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William Baker

Posted on June 22, 2010 by markeminer

William BAKER (1655 – 1727) was Alex’s 9th Great Grandfather; one of 1,024 in this generation of the Shaw line.

William Baker was born on 19 Oct 1655 in Yarmouth, Mass. His parents were Francis BAKER and Isabel TWINING. He first married Mary Pierce on 5 Apr 1689 in Yarmouth. After Mary died, he married Mercy LAWRENCE about 1691. William died before 14 Aug 1727 in Yarmouth, Mass.

Mary Pierce was born 1645 in Duxbury, Plymouth, MA. Her parents were Abraham Pierce and Rebecca Lothrop, Mary died 1691 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA.

Mercy Lawrence was born on 4 Dec 1671 in Watertown, Mass. Her twin Sarah Lawrence married Thomas Rider 5 Apr 1689 in Roxbury, Mass and died 1714 in Roxbury. Their parents were George LAWRENCE and Elizabeth CRISPE. Mercy died on 25 Nov 1753 in Harwich, MA.

Children of Willliam and Mercy:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	Mercy Baker	6 Jan 1691/92 Yarmouth	Samuel Smith 17 Feb 1712/13 Yarmouth	Jul 1724 Yarmouth
2.	William Baker	8 Jan 1693/94 Yarmouth, Mass.	Benit [__?__] . Dinah Harding	Jan 1719 Chatham, MA
3.	Dorcas BAKER	15 Nov 1696 Yarmouth	William CHASE III 20 Sep 1715 Yarmouth	20 Nov 1745 Harwich
4.	Experience Baker	8 Jan 1697/98 Yarmouth	Samuel Cash 9 Nov 1721 Yarmouth
5.	Judah Baker	21 Mar 1699/00 Yarmouth	Jane Nickerson 18 Jun 1724 Harwich	19 Mar 1782 Dennis, Mass
6.	Elizabeth Baker	11 Feb 1702/03 Yarmouth	Robert Wixon 5 Feb 1718/19 Yarmouth	1743
7.	Josiah Baker	16 Dec 1704 Yarmouth	Charity Eddy 25 Sep 1729 Yarmouth	1795 Yarmouth
8.	Joanna Baker	18 Feb 1706/07 Yarmouth	Michael Phillips 5 Aug 1726 Yarmouth . Ebenezer Berry 25 Nov 1738 Yarmouth	Mar 1743 Harwich
9.	Patience Baker	27 Feb 1708/09 Yarmouth	Benjamin Small 29 Jun 1726	1751 Harwich
10.	Elisha Baker	11 Dec 1712 Yarmouth	Mercy Cahoon 2 Apr 1734 Sandwich, Mass.	1787
11.	James Baker	20 May 1715 Yarmouth	Keziah Eldridge 1737 Yarmouth
12.	Thankful Baker	6 Dec 1719 Yarmouth	David Baker 6 May 1743 Sandwich . Eleazer Robbins ca 1760	9 Nov 1809

William Baker’s name was on a List of the Soldiers of Yarmouth that were pressed into the country’s service, and that went to Mount Hope under Capt. John GORHAM against the Indians in 1675, and took their first march upon the 24th June, ’75. The sum of his wages was £8 11 00.

Children

1. Mercy Baker
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Mercy’s husband Samuel Smith was born 1692 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. Samuel died Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass

Children of Mercy and Samuel:

i. Jane Smith b. 1713; d. 1768

ii. Samuel Smith 1718 – 1793

iii. Charles Smith 1720 –

iv. William Smith b. 1 Jan 1723 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; d. 12 Mar 1773 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; m. 19 Aug 1743 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. to Anna O’Kelley (b. 28 Apr 1720 Yarmouth – d. Harwich, Barnstable, Mass) Anna’s parents were our ancestors Joseph O’KELLY and Tabitha BAKER. William and Anna had seven chiuldren born between 1744 and 1763

v. Isaac Smith 1724 –

vi. Thankful Smith 1727 – 1769

2. William Baker

William’s first wife Benit [__?__] was born 1697 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massa

William’s second wife Dinah Harding was born 1700 in Chatham, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were Capt. Joseph Harding and Dinah Hedges. Dinah died 3 Jan 1779 in Chatham, Mass

3. Dorcas BAKER (See William CHASE III‘s page)

4. Experience Baker

Experience’s husband Samuel Cash was born 1690 in Quincy, Suffolk, Mass. Samuel died in Barnstable, Mass.

5. Judah Baker

Judah’s wife Jane Nickerson was born 6 Apr 1699 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were William Nickerson and Mary Snow. Jane died 28 Apr 1781 in South Dennis, Barnstable, Mass.

6. Elizabeth Baker

Elizabeth’s husband Robert Wixon was born 29 May 1698 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were Barnabas Wixam and Sarah Remick. Robert died Jun 1773 in Putnam, New York.

7. Josiah Baker

Josiah’s wife Charity Eddy was born 1707 in Taunton, Bristol, Mass. Her parents were Eleazer Eddy and Elizabeth Randall Charity died in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.

8. Joanna Baker

Joanna’s first husband Michael Phillips was born

Joanna;s second husband Ebenezer Berry was born in 1707. His parents were John Berry and Susannah Crowell.

9. Patience Baker

Patience’s husband Benjamin Small was born 1700 in Chatham, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were Edward Small and Mary Woodman. Benjamin died in 1788 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass.

10. Elisha Baker

Elisha’s wife Mercy Cahoon was born 7 May 1717 in Chatham, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were William Cahoon and Sarah O’Killey. Mercy died 10 Aug 1773 in Chatham, Barnstable, Mass.

11. James Baker

James’ wife Keziah Eldridge was born 1717 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were Nathaniel Eldredge and Sarah Conant.

12. Thankful Baker b.1719

Thankful’s first husband David Baker was born 16 May 1719 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. He was Thankful’s first cousin once removed. His parents were John Baker and Hannah Jones, grandparents John Baker and Alice Pierce and great grandparents Francis BAKER and Isabel TWINING. (Thankful’s parents kept having children for 28 years so David’s generation caught up) David died 11 Dec 1768 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.

Thankful’s second husband Eleazer Robbins was born about 1715. His parents were Roger Robbins and Mercy Blackman. Eleazer died on 15 Jul 1785 in Harwich, MA.

Eleazer was admitted to the Brewster church 22 Aug 1742, and dismissed to the South Parish church on 8 Nov 1747.

Sources:

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

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr_idx/idx008.html

History of old Yarmouth. Comprising the present towns of Yarmouth and Dennis. From the settlement to the division in 1794 with the history of both towns to these times (1884) Author: Swift, Charles Francis

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=4950638&st=1

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William Chase III

Posted on June 22, 2010 by markeminer

William CHASE III (1688 – 1771) was Alex’s 8th Great Grandfather; one of 512 in this generation of the Shaw line.

William Chase was born 8 Jul 1688 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were John CHASE and Elizabeth BAKER. He married Dorcas BAKER on 20 Sep 1715 in Yarmouth. After Dorcas died, he married Patience Walker on 15 Oct 1747 in Harwich. William’s 12 children were born over a period of 40 years from 1716 to 1756. William died in Sep 1771 in Harwich, Mass.

Dorcas Baker was born 15 Nov 1696 in Yarmouth, Mass. Her parents were William BAKER and Mercy LAWRENCE. Dorcas died of smallpox 20 Nov 1745 in Harwich, Mass.

Patience Walker was born around 1710 in Eastham, Mass. She was the daughter of Jabez Walker (1668 – 1742) and Elizabeth [__?__] (1670 – 1741). Patience died 27 Sep 1771 in Harwich, Mass.

Children of William and Dorcas:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	Lydia Chase	27 Mar 1716 Yarmouth, Mass	Philip Leonard 4 May 1741 Raynham, Bristol, Mass	14 Dec 1794 Raynham, Bristol, Mass
2.	Elizabeth Chase	6 Oct 1718 Yarmouth	Joshua Wixon 18 Dec 1731 Yarmouth, Mass	1765
3.	Thankful CHASE	6 Mar 1720/21 in Yarmouth	Stephen O’KELLY 20 Feb 1741/42 Yarmouth	1768
4.	Deborah Chase	~ 1722 Yarmouth	Henry Hewitt 2 May 1751 Harwich
5.	Dorcas Chase	Abt 1725 Yarmouth	Ruben Wixon 3 Jan 1745/46 Harwich	1800 Harwich
6.	Mary Chase	1 Apr 1726 Yarmouth	Richard Chase 2 Apr 1768 Yarmouth	13 Oct 1832 Harwich
7.	Willliam Chase	16 Oct 1732 Yarmouth	Mercy Chase 12 Feb 1757 Yarmouth	24 Mar 1774 Harwich
8.	Sylvanus Chase	~ 1732 Yarmouth	Charity Chase 31 Dec 1756 Yarmouth	4 Apr 1815 Dennis, Mass.
9.	Job Chase	1736 Yarmouth	Edith (Ede) Basset 6 Nov 1760 Chatham, Mass. . Hope Sears 17 Feb 1774 Harwich . Hannah Dimock 22 May 1817 Yarmouth	19 Jul 1833 Harwich

Children of William and Patience Walker

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
10.	Edmund Chase	~ 1745 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass	Abigail Harris 13 Mar 1762 – Harwich . Bethia Nickerson 12 Nov 1774 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass	Yarmouth, Mass
11.	Maribah Chase	1750 Harwich, Mass	James Ellis 4 Jan 1781 . Sylvanus Broadbrooks 30 Oct 1790 Dartmouth, Bristol, Mass	1799
12.	Patience Chase	1756 Harwich, Mass	Atkins Ellis 3 Sep 1772 – Harwich, Barnstable, Mass	1823 – St Albans, Somerset, Maine,

William was was among the early quakers of the town of Harwich.

He settled on the west side of the Herring River near the mouth. Richard Baker Jr house stands near or on the place where his house stood. After his wife Dorcas died of smallpox 20 Nov 1745, he again married Patience Walker of Eastham Oct 15, 1747.

Will: Being of advanced age, mentioned wife Patience, daughters: Patience and Meribah (both under 18 and unmarried); daughters Lydia Leonard, Elizabeth Wixom, Thankful Killey, Deborah Hewett, Dorcas Wixom, and Mary Chase; and sons William, Sylvanus, Job and Edmund.

Children

1. Lydia Chase

Lydia’s husband Philip Leonard was born 14 Aug 1705 in Raynham, Bristol, Mass. His parents were John Leonard (1668 – 1748) and Mary King (1676 – 1748.) Philip died 11 Mar 1788 in Raynham, Bristol, Mass.

Philip’s will was dated June 12, 1782, bequeathing his personal estate to his wife Lydia. After her death the property was to be divided in five equal parts, a fifth to go to his daughter Judith and her heirs, a fifth to daughter Lydia, another to daughter Esther, and another fifth to daughter Tabitha. The son, David, received real estate and was named the executor. Children, born at Raynham:

Children of Lydia and Philip:

i. Judith Leonard  b. 14 Feb 14, 1742 Raynham, Bristol, Mass.; m. 29 Nov 1759 – Raynham, Bristol, Mass to Joseph Bassett (b. 6 Mar 1726 in Norton, Bristol, Mass – d, 2 Feb 1775 – Taunton, Bristol, Mass). His parents were Jeremiah Bassett (1678 – 1768) and Mary Felch (1695 – 1776) Judith and Joseph had three children born between 1760 and 1768.

ii. Philip Leonard  b. 14 Aug 1743 Raynham, Bristol, Mass.;, died before his father 16 Jan 1774 – Raynham, Bristol, Mass;

iii. Lydia Leonard  b. 12 Jan 1744 Raynham, Bristol, Mass.; d. 5 May 1775 – Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire; m. 27 Feb 1766 – Raynham to David Britton (b. 14 Jun 1741 in Raynham – d. 21 Nov 1833 in Westmoreland, NH). His parents were Ebenezer Britton (1715 – 1788) and Tabitha Leonard (1718 – 1749).   Lydia and David had four children born between 1766 and 1775.

iv, David Leonard b. 20  Jul 1745 Raynham, Bristol, Mass.; d. 3 Oct 1811; m1. [__?__] Hines; m2. 27 Feb 1755 Taunton, Bristol, Mass to Mary Briggs (b. 6 Nov 1756 in Raynham – d. 09 Feb 1834 in Taunton) Her parents were James Briggs ( – 1793( and Damaris White. David and Mary had eleven children.

He removed to Vermont and was living at Guilford in that state in 1790. near the present town of Dover.

v. Rebecca Leonard b. 28 Jul 1747 Raynham, Bristol, Mass.; d. Before 1782; m, 3 Apr 1773 – Raynham to Reuben Andrews

vi. Reuben Leonard, b. 21 Jun 1749 Raynham, Bristol, Mass; d. 4 Jan 1754 – Raynham,

vii. Esther Leonard ; b. 1755; d. 25 Sep 1827 – Raynham, Bristol, Mass; m. 1777 to Stephen Williams (b. 10 Nov 1752 in Bristol, Bay Colony, Mass – d. 26 Dec 1847 in Raynham, Bristol, Mass) Esther and Stephen had at least two children: Stephen (b. 1777) and Enos )b. 1778)

viii. Tabitha Leonard . b. After 1754 in Raynham,Bristol,Mass; m. Charles Frazier Tabitha and Charles had three children born between 1793 and 1797.

2. Elizabeth Chase

Elizabeth’s husband Joshua Wixam was born 14 Mar 1695 at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, the settlement then called Cape Cod. He was 23 years older than Elizabeth. His parents were William Barnabus Wixson (1663 – 1735) and Sarah Remick (1663 – 1722). He first married Mar 9, 1715, at Yarmouth, to Hannah Baker who died November 27, 1730. Joshua died 18 Dec 1773 Dennis Port, Barnstable, Mass.

The Bakers and the Chases are very intertwined in my lineage. Hannah Baker’s parents were Daniel BAKER and Elizabeth CHASE. This William Chase’s mother, Elizabeth BAKER, was Daniel’s sister and she married John CHASE who was Elizabeth’s brother. It hurts my head, but I think Joshua first married Hannah and then married her cousin, so no special permission needed. Joshua had 6 children with each wife, 12 in all spanning 36 years from 1715 to 1751.

Not only that, but Joshua’s son Rueben married his step-mother’s sister Dorcas (See below)

Joshua was married about December 1731 to Elizabeth Chase of Harwich, daughter of William Chase and Dorcas Baker. From the first marriage two children were born, Reuben and Hannah. The son, Reuben, married a younger sister of his step-mother, which made him a brother-in-law of his father, and the older sister became the mother-in-law of the younger. The situation was a little novel, to be sure, but quite proper. Here is the beginning of the use of four Christian names not previously found in the family, and found later only among the descendants of Joshua. They are the names Joshua, Reuben, Solomon, and Dorcas. Here may be given an amusing local law or ordinance found among the early records of Barnstable County, which provides that: ‘Every single man must kill three crows and six blackbirds each year. None shall be permitted to marry until he complies with this requisition.’ In the annals of Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, appears the name of Joshua Wixam in the year 1749. He was then a representative for two years and a selectman for five years. Many Wixams held public offices in those early days.

Children of Elizabeth and Joshua:

i. Isabel Wixam b. Apr 1735 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass;

ii. Zilpha Wixam b. May 1737 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass;

iii. Barnabas Hiram Wixom b, Jan 1740 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 1793 Chenango, New York; m. 1775 Chenango, Broome, New York to Diena Straight (b. ~ 1742) Barnabas and Diena had eight children born between 1776 and 1791

“CHENANGO, February 15th, 1798.”
This petition was drawn up and signed at “Chenango,” in what is now the town of Binghamton. It was then the “the town of Chenango, county of Tioga,” the county having been erected from Montgomery county in 1791, and the town of Chenango then formed, embracing a greater part of the eastern portion of the county. It extended from Chenango Forks to Fort Deposit. This town (Binghamton) was set off from Chenango in 1855.

The particular spot in the great town of Chenango where the petition was signed was at “Chenango,” the old village on the west side of the river about two miles above Binghamton, which had been started by a number of the first settlers prior to any of the civil divisions. It was a sort of “Squatter’s Sovereignty” municipality, formed in advance of any title to the land, as will be seen from the petition. Part of it lay within the line of Bingham’s Patent, and part above the line, so that the north line of the patent cut it in a north and south direction into two halves. Yet untitled and “cut” as the little frontier hamlet was, it was estimated by the authorities who erected the county of Tioga as entitled to equal honor with Newtown (now Elmira), for these were each constituted half-shire towns.

Think of the “grave and reverend seigniors,” Jonathan Fitch and Joshua Mersereau, holding a court here nearly a decade before Binghamton was thought of! They did, and so did their successors, Judge Whitney and Judge Morgan Lewis, afterward governor of the State. Courts were held for a time at Mr. Spaulding’s, who lived near the Oliver Crocker place, on the road to Union, when alternating with Elmira; also at Mr. Whitney’s (Whitney’s Flats) until they were removed to the court-house in Binghamton.

That the thirty-seven petitioners were all, or most of them, occupants of Bingham’s Patent, and therefore in what is now the town of Binghamton, is evident in their own declaration —

“We, the inhabitants and settlers on the said Bingham’s Patent,” etc. We give a list of them as furnished by Mr. Wilkinson in his Annals: “Abraham Sneden and Daniel Sneden, who lived where Henry Squires now (1840) keeps his public house (four miles up the Susquehanna from Binghamton); Abraham Sneden, jr., who lived where Judson Park now (1840) lives (in town of Kirkwood); William Miller lived on the Harder place; Ebenezer Park, the father-in-law of Judge Chamberlain, lived where Ira Stow and the elder Mr. Bartlett now (1840) live (in town of Kirkwood, three miles east of Binghamton); Joseph Compton lived a little east upon the same lot; Zachariah Squires and James and Asa Squires, who lived on the site of Russ’s public house (about seven miles east of Binghamton); James Ford lived on the place known as Moore’s farm; Silas Moon who lived where Mr. Brown now (1840) does (three miles above Binghamton); Ezra and Ira Keeler who lived on the James Hawley place (four miles from Binghamton, towards Montrose); J. Lamereaux, who lived where Edward Park now (1840) lives (on the Park farm); Robert Foster and Roswell Gray lived on the Judson M. Park place (adjoining one last above named); Nathaniel Taggart lived where Elias Jones now (1840) lives (a mile above the “Squires Tavern,” towards Kirkwood); John Carr lived on part of the farm of Judge Chamberlain (three miles east of Binghamton); Arthur Miller lived on the farm where General Whitney now (1840) lives (a mile east of Binghamton); Barnabas and Solomon Wixon lived on the south side of the Susquehanna, where James Evans now (1840) lives (two and one half miles from Binghamton.

iv. Sarah Wixam b. Jan 1743 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.

v. Dorcas Wixam b. Jun 1746 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.

vi. Joshua Wixam b. Jan 1749 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass; d. 11 Apr 1813

vii. Solomon Wixam b. 10 Aug 1752 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 11 Apr 1813 Steuben, New York; m. 1777 in Yarmouth to Mary Randall (b. 9 Jan 1756 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. – d. 9 Oct 1837 Schuyler, New York) Solomon and Mary had ten children born between 1782 and 1800.

In the year 1755, at the age of about four years, Solomon moved with his parents, brothers and sisters to Dutchess county (now Putnam), New York. This section of New York State was called the “Oblong.”

Solomon surfaces in 1776 with his enlistment into the Dutchess County Militia. Solomon is listed as being 5’7″ with light brown hair and light eyes (hazel). He is listed as a transient and a laborer.

Little is known of Solomon Wixson and his family during the time they lived in Dutchess county, NY. On August 5th, 1776 Solomon volunteered for the Militia and served as a private in Captain Veal’s Company in the 7th Regiment of Minute Men, Militia of Dutchess county, under the command of Colonel Jacobus Swarthout. His name is in the “New York in the Revolution” Volume 1, pp 56 & 252. Solomon has four first cousins, Peleg, Elijah, Ebenezer and Solomon who served in the Dutchess county Militia during the Revolution.

Sometime between 1777 and 1779, after he returned home from the war, Solomon married Mary Randall. Nothing is known of Mary Randall at this time. but around 1786 she and Solomon moved with their four children to somewhere in New Jersey.

In the spring of 1790, Solomon travelled to the Finger Lakes district of New York state and built a log cabin on the west side of the outlet of Waneta Lake. He returned to Dutchess Co. in the fall. In the spring of 1791, Solomon and his family moved to their new home in the wilderness. Solomon purchased 200 acres from a nearby landowner, neat Wayne, Steuben Co. and he and Mary relocated there. In their later years, the family built a mansion there for Solomon and Mary, now called the “Old Homestead”. A published photograph of the Old Homestead exists. The Old Homestead can now be found in the town of Hammondsport.

Solomon Wixom House – 1791 – This is the second home that Solomon built. He originally built a log home by the lake (maybe the site of the other home) before bringing his family. This home was built in 1791 although there are different dates proposed.

Solomon Wixson settled in 1791, on the farm where his grandson Solomon now [1878] lives. He built his first house on the banks of the lake; he was a farmer by occupation, although he served his town as justice of the peace. He lived and died on the same farm he settled, surrounded by the fruits of his labor. His children were Joseph, Joshua, Reuben, John, Daniel, James, Solomon, Elizabeth, Polly, Clary and Elijah, who died on the same farm in 1878.

3. Thankful CHASE (See Stephen O’KELLY‘s page)

4. Deborah Chase

Deborah’s husband Henry Hewitt was born 14 Aug 1708 in Easton, Bristol, MA. His parents were Ephraim Hewitt (1666 – 1733) and Katurah Acres (1674 – 1733.)

