Robert Pease Jr – Great Baddow

Posted on August 25, 2010 by markeminer

Robert PEASE Jr. – Great Baddow(1589 – 1644)  was Alex’s 11th Great Grandfather twice, through his son Robert and his son John.  He was  two of 4,096 in this generation of the Miner line.

Robert Pease – Coat of Arms

Robert Pease was baptized in 28 Oct 1589 in Great Baddow, Essex, England.  His parents were Robert PEASE and Margaret KING.  He married Lydia WEST in England.  After Lydia died, he married Marie [__?__] also in England.   He came to New England in the ship Francis, John CUTTING [our ancestor], master, sailing from Ipswich, England the last of Apr 1634. The ship landed at Boston without the loss of a single passenger. Robert was accompanied by his brother John, his eldest son Robert, a Miss Clark, aged fifteen, who was the daughter of a fellow passenger, and a Miss Greene, aged fifteen, perhaps a servant.  His wife Marie and other family members probably came on a later ship.   Robert died on 27 Oct 1644 in Salem, Mass.

Lydia West  probably died before he made the journey to America. This marriage to Lydia West is not proven, and is not mentioned in the early Pease genealogies.

Robert’s second wife, Marie, whose possible maiden name was Rodans, and the other children arrived in New England on a later ship. Marie, which is French for Mary, may have been born in Great Baddow, and her parents were probably Protestant refugees from France.  She has also been called Marie Browning, Marie Warren and Marie French. After Robert Pease died, Marie married Richard Haines of Beverly, Mass. taking the three other children with her.

Robert Pease Probate 1644 Source: A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of John Pease, Senior by Rev. David Pease and Austin Pease 1869

Robert Pease Probate 1644 – 2

Children of Robert and Lydia:

Name Born Married Departed
1. Robert PEASE – The Former Apr 1630 Great Baddow, Essex, England. Sarah SEDGWICK Aft 1717
2. John PEASE Feb 1631 Great Baddow, Essex, England Mary GOODALE 1653 Salem, Mass.
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Ann Cummings
8 Oct 1669		 8 Jul 1689 Enfield, Hartford, CT
3. Isaac Pease? Unmarried

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Children of Robert and Marie baptized in Salem, MA:

Name Born Married Departed
4. Nathaniel Pease 1634 Great Baddow, England Mary Hobbs
15 Mar 1668 Salem		 Aft 1714 Salem
5. Sarah Pease 1642 Salem John Sampson
22 Oct 167 Beverly, Mass.		 Bef. 1677 Salem
6. Mary Pease 15 Aug 1643 Salem Hugh Pasco
16 Dec 1678 Salem		 29 May 1737 Enfield, CT

Robert Pease disappeared from records from the time he landed at Boston until three years later in Salem, MA, where in Jan 1637, he and his brother John had grants of land, Robert receiving ten acres. Margaret Pease, widow and mother of Robert and John, also emigrated to America, and died 1 Sep 1644 in Salem. In her will dated 01 Sep 1642, proved 01 Jan 1645, she mentions a grandchild, John, son of Robert. Robert Pease and Marie were admitted to the Salem Church 01 Oct 1643, and two weeks later, three of their children were baptized there. Marie, widow of Robert Pease was administratix, and the inventory of his estate was filed 27 Aug  1644.

Children

1 Oct 1643 – Robert Pease joined the First Church of Salem.  Two weeks late; three of his children, viz., Nathaniel, Sara and Mary, were baptized.

1. Robert PEASE – The Former (See his page)

2. John PEASE (See his page)

4. Nathaniel Pease

Nathaniel’s wife Mary Hobbs was born 1646 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. It is believed that the Mary Pease of the Salem Witch Trials was his wife, though there are no records of her trial.  If they had children is unknown, there being no record of issue. Nathaniel, baptized at Salem, Massachusetts, in 16143, but probably born in England; participant of King Philip’s War in 1675, and was living in 1714.

Mary Hobbs Pease — Source: Goody Pease of Salem Town by Elaine K. Pease Essex Genealogist August 1994

5. Sarah Pease

Sarah’s husband John Sampson was born 1634 in Salem Mass. His parents were Henry Samson (1604 – 1684) and Ann Plummer (1615 – 1685).  John died 1668 in Glouchester, Essex, Maine.

Henry Samson was born in Henlow, Bedford, England, and came on the Mayflower at the age of about 17 with his uncle and aunt, Edward Tilley and Ann Cooper.  Edward Tilley was born in 1588 in Henlow, Bedford, England, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Tilley.  He married Agnes Cooper on 20 June 1614 in Henlow.  Agnes was the aunt of Mayflower passengers Henry Samson and Humility Cooper.

Edward Tilley’s brother John TILLEY and his wife Joan HURST also came on the Mayflower.  No children were recorded to Edward and Ann Tilley.  They both died the first winter at Plymouth. Henry married Ann Plummer in 1635/36 at Plymouth, became a freeman in Plymouth around that time, and volunteered for service in the Pequot War of 1637, but Plymouth’s company was not called into service.  By 1643 he had moved to Duxbury, where he became constable in 1661, and tax collector for 1667 and 1668.  He was on a large number of juries and grand juries, and was appointed a surveyor on a couple of occasions.  His wife died sometime between 1668 and 1684; he died in 1684 at Duxbury.

6. Mary Pease

Mary’s husband Hugh Pasco was born in 1640 Cornwall, England. He first married 20 Feb 1670 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts to Sarah Wooland b. : Abt. 1649; d. 3 Jun 1676 Salem, Essex, Mass.  Two children in this mariage. He late married Mary Pease and there were nine children from this marriage. Sources:

Ancestry.com http://www.spicerweb.org/genealogy/pease/peaseregisterlegacy.aspx#c6002

http://www.ianwatson.org/pasco_family.pdf

Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation (1914) By: Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934

A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of John Pease, Senior  by Rev. David Pease and Austin Pease 1869

http://bloodlinesofsalem.org/Sarah_Pease.pdf

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Robert Pease – The Former

Posted on August 25, 2010 by markeminer

Robert PEASE – The Former (1630 – 1717)  was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather;  one of 2,048 in this generation of the Miner line.

Robert Pease – The Former was christened in Apr 1630 in Great Baddow, Essex, England.  His parents were Robert PEASE and Lydia WEST.   In 1634, at the age of 4, he traveled to Salem with his father Robert and his Uncle John. His father came to New England in the ship Francis, John CUTTING [our ancestor], master, sailing from Ipswich, England the last of Apr 1634. The ship landed at Boston, MA without the loss of a single passenger. In addition to his Robert, the father Robert was accompanied by his brother John, a Miss Clark, aged fifteen, who was the daughter of a fellow passenger, and a Miss Greene, aged fifteen, perhaps a servant.  His wife Marie and other family members including Robert’s brother John probably came on a later ship.   Robert married Sarah [SEDGWICK?] before 1660.  He died after 1717.

After his father died, at the age of 15 Robert Pease was apprentised for five years to Thomas Root, to learn the trade of a weaver of woolen and linen

Sarah [Sedgwick?] was born about 1630, perhaps in Salem, Mass.  Her parents were probably not  Major General Robert Sedgwick and Joanna Blake because Robert’s daughter Sarah married Governor John Leverettt about 1644 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Mass   Some sources state her parents were Richard Goodale and Catherine Killim, but their Sarah married someone else.  Sarah was living in 1704.

Major General Robert Sedgwick (c. 1611 – 1656)  settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1635, where he became a successful merchant and for many years represented the town in the General Court. He was active in organizing the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of which he became captain in 1640. In 1652 he was appointed commander of all the Massachusetts militia. He built Castle William, the first fort at Boston, and Oliver Cromwell promoted him to major general, making him the first Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. With John Winthrop, Jr. and others, he established in 1643-1644 the first ironworks in North America.

Under authority from Cromwell, in July 1654 Sedgwick raided Acadia by conquering the French at Fort Pentagouet, Maine; Fort La Tour at the mouth of the St. John River; and Port Royal. In 1655 he accompanied the expedition which captured Jamaica. Just before his death there, Cromwell gave him sole command as the first Governor General of Jamaica. He died on May 24, 1656, and was buried halfway up the canyon to Spanish Town from Ocho Rios in a small Christopher Wren-styled chapel. Sedgwick, Maine, was named in his honor.

 Both Robert and his wife Sarah suffered imprisonment in 1692 when they were suspected of witchcraft.

Children of Robert and Sarah:

Name Born Married Departed
1. Berthia Pease 11 Apr 1660
Salem, Essex		 Nov 1667 Salem, MA
2. Elizabeth Pease 20 Jun 1662 Salem Thomas Venney
28 Oct 1697 or
28 Oct 1703
Salem, Mass
3. Deliverance Pease 16 Oct 1664 in Salem Jonathan Crisp (Son of Benjamin CRISPE) 1680 Groton, Mass 27 Jul 1694 Groton, Mass
4. Mary Pease 15 Dec 1666 in Salem Alexander Electious Reynolds
16 Jul 1686 Salem,		 1 Mar 1716 Plymouth, Mass
5. Robert PEASE “The Later” 25 Mar 1669 Salem Hannah WARRINER Dec 1691
Enfield, CT		 21 Jul 1744 Enfield, CT
6. Isaac Pease 30 Nov 1671 in Salem Elizabeth Thomas
20 Apr 1697
Salem, Mass.		 12 Jul 1745 Peabody, Mass
7. Bethia Pease 18 Jun 1673 in Salem, 1770 Salem
8. Nathaniel Pease 28 Dec 1677 in Salem, Essex Elizabeth Ashley
20 Oct 1701 Salem		 Jun 1737 Salem

Great Baddow Parish Register: Robert the sonne of Robert Pease and his wife Bap. April 1630 Robert was a minor when his father died in 1644 at the age of 37.  By order of the court he was to remain with his mother for a year after which he could apply for permission to learn a trade. At the age of 15 was apprenticed to Thomas Root of Salem for a term of five years.  When his term expired in 1650 he remained in Salem, records of 1652 and 1655 show he was an inhabitant of that town.

Robert Pease Apprenticeship From A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of John Pease, Sen

Robert was bound out by the court on December 31, 1645 “upon motion and consent by both parties, to Thomas Root, to learn the trade of a weaver of woolen and linen.” He was sometimes made keeper of the town herd and must have been engaged as a herdsman during his apprenticeship, for in 1704 he testified that he had been a “keeper of several lots of creatures, as neat cattle and goats, on the lands belonging to the inhabitants of Salem above 60 years agone.”

1655 – “He was employed to keep one hundred cows, being part of the town drove, and to have help so that he may attend worship every third Sabbath.

1656 – He appears in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. where his uncle had taken up residence in 1644.

He evidently returned to Salem before 1660 (Banks), where he appears in 1667 with the birth of the first of his five children.

He was with the Salem Company during King Philips War of 1675/76.

Both he and his wife suffered imprisonment in 1692 when they were suspected of witchcraft.

His wife was living in 1704 and he was living in 1713 when he was dismissed from the church in Salem to aid in forming the first church at what is now Peabody, MA.

Robert Pease Homestead


Witch Trials

Robert’s wife Sarah was caught up in 1692 in the hysteria we know as The Salem Witch Trials. She was accused and imprisoned but never tried, having been released after the hysteria died down. Although testimony was brought against her again on August 5th, Sarah Pease escaped the condemnation of the judges, who sentenced 15 people to the gallows in September. By the late fall of that year the tide of hysteria had abated, and sympathy was turning from the “victims” to the accused. Sarah survived the winter and was released in May of 1693, after suffering a year in jail.

Sarah was accused on Monday, May 23, 1692 of  “sundry acts of Witchcraft committed on the bodys of Mary Warren, Abigaile Williams and Elizabeth Hubbard.”  She was accused along with Benjamin Proctor and Mary DeRich.  A warrant for her arrest was issued and she was arrested that day.  The following day was set aside for examinations and the proceedings were recorded by Nathaniel Cary of Charlestown.   He and Mrs. Cary had come to observe and to face Mrs. Cary’s accuser, Abigail Williams.  He writes of the prisoners, one of whom surely was Sarah Pease:

The Prisoners were called in one by one, and as they came in were cried out of, etc. The prisoner was placed about 7 or 8 foot from the Justices, and the Accusers between the Justices and them;  the Prisoner was ordered to stand right before the Justices, with an Officer appointed to hold each hand, least they should therewith afflict them, and the Prisoners Eyes must be constantly on the Justices; for if they look’d on the afflicted, they would either fall into their Fits, or cry out of being hurt by them;  after Examination of the Prisoners, who it was afflicted these Girls, etc., they were put upon saying the Lords Prayer, as a tryal of their guilt; after the afflicted seem’d to be out of their Fits, they would look steadfastly on some one person, and frequently not speak; and then the Justices said they were struck dumb, and after a little time would speak again;  then the Justices said to the Accusers, “which of you will go and touch the Prisoner at the Bar?” then the most couragious would adventure, but before they made three steps would ordinarily fall down as in a Fit;    the Justices ordered that they should be taken up and carried to the Prisoner, that she might touch them; and as soon as they were touched by the accused, the Justices would say, they are well, before I could discern any alteration…

On May 23, 1692

“Lt. Nathaniell Ingersall and Thomas Rayment both of Salem Village yeoman Complained on behalfe of theire Majest’s, against Benjamin procter the son of John Proctoer of Salem Farmes, and Mary Derich the wife of Michall Derich and daughter of William Basset of Lyn and sarah pease the wife of Robert pease of Salem weaver for Sundry acts of Witchcraft by them Committed on the bodys of mary Warren Abigaile Williams and Eliz Hubbard &c of Salem Village, whereby great hurt is donne them therefore Craves Justice”.[3/655]

On the same day a warrant for arrest was issued.

“To the Marshall of Essex or dept or Constables in Salem. You are in theire Majest’s names hereby required to apprehend and forthwith bring before us Benjamin procter the son of John Procter of Salem farmes and Mary Derich the wife of mic’l Derich of Salem farmes husbandman, and Sarah pease the wife of Robert Pease of Salem Weaver who all stand charged of having Committed Sundry acts of Witchcraft on the Bodys of Mary Warren Abigail Williams and Eliz. Hubbert of Salem Village whereby great hurt is donne them In order to theire examination Relating the abovesaid premises and hereof you are not to faile Dated Salem May the 23’d. 1692″. Singed by John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin.[3/655-6]

George Herrick, Marshall of Essex, appointed John Putnam to be his deputy to serve this warrant.  A separate arrest warrant was made out the same day for Sarah Pease for acts of witchcraft against Mary Warren.

“I heave aprehended the parson mensioned within this warrant and heave broghte hir”, signed by Peter Osgood Constable in Salem May the 23: 1692.[3/639]

Sarah was accused several other times:

“the testomeny of John derech [John DeRich was the future son-in-law of our ancestor John FOSTER Sr.  See Foster’s page for the story of how young John was coerced to testify to save his own skin. ] Eaged about sixten years testefieth and sayeth that gils Cory also Came to me and afflicted me this 5 of September as wel be fore as after he al so Came a bout the 20 of oges and told me that he wanted som platers for he was gowen to afeast he told me that he had a good mind to ask my dame but he sayd that she wouled not let him have them so he took the platers and cared them a way being gown a bout half a oure with them then he brot them a gaine gowen a way and sayd no thing. “also Sary pese afliceth me at several times she Came to me af the fast day last at Salem She pinched me then and i have not sene har sencs”.[3/245]

“John Doritch aged 16 years or thereabouts Testifieth and Saith. That John Small and his wife Anne both deceased and formerly of the Towne of Salem doth both appear to this Deponent and told him that they would tare him to peices if he did not goe and Declare to Mr. Harthorne that George Jacobs senior: Did kill them: and likewise that Mary Warrens mother did appeare to this Deponent this day with a white man and told him that goodwife Parker and Oliver did kill her: and Likewise Core Procter and his wife: Sarah Procter Joseph Procter and John Procter did all afflict this deponent and do continually every day sense he hath began to be afflicted: and would have him this deponent to sett his hand to a Booke but this deponent told them he would not: Likewise Phillip English and his wife Mary doth appear to this deponent and afflict him and all the aboves’d persons Thretten to tare this Deponent in peices if he doth not Signe to a Booke: Likewise Goodwife Pease and Hobs and her daughter Abigail doth Afflict him and thretten the same: and Likewise a woman appeares to this Deponent who lives at Boston at the Uper end of the Towne whose name is Mary: she goes in black clothes hath: but one Eye: with a Crooked Neck and she saith there is none in Boston like her, she did afflict this deponent but saith she will not any more, nor tell him her name”.[3/482-3]

Children

Information about Robert Pease’s children is scattered; no one source has information about all the sons and daughters in law.  I wonder if that’s related to the early death of Robert’s parents or his apprenticeship at the age of 15.  Maybe it’s related the persecution of Robert and his wife Sarah during the witch trials.

2. Elizabeth Pease

I can find no birth, parents or death for Thomas Venney, though I did find this list of children. If Elizabeth’s 1662 birth is correct, she would have been too old to be these children’s mother (age 45 thru 57 at their births).

Children of Elizabeth and Thomas

i. Elizabeth Venney b: 16 Nov 1704 in Marblehead, Essex Co., MA

ii. Mary Venney b: 14 Jul 1707 in Marblehead, Essex Co., MA

iii. John Venney b: 30 Jul 1713 in Marblehead, Essex Co., MA

iv. Jane Venney b: 14 Mar 1715 in Marblehead, Essex Co., MA

v. Thomas Venney b: 07 Jun 1719 in Marblehead, Essex Co., MA

3. Deliverance Pease

Deliverance’s husband Jonathan Crisp was born29 Jan 1639/40 in Watertown, Mass,. His parents were Benjamin CRISPE and Bridget [__?__]. He first married Joanna [_?_] in 1663 in Watertown. Jonathan died before 25 Oct 1680 in Watertown when his father administered his estate.

4. Mary Pease

Mary’s husband Alexander Electious Reynolds was born in 1653 in Middleboro, MA. Alexander died on 19 Jun 1738 in Middleboro, MA.  There was a doubt whether Alexander Electious married this Mary or her first cousin Mary Pease, daughter of John PEASE born 5 Apr 1667, but this analysis “The Three Mary Peases of Salem, Massachusetts” by Ian Watson proves that Alexander Electious married this Mary.

Electious Reynolds was an early resident of Middleborough in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, being there by 1693 as evidenced by the birth of his son Benjamin.

12 Oct 1725 – The church in Middleborough was formed. Electious Reynolds and Richard Waste were among the first members.

22 Sep 1738 Electious Reynolds (obviously the son), Isaac Reynolds, and Ephraim Reynolds were among ten signers of a document that indicated they lived in the westerly precinct of Middleboro and that they were of the Baptist faith and so we can surmise the same about Electious the ancestor. “Electious Reynolds Senr Deceased June the 19th: 1738 In the eighty fifth year of his age”.  [4/15:24]

It is not known who Electious’ parents were, nor whether he was born in this country or England, but it seems highly likely that he came from Salem, MA prior to living in Middleboro. There was a man there whose name was similar and who disappeared from the Salem records several years before Electious appeared in the Middleboro records. He is found in the Essex County records in three lists of country rate, i.e. tax, payers as Electious Ranalls;[10:3/380] Alextius Renholds;[10:3/386] and Allextius Rennolds.[10:3/389] He also testified as Eleckieas Ronalls in a case against Thomas Maule sworn April 18, 1682 in which he was called “about twenty-five years”.[10:8/341]

24 Mar 1682/83 – He gave testimony as Alexius Reinolds, age 25.[10:9/55] This man married in Salem (as Allexander Renalds) to Mary Pease on 16 July 1686. Both of these records originated in the Essex County Quarterly Court Records. The couple appears to have had a son James born in nearby Manchester, MA 15 Jan 1687, the father being one Eleksha Renals.

There was a Henry Renalls in Salem by 1642 who was the right age to be Electious’ father, especially given that he was the only other Reynolds in town for some time. However it seems like he and his wife Sarah were childless. Another possibility for his parents, if Electious was from the Plymouth area, would be William Reynolds who was a resident of Plymouth by the 1630’s. He married there Aug. 30, 1638 Alice Kitson. He was in Duxbury in February 1636 and had a grant of land there. Soon after, the government allowed him to build. In 1637/38 William was presented in court for being “drunk at Mr. Hopkins his house, that he lay under the table vomiting in a beastly manner and was taken up between two”. He was one of John Howland’s crew on shipboard in the Kennebeck River which was attacked and two of the crew were killed after a dispute with contending traders.[1] He is probably the William Reynolds whose children had land laid out to them in Saconett after his decease.  If Electious can be shown to have had land in this area, it would be grounds for connecting him with William.

An Ellexander Reynolds appears on a 1734 list of grantees of Narragansett Township No. 4, which later became Greenwich, MA. This town no longer exists, having been flooded as part of the Quabbin Resevoir project. He was listed as living in Middleboro at the time (1734) and received the grant for services during King Phillip’s War. Since no one of this name can be found in town at any time and Bodge had difficulty reading the record, it would thus seem likely that the actual name of the grantee was Electious Reynolds. This grant was for land promised in 1676 to the soldiers assembled on Dedham Plain as they prepared to attack King Phillip’s fort. If they took the fort, they were promised land in addition to their wages.

5. Robert PEASE “The Latter” (See his page)

6. Isaac Pease

Isaac’s wife Elizabeth Thomas was born May 1675 in Salem, Essex, Mass. Her parents were George Thomas (1650 – 1710) and Mary Graves (1648 – ). Elizabeth died in 1745 in Peabody, Essex, Mass.

8. Nathaniel Pease

Nathaniel’s wife Elizabeth Ashley was born about 1677 in of Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.

Sources:

Ancestry.com

http://www.spicerweb.org/genealogy/pease/peaseregisterlegacy.aspx#c6002

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mroman/pease.htm

http://www.spicerweb.org/genealogy/pease/sarahwitch.aspx

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mroman/reynolde.htm

http://www.ianwatson.org/three_mary_peases.pdf

http://bloodlinesofsalem.org/Sarah_Pease.pdf

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Robert Pease Sr.

Posted on August 25, 2010 by markeminer

Robert PEASE Sr. (1656 – 1744) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather;  one of 2,048 in this generation of the Miner line.

Robert Pease Sr. was born 14 May 1656 in Salem, Mass.  His parents were John PEASE and Mary GOODALE.    He married Abigail RANDALL on 16 Dec 1678 in Salem, Mass.  Enfield’s first settlers, John Pease, Jr. and his brother Robert Pease, arrived in 1679 from Salem, Massachusetts, and spent their first winter camping in a shelter dug into the side of a hill.  Robert died 21 Jul 1744 Enfield, CT.

Enfield Settlement Historical Marker – Erected by Town of Enfield 1976

Abigail Randall was born in 1660 in Salem, Mass.   Her parents were William RANDALL Jr. and Elizabeth KIBBY Abigail died in 16 Dec 1678 in Enfield, CT.

Children of Robert and Abigail:

Name Born Married Departed
1. William Pease 26 Sep 1679
Salem,  Mass		 1688
Enfield, CT
2. Mary Pease 11 Mar 1680/81
Salem, Essex, Mass		 Israel Phelps
7 Mar 1702/03
Enfield, CT.		 16 Apr 1713
Lebanon, New London, CT
3. Abigail Pease 5 Feb 1682/83
Enfield, CT		 Nathan Howard (Hayward)
8 Jan 1699
New London, CT		 4 Nov 1712
New London, CT
4. Robert PEASE Jr. 2 Feb 1683/84
Enfield, CT		 Rachel [__?__]
.
Hannah SEXTON
 Feb 1710/11
Enfield, CT
.
Elizabeth Emery
18 Feb 1716/17
Enfield, Hartford, CT		 17 Nov 1766
Somers, CT
5. Samuel Pease 30 Dec 1686
Enfield, CT		 Elizabeth Warriner (Daughter of Joseph WARRINER) 22 NOV 1709 8 Sep 1770
Enfield, CT
6. Ephraim Pease 9 Apr 1689
Enfield, CT		 1690
Enfield, CT
7. Daniel Pease 23 May 1692
Enfield, CT		 Abigail Fletcher Hutchinson
6 May 1717
Andover, Essex, Mass.		 1756
Enfield, CT
8. Hannah Pease 12 Jun 1694
Enfield, CT		 David Miller
.
Gershom Sexton (Hannah’s sister and daughter of  Joseph SEXTON )
1 Jun 1716 Enfield, Hartford, CT.		 26 Nov 1742
Enfield, Hartford, CT
9. Margaret Pease Dec 1695
Enfield, CT
10. Ebenezer Pease 7 Mar 1697/98
Enfield, CT		 Mindwell Sexton (Hannah’s sister)
20 Nov 1717
Enfield, CT		 21 Oct 1743
Enfield, CT

The Sextons and the Peases were very close.  Joseph and Hannah share a grave lot with Ebenezer Pease.   Three of  Joseph SEXTON’s children married children of Robert PEASE Sr. Gershom and Hannah, HANNAH and ROBERT,  and Mindwell and Ebenezer.

In 1674, the General Court of Massachusetts granted land stretching as far south as Asnuntuck Brook to the Town of Springfield.  That year, Springfield’s John Pynchon built the first European structure in what would soon be Enfield, a saw mill on the Brook.  The saw mill was destroyed one year later during King Philip’s War.

Enfield’s first settlers, John Pease, Jr. and Robert Pease, arrived in 1679 from Salem, Massachusetts, and spent their first winter camping in a shelter dug into the side of a hill.  The next Spring, they were joined by their families and other settlers from Salem; by the end of that year (1680) about 25 families had settled in the area.

In 1683, the Town of Enfield was incorporated.  At this time, the town extended east ten miles from the Connecticut River and south six miles from Longmeadow Brook.

Five years later, on March 16, 1688, the townspeople purchased Enfield from a Podunk Indian named Notatuck for 25 pounds Sterling.  It is unclear what claim Notatuck actually had to the land, or whether he was selling the land or the rights to use it. Enfield’s population was growing.  Little villages with names like Wallop and Scitico were settled within Enfield’s 60 square miles during the first decades of the 1700s.

In 1734 the eastern-most village was incorporated as the Town of Somers. As a result of an error in the survey done in 1642 by Woodward & Saffery, Enfield was settled as part of Massachusetts Colony.

A 1695 survey corrected the error, showing that Enfield, as well as Suffield and Somers, was within Connecticut Colony’s borders.  Apparently unhappy with the Massachusetts government, the citizens of Enfield first discussed separating from Massachusetts at a 1704 Enfield town meeting.  Perhaps they weren’t really that unhappy, because it wasn’t until 1747 that Enfield began to officially pursue becoming part of Connecticut.  Legal action was taken in both the Massachusetts and Connecticut Legislatures and in court in London, England.  In 1750 Enfield seceded from Massachusetts and became part of Connecticut Colony.

Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation.Cutter, William Richard  New York, NY, USA: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.

Robert (2), son of John Pease , was born May 14, 1656 , at Salem.  He first settled at Salem in the Northfields . He shared with his elder brother in the enterprise of leaving the sea-coast to seek out and make new homes for himself, his relatives and neighbors in the Connecticut Valley. It is said that he was one of the first constables chosen by vote of the town of Enfield. He died at Enfield, 1744 , aged eighty-two years. He married, December 16, 1678, Abigail Randall. Children, the first born at Salem, the others at Enfield: William, September 26, 1679 ; Mary, March 11, 1681 ; Abigail, 1682 ; Robert, February 2, 1684 ; Samuel, December 30, 1686 , mentioned below; Ephraim, April 9, 1689 ; Daniel, May 23, 1692 ; Hannah, June, 1694 ; Margaret, December, 1695 ; Ebenezer, 1699 .

John James Stephens II diaries

He settled in the “Northfields” district of the town.  After 1678 and before 1682, they settled at Enfield, CT, where he was one of the first constables. Essex Deeds, 6:110, shows:24 Aug 1682, Robert Pease, son of John Pease, late of Salem, for £40 paid by John Bullock of Salem, Innholder, conveyed one acre there in the North Field with a house thereon, bounded by highway, William Osburne, Samuel Ebourne, and Isaac Cooke; also three acres in said field bounded by John Burton, Job Swinnerton, Caleb Bufam, and Samuel Gaskin; wife Abigail Pease released dower and both made their marks; wit. Hilliard Veren, (court officer) and George Adams; Acknowledged before William Browne (Assistant of Salem) same day; recorded 5 Mar 1683/4.

Children

2. Mary Pease

Mary’s husband Israel Phelps was born 3 APR 1681 Westfield, Hampden, Mass.  His parents were Jacob Phelps and Dorothy Ingersoll.  After Mary died, he married Rachel Jones 26 JAN 1713/14 Westfield, Hampden, Mass. and had three more children.  Israel died Westfield, Hampden, Mass.

Children of Mary and Israel:

i. Israel Phelps b. 13 NOV 1706 Lebanon, CT; d. Springfield, Mass.;  m. 19 AUG 1731 to Hannah Bement

ii. Mary Phelps b. 8 DEC 1707 Lebanon, CT; d. 26 DEC 1786 Windsor, CT; m. 14 APR 1725 to Samuel Osborne

iii. Dorothy Phelps b. 1709 Lebanon, CT. iv. Hannah Phelps b. 10 JUN 1711 Lebanon, CT. d. 1777; m. 20 JUL 1737 Windsor, CT. to a different Samuel Osborne as his second husband

3. Abigail Pease

Abigail’s husband Nathan Howard (Hayward) was born 17 Sep 1673 in Salem, Mass. His parents were Thomas Howard and Ruth Jones. After Abigail died, he married Hannah Calkins 26 Nov 1717 in Enfield, CT.

An Abigail Howard was born to Nathan Howard and Abigail Pease of Enfield Conn 1706. Abigail Howard married Noah Chappel in 1726, their daughter married Isaiah Robinson c.1749

4. Robert PEASE Jr. (See his page)

5. Samuel Pease

Samuel Pease Headstone – Enfield Street cemetery – The aged Mr SAMUEL PEASE Having faithfully server God & his generation to the universal love & acceptance of all who knew him departed this life in hopes of a better one ye 8 of SEPt 1770 in his 84 year

Samuel’s wife Elizabeth Warrnier was born 30 Sep 1686 in Hadley, Mass..  Her parents were  Joseph WARRINER and  Mary MONTAGUE.  After Samuel died, she married Samuel Bliss 4 Dec 1713 in Springfield, Mass..  Elizabeth died soon after.

Her sister Hannah married another Pease cousin, Robert PEASE – The Later Dec 1691 in Enfield, CT.  Alternatively, ome sources say that Elizabeth’s parents were Nathaniel Warner (c. 1652 Ipswich, Essex, Mass. – 14 Jan 1712/13 Hadley, Hampshire, Mass.) and Joannah Gardiner (1661 Hadley, Hampshire, Mass. – 18 Mar 1728/29 Hadley, Mass.) married 3 Feb 1680/81 Hadley, Hampshire, Mass.

