  Casperson  the  Sum  of  five  pounds  .  .  .  unto  my  Grand  Children  Joseph 
Pledger,  Sarah  Pledger  and  Dorothy  Pledger  .  .  .  five  pounds  each  .  .  .  unto  my  Grand  Children 
John  Redstricke,  Joseph  Redstricke  and  Pledger  Redstricke  .  .  .  five  pounds  each,  etc." 

The  executors  were  Edmund  Wetherby  and  his  second  wife,  Martha 
(Pledger)  Wetherby,  who  was  the  only  surviving  child. 

Children  of  John  and Pledger 

(221)    Elizabeth,  born  Feb.  18,  1700;    married  Edmund  Wetherby,  son  of  John  and 

(Yearns)  Wetherby  (220);   died  before  1743. 
Martha,  born  in   1701;    married  after  her  sister  Elizabeth's  death,  her  brother-in-law, 

Edmund  Wetherby,  mentioned  above;   died  in  1767. 
John,  married    in  Salem  Meeting,  in  1732,  his  second  cousin,  Mary  Johnson,  daughter  of 

Robert  and  Margaret  (Pledger   Seirs)  Johnson,  and  great-granddaughter  of  John 

Pledger  (223);  he  must  have  died  before  his  father. 

Elizabeth,  married Casperson,  named  in  her  father's  will. 

,  (a  daughter),  married Redstricke,  as  named  in  her  father's  will. 


SWIFT    ANCESTRY 

OF 

ABIA  SWIFT  LIPPINCOTT 

[136] 


[226]  WILLIAM  SWIFT  [....-1643] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

JOAN [....-1663] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  SANDWICH,  MASS. 


ILLIAM  SWYFT,  as  the  name  is  spelled  in  the  earliest  records,  is  said 
by  Savage  to  have  come  from  Bocking  (Barking),  Essex,  England, 


w 

y  Y  to  America  in  the  "great  Boston  immigration"  of  1630  and  163 1. 
The  Barking  parish  records  were,  unfortunately,  burned  about  the 
time  of  the  Restoration,  so  that  no  exact  information  as  to  his  descent  from 
Swyfts  of  that  place  can  be  procured. 

William  Swift  married  before  coming  to  America  Joan ,  and  prob- 
ably all  of  his  children  were  born  in  England.  He  settled  first  in  Watertown,  Mass., 
where  he  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  town  lands.  The  first  record  we  find  is 
April  7,  1635,  "Willm  Swifte  promiseth  to  gyve  XXs  towards  the  care  of  .  .  . 
his  late  servant,  infirme  &  lame."     The  name  is  omitted  in  the  record. 

In  the  "Third  Great  Dividends  of  Town  Lands"  July  25,  1636,  he  drew  No. 
14,  a  forty-acre  lot,  and  later,  February  28, 1636/7,  he  drew  a  five-acre  lot  in  "  Beaver 
Brook  Plowlands." 

In  1636,  he  mortgaged  his  house  and  lands  in  Watertown  to  John  Haines, 
attorney  for  Andrew  Coleman  in  England.  William  Swift  had  given  his  name  as 
joint  security  in  a  matter  in  which  Roger  Spring  was  the  principal  debtor.*  Early 
the  following  spring  (1637),  he  sold  this  house  and  land  to  Thomas  White,  of 
Sudbury,  either  taking  in  exchange  or  buying  land  at  Sudbury.  He  perhaps 
lived  there  for  a  while  before  going  to  Sandwich,  for  this  "messuage  and  tenement" 
in  Sudbury  was  a  part  of  his  estate  and  was  mortgaged  to  a  Mr.  Burton. 

August  I,  1637,  "Mr.  Richrd  Browne  &  Goo  Willi:  Heathe  have  power  to 
examine  .  .  .  Swiftes  case,  about  his  man,"  which  would  seem  to  imply  that  he 
found  difficulty  in  paying  the  twenty  shillings  he  promised  for  "  care." 

'Col.  Rec.  Mass.,  Sept.  i,  1640. 


WILLIAM  SWIFT  [226]  371 

He  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Sandwich,  Mass.,  going  there  a  little  later 
than  the  first  party  of  which  Thomas  Tupper  (235)  was  one.  The  farm  he  then 
bought  was  the  largest  in  the  town,  and  was,  in  1900,  still  in  possession  of  one  of  his 
descendants,  Shadrach  F.  Swift. 

William  Swift  died  at  Sandwich,  probably  in  1642/3,  as  the  records 
read: 

"In  Probate  office  Plymouth  William  Swyft,  Sandwich,  1643, — Administration  by  Joane 
his  wife  .  .  .  January  29,  1642/3  the  inventory  was  shown  at  Court.  Amount  £j2.  iis.  7 
March  1642/3  Joan  administratrix  of  the  estate  of  her  husband  William  Swyft  of  Sandwich  to  pay 
debts  as  far  as  the  estate  will  amount  unto  by  equal  proportion  ...  It  payed  6s.  8d.  to 
the;£." 

Joan  Swift  survived  her  husband  twenty  years  or  more,  and  became  identi- 
fied with  the  Quakers,  who  at  this  time  obtained  a  foothold  in  Sandwich,  although 
the  laws  against  them  were  very  severe.  For  the  crime  of  entertaining  a  Quaker, 
although  but  for  fifteen  minutes,  a  fine  of  £^,  or  a  year's  pay  of  a  laboring  man, 
was  exacted,  and  for  holding  a  meeting  the  preacher  was  fined  40s.,  every  one 
present  40s.  and  the  owner  of  the  house  the  same.  It  appears  that  Joan  was  fined 
10  shillings  in  1660,  "for  being  at  Quaker  Meeting"  with  ten  other  people.  Her  son- 
in-law,  Daniel  Wing,  was  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Quakers  in  the  troubles  which 
resulted  in  the  resignation  of  Mr.  Leverich,  the  first  minister  at  Sandwich.  Until 
1658  the  church  was  left  without  a  pastor  and  Mr.  Richard  Bourne  and  Mr.  Thomas 
Tupper  (235)  carried  on  the  services  (see  under  No.  235). 

Joan  died  at  Sandwich  November  26,  1663.  Her  will  was  made  8th  mo.  (12) 
1662,  and  the  inventory  was  filed  loth  mo.  (25)  1663/4,  amounting  to  £105. 6s. 
The  will  reads: 

"I  do  give  unto  Daniel  Winges  his  son  Samuel  and  John,  a  mare  foal  of  a  year  old.  Item, 
I  give  unto  my  grandchild  Hannah  Swift,  the  old  mare,  if  she  be  alive,  if  not  the  next  to  her. 
Item,  I  give  unto  my  grandchild  Experience  Allen  a  chest  with  drawers  and  my  Bible.  Item,  I 
give  unto  my  two  grandchildren  Hannah  Swift  and  Experience  Allen,  all  my  linen  and  my  pewter 
to  be  equally  divided  between  them.  Item,  I  give  unto  Mary  Darbey  my  wearing  clothes.  Item, 
I  give  unto  Hannah  Winge  the  elder  my  best  hat  and  forty  shillings  to  her  daughters,  to  be  divided 
amongst  them.  Item  I  give  unto  Jedediah  Allen  and  Experience  Allen  the  third  part  of  my 
Estate,  this  house  and  garden  being  part  of  the  third:  I  give  unto  my  son  William's  children 
each  of  them  a  mare  foal,  my  debts  being  discharged  and  my  funeral  being  paid  I  give  the  rest 
of  my  estate  to  my  son  William  whom  I  make  my  executor." 

Children  of  William  and  Joan  ( )  Swift 

Hannah,  married  Nov.  5,  1641,  Daniel  Wing,  son  of  John  and  Deborah  (Batchelor)  Wing, 
of  Sandwich;   died  Dec.  i,  1664,  and  her  husband  married  (2)  Sept.  2,  1666,  Anna 
Ewer. 
Esther  (or  Easter),  married  in  1645,  Ralph  Allen,  son  of  George  Allen,  of  Sandwich. 
(227)  William,  married  Ruth ;   died  in  January,  1706. 


372  WILLIAM  SWIFT,  JR.  [227] 

[227]  WILLIAM  SWIFT,  JR.  [....-1706] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

RUTH [....-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  SANDWICH,  MASS. 

WILLIAM  SWIFT,  son  of  William  and  Joan  ( )  Swift  (226), 
came  to  America  with  his  parents  from  Bocking  (Barking),  Essex, 
England,  when  he  was  very  young.  He  lived  with  them  first  in 
Watertown,  Mass.,  moving  to  Sandwich  about  1637  to  1640. 

In  1643,  he  was  enrolled  at  Sandwich  as  "able  to  bear  arms,"  i.e., he  was  aged 
between  sixteen  and  sixty.  This  shows  that  he  was  born  not  later  than  1627. 
The  same  year,  1643,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Sandwich  Military  Company  com- 
manded by  Lieutenant  John  Blackmer. 

He  married  about  1650  Ruth ,  by  whom  he  had  eleven  children.     He 

held  various  town  offices  from  this  time.  In  1652  he  was  on  the  grand  jury,  in 
1655  surveyor  of  the  highways,  in  1660  and  1668  constable  and  from  1668  he  was 
selectman  for  eleven  years.  He  was  licensed  to  keep  an  ordinary  in  Sandwich 
"for  entertainment  of  strangers"  in  1669. 

In  1670,  he,  with  Thomas  Hinckley  (185)  and  others  were  in  a  syndicate 
which  agreed  to  buy  all  the  tar  made  in  Sandwich,  ordered  by  the  Court  to  be 
sold  only  in  the  Colony.  He  represented  Sandwich  as  deputy  to  the  General 
Court  in  1673,  1676,  1677  and  1678,  and  was  one  of  the  commissioners  appointed 
by  the  Court  July  13,  1677,  "to  hear  and  determine  all  claims  against  the  Colony  on 
account  of  the  late  war"  (King  Philip's).  From  this  it  would  appear  that  he  was  a 
man  of  influence  and  prominence  in  public  life,  both  in  the  town  and  the  Colony. 

He  died  at  Sandwich  about  January,  1705/6.  His  will,  made  December  15, 
1705,  was  probated  January  29,  1705/6.  In  it  he  gave  to  his  wife  Ruth  £'^0,  and 
to  his  son  Josiah  his  homestead,  "excepting  that  piece  of  land  about  the  picket 
clifts"  which  he  gave  to  three  sons  of  his  deceased  son  William,  viz:  Thomas, 
Josiah  and  Ebenezer,  "not  to  be  sold  or  in  any  way  disposed  of  but  to  the  Swifts." 
He  gave  to  his  son  Jireh  ;£20  "in  moveables"  and  the  rest  of  his  moveables  were 
to  be  divided  equally  between  his  four  daughters,  Hannah  Tobie,  Temperance 
Bourne,  Hester  Gibbs  and  Dinah  Perry.  To  his  grandson  William,  another  son 
of  William,  he  gave  20s.  The  witnesses  were  "Thomas  Gibs  (233),  Samuel  Gibs," 
brother  of  Thomas,  and  James  Stewart. 

Children  of  William  and  Ruth  ( )  Swift 

Hannah,  born  March  11,  165 1;   married Tobey. 

Ruth,  born  in   1652,  died  in  infancy. 

Wilham,  born  Aug.  28,  1654;   married  Elizabeth ;   was  a  carpenter;   died  at  Sand- 
wich in  May,  1701,  and  mentioned  his  wife  Ehzabeth  in  his  will. 


WILLIAM  SWIFT,  JR.  [227]  373 

Ephraim,  born  June  6,  1656;  married  Sarah ;  was  a  carpenter  and  cooper;  died  at 

Sandwicii  about  1742,  as  his  will  was  probated  Feb.  17  of  that  year. 

Mary  (or  Maria),  born  April  7,  1659;  married  Feb.  6,  1677,  Shubaell  Smith,  son  of  Rev. 
John  Smith;  probably  died  before  1705  as  she  is  not  mentioned  in  her  father's  will. 

Samuel,  born  Aug.  10,  1662;  married  Mary ;  died  at  Sandwich,  May  25,  1733. 

(228)  JiREH,  born  in  1665;  married  (i)  Nov.  26,  1697,  Abigail  Gibbs,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Alice  (Warren)  Gibbs  (233)  of  Sandwich;  married  (2)  Nov.  19,  1741,  Mary  Besse; 
died  April  3,  1749. 

Temperance,  married  Deacon  Timothy  Bourne,  of  Sandwich. 

Esther  (or  Hester),  married  John  Gibbs. 

Dinah,  married  Jan.  11,  1704,  Ezra  Perry. 

Josiah,  married  (i)  April  19,  1706,  Mary  Bodfish,  daughter  of  Joseph  Bodfish,  of  Barn- 
stable, Mass.;  married  (2)  June  23,  1718,  Experience  Nye;  his  will  was  proved  in 
'757- 

[228]  JIREH  SWIFT  [1665-1749] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ABIGAIL  GIBBS  [....-....] 

OF  SANDWICH  AND  WAREHAM,  MASS. 

JIREH  SWIFT,  the  fourth  son  of  William  and  Ruth  ( )  Swift  (227), 
was  born  at  Sandwich  in  1665,  and  was  admitted  a  townsman  there  in  1696. 
He  married  (i)  November  26,  1697,  Abigail  Gibbs,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Alice  (Warren)  Gibbs  (233),  of  Sandwich,  the  date  of  whose  birth  is  un- 
known. 

Jireh  Swift  was  one  of  the  company  or  syndicate  from  Sandwich  which 
bought  the  lands  at  Wareham  from  the  original  proprietors.  He  was  also,  in 
171 5,  one  of  the  selectmen  at  Wareham.  It  is  probable  that  he  did  not  live  there, 
but  held  this  office  on  account  of  his  large  interest  in  real  estate.  He  was  one 
of  the  selectmen  of  Sandwich  in  1722  and,  as  such,  represented  the  town  with 
Eliakim  Tupper  (237)  at  a  meeting  at  Plymouth,  November  6,  1722,  "to  adjust 
bounds  between  Plymouth  &  Sandwich."  On  the  list  of  "Heads  of  families  of 
Sandwich"  in  1730,  we  find  his  name  and  that  of  his  son  Jabez. 

In  1 73 1  there  appears  again  to  have  been  some  disaffection  or  trouble  in  the 
Sandwich  church  (see  266),  and  a  petition  to  the  Court  was  signed  by  Jireh  Swift 
and  others  to  remove  the  minister,  which  read  in  part  as  follows: 

"That  great  dissatisfaction  was  conceived  at  the  conduct  of  the  minister  Mr.  Fessenden, 
that  the  aggrieved  had  called  in  council  seventeen  churches  to  advise,  which  said  council  had  laid 
Mr.  Fessenden  under  censure  and  advised  his  removal,  but  that  he  and  the  church  refused  to  sub- 
mit and  that  the  petitioners  not  being  able  with  a  good  conscience  to  sit  under  his  ministry,  pray 
for  a  division  of  the  parish,  etc." 

The  court  did  not  grant  the  petition,  which  was  dismissed. 

A  document  found  among  the  papers  of  Eldad  Tupper,  brother  of  Eliakim 
(237)  and  son  of  Thomas  Tupper  (236),  is  interesting  in  this  connection  as  it 


374  JIREH  SWIFT  [228] 

shows  that  Jireh  Swift  and  Eliakim  Tupper  at  once  took  active  measures  to 
build  another  meeting-house,  and  that  they  were  leaders  of  a  considerable  party. 

"Whereas  we  Jireh  Swift  and  Eliakim  Tupper  of  Sandwich  have  received  two  promissory 
notes  of  a  number  of  the  dissatisfied,  namely  Eldad  Tupper  [brother  of  Eliakim]  Joshua  Blackwell 
Jr.,  Thomas  Smith,  Samuel  Blackwell,  Thomas  Swift,  William  Swift  the  younger,  [nephew  of  Jireh] 
Zacheus  Burge,  Josiah  Swift  [brother  of  Jireh]  Mordecai  Blackwell,  Ichabod  Smith,  Jacob  Burge, 
in  which  notes  they  promise  to  pay  us  each  and  every  man  of  them  the  sum  affixed  to  his  name, 
that  is  to  say:  The  said  Eldad  Tupper  24  pounds,  the  said  Joshua  Blackwell  Jr.  4  pounds,  the  said 
Thomas  Smith  4  pounds,  the  sd.  Samuel  Blackwell  8  pounds,  the  sd.  William  Swift  the  younger  one 
pound  4s.  the  said  Thomas  Swift  4  pounds,  the  sd.  Zacheus  Burge  4  pounds,  the  said  Josiah  Swift 
10  pounds,  the  sd.  Mord.  Blackwell  one  pound  4s.  the  sd.  Ichabod  Smith  one  pound  4s.  the  sd. 
Jacob  Burge  8  pounds,  all  amounting  to  the  sum  of  69  pounds  12s.  Know  ye,  that  we,  the  sd. 
Jirah  Swift  and  Eliakim  Tupper,  do  hereby  promise  that  in  case  we  do  not  lay  out  the  said  sum 
or  sums  in  buying  or  procuring  boards,  clapboards,  shingles,  and  work  for  enclosing  or  finishing 
the  meeting  house,  then  the  said  notes  to  be  void  and  of  none  effect,  or  to  be  returned  to  them 
again:  Otherwise  to  stand  and  remain  in  full  force  and  virtue,  as  witness  our  hands  this  13th  day 
of  April  A.  D.   1732. 

Jireh  Swift 
Eliakim  Tupper" 

Jireh  Swift  was  fence  and  field  viewer  in  Sandwich  in  1737  and  constable 
there  the  next  year.  His  wife  Abigail  died  sometime  after  1725,  the  date  of  her 
father's  will  (see  233),  and  he  married  (2)  November  19,  1741,  Mary  Besse,  of 
Wareham,  by  whom  he  had  no  children.  He  probably  moved  soon  after  to  Ware- 
ham,  as  he  died  there  April  3,  1749,  aged  eighty-four. 

His  will,  dated  March  29,  1744,  was  probated  April  3,  1749.  It  is  rather 
peculiar,  as  the  division  of  his  estate  is  so  unequal  among  his  children.  He  may 
have  provided  for  the  older  ones  during  his  lifetime,  or  there  may  have  been  some 
disagreement  owing  to  his  second  marriage  so  late  in  life.  He  bequeathed  to  his 
wife  a  variety  of  household  effects, 

"liberty  to  live  in  the  west  end  of  my  house,  during  the  term  that  she  remains  my  widow,  and  two 
hundred  pounds  in  good  bills  of  old  tenor,  ...  1  give  to  my  son  Jabez,  .  .  .  Zephaniah  .  .  . 
Nath'  .  .  .  Jirah  Swift  .  .  .  Job  .  .  .  Silas  Swift,  Five  shillings  old  tenor,  .  .  .  unto  my  son  Isaac 
Eighty  pounds  old  tenor  .  .  .  my  daughter  Alice  Crocker,  .  .  .  Susannah  Isham  one  shilling  old 
tenor.  .  .  my  daughter  Abigail  Hamond  .  .  .  C*  daughter  Abigail  Swift  .  .  .  C*  son  Jirah  Swift 
.  .  .  five  pounds  old  tenor,  .  .  .  Catherine  Curby  [probably  a  grandniece]  twenty  shillings  old 
tenor,  ...  to  my  son  Rowland,  to  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  all  my  lands  .  .  .  that  I  have  in 
Wareham,  together  with  all  my  right  which  I  have  in  the  Muddy  Pond  Cedar  Swamp  .  .  .  also  all 
my  right  in  Sandy  Pond  land  lying  in  the  township  of  Plymouth  .  .  .  And  my  will  is  that  if  .  .  . 
Rowland  should  die  without  leaving  any  issue  .  .  .  then  his  share  above  given  to  be  equally 
divided  among  my  sons  ...  to  my  son  Rowland  all  my  moveable  estate  both  within  doors  and 
without  .  .  .  together  with  all  my  housing  &  outhousing,  my  part  of  the  mill,  the  privilege  that 
1  have  in  the  stream,  with  all  my  bond  &  book  debts,  etc,  I  do  hereby  .  .  .  ordain  my  son  Row- 
land Swift  to  be  my  sole  .  .  .   Executor  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament." 

Children  of  Jireh  and  Abigail  (Gibbs)  Swift 
Alice  (Ales),  born  July  23,  1698;   married  Nov.  21,  1721,  James  Crocker,  son  of  Jonathan 


JIREH  SWIFT  [228]  375 

and  Hannah  (Howland)  Crocker,  of  Barnstable;   removed  to  Connecticut  and  died 
at  West  Chester,  Conn.,  Jan.  17  (or  July  15),  1783. 

Susannah,  born  Oct.  6,  1699;  married  Dec.  1 1,  1730,  Joseph  Isham  (or  isum),  of  Sandwich. 

Jabez,  born  March  16,  1700/1;  married  Oct.  9,  1729,  Abigail  Pope,  of  Sandwich;  in  1743 
removed  to  Kent,  Litchfield  County,  Conn.,  where  he  was  deputy  to  the  General 
Court  from  1757  to  1760.  His  son.  General  Heman  Swift,  served  in  the  Revolution, 
and  commanded  the  regiment  in  which  his  cousin  Dr.  Isaac  Swift  (230)  was  surgeon. 
Jabez  died  at  Kent,  Nov.  2,  1767. 

Zephaniah,  born  March  6,  1702/3;  married  Sept.  30,  1725,  Lydia  Chipman,  daughter  of  Hon. 
John  and  Mary  (Skiff)  Chipman;  was  of  Sandwich  in  1725,  constable  at  Plymouth 
(Agav/am)  in  1728,  of  Lebanon,  Conn.,  in  1739,  of  Croton  in  1743,  of  Lebanon  again 
in  1746  and  died  at  Derby,  Conn.,  May  9,  1781. 

William,  born  July  5,  1705;  married  (i)  Keziah ,  who  died  March  23,  1735/6;   mar- 
ried (2)  Abigail  Burgess,  of  Sandwich;  died  in  November,  1748. 
(229)    Nathaniel,  born  March  14,   1707/8;  married  Sept.  14,   1730,  Abia  Tupper,  daughter  of 
Eliakim  and  Joanna  (Gibbs)  Tupper  (237),  of  Sandwich;    died  at  Warren,  Conn., 
March  13,  1790. 

Jireh,  born  Nov.  23,  1709;  married  Oct.  9,  1730,  Deborah  Hathaway;  lived  at  Acushnet  near 
New  Bedford,  and  was  known  as  Deacon  Jireh;  died  at  New  Bedford,  March  16,  1782. 

Job,  born  at  Wareham,  Oct.  3,  171 1;  married  Jan.  20,  1733/4,  at  Wareham,  Sarah  Black- 
well  of  Sandwich;  was  a  selectman  at  Sharon,  Norfolk  County,  Mass.,  in  1765,  on  the 
Committee  of  Safety  in  1774,  delegate  to  the  Provincial  Congress  in  1774/5;  with 
his  three  sons  served  in  the  Revolution;  died  at  Sharon,  Feb.  14,  1801. 

Silas,  born  Aug.  2,  1713;  married  Oct.  16,  1735,  Abigail  Tupper,  daughter  of  Eliakim  and 
Joanna  (Gibbs)  Tupper  (237),  and  sister  of  his  brother  Nathaniel's  wife;  lived  at 
Lebanon,  Conn.,  with  the  exception  of  two  or  three  years  spent  at  Windham,  Conn.; 
died  at  Lebanon,  Sept.  24,   1794. 

Abigail,  born  July  26,  1715;  married Hammond. 

Isaac,  born  May  3,  1720;  married  in  1749  Susanna  (Keith)  Ames,  of  Bridgwater,  widow 
of  Solomon  Ames  and  daughter  of  Samuel  Keith;  settled  in  Bridgwater  and  died 
there,  Nov.  22,  181 1. 

Rowland,  born  March  24,  1721/2;  married  Dec.  5,  1745,  Mary  Dexter,  of  Wareham;  lived 
for  a  time  in  Wareham,  but  later  removed  to  Lebanon,  Conn.,  where  he  died,  Feb. 
13.  '795- 

[229]       CAPTAIN  NATHANIEL  SWIFT  [i  708-1 790] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ABIA  TUPPER  [1713-1782] 

OF  KENT,  CONN. 

NATHANIEL  SWIFT,  son  of  Jireh  and  Abigail  (Gibbs)  Swift  (228),  was 
born  March  14,  1707/8,  at  Sandwich,  Mass.     He  married  there  September 
14, 1730,  Abia  Tupper,  daughter  of  Eliakim  and  Joanna  (Gibbs)  Tupper 
(237),   who  was  born    November  i,  1713.     After  considerable  research 
I  have  not  been  able  to  discover  whether  Nathaniel's  and  Asia's  mothers  were 


376  CAPTAIN  NATHANIEL  SWIFT  [229] 

related,  but  they  probably  were.    The  name  Abia,  a  very  unusual  one,  was  carried 
down  for  five  generations,  in  the  Swift,  Lippincott  and  Oilman  descendants. 

Nathaniel  remained  in  Sandwich  perhaps  until  1740,  but  lived  also  in  Ply- 
mouth and  Rochester,  Mass.,  before  removing  to  Connecticut.  In  1745  we  find 
him  in  Kent,  Litchfield  County,  Conn.,  on  the  tax  list,  assessed  on  a  valuation  of 

In  1755  he  was  commissioned  by  the  General  Court  at  Hartford  as  follows: 

"Mr.  Nathaniel  Swift  to  be  Capt.  of  the  and  Co.  of  the  Trainband  in  the  town  of  Kent  &  or- 
der that  he  be  commissioned  accordingly." 

He  appears  to  have  served  also  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  as  he  was  a 
Revolutionary  pensioner  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant.  Just  what  his  service  was, 
however,  has  not  been  ascertained. 

The  following  record  of  a  Town  Meeting  in  Kent  in  1774  shows  that  he  was 
recognized  there  as  one  of  the  local  leaders  of  the  movement  for  independence. 

"At  a  meeting  26  Oct.  1774:  voted  &  made  choice  of  Capt.  Nathaniel  Swift  moderator: 
voted  that  this  meeting  having  taken  into  consideration  the  alarming  situation  of  the  American 
Colonies  now  burdened  with  the  Yoke  of  ministerial  oppression  by  those  unconstitutional  & 
oppressive  acts  of  Parliament,  the  Boston  Port  Bill  &  the  ever  to  be  detested  Quebec  Bill  en- 
grosses our  greatest  attention  &  esteeming  the  General  Congress  now  sitting  in  Philadelphia  & 
committee  of  correspondence  in  each  town  through  the  colonies  the  most  likely  method  to  preserve 
our  invaluable  privilege,  both  of  a  civil  as  well  as  religious  nature,  from  the  stroke  of  impending 
ruin  &  hand  them  down  inviolable  to  the  latest  posterity — We  do  heartily  acquiesce  in  the  wise 
&  glorious  effort  for  the  preservation  of  liberty,  etc." 

Several  deeds  are  on  record  which  mention  him  as  of  Kent,  but  there  is  one 
in  1773  which  gives  him  as  Captain  Nathaniel  Swift  of  Cornwall.  This  is  not 
far  from  Kent,  and  perhaps  he  lived  there  in  his  later  life,  as  his  name  is  on  the 
roll  of  the  Cornwall  church  membership  in  1783.  His  wife  Abia  died  April  4, 
1782,  at  Warren,  Conn.  At  the  age  of  eighty-two  he  died  March  13,  1790,  also 
at  Warren,  probably  at  the  home  of  his  son  Nathaniel. 

Children  of  Captain  Nathaniel  and  Abia  (Tupper)  Swift 

Innominatus,  born  in  April,  1731;  died  three  days  after. 

Rufus,  born  in  Plymouth,  Nov.  24,  1734,  died  in  infancy. 

Joanna,  born  in  Rochester,  July  17,  1737;   died  young. 

Abigail  (or  Abiah),  born  in  Kent,  Nov.  12,  1748;  married  Dr.  Peleg  Sturtevant,  of  Warren, 

Conn,  (see  199). 
Nathaniel,  born  in  Kent,  Sept.  18,  1749;    married  Dec.  21,  1769,  Sarah  Thomas;  lived  at 

Warren  and  was  a  deputy  for  Warren  to  the  General  Court  for  nineteen  sessions, 

from  1786  to  1810;  died  at  Warren,  Dec.  4,  1825. 
(230)    Isaac,  born  in  Kent,  Feb.  27,  1753;  married  Jan.  3,  1775,  Patience  Case  (or  Cass),  daughter 

of  Moses  and  Phoebe  (Peters)  Case  (245),  of  Hebron,  and  Kent,  Conn.;   died  at 

Cornwall,  Conn.,  July  29,  1802. 
Rufus,  born  Oct.  3,  1756;  died  Dec.  16,  1760. 


DR.  ISAAC  SWIFT  [230]  377 


[230]  DR.  ISAAC  SWIFT  [1753-1802] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

PATIENCE    CASE    [1754-1808] 

OF  KENT  AND  CORNWALL,  CONN. 

ISAAC  SWIFT,  the  youngest  son  of  Captain  Nathaniel  and  Abia  (Tupper) 
Swift  (229),  was  born  at  Kent,  Litchfield  County,  Conn.,  February  27,  1753. 
He  was  educated  as  a  physician.     He  married,  January  3,   1775,  Patience 

Case,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Phoebe  (Peters)  Case  (245)  of  Hebron  and 
Kent,  Conn.,  who  was  born  December  17,  1754. 

When  the  Seventh  Regiment  was  raised  by  the  Connecticut  Assembly  in 
July,  1775,  Dr.  Isaac  Swift  became  surgeon's  mate,  under  Colonel  Charles  Webb. 
Hewas  stationed  at  various  points  along  the  Sound  until  September  14, when,  on  a 
requisition  from  Washington,  the  Regiment  was  ordered  to  the  Boston  camps  and 
assigned  to  Sullivan's  Brigade  on  Winter  Hill,  to  the  left  of  the  besieging  line. 
There  it  remained  until  the  expiration  of  their  term  of  enlistment,  December,  1775. 
It  was  reorganized  the  following  year  as  the  Nineteenth  Continentals,  but  Dr. 
Isaac  Swift  was  no  longer  connected  with  it. 

His  next  army  service  was  probably  when  he  was  again  commissioned  as 
surgeon's  mate,  January  i,  1777,  and  assigned  to  the  Seventh  Regiment  of  the  Con- 
necticut Line,  commanded  by  his  cousin,  General  Heman  Swift.  This  regiment  was 
raised,  January  i,  1777,  for  the  new  Continental  Line  to  continue  through  the 
war  and  went  into  the  field  early  in  the  spring  at  Camp  Peekskill,  N.  Y.  Dr. 
Swift  was  promoted  to  be  full  surgeon  August  6.  In  September  they  were 
ordered  under  McDougall  to  join  Washington's  army  in  Pennsylvania  and  were 
engaged  in  the  battle  of  Germantown,  October  4,  when  they  suffered  heavily. 
The  following  winter  they  were  at  Valley  Forge.  The  dreadful  suffering  endured 
there  by  Washington's  army  has  called  forth  the  admiration  of  their  countrymen. 
Cold,  hunger  and  disease  produced  so  much  sickness  that  the  log-huts  used  for  hos- 
pitals were  overcrowded  and  many  died  from  the  exposure  incident  to  the  poverty 
of  their  equipment.  Dr.  Swift's  experience  that  winter  must  have  been  a  most 
difficult  and  trying  one.  The  following  spring,  May  i,  1778,  he  resigned  from  the 
service,  probably  on  account  of  broken  health. 

After  his  return  from  the  war  he  appears  to  have  settled  in  Cornwall,  a  little 
to  the  south  of  Kent  and  in  the  same  county.  He  was  deputy  or  representative 
for  Cornwall  to  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut,  from  1792  to  1799. 

-He  died  at  Cornwall,  July  29,  1802,  aged  forty-nine.     His  will  was  dated 
July  23,  1802,  and  is  partly  as  follows: 

"  I  give  and  devise  unto  my  loving  wife  Patience,  the  use  and  improvement  of  all  that 
part  of  my  real  estate  called  my  homestead,  including  the  Millard  lot,  containing  about  forty-five 
acres  situate  on  each  side  of  the  road  leading  from  Kent  to  Cornwall,  together  with  my  dwelling 


378  DR.  ISAAC  SWIFT  [230] 

house,  barn  and  outhouses  standing  on  the  same  and  five  acres  of  woodland  on  that  part  of  my 
farm  called  the  Kent  lot,  during  her  natural  life.  Also  .  .  .  one  horse  saddle  and  bridle  and  all 
my  household  furniture  .  .  .  the  use  and  improvement  of  two  cows,  two  oxen,  thirteen  sheep  and 
all  my  farming  utensils  as  long  as  she  shall  remain  my  widow  ...  To  my  two  sons  each  an  equal 
share  of  my  estate,  what  I  have  before  given  Adoniram  being  considered  as  part  of  his  portion  .  .  . 
1  do  give  and  devise  unto  each  of  my  daughters,  Abiah  Patience  and  Lura  each  an  equal  share  with 
each  other  and  in  value  half  the  amount  to  each,  that  each  of  my  two  sons  Adoniram  and  Isaac 
shall  have  of  my  estate,  what  I  have  before  given  Abiah  being  considered  as  part  of  her  portion  of 
my  estate." 

The  executors  were  his  brother,  Nathaniel  Swift,  of  Warren,  Conn.,  and  Dr. 
John  Raymond,  of  Kent.  The  first  distribution,  including  an  appraisal  of  what  had 
been  previously  received  by  the  heirs,  was  not  made  until  June  5,  1804,  when  the 
distributors.  Ward  Eldred,  Adonijah  Carter,  and  Judah  Eldred,  brought  in  their 
report  to  the  Litchfield  Court.  Under  this.  Patience,  who  was  later  the  wife  of  Rev. 
Thomas  Lippincott  (199),  received  a  part  of  the  Kent  lot  and  |i  1.38  in  money. 

His  widow,  Patience,  died  at  Warren,  Conn.,  October  29,  1808. 

Children  of  Dr.  Isaac  and  Patience  (Case)  Swift 

Adoniram,  born  in  1776;  married  Nov.  9,  1805,  Lodemia  Peck,  of  Cornwall;   died  at  Rich- 
field, Ohio,  Jan.  2,  1837. 

Abiah,  born  Sept.  18,  1778,  married  Jesse  Conklin  Crissey,  lived  at  Lumberland,  N.  Y.,  and 
from  1834  to  1840  she  was  living  as  a  widow  at  Monticello,  N.  Y. 
(199)    Patience  (or  Patty),  born  March  13,  1784;   married  Aug.  15,  1816,  Rev.  Thomas  Lippin- 
cott, son  of   Barzillai  and  Elizabeth  (Ellet)  Lippincott  (198);  died  Oct.  14, 
1819. 

Lura,  married Dexter. 

Isaac,  born  Jan.  30,   1790;  married    Jan.   15,   1818,  at    Ravenna,  Ohio,  Eliza  Thompson, 

daughter  of  M and  Polly  (Campbell)  Thompson,  of  Pittsfield,  Mass.;  was  a 

physician  and  went  in  181 5  to  Ravenna,  where  he  died  July  14,  1874.     His  son,  Hon. 
Henry  A.  Swift,  of  St.  Peter,  Minn.,  was  governor  of  Minnesota  in  1863. 


[232]  THOMAS  GIBBS  [...-....] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  SANDWICH,  MASS. 

THOMAS  GIBBS  must  have  been  one  of  the  early  emigrants  from  England, 
as  he  was  among  the  first  settlers  of  Sandwich,  Mass.  The  name  of  his 
wife  has  not  been  ascertained,  but  Savage  thinks  that  he  was  married 
twice. 
He  was  at  Sandwich  in  1639  when  the  town  was  incorporated.  In  1643, 
his  name  appears  on  the  list  of  those  able  to  bear  arms,  which  included  all  the 
men  between  sixteen  and  sixty  years  of  age.  There  was  a  town  meeting  in 
1644,  at  which  they  voted  to  repair  the  meeting-house.  Thomas  Tupper  (235) 
received  the  subscriptions,  partly  in  corn,  and  Thomas  Gibbs  was  the  third  largest 


THOMAS  GIBBS  [232]  379 

giver.     Edmund  Freeman  and  Thomas  Dexter  each  gave  ten  shilHngs  and  Thomas 
GiBBS  nine  shillings. 

He  was  also  upon  the  list  of  twenty-two  subscribers  to  a  mill  built  by  Wil- 
liam Swift  (227)  and  others.  The  town  gave  ;£20,  and  the  rest  was  raised  among 
the  people.  The  following  year  (1655)  his  name  appears  third  on  the  list  of  sub- 
scribers to  the  new  meeting-house,  and  there  is  but  one  larger  gift  than  his.  He 
was  one  of  six  men  who  gave  £1  to  this  object,  and  in  1657  he  was  one  of  eight 
who  gave  £1,  and  over,  towards  the  minister's  support. 

His  name  appears  on  the  record  of  the  proprietors  of  the  common  lands  in 
1658.  In  1675,  by  the  vote  of  the  town,  a  list  was  made  of  those  who  "had  the 
privileges  of  the  town"  and  he,  with  the  Tuppers  and  Swifts,  was  included.  On 
July  1 5,  1678,  he  took  the  oath  of  fidelity. 

He  died,  intestate,  probably  at  Sandwich,  but  the  date  is  unknown.  It  must 
have  been  about  1693,35  the  division  of  his  estate  between  his  three  sons,  John, 
Thomas,  and  Samuel,  was  made  April  14,  1693.  The  name  of  his  wife  is  not  given, 
but  the  sons  agree  to  maintain  her.  One  of  the  witnesses  was  Thomas  Tupper 
(236).  Freeman,  in  his  History  of  Cape  Cod,  says  of  him,  that  his  descendants  were 
almost  innumerable. 

Children  of  Thomas  and Gibbs 

John,  born  Sept.  12,  1634;  married  Elizabeth ;  died  April  30,  1725. 

(233)    Thomas,  born  March  23,  1636;  married  Dec.  23,  1674,  Alice  Warren,  daughter  of  Nathan- 
iel and  Sarah  (Walker)  Warren  (234),  of  Plymouth,  Mass.;  died  Jan.  7,  1732/3. 

Samuel,  born  June  23,  1639;  married  (i) ;  married  (2)  March  5,  1676,  Patience 

Butler,  daughter  of  Thomas  Butler;   died  Nov.  ig,  1732. 

Sarah,  born  April  12,  1652;  married  at  Sandwich,  Dec.  17,  1675,  Ebenezer  Nie,  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Katherine  (Tupper)  Nie  (Nye),  and  grandson  of  Thomas  and  Ann 
( )  Tupper  (235);   settled  at  North  Falmouth,  Mass. 

Job,  born  April  15,  1655;   married  April  28,  1697,  Judith  Bates,  of  Agawam. 

Bethia,  twin  with  Job. 

Mary,  born  Aug.  12,  1657. 

[233]  THOMAS  GIBBS,  JR.  [1636-1733] 

and  his  wife 
ALICE  WARREN  [1656-....] 

OF    SANDWICH,  MASS. 

THOMAS  GIBBS,  second  son  of  Thomas  and Gibbs  (232),  was  born, 
according  to  the  town  records  of  Sandwich,  March  23,  1636. 
He  married  December  23,  1674,  Alice  (or  Ellis)  Warren,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  and  Sarah  (Walker)  Warren  (234),  of  Plymouth,  Mass. 
She  was  born  August  2,  1656,  and  so  was  twenty  years  younger  than  her  husband. 
He  may  have  married  before,  but  we  have  no  record  of  it,  nor  of  any  earlier  children 


380  THOMAS  GIBBS,  JR.  [233] 

than  the  ones  given  below.  He  appears  to  have  had  five  sons  and  three  daughters, 
as  named  in  his  will,  but  the  town  records  give  the  date  of  birth  of  two  only  and 
the  marriage  of  three. 

We  have  less  information  about  him  than  we  had  of  his  father,  but  we  find 
that  he  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  at  Sandwich  in  1681  and  was  on  the  list  of  freemen 
June  25,  1702. 

He  died  at  Sandwich,  January  7,  1732/3,  aged  ninety-five.  His  wife  Alice 
evidently  died  several  years  before  him  as  she  is  not  mentioned  in  his  will,  which 
was  dated  June  23,  1725,  and  probated  January  19,  1732/3.  In  it  he  mentioned  his 
son  Thomas  as  principal  heir  and  executor,  also  his  sons  Cornelius  and  Warren  and 
his  daughter  Abigail,  and  the  children  of  his  daughters  Bethia  and  Sarah.  A  be- 
quest reads:  "  If  my  sons  Ebenezer  and  Jabez  or  either  of  them  return  from  be- 
yond sea  to  have  £10." 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Alice  (Warren)  Gibbs 

Bethia,  born  Dec.  10,  1675;  married ;   and  died  before  1725. 

(228)    Abigail,  married  Nov.  26,  1697,  Jireh  Swift,  son  of  William  and  Ruth  ( )'Swift 

(227);  was  living  in   1725. 

Thomas,  born  Jan.  28,  1679;   married  (i)  Oct.  22,  1713,  Joanna  Swift,  daughter  of  William 

and  Elizabeth  ( )  Swift  and  granddaughter  of  William  and  Ruth  ( ) 

Swift  (227);   married  (2)  in  1726/7,  Dorothy  Jenkins;  died  in  1746. 

Cornelius,  married  Nov.  9,  1716,  Meribah  Perry;  died  in  1748. 

Warren,  was  living  in  1725. 

Ebenezer,  "beyond  sea"  in   1725. 

Jabez,  "beyond  sea"  in  1725. 

Sarah,  married ,  and  died  before  1725. 

[234-A]  RICHARD  WARREN  [. . .  .-1628] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ELIZABETH [.  .  .  .-1673] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  PLYMOUTH,  MASS. 

RICHARD  WARREN  is  said  to  have  been  a  merchant  in  Greenwich, 
Kent,  England,  before  coming  to  New  England.  He  was  a  passenger  in 
the  "Mayflower,"  which  sailed  from  Plymouth,  England,  September  6, 
1620.  He  did  not  belong  to  the  Leyden  Company,  but  joined  the  Pil- 
grims from  London.  He  was  the  twelfth  signer  of  the  Compact  framed  by  Elder 
William  Brewster  in  the  cabin  of  the  "Mayflower"  while  it  was  lying  in  Cape  Cod 
harbor,  which  is  called  the  first  platform  of  civil  government  in  the  new  world  and 
the  foundation  of  our  Republic. 

As  is  well  known,  the  Pilgrims  made  their  first  landing  in  the  harbor  of  Cape 
Cod,  but  decided  to  go  further  north  in  the  hope  of  finding  a  better  water  supply 
and  harbor.     They  sailed  to  Plymouth  Bay  and  on  Wednesday,  December  6,  1620, 


RICHARD  WARREN  [234-A]  381 

a  party  of  ten  men  of  which  Richard  Warren  was  one,  set  off  for  what  they  called 
a  "Third  Discovery."  While  reconnoitering  along  the  shore,  they  had  their  first 
encounter  with  the  Indians,  when,  as  Bradford  describes  it, 

"Captain  Miles  Standish,  having  a  snaphance  [a  hand-gun]  ready,  made  a  shot;  and  after  him 
another.  .  .  .  The  cry  of  our  enemies  was  dreadful;  especially  when  our  men  ran  out  to  recover 
their  arms.  [They  had  laid  them  down  to  have  their  breakfast.]  Their  note  was  after  this  man- 
ner, "Woath!  Woach!  Ha!  Ha!  Hach!  Woach!" 

Although  shot  at  by  a  quantity  of  arrows,  of  which  they  took  eighteen  from  the 
ground,  no  one  was  hurt.  The  landing  at  Plymouth  Rock  of  the  Pilgrims  was 
on  December  21,  the  birthday  of  New  England. 

Richard  Warren  had  married  in  England, dateunknown,  Elizabeth ,' 

but  she  did  not  accompany  him  in  the  "Mayflower,"  a  fortunate  circumstance  when 
we  consider  that,  in  the  first  year  after  landing,  fourteen  of  the  eighteen  wives 
of  the  Pilgrims  died  of  the  disease  (probably  a  form  of  scurvy)  which  carried  away 
more  than  half  of  the  little  colony.  Elizabeth  came  three  years  later  (in  1623) 
in  the  ship  "Anne,"  with  her  five  daughters.  This  was  the  third  emigration  of  Pil- 
grims to  Plymouth. 

In  the  division  of  lands  to  those  who  came  over  in  the  "  Mayflower,"  Richard 
Warren  received  two  acres  "on  the  north  side  of  the  town;  next  adjoining  to 
their  gardens  which  came  over  in  the  Fortune."  Here  he  was  near  John  Alden  and 
Captain  Miles  Standish.  This  was  in  March,  1623,  and  in  the  following  fall,  among 
those  who  came  in  the  "Anne,"  he  received  five  acres  "on  the  other  (the  east)  side 
of  the  town;  towards  the  Eel  River."  Here  he  made  his  home  in  what  was  later 
known  as  Wellingsly,  or  Hobshole. 

Although  he  survived  the  first  fatal  winter  he  lived  but  a  few  years  afterwards 
and  died  at  Plymouth  in  1628.  Morton,  in  his  New  England  Memorial,  speaks  of 
him  as 

"Grave  Richard  Warren  ...  a  man  of  integrity  justice  &  uprightness  of  piety,  &  serious  religion 
...  a  useful  instrument, during  the  short  time  he  lived,  bearing  a  deep  share  in  the  difficulties 
and  troubles  of  the  plantation." 

His  widow  Elizabeth  appears  to  have  been  a  woman  of  great  force  and  good 
social  position,  as  she  is  spoken  of  as  "Mistress  Elizabeth  Warren,"  a  designation 
by  no  means  common.  She  is  also  one  of  the  rare  instances  in  early  colonial  times 
of  continued  widowhood. 

In  1635,  her  servant  Thomas  Williams  was  prosecuted  by  the  General  Court 
for 

"Speaking  profane  &  blasphemous  speeches  against  ye  majestie  of  God.  .  .  There  being  some 
dissention  between  him  &  his  dame,  she  after  other  things  exhorted  him  to  fear  God  &  doe  his 
duty." 

She  brought  up  her  large  family  of  children,  and  was  evidently  thrifty  and  a  good 

'  In  the  Warren  Genealogy  by  Dr.  J.  C.  Warren,  her  name  is  given  as  Elizabeth  Juatt  of  St.  Botolphs, 
Aldgate,  England.     This,  however,  has  since  been  found  to  be  an  error. 


382  RICHARD  WARREN  [234-A] 

manager  as  we  find  her  name  among  the  first  purchasers  of  Dartmouth,  and  she 
was  able,  at  the  marriages  of  her  daughters  to  give  each,  as  her  marriage  portion, 
certain  lands  at  Eel  River  and  Willingsly  which  she  deeded  to  their  husbands. 

She    died    at    Plymouth,  October  2,   1673,  "aged  above  ninety  years  .  .  . 
haueing  liued  a  godly  life,  came  to  her  graue  as  a  shoke  of  corn  fully  ripe." 

Children  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Warren 

Mary,  born  in  England;  married  in  1628,  Robert  Bartlett,  a  fellow  passenger  in  the  "Anne;" 
he  died  in  1676,  aged  seventy-three,  and  she  died  soon  after. 

Ann,  born  in  England  about  1612  (a  deposition  of  1672  gave  her  age  as  sixty);  married 
April  19,  1633,  Thomas  Little,  of  Plymouth  and  later  of  Marshfield. 

Sarah,  born  in  England;  married  March  28,  1634,  John  Cooke,  eldest  son  of  Francis  Cooke. 
Both  father  and  son  were  "Mayflower"  passengers.  John  was  a  deputy  for  many 
years,  a  deacon  of  the  Plymouth  church,  but  later  became  an  adherent  of  Roger 
Williams,  and  removed  to  Dartmouth,  Mass.;  was  there  identified  with  the  Bap- 
tists; died  at  Dartmouth,  Nov.  23,  1695.  Two  of  their  daughters  married  sons  of 
Philip  Taber  (66). 

Elizabeth,  born  in  England;  married  about  1635  or  1636,  Sergeant  Richard  Church,  who 
came  with  Winthrop  to  Boston,  but  removed  to  Plymouth  in  1633,  and  served  in  the 
Pequot  War;   she  died  at  Hingham,  Mass.,  March  4,  1670. 

