Dorcas [?Mitton], wife of James Andrews of Falmouth and Bost

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John Brandon

Dorcas [?Mitton], wife of James Andrews of Falmouth and Bost

Legg inn av John Brandon » 07 nov 2006 00:15:54

Back in 2001, I asked the following question:

Anderson, Sanborn & Sanborn, _The Great Migration: Immigrants to New
England, 1634-35, A-B_, in their sketch of Samuel1 Andrews of Saco,
Maine, show that his son James2 married (1) Dorcas Mitton; and (2)
widow Margaret (Phips) Halsey.

I'm sure I remember a controversy over the identity of the first wife,
Dorcas Mitton. I believe the details were in John B. Threlfall, _26
Great Migration Colonists_ and in Philip Howard Gray (one of the
Penobscot Pioneers books). I believe one of the two gentlemen unearthed
a petition signed by a Dorcas Andrews . . . and that this was supposed
to prove something about the alleged marriage (either that it
definitely took place, or that it was James3 who married Dorcas
Mitton). As I recall (. . . perhaps incorrectly!), a transcription of
this petition was included as an appendix to either Threlfall's or
Gray's book.

Sorry to be so vague on the details. I recently traced my grandmother's
ancestry back to this supposed Andrews-Mitton marriage, but no longer
have access to Threlfall's and Gray's books.

Can anyone help? This falls outside the time period, but Dorcas Mitton
would be the daughter of Michael Mitton, gent., of Saco, by his wife
Elizabeth Cleeve, whose mother, Jane (Price) Cleeve, will be included
as a gateway ancestor of royal descent in the second edition of Gary
Roberts' _Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants_ (for Mrs. Cleeve, see
Roberts' column #43 on the NEHGS website):

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/what ... otable_r...


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I would still like to know what Threlfall and Gray had to say about the
matter, but note that the traditional view (that Dorcas Mitton married
James Andrews the elder) may be sound, at least from the scraps I am
able to find on the internet (specifically Google Books):

Here is a discussion of the children of Michael Mitton:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC3 ... 22+andrews

Note especially that James Andrews was said to have married "Sarah"
Mitton, and that another Mitton daughter married Thaddeus Clarke.
Goold's _Portland in the Past_ prints a letter from this Thaddeus
Clarke to his mother-in-law, Elizabeth (Cleeves) (Mitton) Harvey in
Boston:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC2 ... 2+casco%27

Clarke sends his "Loue to my sister," implying that he had a sister (or
sister-in-law) living with Mrs. Harvey in Boston. A page earlier,
Goold had noted "She [Elizabeth Harvey] probably went [to Boston] with
James Andrews, her son-in-law, who removed from Falmouth to Boston in
1675. Andrews died in Boston, 1704." Indeed we find a Dorcas (not
Sarah) Andrews joining the Old South Church in Boston in 1677:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... %22+dorcas

And Rebecca, Dorcas, and Jane Andrews joining in 1680:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... %22+dorcas

Notes in the back of the book explain that this was Dorcas wife of
James Andrews (the Dorcas who joined in 1677) and her three daugthers:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... %22+dorcas
http://books.google.com/books?id=AjYvhI ... as&jtp=290

Savage says James Andrews (d. 1704) had children Elisha, Rebecca (m.
Jonathan Adams), Dorcas (m. Ebenezer Davenport [my ancestors]), and
Jane (m. Robert Davis). Margaret the widow of James Andrews was a
second wife, as other sources show (including the Great Migration
sketch mentioned above):

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... venport%22

I can't find an exact marriage date for Ebenezer Davenport and Dorcas
Andrews, but it was surely by 1683, when their daughter Mary was born:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC2 ... +davenport

If one assumes that Dorcas (Andrews) Davenport was about 20 in 1683 (b.
ca. 1663), her own mother Dorcas (Mitton) Andrews, wife of James, could
have been born around 1640. Elizabeth (Cleeves) Mitton, mother of
Dorcas Mitton, was the daughter of George Cleeves of Maine.
Interestingly, George Cleeves granted 100 acres of land to James
Andrews--thought to be the husband of Cleeve's granddaughter Dorcas--in
1657; this land was adjacent to a 100-acre plot belonging to Ann
Mitton, another of Cleeves' granddaughters:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC3 ... 22+citizen

So there is an interesting chain of circumstantial evidence for the
Mitton-Andrews marriage. Does anybody happen to know if there are
wills for Elizabeth (Cleeves) (Mitton) Harvey (d. 1682) or her presumed
son-in-law James Andrews (d. 1704)?

John Brandon

Re: Dorcas [?Mitton], wife of James Andrews of Falmouth and

Legg inn av John Brandon » 07 nov 2006 22:11:06

Apparently there is an article dealing with some members of this
Andrews family in _The Genealogist_, 3:66 (I may have seen this article
at one point; as I remember, it was a Bible record). Maybe someone
wouldn't mind checking?

Nah, way too much to ask ...

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