2518. Jonathon Bosworth
1Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, NEHGS (Boston, 1995), 187.
JONATHAN BOSWORTH
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ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge REMOVES: Hingham 1636, Rehoboth by 1658 OCCUPATION: Tailor. FREEMAN: Oath of fidelity at Rehoboth, 1658 [PCR8:178]. In Rehoboth section of Plymouth Colony list of freemen, [blank] March 1683/4 [PCR 8:209]. EDUCATION: Evidently signed deeds, but made his mark to his will [Early Rehoboth 3:157, Bosworth Gen 74]. ESTATE: Granted one rood for a cowyard in Cambridge, 5 August 1633 [CaTR 5]. Granted a lot of two acres in the West End, 4 August 1634 [CaTR 9]. Granted a proportional share of one-half in meadow ground, 20 August 1635 [CaTR 13]. In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635 "Jonathan Bosworth" held three parcels: "one house with backside about two acres" in the West End; one rood in Cowyard Row; and two acres on Small Lot Hill [CaBOP 30-31]. Under dates of 3 April 1636 and July 1637, "the several parcels of land and meadow legally given unto Johnathan Bozworth by the town of Hingham" were: "a house lot two acres of land; ...for a great lot ten acres of land lying upon the Great Plain ..., for a house lot five acres of land..., one acre of fresh meadow..., one acre of fresh meadow..." [Bosworth Gen 63, citing HiTR]. Although no deeds were recorded, Jonathan evidently conveyed the two acre houselot, the ten acre great lot, and the five acre houselot, each before 1640, when the subsequent owners described them as "formerly Jonathan Bosward['s]" [Bosworth Gen 64]. On 18 April 1661 Jonathan Bosworth, Sr., of Rehoboth sold twelve acres of land (purchased from Joseph Phippen) and one acre of fresh meadow (his by grant) in Hingham to Daniel Cushing [SLR 8:150]. Jonathan probably gave a proprietary right at Rehoboth to his son-in-law John Cobley, who received one whole share in the North Purchase of Rehoboth, 10 April 1666: "John Cobley, one whole share that he had of his father Jonathan Bosworth" [Early Rehoboth 1:41]. On 20 April 1666, "Jonathan Bosworth, Sr., of Rehoboth, tailor," deeded his house and lot in Rehoboth, purchased of "his brother Benjamin," to Stephen Paine [PCLR 3:2:224]. On 26 May 1668 Jonathan Bosworth was twenty-fifth of those drawing meadowlands in the North Purchase and he was sixty-sixth at the 18 March 1668/9 drawing [Bosworth Gen 69]. On 26 May 1672 "Jonathan Woodcock of Rehoboth" sold to "Jonathan Bosworth Sr. of Rehoboth" an acre of fresh meadow at the Mill Run [Bosworth Gen 69, citing original deed, apparently unrecorded]. On 28 May 1672, Rehoboth granted "goodman Bozworth Senr." a small tract of land against his meadow on the neck, provided he leave a sufficient passable way from the bridge..." [Rehoboth TR]. On 20 February 1678[/9] William Buckland of Rehoboth deeded to Jonathan Bosworth Sr. of Rehoboth a twelve-acre lot of upland in Wachamoket Neck and Joseph Buckland of Rehoboth sold Jonathan twenty-six acres of upland at the same place [Bosworth Gen 70, citing original deed]. In a list of Rehoboth possessions, "Jonathan Bozworth" owned: "my house lot containing twenty acres..., fifteen acres of land in Wachamoket Neck..., twelve acres and ten rods of upland at Wachamoket Neck..., twenty-six acres of land at Wachamoket Neck..., one acre of land ... near the bridge ... and one acre of meadow ... which I purchased of John Wodcok Sen" [Bosworth Gen 70-71, citing Rehoboth Proprietors' Records 2:128]. Jonathan Bosworth Sr. and Samuel Peck were made administrators of the estate of Nathaniel Peck on 1 November 1676, and Jonathan was appointed administrator of the estate of John Cobley on 1 March 1680/1 [PCR 5:212, 6:55, 56, 73].
