Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Gov. Simon* BRADSTREET | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Simon Bradstreet, son of Rev. Simon Bradstreet, one of the first Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England, and Vicar of Horbling, Lincolnshire, 1596-1621; b. in Horbling, England, March, 1604; Cambridge University, 1621-24; Steward to Countess of Warwick; chosen Assistant Judge of Court of Colony of Massachusetts Bay, prior to departure of colinists from England under Winthrop in 1630; with father-in-law, Thomas Dudley, founded Cambridge, Mass., 1631; Secretary of United Colonies of New England; Envoy from Massachusetts to congratulate Charles II on restoration to throne, 1661; Deputy Governor of Massachusetts, 1673-79; Governor, 1679-86 and 1689-92, being last Governor under original charter; in service of Colony sixty-two years; d. in Salem, Mass., 27th March, 1697; m. (firstly) at Sempringham, Lincolnshire, England., 1628, Anne Dudley, dau. of Governor Thomas and Dorothy (Yorke) Dudley, well known as America's first poetess; m. (secondly) Anna (Downing) Gardner, sister of Sir George Downing, Ambassador of Cromwell and Charles II to Holland. Issue by 1st m.: Samuel, Dorothy, Sarah, Simon, Hannah, Dudley, Mercy, John. [ref 18:1-182] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SIMON, Cambridge, Ipswich, Boston, was a few yrs. at Andover, and spent his latest days at Salem, after Sept. 1695; b. in Mar. 1603, at Horbling, in Lincolnsh. s. of Simon, a min. it is said, bred at Emanuel, Cambr. Univ. enter. there 1617, and matricul. 9 July 1618, as a sizer, had his A. B. 1620, and A. M. 1624, came in the fleet with Winthrop 1630, chos. an assist. 18 Mar. bef. and so cont. by Ann. elect. 48 yrs.; secr. 23 Aug. 1630 to 1636; dep.-gov. 1673-8; gov. 1679 to 1686; and again after the rising against Sir E. Andros 1689-92; d. 27 Mar. 1697. By his first w. Ann, d. of Gov. Thomas Dudley (a lady of some celebr. for poetical talent, wh. d. 16 Sept. 1672, at Andover), m. at the fam. hist. in Geneal. Reg. IX, 113, says, a. 1628, wh. to me seems a yr. or two earlier than prob. tho. we kn. it was bef. the Apr. embark. in 1630, had Samuel, H. C. 1653, bef. ment.; Dorothy, wh. m. 14 June 1654, Rev. Seaborn Cotton; Sarah, wh. m. 1. Richard Hubbard of Ipswich, and 2. capt. Samuel Ward; Simon, b. 28 Sept. 1640, H. C. 1660 Hannah, wh. m. 3 June 1659, Andrew Wiggin of Exeter; Mercy, b. 1647, wh. m. 31 Oct. 1672, maj. Nathaniel Wade; Dudley, 1648, bef. ment.; and John, 22 or 31 July 1652, bef. ment. His sec. w. Ann, wid. of capt. Joseph Gardner, d. of Emanuel Downing, younger by more than thirty yrs. wh. he m. 6 June 1676, d. 19 Apr. 1713, aged 79. [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BRADSTREET, Simon (widow), Ann Gardiner 2 May 1676 Andover, Mass. [ref 15] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bradstreet, Gov. Simon [(Rev. Simon bp. Horbling, Co. Lincoln, 18 Mar. 1603] one of the founders of Cambridge; res. E. cor. Harvard Square and Brighton [Boylston] Street; real estate of, Pelham's Island; rem. to Ipswich then to Andover, Boston, and Salem, m. (1) in England, Anne Dudley (Gov. Thos.) m. (2) sister of George Downing, signs pardon of John Pratt; selectman 1634-5; opposed to witchcraft trials; com. to consider duty to king; elected pres. Council of Safety ; sent to England; brought forcibly to Council House; signs petition to Andros; Palfrey's opinion of; share in pales; agreement for cart way; d. at Salem, 27 Mar. 1697. Dudley and Bradstreet built in Camb. [ref 17:23,73] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Simon Bradstreet matriculated at an English college, but did not finish his course, perhaps on account of his father's death. He came to America with Governor Winthrop in the "Arabella." He was one of the founders of Newtown, now Cambridge. For a while he resided probably at Salem, certainly at Ipswich, removing in 1648 to Andover, where he was one of the first settlers and the leading citizen. Among his important offices and functions were these: secretarty of colony from 1630-34; one of the commissioners of the united colonies in 1743. In 1653 he successfully opposed a projected war on the Dutch and Indians. He was a commissioner with regard to the boundary between New Amsterdam and New Haven in 1650, and the next year a commissioner concerning the jurisdiction of Massachusetts over York and Kittery, Maine. About 1662 he went to England to answer charges against the colony. He was deputy governor 1673-79; he was assistant fifty years. From 1679 he was governor of the