Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for John STOCKBRIDGE | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JOHN Stockbridge, Scituate, wheelwright, came in the Blessing from London 1635, aged 27, with w. Ann, 21, and s. Charles; had 1638-42: Hannah, and Elizabeth; m. a sec. w. 1643, wid. Elizabeth Soane, had 1644-47: Elizabeth, Sarah, and Esther, and by third w. Mary, nam. in his will, had Abigail, and John, this last at Boston, whither he had rem. and there made his will 4 Sept. 1657, and d. 13 Oct. foll. His wid. m. 8 Apr. 1660, Daniel Henrick. [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - John1 Stockbridge was born in England about 1607. He may have come from Hellingly Parish in County Sussex. The parish registers for Hellingly, which begin in 1618, do not show the marriage of John or the baptism of his son Charles. Various spellings of the name include Stockbridg, Stockebridge, Stogbridge, and Stookbridge. While still in England, John married (1) Ann ___. On 17 June 1635, John, aged twenty-seven, Ann, twenty-one, and their son Charles, sone, left the Port of London on the Blessing, John Lecester, master, and arrived in New England, probably at Boston, in July of that year. The Stockbridges soon settled at Scituate in the Colony of New Plymouth, where "Goodman Stockbridge ye wheeler" had a house by 1636 (Scituate and Barnstable church records). Thomas King, William Vassall, and Gilbert and William Brooks were also Blessing passengers who settled in Scituate. John Stockbridge probably did not come to New England for religious freedom, but more likely for better economic conditions. There is no indication of his membership in the church, only the name of his wife Ann appearing in the records. The first minister, the Reverend John Lothrop, had a congregation unsettled over the mode of baptism, and in 1639 he and about half of the members left for Barnstable. Ann Stockbridge was among those who remained, under the leadership of Timothy Hatherly. The following year Charles Chauncey of Plymouth was called as the new pastor. Ann refused to join the call for Mr. Chauncey dated 2 February 1642/3. Further evidence of controversy in the Scituate church is found in the Stockbridge family, for although their daughter Hannah was baptized by Mr. Lothrop in 1637, daughter Elizabeth was taken to Boston for baptism in 1642, "to avoid her being immersed, as Mr. Chauncey insisted must be done." Four years later, when the first child of John Stockbridge by his second wife was baptized, it was done by the Reverend William Witherell, who had been ordained as minister of the second church at Scituate on 2 September 1645. Evidently, then, John Stockbridge, although apparently not a member of this church, accepted their doctrines, as did his second wife. John Stockbridge spent many of his early years at Scituate letting be known his dissatisfaction with the system of government which had been adopted. On 5 June 1638 he was first presented and fined in the Plymouth Colony Court "for disgraceful speeches, tending to the contempt of the government, and for jeering speeches to them that did reprove him for it." The following 4 September he was fined ten shillings "for contemptuous words against the government." John and others were presented before the court on 4 December 1638 "for receiving strangers and foreigners into their homes and land, without license of the Governor or Assistants, or acquainting the town of Scituate therewith"; however, these offenders were all discharged by the court in July of 1639 (New Plymouth records 1:87,97,106). For a while John seems to have quieted, or been quieted of, his dislike for the colonial government, for on 1 February 1638/9 he took the "oath of allegiance to the King, and fidelity to the colony." Nevertheless, on 5 April 1642 he was released by the court on a bond of �20 to be of good behavior, and on the following 7 September he was again fined "for his contemptuous speeches against the government, proved by oath against him" (New Plymouth records 2:38,45). Perhaps it was John Stockbridge's usefulness as a wheelwright which prevented his being punished under the full penalty of the law