On 30 December 1680, Jonathan Bozworth and wife Elizabeth Bozworth deeded to Joseph Bozworth "half of my house lot with the east end of my dwelling house and half my barn and two lots adjoining in Wathchamositt Neck..., excepting that part that the highway cuts off which is six or eight acres ... and another which was Jacob Amesbury's," also two cows "fair with calf and the use of the teams to do his work and mine so long as I shall see cause or til he hath of his own ... but for his brother Jonathan he shall have nothing to do with anything I have except he decline from that opinion of the Anabaptists which he now holds ..." [PCR 5:137].
On 8 March 1686 Jonathan received another grant of meadowlands at the North Purchase [Attleboro TR 1:165]. In his will, dated 24 February 1686/7 and evidently never brought to court (but found among ancient papers in a Barrington, Rhode Island, attic), "Jonathan Bozworth Senior" of Rehoboth "being weak and aged" bequeathed to "my dear and beloved wife" the use and improvement of the rooms of my house that I now dwell in with the one half of my barn, orchard and homelot, and other lands not disposed of for her natural life, also all my household goods and corn and cattle to be at my decease "wholly at her dispose"; to "my eldest son Jonathan" 5s. to be paid by my son Joseph "I having already given him a good portion of lands and other estate to a good value: more than I was able"; to "my son Joseph" the other end of my house and the one half of my barn and orchard and houselot and lands in Wachamoket Neck "of which I have formerly given him an instrument" do hereby confirm, also the other half to him at my wife's death; to "my daughter Rebeka Peck" 5s.; to "my daughter Bethia Peck" £5 [perhaps should be 5s.]; to "my daughter Batsheba" 5s.; son Joseph to pay all legacies; "my dear wife" executrix and "my son Joseph" executor [Bosworth Gen 73-74, citing unrecorded original will]. BIRTH: About 1613 (deposed in June 1639 "aged about 26 years" [Lechford 84]), son of Edward and Mary (_____) Bosworth. DEATH: Rehoboth 3 January 1687/8 [ReVR 110,132);> 802 (Arnold says "Jonathan Bosworth, Jr." in error and fails to indicate the double date)]. MARRIAGE: By about 1636 Elizabeth _____. She died Swansea 15 June 1705 "being almost ninety one years of age" [SwVR 27]. CHILDREN:
i JONATHAN, b. about 1636; m. Swansea 6 July 1661 Hannah Howland [SwVR 23], daughter of JOHN HOWLAND (Jonathan and his wife were both members of the Swansea Baptist Church [NEHGR 139:27, 31, 35, 37, 43, 46, 49].) ii ELIZABETH, bp. Hingham 18 November 1638 [NEHGR 121:11]; m. Braintree 7 August 1661 Peter Brackett [BrVR 717], son of RICHARD BRACKETT. iii REBECCA, bp. Hingham [blank] February 1640/1 [NEHGR 121:13]; m. by 1660 Nicholas Peck as his second wife (called Rebecca Peck in her father's will; eldest child b. Rehoboth 8 August 1660 [ReVR 703]). iv BETHIAH, bp. Hingham [blank] January 1644/5 [NEHGR 121:16]; m. Swansea 15 July 1670 Israel Peck [SwVR 23]. v MARY, bp. Hingham 18 April 1647 [NEHGR 121:19]; m. by 1673 John Cobley [TAG 62:55-56; Early Rehoboth 1:41]. vi DELIVERANCE, bp. Hingham 4 August 1650 [NEHGR 121:23]; m. by 1670 Nathaniel Peck. vii JOSEPH, b. say 1652; m. Rehoboth 10 February 1680 Esther Smith [ReVR 52], daughter of Daniel Smith [Early Rehoboth 2:114-15]. viii BATHSHEBA, b. say 1654; m. by 1684 Benjamin Jones of Bristol [TAG 62:55-56].
ASSOCIATIONS: On 5 August 1634 it was "ordered, that such moneys as shall be laid out for the maintenance of Widow Bosworth & her family, shall be paid again by the Treasurer" [MBCR 1:123]. On 7 July 1635 "In consideration of money disbursed by Mr. Henry Seawall for the transportation of Edward Bosworth & his family, it is ordered, that Jonathan Bosworth shall pay to Mr. Seawall the sum of £5 upon the 29th of September next; William Buckland £5 on the said 29th of September; Nathaniel Bosworth 50s. at the said day, and 50s. more that day twelve month; & Benjamin Bosworth 30s. on the said 29th of September, & £3 10s. at midsummer next; all these sums to be paid to the said Mr. Seawall. Also, it is agreed, that the forenamed parties shall be bound one for another for the payment of the said sums at the several days of payment" [MBCR 1:152]. This association with Henry Sewall suggests that the origin of the Bosworths should be sought in Coventry, Warwickshire, or thereabouts.