Elizabeth Warner Pease 1683-1783 Enfield Street Cemetery – In Memory of Mrs Elizabeth, Relict of Mr Samuel Pease who departed this life Nov 28th 1783 in the 100th year of her age. AS in the fair morn the richest flowers bloom. So virtue smiles beyond the silent tomb. If virtue now deserves a passing tear Then find a kind traveler and drop it here.

Children of Samuel and Elizabeth:

i. Mehitable Pease b. 1712 Enfield, CT; d. 22 May 1790; m. 17 Jul 1740 to James Gaines

ii. Samuel Pease b. 1715 Enfield, CT; d. Bef. 1718 Enfield, CT.

iii. Elizabeth Pease b. 1716 Enfield, CT; d. 10 Sep 1802; m. 4 Jul 1737 to John Allen

Elizabeth Pease Allen – Enfield Street Cemetery – In memory of Mrs Elizabeth relict of Mr. John Allen 1st in her 87 year

iv. Samuel Pease b. 10 Mar 1717/18 Enfield, CT; d. 10 Jun 1772 Enfield, CT; m. 21 May 1743 to Zermiah Chapin

v. Capt. Ephraim Pease b. 1719 Enfield, CT; d. 1801 Enfield, CT; m. 29 May 1740 Enfield, CT to Tabitha Abbe

Ephraim Pease – Enfield Street Cemetery – This monument is erected in memory of Capt. Ephraim Pease who died June 22 1801 in his 82 year

vi. Joanna Pease b. 1722 Enfield, CT; m. Benjamin Root

vii. Mary Pease b. 1723 Enfield, CT.

viii. Aaron Pease b. 4 May 1726 Enfield, CT; d. Enfield, CT; m. 10 Oct 1751 Enfield, CT to Ann Geer

ix. Nathaniel Pease b. 29 Sep 1728 Enfield, CT; d. 28 Mar 1818 Norfolk, CT; m. 24 Apr 1755 to Eunice Allen

7. Daniel Pease

Daniel’s wife Abigail Hutchinson was born 17 May 1702. Her parents were Samuel Hutchinson and Elizabeth Bridges.

Children of Daniel and Elizabeth:

i. Rebecca Pease m. 1748 to Ebenezer Jones

ii. Asa Pease d. young

iii. Daniel Pease b. 2 Feb 1717/18 Enfield, CT; d. 4 Feb 1798 Canaan, Columbia, NY; m. 9 NOV 1749 to Hannah Jones.

Daniel was a Corporal in 1760 in the French and Indian War, 1st Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Major-General, Colonel & Captain Phineas Lyman, 9th Company under Captain David Parsons.

iv. Olive Pease b. 10 Mar 1737/38 Somers, CT; d. 5 Jul 1822 Milton, Saratoga, NY; m. 3 Nov 1762 Milton, Saratoga, NY to Increase Childs

8. Hannah Pease

Hannah’s first husband Daniel Miller was born in 1690 in Enfield, CT.

Some sources say that Hannah’s second husband Gershom Sexton was born in 1691 in Enfield, CT and was the son of Joseph SEXTON and Hannah WRIGHT and was our ancestor’s Hannah SEXTON’s sister.  Other sources say that Gershom born in 1685 and was the son of  Joseph’s brother George Sexton and Hannah Spencer.   Some sources say that Gershom first married 20 JAN 1708/09 Hartford, Hartford, CT to Abigail King and had three children before he married Hannah.  The sources agree that Gershom married Hannah 1 JUN 1716 Enfield, Hartford, CT and died 3 MAY 1742 Enfield, Hartford, CT.

Gershom Sexton Petition 1722 – The public records of the colony of Connecticut

Children of Hannah and Gershom:

i. Gershom Sexton b. 11 Oct 1717 Enfield, Hartford, CT; m. 4 NOV 1736 Enfield, CT to Abigail Gerry

ii. Mary Sexton b. 25 Sep 1719 Enfield, Hartford, CT; d. 1814; m. 13 JAN 1741/42 Wallingford, CT to Joseph Bartholomew

iii. Ebenezer Sexton b. Abt. 1721 Enfield, Hartford, CT; d. 1794 Waterbury, CT; m. 7 Sep 1742 Wallingford, CT to Eunice Benham

iv. David Sexton b. 12 Aug 1725 Enfield, Hartford, CT.

v. Jonathan Sexton b. 12 Aug 1725 Enfield, Hartford, CT.

vi. Hannah Sexton b. 31 AUG 1727 Enfield, Hartford, CT.

vii. Asahel Sexton b. 29 Aug 1732 Enfield, Hartford, CT; m. 10 SEP 1755 Somers, Tolland, CT to Patience Farrington

viii. Penelope Sexton b. 1 Sep 1735 Enfield, Hartford, CT; d. 26 MAR 1814 Enfield, Hartford, CT; m. Ebenezer McGregory

ix. Tabitha Sexton 9 Apr 1729 Enfield, Hartford, CT; m. 31 Oct 1752 Wallingford, New Haven, CT to Joseph Atkins

10. Ebenezer Pease

Ebenezer Pease Enfield Street Cemetery- Here lies the body of Mr. Ebenezer Pease who died October 21 1743

Ebenezer’s wife Mindwell Sexton was born 7 FEB 1695/96 Westfield, Hampden, Mass. Her parents were Joseph SEXTON and Hannah WRIGHT.  She was the sister of our ancestor Hannah SEXTON. Mindwell died 24 MAY 1754 Enfield, Hartford, CT.

Children of Ebenezer and Mindwell:

i. Hannah Pease 11 Mar 1717/18 Enfield, Hartford, CT; m. 20 Nov 1737 Enfield, Hartford, CT to Shubael Geer

ii. Susanna Pease b. 11 Mar 1717/18 Enfield, Hartford, CT; m. 31 Mar 1740 to George Cooley

iii. Ebenezer Pease b. 25 Sep 1719 Enfield, Hartford, CT; d. 11 Jan 1784 Enfield, Hartford, CT; m. 29 Nov 1739 Enfield, Hartford, CT to Mary Terry ‘

iv. Mindwell Pease b. 10 Jun 1722 Enfield, Hartford, CT. v. James Pease b. 14 Oct 1724 Enfield, Hartford, CT d. 1746 Cape Breton

vi. Abigail Pease 15 Apr 1727 Enfield, Hartford, CT; m. Benjamin Hall

vii. Catherine Pease b. 1729 Enfield, Hartford, CT. viii. Martha Pease b. 25 Nov 1732 Enfield, Hartford, CT; d. 4 Dec 1816; m. 24 Jan 1750/51 to Caleb Bush

Sources:

Ancestry.com

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=9341171

http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/b_p.htm

http://www.ourancestry.org/tng/familygroup.php?familyID=F723&tree=ourancestry

http://www.spicerweb.org/genealogy/pease/peaseregisterlegacy.aspx#i6038

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Robert Pease – The Latter

Posted on August 25, 2010 by markeminer

Robert PEASE – The Latter (1669 – c. 1745) was Alex’s 9th Great Grandfather;  one of 1,024 in this generation of the Miner line.

Robert Pease – The Latter was born 25 Mar 1669  in Salem, Mass.  His parents were Robert PEASE – The Former and Sarah SEDGWICK. He married  Hannah WARRINER in Dec 1691 in Enfield, CT.  Robert died 21 Jul 1744 Enfield, CT.

Hannah Warriner was born 10 Sep 1674 in Hadley, Mass.    Her parents were Joseph WARRINER and Mary MONTAGUE. Hannah died 30 Dec 1774 in Enfield, CT which would make her a centuran.

Children of Robert and Hannah:

Name Born Married Departed
1. Hannah Pease 15 MAR 1692/93 Enfield, CT John McGregory
12 AUG 1712		 26 NOV 1742 at Enfield, CT
2. Mary Pease 19 DEC 1695
Enfield, CT		 Christopher Parsons
22 APR 1714
Enfield, Hartford, CT		 20 DEC 1774
Enfield, Hartford, CT.
3. Sarah Pease 25 MAY 1698
Enfield, CT		 John Prior
23 MAR 1719/20
Enfield, CT		 31 MAR 1783
4. Nathaniel PEASE 3 Oct 1700 Enfield, CT Miriam PEASE
24 Dec 1730 Enfield, CT		 1771 in Stephentown, Rensselaer, NY
5. Experience Pease 4 AUG 1701
Enfield, CT		 Joseph Rude
26 FEB 1721/22
Stafford, CT		 bef. 1742
6. Abigail Pease 27 MAR 1704 Enfield, CT 11 FEB 1720/21 Enfield, CT.
7. Joseph Pease 3 AUG 1707 Enfield, CT
8. Bethia Pease 21 NOV 1709
Enfield, CT		 Samuel Meacham
11 JAN 1734
Enfield, CT		 1 Jan 1778
Harwinton, Litchfield County, CT
9. Jemima Pease 21 OCT 1712
Enfield, CT		 Rev. Isaac Markham
9 MAY 1734 Enfield, CT
10. Benjamin Pease 17 JAN 1716/17
Enfield, CT		 Sarah Deacon 17 JAN 1781
Enfield, CT

Robert was born in Salem and moved to Enfield where he received a grant of land on 30 Nov 1687.

A few years after John PEASE Sr. and his sons John Pease Jr and Robert PEASE Sr. came to Enfield, another individual named Robert Pease  [this ancestor] came into the settlement.  The committee offered his a portion of land November 30, 1687 after having been admitted an inhabitant by a vote of the town.  In his grant of land, he his called “Robert Pease who has been admitted as an inhabitant.”  His marriage is recorded as Robert Pease Jr.  In legal documents, he was called “Robert Pease 2d” Among his townsmen, he was generally designated as “latter” Robert.

The 19th Century genealogist Dr. John C. Pease thought he came to Enfield from England, but actually, he was John Pease Sr.’s nephew. So far as we can learn, the later generations of John Pease Sr’s family were ignorant of the fact that their ancestor left a brother in Salem who had such a large family.

Robert was just 17 years old when he received the Enfield land grant.  Granting a young person land at Enfield was not an irregular procedure.  Because there were so many Robert Peases already living in Enfield, he named his first born Nathaniel after his uncle and did not have a Robert Jr. himself.

For some reason now unknown he left Salem home in his youth, and settling in Enfield. Connecticut, was granted land, prior to his majority, located on the Somers road, east of Enfield street. Here is a Google Maps Street View of Present Day Somers Road

In December, 1691, he married Hannah Warriner, and settled upon his allotment, where he was living in 1744.

Children

1. Hannah Pease

Hannah’s husband John McGregory was born in 1692 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. John died 1793 in Enfield, Hartford, CT.

2. Mary Pease

Mary’s husband Christopher Parsons was born 28 Jan 1691 in Connecticut.  His parents were Benjamin Parsons and Sarah Keeep. Christopher died 10 Sep 1747.

Two Christopher Parsons married two Mary Peases? yes, both father and son married different Mary Pease.

Children of Mary and Christopher:

i. Benjamin Parsons, b. 1724; d. 1776. m. Sophia Pease

ii. John Parsons. m. Ann Collins

iii. Christopher Parsons.

iv. Joseph Parsons.

v. Ebenezer Parsons.

vi. Jabez Parsons.

vii. Noah Parsons.

viii. Benjamin Parsons, d. Died in infancy

3. Sarah Pease

Sarah’s husband John Prior was born 14 Feb 1664 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. His parents were Humphrey Prior and Ann Osborn. John died in Enfield, Hartford, CT.

4. Nathaniel PEASE (See his page)

5. Experience Pease

Experience’s husband Joseph Rude was born 25 Nov 1698 in Stafford, Connecticut. His parents were John Rood and Mary Eddy. Joseph died 11 Mar 1756

8. Bethia Pease

Bethia’s husband Samuel Meacham was born in 1712 in Connecticut. His parents were Jeremiah Meacham and Deborah Browne.

Child of Bethia and Samuel:

i. Samuel Meacham b. 1739; d. 1811; m. Phebe Main 1763.

9. Jemima Pease

Jemima’s husband Rev. Isaac Markham was born 30 Nov 1711 in Middletown, CT. His parents were Daniel Markham and Deborah Meacham. His grandfather was Deacon Daniel Markham.  Isaac died in 1759 – Enfield, Hartford, CT

Child of Jemima and Isaac:

i.  Phebe Margery Markham Ashley b. 7 Dec 1737

ii. Ebenezer Markham b. 30 Jun 1749 Enfield, CT; d. 20 Feb 1813 Middlebury, Vermontl m1. Catherine Lydius 20 Feb 1775; m2. Sarah Gold 31 Dec 1789 Ticonderoga, NY.

Ebenezer was a merchant and manufacturer in Montreal and in Bridgport and Middlebury, Vermont.  In early life, he was the captain of a vessel in the  West Indies trade.  His son Isaac Ebenezer Markham b. 3. May 1795 was a machinist, the inventor of a picking machine and the method of sawing marble with toothless saws, sand and water.

ii.

10. Benjamin Pease

Benjamin’s wife Sarah Deacon was born 1721 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.

Sources:

Ancestry.com

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=9341181

http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/b_p.htm

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/p/Sandra-Popiel/BOOK-0001/0304-0003.html

http://www.spicerweb.org/genealogy/pease/peaseregisterlegacy.aspx#c6028

A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of John Pease, Senior  by Rev. David Pease and Austin Pease 1869

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Nathaniel Pease I

Posted on August 25, 2010 by markeminer

Nathaniel PEASE I (1700 – 1771) was Alex’s 8th Great Grandfather;  one of 512 in this generation of the Miner line.

Nathaniel Pease was born 3 Oct 1700 in Enfield, CT.  His parents were Robert PEASE – The Later and Hannah WARRINER.  He married Miriam PEASE on 24 Dec 1730 in Enfield, CT.  Nathaniel died in 1771 in Stephentown, Rensselaer, NY.

Like his grandfather, Nathaniel Pease was a weaver

Miriam Pease was born 27 Oct 1711 in Enfield, CT.  Her parents were Robert PEASE Jr. and Hannah SEXTON.  Miriam died in 1765.

Children of Nathaniel and Miriam:

Name Born Married Departed
1. Nathaniel PEASE II 10 Sep 1732
Enfield, CT		 Sophia NICHOLS
31 Oct 1751		 Died at sea in Suawesi Tengah, Indonesia.
2. Miriam Pease 5 Nov 1733
Enfield, CT		 [__?__] Jones
3. Hannah Pease 6 Oct 1735
Enfield, CT		 Job Gleason
28 Feb 1754
Enfield, CT
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David Wheeler
17 Nov 1767
Lanesborough, Berkshire, Mass		 1837
Lanesborough, Berkshire, Mass
4. Joel Pease (Details may be another Joel born in 1737, son of Abraham Pease and Abigail Warren) 18 Oct 1737
Enfield, CT		 Elizabeth Campbell 17 Nov 1828
Lyons, Wayne, NY
5. Levi Pease 02 Sep 1739
Enfield, CT		 Hannah Sexton
1765
Enfield, Hartford, CT		 28 JAN 1824
Shrewsbury, Mass.
6. Abel Pease 19 SEP 1741
Enfield, CT		 1770
New Hartford, Litchfield, CT
7. William Abel Pease 19 Sep 1741 – Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Viola (Violet) Cadwell
25 May 1769 Hartford, Hartford, CT		 1787
New Hartford, CT
8. George Pease c. 1745 Enfield, CT
9. Eleanor Pease 22 Jan 1746
Danbury, Fairfield, CT		 [__?__] Holcomb
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Samuel Potter
c. 1772		 1800
Canaan, Columbia, NY

Nathaniel Pease was born in Enfield.  Like his grandfather, he was a weaver by trade. In 1759 he settled in Blandford, Massachusetts, where for several years he carried on a public house in connection with farming, and for three years was a member of the board of selectmen. In 1771 he sold his tavern to his son Levi and is said to have removed to Stephentown, New York, where he died December 24 1730.