for his negative speeches - i.e., banished from the community. Although his name is on a list, dated 4 June 1650, of those in the Plymouth Colony who were awaiting "to take up their Freedom," there is no record that he ever actually became a freeman in Scituate, and thus he was without certain liberties in the town (New Plymouth records 2:154). John was, nevertheless, appointed constable on 7 March 1642/3; surveyor of highways on 4 June 1645, 2 June 1646, and 8 June 1655; and was sworn as a grand juryman 4 June 1645 and 7 June 1648. In August 1643 his name was put on a list of Scituate men, ages sixteen to sixty, able to bear arms (New Plymouth records 2:53,84,102,124; 3:79; 7:41; 8:192). In 1646 John Stockbridge was one of "Hatherly's grantees" in the Conihasset territory, a tract of Scituate. On 1 December of that year, "John Stockbridge wheelwright" and several others purchased from Timothy Hatherly of Scituate one-thirtieth part of his large tract in Scituate (New Plymouth records 12:158-160). This tract was between Satuit Brook and Cohasset Harbor, and the grantees, who had between 1633 and 1642 "settled and built upon this tract without color of title, ownership or authority," organized into a voluntary association called the Conihasset partners. John also had arable lands on the "Third Cliff," a house on the "Driftway," and lands on the "Fourth Cliff" and at "Brushy Hill" in Scituate. He sold James Torrey, clothier of Scituate, a house lot in 1643 and purchased a considerable amount of land from Abraham Sutliffe, north and east of his millpond. The lot he sold Torrey was probably the eight acres of upland recorded in a deed of 28 February 1654/5. The freemen of Scituate apportioned John a lot on 15 February 1643/4, and he was given a small parcel of land "by his now dwelling house" by the town in a deed recorded 2 March 1659/60 (Scituate records C-1:28, 35 1/2, B-4). About 1653 he acquired four acres of marshland from Cornet Robert Stetson in an exchange, and he also purchased some land from Thomas Ingham (Plymouth colony deeds 3:1, 137; 3-2,233). As early as 1640 Isaac Stedman built a water gristmill in Scituate at the pond he had created by damming the First Herring Brook at Greenbush. It was the first such mill in the Plymouth Colony. He sold this property to George Russell of Hingham in 1650, and in 1656 John Stockbridge purchased one-half of Russell's mill privilege. Together they built a sawmill adjoining the gristmill. Abouth this same time John built a house near the millpond, the "Stockbridge Mansion-house." In 1676 it was the principal garrison in Scituate during King Philip's War. The mill and pond were the subject of Samuel Woodworth's 1817 poem, "The Old Oaken Bucket," by which name the pond is now known. On 9 October 1643 John married (2) Elizabeth (Hatch) Soan at Scituate (Plymouth colony record 2:66). About 1654 John Stockbridge married (3), probably at Scituate, Mary ___. She was evidently born no earlier than about 1624 and no later than about 1638, since her last child was born in 1666. Perhaps her maiden name was Broughton, as her daughter Mary had a son by that name. The Stockbridges were still in Scituate on 10 April 1656, when John was one of three men ordered by the town to direct Richard Garrett in the laying out of two twenty-acre lots for George Russell (Scituate records C-4:394). It was shortly thereafter that the family moved to Boston and lived near what is now Milk Street. John died in Boston on 13 October 1657. Children from first marriage 1634-40: Charles, Hannah, Elizabeth; children from second marriage 1646-47: Elizabeth, Hester; children from third marriage: Mary*, John. By a deed of 21 January 1688/9, the "Children and Successor[s]" of John Stockbridge divided his estate at Scituate among grandson Joseph Stockbridge, grandson William Ticknor, Jr., Thomas and Elizabeth Hiland, Joseph and Sarah Woodworth, and Samuel Clapp, "son & successor of half a share to the sd Joseph Woodworth and Sarah his wife . . ." This instrument, sworn to on 14 July 1693, was acknowledged on 19 March 1706/7 by all of the above except Thomas Hiland (Plymouth co deed 7:181). [ref 87:3-489] *Savage says her name is Abigail - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (Suffolk co probate #182) WILL of JOHN STOCKBRIDGE, 6 Sep 1657 - 8 Apr 1658: I John Stockbrig of Boston In the massytusts Bay doe make this my last will and Testiment first I give to my Eldes sonne Charles Stockbrig my water mill at Sityate and six akers of medow and the hous and ground and Orched belonging to it and the said Charles Stockbrig is to pay Out of this mill and ground To his sister Elisabeth tenn pound at here day of marig or at the age of Twenty One yeres Ould and I give To my beloved wife mary Stockbrige my hous and ground at Boston and ll thing belonging to it and my hous at Sityate that gillberd Brooks doth live in and groud and Orched and med [meadow] that doth belonge to it and to have it for heare life time and after my wife death if that my younges sonne doth live be is To In joy it after his mother death paying Tenn pound To his sister mary Stockbrig but if that the said John Stockbrig doth not live to Injoy it after his mother decese then it is To be divided Ecually twen all my childr and I give to my dafter Ester stockbrig my hous at Sityate that william Ticknor my son in law doth live In with the Orched and ground and medo that douth belonge to it and the land at Brsh [Brush] hill and my land at the fower Clift for heare maintynance so long as shee doth live and after heare death to be devided Ecally twene all my children and I give To my dafter hana Ticknor fortye shilling Out of that which here houbad hath in his hands and I give To my dafter Sara Tenn pound that is to be payd to heare at heare day of marig or Twenty One yeares yould and to be payd Out of that which I have given to my wife and I give all my working Toulles to my Eldes sonn and I give to my wife all my housol goods and I make my wife and Eldes sonne Esetetores of this my laste will and testment and In witnes heare of I have set to my hand John Stockgridg witnesses Henry Allin Mathew (his mark) Eirounes [probably Matthew Irons] The inventory "of all the gods and Chatwells that is in Boustowne of John Stockbridg of Bostown in New England wheelright deseaced," taken by Richard Gridly and Henry Allin 3 Apr and sworn to by Charles Stockbridge on 8 Apr 1658: first The house and land 45 00 00 Sekondly In the shope 10 oagers 4 Shaves 4 plans and 5 Chisills and 3 gouges and 5 Exes 3 hamer 4 wedges and a Crow 2 adses & 2 bers and other ould Iron 05 01 00 thirdly In the house for pewter & for brace & a Ioren pot 2 gunns and 2 swoards and a warming pann & other Iern stoufe 06 06 06 for a bed & boulster and a ruge & blankit 03 0000 for 5 payer of sheets 05 05 00 for 7 napkens & 3 tabell Cloathes & a pillow ber 01 04 00 for a bed & 2 pillows & a mose skinn 02 00 00 for a bed and boulster 2 blankits and a mose skinn 02 10 00 for Coton wole and hemp and a payer of shose and stokins 02 09 00 for 2 hichills* & 2 wheells and a hat and a payer of stockinns 02 04 00 for 2 Suts of Cloates and a Cloake 05 12 00 for 2 bibels and other books 01 10 00 for hogsheds and Chists and other lumber in the house 02 10 00 and for a grinding stonne 00 08 00 *hatchel, instrument for combing flax and hemp And for the Rest of his Estat it is in Situate in plimoth patin as is mentioned in his will. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
| Notes for Mary* BROUGHTON | ||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The widow Mary Stockbridge deeded part of her orchard in Boston to her stepson Charles Stockbridge of Boston on 7 April 1660 (Suffold deed 7:24-25). The following day she married (2) Daniel1 Hendrick of Haverhill at Boston (Boston record). Daniel1 Hendrick, formerly of Hampton, New Hampshire, was born about 1610 and was the widower of Dorothy Price*, who died 5 June 1659 and by whom he had seven children. He and Mary lived at Haverhill where they had three children born to them: Sarah, Abraham, and Deborah. Mary was still living in 1695, when she acknowledged a deed, and Essex County deeds indicate that Daniel died between 1700 and 1713. [ref 87:3-494] *error - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||
| Last Modified 22 Oct 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |