2332. Thomas WHEELER [scrapbook] was born 1602 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England and was christened 20 Nov 1603. He died 6 Mar 1686 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut and was buried in Old Whitehall Cemetery, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut. Thomas married Mary on 1645 in Lynn, Essex Co, Massachusetts.

Thomas was christened 20 Nov 1603. [Parents]

HISTORY OF STONINGTON CT, by Richard Anson Wheeler, page 636.
    First appears in Lynn MA in 1635, where he was elected constable, and held other offical positions later on. In 1642 He was admitted as freeman of the commonwealth of MA, purchasing large tracts of land there, including a mill site, upon which he built and opperated a saw and grist mill.
    Thomas sold out his business and real estate there, and removed to Stonington in 1667. He was an intimate friend of Rev. James Noyes.
    Freeman of CT in 1669. and was nominated and elected one of the Stonington reps. to the CT General CT in 1673. 1674 his name appears among the immortal nine who organixed the First Congregational Church of Stonington, June 3, 1674. Built a residence in North Stonington, where Col. James F. Brown now resides, where they lived and died.

ANCESTORS OF ALDEN SMITH SWAN AND HIS WIFE MARY ALTHEA FARWELL, by Josephine C. Frost, The Hills Press, New York, MCMXXIII, page 229.
    Thomas appeared as a resident of Lynn, MA, in 1635, when he was elected Constable there, and later held other offical positions. In 1642 he was admitted to the privilege of a freeman of the Commonwealth and purchased large tracts of land, including a mill site, upon which he built and poerated a saw and grist mill. During his residence in Lynn he married Mary, whose maiden name is not known. They were married in 1645 and prior to 1667 he disposed of his holdings in Lynn and removed to Stonington, CT. He was made freeman of CT in 1669 and represented Stonington in the General Court in 1673. In 1674 he was one of the nine men who organized the First congresational Church, and his wife Mary was one of the partakers of the first communion service. They built their home in North Stonington, where Col. James F. Brown resided in 1900, and they lived and died there. His will was burned when the traitor Arnold burned the city of New London in 1781.
    He died March 6, 1686, aged 84 years, and he and his wife are buried in the old Whitehall burial place on the east bank of the Mystic River. He served in King Philip's War and was Captain of a Company of Horse in 1669.

THE WHEELER FAMILY IN AMERICA,THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS WHEELER, STONINGTON, CONN., pages 289 through 349, by Inez E. Coolby-Brayton, 1934. Located in the DAR Library, Washington, DC.
    The following from the HISTORY OF STONINGTON, CONN., by Judge Richard Anson Wheeler is, perhaps, the best experssion of all that is known of his life.
    "Thomas Wheeler, the ancestor of the Wheeler family of Stonington, Conn., and region round about, was doubtless of English origin, but the place of his birth, and nationality are not certainly known, nor has the time of his migration to this country been ascertained, so as to associate him with any of the passengers of the early emigrant ships. The first knowledge that we have of him in this country is when he appears as a resident of the town of Lynn, Mass., in 1635, when  and where he was elected constable, and held other official positions later on. In 1642 he was admitted in the privilege of a freeman of the commonwealth of Mass., purchasing large tracts of land there, including a mill site, upon which he built and operated a saw and grist mill. During his residence in Lynn he married Mary ____, a young lady of his acquaintance, whose family name in unknown, but our family traditions represent her as a woman of pleasing and attractive accomplishments, and in every way worthy of her liege loard; she graced her domestic duties with cheerfujl loveliness, filling his home with light and love. They were married in 1645, and became the parents of three children.
    What induced our ancestor, Thomas Wheeler, to leave Lynn, Mass., and sell out his business and real estate there, and take up his abode in the town of Stonington in 1667, is not fully understood, but whatever motive actuated him in coming this way it is plainly evident that he intended to make Stonington his final home. He was an intimate friend of Rev. James Noyes, who came to Stonington the same year that he did, and it has been supposed that the friendship between them was the cause of his coming. But that as it may, there were men of his name that lived in the English home of the Noyes family, and crossed the ocean about the same year that he did. Thomas Wheeler was made freeman in the Connecticut Colony in the year 1669, and was nominated and elected one of the Stonington representatives to the Connecticut General Court in the year 1673. The next year his name appears among the immorial nine who organized the First Congregational Church of Stonington, June 3, 1674, and his wife, Mary Wheeler, was one of the partakers with the church in their first communion service. Soon after Thomas Wheeler and his wife came to Stonington to live, he and his son Isaac built them a residence in North Stonington, where Col. James F. Brown now resides, where they lived and died. Thomas Wheeler left a will, which was lost by being burned when the infamous Arnold burned the city of New London, Sept. 6, 1781. The existence of his will is proved by his descendants referring in it in later instruments conveying the real estate that belonged to him and given to them in his will. They are both buried in the old Whitehall burial place, situated on the east bank of the Mystic river. He died March 6, 1686, age 84 years, consequently he was born 1602.

FIFTY GREAT MIGRATION COLONISTS TO NEW ENGLAND AND THEIR ORIGINS (1990) by John Brooks Threlfall; BET; N.E. Marriages Prior to 1700; National Society of the Daughters of American Colonists Lineage Books, Vol 4 and Supplement 1; Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. III; Headstone Inscriptions of Stonington; History of the First Congregational Church of Stonington, Conn; History of the Town of Stonington; Pioneers of Massachusetts; Saturday's Children--A History of the Babcock Family in America by C. Merton Babcock; Founders of Early American Families; History of Essex County, Mass., compiled by D. Hamilton Hurd; History of Lynn, Mass., by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall.; The Great Migration, 1634-1635, p191, 192, 256.

GENEALOGICAL & FAMILY HISTORY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Vol. III, and Boston Transcrip.
    he was the father of Elizabeth Wheeler.