Although this record would seem to indicate that this family all arrived together in 1634, records in Cambridge make it clear that JONATHAN BOSWORTH had arrived in 1633, perhaps sent on ahead to prepare the way. WILLIAM BUCKLAND, who was in New England as early as 1631, had married Jonathan's sister, Mary Bosworth, apparently very soon after the family arrived.
COMMENTS: On 4 June 1639, when Thomas Hett of Hingham sued Thomas Shave [or Shaw] of Hingham, Jonathan and Benjamin Bosworth were witnesses for Hett: Jonathan Bosworth of Hingham, tailor, aged about 26 years, maketh oath that Thomas Shave about the beginning of the fifth month 1637 upon occasion of conference between him and this deponent about a parcel of ground in Hingham containing about five acres then kept from him told this deponent that he had promised to give half thereof to Thomas Hett for to help him to obtain the possession of the said ground ... [Lechford 84]. In another case, regarding Hingham's claim to Hull, Bosworth on 30 July 1641 testified that: Mr. Pecke his speech is this, that we heard him say, that pride and malice were the foundation that set us a work about Nantascett, and if that were the foundation it would easily appear what the building would be, also that we did conspire together about it, and it was like unto those that conspired to kill Paul. Moreover we do testify concerning Edward Hubbard Senior, that he did say that it was unjust thing to take away Nantascett, and they might as well have given away their houselots up to their doors as have given away Nantascett from them [Bosworth Gen 65, citing MA Arch.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1926 Mary Bosworth Clarke published a detailed genealogy of the descendants of Edward Bosworth, attempting to document every appearance of the members of the early generations in the records [Bosworth Genealogy[:] A History of the Descendants of Edward Bosworth Who Arrived in America in the Year 1634 (San Francisco 1926), cited herein as Bosworth Gen]. The account of JONATHAN BOSWORTH is especially important in that it includes full transcripts of some unrecorded deeds and the unrecorded will [Bosworth Gen."2Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, page 187.
3Carl Boyer, 3rd, Ancestral Lines, Carl Boyer, 3rd; Santa Clarita, CA; 1998, 101.
2519. Elizabeth Shaw?
1Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, NEHGS (Boston, 1995), 189.
2526. Stephen Gates
1New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston), 88:257 (1934).
Theodore Lazell, "John Lazell of Hingham, Mass. and some of his descendants.".
2550. Gov. Roger Williams
1Website, http://www.state.ri.us/rihist/earlyh.htm.
This episode marked the start of a journey which led to the founding of a civil government permitting unlimited toleration of religions and where no one could be punished for following the dictates of conscience. In 1636 his small settlement on the Narragansett Bay at the Seekonk and Providence Rivers created the force which within a short period of time became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Williams the puritan minister, banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his belief in Liberty of Conscience, could now demonstrate that his settlement, with HOPE IN THE DIVINE, was able to stand its ground against external dangers and internal confusion. While he was living in Massachusetts he had cultivated an acquaintance with the Indians and before he left that colony he had met Canonicus and Massasoit. This friendship with the Indians was the key to how Williams was able to plan his new settlement within the very center of Indian Territory. In the fall of 1635, Williams had denounced the rules of Massachusetts. He was summoned to court to answer charges on his denunciation of the "freeman's oath" which he saw as a transfer of allegiance from King Charles I to the government of Massachusetts. His refusal to obey that summons caused him to flee through the wilderness to the Mount Hope Bay and the kingdom of Massasoit. This great Wampanoag sachem granted Williams a tract of land on the Seekonk River. There he was joined by friends from Salem and they began to build; however in order to avoid any complication with the Plymouth Colony they crossed the Seekonk and moved to the site of Providence where they made their first permanent settlement in June, 1636. Williams' friendship with the Indians, and their respect from him, derived from his firm belief that "nature knows no difference between European and American (Indian) in blood, birth, bodies.." He did not share the contempt of the English for the"Savage". Williams traded and preached with the Indian, taking the trouble to learn their language.
"ROGER WILLIAMS
Roger Williams departed Salem, Massachusetts in the midst of a gloomy, winter landscape, just as the sun was setting. Snow carpeted the forest floor, and a cruel wind whipped through the dark and forbidding trees: Thus a 19th Century artist (1) set about portraying the banishment of Roger Williams.