Children of Deborah and Henry:

i. Henry Hewitt b. 25 Aug 1752 in Norton, Bristol, Mass

ii. William Hewitt b. 1 Dec 1754 in Norton, Bristol, Mass; d. 22 Dec 1841 in Sutton, Worcester, Mass.; m. 30 Jan 1776 Richmond, Cheshire, NH to Patience Hammond b, 21 Jan 1755 in Rochester, Plymouth, Mass. – d 6 Apr 1836 in Sutton, Worcester, Mass.) William and Patience had eleven children born between 1777 and 17943

iii. Katherine Hewitt b. 26 Dec 1757 in Norton, Bristol, Mass; m. 1779 Taunton, Bristol, Mass to Thomas Burt

iv. Thomas Hewitt b. 26 Jun 1758 Norton, Bristol, Mass,; d. 20 Oct 1848 Taunton, Bristol, Mass; m. Silvy Lincoln (b. 3 Nov 1760 in Norton – d. 21 Jan 1849 in Taunton) Her parents were Joseph Lincoln and Rebecca Hunt.

Apr 1777 Norton, Bristol, Mass — Private, Capt. Israel Trow’s Co., Col. John Hathaway’s Regt., MA Line

29 Aug 1777 Norton, Bristol Co., MA — Private, in Capt. Silas Cobb’s Co., Col. Danforth Keyes’ Regt.

v. Dorcas Hewett b. 2 Nov 1760 Norton, Bristol, Mass,; m. 27 Nov 1788 – Uxbridge, Worcester, Mass, to Joshua Knop Chase

vi. Samuel Hewitt b. 8 Nov 1763 Norton, Bristol, Mass,

vii. Hannah Hewitt b. 25 Apr 1765 in Norton, Bristol, Mass; d. 22 Sep 1855 in Mass; m. 8 Aug 1785 – Uxbridge, Worcester, Mass. to Stephen Cole (b. 8 Aug 1760 in Uxbridge, Worcester, Mass. – d. 13 May 1816 in Northbridge, Worcester, Mass) His parents were Jonathan Cole (1724 – 1836) and Elizabeth Crowninshield (1735 – 1803) Hannah and Stephen had at least one child, Stephen Jr. (b. 1793)

5. Dorcas Chase

Dorcas’ husband Reuben Wixon was born 1717 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were Joshua Wixon (1695 – 1773) and Hannah Baker (1696 – 1730.) As you can see in the tangled web above, Rueben’s father had married Dorcas’ sister Elizabeth 15 years before his marriage to Dorcas. Rueben died 17 Mar 1800 in Dennis, Barnstable, Mass. Reuben and Dorcas had 11 children.

Children of Dorcas and Reuben:

i. Anna Wixam b. 23 Oct 1746 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 1828 Cotuit, Barnstable, Mass; m. 2 Feb 1775 in Yarmouth to Thomas Kilby (b. 2 Mar 1755 in Provincetown, Barnstable, Mass, – d. 1785 Barnstable, Mass.); His parents were Thomas Kilby (1719 – 1794) and Mehitable Ryder (1729 – ) Anna and Thomas had at least one child: Abigail (b. 1777)

m2. 3 Nov 1787 in Yarmouth to Joseph Chase (b. 19 Jul 1762 in Yarmouth)

ii. Daniel Wixam b. 18 Jul 1749 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 15 Mar 1807 Chatham Harwich Barnstable, Mass; m. 7 Jul 1782 in Yarmouth to Jane Chase (b. 7 Jul 1752 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. – d. Jan 1810 in Harwich) Her parents were Thomas Chase (1728 – ) and Martha Rogers (1724 – 1756) Jane first married 7 Nov 1771 in Yarmouth to Richard Baker (b. 4 Jun 1751 in Yarmouth) Daniel and Jane had four children born between 1783 and 1794.

iii. Thankful Wixam b. 16 Apr 1753 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; m. 9 Dec 1773 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass to Solomon Crowell (b. 6 May 1750 in Harwich – d. 1843 in Provincetown, Barnstable, Mass) His parents were David Crowell (1723 – ) and Hannah Wixam (1724 – 1745)

iv. Reuben Wixam b. 3 Jul 1755 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 1830 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; m. 16 Sep 1781 in Yarmouth to Lydia Gage (b. 1760 in Harwich – d. 3 Dec 1852 in Dennis, Barnstable, Mass) Her parents were James Gage (1717 – 1783) and Mercy Baker (1726 – ).   Reuben and Lydia had five children born between 1782 and 1795.

v. Solomon Wixam b. 1 May 1757 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 1835 Dennis, Barnstable Mass; m. 17 Mar 1781 in Harwich to Thankful Arey (b. 10 Oct 1764 in Harwich – d. 1805 in Dennis) Her parents were John Arey (1714 – 1795) and Thankful Crosby (1750 – ) Solomon and Thankful had six children born between 1782 and 1795.

vi. Job Wixam b. 1 Mar 1759 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 14 Jan 1813 Dennis, Barnstable, Mass; m. 29 Dec 1785 in Harwich to Desire Chase (b. 8 May 1766 in Harwich – d. 8 Oct 1858 in Harwich) Her parents were Silvanus Chase (1732 – 1815) and Charity Chase ( – 1819).   Job and Desire had ten children born between 1787 and 1805.

Job settled in W. Harwich and married Desire. He lived northeast of Dr. Ginn’s house. In 1782 he had house area 513 feet, 6 windows, 19 feet of glass, west by road through Crocker Neck valued $105; 4 acres west by said road, north by Wm Chase, east by Chases, south by Issac Chase with a value of $20; he had 3 acres scrub land north and east by Wm Chase, value $6; 7 acres west by Reuben Wixon, east by cartway, south by Job Chase and others, west by Daniel Wixon value $17.50; pieces of marsh bought of Isaac Eldredge lying at Kelley’s beach, 3 acres, value $75; 2 acres of cedar swamp bought of James Oliver lying in Crocker’s Neck $30. – Notes of Cheryl Wixon Gocken.

His will dated 1812, adm March 1813; wife Desiah, sons Job, David, Syvanus, Eldridge, daus Rosanna, Dorcas, Desiah, Charity, Huldah. Wife Desiah executor. Witnessed by Jeremiah Kelley Jr., Isaiah Chase and Abigail Wixon.

vii. Joshua Wixam b. 20 May 1761 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 25 Feb 1849 West Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; m. 13 Dec 1782 in Harwich to Charity Nickerson (b. 1762 in Yarmouth – d. Apr 1830 in Dennis, Barnstable, Mass.) Joshua and Charity had eight children born between 1784 to 1802.

viii. Dorcas Wixam b.. 20 Dec 1763 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 25 Oct 1857 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; m.28 Feb 1784 in Chatham, Barnstable, Mass to Isaiah Eldredge (b. 1763 in Yarmouth – d. Harwich) His parents were Isaac Eldredge (1734 – 1790) and Mehitable Chase (1740 – 1764). Dorcas and Isaiah had ten children born between 1786 and 1803.

Dorcas Wixam was considered an Indian by the people of Yarmouth, and their daughter, Prisilla, was referred to as “half-Indian.”

ix. Barnabas Wixon b. 28 Feb 1765 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; d. 16 Mar 1849 Dennis, Barnstable, Mass; m. 17 Oct 1789 in Yarmouth to his first cousin Jerusha Chase (b. 28 Feb 1772 in Harwich – d.  7 Sep 1861 in Dennis) Her parents were Silvanus Chase (1732 – 1815) and Charity Chase (1736 – 1819), (see below). Barnabas and Jerusha had nine children born between 1790 and 1818.

x. Elizabeth Wixam b. 1769 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.; m. 1790 in Yarmouth to Jabez Chase (b. 1769)

6. Mary Chase

Mary ‘s husband Richard Chase was born 21 Jul 1745 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. Mary and Richard were second cousins. His parents were Richard Chase (1714 – 1794) and Thankful Berry (1716 – 1807). His grandparents were Thomas Chase (1679 – 1767) and Sarah Gowell (1682 – 1726) and her great grandparents were John CHASE and Elizabeth BAKER. Richard died in 1789 in Augusta, Kennebec, Maine.

Children of Mary and Richard.

i. Benjamin Chase b. 28 Dec 1770 Dennis, Barnstable, Mass

ii. Thankful Chase b. 27 Mar 1773 Dennis, Barnstable, Mass; m. 25 Jan 1799 to Robert Kennedy

iii. Richard Chase b. 15 Jul 1778 Dennis, Barnstable, Mass

iv. William Chase b. 29 Nov 1781 Dennis, Barnstable, Mass

7. William Chase

William’s wife Mercy Chase was born 11 Feb 1733 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. John and Mercy were 2nd cousins. Her parents were John Chase (1706 – 1733) and Thankful Berry (1715 – 1807.) Her grandparents were Thomas Chase (1679 – 1767) and Sarah Gowell (1682 – 1726) and her great grandparents were John CHASE and Elizabeth BAKER.

Children of William and Mercy

i. Job Chase b. 1753 in Harwich

ii. Silvanus Chase b. ~ 1759 in Harwich

iii. Edmond Chase b. ~ 1759 in Harwich

iv. Elizabeth Chase b. 16 Dec 1759 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass.; d, 25 Oct 1840; m. 19 Jul 1781 in Harwich to Isaac Ellis (b. 15 Jul 1762 in Harwich – d. 7 Apr 1839 in Patterson, Putnam, New York) His parents were Joseph Ellis (1732 – 1808) and Jemima Eldredge (1738 – 1815). Elizabeth and Isaac had eleven children born between 1782 and 1804.

The town of Patterson was first settled around 1720 in the “Oblong,” which was a disputed area in southeastern New York also claimed by the colony of Connecticut. The Oblong was a strip of land approximately 2.9 km wide between Dutchess County New York and Connecticut, ceded to New York in the 1731 Treaty of Dover. Between 1720 and 1776 a large number of mostly Connecticut families settled in the southern Oblong who could not settle west of it because that land was privately owned by the Phillipse Family, who owned virtually all of the rest of the future Putnam County.

The reason Patterson was spelled with two “t”s was due to the looseness in which Matthew Paterson spelled his own last name.

v. William Chase b. 1 Jun 1764 in Harwich; m. Nov 1786 in Harwich to Deborah Baker (b. 2 Dec 1767 in Mass) Her parents were Joseph Baker (1746 – ) and Priscilla Chase (1750 – ). William and Deborah had ten children born between 1787 and 1811.

vi. Rebecca Chase b. 1767 in Harwich, Mass.; m. 12 Mar 1790 in Yarmouth to James Oliver (b. 3 Jun 1770) His parents were John Oliver (1737 – 1827) and Huldah Rhodes (1741 – ). Rebecca and James had four children born between 1791 and 1804.

vii. Deborah Chase b. 1769 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass.

viii. Archelus Chase b. 3 Mar 1771 in Harwich; Archelus drowned 4 Feb 1808 fishing with his son Warren in Harwich, Mass.; m. 8 Dec 1789 Harwich, Mass to Jedidah Wing (b. 4 Aug 1767 Harwich, Mass – d. 31 Aug 1862) Jedidah’s parents were our ancestors David WING and Temperance O’KELLEY. After Archelus died, Jedidah married 18 Dec 1810 Harwich to Thomas Kelley. See David WING’s page for the children.

ix. John Chase b. 1778 in Harwich; d. 1778

8. Sylvanus Chase

Sylvanus’s wife Charity Chase was his 1st cousin on one side and 2nd cousin on the other. In other words, John CHASE was Sylvanus’ great-grandfather and Charity’s grandfather. Charity was born 15 Jul 1736 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were Isaac Chase (1685 – 1759) and Charity (Pease) O’Killey – the widow of Jeremiah O’KELLY’S son Jeremiah Jr. In other words, Isaac married his nephew’s widow. Her grandparents were John CHASE and Elizabeth BAKER. Charity died 7 Jan 1819 in Dennis, Barnstable, Mass.

Sylvanus Chase – Ancient Cemetery South Dennis, Barnstable, Mass

Children of Sylvanus and Charity

i. Dorcas Chase b. 13 Nov 1757 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; d. 15 Apr 1834 Harwich; m. 1777 in Harwich to Patrick Kelley (b. 1753 in Harwich – d. 28 Oct 1834 in Harwich) His parents were Patrick O Killey (1723 – ) and Bethiah Baker (1723 – ). His grandparents were Eleazer O’Kelly (1697-1775) and Sarah Browning (1695 – 1741) and his great grandparents were Jeremiah O’KELLY and Sarah CHASE. Dorcas and Patrick had three children born between 1779 and 1788.

ii. Mehitable Chase b. 2 May 1759 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass – d. 29 Sep 1848 Harwich; m. 1780 in Harwich to Jonathan Burgess (b. 15 Feb 1748 in Harwich – d. 21 Oct 1826 in Harwich) His parents were Thomas Burgess (1721 – 1815) and Mary Covell (1716 – 1771). Mehitable and Jonathan had six children born between 1781 and 1799.

iii. Sylvanus Chase b. 17 Sep 1761 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; d. 1793; m. 1785 to Mercy Smith (b: ~1763 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass. – ); Mercy’s parents were William Smith and Anna O’Kelley. Mercy’s maternal grandparents were our ancestors Joseph O’KELLEY and Tabitha BAKER. Sylvanus and Mercy had four children born between 1786 and 1790.

iv. Charity Chase 1763 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; m. 8 Jun 1786 to David Brayton (b. Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.)

v. Desire Chase b. 8 May 1766 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass. – d. 8 Oct 1858 Barnstable, Mass.; m. 29 Dec 1785 in Harwich to her first cousin Job Wixon (b. 1 Mar 1759 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. – d. 14 Jan 1813 Dennis, Barnstable, Mass) His parents were Reuben Wixon and Dorcas Chase (See above). Desire and Job had ten children born between 1787 and 1805.

vi. Gamaliel Chase b. 4 Sep 1769 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; d. 7 Aug 1845 Baptist Church Cemetery, West Harwich, Barnstable, Mass.; m. 1790 to Jerusha Rogers Gamaliel and Jerusha had fifteen children born between 1792 and 1822.

vii. Lydia Chase 1770 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass

viii. Jerusha Chase b. 28 Feb 1772 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; d. 7 Sep 1861 Dennis, Barnstable, Mass; m. 17 Oct 1789 in Yarmouth to her first cousin Barnabas Wixon (b. 28 Feb 1765 in Yarmouth – d. 16 Mar 1849 in Dennis) His parents were Rueben Wixon and Dorcas Chase (See above). Barnabas and Jerusha and Barnabas had nine children born between 1790 and 1818.

ix. Jason Chase b. 1772 Harwich, Barnstable, Mas; d. 9 Sep 1847 Barnstable, Mass; m. 1795 in Harwich to Mehitable Baker (b. 1775) Jason and Mehitable had eight children born between 1797 and 1815.

x. Keziah Chase 1774 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass;

9. Job Chase

Job’s first wife Ede (Edith) Bassett was his 2nd cousin. Ede was born 3 Oct 1740 in in Chatham, MA. Her parents were Nathaniel Bassett (1720 – 1781) and Sarah Chase (1722 – 1802). Her maternal grandparents were Thomas Chase (1679 – 1767) and Sarah Gowell (1682 – 1726) and her great grandparents were also John CHASE and Elizabeth BAKER. Ede died before Feb 1774.

Job’s second wife Hope Sears was born 11 Feb 1731 in Chatham, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were Paul Sears (1710 – 1790) and Anna Atkins ( – 1783) She first married 11 Jan 1750 in Chatham Barnstable, Mass to Nehemiah Doane (b. 15 Feb 1730 in Chatham – d. 17 Jan 1766 in Chatham) and had six children. After Nehemiah died, she married 10 Sep 1767 in Chatham to Thomas Howes (b. 1712 in Chatham – d. 21 Dec 1768 in Chatham) Hope died 24 May 1816 in Harwich.

Job’s third wife Hannah Dimock was born 1756 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were Thomas Dimmock (1727 – 1806) and Elizabeth Bacon (1731 – 1811). Hannah died 2 Mar 1829 in Harwich.

From The History of Barnstable County Massachusetts published 1890

By the middle of the 1700’s, Job Chase was a settler in the southwest part of Harwich owning the entire tract of land from the river near the present Erastus Chase’s store, westward to the Dennis line. Here he reared a large family and here he died at the advanced age of ninety-seven years. He was actively engaged in fishing and agriculture, leaving to his posterity an ample inheritance and those peculiar business traits that have been so marked in the lives of his descendants.

Children of Job and Ede:

i. Zenas Chase b. 4 Dec 1758 or 4 Dec 1761 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass. – d. 29 Jan 1855 in Harwich,; m. 4 Feb 1786 Harwich to Hepsibah Happy Baker (b. 25 Sep 1765 in Yarmouth – d. 28 Oct 1846 in Harwich) Her parents were Jacob Baker (1742 – 1803) and Rachel Wheldon (1745 – 1794) Zenas and Hepsibah had seven children born between 1786 and 1801.

ii. James Chase b. 1761 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass.

iii. Isaiah Chase b. 3 Feb 1763 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass.’ d. 27 Apr 1838′ m. Abt 1783 to Hope Doane (b. 19 May 1764 – d. 22 Mar 1834) ) Isaiah and Hope had seven children born between 1784 and 1802.

Isaiah was a private in Captain Nathaniel Freeman’s company, Col. Enoch Hallett’s Regiment.

iv. Nathaniel Chase b. 1765 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass,l m. 5 Mar 1789 Harwich to Hannah / Anna Eldredge. Nathaniel and Hannah had six children born between 1789 and 1799.

v. Bassett Chase b. 1767 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass.; d. bef. 1826 – Harwich; m. Nov 1798 – Harwich to Thankful Weeks (b. 1777 in Harwich – d. 9 May 1826 in Harwich) Her parents were Ammiel Weeks (1754 – 1787) and Mehitable Nickerson (1757 – 1822). Bassett and Thankful had three children born between 1799 and 1805.

After Thankful died, Bassett married 12 Oct 1820 to Sabra Flynn

Child of Job and Hope:

vi. Job Chase b. 8 Aug 1776 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; d. 12 Jan 1865 Harwich; m1. 25 Nov 1796 to Polly Eldredge (18 May 1778 in Harwich – d. 26 May 1816 in West Harwich) Job and Polly had nine children born between 1797 and 1813.

m2. 22 Feb 1816 in Brewster, Barnstable, Mass to Phebe Winslow (b. 16 Feb 1795 Brewster, Barnstable, Mass. – d. 25 Aug 1839 Harwich) Her parents were Joseph Winslow (1772 – 1816) and Abigail Snow (1766 – 1844). Job and Phebe had eight more children born between 1817 and 1831,

The youngest Caleb living until 1908, most likely the last surviving second cousin of Alex’s fifth great grandfather Isaac HAWES (1765 – 1840) or any second cousin from his generation for that matter. Caleb’s coffee brand Chase & Sanborn lives on today (See below)

m3. 1842 to Eunice Crosby (b. 19 Apr 1797 in Holden, Worcester, Mass – d. 11 Jun 1863 in Harwich) Eunice first married [__?__] Drury

1850 Census Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Job Chase Age 70
Eunice D Chase 55
James W Chase 20
Joshua S Chase 15
Cabot Chase 16

From The History of Barnstable County Massachusetts published 1890

Job Chase [Jr.] was born August 8, 1776, at the ancestral home, near which, on the west bank of the river, he subsequently reared a home, where he died January 12, 1865. The limited means for obtaining an education in his boyhood were scarcely improved when he embarked upon his business career, in which he must rely upon a retentive memory and a keen perception for his measure of success. He engaged in a fishing and mercantile business in which he attained a high point among those of the south shore, owning the controlling interest in as many as fifteen vessels at a time.

In 1831 he erected, on the river, a store which was used by him and his sons until a few years ago, and in this he kept the first post office of West Harwich. In 1842 he built the wharf which is still in use, and also built the schooner Job Chase, of eighty-five tons, from timber cut upon his own lands, lands now robbed of their trees, but where, before his time, his father, Job, had also cut the timber for vessels which he built there. Other vessels were built for his use at Hamden, Me., and at Dartmouth. In his fishing business he fitted out a large fleet.

He was largely interested in public affairs, also in affairs of the church, and in both was an important factor. He served his town as a selectman, and was a representative from Harwich in the legislature. In the erection of the West Harwich Baptist church he was a large contributor, continuing’ substantial material and spiritual aid during his life.

He was one of the original stockholders in the old Yarmouth bank, and was among the foremost in all the public enterprises of his day, giving employment to a large number of men ‘in building up the interests of West Harwich. In his death the town sustained a severe check to its growing business and a great loss in its social and religious circles.

10. Edmund Chase

I can’t reconcile Edmund’s birthdate with his 13 Mar 1762 – Harwich marriage with Abigail Harris. His father’s first wife Dorcas died of smallpox 20 Nov 1745 in Harwich, Mass. His father married again to Patience Walker on 15 Oct 1747 in Harwich and Edmund was supposed to be born in 1748, making him only 14 years old in 1762. Edmund’s first daughter Lydia was born in 1763, so maybe he indeed married very young.

Edmund’s first wife Abigail Harris was born about 1742, but little is known about her for sure. Sometimes her name is recorded as Farris.

Edmund’s second wife Bethia Nickerson was born 6 Sep 1753 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were Barnabas Nickerson and Mary Nickerson (more cousins I’m sure!)

Children of Edmund and Abigail:

i. Lydia Chase b. 1 Jul 1763 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass;d. 1801; m. 6 Jun 1776 in Yarmouth to James Berry (b. 3 Nov 1751 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass.) His parents were Isaac Berry (1728 – 1803) and Sarah Crowell (1732 – 1778). Lydia and James had five children born between 1777 and 1786. Something doesn’t add up.

According to these dates, Lydia was a month shy of her thirteenth birthday when she married James Berry.

ii. Jeremiah Chase b. 5 Apr 1765 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass; d. 1798 Harwich; m. 11 Aug 1789 Harwich to his first cousin Thankful Wing (b. 22 Sep 1762 in Harwich – d. bef. 1812) Her parents were David WING and Temperance O’KELLEY.

After Jeremiah died, Thankful married 11 Mar 1792 Barnstable, Mass to Rev. Enoch Chase (b. 3 Dec 1762 in Harwich – d. 29 Feb 1852 in Tiverton, Rhode Island.) His parents were Ebenezer Chase and Susanna Berry. Thankful and Enoch had eight children born between 1792 and 1808.

iii. Sarah Chase b. 25 Aug 1766 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass

iv. Hannah Chase b. 17 Nov 1767 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass

v. Abigail Chase b. 17 Nov 1769 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Mass; m. John Larry (b. 13 Jan 1764 in Provincetown, Barnstable, Mass – d. 1820 in Vinalhaven, Maine) His parents were John Larry (1740 – 1820) and Elizabeth “Betty or Betsy” Kilburn 1746 – ) Abigail and John had three children born between 1785 and 1791.

11. Meribah Chase

Meribah’s first husband James Ellis was born in 1745 – Harwich, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were James Ellis (1717 – ) and Desire Ellis (1722 – bef. 1752) (Still more kissing cousins!). James died in 1781.

Meribah’s second husband Sylvanus Broadbrooks was born in 1764. Sylvanus died in 1799. Sometimes he is called Brooks. He may have been the son of Ebenezer Broadbrooks also of Harwich.

Children of Meribah and Sylvanus:

i. Rebecca Brooks b. 2 Mar 1787 (Before her parents’ 30 Oct 1790 marriage)

ii. Benjamin Broad Brooks b. 12 Sep 1790 (Before his parents’ 30 Oct 1790 marriage) Alternatively, Benjamin was born 12 Sep 1791.

iii. Marahah Patiane “Patience” Brooks b. 23 Mar 1794 Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; d. 17 Oct 1867 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Mass); m. int. 24 Sep 1814 – Sandwich to Eli Covill (b. ~ 1793 in Sandwich – d. Bef. 1840) His parents were Nathaniel Covil (1773 – 1860) and Sarah Gifford (1774 – 1870) Patience and Eli had eleven children born between 1815 and 1837.

iv. Salley Broadbrooks b. 6 Oct 1798 Sandwich, Barnstable, Mass; d. 17 Oct 1867 in Sandwich. A Salley Broadbrooks married Simeon Chase on 20 May 1817 – Harwich. Others say Salley was the one who married Eli Covil.

12. Patience Chase

Patience’s husband Atkins Ellis was born 1752 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass. His parents were Ebenezer Ellis (1716 – 1770) and Mary (1730 – 1750). Atkins died 18 Oct 1833 in St Albans, Somerset, Maine.

Ellis, Atkins, Harwich. List of men mustered by Joseph Otis, Muster Master for Barnstable Co., dated April 30, 1777; Capt. Benson’s co., Col. Putnam’s regt.; mustered April 15, 1777; term, during war; reported received State and Continental bounties;

Also List of men raised to serve in the Continental Army from 2d Barnstable Co. regt., as returned by Capt. Abijah Bangs and Maj. Zenas Winslow, sworn to in Barnstable Co., Feb. 24, 1778; residence, Harwich; engaged for town of Harwich; joined Capt. G. Webb’s co., Col. Shephard’s regt.; term to expire in 1780;

Also Capt. Benson’s co., Col. Putnam’s (4th) regt.; muster return dated Albany, Feb. –, 1778;

Also Corporal, Capt. Joshua Benson’s co., Col. Rufus Putnam’s regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Feb. 10, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779;

Also list of deserters from Col. Putnam’s (5th) regt. dated Nov. 20, 1780; age, 27 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 6 in.; complexion, light; hair, brown; residence, Harwich; term, during war; reported deserted March –, 1780;

Also affidavit sworn to in Kennebec Co., March 4, 1820, signed by said Ellis, stating that he was 68 yrs. of age, a resident of Industry, Maine, that he enlisted in Feb., 1777, at Harwich, as a Corporal in Capt. Joshua Benson’s co., Col. Rufus Putnam’s regt. to serve during the war; that he served until Dec. –, 1779, when he was furloughed for 60 days; and that he had never received the delayed wages and interest due him; affidavit endorsed “the account on books imperfect and he left service irregularly, being furloughed and not returned;” Ebenezer Billings of Boston, given power of attorney to receive money for said Ellis.

Children of Patience and Atkins:

i. Bathiah (Betha) Ellis b. 1783 in Harwich, Barnstable, Mass; m. 7 Nov 1808 Industry, Franklin,, Maine to Benjamin Church (b. 1781 Sidney, Maine)

ii. Huldah Ellis b. 1785 in Harmony, Somerset, Maine; d. 22 Dec 1863 Vassalboro, Maine; m. 26 Jul 1813 in Industry, Franklin, Maine to Elisha Luce (b. 1783 in Tisbury, Dukes, Mass.-d. Waterville, Kennebec, Maine). His parents were Nathan Luce (1733 – 1800) and Anna Crowell (1735 – ). Huldah and Elisha had four children born between 1814 and 1824.

iii. Cornelius Ellis b. 1785 in Jarvis Gore, Maine; d. Aft 1850 m. Sylvia Bryant (b. ~1802 in Maine – d. Aft. 1850 ). Cornelius and Cynthia had nine children born between 1810 and 1843.

In the 1850 census, Cornelius and Sylvia were farming in Township 2 Range 1, Franklin, Maine with four children at home ages 7 to 16.

v. Atkins Ellis b. 1787 in Industry, Franklin, Maine; d. 15 Jan 1859 Levant, Penobscot, Maine; m. 1812 to Betsey Church (b. 1785 in Maine – d. 1859 in St Albans, Somerset, Maine) Atkins and Betsey had six children born between 1813 and 1830.

vi. Lucinda Ellis b. 1789; d. 28 Feb 1818

vii. William Ellis b. 1795

viii. Patience Ellis b. 1806 in St Albans, Somerset, Maine; d. 28 Sep 1878; m. 1823 to David Frost (b. 19 Apr 1804 in Wayne, Maine – d. 9 Jan 1876 St Albans) His parents were Aaron Frost (1767 – 1846) and Huldah Curtis (1772 – ). Patience and David had five children born between 1824 and 1840.

In the 1870 census, David and Patience were living in St Albans, with one son Aaron (age 37) still at home.

Sources:

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

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr_idx/idx043.html

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cwixgo&id=I1213

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wingfamilyofamerica/p910.htm#i2011158

http://capecodhistory.us/genealogy/us/Names6.htm#CHASE

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=9848671

Stories of the Wixson Family – Their Wixam Ancestors and Wixom Relatives and their 1795 – 1797 “Old Homestead” by Sandra Brown

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Lt. Edward Woodman

Posted on June 22, 2010 by markeminer

Lt. Edward WOODMAN (1606 – 1694) was one of the 91 original grantees who settled Newbury, Mass. He was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather; one of 2,048 in this generation of the Miller line. He was also Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather; one of 2,048 in this generation of the Shaw line. These lines didn’t come together for 350 years when I was born.

Monument to Edward Woodman, at the Burying Ground of the First Settlers of Newbury Massachusetts, located on High Street Rd/ Route 1A in Newbury and was established in 1635.
Photo Credit:: Find A Grave Memorial# 6880833

Edward Woodman was baptized 27 Dec 1606 in Corsham, Wiltshire, England. His parents were Edward WOODMAN and Collet MALLET. He married Joanna SALWAY about 1628. He and his half-brother, Archelaus Woodman, sailed Southampton aboard the “James” in Apr 1635 and arrived in Newbury 2 Jun 1635 or he came on the “Abigail” a few weeks later. Both brothers were settled at the Newbury plantation by 1635. Both brothers lived in Newbury on Woodman Lane, now Kent Street. Archelaus died without issue. Dates for Edward’s death vary, 3 Jul 1692 or 14 Oct 1702 all agreee in Newbury, Mass. Both Edward and Joanna are likely buried in the cemetery opposite the old Coffin mansion. A monument to Edward Woodman stands in the First Settlers Burying Ground in Newbury, Mass.

Edward Woodman Monument – Newbury, Mass

Monument to Original Settlers in Newbury, Mass

Joanna Salway was born about 1614 in England. Her parents were Arthur SALWAY and Mary [__?__]. Joanna died about 1688.

Children of Edward and Joanna:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	Edward Woodman	14 Mar 1628 Milford, Surrey, England	Mary Goodrich 20 DEC 1653 Newbury	27 Sep 1694 Newbury, Essex, Mass
2.	John Woodman	1630 England	Mary Field 15 JUL 1656 Newbury . Sarah Burnham 17 Oct 1700 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire	17 SEP 1706 Dover, NH
3.	Joshua Woodman	1636 first white child born in Newbury	Elizabeth Stevens 23 JAN 1665/66	30 MAY 1703 Newbury
4.	Mary WOODMAN	1638 Newbury	John BROWNE Jun 20 FEB 1659/60 Newbury	30 Mar 1703 in Newbury, Mass
5.	Sarah Woodman	12 JAN 1641/42 Newbury	John Kent 12 MAR 1665/66 Newbury
6.	Capt. Jonathan Woodman	8 NOV 1643 Newbury	Hannah Hilton (daughter of William HILTON Jr.) 2 JUL 1668 Newbury	21 NOV 1706 Newbury
7.	Ruth WOODMAN	28 Mar 1646 in Newbury, Mass	Benjamin LOWELL 17 Oct 1666 Newbury, Mass.

Edward was a lieutenant in the Pequot war of June 1637. Later, he was a wealthy and prominent man.

Edward had two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. After his mother died 5 July 1611, his father married Edith (surname unknown) and had six more children: Archelaus, Rebecca, Walter, Jonathan, Anne, and David.

Plan of Plots First Settlers of Newbury – Edward Woodman’s lot is Nbr. 22

In Coffin’s History of Newbury, Edward Woodman is called “a man of talents, influence, firmness, and decision.” The title “Mister” usually preceded his name, which implies he was a prominent citizen.

Edward Woodman, a mercer and wine merchant, was licensed 12 Jan 1637/38 to sell wine and strong drink. He is also listed as “husbandman” in some records. He became a Freeman 25 May 1636 and was active in the affairs of the Congregational Church in Newbury.

On 8 Sep 1636, he was chosen deputy from Newbury to the General Court, which was located at Boston, a distance of 40 miles. The records of theMassachusetts Bay Colony, in the office of the Secretary of State atBoston, show that Edward Woodman was Deputy from Newbury in 1636, 1637, 1639, 1643, 1659, 1660, 1664, and 1670.

At various times, he held other offices of profit and trust in Newbury and the state. Among his commissions from the state was “to see people marry” which he later resigned saying “An unprofitable commission: I quickly laid aside the works, which has cost me many a bottle of sacke and liquor, where friends and acquaintances have been concerned.”

April 1637 – One hundred and sixty men, under the command of captain Stoughton, were raised to go against the Pequods. Of this number Newbury raised eight, Ipswich seventeen, Salem eighteen, Lynn sixteen, and Boston twenty-six. It will serve to give the reader some idea of the all-pervading influence of the theological discussions, which were then agitating the whole community, 1o inform him, on the authority of Neal, that, these very troops deemed it necessary to halt on their march to Connecticut, in order to decide the question, whether they were under a covenant of grace or a covenant of works, deeming it improper to advance till that momentous question was settled. These soldiers were to have twenty shillings per month, lieutenants 4, and captains 6. In May Mr. John Spencer was discharged from being captain. This was probably owing to his religious tenets, he being an adherent of Mrs. Hutchinson. ‘ Mr. Edward WOODMAN was chosen lieutenant, and Mr. John Woodbridge, surveyor of the armes at Newbury.

Edward’s brother Archelaus Woodman married first Elizabeth (surname unknown) and second Dorothy Chapman. He had two daughters, but no male heirs. So all area descendants, with the Woodman surname, are from the Edward Woodman line. Newbury records show Archelaus, a lieutenant, served as representative in 1674 and 1675.

17 May 1637 – Archelaus Admitted Freeman. Archelaus Woodman, we learn from the historian, Coffin, took great interest in Governor Winthrop’s campaign for the governorship against Sir Harry Vane, as the close of the latter’s term drew near. So Mr. Woodman, with nine others including John CHENEY, Thomas COLEMAN, Henry Sewall Jr, Nicholas Noyes [Cheney’s future father-in-law], Robert Pike [future founder of Nantucket, liberal dissenter, witch trial critic and son-in-law of Joseph MOYCE], Thomas Smith, James BROWNE, Nicholas Holt [future son-in-law of Humphrey BRADSTREET, and John Bartlett, .walked forty miles from Newbury to Cambridge on foot to take the “freeman’s oath” and qualify themselves to vote in the election which was soon to take place. It was by such prompt movements that Winthrop was elected and the conservative party triumphed.

Vane lost his position to the elder John Winthrop in the 1637 election. The contentious election was marked by a sharp disagreement over the treatment of John Wheelwright, a supporter of Anne Hutchinson [daughter of our ancestor Francis MARBURY (1555–1611) (wikipedia)] Winthrop won in part because the location of the vote was moved to Cambridge, reducing the power of Vane’s Boston support. In the aftermath of the election Anne Hutchinson was put on trial, and eventually banished from the colony.

Many of her followers seriously considered leaving after the election. At the urging of Roger Williams, some of these people, including Hutchinson, founded the settlement of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island in the Narragansett Bay (later named Rhode Island and joined to Providence to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations).

Vane decided to return to England, apparently with the notion that he would acquire a royal governorship to trump the colonial administration. Before his departure, he published A Brief Answer to a Certain Declaration, a response to Winthrop’s defense of the Act of Exclusion; this act was passed after the election to restrict the immigration of people with views not conforming to the colony’s religious orthodoxy.

Edward Woodman first appears in New England history as a settler in Newbury, Massachusetts, at the incorporation of that town in 1635, and from the fact that he went there in company with Archelaus Woodman it is supposed that they were brothers. One chronicler of the family history says that Archelaus Woodman came from Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England, that he took passage in the “James” of London in April, 1635, but it does not appear whether Edward came with him or arrived in New England in the “Abigail” a few weeks later. All that we know is that Archelaus and Edward Woodman sat down in the plantation at Newbury in 1635.

Edward Woodman was one of ninety-one grantees of Newbury and one of the fifteen persons among the proprietors who were addressed “Mr.,” a title indicating social position, influence and character above that of the average colonist. He became prominently identified with affairs of the church and figured as leader of the movement which resulted in setting aside some strict regulations of church government.

In 1636 and three times afterward he was deputy to the general court, and in 1638 he was commissioned magistrate “to end small causes.” It appears also to have been his office “to see people marry,” which he once spoke of as “an unprofitable commission, which has cost me many a bottle of sacke and liquor, where friends and acquaintances have been concerned.”

29 Nov 1652 – At the Newbury town meeting, the town voted “that Mr. Woodman, Richard Kent, Jr., Lieutenant Pike and Nicholas Noyes should be a committee for managing the business of the schoole.”.

Parker- Woodman War

For many years the church in Newbury had been divided, almost equally, between the original pastor, Reverend Thomas Parker, and Mr. Edward WOODMAN, of whom the noted historian Joshua Coffin wrote: “He was a man of influence, decision and energy, and opposed with great zeal the attempt made by the Rev. Thomas Parker to change the mode of Church government from Congregationalism to something like Presbytarianism.” This divison of the town was not due to a great difference of theology, but of church governemt.

As early as 1645 the Rev. Parker and his party maintained the church should be governed by the pastor, his assistants, and a ruling elder. Mr. Woodman’s party believed it was the right of the members of the church, and government should be by the congretation. In a letter to the church council, Mr. Edward stated, “As for our controversy it is whether God hath placed the power in the elder, or in the whole church, to judge between truth and error, right and wrong, brother and brother, and all things of church concernment.” These ecclesiastical problems, which grew more violent and partisan each year, plagued the town for over 25 yearsand became known throughout New England as the “Parker-Woodmam War.”

By 1669 difference of opinion had grown to such proportions that an appeal was made to the civil authorities. the court proceedings began March 13th at Ipswich and continued on and off for over two years. The decision of the court, on May 29, 1671, found in favor of Rev. Parker’s part and levied fines against the members of Mr. Woodman’s party. Edward Woodman was fined 20 nobles. [ A noble is six shillings and eight-pence so Edward’s fine was a little more than 13 pounds]

Mr. Richard Dummer , Richard THORLAY (THURLOW), Stephen Greenleaf [son of Edmund GREENLEAF], Richard Bartlet and William Titcomg, fined 4 nobles each. Francis Plummer, John Emery, Sr., John Emery, Jr., John Merrill and Thomas Browne, a Mark each. [A mark is thirteen shillings and fourpence. ]

All others Nicholas Batt, Anthony MORSE Sr, Abraham Toppan, William Sawyer, Edward Woodman junior, William Pilsbury, Caleb Moody, John Poor Sr, John Poor Jr, John Webster, John Bartlet Sr., John Bartlet Jr, Joseph Plumer, Edward Richardson, Thomas Hale Jr., Edmund Moores, Benjamin LOWLE (LOWELL), Job Pilsbury, John Wells, William Ilsley, James Ordway, Francis THORLA (THORLAY), Abraham Merrill, John Bailey, Benjamin Rolf, Steven Swett, and Samuel Plumer, a noble each. However, the judgement of the court did not bring an end to the controversy, and the conflict continued for several years. Note: For a complete chronology, see pages 72-112 of Joshua Coffin’s History of Newbury.

A Baptist Church was formed in Newbury with the consent of the First Baptist Church of Boston on February 6, 1681/82. the church was formed by eight residents of the town, which included Mr. Edward Woodman and wife.

25 Mar 1681 – Edward Woodman conveyed to his youngest son, Jonathan, “My now dwelling house, houses and barns and orchard and pasture, and all my plow land lying by and adjoining to the said houses, as also all the plow lands upon the northwest side of the street lying upon the westward side of my house, the said street being vulgarly called the New Street.” [New Street, later called “Woodman Lane” is now Kent Street in the town of Newburyport.] The consideration for this conveyance was “natural and fatherly love and affection” and “twenty pounds of which is yearly to be paid during the time of my own and my wife’s natural life.”

In the genealogy”The Woodmans of Buxton, Maine” Cyrus Woodman wrote: “This was in his old age, and was evidently an arrangement under which he and his wife were to have a home with, and be provided for, by their son Jonathan during their lives.” The date of Edward’s death is unknown but it is thought to be after 1690. There was not record of a will being filed or proved.

Edward’s s body was interred 1st Burying Ground in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts. His marker reads, “In memory of Mr. Edward Woodman who came from England and Settled in Newbury in 1635. ‘A man of talents, influence, firmness and decision.’ He served faithfully for many years as Selectman, Deputy to the General Court and Commissioner.

Edward died previous to 1694 and both he and his wife Joanna were living in 1687.

Children

1. Edward Woodman

Edward’s wife Mary Goodrich was born 8 Jan 1633 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Her parents were William Goodrich and Margaret Butterfield. Mary died 18 May 1684 in Newbury, Essex, Mass.

William Goodrich settled in Watertown, Mass. in 1636, and died before May, 1645.

2. John Woodman

John’s first wife Mary Field was born 1631 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. Her parents were Darby Field and Agnes Roberts. Mary died 6 Jul 1698 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire.

John’s second wife Sarah Burnham was born 1654 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. Her parents were Robert Burnham and Frances Hill. She first married 1671 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire to James Huckins (b. 1644 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire – d. 28 Aug 1689 in Oyster River, Strafford, New Hampshire). Sarah died in 1705 in Oyster River, New Hampshire,

3. Joshua Woodman

Joshua was the first white child born in Newbury

Joshua’s wife Elizabeth Stevens was born 4 FEB 1642 in Andover, Essex, Mass. Her parents were John Stevens (1605 – 1662) and Elizabeth Parker (1613 – 1694). Elizabeth died 30 May 1703 – Newbury, Essex, Mass.

4. Mary WOODMAN (See John BROWNE Jun‘s page)

5. Sarah Woodman

Sarah’s husband John Kent was born 20 Jul 1645 in Newbury, Essex, Mass. His parents were Richard Kent and Dorothy Emma Shorte. John died 30 Jan 1718 in Newbury, Essex, Mass

6. Capt. Jonathan Woodman

Jonathan’s wife Hannah Hilton was born 12 Feb 1649 Newbury, Mass. Her parents were William HILTON Jr. and Sarah GREENLEAF. Hannah died 15 Nov 1706 in Newbury, Mass.

7. Ruth WOODMAN (See Benjamin LOWELL‘s page)

Sources:

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

http://newbury.essexcountyma.net/woodman.htm

A sketch of the history of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845 (1845) By Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864; Bartlett, Joseph, 1686-1754

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=35879257

http://www.duanewoodman.com

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Edward Dillingham

Posted on June 21, 2010 by markeminer

Edward DILLINGHAM (1595 – 1667) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather; two of 2,048 in this generation of the Shaw line. He was one of the 10 men assigned to organize the settlement of Sandwich, Plymouth Colony and he and Deborah Bachiler Wing’s oldest son, John WING are listed as Heads of Families in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony.

Edward Dillingham – Coat of Arms

Edward Dillingham was baptized on 6 Dec 1595 at Cotesbach, Leicester, England. He lived in Bitteswell, an adjoining parish. His parents were Rev. Henry DILLINGHAM and Oseth [__?__]. He married Ursula CARTER at Cotesbach, Leicester, England, on 14 Feb 1614/15. Edward’s younger brother John immigrated in 1630. Edward with his wife, Ursula, and three of their children came to Boston in 1632, settled in Lynn, and later in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Three daughters of Edward and Ursula remained in England Edward died between 1 May 1666 when he wrote his will and 5 June 1667 when it was proven in Sandwich, Plymouth Colony.

St. Mary’s Church, Cotesbach, Leicester, England – Henry Dillingham Rector of Cottesbach who was also patron of the living of Bitteswell in 1606. His son Edward was a Gentleman landowner of Bitteswell before emmigrating to Massachusetts in 1632.

Ursula (Drusilla) Carter was born on 20 Jun 1590 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England. Her parents were John CARTER and Mary ANSCELL. Ursula died on 6 Feb 1655/56 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA and was buried on 9 Feb 1655/56 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.