PIONEERS OF MASSACHUSETTS,
    "Thomas Wheeler, miller, yeoman, Salem, worked on the bridge in 1646; propr. 1647. Removed to Lynn and with wife, Mary, sold Lynn land in 1657. He `deposed' in 1653, age about 50 years." This sounds like it could be the right Thomas since Elizabeth's children were born in Lynn, according to first source. So she could have lived there. Pioneers of Mass., however, says children were Isaac and Zipporah.

NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700,
    Thomas Wheeler (1603, 1606-1686) marrying a Mary ___.  Two children born in 1646 and 1648. Lived in "Lynn/Salem/Stonington, CT." 1603 birth date and places of residence jibe with above info.

NAT'L SOCIETY OF DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN COLONISTS Lineage Books, Vol. 4 & Supplement 1,
    He was born in 1602. Latter says he was of Lynn, Mass., and Stonington, Conn.; was a representative to the General Court, served in the colonial militia, and married in 1645. Former says he a representative to the General Court from Stonington in 1673. Vol. 18 says he was constable of Lynn in 1635.

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON:
    He first appeared in New England in Lynn, Mass., in 1635. Served as constable and later held other official positions. Freeman in 1642. Purchased large tracts of land and built and operated a grist mill. Met and married his wife Mary while living in Lynn. Sold his property and moved to Stonington in 1667. He was an intimate friend of Rev. James Noyes, who moved to Stonington the same year, and that may have been the reason Thomas left Massachusetts. Also, Wheeler men had lived in the English home of the Noyes family and crossed the ocean about the same year that he did. Freeman in Connecticut in 1669 and a representative to the General Court in 1673. Among nine men who organized the First Congregational Church of Stonington June 3, 1674. He left a will, but it was lost when Benedict Arnold burned New London Sept. 6, 1781; The Great Migration, 1634-1635, pages 191, 192, 256.

HISTORY OF THE 1st CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF STONINGTON, LDS film 547,548:
     He was among those who began the Church of Christ in Stonington 3 June 1674. Mrs. Thomas Wheeler was among the "Pertakers" at the ordination of Rev. James Noyes 10 Sept. 1674.

BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIP:
     Born 1602, died 6 March 1686, age 84; married 1645 in Lynn to Mary __.

HEADSTONE INSCRIPTIONS OF STONINGTON, CONN. (974.65/S1, V3h):
     Whitehall Cemetery, Thomas Wheeler, died 4 March 1686, age 84. Mary, wife of Thomas. No dates.

  Fifty: Thomas Wheeler, baptized 20 Nov. 1603; died 6 March 1686, age 84. (g.s.), Stonington, New London County, Conn. He was in Lynn, Mass., in 1635 and was a constable. Married Mary, had 3 children.

  Hurd: Thomas Wheeler "removed from Lynn to Stonington, Conn., in 1664, and became the largest landholder in the place, was an honored member of the church, and died there in 1686, at the age of eighty-four."

  [Since Thomas Wheeler was 43 when he married Mary _, it is possible he had a previous wife.]

  C.M. Babcock: Thomas Wheeler was a miller who came to Salem on the James in 1633. He lived with his wife Mary at Lynn, MA, and Stonington, CT, where he "took up about 4,000 acres of land, the best in town." He was Constable in 1668 and one of the "seven pillars" (founders) of the Puritan Church (in North Stonington).

  Saturday's Children: Thomas Wheeler sailed to New England in 1633, possibly on the ship James. His point of origin was Berkshire, and his distination was Lynn, Mass.

  Founders: Thomas Wheeler, Lynn, MA, 1635, Stonington 1667. Died there 6 March 1686.

  History of Lynn: 1 April 1653, Samuel Bennet, carpenter, sold his corn mill to Thomas Wheeler for 220 pounds. "A vessel owned by Captain Thomas Wiggin, of Portsmouth, was wrecked on the Long Beach, and the sails, masts, anchor, etc., purchased by Thomas Wheeler, on the third of June (1657).

  Migration: On 28 June 1680, Thomas Wheeler of Stonington, yeoman, sold to Willim Bassett Sr. of Lynn, yeoman, nine acres of fresh marsh. On 1 April 1653, Samuel Bennett of Lynn, carpenter, sold to Thomas Wheeler of Lynn, miller, a watermill in Lynn, the lands belonging to it, and two dwelling houses with eleven acres and five acres of marsh.

2333. Mary [scrapbook] was born in England. She died 1680 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut and was buried in Old Whitehall Cemetery, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.

SEE NOTES FOR HUSBAND THOMAS WHEELER
    Death date from Supplement 2, National Society of Daughters of American Colonists Lineage Books.

2334. Thomas PARK Sr. was born 1616 in Hitcham, Suffolk, England. He died 30 Jul 1709 in Preston, New London Co., Connecticut. Thomas married Dorothy THOMPSON on 1642 in Roxbury, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts. [Parents]

PARKE FAMILY GENEALOGY, by Parks, page 30.
    Came to America with his father in 1630, on the "Arbella" and moved with him to Wethersfield in 1639. Abt 1650 moved to Pequot Plantation, (New London) where he became a Deacon in the Church of which the Rev. Richard Blinman, his brother-in-law, they having married sisters, was pastor. He resided in Pequot for about six years and then moved to Southertown, (or Stonington), where he became a Selectman.
    After residing in Mystic, within the bounds of Stonington for a number of years, he moved with his son Thomas, Jr., to lands belonging to them in the nothern part of New London, where in 1680 they were reckoned as inhabitants. In 1681 he was Collector of Taxes for New London.
    In Octover 1686, he was one of the pititioners to the Legislature for the incorporation of the town of Preston.
    In 1698, he, together with his sons Robert and John and nine others, organized the First Church of Christ, of Preston and he became its first Deacon.
    He must have been over ninety years of age, although the exact date of his birth has not been discovered.