The new settlements within the Narragansett Bay area provided a unique opportunity for religious liberty and it also gave many enterprising individuals an opportunity to succeed in business. In 1643, these loosely knit settlements in the Narragansett Bay area recognized the need for some form of central government. That following year Williams was able to arrange for a patent or legal document which gave political sovereignty to these settlements and for the first time the inhabitants of the region were joined together into a single body politic. Roger Williams, founder, led the development of political and religious liberty, and practical democracy. We must not forget his friends Massasoit, Canonicus, Miantonomi and the Wampanoag and Narragansett Nations.
ROGER WILLIAMS PERSONAL PROFILE Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, the first real democracy, was born in London, England about 1602. This is an estimated date based on rather vague references made by him in later years ragarding his age. The parish records of St. Sepulchre's Church where he was christened were destroyed in the Great London Fire in 1666, so the exact date can not be determined. He was one of the four children of James Williams, Merchant Taylor, and his wife Alice, the daughter of Robert and Catherine (Stokes) Pemberton of St. Albans, Hertfordshire. He took orders in the Church of England and in 1629 accepted the post of chaplain to Sir William Masham at his manor house at Otes in Essex. His courtship of Jane Whalley was brought to an abrupt termination by the disapproval of her aunt, Lady Barrington. Stung by the rejection, the young clergyman became ill of a fever and was nursed back to health by Mary Barnard, a member of Lady Masham's household. She is believed to have been the daughter of the Reverend Richard Bernard (or Barnard) of Works hop in Nottinghamshire. Roger Williams and Mary Barnard were married at High Laver Church in Essex on December 15, 1629. Roger Williams' last years were spent in service to the community. He held the office of town clerk for many years. The precise date of his death is unknown, but it occurred sometime between January 16 and March 16, 1682-83. His funeral was attended with such honors as the town could provide and a salute of guns was fired over his grave. He was buried in the orchard in the rear of his homestead lot. Many years later, his remains were disinterred and placed in the tomb of a descendant in the North Burial Ground. In 1936 they were sealed within a bronze container and set into the base of the monument erected to his memory on Prospect Terrace. His statue gazes out over the city where his principles of freedom of thought and worship, separation of Church and State, and equality for all men, regardless of race or creed were first put into practice. He left no great estate of worldly goods, but this was his immortal legacy to the freedom of loving peoples of all the world.
CHILDREN OF ROGER AND MARY (BARNARD) WILLIAMS Mary, born at Plymouth, August 1633; married John Sayles. Freeborn, born at Salem, October 1635; married (1st) Thomas Hart; married (2nd) Walter Clarke."2Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, NEHGS (Boston, 1995).
ORIGIN: High Laver, Essex MIGRATION: 1631 on Lyon [ WJ 1:49-50] FIRST RESIDENCE: Salem REMOVES: Plymouth 1631, Salem 1633, Providence 1636 RETURN TRIPS: To England in 1643-4 (to obtain a charter for Rhode Island [ RWCorr xciii, 217]), and to England in 1651-4 [ RWCorr xciv, 355-90] OCCUPATION: Minister. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: On 12 April 1631 at "a court holden at Boston, (upon information to the governor, that they of Salem had called Mr. Williams to the office of a teacher,) a letter was written from the court to Mr. Endecott to this effect: That whereas Mr. Williams had refused to join with the congregation at Boston, because they would not make a public declaration of their repentance for having communion with the churches of England, while they lived there; and, besides, had declared his opinion, that the magistrate might not punish the breach of the Sabbath, nor any other offense, as it was a breach of the first table; therefore, they marvelled they would choose him without advising with the council; and withal desiring him, that they would forbear to proceed till they had conferred about it" [ WJ 1:63]. In his account of the year 1632 William Bradford spoke of "Mr. Roger Williams, a man godly and zealous, having many precious parts but very unsettled in judgment, came over first to the Massachusetts; but upon some discontent left that place and came hither, where he was friendly entertained acording to their poor ability, and exercised his gifts amongst them and after some time was admitted a member of the church.... He this year began to fall into some strange opinions, and from opinion to practice, which caused some controversy between the church and him. And in the end some discontent on his part, by occasion whereof he left them something abruptly. Yet afterwards sued for his dismission to the church of Salem, which was granted, with some caution to them concerning him and what care they ought to have of him" [ Bradford 257; see also WJ 1:109]. Williams was back in Salem by 1633, but was not chosen teacher again until 1635, and then, after the death of Rev. SAMUEL SKELTON, was chosen pastor [ WJ 1:117, 122, 151, 162, 164, 166]. In March 1638/9 Winthrop lamented that at "Providence things grew still worse; for a sister of Mrs. Hutchinson, the wife of one Scott, being infected with Anabaptistry, and going last year to live at Providence, Mr. Williams was taken (or rather emboldened) by her to make open profession thereof, and accordingly was rebaptized by one Holyman, a poor man late of Salem. Then Mr. Williams rebaptized him and some ten more. They also denied the baptizing of infants, and would have no magistrate" [ WJ 1:352-53]. (The passages extracted here do not cover all of the church activities of Roger Williams during these early years in New England, and do not touch at all on his expulsion from Massachusetts. The intent is to demonstrate his beginnings and his offices at Salem, at Plymouth, at Salem again, and finally at the establishment of the Baptist Church at Providence.) FREEMAN: In Providence section of 1655 Rhode Island lists of freemen [ RICR 1:299]. EDUCATION: Matriculated at Cambridge from Pembroke College, 29 June 1623; B.A. 1626-7 [ Venn 4:417; Morison 407]. OFFICES: President of the colony, 1654-57; assistant 1647, 1648, 1664, 1665, 1670, 1671, 1672 [ Austin 432]. Williams held many other lesser colony and town offices. ESTATE: Roger Williams purchased from the local sachems the land that became Providence, and he then transferred this land to those that settled Providence with him [ RICR 1:12-27]. The early records of Providence contain many land transactions involving Roger Williams. Neither Roger Williams nor his wife left a will. BIRTH: About 1606, son of James and Alice (Pemberton) Williams [ TAG 28:197-200]. DEATH: Providence after 27 January 1682/3 and before 15 March 1682/3 [ TAG 28:207]. MARRIAGE: High Laver, Essex, 15 December 1629 Mary Bernard, daughter of Rev. Richard Bernard [ NEHGR 113:189-92]; she died after August 1676 (in late August 1676 "it seasonable came to pass that Providence Williams brought up his mother from Newport in his sloop & cleared the town of all the Indians to the great peace and content of all the inhabitants" [ PrTR 8:14]). CHILDREN:
"ROGER WILLIAMS
i MARY, b. Plymouth "the first week in August 1633" [ PrTR 1:7]; m. by 1652 John Sayles [ TAG 15:228-30]. (Recent research by Gwenn F. Epperson has shown that this man was not related to John Sales of Charlestown and New Netherland [ NYGBR 123:72-73].)
ii FREEBORN, b. Salem "in the latter end of October 1635" [ PrTR 1:7]; m. (1) by about 1661 Thomas Hart; m. (2) Newport 6 March 1683 Walter Clarke [ RIVR 7:10, 20]. iii PROVIDENCE, b. Providence "in the latter end of ... September 1638" [ PrTR 1:7]; on 22 July 1686 Providence Town Council received a report that "Providence Williams is dead at Newport" and on 14 September 1686 Daniel Williams "exhibited an inventory of his deceased brother Providence Williams" and the Town Council appointed Daniel administrator "as he is next of the kin" [ PrTR 6:154-56]. iv MERCY, b. Providence "about the 15th of July 1640" [ PrTR 1:7] ; m. (1) Resolved Waterman; m. (2) Providence 2 January 1676/7 Samuel Winsor [ PrTR 15:153, 156-57]. v DANIEL, b. Providence "about the 15 of February 1641 (so called) counting year to begin about the 25 of March so that he was born above a year & a half after Mercy" [ PrTR 1:7]; m. Providence 2 December 1676 Rebecca (Rhodes) Power [ PrTR 15:153], daughter of Zachariah Rhodes and widow of Nicholas Power [ Austin 356, 364]. vi JOSEPH, b. Providence "about the beginning of the 10th month [December] 1643" [ PrTR1:7]; m. 17 December 1669 Lydia Olney [ PrTR 5:329; RIVR 2:Providence:201]. ASSOCIATIONS: Brother of Robert Williams who came to New England by 1644 [ TAG 28:199]. The wife of Roger Williams was sister of Musachiell Bernard who came to Weymouth in 1635. COMMENTS: For two of the daughters of Roger Williams, evidence was not found for the marriage to the first husband (Freeborn to Thomas Hart and Mercy to Resolved Waterman), although both unions are confidently asserted in any number of modern publications. The rarity of the name Freeborn speaks in favor of the marriage to Thomas Hart, but additional information would be welcome in both instances. Assuming these first marriages, the evidence is more than adequate in each case for the marriage to the second husband. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Given the many facets of the well-docu~ment~ed career of Roger Williams, and the many books and articles that have been written about his life, no attempt will be made here to cover all of his actions or all of the most important writings about him. In 1988 Glenn W. LaFantasie prepared a new edition of the correspondence of Roger Williams [The Correspondence of Roger Williams, two volumes (Providence 1988)]. The editorial material in this set includes an extensive bibliography, both of Williams's own writings and of later biographical material [lxxvi-lxxxviii]. One important item not included there is an article by Winifred Lovering Holman published in 1952 [ TAG 28:197-209]."
