Clinching proof for the Bromfield line

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John Brandon

Clinching proof for the Bromfield line

Legg inn av John Brandon » 30 jun 2006 00:05:55

The English origin of Edward1 Bromfield of Boston seems fairly clear to
me. I admit, however, that the failure of his father's will to name
him is a little disturbing. (I believe the explanation for that lapse
is found in the son's recent removal to New England and the chaotic
state of the father's finances.) Edward Bromfield is clearly named as
living in the (somewhat earlier) will of his maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Mary (Oglander) (Kempe) Bromfield (she was his maternal grandmother as
well as the second wife of his paternal grandfather).

But, aside from this troubling blip, the lineage has seemed fairly
sound, mainly for the two reasons following:

1) Claimed to be a son of Henry Bromfield and his wife Frances, the New
England immigrant named two of his children "Henry" and "Frances."
(The name "Henry" has been more popular among the New England family
than "Edward" itself.)

2) Mr. Edward Bromfield's obituary, which appeared in the _New England
Journal_, 3rd and 10th June 1734, stated that he was "in the 86th year
of his age" and was "the third son of Henry Bromfield, Esq., the son of
Arthur Bromfield, Esq., and was born at Haywood House, the seat of the
family, near New Forest in Hampshire, in England, on the 10th of
January, 1648-9, baptized at Chanesoft [sic], 16 Jan. following ..."
[_NEHGR_, 5: 100]. "Chanesoft" is someone's uncertain rendering of the
place-name "Chawcroft." The biography of Henry Bromfield, father of
the immigrant, in B.D. Henning, ed., _The History of Parliament: The
House of Commons, 1660-1690_, 3: 724-25, states he was of "Chawcroft,
Hants," as does his will, abstracted in the 1898 _NEHGR_.

http://books.google.com/books?vid=0COBg ... oft&pgis=1

I offer below what I think is clinching proof of the origin. The New
England diarist Samuel Sewall, on a trip to England in early 1689, made
the following notation:

Satterday, March 9. Ride to Tichfield [Hants.], view the Church
and mr. Oakes's Pulpit, removed from the Pillar where it stood in his
time to the other side. Sexton spake much in's praise and enquired
after his Children. ***Saw Mis. Bromfield's Monument who died 1618.***
Din'd with Cous. Tho. Dummer, bought the first pound of Tobacco which
he sold in a Fair. Cous. Nath. accompanied me to Kirbridg ... [M.
Halsey Thomas, ed., _The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729_ (New York,
1973), 2 vols., 1: 201.]

Sewall had relatives, the Dummers, who lived near Titchfield, Hants.,
and Mr. Oakes was the New England minister Urian Oakes, who held the
living of Titchfield during the Interregnum but was ejected circa 1662
and later returned to New England. As I mentioned in an earlier
posting, Lucy Quinby Bromfield, an ancestress of the New England
Bromfields, was buried at Titchfield in 1618. See

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... titchfield

As Edward Bromfield was certainly known to Samuel Sewall in New England
(they were both pallbearers at the 1688 funeral of Mrs. Gookin [see p.
182 of the _Diary_]), it was natural for him to notice the M.I. of
Bromfield's great-grandmother.

John Brandon

Re: Clinching proof for the Bromfield line

Legg inn av John Brandon » 30 jun 2006 00:14:58

Besides Bromfield's father Henry being an M.P., it appears his
grandfather Arthur Bromfield was also M.P., in 1614:

http://books.google.com/books?id=0koLAA ... =bromfield

It will be interesting to read Arthur's sketch when those years of the
HOP are published ...

Gjest

Re: Clinching proof for the Bromfield line

Legg inn av Gjest » 30 jun 2006 08:17:26

I think theres better & simpler proof.
One of the visitations of Hampshire shows this Henry Bromfield
having a son Edward who went to New England.
(Its been a while since Ive looked at it)

Wills are not as complete as we'd like them to be,
and too often, they leave out the married names of daughters.

Leslie

John Brandon

Re: Clinching proof for the Bromfield line

Legg inn av John Brandon » 30 jun 2006 15:35:22

Interesting about the Hampshire Visitation. Speaking of Visitations,
has anyone checked the recently-published 1670-something London
Visitation for references to people in New England, Virginia, Maryland,
etc.?

I noticed that the Sewall Diaries are missing the years ca. 1677-82 (or
something like that). The editor reconstructed a few stray entries
from that period from other sources. Wonder where that volume got to?

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