He married Miriam Pease, daughter of Robert, the latter a grandson of John Pease Sr.  of Salem, previously referred to as having emigrated with his brother Robert (II).

Blandford, Hampden, Massachusetts

Blandford was first settled in 1735 by Scots-Irish settlers and was officially incorporated in 1741. Settlement came to Blandford and other “hilltowns” some 75 years after more fertile alluvial lowlands along the Connecticut River where tobacco and other commodity crops were cultivated. In contrast farming in the hilltowns was of a hardscrabble subsistence nature due to thin, rocky soil following Pleistocene glaciation and a slightly cooler climate, although upland fields were sometimes less subject to unseasonal frosts. Initial settlement in the nearby Pioneer Valley was by EnglishPuritans whereas Blandford’s Scots-Irish settlers were Presbyterian and their English was still somewhat influenced by Gaelic. Thus there were significant ethnic, religious, economic, and linguistic differences between these adjacent regions of settlement.

Population density in Blandford and other hilltowns was limited by outmigration by about 1800 as more productive land in Western New York and the Northwest Territories became available, however emigrants were typically young men and women, while the older generation and usually one or two children usually remained in place and farms were not yet abandoned.

Stephentown was first settled around 1765. The town was formed in 1788, from the East Manor of Rensselaerwyck District. The Stephentown pioneers were from New England, primarily Rhode Island and Connecticut, and arrived from the southeast.

Stephentown, Rensselaer, New York

Children

1. Nathaniel PEASE II (See his page)

3. Hannah Pease

Hannah’s first husband Job Gleason was born 28 Jan 1731 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.  His parents were  Isaac Gleason and Mary Prior.  Job died in 28 Jul 1796 in Grafton, Windham, Vermont.

Job Gleason Revolutionary War Service, not sure if the father or son. Source: Vermont Men in the Revolutionary War

Hannah and Job had the following children

i. Job Gleason b. 21 Dec 1754 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; d. 2 Jan 1832 in Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont

ii. James Gleason (1756 –

iii. Hannah Gleason (1759 –

iv. Benoni Gleason v. 1760 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; d. 28 Aug 1819 in Benson, Rutland, Vermont

iv. Elzie Gleason (1761 –; nm

v. Jane Gleason b. 23 Feb 1763 in Enfield, CT.  Jane died 17 Sep 1843 in Moriah, NY; m. 11 Mar 1783 to Jonathan II Tarbell

Hannah’s second husband David Wheeler was born 13 Sep 1739 in Fairfield, Litchfield, CT. His parents were Ensign Caleb Wheeler and Martha [__?__].  David died in 1818 in Dalton, Berkshire, Mass.

4. Joel Pease

(Details may be another Joel born in 1737, son of Abraham Pease and Abigail Warren)

Joel’s wife  Elizabeth “Betsey” Campbell was born on 01 Oct 1736 in Voluntown, New London, CT. Her parents were Robert Campbell and Mary [__?__]. Elizabeth died on 19 Aug 1803 in Stillwater, Saratoga, NY.

Children of Joel and Elizabeth

i. Bethia Pease b. Apr 12, 1760 d. Apr 29, 1800

ii. Abel Pease b. Oct 20, 1762 d. Feb 02, 1839 Clark Co, IN

iii. Asa Pease b. ca. 1764 d.

iv. Eleanor Pease b. Sep 13, 1765 d. Jan 13, 1844 Ovid, NY

v. Miriam Pease b. ca. 1766 d.

vi. Joel Pease b. ca. 1770 d.

vii. Betsey Pease b. ca. 1772 d.

viii. George Pease b. ca. 1774 d.

ix. Nathaniel Pease b. ca. 1776 d.

x. Louisa Pease b. ca. 1778 d.

5. Captain Levi Pease

Levi’s wife  Hannah Sexton was born in 24 Jul 1739 in Enfield, Hartford, CT. Her parents were Daniel Sexton and Mary Douglas  Hannah died 26 May 1800 or  14 Jun 1832 in Shrewsbury, Mass.

Levi learned the blacksmith’s trade, which he followed to some extent, and when a young man went to Stephentown, New York, but returned in 1770 or 1771, bought his father’s tavern in Blandford and carried it on for some time. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary War he was enrolled in a Blandford company of Minutemen. but instead of serving in the field was assigned individual duties. For some time he was employed by General John Thomas on the northern frontier as a postrider, and displayed much courage and discretion in eluding capture while conveying important despatches. He subsequently proved exceedingly useful to General Jeremiah Wadsworth, who as commissary-general employed him to purchase beeves and other supplies for the army. In these transactions he was often entrusted with large sums of money, for which no receipt was required by the General, who had implicit confidence in his integrity, and he never betrayed that confidence. Upon the arrival of the French fleet and troops at Newport, Pease was employed by the Continental government to procure horses for the purpose of conveying the artillery to Yorktown, and he was afterward engaged in foraging for the army. He was always referred to as Captain, but there is no record of his ever having been commissioned.

Shortly after the close of the war he established a stage line between Somers and Hartford (26 miles), and for many years was engaged in that business. In 1786 he removed to Boston, where he kept the New York stage house, some three or four years, and operated a stage line from that place to Hartford (100 miles). His business expanded into large proportions, and at one time he conducted a stage line from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Savannah, Georgia (1,080 miles), which carried the United States mail.

For a long time he held numerous important mail contracts, many of which he sub-let to others, holding himself responsible for their conduct, and at that time he was the only mail contractor in New England known to the postoffice department. He was the first person to procure from the commonwealth a charter for the construction and maintenance of a turnpike road, which superseded the former almost impassable highway through Palmer and Wilbraham to Springfield, and while the public acquired the advantages of a good thoroughfare, its public-spirited projector lost heavily by the undertaking through the subsequent depreciation in value of its capital stock, the major portion of which was owned by Captain Pease. About the year 1794 he established his residence in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, purchasing the farm and tavern stand of Major Farrar. and carrying on both for several years afterward in connection with his stage lines. He outlived all of his children, and died in Shrewsbury, 14 Jun 1832, aged ninety-three years.

More about Levi Pease's Stage from A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of John Pease, Senior by Rev. David Pease and Austin Pease 1869

Levi Pease's Stage 2

Children of Levi and Hannah:

i.  Hannah Pease, married Thomas H. Kimball, of Roston. 1796.

ii. Levi Pease.  b. 1768; d. 20 Jun 1808, Northboro, Massachusetts; m. Mary Gill

Levi Pease Jr Headstone -- Mountain View Cemetery Shrewsbury, Worcester, Mass

iii. Lemuel Pease, born in Blandford. December 16, 1771 ; died married, in Shrewsbury, 1816.

iv. Lory Pease, born in Blandford, October 4. 1774; d. 1811, Shrewsbury; m. Rebecca Bruce, Mar 1798.

v. Mary Pease, born May 11. 1779; m. 1807 Perry Chapin, of Worcester, and died there. 1807.

vi. Jeremiah Pease, born in Somers, Connecticut. January 12. 1781 ; probably died young.

7. William Pease

William’s wife Violet (Viola) Cadwell was baptized 1 May 1748 Hartford First Church, Hartford, CT. Her parents were Elijah Cadwell and Rebecca Burr.

In 1770 William resided at Blandford, Mass, but subsequently settled in New Hartford, Litchfield, CT.

William responded to the Lexington alarm as private in Capt. Seth Smith’s company from New Hartford, CT.   He was engaged as a teamster in the Revolutionary War under the direction of Commissary General Jeremiah Wadsworth.

Children of William and Violet

i. William Pease (1770 – ) m.  his first cousin Stala Hickok of Lanesboro, Mass. where for a time he carried on the trade of blacksmith.  He later moved to Charlotte, Addison, Vermont.

ii. Elijah Pease (1770 – 1850

iii. Walter Pease (1772 –

iv. George Pease (1784 –

9. Eleanor Pease

Eleanor’s second husband Samuel Potter was born about 1745 in Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island. His parents were Capt. Abel Potter b: 18 Dec 1702 in Providence, RI and Sarah Lockwood b: ABT 1710 in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island. Samuel died 22 Jun 1808 in Canaan Township, Columbia County, New York

Child of Eleanor and Samuel

i. Abel Potter b: 1773 in Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island

ii. Joel Potter

iii. Samuel Potter

iv. Thomas Potter

v. Meriam Potter

vi. Betsey Potter

Sources:

Ancestry.com

http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/b_p.htm

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/w/i/Mary-A-Swinehart/GENE7-0008.html

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/p/Sandra-Popiel/BOOK-0001/0304-0005.html

Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the …, Volume 3 edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/PEASE/2006-03/1142002371

http://www.wilsonassociation.net/Collateral%20Families/Pease/Pease_Joel.html

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=charlou10&id=I81324

A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of John Pease, Senior  by Rev. David Pease and Austin Pease 1869 (This book includes the story of Nathaniel Pease II dying at sea and includes Nathaniel Pease III b. at Enfiield December 28, 1753 History unknown.  The footnote for this information refers to Dr. John C. Pease.

Dr. John C. Pease - Bio

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Nathaniel Pease II

Posted on August 24, 2010 by markeminer

Nathaniel PEASE II (1731 – ) was Alex’s 7th Great Grandfather;  one of 256 in this generation of the Miner line.

Nathaniel Pease II was born in 1731 or 10 Sep 1732 in Enfield, CT.  His parents were Nathaniel PEASE I and Miriam PEASE.  He married Sophia NICHOLS 31 Oct 1751 in Hartford, CT.   Many sources say Nathaniel died at sea in Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia. Was he a whaler?

Sophia Nichols was born about 1735 in Enfield,  Hartford, CT.  After Nathaniel died, she married 27 Oct 1763 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut to Benjamin Parsons.

Benjamin Parsons was born 5 Mar 1729 in Enfield, Hartford, CT. His parents were Christopher Parsons (1692 – 1749) and Mary Pease (1695 – 1774).  Mary’s parents were Samuel Pease and Elizabeth Warner. Both her paternal and maternal grandparents were our ancestors: Robert PEASE Sr. (1656 – 1744) & Abigail RANDALL and Joseph WARRINER (1645 – 1697) & Mary MONTAGUE. Benjamin died 13 Dec 1795 in Aroostook, Maine.

Possible Nichols parents in 18th Century Hartford, Connecticut

It’s intriguing to think that Sophia’s grandfather may have been Capt Cyprian NICHOLAS Jr. He was the only Nichols in Hartford, though there were a couple other Nichols lines elsewhere in Connecticut. Cyprian was only son of Cyprian Nichols Sr. who immigrated from Witham, Essex, England to Hartford, CT. Cyprian had three children with his first wife Helena Talcott born between 1798 and 1802 including two boys and eight more with his second wife Mary Spencer born between 1705 and 1726 including three more boys.

There are a couple of other Connecticut Nichols lines, but they were not located in Hartford.

1. Adams Nichols was born between 1606 and 1612 in Worcestershire, England. He married 1645 in Hartford, Hartford, CT to Anna Wakeman (b. 1611 in Bewdley, Worcester, England – d. 1699 in Connecticut) Adam died 25 Aug 1682 in Hartford, Hardford Co, CT.

Children of Adam and Anna

i. John Nichols b. 1645; d. 1662

ii. Barachiah Nichols (male) b. 14 Feb 1647

iii. Anna Nichols b. 1648 in Hartford, Hartford, CT; d, 1724 in Hartford, Hartford, CT

iv. Esther Nichols b. 1650; m. [__?__] Ellis

v. Lydia Nichols b. 1652; d. 28 Feb 1652

vi. Ebenezer Nichols b. ~1656 Hartford, CT; d. bef. 1682

vii. Sarah Nichols b. Hartford, CT

2.  Francis NICHOLS was baptized at Sedgeberrow, Worcestershire, England on 25 May 1575; His parents were John NICHOLS and Joan [_?__]. He married Frances WIMARKE on 24 Jan 1599/1600 at Sedgeberrow England. He settled at Stratford, Connecticut, by 10 Oct 1639, when he was appointed sergeant of the Stratford trainband, and that same year was listed with his three sons (John, Isaac, and Caleb) among the 17 first settlers of Stratford. Francis died before 8 Jan 1650/51

We descend from Francis’ daughter Jane NICHOLS (1603 – 1667) and William WASHBURN (1601 – 1658)

Children of Nathaniel and Sophia:

Name Born Married Departed
1. Huldah Pease 4 Mar 1751/52 Enfield, CT Ebenezer Pease
5 Jul 1771
Enfield, Hartford, CT		 Enfield, Hartford, CT
2. Nathaniel PEASE III bapt.
5 Nov 1752 or
28 Dec 1753 Enfield, CT		 [__?__]
3. Infant Daughter Pease 22 May 1755 Died Young
4. Miriam Pease 25 Sep 1757 Enfield, CT Joel Simons
8 May 1775 Enfield, CT		 9 Dec 1825
Enfield, CT

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Children of Sophia and Benjamin Parson:

Name Born Married Departed
5. Simeon Parsons 14 Feb 1764
Enfield, Hartford, CT		 Abigail Bates 20 Dec 1840
6 John Nichols Parsons 20 Oct 1766
Enfield, Hartford, CT		 28 Feb 1771
Enfield, CT
7. Mary Parsons 14 Apr 1769
Enfield, CT		 Frederick Stebbins 7 Jan 1809 Enfield, CT

The records of the First Church of Hartford:

Nath’ll Pease & Sophia Nicholls were married, 31 October 1751

A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of John Pease, Senior  by Rev. David Pease and Austin Pease 1869

“He is said to have been a seafaring man and to have died at sea.”

I don’t know the source of this quote:

“Sophia Pease’s first husband, Nathaniel Pease was a sea-faring man and it was thought he had died at sea. Several years past and then he returned to Enfield to find Sophia married to Benjamin Parsons. Finding that his wife preferred her latter husband, he disappeared and was never seen or heard of there after.

Children

1. Huldah Pease

Huldah (Hebrew: חֻלְדָּה‎) was a prophetess mentioned briefly in 2 Kings 22, and 2 Chronicles 34. After the discovery of a book of the Law during renovations at Solomon’s Temple, on the order of King Josiah, Hilkiah together with Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan and Asaiah approach her to get the Lord’s opinion.  She was the wife of Shallum, son of Tokhath (also called Tikvah), son of Harhas (also called Hasrah), keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.

According to Rabbinic interpretation, Huldah and Deborah were the principal professed prophetesses in the Nevi’im (Prophets) portion of the Hebrew Bible, although other women were referred to as prophetesses. “Huldah” means “weasel,” and “Deborah” means “bee” or “wasp.”   The Huldah Gates in the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount are named for her

Huldah’s husband Ebenezer Pease was born 17 Oct 1742 or 8 May 1747 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut.  His parents were Ebenezer Pease and Mary Terry.  Ebenezer died 17 Jan 1829 in Endfield, CT.

While Ebenezer and Huldah share the same last name, they were only distant cousins.

  • His grandparents were Ebenezer Pease and Mindwell Sexton.
  • His great grandparents were Robert Pease and Abigail Randolph.
  • His 2nd great grandparents were John Pease and Mary Goodell
  • His 3rd great grandparents were Robert PEASE and his second wife Marie.  (Huldah’s 3rd great grandmother was Robert Pease’s first wife Lydia WEST.)

Ebenezer Pease enlisted May 11 1775 as a private in Hezekiah Parson’s 10th Company from Enfield, Col. Benjamin Hinman’s Regiment. This company served at the Siege of Boston. Discharged Dec 19 1775. Served as a private in Capt John Simon’s 7th Company from Enfield Col Erastus Wolcott’s Regiment at Boston Jan – Mar 1776. Enlisted as a private for three years on Apr 10 1777 in Capt David Parson’s Company, Col. Charles Webb’s 2nd Regiment. Discharged Apr 20 1780. Connecticut pensioner in 1818, residing in New York.

The 2nd Connecticut Regiment was authorized in the Continental Army on Sep 16 1776. It was organized between Jan – April 1777 at Danbury, Connecticut of eight companies from the counties of Fairfield, Windham, and Hartford in the state of Connecticut and assigned on Apr 3 1777 to the 1st Connecticut Brigade of the Highlands Department. The regiment was re-assigned to McDougall’s Brigade on Jun 12 1777; then three days later (15 June 1777 it was re-assigned to the 2nd Connecticut Brigade. One month later, Jul 10 1777 the regiment was re-assigned to 1st Connecticut Brigade. On Nov 13 1777 the regiment was re-assigned to the 2nd Connecticut Brigade of the Main Continental Army. On May 1 1779 the 2nd Connecticut Brigade was re-assigned to the Highlands department and the regiment was re-organized to nine companies on 11 July 1779. The regiment was re-assigned to the Main Continental Army on 16 November 1779. It was re-assigned to the Highland’s department on 27 November 1780.

The regiment wintered at Valley Forge 1777/78 and was present the following July at the Battle of Monmouth and served on the east side of the Hudson in General William Heath‘s wing during the operations of 1779.

Children of Huldah and Ebenezer:

i. Huldah Pease b. 9 Jan 1772 in Enfield, Hartford, CT; d. Sodus, New York; m. 1 Dec 1791 in Enfield, CT to Charles Terry (b. 14 Nov 1744 in Springfield, Hampden, Mass. – d. 19 May 1803 in Springfield, Hampden, Mass.) Charles parents were Samuel Terry and Sarah Chapin. Huldah and Charles had three children

ii. John Benjamin Pease b. 9 Sep 1774 in Enfield, CT; d. 1866 – Whitesboro, Oneida, New York; m. 1799 Preston, New London, CT to Freelove Frink (b. Preston, Connecticut) Freelove’s parents were Jonas Frink (1728 – 1790) and Freelove Bromley (1734 – ) or possibly Barton Frink and Mary Cook. John and Freelove had seven children born between 1800 and 1816.

John and Freelove moved to Rome, Oneida, New York shortly after their marriage and their first child Harmon was born there in 1800.

The town of Whitestown is immediately west of Utica, New York. It was part of the Sadaquada Patent, was first settled in 1784, the first time any permanent settlement was made in the county. The Town of Whitestown was formed in 1788, before the creation of Oneida County, with a size of 12 million acres. It is known as the “Mother of Towns” because of the many towns and counties formed from its expanse. The Town of Paris and the Town of Steuben were formed from Whitestown in 1792. The Town of Cazenovia was formed in 1793. The Town of Augusta was formed in 1798. Utica was formed in 1817. The Town of New Hartford was formed from Whitestown in 1827.

With the exception of their oldest son Harmon, John and Freelove’s children removed to Mississippi, an unusual move for a frontier New York family. The move didn’t work out for them: 1. Harmon, b. 1800. m. Hannah S. Moyston of Schenectady, NY and settled at Rome, NY; 2. Henry H., b. Jul 25 1804. m. Lydia Harris of Rhode Island, and removed to Mississippi in 1836. His wife died there. He was thrown from bis carriage and killed there in 1840; 3. Lewis S., b. Oct 13 1806, and removed to Mississippi in 1835. d. of fever, Apr 1837; 4. John. b. Jan 28 1809. m. Elizabeth Debrill of Nashville, Tenn., and removed to Nashville. d. of fever Aug 1842; 5. James M., b. Sep 14, 1811. m. Louisa Van Antwerp of Brooklyn, NY., and removed to Mississippi. He was shot and killed by an enemy on his plantation, Oct 24, 1842; 6. William I., b. Sep 5, 1813, and removed to Mississippi, d. of fever, Apr 21 1837; 7. Charles E., b. Feb 2 1816, and removed to Mississippi in the fall of 1842. d. there Mar 1843.

In the 1850 census, John B and Freelove were retired in Whitestown, Oneida, New York

iii. George Pease b 26 Dec 1776; bapt. 24 Feb 1777 in Enfield, CT; d. 1845 New Orleans, Louisiana; m. 15 Oct 1797 in Goshen, Litchfield, CT to Esther Thompson (b. 24 Feb 1777 in Goshen – d. 16 Apr 1860 in Cuyahoga Falls, New York) Esther’s parents were Deacon Stephen Thompson (1734 – 1823 Current , Hudson, Summit, Ohio) and Mary Walter (1742 – 1821)

iv. Ebenezer Pease b. 1778 in Enfield, CT; d. 1813 Ohio; m. 1807 CT to Polly Kellogg (b. 14 Feb 1788 Goshen, Litchfield, CT – d. 21 Nov 1864 Hudson, Summit, Ohio) Polly’s parents were Bradford Kellogg (1759 – 1832) and Mary Thompson ( – 1826). Ebenezer and Polly had three children. After Ebenezer died, Polly married 7 May 1817 Hudson, Summit, Ohio to John Oviatt (1767 – 1827) and had five more children between 1818 and 1826. John Oviatt had first married Hannah Sherman (1764 – 1813) and had nine children from that marriage.

Hudson Township was one of the 16 original townships in Summit County, Ohio [seat Akron]. When created, it occupied survey Range 10, Town 4 in the Connecticut Western Reserve and was about 25 square miles in area. Its first settlers were David Hudson and his party from Goshen, Connecticut in 1799.

In the 1850 census, Polly was living with her son Almon Oviatt in Hudson, Summit, Ohio

v. Nathaniel Pease b. 1780 in Enfield, Hartford, CT; m. Anna Buell (b. 1786 Colchester, New London, C – d. 1878 West Galway, Broadalbin, Fulton, New York) Anna’s parents were Elijah Buell (1757 – 1796) and Chloe Owen (1762 – 1829)

In the 1870 census, Anna was living in Broadalbin, Fulton, New York with Selma Buell.

vi. Lucretia Pease b. 1782 in Enfield, CT; m. Truman Barnard (b. 1782 in Simsbury, Hartford, CT – d. 1838) Truman’s parents were Moses Barnard (1750 – 1811) and his cousin Hannah Bernard (1745 – 1848)

vii. Ann Pease b. 1784 in Enfield, CT; m. Shelburn Ives (b. 02 Feb 1783 in Torrington, Litchfield, CT) Shelburn’s parents were Abner Ives (1745 – 1801) and Anna Ferguson (1745 – 1814) Ann and Sheldurn had five children born between 1818 and 1830.

In the 1850 census, Shelburn and Ann were farming in Vernon, Oneida, New York.

viii. Hepzibah Pease b. 1786 or 1790 in Enfield, CT

In the 1850 census, Hepsibeth was living with her brother John B Pease in Whitestown, Oneida, New York. In the same census, she also listed as living with her sister Ann Ives in Vernon, Oneida, New York

ix. Martha Pease b. 1788 in Enfield, CT

4. Miriam Pease

Miriam’s husband Joel Simons was born 7 Aug 1754 in Enfield, Hartford, CT. His parents were Stephen Simons (b. 1722) and Miriam Thomas (b. 1719). Joel died 11 Jan 1817 in Enfield, Hartford, CT.

Simons, Joel. Capt. Moses Merrill’s co., Col. Edmund Phinney’s regt.; order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Fort No. 2, Cambridge, Oct. 26, 1775.

Children of Miriam and Joel:

i. Theodore Simons b. 6 May 1779 Enfield, Hartford, CT; d. 17 Feb 1821 – Suffield, Hartford, CT; m. Tabitha King (b. 2 Apr 1783 in Ashford, Windham, CT – d. 22 Sept 1881 in Suffield age 97) Theodore and Tabitha had five children.

In the 1880 census, Tabitha was living in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut with Lyman Woodworth.

Cicero Simons (1807 - 1853)

Theodore and Tabitha’s son Cicero Simons (1807 – 1853) Springfield,Mass.

ii. Nathaniel Simons b. 3 Feb 1781 CT; d. 17 Feb 1875 – Sardinia, Erie, New York; m. Pluma Lancton (b. 1788 in Mass. – d. Jun 1859 in Sardinia, New York) Nathaniel and Pluma had four children.

In the 1855 New York census, Nathaniel and Pleasance were living in Sardinia, Erie, New York.

Children of Sophia and Benjamin Parsons
5. Simeon Parsons

Simeon’s wife Abigail Bates was born in 1768. Abigail died 28 Jan 1837 in Enfield, Hartford, CT.

Children of Simeon and Abigail:

i. Abigail Parsons b. 15 Apr 1796 in Enfield, CT

ii. Susanna Parsons b. 18 Oct 1797 in Enfield, CT

iii. Olive Parsons b. 24 Oct 1799 in Enfield, CT

iv. Simeon Parsons b. 23 Aug 1801 in Enfield, CT

v. Simeon Parsons b. 29 Oct 1803 in Enfield, CT

vi. John Parsons b. 16 Nov 1805 in Enfield, CT

vii. Mary Parsons b. 16 Nov 1805 in Enfield, CT

viii. Elizabeth Parsons b. 4 May 1808 in Enfield, CT

7. Mary Parsons

Mary’s husband Frederick Stebbins was born 4 Apr 1768 in Wilbraham, Mass. His parents were Caleb Stebbins and Mehitable Chapin. After Mary died, he married Sylvia Edson and had 7 more children between 1811 and 1824. Frederick died 1 Apr 1854 in Wilbraham, Mass.

Children of Mary and Frederick

i. John Stebbins b. 1 Mar 1801 in Wilbraham, Mass.

ii. Ralph Stebbins b. 15 Dec 1796 in Wilbraham, Mass.

iii. Polly Stebbins b. 27 Jun 1794 in Wilbraham, Mass.

iv. Persis Stebbins b. 11 Feb 1799 in Wilbraham, Mass.

v. Harvey Stebbins b. 7 Jul 1803 in Wilbraham, Mass.

Sources:

Ancestry.com

http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/b_p.htm

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=9320766

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/p/Sandra-Popiel/BOOK-0001/0304-0008.html

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=67225590

A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of John Pease, Senior  by Rev. David Pease and Austin Pease 1869 (This book includes the story of Nathaniel Pease II dying at sea and includes Nathaniel Pease III b. at Enfiield December 28, 1753 History unknown.  The footnote for this information refers to Dr. John C. Pease.

Dr. John C. Pease – Bio

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Thomas Low

Posted on August 24, 2010 by markeminer

Thomas LOW (c. 1605 – 1677) was Alex’s 11th Grandfather; one of 4,096 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Immigrant Ancestor

Thomas Low was born about 1605  in Boxford, Suffolk, England.  His parents may have been  Giles LOW and Cicely FIRMAN. Thomas married Margaret TODD 22 Jun 1630 in Polstead, Suffolk England.

He and his family came to New England with Rev. Nathaniel Rogers’ party. The Rogers party sailed from Gravesend, England, on 1 Jun 1636, and arrived in Massachusetts Bay (probably Charlestown) 17 Nov  1636. The ship was probably the Rebecca.  The  Rebecca was 16 weeks at sea. A month before she sighted land, beer (the liquid staple of the 1600’s) ran out and the crew and passengers were forced to drink stale water mixed with vinegar to purify it. On November 16th Rebecca encountered heavy fog which cleared the next day to reveal “Cape Anne fair on their starboard bow.”

Thomas Low and his family probably arrived at Chebacco, now part of Ipswich in 1637.  He was certainly living in Ipswich, Mass. in 1643.   After Margaret died, he married Susannah Stone in 1648.  Susannah is the wife mentioned in his will.  Perhaps Margaret’s date of death is incorrect and Susannah was Thomas’s second wife.  Thomas died in 8 Sep 1677 in Ipswich, Mass.

Different sources cite Thomas as being the son of Capt. John Lowe and Ellen Revett or Susan Serles, Giles Lowe and Cicely Firmin/Firman, or John Low and Margaret Firman. Capt. John Lowe was master of the ship Ambrose and Rear Admiral of John Winthrop’s Great Migration fleet of twelve ships in 1630. I have seen no solid information backing these assertions.  It appears that Capt John’s Thomas was born 18 Jun 1620 in Southampton, Hampshire, England which makes him far too young to have children by 1631.

Margaret Todd was born in 1597 in Boxford or in Polstead Hall, Cosford, Suffolk England. Her parents were Ananias TODD and Bridget THOMPSON.  If Margaret accompanied Thomas to New England, she completely escaped the records.

Susannah Stone was born in 1598 in England.  She was possibly a widow from Watertown as she returned there after Thomas’ death. Susannah died 19 Aug 1684 in Watertown, Middlesex, Mass.

Note: There is much confusion about whether Sarah Lowe was married to Joseph Safford or John Safford. All Low family genealogy research says she was married to Joseph, but Safford research says Joseph was married to Mary Baker.

Children of Thomas and Margaret:

Name Born Married Departed
1. Deacon Thomas Low 08 May 1631
Groton, Suffolk, England		 Martha Boreman
4 Jul 1660
Ipswich, Mass.		 12 Apr 1712
Ipswich, Mass.
2. Margaret Low 17 Jun 1632 Daniel Davison
8 Apr 1657
Ipswich		 8 Jul 1668
Wenham, Mass.
3. John Low 2 Mar 1633 Boxford, Suffolk, England Sarah Thorndike
10 Dec 1661  Ipswich, Mass
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Dorcas [__?__]
1674
Ipswich, Mass.		 29 Nov 1695 – Ipswich
4. Sarah LOW c. 1637
Boxford, Suffolk, England or Ipswich Mass		 John SAFFORD Sr.
1661
Ipswich, Mass		 after 1708

6 Apr 1641 – Thomas Low was first mentioned in the records of Ipswich Mass. when he was granted 10 acres at Chebacco next to his previous 10 acres in exchange for 10 acres “due him from a grant from Mr. Rogers’ company.” near the brook by Mr. Appleton’s farm.

For at least a short time after Thomas Low married Margaret Todd, they resided in or around Groon, England and attended the Groton Church. Slightly less than one year after they had been married, in 1631, their first son Thomas Low Jr., later to become Deacon Thomas Low of Ipswich, was baptized at the Groton church.

Settled in Chebacco Parish, Essex Co., Mass, 1641, before which time two at least of his 5 children were born.

“He was a maltster, and died September 8, 1677, when his son John succeeded to the business and continued it until 1696.”

The Low family of Essex must be considered the second oldest family of the town. On April 6, 1641, Thomas Low had 10 acres of land assigned to him in Chebacco, “next to his ten acres there.”

He and other prominent men of Ipswich, Chebacco Parish, signed a letter declaring the innocence of Witchcraft charges against their neighbors, John Proctor (son of John PROCTOR Sr.) and his wife, Elizabeth. (note John Proctor was hanged as a witch. His wife, Elizabeth, was also convicted. Sir William Phipps prevented her execution by pardon.