Children of Edward and Ursula:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	Elizabeth DILLINGHAM	2 Apr 1616 Cotesbach, Leicester, England	John WING II ca 1645 Sandwich, Plymouth Colony	31 Jan 1692 Yarmouth, Mass
2.	Marie Dillingham	2 Dec 1618 Cotesbach, England		1618 Cotesbach, England
3.	Oseah Dillingham	Feb 1622 Cotesbach, England	Stephen Wing (John’s brother and son of Rev. John WINGE) Oct 1646 Sandwich, Plymouth Colony	29 Apr 1654 Sandwich, PC
4.	Henry DILLINGHAM	13 Oct 1624 Cotesbach, England	Hannah PERRY 24 Jun 1652 Sandwich, PC	26 Jul 1705 Sandwich, PC
5.	Sarah Dillingham	23 Jun 1627 Cotesbach, England		Feb 1628 Cotesbach, England
6.	Lt. John Dillingham	1 May 1629 Cotesbach, England	Elizabeth Feake 24 Mar 1651 Sandwich, PC	21 May 1715 Harwich, Mass

3 Apr 1637 – Edward was one of “10 men of Saugus” to whom Sandwich lands were granted.

This Plaque of The Ten Men from Saugus, who were the Founders of Sandwich, is on the wall of the Selectmans’s office in City Hall, Town of Sandwich, Massachusetts. The ten families from Saugus, Mass. (near Lynn, Mass.) just north of Boston were allotted property on Cape Cod at Sandwich, Mass. in 1637.

Sandwich was first settled in 1637 by a group from Saugus with the permission of the Plymouth Colony. It was named for the seaport of Sandwich, Kent, England. It is the oldest town on Cape Cod. As of the census of 2000, there were 20,136 people in the town

Historians assert, that religious considerations also led the ten Saugus (Lynn) pioneers to seek this first plantation of the Cape. Whatever their motives, after deliberation they concluded that the Plymouth colony could be no more stringent than the Massachusetts, nor present more obstacles to their aspirations; so they sought and obtained permission from the colony of Plymouth to locate a plantation at Shaume, now Sandwich. The record says: ”April 3, 1637, it is also agreed by the Court that these ten men of Saugus, viz.,Edmund FREEMAN, Henry Feake, Thomas DEXTER, Edward DILLINGHAM, William Wood, John Carman, Richard Chadwell, William Almy, Thomas Tupper, and George Knott, shall have liberty to view a place to sit down, and have sufficient lands for three-score families, upon the conditions propounded to them by the governor and Mr. Winslow.”

That year these men except Thomas Dexter, who came subsequently, settled with their families in and near that part of the town now occupied by the village of Sandwich.

Sandwich was the site of an early Quaker settlement. However, the settlement was not well-received, as their beliefs clashed with those of the Puritans who founded the town. Many Quakers left the town, either for further settlements along the Cape, or elsewhere. Early industry revolved around agriculture, with fishing and trading also providing for the town. Later, the town grew a small industrial component along the Scusset River and Old Harbor Creek and its tributary.

He was on the list of those able to bear arms (between the ages of 16 and 61) in 1643, and he took the oath of fidelity in 1644.

Edward Dillingham was a surveyor of highways in 1640, 1641, and 1653. On 27 Sep 1642 he was chosen deputy from Sandwich to the General Court at Plymouth to provide forces on account of the Indians.

On 7 Jan 1650 Edward Dillingham was again on a committee to divide meadow lands, receiving 8 acres as his share. He served on the Grand Jury in 1655 and in 1658 was appointed one of a committee to determine the true boundary of every inhabitant’s land in Sandwich.

Apparently quite independent, he seemed to have come in conflict with the civil and religious authorities. In 1657, he was arrested for “speaking approbriesly to the constables deputie of Sandwich was admonished and cleared.”

He was a legatee of the will of his brother John of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who died in 1634 or 1635 and nearly ten years passed before he and Richard Saltonstall settled all outstanding differences concerning Edward’s one-third share of the estate.

Edward Dillingham House in Sandwich dates back to “1650” – The Dillingham House is located on Old Main Street, very close to the village of Sandwich and its many attractions, including beaches, museums and the scenic historic village

Ryan Griffin now owns the Dillingham House and operates a four bedroom B & B there. The house has gone from being the home of one of the distinguished founders of Sandwich, MA, Edward Dillingham to being a rundown boarding house during the 1930s and 40s and then was vacant for much of the 1970s. It is now once again restored to a lovely house for guests to Cape Cod. Throughout all these incarnations, however, it has been generally viewed as being haunted. Many people think the ghost is Branch Dillingham who committed suicide in 1813. Others think it is several of his many children, or both. During the 1970s the local police responded many times to alarms from the house, only to find no cause. during their investigations doors that would not budge would suddenly open easily and lights that did not work would be on upon their return to that room. The police reports noted that over the years activity seemed to increase in October. Ms Griffin has also noticed this pattern. One guest briefly saw a man in Victorian clothing, and her sister claimed that when she woke up she saw a young girl sitting at the end of the bed. Other guests have reported unexplained footsteps when no one is around. The Dillingham House is at 71 Main St., Sandwich MA 508-833-0065. email info@dillinghamhouse.com

Will of Edward Dillingham:

The last will and testament of Mr. Edward Dillingham, exhibited to the Court held at Plymouth the first day of June 1667 on the oaths of Stephen Wing and William Griffith.

Know all men that I Edward Dillingham do make this my deed of gift to my two sons Henry Dillingham and John Dillingham in Trust not to be their proper right, but the proper right of the persons hereafter named only they two are to take care of the goods until the owners send for them, only they two have liberty to take so much out of the goods, as shall pay them their charges layed out about the goods, the goods conveyed are three mares and three foals, two-year-old horses, two milch cows, one four years old steer, one three years old steer, one two years old steer, one two years old heifer, three one year old heifers with some other things, which shall be set down in the conclusion hereof.

[It is supposed the persons of Leicestershire, mentioned by the testator, had sent over cattle to receive back their increase in after years. So says Rossiter Cotton.]

The persons, whose proper right these goods are, are:—

Robert Low of Bitswell, son to blind Robert Low;
Thomas Low, commonly called Thomas Low of the Back house;
Thomas Low, called Thomas Low in the lane;
Thomas Shatswell;
William Binsent;

All those are of Biteswell in the county of Leicester:
Ann Porter of Shawell in the same county;
Richard Porter of the same town and county;
Nathaniel Cox of Litterworth; in the same county;
John Wright of Cottesbith in the same county;
Old Cart of Leine in the same county;
Edward Clark of the same town and county; and
Another man, that hath a bond of mine in his hands that lives at or near Earlephilton in the same county;
William Thornton of Neather Elbrook in the same county;

My hope and desire is, that there may be for Robert Low, twenty-two pounds, Thomas Low of the back house eighteen pounds, Thomas Low in the lane six pounds, and for Thomas Shatswell one pound, and for William Binsent two pounds, ten shillings, Ann Porter four pounds, Richard Porter two pounds and ten shillings, Nathaniel Cox one pound, and Jonn Wright one pound and ten shillings, Old Cart four pounds; Edward Clark three pounds, and another man one pound, William Thornton two pounds.

I hope it may hold out these sums, but, if it should fall short, then you must make abatement according to these proportions.

There is before the sealing of this writing much loss in the Cattle, therefore, there must be abatement according to the proportion before mentioned. There is to be added to the things before mentioned, namely; Henry Dillingham, which he oweth me, as also divers small things which I sold to him, which- cometh to four pounds and also John Dillingham which he oweth me and also for divers small things which I sold to him which cometh to five pound and ten shillings, dated the first day of the third month called May in the year one thousand six hundred, sixty and six. EDWARD DILLINGHAM (Seal.) This Will Recorded Book 4th, page 36, of the Colony Records.

From Frederic William Dillingham’s application to Sons of the Revolution:

Edward Dillingham of Bitteswell, Leicestershire, England who settled at Plymouth, 1632, Ipswich 1634, Saugus 1636 and Sandwich 1637 in the colony of Plymouth on or about the 2d day of April 1637. He was born in 1595, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. From other notes of FWD: Edward Dillingham, Deputy of Sandwich 1643 d.1667 Edward Dillingham, Gent, was freeholder of Bitteswell in 1630. Wife Drusilla d.Feb 6, 1656 (another note says wife Ursula d.Feb 9, 1656) Apr 3 1637 ten men including Edward made record of settlement at Sandwich. Number of families from Lynn, Duxbury and Plymouth. Mr Dillingham had 8 acres of meadow in Sandwich. Edward and brother John came in the fleet with Winthrop in 1630. Were first in Boston, then Ipswich. [This is wrong; John came in 1630, Edward in 1632. ED] Another note cites New England Historical and Genealogical Register Dillingham, Edward, Lynn, Witness at Salem Court in 1637, joined in the founding of Sandwich, propr. 3 Apr 1637. Wife Ursula d. Feb 9, 1656. Will, May 1, 1666 probated 5 June 1667 was in the form of a deed of gift to his two sons Henry and John. Property in his hands whose owners, specified, res. in Bitteswell and other places in Lancashire, Eng.

Another note, probably by Dean Dudley, refers to Savage’s Gen Dec New England Edward Dillingham came to Lynn Mass from Bitteswell in the County of Leicester England where he had an estate. [This agrees with my conclusion that Edward Dillingham Gent Freeholder was also Edward Immigrant. See my notes under The Rev Henry Dillingham. ED] The exact date of his arrival is not given but we find him in Lynn in 1636 and in 1637 he removed to Sandwich. He was a Rep to the Gen [unreadable] 1642. Had two sons, Henry and John, the latter born in England in 1630. [Another source gives Henry’s birth as 1627 ED] His will is dated May 1 1666 probated Jun 1 1667 an abstract of which is printed in the New England His + Gen Reg Vol VII p 225.

From a letter from FWD to George Halsey Thompson, Registrar of OFPA …

As to his coming to this country Savage says Edward and John were probably brothers but Richard Saltonstall in a letter to Governor Winthrop 1636 says they were brothers. This in a letter to me from Dean Dudley. Savage further says they were relatives of Richard Saltonstall and Samuel Appleton. Dudley in another letter to me says they were brothers and came in the same ship. You know how badly Winthrop’s papers were scattered and destroyed but there is a fragment which says John Dillingham came in the Abigail, being No. 71 on the list.

I wrote my father’s sister Maria who told me the origin of the family was in three brothers who came from England. One settled in Mass., one in Vermont and the third in Maine. Maine was cut off from Mass in 1820, leaving us no ancient Maine lineage. Edward Dillingham and his brother John appear to have come from Bitteswell in Leicestershire, England. The family were landed gentry there before 1600, as may be seen in Nicholl’s History of that County. Their arms were: arg, ten fleur de lis, 4, 3, 2, 1, ppr. Edward was a legatee of his brother John of Ipswich, who died early, and Sir Richard Saltonstall and Governor Thomas Dudley helped to settle his estate. In 1632, Edward took cattle of Emanuel Downing of London for a third of the increase.

In 1637, Mr Dillingham was living at Saugus (Lynn), and with nine other men was by the Plymouth court, granted liberty to view a place in the old colony to sit down on, and have sufficient land for three score families, on the conditions propounded to them by the Government and Mr Winslow. These nine men were Edmond Freeman, Henry Feake, Thomas Dexter, William Wood, John Carman, Richard Chadwell, William Amey, Thomas Tupper, and George Knott. Most of these men settled at Sandwich, and in a list of Freemen of Sandwich, in 1643, are the names of Dillingham, Feake, Freeman, Knott, Chadwell and Tupper.

Mr Dillingham brought over from Bitteswell a herd of cattle which he took from his neighbors on shares; that is, he was to return the cattle with part of their increase in subsequent years. The fulfillment of this agreement is provided for in his will.

He was elected Deputy of Sandwich in 1643. Mr D. was one of the founders of Sandwich and a much respected citizen. His daughter Osea married Stephen Wing, who was town clerk of Sandwich in 1669. His wife’s name was Drusilla, who died 6 February 1656. Mr D. died in 1667. From ED: Of the list of founders and freemen of Sandwich, the names of Feake, Freeman and Tupper appear among the wives of later generations of Dillinghams. The document above identifies Drusilla as his wife, but as indicated above this is probably a copying error, because he married Ursula Carter in England and she was the mother of his children. No mention of a second marriage is found. The document quoted above was clearly a pamphlet genealogy “Dillingham Family” published in Yarmouthtown, Mass by C. W. Swift, Publisher and Printer in 1912. It is reprinted in the Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy. From Alexander, pg 18a Son of the Rev Henry and Oseth ____, baptized 6 Dec 1595, at Cottesbach, Leicestershire, where his father was rector. He was made executor of the will of his father, who died in 1625, and was nearly all his property, becoming thereby a freeholder in Bitteswell, an adjoining parish. He married at Cottesbach, 14 Feb 1614, Ursula Carter, by whom he had at least seven children. But three of these came with him to America, Oseth, Henry and John. All the others probably died young, although the oldest, Elizabeth, may have married and remained in England. The parentage of Ursula Carter was not found, but in the parish record of Cottesbach, in the list of rectors, immediately preceding the record of death of Rev Henry Dillingham, is given “Edward Carter, 1601”. It may be found that Ursula was his daughter. [DILLIN.GED]”The last will and testament of Mr. Edward Dillingham, exhibited to the Courtheld at Plymouth the first day of June 1667 on the oaths of Stephen Wing and William griffith. Know all men that I Edward Dillingham do make this my deed of gift to my two sons Henry Dillingham and John Dillingham in Trust not to be their proper right, but the proper right of the persons hereafter named only they two are to take care of the goods until the owners send for them, only they two have liberty to take so much out of the goods, as shall pay them their charges layed out about the goods, the good conveyed are three mares and three foals, two-year-old horses, two milch cows, one four years old steer, one three years old steer, one two years old steer, one two years old heifer, three one year old heifers with some other things, which shall be set down in the conclusion hereof. . . . There is to be added to the things befoe mentioned, namely; Henry Dillingham, which he oweth me, as also divers small things which I sold to him, which cometh to four pounds and also John Dillingham which he oweth me and also for divers small things which I sold to him which cometh to five pound and ten shillings, dated the first day of the third month called May in the year one thousand six houndred, sixty and six. EDWARD DILLINGHAM (Sear.)
This Will recorded Book 4th, page 36, of the ColonyRecords.
Attest, Rossiter Collon, Regr.
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Stephen ‘Wing and William Griffith

Children

1. Elizabeth DILLINGHAM (See John WING II‘s page)

3. Oseah Dillingham

Oseah’s husband Stephen Wing was born 1621 at prob. Flushing, Zeeland, Netherlands. His parents were Rev. John WINGE and Deborah BACHILER. After Oseah died, he married Sarah Briggs 7 Jan 1654/55 Sandwich, PC. Stephen died 24 Apr 1710 Sandwich, MA, Interred at Spring Hill Cemetery.

Stephen’s second wife Sarah Briggs was born 1641 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Mass. Her parents were John Briggs and Catherine [__?__]. Sarah died 26 Mar 1689 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Mass.

When the William & Francis embarked on their voyage on March 9, 1632. Oseah Dillingham would have been about ten years old when she left her homeland. Most historians agree that the only Dillingham children that were on the William and Francis were, Henry Dillingham, who was about seven or eight at the time and John Dillingham, the youngest child, who was about two years of age. It is true that there are holes wide enough to sink a ship in when it comes to the list of passengers on the William & Francis. We probably will never know the full story. However, it doesn’t seem reasonable that the Dillingham’s would bring a seven year old and a two year old and leave an eleven year old girl behind. Chances are that it was this voyage where she first met Stephen Wing, the man that she would marry.

Because of her father’s reputation, Oseah Dillingham must have enjoyed a prominent position among her peers in the small village of Sandwich, Massachusetts. Therefore it must have been doubly humiliating for Oseah to have to endure the censure of the magistrates because of her pregnancy before her marriage to Stephen Wing.

“Whereas Steven Wing, of Sandwich, [and] Oseah Dillingham, were found to haue had carnall knowledge each of others body before contract of matrimony, which the said Steven Wing, coming into the face of the Court, freely acknowledging, he was, according to order of Court, fined in x li, and so is discharged.” Plymouth Court Records, March 2, 1646/47.

There are no any historical records that have survived that describe the outrage the Edward Dillingham must have experienced when he learned the news that Stephen Wing had taken advantage of his daughter. Chances are that Stephen Wing got a good thrashing in the woods followed by a severe upbraiding by Edward Dillingham and Stephen’s older brothers, John and Daniel Wing.

Stephen Wing resided in Sandwich. It is contended by some that he continued to live with his father even after his marriage. Tradition, however, with considerable confidence and probability, fixes his precise location on a farm not far from Spring Hill, now in the possession of a descendant.

A part of the house which he built in 1644 is said to be still in existence. From his business as a town official, we conclude that for a while at least he must have lived at the central village of Sandwich. In 1646-7, he was married to Oseah, the daughter of Edward Dillingham, one of the nine associates to whom the town had been granted April 3, 1637. In accordance with the rigid laws of that period, and which were enforced against all, however high their position in society, some objections were made against him and a fine was laid upon him. by the Court at Plymouth, March 2, 1646/47 for the too early birth of his first child after marriage. He appears however to have been an earnest advocate of religion and was a strenuous supporter of religious meetings and of public order. Yet he with many others of that period came in conflict with the exclusiveness and intolerance to which both church and state were then committed. From the first the whole family of his father and his mother’s father were inclined to a greater freedom in worship and life than the customs and laws of the colonies permitted. In this they had the sympathies of what seems to have been for many years a majority of the inhabitants of Sandwich.

The religious difficulties of the town by no means originated as has been supposed, with the advent of the Quakers. Loud complaints were made respecting those who resisted the severe and arbitrary laws of the colony long before any meetings forbidden by law were set up, or the name of Quaker was known And yet the prevalence of such a spirit and sentiment prepared (he people of Sandwich to decline enforcing and even to resist the cruel laws against the Quakers when these people made their appearance, in 1657 when Nicholas Upsall visited Sandwich there was a great commotion Public proclamation was made that for every hour’s entertainment of him “a severe fine was to be exacted.” In spite of such a law, several families at that time nol at allinclined to Quakerism, not only received him to their bouses, but allowed him and others to bold meetings and attended upon them. Stephen, with his brother Daniel, began first with contending for tolerance, and soon their sympathy with suffering was exchanged for conversion to the faith of the sufferers. Severe fives were imposed upon him, imprisonment was threatened if not absolutely inflicted on him, and even the town privileges of a freeman were withdrawn from him and his friends because he declined for a time to take the oath of fidelity which bound him to assist in the execution of such laws. He had been admitted a freeman and enrolled among those “liable to bear arms” in 1643, and had been assigned his proper proportion and boundary of land in 1658. So large, however, was the number of converts to the Friends, and so general the disposition to tolerate them among the people of Sandwich, that the laws against them could not be enforced, and if any punishments were inflicted it had to be done out of town. Stephen and his family became permanently connected with the Society of Friends, and his posterity have in all their generations remained true to his example.

In 1667 he with William Griffith presented to probate the will of his father-in law, Edward Dillingham,and in 1669 he was chosen town clerk. In 1675 the town voted to record his name with many others as having a just right to the privileges of the town. In 1678 he seems to have overcome his scruples about taking the oath of fidelity for his name that year appears among those on the list ofits receivers.

Oa the 9th day of the 4th month 1653-4, his wife Oseah died ;and on the 7th of the 11th month of the same year he married Sarah, the daughter of Johu Briggs, who came to America in 1635, aged 20. She died 3d month, 26, 1689 ; but the period of his own death is uncertain. One account gives it as 2d month, 24, 1710 (OldStyle). The will of one named Stephen Wing is given inthe records, dated Dec 2 1700, and proved July 13, 1710;and it mentions sons Nathanael, Elisha and John, and daughters Sarah Giflbrd and Abigail Wing, and a grandson, Jeremiah Gifford. “Ebenezer Wing and Matthew Wing, sons of the deceased/ were appointed by the judge to be executors of the will. From this date we infer that Stephen continued to live through the first decade of the last century, although he must then have been not less than eighty-eight years of age.

4. Henry DILLINGHAM (See his page)

6. Lt. John Dillingham

“Lieut John Dillingham was born in England in 1629, probably at Bitteswell, the family seat in Leichestershire. Coming over with his father about 1632, he at length in 1681, became a freeman of Sandwich and took the oeath of fidelity to the Government. About this time he settled at Satucket and became a great land owner. This place, which is in the western part of Brewster, was until the incorporation of Harwich, in 1694, in the Constablerick of jurisdiction of Yarmouth. Before removing from Sandwich, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Feake 21 March, 1650. He was chosen the Constable of Harwich in 1704. His death occurred 21 May, 1715. His will, dated 15 Nov 1707, mentions John, Jr., and other children. . . . The old homestead of this Dillingham family remained in their possession up to within a quarter of a century ago. In this house all these generations lived and died. The old family Bible contains a record of seven generations. It was the first or second John Dillingham of Satucket that built the house in which the family resided.”

He is called in the records, John, 1st, of Satucket, and later Lieutenant John. He bought land in 1667 in Satucket, then a part of Yarmouth, but later in Harwich on the incorporation of that town in 1694. The estate then purchased has come down through the family to the present time, being now in the westerly part of Brewstar, which was set off from Harwich in 1803. he removed to his new home about 1670 with John WING, his brother-in-law, and became a large landowner.”

“In the office of the clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in Boston is recorded a deed, dated 1 March, 1676/7, in which John WING and Lieut. John Dillingham of Satucket, in the Liberties of Yarmouth, buy, for ten pounds, 4 shillings, of Indians Sampson, Penassamusk his wife (daughter of Nepoyeton, late sachem of Mattachese), and Ralph of Nobscusset and Manatotmusk, his wife, daughter also of said epoyeton, all land held by them in common with Robin, Indian, and wife Sarah, daughter also of said Nepoyeton, from Bound Brook on the west to Saquatucket River on the east from the North sea to the South sea. This deed was not recorded until 21 June, 1697. Another deed, of the same date as the above, shows that Robin and wife Sarah sell their interest in this land to John Wing and John Dillingham for five pounds, five shillings.

In the same office is recorded an agreement between Lieut. John Dillingham, John WING Sr., and Kenelm Winslow, as to ownership of land in Eastham, under date of 5 February, 1694/95. A story handed down in the family is to the effect that the purchase price of the land bought from the Indians was a “black colt”, while another version says “coat”.

1657 – He took the oath of fidelity in Yarmouth .
He served on the Grand Inquest (Jury) at Plymouth in 1653 and again in 1673.

1667 – With his brother Henry, he settled his father’s estate.

7 Jul 1674 – “Serjeant Dillingham was appointed to be leif-tenant — of the milletary company of Yarmouth”.

1676 – He was taxed in Yarmouth for 6 pounds-17s-9d towards defraying the expenses of King Philip’s War.

1699 – He sold his interest in the fulling mill on Satucket River.

20 Mar 1701 – John Dillingham was constable of Harwich, but this may have been his son.

John was a Quaker, a member of the Sandwich Monthly Meeting, and it was in his home and that of Henry Jones that the first recorded Friends meetings were held, in 1681. John and Elizabeth Dillingham were present at a half yearly meeting at the house of Edward WANTON in Scituate, 18-7 mo-1682. A monthly meeting was held at his house, 1 mo. 1710, and he is frequently mentioned in the minutes of the meetings. He must have given up his military office before actively joining with the Friends, as they were decidedly opposed to military service. At a meeting of 5-2 mo.- 1700, William Allen [Ralph ALLEN‘s grandson], Robert Harper [Edmund PERRY’s son-in-law] and John Dillingham were appointed “to speak with some friends at Yarmouth concerning their going to training,” which was considered “disorderly”.

He is said to have “sealed with an antelope’s head, couped at the neck”, and to have used the fleur-de-lis coat of arms.

John died in Harwich, 27 May, 1715 (gravestone says 21 May), “aged 85″. The old Dillingham burying ground in West Brewster, on the north side of the road to East Dennis, west of the river, is the oldest in that part of the town. The oldest stone is that of John, the settler.

The old house now standing in West Brewster is said to have been built by this John. The date 1660 is burned into one of the rafters. The house was in possession of the family until recent years, when it was sold, but in 1921 it was purchased by Isaac Snow Dillingham, Jr., of Boston, for use as a summer residence. Part of the original estate is still held by descendants.” It is now a B&B (See above)

Sources:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wingfamilyofamerica/p377.htm#i2002939

http://capecodhistory.us/genealogy/wellfleet/Names101.htm#DILLINGHAM

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

http://www.landersgen.com/landers/29/2759.htm

The best account in print of John Dillingham is in Augustine Caldwell, [Boston 1873], pp. 9-13. Dillingham’s daughter Sarah had married John Caldwell, and the author of this volume saw fit to collect in one place all records he could find about John Dillingham in New England.

The New England historical & genealogical register and antiquarian …, Volume 7 By New England Historic Genealogical 1853 – Edward Dillingham Will

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Elder John Hunting

Posted on June 21, 2010 by markeminer

Elder John HUNTING (1602 – 1689) was Alex’s 11th Great Grandfather two ways; through his daughter Margaret and through his daughter Elizabeth. He was two of 4,096 in this generation of the Shaw line.

John Hunting was baptized on 24 Jan 1601/02 in Thrandeston, Suffolk, England. Alternatively, he was born in 1597 in Hoxne, a village in Suffolk County, England. His parents were William HUNTING and Margaret RANDOLFE. He married Esther SEABORN on 28 Jun 1624 at Wramplingham, Norfolk, England. He is the first of the Hunting family name of whom there is record in America and came to New England in the spring of 1638 with his wife and five children and settled at Dedham, Mass. He was elected the first ruling elder of the Dedham Church in 1639. John died 12 Apr 1689 in Dedham, Mass.

Esther Seaborn was born about 1597 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Her parents were William SABURNE and Mary [__?__]. She was the second cousin of the martyr, John Rogers. Esther died 4 May 1676 in Dedham, Mass.

Children of John and Esther:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	Mary Hunting	26 Feb 1626 Hoxne, Suffolk, England	William Jay 1653 Boston . Charles Buckner 1657	25 Aug 1684 Boston
2.	Margaret HUNTING	21 Sep 1628 Hoxne, England	Capt. Robert WARE 24 Mar 1644/45 Dedham	26 Aug 1670 Dedham, Mass.
3.	Esther Hunting	26 Dec 1629 Oakley, Suffolk, England	Nathaniel Fisher 26 Dec 1649 Dedham . Timothy Dwight 31 Jul 1690 Dedham	30 Jan 1689/90 Dedham
4.	Elizabeth HUNTING	4 May 1634 Oakley, England	John PECK 1657 Rehoboth, Mass	9 Dec 1667 Rehoboth, Mass.
5	John Hunting	9 Oct 1636 Oakley, England	Elizabeth Paine 18 APR 1671 Dedham	19 SEP 1718 Dedham
6.	Samuel Hunting	22 Jul 1640 Dedham	Hannah Hackborne 24 Dec 1662 Dedham	19 Aug 1701 Boston
7.	Nathaniel Hunting	15 Dec 1643 Dedham		1 Jan 1643/44 Dedham
8	Matthew Hunting	6 Mar 1647/48 Dedham, Mass.

John was one of the founders of the church at Dedham, and its first ruling elder. The first authentic record of him is on the Dedham Register dated 28 Aug 1638 where he ‘entertayned to purchase John Boledge’s lot.’ After this date, by the church records, he takes an active part in religious affairs. Elder John Hunting left a will on 15 Dec 1684 at Dedham, Massachusetts. He died on 12 April 1689 at Dedham, Massachusetts at age 87. His estate was inventoried on 11 Jun 1689 at Dedham, Massachusetts.

Previous to coming to this country he was a ‘ruling elder’, and was living in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, England.

According to Robert Brand Hanson’s history, Dedham, Massachusetts 1635-1890, John Hunting had been a wandering evangelist in England. He spent most of his time in his saddle, visiting the people of like faith, encouraging them in their work and holding meetings wherever a few could be assembled, be it either in house or barn, or under the trees, teaching them of a higher life as he understood it.

After some political-religious skirmishes in the formation of the first church in Dedham and the selection of the first pastor (John Allin), Hunting became the first Ruling Elder of the Dedham church.

13 Mar 1639 – John was admitted a freeman in Dedham. He was one of the founders of the church at Dedham and was its first ruling elder as we see in the following extract of those churches earliest years written by the first Minister John Allin:

Toward the end of the summer (1638) we are having some experience of John Hunting who came to us from England and some of us knowing him before and having very good testimony of him from many others, we agreed to make trial whether he might not be found meet for this work and willing thereto; in both we found encouragement that he also came amongst us into society.

28 Aug 1638 – The first authentic record of him is on the Dedham Register when he “entertayned to purchase John Boledges lot.” From the church records he seems to have taken an active part in religious affairs. He died April 12, 1689. buried at Dedham.

13 Mar 1639 – Admitted a freeman in Dedham

While it was of the utmost importance, “founding a church was more difficult than founding a town. Meetings were held late in 1637 and were open to “all the inhabitants who affected church communion… lovingly to discourse and consult together [on] such questions as might further tend to establish a peaceable and comfortable civil society ad prepare for spiritual communion.” On the fifth day of every week they would meet in a different home and would discuss any issues “as he felt the need, all ‘humbly and with a teachable heart not with any mind of cavilling or contradicting.'”

After they became acquainted with one another, they asked if “they, as a collection of Christian strangers in the wilderness, have any right to assemble with the intention of establishing a church? Their understanding of the Bible lead them to believe that they did, and so they continued to establish a church based on Christian love, but also one that had requirements for membership. In order to achieve a “further union” the determined the church must “convey unto us all the ordinances of Christ’s instituted worship, both because it is the command of God… and because the spiritual condition of every Christian is such as stand in need of all instituted ordinances for the repair of the spirit.” Only ‘visible saints’ were pure enough to become members. A public confession of faith was required, as was a life of holiness. All others would be required to attend the sermons at the meeting house, but could not join the church, nor receive communion, be baptized or become an officer of the church.

Finally, on November 8, 1638, two years after the incorporation of the town and one year after the first church meetings were held, the covenant was signed and the church was gathered. Guests from other towns were invited for the event as they sought the “advice and counsel of the churches” and the “countenance and encouragement of the magistrates.”A “tender” search for a minister took an additional several months, and finally John Allin was ordained as pastor and John Hunting as Ruling Elder. Both men had been among the 8 found worthy enough to be the first members of the church and to first sign the covenant. As in England, Puritan ministers in the American colonies were usually appointed to the pulpits for life and Allin served for 32 years.

Abstract of Will of Hester Hunting.

Will of Hester Hunting wife of John Hunting of Dedbam dated January 4, 1675 proved Feb. 12, 1684/85.

After payment of debts, ” unto my well beloved son John Hunting the whole & full sume of twenty pounds as his part of that Estate, Legacie or portion that was given to me by my loveing Brother Francis Seaborne in Old England, which Legacy is yet due to me to be paid as by my loveing Brother Francis Seaborn’s will appeares in Old England amounting to the sume of fourty and five pounds,” “to my beloved son Samuel Hunting liveing in Charlstowne, the whole & full sume of ten pounds as his part & portion of the afores d fourty & five pounds” — “to Hannah wife of my son Samuel afores d one pair of new sheets & my best table cloth & to my grandchild Samuel Hunting (oldest son of my son Samuel afores’ 1 ) six napkins.” The fifteen pounds of the said forty-five yet remaining to be disposed of as follows. ” one fourth of s’d fifteen pounds remaining to my loving daughter Mary Bnckner of Boston and also my best tamy coat”

” unto the children of my daughter Ware deceased one fourth of s’d fifteen pounds to be equally divided between them all.” “to my loving daughter Hester Fisher of Dedham one fourth part of s’d fifteen pounds & my best goune.” “to Hester Pecke the daughter of my Son in law John Peck of Rehoboth one fourth part of s’d fifteen pounds & also my hat & my Stuff coat.” “to Mary Wood my maid servant my old red undercoate & my searge unde^coate & my cloth wescoat. And what remains undisposed of all my wearing apparel Linning & wooling I give to Elizabeth Hunting wife of rn} r oldest son John Hunting of Dedham.”

” Furthermore my mind & will is that my dear & wel beloved husband aforesaid should have the full use and improvement of all the premises as long as he doth live excepting what things of my wearing Apparell he do see causs to give away to bee sooner disposed of to the person aforesaid . Legacies in money to be paid within six months after the Decease of my dear husband if it be sent hither from Old England before, otherwise to be delivered presantly after it be sent over whenever it do come after my said Husbands decease, and if the whole sume afores’ 1 of fourty & five pounds cannot be attained then so much thereof as can be attained shall be divided to the persons afores d according to their severall proportions afores d by abateing in each pound what the afores’ 1 Sume shall fall short of fourty &. five pounds.”

The sons John Hunting and Samuel Hunting appointed Executors.
Husband gives his consent to the will and signs.
Witnesses.
Thomas Battle.
Thomas Fisher.

JOHN HUNTING AND HIS DESCENDANTS. By T. D. Huntting, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

Elder John Hunting, one of the early settlers of Dedham, was born in Hoxne, a village in Suffolk County, England, about the year 1597. He was a man of decided opinions, and early in life took a firm stand in religious matters. Upon reaching his majority he took an active part in the questions of the day. England was then under the rule of Charles I, who was intent upon introducing the Catholic worship into his Kingdom, but there were many who had the force of their convictions, and refused to acknowledge what they did not believe. Among the dissenters of Norfolk and Suffolk Counties, none were more prominent than John Hunting.

He was made Ruling Elder of that district, and we read of his spending most of his time in his saddle, visiting the people of like faith, encouraging them in their work and holding meetings wherever a few could be assembled, be it either in house or barn, or under the trees, teaching them of a higher life as he understood it. Disseminating his ideas upon religion, and exhorting new converts to his belief was his life’s work, and he entered into it in no half hearted way. This manner of religious teaching caused him to be absent from his family a greater part of the time.

In Hester Seaborn, his wife — a cousin of the Martyr John Rogers — he found a willing helpmate. Herself a religious enthusiast, we can well understand how he was encouraged in his labors. We must also consider that her sacrifices must have been many, for, besides the absence of her husband so much of the time, the care of the family fell upon her. Is it to be wondered, that with the promise of a free home where he could worship as he chose, and a prospect of a better field for improving his worldly condition, this hard working christian man, should, at the first opportunity, emigrate with his family to theNew World ?

During the year 1638 a number of vessels arrived at Boston bringing, it is said, about three thousand people in search of homes, among whom were John Hunting, his wife and five children. We have no record of the vessel’s name on which they took passage, therefore have no means of telling who their companions were. It was in the spring of that year when he first settled at Dedham, going there immediately after landing at Boston, and soon made himself felt in the welfare of the church and town. Admitted a Freeman in 1639, and made Ruling Elder the same year, we see he at once identified himself with the affairs of his new home.

Most of his children were born in England, and land having been apportioned off to him, it is supposed they, like others of that time, were soon contributing to the family’s support. Through John, the eldest son, we find the name has been spread to all parts of America. The daughters all married and their descendants are to be found among the Wares, Fishers, Pecks and Buckners of the present day.

Nathaniel was born Nov. 15, 1675, graduated from Harvard College in 1693, and married Mary Green, a daughter of John and Ruth Green and granddaughter of Percival and Ellen Green, in 1701. He was the second pastor of the Presbytarian Church at East Hampton, which position he filled until failing health compelled him to resign in 1746, and retire to his farm, where he remained until his death Sept. 21, 1753. When he first moved to East Hampton he began to spell his name with two T’s, and hoped his descendants would follow suit.

Children

1. Mary Hunting

Mary’s first husband William Jay was born about 1630. William died in 1658.

Mary’s second husband Charles Buckner was born 1631 in Suffolk, England. Charles died 25 Aug 1684 in Boston, Suffolk, Mass.

2. Margaret HUNTING (See Capt. Robert WARE‘s page)

Margaret, the oldest daughter, married, March 24, 1645, Robert Ware or Wares, of whom Miss Emma F. Ware, the compiler of ” The Descendants of Robert Ware,” is a descendant.

3. Esther Hunting

Esther’s first husband Nathaniel Fisher was born 1620 in Syleham, Suffolk, England. His parents were Anthony Fisher and Mary Buckingham. Nathaniel died 23 May 1676 in Dedham, Norfolk, Mass

Esther’s second husband Timothy Dwight was born 1629 in Dedham, Essex, England. His parents were John Dwight (1604 – 1661) and Hannah Close (1604 – 1656). He married six times, a record in our family, especially for the 17th Century where your spouse had to expire before you could marry again. Timothy died 31 Jan 1718 in Dedham, Mass.

11 Nov 1651 in Dedham Age: 22 to Sarah Sibley ( -1652)
3 May 1653 Dedham Age: 24 to Sarah Powell (1634 – 1664)
9 Nov 1664 Dedham, Mass Age: 35 to Anna Flynt (1643 – 1686)
7 Jan 1686 Dedham, Mass Age: 57 to Mary Poole (1637 – 1688)
31 Jul 1690 Dedham, Mass Age: 61 to Esther Hunting (1629 – 1691)
1 Feb 1692 Dedham, Mass Age: 63 to Bethiah Moss (1651 – 1718)

4. Elizabeth HUNTING (See John PECK‘s page)

5 John Hunting

John’s wife Elizabeth Paine was born 6 Mar 1648 in Dedham, Norfolk, Mass. Her parents were William Payne and Mary Edwards. Elizabeth died 19 Sep 1718 in Dedham, Norfolk, Mass.

John, the son, born about 1628, married Elizabeth Paine, and had ten children, of whom the third, Nathaniel, moved to East Hampton, N. Y., in 1696.

6. Samuel Hunting

Samuel’s wife Hannah Hackborne was born 5 Jan 1642 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Mass. Her parents were Samuel Hackborne and Katharine Deighton. Hannah died in 1686 in Mass.

Sources:

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

http://krafftfamily.org/Krafft-p/p32.htm#i66

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/dean/hunting.htm

http://webspace.webring.com/people/lu/um_5939/fam00583.htm

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/a/c/Joan-B-Jackson/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0079.html

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13875208/person/8577038

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/a/h/John-B-Kaherl/BOOK-0001/0004-0087.html

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/966676/person/-1714167420/story/b53109cc-d19c-40eb-98aa-28361a33b532

Ware genealogy : Robert Ware of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1642-1699, and his lineal descendants (1901) By Ware, Emma Forbes, 1838-1898

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=7768267

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John Peck

Posted on June 21, 2010 by markeminer

John PECK (1634 – 1667) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather, one of 2,048 in this generation of the Shaw line.

John Peck – Coat of Arms

John Peck was born in 1634 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. His parents were Joseph PECK and Rebecca CLARKE. He married Elizabeth HUNTING on 30 Dec 1658 in Rehoboth, Mass. John died Dec 1667 in Rehoboth, Mass.

Several sources say that Elizabeth Hunting married Joseph Peck who was born 23 Aug 1623 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. However, 35 is a little late to marry in those days. John’s cousin Joseph Peck married Alice Heath 12 Sep 1650. They also state that John/Joseph died 6 Feb 1708 in Rehoboth, Mass and had many more children. It seems to me that several families are being mixed up, but I’m not sure exactly how.

Elizabeth Hunting was born in May 1634 in Hoxone, Suffolk, England. Her parents were John HUNTING and Esther SEABORN. Elizabeth died 9 Dec 1667 in Rehoboth, Mass.

Children of John and Elizabeth:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	Elizabeth Peck	27 Nov 1657		18 Dec 1657
2.	Ester PECK	7 Jan 1657/58 Rehoboth, Mass	Jonathan WILMARTH 29 Dec 1680 Rehoboth, Mass.
3.	Anne Peck	6 Oct 1661		Feb 1661/62
4.	John Peck	7 Oct 1664		Dec 1666

John moved with his family from Hingham, Massachusetts to Seekonk in 1645. He settled in the southwest part of Seekonk near what is now [1868] known as Luther’s Corners. Seekonk was incorporated in 1812 from the western half of Rehoboth.

Seekonk, Bristol, Mass.

When John was 21 years old, he was fined fifty shillings for making continuous sexual advances toward his family’s maid. March 6, 1654/55 (GC Presentments by the Grand Inquest, PCR 3:75):

wee present John Pecke, of Rehobeth, for laciviouse carriages and vnchast in attempting the chastitie of his fathers maide seruant, to satisby his fleshly, beastly lust, and that many times for some yeares space, without any intent to marry her, but was alwaies resisted by the mayde, as he confesseth. [Fined fifty shillings.]

John was accepted as a freeman in 1658 and drew his proportion in the meadows on the north side of town. He was chosen one of the townsmen in 1680 and a representative to the General Court in 1700.

Seekonk is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Rhode Island border. It was incorporated in 1812 from the western half of Rehoboth. The population was 13,722 at the 2010 census. Until 1862, the town of Seekonk also included what is now the City of East Providence, Rhode Island. The land in the western half of the town was given to Rhode Island by the United States Supreme Court as part of a longstanding boundary dispute with Massachusetts.

His will reads in part, “1st item. I give and bequeath to my daughter Ester WILMARTH … all that my lot of land in the easterly side of ye grand division…”

Sources:

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

http://webspace.webring.com/people/lu/um_5939/fam00583.htm

http://webspace.webring.com/people/lu/um_5939/fam00587.htm

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Sgt. Thomas Wilmarth

Posted on June 21, 2010 by markeminer

Sgt. Thomas WILMARTH (1620 – 1690) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather, one of 2,048 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Thomas Wilmarth – Coat of Arms

Thomas Wilmarth was born about 1620 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England. Alternatively he was baptized in Saint Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Somerset England. His parents were James WILMARTH and Elizabeth MORRISEY (Morrison). He emigrated to America before 1639. He probably came with Thomas Bliss (Blysse) and his children Jonathan and Elizabeth. He married Elizabeth BLISS on 8 Jun 1645 in Rehoboth, Mass. After Elizabeth died, he married Rachel Read 27 Jan 1678 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. Thomas died 13 May 1694, in Rehoboth.

Many sources say that Thomas died 10 Apr 1690 in Rehoboth, Mass., but Thomas Sr’s will was proved 28 May 1694. He gave property to his wife Rachel, daughters Elizabeth and Mary, and sons Thomas’ Jr. widow, Mary; John, and Jonathan. It was Thomas Jr. that died 10 Apr 1690.

Elizabeth Bliss was born 09 Feb 1614/15 or 19 Sep 1615 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England. Her parents were Thomas BLISS and Dorothy WHEATLY. Elizabeth died Feb 1675/76 in Rehoboth, Mass.

Rachel Read was born about circa 1615 in England. Rachel died 12 Nov 1710 in Rehoboth, Mass.

Children of Thomas and Elizabeth:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	Elizabeth Wilmarth	4 Feb 1647 Rehoboth	Jonathan Fuller 14 Dec 1664 Rehoboth, Mass	4 Oct 1690 Rehoboth, Mass
2.	Mary Wilmarth	4 Feb 1647 Rehoboth	Joseph Rocket 5 Jan 1680 Rehoboth . Giles Gilbert 28 Oct 1686 Taunton, Mass . Jeremiah Wheaton 12 Jun 1723
3.	Daniel Wilmarth	1648 Rehoboth	Mary Walker 1675 Rehoboth	22 Nov 1676 Rehoboth
4.	Thomas Wilmarth	ca. 1651	Mary Robinson 17 Jun 1674	10 Apr 1690 Rehoboth
5.	John Wilmarth	1654 Rehoboth	Ruth Kendrick 6 Feb 1671 . Hannah Tyler 4 Oct 1708, Rehoboth, Mass.	1719
6.	Jonathan WILMARTH	1656 Rehoboth, Mass.	Esther PECK 29 Dec 1680 Rehoboth, Mass.	173 Rehoboth
7.	Timothy Wilmarth	Jan 1659/60	Mary [__?__] 1675 Rehoboth	12 Nov 1676 Rehoboth
8.	Nathaniel Wilmarth	2 Dec 1661 Rehoboth	Rachel Read (Reed) 27 Jan 1677/78 Rehoboth	Bef. DEC 1747 Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

Wilmarth can also be spelled Wilmot, Willmarth, Willmire, Wilmart, and Willmouth.)