SWAMP YANKEE, by James Allyn, page 35.
    He married Dorothy Thompson, her sister, Mary had married the Rev. Richard Blinman, and another sister Bridget married George Denison.

PARKE FAMILY GENEALOGY, by FS Parks, page 25.
    born in Preston EN in 1580. He was a personal friend of John Winthrop. He was a man of means. He did not come to the new world through dire necessity or to better his condition, but rather through a desire to have more religious liberty.
    He and his family sailed from Cowes, Isle of Wight, for America, on board the "Arabella", with seventy-six passengers, March 29, 1630, and landed in Boston MA, June 17, 1630, making the voyage in seventy-eight days. He lived for a time at Roxbury MA.
    In 1639 he, with his son Thomas, went through the wilderness to Wethersfield CT, with the first settlers there. He resided at Wethersfield CT with the first settlers there.
    He was a resident of the town plot of New London for about six years, and then moved to lands which he owned on the Mystic River.
    He died in Mystic aged 84 years. His grave is in the White Hall graveyard, at White Hall, Mystic CT. His house was east of the present road and southeast of the burial ground, and stood just south of a small knoll, somewhat rocky.

SWAMP YANKEE, by James Allyn, page 10.
    Came from Little Preston in Northamptonshire. His wife was Martha Chapen (Chapin), daughter of Capt. Robert Chapen of Edmundsbury. With their son Thomas Parke they sailed from Cowes in 1630 aboard the Arbella to Salem with John Winthrop. Soon after they moved to Roxbury to join the friends from home. In 1640 the Parke family moved to Wethersfield, and in 1649 to New London to rejoin the Denisons at the new settlement. Robert Park was one of the first to settle the Groton side of Mystic in 1654, and later the town of Preston east of Norwich.

ANCESTORS OF ALDEN SMITH SWAN AND HIS WIFE MARY ALTHEA FARWELL, by Josephine C. Frost, The Hills Press, New York, MCMXXIII, page 157.
    Thomas Park, was born in England and died in Preston, CT, July 30, 1709. He owned land in Stonington, CT, which he sold in 1680 and removed to Preston, where he was the first Deacon in Rev. Treal's church. He served in King Philip's War of 1675/6, and he married Dorothy Thompson, born July 5, 1624.

  Sources: Daughters of American Colonists Lineage Book; "Princess of Wales"
and PS 1992m /vik 29, No. 1. Also Boston Evening Transcript and Caulkins;
Roberts/Reitwieser; The Blackmans of Knight's Creek; The Winthrop Fleet of
1630; TAG 16/16; Potter-Richardson Memorial; Saturday's Children--A History of of the Babcock Family in America by C. Merton Babcock; The Great Migration
Begins, v3, p1388; Magna Charta Sureties 163-11.

  PS: Came to MA in 1630 (probably with his parents on the Arbella).
  Winthrop: Son of Robert. He married Dorothy Thompson, daughter of his
father's second wife, and lived in Stonington and New London. Came with his
parents on the Arbella, Winthrop Fleet, 1630.
  C.M. Babcock: Thomas Parke, son of Robert, arrived with his parents on the
Arbella 17 June 1630 after a 78-day voyage from the Isle of Wight.

  DAC Lineage Book: Thomas Parke was a landowner at Southerton and in 1686 was one of the incorporators of the new town of Preston, Conn.
  History of New London, Conn., gives death date and names children. He owned lands in Stonington purchased from his brother-in-law, Rev. Richard Blinman, situated on the east bank of the Mystic River. He disposed of this land and moved to Preston, Conn., in 1680 and was the first deacon of Rev. Mr. Treat's church, organized in Preston in 1698.
  BET: Deacon Thomas Parke, born 1627, died 20 July 1709.
  Caulkins: Lived in Mystic, within bounds of Stonington, and then he and
Thomas Parke Jr. moved to lands they owned in northern part of New London,
both being recorded as New London inhabitants in 1680. They later were recorded in Preston, and Thomas Sr. was the first deacon in Mr. Treat's church, organized in Preston in 1698. Thomas Sr. died July 30, 1709.l
  Roberts/Reitwiesner: Born 13 ______1616, Hitcham, Suffolk, England. Died Preston 30 July 1709. Married Roxbury, Mass., before 28 Oct. 1644.
  TAG: Thomas Parke Sr. of Preston. Will dated 5 Sept 1707, proved 9 Aug.
1709. Names wife Dorothy; sons John, Nathaniel and William; daughters Martha,
Dorothy and Alice; grandsons Samuel, son of Thomas Parke, deceased, and James,
son of Robert Parke, deceased.
  Memorial: Thomas Parke, 1610/15-1709, son of Robert and Martha (Chapin)
Parke; married Dorothy Thompson.
  Migration: His brother William's will mentions 80 acres in Stonington once
owned by his "brother Thomas Park (sic)"
  Sureties: Thomas Parke, died Preston, Conn., 30 July 1709, son of Robert
Parke and Martha Chaplin.

  Additional info from Ancestral File. One said a Thomas Parke was born
in 1554. He an ancestor? Another said he was born about 1620 in Stonington,
Conn. Either the date or the place is wrong. The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in
1620, and he wasn't born there.

2335. Dorothy THOMPSON was christened 5 Jul 1624 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England. She died 1709 in Preston, New London Co., Connecticut.