Toward the end of his life, he appears to have been residing at “Candlewood, an Ancient Neighborhood” in Ipswich, known as “The South Eighth”. The homestead was located on the east side of Heartbreak Road, which went north from the Essex Road (now Route 133). The Candlewood section north of the Essex Road included the residences of John Brown, Humphrey GRIFFIN, Nathaniel Rogers, Edward Bragg,  Elisha and Benjamin Brown, John Choate, Deacon Mathew Whipple, and Agrilla Farm, owned originally by John Winthrop, Jr. and later by Samuel Symonds, whose daughter Sarah Symonds married Thomas Low. (see publications of the Ipswich Historical Society, 1909, Vol. XVI)

He appears to have died at his homestead in Candlewood, South Ipswich where his son John resided, and was most likely buried at the Old North Churchyard at Ipswich, MA, although there is no record of his burial.

Thomas’ will (Probate Records of Essex County, Vol III, Pp. 175-177, PB-17242) was written April 30, 1677 and was probated November 6th of that year, in which he left most of his estate to his son John, who married Sarah, daughter of John Thorndike of Beverly. To his son Thomas, who married Martha Boreman, (daughter of Thomas of Ipswich), he gave £40, and to his grandchild, Thomas Low, who moved to  Gloucester and married Sarah Symonds, daughter of Harlakenden, granddaughter of Governor Samuel Symonds, and became the ancestor of almost all the Low families there since

Will of Thomas Low, Sr. of Ipswich

“In the Name of God Amen. The Twentith day of Aprill in the yeare of grace one Thowsand Six hundred Seauenty & Seauen, I Thomas Low Senr. of Ipswich in America in the Shire of Essex, being weake in body; but of good & perfect memory, thanks be vnto God, Doeordaine & make this my last will & Testament in manner & forme following, first I bequeath my Soule into the hands of the Almighty God my Creator & redeemer, by whom, through whom, & inwhom I trust to haue remission of all my Sinnes & to be an Inheritor of the Kingdome of Heauen, & my body to be buried at the discression of my Executor.
Item I giue & bequath vnto Susannah my loueing wife, what goods she brought with hir, And also I give hir the vse of that roome which I lye in & the free vse of those things that are in it, And also the vse of one Cow which she liketh best, & will is that my sonne John shall mainteine it winter & sumer & also my will is, that if the Cow Come to any Casualty hee shall find her another Cow & maintaine it likewise as beforesaid, Also I giue vnto my wife one fourth part of her labor that she hath Spunn both Lening & woollen, & Also she shall haue hir beere as shee hath now, & also free vse of the fire: & Also John shall reare hur vp a shoate yearely for Sum meate for hir, &also shee shall haue the free vse of a Garden plott, & also alitle ground to sow half a peck of flax seede yeerely. And also I giue vnto hir Thirty shillings yeerely to be payd by my Executorin Such things as shee shall stand in neede of, during her naturall life: moreouer I giue vnto my loueing wife five pownds to dispose of as shee shall thinke good. An my will is That in Case my wife shall thinke meete to remoue from my Sonne John, Then my will is, that John Low shall pay or ca[use] to by payd vnto hir forty Shillings yearely & euery yeare during hir natu[ral] life inSuch pay as shee needeth. And Also I giue hir the cowe to be hir[own] & John to send hir the pay to Boston or Charls Towne.

“Item I Giue & bequeathe vnto my Sonne John Low all my Howsing &all my lands in Ipswich both meadow & vpland, to him & his heires for euer. Item I giue & bequeath vnto my Sonne Thomas Low Thirty pownds, to bee payd him by my Executor in tooe yeares after my decease.

Item I giue vnto my Daughter Margaret forty pownds, to bepayd by my Executor in tooe yeares after my decease.

Item I Giuevn to my daughter Sarah forty pownds to be payd by my Executor within tooe yeare after my Decease.

Item I giue vnto my Grandchild Thomas Low five pownds, when hee is Twenty yeares of age, or a this day of marriage. Item I give vnto my Grandaughter Margaret Dauison five pownds, when she shall be Twenty yeare old, or at hirday of marriage. Item I give vnto my Grandaughter Sarah Safford, five pownds, when she shall be Twenty yeare old, or at hir day of marriage. Item I giue vnto my Grandaughter, Sarah Low, five pownds, when she shall be Twenty yeare old, or at hir day ofmarriage. All the rest of my goods & Chattells vnbequeathed, I giue unto my Sonne John Low, whom I doe ordaine & make my Sole Executor of this my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I haue herevnto sett my hand & Seale the Thirtith day of April inthe yeare of Grace Sixteene hundred Seuenty & Seauen. 1677″
Thomas Low. (seal)

Witness: [our ancestors ] James CHUTE [Jr.], Mary (her + mark) Chute

Proved in Ipswich court November 6, 1677 by Ja. Chute
Date: 3 Mar 2003

Children

1. Deacon Thomas Low

Thomas’ wife Martha Boreman was born 1641 in Ispwich, Essex, Mass. Her parents were Thomas Boreman and Margaret Offing. Martha died 22 Jan 1720 in Essex, Mass.

Deacon Thomas Low founded the congregational church in lpswich.

Thomas had at least 26 acres of land in Chebacco beginning 1641-1643. He had an extensive farm and a manufactory of malt. He was a Deacon of the Chebacco Church from it’s beginning in 1679 until his death in 1712. He was also the Parish Clerk from 1690-1696 under John Wise.

During the Salem Witchcraft trials Thomas Low, a few others along with their pastor Rev. John Wise testified in writing that they could see nothing wrong in an accused person. .

Thomas signed the petition in support of John Proctor oldest son of our ancestor John PROCTOR  and his wife Elizabeth Proctor at the Salem Witch trials.

In his will he wished for “a glorious resurrection through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ, my only Redeemer.” He left his widow well provided with “two hundred weight of pork yearly, with ten barrels of Winter apples, and all the Summer fruit she needed, two barrels of cider, six bushels of malt, three of Indian corn, and one of wheat, besides two shillings in money, fourteen pounds of wool and twelve of flax, wood for one fire, the milk of two cows, and a horse to ride at her pleasure and convenience, together with the garden at the end of the house. ” [2] She lived in the back of the house, her son and his family in the front. Her son, of course, administered the provision of the Deacon’s will.

2. Margaret Low

Margaret’s husband Daniel Davison was born 1630 in Scotland. His parents were Nicholas Davison and Joan Hodges. Daniel died 1693 in Wenham, Essex, Mass.

3. John Low

John’s wife Sarah Thorndike was born in 1638 in Beverly, Essex, Mass. Her parents were John Thorndike and Elizabeth Stratton. Sarah died 1684 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass.

John’s second wife Dorcas [__?__] was born 1644 in England

John was a farmer and a malster.

4. Sarah LOW (See John SAFFORD Sr.‘s page)

Sources:

From Phoebe Tilton, 1947 by Walter Goodwin Davis

A genealogical quest (for the parents of Thomas Low) – 1906

http://www.magiccables.com/Family/n_a2.htm

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_025.htm#P65236

http://www.ourfamilyancestry.info/famhist/pafg113.htm#3804

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/19021027/person/745437131

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16080598/person/364457690

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Thomas Safford

Posted on August 24, 2010 by markeminer

Thomas SAFFORD (c. 1605 – 1667) was Alex’s 11th Grandfather; one of 4,096 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Thomas Safford Coat of Arms

Thomas Safford was born  between 1599 and 1610 in England, perhaps in Ipswich, Suffolk. Some sources say he sailed on the Fortune in 1627 and was a freeman at Ipswich in 1630, though it seems to me that his early arrival has been not been proven. He married Elizabeth SUTTON about 1631.  Stories conflict whether they were married in England or Ipswich, Mass.  He was on the list of proprietors of Ipswich Mass 6 Apr 1641, and was admitted a freeman 19 Dec 1648.

Elizabeth Sutton was born in 1603 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. Alternatively, she was born in Bromland, Somersetshire, England.  Her parents may have been Henry SUTTON and [__?__].  Elizabeth died on 4 March 1670 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass.

Note: There is much confusion about whether Sarah Lowe was married to Joseph Safford or John Safford. All Low family genealogy research says she was married to Joseph, but Safford research says Joseph was married to Mary Baker.  John is not mentioned in Thomas’ will, though according to records, he was still alive.

Children of John and Sarah:

Name Born Married Departed
1. Joseph Safford c. 1631
Isle of Wight, South Hampton, England or
Ipswich, Mass		 Mary Baker
6 Mar 1658
Ipswich		 29 Aug 1701 Ipswich, Mass.
2. John SAFFORD Sr. c. 1633 Ipswich, Mass Sarah LOW 1661
Ipswich, Mass		 16 Jun 1708 Ipswich, Mass.
3. Elizabeth Safford c. 1635
Ipswich, Mass		  Unmarried 7 Apr 1672 Wenham, Essex, Mass
4. Mary Safford c. 1637
Ipswich, Mass.		 Daniel Kilham (Son of Austin KILHAM)
Oct 1648
Wenham, Mass.		 16 Jun 1676
Ipswich
5. Abigail Safford c. 1636 or 1639
Ipswich, Mass.		 1666 Ipswich
6. Sarah Safford c. 1641
Ipswich, Mass.

Thomas Safford, was born in England and settled in New England at Ipswich before 1641. He was on the list of proprietors of the town April 6, 1641, and was admitted a freeman 19 Dec  1648. He bought a farm at Ipswich, thirty-two acres, of Henry Kingsbury, 8 Feb 1648. He was a subscriber to Denison’s allowance in 1640 and had a share and a half in Plum Island. He died in February, 1666-7. His will was dated 20 Feb, 1666/67, and proved 26 Mar 1667. He gave his farm to his son Joseph on condition of his care of the father and mother and paying certain amounts to daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Abigail.

Thomas Safford’s Ipswich Lot

Thomas married Elizabeth ——, who died March 4, 1670, at Ipswich. Their children were: Joseph, born 1631 or 1632, (he deposed March 29, 1692, that he was about fifty-nine or sixty years old,) was admitted a freeman 1682; married, March 6, 1660, Mary Baker; John,; Elizabeth, Mary, Abigail. (One of the daughters married Klum.)

His will was dated 20 Feb 1666/67, and proved 26 Mar 1667.  He gave his farm to his son Joseph on condition of his care of the father and mother and paying certain amounts to daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Abigail.

Be it known unto all men by these prsents. That I Thomas Safford of Ipswich in America in the County of Essex Husbandman (In consideration of the love & good Affection I beare unto my sonne Joseph Safford & other good Considerations mee thereunto moueing & also in Consideration of his help & care of mee hitherto) haue Bargained & sould & by these prsents doe bargaine & sell Aliene & Confirme vnto my Sonne Joseph Safford of Ipswich aforesaid & his heirs for euer.

All that my ffarme wherein I dwell Conteyning by estymation sixty Acres of vland & fresh meadow be it more or lesse with the howse barne & out howsing there vppon together with all the pffts priuiledges & Appertinances belonging to the same bounded as followeth vizt with the High way to mr Saltonstalls farme toward the Southeast the thick woods toward the Southwest the Riuer on the Northwest land of Robert Wallis on the Northeast & in the Towne of Ipswich Aforesaid. To haue & to hould & quietly & peaceably to enjoy & possess all the forementioned farme both vpland & fresh meadow Conteining sixty Acres more or lesse with all the howsing before mentioned & what euer priuiledges or Appertinances either doe or may belong vnto the same with out any lett mollestation or Interuption of mee the said Thomas Safford my heires executors Administrators or Assigns Laying any Claime thierunto in by or from mee or any of my heires executors or Administrators

Know also that in Consideration of the sealing & deliuering of this bill of sale I the said Thomas Safford haue reserved to my self the one halfe of the benefitt of the aforesaid farme to be paid to mee yeerly during my naturall life by my sone Joseph. And also if my wife shall out liue mee then my sone Joseph shall or Cause to be paid vnto her his said moother the fu__ some of Six pounds pr Annum yerely & euery yeere during her naturall life. And also my sone Joseph shall maintaine my eldest Daughter Elizabeth during her naturall life (except any other puidence pruent or she thinke good otherwise to dispose of herself) then my sone Joseph shall pay or Cause to be paid vnto said Daughter Elizabeth the full some of Twenty pounds she giueing a sufftient discharge. Also my sone Joseph shall pay or Cause to be paid to my daughter Mary after my decease the full some of five pounds. And Also to my daughter Abigaile the full some of fifteene pounds in three yeeres after my decease And for the performance of all & euery of these seuerall payments Anuityes & Legasies aforesaid at the seuerall times heere in this prsent writing specifyed my said farme abouesaid shalbe responsable. All these payments being pformed I the said Thomas Safford doe freely giue & make ouer my said farme vnto my sonne Joseph as is expressed in this bill of sale aboue written. In witness where of I the said Thomas Safford haue heere vnto sett my hand & Seale. Dated the Twentith day of February in the yeere of Grace Sixteene hundred Sixty & Six: 1666. [no signature]

WILL: Subscribed Sealed & att as the act & deede of the aforesaid Thomas Safford in the presence of us [no signature]

Children

1. Joseph Safford

Joseph was born in 1631 or 1632, (he deposed 29 Mar  1692, that he was about fifty-nine or sixty years old,) He was therefore about eight years old when he crossed the Atlantic.  Married, 6 Mar 1660, to  Mary Baker;

Joseph’s wife Mary Baker was born 29 Sep 1637 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass. Her parents were John Baker and Elizabeth [__?__]. Mary died in 1681 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass.

Some sources say that Joseph was John SAFFORD Jr.’s (1662 -1736) actual father.

13 May 1667 – He was in court for striking John Lighton and was bound to good behavior, his brother John being the surety on his bond.

He served in King Philip’s War under Captain Nicholas Paige and on 3 Sep 1675, he was credited with £2 for his part in the expedition to Mount Hope.

1676 – Member of a jury of inquest.

1678 – A trial juror in the September term of the Essex County Court

1678 – He was admitted a commoner of Ipswich

11 Oct 1682 – Admitted Freeman

1697 – Selectman of Ipswich

1699 – He and eight other members of the church objected to the sale of the old meeting-house because it involved the loss of their pews, but to no avail, and in the new meeting-house he, with the comforting title of “Mr,” was given a seat

In 1694 and 1695 a group of Ipswich men, Joseph Stafford, Richard Smith, Meshach Farleyh, Matthew Perkins and Samuel Bishop bought from Capt. James Fitch of Norwich [later Major and son of our ancestor Rev. James FITCH] of Norwich in the Connecticut colony a tract of eighteen hundren acres which was later called Preston and on which three of Safford’s children settled.  Captain Fitch’s title to this land was extremely dubious.  After King Philip’s War he held it as a sort of trust for a small local tribe of Indians known as the Shetuckets to whom it had been guaranteed. When Fitch transferred the title to himself there were murmurs of disapproval among the more sensitive of the Norwich settlers, but nothing was actually done to restore what seems to have been, in bald terms. and by 1694 the title was regarded as good. [History of Norwich by Frances Caulkins, edition of 1866]

On 1 May 1707, Joseph Safford made a settlement of his estate with his two sons John and Samuel by deed, the sons to support their father and mother for the remainder of their lives.  John received the dwelling-house, barns, yards, gardens, pasture and meadow in Ipswich, and one-half of the household furniture and movables.  He also was to have one-half plus one-seventh of the dwelling, buildings and lands in the town of “Norwitch in ye Connecticut Colony.”

To Samuel went the lower side of the tillage land in Ipswich, the other half of the furniture and movables, and one-half minus one-seventh of the Norwich property.  Houses were to be built for both sons.  They were to keep their sister Mary for life if she reminaed uncarried and to pay their sisters Sarah Kimball (£9:3:0), Elizabeth Brown (£8:5:0) and Hannah Safford (£20)

Children of Joseph and Mary:

i. Mary Saffordb. 20 Feb 1661; unmarried in 1701

ii. Joseph Safford b. 11 Aug 1664; d. before 1701

iii. Sarah Safford b. 20 Mar 1666; In 1701 she was Sarah Kimball, probably wife of Caleb Kimbal who was born in Wenham  in 1665 and had a wife Sarah who died 20 Feb 1731/32.

iv. Elizabeth Safford b. 3 Aug 1670; In 1701 she was Elizabeth Brown, probably wife of John Brown who had a wife Elizabeth bu 1696 and moved to Preston.

v. John Safford m. 11 Jul 1702 to Abigail Martin  He is often mixed up with his cousin and our ancestor John SAFFORD Jr. (1662 -1736)  We are not descended after all to the Abigail Martin that testified that she was afflicted by 13 different people in the Salem Witch Trials when she was a teenager. (See John Jr.’s page for details)

The tombstones of both Abigail and John are still existing in the Ames Cemetery.

John’s cousin John Safford (1673 – 1739) Ames Cemetery  Lisbon New London County Connecticut

Salem Witchcraft Trials

Our John Safford Jr’s cousin John Safford’s wife Abigail Martin was a supposed a target of witchcraft and testified that she was afflicted by 13 different people in the Salem Witch Trials when she was a teeenager.  John married Abigail in 1702, 10 years after the witch trials were over.

At the grand jury she testified against Samuel Wardwell. She signed three indictments, those of William Barker, Sr., Mary Barker, and Mary (Osgood) Marston.

Aug 1692 – a month before the arrest of Mary and Hannah, Joseph Tyler and Ephriam Foster filed a complaint against John Jackson, Sr., his son John Jackson, Jr. and John Howard of Rowley of acts of witchcraft against Rose Foster and Martha Sprage of Andover. About the same time, Moses Tyler and Samuel Martin accused Elizabeth Johnson and Abigail Johnson of using witchcraft to afflict Martha Sprage and Abigail Martin, also of Andover.

In 1692, Samuel Martin, 47, husbandman; his wife, Abigail; and children were living in the north part of Andover. Abigail  was pregnant with their seventh child.

8 Jan 1692 – Ralph Farnum II, who was Samuel Martin’s step-brother, died at Andover. John Farnum and Ralph Farnum III, both sons of Ralph II, testified against Martha (Allen) Carrier on June 28 and again on July 30.

25 Aug 1692 –  Samuel Martin and Moses Tyler filed a complaint against Willian Barker, Sr., Mary Barker, and Mary (Osgood) Marston for afflicting Abigail Martin, Jr., Rose Foster, and Martha Sprague. Mary (Osgood) Marston was the daughter of Christopher Osgood. On August 25 at their examinations, Mary Bridges, Jr., Sarah Bridges, Hannah Post, and Susannah Post were charged with afflicting Abigail Martin Jr., Rose Foster, and Martha Sprague.

30 Aug 1692 –  Elizabeth (Dand) Johnson confessed that she afflicted Sarah Phelps and three of Samuel Martin’s children and that her sister Abigail (Dane) Faulkner and Sarah Parker joined with her in afflicting them.

about 31 Aug 1692 – Sarah Wardwell, Sarah Hawkes, Mercy Wardwell, William Barker, Jr., and Mary (Ayer) Parker were complained of for afflicting Abigail Martin Jr., Rose Foster, and Martha Sprague.

7 Sep 1692 – Abigail Martin Jr., and Ralph Farnum III were members of the afflicted circle at the Andover touch test. Abigail (Wheeler) Barker and Mary (Lovett) Tyler were indicted for practicing and exercising witchcraft against Ralph Farnum III on Sep 7.

22 Sep 1692 – Mary (Ayer) Parker, widow of Nathan Parker, was hanged at Salem.  Her daughter Sarah had been imprisoned by August 19. Another daughter, Hannah Parker, had married, in 1682, John Tyler, brother of Moses Tyler. A third daughter, Elizabeth Parker, had married in 1684 John Farnum, who was the brother of the afflicted Ralph Farnum, III.

Abigail Martin and John Bridges v. Samuel Wardwell ( Essex County Archives, Salem — Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 29 ) xxx
the deposetion of Abigell Marten of Andavr Aged about sixteen years this deponant Testifyeth and sayeth that some time last winter: Samuel wordwall being at my fathers house: with John farnom: I heard said John farnon ask: said wordwall his forteen; wh[ich] he did: and told him that: he was in love with a gurll: but should be crost; & should goe to the Sutherd: which said farnom oned to be his thought: said wardwell further: told he had like to be shot with a gon: & should have a foall of from his hors or should have: which: said farnom , after oned that he told Right:

And further I heard him tell Jeams bridges his forten: that he loved a gurll at forteen years ould: which: said bridges: oned to be the truth: but could not imagin how said wordwall knew: for he never: spake of it: John bridges father of said jeams bridges sayeth: he heard Jeam say I wonder how wordwall cold teell so true

Jurat in Curia,
by both
(Reverse) Abiga’l Martin & James Bridges Depo’ Vers Sam’l Wardwell
.
Primary Witchcraft Documents
Indictment of Mary Barker, for Afflicting Abigail Martin –

Indictment of William Barker Sr., for Afflicting Abigail Martin

Deposition of Abigail Martin & John Bridges v. Samuel Wardwell

Martin, Abigail v. Mary Barker

Martin, Abigail v. William Barker, August

Transcript: (Warrant for Arrest of William Barker, Sr. , Mary Marston and Mary Barker , Aug. 25, 1692)

Transcript: (Examination of Mary Marston )
Case: Mary Marston
martin she said the devil did it for her Said Abigail martin being in a choakeing fitt, Mary Lacey … and the 28th of the month she afflicted Abigail martin , And martha Sprague on the Saturnday

Transcript: (Confession from Prison of William Barker, Sr. )
Case: William Barker, Sr. and a Sabbath day my Shape afflicted Abigail Martin and at night afflicted … Martha Sprague and Abigail Martin . Elizabeth Johnson and Abigail

Transcript: ( Abigail Martin and John Bridges v. Samuel Wardwell ) Case: Samuel Wardwell Executed, September 22, 1692
( Abigail Martin and John Bridges v. Samuel Wardwell ) the deposetion of Abigell Marten … Jurat in Curia, by both (Reverse) Abiga’l Martin & James Bridges Deposition
Case: Death Warrants Folder and Census of Prisoners (May – July 1692) Eliz. procter May. Lydia Dastin . Wido’ of Rede 2 d. Susannah Martin of Amesb’r . Dorcas … pudeater 11 In Salem Prison Easty Dele’ Hobs Abigail. Hobs
Case: Mary Barker the Body of Abigaill Martin of Andivor at and within the Township of Andivor aforesaid
Case:  (January – May 1693) and against one Abigail Martin of Andover aforesaid by w’ch said wicked Acts the said Abigail Martin

Transcript: (Case of Mary Barker )  (January – May 1693)
the body of Abigail Martin of Andivor at and within the Township of Andiv’r afores’d by w’ch said … wicked acts the said Abigail Martin the day aforesaid in the year afores’d And at divers other
Transcript: (Examination of Rebecca Johnson )
Case: Rebecca Johnson ‘d Rebecka Johnson afflict Abigail Martin & Alice Booth Alice Booth saw the same s’d Johnson afflict
Transcript: (Examination of Mary Barker )
Case: Mary Barker Foster and Abigail martin which she did upon saturday and sabath Day last, she said she
Transcript: (Examination of William Barker, Jr. , Second Version)
Case: William Barker, Jr.
of Martha Sprague Rose foster and Abigail Martin , which he did not deny but could not remember
Transcript: Superior Court of Judicature: Witchcraft Trials (January – May 1693)
Case: Additional Documents 1692-1750
and against one Abigail Martin of Andover aforesaid by w’ch said wicked Acts the said Abigail Martin … Elizabeth Johnson, Sr. Abigail Barker Mary Tyler

Children of John Safford and Abigail Martin

a. Abigail, 1703
b. Joseph, b 1704/5,   He was one of the first founders of Bennington, Vt. and is buried in Bennington. He is buried at the church cemetery there surrounded with his family.
c. Charity Safford?  b. 1708 –
d. John, 1711. d. 1789
e. Solomon, 1713; d.  1795
f. Sarah, 1718; d.  1729

vi. Thomas Safford d. Jun 1676

vii. Samuel Safford b. Jul 1678; m1. Elizabeth [__?__]; m2.  Hannah [__?__] Oct

viii. Hannah Safford b. 11 Jan ; unmarried in ; m.  8 Oct 1705 in Ipswich to James Tyler of Preston

2. John SAFFORD Jr.  (See his page)

John moved to Preston and had his children born and married there.  Many genealogies state that John was the son of Joseph Safford instead of his brother John.

4. Mary Safford

Mary’s husband Daniel Kilham was born 15 Mar 1620 in Dennington, Suffolk, England. His parents were Austin KILHAM and Alice GOODALE. Daniel died 21 Mar 1699 in Wenham, Essex, Mass.

Sources

From Phoebe Tilton, 1947 by Walter Goodwin Davis

Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume 3  By Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs
p. 1286-1287

This family traces its American ancestry from Thomas Safford, the immigrant, to Ipswich, Massachusetts Colony, through a long line prominent in the formation and advancement of the growth of the American colonies, and on the record of each the verdict: “He did what he could for the betterment of the human kind with which he was brought in contact” is true and just. From the English ancestral records we find that the surname occurrs frequently in the early part of the thirteenth century and appears to be of Saxon derivation. The name appears in the inscription engraved on the seal of an ancient town on the English coast, and reads as follows: “Sigillum Burgensium de Saffordia.” It also appears among the lists of immigrants who came from England to the Colony of Virginia between 1613 and 1623.
(I) Thomas Safford was born in Suffolk county. England, and first appeared in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony, prior to 1630. He owned land in Ipswich before April 6, 1641; was made a freeman by the general court of Massachusetts Bay Colony, December 19, 1648. He died February 20. 1667, having before his death made provision for the certain support of his widow and unmarried daughters, directing that a fixed amount should be paid to them annually out of the first proceeds from the product of his farm of sixty acres and this annuity to be continued during the life of his widow and her dependent daughters. His widow, Elizabeth, died March 4, 1671. in Ipswich. Their children were: 1. Joseph, born in Ipswich in 1631. 2. John, see forward, and the three daughters for whom provision was made in his will were: Elizabeth, Mary and Abigail.

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=7728290&st=1

Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal …, Volume 1 edited by Ellery Bicknell Crane

http://www.magiccables.com/Family/n_a2.htm

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12759687/person/11424870

http://greenerpasture.com/Ancestors/Details/788

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John Safford Sr.

Posted on August 24, 2010 by markeminer

John SAFFORD Sr. (1633 – 1708) was Alex’s 10th Grandfather; one of 2,048 in this generation of the Shaw line.

John Safford Sr. was born about 1633, (his age was given in 1661 as about thirty).  Stories conflict about whether he was born in England or Ipswich, Mass., but he was most likely brought as a boy to Ipswich by his parents.  His parents were Thomas SAFFORD and Elizabeth SUTTON. He married Sarah LOW in 1661 in Ipswich, Mass. John died 16 Jun 1708 in Ipswich, Mass. Alternatively, John died 29 Aug 1701 in Ipswich,

Sarah Low was born about 1637 in Boxford, Suffolk, England.  Her parents were Thomas LOW and Margaret TODD. Sarah died after 1708 in Ipswich, Mass.

There is confusion about whether Sarah Lowe was married to Joseph Safford or John Safford. All Low family genealogy research says she was married to Joseph, but Safford research says Joseph was married to Mary Baker.

Children of John and Sarah:

Name Born Married Departed
1. John SAFFORD Jr. 1662 at Ipswich, Essex County, Mass Hannah NEWMAN
15 Sep 1685
.
Not married to Abigail Martin
28 Jun 1702
.
Deborah
[__?__]		 29 Mar 1736 at Preston, CT
2. Sarah Safford 14 Jul 1664
Ipswich, Mass		 Joseph Pulsifer
c. 1690		 21 Jul 1712
Ipswich, Mass
3. Margaret Safford 28 Feb 1665/66
Ipswich
4. Rebecca Safford 30 Aug 1667
Ipswich		 Nathan Wheeler
13 Jan 1689/90
Newbury, Mass		 28 Jun 1755
Newbury, Mass
5. Mercy (Mary) Safford 26 Feb 1669
Ipswich
6. Elizabeth Safford 27 Feb 1670/71 Alexander Lovell
20 Jul 1697		 30 Apr 1754
7. Thomas Safford 16 Oct 1672
Ipswich		 Mrs. Eleanor Cheney Shatswell
7 Oct 1698
.
Sarah Scott
29 Jun 1725
Ipswich		 30 Apr 1754
Ipswich
8. Joseph Safford 12 Mar 1674/75 Mary Chase 12 Aug 1739
Norwich, CT
9. Mehitable Safford c. 1683 John Hovey
25 May 1702
Ipswich
.
Ebenezer Browne
Apr 1722
.
Lt. Jacob Perley		 c. 1754
Essex, Mass.

It is noteworthy that this 1909 genealogy doesn’t include John Jr.  Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine.  By Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs. Published by Lewis historical publishing company, 1909. Item notes: v. 3.  Original from Harvard University

He and his wife Sarah had children: 1. Sarah, born July 14, 1664, died July 21, 1712. 2. Margaret, February 28, 1666. 3. Rebecca, August 30, 1667. 4. Mary, February 26, 1669. 5. Elizabeth, February 27, 1671. 6. Thomas, see forward. 7. Joseph, March 12, 1675.

John Safford settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was a blacksmith by trade and was interested in a small iron-works in Topsfield and Rowley village, being one of the the owners of the later in 1675.  He had a share of Plum Island. He gave land to his son Thomas for the maintenance of his wife and daughter by deed dated 5 Sep 1698.

John evidently lived on the farm of his father and was engaged in its cultivation probably in partnership with his brother Joseph, and before his death made provision similar to that made by his father, by which his wife, Sarah, and daughter were placed beyond danger of want in any contingency, by an annuity to be paid out of the product of the farm, and his wife joined him in the conveyance of the sixty-acre farm on such condition, the deed being signed by them September 5, 1665.

19 Jan 1661 – John bught a house and three acres in Ipswich on the north side of the river near the mill and bounded all about by highways from Anthony Potter.

1672 – In the September term of court, he sued Ensign John Gould for debt and lost the case, but in the November term his suit against Henry Leonard of the Topsfield iron-works for ten hundred-weight of bar iron was successful.

1675 – He saw service against the Indians in the Narragansett expedition during King Philip’s War

1676 – He served on a jury of inquest

1678 – Had common rights in Ipswich

1680 – Was a grand juror in the March term of the Essex County Court

5 Sep 1698 – John and Sarah Safford deed to their son Thomas their dwelling-house, barn, shop, orchard and garden, standing on four acres of land in return for his care for the remainder of their lives.  Thomas was to allow his sister Sarah a room in the house so long as she remained unmarried.

John Safford died before 16 Jun 1708 when the widow Sarah, her son Thomas and Eleanor, his wife conveyed part of the homestead to Michael Farley.

Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume 3  By Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs  p. 1286-1287  Interesting that  John Safford Jr. is not included in list of children.

(II) John, second son of Thomas and Elizabeth Safford, was born in Ipswich in 1633. He evidently lived on the farm of his father and was engaged in its cultivation probably in partnership with his brother Joseph, and before his death made provision similar to that made by his father, by which his wife, Sarah, and daughter were placed beyond danger of want in any contingency, by an annuity to be paid out of the product of the farm, and his wife joined him in the conveyance of the sixty-acre farm on such condition, the deed being signed by them September 5, 1665. He and his wife Sarah had children: 1. Sarah, born July 14, 1664, died July 21, 1712. 2. Margaret, February 28, 1666. 3. Rebecca, August 30, 1667. 4. Mary, February 26, 1669. 5. Elizabeth, February 27, 1671. 6. Thomas, see forward. 7. Joseph, March 12, 1675.

Children

1. John SAFFORD Jr. (See his page)

2. Sarah Safford

Sarah’s husband Joseph Pulsifer was born 1660 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

4. Rebecca Safford

Rebecca’s husband Nathan Wheeler was born 27 Dec 1659 in Newbury, Essex, Mass. His parents were David Wheeler and Sarah Wise. Nathaniel died 26 Jul 1741 in Newbury, Essex, Mass.

5. Mercy (Mary) Safford

6. Elizabeth Safford

Elizabeth’s husband Alexander Lovell was born 29 May 1666 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass. His parents were Thomas Lovell and Anne [__?__]. Alexander died 9 Feb 1762 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass.

7. Thomas Safford

Thomas’ first wife Mrs. Eleanor Cheney was born 29 Mar 1679 in Newbury, Essex, Mass. Her parents were Daniel Cheney and Sarah Bailey. Her grandparents were John CHENEY and Martha PARRATT.  She first married 17 Dec 1696 in Newbury, Essex, Mass. to Richard Shotswell b. 1662 in Ipswich; d. 16 May 1698 in Ipswich. Eleanor died 22 Dec 1724 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass.

Thomas’ second wife Sarah Scott was born 10 Sep 1677 in Rowley, Essex, Mass.  Her parents were Benjamin Scott and Susannah Scales.  Sarah died May 1762 in Salem, Mass.

Thomas lived on the farm cultivated by his ancestors and added to it by the purchase of six or more parcels of land. He married (first) 7 Oct 1698, Elinor  Cheney Shatswell, a young widow, who died 22 Dec, 1724. Thomas Safford married (second) June 29, 1725, Sarah Scott, of Rowley, Massachusetts, who bore him no children.

Sometime before his death, he had turned over the management of his farm and estate to his son Daniel.

Children of Thomas and Eleanor: (See Walter Goodwin Davis’ report below for details about ii. Thomas, iii. Joseph, iv. Daniel, v. John, vii. Nathan, viii. James, and ix Stephen.

i. Sarah, born 29 Mar  1701, died 10 Jul  1702.
ii. Thomas b. 28 Apr 1703
iii. Joseph, b. Mar 1704/05.
iv. Daniel, 1706.
v. John.
vi. Nathan, 16 Mar 1712.
vii. James,  24 Jun1714.
viii. Stephen,  10 Mar 1716/17.
ix. Titus, baptized 24 Feb 1722/23, died 11 Apr  1729.

8. Joseph Safford

Joseph’s wife Mary Chase (Chalts?) was born 1677 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass.

9. Mehitable Safford

Mehitable’s first husband John Hovey was born 13 Aug 1675 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass. His parents were Daniel Hovey and Esther Treadwell. John died 17 Aug 1720 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass.

Mehitable’s second husband Ebenezer Browne was born 1679 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass,

Mehitable’s third husband Lt. Jacob Perley was born 1670 in Rowley, Essex, Mass.  His parents were Thomas Perley and [__?__].   He first married 3 Dec 1696 in Topsfield, Essex, Mass. to Lydia Peabody b. 9 Mar 1673 in Boxford, Essex, Mass.; d. 1707 in Boxford. Jacob died Apr 1751 in Bradford, Essex, Mass.

Mehitable’s brother, Thomas Safford, deeded Hovey one-quarter of an acre of his house lot in Ipswich in 1708.

Sources:

From Phoebe Tilton, 1947 by Walter Goodwin Davis

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=7706141&st=1

http://www.magiccables.com/Family/n_a2.htm

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr_idx/idx180.html#SAFFORD

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John Safford Jr.

Posted on August 23, 2010 by markeminer

John SAFFORD Jr. (1662 -1736) was Alex’s 9th Grandfather; one of 1,024 in this generation of the Shaw line.

John Safford Jr. was born in 1662 at Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, England. His parents were John STAFFORD Sr. and Sarah LOW(E). He married Hannah  NEWMAN 15 Sep 1685 in Ipswich, Mass.   Many researchers say after Hannah died, John married Abigail Martin on 28 Jun 1702.   However, it was John’s first cousin with the same name John Safford who married Abigail Martin. (See the discussion below)  Our John was married to a Deborah when he died, as evidenced by naming her in his will, but she is not buried in the Preston Cemetery.  John died on 29 Mar 1736 at Preston, Connecticut.

John Safford – Gravestone – Guiles Safford Cemetery, Preston, CT  – “Here lies the Body of Mr. John Safrford who Died March 29, 1736 Aged 73 Years” “You are but dust and die you must”

There has been a lot of confusion about whether John’s mother Sarah Lowe was married to Joseph Safford or John Safford. All Low family genealogy research says she was married to Joseph, but Safford research says Joseph was married to Mary Baker.

Hannah Newman was born on 16 Feb 1666 at Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.  Her parents were Thomas NEWMAN Jr. and Hannah MORSE. If Hannah really died in 1702 in Preston, CT. like most genealogies say, then Dorothy [__?__] is probably the mother of Margaret, Joseph and Gideon. However, I can’t find any evidence of Hannah’s date of death or Dorothy’s marriage.

Abigail Martin was born in 1675 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass. Her parents were Samuel Martin and Abigail Norton. Abigail died in 20 Mar 1768 in Norwich, CT.

We are not descended after all to the Abigail Martin that testified that she was afflicted by 13 different people in the Salem Witch Trials when she was a teenager.  John’s first cousin John Safford married Abigail in 1702, 10 years after the witch trials were over.

Children of John and Hannah:

Name Born Married Departed
1. John Safford Jr. 28 Feb 1687/88 Dorothy Larrabee
18 Aug 1710
Preston, New London, CT		 12 Sep 1725
Preston City, CT
2. Hannah SAFFORD 24 Sep 1691 Preston,New London,CT Ebenezer PERKINS
14 Aug 1710 in Preston, CT		 Bef. 1736 will of her father
3. Sarah Safford 25 Dec 1694 Roger Haskell
1 Dec 1720
Norwich, New London, CT		 4 Apr 1729
Preston, CT
4. Mary (Marcy) Safford 5 Mar 1697
Preston, CT		 Ezekiel Parke
1716 – Preston City, CT
.
Jedediah Tracy
15 Apr 1728
Preston, CT		 24 May 1775
Preston, CT
5. Elizabeth Safford 24 Jan 1700 James Braman?
of North Kingstown, RI
.
Timonthy Whipple (Whipyrill)
1736 or
04 Jul 1744 Norwich, New London, Connecticut
6. Margaret Stafford 24 Apr 1703 Nathaniel Bingham
by 1725		 1750
7. Deacon Joseph Stafford 18 Jan 1705
Norwich, CT		 Patience Yeomans
20 Dec 1727 – Preston City, New London, CT
.
Martha Cotes
11 Jan 1749
North Stonington, CT		 1760
buried in the Preston Cemetery
8. Gideon Safford 24 Mar 1709 Elizabeth Hill
13 Jan 1731/32 in Ipswich, Mass.		  20 Mar 1780
Preston, CT

John was administrator of the estate of his father-in-law, Thomas Newman, March 5, 1691. He resided at Ipswich; d. 1780.

John and Hannah settled in Preston, Connecticut with other Essex County families.  In 1686, Thomas Parke, Thomas Tracy, and several others petitioned for and were granted by the Connecticut General Court authority to establish a plantation seven miles square to the east of Norwich and north of New London and Stonington.  Owaneco, son of the Mohegan sachem Uncas, gave a confirmatory deed for the land in 1687. In October of that same year, the town was formally incorporated as Preston.  John’s daughter Mary later married a Parke and then married a Tracy.

The first settler of Voluntown, Connecticut was Samuel Fish, soon followed by John Gallup, John and Francis Smith, Robert Parke, Thomas Reynolds, Thomas Coles, John Campbell, John SAFFORD Jr, Obadiah Rhodes and Samuel Whaley.

Most of the land which makes up the present town of Voluntown was granted in 1700 by the Court to the Volunteers of the Narragansett War in 1700, thus the name “Voluntown.” Preston is 10 miles from Voluntown was maybe John Safford’s homestead was halfway between the two modern villages.

In 1705 the town was surveyed and boundaries were established. The plot was drawn up into lots, with each eligible volunteer receiving a lot. The land was rough terrain, although fertile soil, and was in a remote location.

According to a portion of the will provided by another Safford researcher John’s son Joseph and Gideon were executors. He leaves to his wife Deborah all movable estate. To three living daughters, Mary Tracy, Elizabeth Whipyrill and Margaret Bingham.  Charity Perkins Rathbone, eldest daughter of daughter Hannah, and Zipporah Haskell, eldest daughter of daughter Sarah, the granddaughter to share equally with their aunts.

John’s will dated 5 Feb 1735/36, proved 2 Apr 1736 is unusual in its frank expresion of his sense of being the founder of a landed family in the English tradition.  He orders a “moniment upon my graufe … bultit with ston or brick and a tombston over it Ingrafein on it my death and age that my Children mit know how they cum by their land that theay had a granfather that left it for them and left his boons In possession for them ever bein the fist that ever did anything upon it and setled it.”

To wife Deborah £10 etc. expressed in two bonds under the hands and seals of sons Joseph and Gideon, the goods she brought with her, her choice of two good cows, a good horse to ride on, etc.

All movable estate to three living daughters Marcy Tracy, Elizabeth Whipyrill and Margaret Bingham, Charity Rasebonne [Rathbone] eldest daughter of daughter Hannah, and Zipporah Haskell, eldest daughter of daughter Sarah, the granddaughters to share equally with their aunts £100 in money, bills and bonds to children of the five daughters.

To grandsons, Zebulon Parks, John Bingham, Ezekiel Parks, Daniel Tracy, Gideon Haskell, Oliver PERKINS. 

Overseerwes:y two cousins Thomas Tracy and Samuel Morgan
Witnesses” John Ames, John Ames Jr., John Ames the third

No mention is here made of son John, born 1687. No mention is made of him as being buried in the Safford Cemetery, either. Marcy is probably daughter Mary, b 1697, Elizabeth, b 1700, Margaret, b 1703. Daughter Hannah had evidently died by this time as evidenced by the will, same with Sarah, b 1694. With Gideon and Joseph as executors, that makes 7 listed. Only John is not listed.

The John that married Abigail Martin moved to Norwich Ct., fairly close to Preston. He is buried in the Ames Cemetery in Lisbon, Ct. He died 12 Aug 1739, age 66, thus born circa 1673.   The tombstones of both Abigail and John are still existing in the Ames Cemetery.

John’s cousin John Safford (1673 – 1739) Ames Cemetery  Lisbon New London County Connecticut

Information about the Safford family is confusing and conflicted.  It’s difficult to say for sure just who was married to whom.

There were two first cousin John Saffords, both from Ipswich, Mass and they both moved to Connecticut. One John was born in 1663, the other in 1673.  The John that married Hannah Newman was the son of Joseph. They moved to Preston, New London, Ct. He died there March 29, 1736 at age 73, thus was born in 1663.    He is buried in the Safford Cemetery. He evidently married twice, the second time to a Deborah, as evidenced by a will he wrote naming her.

John’s cousin that married Abigail Martin moved to Norwich Ct., fairly close to Preston. He is buried in the Ames Cemetery in Lisbon, Ct. He died 12 Aug 1739, age 66, thus born circa 1673.

As to John having 2 or 3 wives, Abigail being second or third, notice THIS. She was born circa 1676. She is buried next to the John at the Ames Cemetery. She died age 92, on 20 March 1768.  The two other Johns died in 1736 and 1739. She outlived both of them by many years.

Children

1. John Safford Jr.

John’s wife Dorothy Larrabee was born 25 Mar 1686 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Her parents were Greenfield Larrabee and Alice Parke. Dorothy died in 1723 in Connecticut.

2. Hannah SAFFORD (see Ebenezer PERKINS‘s page)

3. Sarah Safford

Sarah’s husband Roger Haskell was born 16 Oct 1697 in Beverly, Essex, Mass. His parents were Roger Haskell and Hannah Woodbury. Roger died 20 May 1759 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut

4. Mary (Marcy) Safford

Marcy’s first husband Ezekiel Parke was born 20 May 1683 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. His parents were Nathaniel Parke and Sarah Geer. Ezekiel died in 1726 in Preston, New London, Connecticut

Marcy’s second husband Jedediah Tracy was born 24 Sep 1692 in Preston, New London, Connecticut.  His parents were Thomas Tracy and Sarah [__?__]. He first married 27 Jan 1714 in Preston, Connecticut to Margaret Rix b. 1693 in Wenham, Mass; d. 1 Aug 1727 in Preston, Connecticut.  Jerediah died 8 Jun 1779 in Preston, Connecticut,

5. Elizabeth Safford

Elizabeth  might have married a James Braman of North Kingstown, RI who purchased property in Voluntown, New London, CT in 1729. He and wife Elizabeth had seven children between 1730 and 1740; he died by Nov. 1739 when his probate was started.

Elizabeth’s second husband Timothy Whipple (Whipyrill) was born 28 OCT 1723 in Groton, New London, Connecticut. His parents were Samuel Whipple and Ruth Card. Timothy died 04 Nov 1796 in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont.

The first property James Braman purchased in Voluntown was from Ebenezer PERKINS. Ebenezer Perkins married Hannah SAFFORD, an older sister of Elizabeth Safford, another clue Elizabeth may have married James Braman.

6. Margaret Stafford

Margaret’s husband Nathaniel Bingham was born 30 Jun 1704 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. His parents were Thomas Bingham and Hannah Backus. Nathaniel died 1756 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut.

7. Deacon Joseph Stafford

Joseph’s first wife Patience Yeomans was born 26 Jan 1702 Preston City, New London, CT.  Her parents were Samuel Yeomans and Mary Ellis.  Patience died 8 Mar 1748.

Joseph’s second wife Martha Cotes was born

8. Gideon Safford

Gideon’s wife Elizabeth Hull (Hill?) was born 5 Feb 1715 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Her parents were John Hill and Elizabeth Yarrington. Elizabethe died 6 Jun 1805 in Preston, Connecticut.

Gideon’s son Thomas b. 1738 was a soldier in the French and Indian war and was in Captain Jonathan Brown’s company at Lake George in 1758. During the revolution he was living at or near Watertown, and he enlisted July 2, 1778, with others to serve as guards over the powder magazine for six months. He continued to serve on this duty until August 2, 1779. He was called “corporal” in some of the records. He married at Watertown, July 31, 1764, Sarah Kettell, of Medford, his residence being given as Dedham. His wife joined the Dedham church, March 23, 1766. The only record of birth of children born to Thomas and Sarah is found in Dedham records: Thomas, baptized at Dedham, August 24, 1766, by Rev. Mr. Townsend.

Sources:

From Phoebe Tilton, 1947 by Walter Goodwin Davis

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=7705501

Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal …, Volume 1 edited by Ellery Bicknell Crane

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/904829/person/-2029830330/story/47292fd7-dc15-4fbe-9c9b-2e7560bcbd1e

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.essex/460/mb.ashx

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.essex/460.459.1/mb.ashx

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.essex/460.459.1.1.1/mb.ashx

http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/texts/tei/BoySal3R?div_id=n133&term=&name=marabi

http://genforum.com/safford/messages/595.html

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