colony until the dissolution of the chartyer in May, 1686. Although then almost ninety years old, he was active in resisting Andros; and when Andros was imprisoned he took charge of the government. The old charter was restored and he was governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire until May, 1692. The general court, in consideration of his long and extraordinary service, voted �100 toward defraying the expenses of his interment. He was buried in the Charter burying ground at Salem. Governor Bradstreet married (second) Ann (Downing) Gardner, who married (first) Joseph Gardner. Children, all by first wife: Samuel, Dorothy, Sarah, Simon, Hannah, Mercy, Dudley, John. [ref 29:77] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18 Mar 1603 baptized, Horbling, Lincolnshire, 1630 immigrated; "Simon Brandstreete" admitted to Boston church as member #7, which would be in the fall of 1630. Assistant, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630 to 1678; Secretary, 1630 to 1636; Governor, 1679 to 1686 and 1689 to 1692; Commissioner of the United Colonies, 1644, 1663 to 1667 [MA Civil List 17-18, 21-26, 28]. (Savage credits Bradstreet with service as Deputy Governor from 1673 to 1678, but Samuel Symonds held this office in those years, as Savage also notes.) Bradstreet held many other offices at the county and local level, such as Cambridge selectman and Essex magistrate. [ref 26] Cambridge 1634, Ipswich 1636, Salem 1646, Andover 1652, Salem 1676, Boston by 1689, Salem 169; to England and return in 1662 on colony business. 25 May 1636 one of seven men admitted on that day who had been involved with the Massachusetts Bay Company for many years, and had held high offices; their admission to freemanship on this date was merely a formality that recognized a status that had existed for some time. The General Court granted "Mr. Symon Bradstreete" eight hundred acres to be located near the farms of Capt. Keane and others, 23 May 1650. Bradstreet and Thomas Wiggen, gent., were granted one thousand acres near Dover, with the privilege of timber for their sawmill, 14 October 1651. Mr. Bradstreet and Mr. Symonds were granted five hundred acres "in reference to service done at York and Kittery," 14 September 1653 to be laid out eight miles from the Haverhill meeting house. He was granted another five hundred acres, August 1653, near the Connecticut River next to his two hundred acres, 6 May 1657, but was encouraged to locate it elsewhere, 28 May 1659. As a result, he was granted an additional three hundred acres, to be six miles or more from the Northampton meeting house, 31 May 1660. His five hundred acres near Hadley was in controversy 18 May 1664. [ref 26] John Eliot recorded on 10 July 1666 that "There happened a dreadful burning at Andover. Mr. Bradstreet's house & the greatest part of his goods were burnt. The occasion of which burning was the carelessness of the maid, who put hot ashes into an hogshead over the porch: the tub fired about 2 o'clock in the morning & set the chamber & house on fire." [ref 26] In his will, dated 23 December 1689 (with codicil of 27 January 1692/3) and proved 2 April 1697, "Simon Bradstreet of Boston ... being at present in competent health and strength" set his house in order and "for my outward estate which God in his rich mercy hath blessed me withal in this Wilderness (having given all my eight children such portions as I thought meet and equal & divided my plate and household stuff amongst them)" the remainder was bequeathed to "my dear and loving wife Mrs. Ann Bradstreet all that estate real and personal whatsoever that I had of hers or with her in marriage ... (according to agreement made with her before marriage) in lieu of her thirds," also �10 per year during her life out of my farm at Lynn "whereon Cornet John Lewis now liveth," also �10 more during her widowhood, one half from my house and land at Andover and the other half from my farm at Topsfield, also "my negro woman Hannah and her daughter Bilhah now living with me, not to be sold to any except in way of marriage, but if she finds meet to dispose of them or either of them before or at her death, then to some of my children whom she pleaseth," also "use of that little household stuff I bought since I came to Boston during her pleasure and then to some of my children as she shall see meet," also provisions at the house in Boston with one quarter rent of the house wherein I lived at my death "entreating her to accept of these small bequests as a testimony of my unfeigned love ... in regard of that love, care and tenderness she hath always showed to me and mine"; whereas "by a former will I had given to my eldest son Samuel Bradstreet my farm at Lynn" but at his death by his will given to Mary Bradstreet "his eldest daughter by his first wife whom I have been forced to educate and maintain ... since September 1670 ... and have now three of my said son's children sent me from Jamaica" make some alteration to this gift by granting my wife �10 a year from the farm and "to the said Mercy Bradstreet the daughter of my son Samuel" the farm in Lynn occupied by Cornet John Lewis, to her and her heirs or in want of such heirs of her body, to the children of her father Samuel Bradstreet equally she paying the aforementioned �10 to "her grandmother Ann Bradstreet"; to "the said Mercy her father's picture and household goods"; to "John and Simon Bradstreet two of my son Samuel's children now with me my house and land in Lynn" purchased of Major Samuel Appleton and his son Samuel, said land and house equally divided betwixt them, also to the said John Bradstreet my twenty acres of meadow and part of a little island in Topsfield; to "Anne Bradstreet another child of my son Samuel Bradstreet" a house and land in Lynn of forty-three acres lately purchased of Mr. Ezekiel Needham; "my dear and loving wife Mrs. Ann Bradstreet" executrix as regards the three children of my son Samuel viz. John Simon and Anne; to the three children of my son Simon Bradstreet viz. Simon John and Lucy, a half of all my houses and lands in Andover, also �10; to Simon Bradstreet the eldest of the three children before mentioned ten acres in Lynn near my farm; to "my son Dudley Bradstreet" the other half of my houses and lands in Andover, also to each of his children living at my decease �10 each; to "my son John Bradstreet and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten my house and farm at Topsfield wherein he now liveth," also the lots of wood belonging to the farm, also the parcel of meadow purchased of Robert Muzzey together with all the swamp and ten or twelve acres of upland, also �60 and to each of his children living at my decease �10 apiece, his heirs to receive the farm as follows, one half to his eldest son and the other half equally divided amongst the rest of his sons and daughters; to "my grandchild Mr. John Cotton of Hampton" �20 and to his sisters "the daughters of my daughter Dorothy" or so many of them living at my decease �10 each "only as to Ann's legacy I leave it to my executor and overseers to do therein as they shall see cause and as she may deserve" by her carriage and behavior; to "my son-in-law Mr. Andrew Wiggin" all that debt which he owes me �50" and to every of his children by "my daughter Hannah" living at my decease �10 each; to "my daughter Mrs. Sarah Ward and to her husband Capt. Samuel Ward" all that debt which her former husband Mr. Richard Hubbard owed me being more than �100, and to every of her children living at my decease �10; to "my daughter Mrs. Mercy Wade and to her husband Mr. Nathaniel Wade" my farm at Topsfield whereon John Hunkins now lives, with twenty six acres of upland, part of an island, also the lot of upland of forty acres, she or her husband paying yearly the sum of �5 to "my wife Mrs. Ann Bradstreet during her widowhood," also to every one of her children living at my death �10 each; to "the three children of my son Simon" one farm of five hundred acres granted me for service to the colony and not laid out yet; to "my son Dudley Bradstreet" the other farm of five hundred acres granted me; to "the three children of my son Samuel (viz) John Simon and Anna now with me" �100 each for their education and make void a former bequest to them of my two houses and lands in Lynn mentioned in the former part of my will, "having already disposed of one of them"; to Mr. Samuel Willard "the Reverend Pastor of the South Church in Boston" �5; residue distributed by my executors to some of my grandchildren, especially to those of "my son Simon and Daughter Cotton whose parents had the least portions"; son Dudley Bradstreet sole executor except in duties committed to "my dear wife"; "my much honored friends Capt. Wait Winthrop Esqr. and Mr. Peter Sedgwick" overseers to accept 40s. each to buy a ring. [ref 26] In a codicil dated 27 January 1692/3 Bradstreet altered the bequest of his two negros Hannah and Bilhah so they were completely at the dispose of wife Ann Bradstreet and she to pay to said negros 20s. each; to my wife my spectacles set in gold; again entrusted the education of his son Simon's three children to wife Ann Bradstreet; to my grandson John [Bradstreet] my set of gold shirt buttons; to Simon a silver trencher salt; to Anna a silver porringer; to "my granddaughter Mrs. Mary Oliver her father's picture"; to "my three grandchildren John, Simon and Anne, all the arrears of what is due to me for salary as late Governor of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay"; to "my grandson Simon the son of my late son Mr. Simon Bradstreet" ten acres of land in Lynn "he standing in great need of my help"; authorized his executor to sell the farm at Topsfield if the price of �250 can be gotten, �100 to his three grandchildren, John, Simon and Anne the children of my son Samuel, and the rest to my daughter Wade; Mr. Isaac Addington overseer. [ref 26] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BRADSTREET, Simon, gent., son of a minister in Lincolnshire, b. at Horbling, in March, 1603; was one of the assts. of the Mass. Bay Co. in England in 1629. He came with governor Winthrop in 1630. With wife Anne joined the chh. at its organization. Rem. to Cambridge. Selectman in 1634; secretart of the Colony from 1630 till 1643. Asst., deputy governor and governor in successive years. Owned property at Ipswich in 1635. Resided at Andover. A man of discretion and fidelity. He m. 1, Anne, dau. of Thomas Dudley, Esq., celebrated as the first poetess of N. E., who d. Sept. 16, 1672, ae. about 60 years. He m. 2, Ann, dau. of ___ Downing. He d. at Salem March 27, 1697, ae. 94. His will, dated 23 Dec. 1689, and 27 Jan. 1692-3, prob. 2 April, 1697, beq. to wife Ann; to son Samuel and his ch. Mercy, John, Simon and Anne; to the 3 ch. of dec. son Simon, Simon, John and Lucy; to son Dudley B. and each of his ch.; to son John, with entail to his ch.; to gr.ch. John Cotton, and to his 6 sisters, daus. of my dau. Dorothy; to son-in-law Andrew Wiggin, and his ch. by my dau. Hannah; to dau. Mercy and her husband, Mr. Nathaniel Wade, and to their ch; to Mr. Samuel Willard. [ref 37:64] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Symon Bradstreete of Andover and Ann his wife, sell unto Richard Sutton of Roxbury, husbandman, a dwelling house and land in Andover lying near Shawsin River. Dated 10 Mar. 1658. Wit: George Abbott, William Chandler. Simon Bradstreet ack. 29 Mar. 1664; Anne Bradstreet ack. 2 Apr. 1664 (Ipswich Deed II: 202). [ref 63:326] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1631 Simon and father-in-law Thomas DUDLEY co-founded Cambridge MA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Simon Bradstreet (1604-1697) Governor Massachusetts Bay Colony 1679-1686, 1689-1692 Simon Bradstreet was the final Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which by 1686 had lost its charter. For over three generations the Massachusetts Bay Colony had inched increasingly further from English rule. Governors were frequently called to defend the Colony's charter to operate as a relatively independent company. Bradstreet arrived in Boston with John Winthrop aboard the Arabella and over the next fifty years he served as an Assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (a position comparable to today's Governor's Council), while representing Massachusetts in the New England Confederation for 33 years. Finally in 1679, he was elected Governor. As English calls to revoke Massachusetts' charter grew, Governor Bradstreet took a conciliatory approach to England. Eventually all of New England's charters were revoked and together they were made in to the short-lived Dominion of New England. Bradstreet rejected offers to join the new government, which was maintained by Joseph Dudley until the arrival of the reviled Royal Governor, Sir Edmund Andros. England's "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 disrupted Andros' rule, who was sent back to England in chains. The eighty-four year old Bradstreet found himself ruling again until the arrival of Massachusetts first Royal Governor, Sir William Phips in 1692. picture - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
| Notes for Ann DOWNING | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ann, daughter of Emanuel Downing and Lucy Winthrop; was w. of the intrepid Capt. Gardner, k. at the gr. Narraganset swamp fight in Philip's war, and after m. Gov. Bradstreet [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - baptized 12 Apr 1633 St. Brides Fleet Street, London, daughter of Emanuel Downing and Lucy Winthrop [ref 26] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aug 1656 married(1) Joseph GARDNER; no children - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
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