Neil Mallon - Dwight Stone

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The Genealogies
of
Dwight Stone and Olive Evans

COMPILED BY
JULIA EVANS (STONE) NEIL
COLUMBUS, OHIO
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The Champlin Press Columbus. Ohio
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PREFACE
When
ther
Mrs. Neil began this work, nothing was farfrom her mind than pubHcation. Her only thought
was
to
make more
intimate acquaintance with her
own
people; to gain
some knowledge of their lives, how they met the dangers and difficulties of those earlier days,
what they thought and said and did ner of men and women they were.
;
in short,
what manlittle
To
learn a
of
all this
and perhaps, find a story or two for her grandchildren, was the height of her desire.
In consequence, comparatively
little
care
was taken
in the beginning to preserve the names of authorities, once the fact itself was esta'blished to her own satisfaction.
decided to
Later when the material began to accumulate, she embody it in two type-written volumes one
;
containing the ancestry of her father, Dwight Stone other, that of her mother, Olive Evans.
the
In the spring of 1906, Professor George E. Stone, of Amherst, with whom she had carried on some corres-
pondence, suggested that she should publish the book, assuring her that the number of those whom it would interest
ble.
was
far greater than she
would dream was
possi-
She accepted the suggestion and, since then every effort has been made, not only to trace each line as far back as records would permit, but to keep the names of
all
authorities
and
to recover,
when
it
could be done, those
lost. From the very first, however, no have been spared to verify each fact and whenever pains doubt remained it is so stated in the book. In the gen-
that
had been
ealogies
all persons from whom descent is claimed but not proved, are marked with an asterisk; and in the ac-
companying
text, all stories are
mentioned as probable or
for itself in the in-
only possible as the case
may
be.
The work has
far
more than paid
creased knowledge of Colonial and Revolutionary days and in the strengthening of that feeling for one's own
clan that has
made "Highlanders, shoulder

for loyalty the
to shoulder!"
the
watchword
wide world over.
Not the
in find-
least of the
reward has been the discoverer's joy
ing a missing
name
clue to the history of
or date, or greater triumph still, the some line whose records had seemed
to be forever lost in the
shadows of the
its
past.
it
She now sends the book upon

prove of
suit
way, hoping
may
real value to others enlisted in the

all
same pur-
and that
whom
it
may
personally concern,
may
from the energy, industry and sound the courage and endurance, best of all, the judgment, staunch integrity of the men and women who have given
inspiration
draw
them
life.
Alice Fay Potter.

Columbus, Ohio,
February, 1907.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The
into
plan of this book

sections.
two
very simple. It is divided In the first, the ancestry of Dvvight

is
Stone, the Stone lineage
is
given
first
and
all
others
follow in alphabetical order.

earliest of that
Each
line begins
with the
name from whom direct descent is proved and is continued down from father to son until the spindle comes into play. Of course the descendants of an
ancestress
must be sought among her husband's

its
people.
Turning to
their records, this second line can be traced
upward
to
source and
downward
to
where
it
also ends
in a daughter,
in a third
whose
children's
names must be sought

is
genealogy.
The
direct ancestry only
given
is
and any name on which marked with an asterisk.
rests
any shadow
of doubt
Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary," Bond's "History of Watertown," Paige's "History of Hardwick" and other local histories; the "New England Historical
and Genealogical Register" and many family have been faithfully studied. Much has been
records learned
through personal examination of town records, family Bibles and moss-covered headstones and a great deal of
valuable information has been received from Mr.
Sum-
ner
York, Mr. George Burnham, of North Windham, Conn., and Mr. George E. Porter, of Norwich, Conn.
Stone, of
W.
New
The second
section,
the ancestry of Olive Evans,
follows the same plan, the
Evans
line
coming
first
and
the others in alphabetical order.
THE ANCESTRY OF DWIGHT STONE
THE ANCESTRY OF DWTGHT STONE

STONE
1.
Symond Stone
land)
""(of
will
(made
Much Bromley, May 12, 1506)
Essex, Engmarried,
Elizabeth.
2.
David Stone
married.
3.
Symond Stone
(made
Agnes.
(of
Much Bromley),
1558) married,
married
will July 28,
4.
David Stone, married, Aug.

Bromley as Ursley.)
23, 1585,
Ursula, (written on the parish register of Much
5.
Gregory Stone, bom

20, 1617,
in England, 1592; died Nov. married at Nayland, England, July 30, 1672;
Margaret Garrad,
4, 1626.
6.
bap., Dec. 5,
1597; died Aug.
Elder John Stone, born
in
England, 1618; died
May
7
5,
1683; married, 1638, 1625; died
Ann Howe, bom

7.
May
11,
20, 1719.
Nathaniel Stone, bora May

17, 1732
;
1660; died Oct.
married, April 25, 1684,

died 1732.
Sarah Wayt, bom 1672;
8.
Hezekiah Stone, born March

18,
5,
1711; died July
1771; married,
born Feb. 23, 1714-5; died Aug.
2,
Ruth Howe,
1809.
9.
Col. Jesse Stone, bom Sept. 28, 1737; died July 26, 1803; married
Elizabeth Livermore, born

April 15, 1814.
10.
Jan. 7, 1734-5; died
Capt.
John Stone, born May
15,
1763; died Feb.
20, 1849; married 1785,
Nancy
11.
Rice, born Oct. 29, 1762; died Feb.
6,
1849.
John Stone, born Nov.
26, 1786; died July 28, Nov. 26, 1807, 1852; married,
3,
LoRA Parish, born May

1864.
12.
1786; died Dec. 13,
Dwight Stone,
born
1901; married,
May May 25,
14,
1817; died Jan.,
1840,
Oct. 28,
Olive Evans, born Oct. 29, 1815; died

1888.
13.
Julia Evans Stone, born Feb.

June
4,
5,
1843; married
1832.
1863,
Henry Moore
(Stone)
Neil, born Aug.
4,
Children of Henry
Neil.
Moore
Neil and Julia
Evans
William Neil, born

Olive Neil, born
Dec. 28, 1864;
Oct. 26, 1866.
Hannah
Neil, born July 10, 1868; married Nov.
12, 1891,
Guy Ward Mallon,
born April 28, 1864.
Alice Josephine Neil, born Aug.

ried,
21, 1870;
mar-
Dec. 31, 1903,
Rev. Albert Neilson Slayton, born April 21,

1875.
Fay Neil, born March

Florence Neil, born
6,
7,
1872.
6,
Oct.
1873; married, Oct.
1896,
Byron Lakin Bargar, born Jan. 12, 1867. Julia Stone Neil, born Feb. 28, 1876; married,
Oct. 17, 1900,
Alfred Hastings Chapin, born
Oct. 19, 1876.
STONE
6.
in
England, 1619; died
May
7.
5,
1683; married,
Ann Howe,
ried,
born 1625; died
May
20, 1719.
David Stone, born

Susanna.
Oct. 31, 1646; died 1737; mar-
8.
Samuel Stone,
Bathsheba.
born
May
23,
1685
married,
9.
Abigail Stone, born April

22,
13,
1712; married, June
1731,
April
2,
John Livermore, born
1709.
STONE
6.
in
England, 1619; died
May
5,
1683; married, 1638,
Ann Howe,
born 1625; died
May
20, 1719.
11
7.
Deacon Daniel Stone, born Aug.
31, 1644; died about 1719; married, Nov. 23, 1667,
Mary (Moore) Ward,

8.
died July 10, 1703.

9,
Elizabeth Stone, born Nov.

Joseph Livermore, born
1678; married,
Jan. 27, 1674-5.
small pamphlet, called
Mrs. John
Livingston
"The Stone Souvenir," by Stone of Marlborough, Mass.,

(often spelled Grig-
gives short accounts of Gregory

or)'e),
John, Nathaniel, Hezekiah and Daniel Stone.

a description of
Copy of
some property owned by
Gregory Stone:
"Impr on the comon one dwelling house with outhouses and fyve acr of land more or lesse, Thomas Parristh south east. An Crosby northwest, Susan Bloget
southwest, the
comon northwest."
or lesse Nathaniel
"Item beyond the fresh pond forty acrvpland and
meadows more
east,
Sparrowhawk
south-
and northwest, Watertown
line southwest,
comon
swampe northeast (sold this to Nathaniel Sparrowhawk later) owned also on the south side of Charles River." Gregory Stone was baptized at Great Bromley, After he came to Essex, England, April 19, 1592.
America he
house and
settled in
five
Cambridge, where he purchased a
acres on the westerly side of Garden street between the Botanic Garden and Concord avenue,
his
which became
home.
Both he and Elder John Stone
are buried in the graveyard of the First Church.
Elder John Stone, third child, was deacon of the church in Sudbury and employed by the town in civil
affairs
;
returned to Cambridge on the death of his father
12
and occupied the homestead; representative 1683. He died in Cambridge and his stone
yard adj.
follows
:
in
1682 and
grave-
in the
the First Church, Unitarian,
is
inscribed as
"Memento
Here
tu esse
Mortalum
lyeth ye body of Elder John Stone
Aged 64
years
Who
departed this
ye 5th day of May, 1683."

life
He was
1^>18;
baptized at
Nay land, England,

was an
July 31,
came
to America;
original proprietor of
Sudbury and
in
built in several places there, first within the
Wayland, then at Otter Neck now and in 1658, in what is now SaxonFramingham, ville on land purchased from the Indians and confirmed
limits of Sudbur}', or
b)*
a grant of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony, 1656.
He was
church,
Nathaniel Stone (ninth child) had eight children. selectman four years and was admitted to the
May
16, 1735.
2,
His
will is
dated June 23, 1732,

year.
and was entered Nov.

the .second largest in
He.i:ekiah
of the
same
tion of a tax to furnish ammunition,
June
27, 1710,
His proporwas
Framingham. Stone was a deacon

received
his
in the
church at Marl-
boro, N.
H.
He
from
his father the homestead,

in
"Bridgefield"'
and
interest
"Baiting
Brook
Meadow" and purchased land and buildings in Oxford, now Auburn, Nov. 25, 1761, where he removed, remaining there until his death in 1771.
in
He was
and
a selectman
Oxford during 1764,

in
'66, '67, '69
'70,
and was
a captain in the Revolution.
All of his children were
born
Framingham.
~1J
Colonel Jesse Stone settled in Framingham; went Oxford before 1763, where he lived on Prospect Hill, now in Auburn; was a captain in the Revolutionary
to
War; marched on "Bennington Alarm," 1777; was

from July 19
to
out
men
in the ranks.
(History of Oxford,
August
29.
There were no Oxford

Daniels.)
The
Oxford
I'ecords give Jesse Stone, fifth
son of Hezekiah,
as colonel in the Revolution.
"Captain John Stone, born May 15, 1763, at ford, Mass., soldier of the Revolution:
Ox
Date of enlistment,
6
September,
captain
;
weeks
rank, private
1779; length of colonel, Decker State,

;
Connecticut.
Date of enlistment. May, 1779; length of

service, 2
service,
weeks; rank, private; captain, Harvey; colonel,
Jackson; State, Connecticut.
Date of enlistment, July, 1780; length of 3 months; rank, private; captain, L. Parker;
service,
colonel,
Rand
State, Connecticut.
;
Resided at enlistment at Ward, Mass.

pension,
applied for
20, 1832, at
August
20, 1832; resided,
August
Worthington, Mass." The above is copied from a paper given by John Stone, of Columbus, Ohio, grandson of above John Stone.
Captain Stone probably moved to Worthington after 1802.
John Stone (11) lived at Worthington, Mass., almost all his life and all of his children were born there.
He was
a captain of militia.
to
Dwight Stone went

and was employed as a Sumner's establishment.
clerk in his
Columbus, Ohio, in 1839, Uncle Jesse and

subsequently became inter-
He
14
ested in the firm

himself.
and
in
1859, established a business for
During the and credit was such
Civil
War,
his business reputation
that
Governor Dennison turned to
him
for financial aid
for the benefit
and advice which he willingly gave In 1866, he of the state and country.
removed
became the head of the important cotton brokers' firm of Stone, Parmelee and Company. He retired from business in 1876 and removed
to
New York and
Worthington, where he died. He owned a large cotton plantation in Louisiana which is now carried on by
to
his son,
Dwight.
of Gregory Stone."
From "The Oxford Descendants
15
AVER
1.
John Ayer, born

married,
about 1592; died March 31, 1657;
Hannah
2.
died 1675.
Thomas Ayer,
1,
died Nov. 9, 1686; married, April
1656,
Elizabeth Hutchins, died 1710.

3.
John Ayer, born May

ried, Sept.
12,
1657; died 1743; mar-
13, 1683,
Hannah
4.
Travis.
Hannah
Ayer, born Aug.
10, 1686; married, July
31, 1729,
Sylvanus Herrington.
The
doubt.
original
orthography of
it
this
surname
isl
in
In the old records
appears in
many
forms,
among which are Ayer, Ayers, Ayerst, Ayres. Eire, and

Eyre.
The arms from

covered cups argent.
Crozier, page 12, are

Crest,
Gules, three
covered cup argent.
John Ayer (1) of perhaps Wiltshire, or of Norwich, County Norfolk, England, born about the year
1592, married in that kingdom, Hannah, whose maiden name has not been recovered, by whom he became the
father of six sons
and three daughters.

1637.
He
migrated to
New
England
in
voyaging
in
the ship
Ann," commanded by Captain Coos, and
located in
"Mary New-
16
bury, Essex County, Mass., which place had been incorporated May 6, 1635. His wife and children soon joined
him when
county, on
the family
removed
to Salisbury in the
same
its incorporation, October 7, 1740, going thence to Haverhill, Essex County, in 16-15, which place became a town the same year. Having devised his home-
stead in the last
Haverhill,
named place to his son, John, he died in March 31, 1657, aged 65 years. His widow
survived until 1675.
Ayer, of Haverhill, born in England, house and lot in the former place, in 1648. He bought a married, April 1, 1656, Elizabeth Hutchins, a daughter of John and Frances Hutchins of Newbury and Haverhill.
Thomas
Thomas Ayer died November survived by his widow until 1710.

Mass.,
9,
1686, and was
John Ayer, (3) of Haverhill, born
in
Newbury,
May
12, 1657, married in Boston,
September 13,
1683, Hannah, a daughter of Daniel and Esther Travis of the last named place by whom he had nine children
The family
where
its
removed to Stonington,
Conn., in
1695,
head joined the First Congregational Church,
March
31, 1700.
8,
1714, John Ayer, of Groton, alias and Hannah, his wife, "only survivStonington, Conn.,
September
ing daughter of Daniel Travis of Boston," signed a deed from which it appears that Mr. Travis had three daughters,
Susan,
who
died
s.
p.,
and Esther, who married
John Barnard.
John Ayer removed to Saybrook, Conn., where he He and his eldest son, John, built a acquired lands.
house at Ayer's Point there, and, the older man being a malster, a malt house was erected in the vicinity, some
17
of the foundations of which
Although an accident had deprived him of an arm, he was still active and energetic. In 1740, a new house replaced the prestill
remain.
vious one and in

days, dying
this,
the old gentleman passed his last
in 1743.
Hannah Ayer
in the
(4) born August 10, 1686, married Second Presbyterian Church of Preston, Conn., as
his second wife, July 31, 1729, Sylvanus Herrington of
Norwich.
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BACKUS
1.
William Backus,
1664; married,
of Saybrook, born 1638; died
Sarah Charles.
2.
Lieut. William Backus, married
May
11, 1660,
Elizabeth Pratt, born Feb.

3.
1,
1641; died 1730.

;
Elizabeth Backus,
Feb. 10, 1686-7,
died Dec. 29, 1728
married,
Capt.
Thomas Huntington,
7,
born March 18, 1664;
died Nov.
1732.
BACKUS
William Backus, the pioneer, came from Norwich, England, and was living in Saybrook in 1637. His first
wife, Sarah Charles (daughter of the Rev. John Charles He or Chodes) was the mother of all his children. married second, Mrs. Ann Bingham and brought with
him
son,
to America, three daughters,
two sons and a

and
his
step-
John Bingham.
Since the sons were of mature
age, he
made over
to
them
his settlements
name
does not appear on the records as proprietor. The name was originally spelled Bockius.
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BALCOM
1.
Henry Balcom,
married, Aug. 12, 1668,

19, 1644. 16,
Elizabeth Haynes, born July

2.
Elizabeth Balcom, born Aug.
1667; married,
Gershom
1768.
Rice, born
May
9,
1667; died Dec. 29,
BALCOM
Henry Balcom lived in Charlestown in 1674. Elizabeth Balcom and Gershom Rice had sixty-five
years of married
life.
He was
old.
101 years old when he
died and she, 80 years
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BENT
1.
John Bent,
died 1588; married,
Edith, died 1601.

2.
Robert Bent, born

ried, Oct. 13,
Sept.,
1566; died 1631; mar-
1589,
Agnes Gosling,
3.
died 1639.
27,
John Bent, died Sept. Martha, died May 15,
1672; married,
1679.
4.
Martha Bent,
born about 1643; died Aug. 29,

5,
1680; married, June
1663,
Samuel How, bom
Oct. 20, 1642.
BENT
John Bent (1) died
Robert Bent
Grafton.
(2)
Penton Grafton, England. was born and died in Penton

in
in the
His widow, Agnes, embarked
"Johna-
than" for New England with her daughter, Agnes and her daughter's husband in 1639. When near the banks
of
Newfoundland she
fell
ill
and died about the time the
ship
came
to
anchor
in
Boston Harbor, where her son-
in-law "procured to carry her to shore to be buried."
John Bent (3) came from Penton in England in 1638 with his wife and five children all under 12 years.
He
received a "division of
meadow"
in
Sudbury, Mass.,
in 1639;
was
selectman and also one of
Major Simon
Williard's troopers at
Dedham.
21-
BOWEN
1.
Owen Bowen,
Ellen Lloyd.
married,
2.
Griffith Bowen, married, Margaret Fleming.
1633,
3.
Henry Bowen,
born 1633; died March
13,
1723-4;
married, Dec. 20, 1658,
Elizabeth Johnson, died April

4.
20, 1701.
Elizabeth Bowen,
bap. Jan. 27, 1661; married,
Edward Morris, born March,
1658-9.
BOWEN
Another authority gives the following as the ancestry of Griffith
Bowen
bowen of blade
1.
Griffith
Bowen
(son of Owen), married.

in
2.
An, daughter of Berry in Berrymembert Philip Bowen, of Slade, married,

of Kilsey.
Devon.
Elspet, daughter and heir of Hopkin John Vychan

3.
4.
Francis Bowen, married, Griffith Bowen, married,
Margaret Fleming.
This pedigree was sent to the author of the "Bowen Memorial" by the Rev. J. D. Davies, M. A., Laumadoc, Glamorgan, Wales.
22
Griffith
his wife, Margaret,
Bowen, who came to America in 1638, and were probably the parents of Henry
They came from Llangenydd, Glamorgansh. admitted freeman of Roxbury in May, 1639. Later researches have verified the fact that he was the
Bowen.
He was
son of Griffith
of
Bowen and Margaret Fleming, daughter
Henry Fleming. Henry Bowen (3) emigrated with his father, coming from Wales to Boston in 1638. He moved with the His first planters from Roxbury to Woodstock in 1686.
tombstone record
in
Woodstock, Conn.,
is
as follows:
"Here
lies
buried
The body of Lieutenant Henry Bowen Who deceast March ye 13

1723 in the 90th year
of his age."
23
CAPEN
1.
Bernard Capen, born 1562;

JoANE PuRCHis, born March
26, 1653.
died ^ov.
8,
1638;
married, Whitmonday, 1596,

25, 1578; died
March
2.
Susanna Capen, born

13,
April 11, 1602; died Nov.
1666; married,
died
William Rockwell,
May
15, 1640.
CAPEN
The
on a
in
early records of the
Capen family were found
fly leaf of a
copy of the Old Testament, published
London
in 1615.
Barnard
church yard
follows
:
Capen
and
his
wife, are buried
in
is
the
as
in Dorchester,
Mass.
Their epitaph
Here
lies
the Bodies of
Mr. Barnard Capen
&
Mrs. Joane Capen his wife; He died Nov. 8
1638 Aged 76 years & She died March

26,
1653
years.
Aged 75
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CHESLEY.
1.
Philip Chesley, married, Elizabeth.
2.
Thomas Chesley,
born about 1644; died Nov. 15,
1667; married, Aug. 23, 1663, Elizabeth Thines (or Thomas).