Dorothy was christened 5 Jul 1624 in Preston Capes, Parish, Northamptonshire, England. [Parents]

  Sources: Daughters of Am. Colonists Lineage Book, AF, Boston Evening
Transcript; History of the Town of Stonington by Wheeler; Roberts/Reitwiesner; The Blackmans of Knight's Creek; The American Genealogist, 13/2; Potter-Richardson Memorial; Magna Charta Sureties.
  Roberts/Reitwiesner: Dorothy Thompson, baptized Preston Capes,
Northamptonshire 5 July 1624; died after 5 Sept. 1707. She married her step-brother.
  Wheeler: She came to New England with her mother, brother and four sisters, her father, John Thompson, having died about 1627. Older sister with same name died young.
  BET: Baptized 5 July 1624.
  Blackmans: Dorothy Tompson, died after 1708.
  Am. Genealogist: Dority Thompson, baptized 5 July 1624, Preston Capes
Parish, Northamptonshire.
  Memorial: Dorothy Thompson, baptized 1624 at Little Preston, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire; married, 1642 Roxbury, MA, to Thomas Parke, 1610/15-1709. They lived in Wethersfield, New London and Preston, CT.
  Sureties: Dorothy Tompson, baptized Preston Capes 5 July 1624. Married
by 28 Oct. 1644, Thomas Parke, who died 30 July 1709 in Preston, Conn. She died 1709. [This based on her being named in a 1709 will of Thomas Parke?]

2336. Edmund SHEFFIELD was born 1580 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. He died before 4 Jan 1630 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. Edmund married Thomazine about 1607. [Parents]

"English Origins of Americal Colonists"; Genealogical Pub. Co.; pp 31-34.

2337. Thomazine.

2338. George PARKER married Frances DARBYE.

Dau. of George and Frances (Darbye) Parker of Portsmouth RI

GENEALOGIES OF R.I.FAMILIES, VOL. II, ONE BRANCH OF THE RHODE ISLAND SHEFFIELDS, by G. Andrews Moriarty, A.M., LL.B., F.S.A., pages 158.
    1. "Mr." Ichabod Scheffield, ... He married in Portsmouth, in 1660, Mary Parker, daughter of George Parker of that town (cf, The Register, op.cit.; Austin's Gen. Dic. of RI, p. 175; Arnold's Vital Rec. of Rhode Island, vol. 4, p. 39).

2339. Frances DARBYE.

Dau. of George and Frances (Darbye) Parker of Portsmouth RI

GENEALOGIES OF R.I.FAMILIES, VOL. II, ONE BRANCH OF THE RHODE ISLAND SHEFFIELDS, by G. Andrews Moriarty, A.M., LL.B., F.S.A., pages 158.
    1. "Mr." Ichabod Scheffield, ... He married in Portsmouth, in 1660, Mary Parker, daughter of George Parker of that town (cf, The Register, op.cit.; Austin's Gen. Dic. of RI, p. 175; Arnold's Vital Rec. of Rhode Island, vol. 4, p. 39).

2342. John COOKE married Mary BORDEN.

2343. Mary BORDEN.

2352. Major Brian PENDLETON was born 1599 in Birmingham, Lancashire, England. He died 1681 in Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. Brian married Eleanor PRICE on 22 Apr 1619 in St. Martin's Ch., Birmingham, Warwick, England. [Parents]

HISTORY OF STONINGTON CT, by Wheeler, page 531.
    He first settled in Watertown, MA and was made freeman there Sept 3, 1634, and was Deputy for six years to the General Court. He moved to Sudbury and helped settle that town, and was selectman for several years. From Sudbury he went to Ipswich. He was a member of the famous artillery company of Boston. He removed to Portsmouth, NH about 1651, and was Deputy there five years. In 1653 he purchased 200 acres of land near Winter Harbor, Saco, ME, and after a few years he returned to Portsmouth, where he made his will, which was prov en April 5, 1681. He was an eminent man in his day, and held the office of captain and major for many years, besides important civil and military offices.

BRIAN PENDLETON AND HIS DESCENDANTS, 1599-1910, Compiled by Everett Hall Pendleton, Privatley Printed MCMX, found in the DAR Library, Washington, DC. Page 1-77.
    Brian Pendleton was married when he came to this country but we have not found his wife's family name. Her Christian name was Eleanor, as appears in every deed she signed with her husband from 1648 to 1680. She survived the Major for about eight years as on the 28th of July, 1688, Pendleton Fletcher of Saco petitioned Governor Andros for a confirmation of his (Fletcher's) title to lands received from Brian Pendleton, his grandfather. "Also 100 acres given yr petition by his Grnadmother, lately deceased and purchased by her husband of one Jno West, lying upon Saco River, on ye Southward side." This was the land which Brian Pendleton bought of West 15 March 1678/9. York Deeds, 1:80.

Researching this line is Nancyann Norman at [email protected]

  Sources: Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Conn., by Beers; Early New England Pendletons; History of Saco and Biddeford (Maine); Wheeler's History of Stonington; Babcock and Allied Families: IGI; Founders of Early American Families; National Society, Daughters of Colonial Wars, Lineage Book V; NEHGR, v7, p357; v8, pp 239-240, & v3, p258; The Great Migration Begins, v1, pages 302, 496 and 564; v2, pages 1015 and 1135; The American Genealogist, Vol. 10, pages 14 and 15; Puritan Village by Sumner Chilton Powell.