2944. Hugh Chaplin
1James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. (Baltimore, 1969), I:361.
JOSEPH [CHAPLIN], Rowley, s. of Hugh, by w. Eliz. West had Joseph, b. 1673; John, 1674; Jonathan, 1677; Jeremiah, 1680; and one d."
"2New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston), July 1852, Vol VI: 246.
"Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk".
2945. Elizabeth Scott
1New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston), July 1852, Vol VI: 246.
"Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk" (Hugh's wife named as Elizabeth).2Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., Inc., 1985), p. 697.
3James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston: Little , Brown and Co., 1862), Vol. IV, p. 39.
4Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, p.697.
2948. George Kilbourn
1James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. (Baltimore, 1969), III:19.
GEORGE [KILBOURN], ... He was s. of Thomas, bapt. at Wood Ditton, Co. Cambridge, 12 Feb. 1612."
"2James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, III:19.
GEORGE [KILBOURN], Roxbury 1636, freem. 13 May 1640, in the ch. rec. is call. serv. rem. to Rowley, by w. Eliz. had Mary, b. 3 May 1649; Joseph, 1 Feb. 1652; Jacob, 12 Jan. 1655, one of the flower of Essex in Lothrop's comp. k. by the Ind. 18 Sept. 1675, at Bloody brook; Samuel, 11 Sept. 1656; Isaac, 26 Jan. 1659; and Eliz. 1 Feb. 1663. He was s. of Thomas, bapt. at Wood Ditton, Co. Cam- bridge, 12 Feb. 1612."
"3New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston), 27:48 (1873).
Matthew Stickney, "Freeholders of Rowley, 1677," (listed as being entitled to 2 freeholds as of 28 Jan 1677).
2949. Elizabeth
1James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. (Baltimore, 1969), III:19.
GEORGE [KILBOURN], ...by w. Eliz. had Mary, b. 3 May 1649; Joseph, 1 Feb. 1652; Jacob, 12 Jan. 1655, one of the flower of Essex in Lothrop's comp. k. by the Ind. 18 Sept. 1675, at Bloody brook; Samuel, 11 Sept. 1656; Isaac, 26 Jan. 1659; and Eliz. 1 Feb. 1663."
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2950. John Trumble
1New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston), 49:148, 150 (1895).
"[J]ohn Trumble of Rowley was evidently a man of more than ordinary education and intelligence, he wrote a clerkly hand (no common accomplishment in those days), was Town Clerk of Rowley until his death in 1656, and taught the first school there....."
Henry Lea, "Trumbull Genealogy".2James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. (Baltimore, 1969), IV:336.
JOHN, Roxbury, when. in ch. rec. the spell. is Trumell, wh. caused a very experienced reader of early writ. to make it Trumtell, freem. 13 May 1640, is no more heard of at R. and, I think, was very soon at Rowley, where m. Ann, perhaps d. of the first Richard Swan, d. 1657, bur. 18 July. His inv. was by w. Ann brot. 29 Sept. and he left John, Joseph, Judah, and perhaps more. The s. John is made. the progenit. of the great Conn. fam. and the common error found support in the Appx. to the Centen. Addr. by Bradford. The older s. stuck by the paternal mansion."
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(his wife Ann was the later wife, not daughter, of Richard Swan).3James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, IV:336.
JOHN, ...d. 1657, bur. 18 July...."
"4New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 31:115 (1877).