3.
Susanna Chesley,
1746; married,
born' about
1668
died Sept. 28,
John Smith, born
July 13, 1672; died
May
8,
1739.
CHESLEY
Philip Chesley (1) of
still
Dover
in 1642,
and who was

(maiden
living
in
1685, married
first,
Elizabeth
name not
Thomas.
given),
who became
the mother of his son,

after 1661, the wid;
She died and some time
ower married Sarah (name not given) after whose death, her husband took a third wife, Joanna, who survived him.
born about 1644, married, August 22, 1663, Elizabeth Thines (or Thomas) and was
(2)
killed
Thomas Chesley
by the Indians, November
15,
1667,
when only
twenty-three years of age.
Susanna Chesley (3) born after the tragic death of her father, married John Smith before 1695 and went
with him from Watertown to Preston, Conn., and later
to Stonington
where she
died,
September 28, 1746, after
seven years of widowhood.
25
CHOATE
1.
Robert Choate, married,

Sarah.
2.
John Choate,
1695
;
bap.
June
6,
1624;
died Dec. 4,
married,
died Feb. 16, 1727.
15,
Anne, born 1637;

3.
John Choate, born June

1733; married,
1661; died July 17,
Elizabeth
4.
Giddings.
Anne Choate,
;
born
May
22, 1691; died
Aug.
1,
1730 married, Nov. 29, 1706,
George Martin,
Jr., died
Aug.
1,
1755.
CHOATE
The
early origin of the Choates
is
lost in obscurity.
Possibly they emigrated from France to Holland. Later, the Van Choates went from Holland to England and
settled
in
Essex and Suffolk.
They then dropped

in
the
Van.
John Choate (1) was baptized

Colchester,
Groton Boxford,
He emiEngland, June 6, 1624. grated to America and was one of the first settlers of Ipswich, Mass. He gradually acquired nearly the whole
Essex,
of
Hog
Island, purchasing the site of the present
Choate
1678; was made a freeman, 1667, and sergeant of militia. He was a member of the Congregational
House
in
26
Church, but was thus described:
"A
hard case and no-
body but a clergyman could deal with him stealing apples and triumphantly acquitted
lying,
charged with
;
charged with
which was disproved;
his wit
and brains were

on
his
largely exercised in getting himself out of his law scrapes
and he seems to have stamped
his personality
descendants to such a degree that large numbers of them lipve taken to the law as naturally as ducks to water."
John
Choate
(3)
and
John
Wainwright
in
It
were
Can-
granted a township for service of Ipswich men ada expedition of 1690, dated January 15, 173G.
subsequently comprised in
was
New Hampshire
first,
)
and
called
New
Ipswich.
He
married
(
Elizabeth Graves; sec-
ond, Mrs. Elizabeth
Giddings; third, Mrs. Sarah
Perkins, and fourth, Mrs. Prudence Marshall.
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CLARK
1, 2.
John Clark,
Lieut.
married,
Elizabeth Clark, married, 1636,
William Pratt.
CLARK
John Clark of Saybrook
Saybrook, 1650-1664. of 1662.
in
1640 may have been of

in the royal chart
Wethersfield, afterwards of Milford; representative for
He
is
named
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DEATH
1.
John Death,
married,
Mary Peabody,
2.
born 1656.
5,
Hepsebah Death, born June

Dec. 25,
1680;
married,
.,^_
David How, born Nov.
2,
1674.
DEATH
min
John Death, of Sudbury in 1672, bought of BenjaRice, 40 acres of land on the old Connecticut road
near Beaver
Dam.
He was
in
1, 1677-8, and was rated committees in 1700 and
received to Sherb'l, January Fra'ham, 1710 and on town
after.
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FOSTER
1.
Renold Foster, born about 1595;

Judith, died Oct., 1644.
married,
2.
Mary
Foster, died April
9,
1705
married
May
18,
1642,
Francis Peabody, born about 1614; died Feb.

1697-8.
19,
FOSTER
tioned in
The family of Foster or Forster is honorably men"The Lay of the Last Minstrel."
Renold (sometimes written Reginald) Foster as is generally accredited, was born in Exeter, County of
Devon, England
spectable
the descendant of an ancient

to
and
re-
family; came
America
in
one of the vessels
embargoed by King Charles I, accompanied by his wife, Judith, five sons and two daughters, and settled in Ipswich about 1636.
He was
it
and
Hog
Islands and
is
a large land owner on Plum supposed that what remains
House was the site of his residence. He was twice married, first to Judith, who died at Ipswich
of the old Foster
in October,
will,
1664, and second, to Sarah Martin.

codicil
His
attached, March 5, April 30, 1680, 1680-1; and proved June 9, 1681, mentions his "daughHe left property ter, Mary, wife of Francis Peabody."
made
valued at 744 pounds, 16 shillings, including some real

estate.
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Foster's Genealogy gives the English ancestry of Renold Foster, back through Alfred the Great and Char-
lemagne.
RENOLD FOSTER'S ANCESTRY.

Penold Foster, who left his home in Devon, England, in J 638, to become one of the pioneer settlers of
Ipswich, Mass., lived quietly enough in the little New England village, but when he and his children gathered
of an evening around the great fire-place in the living room, he could tell them tales without end of the valor
and beauty and glory of the men and women of their line. For the family of Foster, or Forster, can show its
descent in unbroken records from Pepin le Vieux, Mayor of the Palace for Sigebert II, King of Austrasia in 638.
The record
1.
follows
Pepin le Vieux, (of

Palace in 638.
Landen),
Mayor
of
the
2.
Begga, a daughter of Pepin, married,

AusEGis, son of
St.
Arnulf.
3.
Pepin
d'
Heristal, Mayor of Austrasia, who broke

687 and united Aus-
the power of a rival Neustrian family in a decisive battle near Testri in

trasia,
Neustria and Burgundy under one head.
He
4.
died in 714.
of Pepin d'
Charles Martel, son

Alpaide,
Heristal and
that
his
won
the
same ascendancy
father had achieved in three sanguinary battles,
Amblene, 716; Vinci, near Cambrai, 717; and Soissons, 718. His greatest exploit was the re-
31
pulse of the Arabs and
Moors
at
Tours
in 733.
He
5.
died in 741.
Pepin le Bref, who contented himself as his father, grandfather and great-great-grandfather had
done before him, with the title of Mayor of the Palace until 752 when, with the approval of the Pope and by the act of a great assembly of
leudes and bishops, he
was
lifted
on the shield
and crowned and anointed King of the Franks.
He
6.
reigned until his death in 768.
Charlemagne, was born in 743 and in 768, succeeded his father as King of the Franks. After many victories at home and abroad he was crowned Emperor of the West by Pope Leo
the Third at
year 800.
in 814.
7.
Rome He died
on Christmas Day in the full of years and honors
Louis the Pious, or the Debonaire, son of Charlemagne and Hildagarde, married for his second wife, Judith, daughter of Welf the Bavarian, "an ambitious and dangerous lady." Louis died
in 843.
8.
9.
Charles
the Bald, born 823
died 877.
Judith, daughter of the above, married,
Baldwin I of Flanders, who was called "The Iron Arm" because of his great strength. He was
king of Neustria (the greater part of modern France) and built castles at Bruges and Ghent.
10.
Baldwin Alfrith
of Flanders, died 919; married,
(or Elfrida)
daughter of Alfred
the
Great of England.
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11.
Arnulf the elder of Flanders, died 989 married, Adela (or Alice) daughter of Herbert II, Count
;
of Vermandois.
12.
Baldwin
III of Flanders, died 961
was given the

father
government of Flanders by his

after the
trol.
who,
younger man's death, resumed conBaldwin married,
Matilda, daughter of Herman Billung, Duke of

Saxony.
13.
Arnulf
the younger, married,

II,
Rosalie (or Susanna), daughter of Berenger
King
14.
of Italy.
Baldwin
IV, called "he of the handsome beard," was a great Vvarrior and defended Flanders
against the united forces of the emperor, Henry II, King Robert of France and the Duke of
Burgundy.
He
married.
Ogive, daughter of Frederick, Count of the Moselle.

15.
Baldwin V, le DeBonnaire,
Adela, daughter of Robert
a son of
died 1067; married,
II of France,
who was
Hugh
Capet, grandson of
I,
Hugh
the
Great, great-grandson of Robert
and great-
great-grandson of Robert the Strong.

16.
Sir Richard the Forester,
(with his father) came to England in 1066 with his brother-inlaw, William the Conqueror.
who
17.
Sir
Hugo Foresterious
when
or Forster, died 1131;
marched against Magdus, King of Norway,

the latter invaded
England
in 1101.
33
18.
Sir Reginald Forster, died 1156; was knighted by King Stephen for his valiant conduct at the
Battle of the Standard,
August
22, 1138.
19.
Sir
William Forster
took part in suppressing the formidable insurrection in Wales in 1163 and
1165, after which he went to France.

ple
The
peo-
of
Brittany
rebelled
against
their
duke,
Conan, but the

II of
rebellion
England.
was quelled by Henry Sir William was about return-
ing to England, but Henry II, being involved in hostilities with Louis VII of France, he re-
mained and took part

till
in all
the engagements
peace was concluded

6,
at Montmirail, Janu-
ary
20.
1169.
I
Sir
John Forster accompanied Richard

tine,
to Pales-
for his valor.
where he received the honor of knighthood He was one of the barons who
compelled King John to sign

in 1215.
21.
Magna Charta
Prince Richin
Sir
Randolph Forster accompanied

ard, brother of
Henry
III to
France
1225
for the purpose of regaining the French provinces.
After a year's fighting, an armistice was declared, but the French king dying, very little
was accomplished.
22.
Sir Alfred Forster, died 1284;
assisted
Prince
Edward,
after his escape
from the
rebel barons,
an army for the purpose of releasing Henry III and Prince Richard from their confinement; was appointed one of the king's ofin raising
34
ficers;
took
4,
part
in
the battle of
August
1265,
and
Evesham, received the honor of
knighthood on the
23.
battlefield.
Sir Reginald Forster, died 1328; fought at Bannockburn in 1314. His descendants were great
chieftains
and
closely allied to royalty, in Scot-
land, Ireland,
Wales and England.

John Forster, 1190
There
in
is
monument
to Sir
Bam-
borough Abbey, bearing

24.
his effigy in full
armor.
Sir Richard Forster, died 1371
fought at Crecy
his valor.
August
19,
25,
1346, and at Poitiers, September
1356 and was knighted for
25.
Sir
John Forster took an active part against the French under Henry V, by whom he was
knighted.
26.
Sir
Thomas Forster
was born
in
of Etherston Castle, Knight,
1397, and married,

co-heiress
in
Joan
Elverden,
to
the
earldom
of
Angus, no^v
27.
abeyance.
Sir
Thomas
of
Forster, knight, married a daughter Fetherstanbaugh of Stanhope Hall, Dur-
ham. (This family was of Saxon origin. Their house was upon a hill where there were
two
28.
f etherstones. )
Sir
Thomas
Forster, knight, of Etherston Castle, married a daughter of Lord Baron Hilton of Hilton Castle. Forster, married
of Ralph,
in
29.
Sir
Thomas
1572,
Dorothy, daughter
Lord Ogle of Ogle
35
and Baron of Bothall of Bothall
Mary,
iorgne.
in
his
wife,
Castle, by daughter of William Gastis
The Ogle family
of great antiquity
Northumberland.
Sir Robert
was the eighth
in descent
Ogle
of
30.
at
from Humphrey Ogle, who settled at the Conquest. His wife was the daughBothall.
ter of
Lord
William Gastiorgne was
Lowthorp and a knight of Yorkshire.

Forster, knight, of Etherston, mar-
Sir
Thomas
ried,
Feorina, daughter of Thomas, Lord Wharton of Wharton. He was of Adderstone and will was
dated, April 4, 1589.
31.
Cuthbert Forster,
will dated
1589; married,
Elizabeth Bradford.
33.
Forster, Esquire, of Bremton married, Margaret Forster, daughter of Richard Forster,

;
Thomas
Esquire, of Zungwell Hall
Elizabeth
Esquire.
33.
Carr,
daughter
of
married second, William Carr,
Reginald Forster, came to America
born
in
Bremton,
England,
in 1638.
He
married,
Judith, died October, 1664.

34.
Mary
Foster, married,
Francis Peabody.
FOSTER
1.
Elmund, King of Kent, great-grandson of Ingild, the West Saxon, and descendant of Cerdic, who
founded the kingdom of Essex.
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2.
Egbert, the daring and ambitious West Saxon, who triumphed over all his competitors and became
King of England.
magne.
3.
He was
a friend of Charle-
Aethelwulf,
OsBURGHA^
bearer,
in
whose reign the Danes made many
attempts to invade England.
He
the
married,
king's
daughter of
Oslac,
cup-
and through her mother,
a descendant
of Caedwalla,
Cerdic.
who
took the Isle of
Wight from
alike in family
4.
Osburgha is said to have been "noble and by her own disposition."

;
Alfred, the Great, born 849 died 901 who drove the Danes from England; advanced learning, founding schools and founding or re-establish;
ing Oxford; restored order; rebuilt London and other cities; constructed a fleet, the begin-
ning of the English Navy, and extended the power of the Christian Church. He married,
Elswitha, daughter
of Ethelred Mucel, the Great,
Earl of the Gaini, and Edburgha, a princess of

the royal house of Mercia.
5.
Elfrida (or Alfrith), died 929; married,
Baldwin
of Flanders.
ANCESTRY OF RENOLD FOSTER

1.
GuNTHiCAR, king
of Burgundy, married,
;
2.
3.
GuNDiCAR, king of Burgundy, died 451

GuNDERic, king of Burgundy,
killed
married,
477; married,
4.
St. Clotilde, died 540; married,
Clovis, king of the Franks.
37

1.
Meroveaus, married,
Childeric
I,
2.
married,
Basin A.
3.
Clovis,
bom
466; died 511;

then
who
left in
in
486 broke the
only
"like
Roman power
autumn
Gaul, the legions
of Syagnius of Soissons, sweeping them

leaves before the wind."
away
After a
great victory over the Allemans in 496, he with

all
his warriors,
received baptism.
He
mar-
ried,
St. Clotilda, niece of the

4.
Burgundian king.
Clothair
I,
married,
5.
Blithilda, married,
Ansbert,

1.
Ansbert^ married,
Blithilda, daughter of Clothair
I.
2.
Arnoald, married,
Oda.
3.
St.
Arnulf, born 582;

married,
died Aug. 16, 640;
DoDA, a Snabian
4.
lady.
AusEGis, married,
Begga, daughter of Pepin.
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St.
Arnulf (3) a noble Frank, was advanced at the
court of Theodebert, by Gundulf, Mayor of the Palace, when only sixteen years of age. S. Baring-Gould says
"He
served the king in
war and peace and became accom-
plished in
every art then cultivated.

fight,
He
could read, but
he could also
write but also hunt."
He
remained
at court after the accession of Clothair
H, but "it
may
easily be imagined that Arnulf, a man loving God, seeking righteousness, should feel ill at ease in attendance
on the throne of a prince

retired to the
like Clothair.
He would
was not
have
monastery
at Lerina, but
suffered
to do so by the king." He was made Bishop of Metz about 599. After an episcopate of twenty-three years
he was again called to court as principal adviser of King

Dagobert, from whom he, however, finally won consent to retire to a cell in the Vosges Mts., where he died
August
16, 640.
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FRENCH
1.
Lieut.
William French, born 1603;
married,
Elizabeth Symmes, died March

2.
31, 1668.
Sarah French, born March, 1638;

1694; married Aug. 15, 1660,
died Oct. 14,
Jonathan Peake, born
Dec. 17, 1637.
FRENCH
Wihiam French was bom in Halstead, Essex, England, March 15, 1603; came to America with the Rev. Thomas Shepherd in the ship, "Defence" in
Lieut.
Cambridge; was one of the original proprietors and settlers of Billerica; lieutenant and afterward, captain of militia; selectman, 1660-68; and repre1635 and
settled in
sentative in 1660.
He
married second,
Mary Lothrop
Stearns and he and this second wife were ancestors of
Olive Evans.
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GRANT
1.
Christopher Grant, married,

Sarah.
2.
Mary Grant,
1681.
married, Feb. 22, 1668,

Sept. 27, 1642; died
Daniel Smith, born
June
7,
GRANT
In Bond's "History of Watertown"
we
find the fol-
"January 19, 1691-2, Caleb, Christopher and Joseph Grant and their sisters, Sarah Sevorns and Mary
lowing:
Smith, state to the court that their father died about six
years since intestate, that their mother is now deceased and they pray for a division of the estate." Christopher
Grant therefore died about 1685-6 and

January 19, 1691-2.
his wife before
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HAYNES
1.
married,
Alice.
2.
Walter Haynes,
born
in
England,
about
1583;
died Feb. 14, 1664-5; married,
Elizabeth, died June

3.
15, 1659.
John Haynes, born

ried,
in
England, about 1622; mar-
Dorothy Noyes,
4.
died April
8,
1715.
19,
Elizabeth Haynes, born July Aug. 12, 1666,
1644; married,
Henry Balcom.
HAYNES
3.
John Haynes, born

ried,
in
England, about 1622; mar-
Dorothy Noyes,
4.
died April
8,
1715.
Peter Haynes, born April

2,
7,
1654; married, Jan.
1677,
Oct. 26, 1656. Jan. 28, 1697;
Elizabeth Rice, born

5.
Hester
Lieut.
(or
Esther) Haynes, born
died Aug. 16, 1770; married,
Gershom
Rice, born about 1696; died Sept.
24, 1781.
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HAYNES
The family
of
Haynes
is
said to
go back through
Einem, Prince of Powys, Wales, distinguished in wars against Henry I, 1100-1135, to Gwyn, a descendant of
Brockwel Yschithrog, who reigned over Powysland

607.
in
John Haynes and Alice Lambert

October 23, 1575,
ters of a mile at
were
married,
Sherburne, Dorset, not three-quar-
from the English home of Walter Haynes, and may very possibly have been his father and mother. Walter Haynes (3), one of the first proprietors of
Sudbury, was born in Sutton Mandeville, Wilts, in 1583. He also owned a house and out-buildings in the village
of Shaston on the Island of Purbeck, Dorsetshire.
In
1638, he came to America in the ship "Confidence" with

his wife,
Elizabeth, five children
three servants.
(John was one) and Before his emigration he was a linen
draper in Sutton Mandeville.
The Order
bury says:
of Court establishing the town of Sud-
"The order
inhabitants
J.
is
of this court upon the petition of the
that
PETER NOYES,
Parm
(enter),
WALTER HAYNES
Bryan Pendleton, and EDMUND

etc.,
RICE
have commission to lay out lands,"
etc.
"History of Watertown."
The
Alice
will.
three
names
capitalized are our ancestors.

left
"It
my
Haynes (Walter's mother)

son, Walter,
life
an interesting
shall
have use of
I
my
biggest
brass pann during his
who pann
give to
Thomas
Haynes
his son."
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"The Old
Sudbury," says:
Petition,"
quoted
in
"The History of
well knowing Our grounds, passes, avenues and situations had near surrounded Our town
in
"The Enemy
ye morning early (wee not knowing of it) covered by firing severall deserted houses; the
till
dis-
Enemy
with great force and fury assaulted Deacon Haines house,

well fortified yet badly situated as advantageous to ye
to ye Repellant yet Garrison not onely defended ye God) ye place fro betweene five and six of ye clock in ye morning till about One in ye afternoon, but forced ye Enemy with
Enemy's approach and dangerous

(by ye help of
considerable slaughter to
draw
off.
Many
observables
:
worthy of record happened in this assault, vizt.
that noe
man
or
woman seemed
men
to be possessed with feare.
Our
Garrison
kept not within their Garrisons, but issued
forth to fight ye
Enemy
in their
skulking approaches.
slain
We
had but two of Our townsmen
&
yt
by
indis-
cretion,
none wounded."
of Captain
The grave
the
Wadsworth
is
not far from
Haynes Garrison house.
In the attack on the town
of Sudbury, April 21, 1676, the great chieftain, Philip,

directed his warriors in person.
John Haynes (3) resided
in
Sudbury.
HERRINGTON
1.
Isaac Herrington, died 1727; married,
Sarah.
2.
Sylvanus Herrington,
married, July 31, 1729,
Hannah
3.
Ayer, born Aug. 10, 1686.
Hannah
Herrington, died Feb.
9,
1777; married,
Oct. 18, 1750,
John Parish, born

11, 1817.
IMarch 10, 1726-7; died Feb.
HERRINGTON
Isaac Herrington appeared in Norwich, Conn., as early as the year, 1703, as is instanced by the deed of
land to him of which the following
is
an abstract
January 26, 1702-3, John Hurd, of Stratford, colony

of Connecticut, yoeman, in consideration of 11 Lds. paid "by Isaac Herrington, now dwelling in Norwich in the
county of
london in the Colony aforesaid, hus^ bandman," deeded unto him sixty acres of land in Norwich, "on the east side of the river
New
Quenebauge
at a place
known by
the
name
of
Pabaquanesque."
(Norwich
Lands, 167.)
Isaac Herrington died in 1727; left wife, Sarah, and four children, Isaac, Sylvanus, James and Patience.
(History of Norwich, 231.)
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Sarah Herrington, Isaac's widow, was living
in
Norwich
in
1733, as
is
evidenced by the following:
March 17, 1733, there was recorded to her 'The ten acres of Land given to me ye Subscriber by my Deceased
Husband, Isaac Herrington of said Norwich, Dec'd."
her
Sarah
Entered Nov. 11, 1734.
X
mark
Herrington.
(Norwich Book of Grants, 548-4.)

Sylvanus Herrington of Norwich, married for his
first
wife, in the Congregational Church in Newent, in Norwich, (the town of Lisbon since May, 1786), June
26, 1727, Elizabeth
Lambert,
Preston
31,
who
evidently died soon.
He
married for his second wife,
in the
Second Congre1815, the

the
gational
Church
in
(since October,
town of Griswold) July
1729,
Hannah Ayer,
She was the daughter of John and Hannah (Travis) Ayer.

records of these churches furnishing the evidence.
had
at least
:
Sylvanus Herrington, by his wife, Hannah Ayer, one daughter, Hannah, as is proved by the
following
April
Sylvanus Herrington of Norwich, "husbandman, for a valuable Consideration" paid "by my Son-in-law John Parish of Preston," deeded "unto ye
9,
1751,
John Parish and to his wife, Hannah," "Between thirty and forty acres of Land Situate in Norwich
sd.
afores'd."
(Norwich Lands,
10, 415.)
Hannah Herrington married

gational Church of
in the
Third Congre-
Windham
(Scotland parish), Octo-
ber, 1750, John Parish of Preston.
(Records of that church.)
Day
of
month
is
omitted.
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John Parish of Preston and Hannah Harrington of Windham were married, October 18, 1750. (Preston
Vital Records, 2, 40.)
The
children of John and
Hannah
(Herrington)
Parish were:
1.
Cyprian Parish, born September
8,
1751.
2.
Phebee Parish, born June
17, 1753.
2,
(Preston Vital Records,
40.)
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HILLS
1.
Joseph Hills, born 1602; died Feb.

ried,
7,
1687; mar-
July 22, 1624, at Burstead Magna,

24, 1650.
Rose Cleerke, died March

2.
Mary
Hills, married,
Captain John Wayte.
HILLS
Recent researches point to the ancestry of Joseph
Hills as of considerable importance
and antiquity.
He
came from Maldon, Essex, England, to Maiden, New England in 1638, and was closely identified with the
early history of the latter town,
positions of trust.
where he
filled
many
with
"Joseph
Hills
and
Capt.
Wayte
divided
the community.
Brackenbury and Sergent the education and honors of His home was at the corner of Salem
streets,
and Main
where
his
well-known well yielded cooltill
ing draughts to
man and
beast
the year 1894."
"History of Maiden."
"Mr.
and
Hills did say at his daughter, Harris, her
wed-
ding, in the hearing of
others that his wife
Mr. Sims, line lieutenant Wayte must be his master and that
since that speech of
Mr. Hills and by means thereof, he

"History of Maiden."
(the speaker) never had a quiet day with his wife."
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HOWE
1.
John Howe,
Mary.
married,
2.
Samuel How, born

5,
Oct. 20, 1642; married, June
1663,
died Aug. 29, 1680.
2,
Martha Bent,
3.
David How, born Nov.

1700,
1674; married, Dec. 25,
Hepsebah Death, born June

4^.
5,
1680,
Ruth How,
born 1715
married,
Hezekiah Stone, born
1711.
HOWE
According
to tradition
will
handed down
in the family,
John
How
(1), whose
was proved
in 1689,
was a
son of John
family of
of Charles
a son of John
How of Warwickshire, England, who was How of Hodinhall and connected with the Lord Charles How of Lancaster in the reign
L
(1) of Sudbury and Marlborough, took May 13, 1640; was an early landed
John
How
the freeman's oath,
proprietor, selectman
and marshal
was appointed by
the
pastor to "see to the restraining of youth" during public service. His will was proved in 1689.
(2) and Samuel Gorkin purchased of the Natick Indians, 1700 acres of land along the road
Samuel
How
from Sudbury
to Sherburne.
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David
How
(3) kept the
How
Tavern
at
Marlbor-
ough when
there were only
two houses between the tavern
and Worcester.
This tavern, afterward known as the

is
Red Horse Tavern,
"On
Longfellow's "Wayside Inn." the Boston road through Sudbury is the old
It
Howe
Tavern or "The Wayside Inn."

in
was
built
about
or
the beginning of the 18th century by David
Howe
How, who
1702, received of his father, Samuel
How
(a son of John) a tract of 130 acres.

cess of construction the
During
the pro-
workmen
it
resorted to the Par-
menter Garrison
house and
at night
its
for safety
from the Indians.

as a public
About the time of

in
erection
was opened
1646, Ezekiel
Howe
of Revolutionary fame
it
put up the sign of the
Red Horse, which gave
the
name
of the
"Red Horse Tavern."
In 1796 Ezekiel
Howe
when name
died and his son,
years; his son,

it
Adam, Lyman, continued
kept the tavern for 40

it
as a tavern
till
1866
passed out of the hands of an owner by the
of
Howe.
"Annals of Sudbury, Wayland,
etc."
"But
first
the landlord will

his
trace
Grave
in
aspect and
attire;
A man of ancient pedigree. A justice of the peace was he

Known
Of
in all Sudbury as the Squire. Proud was he of his name and race
old Sir William and Sir
Hugh,
And
Upon
in the parlor full in view
His coat of arms,
well
framed and glazed,
the wall in colors blazed;
He
beareth gules upon his shield,
50
chevron argent in the
field,
With
three wolf's heads, and for the crest,

part-per-pale addressed a helmet barred; below
A Wyvern
Upon
The
scroll reads
And
over this
'By the name of Howe' no longer bright

a latent light
his grandsire bore
Though glimmering with
Was hung
the
sword
In the rebellious days of yore
Down
there at Concord in the fight."
"As ancient is As any in the
this hostelry
land
may
be
Built in the old Colonial
day
When men
lived in a
grander way
With ampler
hospitality.
hall,
kind of old Hobgoblin
Now somewhat fallen to decay. With weather stains upon the wall And stairways worn and crazy doors
And And
creaking and uneven floors
chimneys huge and
tiled
and
tall."
"The Wayside Inn."
Longfellow.
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HOWE
1.
Elder Edward Howe,

ried,
died June 14, 1644; mar-
Margaret.
2.
Ann Howe,
ried,
born 1625; died
May
20,
1719; mar-
1638,
died
Elder John Stone, born 1619;
May
5,
1683.
HOWE
The name Howe
is
spelled both with
and without
the e; in the earlier generations,

in the later generations,
more often without;
more
often, with.
Edward Howe
1632;
selectman,
known
as
Goodman Howe, was
a ruling elder of Watertown; admitted freeman,
May
14,
1637-39-41-42-43;
the
largest
representative,
1642-43;
one of
original
proprietors
of
Watertown, where he was part owner with Mathew Craddock of a mill. He was often made umpire in dis"In a case where a pumpkin vine sprang up putes.
within the premises of one Indian and bore fruit on the premises of another Indian, the dispute over the owner-
pumpkin was brought to him for settlement. Inspired by the wisdom of Solomon, he called for a knife and severed the fruit, giving a moiety to each."
ship of the
He
died in June or July, 1644, leaving a widow,
Margaret, and two daughters, Sufferana and Anne, wife of John Stone of Sudbury, (see his will in Gen. Rec.
53-
His 397; and Winthrop II, 50-1.) widow, who had married George Bunker, owner of Bunker Hill, gave in her will, one-sixth of her estate
Ill,
77; Barry,
to
her
sister,
Mary Rogers, and
children,
John and
Elizabeth, of Boxted in Old England; two-sixths to John
Stone of Sudbury; and three-sixths to Nathaniel Treadway.

in England. Mrs. Margaret Howe (widow 4, 1646, of Edward) and Nathaniel Treadway, her son-in-law,
"History of Watertown." Ann Howe (3) was born
"November
are granted liberty to draw two butts of wine, which they received for debt, and cannot put off in the butts. (See
the map.)
"History of Watertown."
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HUNTINGTON
1.
Simon Huntington, born about 1583;

married,
died 1633;
Margaret Beret, born about

2.
1593.
Christopher Huntington, died 1691; married, Ruth Rockwell, born Aug., 1633.
Capt.
3.
Thomas H. Huntington,
7,
born March 18,
1664; died Nov.

1686,
1732; married, Feb. 10,
Elizabeth Backus, died Dec.

4.
29, 1728.
8,
Ruth Huntington,
6,
born Aug.
1699; died Oct.
1757; married, Aug. 22, 1723,

29,
Samuel Lincoln, born Nov.
1693; died 1794.
HUNTINGTON
Simon Huntington (1) from Norwich, England, and
is
supposed to have come
his wife,
Margaret Beret,
may have
of
ton,
Norwich
been the daughter of Christopher Beret, mayor in 1634. Simon's brother, Samuel Hunting-
was a captain in the Life Guards and in high favor. Simon died in 1633, while on his way to America.
mother,
Christopher Huntington (2) probably accompanied who afterward married a man named
;
his
Stoughton, to Windsor, Conn. remained there till 1660. His name appears in the earliest records of the town and always in honorable relations. The general court
54
granted him 100 acres of land in 1688; in 1678 he was town clerk; and in 1688 his name occurs as one of the
committee to make provision for maintaining the minister.
He
died in 1691.
Captain Thomas H. Huntington (3) attained the distinction of always being called, Thomas Huntington, Esquire; and was surveyor for the south end of Wind-
ham.
He was
is
born
in
Norwich.
:
The
inscription
on
his
tombstone
as follows
"After he had served
God and
his people boath in
church and
state,
he
fell
asleep in Jesus."
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HUTCHINS
1.
John Hutchins, born about 1604;

married,
died
1674;
Frances.
2.
Elizabeth Hutchins, married April Thomas Ayer, died Nov. 9, 1686.
1,
1656,
HUTCHINS
John Hutchins is first mentioned as living bury, Mass., and later removed to Haverhill.
in 1674, aged 70.
in
Newdied
He
56
JOHNSON
1.
John Johnson,
died Sept. 20, 1659; married,

9,
Margery, died about June

2.
1055.
Isaac Johnson, died Dec. 19, 1675; married, Jan.

20, 1637,
Elizabeth Porter.
3.
Elizabeth Johnson, born Dec.
20,
1638; died
April 20, 1701; married, Dec. 20, 1658,
Henry Bowen.
JOHNSON
John Johnson (1) came bringing wife, Margery, and
in
fleet
with Winthrop,
Sailed from
son,
Isaac.
England
in
the ship, "James" in July, 1635.
History of Roxbury.
Isaac Johnson
(2), freeman in 1635; in 1631 he
was
in public life.
He
represented this
also a military
town (Roxbury)
man.
for 14 years.
stores
He was
The
public
were kept
in his house.
This was burned and the
town records destroyed. He kept tavern and many public meetings were held at his home. Captain Isaac Johnson, with five other captains, was
killed
while storming the Narragansett stronghold, when that fierce tribe was destroyed at the famous Fort Fight,
December
19, 1675.
57
LEAVENS
1.
John Leavens, married, Rachel Wright.
July
5,
1639,
2.
John Leavens, born

17, 1665,
April 27, 1640; married, June
Hannah Woods,
3.
died Oct. 16, 1756.

17,
Hannah
Leavens, born Oct.

Jr.
1666; married,
JoH NATHAN PeAKE,
LEAVENS
John Leavens (1) with his wife, Elizabeth, came in the "William and Frances," leaving London, March 9, 1632; was made freeman of Roxbury in March,
over
1634.
His wife died after a long

5,
illness
and he married,
second, July
Both he and Rachel

church.
1639, Rachel Wright, "a godly maid." were members of John Eliot's
John Leavens,
in
Roxbury. Morris (2), Jonathan Peake and John Chandler, Sr., were chosen a committee to build a meeting-house In Woodstock.
was a carpenter and lived In October, 1691, John Leavens, Edward

Jr.,
(2),
58
LINCOLN
1.
Samuel Linkon,
Elizabeth Jacobs.
married, June
2,
1692,
2.
Samuel Linkon, born Nov.

married, Aug. 22, 1723,
29,
1692; died 1794;
Ruth Huntington,
6,
3.
born Aug.
8,
1699; died Oct.
1757.
John Lincoln, born

1810; married.
July 28, 1726; died June

30, 1758,
15,
7,
May
Hannah (Martin)
died Feb.
4.
3,
Stowell, born June
1725;
1791.
21,
Hannah
14,
Lincoln, born Jan.
1759; died Dec.
1846; married,
Sept. 8,
Cyprian Parish, born

1830.
1751
died Aug. 30,
LINCOLN
In the town records of
Windham,
the spelh'ng
is
*'Linkon" and "Stoel," but John Lincoln's family Bible gives the modern spelling "Lincoln and "Stowell."
The family
tified
of
Thomas
Lincoln, the miller,
is
Id^.n-
with the flourishing city of Taunton, where they were proprietors of iron works, two centuries since. Town records burned in 1836 all prior to 1800.
;
The remarkable
Conn.,
family of Lincolns of
Windham,
may
properly be mentioned in this connection:
59
Samuel Lincoln was there

ants claim to have originated in
entitled
in
1693 and
his descend-
Hingham, upon evidence

His
son,
to
some
consideration.
Samuel,
reached the age of 101 years, lacking a few days.
His grandson, Nathaniel Lincoln, attained the age of 105 years and three months. This Nathaniel was
great-uncle to Lora Parish Stone,
who
received a cedar
old.
bucket
made by him
after he
was 105 years
Samuel Linkon's wife, Elizabeth Jacobs, was from

Norwich, Conn.
From "The
Copy
Lincoln Family of
Wareham, Mass."
the old
of record as found in great-great-grandfather
Lincoln's Bible in North
Windham, Conn., on
Lincoln farm
to Rebecca
ried.
"John Linkon, born July 28th, 1726; married, 1753, Fenton; buried my wife March 26, 1758 mar;
May
30, 1758, to
;
Annah
Stoel;
Hannah Linkon,
born January 21, 1759 Jonah and Jerusha were born November 15, 1760; Olive Linkon born June 24, 1763.
Brother Eleazer Linkon died November 13, 1754. My mother, Ruth Huntington Linkon died October 6, 1757.
Hannah,
my
wife, died February 3, 1791."
The above was

in another's writing
written by John Lincoln.

is
:
Below,
"John Lincoln died June the

In 1904 the old house was
7th, 1810,
still
aged 84." standing where John
Delived, but was not occupied as a dwelling. scendants of Jonah Lincoln are living on the farm and the old Bible is in their possession.
Lincoln
In 1696, Samuel Linkon (1), was surveyor for the north end of Windham and Thomas Huntington, for the
south end.
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LIVERMORE
1.

1684; married,
April, 1606; died April 14,
Grace Sherman, born 1595;

2.
died Jan. 14, 1670.
Lieut. Joseph Livermore, born 1630-1; died Feb.

9,
1718-9; married,
Hannah.
3.
Joseph Livermore. born Jan. Elizabeth Stone, born Nov.
27, 1674-5
9,
married,
1678.
4.

June 22, 1731,
April
2,
1709;
married,
Abigail Stone, born April

5.
13, 1712.
Elizabeth Livermore, born

April 15, 1814; married,
Jan.
7,
1734-5
died
Jesse Stone, born Sept. 28, 1737;

1803.
died
July 26,
LIVERMORE
Peter Livermore and his wife, Marbella Wysbych, are supposed to have been the parents of John Liver-
more
(1).
Peter had a son, John, baptized September
30, 1604.
He
lived in Little Thurloe, Suffolk

3,
was nnr12, 1612.
ried to Marabella
November
15, 1611.
Wysbych, June His wife was buried July
1594; was buried
61
John Livermore (1) embarked
at
Ipswich,
Eng-
land, in April, 1634, aged 28 years, in the ''Francis." This would make him younger by one or two years than He was one of the parish register of Little Thurloe.
the original settlers of
New
Haven, June
lot
4,
1639, and
signed the fundamental agreement of

in the
New Haven
Colony
side of
reIt
same
year.
His house
was on the west
Fleet street, next but one to the harbor.
He was
peatedly a selectman and held other offices of trust.

is
probable that he visited England,
1647-49, and in
May, 1650, he left New Haven to return to Watertown. In 1666 he made a complaint of that town for rating him according to his trade (he was a potter). A hear-
men
ing was offered him before a committee of indifferent or men of his own choosing, but he refused to attend.
He was
there,
selectman of Watertown, 1665-6-7-8-9,

April 14, 1684,
leaving
considerable
and died
property.
His wife, Grace Sherman, was an obstetrician and was sometimes summoned to court to testify when she had acted professionally. She died in Chelmsford. There is a tradition that there is a large sum
the English
in
funds belonging to the heirs of the

if
first
John Livermore, which they might obtain His furnish legal proof of their descent.
wife, Grace,
they could will mentions
and
eldest son, John.

"first,
March
2,
1684, mentions
His inventory, dated Cowpen Farm, 40 acres,
upland and 12 acres meadow, formerly of Henry Curtis which he (John L.) purchased of the town, November
7,
1664, for his son, John, and confirmed to
him
in his
will."
(History of Watertown.)
62
LIVERMORE.
Lieut.
John
in
Livermore
(2)
was tythingman of
rates,
Watertown
1679; selectman, 1692; collector of
1692-3; assessor of rates, 1695; soldier in the Mt.
Hope
campaign. King Philip's

Joseph Livermore
War;
(3)
lieutenant
in
lived
and ensign. Weston and was
representative from there, 1738-39-40-42-43-48-49.
John Livermore (4) was

wards,
Abigail
sheba.
first
of Weston, after-
of
Framingham.
June
23,
1731,
he married
Stone,
daughter of Samuel
in
Stone and Bathmarried
After his death, his widow
Samuel
Gleason. Perhaps maiden name may be found.
some Gleason
records, Bathsheba's
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MAKIN
1.
Tobias Makin, died 1610; married,
Katherine.
2.
Joane Makin, married,
Edmund Sherman,
died 1641.
MAKIN
1.
Tobias Makin, died 1610; married,
Katherine.
2.
Grace Makin,
fore 1625,
died
March
6,
1661-2; married, be-
Thomas
Rogers, born 1588; died Nov. 12, 1638.
MAKIN
Tobias Makin of Fingrinhoe, County Essex, England, in the time of Queen EUzabeth, yeoman, married
unknown, by whom he became the father of seven sons and three daughters.
Katherine, whose maiden
name
is
He
died in 1610 as his will of
proved, September 10,
May 14, that year, was An abstract of that following.

:
instrument
is
here appended
to
Wife Katherine
for
life,
have
my
lands,
etc.,
(described)
she to bring up
my
children and also to pay to
Grace Sherman,
Makin
the elder,
my my
daughter, ten pounds, and to John

son, ten pounds,
64
After the decease of
my
wife,
etc.,
my
son John Makin

to
pay to Joan pounds apiece, and to my daughters, John Makin, my eldest son, twenty pounds, and to Grace
the younger, to have the lands,
and
and Rebekah,
Sherman,
the land,
son,
five
my
it
daughter, ten pounds,
etc.
If said son John, die before entering to be seized of

shall remain, etc., to
Thomas my youngest
If
upon the same conditions.
he
die, etc.,
then to
Samuel,
my
son.
life;
Certain house and land to wife for
then to son
Westbroome Makin, who

thirty pounds.
If
shall
pay to
die,
my
son,
Thomas,
remain
Westbroome
if
then
it
shall
to son Robert,
and
he
die, then to Thomas.
Other bequests
to children, including a son, Tobias.
To
twenty
Elizabeth
Potter,
my
grandchild, at one and
years of age, five
pounds of lawful
English
money.
The same
Sherman,
It is
to Richard Sherman, the son of
Edmund
at twenty-one.
this will that
proved by her husband.
Mrs. Makin survived
husband, John Sherman of Dover, County Kent, a son of Henry Sherman of Dedham, County Essex, clothier, by his wife, Susan Hilles. Mr. Sherman died prior to 1625, as in
first
Grace Makin married for her
her will of September 2nd, that year, his cousin, Mrs. Anne (Sherman) Anger of Dedham, bequeathed "to the two children of the wife of Thomas Rogers, John Sher-
man and Richard Sherman, my
kinsmen, ten shillings
apiece, at their ages of one and twenty." Mrs. Grace (Makin) Sherman married for her
sec-
ond husband, Thomas Rogers, born
in
1588, with
whom
65
she migrated to New England and located in Watertown, Mass., in 1630. Mr. Rogers became a freeman of
the colony
thereafter
May
and
17, 1637, lived about eighteen
months
years,
died,
November
12, 1638,
aged
fifty
leaving one daughter, Elizabeth Rogers.
The
twice bereaved
widow then married

of
for
her
third husband
and as
his second wife,
Walter Palmer of
after
Watertown and subsequently

1650.
Hampton, who died
She then married for her fourth husband, and as

his second wife,
Roger
Porter, formerly of
in the year, 1583.
Long
Sutton,
the
England, who was born
He was
American pioneer of 1630 who returned to England, came a second time to these shores in 1638 and located
in
Watertown, Mass., where he

Mrs.
died, April 3, 1654,
aged
seventy-one years.
Grace
(Makin)
(Sherman)
(Rogers)
(Palmer) Watertown, March

proved June
Porter, the
6,
widow
of four husbands, died in
17th,
1661-2, leaving a will which was following, in which she mentions
among
others, her son,
John Sherman, and her daughter,
Elizabeth Smith.
66
MARTIN
1.
George Martin, married,

George Martin,
Jr., died
2.
Aug.
22,
1,
1755; married,
Nov. 29, 1706,
Anne Choate,
1730.
3.
born
May
1691; died Aug.
1,
Anna (Martin)
died Feb.
3,
Stowell, born June

;
15,
1725;
1791
married.
May
30, 1758,
7,
John Lincoln,
1810.
born July 28, 1726; died June
MARTIN
The
begins
history of the Martin family in
New
England
ninth
with
Christopher
Martin,
who was
the
"Compact" and who was treasurer of the "Mayflower." His wife, two sons and two servants accompanied him to this country, where he died shortly
signer of the
after landing.
by the fact "Master" among the pilgrims. Extensive research has failed to reveal the exact
line of descent, yet
it is
His character and standing were evinced that he was one of the few men to be called
hardly to be doubted that George

in
Martin of Ipswich, Mass., who married Anna Choate

1706, was a
lineal
descendant of the only surviving son

in
of Christopher.
George
Mass.
Martin (1) lived
Chebacco,
Ipswich,
67
George Martin (2) bought 100 acres of land on the west side of Little River and another 100 acres in what
is
now Hampton on
Anna
the 19th of October, 1713.

3,
His
will, certified to,

ter,
September
1755, mentions his daugh-
Stowel, as equal heiress with other daughters. Later, she and two other sisters sold their right to their
father's estate.
See "Weaver's Genealogy."
The
in the
original will of
in
Court House
George Martin, Jr., is probably North Windham, Conn.

Stowell;
Lincoln,
Anna Martin (3) married first, Ebenezer was a widow in 1755 married second, John
;
and
lived in
North Windham, Conn.
68
MASTERTON
1.
Richard Masterton,
married,
2.
Sarah Masterton,
married,
1610.
John Woods, born
-69
MOORE
1.
John Moore, born 1611, Elizabeth Whale.
married,
2.
Mary (Moore) Ward,

ried,
died Jan. 10, 1703; mar-
Nov.
2,
1667,
31,
Daniel Stone, born Aug.

1719.
1644;
died about
MOORE
John Moore (1) came over in the "Planter" in 1635; Hved in Sudbury in 1643 and was deacon of the
church there; married second, Ann, daughter of John Smith.
Mary Moore
(2) married
31, 1666,
first,
Richard Ward,
who
was drowned March
and second, Daniel Stone,
deacon of the church of Sudbury.
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MORRIS
1.
Thomas
Grissie
Morris, married, Aug. 24, 1639,
Hewsome.
2.
Edward Morris,
Grace Bett,
born Aug. 1630; died Sept. 14, 1689; married, Nov. 29, 1655,
died June, 1706.
3.
Dea. Edward Morris, born March, 1658-9; married,
Elizabeth Bowen,
4.
baptized, Jan. 27, 1661.
Lieut.
Edward Morris,
1715,
born Nov.
9,
1688; mar-
ried, Jan. 12,
Bethia Peake, born

5.
Feb. 20, 1698.

4,
Martha
Morris, born April

1,
1731; died June,
1812; married, Jan.
1755,
10,
Comfort Rice, born Aug.

1816.
1729; died Aug.
1,
MORRIS
Thomas Morris Edward Morris
of
(1) came from Nazing, the north-
west corner of Waltham.

(2) born in England, was (the compiler believes) the son of Thomas Morris and Grissie
Hewsome
ried
Waltham, Holy Cross Abbey. He marGrace Burr (some authorities say the name was
Bett),
November
29, 1655.
71
Sen.
Edward Morris
(2) was
member
of the
House
of Deputies during the greater part of the early contest of Massachusetts with Charles
II, for the preservation of her charter; selectman of the town at January 11, 1674, meeting and held the office as long as he lived in Rox-
bury; was
made
lieutenant in 1689; buried on
Wood-
stock Hill, Mass.
On
his
tombstone
is
"Here
lies
buried the body of
Sen.
Edward Morris
the "Morris Genealogy."
Deceased September 14, 1689."
From
at his death;
Deacon Edward Morris (3) took his father's place married Elizabeth Bowen, May 24, 1623,
13, 1658-9, as
was baptized by Rev. John Eliot, March were all his father's children.
From
Lieut.
tized
the "Morris Genealogy." (4), born at
Edward Morris
by Nehemiah Walter; married
to Bethia
Roxbury; bapPeake by
John Chandler, January 12, 1715, daughter of Jonathan Peake and Hannah Leavens and grand-daughter of
Voted "That EdChristopher Peake of Woodstock. ward Morris with his wife and family occupy the pew
that
was
his father's."
He was on
Woodstock.
the committee to settle the bounds of
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NOYES
1.
Peter Noyes, born 1591

ried,
died Sept. 23, 1667; mar-
Abigail.
2.
Dorothy Noyes, born

8,
about 1626; died about April
1715; married, 1642,

about 1622.
John Haynes, bom
NOYES
Peter Noyes, one of the five men appointed to lay out the town of Sudbury, came in the ship "Confidence"
1638, with son, Thomas, and daughter, Elizabeth; returned to England and came back to America with daughter Dorothy and other children in the "Jonathan."
in
Agnes Bent came on the same ship in 1639. Mr. Noyes was a freeman, May 13, 1640; a selectman, 18 years; represented the town at the General Court in 1640-41 and '50; and died September 23, 1657.
Three years before
his death,
he gave his estate
in
Eng-
land to his son, Thomas, and the day before his death, he made a will in which he made his son, Thomas, his
executor and
Joseph,
named
the following other children, Peter,
Elizabeth
(wife of Josiah
etc., etc.
Haynes), Dorothy
(wife of John Haynes),
(See Hudson's "History of Sudbury.")
73
PARISH
1.
John Parish,
married,
Mary Wattell.
2.
William Parish, born

21,
Feb. 11, 1694; died Oct.

8, 8,
1763; married, Nov. Jerusha Smith, born May

23, 1726-7.
3.
1716,
1695; died March
John Parish, born March

11,
10, 1726-7; died Feb.
1817; married, Oct. 18, 1750,
Hannah
4.
Herrington, died Feb.
9,
1777.
;
Cyprian Parish, born

1830; married,
Sept. 8, 1751
died Aug. 30,
Hannah
5.
Lincoln, born Jan.
21,
1759; died Dec.
14, 1846.
Lora Parish, born May
3, 1786; died Dec. Nov. 26, 1807, 1864; married,
13,
John Stone, born Nov.

1852.
26, 1786; died July 28,
PARISH
into the First
in
John Parish (1) and his wife, Mary, were received Church at Preston, Conn., from the church
Ipswich, Mass.,
November
15,
1704.
He
Hved
in in
Braintree, Mendon, Groton and Ipswich, Mass., and Preston and Stonington, Conn.
74
William
Conn., where
three
wives,
Parish
all
(2)
in
1720,
went
to
Scotland,
of his children were born.
He had
and
Jeriisha
Smith,
Bethiah
Brewster
Jerusha Ayer. John Parish (3) moved from Scotland to WorthHe married, second, ington, Mass., where he died.
Hannah Hebbard,
tember
tized
8,
April 16, 1778. Parish (4), born in Preston, Conn., SepCyprian
1751; moved to Worthington, Mass.; was bapMay 14, 1780, and united with the church at
Worthington. His wife, Hannah, was received into the church in 1791. During the Revolution he served with
the Massachusetts
troops,
in
pany,
listed
Lieut.
Colonel Samuel
17,
Captain Webber's comWilliams' regiment; en-
December
service, 3 months,
1776; discharged March 20, 1777; 14 days at the northward, including

at
11
days
Chesterfield
(220 miles) travel home; roll sworn to and endorsed Major Clapp's regiment.
in a
Also private
Ebenezer
Webber
1777;
of
company commanded by Captain Worthington, Major Jonathan

1777;
8 days
1
Clapp's regiment; enlisted July 10,
August
eral
12,
service,
month,
discharged under Gen-
Schuyler at the westward, including 5 days (100
miles) travel home.
From
"Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors."
^75-
PEABODY
1.
John Peabody,
Isabel.
died 1666; married,
2.
Francis Peabody, born about 1614; died Feb.

1698-9; married,
19,
May
9,
18, 1642,
Mary
3.
Foster, died April
1705.
Mary
Peabody, married,
John Death.
PEABODY
The
house and
name
of Peabody
date back to
Boadie, a kinsman of Boadicea,

against the Romans.
British queen
who
In the final
fought with her battle between the
very last took with him the armor and medal of honor of a young He and his followers patrician, whom he had slain.
and the invader, Boadie was one of the on the field and when he was forced to retire,
found a refuge in Wales, where after many years, one of his descendants, Peabodie (meaning Mountain-Man)
and
his tribe joined

still
King Arthur's
forces.
The Roman
medal was
a treasured family possession and, as a
reward for Peabodie's valiant service the king granted to him and his heirs forever, the right to wear the insignia
on the medal as a coat of arms.
John Peabody (1) of Duxbury
in
1637, had 10
acres of Blue Fish property; of Bridgewater in 1645;
76
will dated July 15,
1649; died 1666.
His wife,
Isabel,
survived him.
liam and Annie,
His children were Thomas, Francis, Wilwho married John Rouse.

St.
Francis Peabody (2) of
Albans, Hertfordshire,
in
England,
1635.
came to
New
England
in 1638.
the "Planter" in
He was
one of the original
settlers of
Hampton,
N. H., and was living there
77
PEAKE
1.
Christopher Peake, died May

Jan.
3,
22,
1666; married,
1637,
Dorcas French.
2.
Jonathan Peake, born

Aug.
1694.
15, 1660,
Dec.
17,
1637; married,
Sarah French, born May, 1638;
died Oct.
14,
3.
Jonathan Peake,
ried,
Jr., bap.,
Oct. 15, 1663; mar-
Hannah
4.
Leavens, born Oct.
17, 1666.
Bethia Peake, born Feb.

Lieut.
20, 1698; married,

9,
Edward Morris,
born Nov.
1688.
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PRATX
1.
Thomas Pratt,
Joan.
died 1589; married,
2.
Andrew
Pratt, married,
3.
Rev. William Pratt, born 1562; married,
Elizabeth.
4.
Lieut.
William Pratt,
married, 1636,
Elizabeth Clark.
5.
Elizabeth Pratt, born Feb.

married,
1,
1641; died 1730;
May
11, 1660,
Lieut.
William Backus.
PRATT
Thomas
England.
Lieut.
Pratt (1)
will
was of Baldeck, Hertfordshire,

dated, 1589.
His
was
is
William Pratt (4), first settler of the name, supposed to have come over with Rev. Thomas Hooker
to
Newton, now Cambridge, in 1633; thence to Hartford, Conn. In 1636, he married Elizabeth Clark, daughter He and his brother, John, came from of John Clark.
Stevenage
in Hertfordshire.
79
PURCHAS
1.
Oliver Purchas (or Purchis), married,
2.
JoANE Purchas, born March 25, 1578; died March 26, 1653; married, Whitmonday, 1596,
Bernard Capen, born 1562;
died Nov.
8,
1638.
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RICE
1.
Edmund
ried,
Rice, born 1594; died
May
3,
1665; mar-
Thomasine, died June

2.
13, 1654.
Thomas Rice, Mary King.

Gershom
died Nov. 16, 1681; married,
3.
Rice, born
May
9,
1667; died Dec. 29,
1768; married, Aug. 12,
Elizabeth Balcom_, born Aug.

4.
16, 1672.
Lieut.
Gershom
Rice, born about 1696; died Sept.
24, 1781; married,
Esther Haynes, born

1770.
5.
Jan. 28, 1697; died
Aug.
16,
Comfort
1818
;
Rice, born Aug. 10, 1729; died Aug.,

married,
;
Martha
6.
Morris, born 1731
died June, 1812.

;
Nancy
Rice, born Oct. 27, 1762
died Feb.
6,
1849
married,
John Stone,
1849.
born
May
15,
1763; died Feb. 20,
RICE
The name
ten
is
of
Welsh
origin and in
Wales
is
writ-
"Ap
Rice."
81
Edmund
Rice (1) was from Barkhamstead, County
Herts, England, and was among the first settlers of Sudbury (1639). After the death of his wife, Thomasine,
he married
second,
Mercy
(Hurd)
Brigham, widow
of Thomas Brigham. Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mercy (Hurd) Brigham, was wife of John Fay and
ancestress of Olive (Evans) Stone.
Edmund
The
Rice was deacon of the church

five
in
Sudbury
and one of the
appointed to lay out that town. of his effects was taken by Thomas King, inventory
men
John Woods and John Stone.
Thomas Rice
and died there
(3)
moved
to
Marlborough
in
1664
in 1681.
Gershom Rice (3) married Elizabeth Balcom at Charlestown. He was residing in Groton, April 1, 1713,
but
Marlborough, Mass., before the 13th of October of that year. He had 80 acres of land and the
to
moved
first
meetings for religious worship were held at his house. He is accounted the second settler of Worcester,
his brother, Jonas, being the
first,
and they have ever
since been called the fathers of the town.
When
he died,
he was in
his
one hundred and
first
year.
In August,
1723, a Gershom Rice and 65 others petitioned for land between Turkey Hills and Rutland, including Wachusett.
Lieut.
ter)
died,
Gershom Rice (4) married Esther (or Hesresided in Sudbury, where she
Haynes and they
September 24, 1781. Comfort Rice (5) married Martha Morris of Woodstock and resided in that part of Worcester called Au-
burn.
82
RICE
1.
Edmund
ried,
Rice, born 1594; died
May
3,
1665; mar-
Thomasine,
2.
died June, 13, 1654.
Samuel
Rice, born
May
2,
1634; married Nov.
8,
1655,
Elizabeth King, buried Oct.

3.
30, 1667.
Elizabeth Rice, born Oct.

2,
26, 1656; married, Jan.
1677,
7,
Peter Haynes, born April
1654.
RICE
Samuel Rice (1) was born
ried
first,
in
Elizabeth King,
in
who
England. died in 1667
He
;
mar-
second,
Mary Brown, who died

of James Horner.
1675; third, Sarah, widow
83-
ROCKWELL
1.
William Rockwell,
died
May
15,
1640; married,
Susanna
Capen, born April 11, 1602; died Nov.
13, 1666.
2.
Ruth Rockwell,
born Aug., 1633; married,

died 1691.
Christopher Huntington,
ROCKWELL
family in England traces its line back to Sir Ralph de Rockville, a Norman knight, who accompanied the Empress Maude into England when she
The Rockwell
laid
claim to the throne.

I
He
ultimately joined
King
and received a grant of three knights of land Henry in the County of York.
Deacon William Rockwell (1) was a member of the church formed in the New Hospital, Plymouth, England, of which the Rev. Mr. Warham was pastor and the Rev. Mr. Maverick, teacher. Rockwell came to America with
Warham and Maverick in 1630 He was admitted freeman of
in the
"Maiy and John." Dorchester October 19,
1630; was one of the first two deacons of the church in that town and died in Windsor, May 15, 1640, leaving a
widow, Susanna (Capen) Rockwell.
84
ROGERS
1.
Thomas
Rogers, born 1588; died Nov. 12, 1638;

died
married,
Grace (Makin) Sherman,

2.
March
6,
1661-3.
Elizabeth
Rogers,, married about 1640.
Daniel Smith,
died July 14, 1660.
ROGERS
Thomas Rogers
1625, Mrs. Grace
(1), born in 1588, married before
with him to
New
May
(Makin) Sherman and brought her England, where they settled in WaterMr. Rogers became a freeman of 1637, lived about eighteen months
12, 1638,
town, Mass., in 1630.

the colony.
thereafter
17,
and
died,
November
aged
fifty years,
leaving one daughter.
Elizabeth Rogers (2) married about 1640, Daniel Smith of Watertown, whom she survived.
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SHERMAN
1.
John Sherman* Agnes Fullen.
died 1504; married,
2.
Thomas Sherman
Jane Waller*.
* died 1551
married,
3.
Henry Sherman,
Agnes, buried Oct.
died 1590; married,

14, 1580.
4.
Edmund Sherman, died Anne Pellatte, buried Edmund Sherman,

Joane Makin.
1601
married,
1584.
June
8,
5.
died 1641; married,
6.
Grace Sherman, born about 1595;

1670; married,
died Jan. 14,
John Livermore,
died April 14, 1684.
SHERMAN
John Sherman (1) lived in Yaxley, Suffolk, and married Agnes, daughter of Thomas Fullen. His will
was proved December 13, 1504. Thomas Sherman (2) of Yaxley (will proved in 1551) had money, plate and large landed property; in Norfolk, the manors of Royden and Royden Tuft and
lands in Royden, Bressingham and Diss; in Suffolk, the manors of Eye and Eye Hall (of which he was the lord J
86
and lands in Yaxley, Eye, Thrandeston and Little Thornham. He married Jane, probably the daughter of
John Waller of Northam and Margaret Thorold of Thornham, Suffolk. Henry Sherman (3) lived in Colchester, Essex. His
will
was probated July 25, 1590. Edmund Sherman (4) lived Edmund Sherman (5) came
in
Dedham, England.
America, lived in
in
to
Wethersfield and died in

wife, Joan,
New Haven
1641.
His
grinhoe, for
was the daughter of Tobias Makin of Finwhose will, see Historical and Genealogical
This will was made
10, 1610.
Register April and July, 1876.

14, 1610,
May
is
and proved September
In the will of
Edmund Sherman
(4) of
Dedham
found the following: "After my sister's death, I give the field and tenement before given to her during life, to the Governors of the Public Grammar School in Ded-
ham,
to be
master that
improved for a dwelling house for a school shall teach children to read and write, which
said school master shall freely teach one poor child

shall be
which
from time to time appointed unto him by son, Edmund, and after him, by his heirs forever."
my
87
SMITH
1.
John Smith,*
married.
Isabel, born 1579; died July 12, 1639.

2.
Daniel Smith,
1640,
died July 14, 1660; married, about
Elizabeth Rogers.
3.
Daniel Smith, born

1681
;
June
7,
Mary Grant.
4.
John Smith, born

1739; married,
July 13, 1672;
died
May
8,
Susanna Chesley, born

1746.
5.
about 1668; died Sept. 28,
Jerusha Smith, born May

23, 1726-7; married,
8,
1695; died March

1716,
Nov.
8,
William Parish, born

21, 1763.
Feb. 11, 1694; died Oct.
SMITH
John Smith (1) believed to be the father of Daniel Smith (2) lived in Watertown in 1631 and became a
His
freeman of the Massachusetts Colony, May 25, 1636. wife, Isabel, whom he probably married in England,
died in
Watertown
in 1639.
88
Daniel Smith (2) of Watertown, who about 1G40, married Elizabeth Rogers, died July 14, 1660. In his
will of the
trix,
same date he made

his son, Daniel,
his wife, Elizabeth, execuhis
named
and made
own
brother,
Abraham, Rev. John Sherman of Watertown and others,

the overseers.
Daniel, the son,
was the only
issue of this
marriage.
Daniel Smith (3) the only son and child as appears by the Watertown records, was born there, September He married, February 22, 1668, Mary, a 27, 1642.
daughter of Christopher and Sarah Grant, also of Watertown, and by her became the father of three sons and
five daughters.
He
died in Watertown, June
7,
1681,
In
leaving a will which bore date,

this
May
31, that year.
he says
"1 give unto
my
deare and loving wife,
my whole (estate) both houses and lands and moveables for her comfort and maintenance and ye bringing up of my my
children so long as she shall contenue a
decease, but
if
widow
after
she shall see reason to marrie again,
then
my
will
is,
she shall enjoy the thirds of ye yearly
income of
my
lands and that onely."
John Smith (4) the third child and second son of He the above, was born in Watertown, July 13, 1672.
married before 1695, Susanna Chesley, by
whom
he be-
came the
father of four sons
and
five daughters.
is
The
family moved
to Preston about 1709, as

in
deed recorded
proved by a that town by which William Dennison,
with the consent of Mary, his wife, makes over to John Smith, his heirs, executors and assigns forever, "a certain
parcel of upland
and swamp land,
in
estimation, three
score acres" for thirty pounds of current
money
of
New
England.
89
By 1715
the family had
removed
to Stonington, as
during that year the ear

recorded in that
mark of John Smith's cattle was town and in 1718, John Smith of Ston-
ington purchased additional land from William Dennison.
John Smith and his wife were interred east of the farm owned by Nathan Stewart in the present town of North Stonington,
their grave stones being
still
extant.
They bear
the following inscriptions:

this life.
"Mr. John Smith departed

A. D., 1739,
in the
May
the 8th,
67th year of his age."

28, 1746, in
"Susannah Smith, who died September

the 78th year of her age."
John Smith
God,
left
a will beginning "In the
name
of
Amen the
I,
fourth day of March, 1729-30.
John Smith of North Stonington, in ye county of London, being very weak of body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for it. Therefore
New
mind the mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all men once to die, Doe make and ordain this my last will and Testament, that is to say. First of
calling to
all,
is,
and
Recommend my Soul unto the hands my body I Recommend to ye earth
of
God
that
to be buried
at
ye discretion of
my
executors nothing doubting but
at ye general Resurrection I shall receive the
same again
And as touching my by ye mighty power of Grod. Estates wherewith it hath pleased God to bless v/orldly
me
with
all
here in this
life, I
give and dispose of ye same

:
in ye following
I give and bequeathe unto Susannah my beloved wife ye east end of my dwelling house, dearly half my barn and ye one half of all my housings, with all
Imprimis
manner and form
90
my my
moveables excepting sixty pounds thereof (and what estate is in debt) during the time she continue my
if
widow, but
life
she marries again then to have but one-
third part of
my
moveables above
sd.
during her natural
and then to be divided equally among
my
three
daughters or their heirs."
The
will continues
with be-
quests to all the children surviving.
Jerusha died two
or three years before her father.
She Jerusha Smith (5) was born in Watertown. married in Windham, Conn., November 8, 1716, William Parish of Windham, whose first wife she was. She
died in
Windham, March
23, 1726-7,
and the widower
married,
May
23, 1738, Bethiah Brewster,
who
died Feb-
ruary
8,
1740-1.
Mr. Parish married for
his third wife,
he had a daughApril 13, 1742, Jerusha Ayer, by ter, Jerusha, who died when she was seven months old.
whom
91
TRAVIS
1.
Daniel Travis
married,
(or Travers), died Jan. 19, 1683;
Esther.
2.
Hannah
Travis, married, Sept. 13, 1683,

12,
John Ayer, born May
1657; died 1743.
TRAVIS
Daniel Travis (or Travers) was living in Boston in 1652, where he worked as a carpenter. He was made a
freeman
gunner.
in
1673 and had then been for a

1,
long- time, chief
From May
1680, he was allowed 25 pounds,
according to the records of the Col.

19, 1683.
V.
He
died January
-92
WALLER
1.
John Waller, of Northam,* married. Margaret Thorold, of Thornham, Suffolk.

Jane Waller
*,
2.
married
died 1551.
Thomas Sherman,
-93
WARD
1.
Ward,
Chief Constable of Ravenhall, Essex, mar-
ried,
2.
Rev.
John Ward,
died 1598
married,
Susanna.
3.
Mary Ward, married, Samuel Wayte.
WARD
The Ward, who was Chief Constable of Ravenhall, Essex, Gentleman," was "of such esteem in the county that by an oration he made on Rayne Common, he
quieted a
commotion of the people." The Rev. John Ward (2) had a parish in Haverhill, Dr. Suffolk, and preached also at Bury St. Edmund's.
St.
William Whittaker, Master of

text."
John's College,
Camfor a
bridge, used to say of him, "Give
me John Ward
is
His epitaph
in the
church
in
Haverhill
as follows
"Grant some of knowledge greater
store,
More
learned
some
in teaching;
Yet few
in life did lighten

in
more,
None thundered more
preaching."
(Translated from the Latin.)
94
"Son of thunder, son of ye dove,

Full of hot zeal, full of true love;
In preaching, truth; in living, right;
burning lamp, a shining light."
"John Ward, after he with greate evidence and
power of ye
Gospel
fathers.
in
fruit, preached ye 25 yeares, was heere gathered to his Susan, his widowe, married Richard Rogers,
Spirit
&
with
much
Suff.
that
worthie
pastor
of Wethersfield.
He
left
three
sonnes,
for John, preachers them and theirs, wish no greater blessing than yt they may continue in believing and preaching the same Gos-
Samuel,
Nathaniel,
who
pel
till
ye comeing of Christ.
Come, Lord
Jesus,
come
quickly."
95
WAYT
1.
Samuel Wayt,
married,
Mary Ward.
2.
Capt.
John Wayte,
Hills.
married,
Mary
3.
Hon. John Wayt, born about 1618;

1693
;
died Sept. 26,
married,
Sarah, born about 1625; died Jan. 13, 1707.

4.
Sarah Wayt, born 1672;

25, 1684,
died 1732; married, April
Nathanial Stone, born May
11,
1660; died 1732.
WAYT
Samuel Wayt (1)
lived in Wethersfield.
Captain John Wayte (2) came with Joseph Hills from the town of Maldon, England, in 1638; married Mr. Hills' daughter, Mary, and settled in Maiden, Mass.
His land was
laid out in the
meadow
about Mt. Prospect

later
and Prospect Hill took from him its "Captain's Hill" and "Wayte's Mount."
pears
first
names of
His name ap-
among
those of the board of selectmen, 1651, the
board of which we have record.
The Hon. John Wayt
(3) was captain of the train
band and was representative for an unbroken term of nineteen years, the duration of which is unparalleled. He
96
was
identified
with the popular party and
in
1684, was
speaker of the
"It
in
is
House
of Deputies.
related
how John Wayte,
the foremost
man
how he
Maiden, upheld the charter against its enemies and incurred the wrath of Randolph. After a long struggle the charter fell and the Court of England
triumphed, but not for long." His son, John, was with Lieut. Hasey of the three
county troops
in
1676.
Benjamin Mussey and Alice (Dexter) Mussey were probably the parents of Sarah Mussey, wife of John Wayte. Benjamin Mussey was killed by lightning in
the great
meadow.
Alice Dexter
was
the daughter of
Richard and Bridget Dexter.

friends of the
Bridget was one of the meek preacher, Marmaduke Matthews of
Maiden.
97
WHALE
1.
Philemon Whale,
married,
died about 1675; married,
3.
Philemon Whale,
Elizabeth.
3.
Elizabeth Whale, married.
John Moore, born
1611.
WHALE
Philemon Whale (1)
sex, England.
clerk, lived in
Chickney, Es-
Philemon Whale (2) one of the early grantees and

settlers
of Sudbury in 1638-9, sold to Edmund Rice, his house and nine acres of land near the spring. This, in
connection with the Axdell land, formed the
Edmund
His
first
Rice estate, remaining in the Rice family for generations.
Whale was admitted freeman in 1638. wife was Elizabeth (maiden name not given).
ried,
He
mar-
second,
Sarah
Cakebread,
and
third,
Elizabeth
Griffin.
He owned
home
is
his early
land in various parts of the town, but supposed to have been not far from the
head of the mill pond, near the Concord Road, as a bridge at the head of the pond is still called "Whale's Bridge" though none of his descendants have lived in Sudbury
for
many
years.
98
WOODS
1.
John Woods, born 1610; Sarah Masterton.
married,
2.
Hannah Woods,
died Oct. 16, 1756; married,
John Leavens, born
April 27, 1640.
WOODS
John Woods (or Atwood)
lived in
Plymouth.
He
married Sarah, daughter of Richard Masterton.
99
THE ANCESTRY OF OLIVE EVANS
THE ANCESTRY OF OLIVE EVANS

EVANS
1.
Cotton Mather Evans, married, Rebecca Lyon.
2.
Nathaniel Evans, born

26, 1825
;
Jan. 17, 1773; died June,

8,
married, Sept.
15,
1799,
Nancy
Fay, born March
1781; died July 12,
1825.
3.
Olive Evans, born

1888
;
Oct. 29, 1815; died Oct. 28,
married.
DwiGHT Stone,
1901.
4.
May 25, 1840, born May 14, 1817;
died June
5,
Julia Evans Stone, born Feb.

June
4,
5,
1843; married,
1863,
Major Henry Moore
Neil, born Aug.
4,
1832.
CHILDREN OF HENRY MOORE NEIL AND

JULIA (STONE) NEIL
William Neil, born
Olive Neil, born Oct.
Dec. 28, 1864.
26, 1866.
Hannah
1891,
Neil, born July 10, 1868; married, Nov. 12,
Guy Ward Mallon,
born April 28, 1864.

102 -
Alice Josephine Neil, born Aug.

Dec. 31, 1902,
21, 1870; married,
Rev. Albert Neilson Slayton, born Fay Neil, born March 7, 1872.
April 21, 1875,
Florence Neil, born

1896,
Oct.
6,
1873; married, Oct.
6,
Byron Lakin Bargar, born Jan. 12, 1867. Julia Stone Neil, born Feb. 28, 1876; married,
17,
Oct.
1900;
19, 1876.
Alfred Hastings Chapin, born Nov.
EVANS
"Nathaniel Evans, when in the seventh year of his age, was taken prisoner by the Indians at the time of
the burning of Royalton,
children taken and carried off
Vermont (1780). Among was one belonging to
the
the
family of a Mrs. Handy,

their
who
followed the Indians to
camp and inquired for
their chief.
She earnestly
begged the life of her child, also for the other children. She asked what they intended to do with the children and was told in reply, "We intend to amuse ourselves
with them and then scalp them."
Mrs.
Handy
continued
to urgently plead for the children until finally she suc-
ceeded in obtaining their release and then proceeded to return with these nine children. They had to walk several
they could find a place to ford the river. She forded White River five times carrying these children across on her back."
miles before
Nathaniel Evans was one of the children rescued
by Mrs. Handy.
The
list
follows:
103
ezer Parkhurst),
Michael Hudson, Roswell Parkhurst (son of EbenAndrew Durkee, Sheldon Durkee, Jo-
Fish, Nathaniel Evans (son seph Rix, Rufus Fish, of Cotton M. Evans), Daniel Donner.
Mr. Evans was
later a
merchant
Middlebury, Vermont, and
still later,
and farmer of came west and set-
tled in Middlebury (now part of Athens), Ohio, where he died, June 2Q, 1825. His wife was taken ill with measles about two weeks after his death and died, July
12,
1825, leaving her younger children to the care of
her relatives in Vermont,
among
them, Olive,
who
later
married Dwight Stone.
104
BARRON
1.
Ellis Barron, died Oct. 30, 1676; married,
Grace, died 1650.

2.
Mary Barron,
10,
died Feb. 13, 1715-6; married, Dec.
1650,
;
Daniel Warren, born 1628
died 1667.
BARRON
The Barrens
of Waterford
County,
Ireland,
(to
which family Ellis Barron belonged) are a branch of the great house of Offaly and were formerly of the Palatin
Barrons of Burnchurch.
Gerald, alias
Their surname
is
given as Fitz-
Barron.
"The
last
branch of the Fitz-Geralds,
who were
barrons of Burnchurch, retained for several years a station of rank and influence in Kilkenny, but were involved
in the troubles of the seventeenth century
and forced
to
abandon
their native shire
and
settled in
Waterford, and
to escape the rancor of persecution, they
assumed instead
of their patronymic the
rice Fitz-Gerald, the first
cognomen of Barron only. MauKnight of Kerry, was the third
son of John Fitz-Gerald and Hannah O'Connor, his wife, and lineally descended from Gerald, Lord of Offaly."
Ellis
(often
written
Elliz)
Barron was probably
born
in
Waterford County, Ireland, about 1600, married
105
while in Ireland, Grace
who
died in Watertown,
in
2,
Mass., about 1650; came to America
1640; was ad1641; was con26,
mitted freeman of Watertown, June

stable
and selectman.
His
19,
will
was dated October
and proved December to his wife and their

equally
ter,
1676, and contains bequests
sons, then divides the remainder
among
seven children and, to his grand-daugh-
gives
"the
pounds.
all
He
pyed black heifer." Inventory, 139 mother of married twice, first, Grace
, ;
his children
Hawkins.
He
and second, Hannah, widow of Timothy was with Captain Sill in King Philip's
War.
106
BATCHELDER
1.
Rev. Stephen Batchelder, born 1561

married,
died 1660;
2.
Deborah Batchelder, born 1592; John Wing, died 1629-30.
married,
BATCHELDER
The Rev. Stephen Batchelder
was born
in
(Bacheller, Bachiler)
St.
England, 1561, matriculated at
John's
College, Oxford,
November
17,
1581; B. A., 1585-6;
studied for the ministry of the Church of England;
was
ordained and
made
vicar of the
Church of
St.
Peter and
till
Holy Cross, Wherwell, Hants, where he remained 1605. He was then ejected from the living, probably
for
he non-conformity. preached in various churches, but had no regular parish.

that time
till
From
his emigration,
The name
elder)
of his
first
wife,
Wing, is unknown. and a daughter, went to Flushing with him in 1631, to visit some of his other children. Mr. Batchelder was
,
mother of Deborah (BatchHis second wife, Helen
among
the
first in
England
to be
excommunicated for non-
conformity and "suffered much at the hands of the bishops." In 1632 he came to America in the "William &
Frances" and, Sunday, June 8, of that year, became pastor without installation, of the church at Lynn, Mass. Four
children were presented for baptism.
The
oldest, first, but
the minister refused

his
him
the rite until he had baptized
own
grandson.
He was
admitted freeman.
May
6,
1635, but, differing in opinion with the non-conformists,
107
as he had done with the clergy of the
Church of Eng-
land, he went from one town and one pulpit to another. He was one of the founders of Hampton where over
300 acres of land were granted him, and became pastor of the church there in 1638. In 1639, however, on the
arrival of Timothy Dalton as teacher, dissension again arose and charges of non-conformity and immorality were made against Mr. Batchelder. The second charge
was vague, never
in
any way substantiated and
is
now
believed to be absolutely without foundation.

tion of his standing in the
settled.
The quesPuritan church never was

then
received back
He was
excommunicated,
communion, never, however, being given another parish, though called both to Casco and to Exeter.
into
His second wife died
in
1635 and he made an un-
fortunate marriage with his housekeeper, from

later petitioned to be divorced.
whom
he
His plea was refused and (probably in consequence of this refusal and because of other injustice) he returned to England, where he died
in
Hackney, Middlesex,
in 1660.
;
described as "tall and sinewy features, prominent, particularly the nose; dark complexion; coarse,
is
He
black hair, mouth, large and firm; eyes, black as sloes;

features,
long rather than broad; strong, clear voice;

;
rather slow in motion and speech

ate
simple in dress
obstin-
and tenacious of
his opinions to a
marked degree;
powerful preacher, drawing largely from the Scriptures and impressing his hearers with the uncommon power
and
sanctity of his sermons; strong in his friendships
and hates."
Winthrop says he was "a gentleman of learning and ingenuity and wrote a fine and curious hand."
108
BREWSTER
1.
William Brewster,
Prudence.
married,
2.
Elder William Brewster, bom about 1560;

April 18, 1634; married,
died
Mary.
3.
Patience Brewster, died 1634; married, August

5,
1624,
Governor Thomas March 29, 1673.
Prence,
born
1601
died
BREWSTER
Among the old English families inhabiting the northeastern parts of Suffolk County and the adjoining parts of Norfolk, on the eastern coast of England, was
the ancient Brewster family with
its
connections, ranking
among
the early "English Landed Gentry." That Elder William Brewster was of this connection is indicated by the oft-repeated name of "William" before the time of
Elder William Brewster's father, and
is
also indicated
by the
fact that
an old copy (and
it
appears to be a very
old copy) of the same coat of arms has been preserved
by one branch of the Brewster family from time immemorial.
in this country,
Elder William Brewster was born about 1560, probably at Scrooby.
His father had charge of the relay
sta-
109
tion, or post, at that place
and, as a child, William must
have seen there many of the famous people of the time.
He
entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, and made his first record there, December 3, 1580. "Though it is quite
probable that Brewster did not graduate or take a degree, yet he was long enough at Cambridge to come under the
influence of the Puritan preachers
and to become most
decidedly earnest in his Christian character."
He
then entered the service of William Davison,
Elizabeth's envoy at Antwerp.
"The
relations
between
Brewster and Davison must have been close and even

affectionate.
Bradford declares that Davison trusted

all
Brewster above
that
him
in all matters of greatest trust
were around him and employed and secrecy, esteemIn private he
ing him rather as a son than as a servant.

talked with
him more
like a friend
than a master and
thought much of the lad because of his wisdom and

godliness."
When the keys of the "Cautionary towns" were turned over to Davison, he put them in charge of young Brewster, "who proudly slept at night with them under
his pillow."
Brewster saw much of interest
in
Holland
and
later at the
English court and seemed "destined to
become a shining figure in political life either at court, in Parliament or on some foreign embassage." Davison
fell
into disfavor, however,
and was imprisoned for de-
livering the death warrant of

after Elizabeth
prisoner.
Mary, Queen of Scots,
had signed
it,
to those in charge of the
He
was, as he supposed, obeying orders, but
Elizabeth said she had never intended the warrant to be
executed without further word from her, and sent him off
to prison.
Brewster remained faithful to his friend, and
110
after his imprisonment, left the court
and returned
to
Scrooby.
real
His
father's health
was
failing
and he did the
work of
the relay-station where,
largely through
Davison's exertions, he was later appointed to succeed his

father.
"As
a popular
and beloved friend and gentleman,

in
his true character
shone as brightly
the country village

it
as at court or in foreign lands."

this
Probably
was about
time that he married.
He was
and, after
the soul of the Puritan colony in England,

troubles, a
1,
many
warrant for his arrest was
issued September
the
1607, and another December 1 of
same
year, as "a very dangerous, schismatical Sepa-
ratist,
Brownist and irreligious subject."
He
escaped to
Holland and became a prominent member of the colony at Leyden, where he remained till 1620, when he sailed
England in the "Mayflower," landing on Plymouth Rock, December 21, 1620. In Leyden he supported himself by teaching English, and afterward by
for
printing,
New
and was very comfortable.

:
But Bradford says "But now removing

land)
all
into this country
(New Engnew
those things were laid aside againe and a
course of living, in which he was no way unwilling to bear his part and to bear his burden with the rest. Living
many
. .
times without bread or coin
together.
old age."
.yet he lived by the blessing of
many months God till very
Bradford says again

"I
am
to begin this year with that
which was
mat-
sadness and mourning unto us all. On ye 18th of April dyed their Rev. Elder and my dear and loving friend, Mr. William Brewster, a man that had
ter of great
111
done and suffered much for ye Lord Jesus and for the Gospel's sake and had bore his part in weal and woe
with this poore persecuted Church, above 36 yrs. in England, Holland and in this Wilderness and done ye Lord
and them had

in his
faithful service in his place
and calling
He
this blessing
bed
in
added by ye Lord to all ye rest, to dye peace amongst ye mids of his friends who
mourned and wept over him and ministered what help and comfort they could unto him and he again recomA few minutes before forted them whilst he could
he drew his breath long as a man falen into a sound sleep without any pangs or gaspings and so swetely
his last
For his personal abildeparted this life unto a better He was wise and ities, he was qualified above many.
and well-spoken, having a grave and deliberate utterance, of a very cheerful spirit, very sociable and
discreet
pleasant
among
his
friends; of a
;
humble and modest
mind, of a peaceable disposition undervaluing himself and his own abilities and sometimes overvaluing others.
Inoffensive
and
innocent in his
life
and conversation
which gained him the love of those without as well as those within yet he would tell them plainly of their
;
both publicly and privately but manner as was usually well taken from him.
faults
and
evils
in
such
He was
tenderhearted and compassionate of such, as were in miser)'- but especially of such as had been of good estate
;
and rank and were

for goodness'
fallen into
want or poverty,
either
religion's sake or by the injury and He would say 'Of all men these oppression of others.
and
deserve to be pitied most.' And none did more offend and displease him than such as would proudly and
haughtily carry and
lift
up themselves being
risen
from
112
nothing and having little else in them to command them but a few fine clothes and a little riches more than
others
"He had
a singular good gift

it
in
prayer
He
were better for ministers to pray always thought oftener than to be long and tedious in the same, except
For the Governupon solemn and special occasions ment of the Church which was most proper to his office, he was careful to preserve good order in the same and to
preserve purity both in the Doctrine and Communion of the same and to suppress any error or contention that
might arise up amongst them. gave good and he saw the

It
And
accordingly
all
God
days
success herein to his endeavor
his
fruit of his labors in that behalf."
was
also said of the Elder that "he fought as he
prayed, and although he would far rather convert an enemy, he would not think of allowing him the first shot." Patience Brewster was born in England and came
to
America
in
arrival of the
"Anne" two years after the "Mayflower" and married Thomas Prence
the
ship
(afterward governor of Plymouth Colony), August

1624, and died in 1634.
5,
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BRIGHAM
1.
Thomas Brigham^ bom

1653; married, 1637,
1603; died December 18,
Mercy Hurd,
2.
died
December
28, 1693.
Mary Brigham,
died 1676; married.

died
John Fay, born 1648;
December
5,
1690.
BRIGHAM
Thomas Brigham, aged
32,
embarked
at
London
for
England, April 18, 1633, Ellyn." In 1637 he was proprietor of fourteen acres
New
in the ship
"Susan and
in
Watertown
on the strip which
was
later
annexed to Cam-
bridge (probably Windmill Hill). He had many swine and was continually in trouble with them and fined for
their misbehaviour.
He was
selectman,
164:2-4:7;
and
constable, 1639-42, but was finally put out of office on
account of the hogs. Later he lost money and left his estate so involved that most, except the homestead, had to be sold.
His house was spacious,
"hall, parlor, kitchen
and
two chambers, completely furnished and amply stored

with necessary provisions, silver spoons and other utensils
of silver, join stools, join chairs, cushions, damask cloth,
etc.,
two
servants, five horses, etc."

in
He was
"truthful
and sincere
his
vows;
faithful
in
their observance;
first
secured and enjoyed the confidence and love of the
114
and
men, and co-operated with them to plant the seed and cherish the germ of our national freedom and
best of
greatness."
From
"The Brigham Family," by Albert

Mercy Hurd.
His wife, who
Morse.
In 1637, he married
was ten or fifteen years younger than he, is given a high character by tradition, which says further that she and her sister "were so tantalized in England for their nonconformity, that they resolved on seeking their liberty and fortune in New England and arrived unattended by
husbands or
second,
lovers.
Mercy (Hurd) Brigham married,

and
third,
Edmund
Rice,
William Hunt.
115
CHILD
1.
John Child, born 1636;

married,
died October 15, 1676;
May
29, 1668, 29,
Mary Warren,
1734.
2.
born November
1651;
died
John Child, born

ber
5,
April 25, 1609; married, Octo-
1695,
Hannah French,
3.
born 1676
died January 2, 1766.
Lydia Child,
cember
9,
bap. October 7, 1711; married,
De-
1727,
27, 1707; died
Deacon James Fay, born December

June
12, 1777.
CHILD
John Child (1), a brother of Richard Child and
heir
,
with him of Ephraim Child, married first, Mary and after her death, Mary Warren. In his will he does
not mention any daughters. Inventory of his property, taken December 29, 1676, 142 Id., s., lOd.
See "History of Watertown."
116
CHILLINGSWORTH
1.
Thomas Chillingsworth,
1652-3; married,
died
about
March,
Joanna, buried December

2.
4,
1684.
;
Mary Chillingsworth,
married,
died September 25, 1702
John Foster, born October

1732.
7,
1642; died June 13,
CHILLINGSWORTH
Thomas
bearing the
century.
name
Chillingsworth was probably the only male in New England in the seventeenth
resided in
He
Lynn and Sandwich and
later,
in Marshfield;
He
and was representative in 1648 and 1652. had no male descendants, but his name appears as
a Christian
name
in the posterity of
some of
his
daugh1684.
ters to this day.
After his death his widow married
Thomas Doggett.
She was buried September
4,
See "History of Hardwick," by Paige.
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DEVOTION
1.
Edward Devotion,
Mary.
died September, 1685, married,
2.
Hannah
ried,
Devotion, died December
17,
1700; mar-
May, 1679,
19, 1657.
John Ruggles, born May
DEVOTION
Edward Devotion, or de Vautien, was Huguenot and belonged to a noble family of
whose head
la
a French
Rochelle,
at the time of his emigration,
was Pierre de
settled
Barre de Vautien.
He came
to
America and
in
Roxbury, Mass., living

River."
in that part of
Boston called
"Muddy
1645 and
He
joined the church in Boston in
Edward, was baptized there. His was baptized in Roxbury. His son gave a large sum of money, known as "The Edward Devotion School Fund," to the town of Brookline, where it is still
later, his son,
wife, however,
a source of revenue.
The Devotion homestead

1,
has been
preserved by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Hannah Devotion married. May gles, who had first married her older
1679, John Rug-
sister.
118
EWER
1.
Thomas Ewer^
married,
Sarah Learned.
2.
Anna Ewer^
married, June
died 1698.
2,
1666,
Daniel Wing,
119
FAY
1.
John Fay, born

married,
about 1648 died December

;
5,
1690
Mary Brigham,
2.
died 1676.
30,
John Fay, born November

5,
1669; died January

1,
1747; married, December
1690,
29, 1673;
Elizabeth Wellington, born December

died
3.
May
8,
1729.
27,
Deacon James Fay, bom December

June
12,
1707
died
1777; married,
Lydia Child,
4.
bom
October
7,
1711.
died February
Daniel Fay, born October

28, 1815; married.
21, 1728
4,
May
1749,
14,
Elizabeth Spooner, born January November 24, 1756.

5.
1731; died
Lieut. Daniel Fay, born December 14, 1752
died
June
21,
1810; married, August 23, 1778,
Mary
Paige,
bom
October 19, 1759; died March
27, 1834.
6.
Nancy Fay,
born March 15, 1781; died July 12,

8,
1825; married, September
1799,
17,
Nathaniel Evans, born January

June
26, 1825.
1773; died
120
FAY
The Fays were
secution of the
of French origin.
Huguenots
they fled to
During the perWales and from
Wales, the ancestors of the American family came to

the colonies.
David Fay.
Morse claims that John Fay (1) was the son of "The first mention of his (John Fay's)
or even that of
name
in
Sr.,
Fay upon the Colonial records is when Thomas King, John Fay, John Howe, 1671,
Peter Beret and others of Marlboro, petitioned for
it
a grant of land, and 'the Court judgeth
meete to referr
the petitioners, in case they cannot rest where they be,

to look for a
mete place within our line to the westward of the Conecticot river to answer their expectations
present
It
it
and then
thereof.'
to the Court,
who
will
consider
done under
this permission of the Court,
does not appear that anything was ever but in 1675,
John Fay appears among the proprietors of Worcester and has a lot of fifty acres assigned to him in the eastern
squadron, lying next to the County road to Boston."
He was
May
30,
born
in
England
in
"Fay Genealogy," 1648 and embarked
1656, at Gravesend on the ship "Speedwell," He was one arriving at Boston, June 27 of that year. of the proprietors of the Ockoocangenessett plantation,
purchased of the Indians in 1684, and, while in Watertown, was made one of the feofifes in trust of the estate
who proposed to marry Susanna Lowell of Beverly, Wilts, England. His first wife was Mary Brigham, who was born at Watertown; and his second wife was Mrs. Susanna Morse. He died
of Renold Bush of Cambridge,
in
Marlborough, December
5,
1688.
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John Fay (2) was the first deacon of the First Congregational Church at Westboro, in which town he died,
January
5,
1747.
Deacon James Fay was the seventh child of John Fay (2). He owned land in Hardwick as early as 1735, but remained at Westboro till after 1739, residing on
Road at the place marked A. Rice on the R. map. He was a fanner, a bone-setter and a deacon of the Separate Church. He was denounced as a Tory, but was afterwards forgiven and died in peace, June 12,
the old River
1777, aged nearly 70 years. Daniel Fay (4) was an agriculturalist and owner of a large landed estate in Hardwick, Mass., and was
an
intelligent
He
served in the
and highly respected and influential man. French and Indian War in the company
In 1771, he was
lieuten-
of Captain Samuel Robinson; Colonel (after Brigadier
General) Timothy Ruggles' regiment.
commissioned lieutenant of
ant on the "alarm
list"
militia
and he was a
in 1775.
He
married
first,
Elizabeth Spooner, and second,
Mary Crosby, and had
seventeen children
Timothy,
Daniel, Jedediah, Moses (died young), Aaron, Elizabeth,
Moses, Sarah, Eliakim, David, Jonathan (died young),
Mary, Jonathan, Joseph, Fiorina, Benjamin and Hannah. The first three children were the children of Elizabeth
Spooner. Lieutenant Daniel Fay (6) was born in Hardwick, He was a soldier in the company of Captain Mass.
Samuel Dexter, Colonel Larned's regiment, and was at Camp Roxbury in January, 1776. He was at the seige
of Boston; in Washington's
New York;
in the Battle of
army in the retreat from White Plains; saw the sur-
122
render of Burgoyne; was a corporal in the company commanded by Edmund Hedges, one of the minute men who had already become a captain of militia, and was
attached to the regiment of Colonel Job Gushing.
He
must have moved
to Bethel, Vt.,
about 1779-80
and was assessed
in the original
tax of that town.
He
Fay
died in Randolph, Vt.
Nancy Fay, second
child of Lieutenant Daniel
and Mary (Paige) Fay, married Nathaniel Evans. They had eleven children, Olive being the eighth child.
123
FOSTER
1.
Thomas
Foster, born about 1600; died April 20,
1682; married,
Elizabeth, died June 26, 1695.

2.
John Foster, born
Oct.
7,
1642; died June
13.
1732; married, about 1663,
Mary Chillingsworth,
3.
died Sept. 25, 1752.

11,
Chillingsworth Foster, born June

died Dec. 22, 1764; married,
1680;
Mercy Freeman,
1720.
4.
born Aug.
3,
1687; died July
7,
James Foster, born

ried,
Jan.
6,
1705; died 1788; mar-
July 10, 1729,

Sept. 8, 1709; died Jan. 7,
Lydia Winslow, born

1770.
5.
Mary
Col.
Foster, born April 11, 1732; died July 21, 1825; married, Oct 24., 1754,
Timothy
Aug.
Paige, born
May
24,
1727; died
26, 1791.
FOSTER
Thomas
early as 1640;
Foster (1) was a resident of Weymouth as removed later to Braintree and Billerica;
Billerica
;
was one of the selectmen of
and was proprietor
of a "great lot" at the Mountain,
Mount Wallaston,
^124
Braintree.
ship "Hercules."
He came to America from England in He was an early Anabaptist but

See "Foster's Genealogy."
the
his
posterity were firm adherents to the Established Church.
now
Deacon Chillingsworth Foster resided in Hardwick, Brewster. He was deacon of the church 33 years,
selectman 9 years, treasurer 25 years, town clerk 28

years, representative 8 years.
till
Deacon James Foster (4) was a resident of Roch. He was select1774, when he removed to Athol.
See "History of Hardwick," Paige.
man, town clerk and treasurer.
125
FREEMAN
1. 2.
Anthony Freeman,
married,
Edmund Freeman,
married,
born about 1590; died 1682;
Elizabeth, died Feb.

o.
14, 1682.
Major John Freeman,

Mercy Prence, born
born 1627; died Oct. 28,
1719; married, Feb. 13 or 14, 1619-50, 1631; died Sept. 28, 1711.
died Oct.
38.
4.
John Freeman, born Dec, 1651;

1719
;
married, Dec. 18, 1672,
Sarah Merrick.
5.
Mercy Freeman, born Aug.

1720
;
3,
1687; died July
7,
married,
11,
Deacon Chillingsworth Foster, born June

1680; died Dec. 22, 1764.
FREEMAN
Edmund Freeman came
to
New England
first
in
the
ship "Abigail" in 1635 and settled
in
Lynn, Mass.
In 1637 he was one of the purchasers and settlers of Sandwich and apparently the leading man in the enterprise.
He was
a selectman of Sandwich, 11 years; rep-
resentative in the general court, 1646;

assistants of
left
and one of the
Plymouth Colony, 1640-46.
He was
then
out of
office, it is
supposed because he was thought
126
to be too lenient
toward the Quakers and perhaps too

in
Hberal generally
presented with twenty corslets or pieces of plate Plymouth Colony armor. His wife's name was Elizabeth (probably Bennett or
his religious views.
He
Beauchamp). He lies beside her under the "saddle and pillion, in what was the old burying ground No other graves have been preserved. A at Sandwich.
few days after his wife's death, he picked out two stones. One, shaped like a pillion, was placed on her grave; the other which reminded him of a saddle 'where e're long
He fancied these as another grave must be digged.' of the conveniences on which, in the prime of "emblems
and to old age, he and his wife had often traveled together." and said to his sons, "Here, after death shall
life
"
have called your father, bring
my
earthly remains and lay
them beside your mother. Place the saddle upon my grave and so let us rest until the Resurrection Day." The stones are one and one quarter miles from the town
hall
of Sandwich, in the angle

to
made by
the old
and new roads
Plymouth.
Major John Freeman early removed from Sandwich to Eastham. He was one of the most prominent men in the colony selectman in his town deacon of the
;
;
church
court
major of militia
representative to the general
when only 32 and
six years afterwards;
and one
after
of the assistants
from 1666 to 16S6 and again,

till
Andros was deposed, from 1689
1692.
On
the or-
ganization of the court under the
new government, he
was appointed December of Common Pleas, which

the line between
7,
1692, Judge of the Court
office
account of the infirmities of age.
he resigned in 1695 nn His house was near
Eastham (now Griswola) and Harwich
127
(now Brewster). He married Mercy, daughter of Governor Thomas Prence and Patience (Brewster) Pience. On two stones in the burying ground in Brewster are
these inscriptions
:
"Here
lies
the body of
Major John Freeman who
died October
88th year of his age." "Here Hes buried the body of Mercy Freeman, wife
28, 1719, in the 28, 1711."
to
Major John Freeman, who died September
128
FRENCH
1.
Captain William French, born 1603; died Nov.

20, 1681; married,
May
6,
1669,
Mary
2.
(Lothrop) Stearns, born 1640.

born 1676; died Jan.
5, 2,
Hannah French,
married, Oct.
1766;
1693,
John Child, born
April 25, 1669.
FRENCH
Captain William French resided in Billerica and was chosen to sit in the deacon's seat. Evidence of his
activity in the cause of Indian instruction
letter written
is
found
in
England, afterwards published in London in the famous tract

"Strength out of Weakness." His first wife was Elizabeth Symmes, mother of Sarah French, who married Jonathan Peake; his second
wife was
by him to a "godly friend"
in
Mary (Lothrop)
so that
Stearns, mother of
Hannah
both of
his fifth
Captain D wight Stone and Olive Evans.

child
French,
French
is
ancestor
Sarah was
and Hannah, his fourteenth. After his death, widow married Isaac Mixer, Jr., of Watertown.
his
-129
GIBSON
1.
John Gibson, born

ried,
about 1601; died 1694; mar-
Rebecca, buried Dec.

2.
1,
1661.
6,
Mary
John
Gibson, born March 29, 1637; died Dec.

3,
1674; married, April
1655,
Ruggles, born 1633; died Feb. 25, 1713.
GIBSON
John Gibson was born in England about 1601; came over to America and lived in Cambridge, Mass., "ye newe towne of 1632 & name changed to Cambridge May 2, 1638 ;" and his name and his wife's were recorded as members of the church in Watertown.
His
wife was buried in Roxbury, the burial being thus recorded by John Eliot; "Mon. 10, day 1, 1661, the wife
of
Goodman Gibson." One Sunday in 1679,

Cambridge was
in
the contribution of the church
at
John low condition, they being visited Gibson, "they being with the small-pox and under many wants." The Gibson's
for the relief of the family of
have had a great deal of trouble. One of the good man's daughters was afflicted with some mental disorder, which she ascribed to the influence of a widow
seem
to
named Holman. Gibson believed her and charged widow with witch-craft. Fortunately, she was
quitted,
the
ac-
Gregory Stone being among
those
who defended
130
her character.
Gibson was then found guilty of slander.
During
to the
the reign of
James
II,
a petition was sent
king from the inhabitants of Cambridge, asking
redress
from the oppressive

Andros.
nile of the governor,
Sir
Edmund
This petition, which was inspired by
Increase Mather, was signed by John Gibsori and George Willow and closed with the pathetic words, "If we
perish,
we
perish."
No
redress came,
owing perhaps
to
the abdication of the king,
and John Gibson died a poor
man.
Mary was
his second child.
131
JENNISON
1.
Robert Jennison,
died 1690
married,
30, 1638. 12,
Elizabeth, born 1608; died Oct.

2.
Elizabeth Jennison, born April

1665; married, Oct.
4,
1637; died
1652,
Deacon
George Reed, born
1629; died Feb. 21,
1705.
JENNISON
Robert Jennison was probably several years younger than his brother, William his name is not on the earliest
;
(February, 1636-7) of the proprietors of Watertown. He had however, a daughter born there in 1637, His will this being the earliest known record of him.
list
was dated September

April
2,
15,
1688, with a codicil
dated
1689.
This mentions his son-in-law, George
Reed, and others.
His grandchildren
inherited the prop-
erty of his brother, William Jennison.
132
LEARNED
1.
William Learned,
GOODETH.
married,
2.
Sarah Learned, bom 1607; Thomas Ewer.
married,
LEARNED
William Learned was born
America and was
living in
England; came to Charlestown in 1632; made

in
a freeman in 1634; and
moved
to
Wobum
in 1641.
In
the great trouble of 1637 he
was on the
side of
moder-
ation so far as to disapprove the banishment of
Wheel-
wright.
He was
for
received into the Charlestown church
with his wife, Goodeth; subscribed at Charlestown to
"town orders
Woburn" and was one

latter
of the
first
board of selectmen for the
town.
133
LOTHROP
1.
John Lowthroppe,
married,
died 1558
;
2.
Robert Lowthroppe,
married,
3.
Thomas Lowthroppe,
Ellen.
died 1606; married,
4.
Rev.
John Lothrop, born 1584;

ried,
died 1653; mar-
Mary.
5.
Thomas Lothrop,
1639,
born 1621; married, Dec. 11,
Sarah (Learned) Ewer.

6.
Mary Lothrop, bom

6,
Oct. 4, 1640, married,
May
1669,
died Nov. 20, 1681.
William French, born 1603;
LOTHROP
to the junior
John Lowthroppe (1) of Cherry Burton belonged branch of his family, but was possessed of
as any other
extensive landed estates and in 1545 was assessed twice

as
Cherry Burton was four miles from Lowthorp Dickering, East Riding of Yorkshire.
much
member
of the parish.
John Lothrop (4) the emigrant, was baptized at Etton in Yorkshire, December 20, 1584; matriculated in
134
Queen's College, Cambridge, 1601; B. A., 1605; M. A.,
1609; curate at Egerton, Kent, of St. James' Church, 1611; later became an Independent and was chosen pastor of the First Independent
Church on Union
street,
Southvvark, London, succeeding the Rev.
Henry
Jacobs,
"Only such as could meet the obloquy and risk the

danger of worshipping God in violation of human statute were likely to be found in that secret gathering."
April 22, 1632, the congregation was discovered by
one of Bishop Laud's agents, named Tomlinson. Only eighteen escaped. Forty-two, including Mr. Lothrop,
were arrested and sent to the Clink Prison
in
Newgate
and the Gatehouse, where they lingered for months. In the spring of 1634 all but Mr. Lothrop were released on
bail.
While he was
still
in prison his
wife died.
He
was allowed
to visit her at the last, but
was immediately
returned to his confinement.
Finally in response to a
piteous appeal from the minister's motherless children,
the bishop consented to release him.
He
then came to
America and was chosen pastor of the church in Scituate which he organized shortly after his landing in SeptemDifficulties arose between him and his parber, 1634.
ishioners on the subject of baptism
stable
and he went to Barn-
He was made
1637.
where he organized another church. a freeman of Plymouth Colony

at Scituate
is
in
His house
were made of
thus described
"The
walls
clay,
poles, filled
between with stones and
the roof thatched, the chimney to the mantel of rough

stone and above, of cob work; the
windows of
oiled
left
paper and the floor of hand-sawed planks."
He
135
library valued at five pounds, each of his children receiv-
ing one book.

Otis says of him:
"He was
man
of deep piety,
great zeal and large ability, and as distinguished for his worldly wisdom as for his piety. Wherever one of his
family pitched his tent, that spot soon became a center of business and land in its vicinity increased in value."
Thomas Lothrop was probably bom

Kent,
Mass.,
11,
in
Egerton,
about
1621.
He
joined the church in Scituate,
May
1639,
4, 1637; and married in Boston, December Mrs. Sarah Ewer, daughter of William
Learned.
Mrs.
Mary (Lothrop) Stearns-French-Mixer,
three
times married and the third wife of her third husband,
was
age.
still
living in 1735, being then about 95 years of
136-
MERRICK
1.
Lieut.
William Merrick, born 1603;
married,
Rebecca.
2.
Sarah Merrick, born Aug.
1,
1654; died April 21,
1696; married, Dec. 18, 1672,
John Freeman,
1719.
Jr.,
born Dec, 1651
died Oct. 28,
MERRICK
"That the Merrick's of America are descended from
the purest Celtic stock
authorities, to-wit
:
is
established
upon the
best of
Burke's Peerage.
"The Meyrick's are of the purest and noblest Cambrian blood and have possessed the same ancestral estates
and residence
;
at
Bodorgan Anglesey, Wales,
for 1000
years they have the rare distinction of being lineally descended both from the sovereign princes of Wales of
the
Welch
royal family and from
King Edward
I,
whose
eldest son
was the
first
Prince of Wales."
From "The Merrick Family

"The
Genealogy."
is is
following table of births (dates, etc.,) not only as possible, but very probable and offered,
from the Merrick Genealogy: 1. Meuric ap Llewellyn, Captain of the Guard at His the coronation of Henry VIII, April 15, 1509.
137
castle at
Bodorgan, Wales,
Rev. John,
fifth
is still
in the
Myrick family.
Authority, Burke's "Peerage."

2.
was
first
He
left
son of Llewellyn, born 1513, in the navy, which he left to enter the ministry. three children: William, born about 1545;
St.
Owain, rector of
3.
David's, Pembrokeshire
Maud, who
married a Powell.
Rev. William Merrick, son of Rev. John, and
of Rev. Roland, born 1546,
nephew where he may have been born.

4.
was
at Llandeslied,
John (that
is
Sion), born about 1579 in
Pem-
brokeshire.
No
records have yet been found of John's children,

is
but tradition in several of the American families
that
John was the

1603; James,
1620.
father of four brothers
William, born
bom
1612; John, born 1614; Thomas, born
There
is
good reason
to believe that the
John of
Hingham, who
died at Roxbury, leaving a widow, Elizabeth, was the father of the four brothers."
See "Merrick Genealogy."

In the "Merrick Genealogy" scription of Bodorgan Castle.
is
a picture and de-
Lieutenant William Merrick was born in Wales,
"James" in 1636; under Myles first as ensign, then as lieutenant; had Standish, property in Eastham and Duxbury and lived in both places.
served five years in the Colonial
Militia
1603; arrived
at
Charlestown
in
the
He was
March
43 years old when the first of bis ten children was born. In his will, dated December 3, and proved
6,
1688-9, he
is
described as being about 86 years
138
old.
He
might be supposed
to be the grandfather rather
than the father of this family,

his wife, Rebecca,
were
it
not that he names
and children, WilHam and Stephen.
139
PAIGE
1.
Nicholas Page, married,
2.
Henry Page,
born 1492; married,

married,
3.
John Page, born 1521;
AwDRY
4.
Redding.
Richard Page, born 1553; married, Frances Mudge. Richard Page, born 1589; Elmira Whitecliffe.
married, 1635,
5.
6.
Nathaniel
Paige, born 1645; died April 12, 1692;
married, about 1677,
Joanna Merriam,
7.
died July 1724.
Christopher
Paige,
born Feb., 1695; married,
May
23, 1720,
Elizabeth Reed, born 1700; died 1786.

8.
Col.
Timothy
Aug.
Foster,
Paige, born
May
24,
1727; died
26, 1791; married, Oct. 24, 1754;
Mary Mary
bom
April 11, 1732; died July 21,
1825.
9.
Paige, born Oct. 19, 1759; died July 12,
1834; married, Aug. 23, 1778, Lieut. Daniel Fay, born Dec. 14, 1752; died June
21, 1810.
140
PAIGE
Paige's are descendants of ham, son of a baron of England,
The
portant mission at the Spanish
Hugo Page or Pagewho fulfilled an imcourt for Henry HI and
was knighted
for his
services.
The
will of
Nicholas Page (1) was dated 1547.
Henry Page (2) was bom in Wembly, Middlesex; moved to Essex and later, returned to Middlesex, where
his descendants lived for several generations.
daughter Thomas Redding of Hedgeston, Middlesex.

(3)
John
Page
married
Awdry,
of
Robert
Richard Page (4) married Frances, daughter of Mudge of London.

married
Elmira,
Richard Page (5)
daughter of
James
Whitecliffe.
Nathaniel Page (or Paige)
(6), the emigrant,
was
and
an active business
lic
man and
greatly interested in the pubfor
welfare.
He was
"noted
great
a
strength
courage, tested
when he commanded
company
of volsailed
unteers that routed a large band of Indians."
He
from Plymouth, landing at Boston, August 13, 1675; went back to England in 1677 to marry Joanna Merriam and returned to this country,
lived there five years;
;
settling in
Roxbury, June
2,
1686.
He was
one of the
eight original purchasers of the
town of Hardwick from
the Indian sachems,
December
27, 1686.
copy of the
deed of sale by sundry Indians, recorded in the County of Hampshire, in which this territory was then embraced,
15.
is
given in Paige's "History of Hardwick," page
continuation of the record reads:
141
"And we do
also hereby appoint Captain
Samuel
Green and Mr. Nathaniel Page and the Rev. Mr. Timothy Ruggles to procure a good and well approved of
surveyor and two chainmen
who
shall
be under oath to
the faithful discharge of their office and trust
and
shall
survey six miles square within

fair platt thereof
our claim and draw a
and the same put on record."

of the government,
first
On
the organization
June
2,
1686, after the abrogation of the
charter, he
was
appointed by President Joseph Dudley, one of the two marshals of Suffolk county. He was licensed by the
County Court of Suffolk, August

holder in Roxbury.
2,
1686, as an acre1687-8, a farm of

is
He
bought
in
250 acres
in that part of Billerica
which
now
the eastre-
erly part of Bedford,
where he resided during the

His
will
mainder of
his
life.
preceding his death is nature is unusually plain and
dated on the day next signed "Natt Paige" and the sigdistinct.
From "The History
of Hardwick," by Paige.
He
who
died in Boston, April 12, 1692.

,
first, Joanna and second. Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon George Reed of Woburn. He was a farmer and joiner; resided on the easterly road to Gil-
Christopher Paige (7) married

died
October 27, 1719,
bertville; transacted business for the settlers in
Roxbury
and with the general court in Boston, notably in their final and successful effort to incorporate as a town was moderator of their first town meeting; selectman seven
;
years and assessor five years and was also moderator of all the meetings held in Hardwick until 1761. At the organization of the church, November 17, 1736, his
;
142
name
lished
stands
first
on the
list
of
ber 3, 1736, as
in
its first
deacon.
members and on DecemHis obituary was pub-
the Massachusetts
Gazette,
March
Paige,
31,
1774.
"At Hardwick,
left
Deacon
Christopher
aged
life,
83
years, 21 days, in a comfortable hope of a better
he
widow
and has had 12 children, 9
now
living and
3 dead; 81 grandchildren, 66 living and 15 dead.
funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. HutchinFrom "The son at his farm on Monday following."
History of Hardwick," by Paige, which contains much interesting information concerning Christopher Paige. Colonel Timothy Paige (8) was a farmer and much
emplo)^ed
in
the
public
service;
selectman,
years; of the
treasurer, 6 years; representative, 1781;
member
Committee of Correspondence and other important committees during the Revolutionary period
itia
;
captain of mil-
company to Bennington at the alarm in August, 1777, and to West Point in 1780, through a
and
led his
campaign of three months.

militia,
On
the organization of the
after the adoption of the Constitution, he
was
commissioned colonel, which office he held during the He was a staunch supporter of remainder of his life.
the government and rendered service in the suppression He resided on the homestead of Shay's Rebellion.
His wife, Mary, died in New Braintree, July 21, 1825, aged 93, and was buried by the side of her husband in the southwesterly corner
where he
died,
August
26, 1791.
of the old burial place.
Colonel Paige's father and three
brothers are buried near by.
The
obituary notice
is
as follows:
ult.
"In Hardwick, on the 26th

Paige, aged
61:
Colonel Timothy
years, after a distressing sickness
which
143
he sustained with Christian fortitude and died
in the
firm faith and hope of a future resurrection and a happy
a gentleman of abilities and filled a number of important stations, both in the civil and
immortality.
military departments with fidelity
He was
and honor.
num-
ber of gentlemen in the military line attended the inter-
ment of
friends
in
his remains, relatives
among
numerous concourse of
and a company of infantry dressed attended the solemnity and performed miliuniform,
and
tary honors.
A
is
pathetic
and well adapted discourse was
delivered on the occasion by the Rev.
Thomas
is
Holt, 'O
Death, where
thy sting?
Grave, where
thy vic-
tory?'" This was probably the first military funeral in the town and the only one until October, 1811, when similar
honors were rendered John Warren.
Mary Paige (9) is described as "a very woman, stately and dignified, and so highly
fine
looking educated as
to be quite capable of preparing her sons for college."
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PALGRAVE
1.
Dr. Richard Palgrave, died 1657; married,
Anna.
2.
Mary Palgrave,
1698-9.
married,
died
Roger Wellington, born 1609-10;
March
11,
PALGRAVE
man
Richard Palgrave (or Palsgrave) "a right godly and skillful chirurgeon" one of the first physicians
of Charlestown; applied October 30, 1630, to be admitted freeman

;
was admitted next May 18
his will
was
dated June
4,
1651; mentions wife, Anna, daughters
(wife of Roger Wellington) Sarah, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Lydia, the first three daughters already married. His inventory, 313 Id., s., 8 d., dated October
Mary
1,
1651.
His widow, Anna, then of the parish of Stepney,

Middlessex, England, appointed John Pierce of Wapping, Middlessex, mariner, and Edmund Heylett of the parish
of Stepney, merchant, to be her attorneys. The will of Anna Palgrave mentions her eldest daughter, wife of
Roger Wellington, and other
children.
145
PEIRCE
1.
Thomas
Peirce, born 1583; died 1666; married,
Elizabeth.
2.
Thomas
Peirce, born 1616; died 1683; married,
Elizabeth, died 1688.

3.
Abigail Peirce, born
1660;
died Sept.
9,
1719;
George Reed, born

1756.
Sept.
11,
1660; died Jan. 20,
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PRATT
1.
John Pratt,
married,
2.
Rev. PIenry Pratt,* married,
3.
Phinehas Pratt,
married, 1630,
Mary
4.
Priest.
Hannah
Pratt, married, March 18, 1652,

died 1684.
William Spoon er,
PRATT
"The Rev. Henry
fined in
Pratt, a non-conformist minister,
was imprisoned with 400
religious teachers
and con-
damp and gloomy jails in England. While thus incarcerated, he communicated with his distressed famby writing to them with the blood which he drew from
ily
his
arm
for this purpose."
From
"Pratt's
Memorial of
Phinehas and Joshua Pratt." Phinehas and Joshua Pratt, supposed to have been sons of the above, were among the 36 original settlers
of
Dartmouth, and were allotted two acres of land

Tradition has
it
jointly.
John Pratt (1) or his father was a Frenchman who "fled from France during
that
political
excitement
to
England and became armorof England."
bearer to the
Monarch
147-
PRENCE
1.
Thomas Prence,
married,
died
2.
Governor Thomas Prence, born 1601; March 29, 1675; married, Aug. 5, 1624, Patience Brewster, died 1634.
3.
Mercy Prence,
born 1631; died Sept. 28, 1711;
married, Feb. 13 or 14, 1649-50,
Major John Freeman,

1719.
born 1627; died Oct. 28,
PRENCE
Thomas Prence
born
in
(2), son of
Thomas Prence
in the ship
(1),
of Lechdale, Gloucestershire, near Crickdale, Wilts,
was
1601 and came to America
"Fortune,"
Two years landing at Plymouth, November 9, 1622. he married Patience, daughter of later, August 5, 1624, Elder William Brewster, this being the ninth wedding
in the colony.
in
Mistress Prence died in 1634, the year

first
which Thomas Prence was, for the

In
time, chosen
governor of Plymouth Colony.
1635 he married
Mary Collier, and on, the expiration of his term of office, moved to Duxbury. After the death of his second wife,
he married Mrs.
Mary Freeman.
In 1638, long remem-
bered as the year of the earthquake, he was again chosen He then again governor, holding ofifice for a year. In to Eastham, in 1644. changed his residence, going
148
ence was 'foul and

writer."
false,'
strong words which honor the

felt that,
Prence and his friends
in
harrying
the Quakers, they were doing God's service; a severe execution of the laws was exceptional and they often exercised leniency
on
slight pretexts.
in religious
Thomas Prence had

matters and he used
over swayed the court

his influence to
emancipate his people from the bonds of
a world-wide superstition.
He
promoted education, was

a noble mis-
a stern Calvinist, was quiet and kind in his dealings with

the Indians (words of
Thomas Mayhew),
sionary to the Indians.
The governor's only son went

he married and died while
only daughter.
still
to England,
where
young man, leaving an
Mercy Prence (3) daughter of Thomas Prence and

his
first
wife,
Patience
(Brewster)
Prence,
married
Major John Freeman.
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PRIEST
1.
DiGGORY Priest, died Jan.

4,
1,
1621; married, Nov.
1611,
Sarah (Allerton) Vincent.

3.
Mary
Priest, married, 1630,
Phinehas Pratt.
PRIEST
Degory (or Diggory)
Priest, one' of the passengers
on the "Mayflower," married at Leyden, Holland, November 4, 1611, Sarah (Allerton) Vincent, widow of
John Vincent and
sister of Isaac Allerton,
another of
the "Mayflower's" passengers.
1615.
Diggory Priest was made a freeman of Leyden in Governor Bradford and Isaac Allerton were the
only other Englishman on

ferred.
whom
this
honor was con-
Edward
Allerton of St. Dionis', Backchurch, LonSt.
don, and Rose Davis of
Peter's, Cornhill,
who were
married at St. Dionis', February 14, 1579-80, may have been the parents of Isaac and Sarah. Edward Allerton died in 1590 and his widow in 1596.
Diggory Priest died January

Rock.
1,
1621, only a week
or so after the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth
His family
his
had remained
married,
where
widow
behind in Leyden, within the year, Cuthbert
Cuthbertson, with
ica.
whom
she afterwards came to
Amer-
She died before 1633.
152
REED.
1.
2.
Edward Read, * married, William Read, * married, Dorothy Beaumont.
3.
Thomas Read,
married,
Ann
4.
Hoo.
married,
Thomas Read, * Mary Stonehouse.

Sir
Sir
5.
Thomas Read, Mary Brocket.
married^
6.
Thomas Read,* married, Mary Cornwall.

William Reed, born 1587; died 1656; married, Mabel Kendall, born 1605; died June 15, 1690.
George Reed, born 1629;
ried, Oct. 4,
7.
8.
died Feb. 21, 1705; mar-
1652,
Elizabeth Jennison, bom 1637; died 1665.

9.
Deacon George Reed, born
Jan. 20, 1756; married, Feb. 18, 1624,
Abigail Peirce, born Nov. 20, 1660

1719.
10.
died Sept.
9,
Elizabeth Reed, born June

married.
14,
1700; died 1786;
May
23, 1720,
Christopher Paige, bom'

10, 1774.
Feb., 1690; died
March
153
REED
The Reeds
whose history
tury,
is
(or Reads) are an old English family known as far back as the fifteenth cen(1),
when Edward Read

William Read
Lord of the Manor
of
Beedon, was high sheriff of Berkshire, 1439-1451.

(2)
in
1536 added Barton Court
to the family estates.
He
married Dorothy, daughter of
John Beaumont of Cole Orton. Thomas Read (3) married
Ann,
daughter
of
Thomas Hoo
of Hoo, Hertfordshire.
Their son. Sir
Thomas Read
(4) was lord of the

in
manors of Beedon, Barton and Dunster; and
1581 was
made high
ter of
sheriff of Bucks.
He
married Mary, daughLittle
George Stonehouse, Esq., of
Peckham, Kent,
Clerk of the Green Cloth.

Sir
Sir
Thomas Read
(5) married Mary, daughter of
John Brocket.
Their son, Thomas Read (6) married Mary, daugh-
Thomas Cornwall, Lord of Shropshire. The above is supposed to be the ancestry of William Reed (or Reade) who came to America in 1635. He
ter of
was born
who
1587; married Mabel Kendall, with three children came to New England with
in
England
in
him; resided successively in Dorchester, Scituate, Boston and Woburn; returned to England, leaving three children in this country; and died at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne
in
1656, aged about 69.
His widow, with the

of
younger children, again crossed the ocean and married,
November
June
21, 1660,
Henry Summers
85.
Woburn.
After
his death she lived with her son, George, until she died, 15, 1690,
aged
154
Deacon
September
George
1G60.
14,
Reed (9) was born in England He was deacon of the church in

he presented a silver
use
in
Woburn
munion
to which, in 1711,
Com-
cup.
This was
still in
1861.
He
died at
Woburn. January
30, 1756.
155
RUGGLES
1.
Thomas Ruggles,
Thomas Ruggles,
ried,
died about 1547; married,
2. 3.
Nicholas Ruggles, married,

married,
4.
John Ruggles, born
1591; died Oct.
6,
1663; mar-
Barbara, born 1605; died

5.
Jan., 1637.
John Ruggles, born 1633;

married, April
3,
died Feb.
25,
1713;
1655,
6,
Mary
6.
Gibson, born March 29, 1637; died Dec.
1674.
John Ruggles, born May

1,
19,
1657; married,
May
1679,
Hannah
7.
Devotion.
Ruggles, born Oct.
21,
Elizabeth
1710;
died
Aug., 1767; married, Oct. 10, 1728,
Daniel Spooner, born
Feb. 28, 1694; died 1797.
RUGGLES
Thomas Ruggles
(3), third son of Nicholas,
was
bom
in
Sudbury, Suffolk.
He came
to
America and was
living in
Roxbury
in
1637.
John Ruggles (4),
second son of
Suffolk.
Thomas
(3),
was
also born in
Sudbury,
His wife's name
was Barbara.
John Eliot says of him ''John Ruggles
156
he came to
New England
to
in
the year, 1635,
and soon
after his coming, joined to the church; he
was a Hvely
Eng-
Christian,
known
many
of the church in old
land where
many
of the church injoyed society together.
He
brought his first-born, John Ruggles, with him and his second son was still-borne in the 11th month, 1636,
of which his wife died.

tian
woman."
He
Barbara was a godly, Chriscame from Nazig, England and setrepresentative.
tled in
Roxbury; was a
His second wife
child
was Margery Hamonde, "a maide-servant." who lived to maturity was

John Ruggles (5) who
lived in
His only
Roxbury; married
first,
Mary Gibson;
third,
second, Sarah
Dyer of Weymouth;
and
Ruth.
after her death, Mrs. Elizabeth Day.
John Ruggles (6) married Hannah Devotion and His eighth child
first
by
his
wife was Elizabeth,
who married
(4),
Daniel
Spooner.
Captain John Ruggles, probably Louisburg expedition, in 1645.
was
in
the
of Hardwick" gives Nazig as "Nazand describes it as "a parish in the Hundred of ing" Waltham, near Epping in the County of Essex, England."
The "History
Nicholas Ruggely bought an estate in Warwick and was appointed Ranger of Sutton Chase in the second year of Henry IV. In 1428 he was sheriff of Warwick and Leicester. In the tenth year of King Henry V the
family was living in Staffordshire.
The younger branch
moved
to Lincolnshire in the sixteenth century, then to
Suffolk.
These were the ancestors of Thomas Ruggles
of Sudbury.
157
SPOONER
1.
John Spooner
* of
Leyden, married,
Anna
2.
Peck.
died 1684; married
William Spooner,
1652,
March
18,
Hannah
3.
Pratt.
Jan. 14, 1665; died 1739;
Samuel Spooner, born

married.
Experience Wing, born Aug.

1731.
4.
4,
1668
died after
Daniel Spooner, born

Elizabeth
Feb. 28, 1694; died 1797;
married, Oct. 10, 1728,
Ruggles, born Oct. 21, 1710; died
Aug., 1767.
5.
Elizabeth Spooner, born Jan. 14, 1731 24, 1756; married, March 24, 1749;
died Nov.
Daniel Fay, born

1715.
Oct.
21; 1728; died Feb. 28,
SPOONER
WilHam Spooner
whether with
(2) arrived at the
New Plymouth
settlement early in the year, 1637.
Whence he came,
Leyden, whether direct from the mother country, or whether, which we think most probable, from the little embryo town of Colchester,
Ann Spooner from
158
Massachusetts Colony,
in
is
not known.
It is
known
that
1616 John Spooner was living in Leyden and was the head of a family also that Ann Spooner, his widow, was there in 1630. In 1637 an Ann Spooner who, it is
;
Ann Spooner of Leyden, was living Salem and John and Ann are believed to have been the parents of William (2) and of Thomas, who was in Salem in 1637.
supposed was the
in
In the list of August, 1643, William Spooner is mentioned as one "of all the males that are able to beare
arms from
townships."
XVI
years old to 60 years within the several
He was
qualifications
propounded to take up his freedom (the to become a freeman were "twenty-one
years of age, sober, peaceable conversation, orthodoxy
fundamentals of religion and a ratable estate of twenty pounds." He resided in Plymouth till about 1660 when he removed to Dartmouth (or rather, Acushnet
in the
in the
Dartmouth purchase).
Samuel Spooner (3) was constable in 1680 and again in 1684 of Dartmouth Province of Massachusetts
Bay; served on grand and

positions of trust.
petit juries
and held other

:
An
extract
from
his will follows
to Experience,
I hereby give and bequeath beloved wife, one feather bed my dearly and furniture to it, at her election, with all other my
"Imp's
My
will is
and
household goods and utensils within doors during her widowhood and that with what my three sons are otherwise obliged to do for her interests will be an honorable support for her during her remaining my widow." Daniel Spooner (4) moved from Dartmouth to
Newport, R.
I.,
where he was admitted a freeman
in
159
May, 1732, and where he

house carpenter.
but
carried on the business of a
He
later
returned to
New
Bedford,
moved again before June 16, 1748, when he was a land owner in Hardwick. He afterwards moved to Petersham where, with his wife, he was admitted to the
membership of the First Church, April 2, 1749. He was made a deacon, July 11, 1750. The following de-
scription
liable
is
man, devoted to
In
all
given of him "an active, thorough-going, rehis family and friends and ever
alert in the interests of his
town and the welfare of
his
country.
conflict,
the trying times of the Revolutionary
although then beyond the allotted age of man, he took a most decided interest and gave his full influence in behalf of his country.
As an
evidence of his
vigorous old age, 'after he had passed his ninetieth year,
he made the journey on horseback to Vermont, to

;)9.
visit
sons.
"In his family, where he was ample provider, indulgent and kindly, giving to his children all the educational advantages afforded by the neighborhood, yet he was a
rigid
disciplinarian.
great-grandson of his relates
that Daniel 'was a carpenter and joiner
and worked much
from home during the week and, on his return home Saturday night, he would call up his large family of boys and, without any inquiry, give each of them a whipping,
presuming that, by " had deserved it.'
their conduct
through the week, they
160
SWEETMAN
1.
Thomas Svveetman,
died Jan., 1682-3; married,
Isabel, died about 1709.

2.
Elizabeth Sweetman, born January married, December 7, 1671,
6,
1646-7;
Benjamin Wellington, born

1709-10.
1645-6; died Jan.
8,
SWEETMAN
Thomas Sweetman was
Cambridge as early
as 1645.
a weaver and resided
in
is
His house was on what
now
the northwest corner of the college grounds.

the Mrs.
His which
widow was probably

charity
Sweetman who
received
from the church from 1691
to 1709, about
time she probably died.

ter.
Elizabeth was his eldest daugh-
161
WARDEN
1.
Peter Warden, of Yarmouth, married,
Mary.
2.
Mercy Warden, born

married,
1640; died Sept. 22, 1688;
Kenelm Winslow,
11, 1715.
born about 1636; died Nov.
162
WARREN
1.
John Warren, bom 1585;

married,
died
Dec. 13, 1667;
Margaret, died Nov.

2.
6,
1662.
died 1667; married,
Daniel Warren, bom 1628;

Dec. 10, 1650,
Mary Barron,
S.
died Feb. 13, 1715-16.
Mary Warren,
born Nov. 29, 1651
died
May
12,
1754; married.
May
29, 1668,
John Child, born 1636;
died Oct. 15, 1676
WARREN
John Warren (1) was born in Nayland, Suffolk, in 1585, and is said to be the son of John Warren of Nayland and his wife Elizabeth.
His second wife, Margaret,
was the mother of

tled
his son, Daniel.
John Warren (1) came to America in 1630; setin Watertown; was admitted freeman, May 18, 1631; selectman, 1636 to 1640; and in 1635 was appointed with Abraham Brown, to lay out all highways and to see that they were repaired.
In October, 1651, he and
Thomas Arnold were
fined
20 shilHngs each for an offence against baptism. March 14, 1658-9 he was to be warned for not attending public
worship, but "Old
town."
Man Warren is not to be found in The homes of Old Man Warren and Goodman
163
Hammond
His
were
ordered to be searched for Quakers.
November 30, and proved November 6, mentions children John, Mary, Daniel and Eliza1662, beth, probably all born in England.
will dated
Daniel
His
will,
Warren (2) took the oath of fidelity in 1652. dated November 30, and proved December 17,
first,
1667, mentions son Daniel and other children.
Mary Warren married
John Child, and second,
April 13, 1677, Nathaniel Fiske.
164
WELLINGTON
1.
Roger Wellington, born 1609-10;

1698-9; married,
died
March
11,
Mary
2.
Palgrave.
1645-6; died Jan.
1671,
6,
Benjamin Wellington, born

1709-10; married, Dec.
7,
8,
Elizabeth Sweetman, born

3.
Jan.
1646-7.
;
Elizabeth Wellington, born Dec. 29, 1673 died March 8, 1729; married, Dec. 1, 1690,
John Fay, born Nov.
30, 1669; died Jan. 5, 1747.
WELLINGTON
tler
Roger Wellington was a planter and an early setof Watertown, his name being on the earliest list of
18,
proprietors extant; admitted freeman, April
1690.
He
married Mary, daughter of Dr. Richard Palgrave of
Charlestown,
apparently did not survive him as she was not mentioned in his will, dated Dec. 17, 1697, and
who
proved March 11, 1698.

grand-daughter,
Mary
Benjamin, and his were mentioned Livermore,

son,
His
among
others.
He was
selectman 1678-79-81-83-84-91.
He owned home
stall,
adjoining
that
of
Simon
in
Stone, of 16 acres, also 145 acres of land elsewhere.
Benjamin Wellington (2) was admitted freeman, December, 1677.
165
WING
1.
Matthew Wynge,
died 1614; married,
2.
John Winge, died 1629-30; married, Deborah Bachiler, born 1592.

Daniel Wing, Anna Ewer.
died 1698; married, June
2,
3.
1666,
4.
Experience Wing, bom Aug.

1731; married,
4,
1688; died after
Samuel Spooner, bom
Jan. 14, 1655; died 1739.
WING
Matthew Wynge (1), of Banbury Cross, tailor, made his will, August 9, 1614, and it was proved, November 15, of the same year.
In the will he leaves 100

his
pounds
to the
poor and requests that
body be buried
in the parish church.
The Rev. John Winge

lived first in
(2) third son of the above,
moved
to Flushing, Zealand,
Sandwich, England, then at Hanbury, then where he was chosen pastor

Later he lived
in
of the Puritan Church.
The Hague,
Apparently he returned to England, shortly before his death, for in his will he styles himself, "John
Holland.
The Hague, Aldermay, London." The

Winge,
late of
clerk,
will
now living in St. Mary was made November 2,

In
it
he disposes of lands in Cuckston and Kent, half to his wife and half to
1629, and proved, August 4, 1630.
166-
his children.
ter
His wife was Deborah Batchelder, daughRev. Stephen Batchelder.

(3) associated himself with the Society
by
his first wife, of the
Daniel
Wing
of Friends and, with others,
was subjected
to the penalties
of the law for not supporting the Puritan Church.
He
was
fined frequently
and excluded from the number of
freemen for the

wife,
Anna
of being a Quaker. His second Ewer, was the mother of his daughter, Exofifense
perience.
167
WINSLOW,
1.
Kenelm WinsloWj
Catherine.
died 1607; married,
2.
Edward Winslow,
Magdalen Ollyver.
born October 17, 1560; died
before 1631; married,
November
4,
1594,
3.
Kenelm Winslow,
Ellen
5,
(
born April 29, 1599; died Sep-
tember 12, 1682; married, June, 1634,

)
Adams^ born 1598;
died
December
1681.
4.
Kenelm Winslow,
ber 11, 1715
;
born about 1636; died Novem-
married,
Mercy Warden,
22, 1688.
5.
born about 1640; died September
Major Edward Winslow,
born January 30, 1681
died June 25, 1760; married,
Sarah, born 1682 died October

;
11, 1765.
8,
6.
Lydia Winslow, born September

January
1786.
7,
;
1709; died
1770 married, July 10, 1729,

6,
Deacon James Foster, born June
1705; died
WINSLOW
in
1607
Kenelm Winslow (1) of Kempsey, England, in the Parish of St. Andrew, Worcester.
168
died
Edward Winslow
(2) of Droitwich and Kempsey,

first
Worcestershire, married
Eleanor Pelham
and
4,
sec-
London, November Magdalen Ollyver, mother of his son Kenelm.

ond, at St. Bride's Church,
1594,
Kenelm Winslow (3) was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire, April 29, 1599, and came to New England,
probably about 1629, residing in Plymouth till about 1641, when he removed to Marshfield, which he represented in the General Court for eight years.
He
also held
sundry minor offices. He was a farmer and joiner. In June, 1634, he married Ellen, widow of John Adams, who
sui-vived him,
dying at Marshfield
in
1681, aged 83.
He
died at Salem (where he had perhaps resorted for medical aid,
having long been sick), September 12, 1672,

settled in
Kenelm Winslow (4)

ster,
what
is
and married Mercy, daughter of Peter She died in 1688 and he married, second, Damaris who survived him. He died in 1715,
now BrewWarden of
Yarmouth.
aged
79,
and
his headstone stands in a cemetery near his
homestead, but within the easterly border of Dennis.
Major Edward Winslow (5)

a farmer and engaged in the
resided in Roch;
was
;
making and forging of iron was selectman, town clerk, town treasurer, justice of the peace and of the quorum, and was also major of militia
and generally designated by
his military
title.
See "The History of Hardwick," Paige.
169
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Dwight Stone and Olive Evans

JULIA EVANS (STONE) NEIL

The Champlin Press Columbus. Ohio

intimate acquaintance with her

far greater than she

would dream was

could be done, those

text, all stories are

only possible as the case

The work has

more than paid

made "Highlanders, shoulder

wide world over.

reward has been the discoverer's joy

clue to the history of

to be forever lost in the

She now sends the book upon

real value to others enlisted in the

Alice Fay Potter.

plan of this book

very simple. It is divided In the first, the ancestry of Dvvight

Stone, the Stone lineage

follow in alphabetical order.

must be sought among her husband's

their records, this second line can be traced

names must be sought

direct ancestry only

and any name on which marked with an asterisk.

the ancestry of Olive Evans,

follows the same plan, the

the others in alphabetical order.

THE ANCESTRY OF DWIGHT STONE

THE ANCESTRY OF DWTGHT STONE

Much Bromley, May 12, 1506)

will July 28,

David Stone, married, Aug.

Ursula, (written on the parish register of Much

Gregory Stone, bom

1597; died Aug.

Elder John Stone, born

England, 1618; died

1683; married, 1638, 1625; died

Ann Howe, bom

Nathaniel Stone, bora May

1660; died Oct.

married, April 25, 1684,

Sarah Wayt, bom 1672;

Hezekiah Stone, born March

1711; died July

Elizabeth Livermore, born

Jan. 7, 1734-5; died

John Stone, born May

1763; died Feb.

20, 1849; married 1785,

Rice, born Oct. 29, 1762; died Feb.

John Stone, born Nov.

LoRA Parish, born May

1786; died Dec. 13,