  Founders: Brian Pendleton. Watertown, MA, 1634. Sudbury 1638. Ipswich. Portsmouth, NH, 1651. Saco, Maine, 1677. Died Winter Harbor, Maine, by 5 April 1681. Captain of Militia. Major. Deputy. President Maine Province. Associate Justice.
  IGI names five children, the first two being born in London.
  Beers and Wheeler list only two children. Early New England Pendletons lists five children, with four of them probably being born in England. Marriage record at St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, England, reads: "Aprell 22, 1619, Bryene Pendleton et Ellinor Prise." Birth of first child, Nicholas, recorded at same church. He probably died young. Next three probably born in London and the fifth probably in Watertown, Mass. After the birth of Nicholas, the Pendletons are found in 1625 in the Parish of St. Sepulchre's without Newgate in London. That church's records were lost in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
  Brian Pendleton was probably among the original settlers of Watertown, Mass. On Aug. 14, 1634, he was chosen one of three men to "order" the civil affairs of the town--an office which later became known as that of selectman. On Sept. 3, 1634, he was made a freeman. On March 3, 1636, he was chosen as deputy from Watertown to the General Court of Massachusetts. He was several times reelected to both positions. He also was one of the original members of the Military Company of Massachusetts.
  In 1639 he was one of the first settlers of Sudbury, Mass., and in 1640 was appointed to drill the military company there. He also was a selectman and commissioner in Sudsbury. He returned to Watertown in 1646 and again to the General Court. Referred to in Watertown as "Lieut. Pendleton."
  Moved to Topsfield, Mass., in 1648-49 and to Portsmouth (later N.H.) in 1651 where he was appointed an associate justice by the General Court of
Massachusetts, serving until 1665, when he moved to Winter Harbor, Maine.
  In Portsmouth he was chosen commander of the train band (militia). selectman, town treasurer, and deputy to the General Court, all for several terms, as well as serving in other positions. In fact, Everett Hall Pendleton, in Early New England Pendletons, says he and his son, Capt. James Pendleton, "ran the affairs of Portsmouth."
  In Winter Harbor (Saco), he was a selectman, elected a Burgess to attend the General Court of the Province of Maine, a "surveyor of highways," a justice  for "small causes," and in 1668 was appointed major of the York County regiment and also an associate justice  of the Province of Maine when Maine once more came under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. He later was town clerk, commissioner, and assessor of taxes at Saco. In 1680 he was named deputy president of the Province of Maine.
  Brian Pendleton died during the winter of 1680-81, either in Winter Harbor or Wells, Maine, at the home of his granddaughter, Mary. Two Wells men were  appointed to take the inventory of his estate, indicating he may have died there.
  During his lifetime, Brian gave son James 140 acres of land in Sudbury and also 700 acres in Westerly, Rhode Island, that he had obtained in a business transaction. He also apparently turned over business interests in Portsmouth to James. The major's will left land on the Great Island in Portsmouth to grandsons Pendleton Fletcher and Brian Pendleton, Saco area property to his wife, and housing and land at Wells to Mary and Hannah Pendleton, daughters of James and his first wife. This included "three plantations or lotts."
  The land left to his wife included 640 acres along the Saco River, his house and 300 acres at Cape-Porpus (now Kennebunkport), and "all my several islands  in or near sd. Cape-Porpus."
  The trust deed to the 700 acres of land in Westerly stated that James was to  hold it intact during his lifetime. Afterwards it was to be divided equally amongst James' children by his second wife, except the oldest surviving son should have a double share.
  Wheeler: Brian Pendleton's will is on pages 722 and 723.
  TAG: "Bryene pendelton et Ellinor prise Aprell 22, 1619. (Register of St. Martin's, Birmingham, England, 1554-1653, p. 108). Note. Bryan Pendleton, who came to New England, was born about 1599, by deposition. His son Nicholas, baptized 4 Dec. 1619, at St. Martin's, Birmingham, England, probably died young.
  Babcock and Allied Families: Brian Pendleton, born in England about 1599. Will probated 23 April 1681 in York County Court, Maine. First appears in New England in Watertown, MA, 24 Aug. 1634; removed to Sudbury as an original settler in 1639 and returned to Watertown in 1646. He removed to Ipswich, MA, where he bought land 9 Nov. 1648, and then moved on to Portsmouth, NH, about 1651. In October 1652 he was one of the commissioners sent to Maine to assert the authority of Massachusetts there, although he remained a resident of  Portsmouth. He served as a major in King Phillp's War, but it is uncertain whether he served from Portsmouth or Maine. He was a special magistrate in Winter Harbor, Maine, and an associate justice for York County, Maine, and also headed the York County Court of Pleas. "In the course of his judgeships he  permitted no Quakers to be whipped or witches hanged." [More info on pages 79-81.]
  Colonial Wars: Major Brian Pendleton, born about 1599, died 1681; married Eleanor Price 22 April 1619.
  NEHGR--Article, "Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk" (v7): Brian Pendleton, a witness at York (Maine), 1653. Age about 70 in July 1669. Captain  Brian, Portsmouth (New Hampshire), 1647. Vol. 3, in "Memoir of Charles Frost,"  says he was one of eight men appointed [about 1678] to the provincial council of Maine by the the govenor and council of Massachusetts
  Migration: Bryan Pendleton bought Watertown, Mass., land 6 May 1646 from Nicholas Knapp. Brian Pendleton  was one of the executors named in the 8 April  1647 will of "Margaret How of Water=Towne Widow." Mentioned in 26 May 1646 land transaction, along with Edmond Goodenow, in Sudbury.  Capt. Pendleton mentioned in Kittery, Maine, records, indicating he had property there in 1648. Brian "Pemelton of Saco" (Maine) on 6 June 1667 acknowleged he sold to William Dodge and others, about 1653 or 1654, a 600 acre farm "formerly belong[ing] unto Old  Mr. Thomas Dudley" and "was honestly paid for  it."
  Puritan Village: Three residents of Watertown, Peter Noyes, Brian Pendleton,  "a wealthy London man," and the Rev. Edmund Brown petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts for a town grant below Concord. Noyes was termed an administrator and Pendleton a land speculator who "had enjoyed power in the first few years of Watertown and then fallen out of favor."  The General Court appointed Pendleton captain of the town military company after Sudbury was formed. By 1647 he had returned to Watertown, but despite that departure  he was awarded more Sudbury land in 1658, even though he had left Sudbury some 12 years earlier. Others who had moved away were not awarded new land.  [Perhaps Pendleton was favored because he was a town founder.] Also, he threatened to sue the town in 1647, reason not specified, but the Middlesex County Court shows no record of the case, according to Puritan Village author Powell. [Powell's label of land speculator for Pendletown appears accurate since he moved on to other areas, accumulating more and more land. See above.]   
   NEHGR, v8, pp239-240: Indian War Papers. Reports an Indian attack in Maine in 1675, in which Major Pendleton was asked to help by sending 12 men.
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   [There are two other books, Brian Pendleton and His Massachusetts and Brian Pendleton and His Descendents, that contain more information but I (LBB) haven't seen them.]
  Batch #: M010721, Source Call #: 919764
  Batch #: 8676708, Sheet #: 52, Source Call #: 1396239

2353. Eleanor PRICE was born 22 Apr 1599 in St. Martin's, Birmingham, England. She died Jul 1688 in Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. [Parents]

Researching this line is Nancyann Norman at [email protected]

  See Brian Pendleton notes for marriage date. Several sources list her as
Brian's wife. An Ancestral File record says she died in 1681. Also gives names
of parents and birth date and place.