Father: James Willmouth b. 1581, Saint Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Somerset, England; d. 1618, Saint Mary Magdalene,Taunton, Somerset, England.

Mother: Elizabeth Morrison b. 1581-1591, St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, Somerset, England; d. 6 Jun 1634.

Among the freemen of the town of Rehoboth in 1658 were John Wilmarth and Sgt. Thomas Wilmarth. Both appear in the contributors to the expenses of King Philip’s War, after which the former seems to drop out of the records. In a list without date showing grants of land made about 1643, appeas the name of Thomas Willmarth as having the lot originally granted to Isaac Martin, valued at fifty pounds. In pence to the support of King Philip’s War in 1676 in which Thomas Wilamarth Jr. was also a contributor.

Evidently Thomas first settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, where in 1643, he bought land rights in Rehoboth from Isaac Martin, one of the original purchasers.

In 1645, he acted as a witness to a deed, and it is while living in Braintree, his daughter, Elizabeth, was born two years later.

In about 1657 he moved his family to Rehoboth Massachusetts and purchased land. Some state he was a proprietor in Rehoboth by 1643-1645, but it is certain he was there by 1658, when as “Wilmoth” he had a town grant. Again in 1668, as “Willmot” he shared in a land division there. Wilmarth Bridge Road, running from the turnpike, (Route 44), to Summer Street, and passing through what was once Wilmarth property.

He was active in the affairs of the church. On 14 May 1673, (OR 1658), “Thomas Willmarth” became a Freeman of Plymouth Colony. Thomas Wilmarth had two shares in the land that was destined to become Attleborough; one a grant, and the other a purchase from Joseph CARPENTER.

In Dec 1676, Sergeant Thomas Willmouth was appointed to serve as constable for the remainder of the year.

On 6 Mar 1682/83 he was made an Ensign of the Military Company of Rehoboth. Ensign Thomas Willmouth collected funds for defraying the costs of King Philip’s War. Money advanced £6, 12s 3d on 26 Jan 1676/1677.

“Fullers, Sissons and Scotts” by Carol Clark Johnson – Page 23

Thomas Wilmarth, Ensign, was born circa 1620 in England and came to New England before 1645 in which year he was living in Braintree, Massachusetts. About 1657 he took his family to Rehoboth.

The Wilmarths had substantial land holdings in the Palmer Rver area of Rehoboth, some properties adjacent to Fuller holdings. Rehoboth of today has a street named Wilmarth Bridge Road, running from the turnpike, (Route 44), to Summer Street, and passing through what was once Wilmarth property.

Marriage 1: Elizabeth Bliss(e) (OR Blysse), b. 9 (OR 19) Sep 1615, in Daventry, Belstone Parish, Northamptonshire, Devonshire, England. She died and was buried in Feb. 1676/77.
Married: Between 18 Sep 1640/1644, in Coventry, England (OR)
Married: 1640 in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

Note: Elizabeth was the elder daughter of Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth and when Thomas Bliss died in May 1649, his will mentioned property for his “son-in-law Thomas Willmore” and his elder daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Willmore.” (Plymouth Colony Wills, Volume . 1, p. 67.)

Thomas left a will, written 10 Dec 1678, at Rehoboth, recorded in Bristol County. Probate Book 1, page 82.
Probate: About 26-28 May 1694. (OR 4 Jun 1694 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts.
Proved: 28 May 1694.
Inventory: 29 May 1694. Inventory. of Estate of Ensign Thomas Willmath of Rehohoboth, dated 26 May 1694, presented by Rachel Willmouth, his widow. Appraisers: William Carpenter and John Butterworth.

May 28, 1694. He named in his will his wife Rachel, daughters Elizabeth and Mary, and sons Thomas, John and Jonathan. As his son Heirs: Three sons, two daughters, brother-in-law Sgt. Jonathan Bliss and Sgt. Thomas Read, Uncle of John Perrin. Left five grown children by his first wife. uncle of John Perrin left 5 grown children by first wife who died in an epidemic.

He gave property to his wife Rachel, daughters Elizabeth and Mary, and sons Thomas’ Jr. widow, Mary*; John, and Jonathan. He named his “beloued Brethen in Law Sarjant Jonathan Bliss and Sarjant Thomas Reed” as overseers of his will. Rachell was given his dwelling house and orchard, half his home lot, salt meadow, and 1/3 of all livestock and movable goods. Elizabeth and Mary received the other 2/3 of his movables. The remainder of his livestock was to be divided amoung all his children. His three sons were named executors and were given his lands. Witnesses.” Daniel Smith and Joshua Smith.”

*(As Thomas Jr. had died in 1690, his share went to his widow Mary.) “Division of Estate of Thomas Wilmoth, dated 4 Jun 1694, between. Mary Wilmoth, widow of eldest son Thomas Wilmoth, as guardian of their children; George Robinson; Jonathan John Wilmoth. Witnesses.; Thomas Read Jonathan Fuller

“Receipts for legacies from Estate of Ensign Thomas Wilmoth by Rachel Wilmoth, his widow; by Jonathan Fuller in behalf of his wife Elizabeth, eldest daughter; by Mary Gilbert, daughter, paid by John Jonathan Wilmoth, dated. 4 June 1694. Witness: Thomas Read and Thomas Read, Jr.

I assume Thomas Read was John’s brother-in-law through John’s second wife Rachel, but I haven’t seen proof. Ensign Thomas Read was born 20 Nov 1641 in Braintree, Mass. His parents were John Read and Sarah Lessie. He first married Elizabeth Clark about 1663. (Elizabeth Clark was born about 1643 and died early 1675 in Rehoboth.) He second married Hannah/Anna Perrin on 16 Jun 1675 in Rehoboth, Plymouth Bay Colony Thomas died 6 Feb 1695/96, Rehoboth, Plymouth Bay Colony and is buried in Newman Cemetery, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Ens. Thomas Read served under Major Bradford in King Philip’s War and his house was a depository for arms. He is buried in the Newman Cemetery at East Providence, R.I. A roughly chiseled field stone reads: “T.R.D./F. 6.1695/6. Beside this stone is a white marble stone erected by descendants which reads” “Thomas Read son of John and Sarah Born in 1641 Died in 1696”. Beside this stone is a roughly chiseled broken field stone set in cement which reads: “Anna ye wife of Ensign Thos. Read dyd ye 28 of Mar 1710 in ye 65 year of her age.” Another roughly cut field stone read: “E.R.A.G. 32 D. F. 1675″, marks the grave of his first wife, Elizabeth Clarke.

17 Dec 1692 – The town council and selectmen of Rehoboth delivered to Ensign Thomas Read 136 pounds of powder and 250 pounds of bullets, to be taken care of by him for the town, and not to be disposed of but by the order of the selectmen of the town.”

Will of Thomas Read, Rehoboth, Tanner, dated 23 Jun 1695. Bequests to Eldest son James; to wife Hannah; to son Thomas under 21 years of age; to son Nathaniel under 21 years of age; to David Peren if he continues to live with them until he comes to the age of 21 years; to daughter Sarah; to daughter Elizabeth; to daughter Mary; to daughter Hannah; to daughter Mehittabell; to daughter Martha; wife to be executrix; sons Thomas and Nathaniel executors. ” I Doe appoint & Constitute My beloved Brothers William Carpenter, Moses Reed * Daniel Read’ to be overseers of will and guardians of sons Thomas and Nathaniel until they come to the age of 21. Witnessed by Moses Read, John Wilmarth and William Carpenter who all appeared before John Saffin Esqr., Judge of Probate of Wills, at a court held at Rehoboth 24 Feb 1695/96 and made oath to the above. Entered 6 Mar. 1695/96.

Inventory of estate of “Insigne Thomas Read’ late of Tehoboth taken 12 Feb. 1695/6 by Capt. Nicholas Peck, Esq., “Deacon” Samuel Peck and Lieut. Preserved Abell; amount £390/14/09. Sworn to 24 Feb. 1695 by Hannah Read widow and executrix. Entered 6 Mar. 1695/6

Children

1. Elizabeth Wilmarth

Elizabeth’s husband Jonathan Fuller was born 15 Jun 1643 in Salem, Essex, Mass. His parents were Robert Fuller and Sarah Bowen. Jonathan died 10 Feb 1708/09 in Attleboro, Bristol, Mass.

Jonathan was a Constable in Rehoboth and a Selectman in Attleboro.

Children of Elizabeth and Jonathan

i. Jonathan Fuller, b. 23 Dec 1665, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass, d. 15 Oct 1716, Attleboro, Bristol, Mass. m.

ii. David Fuller, b. 11 Sep 1667, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass. d. 12 Apr 1750, Coventry, Tolland, CT

iii. Daniel Fuller, b. 6 Aug 1669, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass; d. 6 Dec 1758, Ashford, CT

iv. Robert Fuller, b. 28 Jun 1671; d. 28 Jul 1671

v. Thomas Fuller, b. 28 Jun 1671, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass; d. 23 Oct 1742. He first married Elizabeth Cobley on 8 Jan 1692/93 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA. He next married about 1703 to Ann Woodcock, the daughter of our ancestors William WOODCOCK and Mary [__?__]. He finally married Mary White on 15 Nov 1722.

vi. Robert Fuller, b. 2 Mar 1672/73, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass; d. 30 Dec 1710

vii. James Fuller, b. 1675, Rehoboth; d. Ashford, CT

viii. Nathaniel Fuller, b. 1 Mar 1674/75, Rehoboth, Mass; d. Ashford, CT

ix. Elizabeth Fuller, b. 12 May 1678, Attleboro, Bristol, Mass.

x. Sarah Fuller, b. 23 Apr 1680, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

xi. Mary Fuller, b. 1 Oct 1681, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

xii. Noah Fuller, b. 12 Feb 1683/84, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass; d. 12 Jan 1714/15, of Attleboro, Bristol, Mass.

xiii. Elizabeth Fuller, b. 12 May 1688, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

2. Mary Wilmarth

Mary’s first husband Joseph Rocket was born in 1659 in Medfield, Norfolk, Mass. His parents were Nicolas Rockett (1628 – 1680) and Margaret Holbrook (1635 – 1670). Joseph died 27 Jul 1683 in Swansea, Bristol, Mass.

Mary’s second husband Giles Gilbert was born 1627 in Somerset or Devon, England. His parents were John Gilbert and Winifred Rossiter. Giles died 8 Jan 1718 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

Mary’s third husband Jeremiah Wheaton was born in 1698 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass

3. Daniel Wilmarth

Daniel’s wife Mary Walker was born about 1650 in Rehoboth, Norfolk, Mass.

4. Thomas Wilmarth

Thomas’ wife Mary Robinson was born 30 May 1652 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass. Her parents were George Robinson and Joanna Ingraham. Mary died 19 May 1694 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

5. John Wilmarth

John’s first wife Ruth Kendrick was born 16 Feb 1650, Rehoboth, Bristo, MA. Her parents were George Leverich Kendrick (1622-1727) and Ruth Bowen (1626-1688). Ruth died 19 Feb 1706, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

John’s second wife Hannah Tyler was born 1692, Mendon, Mass. Her parents were Samuel Tyler (1655-1695) and Hannah [__?__] (1663-) Hannah died 1781, Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

Children of John and Ruth

i. Ruth Wilmarth b. 5 Oct 1673, Attleboro, Bristol, Mass. or Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.; d. 26 Mar 1706; m. 16 Feb 1697, Rehoboth, Bristol County, MA to Samuel Cooper

ii. Mehitable Wilmarth 19 Jun 1675, Rehoboth,Mass; d. aft 6 Sep 1748; m. Ebenezer Walker, Nov. 19, 1700. Int. Oct. 18, 1700.

iii. Nathaniel Wilmarth b. 29 Dec 1677, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA; d. 1747; m1. Joanna Luther 27 Mar 1704 Rehoboth, Bristol Co, MA; Her parents were Samuel Luther and Mary Abell. Her grandparents were Robert ABELL and Joanna [__?__]. Joanna Luther died 31 May 1705 in Rehoboth, Mass, seven days after the birth of her only daughter Joanna. m2. Mary Perry, 5 Sep 1706 Scituate, Plymouth Co, MA

iv. Dorothy Wilmarth b. 26 Aug 1680, Rehoboth, Mass; d. 17 Sep 1772, Rehoboth, m. Samuel Fuller 16 Dec 1700, Rehoboth, Mass.

v. Sarah Wilmarth b. 21 Dec 1682, Rehoboth, Mass.; d. 27 Mar 1729; m. John Martin Jr., both of Rehoboth, July 17, 1710. Int. June 17, 1710

vi. John Wilmarth b, 11 Dec 1685, Rehoboth, Mass.; d. 4 Jul 1774, Rehoboth,m. Hannah Tyler on Oct 4, 1708. Hannah Hunt 8 Mar 1711, Rehoboth, Mass.

vii. Mercy Wilmarth b. 2 May 1689, Rehoboth, Mass; d. 5 Jun 1755; m. Eleazer Gilbert 13 Nov 1712, Rehoboth, Mass.

viii. Noah Wilmarth b, 5 May 1691, Rehoboth, Mass; d. 17 May 1691, Rehoboth, Mass.

ix. Timothy Wilmarth 4 Nov 1692, Rehoboth, Mass.

6. Jonathan WILMARTH (See his page)

7. Timothy Wilmarth

Timothy’s wife Mary [__?__]’s identity is not known.

8. Nathaniel Wilmarth

Private Soldiers – The History of Rehoboth by Leonard Bliss, page 117, says, “The names of the Rehoboth soldiers who served in Philip’s war have been preserved, and are as follows:” Those engaged in the Narraganset expedition were, John Fitch, Jonathan Wilmarth, Jasiel Perry, Thomas Kendrick, Jonathan Sabin, John Carpenter, John Redeway, John Martin, John Hall, John Miller, Jun., John Ide, Joseph Doggett, Sampson Mason, Jun. “Those who served under Major Bradford were, Preserved Abell, Samuell Perry, Stephen Paine, Jun., Samuel Miller, Silas T. Alin, Samuel Palmer, James Redeway, Enoch Hunt, Samuel Walker, Nicholas Ide, Noah Mason, Samuel Sabin, Thomas Read, Israel Read, George Robinson, Nathaniel Wilmarth.”

Sources:

http://www.hillfamilymd.org/Family/ps19/ps19_137.htm

http://fulton.nygenweb.net/military/Awilmarth.html

http://www.ormsby.org/genie/Miscellaneous/Willmarth.html

Encyclopedia of Massachusetts – Google Books

Page 174 in the Dryer book, under the Wilmarth name, states that Thomas Wilmarth and Elizabeth Bliss were probably married in England. The Wilmarth genealogy book also says they were probably born in England.

Page: p. 7, and 890 VR 1-91
Title: H. L. Peter Rounds, C.G., Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, 1687-1745 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; Baltimore, MD; 1988)

Page: p. 8
Title: New England Historic Genealogical Society, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Page: vol. 62, p. 236, “Bristol County Probate Records”

Page: p. 403, VR 1-47
Title: Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, M.D., Editor, Records of Plymouth Colony: Births, Marriages, Deaths, Burials, and Other Records, 1633-1689
Reprinted with “Plymouth Colony Vital Records,” a Supplement from _The Mayflower Descendant_ by George Ernest Bowman (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
Baltimore, MD

Title: Charles Henry Pope, The Pioneers of Massachusetts (Boston, 1900
Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1998)
Personal Collection of James B. Bullock,,Littleton, CO 80120.

Page: p. 94, 687
Title: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, 1642-1896 (Narragansett Historical Publishing Co.; Providence, RI; 1897.)
Images from Search Research Publishing Corp CD “Early Vital Records of Bristol County, Massachusetts to about 1850”; Wheat Ridge, CO; 1998.

Title: “The Wilmarth Family Descendants of Thomas of Massachusetts.”
Author: Elizabeth Wilmarth and Bessie Wilmarth Gahn
Publication: 1953. Page: pp. 11-14.Further Sources:
Vest/Cochran Tree (Owner: marievk1); Ancestry.com.
Borchardt (Owner: baj1445); Ancestry.com.
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Kevin Wesley Grubbs (Owner: kdgrubbs); Ancestry.com.
YOUNG (Owner: foskni); Ancestry.com.

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http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=7015672&st=1

http://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Wilmarth/6000000006801331358?through=6000000001638115385

http://www.jezzmo.com/family2012/19093.htm

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Jonathan Wilmarth

Posted on June 21, 2010 by markeminer

Jonathan WILMARTH (1656 – 1733) was Alex’s 9th Great Grandfather, one of 1,024 in this generation of the Shaw line.

Jonathan Wilmarth was born in 1656 in Rehoboth, Mass. His parents were Thomas WILMARTH and Elizabeth BLISS. He married Esther PECK on 29 Dec 1680 in Rehoboth, Mass. Jonathan died in 1733 in Rehoboth, Mass.

Esther Peck was born 7 Jan 1657/58 in Rehoboth, Mass. Her parents were John PECK and Elizabeth HUNTING. Some sources say Esther died in 1756 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

Children of Jonathan and Esther:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	Esther Wilmarth	28 Nov 1681 Rehoboth	William Dryer 4 Mar 1707/08 Rehoboth	4 Mar 1741 Rehoboth, Mass
2.	Rebecca WILMARTH	30 Aug 1683 Rehoboth	Jasiel PERRY 29 Dec 1680 Rehoboth	17 May 1736 Rehoboth
3.	Daniel Wilmarth	7 Dec 1685 Rehoboth		Died Young
4.	Jonathan Wilmarth	5 Aug 1690 Rehoboth	Beulah Hemmenway 24 Nov 1714 Rehoboth	14 Sep 1756 Attleboro, Mass
5.	Margaret Wilmarth	31 Aug 1692 Rehoboth	Nathaniel Bosworth 7 Nov 1713 Rehoboth	1780
6.	Stephen Wilmarth	11 Apr 1695 Rehoboth	Deborah Crossman 20 Apr 1728 Attleborough, Mass. . Hannah Read 16 Jan 1741/42 – Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass	27 Apr 1765 Attleborough, Mass.
7.	Thomas Wilmarth	22 Feb 1696/97 Rehoboth	Lydia Carpenter 6 Feb 1721 Rehoboth
8.	Nathan Wilmarth	17 Dec 1700 Rehoboth	Mary Stacy 29 Nov 1722 Attleborough . Rebecca Perry 24 Jul 1756 Attleboro, Bristol, MA	13 Mar 1764 Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass Probate: 8 Apr 1766 Attleboro, Bristol, MA
9.	Nathaniel Wilmarth	15 Apr 1706 Rehoboth, Bristol, MA	Mary Liscomb Intent 13 Dec 1729

Jonathan appears in the list of those participating in the Narragansett expedition (Great Swamp Fight) at which time the name is spelled for the first time Wilmarth. It was previously written Wilmouth. For his service, he was named a grantee at Narragansett Township No. 4 (now Goffstown, NH; the land was found unsuitable, and replacement land was subsequently granted in what is now Greenwich, Massachusetts.)

The Wilmarths had substantial land holdings in the Palmer River area of Rehoboth, some properties adjacent to Fuller holdings. Rehoboth of today has a street named Wilmarth Bridge Road, running from the turnpike, (Route 44), to Summer Street, and passing through what was once Wilmarth property.
View Google Street View looking from Winthrop Street to Wilmarth Bridge Road

Descendants

6th Great Grandfather of U.S. Senator from California…..Alan MacGregor Cranston

Children

1. Esther Wilmarth

Esther’s husband William Dryer was born 28 Nov 1684 in Taunton, England. His parents were William Dryer and Anna Locke. He immigrated in 1704. William died 18 Dec 1784 in Rehoboth, Mass(came in 1704) D. 100 YRS OLD.

Children of Esther and William

i. Esther Dryer b. 29 Apr 1712; m. Nathan Cobb July 05, 1742.

ii. Elizabeth Dryer , b. 13 May 1714; d. 31 Mar 1715.

iii. Elizabeth Dryer , b. 31 Dec 1717; m.19 Nov 1742 in Voluntown, CT to Benjamin Pierce.

iv. William Dryer Jr., b. 27 Dec 1719; died in d. age 97 years old.; m. Hannah Wilmarth

v. Margaret Dryer , b. 12 May 1722; d. 13 Apr 1806 in N. Rehoboth, Mass. m. 6 Feb 1743/44 in Rehoboth to her first cousin David Perry Sr. b. 16 Aug 1719 in Rehoboth, son of our ancestors Jasiel PERRY and Rebecca Peck WILLMARTH

vi. John Dryer , b. 12 Aug 1725; died in “He was a Lieutenant in the Rev. War.”; married 18 Mar 1748. to Mary Read d. 7 Aug 1787 – Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass

John Dryer was a minute man in Rehoboth who enlisted after hearing the news from Lexington and Concord. He served until the War was over despite his age of being over 50 years old.

John Dryer SAR Application

2. Rebecca WILMARTH (See Jasiel PERRY‘s page)

4. Jonathan Wilmarth

Jonathan’s wife Beaulah Hemmingway was born 5 Oct 1691 in Rehoboth, Mass. Her parents were Joshua Hemingway and Margaret Kenrick. Beaulah died 14 Feb 1770 in Attleboro, Mass,

5. Margaret Wilmarth

Margaret’s husband Nathaniel Bosworth was born 1694 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass. His parents were Joseph Bosworth and Esther Smith. Nathaniel died 30 May 1772. Biographies of Nathaniel Bosworth show his wife as Margaret William, but this was later proven to be Margaret Wilmarth.

Nathaniel was a “housewright”.

Oct. 11, 1715,- Nathaniel with his brother Joseph bought 65 acres of land in Rehoboth for £260, of Stephen Hunt; deed signed by Stephen and Damaris his wife.

Feb. 13, 1716, Joseph Bosworth, yeoman, and Nathaniel Bosworth, “House Carpenter,” mortgaged this land to the “Committee of five Commissioners appointed by the Great and General Court” for “emitting the sum of One Hundred Thousand pounds,” for £130. This was to be paid in annual installments of £6.10s. Before the payments were finished Nathaniel on Apr. 14, 1725, sold his share to Joseph, so the latter completed the payments and received the discharged mortgage in 1731. (Taunton Deeds, 10-549)

Apr. 13, 1725, Nathaniel’s brother Joseph, in consideration of an agreement made between them relating to the estate of “our Father Joseph Bosworth late of said Rehoboth Deceased,” deeded twelve acres of land “scituate at the south end of the farm whereon I now dwell in the Township of Rehoboth . . . bounded southerly by Ebenezer Peck’s land, Easterly by a highway, northerly by my own Land and westerly by a highway.” On Apr. 14, 1725, the same day that Nathaniel sold his brother his half of the 65 acres, he also sold him the above mentioned twelve acres. This deed, which was witnessed by Israel and Stephen Peck, is in the possession of Mrs. Carrie Bosworth Reed.

Feb. 12, 1727/28 – Nathaniel sold five acres of swamp land to John Hill of Rehoboth. (Taunton Deeds, Bk. 18, p. 67). On the Old Proprietary Records of Rehoboth (Bk. 3, p. 62 [76]) is given “The Records of the lands of Joseph and Nathaniel Bozworth, dated, Apr. 3, 1735.

Nov. 7, 1743 – “Nathaniel Bozworth of Rehoboth, Mass.” bought 90 acres of land in the “New Milford North Purchase” in New Milford, (then in New Haven Co., now in Litchfield Co.), Conn. of Jonathan Noble of New Milford. (New Milford Deeds 6-436). In Book 5, page 429 of New Milford records is found the following: ”

Know all men by these presents that I Nathaniel Bozworth of Rehoboth in the County of Bristol in New England Housewright Do hereby constitute and appoint Nathaniel Bozworth Blacksmith and William Bozworth Clothworker Both of New Milford in the County of New Haven and Colony of Connecticut to be my true and sufficient and Lawful attorneys and in my name and in my stead in all causes Rate personal or mixt moued or to be moued for me or against me, to appear plead and pursue to finial judgment & execution and in an especial manner to take care of my Right of Land Lying in New Milford North Purchase to see that there be no trespass committed thereon and if there hath any person or persons that Heretofore hath commited or shall hereafter commit any trespass thereon the same person or persons to persue and proceed against according to law” etc. “In witness whereof I have Hereunto set my hand and seal the ninth day of June In the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and forty six and in ye nineteenth year of his majusties Reign”

Mar. 14, 1749 – before a “Freeholders Court” at New Milford, Mr. Edward Cogswell of New Milford complained that the bounds between his land and the land of Nathaniel Bosworth of Rehoboth, Mass. was “Lost & unknown said Land lying in New Milford North Purchase sd. Land being ye 33d and 34th Lots In number and Requiring the Benefits of the Law In that Case.” Whereupon a committee of three freeholders was appointed to decide upon the bounds and reported that “a heap of stones Lying the East side of Aspotuck River a few rods Eastward from sd. River northwestward from the afores^d Cogswells house . . . made for the Dividing bounds.”

Sept. 5, 1751 – in order to settle the above mentioned bounds, Edward Cogswell gives Quit claim deed to “Nathaniel Bozworth of Rehoboth, Mass., to a “Triangular piece of Land in the South Teer of Lotts in New Milford North Purchase 1st Division,” etc. Sept. 6,. 1751, Edward Cogswell “in consideration of one Certain Warrantee Deed to me well Executed Dated Even herewith by Nathaniel Bozworth of Rehoboth . . . of y^e North part of y^e 34th Lott of Land in the South Teer in y^e first Division in New Milford North Purchase . . . Do for myself . . Confirm unto y^e s^d Nathaniel Bozworth . . all that part of the 33d Lott of Land in y^e South Teer in y^e first Division in s^d New Milford North Purchase afore s^d that LyesSouth of y^e following Lines” etc. On the same date Nathaniel deeded to Edward Cogswell all the land lying “North” of the above line, thus settling the boundaries of their lands. Also on the same date “Nathaniel Bozworth of Rehoboth, Mass. and Nathaniel Bozworth junr. of New Milford” for £320, “old Tenor” deeds to Edw. Cogswell of Preston, New London County, Conn. land in the New Milford North Purchase. (New Milford Deeds, Bk. 6, pp. 529, 605, 618)

Sept. 20, 1751, “Nathaniel Bozworth of Rehoboth for the Love, Goodwill and affection which I have and bare to my well beloved son Nathaniel Bozworth of New Milford,” deeds land in New Milford North Purchase, a part of Lot 34, 1st Division, containing 50 acres; bounds given in which the land of Paul Welch Jun. is mentioned; “And I also Give and Confirm unto him . . . one full Quarter part of the privilege of a Certain place in the afores^dRiver [East Aspetuck] for Erecting a Saw Mill where the first small Brook Empties into said River North of the above said Granted Land with Sufficient Land & other Conveniences of Daming or turning the Water for the use of said Mill with a Convenient way to pass & repass from the Highway thereunto.” (New Milford Deeds 11-682)

On the same date “Nathaniel Bozworth of Rehoboth” deeds to son William of New Milford for “y^e Love good will & affection which I have and do bear to my well beloved son William Bozworth of New Milford” land in New Milford, a part of the 33rd and 34th lots in the North Purchase in the 1st Division, 50 acres. The bounds given “Beginning at a stake and a heap of stones by y^e East side of y^e Highway a Little Northward from Stephen Bozworths Dwelling House” etc. one of the bounds being East Aspetuck river, “there will be contained in y^e whole 50 acres Exclusive of the Highway that Runs through y^esame always Reserving to myself During my Natural Life one half of y^e privilege in s^d stream for building a Mill with Convenient ways to pass to s^d Mill & my other Land.” (New Milford Deeds, 6-627)

Sept. 24, 1751, “Nathaniel Bozworth of Rehoboth for the Love & Goodwill which I have to my son Stephen Bozworth of New Milford” deeds certain parcels of land in the New Milford North Purchase in the 33rd and 34th lots; in all 20 acres, bounds given; “Excepting and reserving one half privilege of the streams and land sufficient for a saw Mill and Dams if need be with a good cartway to and from said places and my other Lands to the Highway and for digging watercourses and carting gravel And timber to and from said places as aforesaid which it shall be thought most convenient for said Mill or Dams the aforesaid Stephen Bozworth and his heirs to have one fourth part thereof as afores^d.” (New Milford Deeds, 8-106)

Children of Margaret and Nathaniel:

i. Bathsheba Bosworth, b. 03 Apr 1714, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA,; m. Thomas Read

ii. Nathaniel Bosworth, b. 29 Apr 1716, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA, m1. Jane Brown, m2. Rebecca Barnum

iii. William Bosworth, b. 31 Aug 1718, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA; m. Sarah Farrand

iv. Sarah Bosworth, b. 16 Aug 1720, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA; m. Joseph Allen, Jr.

v. Deborah Bosworth, b. 28 Mar 1721, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA; m. William Buck

vi. Huldah Bosworth, b. 23 Jan 1725, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA; m. Benjamin Jacobs

vii. Stephen Bosworth, b. 27 Sep 1722, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA; m. Abigail Wood.

6. Stephen Wilmarth

Stephen’s wife Deborah Crossman was born 11 Feb 1700 in Taunton, Bristol, Mass. Her parents were John Crossman (1654 – 1731) and Joanna Thayer (1665 – 1734) Many sources state she died in 1800, but there are no details to support the claim she was a Centenarian. Not only that, but Stephen married Hannah Read 16 Jan 1741/42 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass. Stephen’s name is often spelled Willmarth (with two ls).

Children of Stephen and Deborah

i. Stephen Wilmarth b. Aft 1728 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA.

ii. Deborah Wilmarth b. ~ 1730 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA.

iii. Elisha Wilmarth b. 25 Aug 1733 in Attleboro in Attleboro, Bristol, Mass; m int. 28 Apr 1764 in Attleboro, Bristol, Mass to his cousin Sarah Walker (2 Sep 1735 in Clarendon, Rutland, Vermont; d. New York) Her parents were Daniel Walker and Mary Perry. Her grandparents were Jasiel PERRY and Rebecca Peck WILLMARTH. Elisha and Sarah had five children born between 1765 and 1775.

iv. Sarah Wilmarth was born AFT 1740 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA.

v. Hephzibah Wilmarth . She married Amos Robinson AFT 11 MAR 1758, son of Nathaniel Robinson and Zilpha Daggett. He was born 7 SEP 1735 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA

7. Thomas Wilmarth

Thomas’ wife Lydia Carpenter (James Carpenter ⁵, Samuel Carpenter ⁴, William Carpenter³, William CARPENTER², William CARPENTER¹) was born 30 Apr 1700. Her parents were James Carpenter and Grace Palmer.

Children of Thomas and Lydia:

i. Lydia Wilmarth bapt. 24 NOV 1722 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA, and died 17 OCT 1745 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA. She married Ezra Brown 3 APR 1745 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA, son of William Brown and Elizabeth [–?–]. He was born 18 AUG 1722 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.

ii. Timothy Wilmarth b. 8 NOV 1725 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.

iii. James Wilmarth was born 16 OCT 1727 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.

iv. Ezra Wilmarth b. 8 APR 1730 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.d. 1814 in brd N. Rehobeth Cem.; m. 25 Oct 1750 to Prudence Morse.

v. Nehemiah Wilmarth b. 18 MAR 1732/3 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.; m. Mary Barstow 28 MAY 1761 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA. She was born ABT 1740.

vi. Valentine Wilmarth b. 20 DEC 1736 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.

vii. Nathaniel Wilmarth b. 27 NOV 1741 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.

8. Nathan Wilmarth

Nathan’s first wife Mary Stacy was born 1701 in Attleborough, Bristol, Mass. Mary died in 1743.

Nathan’s second wife Rebecca Brown (William Brown ⁵, Samuel Brown⁴, James Brown³, James Brown², John BROWNE¹) was born 17 Apr 1725 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass. Her parents were William Brown and Elizabeth [__?__]. Rebecca died in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

“Will of Nathan Willmarth of Attl., yeoman, ‘being Sensible that I must Shortly die though at present in Comfortable health,’ dtd. 13 March 1764, prob. 8 Apr. 1766. ‘To my dear wife’ [not named], who is also to get ‘all that She Brought with her.’ Sons: Nathan, Elkanah & John. ‘To Jemima Perry the wife of Ezra I confirm What I have Given her Mother my daughter Esther [prob. dcd.] hopeing her father will make it good to her.’ ‘To Molly my Son Nathans Daughter.’ Son Elkanah to be exec. Witns: Amos Brown, Josiah Carpenter & Daniel Willmarth [19:399/400/1].

Children of Nathan and Mary

i. Nathan Wilmarth b: 3 NOV 1723 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA; m. 6 DEC 1748 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA to Mercy Titus b: 8 FEB 1725/26 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA

ii. Esther Wilmarth b: 31 DEC 1724 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA; m. 28 May 1741 in Attleboro, Bristol, Mass. to Robert Titus

iii. Mary Wilmarth b: 2 FEB 1726/27 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA; d. not long before 13 MAR 1813 in Calais, Washington, VT; m. intentions 24 NOV 1753 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA to Timothy Redway b: 8 OCT 1733 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA

iv. Elkanah Wilmarth b: 22 JUL 1729 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA; d. 7 Dec 1828 Attleboro, Bristol, Mass

v. Ichabod Wilmarth b: 7 NOV 1731 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA; d. 22 Nov 1731 Attleboro, Mass,

vi. John Wilmarth b: 10 MAY 1733 in Attleboro, Bristol, MA; m. 28 Feb 1761 in Attleboro, Massa to Phebe Briggs b. 8 Apr 1740 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass.

Children of Nathan and Rebecca

vi. Mary Wilmarth b. 28 Sep 1756

vii. Mercy Willmarth b. 5 Nov 1760 in Attleboro, Bristol, Mass; m. 24 Jun 1783 to Thomas French b. 18 Feb 1749/50 Attleboro His parents were Thomas FRENCH Jr and Keziah PERRY.

viii. Bebe Wilmarth b.14 Feb 1765

9. Nathaniel Wilmarth

Children of Nathaniel and Mary

i. Molly Wilmarth b: 8 JAN 1730/1 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA

ii. Elizabeth Wilmarth b: 25 OCT 1732 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA

iii. Valentine Wilmarth b: 9 MAR 1734/5 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA

Sources:

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

Encyclopedia of Massachusetts – Google Books

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brookefamily/wilmarthjonathan.htm

http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:865738&id=I2781

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=7014817

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John Millard Sr

Posted on June 21, 2010 by markeminer

John MILLARD Sr. (1608 -1689) was Alex’s 11th Great Grandfather, one of 4,096 in this generation of the Shaw line.

John Millard – Coat of Arms

John Millard Sr. was born 1608 in St. Chad’s, Cheshire, England. His parents were Robert MILLARD and Elizabeth SABIN. He married our ancestor in England, but her name has been lost to time. He married Elizabeth Baugh in 1653 in Rehoboth, Mass. John died in 1689 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts.

St. Chad’s Church

St Chad’s Church, Wybunbury was an Anglican church in the village of Wybunbury, Cheshire, England. The body of the church has been demolished but the tower still stands.

Elizabeth Baugh was born 1612 in St. Chaddis, England. Her parents were Charles Baugh and Joan [__?__]. Elizabeth died April 18, 1680 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts.

Evidence regarding the two marriages of John Millard Sr. is inextricably entangled with the data regarding his children. No records have been found of the identity of his first wife, or the date and place of the marriage. As a matter of face, the multiplicity of John Millards, father, son and grandson, in the early records of Rehoboth has raised some doubts as to whether the Elizabeth who died in 1680 was really the spouse of John Sr. at all; John Jr. also had a wife Elizabeth. (Giddings, p. 248) Happily this question is now settled. In a deed of 4 Mar 1679/80, John MILLER Sr. of Rehoboth, tanner, conveyed to his son Samuel Miller his house and home lot, salt marsh in the Hundred Acres, likewise fifty pounds of commonage in Rehoboth, the son Samuel to fully possess all “except if my beloved wife Elizabeth doeth outlive me”; then was to have one half the house, orchard and lands during her natural life, and after her death Samuel to have all. Witnesses: John MILLER Jr. and the mark of Hannah Miller. (Plymouth colony Deeds Vol. 4, p. 354; Bowen, Vol. III, p. 163) This instrument was acknowledged by John Millard Sr. on 12 Apr 1680, just six days before Elizabeth’s burial.

Children of John and [__?__]:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	Robert Millard	ca. 1632 Southampton, England	Elizabeth Sabin 24 Dec 1662 Rehoboth, Mass	16 Mar 1698
2.	John MILLARD	ca. 1636 England	Elizabeth [__?__]	5 Jun 1684 Rehoboth, Mass, of two self inflicted dagger wounds in the neck.

Children of John Millard Sr. and Elizabeth born at Rehoboth:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
3.	Hannah Millard	23 Dec 1653	Daniel Thurston 16 Dec 1681 Rehoboth, Mass. . Silas Titus 18 May 1656 (Son of our ancestor John TITUS )	1717 Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass
4.	Sarah Millard	15 Oct 1655	John Titus (Son of our ancestor John TITUS)	10 Mar 1731/32 Rehoboth, Mass
5	Samuel Millard	5 Oct 1658	Esther Bowen 20 July 1682 Rehoboth, Mass . Esther Jenckes 1 Jun 1700 Rehoboth, Mass	31 Aug 1720 Rehoboth, Mass
6.	Joseph Millard	Aug 1660		Aft. 1689
7.	Benjamin Millard	22 Sep 1662 Rehoboth, Mass	Lydia Reynolds 2 Mar 1693/94 Norwich, CT	bef. 16 Dec 1751 Windham, CT

John Millard was a Tanner Here are a variety of tooled leather scabbards like the ones he would have used

On 30 June 1684, John Miller of Rehoboth, tanner, “for good grounds moving me thereunto and out of love and affection to my son Robert Miller of Rehoboth, Tanner, have many hears since given, granted, allined … and by these presents give, grant, alien and assign forever to said Robert Miller, his heirs and assigns .. as his and their rightful inheritance. To be holden after ye maner of East Greenwich in ye County of Kent in England”; fifty pounds commonage in Rehoboth, nine acres, “part of it being a part of his homestead”, two divisions of upland, “laid out since this gift, one being in he two thousand acre Division”, ten acres at Chestnut Hill, and eight acres at Wachamokett Neck. Witnesses: Samuel Miller, William Carpenter. (Plymouth Colony Deeds, Vol. 5, Pt. 2 p. 278).

In this and other deeds of the period, the expression, “To be holden after ye maner of East Greenwiche in ye County of Kent in England” was a legal cliche referring to the fact that such lands were grants from the Crown. The same wording, derived from the fact that a royal residence was located for many years at East Greenwich (now a part of London), occurs in a number of the early colonial charters. There is no implication that either the grantor or the notary who drew up the deed had any personal acquaintance with East Greenwich.

The evidence that John Millard Jr. was a son of John Sr. is less clear cut than in the case of Robert but circumstantially impressive nevertheless. The date of the conveyance just quoted from John Miller of Rehoboth to his son Robert is significant in this connection; it was drawn up ten days after the inventory of John Jr. Presumably John Sr. had given each of these sons his inheritance “many years since”, but no formal deeds of gifts had been recorded. Perhaps this omission had proved a hindrance in the appraisal of John Jr’s estate; so the father then hastened to confirm his gift to the surviving son by his first wife.

Further indications that John Jr. was in fact a son of John Sr. are found in the following data: from 1657 until 1684 the two Johns were always designated as Senior and Junior; whereas earlier while the younger John was still a minor and later after John Jr.’s death, the older man was listed simply as John Miller. In 1680 John Miller Jr. was a witness, with John Sr.’s daughter Hannah Miller, in the deed of inheritance from John Sr. to his son Samuel. It was not unusual for other heirs to witness such deeds of gifts, as instanced by Samuel’s signature as a witness to the 1684 conveyance from John to his son Robert.

However, with Robert and John Jr. now established as sons of John Millard Sr., another problem arises. It seems very unlikely that the wife Elizabeth whose son Benjamin was born in 1662 was also the mother of Robert born thirty years earlier. To avoid this physiological anomaly, to explain more logically the great disparity between the ages of the two older sons and John’s later children, and to account for the very considerable hiatus between John’s known arrival in Rehoboth and the birthdates of his recorded children, the following hypothesis is formulated: John Millard, with a wife and family including two small sons, probably came to New England about 1637 at the same time as his kinsman who settled in Boston. By 1643 John was established in Rehoboth, but he was then probably a widower since he had no children recorded during his early years in the town. About 1652 he married Elizabeth who died in 1680. It is true no direct evidence has been found to support this theory; perhaps none can ever be discovered. But conversely, there is no evidence to discourage, and considerable logic to support, the contention that John Sr. must have had two wives.

During more than four decades John Millard Sr. was a taxpayer and landowner, identified with the community of Rehoboth. As early as 1643 he was referred to as a proprietor and named seventeenth in the list of estates. Thereafter his name appears in succeeding years in connection with land allotments in “the woodland between plain and town” (1644), “the great plain beginning on the westside” (1645), the new meadow (1646), and the meadows on the northside of the town(1658). In 1648 he was “Servayer for the Hyewayes for Rehoboth” and constable in 1672. The town assessments of 22 Dec. 1657 list John Miller Sr., together with his two sons, John Jr. and Robert, and the following year both Johns took the Oath of Fidelitie there. Ten years later the same three Millers were among those who drew lots for the “meadow lands in the North Purchase” (now Attleboro, Mass.)

At a hearing in Suffolk County Probate Court, on 4 Feb. 1669/70, several friends and neighbors of the deceased Thomas Millard testified as to his wishes regarding his estate: “He would give… his land at Centry Hill … to his kinsman at Seaconk who hath many children”; “he would give his estate to his cousin Millard because he was brought up at his father’s house”; “he intended cousin Miller should have good part of his estate … because ‘I have no other kindred in the country nor certainly do know that any other is alive'”.

The estate referred to in this testimony consisted principally of two lots in Boston. One of these, described in the inventory as “a small parcel of land lying on the side of Century Hill and fronting the Common”, was in fact almost the whole of the lot upon which the State House now stands, a half acre of which was Millard’s by allotment and an additional acre brought of Zaccheus Bosworth in 1651. (Report of the Boston Record Commissioners, Vol. V. pp. 116-117) Thomas also owned a half-acre lot near the South Meeting House, in connection with which property the Administrators of his estate were sued by Gamaliel Waite. At a court hearing, on 25 Feb 1671/72, Waite, an abutting property owner, claimed that Millard in replacing the fence around his lot had included land which belonged to Waite’s lot and that the land so appropriated was now included in the inventory of Millard’s estate. (Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County, Mass., Case #1092).

Children

1. Robert Millard

Robert’s wife Elizabeth Sabin was born about1640 in Titchfield, Hampshire, England. Her parents were William Sabin and Mary Elizabeth Wright. After Robert died, she married 12 Jan 1700/01 to Samuel Hayward (b. 1646; d 29 Jul 1713. Mendon, Mass). He first married Mehitable Thompson. Elizabeth died 7 Feb 1716 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Mass and was buried at Newman Ch Cem, Seekonk, Bristol, Mass.

Like his father Robert Millard was a tanner at Rehoboth. In 1668 he was one of those who received lots in the North Purchase meadow (later Attleboro); and in 1689 he was listed among the Inhabitants and Proprietors of Rehoboth. In addition to the lands he had by propriety, Robert bought lands at Palmer River from Anthony Perry, John Fitch and Joseph Peck and salt marsh in Swansea from Peter Hunt.

His name is included in various Rehoboth tax lists from 1671 to 1678, and on 26 Jan 1676/77, “An account of the charges that several Persons have been at relating to the late War” (King Philip’s War) shows “Rob Miller — b. 5.17.06”. The Massachusetts towns were then required to equip and provision their own militiamen, and the money listed in this account was probably used for this purpose. Besides this financial contribution to the war effort, Robert Millard served at the Turner’s Falls Fight (See my post) under Capt. William Turner.

Although Robert remained throughout his life a resident of Rehoboth, on 19 May 1685 he owned land in New Meadow Neck in Swansea (between Runen’s River and Warren River) and was listed as one of the proprietors of Swansea (between Runen’s River and Warren River) and which is now Barrington and Warren, R.I. including parts of Swansea, Seekonk and East Providence. Similarly the name of Robert Millard was listed on 23 July 1689 among “the several persons that live … (torn) …” in Swansea. New Meadow Neck was part of Swansea from the organization of that town in 1663 until it was set off to Barrington in 1717.

The will of Robert Millard of Rehoboth, Tanner, dated 11 Mar 1698/99, proved 29 March 1699, bequeathed to sons Solomon and Ephraim, dwelling house, barn and lands belonging thereto, upland at Palmer River, and fifty pounds commonage; to son Nathaniel, ten acres on Rocky River; to son Nehemiah, fifty acres “he now lives upon”; to son Robert, fifty acres at the northside of Rehoboth. To each son he gave in addition a piece of salt meadow in New Meadow. He bequeathed further to his grandsons, John and Richard Bragg, fifty acres of the northside to each; to daughter Elizabeth, a cow; to daughters Mary and Experience, ten pounds each; and to wife Elizabeth, all household goods, living space and her maintenance at the expense of the sons Solomon and Ephraim, who were designated executors. Witnesses: Timothy Blake, Thomas Bowen. The inventory, totalling £271.10.00, included besides the real estate listed in the will, Barks Mill and Tann Pitts (this mill was evidently used to grind bark for use in tanning), stock in the Tann Pitts, Raw hides and Barks, ten acres at Chestnut Hill, a 14 acre lot lying by William Doans, and ten pounds worth of smithy tools.

On 17 June 1695, Robert Millerd had deeded to his son Nathaniel Millerd of Rehoboth, Malster, one half acre on the east side of Palmer River, previously purchased of John Fitch. Then on 29 March 1699, Mary Millerd, one of the witnesses to the deed, and on 18 May 1699 Henry West, the other witness, swore that they had seen Robert sign. The record of their testimony provides further confirmation of the date of Robert’s death.

2. John MILLARD Jr. (See his page)

3. Hannah Millard

Hannah’s husband Daniel Thurston was born 6 May 1646 at Dedham, Mass. His parents were John Thurston and Margaret Buck. He first married 1 Apr 1674 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass to Mary Stedman (b. 27 Apr 1645 in Cambridge, Mass. – d. 21 May 1680 in Medfield, Mass.) Daniel died 23 July 1683 at Rehoboth.

Hannah’s second husband Silas Titus was born 18 May 1656 in Rehoboth. His parents were our ancestors John TITUS and Abigail CARPENTER. Two children. After Hannah died, Silas married again 23 Oct. 1679 to Sarah Battelle of Dedham, who d. 8 Apr 1689. He married a third time 24 Jan 1716/17 at Rehoboth to Mehitable Ormsbee. Mehitable was previously married to Joshua Ormsby, son of our ancestor John ORMSBY Sr. Silas died in 1741.

4. Sarah Millard

Sarah’s husband John Titus was born 18 Dec 1650 in Rehoboth, Mass. His parents were our ancestors John TITUS and Abigail CARPENTER. John Titus first married at Rehoboth, 17 July 1673, Lydia Redwey b. there 30 May 1652, bur. there 25 Nov 1676, dau. of James Redwey. Sarah and John had eight children, born at Rehoboth. John died 2 Dec 1697 in Rehoboth

5. Samuel Millard

Samuel’s first wife Esther Bowen was born 20 Apr 1660 in Rehoboth, Mass. Her parents were Richard Bowen Jr. and Esther Sutton. Esther died 12 Apr 1699 in Rehoboth.

Samuel’s second wife Esther Jenckes was born 1664 in Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island. Her parents were Joseph Jenckes Jr. and Esther Ballard. Esther died 29 Jul 1721 in Rehoboth, Mass.

Because the will of Joseph Jenckes Jr., dated 21 Oct 1708 does not name any of his daughters, Esther’s marriage has been omitted from The Jenks Family in America, 1952, by William B. Browne (p. 3). Her identity as stated above is based on the Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, 1887, by John O. Austin (p. 113) and the Ballard Genealogy, 1911 by Charles Frederic Farlow (p. 17). In this connection it is interesting to note that Esther (Jenckes) Millard’s only son was named Joseph, perhaps after his grandfather.

During King Philip’s War Samuel Millard served 24 days in Major Bradford’s company of militia, (Bowen, Vol. II, p. 51) On 7 Feb. 1689 in the list of Inhabitants and Proprietors of Rehoboth he was listed as Samuel Millerd Sr. as distinguished from his nephew who was six years younger. He was a tanner and in 1694 was described as owning meadows adjoining the property of John Perrin and Timothy Ide. (Bowen, Vol. 1, pp. 56, 114, 120)

The will of Samuel Millard of Rehoboth, Tannor, dated 29 Sept. 1718, proved 3 Oct. 1720, bequeathed to wife Esther, the east room in his house, she to be cared for by son Samuel; to each daughter, viz. Ester West, Allis Chaffee and Margaret Millard, twenty-five pounds; the rest and remainder of the estate to go to son Samuel, who was to be executor, with his uncles Richard Bowen and John Bowen as overseers. (Bristol Co., Mass. Probates, Vol. 3, p. 687)

6. Joseph Millard

The Joseph Millard listed on 7 Feb. 1689 among the Inhabitants and Proprietors of Rehoboth was certainly this son of John Sr., but there is little data to indicate what became of him after that date. Possibly he was the Joseph Millard who is shown in the published church records of Windham, Conn. as a communicant sometime later than 1700 but earlier than 1726, when his brother Benjamin Millard and wife Lydia were listed as members of this same congregation. However, there are no vital statistics, deeds or probates recorded in Windham for this Joseph Millard. The evidence to date suggests the possibility that both Joseph and Benjamin moved to Connecticut, but Joseph died or was killed there, before he had children of his own; whereupon Benjamin named his only son for his deceased brother.

7. Benjamin Millard

Benjamin’s wife Lydia Reynolds, was born February 1671. Her parents were John Reynolds and Sarah Backus. Lydia died at Windham, 7 Jan. 1756, age 84 years.

Following the Norwich, CT marriage record of this couple, which shows the groom as “Benjamine Miller”, the History and Descendants of John and Sarah (Backus) Reynolds of Saybrook, Lyme and Norwich, Conn., 1928, by Marion H. Reynolds (p. 13) surmises that Lydia’s husband was “possibly a son of George Miler of New London”. But the Windham, Conn. church records consistently show the surname as “Millard”; early town records and deeds concur; and Benjamin’s will shows the spelling “Milard”. With the coincidence of a Benjamin Millard who arrived in Norwich before 1693 as an unattached young man and the disappearance from Rehoboth, Mass. After 1689 of a man of identical name who was then 27 years old, Giddings was led to the reasonable conclusion that Benjamin of Windham was truly the son of John Sr. of Rehoboth. (Giddings, p. 248) The proof of this proposition is still circumstantial, but there is no contrary evidence.

On 7 Feb 1689, Benjamin Millerd was listed among the Inhabitants and Proprietors of Rehoboth, but this is his last appearance in the records of that area. Soon thereafter he moved to Norwich, Conn. and then to Windham, where in 1694 “Benjamin Millard of Bear Hill, Norwich” bought from Thomas Leffingwell a thousand acre allotment at the “Horseshoe”, a bend in the river near the center of the town. In 1698 Benjamin was chosen “hayward for fields at the Crotch of the River”, and in 1700 he was allowed “to set up the trade and employment of tanning” — an occupation which he had perhaps learned from his father and brother Robert in Rehoboth. In a list of 5 March 1718, Benjamin Miller was among the forty-five persons admitted as proprietors of the neighboring town of Ashford, Conn., where Benjamin’s nephew, Nathaniel Millard #8, was later to appear as a large landowner. Both Benjamin and his wife Lydia (called “Lucy” in the Windham history) were listed in 1726 as church members in Windham.

28 Nov 1706 – Benjamin Millard bought 102 acres in the 600 acre lot in Windham.

18 Nov 1736 – He sold 12 acres on the west side of Chestnut Hill “ in the southwest part of my 50 acre lot”.

The will of Benjamin Milard of Windham, Conn., written 15 July 1737 “considering my advanced age”, probated 19 March 1752, bequeathed to wife Lydia, the improvement of the third the whole estate; to daughter Lydia, forty pounds; to the children of daughter Mary deceased, ten pounds; to daughter Elizabeth, twenty pounds in addition to the amount already given (indicating that she was already married); to daughter Sarah, sixty pounds; to daughter Abigail, seventy pounds, she and Sarah to have with my wife one half the improvement of my house until marriage; to son Joseph the residue of the estate, he to be sole executor. Witnesses: John Calkins, Joseph Fowler, Elizabeth Fowler, In a codicil, dated 6 July 1741, Benjamin directed that the two daughters, Sarah and Abigail, were to have all the house, homestead, and lands (leaving the improvement of one-third to their mother), and this bequest was to be instead of the money given them in the will. Witnesses: Joseph Fowler, Elizabeth Fowler, and Martha Genning. Inventory of the estate, dated 24 June 1752, totalled £ 302.04.04. (Windham, Conn. Probate #2731)

5 May 1743 – Benjamin Millard (his mark) of Windham, for kindness and services performed by “my daughter Sarah Miller ever since she arrived at the age of 18 years” and also for fatherly love and affection, gave her one-half his dwelling house and one-half of the 30 acres on which the house stood, reserving a place therein to “myself and wife during our natural lives and the life of the longest liver of us”.

16 Dec 1751 – Sarah Millard of Windham deeded to John Marcy of Woodstock (whom she married the following day) all my land and buildings in Windham, being one-half of the dwelling house that lately belonged to my father Benjamin Millard deceased and one-half at 30 acres of land, reserving the use and improvement of same to my mother Lydia Miller during her life.

5 June 1756 – After his own marriage and his mother’s death, Joseph Millard sold to John Marcy of Woodstock (his sister Sarah’s husband) 25 acres in Windham with a “mantion house”, being the homestead that belonged “to my Honrd Father, Mr. Benjamin Millard late of Windham deceased”. Sarah already owned one half of the homestead by deed of gift, and title to the remaining half had come to Joseph as part of the “residue” of his father’s estate. On 9 June 1756, John Martin and Mary Parker and Stephen Parker, all of Windham, quitclaimed to John Marcy of Woodstock all their rights in 225 to 30 acres in Windham “that belonged to my honored Father Benjamin Millard late of Windham deceased”. This John and Mary, nee Martin, were presumably the mentioned but unnamed “children of daughter Mary deceased” who appear in Benjamin Millard’s will, and the deed should have read “our …grandfather Benjamin Millard”.

Sources:

http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/earpconnections/millerdsparti.htm

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=21945506

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John Millard Jr.

Posted on June 21, 2010 by markeminer

John MILLARD Jr. (1636 – 1684) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather, one of 2,048 in this generation of the Shaw line.

John Millard was born in 1636 in England. His parents were John MILLARD Sr. and Elizabeh [__?__]. He married Elizabeth [__?__]. John died 5 Jun 1684 in Rehoboth, Mass, of two self inflicted dagger wounds in the neck.

Elizabeth survived her husband.

Children of John and Elizabeth:

	Name	Born	Married	Departed
1.	John Millard	c. 1655		Killed in Nine Men’s Misery on 26 Mar 1676
2.	Mary MILLARD	1657	Samuel PERRY 12 Dec 1676 Rehoboth, Mass	10 Apr 1706 Rehoboth, Mass.
3.	Elizabeth Millard	Middle of Oct 1659	Samuel Mason 28 Mar 1682 Rehoboth	3 Mar 1718 Rehoboth
4.	Rebecca Millard	Middle of November 1661	Nathaniel Daggett 24 Jun 1686	9 Apr 1711 Rehoboth
5.	Samuel Millard	1 Sept. 1664 Rehoboth	Rebecca Belcher 25 Jun 1690 – Milton, Norfolk, Mass	9 Dec 1735 – Milton, Norfolk, Mass

Alternate spellings are Miller and Millerd.

A deed of 7 Dec 1678, by which John MILLER Jr. of Rehoboth, Tayler, conveyed to his daughter Mary “as her share of her wedding portion and unto Samuel PERRY at the day of marriage with my daughter Mary” 16 acres of upland. John Miller Junr acknowledged this deed on 19 May 1680. (Plymouth Colony Deeds, Vol. 4, Pt. 2, p. 346; Bowen, Vol. III, p. 162)

John Millard first appears in the Rehoboth town records on 22 Dec 1657, when his tax of four pence was the smallest assessment paid by any resident of the town. The following year he took the oath of Fidelitie along with his father, and on 22 Jun 1658, he was among those who “according to person and estate” were allowed lots in the meadows “that lie on the northside of the town”. Ten years later he received a lot in the North Purchase Meadow (now Attleboro). In the published tax lists of 1671-1674 the name of John Miller Jr. occurs regularly. He was a tailor, and in 1675 was Constable of Rehoboth. (Bliss, pp. 49, 67; Bowen, Vol. I, pp. 39, 127)

John Millard Worked as a Tailor

In the Records of King Phillip’s War, John and his eldest son have been confused almost inextricably. Both were designated “John Miller Jr.” in the town records and militia lists. The fact that neither the son John nor his sister Mary were included in the Rehoboth birth records has led some Millard Historians to attribute all the extant records to the father’s widow. But later records make it clear that the military service in the Narragansett Expedition belongs to the son while the various sums advanced “to defray the expenses of the war” were supplied by the father. (Bowen, Vol. II, pp. 40, 43)

The date and circumstances of the death of John Millard Jr. are made tragically clear by the report of a Coroner’s Inquest called together the 5th of June 1684 to make search of the dead body of John Miller of Rehoboth:

“…vpon narrow serch, wee find that the said Miller had two wounds into the soft of his body, close by one and other, as wee apprehending, by a dagger, either stabbing himselfe or falling vpon the dagger, and alsoe a wound in his necke, close to his wind pipe, by a cutt with his knife, which wounds in a few hours proued mortall; and alsoe, vpon examining seueral witnesses that were with him when he cutt his necke, and by his owne confession before his death, wee find that the said Miller did absolutly, willfully, and crewelly murder himselfe, noe other pson or psons, as wee apprehend, being accessory thereunto.” (Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. 6, p. 142)

Historical Note – During the Late Middle Ages, two forms of ‹v› developed, which were both used for its ancestor ‹u› and modern ‹v›. The pointed form ‹v› was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form ‹u› was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So while valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, have and upon were printed ‹haue› and ‹vpon›. The first distinction between the letters ‹u› and ‹v› is recorded in a Gothic alphabet from 1386, where ‹v› preceded ‹u›. By the mid-16th century, the ‹v› form was used to represent the consonant and ‹u› the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter ‹u›. The colonials seem to have been a little behind. Capital ‹U› was not accepted as a distinct letter until many years later

No indications remain to tell what precipitated this tragedy. Certainly John’s difficulties were not financial. On 2 Oct 1684, Elizabeth Millard, Relict of John Millard late of Rehoboth deceased, made oath to the truth of the inventory of her husband’s estate, which inventory, taken 20 June 1684 by Peter Hunt and Jonathan Fuller, totaled £113.08.06, including house and home lot, ten acres in the Second Division of Rehoboth, two lots on the Great Plain, meadow and other land, in addition to a whole share of the northside of a hundred pound estate of commonage. Among John’s personal estate were listed cotton wool, sheep wool, yarns, a pair of taylor shears, a goose, thimbles and other items pertaining to his occupation of tailor. (Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. 4, Pt. 2, p. 75)

The date of John’s burial, shown in the printed Rehoboth Vital Records as 5 June 168-, was construed by Giddings as in the keeping of the Rehoboth Town Clerk, makes that interpretation untenable. The last figure of the burial date was written on a part of the page now broken off; but deaths and burials were recorded in chronological order at the time they occurred, or occasionally afterward; and since John’s burial appears between a death in 1683 and in 1684, it could not have taken place later than this last named year.

Children

1. John Millard

Killed in Nine Men’s Misery (see my post) on 26 March 1676

During King Philip’s War, John’s son John Jr. served 86 ½ days in Narragansett Expedition before he was killed by the Indians in Pierce’s Fight on 26 March 1676. His heirs failed to file a claim in Narragansett Township No. 4, (now Goffstown, NH; the land was found unsuitable, and replacement land was subsequently granted in what is now Greenwich, Mass.) but finally in 1733, more than fifty years after the war, his brother Samuel Miller of Milton received a grant in Narragansett Township No. 5 (now Bedford, Mass.) on account of the services of his brother John in King Philip’s War. (Soldiers in King Philip’s War, 1906, by George N. Bodge, p. 432; Giddings, pp. 248-9; Bowen, Vol. II, pp. 44, 54) John was probably less than twenty years old at the time of his death, and there is no evidence that he ever had either a wife or children.

John died at Nine Men’s Misery. On March 26, 1676 during King Philip’s War, Captain Michael Pierce led approximately 60 Plymouth Colony colonial troops and 20 Wampanoag Christian Indians in pursuit of Narragansett Indians who had burned several Rhode Island towns and attacked Plymouth, Mass. as part of King Philip’s War. Pierce’s troops caught up with the Narragansett Indians, Wampanoag, Nashaway, Nipmuck, Podunk but were ambushed in what is now Central Falls, Rhode Island. Pierce’s troops fought the Narragansetts for several hours, but were surrounded by a larger force of Narragansetts. The battle was one of the biggest defeats of colonial troops during King Philip’s War with nearly all killed in the battle, including Captain Pierce and the Christian Indians (“Praying Indians“) (exact numbers vary by account somewhat). The Narragansetts lost only a handful of warriors.

Nine Men’s Misery Nine Men’s Misery is a site in current day Cumberland, Rhode Island where nine colonists were tortured by the Narragansett Indian tribe during King Philip’s War. A stone memorial was constructed in 1676 which is believed to be the oldest veterans memorial in the United States.

Nine of the colonists who were among the dead were first taken prisoner (along with a tenth man who survived). These men were purportedly tortured to death by the Narragansetts at a site in Cumberland, Rhode Island, currently on the Cumberland Monastery and Library property. The nine dead colonists were buried by English soldiers who found the corpses and buried them in 1676. The soldiers created a pile of stones to memorialize the colonists. This pile is believed to be the oldest veterans’ memorial in the United States, and a cairn of stones has continuously marked the site since 1676.

The “Nine Men’s Misery” site was disturbed in 1790 by medical students led by one Dr. Bowen looking for the body of one of the dead colonists, Benjamin Bucklin, who was said to be unusually large with a double row of teeth. They were stopped by outraged locals. The site was desecrated several more times until 1928 when the monks who then owned the cemetery cemented the stone cairn above the site. The cairn and site can still be visited on the Monastery grounds.

This picture shows the Nine Men’s Misery Original Carin better

Pierce’s Fight was followed by the burning of Providence three days later, and then the capture and execution of Canonchet, the chief sachem of the Narragansetts. The war was winding down even at the time that Pierce’s party was destroyed, and in August, King Philip himself was killed. Our ancestors John LOW and Benjamin Buckland, son of William BUCKLAND also died in the battle.

The site is located on the grounds of the former Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Valley, now the Cumberland public library, and is an approximately 15 minute walk behind the main building on a rise in the woods.

Directions: Follow the road to the right past the main building, you will come to a low white building on your left and at that point should see a break in the chain link fence that is on your right. There is a low metal guardrail in the break, step over and you should be on a walking path. Turn right and not far up the path will divid, take the left path, it will bring you through a field. In the field, it again branches out – take the left again and keep walking out of the field through the trees. From leaving the field to reaching the monument is about the same distance that you walked to get out of the field from the start. Coming down over a small rise, there is a path to the right that brings you to the elevated area that the monument occupies – you can see the monument from the rise when on the path.

2. Mary MILLARD (See Samuel PERRY‘s page)

3. Elizabeth Millard

Elizabeth’s husband Samuel Mason was born 12 Feb 1656/57 in Rehoboth, Mass. His parents were Sampson Mason and Mary Butterworth. After Elizabeth died, he married 4 Nov. 1718 at Providence, R.I. to Lydia Masters. Lydia’s parents were Philip TABER and Lydia MASTERS. Lydia was the widow of Rev. Pardon Tillinghast.. Samuel died 25 Jan 1743/44 in Swansea, Mass. Both Samuel and Elizabeth are buried in Kickimuit Cemetery, Warren, Rhode Island

Samuel Mason lived in Rehoboth, Seekonk and Swansea; he had four children by his first wife, born at Rehoboth. (History of Swansea. 1917, by O. O. Wright, pp. 180-1; Genealogy of the Sampson Mason Family, 1902, by A. H. Mason, p. 19).

4. Rebecca Millard

Rebecca’s husband Nathaniel Daggett was born Aug 1661 in Rehoboth, Mass. His parents were John Daggett and Anna Sutton. Nathaniel died in 1708.

Eight children, born Rehoboth.

5. Samuel Millard

Samuel’s wife Rebecca Belcher was born 1671 in Milton, Norfolk, Mass. Her parents were Joseph Belcher and Rebecca Gill. Rebecca died 9 Aug 1743 in Milton, Norfolk, Mass

Sources:

http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/earpconnections/millerdspartii.htm

http://sevenels.net/famtree/tng/getperson.php?personID=I843&tree=sbl

History of Rehoboth, Bristol Co Massachusetts – Leonard Bliss 1836 reprinted 1908 Archive.org

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=21945504

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