"Notes and Queries".5New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 49:148 (1895).
Henry Lea, "Trumbull Genealogy".6New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 49:148-49 (1895).
Henry Lea, "Trumbull Genealogy".7James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, IV:336.
JOHN, Roxbury, ... freem. 13 May 1640...."
"8New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 49:148 (1895).
Henry Lea, "Trumbull Genealogy".
2951. Ann
1New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston), 49:149 (1895).
Henry Lea, "Trumbull Genealogy".2James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. (Baltimore, 1969), IV:336.
JOHN, Roxbury, ...no more heard of at R[oxbury], and, I think, was very soon at Rowley, where m. Ann, perhaps d. of the first Richard Swan...and he left John, Joseph, Judah, and perhaps more."
"3New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 31:115, 116 (1877).
"The Last will & Testament of Ann Swan Relict of Rowley Relict of Richard Swan of Rowley deceased Impr I comitt my soule Into the hands of God my maker In and through the Lord Jesus Christ & my body to decent Buriall In hopes of Blessed resurrection: And as for my outward estate my will is that it be giuen as followeth and I doe hereby Giue and bequeath the same: ... I giue to my daughter Mary Killburne my other Feather Bedd .... Futher all the wooden ware & vessels I give betwixt Abigail and Mary."
"Notes and Queries".4New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 31:115, 116 (1877).
"Notes and Queries".
2960. Eldad Kingsley
1Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA:2001), 21:28.
(listed as father of John).2James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. (Baltimore, 1969), I:344.
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JOHN, Dorchester 1635, ... had ,,,Eldad.b. 1638."3James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, I:344.
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KINGSLEY, or KINSLEY, ELDAD, Rehoboth 1663, s. of John of Dorchester, aid. that yr. Rev. John Myles in form. first Bapt. ch. of Mass.; m. Mehitable, d. of Roger Morey in 1662, and had John; Samuel; Jonathan; Mary, b. 7 Oct. 1675; and Nathaniel, 5 Feb. 1679, and d. 28 Aug. 1679."4James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, I:344.
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KINGSLEY, or KINSLEY, ELDAD, Rehoboth 1663, s. of John of Dorchester, ... m. Mehitable, d. of Roger Morey in 1662, and had John; Samuel; Jonathan; Mary, b. 7 Oct. 1675; and Nathaniel, 5 Feb. 1679, and d. 28 Aug. 1679."
2961. Mehitable Mowry\Morey
1James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Genealogical Publishing Co. (Baltimore, 1969), I:344.
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KINGSLEY, or KINSLEY, ELDAD, Rehoboth 1663, s. of John of Dorchester, ... m. Mehitable, d. of Roger Morey in 1662, and had John; Samuel; Jonathan; Mary, b. 7 Oct. 1675; and Nathaniel, 5 Feb. 1679, and d. 28 Aug. 1679."2Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA:2001), 21:28.
(listed as mother of John).
2962. Samuel Sabin
1Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA:2001), 21:13.
2Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington, 21:13.
3Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington, 21:13.
4Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington, 21:13.
5Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington, 21:13.
6Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington, 21:13.
(Sarah was left the sum of 3 pounds).7Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington, 21:13.
8Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington, 21:13.
2963. Mary Billington
1Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA:2001), 21:13.
2Harriet W. Hodge, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of John Billington, 21:13.
2964. Edward Adams
1Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, NEHGS (Boston, 1995).
"From the portion on Lydia's father, JAMES PENNIMAN:
In 1977 Benjamin Parker Richardson Jr. entered a caveat against the identification of Edward Adams as the husband of Lydia Penniman [ TAG 53:37-38], since the will of her father does not name her at all and the will of her mother merely calls her Lydia Adams without naming her husband, and an alternate claim that the wife of Edward Adams was a Lydia Rockwood or Rockett had been made by Abner Morse. We do know from the mother's will that Lydia did marry an Adams, and a search of Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 reveals no other Adams this early with wife Lydia. The only evidence in favor of the Rockwood identification is the choice by two of the children of Nicholas Rockwood of Edward Adams as their guardian. This could happen for other reasons than an Adams-Rockwood marriage, and so Edward Adams is retained as the husband of Lydia Penniman.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Clifford L. Stott has discovered the origin of James Penniman in Chipping Ongar, Essex, and has also provided evidence and careful arguments for the identity of the spouses of James Penniman's daughters [ TAG 71:12-18]."