2354. Edmund GOODENOW was born about 1611 in Dunhead, St. Andrew, Wiltshire, England. He died 6 Apr 1688 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts and was buried in Old Burying Ground, Wayland, Massachusetts. Edmund married Anne Hannah BARRY about 1630/1634. [Parents]

As a churchwarden of Donhead St. Andrew, he was cited in 1636 for not attending his parish church; with his borthers Ralph and Simon, he was cited in Feb. 1637 for not attending church in Shaftesbury (Powell pp. 72-73). He and his family immigrated on the Confidence, his age given as 27 and his residence as "Dunhead in Wilsheire" (TAG 52:208). He was one of the "three youngest children" in the will of Thomas Goodenow (TAG 52:209); Ursula Goodenow's will implies that he was her youngest son.

Sources: Banks, Planters, p. 196: Wm Barry, Hist. Farmingham, p. 264; Bond, Watertown, p. 392; Hudson, History Sudbury, pp. 28, 34-35; Mas. Colon. Recs., I, 291-92; Meacham family recs.; NEHGR 6:379; 14:355; 17:170, 254, 312; 59:243; 60:59-60; S. C. Powell, Puritan Village, pp. 72-73, 82-98, passim; E.M.L. Rixford, Three Hundred Colon. Ancest., p. 229; Savage, II, 271, 272; Sudbury VR, pp. 52, 53, 54, 57, 202, 203, 249, 305, 306.
    In Wiltshire, England, Edmund Goodnow, though a church warden of Donhead St. Andrew, was influenced by the nonconformist doctrines being preached in his and neighboring parishes. In 1636, he and his fellow churchwarden Roger Strong were finded and required to do pendance for their wanderings from their force to come before their archdeacon because they had gone to chruch in Shaftsbury. Resenting such atrictness, Edmund and several of his relatives embarked for New England in the Confidence, which sailed from Southampton on April 24, 1638.
    Edmund and his family settled in Sudbury MA. A committee examining about fifty candidates for citizenship in 1639 ranked him as sixth in the economic hiararcay, and the General Court of the MA Colony appointed him the town's first constable. In 1640 the inhabitants of Sudbury chose him and Brian Pendleton to distribute "the third division of upland," making grants that would "stand forever," and he and John Bent were authorized to assign all tember "according to any man's necessity." with power affairs for one year." That is, he was a selectman, and he served as such until March, 1655/6. In 1645 he was elected an ensign in the town troops, in 1648 a civil judge, and in 1649 a Deputy to the General Court.
    Both were buried in Old Burying Ground at Wayland MA.

NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, Vol. XIV, 1860, page 335.
    List of Names of Passeng the good shipp the Confidence of London or C.C. tonnes, John Jobson, Mr. And thus by vertue of the Lord Treas warr of the xjth of April, 1638. Southampton, 24 April, 1638.
    Edmvnd Goodenowe of Dunhead in Wilsheire   Husbandman  27
    Ann Goodenowe   his wife
    John Goodenowe  their sons 4 years and under
    Thomas Goodenowe
    Richard Sangar  his servant   18
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    John Goodenowe of Semley in Wilsheir  Husbandman    42
    Jane Goodenowe   his wife
    Lydia Goodenowe  their daughters
    Jane Goodenowe
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    Thomas Goodenowe of Shasbury (probably in Dorsetshire) 30
    Jane Goodenowe  his wife
    Thomas Goodenowe  his sone   1
    Ursula Goodenowe  his sister

Sources: Pioneers of Mass.; NEHGR, Vols. 2, 13; National Society, Daughters of Am. Colonists; Gen. Register of the First Settlers of New England; Flintlock and Tomahawk; Topographical Dictionary of Emigrants to New England; Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service; TAG, v52, No. 4, and v59, No. 1; Founders of Early American Families; National Society, Daughters of Colonial Wars, Lineage Book V; NEHGR, v13, p261, & V18, p48; The Great Migration Begins, Vol.1, pages 302 and 1126; Puritan Village by Sumner Chilton Powell.

Name sometimes spelled Goodyknow, Goodynow, Goodnow, Goodenowe and Goodenough.

From Pioneers of Massachusetts:
"Edmund Goodenow, husbandman, ae. 27, from Dunhead, Wilts., Eng., with his wife Anne and sons John and Thomas under 4 yrs. of age, with servant Richard Sanger, ae. 18, came in the Confidence April 11, 1638. Settled at Sudbury, propr. 1639, frm. May 13, 1640. Town officer, deputy. Lieut. 1 (2) 1651. [Mdx. Files.]  Ch. Hannah b. 28 (9) 1639, Sarah b. 17 (1) 1642, Joseph b. 19 (5) 1645. Capt. Edmund d. April 5, 1688."
  New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. II, prints the list of ship passengers, but that record is very muddled. A corrected copy is found in Founders of New England.
  The latter lists "Edmund Goodenowe of Dunhead (current map has Donhead) in
Wilsheire. Husbandman,  27." With him were his wife Ann; two sons four years
and under, John and Thomas, and Richard Sanger, 18, his servant.
  Two other Goodenow families came on the same ship: John, 42, with wife Jane and daughters Lydia and Jane, came from Semley, Wiltshire. Thomas, 30, with wife Jane, son Thomas, 1, and sister Ursula, came from Shaftsbury, England.
  All three families settled in Sudbury, Mass. Edmund and Thomas were listed in NEHGR, Vol. 13, p213 as original proprietors of Sudbury.
  TAG: Edmund Goodenow, born about 1611, son of Thomas Goodyknow of Donhead St. Andrew, Wiltshire. Died 6 April 1688 Sudbury, MA. Living 1638 at Donhead St. Andrew, immigrating from there at age 27 to New England in 1638. He came on the ship Confidence with his wife Ann, sons John and Thomas, both under four years, and his servant, Richard Sanger, age 18.

  Ancestral File record says parents of Edmund were Thomas and Ursula Goodenow. They probably were the parents of at least three Goodenows on the ship: Thomas, Edmund and Ursula. John was 12 years older than Thomas and 15 years older than Edmund, so he could have been an uncle or an older brother.
  A NEHGR, Vol. II, correction entry lists the Goodenows as passengers on
the "goode shipp, the Confidence of London, of 200 tonnes." The passenger list is dated April 11, 1638--presumably the date, or approximate date, of sailing.
  NEHGR, v14, p335, in another update: Edmvnd (sic) Goodenowe of Dunhead (now it is known as Donhead) in Wilsheire, Husbandman; Ann Goodenowe, his wife; John and Thomas Goodenowe, their  sonns 4 yeares and under; and Richard Sangar, his servant.
  National Society of the Daughters of American Colonists Lineage Book,
Vol. 2, says Edmund was a representative to the General Court from Sudbury,
1645-80.
  Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of N.E. says he was in Sudbury
in 1640, was a first lieutenant and later captain in the military train band
and a representative to the General Court in 1645 and 1650.
  "Flintlock and Tomahawk" by Douglas Edward Leach describes an Indian attack in 1676 on Sudbury during King Philip's War. Among the town's defensive buildings was the "Goodnow Garrison House," very probably the house of Capt. Edmund Goodenow.
  Topographical Dictionary of English Emigrants: Edmond Goodnow from Donhead
Parish, Wiltshire, came on the Confidence to Sudbury, Mass.
  Three Hundred: He was honored as leader of the militia. Died 1676.
  Founders: Edmund Goodenow. Came with family on "Confidence" 1638. Sudbury,
MA, 1639. Died there 6 April 1688. Husbandman on passenger list. Deputy.
Captain of foot company.
  Colonial Wars: Capt. Edmund Goodnow, born Wiltshire, England, 1611; died
Sudbury, Mass., 5 or 6 April 1688, age 77. Married Ann _______ about 1634.
Deputy from Sudbury, Mass., 1645, 1649, 1650, 1660, 1673, 1674 and 1680. Ensign of Military Company, 1745; Lieutenant in 1651; Captain of Sudbury Foot Co. 1674; commanded a garrison house during King Philip's War, 1675/6.
  NEHGR: The original proprietors of Sudbury, Mass., included Edmund, Thomas
and John Goodenow. (Vol. 13). Capt. Edmund Goodenow died 5 April 1688. Sudbury records cited in Vol. 18.
  Migration: Edmund Goodenow of Sudbury, Mass. Father of Sarah Goodenow.
  Puritan Village: Edmund Goodnow. A non-conformist residing in St. Andrew Parish, Wiltshire, he preferred hearing sermons spoken by religious leaders outside his home parish. He was cited in 1636 for wandering from his parish church. He and brothers Simon and Ralph the next year were presented before their archdeacon "for going to Shaftsbury to church on Sundays and Holy Days." [Edmund came to New England in 1638, but not Simon and Ralph.] He was a founder of Sudbury and and a prominent public figure, serving 13 terms as a selectman and three as a deputy to the Massachusetts General Courts. He was appointed by the General Court as the first constable. Other town jobs included fence viewer, judge of small causes, surveyor of highway, invoice taker, timber keeper and ensign in the train band. [Apparently he had risen to captain at the time of the King Philips War, see above.] A new generation of young turks gained control of the town government, and Edmund in March 1555/56 was out of office for the first time in his Sudbury political life.  Later former selectman Edmund was reduced to the public job of swine warden.

2355. Anne Hannah BARRY was born 1607/1613 in Dunhead, Wiltshire, England. She died 9 Mar 1673 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts and was buried in Old Burying Ground, Wayland, Massachusetts.

Doc. is from The Second Boat, do not remember what issue.
Family Record of Nettie Sim, Clearfield, Utah.

  Sources: National Society, Daughters of Colonial Wars; New England Marriages
Prior to 1700; Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by Austin; NEHGR v17,
p312; AF.
  NEHGR: Ann, wife of Capt. Goodenow, died 9 March 1675. Sudbury records
cited.
  Colonial Wars: Ann _________, born 1609, died Sudbury, Mass., 9 March 1675,
age 67. Married about 1634.
 New England Marriages: She died in 1689. Married about 1634.
 AF: Ann _______, born about 1615; died 9 Nov. 1675 in Wayland, Middlesex,
Mass. Married 1630-1634.
 The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by Austin says her name was Ann
Barry. Other references say Anne and Berry.

2360. Robert BURROWS was born about 1620 in Lancashire, England. He died Aug 1682 in New London, New London Co., Connecticut. Robert married Mary.

VITAL RECORDS OF NEW LONDON, NEW LONDON CO., CONN.
Robert Burrows senior dyed about the middle of ye month of August 1682.

HISTORY OF STONINGTON, CONN., by Wheeler, page 279.
   Probably came from Boston, Mass. or vicinity and settled first at Wethersfield Conn., where he owned land in 1641. He m. Mary, widow of Samuel Ireland, prior to 1642, moved to New London about 1650, and soon settled at Poquonnock, and was one of the earliest settlers on the west side of the Mystic River. He was by appointment the first ferryman on the Mystic River.
    In May, 1660, he was chosen by the General Court "ferryman for Mistick river, to ferry a horse and a man for a groat."
    He was living in Mystic in 1664, and 1666 his land was taxed at 246 pounds. He later sold his lot to Edward Culver, whose daughter Hannah became the wife of his son John. In 1664, with a house in New London and property in Poquonnock and on the Mystic River, he was the third wealthiest man in New London.

2361. Mary was born 1605 in England. She died 2 Oct 1672 in Groton, New London Co., Connecticut.

VITAL RECORDS OF NEW LONDON, NEW LONDON CO., CONN.
    Mary Burros the wife of Robert Burrows dyed Dec. 1672 in Groton, Conn. (At marriage she was widow of Samuel Ireland).

HISTORY OF STONINGTON CT, by Wheeler, page 279.
    Widow of Samuel Ireland

ELDRED AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIES, Researched by: Catherine Matson & Clarice McNiven, Compiled by: Carol & Susan Matson, pp. 79.
    Samuel Ireland came to America in 1635 with his wife and children on the "Increase".

2362. John CULVER.

2368. Thomas HEWITT was born about 1604 in England.

Researching this line is Ginny Hewitt at [email protected]
Researching this line is Scott R. Cunningham at Scott@customstaffing,com

2372. Francis FANNING married Miss.

Sheriff 1632, Mayor of Limrick 1644.

2373. Miss.

2380. Thomas ROSE.

2382. Robert ALLYN was born 1608 in England. He died before 20 Sep 1683 in Allyn's Point, New London Co., Connecticut. Robert married Sarah GAGER on 1640 in Connecticut. [Parents]

HISTORIC LEDYARD, Vol. I, Gales Ferry Village, page 91.

ELDRED AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIES, page 29.
    Robert Allyn b. in 1616 in England, d. before Sept. 20 1683 at New London, CT, m. Sarah GAGER, daughter of William, b. in England d. Dec. 5 1685.
    Robert came to America in 1632 going first to Salem, MA where he was admitted to the Church. His brother William had come with him to the New World and they settled in a part of Salem which later became the town of Manchester. He was Constable in 1648 and sworn freeman in 1649. In 1651 he and other members of Manchester and Gloucester emigrated to Pequot (now New London) CT. In 1653, lots were laid out and Robert moved to these quarters in 1656. In 1658, Robert and John Gager were released from their fine for not attending ordinary town training, probably because they lived at such a distance from the center. He was still young enough for military training, this was not usually granted to men unter 60. The country in the rear of these hardy pioneers was desolate and and wild in the extreme. It was here that the Indian reservation Mashantucket was laid out.
    Robert Allyn and John Gager were so far removed from the town lots as to scarcely be able to take part in its concerns, or share in its privileges, but they appeared, however to still attend the Sabbath meetings, probably coming down the river in canoes. Robert became an original propreitor in Norwich CT and was Constable in 1669. He was in the deeds of Norwich until 1674 when he removed with his family back to "Allyn's Point:, his home about a mile above Gale's Ferry, the Heaedquarters of the Yale racing crews on the Thames River. Robert conveyed lands to his son John in 1681.
    Children probably born in Salem, MA.

  Sources: History of New London and History of Stonington.

2383. Sarah GAGER was born in Suffolk, England. She died 5 Dec 1683 in Allyn's Point, New London Co., Connecticut. [Parents]

ELDRED AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIES, Researched by: Catherine Matson & Clarice McNiven, Compiled by: Carol & Susan Matson, pp. 66.
    Sarah, d. 5 Dec 1683, m. 1651 Robert Allyn.

2392. William BILLINGS was born 1629 in Taunton, Somersetshire, England. He died 16 Mar 1713 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut. William married Mary ATHERTON on 12 May 1657 in Dorchester, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts. [Parents]

THE HISTORY OF STONINGTON CT, by Wheeler, page 237.
    Came from Taunton, EN and first appears in this country at Dorchester and Braintree MA. He m. Mary ATHERTON at Dorchester MA Feb 5, 1658. The time of his coming to Stonington is not certainly known, but his name appears here among the planters of Stonington. He built him a dwelling-house by grants and purchases a large land owner.

THE GENEALOGY OF SOME OF THE DECENDANTS OF WILLIAMS BILLINGS WHO CAME TO AMERICA IN 1650 AND PERMANENTLY SETTLED AT STONINGTON CT IN 1658.
    Son of William Billing of Taunton, EN disposed of his lands and came to New England about 1650. He was an original proprietor of lands at Landcaster, MA in 1654. On May 12, 1567, he married Mary ATHERTON at Dorchester MA. In 1658 he joined the Company of William Cheeseborough of Stonington, CT where he resided during the remainder of his life. He became one of the largest landed proprietors in that and neighoring towns. In 1668 he became a settler of Block Island and with others his name is engraved on a granite monument at Block Island. He died March 16, 1713, and his wife in 1718.

SWAMP YANKEE, by James Allyn, page 36.
    William was a sea captain out of London, and came to Dorchester from Taunton EN in 1654. He continued his seafaring here, and bought a large tract of land around Cossatuc Hill in North Stonington.

GENEALOGIES OF CONN. FAMILIES, A-Ga, page 134 TO 156.

2393. Mary ATHERTON died 1718 in Block Island, Connecticut. [Parents]

2394. Daniel COMSTOCK was born 21 Jul 1630 in Culmstock, Devonshire, England. He died 1683 in New London, New London Co., Connecticut. Daniel married Pelthiah ELDERKIN on 1653 in Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts. [Parents]

2395. Pelthiah ELDERKIN was born 1632 in Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut. She died after 21 Feb 1713 in Connecticut. [Parents]