Abigail,  born  in  England;    married  Nov.  8,   1639,  Anthony  Snow  of  Plymouth,  later  of 
Marshfield,  who  died  in  1692.     Abigail  survived  him. 
(234)    Nathaniel,  born  in  Plymouth,  N.  E.,  about  1624;  married  Nov.  19,  1645,  Sarah  Walker; 
died  in  1667. 

Joseph,  born  in  Plymouth,  N.  E.,  before  1627;  married  about  1651,  Priscilla  Faunce,  sister 
of  ruling  elder  Thomas  Faunce,  and  daughter  of  John  and  Patience  (Morton)  Faunce, 
passengers  in  the  "Anne;"  was  deputy  for  many  years,  and  a  member  of  the  Council 
of  War  in  1675;  lived  for  a  time  in  Taunton,  Mass.,  and  died  at  Plymouth.  His  will 
was  made  May  4,  1689. 


[234]  NATHANIEL  WARREN  [1624-1667] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

SARAH   WALKER  [....-1700] 

OF  PLYMOUTH,  MASS. 

NATHANIEL  WARREN  was  the  son  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  ( ) 
Warren   (234-A).     According  to  a  deposition  made  October   15,  1661, 
he  was  then  thirty-seven  years  old,  so  he  was  born  about  a  year  after  his 
mother  arrived  at  Plymouth  in  the  ship  "Anne."     His  father  died  when 
he  was  but  four  years  old  and  he  was  brought  up  by  his  mother. 

He  married  November  19,  1645,  Sarah  Walker,  who  may  have  been  either 
the  daughter  of  James  Walker  of  Taunton,  or  of  Richard  Walker  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  in 
1630,  later  of  Woburn,  who  was  born  in  England  in  1582. 


NATHANIEL  WARREN  [234]  383 

His  home  was  at  Eel  River  and  he  also  owned  land  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
present  Summer  Street,  Plymouth,  near  what  was  formerly  called  Prence's  Bottom, 
bounded  by  the  Town  Brook  and  the  ministerial  lands.  This  last  was  probably 
the  land  granted  to  him,  June  5,  1662,  in  consideration  of  his  being  one  of  the  first 
children  born  in  the  Colony. 

He  was  also  the  owner  of  lot  five,  in  the  Namasket  or  Middleborough  pur- 
chase, had  rights  in  Punckateesett  on  Seconnett  River  (now  in  Rhode  Island) 
and  grants  at  Agawam  and  Manomett  Ponds. 

He  served  as  a  member  of  the  Plymouth  military  company  in  1643,  was  a 
surveyor  of  highways  in  1654,  selectman  in  1667,  and  deputy  to  the  General  Court 
of  Plymouth  seven  years,  in  1657,  1658,  1659,  1660,  1663,  1664,  1665. 

He  died  at  Plymouth  between  July  and  October,  1667.  His  will  was  dated 
June  29,  1667,  and  had  a  codicil  of  July  16,  the  same  year.  In  it  he  named  his 
wife  Sarah,  and  "children  diverse  of  them  being  young,"  and  his  daughter  Hope 
being  "lame  and  impotent."  He  appointed  his  brother  Joseph  Warren,  Thomas 
Southworth  and  Lieut.  Ephraim  Morton  "intervisors."  In  the  codicil  or  "supple- 
ment" he  mentioned  his  mother  "mistress  Elizabeth  Warren"  and  his  sisters  Mary 
Bartlett,  Sr.,  Anis  Little,  Sarah  Cooke,  Elizabeth  Church  and  Abigail  Snow.  The 
inventory  of  his  estate  was  taken  October  21,  1667,  and  amounted  tO;^475.  Later 
on  January  9,  1689/90,  Richard,  Nathaniel  and  Jabez  Warren,  Elizabeth  Green, 
Sarah  Blackwell,  Thomas  and  Alice  (Warren)  Gibbs  (233),  and  Jonathan  and 
Mercy  (Warren)  Delano,  join  in  a  conveyance  of  lands  formerly  owned  by  their 
father  Nathaniel  Warren,  deceased,  to  their  brother  James  Warren. 

The  widow,  Sarah  (Walker)  Warren,  died  at  Plymouth,  November  24,  1700. 
Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Sarah   (Walker)   Warren 

Richard,  born  in  1646;  married  Sarah  — ;  removed  after  King  Philip's  war  to  Namas- 
ket or  the  Middleborough  purchase,  and  settled  on  the  land  granted  his  father; 
died  Jan.  23, 1696/7,  and  his  widow  was  granted  administration  of  his  estate  March  18, 
of  the  same  year. 

Jabez,  born  in  1647;  and  is  said  to  have  been  drowned  at  sea  April  17,  1701. 

Sarah,  born  Aug.  29,  1649;  married  John  Blackwell,  of  Sandwich. 

Hope,  born  March  7,  165 1 ;  mentioned  as  lame  in  her  father's  will. 

Jane,  born  Jan.  10,  1632/3;  married  Sept.  19,  1672,  Benjamin  Lombard,  of  Barnstable, 
Mass.;  died  Feb.  27,  1683. 

Elizabeth,  born  Sept.  5,  or  15,  1654;  married  William  Green,  of  Plymouth. 

(233)   Alice,  born  Aug.  2,  1656;  married  Dec. 23, 1674,  Thomas  Gibbs,  son  of  Thomas  and  — 

Gibes  (232),  of  Sandwich,  Mass.;    died  before  1725. 

Mercy,  born  Feb.  20,  1657/8;  married  Feb.  26,  1678,  Lieutenant  Jonathan  Delano,  son 
of  Philip  and  Esther  (Dewsbury)  Delano;  who  was  one  of  the  purchasers  of  Dart- 
mouth, a  selectman  and  deputy. 

Mary,  born  March  9,   i66o. 

Nathaniel,  born  March  19,  1662;  married  Phebe  Murdock;  died  Oct.  29,  1707.  His  widow 
married  (2)  Thomas  Gray,  of  Plymouth. 

John,  born  Oct.  23,  1663,  died  young. 


384  NATHANIEL  WARREN  [234] 

James,  born  Nov.  7,  1665;  married  in  1687,  Sarah  Doty,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Sarah 
(Faunce)  Doty;  was  sheriff  of  the  county  in  1699,  and  judge  of  the  court  of  com- 
mon pleas  from  1700;  was  deputy  from  1697  until  1715;  captain  of  the  Plymouth 
County  Militia  in  1712,  died  Jan.  29,  171 5,  and  his  widow  married  (2)  in  1726  John 
Bacon,  of  Barnstable.  His  grandson.  General  James  Warren,  was  president  of  the 
Provincial  Congress  of  Massachusetts  in  1779,  and  a  friend  of  General  Washington. 


[235]  THOMAS  TUPPER  [i 578-1676] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

ANN [1586-1676] 

OF  ENGLAND  AND  SANDWICH,   MASS. 

WHILE  we  know  nothing  about  the  ancestry  of  Thomas  Tupper,  beyond 
the  beHef  that  he  came  from  Sandwich,  Kent,  England,  he  probably 
belonged  to  the  Tupper  family  which  originated  in  Germany  and 
France.  They  were  Lutherans  and  lost  all  their  property  and 
became  scattered  during  the  reformation  period.  The  name  was  "Tout  perd" 
in  France,  "Toupard"  in  the  Netherlands,  while  in  Germany  it  was  "Toppfer" 
and  among  the  Puritans  of  England  and  New  England  it  became  "Tupper."  The 
principal  branch  of  the  English  family  originated  in  Guernsey,  and  another  set- 
tled in  Sandwich,  Kent.' 

Thomas  Tupper  emigrated  with  his  wife  Ann,  and  one  child  Katherine 
to  New  England  in  1636  or  earlier,  and  went  first  to  Lynn,  Mass.  He  could  have 
staid  there  but  a  very  short  time,  as  he  was  one  of  the  original  grantors  of  Cape  Cod, 
and  founders  of  the  town  of  Sandwich  there.  1 1  is  probable  that  the  town  was  named 
by  him.  In  the  Plymouth  Colony  Records  we  find  this  under  date  of  April 
3,  1637: 

"It  is  also  agreed  by  the  Court  that  these  ten  men  of  Saugust  [Lynn]  viz:  Edward  Free- 
man, Henry  Feake,  Thomas  Dexter,  Edwd  Dillingham,  William  Wood,  John  Carmen,  Richd  Chad- 
well,  William  Almy,  Thomas  Tupper  and  George  Knott  shall  have  liberty  to  view  a  place  to  sitt 
downe  &  have  sufficient  land  for  threescore  families,  vpon  the  conditions  propounded  to  them 
by  the  Governor  and  Mr.  Winslow." 

In  1640  he  received  six  arid  one-half  acres  in  the  division  of  meadow  lands 
at  Sandwich,  was  on  the  grand  jury  and  the  same  year  was  made  a  freeman.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  military  company  in  1643,  and  from  1644,  almost  continu- 
ously until  his  death,  he  represented  Sandwich  as  deputy  in  the  General  Court 
of  Plymouth  Colony.  His  service  was  altogether  for  seventeen  years.  He  was 
also  town-clerk  and  selectman.  At  this  time  the  marriage  ceremony  was  only 
performed  by  magistrates,  but,  for  some  reason,  he  was  licensed  to  marry  "in  Sand- 

^  P airotiymica  Brilannica.  Lower,  London,  1840. 


THOMAS  TUPPER  [235]  385 

widg"  in  1650.  The  license  was,  however,  revoked  March  7,  1653/4,  "for  not 
causing  Edward  Perry  of  Sandwich  to  be  orderly  married."  We  judge  that  it  was 
a  common  law  marriage,  as  the  General  Court  appears  to  have  had  further  trouble 
with  Perry,  and  later,  he  was  fined  £<^  for  refusing  to  have  his  marriage  ratified 
before  Mr.  Prince,  and  the  penalty  was  to  be  enforced  at  every  session  of  the  Court 
until  it  was  ratified  and  confirmed. 

When  the  troubles  in  the  Sandwich  church  culminated  which  led  to  the  resig- 
nation of  Mr.  Leverich,  referred  to  under  William  Swift  (226),  there  was  no  set- 
tled minister  in  the  town  for  several  years.  Thomas  Tupper,  or  Captain  Tupper, 
as  he  was  then  called,  undertook  to  conduct  the  services.  The  friends  of  Mr. 
Leverich  protested,  but  Tupper  appears  to  have  had  the  government  with  him. 
Without  ordination  and  withal  somewhat  of  a  fanatic,  no  objection  was  made  to 
his  services  by  the  Court.  His  efforts  to  bring  out  his  hearers  by  imposing  heavy 
fines  for  not  attending  the  services,  and  his  prophesying,  do  not  seem  to  have 
met  with  the  approval  of  some  of  the  best  people  of  the  town.  Finally,  weary  of 
dissension,  the  opposition,  including  those  who  had  been  accused  of  favoring  the 
Quakers,  discontinued  their  meetings,  and  a  curious  compromise  was  efl'ected, 
which  secured  a  comparatively  peaceful  condition.  It  was  agreed  that  Mr. 
Richard  Bourne,  another  layman  of  recognized  moral  worth,  should  conduct  the 
services  with  Captain  Tupper  on  Lord's  Days.  The  one  who  had  the  majority  of 
adherents  present  at  a  meeting  should  officiate  that  day.  This,  undoubtedly, 
brought  out  a  good  church  attendance  of  both  parties,  which  seem  to  have  been 
quite  evenly  divided.  This  state  of  things  continued  until  Rev.  John  Smith  be- 
came the  settled  minister,  both  parties  uniting  in  the  call  about  1658. 

From  this  time.  Captain  Tupper  and  Richard  Bourne  devoted  much  of  their 
time  to  the  work  of  "gospelizing  the  Indians."  Tupper's  public  duties  had 
brought  him  into  contact  with  the  Indians  and  his  interest  in  their  spiritual  wel- 
fare is  shown  by  his  earnest  efforts  on  their  behalf.  A  meeting-house  built  in  the 
English  fashion,  of  good  and  lasting  material  (the  first  of  the  kind  in  New  England), 
was  put  up  at  Judge  Samuel  Sewall's  expense,  under  the  supervision  of  Captain 
Tupper,  at  Commassekunkanetor  Herring  Pond,  between  Sandwich  and  Plymouth. 
This  was  the  field  of  his  efficient  labors  among  the  Indians,  and  the  church  was  for 
many  years  cared  for  by  his  descendants.     Freeman  says: 

"On  that  hill  where  Judge  Sewall  built  his  Indian  meeting  house  and  where  the  Indian  graves 
are  many,  a  statue  should  be  raised  to  Richard  Bourne  and  Thomas  Tupper,  Sandwich  men  who 
sacrificed  themselves  for  their  fellowmen  ...  No  Cape  tribes  joined  Philip  in  King  Philip's 
War,  in  fact  many  Cape  Indians  served  against  Philip.  This  good  fortune  was  chiefly  due  to  the 
Christian  missionaries  like  Richard  Bourne,  and  Thomas  Tupper  of  Sandwich,  Thornton  of  Yar- 
mouth, Treat  of  Eastham  and  the  Mayhews  [see  238]  of  Martha's  Vineyard." 

Thomas  Tupper  died  at  Sandwich,  March  28,  and  was  buried  March  30,  1676, 
"aged  98  years  and  2  months."  His  wife  Ann  survived  him  and  died  about  two 
months  later,  June  4,  1676,  "in  the  90th  year  of  her  age." 


386  THOMAS  TUPPER  [235] 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Ann  ( )  Tupper 

Katherine,  born  in  England;  married  Oct.  19,  1640,  Benjamin  Nye;  lived  to  old  age  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Sandwich  church  in  1694;  was  called  "Goodwife  Nye." 
(236)   Thomas,  born  in  Sandwich,  Jan.  16  (or  May),  1638;  married  Dec.  27,  1661,  Martha  May- 
hew,  daughter  of   Governor  Thomas  and  Jane  ( Payne)  Mayhew  (238); 

he  died  in  May,  1706. 

[236]  THOMAS  TUPPER,  JR.  [1638-1706] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARTHA  MAYHEW  [1633-1717] 

OF    SANDWICH,    MASS. 

THOMAS  TUPPER  was  the  only  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  ( )  Tupper 
(235),  and  was  born  January  16,  1638,  at  Sandwich,  Mass.  He  married 
December  27,  1661,  Martha  Mayhew,  daughter  of  Governor  Thomas 

and  Jane  ( Payne)  Mayhew  (238),  by  whom  he  had  eleven  children. 

She  was  born  about  1633,  at  Watertown,  Mass. 

He  entered  upon  public  duties  at  an  early  age  and  his  life  was  a  most  useful 
one.  He  was  receiver  of  excise  in  1667  and  1669,  also  constable  in  the  latter  year, 
and  selectman  nine  years  in  all,  between  1673  and  1689.  His  term  of  office  co- 
incided for  several  years  with  that  of  William  Swift,  Jr.  (227).  He  was  also 
deputy  for  Sandwich  to  the  General  Court  of  Plymouth  in  1673,  and  from  1679 
almost  continuously  to  1691.  In  1675  he  was  town  clerk  and  on  a  committee  to 
collect  the  minister's  salary. 

At  the  time  of  King  Philip's  War  (1675)  he  was  a  member  of  the  Council  of 
War,  serving  from  this  time  on.  In  1679  select  courts  were  "allowed  in  each  town 
and  jurisdiction"  and  those  commissioned  to  hold  court  in  Sandwich  were  Mr. 
Edward  Freeman,  John  Blackwell  and  Thomas  Tupper.  In  1680  he  was  com- 
missioned lieutenant  of  the  Sandwich  Militia  and  was  chosen  captain,  July,  1687, 
which  office  he  still  held  in  1690. 

When  the  new  charter  of  1692,  incorporating  Plymouth  as  a  part  of  Massa- 
chusetts Colony,  went  into  operation,  Thomas  Tupper  was  chosen  the  first  deputy 
from  Sandwich  to  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts. 

After  the  death  of  his  father  Thomas  Tupper,  Sr.  (235),  in  1676,  he  fell  heir 
to  the  estate,  which  included  a  large  tract  of  some  of  the  best  land  in  the  town. 
He  operated  this  farm,  and  took  his  father's  place  in  the  ministry  among  the  In- 
dians, until  his  death.  In  1693  he  had  a  church  of  one  hundred  and  eighty  mem- 
bers at  Herring  River.     Mather  says: 

"Mr.  Thomas  Tupper  also  has  given  an  account  of  one  hundred  and  eighty  Indians  unto 
whom  he  does  dispense  the  word,  concerning  whom  he  has  charitable  hopes  that  they  do  (and  that 
with  zeal  &  sincerity)  embrace  the  gospel." 


THOMAS  TUPPER,  JR.  [236]  387 

He  died  at  Sandwich  in  May,  1706.  His  will  was  dated  "two  and  twentieth 
[torn]  1706."  He  is  called  captain  in  the  Probate  Record.  He  gave  to  his  "lov- 
ing wife  Martha"  the  use  during  her  life  of  the  homestead  and  other  land,  and 
divided  the  rest  of  his  estate  between  his  sons  Eliakim,  Thomas,  Israel,  Ichabod, 
Eldad  and  Medad,  the  lands  and  meadows  lying  in  Sandwich  "only  to  be  possessed 
by  them  after  the  decease  of  my  sd  wife  or  as  she  shall  order."  He  also  provided 
for  his  only  daughter  Bethia  by  requiring  Israel,  Ichabod,  Eldad  and  Eliakim 
each  to  pay  her  "seven  pounds  and  ten  shillings,"  and  gave  her  the  privilege  of 
living  in  the  homestead  until  she  should  marry,  which  she  did  the  year  after  her 
father's  death.  The  homestead  finally  was  to  go  to  Eliakim,  who  was  the  youngest 
son.  Ichabod  had  borrowed  thirty  pounds  from  Eliakim  and  paid  some  debts  of 
his,  and  the  will  provides,  with  the  minute  attention  to  detail  that  one  finds  in  most 
of  the  wills  of  that  time,  that  "he  the  sd  Ichabod  Tupper  do  pay  to  and  reimburse 
my  son  Eliakim  that  thirty  pounds  which  the  sd  Eliakim  hath  paid  or  is  to  pay  to 
Richard  Cooper  of  Plimouth  for  the  sloop  that  Ichabod  had  of  him  and  do  pay 
what  other  money  that  the  said  Eliakim  hath  or  shall  pay  of  sd  Ichabods  debts" 
before  Ichabod  could  inherit  certain  parts  of  the  property. 

His  widow  Martha  died  at  Sandwich,  November  15,  1717. 

Children  of  Captain  Thomas  and  Martha  (Mayhew)  Tupper 

Martha,  born  Oct.  13,  1662;  died  Nov.  i,  1680. 

Thomas,    born   Aug.   11,    1664;    married   Mary ;  died    at    Stoughton,   Mass.,  after 

1706. 
Israel,  born  Sept.  22,  1666;  married  Aug.  31,  1704,  Elizabeth  Bacon,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 

and  Sarah  (Hinckley)   Bacon  and  granddaughter  of  Governor  Thomas  and  Mary 

(Richards)  Hinckley  (185);  was  living  in  Sandwich  in  1730,  and  was  called  Deacon 

Israel  Tupper. 
Elisha,  born  March  17,  1668;  Savage  says  of  him  that  he  was  "a  soldier  in  1690  in  Gallop's 

abortive  service  against    Quebec  to  please  Sir  William    Phipps."     (See  Nos.  65, 

139,   140-A,   156.)     He    probably  died  before   1706,  as  he  is  not  mentioned  in  his 

father's  will. 
Jane,  born  April  28,  1672;  died  in  1673.     Her  name  is  written  in  the  Sandwich  records  "  lare" 

and  it  may  be  Sara. 
Ichabod,  born  Aug.  11,  1673;  married  (i)  Mary  Tinkham,  by  whom  he  had  si.x   children 

between  1712  and  1725;  married  (2)  Hannah  Tinkham. 
Eldad,  born  May  31,  1675;  married  Dec.  30,  1701,  Martha  Wheaton;  was  for  a  number  of 

years  deputy  to  the  General  Court  and  succeeded  his  father  in  ministering  to  the 

Indians;  died  Sept.  15,  1750. 
Medad,  born  Sept.  22,  1677;  married  Hannah ;  was  for  fifty  years  the  oldest  male 

member  of  the  First  Church  of  Sandwich;  died  there  Feb.  20,  1773,  aged  ninety-six 

years.  I 

Ann,  born  Dec.  14,  1679;  married  in  1698,  Benjamin  Gibbs. 
(237)    Eliakim,  born  Dec.  29,  1681 ;  married  about  1707,  Joanna  Gibbs. 

Bethia,  born  April  25,  1685;  married  in  1707,  Ezra  Perry,  son  of  Ezra  Perry. 


388  ELIAKIM  TUPPER  [237] 

[237]  ELIAKIM  TUPPER  [1681-....] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

JOANNA  GIBBS  [.,..-....] 

OF    SANDWICH,    MASS. 

ELIAKIM  TUPPER,  the  youngest  son  of  Thomas  and  Martha  (Mayhew) 
TuppER  (236),  was  born  December  29,  1681,  at  Sandwich,  Mass.  He  was 
about  twenty-four  years  of  age  when  his  father  died  in  May,  1706.  Hemar- 
ried  about  1707,  Joanna  Gibbs,  probably  a  relative  of  Abigail  Gibbs,  who 
married  Jireh  Swift  (228),  though  not  a  sister. 

He  was  selectman  at  Sandwich  in  17 18,  and  was  present  at  a  meeting  held 
to  discuss  a  question  of  the  bounds  between  Plymouth  and  Plimton.  He  was 
also  selectman  in  1722  with  Jireh  Swift  (228)  and  with  him  went  to  Plymouth 
in  November,  1722,  to  attend  a  meeting  there  in  reference  to  the  establishment  of 
bounds  between  Plymouth  and  Sandwich. 

In  1732  he  was  also  associated  with  Jireh  Swift  in  the  effort  to  secure  a 
new  meeting-house,  when  they  and  their  party  could  not  "with  a  good  conscience" 
sit  under  the  ministry  of  Mr.  Fessenden  (see  228). 

Eliakim  and  his  brother,  Deacon  Israel  Tupper,  both  of  Sandwich,  purchased 
land  in  Plymouth,  February  3,  1726/7,  from  John  and  Mary  (Bartlett)  Barnes. 
Whether  Eliakim  ever  settled  there  is  not  known,  but  we  find  no  further  record  of 
him  in  Sandwich.  His  son  Eliakim  appears  to  have  bought  land  and  a  house  in 
Plymouth  in  1635  and  to  have  lived  there  for  a  time  before  settling  in  Lebanon, 
Conn. 

Eliakim  did  not  go  with  his  son  to  Connecticut,  but  probably  lived  somewhere 
in  the  vicinity  of  Sandwich  and  Plymouth  until  his  death.  No  record  of  his  death 
or  that  of  his  wife  has  been  found,  nor  any  will  or  probate  record. 

Children  of  Eliakim  and  Joanna  (Gibbs)  Tupper 

Ruth,  born  June  30,  1708;  married  June  29,  1732,  Jabez  Dunkin,  of  Sandwich,  Mass. 

Anne,  born  April  9,  died  Aug.  17,  1710. 

Eliakim,  born  June  20,  171 1 ;  married  (1)  March  28,  1734,  Mary  Bassett,  daughter  of  William 

and  Abigail  Bassett,  of  Sandwich;  married  (2)  Sept.  7,  1753,  Martha  ( )  Clark, 

of  Simsbury,  Conn.  A  record  of  him  in  Sandwich  says:  "Nicholas  Drew  of  Ply- 
mouth sells  to  Eliakim  Tupper  Junior  mariner  of  Sandwich  dwelling  and  bakehouse 
in  Plymouth."  He  removed  to  Lebanon,  Conn.,  about  1740,  and  was  deacon,  captain 
and  representative,  etc.;  removed  to  Cornwallis,  Nova  Scotia,  in  1754,  and  died  there 
in  1761.  His  will  was  probated  March  20,  of  that  year.  Eliakim  Tupper,  M.  P. 
for  Digby,  Canada,  is  said  to  have  been  his  great-grandson  and  another  descendant 
is  Sir  Charles  Tupper. 
(229)  Abia,  born  Nov.  i,  1713;  married  Sept.  14,  1730,  Captain  Nathaniel  Swift,  son  of  Jireh 
and  Abigail  (Gibbs)  Swift  (228);  died  April  4,  1782. 


ELIAKIM  TUPPER  [237]  389 

Elias,  born  Oct.  12,  1715;  married  Sept.  4,  1740,  Jerusha  Sprague;  went  to  Lebanon,  Conn., 
with  iiis  brother  Eliakim  about  1740  and  later  to  Nova  Scotia.  His  wife  died  at 
Tupperville,  Anapoiis  County,  N.  S.,  in  1795,  and  he  died  May  14,  1800. 

Abigail,  born  Aug.  13,  1717;  married  Oct.  16,  1735,  Silas  Swift,  son  of  Jireh  and  Abigail 
(GiBBs)  Swift  (228),  and  so  brother  of  her  sister  Asia's  husband;  lived  at  Lebanon, 
Conn.,  where  she  died  Feb.  15,  181 1. 

Thomas,  born  Nov.  21,  1719. 

Hannah,  born  Aug.  23,  1721. 

Joanna,  born  March  24,  1722/3,  died  April  6,  1723. 

Joanna,  born  April  26,  1724;  married  Oct.  15,  1749,  Roland  Ellis,  son  of  Malachi  and  Jane 
(Blackwell)  Ellis,  of  Sandwich,  Mass. 

Nathaniel,  born  April  24,  1726. 

Deborah,  born  March  24,  1727/8;  married  Jonathan  Newcomb. 

Charles,  born  Dec.  28,  1729. 

Solomon,  born  Oct.  17,  1731 ;  married  Oct.  13,  1754,  Abia  West,  of  Stafford,  Conn. 

[238-A]  MATTHEW  MAYHEW  [....-1614] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ALES  BARTER  [....-1586] 

OF   TISBURY,    WILTS,    ENGLAND 

THE  small  town  of  Tisbury,  Wiltshire,  thirteen  miles  west  of  Salisbury,  ap- 
pears to  have  been  the  birthplace  of  the  English  ancestor  of  Thomas 
Mayhew  (238),  according  to  the  latest  research  on  the  subject.  It  is 
interesting  to  note  that  he  was  exactly  contemporaneous  with  Rev.  Wil- 
liam NoYES  (i)  of  Cholderton,  a  parish  eleven  miles  from  Salisbury  to  the  north. 
Communication  was  then  difficult  between  places  even  as  near  as  Cholderton  and 
Tisbury,  or  we  might  easily  believe  that  the  Noyes  and  Mayhews  were  acquainted. 
In  the  town  of  Dinton,  only  a  few  miles  from  Tisbury,  are  a  "county  family  of 
considerable  distinction  [of  Mayhews],  whose  pedigree  is  recorded  in  the  Harleian 
manuscripts,  Nos.  1181,  1443,  deposited  at  the  British  Museum."'  On  a  letter 
now  in  the  Connecticut  Archives,  written  by  Governor  Mayhew,  he  used  a  seal 
with  arms  similar  to  those  of  the  Dinton  family, 

"with  a  mullet  for  difference,  .  .  .  indicating  that  he  was  descended  from  the  third  son  of  the 
armorial  grantee.  These  facts  taken  in  connection  with  the  bestowal  by  Mayhew  of  the  names 
of  Tisbury  and  Chilmark  on  two  adjoining  towns  on  Martha's  Vineyard,"^ 

gave  the  clue  that  made  Tisbury  the  centre  of  investigation  by  Dr.  Charles  Ed- 
ward Banks,  who  was  preparing  a  History  of  Martha's  Vineyard,  and  from  his 
notes  we  take  the  following  interesting  family  story. 

In  the  parish  register  of  Tisbury  is  the  marriage  of  Matthew  Maow  (Mayhew) 
in  these  words:  "  1587  Octo  2  Mathew  Maow  and  Ales  Barter,"  and  the  births  of 

'  The  English  Ancestry  oj  Gov.  Thomas  Mayhew,  by  Charles  Edward  Banks,  M.  D.,3. 
'Ibid.,  3,  7. 


390  MATTHEW  MAYHEW  [238-A] 

his  children  are  to  be  found  there  also.  The  name  is  variously  spelled,  "Maoh, 
Maho,  Mayoo,  Mayhoe,  Maio,  Mayhow  and  Maow."  The  father  of  Matthew 
Mayhew  is  unknown,  but,  in  examining  wills  at  Somerset  House,  Dr.  Banks  found 
that  of  his  sister  Agnes,  who  died  unmarried  about  161 2,  and  left  to  her  nephew 
"Thomas  the  son  of  my  brother  Matthew  five  pounds."  Another  sister,  Alice, 
married  John  Bracher  of  Tisbury,  and  we  have  noted  the  fact  under  (164)  that  it 
is  thought  that  Mary  Brazier,  who  married  Nathaniel  Robbins  (164),  was  a 
descendant  of  this  Alice. 

Matthew  Mayhew's  will  was  made  August  31,  1612,  and  proved  June  27, 
161 4,  so  that  he  probably  died  the  latter  year.     We  extract  the  following: 

"I  Mathew  Maihew  of  Tisbury  in  the  county  of  Wilts  yeoman  .  .  .  I  .  .  .  bequeath  to 
the  p''ish  Church  of  Tisbury  iii^  vi"*  .  .  .  to  the  poore  people  of  the  foresaid  Tisbury  ii^  iiii''  ...  to 
my  Sonne  Thomas  Maihew  Forty  pounds  of  good  and  lawfull  monie  of  England  where  of  twenty 
pounds  to  bee  paid  him  by  my  Executor  w"^in  one  whole  yeare  after  my  decease  and  the  other 
twenty  pounds  .  .  .  fewer  pounds  evy  year  untill  the  sume  of  twenty  pounds  bee  paid  .  .  .  unto 
my  Sonne  Edward  Maihew  six  and  forty  pounds  .  .  .  unto  my  daughter  Joane  Maihewe  six  and 
forty  pounds  .  .  .  unto  my  daughter  Alice  Maihew  six  and  forty  pounds  .  .  .  unto  my  daugh- 
ter Katherine  Maihew  six  and  forty  pounds  .  .  .  after  the  same  manner  .  .  .  w'"^  are  p''scribed 
for  .  .  .  my  other  two  daughters  portions.  All  the  rest  of  my  goods  ...  I  give  .  .  .  unto  my 
Sonne  John  .  .  .  whom  1  make  my  .  .  .  sole  executor  ...  I  do  constitute  .  .  .  John  Bracher  of 
Tisbury  Edward  Bracher  of  Tisbury  Richard  Langly  of  Noreham  and  John  Gilbert  of  Deny  Sutton 
ov''seers  ...  etc  (signed)  The  Marke  of  Mathewe  Maihewe." 

Children  of  Matthew  and  Ales  (Barter)  Mayhew 

Elizabeth,  born  May  i,  1589,  probably  died  young. 
John,  born  Jan.  17,  1591. 
(238)   Thomas,  baptized  April  i,  1  593;  married  (i)  before  1621,  Martha  Parkhurst;  married(2)  about 

1632,  Jane  ( )  Payne,  widow  of  Thomas  Payne  of  England;  died,  probably, 

March  25,  1682. 
Jone,  born  Feb.  8,  1595/6. 
Alice,  born  Dec.  18,  1598. 
Katherine,  born  March  15,  1599/00. 
Edward,  born  April  14,  1602,  probably  died  young. 

[238]     GOVERNOR  THOMAS  MAYHEW  [i 593-1682] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

JANE  ( )  PAYNE  [.,..-...  .] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    EDGARTOWN,    MASS. 

THOMAS  MAYHEW,  son  of  Matthew  and  Ales  (Barter)  Mayhew  (238-A), 
was  born  in  Tisbury,  Wiltshire,  England,  as  the  following  extract  from 
the  baptisms  in  the  Parish  Register  shows :  "  1 593  April  i ,  Thomas,  son  of 
Mathew  Maho."     When  he  was  thirteen  he  received  a  bequest  of  five 
pounds  from  his  maiden  aunt,  Agnes  Mayhew,  of  Tisbury. 


GOVERNOR  THOMAS  MAYHEW  [238]  391 

He  married  (i)  in  England  before  1621,  Martha  Parkhurst,  and  had  one  son 
Thomas.  He  was  a  merchant  in  Southampton  for  a  time  and  his  wife  probably 
died  there. 

He  and  his  son  Thomas,  a  lad  of  ten  years,  came  to  New  England  in  1631 
and  settled  at  Watertown,  Mass.,  where  he  was  made  freeman.  He  married  (2) 
about  1632,  Jane  ( )  Payne  or  Paine,  widow  of  "Thomas  Paine  late  of  Lon- 
don Merchant"  who  had  come  over  from  England  with  her  two  children,  Jane  and 
Thomas.  Thomas  Paine,  Jr.,  was  born  February  28,  1631,  and  inherited  an  estate 
in  1639,  in  Whittlebury,  Northamptonshire,  England.  Governor  Winthrop  ap- 
pointed as  his  attorneys  for  seven  years,  Richard  Payne  of  Abington,  Berks,  gent; 
John  Shepard  ofTotness;  Edward  Barker  of  Yarnbrook,  Northamptonshire;  and 
John  Cook  of  Wantage,  England.  When  this  period  was  ended,  in  1647,  Thomas 
Paine  chose  his  step-father,  Thomas  Mayhew,  and  his  mother  Jane,  as  his  guard- 
ians. The  witnesses  to  this  instrument  were  Philip  Taber  (66)  and  Peter  Foul- 
ger,  who  was  later  associated  with  Tristram  Coffin  (147-A)  in  Nantucket. 

For  thirteen  years  Thomas  Mayhew  received  many  important  appointments 
from  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  and  was  deputy  from  1636  to  1644,  ex- 
cepting 1642.  He  built  the  first  bridge  over  the  Charles  River,  was  the  proprietor 
of  the  mill,  fishing  weirs,  and  owned  for  a  time  the  Oldham  and  Bradstreet  farms 
in  Cambridge  village,  now  Newton.     In  the  Court  records  we  find 

"October  17,  1643,  Mr.  Mayhew  is  granted  300  acres  of  land  in  regard  of  his  charges 
about  the  bridge  by  Watertown  mill  and  the  bridge  to  belong  to  the  country." 

In  1641  Thomas  Mayhew  obtained  for  himself  and  his  son  Thomas,  a  deed 
or  patent  for  Martha's  Vineyard,  Nantucket  and  the  Elizabeth  Islands  from  the 
agents  of  Lord  Stirling  and  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges.     It  recites: 

"Its  agreed.  That  the  Governmt  that  the  said  Thomas  Mayhew  and  Thomas  Mayhew  his 
Sonne  and  their  assinees  shall  sett  up,  shall  bee  such  as  is  now  Established  in  the  Massachusetts 
aforesaid,  [with]  as  much  Priviledge,  touching  their  Planting,  Inhabiting  and  Enjoying  of  all 
and  every  Part  of  the  Premises  as  the  Patent  to  the  Patentees  of  the  Massachusetts  aforesaid  and 
their  associates." 

He  began  a  colony  of  English  families  in  the  islands  and  sent  with  them  his 
only  son  Thomas,  then  but  twenty-one  years  of  age.  A  church  was  organized  at 
once  and  Thomas  Mayhew,  Jr.,  became  its  pastor,  ministering  to  the  resident  In- 
dians as  well  as  to  the  English  colonists.  In  1657  the  Indian  converts  numbered 
about  three  thousand. 

Governor  Mayhew  followed  his  son  and  settled  in  Edgartown,  in  1647,  when 
he  became  governor  of  the  Colony,  the  "Lordship  of  the  Isles"  remaining  in  the  fam- 
ily until  17 10.  In  1657  Rev.  Thomas  Mayhew  went  to  England  to  get  help  there  for 
his  "Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  among  the  Heathen,"  and  took  with 
him  his  step-brother  and  brother-in-law,  Thomas  Paine.  They  sailed  from  Boston 
in  November,  1657,  but  the  ship  was  never  heard  of  again,  and  must  have  foundered 


392  GOVERNOR  THOMAS  MAYHEW  [238] 

at  sea.  As  it  was  impossible  to  find  any  one  to  carry  on  his  son's  work,  Governor 
Mayhew,  although  seventy  years  old,  gave  himself  up  to  "gospelizing  the  Indians" 
and  continued  this  missionary  work  until  his  death.  As  the  result  of  their  teach- 
ing, it  is  interesting  to  notice  the  attitude  of  the  Indians  at  the  time  of  King 
Philip's  War,  fifteen  years  later,  when  they  refused  to  join  with  the  tribes  of  the 
main  land,  and  patrolled  the  shores  of  the  Island,  protecting  the  white  settlers. 

In  1659,  Governor  Mayhew  sold  the  Island  of  Nantucket  to  Tristram 
Coffin  (147-A),  Thomas  Macy,  a  cousin  of  the  Mayhews,  and  others  as  men- 
tioned on  page  246  and  also  under  the  sketches  of  Hon.  Peter  Coffin  (162), 
page  278,  and  that  of  Edward  Starbuck  (162-A),  on  page  280. 

Governor  Mayhew  died,  probably  March  25,  1682,  in  the  ninetieth  year  of 
his  age.  In  Experience  Mayhew's  book,  called  Indian  Converts,  he  states  that 
his  great-grandfather  preached  on  the  Sunday  before  his  death,  fell  ill  the  same 
evening  and  died  in  six  days.  The  work  among  the  Indians  was  carried  on  for 
several  generations  by  his  descendants. 

Children  of  Governor  Thomas  and  Martha  (Parkhurst)  Mayhew 

Thomas,  born  in  England  about  1621 ;  married  iiis  step-sister  Jane  Payne  or  Paine,  daughter 

of  Thomas  and  Jane  ( )  Payne  of  England.     He  was  the  first  missionary  to 

the  Indians  in  New  England,  and  of  him  Mather  says  in  his  Magnalia,  "His reputation 
for  piety,  his  natural  gifts,  besides  the  acquired  by  his  education  (having  attained 
no  small  knowledge  in  the  Latin  &  Greek  tongues  &  being  not  wholly  a  stranger  to 
the  Hebrew)  soon  occasiond  his  call  to  the  ministry  among  that  handful  .  .  .  The 
first  Indian  imbracing  the  motion  of  forsaking  their  Gods  &  praying  to  the  true 
God  was  called  l-a-coomes.  .  .  This  worthy  servant  of  the  Lord  continued  his 
painful  labours  among  them  until  1657  .  .  .  many  hundred  men  and  women  were 
added  to  the  church."  He  was  lost  at  sea  in  1657.  His  widow  Jane  married  (2) 
Richard  Sansom.  Rev.  Thomas  Mayhew  had  three  sons:  Matthew,  a  preacher; 
Thomas,  a  judge;  and  John,  also  a  preacher,  whose  son  Experience  married  Thankful 
Hinckley,  daughter  of  Governor  Thomas  and  Mary  (Smith  Glover)  Hinckley  (185). 

Children  of  Governor  Thomas  and  Jane  ( Payne)  Mayhew 

(236)   Martha,  born  about   1633;  married  Dec.  27,   1661,  Thomas  Tupper,  son  of  Thomas  and 

Ann  ( )  Tupper  (235);  died  Nov.  15,  1717. 

Hannah,  born  June  15,   1635;  married  (1)  Thomas  Daggett,  of  Watertown;  married  (2) 

Captain  Samuel  Smith;  died  about  1720. 
Bethia,  born  Dec.  6,  1636;  married  (1)  Thomas  Harlock;  married  (2)  Lieutenant  Richard 

Way. 
Mary,  born  Jan.  14,  1639/40;  probably  died  young. 


THOMAS  PHILBRICK  [242-A]  393 


[242-A]  THOMAS  PHILBRICK  [....-1667] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

ELIZABETH  [.  .  .  -1664] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    HAMPTON,    N.    H. 

THOMAS  PHILBRICK  (or  Philbrook)  is  supposed  to  have  come  from 
Lincolnshire,  England,  to  this  country  about  1630.  He  married  his  wife 
Elizabeth before  leaving  England  and  probably  all  his  children 

were  born  there. 
He  is  said  to  have  been  a  mariner  in  early  life,  and  the  master  of  a  vessel  in 
the  old  country.     On  his  arrival  in  New  England  he  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass. 
In  1636  his  home  was  on  what  is  now  the  northwest  corner  of  Belmont  and  Lexing- 
ton Streets,  and  he  lived  there  until  he  removed  to  Hampton,  N.  H. 

The  second  summer  after  the  settlement  of  Hampton  (1639)  his  second  son, 
John  Philbrick,  moved  there,  followed  soon  after  by  his  brothers  Thomas  and  James. 
In  1645,  Thomas  Philbrick,  Sr.,  sold  his  property  of  eight  lots  and  a  house  at  Wat- 
ertown to  Isaac  Stearns,  and  in  1650  or  165 1,  went  to  Hampton,  taking  his  wife  and 
unmarried  daughters.  He  bought  land  there  in  1661  from  John  Moulton,  which 
joined  the  farms  of  his  son  James  and  his  son-in-law  John  Cass  (242). 

Elizabeth  Philbrick  died  at  Hampton,  12th  mo.  19th  day,  1663,  i.  e. 
February  19,  1664.  Thomas  died  at  the  same  place  in  1667.  In  his  will,  made  in 
March,  1664,  he  calls  himself  "very  aged"  and  mentions  his  sons  James,  John  and 
Thomas,  and  his  daughters  Elizabeth  Garland,  Martha,  wife  of  John  Cass,  Hannah 
and  Mary. 

As  the  dates  of  birth  of  his  children  have  not  been  ascertained,  the  order  given 
below  is  that  in  which  they  are  mentioned  in  the  will,  and  is  probably  not  correct. 
Some  of  the  daughters  were  perhaps  older  than  Thomas,  the  youngest  son. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Philbrick 

James,  born  in  England;  married  (i)  Jane  Roberts,  daughter  of  Thomas  Roberts  of  Dover, 
N.  H.;  married  (2)  Ann  Roberts,  sister  of  his  first  wife;  was  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Hampton  and  was  drowned  in  Hampton  River,  Nov.  16,  1674. 

John,  born  in  England;  married  Ann  (probably  Palmer);  with  his  wife,  their  daughter  Sarah, 
and  five  others,  went  in  a  little  sloop  for  a  shopping  excursion  to  Boston  and  were 
"all  swallowed  up  in  the  Osian  soon  after  they  went  out  of  the  harbor  20th  8th  mo. 
1657." 

Thomas,  born  in  England  in  1624;  married  (i)  in  1647  Ann  Knapp,  daughter  of  Deacon  William 
Knapp,  Sr.,  of  Watertown;  married  (2)  Sept.  22,  1669,  Hannah  (French)  White,  widow 
of  John  White, of  Haverhill,  and  daughter  of  Edward  and  Ann  French,  of  Hampton; 
was  a  deacon  in  1669,  selectman  and  deputy  in  1693;  died  Nov.  24,  1700. 

Elizabeth,  born  in  England;  married  (i)  in  1642,  Thomas  Chase,  son  of  Aquila  Chase; 
married  (2)  Oct.  26,  1654,  John  Garland;  married  (3)  Feb.  ig,  1664,  Judge  Henry 
Robey;  died  Feb. 11,  1677. 


394  THOMAS  PHILBRICK  [242-A] 

Hannah,  born  in  England,  probably  unmarried. 

Mary,  born  in  England;  married  (i)  about  1648,  Edward  Tuck,  son  of  Robert  and  Joanna 

Tuck;  married  (2)  James  Wall;  died  Oct.  28,  1702. 
(242)   Martha    born  probably  in  Watertown,  Mass.;  married  (i)  in  1647,  John  Cass,  who  died 

April  7,  1675;  married  (2)  Nov.  30,  1676,  William  Lyons,  of  Rowley,  Mass. 

[242]  JOHN  CASS  (or  CASE)  [....-1675] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARTHA  PHILBRICK  [....-...  .] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    HAMPTON,    N.    H. 

JOHN  CASS  was  the  emigrant  ancestor  of  the  family  of  Cass  in  this  country, 
and  Savage  says  he  was  in  Hampton,  N.  H.,  as  early  as  1644.' 
He  married  in  1647  or  1648,  Martha  Philbrick,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and    Elizabeth    ( )    Philbrick    (242~a),   of  Watertown,  Mass.,  and 

later  of  Hampton,  N.  H. 

In  the  summer  of  1648  he  sold  land  in  Hampton  to  Anthony  Taylor  and  four 
years  later  bought  a  house  and  lot  in  the  same  place  of  William  English.  April  5, 
1664,  he  bought  of  Rev.  John  Wheelright,  brother-in-law  of  Anne  (Marbury) 
Hutchinson  (17),  a  farm  on  the  south  side  of  Taylor's  River,  and  removed  there. 
He  died  suddenly  April  7,  1675.  His  will,  dated  May,  1674,  mentions  his  wife 
Martha,  and  his  children  Joseph,  Samuel,  Jonathan,  Ebenezer,  Abigail,  Mercy 
and  Mary. 

His  widow  Martha  married  (2)  November  30,  1676,  William  Lyons  of  Rowley, 
Mass. 

Children  of  John  and  Martha  (Philbrick)  Cass 

Martha,  born  Oct.  4,  1649;  married  March  27,  1667,  John  Redman,  son  of  John  and  Margaret 

( )  Redman,  of  Hampton,  who  was  deputy  in  1722;  probably  died  before  her 

father. 
Joseph,  born  Oct.  5,  1656;  married  (i)  Jan.  4,  1677,  Mary  Hobbs,  daughter  of  Morris  (or 

Maurice)  and  Sarah  (Easton)  Hobbs;  married  (2)  Elizabeth  (Green)  Chase,  widow 

of  James  Chase  and  daughter  of  Judge  Henry  Green. 
Samuel,  born  July  13,  1659;  married  Dec.  7,  1681,  Mary  (or  Mercy)  Sanborn,  daughter  of 

William  and  Mary  (Mouiton)  Sanborn;  lived  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1700,  for  he  had 

a  seat  assigned  him  in  the  meeting-house  then. 
Jonathan,  born  Sept.  13,  1663. 

'Amongthe  descendants  of  John  Cass  is  Capt.  Jonathan  Cass  of  Exeter,  N.  H.,  who  served  with  distinction 
in  the  Revolution,  and  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  He  married  in  1781  Mary  Oilman,  daughter  of 
Theophilus  and  Deborah  (Webster)  Oilman,  a  granddaughter  in  the  fifth  generation  of  the  emigrants  Edward 
and  Mary  (Clark)  Oilman  (130).  They  followed  Joseph  Oilman  (134)  to  Marietta,  Ohio,  and  settled 
there.  Their  son,  Hon.  Lewis  Cass,  pursued  his  studies,  begun  at  Exeter  Academy,  in  Marietta.  He  was  an  intimate 
friend  of  Benjamin  Ives  Oilman  (135),  to  whom  he  was  doubly  related,  descending  both  from  the  Oilman 
and  Cass  families.  He  was  Secretary  of  War  and  General  in  the  U.  S.  Army  under  President  Jackson,  Ambassador 
to  France,  U.  S.  Senator,  Democratic  candidate  for  President  when  Zachary  Taylor  was  elected,  and  Secretary 
of  State  under  President  Buchanan. 


JOHN  CASS  [242]  395 

Elizabeth,  born  June  4,  1666,  probably  died  young. 
Mercy,  born  Aug.  i,  1668,  was  living  at  the  time  of  her  father's  death. 
(243)    Ebenezer,  born  July   17,   1671,  married  March  13,   i6go,   Patience  Draper,  daughter  of 
James  and  Miriam  (Stanfield)  Draper  (246)  of  Ro.xbury,  Mass. 
Abigail,  born  Jan.  1 1,  1674,  mentioned  in  her  father's  will. 
Mary,  mentioned  in  her  father's  will. 

[243J         EBENEZER  CASS  (or  CASE)  [1671-.  ..] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

PATIENCE  DRAPER  [1668-.  .  .  .] 

OF    ROXBURY,    MASS.,    LEBANON    AND   NORWICH,    CONN. 

EBENEZER  CASS,  the  youngest  son  of  John  and  Martha  (Philbrick) 
Cass  (242),  was  born  July  17,  1671,  at  Hampton.  In  1686  he  joined  the 
colony  organized  in  West  Roxbury,  Suffolk  County,  Mass.,  to  take  pos- 
session of  the  new  plantation  at  New  Roxbury,  Conn.,  which  later  was 
called  Woodstock.  He  was  certainly  then  but  fifteen,  although  in  Larned's  History 
of  Windham  County,  Ct.,  his  name  is  in  the  list  of  settlers  of  Woodstock,  and  it  adds 
"none  of  the  proprietors  were  under  nineteen  years  of  age;  a  few  unmarried." 

In  the  division  of  land  at  Woodstock,  Ebenezer  Cass  and  John  Chandler,  Sr. 

(probably  Deacon  John,  a  son  of  William  and Chandler,  169), drew  lot  No. 

10,  and  in  a  later  division,  he  drew  land  at  "the  south  end  of  Plaine  Hill,  bounded 
east  by  common  lands."  In  these  records  the  name  is  sometimes  spelled  Cass 
and  sometimes  Case. 

He  appears  to  have  returned  to  West  Roxbury,  Mass.,  and  married  there, 
March  13,  1690,  Patience  Draper,  daughter  of  James  and  Miriam  (Stanfield) 
Draper  (246)  of  Roxbury.  Patience  was  born  August  17,  1668,  and  "took  hold 
of  the  covenant"  October  21,  1688.  They  probably  remained  in  Roxbury  for  a 
time,  as  two  of  his  children  were  born  there  in  1691  and  1693. 

He  evidently  bought  large  amounts  of  land  in  New  Roxbury  or  Woodstock, 
as  January  1 1,  1702/3,  he  deeded  his  "mansion  or  house  and  barn  and  514  acres" 
in  Woodstock,  "neare  the  meeting  house,"  for  £\  15,  and  July  10,  1703,  another  plot 
of  twenty-two  acres  of  land  and  meadow  for  £\6  and  March  7,  1708,  a  house  and 
about  fifty-three  acres  of  land  for  fy^. 

About  1708  he  removed  to  Lebanon,  Conn.,  his  first  purchase  of  land  there 
being  June  14,  1708.  He  is  called  in  the  record,  "Ebenezer  Cass  of  New  Rocks- 
bury  Suffolk  County,  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England."  He  must 
have  owned  land  in  other  places  as  well,  as  he  is  mentioned  as  one  of  the  later 
settlers  in  Franklin,  Conn.  This  town  was  not  incorporated  until  1786,  but  was 
originally  part  of  Norwich  township,  then  known  as  West  Farms. 

In  the  Norwich  Land  Records  we  find  a  succession  of  deeds  of  land,  all  in  the 
west  (or  second)  Society  of  Norwich  (West  Farms).     March  19,  1722/3,  he  bought 


396  EBENEZER  CASS  [243] 

of  Jonathan  Royce  of  Norwich  forty-five  acres  at  a  place  formerly  called  Sunaman- 
suck  on  "the  road  that  goes  to  Windham,"  and  in  part  payment  gave  two  hundred 
acres  of  land  "part  in  Lebanon  part  in  Hebron."  He  sold  this  piece  May  i,  1725, 
to  Samuel  Murdock  for  ;^36o.  He  then  bought,  October  27,  1725,  of  Joseph  Dow- 
ner, Jr.,  of  Norwich, for  ;^6o,  a  tract  of  eighteen  acres, "by  the  highwayfrom  Norwich 
to  Windham,"  in  the  township  of  Norwich.  This  he  sold  November  20,  1725,  to 
his  son  Moses  Cass  (244).  April  4,  1726,  he  bought  back  from  Samuel  Murdock 
the  forty-five  acre  tract  mentioned  above,  paying  £^60  again.  He  also  bought 
December  9,  1727,  of  the  heirs  of  "Thomas  Leffingwell  late  of  Norwich,"  ten  acres 
for  £60.  He  deeded  this  also  to  his  son  Moses,  July  5,  1728.  He  deeded  April 
7,  1729,  one  twenty-fourth  part  of  a  large  tract  in  the  township  of  Middleton  and 
Colchester,  to  John  Wallsworth,  of  Groton  and  Joseph  Tracy,  of  Norwich,  and  an- 
other twenty-fourth  to  the  same  men  on  April  24,  1729. 

The  last  deed  on  record  in  Norwich  is  of  September  7,  1730,  in  which  he  deeds 
his  forty-five  acre  tract,  which  he  had  bought  and  sold  and  bought  back  in  the  years 
1722,  1725,  and  1726,  as  recorded  above,  to  Ebenezer  Smith,  of  Norwich  for  £450. 
This  was  probably  his  homestead,  and  after  its  sale  he  may  have  gone  back  to  Le- 
banon or  Hebron. 

The  date  and  place  of  his  and  his  wife's  death  have  not  been  found.  If  they 
died  in  Hebron,  there  is  little  hope  of  ever  finding  any  record,  as  the  earliest  vital 
statistics  of  Hebron  are  illegible.  Miss  Perkins,  in  Old  Houses  of  Norwich  (p.  146), 
says:  "A  Mrs.  Case  is  said  to  have  died  in  Norwich  in  1764,  aged  104,  who  was  per- 
haps the  aged  mother  of  Moses  Case." 

Children  of  Ebenezer  and  Patience  (Draper)  Cass 
Mary,  born  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  July  20,  i6gi;  married  in  1710,  Samuel  Wright,  son  of  Abel 

Wright,  of  Springfield,  Mass.;  was  living  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  in  1724. 
Jonathan,  born  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  Sept.  i,  1693;  married  Nov.  13,  1718,  Bathsheba  Williams, 
daughter  of  Park  Williams. 
(244)   Moses,  born  about  1695;  married  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  Jan.  23,  1717/8,  Mary  Hoskins;  mar- 
ried (2)  Mary ;  died  at  Hebron,  Conn.,  Sept.  6,  1741. 

[244]  MOSES  CASE  [1695-1741] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

MARY  HOSKINS  [....-1739] 

OF  HEBRON  AND  NORWICH,  CONN. 

OSES  CASE,  the  youngest  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Patience   (Draper) 

Cass  (243),  was  probably  born  at  Woodstock,  Conn.,  about  1695.    While 

his  father's  name  appears  in  the  records  as  Cass,  his  is  generally  spelled 

Case,  and  from  this  time  on  the  family  name  is  written  Case. 

Moses  married  (i)  at  Lebanon,  Conn.,  January  23,  1717/8,  Mary  Hoskins, 

whose  parentage  is  unknown.     As  the  name  is  written  in  the  records  with  the  long  s, 

it  has  been  sometimes  erroneously  read  Hopkins. 


M' 


MOSES  CASE  [244]  397 

They  remained  but  a  few  years  in  Lebanon,  although  their  first  child  was 
born  there  in  1721.  November  7,  1722,  Nathaniel  Pratt,  of  Say  brook,  conveyed  to 
Moses  Case  of  Lebanon  one  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Hebron,  Conn.,  partly  in  that 
township  and  partly  in  the  township  of  Lebanon,  and  on  this  they  settled  for  a 
short  time  and  here  two  more  children  were  born. 

They  removed  to  Norwich,  Conn.,  perhaps  about  1725,  probably  settling  on 
the  tract  of  eighteen  or  twenty  acres  "by  the  highway  from  Norwich  to  Windham" 
which  his  father,  Ebenezer  Cass,  had  deeded  to  him  November  20,  1725.  The 
following  month,  December  24,  1725,  he  purchased  of  Amos  Stickne,  of  Norwich, 
twenty-one  acres  "lying  on  the  middle  hill  in  Norwich"  for  £50.  Three  acres  of 
this  he  sold  to  Andrew  Downer,  of  Norwich,  April  15,  1726, for  £35,  and  the  rest  to 
Nathaniel  Baker,  April  4,  1728.  July  5,  1728,  Ebenezer  Cass  deeded  to  his  son 
Moses  the  ten  acres  in  "the  west  society  of  Norwich"  bought  of  the  heirs  of  Mr. 
Lefifmgwell.  All  these  lands  were  in  that  part  of  Norwich  known  as  West  Farms, 
which  was  later  incorporated  into  the  town  of  Franklin. 

Moses  Case  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  Norwich  September  13,  1726.  Two 
more  children  were  born  to  them  there,  one  in  1727  and  one  in  1730.  September  3, 
1730,  he  conveyed  to  John  Hutchings,  the  land  in  the  west  society  which  he  bought 
of  his  father.  This  probably  marks  the  time  of  his  return  to  Hebron,  where  we 
find  the  record  of  the  birth  of  his  later  children  and  where  he  remained  until  his 
death. 

His  first  wife,  Mary  Hoskins,  died,  probably,  about  1739,  and  he  married  (2) 
Mary ,by  whom  he  had  a  son,Eliphalet,as  appears  from  his  will,  and  a  daugh- 
ter, Mary,  born  after  his  death,  mentioned  in  the  Hebron  Records  as  "daughter  of 
Moses  Case  decest." 

He  died  at  Hebron,  September  6,  1741.  His  will,  made  two  days  before  his 
death,  September  4,  mentioned  his  wife  Mary,  his  sons  Moses,  and  Josiah,  and  his 
daughters  Patience,  Lois  and  Hannah.  He  left  the  latter  their  portions,  "when 
they  arriue  at  the  age  of  eighteen,"  and  as  Patience  had  had  "  well  near  one  hundred 
pounds"  he  left  two-thirds  of  his  "house  moveables"  to  be  divided  between  his 
younger  daughters,  Lois,  Alice  and  Hannah.  He  left  to  his  son  by  his  second  wife, 
Eliphalet,  five  pounds,  to  be  paid  to  him  when  Josiah  came  of  "full  age,  twenty-one 
years." 

His  widow  married   (2),  before   1744,  Hutchins,  perhaps  the  John 

Hutchings  to  whom  Moses  Case  sold  his  Norwich  property,  who  is  called  Dr.  John 
Hutchins  and  was  a  tailor  and  veterinary.  The  records  say:  "September  14,  1744, 
Mrs.  Mary  Hutchins  late  widow  of  Moses  Case  of  Hebron  Deed  presented  the  above 
will  to  the  Court." 

Children  of  Moses  and  Mary  (Hoskins)  Case 

Mary,  born  in  Lebanon,  May  20,  1721,  probably  died  young. 

Patience,  born  in  Hebron,  April   19,  1723;  married  March  8,  1739,  David  Barber,  son  of 
David  and  Hannali  (Post)  Barber;  died  July  18,  1748. 


398  MOSES  CASE  [244] 

(245)   Moses,  born  in  Hebron,  July  20,  1724;  married  Aug.  16,  1744,  Phoebe  Peters,  daughter 

of  John  and  Mary  (Marks)  Peters  (252),  of  Hebron,  died  before  1797. 
Lois,  born  in  Norwich,  Nov.  3,  1727;  married  July  15,  1744,  Thomas  Rowley,  son  of  Samuel 

and  Elizabeth  (Fuller)  Rowley. 
Alice,  born  in  Norwich,  Dec.  17,  1730;  married  Jan.  12,  1748,  Captain  Stephen  Barber,  son 

of  David  and  Hannah  (Post)  Barber,  and  so  a  brother  of  her  sister  Patience's  _hus- 

band;  died  Oct.  28,  1814. 
Hannah,  born  in  Hebron,  March  12,  1735/6;  married  Feb.  26,  1756,  Eldad  Post. 
Josiah,  born  in  Hebron,  Feb.  2,  1738;  living  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death. 

Children  of  Moses  and  Mary  ( )  Case 

Eliphalet,  mentioned  in  his  father's  will. 
Mary,  born  in  Hebron,  April  6,  1742. 


[245]  MOSES  CASE,  JR.  [1724-1797] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

PHOEBE  PETERS  [1728-1773] 

OF  HEBRON  AND  KENT,  CONN. 


M 


OSES  CASE,  the  eldest  son  of  Moses  and  Mary  (Hoskins)  Case  (244), 
was  born  July  20,  1724.     While  his  parents  lived  on  the  farm,  part  of 
which  lay  in  Lebanon  and   part  in  Hebron  township,  his  birth  is  re- 
corded in  Hebron,  Conn.     His  parents  moved  to  Norwich  when  he  was 
a  mere  babe,  but  when  he  was  six  years  old  they  returned  to  Hebron. 

He  married  in  Hebron,  August  16,  1744,  Phoebe  Peters,  daughter  of  John 
and  Mary  (Marks)  Peters  (252),  of  Hebron,  who  was  born  June  30,  1728. 

in  the  town  records  his  name  and  those  of  his  children  are  given  as  Cass 
more  frequently  than  Case. 

About  1753  he  removed  to  Kent,  Conn.,  and  from  the  records  there  it  appears 
he  was  a  farmer.  He  purchased  one  tract  there  of  one  hundred  acres,  September 
22,  1753,  and  another  October  i,  of  the  same  year,  and  in  both  deeds  he  is  mentioned 
as  of  Hebron.     The  last  sale  of  land  in  Kent  made  by  him  was  in  1778. 

His  wife  Phoebe  died  at  Kent  February  11,  1773,  and  he  probably  died  in 
the  same  place  before  1797,  the  time  that  his  estate  was  probated.  November  29, 
•797. 

"  Dr.  Isaac  Swift  [230]  of  Cornwall  and  Herman  Carter  of  Kent,  heirs  at  law  on  right  of  their  respec- 
tive wives,  of  Moses  Cass  late  of  S.  Kent,  deceased,  requesting  letters  of  administration  on  the 
estate  of  sd.  deceased,  who  they  say,  now  lately  died  intestate." 

The  Court,  however,  appointed  the  only  surviving  son,  Aaron  Cass,  as  adminis- 
trator, and  required  bonds  from  him.     Objection  was  made  by 

"Nathaniel  Hatch,  Dr.  Isaac  Swift,  Herman  Carter  Peleg  Holmes  and  Gershom  Holmes  in  right 


MOSES  CASE,  JR.  [245]  399 

of  their  respective  wives  ...  on  account  of  inis  want  of  property  and  as  being  destitute  of  integ- 
rity, economy  and  punctuality," 

but  the  Court  decided  to  appoint  him,  he  "having  given  bond  according  to  law," 
and  the  petitioners  having  failed  to  support  their  objection  by  sufficient  evidence. 

Children  of  Moses  and  Phoebe  (Peters)  Case 

Mary,  born  in  Hebron,  July  27,  1746;  married  Samuel  Hatch,  of  Kent. 

Moses,  born  in  Hebron,  June  6,  1749;  married  in  Kent  about  1766,  Alvie  Sturdevent;  died 
at  Kent  in  August,  1777. 
(230)    Patience,  born  in  Kent,  Dec.  17,  1754;  married  Jan.  3,  1775,  Dr.  Isaac  Swift,  son  of  Captain 
Nathaniel  and  Abia  (Tupper)  Swift  (229);  died  Oct.  29,  1808. 

Candace,  born  in  Kent,  May  8,  1757;  died  two  weeks  later. 

Candace,  born  in  Kent,  Jan.  6,  1759. 

Aaron,  born  in  Kent,  Dec.  25,  1761  (or  1762);  married  March  27,  1783,  Ruth  Bull,  was  admin- 
istrator of  his  father's  estate  in  1797. 

Miriam,  born  in  Kent,  July  31,  1766. 

Amelia,  born  in  Kent,  March  3,  1769;  died  March  5,  1790. 

[246]  JAMES  DRAPER  [1624-1697] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MIRIAM  STANFIELD  [....-...  .] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    ROXBURY,    MASS. 

T  AMES  DRAPER  is  said  to  have  been  the  son  of  a  Thomas  Draper,  who  was 

I      born  about  1600,  and  Hved  and  died  in  England.     He  was  born  in  1624.     The 

I      date  of  his  emigration  to  New  England  has   not    been  ascertained,  but  he 

J      married,  about   1653,  Miriam    Stanfield,  who,  tradition   asserts,  followed 

him  from  the  old  country. 

The  James  Draper  who  was  a  proprietor  in  Lancaster,  Mass.,  in  1654,  and  in 
Dedham  in  1683,  is  thought  to  be  the  same  as  our  ancestor.  He  was  living  in  Rox- 
bury  in  1688,  as  his  daughter  Patience  united  with  the  church  there,  October  21 
of  that  year,  under  the  pastorate  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Walter.  James  was  made  a 
freeman  in  Roxbury  in  1690  and  died  there  July  13,  1697,  aged  about  seventy- 
three  years,  according  to  the  inscription  on  his  gravestone,  quoted  erroneously  in 
the  A^.  E.  Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,  VII,  331.  He  and  his  wife  were 
buried  in  the  West  Roxbury  cemetery,  where  for  many  years  their  graves  were 
cared  for  by  a  descendant,  Dr.  Abijah  W.  Draper,  who  was  living  in  1871. 

Children  of  James  and  Miriam  (Stanfield)  Draper 

James,  born  about  1654;  married  (i)  Elizabeth ,  married  (2)  Feb.  18,  1681,  Abigail 

Whiting;  died  April  30,  1698. 
John. 


400  JAMES  DRAPER  [246] 

Moses,  married  (1)  July  7,  1685    Hannah  Chandler,  daughter  of  deacon  John    and  Eliza- 
beth (Douglass)  Chandler  and  granddaughter  of  William  and  ( )  Chandler 

(169),  who  died    in   1692;   married  (2)  Mary  ;  was   a    blacksmith,  lived  in 

Boston  and  died  there  May  19,  1693. 

Daniel. 

Jonathan. 
(244)   Patience,  born  Aug.  17,  1668;  married  May  13,  1690,  Ebenezer  Cass  (or  Case),  son  of 
John  and  Martha  (Philbrick)  Cass  (243). 

THE  PETERS  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

THE  best  and  fullest  record  of  the  American  family  of  Peters  is  found  in 
The  Peters  of  New  England,  1903,  which  comments  very  unfavorably 
on  the  account  of  the  English  ancestry  given  by  Rev.  Samuel  Peters, 
son  of  John  Peters  (252),  of  Hebron,  Conn.,  in  his  work  entitled  A 
History  of  the  Rev.  Hugh  Peters,  A.  M.,  published  in  1807.  Savage  also  calls 
the  latter  "a  work  which  for  its  perpetual  indifference  to  truth  and  frequent  bold 
violations  of  it.  Farmer  thought  it  hazardous  to  quote."  Rev.  Samuel  Peters  was 
a  loyalist,  and  had  to  return  to  England  at  the  time  of  the  Revolution.  During 
his  long  stay  there,  he  endeavored  to  trace  his  ancestry  and  look  up  the  family 
history.  He  believed  that  he  himself  was  a  descendant  of  William  Peters  of  Boston, 
who,  he  said,  was  a  brother  of  Rev.  Hugh  Peters  of  Salein,  Mass.  and  Rev.  Thomas 
Peters  of  Saybrook,  Conn.,  and  that  John  Peters  of  Exeter,  England,  was  their 
grandfather.  As  no  William  Peters  of  Boston  has  ever  been  found,  his  whole 
record  has  been  discredited. 

While  the  genealogical  records  in  his  book,  even  those  of  the  later  genera- 
tions in  this  country,  are  full  of  errors,  they  are  correct  in  part,  and  have  been  useful 
in  aiding  us  to  obtain  more  exact  information.  We  have  now  found  a  William 
Peters,  mentioned  below,  who  emigrated  to  Pemaquid  (now  Bristol),  Maine,  who, 
although  he  was  not  a  brother  of  Rev.  Hugh  and  Rev.  Thomas  Peters,  was  a  de- 
scendant of  John  of  Exeter,  and  who  was  evidently  the  father  of  our  ancestor, 
Andrew  Peters  (250). 

This  recent  investigation  was'  made  in  England  by  George  A.  Taylor  of 
Albany,  New  York,  a  descendant  of  William  Peters,  with  a  full  knowledge  of 
Rev.  Samuel  Peter's  claims.  It  has  resulted  in  finding  an  Andrew  Peeter  of  Eng- 
land, born  about  1634  or  1635,  the  approximate  known  dateof  the  birth  of  Andrew 
Peters  (250).  He  was  a  son  of  William  and  Ann  (Williams)  Peter,  and  a 
great-great-grandson  of  John  Peter  of  Exeter,  England.  Mr.  Taylor  finds,  in 
confirmation,  that  the  seal  on  our  Andrew  Peters'  will  was  similar  to  that  of  the 
family  of  Ann  Williams,  whom  he  believes  to  have  been  his  mother.  So  that 
Rev.  Samuel  Peters'  tradition  of  a  relationship  with  John  Peter,  one  of  whose 
sons  was  Sir  William  Peter,  secretary  to  Henry  VI 11,  Edward  VI,  Mary  and  Eliza- 
beth, was  undoubtedly  correct.     According  to  Mr.  Taylor,  the  line  is  as  follows: 


THE  PETERS  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  401 

I 

John   Peter,  of  Tor  Newton,  Devonshire,  temp.   Richard   II    (1377-1399) 

married  Alice .     His  son  was 

2 

John  Peter,  of  Tor  Newton,  who  married .     His  son  was 

3 

William  Peter,  of  Tor  Newton,  born  about  1437,  married  Joan  . 

He  was  "twenty-four  years  of  age  in  the  12th  year  of  Edward  IV  (1461)."    His 
sons  were 

John,  married  Alice  Collings;  had  a  daughter  Wilmot  (see  below)  and  a  son,  Sir  William 

Peter,  Secretary  to  Henry  VIII,  Edward  VI,  Mary,  and  Elizabeth. 
William,  see  below. 

4 

William  Peter,  of  Bakebeare,  Dorsetshire;  married  Jane  or  Joan,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Sir  Roger  Arundell  of  Calwoodleigh.     His  children  were 

Roger,  died  without  issue. 

William,  died  without  issue. 

John,  see  below. 

,'3  daughter,  who  married Goonn. 

5 

John  Peter,  of  Bowhay,  Devon,  married  his  cousin  Wilmot  Peter,  daughter 
of  John  and  Alice  (Collings)  Peter  (see  No.  3).  John  Peter  built  the  mansion 
at  Bowhay.  He  was  three  times  mayor  of  Exeter  and  also  member  of  Parliament 
for  Exeter  under  Queen  Mary.  His  will  was  dated  December  8,  1579,  and  was 
proved  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  November  4,  1581.  He  called  him- 
self "John  Peter  Marchaunte  of  the  City  of  Exeter."  He  provided  for  his  burial 
in  St.  Mary  Arches  in  Exeter  and  left  40s.  to  the  poor  of  Ipplepen  and  £5  to  the 
poor  of  Charellton.  These  are  small  towns  of  Devon  south  of  Exeter,  where  he 
evidently  had  estates,  as  in  the  will  of  his  grandson  George  of  Charellton,  they 
are  bequeathed  to  his  son  Giles.  John  left  bequests  to  his  sister's  daughter,  Jayes 
Goonn,  and  ;£ioo  to  "Suzan  Hurste  daughter  to  my  son-in-law  William  Hurste 
and  her  mother  Mary  Hurste."  He  mentioned  his  cousin,  Mr.  John  Peter  of 
Compton.  He  forgave  William  Peter  ;^i8,  and  left  the  residue  of  his  property  to 
his  son  and  heir  Otes  Peter,  who  was  sole  executor.  There  were  no  witnesses. 
His  children  were: 

Otes,  his  heir.' 

William,  see  below. 

Mary,  married  William  Hurste  and  had  a  daughter  Susan  Hurste. 

'The  present  Earl  of  Bathurst  is  descended  from  Otes  Peter  through  the  female  line. 


402  THE  PETERS  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 


William  Peter  was  living  in  1 579,  the  date  of  his  father's  will,  and  married 

Alice .     He  died  before  1604.     His  wife  Alice  died  in  1604  and  her  will 

was  dated  June  4  of  that  year.  In  it  she  left  bequests  to  her  daughter  Alice 
Kerridge,  wife  of  Thomas  Kerridge,  to  be  paid  by  her  son  George  (probably  the 
eldest),  to  her  daughters  Welthian  Tucker,  and  Joyce  Browning,  and  to  her  sons 
Morice  and  Thomas  Peeter,  to  her  son  George  Peeter's  children,  to  her  cousins 
Bridgett  Watts  and  Samuel  Tucker,  and  to  her  son-in-law,  Valentine  Tucker. 
The  latter  had  also  six  silver  spoons,  and  "a  pair  of  great  andirons  which  be  in 
his  fore  chamber  at  ye  new  Ine."  To  her  son  Humfrie  Peeter  and  his  heirs  she 
left  an  annuity  "issuing  out  of  a  tenement  in  the  parish  of  St.  Paul,  Exeter,  for 
ever."  The  executor  was  Humfrie  Peeter  and  the  overseers  her  sons-in-law  Valen- 
tine Tucker  and  Thomas  Kerridge.  The  will  was  signed  "Allc  Peeter"  >  and  is 
at  the  Guildhall  at  Exeter.     Their  children  were: 

George,  see  below. 

Humfrie,  who  was  a  lawyer  at  Bristol  about  1623,  at  the  time  that  his  nephew  William  was 
sheriff  there.  He  matriculated  at  Oxford  Dec.  13,  1599,  aged  nineteen,  was  a  bar- 
rister-at-Iaw  in  the  Inner  Temple  in  1603  and  was  then  called  "of  Northleigh,  Devon." 

Alice,  married  Thomas  Kerridge. 

Welthian,  married  Valentine  Tucker. 

Joyce,  married Browning. 

Morice. 

Thomas. 

7 

George,  probably  born  in  1560,  as  the  inscription  on  his  tombstone  in  the 
churchyard  at  Henbury,  Gloucestershire,  reads  "aged  72  years,"  and  his  will 
was  proved  in  1632.     He  married  (i)  Grace  Pyle,  daughter  of  John  Pyle,  of 

Exeter;  married  (2)  Elinor .     His  will  was  dated  February  12,  1630,  and 

proved  June  16,  1632.  In  it  he  called  himself  "George  Petre  of  Charlton  in  the 
parish  of  Henbury,  co:  Gloucester,  Gent."  Of  his  family  of  twenty-two  children 
he  said: 

"  By  my  two  wives  I  have  had  many  children.  All  those  by  my  first  wife  are  at  man's  and 
woman's  estates.  By  my  now  wife  Elinor  I  have  as  yet  living  five  sons  and  a  daughter,  most  of 
whom  are  of  tender  age." 

He  bequeathed  to  his  eldest  son,  William  Peter  and  Ann  his  wife  lands, 
etc.,  of  the  value  of  ;^40  yearly.  To  his  sons  Edward,  Thomas,  and  Francis,  he 
left  certain  "lands  and  tenements  in  Bristoll."  To  his  daughter  "Grace  (by 
my  now  wife) "  200  marks.     He  wrote: 

"1  hold  my  farm  in  Charlton  for  certain  years  determinable  upon  the  life  of  my  wife  and 
Giles  my  son,  [and  within  one  year  of  the  death  of  his  wife,  Giles]  is  to  pay  unto  Richard  Petre, 
Vicimus  Petre,  Henry  Petre  and  George  Petre  the  sum  of  300  pounds,  and  he  is  then  to  have  all" 

the  interest  in  Charlton.     He  also  mentioned  his  eldest  and  his  youngest  sons 

Mn  the  Visitation  the  name  is  given  as  Peeter. 


THE  PETERS  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND  403 

George,  his  sons'  children,  his  daughter  Mary  Cox,  his  son-in-law  Mr.  Roger  Wat- 
kins  and  his  two  daughters,  his  brother  Humfrey  Petre  and  wife.  He  left  to  the 
poor  of  Bristol  40s.  and  to  the  poor  of  Henbury  20s.  His  wife  Elinor  and  his 
"two  youngest  sons  Henry  and  George  Petre"  were  to  be  executors,  and  "  Humfry 
Petre,  James  Dyer  of  Bristoll  Esq.  Thos  Tarr  als  Herly  of  Stoake  yeoman,  over- 
seers." The  witnesses  were  Giles  Petre,  Thos.  Herly,  and  Thomas  Lovering. 
As  far  as  we  know,  his  children  by  his  first  wife,  Grace,  were: 
William,  see  below. 
George. 

Edward,  who  was  a  merchant  of  Bristol.  His  will,  dated  April  14,  proved  .May  4,  1638, 
provided  that  he  should  be  buried  in  the  crowd  of  St.  Nicholas  Church,  Bristol,  "be- 
tween the  two  second  arches  from  the  stairs  where  my  mother  lieth  buried."  He 
says  he  had  promised  his  brother  William  that  he  would  provide  for  his  children, 
so  he  left  "them  so  much  as  will  make  up  for  their  maintenance,  education.  To 
Grace  100  pounds,  Simon  fifty  pound,  ditto  to  William,  Edward  and  Andrew, 
children  of  my  brother  William."  His  wife  Margaret  was  sole  executrix  and  his 
friends,  Mr.  Giles  Elbridge  '  and  Mr.  William  Cann,  merchants,  were  overseers. 
Thomas. 
Francis. 

Mary,  married Coxe. 

,  a  daughter  married  Roger  Watkins,  and  died  before  1630,  leaving  two  daughters. 

His  children  by  his  second  wife  Elinor  were: 
Grace,  Giles,  Richard,  Vicimus,  Henry,  and  George. 

8 
William  Peter,  born  probably  in  the  parish  of  Henbury,  Gloucester.  He 
married  Ann  Williams,  daughter  of  Walter  Williams.  He  was  a  merchant 
in  Exeter,  where  the  Peters  were  closely  identified  with  the  mercantile  interests 
of  Devon.  Sometime  after  1609  he  removed  to  Bristol  and  became  associated 
with  the  Aldworths.  Thomas  Aldworth  married  another  daughter  of  Walter 
Williams  and  so  was  a  brother-.in-law  of  William  Peter.  Thomas  Aldworth 
was  the  first  English  factor  or  agent  of  the  British  East  India  Company  at  Surat, 
India,  and  died  there  about  1616,  and  William  Peter  and  Robert  Wallis  were 
appointed  guardians  of  his  children.  The  Aldworths  were  prominent  merchants 
in  Bristol  and  particularly  distinguished  for  their  enterprise  in  the  colonization 
of  Newfoundland,  and  for  their  commercial  transactions  with  that  country  and 
the  coasts  of  New  England.  It  was  through  this  connection,  probably,  that 
William  Peter  became  interested  in  the  American  colonization  scheme  that 
brought  him  to  New  England.  He  came  with  Mr.  Giles  Elbridge,  who  was  a 
partner  of  Robert  Aldworth  in  the  patent  of  Pemaquid,  now  Bristol,  Maine.  They 
sailed    in    the    ship  "Pleasure"  in   1628.'     This    colony  suffered    much   by  the 

'  Feb.  20,  163 1, the  president  and  council  for  New  England  granted  to  Robert  Aldworth  and  Giles  Elbridge, 
100  acres  of  land  for  every  person  whom  they  should  transport  to  the  Province  of  Maine  within  seven  years,and 
who  should  continue  there  three  years.  They  also  gave  them  an  absolute  grant  of  12,000  acres  of  land  as  "their 
proper  inheritance  forever"  to  be  laid  out  near  the  Pemaquid  River. 


404  THE  PETERS  FAMILY  IN  ENGLAND 

interference  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  and  it  appears  that  William  Peter 
remained  but  a  few  years  and  then  returned  to  Bristol,  England.  Although  he 
had  inherited  property  from  his  father,  this  venture  apparently  absorbed  most 
of  his  estate.  He  died  at  Bristol,  England,  in  1635,  leaving  a  widow  and  five 
young  children,  Simon,  Grace,  Edward,  William,  and  Andrew  (250),  to  share 
in  a  small  estate.  His  widow  married  (2)  Robert  Wallis,  a  friend  of  William 
Peter  and  guardian  with  him  of  the  Aldworth  children,  as  noted  above. 

William  Peter's  will,  proved  May  20,  1637,  reads  in  part  as  follows: 

"  In  the  name  of  God  Amen.  The  fourteenth  Daie  of  November  Anno  Dni  1635.  I  William 
Petre  of  the  Cittie  of  Bristoll  gent  being  sicke  and  weake  in  bodie  but  of  good  and  pfect  minde 
and  memory  (thanks  be  given  to  Almightie  God  for  the  same)  doo  make  and  ordaine  this  last  will 
and  Testament  in  manner  and  form  following.  First  I  commen''  myself  both  soule  and  body 
unto  the  hands  of  God  my  maker,  and  of  Jesus  Christ  his  only  sonne  my  only  Saviour  and  redeemer 
trusting  and  assuredly  persuading  myself  that  by  and  through  his  precious  death  and  passion 
and  not  by  any  merits  nor  deserts  of  my  owne  I  shall  be  made  partaker  of  everlasting  life  and  live 
with  him  forever  in  his  Kingdome.  And  my  body  I  comitt  to  the  earth  from  whence  it  came  to 
be  buried  in  Christian  buriall.  And  as  touching  that  little  worldye  estate  wch  God  in  his  infinite 
mercie  hath  lent  me  in  this  world  I  dispose  thereof  as  followeth  Imprimis — I  give  and  bequeath 
unto  my  children  Grace,  Edward,  William  and  Andrewe  twentie  shillings  apeece  as  a  token  of 
my  love  unto  them  haveing  nothing  els  to  give  them.  All  the  rest  of  my  goods  and  chattels  and 
plate  and  household  stuffe  whatsoever  1  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  eldest  sonne  Simon  Petre,  whom 
I  make  and  ordaine  sole  executor  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament.  In  witness  whereof  I  the  said 
William  Petre  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seale  the  day  and  yeare  first  above  written.  Wil- 
liam Petre  signed  sealed  and  acknowledged  by  said  William  Petre  to  be  his  last  will  and  testament 
the  day  and  year  above  written  in  the  presence  of  Richard  Hopper,  George  Hartwell  Not.  Pub." 

His  children  were 

Simon, 

Grace, 

Edward, 

William, 

Andrew,  see  below. 

[250]  ANDREW  PETERS  [1635-1713] 

AND  HIS  WIFE 

MERCY  (BEAMSLEY)  WILBOURN  [1637-1726] 

OF    ENGLAND,    IPSWICH   AND    ANDOVER,   MASS. 

ANDREW  PETERS  was  probably  the  youngest  son  of  William  and  Ann 
(Williams)  Peter  of  Bristol,  England,  and  was  born  there  about  1634 
or  1635.     This  appears  both  from  a  deposition  made  by  him  in   1684, 
when  he  gave  his  age  as  fifty,  and  from  the  inscription  on  his  tombstone. 
He  was  but  an  infant  when  his  father  died  in  1635. 

Our  authority  for  Andrew  Peters'  ancestry  given  in  the  previous  article 
is  George  A.  Taylor,  of  Albany,  who  is  of  the  opinion  that  after   the  death  of 


ANDREW  PETERS  [250]  405 

William  Peter  and  the  second  marriage  of  his  widow  to  Robert  Wallis,  of  Bland- 
ford  (near  Poole),  Dorset,  the  family  suffered  further  financial  loss,  possibly  because 
of  the  plague  and  the  siege  of  Bristol  in  1645.  In  that  year  Simon,  Andrew's 
eldest  brother,  and  heir  to  his  father's  estate,  emigrated  to  Virginia,  sent  over 
by  the  Bennetts,  friends  of  the  family.  Among  the  Chancery  Proceedings  for 
January,  1649,  Mr.  Taylor  has  found  a  bill  of  complaint  against  Edward  Peter 
and  his  brother  Andrew  (whose  name  he  used  in  trust)  for  wine  sent  by  Edward 
from  St.  Lucia,  W.  1.  They  are  spoken  of  as  having  been  lately  at  Poole,  Dorset, 
where  probably  their  mother  was  living.  It  is  thought  that  Andrew  may  have 
come  to  New  JZngland  by  way  of  Virginia,  following  his  brother  Simon,  or  in  the 
course  of  the  spirit  trade  in  which  he  seems  to  have  been  employed.  This  may 
have  brought  him  to  Boston,  where  we  find  him  in  1658. 

He  married  about  1658,  probably  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  Mercy  (Beamsley) 
WiLBOURN,  widow  of   Michael  Wilbourn  and   daughter  of   William  and  Ann 

( )  Beamsley  (250-A).     Mercy  was  born  December  9,  1637,  and  had  one 

child  at  the  time  of  her  second  marriage,  Mary  Wilbourn,  who  married  December 
30,  1674,  Nathaniel  Chapman,  of  Ipswich. 

The  Wilson  MS.  (see  251)  gives  us  an  interesting  glimpse  of  the  beginning 
of  Andrew's  courtship,  and  the  story  runs  somewhat  as  follows:  Mercy  Beams- 
ley  was  one  day  standing  at  her  window  watching  the  people  wading  through 
the  trails,  which  then  served  as  streets,  when  her  attention  was  attracted  by  a 
"young  Holland"  picking  his  way  through  the  mud.  Andrew  Peters  had  just 
arrived  in  Ipswich,  and  looking  up,  saw  her,  and,  it  is  said,  at  once  resolved  to  win 
her  for  his  wife.  This  story  calls  Andrew  a  Hollander,  but  it  was  probably  on 
account  of  his  trade,  and  his  ship  may  have  come  from  that  country. 

He  was  a  distiller  in  Boston  in  1659,  as  appears  from  an  indenture  of  Novem- 
ber 18,  1659,  but  about  1 66 1  he  removed  to  Ipswich,  where,  in  1664,  he  was  one  of 
the  proprietors  of  common  lands  and  had  a  share  in  Plum  Island,  etc.  In  1665/6 
he  was  one  of  the  signers  of  a  petition  to  the  General  Court  of  Boston,  protesting 
against  certain  aspersions  cast  on  the  petitioners  relative  to  their  loyalty  to  the 
King.     He  applied  for  a  license  to  sell  liquors  in  Ipswich,  but  was  refused. 

He  served  in  King  Philip's  War,  and,  January  24,  1676/7,  received  credit 
for  this  military  service,  £1  14s.  and  later  a  grant  of  land  in  the  division  called 
"Narraganset  No.  3."     He  was  then  of  Ipswich. 

He  removed  to  Andover,  probably  about  1687,  as  he  deeded  his  home  in 
Ipswich,  November  22,  of  that  year,  to  William  Baker,  glover,  for  £65.  His 
arrival  there  was  welcomed,  as  he  was  regarded  as  a  man  of  means.  He  was 
a  distiller  and  a  licensed  retailer  of  spirits.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  town 
affairs,  and  was  the  first  treasurer  of  whom  record  has  been  found.  He  held 
that  office  from  169710  1704  and  again  from  170710  17 13,  the  time  of  his  death. 

In  1689  his  two  elder  sons,  John  and  Andrew,  were  killed  by  Indians  in  battle 
and  in  1696  his  third  son  William  shared  the  same  fate. 

In  1692  the  town  granted  "to  Mr.  Andrew  Peters  to  build  a  seat  in  ye  east 


4o6  ANDREW  PETERS  [250] 

gallery"  in  the  new  meeting-house  built  in  1669.  The  same  year  he  was  inter- 
ested in  the  case  of  Martha  (Allen)  Carrier  of  Andover,  who  was  convicted  of 
witchcraft  by  the  testimony  of  her  own  little  daughter  Sarah,  a  child  of  eight 
years.'  Martha  Carrier  was  probably  an  aunt  of  John  Allen,  a  son-in-law  of  An- 
drew Peters,  as  all  of  the  Peters  family  and  other  leading  people  of  Andover 
signed  the  petition  begging  for  an  end  of  the  indictments. 

In  1692  he  suffered  a  great  loss  by  fire  as  the  following  shows: 

"This  maycertifie  any  that  maybe  concerned  yt  Mr.  Andrew  Peeters(now  an  inhabitant  in  An- 
dover) being  lately  burnt  out  by  ye  Indians  &  put  by  his  husbandry  &  being  a  stiller  of  strong  liquors 
by  his  calling  &  having  sett  up  his  still  house  in  ye  towne  of  Andover  we  ye  subscribers  being  ye 
selectmen  of  Andover  doe  desire  &  judge  it  a  benefit  to  ye  towne  yt  he  may  have  liberty  to  retail 
his  liquor  by  ye  quart  out  of  his  owne  house  to  the  householders  of  ye  Towne  or  others  which  he 
may  think  have  need  of  it.  We  judging  him  a  man  carefull  of  observing  law  &  good  order  in  those 
matters.     Signed 

Dudley  Bradstreet 
.   .  John  Abbott 

John  Aslebe 
Samuel  Frie 
Andover  ye  21  December  1692  John  Chandler     Selectmen  of  Andover." 

He  was  a  selectman  for  two  or  three  terms  in  1693/4,  1696/7,  and  1703/4. 
May  4,  1696,  it  was 

"Voted  &  passed  yt  these  tenn  men  hereafter  named  shall  have  the  libertie  of  making  a  ware  for 
ye  catching  of  fish  in  Merrimack  River  att  a  place  commonly  called  ye  fishing  place  against  Maj. 
Bradstreet  his  Ground.  According  to  these  terms  following:  viz,  to  sell  to  ye  inhabitants  of 
this  town  at  any  price  not  exceeding  twelvepence  ye  score  &  ye  inhabitants  of  this  towne  to  be 
supplied  before  strangers." 

Among  the  ten  men  are  Andrew  Peters,  William  Chandler,  Jr.  (170), 
and  Thomas  Osgood,  probably  son  of  Christopher  Osgood  (253-B).  From 
this  extract  it  appears  that  Andrew  Peters  was  also  interested  in  the  fisheries 
in  Andover. 

On  the  death  of  William  Chandler  (170),  the  selectmen  of  Andover  gave 
the  following  certificate  to  Andrew  Peters,  dated  March  i,  1698/9. 

"This  informes  any  that  are  concerned  yt  whereas  William  Chandler  late  of  Andover  de- 
ceased, was  the  Innholder  of  our  Towne  &  wee  being  likely  to  be  vacant  Wee  desire  Mr.  Andrew 
Peeters  may  be  the  person  for  ye  next  year  for  ye  End;  he  having  license  from  ye  Quartr  Sessions 
for  ye  same  formerly,  and  behaved  himself  without  offense  soe  farr  as  wee  know;  he  is  alsoe  one 
of  our  Selectmen  And  our  Town  Treasr." 

Probably  he  continued  to  keep  the  inn  under  the  same  sign  as  his  predecessor, 
that  of  the  "Horse-Shoe,"  until  his  death. 
In  1702  he  and 

'See  Phoebe  Chandler,  292. 


ANDREW  PETERS  [250]  407 

"Ensign  John  Aslebe  [were  chosen]  to  goe  down  to  Boston  to  manage  the  concerns  of  ye  towne 
against  a  petition  yt  may  be  putt  in  to  ye  Gener  Court  by  Mr.  Benjamin  Woodbridge." 

Later  in  the  year,  Judge  Sewall  writes  of  a  ride  to  Andover  with  friends, 
when  "some  warned  us  not  to  goe  to  the  ordinary,  because  Mr.  Peters  was  danger- 
ously sick  of  the  Bloody  Flux."     He  recovered,  however,  and  in  171 1/ 12, 

"Mr.  Andrew  peeters,  Richard  Barker  Senier  and  En.  Samuel  Erie  were  chosen  a  committee  to 
seat  [people  in  the  meeting  house]  according  to  the  Instructions  as  hath  bin  drawn  up  for  seating 
said  house." 

He  died  in  Andover  in  1713.  The  town  records  say:  "Mr.  Andrew  Peeters 
dyed  December  ye  13th  1713:  aged  about  77  years."  The  inscription  on  his 
gravestone,  which  is  still  standing  in  the  North  Andover  graveyard  and  has  been 
carefully  preserved,  differs  somewhat,  and  reads  as  follows: 

"Here  lyes  the  body  of  Mr  Andrew  Peters  who  deceased  December  ye  14th  1713  in  ye  79th  year 
of  his  age." 

His  widow  Mercy  died  November  5,  1726. 

His  will,  which  is  badly  torn,  was  dated  November  16,  1702,  and  proved 
May  3,  1714.    The  provisions  are  in  part  as  follows: 

"To  my  dear  wiffe  Marcy  Peeters  I  will  &  bequeath  my  whole  Estate  in  houses  Lands  & 
cattle  goods  money  &c  Dureing  her  natural  liffe,  or  whilst  Shee  Remans  my  widdow  for  her  Comfort- 
able subsisting  in  this  world,  .  .  .  and  after  her  decease  .  .  .  that  my  son  Samuell  peeters  shall 
haue  .  .  .  my  whole  Estate  in  hauses,  Lands  Cattle,  Stills  &  Coppers,  .  .  .  and  y'  Reasen  is, 
whereas  I  was  Burne  .  .  .  out  by  y'  heathen  Enemy,  hee  y''  said  Samuell  Peeters  hath  been  .  .  . 
Copartner  euer  since.  ...  to  my  doughters  Tenne  ...  in  pay  each  of  them,  Elizabeth  Wright 
&  .  .  .  Chandler,  ...  to  my  two  Grand  Children  Andrew  .  .  .  mary  Peeters  which  are  y^ 
Children  of  my  Son  Jo  .  .  .  deceased.  Each  of  them  fiue  pounds  in  pay  ...  to  my  Grand  son 
Seberance  peeters  a  .  .  .  payer  of  oxern  worth  Tenne  pounds  in  pay  ...  to  my  Grand  son  John 
peeters  y^  son  of  Will  .  .  .  peeters  deceased,  Tenne  pounds  .  .  .  when  he  shall  com  ...  to  ye 
age  of  Twenty  &  one  years  ...  to  my  doughter  in  Law  [step-daughter]  Mary  Chapman  fourty 
shillings  in  Money  ...  to  my  Grand  doughter  Annis  Chandler  as  my  executors  shall  see  Cause, 
and  as  for  my  Grand  Children  John  &  hannah  Allin  haue  been  under  my  Care,  I  haue  Reserved 
tham  that  which  was  their  Fathers  .  .  .  ,  etc.  I  haue  written  This  with  my  owne  hand  (signed 
Andrew  Peeters)" 

Children  of  Andrew  and  Mercy  (Beamsley  Wilbourn)  Peters 

John,  born  Feb.  27  (28),  1660,  married  in  Ipswich,  May  25,  1680,  Mary  Edwards,  daughter 
of  John  Edwards,  of  Ipswich;  was  killed  by  Indians  Aug.  14,  1689,  during  the  raid 
on  Haverhill. 

Elizabeth,  born  Aug.  26,  1662;  married  (i)  Nov.  25,  1678,  John  Sady,  of  Ipswich;  married 
(2)  Sept.  9,  1684,  Walter  Wright,  of  Andover;  died  in  Andover  Oct.  31,  1703. 

Andrew,  born  probably  in  1664;  married  in  Andover  Feb.  8,  1685,  Elizabeth  Farnham, 
daughter  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Sibbons)  Farnham;  was  killed  by  Indians  at 
the  same  time  with  his  brother  John,  Aug.  14,  1689.  His  widow  married  (2)  April 
2,  1692,  James  Johnson. 


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Mary,  born  June  12,  1668;  married  May  22,  1686,  Thomas  Chandler,  son  of  Captain  Thomas 
and  Hannah  (Brewer)  Chandler  and  grandson  of  William  and  ■  Chand- 
ler (169);  died  at  Andover  July  21,  1753. 

Mercy,  born  Jan.  27,  1670,  married  May  22,  1686  (the  same  day  as  her  sister  Mary)  John 
Allen,  son  of  Andrew  and  Faith  (Ingalls)  Allen,  of  Ipswich,  who  died  of  small  pox, 
Nov.  26,  1690;  she  died  of  the  same  disease  Dec.  25,  the  same  year. 
(251)   William,  born  Feb.  7,  1672,  married  about  1694,  Margaret  Russ,  daughter  of  John  and 
Deborah  (Osgood)  Russ  (253);  was  killed  by  Indians  Aug.  13,  1696. 

Samuel,  born  probably  in  1674,  married  at  Andover  Dec.  15,  1696,  Phoebe  Frye,  daughter 
of  Ensign  Samuel  and  Mary  (Aslebe)  Frye  (or  Frie);  died  at  Andover  May  2,  1736, 
and  his  widow  died  May  14,  1757. 

[251]  WILLIAM  PETERS  [1672-1696] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARGARET  RUSS  [1673-.  .  .  .] 

OF    IPSWICH    AND   ANDOVER,    MASS. 

WILLIAM  PETERS,  the  third  son  of  Andrew  and  Mercy  (Beamsley 
Wilbourn)  Peters  (250),  was  born  February  7,  1672.     When  he  was 
about  twelve  or  fourteen  his  parents  moved  from  Ipswich  to  Andover. 
He  married  about  1694,  Margaret   Russ,   daughter  of  John  and 
Deborah  (Osgood)  Russ  of  Andover  (253),  who  was  born  April  10,  1673. 

In  the  History  of  Rev.  Hugh  Peters  by  Rev.  Samuel  Peters,  who  was  a  grand- 
son of  William,  Rev.  Samuel  says  that  his  grandfather  was  a  "Captain  of  a  troop 
of  horse"  and  was  killed  in  a  battle  at  Andover,  in  October,  1696,  by  the  French 
and  Indians.  This  seems  to  have  been  one  of  the  many  errors  in  that  remarkable 
book.  He  was  evidently  only  serving  temporarily  for  the  protection  of  Andover 
when  he  was  killed  by  the  Indians,  August  13,  1696.  In  a  letter  of  August  14, 
1696,  Captain  Christopher  Osgood,  son  of  Christopher  Osgood  (253-B),  head 
of  the  militia  in  Andover,  thus  refers  to  the  death  of  William. 

"Yesterday  in  the  afternoon,  William  Peeters  belonging  to  Samuel  Blanchard's  garrison, 
went  from  the  garrison  to  fetch  his  horse  and  another  man  whose  name  was  hoyt  was  with  him, 
and  as  we  conceive  by  the  effect,  went  both  into  the  house  which  was  about  half  a  mile  from  the 
garrison  just  upon  Bildrecky  [Billerica]  Road  in  an  open  plain  place  and  were  both  surprised 
by  the  enemy  and  killed  without  any  shooting  so  that  no  discovery  neither  of  the  enemy  nor  of 
the  tragedy  wrought  by  them  till  about  sunset,  which  were  then  discovered  by  two  persons  going 
to  the  house  to  look  after  them  because  of  their  tarrying  longer  than  was  expected  who  found  them 
both  killed  and  scalped  and  lying  in  their  blood  within  the  house  and  our  enemy  undiscovered." 

Another  more  detailed  account  is  in  the  Wilson  MS,  published  first  in  the 
Andover  Townsman  April  9,  1897,  in  an  article  signed  C.  H.  Abbott.  The  MS 
is  now  owned  by  the  Rev.  Anson  Titus,  and  is  the  story  as  told  by  Margaret  Wilson, 
granddaughter  of  Margaret  (Russ)  Peters,  at  the  age  of  ninety,  and  transcribed 
by  her  own  granddaughter.     It  is  practically  the  same  only  giving  us  a  few  details 


WILLIAM  PETERS  [251]  409 

as  to  dates,  and  the  fact  of  the  second  marriage  of  Margaret  (Russ)  Peters. 
She  remained  a  widow  for  eight  years  and  was  employed  by  James  Wilson  of  Cam- 
bridge to  care  for  his  six  children,  after  the  death  of  his  wife,  Deborah  Pierce,  in 
1703.  She  married  (2)  April  15,  1704,  James  Wilson,  moved  to  Leicester,  Mass., 
and  it  is  said  that  this  "marriage  was  a  happy  union  of  fifty  years." 

Children  of  William  and  Margaret  (Russ)  Peters 

(252)  John,  born  at  Andover  Oct.  i,   1695;  married  in  North  Brooi<field,  Mass.,  April  3,  1717, 

Mary  Marks,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  ( )  Marks  (255);  died  at  Hebron, 

Conn.,  Oct.  20,  1754. 

[252]  JOHN  PETERS  [1695-1754] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

MARY  MARKS  [1698-1784] 

OF    HEBRON,    CONN. 

JOHN  PETERS,  only  child  of  William  and  Margaret  (Russ)   Peters  (251), 
was  born  October  i,  1695.     He  was  but  a  few  months  old  when  his  father 
was  killed  by  the  Indians  in  the  garrison  at  Andover.     When  he  was  about 
nine  years  old  his  mother  married  (2)  James  Wilson,  and  he  went  with  them 
to  Leicester,  Mass.,  when  they  removed  thither  in  17 14. 

He  married  April  3,   1717,  Mary  Marks,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary 

( )  Marks  (255),  who  was  born  in  May,  1698.     His  marriage  and  the  birth 

of  hjs  first  child  are  recorded  both  at  Hebron  and  North  Brookfield. 

The  name  still  continues  to  be  spelled  with  a  double  e,  and  in  the  Hebron 
Land  Records  we  find  that  "John  Peeters  of  Lister  in  the  county  of  Middlesex 
and  Province  of  Massachusetts"  bought  land  in  Hebron  of  Samuel  Brown,  of 
Colchester,  Conn.,  February  5,  1720/1.  He  was,  however,  still  living  in  Leicester 
when,  July  23,  1722,  the  proprietors  of  Leicester  met  at  the  Green  Dragon  Tavern 
in  Boston  and  voted  to  dispose  of  one-half  of  their  township  to  sundry  persons, 
among  whom  were  John  Peters,  who  bought  lot  9,  30  acres,  and  Hezekiah  Russ, 
lot  8,  30  acres.  The  latter  was  probably  a  relative,  who  came  with  his  wife,  De- 
borah (Wilson)  Russ,  from  Lexington.  From  his  wife's  name  we  should  judge 
she  might  be  a  connection  of  John's  step-father.  September  23,  1723,  John 
Peters  sold  to  Samuel  Green  his  homestead  in  Leicester,  and  January  8,  1724, 
he  received  a  lot  from  the  proprietors  as  his  share  of  the  public  lands. 

Just  when  he  removed  to  Hebron,  which  was  his  later  home,  is  uncertain, 
but  it  may  have  been  about  this  time,  although  the  birth  of  all  his  children  except 
the  eldest,  is  recorded  there. 

In  March,  1725,  his  father-in-law,  Joseph  Marks  (255), of  Brookfield, deeded 
to  him  certain  lands  in  Brookfield,  "in  consideration  of  the  love  and  good  will" 
that  he  had  for  John,  whom  he  styles  "of  Hebron  in  the  county  of  Hartford." 


410  JOHN  PETERS  [252] 

John  gave  a  mortgage,  secured  upon  a  "moeity  or  half"  of  this  tract,  to  Henry 
Dwight  April  24,  1729,  for  ;^i70.  This  was  foreclosed  in  1735.  The  other  half 
he  sold  to  John  Marks,  his  brother-in-law,  September  9,  1743,  for  £100.  Probably 
the  old  Peters  house  standing  on  the  road  between  Hebron  and  Gilead  was  built 
by  John  Peters  about  1740. 

His  name  was  on  the  tax  list  of  the  Church  of  England  in  1745,  and  September 
5,  1746,  he  deeded  to  the  Rev.  Ebenezer  Punderson,  of  Groton,  Mass.,  missionary, 
Samuel  Pennock  and  Thomas  Brown  of  Hebron,  and  the  Society  for  the  Propa- 
gation of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,  thirty  acres  for  a  glebe  land.  This  tract, 
lying  about  three-quarters  of  a  mile  north  from  the  church,  was  leased  by  the 
parish  for  9,999  years,  April  6,  1795,  for  the  annual  rent  of  one  grain  of  pure  silver 
or  either  silver  or  gold  equivalent  (if  demanded),  upon  the  festival  of  St.  John 
the  Baptist,  in  each  year. 

John  Peters  died  at  Hebron,  October  20,  1754,  "in  ye  60  year  of  his  age" 
as  it  reads  on  his  tombstone  in  the  old  Hebron  graveyard.  His  will,  dated  October 
II,  1754,  was  probated  December  2,  1754.  In  it  he  mentions  his  beloved  wife 
Mary,  and  left  to  his  sons  John,  William  and  Joseph  certain  lands  in  Marlboro, 
and  to  his  daughters  Mary  Carrier,  Margaret  Man,  Phoebe  Case,  and  Mercy 
Buel,  five  pounds  apiece.  To  his  son  Samuel  he  left  ;^iooo,  and  to  his  sons  An- 
drew, Jonathan,  and  Beamsley,  the  rest  of  his  estate  divided  between  them.  His 
wife  and  son  Andrew  were  executors. 

Mary  (Marks)  Peters  died  at  Hebron  July  25,  1784,  in  the  "86th  year  of 
her  age." 

Children  of  John  and  Mary  (Marks)  Peters 

John,  born  at  North  Brookfield  Dec.  28,  1717;  married  (i)  Feb.  22,  1738/9,  Lydia  Phelps, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Phelps,  of  Hebron,  who  died  Feb.   15,   1784;  married  (2)  Feb. 

6,  1785,  Elizabeth  (Phelps)  Murry,  widow  of Murry,  and  daughter  of  Jonathan 

Phelps,  of  Northampton,  Mass.;  lived  in  Hebron  and  died  there  Nov.  9,  1804.  It 
is  said  that  a  British  commission  was  issued  to  him  as  colonel  at  the  beginning  of 
the  Revolution,  but  as  he  was  in  sympathy  with  the  American  cause,  he  paid  no 
attention  to  it,  and  that  his  son  John  fled  with  it  to  Canada,  where  he  posed  as  his 
father,  and  became  colonel  of  a  force  raised  in  Canada.  Another  son,  Absalom, 
served  on  the  Continental  side. 

Mary,  born  at  Hebron,  Oct.  18,  1720;  married  at  Colchester,  Conn.,  Feb.  25,  1741,  Thomas 
Carrier,  son  of  Thomas  Carrier. 

William,  born  at  Hebron  Aug.  30,  1722;  married  (1)  Jan.  5,  1743/4,  Ruth  Chapwell, daughter 

of  Jonathan  and  Ruth  ( )  Chapwell,  who  died   Feb.  20,    175 1 ;  married  (2) 

Abigail  Moreau;  was  a  farmer  and  died  at  Hebron  April  23,  1760. 

Margaret,  born  at  Hebron  Aug.  5,  1724;  married  Jan.  i,  1740/1,  John  Mann,  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Elizabeth  ( )  Mann;  died  June  2,  1769. 

Joseph,  born  at  Hebron  Aug.  20,  1726;  married  in  Hebron  Jan.  14,  1747/8,  Deborah  Bur- 
chard;  was  a  physician  and  died  in  Chatham,  Conn.,  Jan.  21,  1761. 
(245)   Phoebe,  born  at  Hebron  June  30,  1728;  married  Aug.  16,  1744,  Moses  Case,  son  of  Moses 
and  Mary  (Hoskins)  Case  (244);  died  at  Kent,  Conn.,  Feb.  1 1,  1773. 


JOHN  PETERS  [252]  411 

Mercy,  born  at  Hebron,  March  26,  1730;  married  Jan.  24,  1750/1,  Major  Timothy  Buel,son 
of  Timothy  Buel. 

Andrew,  born  at  Hebron  Aug.  13,  1732;  died  the  31st  of  the  same  month. 

Andrew,  born  at  Hebron  Nov.  16,  1733;  died  Nov.  5,  1754. 

Samuel,  born  at  Hebron  Dec.  i,  1735;  Y.  C.   1757;  married  (1)   at    Hebron   Feb.   14,    1760, 

Hannah  Owen,  only  child  of  Silas  and  Elizabeth  ( )  Owen,  who  died  Oct.  25, 

1765;  married  (2)    June    25,    1769,    Abigail    Gilbert,    daughter   of  Colonel   Samuel 

and  Abigail  ( )  Gilbert,  of  New  Haven,  who  died  July  14,    1769;  married  (3) 

in    Stratford,    Conn.,    April    21,    1773,    Mary   Birdseye,   daughter  of  William  and 

Eunice  ( )    Birdseye,    of    Stratford;    went    to    England    and    was    ordained 

a  priest  there,  it  is  said,  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury;  returned  in  1760,  but  was 
a  Loyalist,  and  in  the  Revolution  was  driven  from  Hebron,  and  fled  to  Boston  and 
thence  to  England  in  1774.  He  was  the  author  of  the  History  oj  Rev.  Hugh  Peters 
referred  to  above,  and  also  a  General  History  of  Connecticut,  and  is  satirized  in  Trum- 
bull's McFingal  under  the  name  of  Parson  Peter.  He  died  in  New  York  April  19, 
1826,  and  was  buried  in  Hebron,  Conn. 

Jonathan,  born  at  Hebron  Aug.  15,  1737;  married  Nov.  25,  1762,  Abigail  Thompson,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Mary  ( )  Thompson,  of  Hebron;  died  on  Long  Island  Oct.  26, 

1778. 

Beamsley  (or  Bemsle),  born  Nov.  i,  1743;  married  at  Hebron  May  24,  1762,  Annis  Shipman, 

daughter  of  Dr.  Samuel  and  Martha  ( )  Shipman,  of  Hebron;  was  a  captain 

in  the  service  of  King  George  III;  died  at  Kingston,  Upper  Canada,  Oct.  16,  1798. 
His  son  Dr.  John  S.  Peters  of  Hebron,  who  was  governor  of  Connecticut  in  183 1  and 
1832,  is  authority  for  the  statement  that  his  father  died  "in  Canada  on  his  way  back 
to  his  family." 


[250-A]  WILLIAM  BEAMSLEY  [.     .-1658] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

ANN [....-....] 

OF    ENGLAND    AND    BOSTON,    MASS. 

WILLIAM  BEAMSLEY  came  to  Boston  as  early  as  1630  or  163 1, 
probably  from  England.  He  married  (i)  in  Boston  about  1631, 
Ann  ,  by  whom  he  had  several  children. 

He  was  admitted  to  the  Boston  Church  6th  mo.  (2)  1634,  and 
was  made  freeman  May  25,  1636.  He  began  buying  land  in  Boston  in  1643,  ^^^ 
accumulated  a  large  property  there.  In  1650,  1 651,  and  1656,  mention  is  made 
in  Suffolk  Deeds  of  his  various  purchases  in  land,  one  of  which  was  from 
Mary  Hawkins,  and  one  in  the  "Mill  field."  He  was  styled  yeoman  in  the  records 
of  1657,  was  a  member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company  in  1656, 
and  was  later  made  ensign.  The  date  of  Ann  Beamsley's  death  is  not  known, 
and  it  is  not  positively  ascertained  whether  all  the  children  mentioned  below  were 
hers.     He  married    (2)    Martha  .     Savage  thinks   that   Martha  was   the 


412  WILLIAM  BEAMSLEY  [250-A] 

widow  of Bushnell,  probably  basing  his  opinion  on  the  fact  that  Edward 

Bushnell  is  mentioned  by  William  Beamsley  in  his  will,  among  his  children. 

The  Boston  Records  read  "Ensigne  William  Beamsley  (Senior)  deceased 
September  29,  1658."  His  will,  made  September  14,  1658,  was  recorded  October 
28  of  the  same  year.     The  following  is  a  copy. 

"  In  the  Name  of  God  Amen  I  William  Beamsley  being  sicke  in  Body,  but  of  a  perfect  memory 
praised  be  God,  doe  make  and  Ordajne  this  my  Last  Will  and  Testament,  in  manner  and  forme 
as  followeth,  first  I  committ  my  body,  unto  the  earth  and  bequeath  my  spirit  to  God,  that  gave  it, 
first  ...  all  I  make  my  wife  full  executrix  and  Administratrix  of  all  my  houses,  Lands  Orchards 
goods  and  Chattels  whatsoeuer,  that  she  shall  enjoye  and  possessethe  same  unto  her  owne  proper 
use,  as  long  as  she  shall  Liue,  Provided  she  shall  Let  Mercy,  haue  that  Chamber  wherein  she  now 
lyes  for  her  owne,  and  that  there  shall  be  with  all  conveniency  made  therein  A  chimney,  and  she  to 
enjoye  it  dureing  her  widdowhoode.  And  I  desire  that  my  wife,  may  take  the  care  and  charge  of 
her,  and  see  that  she  wants  neither  meate  drinke  nor  Cloathing  dureing  the  tyme  of  her  widdow- 
hoode, And  further  my  will  is  that  after  my  wifes  decease,  my  whole  Estate  shall  be  then  prized 
and  set  to  sale.  The  whole  Estate  that  is  then  left,  to  be  equally  distributed  amongst  all  my  Chil- 
dren, Namely  Anne  Woodward,  Grace  Graves,  Mercy  Wilborne,  Hannah  Beamsley,  Edward 
Bushnell,  Elizabeth  Page,  Mary  Robison,  And  in  case  any  of  these  dye  unpossessed,  then  it  shall 
Returne  to  the  next  Heyre,  And  my  desire  is  that  these  three  Bretheren  Thomas  Clarke,  Richard 
Gridley,  and  Alexander  Adams,  see  that  my  will  be  fulfilled,  according  to  their  best  Endeavour, 
in  wittness  whereof  I  haue  sett  to  my  hand  and  seale  this  fourteenth  of  September,  1658. 

William  Beamsley." 

Children  of  William  and  Ann  ( )  Beamsley 

Ann,  born  Feb.  13,  1632/3;  married  Ezekiel  Woodward. 

Grace,  born  April  10,  baptized  Sept.  20,  1635;  married  Samuel  Graves  of  Ipswich,  Mass. 
(250)   Mercy,  born  Dec.  q,  baptized  Dec.  10,  1637;  married  (i)  Oct.  17,  1656,  Michael  Wilbourn, 

who  died  before  Sept.  14,  1658;  married  (2)  about  1659,  Andrew  Peters,  of  Ipswich, 

Mass.,  son  of  William  and  Ann  (Williams)  Peter  of  Bristol,  England;  died  Nov. 

5,  1726. 
Elizabeth,  married  Edward  Page. 

Mary,  married  (i) Robison;  (2)  Thomas  Dennis. 

Samuel        )  born  Jan.  24  (Dec.  13),  baptized  Feb.  7,  1640/ 1,  and  both  died  the  following 

Habakkuk  f  April. 

Hannah,  born  Dec.  13,  baptized  Dec.  17,  1643;  married  (i) Bushnell  (or  Bushred); 

married  (2)  Oct.  16,  1661,  Cornet  Abraham  Perkins. 

Children  of  William  and  Martha  ( )  Beamsley 

Abigail,  baptized  Feb.  8,  1645/6,  probably  died  young. 


JOHN  RUSS  [253-A]  413 

[253-A]  JOHN  RUSS  [161 1-1692] 

AND    HIS   WIFE 

MARGARET  [1620-1691] 

OF   NEWBURY   AND   ANDOVER,    MASS. 

JOHN  RUSS  appears  early  In  the  history  of  Newbury,  but  we  have  not  been 
able  to  find  from  whence  he  emigrated.    The  Russell  family  believe  his  name 
to  have  been  a  contraction  of  their  own,  and  it  is  said  that  he  had  Indian 
blood  in  his  veins.     He  testified,  March  12,  1637,  in  regard  to  the  sale  of 
a  house  lot  in  Newbury,  and  probably  married  there,  about  1638  to  1640,  Margaret 

.     There  is  a  Nathaniel    Russ,  born    in  1639/40,  who  is    mentioned  with 

John,  Jr.,  and  Mary  Russ,  in  the  Early  Settlers  of  Essex  and  Old  Norfolk,  but  as  we 
find  no  further  record  of  him,  we  have  not  placed  him  with  the  children  below. 

"His  name  [John  Russ]  appears  in  the  list  of  freeholders  who  were  entitled  to  share  in  the 
common  and  undivided  lands  belonging  to  the  town  of  Newbury,  Dec.  7,  1642,  at  the  time  of  the 
removal  from  Parker  River  to  Merrimac  River.  As  early  as  1643,  he  had  charge  of  the  Ferry 
established  and  maintained  for  more  than  a  century  at  or  near  where  the  Parker  River  bridge  now 
stands.  He  petitioned  the  General  Court  to  be  paid  for  transporting  the  'members  of  y°  Generall 
Courte  with  their  horses  &  some  of  y*"  honored  magistra'^'.  for  the  previous  two  years,  the  sum 
of  fourteen  shillings.  This  the  General  Court  granted  in  1645,  but  provided  that  one  half  should 
be  paid  by  the  inhabitants  of  Dover.  The  next  year,  however,  the  law  regulating  the  transporta- 
tion of  passengers  was  changed,  and  all  ferrymen  were  required  to  take  deputies  on  their  way  to 
and  from  the  General  Court  with  all  necessary  attendants,  including  horses,  etc.,  free  of  charge."' 

This  act  of  rate  legislation  seems  to  have  discouraged  him,  and  he  soon 
after,  with  other  Newbury  men,  went  with  Rev.  John  Woodbridge  (their  deposed 
pastor),  to  Cochichawicke  (now  called  Andover)  and  settled  there  (about  1670). 

Another  authority,  Miss  C.  H.  Abbott,  says, "He  moved  up  here  [Andover] 
at  the  time  of  the  marriage  of  his  daughter  Mary  to  Andrew  Foster,"  i.  e.  1662. 
We  find  that  his  name  appears  as  a  freeholder  in  the  first  book  of  Andover  records, 
and  that  he  voted  there  in  1681.  In  1661,  in  a  deposition,  he  gave  his  age  as 
fifty,  making  the  date  of  his  birth  as  above.  At  the  same  time  Margaret  gave 
her  age  as  "41  or  42,"  which  gives  us  about  1620  as  the  date  of  her  birth. 

Margaret  died  at  Andover  July  10,  1689  (Savage),  or  1691  (Andover  Town 
Records).     John  Russ  died  in  the  same  place,  March  4,  1691/2,  aged  eighty. 

Children  of  John  and  Margaret  ( )  Russ 

(253)   John,  born  at  Newbury,  June  24,  1641;  married  Aug.  28,  1663,  Deborah  Osgood,  daughter 
of  Christopher  and  Margery  (Fowler)  Osgood  (253-B),  of  Ipswich,  Mass. 
Mary,  born  at  Newbury,  Feb.  16,  1644;  married  Jan.  7,   1662  (or  1667),  Andrew  Foster, 
probably  a  son  of  Andrew  Foster  who  died  in  Andover  in  1685,  aged  "  106  yrs." 

^History  oj  Newhury,  J.  J.  Currier  (1Q02),  43 1 . 


414  JOHN  RUSS,  JR.  [253] 

[253]  JOHN  RUSS,  JR.  [1641-....] 

AND   HIS    WIFE 

DEBORAH  OSGOOD  [1646-.  .  .  .] 

OF    ANDOVER,    MASS. 

JOHN   RUSS,  son  of  John  and  Margaret  ( )  Russ   (253-A),  was  born 
June  24,  1 641,  at  Newbury,  Mass.     He  was  but  perhaps  four  years  of  age 
when  his  parents  moved  to  Andover,  Mass.     He  married  at  Andover  August 
28, 1663,  Deborah  Osgood,  daughter  of  Christopher  and  Margery  (Fowler) 
Osgood  (253-B)  of  Andover,  who  was  born  about  1646. 

When  the  South  Church  of  Andover  was  formed,  the  first  meeting  was 
"warned"  (i.  e.  called),  June  20,  1709,  by  John  Abbott,  Joseph  Ballard,  George 
Abbott,  Francis  Dane  (see  171-A),  John  Russ  and  William  Lovejoy.  In  the 
church  records  the  names  of  John  Russ,  Jr.,  and  his  wife  appear  as  having  been 
admitted  when  it  was  organized  October  17,  171 1.  He  was  the  seventh  member 
of  the  church  and  his  wife  was  the  eighteenth.  His  name  is  on  the  list  of  removals, 
but  no  date  is  given  as  was  customary,  and  no  record  of  their  deaths  appear  on 
the  book.  They  probably  removed  from  Andover,  but  where  they  went  has  not 
been  discovered. 

Children  of  John  and  Deborah  (Osgood)  Russ 

Mary,  born  June  12,  1667;  married  Nov.  14,  1690,  John  Stone. 

Sarah  (or  Sara),  born  Feb.  3,  1668/9;  married  May  26,  1685,  Christopher  Lovejoy. 

John,  born  April  5,   1671;  married  May  6,   1695,  Hannah  Ross;  united  with  the  Andover 
Church,  Jan.  28,  1728,  and  removed  in  1730  to  Pennycook,  N.  H. 
(251)   Margaret,  born  April  10,  1673;  married  (1)  about  1694,  William  Peters,  son  of  Andrew 
and  Mercy  (Beamsley  Wilbourn)  Peters  (250),  who  died  Aug.  13,  1696;  married 
(2)  April  15,  1704,  James  Wilson,  of  Cambridge,  afterwards  of  Leicester,  Mass. 

Jonathan,  born  Dec.  27,  1674. 

Thomas,  born  June  17,  1677;  married  April  27,  1701,  Anna  Farnum. 

Phoebe,  born  April  20,  1683. 

Josiah,  born  Jan.  13,  1684/5. 

Joseph,  born  April  7,  died  June  16,  1687. 

Joseph,  born  May  6,  1688. 


CHRISTOPHER  OSGOOD  [253-B]  415 

[253-B]         CHRISTOPHER  OSGOOD  [.    .-1650] 

AND    HIS    WIFE 

MARGERY  FOWLER  [1615-.  .  .  .] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    IPSWICH,    MASS. 

CHRISTOPHER  OSGOOD  was  a  resident  of  Marlborough,  a  small  and 
ancient  town  northeast  of  Salisbury,  in  Wiltshire,  England.     The  names 
of  his  parents  are  not  known,  but  the  following  extract  from  the  register 
of  St.  Thomas'  Church  in  Salisbury,  may  be  the  record  of  their  marriage. 
"  1599  October  Xpofer  Osgood  married  to  Elizabeth  Brockwell  the  30th." 

In  the  register  of  St.  Mary's  in  Marlborough,  which  begins  only  in  1602, 
we  find  these  entries. 

"Married  1632  April  21  Christopher  Osgood  and  Mary  Everatt  .  .  .  Baptized  1632/3  March 
17  Mary  daughter  of  Christopher  Osgood  .  .  .  Buried  1633  April  21  Mary  Osgood  .  .  .  Married 
1633  July  28  Christopher  Osgood  &  Margery  Fowler." 

From  this  it  appears  that  Christopher, in  the  short  space  of  fifteen  months, 
married  (i)  Mary  Everatt,  who  had  a  child  and  died  a  month  after  its  birth,  and 
married  (2)  Margery  Fowler,  all  recorded  in  the  same  church.     Margery  was 

the  daughter  of  Philip  and  Mary  ( )  Fowler  (253-c)  and  was  baptized  at 

Marlborough,  May  25,  161 5. 

The  following  spring  Christopher  and  his  wife  accompanied  the  Fowlers 
to  New  England.  They  sailed  from  London  March  24,  1633/4,  on  the  "Mary  and 
John,"  with  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2),  who  must  have  been  known  to  them  in  Wilt- 
shire, as  they  lived  near.  Christopher  and  the  Fowlers  went  to  Ipswich  and 
were  among  the  earliest  settlers  there.     He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  May  16,  1635. 

The  same  year  (1635)  he  was  granted  a  house  lot  adjoining  that  of  his  father- 
in-law.  He  was  a  brickmaker  by  trade.  In  1641  he  was  one  of  the  commoners, 
that  is,  he  had  a  share  in  the  common  land,  and  in  1645  he  appears  as  an  owner 
of  a  lot  on  the  town  hill. 

He  died  at  Ipswich  in  1650.  His  will,  dated  April  19,  1650,  was  probated 
October  10,  the  same  year.  In  it  he  left  to  his  eldest  daughter  Mary,  ten  pounds 
at  her  marriage,  and  to  the  other  three,  Elizabeth,  Deborah  and  Abigail,  five 
pounds  also  at  marriage.  The  son  Christopher  received  the  house  and  lands  at 
the  age  of  "two  and  twentie."  He  made  his  "beloved  wife  Margery"  the  sole 
executrix  to  "enjoy  the  profitt  &  benefitt  of  his  estate  duringe  the  minority  of  the 
children."  A  "Memorandum  which  was  forgotten"  was  attached,  desiring  the 
daughters  "not  to  marry  with  out  desire  of  my  wife  &  the  consent  of  my  over- 
seers," and  arranging  that  their  portion  should  be  paid  them  at  twenty  if  they 
remained  unmarried.  His  "father  Philip  fi"owler"  was  one  of  the  overseers.  On 
October  15,  Margery,  the  daughter  Elizabeth  having  died,  prayed  for  an  abate- 


4i6  CHRISTOPHER  OSGOOD  [253-B] 

merit  of  the  portions  given  to  the  three  elder  children,  saying  that  the  estate 
would  not  be  sufficient  for  the  support  of  the  two  younger. 

A  relic  of  Christopher  Osgood  still  exists  (1879),  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
Clark  Osgood,  of  Cape  Elizabeth,  Maine, — a  powder  horn  covered  with  inscriptions 
which  is  said  to  have  been  in  the  family  from  1601. 

Margery  (Fowler)  Osgood  married  (2),  as  his  second  wife,  Deacon  Thomas 
Rowell,  of  Salisbury,  Mass.  It  is  said  that  his  first  wife  refused  to  accompany  him 
to  New  England.     Their  marriage  covenant  reads  as  follows: 

"  Videly — As  I  take  her  to  be  my  loving  wife,  soe  I  freely  take  her  issue,  being  two  sonnes  & 
two  daughters,  as  my  one,  to  endeavor  to  bring  them  upp,  as  a  father  ought  to  doe:  &  further  more, 
I  bind  myselfe  that  the  said  Margere  shall  quiettly  enjoy  &  possesse  the  halfe  of  my  estate." 

Soon  after  their  marriage,  Thomas  and  Margery  removed  to  Andover  with 
their  children.  The  sons  joined  with  their  step-father  in  a  mill  scheme  in  And- 
over, and  John  Lovejoy  and  Sherburne  Wilson,  afterwards  Margery's  sons- 
in-law,  were  in  Andover  with  them.  Thomas  Rowell  had  a  son  by  his  first  wife, 
named  Valentine,  and  one  named  Jacob'  by  Margery,  who  was  born  in  1660. 

Thomas  Rowell  died  May  8,  1662,  and  Margery  married  (3)  before  1670, 
as  his  third  wife,  Thomas  Coleman  (or  Coultman),  of  Hampton.  He  had  several 
children  by  his  first  wife,  and  may  also  have  brought  to  Margery  the  four  children 
of  his  second  wife,  who  had  been  a  widow.  Thomas  Coleman  and  Margery  had 
a  son  Tobias.  Among  the  varied  circumstances  of  such  a  mixed  family  is  the 
following: 

"  In  1678  she  had  given  a  feather  bed  to  her  son-in-law  John  Lovejoy  to  keep  for  her  son 
Jacob  Rowell,  and  rented  her  Andover  Rowell  estate  to  her  son  Christopher  [Osgood]  to  pay 
rent  for  twelve  years" 

to  her  son  Thomas  Osgood. 

Thomas  Coleman  died  in  Nantucket  about  1683  and  Margery  married  (4) 
before  November  of  that  year,  Thomas  Osborne,  one  of  the  purchasers  of  Nan- 
tucket with  the  Coffins  (see  i47-A),whowas  a  licensed  minister  among  the  Baptists. 

Thomas  Osborne  was  a  friend  of  George  Little  (145),  of  Newbury,  and 
wrote  to  him  soon  after  his  marriage,  as  follows.  Margery  was  evidently  sitting 
by,  and  put  in  her  word  occasionally. 

"Nantucket  Island  25  of  the  8  month  1682. 

Dear  &  loving  brother  littell,  in  gospell  bonds  my  harty  love  remembered  unto  you  and 
your  wife  though  to  me  unknown,  &  hoping  you  are  in  helth  as  I  being  att  this  wrighting  hereof, 
blessed  be  the  Lord,  hartily  giving  you  thanks  for  your  kind  entertainment  when  I  was  last  att 
your  house.  This  is  farther  to  let  you  understand,  I  have  married  to  one  Margery  Colman,  a 
widdow,  on  the  island  Nantucket,  where  I  now  am — I  beleive  God  hath  provided  for  me  &  given 
me  a  meet  help  a  very  loving  wife  one  in  charity  &  walking  &  I  judge  for  the  Lord  &  to  a  true  lover  of 
the  pepell  &  church  of  the  Lord  &  I  se  nothing  but  the  Lord  blessing  our  indavors  we  may  live 

'Jacob  married  (i)  April  2Q,  1690,  Mary  Younglave,  who  died  in  April,  i6qi  ;  married  (2)  Sept.  21,  1691, 
Elizabeth  Wardwell. 


CHRISTOPHER  OSGOOD  [253-B]  417 

comfortably  both  aged  &  but  crazy.  This  farther  I  and  my  wife  entreat  you  to  remember  our 
harty  love  to  our  brother  Chandler  &  his  wife  &  all  their  children  intreating  him  if  he  have  my 
husband  Colemans  mind  which  himself  did  write  &  my  husband  Coleman  did  set  his  hand  to  it 
how  he  would  leave  me  a  comfortable  maintynance  if  he  died  &  left  me  a  widow.  My  wife  desires 
he  wold  be  pleased  to  send  it  if  he  have  the  same  as  judging  it  might  be  of  great  benefit  &  use  unto  her 
for  her  husband  Colemans  sons,  deals  very  hardly  by  her  &  keeps  &  takes  what  they  can  from  me 
&  requites  me  very  unworthily  for  all  my  care  &  endeavors  for  their  good  which  is  a  great  grief 
&  trouble  unto  me,  but  we  trust  the  Lord  will  bear  us  up  &  grant  what  is  necessary  &  give  us 
contentment  in  our  spirits  in  that  portion  he  in  his  wisdom  shall  carve  out  unto  us.  I  rest  your 
loving  brother  in  gospel  bonds 

Thomas  Osburne." 
[Superscribed]  "This  for  his  very  loving  friend  Goodman  Littell  living  att  Newbury  Deliver  this 
with  care  I  pray." 

We  have  no  date  of  Margery's  death. 

Children  of  Christopher  and  Mary  (Everatt)  Osgood 
Mary,  baptized  at  St.  Mary's,  Marlborough,  England,  March  17,  1632/3;  married  June  i, 
165 1,  John  Lovejoy,  of  Andover. 

Children  of  Christopher  and  Margery  (Fowler)  Osgood 
Abigail,  born  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  about  1636;  married  April  9  (Sept.  9),   1657,  Sherburne 

(or  Shoreborne)  Wilson,  son  of  Thomas  Wilson,  of  Andover. 
Elizabeth,  born  about  1638;  was  living  in  1650  when  her  father's  will  was  made,  but  died 

soon  after. 
Christopher,  born  about  1643;  married  (i)  Dec.  6,  1663,  Hannah  Belknap,  of  Lynn,  Mass., 

who  died  Nov.  21,  1679;  married  (2)  May  22,  1680,  Hannah  Barker,  who  died  April 

6,  1687;  married  (3)  Sarah ,  who  died  in  July,  1689;  married  (4)  Sarah , 

who  survived  him.     After  his  mother's  second  marriage  he  sold  his  father's  estate 

in  Ipswich  and  removed  to  Andover,  where  he  built  a  mill;  was  captain  and  deputy 

to  the  General  Court  in  1690;  died  in  Andover  May  9,  1723. 
(253)   Deborah,  born  about  1646;  married  at  Andover,  Aug.  28,  1663,  John  Russ,  son  of  John 

and  Margaret  ( )  Russ  (253-A). 

Thomas,  born  in   165 1   after  his  father's  death;  married  May  22,  1674,  Susanna  Lord,  of 

Ipswich;  lived  in  Andover  until  1694  and  is  said  to  have  moved  to  South  Carolina 

about  1697. 

[253-c]  PHILIP  FOWLER  [1590-1679] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARY  [...  .-1659] 

OF    ENGLAND   AND    IPSWICH,    MASS. 

PHILIP  FOWLER  was  born  probably  about  1590,  in  Marlborough,  Wilt- 
shire, England,  and    married  there  (i)  before  161 5,  Mary    .     It 
is  supposed  that  her  name  was  Winsley  or  Winslow,  and  that  she  was  a 
sister  of  Samuel  Winsley,  of  Salisbury,  Mass.     Two  of  her  sons,  Samuel 
and  Thomas,  settled  in  Salisbury  near  Samuel  Winsley  and  Samuel  Winsley,  Jr. 


4i8  PHILIP  FOWLER  [253-c] 

left  bequests  to  them  in  his  will  calling  their  father  his  "cousin."  This  term 
was,  however,  used  with  such  varying  shades  of  meaning  that  it  is  not  of  itself 
enough  to  prove  that  Mary's  name  was  Winsley,  but  only  shows  a  relationship. 

He  came  over,  with  his  wife  and  family,  in  the  "Mary  and  John,"  accompany- 
ing his  son-in-law,  Christopher  Osgood  (253-B),  and  Rev.  James  Noyes  (2). 
They  arrived  in  May,  1634,  and  he  received  a  land  grant  in  Ipswich,  where  he 
settled  in  the  same  year. 

He  took  the  freeman's  oath  September  3,  1634,  and  was  given  four  acres 
of  land,  January  5,  1634/5,  at  the  same  time  with  Christopher  Osgood  (253-B) 
and  "Joseph  Medcalf"  (152-A).  From  time  to  time  we  find  that  he  bought  more 
land  until  he  is  recorded  as  owning  about  seventy  acres  in  all.  In  1636,  he  bought 
a  house  lot  in  "meeting  house  lane." 

He  was  on  the  jury  i  mo.  (29)  1642,  and  on  the  Grand  Jury  7  mo.  (29) 
1657.  He  was  a  surveyor  in  1648/9,  1654/5,  1655/6,  1656/7,  and  a  surveyor  of 
fences  in  1662.  In  1650  he  was  freed  "from  ordinary  Trayning"  which  showed 
he  was  then  at  least  sixty  years  old.  His  trade  seems  to  have  been  that  of  a  cloth- 
worker. 

For  some  reason  he  adopted,  in  1 65 1 ,  one  of  his  grandchildren,  Philip  Fowler, 
son  of  his  son  Joseph,  who  was  in  1676  killed  by  the  Indians.  In  1656,  in  his 
office  of  selectman  he  aided  in  dividing  the  town  into  classes  of  five,  six  or  ten 
people,  for  the  purpose  of  spinning.'  He  and  Joseph  Metcalf  (152-A)  were 
again  associated  on  a  committee  in  1658/9  to  "give  their  apprehensions  &  reasons 
who  have  a  right  of  commonage  &  who  not  &  what  they  conceive  may  conduce 
to  the  good  of  the  town." 

Mary  ( )  Fowler  died  August  30,  1659, and  he  entered  into  a  contract 

with  Mary  ( )  Norton  February  27,  1659  (probably  1659/60),  and  married 

her  the  same  day.  She  was  the  widow  of  George  Norton.  In  1668,  being  about 
seventy-eight  years  old,  he  selected  his  grandson  "Philip  fl^owler"  to  take  care 
of  him.  He  had  given  trades  to  all  his  children,  so  that  they  were  independent 
of  him.  He  sold  his  homestead,  grounds,  and  orchards,  on  January  2,  1672/3, 
for  ;^ioo  to  Roger  Derby,  "sope  boyler"  (154),  the  deed  being  witnessed  by 
W.  Norton  and  Andrew  Peeters  (250). 

Philip  Fowler  died  June  24,  1679.  He  left  no  will  and  his  property  was 
divided  between  his  children.  An  inventory  was  taken  July  7,  1679,  and  the 
list  of  his  "weareing  clothes"  is  as  follows: 

s.   d.  s.   d. 

"Impe  4  ould  coates  and  an  old  cloke  01.    15.   o  01.  15.   o 

It.  a  psell  of  old  clothes  01.  00.   o  01.  00.  o 

It.  some  old  stockings  2  caps  &  a  pr  of  gaiters  00.  05.  o 

'"The  Massachusetts  General  Court  in  1656,  'fearingthat  it  will  not  be  so  easyto  import  clothes  as  it  was 
in  past  years,  thereby  necessitating  more  home  manufacture,' orders  the  selectmen  in  every  town  to  turn  the  women, 
girls  and  boys  towards  spinning  and  weaving.  The  officials  are  to  consider  each  family,  and  to  assess  it  for  one  or 
more  spinners  or  for  a  fractional  part.  'That  every  one  thus  assessed  do  after  this  present  year  1656  spin  for  30 
weeks  every  yeare,  a  pound  per  week  .  .  .  and  so  proportionably  for  halfe  or  quarter  spinners  under  the  pen- 
alty of  1 2d  for  every  pound  short.' "— Weedon's  Social  and  Economic  History  oj  New  England. 


PHILIP  FOWLER  [253-c]  419 

It.  a  paire  of  old  gloves  &  an  old  hat  00.  02.  o 

It.  two  paire  of  drawers  &  two  old  shirts  00.  15.  o 

2  caps  &  two  bands  3  old  handchercheres  &  2  old  wastecoats  00.  04.  o 


3.   01.   o 


His  widow,  Mary  ( Norton)  Fowler,  probably  died  previous  to  Novem- 
ber 5,  1694,  as  at  that  date  administration  was  granted  on  the  estate  of  George 
Norton,  of  Salem,  his  widow  having  died. 

Children  of  Philip  and  Mary  ( )  Fowler 

(253-B)  Margery,  baptized  at  Marlborough,  May  25,  1615;  married  (i)  at  Marlborough,  July 
28,  1633,  Christopher  Osgood,  who  died  in  1650;  married  (2)  as  his  second  wife 
Thomas  Rowell,  of  Salisbury,  who  died  May  8,  1662;  married  (3),  before  1670,  as  his 
third  wife,  Thomas  Coleman,  of  Hampton,  who  died  about  1683;  married  (4)  before 
November  of  that  year,  Thomas  Osborne,  of  Nantucket. 

Mary,  married  William  Chandler. 

Samuel,  born,  according  to  a  deposition,  in  1618;  married  (1) ;  married  (2)  Margaret 

(Norman)  Morgan;  was  probably  a  Quaker;  died  in  January,  1710/1. 

Hester,  married  (i)  Jathnell  Bird;  married  (2)  Robert  Collins. 

Joseph,  born  probably  about  1629;  married  Martha  Kimball.  His  son  Philip  was  adopted 
by  Philip  Fowler. 

Thomas,  born,  according  to  a  deposition,  in  1636;  married  Hannah  Jordan;  died  at  Ames- 
bury,  Oct.  3,  1727. 

[255]  JOSEPH  MARKS  [....-..] 

AND   HIS   WIFE 

MARY    [....-...  .] 

OF    SPRINGFIELD    AND    NORTH    BROOKFIELD,    MASS. 

WE  have  no  information  about  the  early  life  of  Joseph  Marks,  although 
it  has  been  conjectured  that  he  was  the  son  of  Roger  Marks  of 
Andover,  who  was  wounded  in  the  Great  Swamp  Fight.  Our  first 
record  of  Joseph  is  in  the  original  account-books  of  John  Pynchon  of 
Springfield,  Mass.,  which  begin  in  1684  and  go  down  to  1702.  These  books  show  a 
lease  of  land  from  Mr.  Pynchon  to  Joseph  Marks  dated  February  25,  1684,  signed 
by  the  latter,  and  another  of  later  date,  also  signed  by  him.  These  records  show 
that  he  was  in  Springfield  in  1684,  later  in  Brookfield,  and  that  he  went  once  to 
Albany.  The  land  grants  of  Enfield,  Conn,  (formerly  in  Massachusetts),  show 
that  on  June  30,  1684,  he  was 

"granted  in  all  40  acres  provided  he  settles  thereon  and  go  about  it  as  soon  as  his  now  time  of 
service  with  Goodman  Colton  is  out,  managing  and  carrying  on  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  com- 
mittee, otherwise  to  forfeit  it  and  loose  all." 


420  JOSEPH  MARKS  [255] 

In  1686,  he  went  to  board  in  John  Pynchon's  family  in  Springfield,  so  he 
probably  had  given  up  the  Enfield  lot.  He  had  several  grants  in  Springfield, 
after  this  time.  As  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  the  "Outward  Commons" 
he  was  granted  lot  99  of  five  acres  and  seventy-six  rods,  a  curious  shaped  piece 
less  than  a  rod  wide  and  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  mile  long.  Over  fifty  years  after, 
March  3,  1748,  a  Richard  Marks,  possibly  a  grandson,  of  Western  (now  Warren), 
Mass.,  deeded  this  same  lot  99,  describing  it  as  "the  lott  originally  granted  to 
Joseph  Marks  deceased  formerly  of  Brookfield." 

In  the  records  of  a  town  meeting  in  Springfield,  Nov.  27,  1685, 

"Joseph  Marks  doth  desire  the  Towne  to  grant  him  30  acres  of  upland,  and  six  or  seven 
acres  of  medow  above  Chici<uppi  river,  if  he  can  find  any  such  land  indisposed  of." 

This  was  granted  him  the  following  February,  and  was  described  thus: 

"Forty  acres  above  West  Chickupi  &  west  of  Sam"  Terreyes  medow,  he  continuing  five 
yeers  in  Towne." 

He  was  a  soldier  in  Captain  Bull's  company  which  went,  in  November,  1689, 
to  Albany  and  Schenectady  to  protect  the  settlers  there  against  the  French  and 
Indians.  In  a  skirmish  he  was  taken  prisoner,  and  carried  to  Canada,  but  returned 
in  1692  and  settled  in  North  Brookfield. 

He  married,  probably  soon  after  this,  either  in  Springfield  or   Brookfield, 

Mary  .     His  house  was  one  of  the  fortified  ones,  called  garrison-houses. 

Marks  Mountain  in  Warren,  near  Brookfield,  was  named  for  him,  and  he  and  his 
sons  had  extensive  grants  on  the  southerly  side  of  Quebaug  River.  While  he 
was  living  there,  he  sold  to  Ebenezer  Parsons,  January  23,  1702/3,  the  "West 
Chickupi"  property,  mentioned  above,  and  described  it  as 

"lying  and  being  on  the  west  side  of  The  Great  River  above  Chickopee  field  and  on  the  back  side 
of  the  Meadow  called  Terrys  meadow,  and  is  eighty  Rod  long  &  eighty  Rod  broade,  etc." 

He  also  sold,  March  28,  171 7/8,  to  Captain  Henry  Dwight,  of  Hatfield, 

"a  certaine  Parcell  of  land  within  the  township  of  Brookfield  aforesaid  viz:  In  that  tract  called 
the  plaine  containing  seaven  acres,  etc." 

He  deeded,  March  29,  1725,  to  his  son-in-law,  John  Peters  (252),  of  Hebron, 
"in  consideration  of  the  love  &  good  will"  he  bore  him,  certain  land  in  Brookfield. 
This  deed  was  acknowledged  before  Michael  Taintor,  at  Colchester,  Conn.,  March 
31,  1725.     He  died,  probably  at  Brookfield,  and  before  1741,  as  his  estate  was 

administered  by  his  widow,  Mary  ( )  Marks,  in  that  year.     Only  a  bond 

and  an  inventory  are  on  file  in  the  Probate  Office  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  without 
any  record  of  distribution. 

Children  of  Joseph  and  Mary  ( )  Marks 

(252)  Mary,  born  May  (date  illegible  in  the  Brookfield  record,  probably  1698);  married,  April  3, 
1717  (recorded  at  Hebron),  John  Peters,  son  of  William  and  Margaret  (Russ) 
Peters  (251);  died  July  25,  1784. 


JOSEPH  MARKS  [255]  421 

Joseph,  married  Nov.  18,  1718,  Experience  Hinds,  daughter  of  John  Hinds,  of  Woburn,  Lan- 
caster and  Broottfield,  Mass.;  removed  to  Ware,  Mass. 
Susanna,  married  Dec.  8,  1720,  John  Sheppard. 
Esther,  married  in  173 1,  John  Barras  (Barrus  or  Barrows). 
Hezekiah,  married  April  23,  1734,  Judith  Hayward. 
John,  born  Sept.  21,  1715;  married  Sept.  14,  1743,  Mary  Kedder. 


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INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


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INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 

Where  the  index  word  of  a  family  and  of  a  place  are  identical  the  persons  are  grouped  alphabetically 
under  the  family  name  and  the  index  word  is  repeated  for  the  place,  etc. 


Abbott,  Abigail,  98. 
C.H.,408. 

George,  290,  293,  414. 
John,  406,  414. 
Josiah,  9S. 
Abel,  Esperience,  126. 
Abington,  Berks,  Eng.,  391. 
Aborn,  Col.,  28. 
Acushnet,  Conn.,  375. 
Adams,  Alexander,  245,  412. 
Clara,  347. 
Eliphalet,  22. 
Mary,  44. 
Noadiah,  145. 
Samuel,  Sr.,  268. 
Samuel,  201,  347. 
Dr.  William,  222. 
Addington,  Mr.  Isaac,  132. 
Aderbury  Meeting,  Eng.,  350. 
Admiralty,  72. 
Aealy,  Philip,  331. 
Agawam  Pond,  383. 
Agreement  Hill,  21. 
Albany,  37,  419,  420. 
Albertson,  William,  354. 
Albro,  Elizabeth,  74. 

John, 82. 
Alcock,  Annis,  289,  290,  293. 
Deacon  George,  289. 
Alden,  John,  315,  381. 
Aldworth,  Thomas,  403. 
Alexander,  Dr.  James  W.,  218. 
Alexandria,  Va.,  288. 
Alfonso  X,  321. 
Alford,  Lincolnshire,  50-59,  64-1 

Allen,  ,  290. 

Andrew,  408 . 
Daniel,  132-133. 
Experience,  371. 
George.  371. 
Hannah,  292,  360,  407. 
Jedediah,  364,  371. 
John,  loi,  406-408. 
Margaret,  149,  150,  153. 
Martha,  406. 


Allen,  Ralph,  371. 
Samuel,  loi. 
Sir  William,  149. 
William,  149. 
AUibond,  Job,  130. 
AUine,  Goodman,  17. 
Ailing,  Elizabeth,  304. 

Samuel,  304. 
Allyn,  Matthew.  114. 
Almy,  Christopher,  98. 
Job,  55,98. 
William,  384. 
Alton,  111.,  205-209,  211-225,  345. 

Trials,  215. 
Ameredeth  (Meredeth),  John,  227,  228. 
Ames,  Solomon,  375. 
WilUam,  172. 
Amesbury,  Mass.,  242,  419. 
Amity  (Woodstock),  Conn.,  304. 
Anabaptistry,  280. 
Ananpau,  116. 
Ancient  and  Hon.  Artillery  Co.,  16,  63, 64, 

104, 131, 142,261,314,411. 
Anderson,  Thomas,  169,  173. 
Andover,  Mass.,  5,  283,  284,  290-292,  296, 

405-410, 413, 414, 416, 417. 
Andrew,  Rev.  Mr..  19,  20. 

Samuel,  20.  167,  168. 
Andrews,  Abigail.  296. 
Ebenezer,  338. 
Hannah,  338. 
Phoebe,  338. 
William,  168. 
Andros,  Sir  Edmund,  52,  54,  73,  156,  168, 

230,241,248,315,356. 
Anguilla,  25. 
Annie's  Hoeck,  63. 
Anstruther,  Agnes,  323. 
Lord,  323. 
Antietam,  216. 

Antigua,  W.  L,  206,  310,  311,  325. 
Antinomian  controversy,  11,  60.  67. 
Antrim  (Antrum),  Ann,  358. 
John, 358. 
Appomattox.  Va.,  115. 


Aquidneck  (Rhode  Island),  51,  62,  64,  68, 

78,81,89. 
Aquidneck  Point,  106. 
Arbury,  Warwickshire,  135. 
Arnold,  Abigail,  94. 

Arnold,  83. 

Damaris.  83,  84. 

Elizabeth,  106,  107,  109. 

Freelove,  102. 

Josiah.  101,  102,  106. 

Oliver,  94. 

Sarah,  102. 

S.C.,31. 

Stephen,  83. 

Thomas,  31. 
Artois,  Edward,  Count  of,  320. 
Arundell,  Sir  Roger,  401. 
Arye,  Richard,  47. 
Ashford,  Conn.,  265. 
Ashmead,  349. 
Aslebe,  John,  406.  407. 

Mary,  408. 
Astor  House,  N.Y.,  218. 
Atkinson,  Edward,  56. 
John,  251. 
Sarah,  251. 
Attleborough,  Mass..  166. 
Attridge,  Joan,  4. 
Atwater,  Jonathan,  304. 

Mary,  304. 
Atwell,  Col.,  28. 
Auburn,  N.  Y.,  37. 
Audley  (Odlin),  Ann,  86,  roi.  105. 
Aumale,  Countess  of,  320. 
Austin, ,  363,  364,  366. 

Aaron,  166. 

Deborah,  249. 

Elizabeth,  336,  348. 

Francis,  336,  348,  352. 

James,  312. 

Jannetta,  335,  336. 

Joseph,  249,  281. 

Mary(i94),  335-337,  350. 

Montgomery,  166. 

Samuel,  364,  366. 


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INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Austin,  Sarah,  364. 

William,  335,  336 
Averill,  Jabez,  34,  35. 
Avery,  William,  317. 
Ayer,  Elizabeth,  244. 
Ayers,  Sarah,  109. 

Aynho  on  the  Hill,  Eng.,  347,  348,  350. 
Ayscough,  William,  153. 

Babcock,  Elizabeth,  30. 
Hannah,  33. 
Harry,  3 1 . 
Hezeldah,  30. 
Job,  74- 
Martha,  30. 
Rouse,  30. 
William,  85. 
Bachelor's  Rowe,  Hingham,  iSS. 
Backus,  Mary,  126. 
Bacon,  Elizabeth,  loi,  387. 
John, 384. 
Nathaniel,  317,  3S7. 
Badger,  Giles,  235. 
Bailey,  William,  96. 
Bakebeare,  Dorset,  Eng.,  401 . 

Baker, ,  330. 

Elizabeth,  148. 

Goodman,  177. 

Nathaniel,  397. 

William,  405. 

Baldwin,  Thomas,  161. 

Balfarge,  James,  Lord,  322. 

Balfour,  David,  Baron  of,  323. 

James,  Baron  of,  321,  322. 
John,Baron  of,  322,  323. 
Robert,  Baron  of,  323. 
Sir  William,  322. 
Ball,  Amy  Cook,  224. 

Samuel,  224. 
Ballard,  Jarvis,  133. 

Joseph,  291,  414. 
Mary,  133. 
Ballat,  Samuel,  261. 
Ballou,  Lydia,  80,  81. 

Robert,  80. 
Baltimore,  Md.,  197,  212. 
Banbury  (Oxfordshire)  Monthly  Meeting, 

347- 
Bancroft,  Ellen,  255. 

Robert  H.,  255,  263. 
Thomas  Poynton,  205,  216. 
Banks,  Charles  Edward,  389. 
Barbadoes,  50,  69,  105,  109,  235,  274. 
Barber,  Anne,  335. 

David,  397,  398. 
Margaret,  335. 
Stephen,  398. 
Bardine,  John,  127. 
Barenton,  Mr.,  295. 

Barker, ,  94. 

Abigail,  301. 
Barbara,  85. 
Christianna,  81,  83. 
Edward,  391. 
Elizabeth,  83. 


Barker,  Freelove,85. 

Hannah,  85,  417. 

James  (29),  9,  81,  82,  86. 

James  (30),  9,  48,  81-84,  86,  90, 

106. 
James,  83. 
John,  84,  85,  291. 
Joseph,  83-85. 
Mary(24),27,  75,  76,84,85. 
Mary,  83. 
Patience,  85. 
Penelope,  84. 

Peter(3i),  74,  75,  83-85,  90. 
Peter,  85. 
Richard,  407. 
Richard  Reynolds,  95. 
Sarah,  S3-85. 
Susanna,  85. 
Thomas,  85. 
William,  83,  301. 
Barkhamstead,  Herts,  Eng.,  292,  294. 
Barlow,  Joel,  203. 
Barnard,  Francis,  300. 

Thomas,  242,  246. 
Barnes,  John,  388. 

Barnstable,   no,  in,  312-319,  375,  383, 
384. 
The  Military  Co.,  313,  314. 
Barras  (Barrows  or  Barrus),  John,  421. 
Barrett,  Christopher,  351. 
Barrow,  Rev.  E.  P.,  5. 
Barry,  Commodore,  364. 
Barstow,  Martha,  308,  310. 
William,  307-309. 
Barter,  Ales  (238-A),  3S9,  390. 
Barthad  (Birchard),  Aunt,  126,  127. 
Bartholomew,  Abigail,  146. 
Henry,  146. 
Bartlett,  Daniel,  116. 
Mary,  388. 
Priscilla,  277. 
Robert,  382. 
BartoU,  Alice,  327. 
Barton,  Benjamin,  92. 
Thomas,  352. 
Barton  Monthly  Meeting,  Eng.,  350. 
Baskenridge,  31. 
Bassett,  Mary,  388. 
Samuel,  304. 
WiUiam,  304,388. 
Batchelor,  Deborah,  371. 
Bates,  Ann,  363. 

John  G.,  210. 
Joseph,  363. 
Judith,  379. 
Rebecca,  171,  360. 
Samson,  130. 
Thomas,  363. 
Bathurst,  Earl  of,  401 . 
Batt,  AHce.  271-273. 

Christopher,  271-273. 
Dorothy,  271,272. 
Elizabeth,  271,  272. 
Jane,  231,  272. 
Margery,  271,  272. 


Batt,  Mary,  271,  272. 

Thomas,  271,  272. 
Battell,  Aunt,  212. 
Joseph,  286. 
Robbins,  286. 
Batten,  Benjamin,  134. 

Edmund,  330,332, 
Batter,  Edmund,  273. 
Battle,  John,  367. 
Battle,  Hastings,  107, 
Lexington,  259. 
with  Pequots,  158. 
Rhode  Island,  28. 
Baysey,  Adriennc,  115. 
Beach,  Hannah,  310. 
Beachy  Head,  Sussex,  Eng.,  107. 
Beadle  Estate,  253. 
Beamon,  John,7. 
Beamsley,   Abigail,  412. 
Ann,  412. 
Elizabeth,  412. 
Grace,4i2. 
Habakkuk,  412. 
Hannah,  412. 
Mary,  412. 
Mercy   (250),    404-408,   412, 

414. 
Samuel,  412. 

William    (250-A),    405,    411, 
412. 
Beaton,  Mary,  322. 
Beauchamp,  Edward,  256. 
Beaupell,  Sir  Henry,  151. 
Margaret,  151. 
Beaver  Brook  Plowlands,  370. 

Beckett, ,  100. 

Beckwith, ,  171. 

Barzillai,  166. 
Matthew,  180. 
Thomas,  176,  293. 
Bedford,  Eng.,  85, 88. 
Beecher,  Christianna,  82. 
Thomas,  81,  82. 
Beighton,  Eng.,  139. 
Belcher,  Gov.,  26S. 

Samuel,  172. 
Belknap,  Hannah,  417. 
Bell  in  Cheape,  147. 
Bellamy,  Dr.,  287. 
Belleville,  HI.,  345. 
Bellingham,  Gov.,  70. 

Penelope,  138. 
Bemis,  James,  178. 
Bendall,  Freegrace,  133. 

Mary  Anna,  133. 
Bcnnetland,  Sarah,  94. 
Bentley,  Dr.  William,  263. 
Berkeley,  Lord,  347. 
Bermuda,  52,  loi,  103,  308. 
Bernard,  Mary,  337,  361. 
Berry,  Mary,  253. 
Berry  Pomeroy,  Vicar  of,  306. 
Besse,  Mary,  373,  374. 
Bethlehem,  Conn.,  2S7. 
Bethune,  Adam,  320. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


441 


Bethune,   Anthony,  321. 
Archibald.  322. 
Baudouin,  320. 
David,  322,  323. 
Elizabeth,  325. 
George  (189),    277,    310,   311, 

319,324,325,327,329. 
George,  325. 
Henry,  323-325. 
Jane  (182),  276,  277,  286,  287, 

310,312,325. 
Mary,  325,  326. 
Matilda,  320. 
Maximilien  de,  319,  321. 
Nathaniel,  325,  327. 
Robert,  320. 
Robert  (187),  323,  324. 
Robert,  320,  321. 
Sarah,  326. 
Susanna,  326. 
The    Family    in    France    and 

Scotland,  319-324. 
William  (188),  321,  323,  324, 
327. 
Bethune  in  Artois,  320. 
Beverly,  Mass.,   16,  112,    196-201,  232, 
233,  254,  255,   261-266,  276, 
277. 

Bibble, ,  88. 

Biddeford,  Me.,  244. 
Big  Flats,  N.  Y.,  33, 
Bigg,  John,  133. 
Bigges,  Humfrey,  149. 
Billerica,  Mass.,  291. 
Billerica  Road,  408. 
Billings,  Ebenezer,  26. 
Grace,  26,  30. 
Mary,  172. 
Roger,  172. 
Bircham,  Henry,  348. 
Birchard,  John,  125,  127. 
Bird,  Abraham  Calvin,  347. 
Jathnell,  419. 
Martha  Ann,  347. 
William  H.,  347.      . 
Birdseye,  Mary,  411. 

Wdliam,  411. 
Birmingham,  F,ng.,  288. 
Birnie,  William,  34. 
Bishop,  James,  305. 
Stephen,  301. 
Tal3itha,  301. 
Bishop  Stortford,  Eng.,  292,  294,  295. 
Bissell,  John,  179. 
Black  Hall,  Lyme,  180,  181. 
Blacklcy  (Blachley),  Aaron,  301. 
Blackncr,  John,  372. 
Blackstone  River,  17. 

Blackwell, ,  374. 

Jane,  389. 
John,  383,  3S6. 
Joshua,  374. 
Mordecai,  374. 
Sarah,  375. 
Blanchard,  Samuel,  408. 


Blandford,  Dorset,  405. 

Blebo,  Lord,  323. 

Blceckcr,  Anthony  James,  225. 

Anthony  Lispenard,  225. 
Helena  Roosevelt,  225. 
James,  225. 

Winthrop  Gilman,  225. 
Bletsoe,  Eng.,  87. 
Bliss,  Freelove,  83,  84. 

John,  83,  84. 
Bliven    Burying-ground,  84. 
Bliven,  Edward,  84,  85. 

Polly,  34. 
Block  Island,  35,  63,  172-174,  206. 
Bocking  (Barking),  Essex,  Eng.,  370,  372. 
Bodfish,  Joseph,  373. 
Mary,  373. 
Robert,  313. 
Bodrigan,  Anne,  151. 

Sir  Nicholas,  151. 
Boiswald,  Margaret,  322. 
BoUcs,  Joseph,  259. 
Bond,  George,  44. 

Mabel  Huidekoper,  44. 
Bonny,  Peter,  130. 
Booth,  John,  177. 
Borden,  Sarah,  93,  109. 
Bordentown,  N.  J.,  31. 
Bordman,  Mary,  210. 

William,  210, 
Borland,  Francis,  325. 
Borodell,  Ann,  50, 
Borradaill,  John,  355. 
Borton,  Ann,  352. 

Elizabeth,  352. 

Esther  (200),  337,  347-349-  35^- 

358. 
Jane,  352. 
John  (200-n),  336,  347,  348,  350- 

35^- 
John,  351,  352. 
Joshua,  339,  340. 
Mary,  336,  348,  352. 
William,  351,  352,  355. 
Boscawen,  Mass.,  243. 
Boscobel,  Wis.,  347. 

Boston,  Mass.,  9,  16,  46,  48,  51-53,  57- 
64,  66,  67,  70,  71,  73,  78,  79, 
loi,    103,  no,  114,    115,    129, 
131, 133, 136-138, 142, 165, 167 
175, 176, 187, 197,204,209,  210. 
226,  232,   234,  245,    255,  258, 
270,  302,  303,  308,  309,  311 
319,  324-326,  329,    331,    335 
382,  393,405,  411. 
Boston  Burying  place,  104. 
Beacon  Hill,  137. 
Elbow  or  Crooked  Lane,  142. 
Faneuil  Farm,  325. 
Hall,  216. 
Fort,  51. 

Great  Fire  of,  273. 
Harbor,  51. 

Lincolnshire,  Eng.,  59,66,71. 
Neck,  28. 


Boston  Newsletter,  22. 
Riot,  270. 

Washington  St.  Meeting  House, 33 1 . 
Bosworth,   Benjamin,  33. 

Eliza,  33. 
Bourne,  Benjamin,  31. 
Ezra,  310. 
Nehemiah,  143. 
Richard,  371,  385. 
Shearjashub,  317. 
Timothy,  373. 
Bowhay,  Devon,  Eng.,  401. 
Bowler,  Metcalf,  28. 
Brachier,  I  Edward,  283,  390. 
Brazier,     j  John,  283,  390. 

Mary  (164),  283,  292,  390. 
Bradford,  Elizabeth,  24. 

Governor,  24,  314. 
Lydia,  286. 
William,  314. 
Bradley,  Nathaniel,  304. 

Wilham,304. 
Bradstreet,  Dudley,  290,  406. 

Humphrey,  326,  328. 
John,  326,  328. 

Simon,  60,  67,  91,   104,   145, 
237>  273- 
Braintrce,  Mass.,  49,  172,  173,236. 
Branford,  Conn.,  2S4-2S6,  300,  301,  304, 

312. 
Branston,  Eng.,  56. 
Brattle,  Edward,  330. 
Bray,   Benjamin,  255. 

Sarah,  255, 
Brayles,  Warwickshire,  Eng.,  357. 
Brayton,  Charity,  94. 
Francis,  100. 
Mary,  100. 
Stephen,  100. 
Brenton,  Mary,  52,  55. 

WiUiam,  52,  80,  104. 
Brest,  France,  143. 
Brewer,  Hannah,  290,  408. 
Brewster,  Elder,  16,  308,  380. 

Mary,  308. 
Briarcliff  Manor,  N.  Y.,  225. 
Brick,  Mary,  133. 

Robert,  331. 
Brickenden,  John,  141. 
Bridgeboro,  N.  J.,  335. 
Bridgewater,  Mass.,  232,  375. 
Brig  Seraph,  33. 
Briggs,  Joan,  99,  100. 
Bright,  Abigail,  104,  231. 

Henry.  104. 
Brinley,  Ann  (rp),  52,  53,  66-72. 
Francis,  55,  72,  loi,  105. 
Griselda,  73. 
Mary,  55,  72. 
Thomas  (20),  70,  72,  101. 
Thomas,  73. 
William,  73,  loi. 
Bristol,  Eng.,  78,  233,  234,  302,  318,  329, 

330,  402-405,  412. 
Bristol,  R.  I.,  33,  97. 


442 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Brixham,  Eng.,  151. 

Brixton,  Devon,  Eng.,  244,  245,  24S,  249, 

278. 
Brixton,  Butler's  Parish,  244. 
Brocklebank,  Sarah,  251. 

Samuel,  176,  234,  251. 
Brockwell,  Elizabeth,  415. 
Brooke,  Elizabeth,  297,  298. 
Joane,  297,  298. 
John,  297,  298. 
Margaret,  297. 
Sara,  298. 
Thomas,  297. 
Brookfield,  Mass.,  64,  296,  421. 
Brown,  Chad,  28,  Si,  126. 
Daniel,  77,  78,  81. 
Daniel  Noyes,  44. 
James,  45,  81. 
Jeremiah,  78,  81. 
John,  28,  205. 
John  Crosby,  44. 
Joseph  (10),  8,  9,  10,  45. 
Lydia,  115,  116. 
Mary,  72,  56. 
Moreau  Delano,  44. 
Moses,  45. 
Nicholas,  216. 
Richard,  13. 
Samuel,  409. 

Sarah  (2),  8-16,  45,  50,  261,  262. 
Thomas,  45,  410. 
Thatcher  Magoun,  44. 
William,  133,  283. 
William  Adams,  44,  224. 
Willoughhy,  45. 
Browne,  Henry,  126,  127,  128. 
John,  126,  330. 
Joseph,  127. 
Margaret,  56. 
Mary,  127,  128,  133,  330. 
Phoebe  (76),  107,  125-128,  155, 

169,  182. 
Richard,  235,  370. 
William  (76-A),  126-128. 
Brown   and   Ives,  216-218,  222. 

Browning,  ,  402. 

Joseph,  360. 
Brownson,  Abraham,  180. 
Bryn  Mawr,  Pa.,  44. 
Buchanan,  President,  394. 
Buckingham,  Pa.,  356. 
Buckingham,  David,  133. 
Duke  of,  130. 
Mary,  44. 
Buckinham,  Elizabeth,  136. 
Buck  Tavern,  Philadelphia,  205. 
Buckminster,  Sarah,  292. 
Buel,  Timothy,  411. 
Buffalo,N.  Y.,  38. 
Buggbrook,  N.  J.,  355. 
Bulkeley,  Dorothy  (67),  47,  113-115. 

William,  113. 
Bull,  Captain,  420. 

Ruth,  399. 
Bullard,  John,  303. 


Bullingham,  Right  Rev.  Nicholas,  148. 

BuUivant,  Benjamin,  132. 

Bullock,  Mary,  no. 

Bumstead,  Hannah  L.,  104. 

Bundy,  John,  331. 

Bunker  Hill,  394. 

Bunker,  Mary,  249. 

George,  249. 
Burber,  Timothy,  351. 
Burge,   Jacob,  374. 

Zacheus,  374. 
Burgess,  Abigail,  375. 
Burgh-upon-Bain,  Lincolnshire,  65. 
Burlmgham,  Roger,  92. 
Burlingame,  Christopher,  289. 

Martha,  289. 
Burhngton,  N.  J.,  336,  355,  357,  358,  360. 
Burlington  Island,  351. 
Burlington  Meeting,  338,  362,  363. 

Burnard, ,  212. 

Burnham  Estate,  1 14. 
Burr,  Henry,  350. 
Joseph,  341. 
Lydia,  341. 
Martha,  350. 
Sarah,  350. 
Burrows  (Burroughs),  John,  350. 
Burton,  Hannah,  259. 
Martha,  52. 
Mr.,  370. 
Bury  St.  Edmunds,  Eng.,  113,135, 136,139. 
Bury,  Bridget,  58,  66. 
William,  58,  66. 
Busby,  Isaac,  340. 
Jabez,  340. 

Bushnell, ,  412. 

Anne,  126. 
Edward,  412. 
EHzabeth,  126. 
Rebecca,  115. 
Butcher,  John,  351. 

Thomas,  352. 
Butler,  Lydia,  166. 

Mary,  79,  166. 
Patience,  379. 
Thomas,  379. 
William,  245,  257. 
Zebulon,  118,  167. 
Butterfield,Wimam,284. 
Butterworth,  Sarah,  107,  109. 
Button,  Abigail,  63. 
Robert,  63. 
Butt's  Brook,  Danvers,  253. 
Byley,  Edward,  271,272. 
Elizabeth,  271,  272. 
Henry,  271,  272. 
Henry  (156-E),  261,  271-274. 
Henry,  274. 
John,  271-273. 
Jone,  273,  274. 
Mary,  271—273. 
Rebecca  (156),  232,  261,  263,  265, 

273. 
The  Family  in  England,  271. 
Thomas,  272. 


Byley,  Wilham,  271-274. 
Byllinge,  Edward,  347,  367. 
Bytheway,  Robert,  271. 

Cadganaquant,  96. 
Cadwallader,  Gen.,  31. 
Caiton,  Margaret,  254. 
Calais,  France,  320. 
Calley,  Richard,  192. 
Calverley,  Edmund,  92. 
Calwoodleigh,  Eng.,  401. 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  no,  iii,  133,  158,  224, 
225,  282—284,  292,  391,  409, 
414. 
Cambridge  River,  283. 
Camden,  N.  J.,  342. 
Cameron,  Robert,  343. 
Campbell,  Duncan,  332. 

Polly,  378. 
Camp  PeekskiU,  377. 
Campfield,  }  Matthew,  146. 
Canfield,       \  Samuel,  146. 
Canaan,  Conn.,  218,  220. 
Canes,  Mr,,  61. 
Canonchet,  17,  49,  50. 
Canonicus,  68. 
Canonicut  Island,  53. 
Cann,  William,  403. 
Canterbury,  Archbishop  of,  411. 
Cape  Breton,  236. 
Cape  Cod,  126,  380,  384. 
Cape  EUzabeth,  Me.,  416, 
Cape  Horn,  33. 
Captain  of  the  Port,  254. 
Carder,  Mary,  109. 
Carlisle,  Mary,  348,  358,  359. 
Carmel,  N.  Y.,  44. 
Carmen,  John,  384, 
Carpenter,  Benjamin,  109. 
Elizabeth,  77. 
Hannah,  363,  364. 
Preston,  363,  364. 
Wilham,  82,  109, 
Carr,  Caleb,  86, 
Edward,  78. 
Elizabeth,  81. 
Hannah,  72,  73,  78,  loi. 
Job,  106. 
Robert,  81. 
Carrier,   Martha,  292. 
Sarah,  406. 
Thomas,  410. 
Carroll,  Mary,  346. 
Carrollton,  111.,  211,  346. 
Carter,  Adonijah,  378. 
Herman,  398, 
Winiam,87. 
Carteret,  Sir  George,  334. 

Phihp,  334. 
Carver,  Robert,  331. 
Cary,  Mr.,  43. 

Samuel,  312. 
Thomas,  312. 
Cass,  \  Aaron,  398,  399. 
Case,  J  Abigail,  394,  395. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


443 


Cass,    Alice,  397,  398. 
Amelia.  399. 
Aquila.  393. 
Candace,  399. 

Ebenezer  (243),  394-397,  400. 
Eliphalet,  397,  398. 
Elizabeth,  395. 
Hannah,  397,  398, 
John(242),  393-395,  400. 
Jonathan.  394,  396. 
Joseph.  394. 
Josiah,  397,  398. 
Lewis,  394. 
Lois,  397,  398. 
Martha,  394. 
Mary,  394-399- 
Mercy.  394,  395. 
Miriam.  399. 

Moses  (244),  396-398,  410. 
Moses   (245),   376,   377.    397-399' 

410. 
Moses,  399. 

Patience  (230),  343.  376-378,  399. 
Patience,  397. 
Samuel,  394. 

Casperson, ,  369. 

Cassacinamon,  49. 
Caston,  Norfolk,  Eng.,  186,  187. 
Caton,  N.  Y.,33. 
Caulkins,  Elizabeth,  126. 
Centreton,  N.  J.,  351. 
Chadbourne,  Humphrey,  227. 
Chadwell,  Richard,  384. 
Chadwick,  Mrs.  Daniel,  120. 
Chamberlin,   John,  232. 
Sarah,  232. 
Champion,  Deborah,  157. 

Mehitable,  157. 
Champlin,  Hannah,  77. 
Jeffrey,  77. 
Margaret,  30. 
Champness,  James,  368. 

Nathaniel,  368. 
Chandler,  Annis,  407. 
Brother,  417. 
Charles,  346. 
Emma,  346. 
Hannah  (165),  283.  284,  292, 

302. 
Hannah,  289, 290,  293, 400. 
John,  289,  290-292,  395,  400, 

406. 
Joseph,  292. 
Mary,  291,  296. 
Philemon,  292.    . 
Phoebe,  292,  406. 
Rhoda,  292. 
Sarah,  289,  290,  292. 
Thomas,  289-292,  408. 
William  (i6q),  289-290,    296, 

395,  400,408. 
WUliam   (170),    283,   290-292, 

296,  406. 
William,  292,  298,  419. 
Chandlersville,  111.,  346. 


Chapeto,  115. 
Chapin,  Harriet,  225. 
Chapman,  Nathaniel,  405. 

Robert,  154. 
Chapwell,  Jonathan,  410. 

Ruth,  410. 
Charellton  (Charlton),  Eng..  401,  402. 
Charlemagne,  320. 

Charles  I,  3,  II,  72,  85,  87,  129,  131,  140. 
II,  7,  II,  70,  72,  144,  145,  190,306. 

334^356- 
VII,  321. 
Charles  River,  iii.  391. 
Charles  River  canal,  11 1. 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  81,  82,  84,  137,  141, 
142,  146,  150.  235.  260-262,  283,  330, 

331- 
Charlestown,  R.  I.,  78. 
Charleston,  S.  C,  95. 
Chase,  James,  394. 

Thomas,  393. 
Chatham,  Conn.,  410. 
Cheapside,  64. 
Checkley,  Anthony,   332. 
Cheever,  Daniel,  253. 

Peter,  253,  254. 
Chelmsford,  291. 
Chelsea,  104. 
Cheney,  Joseph,  283. 
Chesebrough,  Mr.,  49. 

Nathaniel,  21,23. 
Sarah,  26. 
Wmiam,48. 
Chester,  Joseph  Lemuel,  56.  65,  129. 

Sir  John,  297. 
Chester,  Conn.,  121. 
Eng.,  311. 
Monthly  Meeting,  340,  359,  360, 

36.. 

NJ-,  337,  338,  339.  340-  341, 
356.357- 

Pa.,  359. 
Chichester,  Bishop  of,  127. 
Chickopee  River,  420. 
Chiddingstone,  Kent,  Eng.,  139. 
Chidsey,  Abram,  304. 

Caleb,  304. 

Daniel,  304. 

John,  304. 

Mary,  304. 

Sarah,  304. 
Child,  Dr.  Robert,  142. 
Chilmark,  Eng.,  389. 
Chipman,  John,  375. 
Lydia,  375. 
Cholderton,  Eng.,  4-10,  45,  3S9. 
Church,  Capt.,  54. 

Richard,  382. 
Church,  Alton,  Presbyterian,  346. 

Andover,  4,  290,  293, 414, 

Beverly,  First,  267. 

BostonjFirst,  51,  58,  59,  62,  64, 
71.  103,  137,  138,  260, 
333'  335^411- 
Old  South,  199,  310,  311. 


Church,  Boston,  King's  Chapel.  312. 
Park  St.,  166. 
Branford,  284,  285. 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  260,  283. 
Chatham,  Cape  Cod,  317. 
Congregational,  21. 
Dover,  N.H.,  280. 
East  Lyme,  182. 
Exeter,  N.  H.,  195,  231. 
Hartford,  Conn.,  153,  165,  176. 
Hopkinton,  R.  I.,  First  Sabbata- 
rian, 76. 
Independent,  10. 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  257. 
Lyme.  Conn.,  16,  38, 175. 
Marietta.  First,  344. 
Mendon,  Mass.,  First,  175. 
Middletown,  R.  I.,  Holy  Cross 

Chapel,  93. 
Milford,  Conn.,  158. 
New  Haven,   Centre,  16S. 

First,  24,  304. 
Newmarket,  N.  H.,  1 96. 
Newbury,Mass.,First,8. 16,231, 
243,  244.  250. 
Newburyport,  Mass.,  Third,  312. 
New  Hartford,  Conn.,  166. 
Newport,  R.  I..  First  Baptist,  83, 
89,  94. 
Second   Baptist, 

83.84- 

Seventh  Day 
Baptist,  83, 
84. 
Trinity,  73. 
New  York,  Bricl;,  218,  211,  223, 
224. 
Nineteenth       Street, 

218. 
St.  Mark's,  210. 
North  Yarmouth,   Me.,    197. 
Philadelphia,  Baptist,    95. 

Second    Presbyterian, 
205. 
Presbyterian,  10,  21. 
Providence,  R.  I.,  First  Baptist, 

108. 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  Eliot,  2S9. 
Salem,  Mass.,  First,    253,   327, 
330. 
Second    or  East, 
253,  263,  270. 
Salisbury,  Mass.,  273. 
Sandwich,  386,  387. 
St.    Louis,    First    Presbyterian, 

343.  344- 

Stonington,  First,  17,  22,  48, 

Watertown,  Mass.,  1 10. 
Church  of   England  party,  229,  230,  246. 
Churches  in  Europe. 

Bethune,  St.  Bartholemy,  320. 

Boston,  St.  Botolph's,  59,  67. 

Bristol,  St.  Nicholas,  403. 

Cholderton,  58. 

Exeter,  St.  Mary  Arches,  401. 


444 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Churches  in  Europe. 

Exeter,  St.  Paul,  402. 
Ipswich,  St.  Margaret's,  235. 

St.  Mary  la  Tour,  234— 
236. 
Lincoln,  St.-Mary-Ie-\Vigford, 

56. 

St.  Peter  at  Gowts,  65. 
London,  St.   AJphege,    149. 
All  Hallows,   136. 
St.  Andrew  Hubbard, 

130,  131. 
St.  Botolphs,  149,  381. 
St.  Faith's,  79. 
St.   Gregory,    146. 
St.  John  Hackney,  1 29- 

131. 
St.  Leonards,  297. 
St.   Margaret,   65. 
St.  Martin  in  the  Fields, 

85,  87,  88,  367. 
St.  Martin  Vintry,  59, 

65. 
St.  Mary  le  Bow,  152. 
St.  Mary  Woolchurch 

Haw,  59. 
St.  Mary  Wollnoth,  59. 
St.  Olave's,  137,  144. 
St.  Pancras,  65,  251. 
St.  Paul,  79. 
St.  Peter,  148. 
St.  Saviours,  152. 
St.    Thomas    of   Acre, 
147. 
Marlborough,  Eng.,  St.    Mary, 

417. 
Paris,  St.  Jean  of  Latran,  322. 
Portsmouth,  St.  Thomas,  140. 
Salisbury    (New    Sarum)    Ca- 
thedral of,  274. 
St. Edmund, 271,  272. 
St.  Thomas,   415. 
Churchill,  Apostle  Jesse,  2S8. 

Josiah,  300. 
Chygoes  Island,  357. 
Cilrnin  Droed-Dhu,  1S5. 
Cincinnati,  O.,  204,  208,  212,  344. 
Cincinnati,  Society  of,  28S. 
Cinnaminson  (Nosenemension)  tract,  337. 
Clapp,   Ebenezer,  174. 

Clark, ,171. 

Abigail,  158. 
Daniel,  184,232,258. 
Edward,  15S. 

Eleanor  (171),  290,  291,  293-296. 
Elizabeth,  158. 
Frances,  loi. 

George  (88),  154-158,  184. 
George,  158. 
Hannah,  158. 
J-G.,Sr.,74. 
Jeremiah,  74,  loi,  105. 
John,  61,  89,  116,  135,  154,  15S. 
Mary    (130),    187-189,    238,    239, 
394- 


Clark,  Mary,  S3, 157, 158. 
Nathaniel,  160,  315. 
Rebecca,  30,  135,  158. 
Ruth,  158. 
Samuel,  158. 
Sarah  (85),  154-159,  175 
Sarah, 118. 
Simon,  102 
Thomas,  231 
Walter,  83. 
Clarke,  Carew,  89. 

Deborah,  278. 

Daniel,  158. 

Elizabeth   (157),    192,    199,    232, 

264-267, 276. 
Elizabeth,  239,  264,  268,  270. 
Henry,  231,  239. 
James,  86. 

Jeremiah,  82-88,  loi. 
John,  68,  70,  82,  89,  95,  106,  no, 

191-193,  231,  266. 
Joseph,  89. 
Josiah,  232. 
Judith,  232. 
Latham,  86. 
Mary,  86,  89,  232. 
Nathaniel   (139),    191-193,   230- 
233,  239,  250,  261,  264,  265, 
276,  27S. 
Sarah  (132),  192-196,  232,  241, 

266,  277,  278. 
Sarah,  86. 

Thomas,  89,  231,  412. 
Walter,  54,  86. 
Weston,  86. 
William,  75,  89. 
Clary,  Hannah,  292. 
Clavell,  Dr.,  259. 
Cleaves,  William,  290. 
Clement,  Abiah,  244. 
John,  244. 
Mary,  363. 
Cleveland,  O..  38,  124. 
Cleveland,  Grover,  126,  223, 
Clifford  House,  275. 
Clifton,  Henry,  353,  355. 
Clink  Liberty,  152. 
Clinte,  William,  57. 
Coale  (Cole),  Hannah,  352,  355. 
Cobb,  Henry,  313. 

Jonathan,  313. 
Samuel,  313. 
Cocheco  (Dover),  279. 
Coddington,  Ann,  72,  73,  172. 

Benajah  (Bodaiah),  71. 

John,  72. 

Mary  (16),  24,  52-55,  72. 

Mary,  71. 

Micah,  67. 

Michael,  71. 

Nathaniel,   24,    55,   71,    105, 

172. 
Noah,  72. 
Samuel,  67,71. 
Thomas,  72. 


Coddington,  William  (rg),  52,  53,  60,  62, 
66-72,  78,  81-83,  86,  95, 
104,   106,    no,  132,    172, 
260. 
William,  54,  73. 
Coffin,    I  Abigail,  195,  239,  241,  279. 
Coffyn,  J  Allen,  247. 

Anne,  244,  245. 
Deborah,  245,  249-251. 
Edward,  280. 
Eliphalet,  195,  280. 
Elizabeth   (161),  192,  195,  200, 
266,  275,  278,  280,  3 n,  325. 
Elizabeth,  234,  235,  249. 
Enoch,  251. 
Eunice,  245. 
James,  247-251,  280. 
Jethro,  279,  280. 
Joan,  244,  245. 
John,  241. 

John,  244,  245,  248,  249,  251. 
Josiah,  241. 
Lionel,  244. 
Lydia,  242,  250,  251. 
Mary  (146),  192,  239-244,  250, 

251. 
Mary,  245,  248,  249,  28 1. 
Nathaniel,  250,  251. 
Nicholas,  244. 
Nicholas,  245. 
Parnell  (Pernell),  239,  280. 
Peter,  244,  245. 

Peter  (162),  192,231,  238,  239, 
246—248,  275,  278-281,  392. 
Peter,  245,  250,  251,  279. 
Philip,  244. 
Richard,  244. 
Robert,  192,  280. 
Stephen,  248-251, 
Tristram  (147-A),  192,244-248, 

278-281,  391,  392. 
Tristram  (147),  230-236,  242- 

251. 
Tristram,  239,   241,   244,  245, 
279,  280. 
Coffin  House,  250. 

The  Family  in  England,  244-245. 
Coggeshall,   Ann,  S3,  86.  " 
Deacon,  61. 
John,  54,  60,  62,  132. 
Coggswell,  Sarah,  16. 
Cohansey  Precinct,  334. 
Cohansey  River,  334. 
Colchester,   Conn.,    174,   273,    396,   409, 

410,  420. 
Colcord,  Deborah,  239,  279. 
Edward,  188,  280. 
Cole,  Catalina,  153. 

Edward,  151,  152. 
Elizabeth,  153. 
Ellen,  152. 
Giles,  151. 
Isaac,  64. 
Jeffrey,  152. 
John,  150,  151. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


445 


Cole,  John,  64,  151-153. 
Martyn,  151,  152. 
Mary,  55,  151,  152,359. 
Parnell,  152. 
Richard,  151. 
Robert,  151,  152. 
Roger,  14.9-153. 
Roger,  153. 

Susanna  (83),  141,144,149, 150, 153. 
Susan,  58. 

The  Family  in  England,  150-153. 
Thomas,  151. 
William,  151,  152. 
William,  152. 
Coleman,  Andrew,  370. 
Ebenezer,  174. 
Isaac,  247,  280. 
Mary,  174. 
Mahitabel,  174. 
Nieles,  174. 
Ruth,  174. 

Thomas,  416,  417,  419. 
Tobias,  416. 
Coleton,  Chulmleigh,  Devon,  151. 
Cold  Spring  Harbor,  L.  I.,  45. 
Cold  Spring,  Pa.,  86. 

Colgerton, ,  323. 

Colgerton-Bethune,   324. 

Mrs.,  324,  325. 
Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  224,  225. 
College,   Bowdoin,  197. 
Dartmouth,  287. 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,  N.Y., 

211. 
Rhode  Island,  95. 
Williams,  166,  224,  225. 
Collins,  Anne,  86. 

Francis,  359. 
Robert,  419. 
William,  62-64. 
Colhngs,  Alice,  401. 
Coiner,  John,  331. 
Colt  (Coult),  John,  116. 
Colton,  Chester,  38. 

Goodman,  419. 
Comer,  John,  94. 

Committee  of  Safety,  N.  H.,  201,  202. 
Comstock,  Abigail,  170,  171. 
Adam,  31. 
Christian,  170. 
Christopher,  170. 
Daniel,  170. 
Elizabeth,  170,  171. 
Hannah,  170. 
John  (109),  170-174. 
John,  170,  171. 
Mary,  171. 
Naomi,  171. 
Phoebe  (102),   163-166,   171, 

176. 
Ruth,  171. 
Samuel,  170,  171. 
William  (108),  169-170. 
William  (110),  163,  164,  170- 
174. 


Compton,  Eng.,  401. 
Conant,  Rev.  Sylvanus,  325. 
Concord,  Mass.,  135,  300. 
Conde,  Nicholas  of,  321. 
Congdon,  Benjamin,  74. 
Elizabeth,  74. 
Conkling,  Joseph,  163. 
Conon,  King  of  Adrianople,  320. 
Conrad,  Cornelia  Elisabeth,  225. 
Convers,  James,  296. 

Ruth,  296. 
Conway,  Secretary,  87. 
Cook,     1  Aaron,  184,  300. 
Cooke,  /  Catherine,  147. 
Deborah,  100. 
Esther,  in. 
Francis,  382. 
Joanna,  1S4. 
John,  100,  III,  382,  391. 
Mary,  iii. 
Thomas,  81. 
WiUiam,  147. 
Cooper,  Hannah,  306. 

John  (178),  303,  305-306. 

John,  306. 

Lydia,  308. 

Mary  (177),  301,  303,  304,  306. 

Richard,  387. 

Roger,  Master,  114. 

Sarah,  306. 
Cooper's  Creek,  339,  358,  359,  362. 
Cope,  Elizabeth,  65. 
Sir  John,  65. 
Copp,  Jonathan,  161. 
Cornbury,  Lord,  349. 
Cornell,  Elizabeth,  98. 
Cornish,  James,  126,  127,  128. 
Cornwall,  Conn.,  376,  377,  37S. 
Cornwallis,  N.  S.,  388. 
Corey,  1  Prudence,  33. 
Cory,    /William,  98. 
Cotton,  Rev.  John,  59,  63,  67,  231,  315. 

Seaborn,  242. 
Coucy,  Jeannette  de,  321. 
Coulton,  Ann,  33. 
Court  of  Arches,  London,  152. 
Coventry,  Conn.,  166,  265,  310. 
Cowcll,  Edward,  176. 

Cowing, ,  172. 

Coxe, ,  403. 

Coyte,  John,  329,  331. 

Cozzens  Hotel,  West  Point,  221. 

Crackbone,  Gilbert,  282. 

Crags,  John,  99. 

Craigfurdie,  Scotland,  323-327. 

Grand  all.  Ensign  John,  74. 

Craneneck  Hill,  West  Newbury,  Mass., 

244. 
Craniield,  Gov.,  54, 190. 
Cranston,  John,  83,  86. 
Major,  161. 
Crary,  Col.  Archibald,  9;. 
Creely,  Oliver,  334. 
Crissey,  Jesse,  343,  378. 
Croade,  John,  326. 


Crocker,  James,  274. 

Jonathan,  317,  375. 
Josiah,  317. 
Cromwell,   Oliver,  107,  135,  140. 

Richard,  143. 
Crooked  Run,  Va.,  342. 
Cropwell,  Burlington  Co.,  N.  J.,  337. 
Cropwell  Bishop,  Eng.,  356. 
Crosswicks,  N.  J.,  31. 
Croton,  Conn.,  375. 
Crowninshield,  Clifford,  253. 

John,  253. 
Crown  Point,  269. 
Cudworth,  James,  54   132 
CuUick,  Elizabeth,  134. 
Cupar,  Robert,  Abbot  of,  322. 
Curby,  Catherine,  374. 
Currier,  Jacob,  244. 
Curtis,  Isaac,  301. 

John,  336. 

Richard,  301. 

Sarah,  355. 

Thomas,  336,  355. 
Currin,    }  George,  259. 
Curwin,  j  Matthew,  255. 
Gushing,  Daniel,  188,  189. 

Matthew,  189. 
Cutler,  Joan  (156-A),  260,  261. 
Cutting,  Captain  John,  S. 
Mary,  8,  243. 

Daborne,  Joane,  149. 
Daggett,  Thomas,  392. 
Dalton,  Walter  William,  33. 
Dane,  Abigail,  291. 

Elizabeth,  293,  296. 

Francis,  290,  293,  414. 

John  (171-A),  289,  292-294. 

John  (171),  255,    290,  291,    293- 
296. 

John,  296. 

Mary  (170),  283,  290,   291,  296. 

Philemon,  296. 

Rebecca,  296. 

Sarah,  296. 
Daniels,  Joanna,  304. 
Danvers,  Mass.,  259. 
Darbey,  Mary,  371. 
Darland,  John,  seaman,  25S. 
Darhng,  Manly  W.,  275. 
Darnelly,  Ann,  352. 
Dartmouth,  Eng.,  226,  228. 
Dartmouth,  Mass.,  89,  93,  96,  100,    105, 

III,  382,  383. 
Darvell,  Mary,  13. 

Robert,  13. 
Datchet,  Buckinghamshire,  Eng.,  70,  72 
D'Aulney,  M.,  142. 

Davenport, .  20,285. 

Rev.  John,  167,  305. 
Richard  G.,  224,  226. 
Davenport,  Iowa,  166. 
David.  Catharine,  350. 
Davis, ,  III,  256. 

Abigail,  80. 


446 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Davis,  Jacob.  257. 
Davison  (Davidson),  Daniel,  279. 
Davol,   Jonathan,  105. 
Joseph^  100. 
Mary,  100. 
William,  105, 
Day.  Elizabeth,  352. 
John.  352.  353. 
Deacon,  George,  362. 
Martha,  362. 
Deane,  Jane,  200,  278. 
Miriam,  319. 
Thomas,  278. 
De  Butt,  Giles,  129,  131. 
Dedham,  Mass.,  260,  317,  399. 
Deeming,  David,  161. 
Mercy,  161. 
de  Forest,   Charles  Noyes,  ^t^. 
Henry  Grant,  45. 
Henry  Wheeler,  45. 
JuHa  Mary,  45. 
De  Gallegos,  Catalina,  152. 

Ferdinando,  152. 
Delaney,  Mr.,  131. 
Delano,   Jonathan,  383. 

Philip,  383. 
Deming,  Elizabeth  (172),  29S-300. 
Elizabeth,  121. 
John, 298. 
Denham,  Buckinghamshire,  Eng.,  88. 
Denison,  Borodel,  50. 

Daniel,  255,  256,  273. 
Edward,  26. 

George,  17,  49,  50,  54,  132. 
John,  26,  182,238. 
Joseph,  26. 
Major,  296. 
Martha,  238,  239. 
Mr.,  84. 
Phoebe,  26. 
Robert.  182. 
Sarah,  49. 
William,  50. 
Denne,  Ehzabeth,  296. 
Dennis,  Samuel,  334. 
Thomas,  412. 
Denny,  Deborah,  310. 

Sir  Edward,  292. 
Lady  Margaret,  292,  295. 
Thomas,  310. 
Deny  Sutton,  Eng.,  390. 
De  Perouine,  Adelise,  320. 
Robert,  320. 
De  Rome,  Monsieur,  203. 
Derby,  Ann  (150),  252-254,  259,  270. 
Ann,  259. 
Charles,  257,  258. 
Ebenezer,  259. 
Ehas  Haskett,  25-8. 
Elizabeth,  259. 
Experience,  258. 
John,  259. 
Lucretia,  259. 
Margaret,  259. 
Richard.  257,  258^  260. 


Derby,  Roger  (154),  252,  253,  257-260, 
418. 
Roger,  257,  258. 
Samuel,  258. 
Thomas,  257. 
Derby,  Conn.,  375. 
d'Estouteville, Isabella,  321. 
Michelle,  321. 
Robert,  Lord,  321. 
Detroit,  Mich.,  33,  204. 
Devotion,  Hannah,  166. 
DeWitt,  Iowa,  346. 
Dewnes,  Winnifred,  88. 
DeWolf,  Balthazar,  127,  161,   iSo,  181. 
Josiah,  171. 
Mary,  116,  118,  127,  155,  169, 

180.  181,  182. 
Simon,  161,  171. 
Dewsbury,  Esther,  383. 
Dexter,  Abigail,  98. 

Gregory,  83,  132. 
John,  98. 
Mary,  375. 
Thomas,  378,  384. 
Diamond,  Richard,  347. 
Dickerman,  Abigail,  304. 

Abraham    (177),    301,    303, 

304,  306. 
Abraham,  304. 
Elizabeth.  174,  303. 
Hannah,  304. 
Isaac,  303,  304. 
John,  303. 
Mary,  304. 
Rebecca    (174),    284,     285, 

301,  302,  304. 
Ruth,  304, 
Sarah,  304. 
Thomas  (176),  174,  302,  303, 

306. 
Thomas,  174,  303. 
Dickinson,  John,  300. 

Nathaniel,  299. 
Digby,  Elizabeth  (77),   129,   131,   138. 
Everard,  128. 

Sir    John,  First  Earl  of  Bristol, 
129,131. 
Dillingham,  Edward,  384. 
Dilwyn,  George,  340. 
Dingley,  Richard,  S3. 
Dinton,  Eng.,  389. 
Diodate,  Elizabeth,  121. 
Divorce,  78,  79,  80,  99. 

Dobson, ,  112. 

Christopher,  57. 
Dodge,  William  E.,  222. 
Doggett,  Samuel  B.,  18. 
Doiley,  Bray,  351. 
d'Oisy,  Clemence,  320. 

Simon,  320. 
Dole,  Apphia,  251. 
Henry,  251. 
Richard,  234,  251. 
Sarah  (140-A),  232-235,   239,   249, 
250. 


Doliber,  Peter,  327. 
Dorchester  Company,  183. 
Dorchester,  Mass.,  12,  172,  177,  183,  184, 
H5'293'3<=>2,  303,  317-319, 

333- 
Doremus,  Caroline,  225. 
Dorman,  Thomas,  255. 
Dorr,  Ann,  175. 

Clemence,  175. 
Ebenezer,  175. 

Edmund  (118),  164,  165,  175,  1S2. 
Edward  (117),  174,  175,  176,  182. 
Edward,  175,  176,  303. 
Elizabeth,  175. 

Eve  (103),  121,  164-166,  176. 
George,  175. 
Harbottle,  175. 
Joseph,  175. 
Doty,   Edward,  384. 

Sarah,  384. 
Douglass,  Sarah,  34. 
Douglas,  Elizabeth,  290,  400. 
Mary,  2S8. 
WilHam,  290. 
Dove,  Francis,  273. 

Dover,  N.  H.,  190, 193,  227,  27S-280,  393. 
Downer,  Andrew,  397. 
Downing,  John,  240,  243. 
Dowse,  Abba,  289. 
Draft  Riots,  220. 
Drake,  Job,  184. 
Draper,    Abijah  W.,  399. 
Daniel,  400. 

James  (246),  290,  395,  399. 
James,  399. 
John,  399. 
Jonathan,  400. 
Moses,  290,  400. 
Patience  (243),  395,   396,  399, 

400. 
Thomas,  399. 
Drew,  Nicholas,  388. 
Drinker,  Ehzabeth,  225. 
Driver,  Sarah,  255. 
Drummer,  Richard,  9. 
Stephen,  9. 
Dryden,  Bridget,  57,  59,  65. 
Sir  Erasmus,  65. 
John,  65. 
Dublin,  Ireland,  311. 
Dubre,  Amelia,  343. 
Duck  River  Burying  Ground,  117,  119. 
Dudiston,  Janet,  322. 
Dudley,  Joseph,  237. 
Mr.,  18. 
Rev.  Samuel,  189,  191,  227,  237, 

272,  273. 
Stephen,  192. 

Gov.  Thomas,  60,  67,  142,  272, 
273. 
Dummer,  Samuel,  241. 
Dunbar,  Comeha  Moore,  226. 

James  M.,  226. 

Dungan,  Barbara  (30),  8 1-86,  90. 

Frances,  85,  86. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


447 


Dungan,  Thomas,  85,  86. 

WiUiam   (32),   81,   82,   85,   86, 
88. 
Dunkeld,  Bishop  of,  322. 
Dunkin,  Jabez,  388. 
Dunster,  Mary,  13. 
Du  Quoin,  111.,  346,  347. 
Durfee,  Patience,  100. 
Thomas,  ico. 
Durfey,  Esther,  121. 

Richard,  121. 
Durham,  N.  H.,  195,  196,  255. 
Dutch  Creek,  Del.,  363. 
Dutch  Island,  53. 
Dutch  Plantations,  63. 
Duxbury,  Mass.,  91. 
Dwight,  Henry,  410,  420. 
Dyer,  Henry,  192,  280. 

James,  403. 

Mary,  60. 
Dynn,  John,  258,  260. 

William,  258,  260. 
Dyve,  Sir  Lewis,  88. 

East  Cheap,  London,  297. 

East  Chester,  N.  Y.,  63,  64,  66,  172. 

East  Greenwich,  R.  I.,  74,  86,  105,  109. 

East  Guilford,  Conn.,  301. 

East  Haddam,  Conn.,  116,  121,  163-166. 

East  Hartford,  Conn.,  125,  184. 

East  India  Trade,  259. 

East  Lyme,  Conn.,  1S2. 

East  New  Haven,  Conn.,  303,  306. 

Easton,  Col.,  345. 

Elizabeth,  83. 

John,  81. 

Mary,  86. 

Nicholas,  9,  80-83,  86,  95. 

Peter,  81,  83,  86. 

Sarah,  394. 
Eaton,  ,  305. 

Gov.,  167. 
Ebenezer  Stevens'  Sons,  212. 
Edgartown,  Mass.,  249,  390,  391. 
Edgerton,  Sarah,  118. 
Edward   III,  51. 

VI,  148,  400,  401. 
Edwards,  John,  407. 
Mary,  407. 
Morgan,  86. 
Edwardsville,  111.,  214,  345,  346. 
Eel  River,  Plymouth,  381,  382,  383. 
Eives,  Joseph,  300. 
Elbridge,  Giles,  403,  404. 

Thomas,  331. 
Elderkin,  John,  170. 

Paltiah,  170. 
Eldred,  Judah,  378. 

Samuel,  78. 

Ward,  378. 
Eldredge,  Rebecca,  338. 
Election  sermon,  262,  287. 
Eliot,  Rev.  John,  51,  176,  177,  289. 
Elizabeth  Island,  55,  391. 
Ellet,  Charles  (213),  363,  366. 


Ellet,  Charles  (214),  341,  342,    363-366, 
368. 
Charles,  343,  364,  365. 
Elizabeth  (198),  341-343,  364,  368, 

378. 
Elizabeth,  363. 
Hannah,  365. 
John,  363,  364. 
Mary,  364,  365. 
Rachel,  364,  365. 
Samuel,  364. 
Sarah,  364. 
Thomas,  364. 
William,  364. 
Ellinwood,  Rev.  F.  F.,  222. 
Elliott,  Thomas,  271. 
Ellis,  Malachi,  389. 
Roland,  389. 
Thomas,  336. 
Wilham,  361. 
Elmira,  N.  Y.,  33. 
Elstow,  Bedford,  Eng.,  85,  87. 
Ely,  Richard,  118,  155. 
Samuel,  u8. 
Z.  Stiles,  117. 
Emery,  Anna,  244. 

Rev.  Samuel,  195. 
Sarah,  195,  27S. 
Stephen,  244. 

Endicott, ,  60. 

John,  79. 
Enfield,  Conn.,  419,  420. 
Engle,  C.  H.,351,354. 

Hannah,  338,  354. 
Jane,  354,  356. 

John  (202),  338,  339,  353-356. 
John,  354. 

Mary  (196),  338-340,  354,  361. 
Paul,  352. 

Robert  (201),  352,  353,  355,  356. 
Robert,  354. 
English,  William,  394. 
Essiscock  Creek,  352. 
Evans,  Thomas,  350. 
Evele,  Captain,  357. 
Evens,  Joshua,  342. 
Everatt,  Mary,  415,  417. 
Evesham,  Meeting,  338,  350,  353. 

N-  J-,  336-338.  347-355.   361, 
362. 
Ewer,  Anna,  371. 
Exeter  Combination,  5,  8,  2S1. 
Eng.,  70,  72,  401,  402. 
Military  Co.,  189,  190. 
N.  H.,  57,  58,  62,  65,    187,  227- 
241,    249,    253,  257,   259,  264- 
268,  272,  275-280,  2S7,  288,  3 1 1, 
394- 
Eye-Kettleby,  Eng.,  129. 

Fairchild,  Lydia,  343,  346. 
Fairfield,  Conn.,  116,  170,  234. 
Fairfield  Swamp,  46. 
Falaise,  Normandy,  244. 
Fall  River,  Mass.,  33. 


Faneuil,  Benjamin,  325. 
Mary,  325. 
Peter,  325. 
Farmington,  Ct.,  153,  156. 
Farnum,  Anna,  414. 

Elizabeth,  407. 
Thomas,  407. 
Farwell,  Mr.,  133. 
Faunce,  John,  382. 

Priscilla,  382. 
Sarah,  384. 
Thomas,  382. 
Feake,  Henry,  384. 
Fell,  Joseph,  356. 

Margaret,  334. 
Fenner,  Arthur,  54,  132. 
Fenwick,   Colonel,  134. 
Governor,  178. 
John,  334,  347,  350,  365,  366, 

368. 
Lady,  134. 
Mr.,  46. 
Fenwick    Colony,  336,  367. 

Hall,  134. 
Fessenden,   Mr.,   373,   388. 

Fettiplace, ,  152. 

Field,  Hannah,  128. 

John,  128. 
FifthMass.  Reg.,  254,  268. 
Filiall,  Penelope,  227. 
Finn's  Point,  N.  J.,  365. 
First  Exeter  Co.  of  Foot,  195. 
First  Hopkinton  Co.,  R.  I.  Militia,  77. 
First  Kings  Regiment,  R.  I.  Militia,  77. 
First  Regiment,  Yorkshire,  Me.,  229. 
First  R.  I.  Battalion,  95. 
First  R.  I.  Regiment,  31,  32. 
Fiske,  Charles  H.,  Jr.,  309. 
Fitch,  Abigail,  24,  55. 

Thomas,  158. 
Fitzrandolph,  \  Benjamin,  355,  356. 
Fitzrandle,        /  Edward,  314, 
Mary,  314. 
Nathaniel,  353,  355. 
Fitzwarine,  Agnes,  151. 
Flanders,  Counts  of,  320,  321. 

Philip,  Count  of,  320. 
Fleet,  Esther,  103. 
Flint,  Dr.  Austin,  221. 
Edward,  258. 
Joseph,  258. 
Flushing,  L.  L,  79,  80,  99.  100. 
Folger,  Peter,  246,  391. 
Folsom,   John,  187,  188,  189,  191. 
Josiah,  198. 
Mary,  239. 
Nathaniel,  200,  201. 
Peter,  189,  192,  237,  238. 
Foote,  Daniel,  297,  298. 

Elizabeth,  297,  298,  300,  301. 
Francis,  297,  298,  300. 
Hannah  (166),  284-286,  302,  312. 
Isaac  (174),  284,  285,  301,  302,  304. 
Isaac,  302. 
Jacob,  302. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Foote,  James,  297. 

John,  297,  298. 
Joseph,  297,  301. 
Joshua,  297,  298. 
Mary,  297,  29S,  300. 
Nathaniel  (172),  297,  300. 
Nathaniel,  300,  301. 
Rebecca,  299,  300. 
Robert  (173),  297, 298,300,301,304. 
Robert,  297,  29S. 
Samuel,  301. 
Sarah,  29S,  300,  301. 
Stephen,  301. 
Thomas,  29S. 

The  Family  in  England,  298. 
Forster,  John,  60. 
Fort   Harmer,  Ohio,  206,  207. 
Niagara,  269. 
Saybrook,  46,  47. 
Forther,  Lord,  323. 
Foster,  Andrew,  413. 
James,  254. 
John,  253. 
Mary,  358. 
Reginald,  296. 
Foulsham,  Oilman  and  Oilman,  19S,  199. 
Fountain,  Penelope  F.,  346,  347. 
Fourth  Reg.  Foot,  Eseter,  195. 
Fouler,  Hester,  419. 

Joseph,  418,419. 

Margery  (253-E),  413,   415-417, 

419. 
Mary,  419. 
Philip  (253-c),  9,  255,  256,  25S, 

415-  417-419- 

Philip,  418,  419. 

Samuel,  417,  419. 

Thomas,  417,  419. 
Fox,  George,  334. 
France,  Jeannette,  Princess  of,  321. 
Frankfort,  Me.,  2S8. 
Franklin,  Benjamin,  246. 
Fabian,  223. 
Mrs.,  320. 
Frazer,  Thomas,  75. 
Freeborn,  Mary,  86. 
Freehold,  N.  J.,  355. 
Freeman,  Edward,  378,  384, 386. 
Freetown,  Swanzey,  Mass.,  81. 
French,  Edward,  393. 

Hannah,  393. 

Jonathan,  360. 
Fresh  River,  Dover,  280. 
Friends'    Burial    Ground,    Haddonfield, 

N.  J.,  339. 
Friends^  Burial  Ground,  Newport,  R.  I., 

81. 
Friends'  Library,  Philadelphia,  336. 
Frink,  Isaac,  26. 

Samuel,  26. 
Frisbie,  John,  301. 
Frost,  Henry,  136. 
Frve,  }  Phoebe,  408. 
Frie,   \  Samuel,  406,  407,  408. 
Fuller,  Ehzabeth,  39S. 


Gage,  Gen.,  259. 
GaUipolis,  O.,  203. 

Gallop, ,  387. 

Gallup,  Mar}',  24. 

Samuel,  J09. 
Gaily,  Mr.,  149. 
Gammell,  Prof.  William,  216. 
Gardiner,  Benoni,  So. 

Dorcas   (27),    74,   75,    77,    80, 

81. 
George  (28),  77-81. 
George,  77,  80. 
Hannah.  95. 
Henry,  So. 
Jeremiah,  81. 
Joanna,  50. 
John, 248. 
Joseph,  Si,  308. 
Lydia,  Si. 
Mary,  78,  81. 
Nicholas,  77,  81. 
Peregrine,  81. 
Rebecca,  77,  81. 
Robert,  81. 
Samuel,  Si. 
Thomas,  50. 
WiUiam,  80. 
Gardner,  Andrew,  135. 
Anna,  2S0. 
John,  279,  2S0. 
Mar}',  279. 
Robert,  73. 
Thomas,  357. 
Garesh,   Capt.,  17. 
Garland.  John,  393. 

Garrett,  .  88. 

Garrison  House,  Brookfield,  420. 
Dover,  279. 

Exeter,   206,    275,    276, 
287,  311. 
Gates,  Dorothy,  166. 
Timothy,  166. 
Gavltt,  Capt.  Joseph,  30,  35. 
Ga3'er,  WiJham,  28 1. 
George  II,  357. 
111,30. 
George,  John,  318. 
Germantown,  Battle  of,  377. 
Pa.,  347,  352. 
Gerrish,  Elizabeth,  231. 

Wilham,  13,  234. 
Gibbs,  Abigail  (228),  373,  374,  380,  3S8, 
389- 
Benjamin,  387. 
Bethia,  379,  380. 
Cornelius,  380. 
Ebenezer,  3S0. 
Edward,  361. 
Jabez,  380. 

Joanna  (237),  375,  387,  388. 
Job,  379. 
John,  373,  379. 
Mary,  379. 
Samuel,  372,  379. 
Sarah,  379,  380. 


Gibbs, Thomas  (232),  378,  379,  383. 

Thomas  (233),  372,  375,  379,  380, 

383. 
Thomas,  3S0. 
Warren,  3S0. 
Gibbon,  Nicholas,  366. 

Thomas,  S5. 
Giddings,  George,  256. 
Gilbert,  Abigail,  411. 
Dorothy,  26. 
Sir  Humphrey,  88. 
John,  115,  390. 
Matthew,  169. 
Samuel,  411. 
Gilead,  Conn.,  410. 
Gilman,  Abigail,  192,  239,  277. 
Alice,  191, 192, 225,  236. 
Alice  Ives,  225,  226. 
Anna  Park,  225. 
.\rthur,  1S6,  200,  209,  210,  213— 

215,  218,  224,  225. 
Bartholomew,  197. 
Benjamin   Ives    (135),  201-21 1, 
214,  255,  276,    286,288,  311, 
346,  394- 
Benjamin    Ives,  204,    208,   2lo, 

211,  215,  217,  226. 
Bertha  De  La  Vergne,  225. 
Bett)',  227. 
Beverly  Hale,  225. 
Chandler  Robbins,  199,207—211, 

215,286. 
Charles  Winthrop,  208,  225. 
Daniel  Coit,  1*92,  195,  197,  278. 
Daniel,  278. 
Deborah,  192. 
Dorothy,  225. 
Edith,  226. 

Edith  Lippincott,  225,  226. 
Edward,  186. 
Edward  (130),  105,  1S6-190,  22S, 

237,  239,  330,  394. 
Edward,  r86,  1S9,  iqi,  227,  239. 
Elizabeth   (158),   232,   253,    254, 

264,  26S-270,  276,  277. 
Elizabeth,  186,  192,  196. 
Elizabeth  Bethune,  225. 
Elizabeth  Hale,  20S,  210,  211. 
Emily  Hoffman,  44,  226. 
Frances  Paxson,  225. 
Geoffrey,  186. 
Grace,  224. 
Harold  Drinker,  225. 
Helen  Abia,  44,  225. 
Helen  Ives,  225. 
James,  192. 

Jane  Robbins,  208,  210. 
Joaima,  192,  277,  280. 
Joannah,  196. 

John  (131),  105,  188-193,  ^°^' 
227,  228,  231,  232,  237,  266, 
275,  280,311,325. 
John  (161),  191-193,  195,  199, 
200,  232,  264,  266,  267,  275- 
278,  280. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


449 


Oilman,  John,  i86, 187,  191,  194,195,198, 
200,  277,  278. 
Jonathan,  194. 
Jone,  186. 
Joseph  (134),  197-206,  255,  2S8, 

394- 
Joseph,  208-210,  292. 
Josiah,  195,   197,    199,   200,  201, 

253. 
Juha  Robbins,   225. 
katherine,    186,    187,    191,    192, 

227. 
Lawrence,  1S6,  187. 
Lucretia,  257,  258,  260. 
Lydia,  1S9,  192,  227. 
Mary  (142),  192,  194,  195,  237- 

239,  243,  276,  277. 
Mary,  189,  227,  27S,  394. 
Mary  Elizabeth,  226. 
Moses,  188-191. 
Nathaniel,  195,  199,  278. 
Nathaniel  Ladd,  192. 
Nicholas    (132),    190-196,    231, 
232,  238,  240,  241,    265,    277, 
278. 
Nicholas  (133),  192-198,241,255. 
Nicholas,  197,  199,  200,  203,278. 
Peter,  195,  269,  275-277, 287,  311, 

325. 
Mrs.  Peter  (182),  206. 
Rebecca  Ives,  208,  210. 
Robbins,  225. 
Robert,  186,  187,  277. 
Robert  Hale,  208-212,  217. 
Rose,  186. 
Rose  Rysse,  225. 
Samuel,  187,  192,  195,  197,   227, 

27S. 
Samuel  Passon,  225. 
Sarah,  192,    196,    197,  200,  227, 

27S. 
Serena  Hale,  226. 
Tabitha,    198,   278. 
Theodore,  205,  225. 
Theophilus,  394. 
Thomas,  200. 
Thomas  Poynton,  218. 
Tristram,  197,  200. 
Trueworthy,  196. 
Virginia,  225. 
William  Charles,  192. 
William  Henderson,  217. 
Winthrop     Sargent     (136),     44, 
185, 186, 192,208-224,282,319, 
344.  346. 
Winthrop  Sargent,  225. 
Oilman  and  Ammidon,  208. 
Son  and  Co.,  218. 
The  Family  in  England,  185-1S7. 
Gillman,  Alexander  W.,  185. 
Gillman  Plain,  187. 
Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  192,  194,  275,  277. 
Gisle,  320. 

Glasgow,  James,  Archbishop  of,  322. 
Glemsford,  Suffolk,  Eng.,  66. 


Glover,  Anna,  315,  319. 
Elizabeth,  304. 
John,  304,  315,  319. 
Nathaniel,  313-315,  317.  3'9' 
The  old  Irishwoman,  263. 
Gloucester  Co.,  N.  J.,  360. 
Gloucester,  Mass.,  251. 
Godfrey,  Captain,  213,  214. 
Godfrey  de  Bouillon,  320. 
Godmanchester,  Huntingdonshire,   Eng., 

146. 
Goffe,  Col.  Edmund,  133. 
Gold,  Anstis,  93. 

Golden  Manor,  Tolland,  Eng.,  182,  184. 
Goldsborough,  Grizzle,  146. 

John,  146. 
Goodrich,  John,  300. 
Goodspeed,  Benjamin,  314. 
Mary,  313. 
Roger,  313. 
Goodyear,  Stephen,  305. 
Goodwin,  Francis  LeBaron,  288. 
Lydia,  288. 
Nathaniel,  28  8. 
Rev.  Thomas,  64. 

Goonn, ,  401 . 

Jayes,  401. 
Gordon,  Nicholas,  194. 
Gorges,  Sir  Ferdinando,  227,  228, .391. 

Gorton, ,  62-64. 

Anne,  88. 
Mary,  52. 
Samuel,  52. 
Goshen,  Chester  Co.,  Pa.,  339,  340,  349, 

350. 
Gould,  Mary,  72,  83. 

William  M.; 
Goulding,  Capt.,  54. 
Graham,  Benjamin, 
Elizabeth, 
Henry  K.,  226. 
Henry  (90),  155-159. 
Jennie  Brent,  226. 
John,  159. 
Joseph,  159. 
Mary,  159. 
Ranald,  159. 
Rebecca,  159. 
Sarah  (86),  155,  161. 
Susanna,  156,  159. 
Grammar  School  of  Beverly,  266. 

Exeter,  267. 
Grant,  Ann,  366. 

Grantham,  Lincolnshire,  Eng.,  66. 
Grassy  Hill  (Lyme),  156. 
Graves,  George,  114. 
John,  301. 
Sarah,  114. 
Samuel,  412. 
Gravesend,  Eng.,  1S7,  347. 
Gray,  Edward,  90. 

Samuel,  135,  310. 
Thomas,  90,  383. 
Graysbury,  Benjamin,  360. 
Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  345. 


,286. 


159. 


Great  Horningsheath,  Suffolk,  Eng.,  135, 

136,    137,  139. 
Great  Swamp  Fight,  17,  49,  53,  71,  74. 

160, 161,  233,  260,  316,419. 
Green,   Elizabeth,  394. 
Henry,  394. 

John,  52,  83,  90,  132,  141. 
Pardon,  35,  42. 
Samuel,  409. 
William,  383. 
Green   Dragon   Tavern,   Boston,  Mass., 

409. 
Greenland,  N.  H.,  232. 
Greenleaf,  Daniel,  236. 

Edmund    (140-A),    16,    232- 

235,  239,  246,  249,  250. 
Elizabeth,  16,  231,  235,  239. 
Enoch,  235. 
James,  235. 
John,  234,  236. 
Judith    (140,    147),    230-235, 
242,  243,  249-251,261,  264. 
Maiy,  236. 
Mr.,  17. 
Nathaniel,  235. 
Samuel,  235. 
Sarah,  234,  235. 
Stephen,  16,231,234-236,246, 

249. 
Tristram,  236. 
Greenman,  Content,  86. 
Greenwich,  Conn.,  168. 
Eng.,  380. 
N.  J.,  363,364. 
Greenwood  Cemetery,  N.  Y.,  210,  224, 

244. 
Gridley,  Richard,  412. 
GrifSn,    \  Anna,  141. 
GrilEng,  /Edward,  162. 

Edward  Dorr,  122,  165,  166. 
Elizabeth,  166. 

George  (103),   121,  164-166. 
George,    36,     122,    123,    166, 

176. 
Hannah,  163. 
Hezekiah,  163. 
Irene,  164. 

Jasper  (100),  162,  163,  169. 
Jasper   (loi),    162,  163,    169, 

171. 
Jasper,  163. 
John,  162. 
Joseph,  163. 
Josiah,  165,  166. 
Lemuel   (102),  163—166,  171, 

176. 
Lemuel,  164. 
Livia,  166. 
Lucy,  166. 
Mary,  166. 
Nathan,  163. 
Phoebe  (72),  34,  36,  39,  120- 

124,  166. 
Phoebe,  165. 
Robert,  163,  366. 


450 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Griffin,    Ruth,  163. 
Sarah,  163. 
Susanna,  163,  169. 
Grigsby,  Lincolnshire,  59,  65. 
Grimes,  Susanna,  98. 
Griswold,  Anna,  180. 

Charles  C,  180. 

Deborah,  182. 

Edward,  177,  178,  180. 

Elizabeth,  180,  182. 

George  (123),  177,  178,  184. 

George,  235,  277,  280,  282. 

John,  177,  180-182, 

Lois,  121. 

Mary  (118),  164,  165,  175,  182. 

Matthew  (124),  126,  153.  155, 
160,  170,  177-184. 

Matthew  (125),  126,  127,  135, 
175,  1S0-182. 

Matthew,  181,  182. 

Patience,  182. 

Phoebe,  182. 

Richard,  117. 

Samuel,  182. 

Sarah,  iSo,  182. 

Thomas,  177,  iSo,  182. 

Ursula,  124. 
Groton,  Conn.,  24,  35,  396. 

Mass.,  410. 
Guilford,    Conn.,    100,    115,    116,    2S7, 

301. 
Guildhall,  Exeter,  402. 
Gueldres,  Marie  de,  322. 
Guines,  Count  of,  321. 
Gull,  Wilham,  300. 
Gunnison,  Mrs.,  331. 

Haddam,  Conn.,  17,  146. 

Haddonfield  Monthly  Meeting,  339,  342, 

350^354,  355^359- 
Haddonfield,  N.  J.,  261,  339,  340,  354, 

359^  360. 
Hadley,  Mass.,  300. 
Haight,  Phoebe,  167. 
Haines,  Abigail,  350. 

Ann,*348. 

Caleb,  349,  350. 

Carhsle,  359. 

Esther,  349,  350. 

Hannah,  350. 

Isaac,  349,  350. 

John  (200),   337,  347-349'   35^^ 
354.358- 

John,  349,  370. 

Jonathan,  349,  358. 

Joseph,  347,  348. 

Joshua,  350. 

Josiah,  349,  350. 

Martha  Burr,  359. 

^^^Y  (195),  337-33%  349'  3"^°' 
354- 

l^ary.  348'359- 
Phebe,  350. 

Rebecca,  349,  350,  358,  359. 

Reuben,  347. 


Haines,  Richard  (200-A),  336,  347,  348, 

35i'352,359- 

Richard,  339,  34S,  349.  358,  359. 

Thomas,  336,  348. 

WiUiam,  348,  349. 
Hale,  Dr.,  196. 
Edna,  243. 
Elizabeth    (151),     197,    198,    252- 

255>  270,  277. 
Elizabeth,  195. 
George,  138. 
Henry,  266,  276. 
James,  265. 
Joanna,  261,  265. 
John  (156),  16,  191,  199,  231—233, 

261,  266,  274. 
John,  no,  233,  265. 
Mary,  244,  261. 
Mr.,  20I. 
Nathan,  265. 
Rebecca,  265,  266,  270. 
Richard,  no,  265. 
Robert  (156-A),  260-262. 

Robert  (157),   192,  199,  232,    262, 

264-267,  274,  276. 
Robert    (158),   199,   232,    253-255, 

262,  264,  266-270,  276,  277. 
Samuel,  261,  265. 
Thomas,  233,  243,  244. 
Zachary,  261. 

Hale  Burial  Plot,  266,  270. 

Col.'s  Garden,  269. 
Haliberton,  Katherine,  323. 
Halifax,  N.  S.,  254.  286. 
Hall.  Deliverance,  100. 

John,  222,  265,  273,  302. 
Mary,  302. 
Nathaniel,  98. 
Samuel,  317. 
Hall's  Purchase,  73,  74. 
Hallum,  John,  26. 
Halstead,  Gilman  and  Co.,  218. 
Hamburg,  Conn.,  164. 
Hamby,  Catherine,  63,  72. 
Councillor,  63. 

Hammond,   ,   375. 

Jane,  141. 

Lawrence,  140,  141, 146,  150. 
Hampshire  Money,  197. 
Hampstead,  N.  H.,  244. 
Hampton,  John,  355. 

Joseph,  355,  356. 
Hampton.  N.  H.,  58,  190,  194,  235,  251, 

^80,393,394,416,419. 
Hampton  River,  393. 
Hancock,  EHanor,  151. 
John,  31. 

Mary  (204),  350,  356-359,  362. 
Mary,  358. 
Mr.,  197. 
Timothy,  3^7. 

Harbottle, ^,  176. 

Dorothy  (121),  174,  176,  177. 
Harlem  Heights,  31. 
Harlock,  Thomas,  392. 


Harneis, ,  58. 

Harriman,  John,  304. 
Harris,  John,  164. 

Toleration,  92. 
William,  92,  iii,  132. 
Harris  litigation,  91. 
Harrud,  John,  91. 
Hart,  Elizabeth,  258. 

Louise  Edgerton,  124. 
Mortimer  Edgerton,  124. 
Thomas,  86,  256. 
Hartford,  Conn.,  19,  32,  45—50,  77,  79, 
95,  113-116,   124,  153,   154,   15S,   159, 
169,  176,  179,  245,  300,  305,  312. 
Hartford  Convention,  32. 
Hartwell,  George,  404. 
Harwich,  Cape  Cod,  318. 
Eng.,  81,82,  86. 
Harwood,  Henry,  260. 
Harvey,  Jane  (203),  353-356. 

Peter,  355. 
Haskett,  Elias,  259. 

Elizabeth  (154),  252,  253,  257- 

260. 
Hannah,  259,  260. 
Martha,  258-260. 
Mary,  259,  260. 
Sarah,  259,  260. 
Stephen  (155),  25S-260. 
Stephen,  260. 
Hatch,  Nathaniel,  398. 

Samuel,  399. 
Hater,  Mr.,  144. 
Hatfield.  Mass.,  420. 
Hathaway,  Deborah,  375. 

Sarah,  265. 
Hatherdean  in  Weghill,  Eng.,  4. 
Hathorne,  Capt.,  142. 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  234,  243,  244,  246,  249, 

278,  393'  407- 
Haviland,  William,  79. 
Havre  de  Grace,  212. 
Hawes,  Rose,  186. 
Hawkins,  Mary,  411. 

Wilham,  80,81. 
Hawkshurst,  Sarah,  210. 
Hawley,  Dorothy,  177. 
Elias  S.,  177. 
Elizabeth  (117),  174,  175,   177, 

1S2. 
Joseph,  177. 
Thomas    (121),    174,    176,    177, 

290. 
Thomas,  176,  177. 
Hay,  Charles,  254. 
Haye,  Robert,  Lord  of,  321. 
Hayes,  Thomasine,  136,  137,  138. 
Haylanding,  349. 
Haynes,  Governor,  113,  114. 

Sarah,  24. 
Hayward,  Judith,  421. 
Hazard,  Martha,  95. 
Heath,   Attorney-General,  87. 

Isaac,  293. 
Heathe,  William,  370. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


451 


Hebron,  Conn.,  376,  377,  396-400,  409, 

410,  420. 
Hebron  Graveyard,  410. 
Hebuterne,  Beatrice,  Lady  of,  321. 
Heckwelder,  Rev.  John,  205. 
Hell  Gate,  63. 
Helme,  Christopher,  58. 

Mercy,  78. 

Rouse,  78. 
Hemenway  (Hemingway),  Samuel,  306. 
Hempstead,  Joshua,  127. 
Hempstead,  L.  I.,  79,  127,  128. 
Henbury,  Gloucestershire,  Eng.,  402, 403. 
Henchman,  Bridget,  290,  292. 
Daniel,  54,  132. 
Thomas,  291. 
Henri  IV,  319. 
Henry  IH,  186. 
Henry  VII,  185. 

Henry  VIII,  4,  6,  9,  147,  400,  401. 
Henstredge,  Somerset,  Eng.,  259. 
Heritage,  Benjamin,  360. 
Joseph,  360. 
Richard,  358,  359. 
Herring     Pond      (Commassakunkanet), 

385,     386. 

Hertford,  Earl  of,  4. 
Hertford,  Eng.,  294. 
Hersey,  Elizabeth,  189. 

William,  189. 
Heskins,  Mr.  Samuel,  6,  7. 
Hessett,  Suffolk,  Eng.,  136,  139. 
Hewens,  Jacob,  303. 
Hewes,  John,  397. 

Joshua,  298. 
Heyhoe,  222,  223. 
Heyhoe,  Frances,  187. 
Hibbert,  Mary,  118. 
Hickman,  Anthony,  148. 
Hicks,  Elizabeth,  79. 
Hannah,  79. 
John,  79,  109. 
Joshua,  259. 
Robert.  79. 
Thomas,  79,  80. 
Hill,  Ignatius,  235. 
James,  235. 
Jane,  225. 
Jonathan,  7,  98. 
Mary,  98. 
Ralph,  351. 
Richard,  148. 
Robert  Carmer,  225. 
Thomas,  272. 
William,  225,  234,  235. 
Hillard,  Martha,  253. 
Hillman,  Joab,  360. 
Hillsdown  Plantations,  N.  J.,  351. 
Hilton,  Col.,  193. 

Deborah,  239. 
Edward,  227,  229,  239. 
William,  228,  235. 
Winthrop,  239,  275. 
Hinckley,  Abigail,  316,  317. 
Admire,  317. 


Hinckley,  Bathshua,  313,  317. 
Ebenezer,  317,  318. 
Experience,  317. 
Hannah,  317. 
John,  314,  317- 
Mary  (Marie),  313,  317. 
Mehitable,  317. 
Meletiah,  317. 
Mercy    (181),    308-311,     317, 

3^5- 
Reliance,  315,  318. 
Samuel  (184),  312-314. 
Samuel,  313,  317. 
Sarah,  313,  317,  387. 
Susannah,  313. 
Thankful,  316,  318,  392. 
Thomas  (185),  54, 132, 308-309, 

313-319.  372,  387,  392. 
Thomas,  313,  317. 
Hinckley's  Law,  317. 
Hinds,    Experience,  421. 

John,  421. 
Hingham,  Mass.,  126,  187-189,  232.  307, 

308,  330,  382. 
Hingham,  Norfolk,  Eng.,  186,  187,  189, 

330- 
Hiscox,  William,  82,  83. 
Hitchcock,  Gen.,  31,  32. 
Hittesleigh,  Devon,  Eng.,  151. 
Hobbs,  Mary,  243,  394. 

Morris  (Maurice),  394. 
Hodges,  Mary,  90. 
Hodgson,  Robert,  83. 
Hoffman,  Martin,  210,  217,  288. 
Mrs.  Martin,  208. 
Serena,  210. 
Hoge,  Dr.,  220. 
Hog  Island,  54. 
Holden,   Frances,  81. 

Francis  A.,  88. 
Randall,  82,  86,  132. 
Holder,  Christopher,  83. 
Holdridge,  Sarah  A.  I.,  33. 
Holmes,  Catherine,  81. 
Gershom,  398. 
John,  81. 

Jonathan,  93,  109. 
Lydia,  93. 
Martha,  109. 
Mary,  26. 
Obadiah,  82. 
Peleg,  398. 
Holt,  James,  292. 

Timothy,  292. 
William,  168. 
Honduras,  325. 

Honour,  Alice  (180),  307-309,  317. 
Hoo,  Gualther,  136,  139. 
Jeremy,  139. 
Joane,  136,  139. 
John,  139. 
John  at,  139. 
John  of,  139. 
Robert,  139. 
Hooke,  Florence,  251. 


Hooke,  Horace,  251, 

Hooker,  Rev.  Thomas,  113,  114,  124,168 

Hopkins,   ,  177. 

Edward,  143. 
Ezek,  95. 
Governor,  167. 
Hopkinton,  R.  I.,  30,  75,  76. 
Hopper,  Richard,  404. 

Robert,  329. 
Hopson,  John,  116. 
Home,  Joan  (201),  352,  353-356. 
Horner,   Bartholomew,  361,  362. 
Deliverance,  360,  361. 
Hannah  (205),  358-363. 
Isaac  (207),  258-260,  361-363. 
Isaac,  361,  362. 
Jacob,  361,  362. 
Rachel,  361,  362. 
Horsham,  Sussex  Co.,  Eng.,  127. 
Hoskins,  Mary  (244),  396-398,  410. 
Hotchkiss,  Joshua,  304. 
Houghton,  Henry  O.,  225. 
Rosamond,  225. 
Stella,  224. 
Virginia,  225. 
Hovey,  Daniel,  296. 

James,  293,  296. 
Nathaniel,  301. 
How,  Col.  Samuel,  16. 
Howard,  Mary,  72. 
Howd,  John,  301. 

Howe, ,  278. 

Mr.,  144. 
Nancy,  121. 
Howell,  David,  288. 

Mary  Douglas,  288. 
Mordecai,  362. 
Howland,  Hannah,  375. 
John,  31.' 

Hoyt, ,  408. 

Hubbard,  Samuel,  86. 

Thankful,  287. 
Hudson  River,  31,  222. 
Hugg,  Mercy,  337,  338. 
Huglett,  Alice,  148. 
Huidekoper,  Rebecca  Calhoiin,  44. 
Huit,  Ephraim,  158. 
Hull,  Mass.,  232,  307-309. 
Hull,  Joseph,  313. 
Hume,   Sir  Patrick,  87. 
Humphreys,  Joshua,  362. 
Hunt,  Bartholomew,  97. 

Naomi,  97. 
Hunt  Draper,  Ann  (80),  131,  136-138. 
Hunting  Swamp  Farm,  g6. 
Huntley,  Moses,  170,  171,  173. 
Huntington,  Frances,  166. 

Joseph,  166. 
Hurley,  Henry,  368. 
Sarah,  368. 
Hurste,  Susan,  401. 

Wilham,  401. 
Hussey,  Christopher,  246. 

Hutchins, ,  397. 

Hutchings,  John,  397. 


452 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Hutchinson,  Alice,  56. 

Anne  (17),  59-64.,  68,  79,  81, 
101,    104,    115,    172,  312. 
Anne,  58,  64. 
Bridget  (15),  50-53,  55,  58, 

64,  72,  lOI. 
Catherine,  64. 
Christopher,  56,  57. 
Edward,  57,  59,  66. 
Edward,  55,  58,  59,  61,  63, 

64,  72- 
Ehaliim,  58. 
Elizabeth,  64. 
Esther,  58. 
Faith,  64. 
Francis,  62-64. 
John,  56,  57. 
John,  58,  66. 
Margaret,  56. 
Mary,  57,  58. 
Richard,  58,  61,  64. 
Samuel,  53,  58,  64. 
Susanna,   57-59,  63,  64,  71, 

172. 
Theophilus,  57. 
Thomas,  55,  56,  64. 
William  (17),  50,  51,  56-54, 
66,68,  69,72, 104, 172,  312. 
William,  56,  64. 
Zuryell,  64. 

The  Family  in  England,  56- 
58. 
Hyde,  Elizabeth  (69),  116-118,  I2i,  126, 
135,181. 
Hester,  125. 
Jabez,  126. 
John,  126. 
Phoebe  (125),  126,  135,  175,  iSo- 

182. 
Samuel  (75),   116,  117,  125,  126, 

180,  181. 
Samuel,  126. 
Sarah,  126. 
Thomas,  126. 
William  (74),  124,  125. 
William,  126. 

Ickworth,  Suffolk,  Eng.,  135. 
Illinois  College,  217. 
Ilsley,  Joseph,  242. 

William,  242. 
Independence  Hall,  Philadelphia,  359. 
Indian  Fort,  74. 
Indians,  47, 48,  49, 63,  64,  92,  99, 105,  385, 

392,405-420. 
Indian  War  of  1682,  273. 

of  1 79 1,  2c6,  207. 
Ingalls,  Edmund,  293. 
Elizabeth,  293. 
Faith,  408. 
IngersoU,  Bathshua,  251. 

John,  115. 
Inglis,  Marion  (187),  323,  324. 

Thomas,  323. 
Ingraham,  Mary,  94. 


Ingram,  Samuel,  116. 
Inskeep,  Agnes,  341. 
Ipplepen,  Devon,  Eng.,  401. 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  9,  10,  1S7-196,  236,  238, 
242,  252,  259,  261,  273,  274, 
279,   291-296,    330,  415-417. 
River,  292. 
Suffolk,  Eng.,  63,  233,  234. 

Irvin, ,  359. 

Isham  (Isum),  Joseph,  375. 
Ives,  Abigail,  253,  257. 

Ann,  253. 

Benjamin  (150),  252-254,  259,  270. 

Benjamin  (151),  197,  199,  253-255, 
268,  270. 

Benjamin,  255. 

Deborah,  252. 

Ehzabcth,  200-201,  252,  253. 

John,  252. 

Joseph,  252,  253. 

Margaret,  254. 

Martha,  253. 

Mary,  253. 

Rebecca  (134),  197-199,  206,  255, 
^  28S. 

Robert  Hale,  200,  205,  216,  255. 

Samuel,  253. 

Thomas  (149),  251,  252,  257,  259. 

Thomas,  201,  252,  257. 

Thomas  PoyntoDj  216. 

Jackson,  Edward,  138. 

President,  394. 

Xenia,  284. 
Jacksonville,  HI.,  213,  214,  345,  347. 
Jacobs,  Henry,  357. 
Jacob,  Richard,  261. 
Jacques,  Ruth,  244. 
Jamaica,  308.       fi^.^'^'f^ 
James    I,  140,  306. 

II,  105,237,315,322. 

rv,  322. 

V,  322. 
James,  EHzabeth,  i86. 
Mary,  141. 
PhiHp,  330. 
Jamestown,  R.  I.,  73,  loi. 

Va.,  46. 
Jasper,  Edward,  8. 
Jcfferay,  Mary,  90. 

Priscilla,  72. 
Sarah,  83. 
William,  72,  83. 
Jefferson,  Thomas,  32. 
Jenkins,  Richard,  93. 

Jennings, ,  367. 

Jewett,  David,  166. 
Joseph,  118. 
Mr.,  17,  118. 
Nathan,  iiS. 
Nathan  Hibbcrt,  166. 
William,  166. 
Johnson,  Abigail,  301. 

Captain,  172,  308. 
Dorcas,  118. 


Johnson,  Edward,  10. 

Frances,  331: 

Henry,  362. 

Isaac,  67. 

James,  407. 

Jeremiah,  300. 

John,  153,293,301 

Mary,  369. 

Robert,  369. 

Ruth,  284. 

Stephen,  121. 

William,  300. 

Zebediah,  284. 
Johnston,  Abraham,  341. 

John  Taylor,  222. 
Jones,  Sarah,  116. 

Thomas,  228. 
Jordan,  Hannah,  419, 
Joseph  Lord  house,  37,  42. 
Juan  Fernandez,  33. 
Juatt,  Elizabeth,  381. 
Jurdaine,  Ignatius,  234. 
Sarah,  234. 

Kaign,  Joseph,  342. 
Keddcr,  Mary,  421. 
Kcech,  George,  109. 

Mary,  109. 
Keep,  Rev.  John,  286. 
Keir,  Lord,  322. 
Keith,  Samuel,  375. 

Susanna,  37<;^. 
Kellogg,  Esther,  166. 
Kember,  Joan,  245. 

Robert,  245. 
Kemble,  Vespasian,  360. 
Kempston,  Eng.,  85,  87. 
Kenilworth,  Eng.,  177, 178,  180. 
Kenney,  Penelope,  194. 
Kent,  Conn.,  273,  284,  285,  343,    375, 

376,377,  378,  398^  399' 410- 
Trainband,  376. 
Kent,    John,  239,  240,  243. 
Sarah  (143),  195,  196. 
Thomas,  8. 
Kerridge,  Rose,  89. 

Thomas,  402. 
Ketle,  Jonas,  354,  356. 
Killingworth  (New    Haven),  Conn.,  19, 

20,  158,  178. 
Kimball,  Martha,  419. 
King,  David,  66. 
Rufus,  32. 
King  Philip,  53,  54. 
King's  Ferry  (Stony  Point),  32. 

Highway  (Bridpeboro),  N.  J.,  337. 
Province  (King's  County),  54,  91. 
Kingston,  Can.,  411. 
N.H.,  196. 
Pa.,  44- 

R.  I.,  73,  74,  So,  90,  97. 
Kingsweare,  Eng.,  226,  227,  228. 
Kinsey,  Edmund,  356. 
EHzabeth,  356. 
Mary,  356. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


453 


Kirby,  Charles  Noyes,  43. 
Daniel  Noyes,  43. 
Edmund  Burgis,  43. 
Eliab  Burgis,  43. 
Elisha,  43. 
Julian  Noyes,  43. 
Mrs.,  39,  42,  43,  166. 
Robert  Spencer,  43. 
Winchester  Scott,  43. 
Kirkbie,  Edward,  57. 
Kirtland,  John,  163. 
Lydia,  163. 
Sarah,  127,  134. 
Kitchell,  Joanna,  16S. 
Robert,  168. 
Kittery,  Me.,  226-229,  268,  33 1 . 
Knapp,  Ann,  393. 

William,  393. 
Knight,  Edmund,  57. 
John,  16,  251. 
Joseph,  251. 
Richard,  92. 
Knott,  George,  384. 
Knox,  John,  323. 

Laceby,  Lincolnshire,  Eng.,  58. 
Ladd,  Nathaniel,  237. 
Lake  Champlain,  302. 
Saltonstall,  305. 
Lamb,  John,  176. 

Thomas,  176. 
Lamprey  River,  188. 
Lancaster,  Mass.,  399,  421. 
Land  Bank,  268,  269. 

of  Nod,  142. 
Langdon,  Elizabeth  (155),  258-260. 
Langly,  Richard,  390. 
Large,  John,  126. 

WiUiara,  126. 
Larkin,  John,  261. 
Larrabee,  Elizabeth,  126,  127. 

Greenfield,  126,  127,  128. 
John,  126,  127. 
Joseph,  126,  127. 
Sarah,  126,  127. 
Latham,  Ann,  88. 
Gary,  112. 
Ellen,  88. 
Elizabeth,  87,  88. 
Frances    (32 ),    74,    81,    82,    85, 

86,  88,  101,  105. 
Henry,  88. 
John, 88. 
Katherine,  88. 
Lewis,  85-S8. 
Sarah,  88. 
Simon,  87. 
Sir  Thomas,  87. 
Ursula,  87. 
Winnifred,  87. 
Lathrop,  Bethia,  314. 
Latimer,     "j  ChrBtopher  (193),  324-327, 
Lattimore,  |-      3^9^3^- 
Lattimer,    J  Elizabeth    (192),    324,    326, 
327,  33°- 


Latimer,   Jeanc,  330. 
Joan,  329. 
Mrs..  205. 
Rebecca,  24. 
Susanna,   330. 
Laud,  Archbishop,  167,  307. 
Laurel  Hill,  Pa.,  344. 
Laurenceburg,  Ind.,  212. 
Law,  Daniel,  325. 

Henry  Herbert,  225. 
Theodore  Gilman,  225. 
Walter  W..  225. 
Lawson,  Christopher,  58. 
Lawton,  Ann,  96,  97,  98. 
Daniel,  96,  97. 
Elizabeth,  96-98. 
George,  83,95,  97. 
Isaac  (47),  93,  94,  96-98,  100. 
Isaac,  97,  98. 
Isabel,  98. 
Job,  97,  98. 
John,  97,  98. 
Mary,  26,  98. 
Ruth,  98. 

Sarah  (39),  93,  94,  98,  102. 
Sarah,  96,  97,  loi. 

Thomas  (46),  83,  95-97, 100, 101. 
Thomas,  97,  98. 
Lay,  Abigail,  160,  161. 
Edward,  161. 
Elizabeth,  160,  161. 
James,  i6o. 

Jane  (87),  119,  157,  161. 
Joanna,  161. 
John  (93),  156. 

John  (94),  157,  160,  171,  180. 
John,  156,  160,  161. 
Joseph,  161. 
Marah,  161. 
Mary,  161. 
Peter,    160. 
Phoebe,  160. 
Rebeckah,  161. 
Robert,  161. 
Sarah,  160,  161,  17' 
Susanna,  160- 
Lea,  Mrs.,  107. 
Leach,  Master,  198. 
Leasingham,  Eng.,  56. 
Leathersellers,  297. 
Leavitt,  \  John,  188. 
Levet,     /Moses,  194,  237,  238. 
Ralph,  58. 
Thomas,  58. 
Lebanon,  Conn.,  30,  125,  127,  287,  375, 
388,  389,  399. 
Miss.,  210. 
Le  Baron,  EHzabeth,  286. 
Lazarus,  286. 
Lydia,  288. 
Ledstone,  Yorkshire,  Eng.,  138. 
Lee,  Charles,  31. 

Elizabeth,  125,  126,  157,  169,  182. 
Francis,  358,  360. 


Lee,  Hannah,  182. 
James,  121. 

Jane  (75),  116,  117,  125,  126,  181. 
Jane,  126,  127. 

Mary,  116,  171,  358,  360,  362. 
Phoebe,  126,  127,  155,  156. 
Richard,  253. 
Sarah,  133,  134,  161. 
Stephen,  118. 

Thomas    (76),   107,   116,   n8,   125- 
128,  133,  134,  155,  169,  iSi,  182, 
324. 
Thomas,   116,    118,    126,   127,    133, 
134,  155,  169,  173,  180-182. 
Lee,  Mass.,  217,  224. 
Leete,  Gov.,  305. 
Lefevre,  Hippolite,  367,  36S. 
Leffingwell,  Thomas,  179,  396,  397. 

Legg, ,328. 

Leggett,  Abraham,  345. 

Catherine  Wylcy,  343,  345,  346. 
Sarah  Wyley,  214. 
Leicester,  Mass.,  310,  409,  414. 
Lenton,  Agnes,  65. 
John,  65. 
Lettice,  Dorothy,  90. 
Leverett,  John,  144. 
Leverich,  Mr.  371,  385. 
Lew,  Col.  Joseph  H.,  35. 

Lewis, ,  298. 

Abigail  (Hannah),  325. 
Ezekiel,  325. 
Isabella,  138. 
Job,  325. 
John,  312. 
Mary,  161. 
Richard,  138. 
Lexington,  Kentucky,  342. 

Mass.,  282,  283,  284. 
Lidgett,  Charles,  132. 
"Life  on  the  Lakes,"  211. 
Lillibridge,  Capt.  Robert,  102. 
Lincoln,  Abraham,  216,  220. 

Earl  of,  67. 
Lincoln,  Eng.,  56. 

Mayor  of,  56. 
Sheriff  of,  56,  65. 
Lippincott,  Abia  Swift  (136),  44,  186,  211- 

^^6' 333^  343' 344.  346,  370. 
Abigail,  335,  338,  341. 
Abraham  Leggett,  346. 
Alexander  Lockwood,  346. 
Amos,  341. 
Aquila,  340,  341,361. 
Barzillai  (198),  341,  343,  361, 

364,  378. 
Barzillai,  340. 
Caleb,  339,  340,  360. 
Charles  Ellct,  342,  343,  346. 
Elizabeth  Todd,  346. 
Esther,  338. 
Ezekiel,  360. 
Freedom  (194),  334-337,  348. 

35o»353- 
Freedom,  337. 


454 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Lippincott,  George  Allen,  347. 
Grace,  340. 
Increase,  335. 
Isaac,  338,  354. 
Jacob,  334,  335. 
John  (197),  338-341,361. 
John,  333,  335,  336,  341,  361. 
Josiah,  343. 
Judith,  337. 
Julian  Post,  347. 
Martha,  340. 
Mary,  337,  338,  340. 
Mary  Jane,  346. 
Mercy,  338. 
Nathaniel  (196),  338-340,  354, 

360,  361. 
Patience,  338. 
Phoebe,  338. 
Preserved,  334,  335. 
Remembrance,  333,  335,  336. 
Restore,  333,  335. 
Richard  (194-A),  333-335- 
Richard,  335,  336. 
Samuel,  336,  337,  342-344. 
Sarah,  340,  343. 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  347. 
Sarah  Louise,  346. 
Seth,  340. 
Thomas  (195),  337-340.  349. 

3S°.  354- 
Thomas  (199),  211,  213,   214, 

343'  347- 
Thomas,  338,  341,  361. 
Thomas   Winthrop,   347. 
Wallace,  340. 
William  Leggett,  346. 
Lippincott  and  Co.,  345. 
Lippitt,  Col.  Christopher,  28,  31,  32. 
Little,  Benjamin,  244. 
Daniel,  244. 
Ebenezer,  243. 
Enoch,  244. 
George  (145),  241-243,  251,  416, 

417. 
George,  243,  244. 
John,  242. 

Joseph  (146),  192,  239-244,  251. 
Joseph,  243. 
Judith,  243. 
Mary,  250. 
Moses,  242-244,  251. 
Mr.,  197. 
Nathan,  243. 
Sarah(i43),  239,  243. 
Sarah,  242. 
Thomas,  382. 
Tristram,  244. 
Little  Bytham,  Eng.,  232,  233. 
Little  Cambridge,  325. 
Little  Compton,  R.  I.,  89,  100,  310. 
Little  or    East    Shefford,    Berks,    Eng., 

306,  307,  309. 
Little  Ponton,  Eng.,  58. 
Little  Rest,  74,  75. 
Little  River  (Hartford),  159. 


Lloyd,  David,  349. 

Thomas,  349,  364. 
Lock,  \  Alice,  148. 
Lok,    /Anne,  149. 

Catherine,  148. 

Dorothy,  148. 

Edmund,  148. 

Elizabeth,  148-150. 

Francis,  148,  149. 

Hannah,  149,  150. 

Henry,  148. 

Jane,  150. 

Joane,  148. 

John,  148,  149. 

Margaret  (82),  133,134,  141-146, 
150. 

Mary,  149,  150. 

Matthew,  149,  150,  153. 

Matthew,  148. 

Michael,  148. 

Peter,  148. 

Philip,  148. 

Richard,  148. 

Robert,  149. 

Rose,  148. 

Rowland,  149. 

Sarah,  150. 

Susanna,  150. 

Thomas,  147-149. 

Thomas,  149. 

Thomazin,    148. 

The  Family  in  England,  147. 

William  (83),  141,  144,  149,  150, 

IS3- 
Sir  William,  147,  148. 
William,  148, 149. 
Lockport,  N.  Y.,  38. 

Lockwood, ,  112. 

John,  112. 
Locres,  John,  Lord  of,  321. 
Lombard,  Benjamin,  383. 
London,  Eng.,  45,  73,  79,  85,  88,  113,  115, 
1^9.  133.  '59.  '67,  199,  241, 
273.^74.  297.  38°.  415- 
Bow  Lane,  147,  149. 
Bridge,  137. 
Great  Fire,  147,  297. 
Grub  St.,  148. 
Missionary  Society,  47. 
Seething  Lane,  141,  144. 
St.   Botolph's   Lane  (Buttelan), 
129,  130. 
Long,  Deacon,  214. 

Herodias  (28),  77-80. 
Mary,  148,  149. 
Robert,  13. 
Simon,  148. 
Longhorne,  Thomas,  17. 
Long  Meadow,  Mass.,  286. 
Long  Swamp  Farm,  96. 
Lord,  Abigail,  116, 118, 195. 
Amie,  114,  115. 

Ann  (12),  16,  17,  45-50,  113,  115. 
Ann,  121,  I  35. 
Anna,  118. 


Lord,  Benjamin,  116,  135. 
Catherine,  38,  124. 
Daniel,  116,221. 
Deborah,  117. 
Dorothy,  114-116. 
Elizabeth,  117. 
Enoch  (71),  37,  119-121,  124,  157, 

166. 
Enoch,  121. 

Frances  Jane,  42, 122, 124. 
George  de  Forest,  222. 
Hannah,  50. 
Harriet,  38,  42,  120,  122,  123,  124, 

166. 
Hepzibah,  121,  124,  171. 
James,    116. 

Jane,  33,  38,  42,  118,  121,  124. 
John, 113-116, 118. 
Joseph  (72),  34,  36,  121-124. 
Joseph,  116,  124,  171,  317. 
Josephine,  38,  123,  124. 
Julia,  37. 
Julia  Ann,  124. 
Lucy,  124. 
Lydia,  118. 
Lynde,  121. 
Mary,  116,  118,  195. 
Phoebe  Griffin  (7),  34-43,  113,  123, 

124,  162,  166,  225,  226. 
Phoebe,  118. 
Richard    (69),    116-118,    124-126, 

135,179,181. 
Richard  (70),  117,   120,   124,  135, 

157, 182. 
Richard,  47,  113,  114,  119,  121. 
Robert,  114-116,  195. 
Samuel,  116. 
Sarah,  116. 
Stephen  J.,  37. 
Susannah,  117,  417. 
Thomas    (67),    24,    37,    113-115, 

125. 
Thomas,  50,  114-116,  171. 
William  (68),   113-117,   124,  125, 

171. 
William,  116,  121. 
Lord  and  Noyes,  37. 
Lord's  Hill,  114,  117. 
Lord  (Laward)  Seal,  114. 
Lord  Mayor  of  London,  298. 
Loring,  Cousin,  311. 
Josiah,  308. 
Thomas,  308. 
Welthean,  313,  314. 
Lowe,  Daniel,  196. 

Susannah,  196. 
Lowle,  Rebecca,  233. 
Lothrop,  Elijah,  119. 
Harriet,  288. 
Rev.  John,  59,  119,  312. 
Thomas,  288,  314. 
Louisburg,  N.  S.,  182,  254,  268,  269,  270, 

277. 
Louisville,  Kentucky,  208,  210. 
Lovejoy,  Christopher,  414. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


455 


Lovcjoy,  Elijah,  216,  217,  346. 
John,  416,  417. 
Wmiam,4i4. 
Lovejoy  Riot,  215,  216. 
Lovelace,  Governor,  247. 
Loveland,  Charles  Noyes,  44. 
Elijah,  44. 
George,  44. 
Josephine  Noyes,  44. 
Rose  Cracroft,  44. 
Levering,  Thomas,  403. 
LoyaHsts,  249. 
Lucas,  Edward  F.,  33. 
Martha,  33. 
Rosalie  Howe,  33. 
Sarah,  33. 
Susan,  33. 
Ludington,  Arthur  Crosby,  44. 
Charles  H.,  42,  44. 
Charles  Townsend,  44. 
Helen  Oilman,  44. 
James  Elliott,  44. 
Josephine  Noyes,  42,  43, 
Katherine,  44. 
Lewis,  44. 
Mary  Louise,  44. 
Nicholas  Saltus,  44. 
William  Howard,  44. 
Wright  Saltus,  44. 
Ludlowe,  Mr.,  179. 
Lumberland,  N.  Y.,  378. 
Lumbertown,  N.  Y.,  213,  343,  344. 
Lutherans,  384. 
Lyall,  Mary,  133. 

Lyard  St.  Laurence,  Eng.,  182,  183. 
Lyme,  Conn.,  16,  33-37,  41,  43,  115-1 
121-128,  135,  153-179,  181,  ] 
Burying  Ground,  42. 
Church,   37. 
Library,  37,  42. 
Street,  37, 122. 
Train  Band,  117. 
Lyme,  Regis,  Eng.,  235. 
Lynde,  Ann,  135. 

Benjamin,  133,  134,  137. 
Elizabeth    (70),     1 18-120,     i 

138,  157. 

Elizabeth,  133. 

Enoch  (77),  128-131,  13S. 

Enoch,  131,  133. 

Hannah,  133,  135,  182. 

James,  131,  133. 

John,  133. 

Joseph,  133,  135. 

Matthew,  130,  131. 

Nathan,  129. 

Nathaniel  (79),  19,  21,  118,  1 

132-135,  146,  iSi. 
Nathaniel,  135. 
Samuel,  131-133,  135. 
Sarah,  133,  135. 
Simon    (78),    54,    135-137,    1 

240. 
Simon,  133. 
Susannah,  135. 


Lynde,  Willoughby,  135. 

Lynde  Point,  134. 

Lyndon,  Abigail,  94. 

Lynn,  Mass.,  289,  382,  384,  417. 

Lyon,  Samuel,  284. 

Lyons,  William,  394. 

Mackerell,  Michael,  272, 
Macquoit,  Me.,  192. 
Mactier,  Alex.  &  Co.,  212. 
Macy,  Thomas,  246,  247,  278,  280,  392. 
Madison,  James,  32. 
Maine  Missionary  Society,  197. 
Maister,  Anne,  149,  150,  152,  153. 
Magdalen,  152. 
Olave,  152. 
Maiden,  Mass.,  235,  303. 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  162,  174,  331. 

Vt.,  286. 
Manhattan,  98. 
Mann,   John,   410. 

Nathaniel,  410. 
Manning,  Anne,  138. 
Dr.,  267. 
Mary,  259. 
Mannington,  N.  J.,  364,  367,  368. 
Manomett  Pond,  383. 
Marblehead,  Mass.,    162,   252,   324-332, 
Pond  St.  Burial  Ground  on 
the  Hill,  327,  329. 
Marbury,  Anne  (17),  50,  51,  57-66,  68, 
72,  394. 
Anne,  65. 
Anthony,  65,  66. 
Bridget,  66. 

Catherine,  58,  65,  66,  86. 
Daniel,  66. 
Edward,  65. 
Elizabeth,  65,  66. 
Emme,  58,  66. 
Erasmus,  66, 
Francis,  57,  59,  65. 
Francis,  66. 
George,  65. 
Jeremoth,  66. 
John,  66. 
Mary,  65. 
Susan,  65. 
William,  65. 
William,  65. 

The  Family  in  England,  65,  66. 
March,  Hugh,  8. 
Marietta,   O.,    198,   202,   204-211,  286- 

289,  344,  346,  394. 
Marine,  111.,  347. 
Marks,  Esther,  421. 

Hezekiah,  421. 
John,  410,  421. 
Joseph  (255),  409,  419-421. 
Joseph,  421. 

Mary  (252),  398,  409,  410,  420. 
Richard,  420. 
Roger,  419. 
Susanna,  421. 
Marks  Mountain,  420. 


Marlborough,  Eng.,  64,  176,  415,  419. 

Mass.,  410. 
Marlow,  Gregory,  356. 
Marshall,  David,  210. 

Hannah  H.,  210. 
Henry  Perry,  225. 
Henry  Rutgers,  225. 
Serena  Gilman,  226. 
William,  261. 
Marshfield,  Mass.,  382. 
Marsh,  Eleanor,  147. 
Jonathan,  106. 
Susanna,  95. 
Martha's  Vineyard,  95,  no,  316,318,389, 

391. 
Martin,  Capt.,  330. 
Martock,  Somerset,  Eng.,  150. 
Martinique,  W.  I.,  102. 
Marvin  Farms,  122. 
Marvin,  Benjamin,  157. 
Elizabeth,  157. 
Eunice,  121. 
Hepzibah   (71),    119-121,    124, 

157,  166. 
Jemima,  157. 
John  (86),  155-161. 
John,  157. 

Joseph  (87),  119,  122,  157,  161. 
Mary,  11 8,  154,  156. 
Matthew,  121,  153. 
Mehitable,  121,  157. 
Remold  (84),  153-156,  15S,  160. 
Reinold  (85),  118,  154-159,  170, 

175,  179,  180. 
Reinold,  155,  156,  175. 
Robert,  127,  128. 
Samuel  156,  159. 
Sarah,  156,  160,  175. 
Martyn,  Elizabeth,  151. 

John,  15,. 
Masant,  Alice,  229. 
Mashantatat,  92. 
Mason,  Capt.,  47. 

John,  24,  55,  228. 
Major,  48,  179. 
Robert,  230. 
Samuel,  109. 
Masonville,  N.  J.,  351. 
Masters,  Abraham,  112. 
Elizabeth,  112. 
Jane,  no,  iii,  112. 
John  (66-a),  III. 
Lydia  (66),  107,  110-112. 
Nathaniel,  112. 
Sarah,  112. 
Masters  Brook,  11 1, 
Mast  Tree  Riot,  194. 
Mather,  Anna,  121. 

Cotton,  10,  181,  266,  392. 
Deborah,  157. 
Nathaniel,  318. 
Richard,  302,  318. 
Samuel,  121,  157. 
Matlack,  Abigail,  360,  362. 
Amy,  361. 


456 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Matlack,  Anna  (197),  340,  341,  361, 

364. 

Mercer's  Chapel,  147,  148,  149. 

Moody,  Cutting,  243. 

Bathshcba,  360. 

Meredith,  Mary,  148. 

John,  265. 

Benjamin,  360. 

Robert,  147,  148. 

Samuel,  243. 

Ephraim,  360. 

Merrimac,  N.  H.,  174,  273. 

iThomas,  232. 

Esther,  360. 

River,  55,  246,  406,  4] 

I3- 

William,  255. 

George,  358. 

Merton  Abbey,  Surrey,  Eng.,    1 

147-150. 

Mooers,  Samuel,  246. 

Hannah,  360,  361. 

Metcalf,  Elizabeth  (149),  251,  2 

52,  256, 

Moore,  Cornelia  A.,  226. 

Isaac,  360. 

257,  259. 

Elizabeth,  65. 

Jacob,  360. 

Joseph  (152-A),  255,  2 

56,  295, 

William,  277. 

Jane,  359. 

296,  418. 

Moorestown,  Pa.,  354. 

John  (205),  338,  362,  363 

Joseph,  256. 

graveyard,  358. 

John  (206),  340,  35S— 360, 

'36^ 

Mary,  256. 

Moreau,  Abigail,  410. 

363- 

Thomas    (152),    252,     : 

-55-^57, 

Morris,  Isaac,  349. 

Joseph,  350,  359. 

296. 

Morristown,  N.  J.,  32. 

Keziah,  360. 

Methodist  Book  Concern,  288. 

Moreaume,  Isabella  de,  321. 

Lydia,  360. 

Methuen,  Mass.,  262. 

Morgan,  Daniel,  349,  35S. 

Mary,  349,  358,  360. 

Miantonomi,  68. 

Elizabeth,  79. 

Richard,  358. 

Michel,  Susan,  318. 

Morgans  Lolt,  270. 

Sarah,  359,  360,  361. 

Middle  Alton,  111.,  346. 

Morrell,  Isaak,  293. 

Timothy,  359. 

Middleboro,  Mass.,  309. 

Morrice,  Capt.,  47. 

William  (204),  348,  350, 

356- 

East  Precinct,  308-; 

;lo. 

Morrill,  Hannah,  244. 

359,  362. 

Middleborough  (Newtown),  L.  1. 

,99. 

Morris,  John,  304. 

William,  358. 

Middleton, ,  338. 

Morton,  Ephraim,  383. 

Matlack    Burying   Ground    in    Haddon- 

Haimah,  354. 

Joanna,  308. 

field,  358. 

John,  361. 

Nathaniel,  30S. 

Matthews,  Elizabeth,  252. 

Thomas,  354. 

Patience,  383. 

Mattle,  Anna,  290. 

Middletown,  Conn.,  43,  123,  211 

,  396. 

Rev.  Mr.,  295. 

Maverick,  Abigail,  239. 

R.  L,  89,  93. 

Moseley,  Henry  Perkins,  34 . 

Mayhew,  I  Agnes,  390. 
Maow,      J  Alice,  283,390. 

Mifflin,  Gen.,  31. 

Julia  Noyes,  34. 

Milford,  Camden  Co.,  N.  J.,  339 

Mary,  67,  71. 

Bethia,  392. 

Conn.,   19,   118,   154,   I 

55.  "57, 

Richard,  67. 

Edward,  390. 

159,  310. 

Seth  H.,  34. 

Elizabeth,  390. 

Miles,  Mary  E.,  210. 

Moss,  John,  168. 

Experience,  3 16, 3 1 8, 392 

Miller,   Elizabeth,  209,  210. 

Mary,  168. 

Hannah,  392. 

Jane,  210. 

Mott  Haven,  220. 

John,  390,  392. 

John  S.,  208,  210,  211. 

Mottisfont,  Priory  of,  6. 

Jone,  390. 

Samuel,  94. 

Moulton,  John,  393. 

Katherine,  390. 

Millington,  Conn.,  121. 

Mary  J.,  347. 

Martha  (236),  386-388, 

392. 

Mill  River,  1 14. 

Mary,  394. 

Mary,  392. 

Mills,  Sarah,  102,  106. 

Mozley,  Rev.  Thomas,  7. 

Matthew  (238-A),  389,  390. 

Milton,  Til.,  345. 

Mt.  Holly,  N.  J.,  335,  351,361. 

Matthew,  392. 

Kent,  Eng.,  113. 

Mt.  Hope,  R.  I.,  53. 

Susanna,  421. 

Milwaukee,  Wis.,  347. 

Mt.  WoUaston  (Braintree),  Mass.,  60. 

Thomas  (238),  246,  247, 

278, 

Miner,  Mary,  26. 

Mulford,  John,  128. 

283,  316,  318,  386,  389- 

-392. 

Mr.,  40. 

Murdock,  Phoebe,  383. 

Thomas,  391,  392. 

Prudence,  26. 

Samuel,  396. 

Maxfield,  John,  360. 

Thomas,  21. 

Murray,  Beulah,  210. 

Maynard,  Lydia,  261. 

Minor,  Ephraim,  21. 

Rev.  James  O.,  221,  224. 

McCrary, ,  171. 

Mirick,  Sarah,  251. 

Murry, ,  410. 

McCuUom,  Andrew,  363. 

Misquamicoke  (Westerly),  79,  82 

Muschampe,  Sir  Thomas,  lag. 

McCurdy,  Alexander  Lynde,  38,  124. 

Mistick,  Mass.,  10. 

Musgrave,  Dr.,  222. 

Alexanna,  124. 

Mitchell,  Ann,  121. 

Muskingum,  O.,  203. 

Alice  J.,  124. 

Edward,  330. 

River,  204. 

Catherine  Lord,  124. 

John,  133. 

Musqueta,  17,  23,  25. 

Gertrude  Griffin,  124. 

Jonathan,  144. 

Mycall,  Mary,  172. 

Richard,  124. 

William,  121. 

Myles,  Richard,  169. 

McDougall,  Gen.  31,  377. 

Money,  Sarah,  78. 

Meade,  Hannah,  50. 

Moneypenny,  Elizabeth,  322. 

Namasket,  Middleborough,  383. 

William,  50. 

Lord,  322. 

Nangle,  Eng.,  318. 

Medfield,  Mass.,  303. 

Monticello,  111.,  210,  217. 

Nantasket,  R.  I.,  78. 

Meeker,  Sarah,  162. 

N.  Y.,  378. 

Nantucket,  33,    100,  245-250,    278,  2 

Melborne,    Cambridgeshire,    Eng., 

35^. 

Montmorenci,  Margaret,  321. 

391,395,416,419. 

353- 

Montville,  Conn.,  24. 

Narbonne  house,  252. 

Melrose,  Abbot  of,  322. 

Moody,  Apphia,  265. 

Narragansett,  R.  I.,  77,  80,  96. 

Mendon,  Mass.,  175. 

Caleb,  232. 

Narragansetts,  29. 

INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


457 


Narragansctt  Bay,  58,  62,  63. 
Narragansett  War,  71,  179,  296,  308,  314, 

3*7. 
Nash,  Elizabeth,  301. 

John,  301. 
Natchez,  Miss.,  208,  210. 
Nealand,  Edward,  256. 
Neelle,  Jeannette  de,  321. 
Netherland  Farm,  368. 
Nevell,  Henry,  353. 

Peter,  353. 
Newark,  N.  J.,  i66. 
New  Bedford,  Mass.,  33,  375. 
Newberry,  Sarah,  184. 

Thomas,  184. 
Newburg,  O.,  38. 
Newbury,  Eng.,  10. 

Free  School,  9. 
Ferry,  246. 

Mass.,  4,  8,  9,  10,  13,  16, 18,45, 

81,   118,  143,  160,  191,  193, 

227-242,245-251,  261,  262, 

265,273,  278,  279,  413^ 4»7- 

Militia,  250. 

Newburyport,  Mass.,  196,  243,  244,  277, 

3"'3^5- 
Newcastle,  Eng.,  72. 
Newcomb,  Jonathan,  389. 
Newegate,     ]   Andrey,  136. 
Newdegate,   -  Anne,  136,  138. 
Newdigate,  )   Elizabeth,  138. 

Hannah(78),  131-133. 135- 

138,  146. 
Hannah,  138. 
John  (80),  131,  135-138. 
John,  136-138. 
Joseph,  136,  138. 
Lydia,  138. 
Nathaniel,  133,  137. 
Phillippe,  136,  139. 
Sir  Richard,  135. 
Robert,  136. 
Robert,  136. 
Sarah,  138. 
Mr.  Sergeant,  135. 
Thomas,  138. 
William,  135. 
William,  137,  138. 
Newfoundland,  227,  331,  403. 
New  Hartford,  Conn.,  166. 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  19,20,22,34, 120, 146, 
158,    167,   168,  178,  209, 
2IO,   300,   301,  303,  305, 
306. 
New  Haven  Colony,  305. 
Tavern,  304. 
New  London,  Conn.,  16,  23,  46,  48,  49, 
no,  115,  135,   169,   170, 
175,  180,  182,  190. 
New  London  Company,  117. 
Newmarket,  N.  H.,  188. 
New  Orleans,  La.,  35,  207,  210,  212,  213, 

217,225. 
Newport,  R.  I.,  24, 28, 3 1-34, 46, 48, 51-55, 
62,  66,69,  7°~78j  81-109,  161. 


Newport  Cemetery,  94,  105. 
Jail,  106. 
State  House,  55. 
New  Providence,  Bahamas,  260. 
New  Roxbury  (Woodstock),  Conn.,  290. 
New  Salem,  N.  J.,  363, 364, 366,  367,  368. 
New  Sarum,  Eng.,  261,  262. 
New  Shoreham,  R.  I.  (Block  Island),  172. 
Newton  Meeting,  337. 

Township,  N.  J.,  362. 
Wiltshire,  Eng.,  8. 
Newtowne  (Cambridge),  46,  47,  114,  115. 
New  York,  33,  36,  41,  42,  45,  63,  98,  133, 
166,    208,    226,    247,    288, 
345.  356,  363^411  • 
Niantics,   48,   49. 
Nicholes,  Joseph,  367. 
Nicholson,  Joseph,  354. 
Samuel,  354. 
Nie,  )  Benjamin,  379,  385. 
Nye,  [  Ebenczer,  379. 
Niles,  Benjamin  (113),  170,  171-174. 
Deborah,  174. 
Hannah,  172. 
Increase,  172. 
Isaac,  172. 
John  (112),  172,  173. 
John,  172,  173. 
Joseph,  172. 
Naomi  (no),  163,   164,  170,  171, 

174. 
Nathaniel,  172,  173. 
Ruth,  174. 
Samuel,  172. 
Ninccroft,  49,  91. 
Ninegret,  18,  48. 
Nineteenth  Continentals,  377. 
Nixon,  Gen.,  31. 
Norden,  Nathaniel,  324,  327,   329,  330. 

Samuel,  330. 
Noreham,  Eng.,  390. 
Norfolk,  Conn.,  209,  212,  285,  286. 
Norman,  Margaret,  419. 
Northampton,  Mass.,  115,  126,  127,  300, 
410. 
River,  351. 

N.  J.,  348,  358,  359,  361. 
North  Andover  Graveyard,  407. 
North   Brookfield,  Mass.,  409,  410,  419, 

420. 
Northend,  Sarah,  243,  244. 
North  Falmouth,  Mass.,  379. 
Northford,  Conn.,  301. 
North  Kingston,  R.  I.,  74,  77,  78. 
Northleigh,  Devon,  Eng.,  402. 
North  Lyme,  Conn.,  n8,  164. 
Northrup,   Abigail,   78. 
Stephen,  78. 
North  Yarmouth,  Me.,  200. 
Norton,    Eustace,  87. 

George,   418,   410. 
John,  294. 
W.,  418. 
Norwich,  Conn.,  n7-ii9,  124,  125,  135, 
30O' 395' 396,  397.  398- 


Norwich  West  Farms  (Franklin),  Conn., 

1^5.395.397. 
Nottingham,  Chester  Co.,  Pa.,  348. 
Eng.,  356. 
Meeting,  Pa.,  363. 
Nowel,  Mr.,  132. 
Noy,      )  Abigail,  26. 
Noyes,    )  Abigail  Barker,  34. 

Alexander  Griswold,  33. 

Ann,  26. 

Anna,  24. 

Barker,  30. 

Benjamin  Bosworth,  33. 

Bridget,  26. 

Caroline  Lord,  37,  44,  166. 

Charles  Phelps,  33,  44,  226. 

Charles  Reinold,  45. 

Cousin,  250. 

Daniel  Raymond,  44. 

Daniel  Rogers  (7),  24-45,  9'> 
124,  166,  225,  226. 

DanielRogers,  37,  44, 123,  165, 
218,  225. 

Daniel  R.,  Mrs.,  325. 

Dorothy,  24,  26. 

Eben,  12. 

Edmund,  37,  38,  44. 

Edward,  7. 

Elizabeth,  26,  29,  30. 

Emily  Hoffman,  45. 

Enoch,  124. 

Ephraim,  8. 

Evelyn  McCurdy,  44. 

Franklin  Babcock,  33. 

George  Moore,  33. 

Grace,  30. 

Helen  Gilman,  44. 

Henry,  117. 

Henry  Babcock,  33. 

Horace  P.,  12. 

James  (2),  8-16,  21,  36,  45, 
50,  51,  81,  160,  230,  231, 
234,241,  243,  250,  261,  262, 
415,417. 

James  (3),  3,  4,  16-25,  45,  48- 

50'  54.55.  167.  179- 
James,  23-26,  29,  30,  42,  55. 
James  Atkins,  4. 
James  Franklin,  33. 
James  Wells,  33. 
Joan, 7. 

John,  4,  8,  16,  23,  24,  33. 
Joseph  (5),  26-30,  32,  76,  77, 

95. 
Joseph,  13,  18,  21-24,  26,  28, 

30>  3.3.  34.42.1^1.  124- 
Josephine  Lord,  44. 
Joshua,  30. 
Julia,  41. 
Julia  Gilman,  44. 
Julia  Lord,  44. 
Judith  Coffin,  195. 
Katherine  McCurdy,  45. 
Laurence  Gilman,  45. 
Martha,  33,36,  166. 


458 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Noyes,   Martha  Phelps,  33. 

Mary,  26,  30. 

Matthew,  33. 

Moses,  16,  19,  23,  24,  36,  38,  160, 
261. 

Nathan,  6,  7,  8,  26. 

Nicholas,  S,  9,  10,  13,  17,  241. 

Peleg,  30. 

Peter,  4,  273. 

Rebecca,  16,  26. 

Richard,  4,  7,  33,  36,  166. 

Robert,  4,  5,  7. 

Robert  Hale,  45. 

Sanford,  25,  26,  28,  29,  30. 

Sanford  Barker,  34. 

Sarah,  16,  33,  231,  261-265. 

Seraphine,  33. 

Silas,  13. 

Stephen,  12. 

The  family  in  England,  3,  4. 

Thomas  (4),  3,  22-27,  55.  77.  ^50- 

Thomas  (6),  12,27-34,  95, 124. 

Thomas,  16,  26,  30, 33,  35,37, 42, 
231. 

Thomas  Herbert,  3. 

Thomas  Rogers,  33. 

WiUiam  (i),  3,  4,  5-9,  45,  389. 

WiUiam,  3,  4,  16,  26,  34,  45,  121, 
231. 

William  Lord,  33. 

William  Rogers,  33. 

Winthrop  Sargent  Oilman,  44. 
Noyes  Burying  Ground,  29,32,  33. 
Farm,  29. 

Point  (Westerly),  1 7,  24-27, 32,35, 
42. 
Nunington,  York,  Eng.,  159. 
Nurse,  Goodwife,  263. 
Nye,  "I  Benjamin,  379,  385. 
Nie,  /  Ebenezer,  379. 
Experience,  373. 

Oak  Tree  at  Saicm,  N.  J.,  343,  364,  368. 
Ober,  Anna,  266. 

Benjamin,  266. 
Oburne,  Mr.  Thomas,  259. 
Odding,  Sarah,  97. 
Odlin,    "]  Abigail,  107. 
Audley,   I  Ann,  86,  loi,  105. 
Audlin,   j  Elisha,  104-106,  231,  240. 
Awdley,  j  Elizabeth,  107, 

Hannah,  104,  105. 

John  (60),  61,  86,  loi,  103,  191, 
231. 

John  (61),  104,  105,  106,  109. 

John  (62),  102,  105-107,  109. 

John,  104,  106,  107,  191,  231. 

Jonathan,  107. 

Josiah,  107. 

Lydia  (55X  94>  ^oz,  io6,  107. 

Martha,  106. 

Mary,  106. 

Peter,  104,  105. 

Robert,  105,  106. 

Sarah,  107. 


Ogborn,  John,  355. 

Mary  (202),  338,  339,  353-356. 
Samuel  (203),  353,  355,  356. 
Samuel,  355,  356. 
Sarah,  355,  356. 
Ogden,N.Y.,  166. 
Ohio  Company,  202. 

River,  206. 
Oland,  William,  153. 
Old  Derby  Homestead,  258. 
Olive,  Thomas,  356,  357. 
Oliver,  Andrew,  55,  138. 
Captain,  131. 
John,  138. 
Peter,  138. 
Sarah,  16. 
Thomas,  138. 
Olmstead,  Samuel,  116. 
Oneco,  17. 

Olney,  Thomas,  92,  108. 
Orcheston  St.  Mary,  8. 
Osbrook,  50. 
Osborn,  William,  259. 
Osborne,  Thomas,  242,  416,  419. 
Osgood,  Abigail,  415,  417. 

Christopher  (253-11),  9,  241,  255, 

257,  406,  408,  414-419. 
Christopher,  408,  415-417, 
Clark,  416. 

Deborah  (253),  408,  413-417. 
Elizabeth,  415,  417. 
John,  241. 
Martha,  254. 
Mary,  415,  417. 
Thomas,  406,  417. 
Otaheite,  288. 
Otis,  Richard,  279. 
Ouseden,  Suffolk,  Eng.,  67. 
Ovcring,  H.  J.,  74. 
Owen,  Dr.,  12, 149. 
Hannah,  411. 
Martha,  335. 
Silas,  411. 
Oxford,  Eng.,  311. 
Oxford,  Thomas,  332. 

Packa-go-mack  (Mannington),  N.  J.,  367. 

Page,  Edward,  412. 

Paine,  Matthew,  366. 

Palisades,  N.  Y.,  208,  21 1,  222-225. 

Palfrey,   Thomas,  259, 

Walter,  259. 
Pallcoast,  John,  336. 
Palmer,  Ann,  393. 

Benjamin,  19. 

Hannah,  26. 

Ichabod,  26. 

John,  26. 

Moses,  21,  26. 

Nehemiah,  21,  50. 

Sarah,  325. 

Thomas,  336. 

Walter,  50. 
Palmes,   Lucy,  135. 

Major,  135. 


Pana,  111.,  346. 
Paris,  Abraham,  109. 

Mary,  109. 
Park,  Anna  A.,  225. 

Charles  F.,  225. 
Parker,  Anne  (i),  4,  5-9. 
Ehsha,  313. 
Robert,  5,  9,  10. 

Thomas,  5,  9-13,  16,  51,  81,  230, 
241,  243,  250. 
Parker  River,   10,  413. 

Bridge,  413. 
Parkes,  Richard,  351. 
Parkhurst,  C.  D.,  127. 

Martha,  390,  391. 
Parmenter,  John,  289,  293. 

Parnell, ,  8, 

Parsons,  Ebenezer,  420. 
Grace,  96,  97. 
Hugh,  96. 
John  E.,  222. 
Jonathan,  37,  38,  175. 
Parsons'  Tavern,  33. 
Parson  Peter  in  McFingal,  411. 
Partridge,  Elizabeth,  90. 
William,  238. 
Passaquo,  246. 
Passequeneiqua  Creek,  334. 
Patchin,  Joseph,  293. 
Patten,  Luxford,  284. 
Paugwonk,  116. 
Pawcatuck,  48,  49,  50. 
Pawtucket,  17,  28,  54,  109,  152. 
Fasson,   Elizabeth  Drinker,  225. 

Samuel  C,  225. 
Payne,  }  Jane,  391,  392. 
Paine,    j  Richard,  391. 
Sarah,  348. 
Thomas,  390-392. 
Payson,  Mr.,  133. 
Peabody,  John,  83,  92. 
Peach,   Elizabeth,  328. 

Eannah  (191),  326-328,  330. 
John  (iqi-a),  326,  328,  329,  331  . 
John,  328. 
Mary,  328. 
Thomas,  328. 
William,  328. 
Peake,  Edmund,  337. 
Pearce,  John,  100. 

Richard,  100. 
Pearson,  Peter,  iiS. 

Samuel,  118. 
Peck,   Deborah,  169. 

Elizabeth.  168,  169. 

Hannah,  169. 

Jeremiah,  168. 

John,  168. 

Joseph  (106),  157,  162,  163,  168, 

169,  173- 
Joseph,  163,  169. 
Lodemia,  378. 
Robert,  187. 

Ruth  (loi),  162-164,  169,  171,  304. 
Samuel.  157.  169. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


459 


Peck,  Sarah,  169. 
Stephen,  38. 
William  (105),  167,  16S. 
William,  157.  170. 
Peckham,  Clement,  89. 
Deborah,  90. 
Ehzabeth,  90. 
Sir  George,  88. 
James,  89. 
^  John  (34),  74^  75'  83,  84.  88. 
94. 
John,  89. 
Phoebe,  90. 
Rebecca,  90. 
Sarah,  90. 

Susanna  (31),  74-76,  83,  84,  90. 
Stephen,  89. 
Thomas,  89. 
WiUiam,  89,  94. 
WilUam  F.,  89. 
Pederick  (Petherick),  John.  330. 
Pelham  Bay  Park,  63. 
Pelton,  Samuel,  319. 
Pemaquid  (Bristol),  Me.,  174,  330,  331, 

400,  403. 
Pemaquid  River,  403, 
Pemberton,  Benjamin.  326. 
Penisaukin  Creek,  N.  J.,  337,  338,  357. 
Penn,  William,  364,  365. 
Penn's  Neck,  N.  J.,  365. 
Pennock,  Samuel,  410. 
Pennoyer,  William,  140. 
Pentuckett  (Haverhill),  246. 
Pennycock,  N.  H.,  414. 
Pepperell,  Sir  William,  228,  254,  268. 
Pepys,  Samuel,  141,  144,  145,  193. 
Pequoit  (New  London),  50,  179. 
Pequots,  17,  46. 
Percival,  Hannah,  166. 
Perkins,  Abraham,  412. 

Elizabeth  Rogers,  34. 
Dr.  Elisha,  34. 
Henry,  34. 
Martha,  34. 
Perry,  Edward,  385. 
Ezra,  387. 
John,  373. 
Meribah,  380. 
Peter,       1  Absalom,  410. 
Petre,       !  Ahce,  402. 
Peters,      j  Andrew  (250),  258,  291,  400, 
Peeters,  J      403-408,412,414,418. 

Andrew,  405,  407,  410,  411. 
Beamsley,  410,  411. 
Edward,  402-405. 
Elizabeth,  407. 
Francis,  402,  403. 
George,  401,  402. 
George,  402,  403. 
Giles,  401,  402,  403. 
Grace,  402  404. 
Henry,  402,  403. 
Hugh,  46,  60,  400. 
Humfrie,  402,  403. 
John,  400.  401. 


Peeters,  John   (252),   398,  400,  409-411, 
420. 
John,   400,  401,  405,  407,  410, 

411. 
Jonathan,  410,  411. 
Joyce,  402. 
Margaret,  410. 

Mary,  401,  403,407,  408,410. 
Mercy,  408,  410,  41 1. 
Morice,  402. 
Otes,  401. 
Phoebe    (245),    376,   377,   398, 

399,  410. 
Richard,  402,  403. 
Roger,  401. 

Samuel,  400,  408,  410,  411. 
Severance,  407. 
Simon,  403,  404. 
Thomas,  400,  402,  403. 
Vicimus,  402,  403. 
Welthian,  402. 
William,    330,    400-405,    408 , 

409,  412. 
William    (251),    405,  408,  409, 

414,  420. 
William,  400,  401,  403,404,410. 
Wilmot,  401. 

The   Family  in    England     400- 
404. 
Petherick,  Mary,  329. 
Pett,  Peter,  143. 
Pettacomscott,  79,  So. 
Pettiworth,  Sussex,  Eng.,  72. 
Pessacus,  53. 
Pewde,  Wilham,  274. 
Phelps,  Charles,  33,  35. 
Elizabeth,  410. 
Hannah,  33,  35. 
Jonathan,  410. 
Joseph,  410. 
Joseph  D.,  33, 
Lydia,  410. 
Nancy,  33,  35. 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  95,  T99,  202-212,  255, 

287.343-353'  3^^- 
Mt.  Vernon  Cemetery,  205. 
Noble  St.  Burying-ground, 

205. 
Volunteers,  343. 
Philbrick,  Ehzabeth,  393. 

Hannah,  393,  394. 
James,  393. 
John,  393. 

Martha  (242),  393-395,  400. 
Mary,  393-394- 
Sarah,  393. 

Thomas  (242-A),  393,  394. 
Thomas,  393. 
Phillip,  George,  67. 
Phillips,  John,  195. 

Michael,  83. 
Samuel,  291. 
Wendell,  216. 
William,  52,  53,  64,  83. 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  208,  210. 


Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  195,  206,  394. 
PhiUipston,  Me.,  53. 
Philpot,  John,  252. 
Phippeny,  Gabriel,  30S. 
Rebecca,  308. 
Phipps,  Sir  Wilham,  231,  236,  262,  387. 
Phoebe  Griffin  Noyes  Library,  43,  122. 
Pickering,  Timothy,  199,  204,  211. 
Pickett,  Ruth,  16. 
Pickman,  Col.,  269. 
Pierce,  Capt.,  51. 

Daniel,  230. 
Deborah,  409. 
Martha,  16,  231. 
Sarah,  232. 
Mary,  232. 
Pierpont,  Abigail,  24. 

James,  24,  304. 
Jonathan,  196. 
Joseph,  254. 
Pierson,  Rev.  Abraham,  19,  20,  47,  158. 
Pike,  James,  196,  200. 

John,  234,  251. 
Pile,  Wilham,  247. 
Pinckney,  C.  C,  32. 
Pindar,  Thomas,  57. 
Pme,  Lazarus,  339. 
Pinner,  John,  86. 

Piscataqua  River,  Me.,  226,  227,  228. 
Pitcairn,  Elizabeth,  323. 

Master,  87. 
Piteur,  Lord,  323. 
Pitkin,  Martha,  158,  184. 

William,  184. 
Pitts,  Edmund,  330. 
Elizabeth,  330. 
Grace,  330. 
Leonard,  330. 
Maude,  330. 

Mary  (193),  326,  327,  329-332. 
William  (193-A),  319-332. 
William,  330. 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,  206,  344. 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  378. 
Plainfield,  Conn.,  164. 
Plaistow,  N.  H.,  243. 
Piatt,  John,  15S. 

Richard,  158. 
Pledger,  Elizabeth  (231),  363,  365,  369. 
Ehzabeth,  369. 
John  (223),  366-389. 
John  (224),  365-369. 
John,  369. 
Joseph.  366-368. 
Margaret,  369. 
Martha,  365,  366,  369. 
Pledger  Homestead,  368. 
Plumb,  John,  158. 

Plum  Island,  Newbury,  257,  296,  405. 

Plymouth,  Devon,  Eng.,  245,  246,  333 

334^  335'  380. 

Fort,   245.   246 

Plymouth,  Mass.,  205,  206,  210,  285-288 

308,  312,  316,  317,  373-376,  380-383 

385,  3SS,  3S9. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Plymouth  Bay,  380. 

Burying  ground,  287,  188. 
Colony,24,99,3i4.  315. 
Military  Company,  383,  384. 
Rock.  381. 
Point  Judith,  18,  z8.  80. 
Point  Vincent,  204. 
Pomfret,  Conn.,  292. 
Ponthieu,  Count  of,  321. 
Pontrohart,  Lord  of,  321. 
Poole,  Dorset,  Eng.,  405. 
Poor,  Alice  (145),  241-243,  251. 
Daniel,  241. 
Samuel,  241. 
Pope  Paul  III,  323. 
Pope,  Abigail,  375. 

Sarah,  317. 
Pordage,  George,  133. 
Porter,  John,  80,  306. 
Margaret,  332. 
Susanna,  332. 
WiUiam,  332. 
Portsmouth,  Eng.,  139,  141,  143,  150,  366, 
367. 
N.  H.  (Mass.),  194,  227. 
(Pocasset),  R.  I.,45,  51-69, 
78-103,  106,  no,  161. 
Post,  Eldad,  398. 

Hannah.  397-398. 
Post  Hill,  New  London,  170. 
Potapaug,  134. 
Potter,  John,  80. 

William,  100. 
Power,  Anthonie,  241. 
Hope,  86. 
Nicholas,  109. 
Pratt,  Elizabeth,   116. 
John,  116. 
Lieutenant,  48. 
Lydia,  163. 
Martha,  170. 
Nathaniel,  135,  397. 
Peter,  180. 
Samuel,  169. 
Sarah,  118,  135. 
Prence's  Bottom.  Plymouth,  383. 

Prentice, ,  50. 

John,  180. 

Thomas,  50,  282-284. 
Prescott,  Col.  John.  135. 
Preston,  Conn.,  24,  126,  266. 
Prince,  Alice,  310. 
Anna,  310. 
Benjamin,  308,  310. 
Deborah,  276,  311. 
Dorothye,  307. 
Edward,  307. 
Elizabeth,  308. 
Enoch,  310. 
George,  307,  312, 
Isaac,  308. 
Jane    (167),  205,  ao6,  276,  286- 

288,312. 
Joane,  307. 
Job,  307,  308. 


Prince,  John  (179),  306.  307. 

John  (180),  307-309,  317. 

John,  306-308,  310. 

Joseph,  307,  308,  310. 

Katherine,  307. 

Maria,  307. 

Martha,  308,  310. 

Mary,  309,  310. 

Mercy,  310. 

Moses  (182),  276,  277,  286,  287, 

310-312,  325. 
Mr.,  385. 
Nathan,  310. 

Samuel  (181),  308-311,  317,  325. 
Samuel,  310-312. 
Thomas,  306-311,  316,  318. 
Ursula,  307. 
Prince's  Chronology,  244. 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  31. 
Prior,  Sarah,  86. 
Pritchard,  AHce,  304. 
Providence,  R.  L,  54,  66,  80,  81,  95,  106- 
III,    127,    128,    132, 
202,  216,  218,  298. 
North  Burial  Ground, 

109. 
State  House,  71. 
Puncatege,  96. 
Punckateesett,  383. 
Punderson,  Ebenezer,  410. 
Purchas,  Mary,  172. 
Putnam,  Rufus,  202-204,  289. 

Susanna,  289. 
Pyle,  Grace,  402. 
John,  402. 
Pynchon,  John,  237,  419,  420. 

Quakers,  66,  70,  71,  78,  79,  81,  83,  97, 
223,  249,  258,  281,  314,  317,  333,  334, 

349'357>367.  37i,385'4»9- 
Quebaug  River,  420. 
Quebec,  307,  308. 
Queen   Anne,  24,  356. 
Queen  Anne  Boleyn,  147. 
Queen  Elizabeth,  6,  57,   140,  147,    292, 

400,  401. 
Queen  Mary,  127,  400,  401. 
Quincy,  III.,  346. 
Quincy  (Braintree),  Mass.,  78. 
Quinipiac  (New  Haven),  47. 
Quinton,  Phoebe,  366. 

Rancocas  Creek,  336,  339,  351,  357. 
Ransom,  Georgiana  Hitt,  225. 
Ratdiff,  Mr..  133. 
Rattan,  \V.  I.,  310. 
Ravenna,  O.,  344,  378. 
Rawson,  Edward,  132,  177,  305. 

Grindal,  175. 

Mary,  175. 
Rayment,  Capt.,  262. 
Raymond,  Daniel,   161. 
John,  378. 
Joshua,  135. 
Read,  Robert,  7,  8. 


Read,  Sarah,  83. 
Reade,  Elizabeth,  272. 

Reape, ,  73. 

William,  73. 
Redman,  John,  394. 

Redstricke, ,  369. 

Reed,  Jane  (112),  172,  173. 
John,  174. 
Mary,  163. 
Reeves,  Joseph,  364. 

Thomas,  273. 
Regicides,  Goffe  and  Whalley,  305. 
Rehoboth,  Mass.,  107,  115,  187. 
Remington,  James,  56. 

John,  80. 
Revel,  Thomas,  352. 
Reynolds,  Catherine  (i  62-a),  249, 278- 
John,  118. 
Joseph,  118. 
Rhodes,  Malachi,  109. 
Mary,  95. 
Rebecca,  109. 
Sarah,  109. 
Rice,  Edmund,  177. 
Richard  Coeur  de  Lion,  320. 
Richard,  Edward,  80. 
Richards,  Alice,  314. 

Cornelia  (Walter),  129. 
John,  314. 

Mary.  313,  314,  317,  387. 
Thomas,  313,  314. 
Richardson,  James,  291. 
John,  231. 
Prudence,  26. 
Richmond,  Abigail,  80. 
Richmond,  Va..  220. 
Riggs,  Dorothy,  45. 
Ringworthy,  Eng.,  234. 
Rishworth,  Edward,  58. 
Thomas,  58. 
River  Avon,  271. 

Big  Sandy,  207. 
Wyandotte,  207. 
Riverhead,  L.  I.,  162. 
Robbins,  Ammi  Ruhamah,  285,  286. 
Chandler  (167),  205,  206, 

285-289,  312,  344. 
Chandler,  288. 
Deborah,  283,  284. 
Francis,  291. 
George,  288. 

Haimah   (135),   203,   205- 
214,  215,  276,  286-288, 
346. 
Hannah,  284,  286,  288. 
Hannah  Rebecca,  286. 
Irene,  286. 
Isaac,  288. 
Jane  Prince,  288. 
John,  282,  283. 
Joseph,  161,  283,  284. 
Mary,  283,  284. 
Nathaniel  (164),  282,  283, 
Nathaniel  (165),  283,  284, 
302. 


276, 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC 


461 


Robbins,  Nathaniel,  2S4. 

Peter  Gilman,  289. 

Philemon  (166),  284-286,  302, 

312. 
Philemon.  286.  288. 
Rebecca,  282,  283,  284,  286. 
Rebecca  Hannah,  286. 
Richard  (163),  282,  283. 
Samuel,  282,  283. 
Samuel  Prince,  288,  289,  344. 
Sarah,  284,  286. 
Thomas,  207,  283-286,  289. 
Robert  II,  of  Scotland,  323. 
Robert  Ap  Meredydd,  185. 
Roberts,  John,  338,  357. 
Robey,  Henry,  393. 
Robin's  Nest,  288. 
Robinson,  John,  189. 
Lydia,  278. 

Robison, ,  412. 

Rochester,    Mass.,    309,    310,   311,   312, 

376. 
Rodgers,  Elizabeth,  184. 
Rodman,  Ehzabeth,  95. 
Rogerenes,  180. 
Rogers,  Abigail,  95. 

Daniel,  34,  95,  200. 

Elizabeth,  94,  200. 

Hannah,  118. 

Horatio,  35. 

Isaac,  94. 

James   (37),  74,   83,   91-93.   99, 

111,  132. 
James,  40,  94. 
John  (38),  93,  94,  98. 
John  (39),  93,  94,  98,  102. 
John,  91,  95,  180. 
Joseph,  91,  93,  95,  n8. 
Lydia  (6),  30-34,  95,  124. 
Martha,  95. 
Robert,  34,  95. 
Samuel,  49,  93. 
Sanford,  95. 
Sarah,  74,  91-95. 
Thomas,  74,  91,  93. 
William  (40),  30,  32,  94,  95,  102. 
William,  95. 
Rolfe,  Hannah,  234,  251. 
Romney,  Earl  of,  148. 
Rose  Island,  53,  55. 
Rose,  John,  301. 

Phoebe,  343. 
Sarah,  301. 
Rosyth,  Lord,  323. 
Rotherhithe,  Surrey,  Eng.,  152. 
Rotten  Marsh,  Scituate,  312. 
Rougham,  Eng.,  139. 
Rowand,  John,  360. 
Rowley,  Samuel,  398. 
Thomas,  398. 
Rowell,  Ann,  393. 
Jacob,  416. 
Jane,  393. 

Thomas,  393,  416,  419. 
Valentine,  416. 


Rowley,  Mass.,  ij8,  197,  230,  234,  251, 

326,  394. 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  50,60, 105, 174-176,284, 

289,  292,    293,  295,  298,  303, 

395'  399- 
Royce,  Jonathan,  396. 
Roye,  Marie  of,  321. 
Royston,  Cambridge,  Eng.,  297,  298. 
Ruddero,  Meribah,  338. 
Ruggles,  Thomas,  20. 
Ruffum,  Suffolk,  Eng.,  89. 
Rumney  Marsh,  Chelsea,  Mass.,  104,  137, 

138. 

Rusper,  Eng.,  126,  127, 
Russ,   Hannah,  414. 
Hezekiah,  409. 
John  (253-A),  413,  417. 
John  (253X408,  413,  414,  417. 
John,  414. 
Jonathan,  414. 
Joseph,  414. 
Josiah,  414. 
Margaret    (251),    408,    409,    4 1 4, 

420. 
Mary,  413,  414. 
Nathaniel,  413. 
Phoebe,  414. 
Sarah,  414. 
Thomas,  414. 

Russell, ,  27S. 

Henry,  170. 
Joseph,  284. 
Mehitable,  292. 
Mr.,  315,  316. 
Richard,  331. 
Samuel,  20. 
Russham,  Elizabeth,  152. 
Thomas,  152. 
Rutter,  Thomas,  7. 
Ryder,  Mary  (186),  313,  314,  31S,  319. 
Rysse,  Rose,  186. 

St.  Andrews,  Andrew,  Prior  of,  322. 

St.  Andrews,  David,  Archbishop  of,  323. 

St.  Christophers,  W.  I.,  295. 

St.  Clair,  Gen.  Arthur,  203,  205,  207. 

St.  Eustatius,  W.  I.,  102, 

St.  Ferdinand,  321. 

St.  Ford,  Laird  of.  322. 

St.  Louis,  Mo.,  43,  210-225,  344. 

St.  Lucia,  W.  L,  405. 

St.  Neots,  Monks  of,  5. 

St.  Paul,  Minn.,  44,  165,  224. 

St.  Peter,  Minn.,  378. 

St.  Pol,  Hughes,  Count  of,  320. 

Saco  Falls,  N.  H.,  244. 

River,  55. 
Sadler,  John,  169. 
Sady,  John,  407. 
Saffin,  Mr.,  132. 
Sagamore,  George,  137. 
Sag  Harbor,  L.  I.,  38. 
Saggahew,  246. 
Saham  Toney.  Eng.,  186, 
Salem,  Conn.,  34,  115. 


Salem,  Mass.,  10,  17,  67,  133,  146,  154, 
204,242,251-259.  262.  264.  308. 
326,  327,330.332. 
Meeting  House,  367. 
Monthly  Meeting,  342,  352,  367. 

368. 
N.  J.,  336,  337>34'-343- 
Salem  witchcraft.  263.  264. 
Salisbury,  Eng.,  3,  5,  8,  51,  389,  415. 

Mass.,  58,  230.  146,  249,  261, 
273,274,278,416.417.419. 
Salisbury,  Prof.  Edward  E..  120. 

Evelyn    McCurdy,    120,    121, 

'^9'  »35- 
Salter,  Jone,  73. 

Samuel.  332. 
William.  73. 
Saltonstall.  Governor,  117. 
Nathaniel,  237. 
Sir  Richard.  9,  67. 
Saltus,   Ethel  Mildred,  44. 
Nicholas.  44. 
Rollin  Sanford,  44. 
Winthrop  Noyes,  44. 
Sanborn.   Mercy  (Mary),  394, 
Tristram,  250. 
William,  394. 
Sands,  David,  340. 

James,  63,  172. 
Sarah,  172. 
Sandwich,  Eng.,  384. 

Mass.,  309-313,  317,  370-376, 

383-385, 389. 

Militia,  372,  386. 
Sandy  Hook,  356. 

Sandy  Point,  St.  Christopher's,  W.  I.,  102. 
Sanford,  Ann,  24,  26,  53,  55. 

Benjamin,  loi,  102. 
■  Bridget,  55,  loi. 

Catherine,  55. 

Daniel,  103. 

Eliphal,  52,  55. 

Elisha,  53,  58,  loi,  102. 

Elizabeth  (4),  24-27,  55,  77. 

Elizabeth,  loi,  102. 

Endcome,  52,  loi,  102, 

Esbon,  52,  55,  58,  loi,  102. 

Frances,  52. 

Francis,  loi,  102. 

John  (15),  50-53,  58,  61,  64,  68, 
69,  72,  loi,  103,  104,  132. 

John,  52,  loi,  103. 

Joseph  (55),  94,  loi,  102,  106, 
107. 

Joshua,  loi,  102. 

Margaret,  55. 

Maria  Seymour,  44. 

Martha,  103. 

Mary,  73,  loi,  102,  106,  138. 

Mrs.,  63. 

Odlin,  103. 

Peleg  (16),   24,  48,   52-55,   58, 
72,  104,  105,  132,  138. 

Peleg,  55,  loi,  102. 

Restcome,  52,  58,  loi,  101. 


462 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Sanford,  Samuel  (14),  50,  51. 

Samuel  (54),  52,64,73,  loi- 

107. 
Samuel,  loi,  102. 
Saiah  (40),  30,  32,  94,  95,  I 
William,  52,  55,  58,  loi. 
Sanford,  Me.,  53. 
Sanger,  ReT.  Mr.,  288. 
Sansom,  Richard,  392. 
Santa  Barbara,  Cal.,  124. 
Sargent,  Winthrop,  202,  205. 
Satterthwaite,  Elizabeth,  349. 
Saunders,  Anne,  95. 

Charles  W.,  346. 
Elizabeth  (126),  178,  182- 
Thomas,  182. 
Savage,  Samuel  P.,  179,  198. 

Thomas,  61,  64. 
Saybrook  \  19,  20,  21,  48,  115-118, 
Seabrook,  J       125,126,127,133,134, 
154,    155,    160,    163, 

179-  397- 
Burying-ground,  134. 
Junction,  123. 
Platform,  21. 
Train  Band,  116. 
Sayles,  Isabella,  109. 

John,  109. 
Sayer,  \  Abigail,  195. 
Sayre,  /  Ehzabeth,  95,  197. 

Joseph,  197. 
Sayres,  Robert,  9. 
Scannell,  Alexander,  201. 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  420. 
ScheifBin,  Anne,  33. 
Schuyler,  Gen.,  286. 
Scioto  Company,  203,  204. 
Scituate,  Mass.,  119,  187,  188,  307, 

309,312-314. 
Scott,  Catherine  Marbury,  79. 

David,  224. 

Edward,  66. 

Hannah,  86. 

James,  175. 

Mary,  66. 

Patience,  66. 

Richard,  66,  86. 

Stella,  224. 

Winfield,  221. 
Scottish  Charitable  Soc,  325. 

Seager, ,  88. 

Sears,  Richard,  159. 

Ruth,  95. 

Samuel,  156. 
Seating  the  church,  21,  191,  193,  237, 
Seconnett  River,  383. 
Seekonk  (Rehoboth),  Mass.,  187. 
Selden,  Sarah,  166. 
Sentence  of  excommunication,  61. 
Sergeant  Falconer  to  the  King,  85. 
Seven  Cliffs,  Sussex,  Eng.,  107. 
Seventh  Regiment,  Conn.,  377. 
Severance,  John,  249. 
Mary,  249. 
Sewall,  Anne,  241. 


267. 


Sewall,  Henry,  9. 

Judge  Samuel,  18,  104,  132,  133, 
241,  246,  250,  264,  316,  324, 
330,  38  5,  407. 
Shalford,  Essex,  Eng.,  297,  298. 
Shapleigh,  Alexander  (137-A),  226-229. 
Alexander,  229. 
John,  229. 
Katherine    (137),     189,    190, 

226,  227,  229,  239. 
Nicholas,  193,  226,  227,  229. 
Sharon,  Conn.,  375. 
Sharp,   Hugh,  354. 

John,  353-355. 
Shattuck,  Hannah,  335. 
Shaw,  Anthony,  100. 

Israel,  100. 
Shawneetown,  111.,  344. 
Shayler,  Sarah,  116. 
Shearman,  Philip,  83. 
Shedd,  Rev.  William  G.  T.,  221. 
Sheffield,  George,  29. 
Samuel,  29. 
Sheffield,  Conn.,  286. 
Sheldon,  John,  77,  78,  109. 

Nicholas,  109. 
Shelter  Island,  N.  Y.,  72,  73. 
Shepard,  John,  391. 
Sheppard,  John,  421. 
Sherborne  Castle,  88. 
Sherburne,  Dorothy,  277. 
Sherman,  Peleg,  97. 
Philip,  97. 
Gen.  W.T.,  221. 

Sherringham, ,  88. 

Sherwin,  John,  291. 
Shiloh,  St.  Clair  Co.,  111.,  345. 
Shinn,  Zilpah,  34c. 
Ship,  Abigail,  289. 

Amity,  347,  348. 

Arme,  381,  382. 

Arbella,  67. 

Bevis,  241,  272,  273. 

Bonaventura,  45,  46. 

Diligent,  187,  189,  330. 

Elizabeth  and  Ann,  114,  115. 

Expedition,  305. 

Fortune,  381. 

Griffin,  59,  66,  312,  366. 

Hector,  167. 

Hercules,  9,  312. 

Increase,  153. 

James,  302,  318. 

Jonathan,  232,  233. 

Joseph  and  Benjamin,  366. 

Kent,  356,  362. 

Lexington,  33. 

Lion  (Lyon),  51,  67,  78- 

Mary  and  John,  9,81,  183,415,418. 

Mayflower,  91,  iii,  308,  380,  3S2. 

Paradise,  357. 

Pleasure,  403. 

Prince  of  Wales,  254. 

Quero,  259. 

Six  Friends,  231,  262. 


Ship,  Society,  144. 

Talbot,  81, 
Shipman,  Annis,  411. 

Samuel,  411. 
Shipton  (Shipman),  Edward,  170. 
Shirley,  Gen.,  302. 

Gov.,  268,  269,  270. 
Shivers,   Hannah  (206),  340,  360,  363. 
John  (209),  360,  362. 
John,  362,  363. 
Josiah,  363. 
Mary,  363. 
Richard,  362. 
Samuel,  362. 
Shoreham,  Eng.,  130. 
Short,  Rebecca,  50. 

Shrewsbury,   N.  J.,  333,  334,  336,  340. 
Monthly  Meeting,  355. 
Neck,  354. 
River,  334. 
Shrimpton,  Samuel,  132. 
Shropham,  Norfolk,  Eng.,  189. 
Sibbons,  Elizabeth,  407. 
Sill,  Joseph,  118,  155,  158. 
Ph<Ebe,  121. 
Richard,  121. 
Siminid,  William,  127. 
Simpson,  Sarah,  194. 
Simsbury,  Conn.,  126,  184,  388. 
Sisson,  George,  96,  97,   loi. 
Hope,  loi. 
Mary,  97. 
Richard,  97. 
Siward,  322. 
Skeer,  Jane,  366. 
Skiff,  Mary,  375. 
Skinner,  Ebenezer,  116. 

Thomas,  83. 
Slater,  Henrietta  Maria,  343,  345. 
John,  331. 
Mrs.,  214. 
Slaves,  16,  25,  27,  52,  55,  9S,  345. 
Slocum,  Giles,  97. 

Samuel,  178. 
Sloop,  Independence,  33. 
Success,  311. 
Mayflower,  325. 
Smith,   Abigail,  319. 
Ebenezer,  396. 
Edward,  83,  98,  189,  237. 
Elisha,  83. 

Ehzabeth,  93,  188,  189,  300. 
Francis,  331. 
Hannah,  138,  363,364. 
Ichabod,  374. 
James,  244. 
Jane,  349. 

John  (186),  313,  314,  318,  319. 
John,  81,  313,  319,  373. 
Joseph,  81,319. 
Lucy,  50. 
Lyndon  A.,  166. 
Mary  (185),   308,   309,  313-31 

392- 
Mary,  319,  364. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


463 


Smith,    Philip,  93,  98,  300. 
Rachel,  349. 
Richard,  1S8,  189. 
Samuel,  8^,  156,  299,  300,  392. 
Sarah,  83,  319. 
Shubell,  373. 
Thomas,  143,  374. 
William,  364. 
Snell,  John,  186. 
Snow,  Anthony,  382. 
Snow-Shoe  Men,  16, 
Snow,  vessel,  254. 
Socho,  79. 
Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel, 

316,  410. 
Solihul,  Eng.,  178. 
Somerby,  Abiel,  231. 

Adam  de,  232. 
Anthony,  231,  232. 
Daniel,  233. 

Elizabeth  (139),  191-193,  199, 
230,  231,  233,  239,  261,  264, 
265,  276,  278. 
Henry    (140),    230-233,    235, 

249-250,  261,  264. 
Henry,  232. 
John, 233. 
Richard,  232,  233. 
Sarah,  264. 

The  Family  in  England,  232. 
Somerby,  Lincolnshire,  Eng.,  232. 
Somerset  House,  London,  390. 
Somersworth,  N.  H.,  196. 
Southampton,  Eng.,  8,  9,  45,  67,  273,  391. 

L.  L,  126-128. 
South  (Delaware)  River,  98. 
South  Heath,  Eng.,  232. 
South  Kingston,  R.  I.,  27,  75,  76,  78,  79, 

80,84,  172. 
Southold,  L.  L,  162,  163,  258. 
South  Shrewsbury  River,  334. 
Southworth,  Thomas,  383. 
Sowams  (Harrington),  Mass.,  68. 
Spatchurst,  Elizabeth,  52. 
Henry,  52,  103. 
Susanna  (54),  52,  101-103, 

107. 
William  (58),  52,  101,  103. 
Spencer,  )  Abner,  74. 
Spenser,  J- Alice  (Elizabeth),  147,   148. 
Spans  e,    )  Betsey,  43. 
John,  74. 
Penelope,  227. 
Thomas,  227. 
Sparry,  }    Daniel,  169. 
Sperrie,  )     Ebenezer,  304. 
Nathaniel,  304. 
Rebeccah,  304. 
Richard,  304. 
Spithead,  Eng.,  288. 
Sponer,  Joan,  186. 
Spooner,  John,  90. 

William,  90. 
Sprague,  Jerusha,  389. 
Springfield,  Mass.,  34,  396,  419,  420. 


Spring,  Rev.  Gardiner,  221. 

Roger,  370. 
Sproat,  Rev,  Dr.,  287. 
Squire,  Thomas,  283. 
Stackhouse,  A.  M.,  357. 
Stacy,  Benjamin,  324. 

Robert,  336,  352. 
Stafford,  Conn.,  389. 
Stafford,  Freelove,  109. 

Samuel,  109. 
Stamford,  Lincolnshire,  Eng.,  232. 
Standish,  James,  331. 

Miles,  381. 
Stanfield,  Miriam  (246),  395,  399. 
Stanley,  Christopher,  115. 
Rebecca,  115. 
Sir  John,  87. 
Stanton,  Daniel,  50. 

Dorothy  (3),  16-24,  49,  50,  55. 

Hannah,  50,  78. 

John,  49,  50,  86. 

Joseph,  18,  50. 

Mary,  49,  78. 

Richard,  50. 

Robert,  46,  50,  78,  79,  86. 

Samuel,  50. 

Sarah,  50. 

Thomas  (12),  16,  17,  21,  24-50, 

78,  86,  113,  115. 
Thomas,  21,  49. 
Stanton  Bros.,  50. 
Star  and  Stirrup,  London,  297. 
Starbuck,  Abigail  (162),    192,    239,    249, 
275,  27S-2S1. 
Dorcas,  281. 
Edward     (162-A),     247,     249, 

278-281,  392. 
Elizabeth,  279. 
Esther,  281. 
Jethro,  281. 

Nathaniel,  248,  249,  2S0. 
Sarah,  281. 
Starr,  Josias,  79. 
Peter,  286. 

Philemon  R.,  213,  2S6. 
Rachel,  79. 
Steamer,  Helen  McGregor,  208. 

Rob  Roy,  208. 
Stearns,  Isaac,  393. 
Stephenson,  Rev.  James,  150. 
Sterling,  Daniel,  155. 

Katherine,  322. 
Stevens,  Dionis  (147-A),  233,  235,  245- 
248,  278,  279,  281. 
Edward,  239. 
Ephraim,  290. 
Joseph,  292. 
Mary,  292. 
Mehitable,  239. 
Robert,  245. 
Stevenson,  Thomas,  337. 
Stewart,  Christina,  323. 

James,  372. 
Stickne,  Amos,  397. 
Stileman,  Elias,  13,  227. 


Stiles,  Ephraim,  338. 

Robert,  338. 
Stirling,  Lord,  391. 
Stoake,  Eng.,  403. 
Stockbridge  de   Vandershaff,  Catherine, 

129. 
Stockbridge,  Mass.,  286. 
Stockton,  Sarah,  354. 
Stoddard,  John,  300. 
Stokes,  Joseph,  337. 

Thomas,  337,  360,  361,  362. 
Stonard,  Alice,  100. 
Stonehouse,  Eng.,  335. 
Stonell,  Eng.,  257. 
Stone,  John,  414. 

Rev.  Nathaniel,  318. 
Stonington,  Conn.,  16,  17,  21-29,  33»  35» 

45'  48,  S^y  54»  77j  121,  241. 
Storre^  I  Augustine,  57,  58,  281. 
Story,*  j  Marie,  58. 

William,  281. 
Stoughton,  Mass.,  387. 
Strachy  Head,  Sussex,  Eng.,  107. 
Stratford,  Conn,,  300,  310,  411. 
Strathan,  N.  H.,  196,  277. 
Stratton,  Elias,  327. 

Eliphal  Sanford,  58. 

Strange,  }   ^ 

c^  ■  r  Honora,  102. 

Strmger,  ) 

Street,  Mary,  302. 

Strong,  Chief  Justice,  222. 

Stuart,  Mary,  322. 

Sturdevent,  Alvie,  399. 

Sturgiss,  Anthony,  362,  363. 

Sturtevant,  Rev.  J.  M.,  345. 

Peleg,  376. 

Sudbury  fight,  176,  290. 

Sudbury,  Mass.,  13,  16,  152,  318,  370. 

Suffolk,  Eng.,  151. 

Sullivan's  Brigade,  377. 

Sullivan,  Maj-Gen.  John,  31. 

Sullivan,  N.  H.,  171. 

Sunamansuck,  396. 

Surat,  India,  403. 

Swain,   Hannah,  100. 

John,  100,  247. 

Richard,  246. 

Swansea,    }    ,, 

„  y  Mass.,  97,  100,  no. 

Swanzey,   )  ji        j 

Swares, ,  85. 

Swayne,  Anne,  274. 

Bennett,  265,  272,  274. 

Bennett,  265,  274. 

Christian,  274. 

Jane,  274. 

John,  274. 

Jone,  274. 

Margaret,  274. 

Rebecca  (156-0),  261,  262,  265, 
272-274. 

The  Family  in  England,  274. 
Swede's  Run,  337,  338. 
Swedish  Colony  in  N.  J.,  365. 
Sweat,  Stephen,  198. 
Swett,  Benjamin,  235. 


464 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Swift,    )  Abiah,  378. 
Swyft,  )  Abigail,  374-376. 

Adoniram,  378. 

Alice,  374. 

Dean,  65. 

Dinah,  372,  373. 

Ebenezer,  372. 

Ephraim,  373. 

Esther  (Easter),  371,  373. 

Hannah,  371,  372. 

Heman,  375,  377. 

Henry  A.,  378. 

Innominatus,  376. 

Isaac  (230),  343,  375-378.  398. 

399- 
Isaac,  344,  374,  375.  378- 
Jabez,  373,  374,  375. 
Jireh  (228),  372-374,  380,  388, 

389- 
Jireh,  374,  375. 
Joanna,  376,  380. 
Job,  374,  375. 
Josiah,  372,  373,  374. 
Lura,  378. 
Mary  (Marie),  373. 
Nathaniel  (229),  374-377,  388, 

389- 
Nathaniel,  376,  378. 
Patience  (Patty)  (199),  211,213, 

343-346,  378- 
Rowland.  374,  375 
Rufus,  372. 
Ruth,  376. 
Samuel,  373. 
Shadrach  F.,  371. 
Silas,  374,  375,  389. 
Susannah,  374,  375. 
Temperance,  372,  373. 
Thomas,  372,  374. 
William  (226),  370-372,  385. 
William    (227),    371-373,    379, 

380,  386. 
William,  372,  374,  375,  380 
Zephaniah,  374,  375. 
Sylvester,  Nathaniel,  73. 

Peter,  72. 
Symmes,   Richard,  260 

Zechariah,  59,  64. 
Symonds,  Samuel,  262  273. 

Taber,  Job,  in. 

John,  III. 

Joseph,  III. 

Lydia  (65),  106-109,  in. 

Philip   (66),    107,    no-ii2,    169, 
382,391. 

Philip,  no.  III. 

Thomas,  no,  in. 
Taelman,  Jan,  98. 
Taggert,  Elizabeth,  364. 
Taintor,  Michael,  420. 
Talcott,  Helena,  175. 
Joseph,  176. 
Tallaca,  an  Indian,  357. 
Tallman,  Ann,  100. 


Tallman,  Benjamin,  95,  99,  100. 

Elizabeth  (47),  93,  94,  97,  98, 

100. 
Elizabeth,  231. 
James,  99. 
John,  100. 
Jonathan,  99,  100. 
Joseph,  100. 
Mary,  99,  100. 
Peter  (50),  97-100. 
Peter,  99,  100,  231,  262. 
Samuel,  99,  100. 
Susanna,  100. 
Tantamchege,  117,  121. 
Tarr  (alias  Herly),  Thomas,  403. 
Taunton,  Mass.,  99,  331,  382. 
Taylor,  Anthony,  394. 

Daniel,  141,  144,  150. 
George  A.,  400,  404. 
John,  141,  143,  145. 
Peter,  90. 
Robert,  90. 

Sarah,  141,  142,  143,  146. 
Zachary,  394. 
Taylor's  River,  Hampton,  394. 
Tefford  (Jefford),  Robert,  327. 
Tefft,  John,  80. 

Tabitha,  77,  80. 
Tentcrden,  Kent.  Eng.,  312-314. 
Tenrcmond,  David,  prince  of,  321. 
Matilda,  lady  of,  321. 
Tenth  Beverly  Co.,  254. 
Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  208,  210. 
Terry,  Samuel,  420. 
Test,  Benjamin,  342. 
Tew,  James,  31. 
Henry,  89. 
Tewkesberry,  Phillip,  328. 
Thacher,  Rev.  Peter,  271,  273,  309,  310. 
The  Angel  and  Star,  64. 
Thing,  (^  Bartholomew    (143),     194-196, 
Tyng,    \      238-241,  243. 
Benjamin,  239. 
Daniel,  239. 
Elizabeth,  239. 
John,  195,  239,  277. 
Jonathan   (141),    188,   192,  193, 

236,  237. 
Jonathan   (142),    192,    194,  195, 

237-239,  243,  276,  277. 
Jonathan,  193,  194,  239,  291. 
Joseph,  239. 
Josiah,  239. 

Mary  (133),  194,  198,  241,  255. 
Mary,  195,  276,  277. 
Samuel,  192,  193,  238,  239. 
Third  Newport  Co.,  R.  I.,  Militia,  102. 
Third  Regiment  of  Conn.,  120. 
Third  Regiment,  R.  I.  Militia,  31,  32,  35. 
Thomas,    Anthony,  152. 
Elizabeth,  348. 
Mary,  78,  293. 
Sarah,  376. 
Thompson,  Abigail,  411. 
Bridget,  49. 


Thompson,  Eliza,  378. 

George  D.,  286. 
Hannah,  49. 
Harriet  A.,  33. 
Isaac,  26. 
John,  III,  306,  411. 

M ,378. 

Martha  C,  33. 

Mary,  26,  no,  in,  296,  306. 


Ma 


140. 


Robert,  141,  143. 
Samuel,  33. 
William,  49. 
Thornton,  James,  340. 

of  Yarmouth,  385. 
Three  Codds  Tavern,  324. 
Thrille,  Edward,  149. 
Throckmorton,  Simon,  148. 
Thurston,  Gardiner,  103. 

Hannah,  50,  115. 
Rebecca,  86. 
Thurton,  Thomas,  191. 

Tiffany, ,  171. 

Tilden,  Nathaniel,  312. 
Tillinghast,  Abigail,  109. 

Benjamin,  108,  109. 
Hannah,  no. 
Elizabeth,  no. 
John,  108,  109. 
Joseph,  109. 

Lydia  (62),  102,  106,  109. 
Mary,  109. 
Mercy,  109. 

Pardon  (65),  106-109,  ■■■■ 
Pardon,  108,  109. 
Philip,  108,  109. 
Sarah,  109. 
Tilton,  Hannah,  340,  341. 

Peter,  340. 
Tinker,  Amos,  173. 
John,  156. 
Lydia,  161. 
Tinkham,  Hannah,  387. 

Mary,   387. 
Tisbury,  Wilts,  Eng.,  389,  390. 
Titus,  Anson,  408. 

Tiverton,  R.  I.,  55,  89,  93,  100,  107,  no, 
in. 

Tobey, ,  372. 

Toldervey,  Elizabeth  (179),  306,  307. 
John,  306. 
Walter,  306. 
Tolland,  Somerset,  Eng.,  182,  183. 
Tomsons  Island,  Dorchester,  302. 
Topsfield,  Eng.,  257,  258. 
Topsham,  Devon,  Eng.,  257,  258. 
Tor  Newton,  Devon,  Eng.,  401. 
Torric,  Lord,  323. 
Totnes,  Devon,  Eng.,  244,  391. 
Townsend,  Polly,  44. 
Toxteth  Park,  Liverpool,  Eng.,  315,  318. 
Tracy,  Joseph,  396. 
Miriam,  155. 
Thomas,  300. 
Trail,  Agnes,  323. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


465 


Train  Band  of  Branford,  301. 
Lyme,  179. 
New  Haven,  303. 
Newport,  105. 
Tratte,  Richard,  299. 
Treadwell,  Richard,  351. 
Treat,  Ehzabeth,  184. 
James,  24. 

Mayor, ,  17. 

Salmon,  23,  24. 
Treat  of  Eastham,  3S5. 
Trenton  Bridge,  31. 
Falls,  31. 
N.  J-,  352. 355- 
Treppes,  James,  351. 
Treworgye,  Elizabeth  (131),  189-193, 227- 
229,232,237,  266,  275,  280. 
James  (137),   189,   190,  226- 

229. 
Joane,  227,  229. 
John,  226,  227,  229. 
Lucy,  227,  229. 
Robert,  226. 
Samuel,  227,  228. 
Trinity  House  in  Deptford,  Eng.,  152. 
Trott,  Thankful,  317. 

Thomas,  317. 
Trumbull,  Lyman,  216. 
Tubbs,  Samuel,  161. 
Tuck,  Edward,  394. 
Tucker,  Samuel,  402. 

Valentine,  402. 
Tuckernuck  Island,  247,  248. 
Tuke,  Sir  Brian,  148. 
Toppfer.     1  Abia(229),375-377,388,399. 
Toupard,     |  Abigail,  375,  388. 
ToutPerd,  |  Ann,  387. 
Tupper,      J  Anne,  38S. 
Bethia,  387. 
Charles,  389. 
Sir  Charles,  388. 
Deborah,  389. 
Eldad,  373,  374,  387. 
Eliakim    (237),    373,    375, 

387,  388. 
Eliakim,  3S8,  389. 
Elias,  389. 
Elisha,  387. 
Hannah,  389. 
Ichabod, 387. 
Israel,  387,  388. 
Jane  (Sara),  387. 
Joanna,  389. 
Katherine,  379,  384,  386. 
Martha,  387. 

Medad,  387. 

Nathaniel,  389. 

Robert,  394. 

Ruth,  388. 

Solomon,  389. 

Thomas  (235),  371, 378, 379. 

384-386,  392. 
Thomas   (236),   373,   386- 

388,  392. 
Thomas,  387,  389. 


Tuppersville,  N.  S.,  389. 
Turkey  Hill,  Newbury,  243. 
Turner,  John,  308,  354. 
Mary,  308. 
Ruth,  308. 
Turpin,William,  81. 
Tuscaloosa,  Ala.,  224. 
Twiss,  Dr.,  10. 

Twyford, ,  65. 

Tyler,  Jane,  197, 199. 

Jonathan,  292. 

William,  31. 
Tymworth,  Suffolk,  Eng.,  137. 

Uncas,  17,49,  ^'5' 
Uncus,  Town  of,  179. 
University,  Brown,  216. 

Cambridge  (Clare  Hall),  232. 

Edinburgh,  287. 

Harvard,    16,    17,    137,    143- 

146,  196,  197,208,  210,  211, 

231,265-267,270,284,  310. 
Holland,  9. 

Johns  Hopkins,  223,  226. 
Oxford,  Brazenose,  9,  10,  66. 

Lincoln,  8. 

Magdalen,  306, 

Oriel,  6. 

University,  5. 
Pennsylvania,  95,  208,  210. 
Union,  166. 

Yale,  19,  20,  24,  44,  134,  158, 
166,  167,  284,  286,  302,  344, 

345- 
Upper  Alton,  111.,  209,  213,  346,  347. 
Upper  Wallop,  8. 
Urchfont,  Prebend  of,  4, 

Vaillant,  Mme.,  36. 
Valley  Forge,  377. 
Valparaiso,  33. 
Vandalia.  m.,  346. 
Vandelbergh,  Monsieur,  203. 
Vane,  Sir  Henry,  60,  67,  70. 
Varney,  Humphrey,  281. 
Varnum,  Gen.,  31. 
Vassall,  Mr.,  312. 
Vaughn,  }  Anne,  148. 
Vaugn,     j  Daniel,  98. 
John, 98. 

William,  80,  82,  86,  88. 
Ventham,  Margaret,  45. 
Vernon,  Katherine,  55. 
Very's  Plain,  253. 
Veazie,  Hannah,  236. 
William,  236. 
Vickerow,  George,  308. 

Rebecca,  308. 
Vicksburg,  Miss.,  347. 
Vincent,  Joan,  109. 
Vine,  Gov.,  229. 
Vinicum,  Anna,  340. 

Rachel,  354. 

William,  354. 
Voluntown,  Conn.,  18,  179. 


Waddell,  (    Sarah,  52,  73,  loi. 
Wodell,    S    William,  52,  83,  96,  101. 
Wade,  Mr.,  256. 
Wading  River,  L.  I.,  163. 
Wadleigh,  Henry,  182. 

Jonathan,  193. 
Wadsworth,  Capt.,  176. 
Wainwright,  James,  365. 
Wakefield  (South  Kingston),  R.  L,  76. 
Walbrook,  London,  148. 
Waldron,  Major,  279. 
Walker,  James,  382. 

Patience,  234. 

Richard,  291,  382. 

Sarah  (234),  379,  3S2,  3S3. 
Wall,  James,  394. 
Wallace,  Hope,  340. 
Waller,  William,  179,  180. 
Wallingford,  Conn.,  300-303. 
Wallis,  Robert,  403,  404,  405. 
Wallsworth,  John,  396. 
Walstone,  John,  100. 
Walter,  Nathaniel,  399. 
Walton,  Dorcas,  227. 
Wantage,  Eng.,  391. 
Wanton,  Gov.  Joseph,  28. 
Wapping,  Eng.,  81,  141,  142. 
Ward,  Joan,  354. 
Sarah, 253. 
Thomas,  354. 
VVardlaw,  Anna,  323. 

Margaret,  323. 
Wardwell,  Elizabeth,  416. 
Ware,  Charles,  102. 
Wareham,  Mass.,  311,  373-375. 
Warham,  Rev.  John,  183. 
Warner,  Abigail,  296. 

Daniel,  296. 

John,  153. 
Warneston,  William,  Lord  of,  320. 
Warranocke  Indians,  47. 
Warren,  Abigail,  382,  383. 

Alice  (233),  379,  380,  383. 

Ann  (Anis),  382,  383. 

Elizabeth,  382,  383. 

Hope,  383. 

Jabez,  383. 

James,  384. 

Jane,  383. 

John,  383. 

J.C.,381. 

Joseph,  382,  383. 

Mary,  382,  383. 

Mercy,  383. 

Nathaniel  (234),  379,  382,  383. 

Nathaniel,  383. 

Richard  (234-.^),  iii,  3S0-382. 

Richard,  383. 

Sarah,  iii,  382,  383. 

Sir  William,  145. 
Warren,  Conn.,  286,  375,  376,  378. 
Warwick  Neck,  28. 
Warwick,  R.  I.,  86,  96,  99,  100,  loi,  106, 

132. 
Wase,  Anna  (20),  70,  72,  loi. 


466 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


Washburne, ,  79. 

Washington,  D.  C,  211,  224,  226,  346. 
Washington  Family  Chart,  46. 
Washington,  George,   31,   46,   201,   203, 

204.  377.  3^4- 
John,  46. 
Katherine,  46. 
Laurence,  46. 
Susanna,  159. 
Sir  William,  159. 
Waterbury,  Conn.,  168,  169. 
Waterford,  Conn.,  121. 

NJ-,  339.  358-362- 
Waterman,  John,  28. 

Martha,  155. 
Richard,  128. 
Thomas,   155. 
Waite,  128. 
Waters,  E.  Stanley,  113. 

Hannah,  326,  327. 

Henry  F.,  297,  298. 

Jane,  327. 

Latimer,  324,  327,  329. 

Mary  (189),  277,  310,  311,    324, 

325.  327,  329- 
Mary,  326,  327. 
Thomas,  326,  327. 
William  (191),  326-328,  330. 
William  (192),  324,  326-330. 
William,  326,  328. 
Watertown,  Mass.,    10,    104,    no,    298, 
300,   307,  370,   372,   386, 
391-394. 
Mill,  391. 
Watkins,  Roger,  403. 
Watrous,  Isaac,  117. 
Watson,  Ann  (23),  74-76,  78,  85. 
Frances,  77,  78,  Si. 
Herodias,  77,  78. 
John  (27),  74,  75,  77,  80,81. 
John,  77,  159. 
Samuel,  77,  78. 
William,  77,  78. 
Watts,  Bridget,  402. 
Waverly,  111.,  346. 
Way,  Richard,  392. 
Wayles,  Robert,  177. 
Weare,  Esther,  235. 

Nathaniel,  23;. 
Weaver,  Clement,  86. 

Elizabeth,  86. 
Webb,  Charles,  377. 

Elizabeth  (15),  50-52,  loi,  103. 
Henry,  51,  52. 
Webster,  Deborah,  394. 
Elizabeth,  244. 
Samuel,  342. 
Weeden,  Hannah,  89. 
Phoebe,  89. 
William,  89. 
Weekes,  John,  92. 
Weeks,  Julia  Mary,  45. 
Weisse,  Mrs.  J.  A.,  324. 
Weld,  Dorothy,  175. 
Edmund,  175. 


Weld,  Joseph,  60. 
Wellingsly  (Hobshole),  381,  382. 
Wellowe,  Eng.,  271. 
Wells,  Ann,  75,  77. 

Barbara  (5),  27-30,  76,  95. 
Barker,  76,  77. 
Dorcas,  75. 
Edward,  73. 
Fanny  H.,  30. 
George,  73. 
Hugh,  73. 
Isaac,  73. 

James  (24),  27,  75,  76,  84,  85. 
James,  76. 
John,  74,  75,  236. 
Joshua,  76,  77. 
Mary,  75. 
Nancy  S.,  30. 

Peter  (22),  73,  75,  78,  90,  93. 
Peter  (23),  74-76,  78,  84,  85,  90. 
Peter,  75-77. 
Rebecca,  75. 
Richard,  73. 
Samuel,  73,  75. 
Thomas,  73,  74,  93. 
William,  74. 
Welles,  Elisha  Gardner,  166. 
Joseph,  73. 
Thomas,  299. 
Wells,  Me.,  53,  57,  58,  195,  197,  236. 
Wentworth,  Christopher,  65. 
John,  196. 
Thomas,  239. 
William,  58,  191. 
Wequetoquoc  Cove,  22,  25,  49. 
West,  Abia,  389. 
West  Barnstable,  313,  317. 
West  Chester,  349,  375. 
West  Greenwich,  Mass.,  109. 
West  Indies,  48. 
West  New  Jersey,  335,  336,  347,  348,  350, 

354'  35^1  3^2,  366-368. 
West  Point,  221. 
West  Roibury,  Mass.,  395,  396. 

Cemetery,  399. 
West  (Great)  Shefford,  Eng.,  307. 
Westcott,  Mercy,  109. 
Western  (Warren),  Conn.,  420. 
Westfield  Meeting  House,  338. 
Westfield,  N.  J.,  337,  341 . 
Westerly,  R.  I.,  17,  22-50,  74-102. 

Washington  Bank  of,  32,  33. 
Westminster,  Eng.,  227. 
Weston,  Lord,  85,  88. 
Wetherby,  Edmund  (221),  363-365,  369. 
Edmund,  365,  366. 
Henry,  365,  366. 
John  (220),  365,  369. 
Sarah   (214),  341,   342,   363- 
366. 
Wetherell,  David,  47. 
Wethersfield,  Conn.,  24,  50,  146,  169,  184, 

298,  299,  300. 
Weyborne,  John,  317. 

Thomas,  317. 


Weymouth,  Mass.,  79,  169,  170,  313,  314. 
Wheaton,  Christopher,  308. 
Martha,  387. 
Robert,  387. 
Wheeler,  Isaac,  226. 
John, 158. 
Margaret,  26. 
Thomas,  21,  26. 
Wheeling,  Va.,  212. 
Wheelock,  Rev.  Dr.,  287. 
Wheelright,  John,  46,  51,  57,  58,  60,  65, 

68,  236,  394. 
Whipple,  James,  317. 
John,  107. 
Sarah,  81. 
Whitall,  Hannah,  348,  349. 

John,  349. 
White,   Elizabeth,  175. 

John,  192,252,257,393. 
Whitefield,  Rev.    George,    38,    195—197, 

199,  200,  285. 
Whitefield  Rock,  38. 
Whitehorne,  John,  74,  76. 
White  Horse  Tavern,  358. 
White  Plains,  N.  Y.,  31. 
Whitesboro,  Conn.,  37. 
Whiting,  Abigail,  399. 
Charles,  24. 
William,  178,  179. 
Whittier,  John  Greenleaf,  236. 
Whittlebury,    Northamptonshire,     Eng., 

391. 
Wickford,  R.  I.,  73. 
Wiggins,  Thomas,  238,  280. 
Wilbourn,  Michael,  405,  412. 

Mary,  405,  407. 
Wilbur,  Hannah,  86. 
William,  100. 
Wilder,  Rev.  John,  166. 
Wiley,  Lydia,  164. 
Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  41,  44,  167. 
Wilkins,  John,  93. 
Mary,  93. 
Wilkinson,  Joane,  148. 

William,  148. 
Willard,  Joseph,  135. 

Simon,  13,  252. 
WiUett,  Andrew,  55,  72. 
Thomas,  72. 
William,  127. 
William  the  Conqueror,  107. 
William  in,  18,  316. 
Williams,  Ann,  400,  402-404,  412. 
Bathsheba,  396. 
Freeborn,  86. 
Mary,  109. 
Park,  396. 
Prudence,  30. 
Roger,  62,  68,  71,  78,  82,  86, 

107,  132,  382. 
Thomas,  381. 
Walter,  403. 
Will  of,  Beamsley,  William  (250-A),  412. 
Borton,  John  (200-2),  351. 
Butt,  Giles  de,  130. 


INDEX  OF  PERSONS,  PLACES,  ETC. 


467 


Will  of.  Case,  Moses  (244),  397. 

Coffin,  Tristram  (147).  25°- 
Dane,  Dr.  John  (171),  296. 
Derby,  Roger  (154),  258- 
EUet,  Charles  (214),  364. 
Engle,  John  (202),  354. 

Robert  (201),  353. 
Griffin,  Lemuel  (ro2),  164. 
Haines,  John  (200),  349. 
Hoc,  Gaulther,  139. 
Lawton,  Isaac  (47),  97. 

Thomas  (46),  96. 
Lay,  John  (93),  160. 
Lippincott,  Abigail   (r94-A),    335. 
John  (r97),  341. 
Nathaniel  (rgb),  339. 
Thomas  (195),  338. 
Marvin,  Reinold  (84),  154. 
Masters,  John  (65-a),  i  i  2. 
Matlack,  John  (206),  361. 
Mayhew,  Matthew  (238-A),  390. 
Newdigate,  John  (80),  137. 
Noyes,  Anne  Paricer  (2),  13. 
James  (2),  13. 
James  (3),  23. 
Joseph  (5),  29,  30. 
Thomas  (4),  25,  26. 
Ogborn,  Jane  Harvey  (203),  356. 

Samuel  (203),  355. 
Osgood,     Christopher,      (253-B), 

415. 
Pledger,  John  (223),  367. 
Sanford,  Samuel  (54),  loi. 
Swift,  Isaac  (230),  377,  378. 
Jireh  (228),  374. 
Joan  (226),  371. 
William  (227),  372. 
Tupper,  Thomas  (236),  3S7. 
Warren,  Nathaniel  (234),  383. 
Wells,  Peter  (23),  75. 
Wetherby,  Edmund  (22r),  366. 
Willoughby,  Elizabeth  (81),  141. 
William  (81),  140. 
142,  150. 
Willis,  of  Bridgewater,  58. 

Samuel,  17. 
Willoughby,  Christopher,  139. 

Francis  (82),  133,  134,  140- 

146,  150,  240,  333. 
Francis,  144. 
Hannah,  146. 

Jeremiah     (Jerinnah),  146. 
Jonathan,  142,  143,  146. 
Nathaniel,  146. 
Nehemiah,    143,    144,    146. 
Sarah,  143,  144,  146. 
Susannah (79),  ii8, 120,  133- 

135, 146, 182. 
William  (8r),  139-142. 


Willoughby,  William,  140,   141,   143,  144, 

146. 

Wills,  Daniel,  350,  356,  357,  358. 
Elizabeth,  337,  362. 
Hope,  337,  338. 
Mary,  338. 

Thomas,   227,   338,  370. 
Wilmington,  Mass.,  142. 

Wilson, ,  290. 

Deborah,  409. 

Edward,  261. 

Humphrey,  188. 

James,  409,  414. 

John,  II,  61,  67,  137,  191,  245, 

246,315. 

Margaret,  408. 

Sherburne,  416. 

Thomas,  417. 

Wilson  manuscript,  405,  408. 

Wilmington,  Del.,  212. 

Wimbledon,  Surrey,  Eng.,  144,  148,  149, 

150.  153- 
Winchester,  135. 
Windham,  Conn.,  375,  396. 
Windsor,  Conn.,  72,  158,  169,  178,  179, 

182-184,  ^31^  300* 
Wing,  Daniel,  371. 
Hannah,  371. 
John,  371. 
Samuel,  371. 
Winsley,  Samuel,  417. 
Winslow,  Edward,  143. 
Gov.,  315. 
Mr.,  142,  384. 
Winter  Hill,  Boston,  377. 
Winter,  John,  227. 
Winthrop,  Ann,  314. 
Col.,  18. 

Governor,  17,  18,  46-49,  51, 
60,  61,  63,  67,  69,  142,  169, 
260,  305,  314,  382,  391. 
Mr.,  179. 
Waite,  132,  237. 
Wise,  James,  231. 
Withe,  Martha,  252. 
Witherall,  Daniel,  54,  132. 
Woburn,  Mass.,  296,  382,  421. 
Wolcott,  Alice,  28,  182. 

Anna  (124),  126,  178-181,  184. 
Christopher,  182,  184,  185. 
George,  184. 
Henry  (126),  158,  178,  179,  182, 

184. 
Henry,  184. 
John  (126-A),  182,  183. 
John,  182,  1S4. 
Mary,  182,  184. 
Roger,  182. 
Simon,  ic8,  184 


Wolverton,  Warwick,  Eng.,  46. 
Woncohus,  116. 
Woodathall,  Ruth,  360. 
Woodberry's  Head,  263. 
Woodbridge,  Benjamin,  231,  407. 
Dudley,  210. 
Elizabeth,  231. 
Jane,  208. 
Jahleel,  286. 

John,  241,  273,  293,  413. 
Woodbridge,  N.J. ,  241,  353. 
Woodbury,  Conn.,  158. 
Woodbury,  a  fanatic,  197. 
Wooden,  Elizabeth,  310. 
Woodman,  Edward,  230. 
Wood,  Rebecca,  102. 

William,  102,  384. 
Wood  Roe,  Eng.,  294,  295. 

Woods, ,  328. 

Woodstock,  Conn.,  292,  395,  396. 
Woodward,  Ezekiel,4i2. 
John,  282. 
Mary,  102. 
Woodwell,  Joseph,  232. 
Wools,  John,  357. 
Worcester,  Mass.,  420. 
Worcester,  Rev.  William,  273. 
Worden,  Samuel,  317. 
Worffelde,  Mary,  127. 

WilUam,  127. 
Worman,  William,  160. 
Worth,  Elizabeth,  244. 
John,  244. 
WiUiam,  247. 
Wren,  Bishop,  187. 
Wright,  Abel,  396. 
Ann,  100. 
Benjamin,  100. 
John,  362. 
Samuel,  396. 
Susanna,  100. 
Wyer,  Mary,  100. 

Yale  Library,  181. 
Yarmouth,  Eng.,  67. 

Mass.,  no,  317. 
Yarnbrook,  Northamptonshire,  Eng.,  391. 

Yearns, ,  (220),  365,  369. 

Yellow  Am,  of  Hamlets  of  the  Tower, 

140. 
Yeomen  of  the  King's  Guard,  185. 
Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  205,  225,  255. 
York,  Duke  of,  356,  357. 
Yorkshire  colonists,  47. 
Young,  Daniel,  239. 

Hannah,  258. 

John,  95. 
Younglave,  Mary,  416. 
Youngstown,  Pa.,  344. 


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