2965. Lydia Penniman
1Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, NEHGS (Boston, 1995).
ii LYDIA, bp. Boston 22 February 1634/5 [ BChR 279]; m. by 1653 Edward Adams (eldest child b. Medfield 12 July 1653; see COMMENTS below). In 1977 Benjamin Parker Richardson Jr. entered a caveat against the identification of Edward Adams as the husband of Lydia Penniman [ TAG 53:37-38], since the will of her father does not name her at all and the will of her mother merely calls her Lydia Adams without naming her husband, and an alternate claim that the wife of Edward Adams was a Lydia Rockwood or Rockett had been made by Abner Morse. We do know from the mother's will that Lydia did marry an Adams, and a search of Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 reveals no other Adams this early with wife Lydia. The only evidence in favor of the Rockwood identification is the choice by two of the children of Nicholas Rockwood of Edward Adams as their guardian. This could happen for other reasons than an Adams-Rockwood marriage, and so Edward Adams is retained as the husband of Lydia Penniman.
"From the portion on Lydia's father, JAMES PENNIMAN:
In her [Lydia Elliot Penniman] will, dated 22 December 1673 and proved 27 July 1676, "Lidia Wight" [left] £10 to "my daughter Lydia Addams"
CHILDREN:
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Clifford L. Stott has discovered the origin of James Penniman in Chipping Ongar, Essex, and has also provided evidence and careful arguments for the identity of the spouses of James Penniman's daughters [ TAG 71:12-18]."
2966. Thomas Ellis
1New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston), "Medfield Memorial, 1664," Vol 13, page 346 (1859).
petition to the General Court of MA colony, asking the Court to convey to the King the signers' (which includes Thomas) satisfaction of their present form of government, but noting that "Wee may not be subjected to the Arbitrary power of any, who are not chosen by this people.....2New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 13, page 217 (1859).
2967. Mary Wight
1Edmund West, comp., Gene Pool of Individual Records (database online, Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah: 2000).
"Mary Wight
Birth: 27 January 1646-- Norfolk, Dedham, MA
Death: 7 March 1692 -- Medfield, Norfolk, MA Spouse: Thomas Ellis
Parents: Thomas Wight, Alice Roundy Pepper."2Edmund West, comp., Gene Pool of Individual Records.
"Mary Wight
Birth: 27 January 1646-- Norfolk, Dedham, MA
Death: 7 March 1692 -- Medfield, Norfolk, MA Spouse: Thomas Ellis
Parents: Thomas Wight, Alice Roundy Pepper."
2968. Jonah Palmer
1Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, NEHGS (Boston, 1995).
"Under entry for Walter Palmer and unknown first wife:
v JONAH, b. say 1621; m. (1) Rehoboth 3 May 1655 Elizabeth Grisell (marriage record does not give bride's name [ ReVR 276]; on 9 November 1655 "Jonas Palmer and Elizabeth Palmer of Rehoboth" sold to William Bullard, for a consideration part of which was to be paid to "Hannah Grissell daughter of Francis Grissell of Charlestown aforenamed deceased," land in Charlestown "by the last will and testament of the said Francis Grissell deceased given and bequeathed unto the said Elizabeth Palmer" [ MLR 1:152-53; Wyman 447]); m. (2) Rehoboth 9 November 1692 Abigail (Carpenter) Titus [ ReVR 276], daughter of William Carpenter and widow of John Titus [ TAG 70:198-200, 204]."
2969. Elizabeth Griswold
1Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, NEHGS (Boston, 1995).
v JONAH, b. say 1621; m. (1) Rehoboth 3 May 1655 Elizabeth Grisell (marriage record does not give bride's name [ReVR 276]; on 9 November 1655 "Jonas Palmer and Elizabeth Palmer of Rehoboth" sold to William Bullard, for a consideration part of which was to be paid to "Hannah Grissell daughter of Francis Grissell of Charlestown aforenamed deceased," land in Charlestown "by the last will and testament of the said Francis Grissell deceased given and bequeathed unto the said Elizabeth Palmer" [MLR 1:152-53; Wyman 447]); m. (2) Rehoboth 9 November 1692 Abigail (Carpenter) Titus [ ReVR 276], daughter of William Carpenter and widow of John Titus [ TAG 70:198-200, 204]."
"From the Walter Palmer entry listing his children: