Michael Mitton, gent.
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John Brandon
Michael Mitton, gent.
I've posted a few times about Michael Mitton of Maine. The following
website has a good blurb concerning him:
Referred to as Michael Mitton, Gent. in Maine records, he arrived in
Maine in 1637, accompanying his future father-in-law, George Cleeve on
one of the latter's several trips to and from England, and shortly
thereafter married his daughter, Elizabeth Cleeve. He was said to be
an "excellent fowler and a teller of tall tales", often providing
geese, wild ducks, etc. for the Trelawney colony. A clue as to his
origins may come from his father-in-law's association with Maine
immigrant Thomas Lewis. Both appear, taxed together as vintners in the
1616/17 Shrewsbury tax roll, and were probably, at least initially,
friends in Maine. Thomas Lewis' wife, Elizabeth Marshall was the
daughter of Roger Marshall and Katherine Mitton, she of the Mittons
and Harpesfields of Weston, Shropshire, England. So, it is compelling
to consider that Michael Mitton was likely a member of Katherine
Mitton's extended family.
http://www.geneajourney.com/mitton.html
I think Elizabeth Marshall's royal line was through the Harpesfield
alias Mittons.
website has a good blurb concerning him:
Referred to as Michael Mitton, Gent. in Maine records, he arrived in
Maine in 1637, accompanying his future father-in-law, George Cleeve on
one of the latter's several trips to and from England, and shortly
thereafter married his daughter, Elizabeth Cleeve. He was said to be
an "excellent fowler and a teller of tall tales", often providing
geese, wild ducks, etc. for the Trelawney colony. A clue as to his
origins may come from his father-in-law's association with Maine
immigrant Thomas Lewis. Both appear, taxed together as vintners in the
1616/17 Shrewsbury tax roll, and were probably, at least initially,
friends in Maine. Thomas Lewis' wife, Elizabeth Marshall was the
daughter of Roger Marshall and Katherine Mitton, she of the Mittons
and Harpesfields of Weston, Shropshire, England. So, it is compelling
to consider that Michael Mitton was likely a member of Katherine
Mitton's extended family.
http://www.geneajourney.com/mitton.html
I think Elizabeth Marshall's royal line was through the Harpesfield
alias Mittons.
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John Brandon
Re: Michael Mitton, gent.
Interestingly, Mitton's son-in-law James Andrews petitioned about land
in Maine ...
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... ton&pgis=1
The website I pointed out shows that James Andrews' second wife,
married in 1696, was Margaret Phipps, ...
http://www.geneajourney.com/andrews.html#james1
but the marriage record shows her as Margaret "Halse."
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC1 ... aret+halse
A biography of governor Sir William Phipps (p. 312) shows Phipps'
sister Margaret as wife of Mr. Halsey ...
http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0 ... #PPA312,M1
Thus, presumably, the second wife of James Andrews was a sister of the
governor (I suppose this is all well-known).
in Maine ...
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... ton&pgis=1
The website I pointed out shows that James Andrews' second wife,
married in 1696, was Margaret Phipps, ...
http://www.geneajourney.com/andrews.html#james1
but the marriage record shows her as Margaret "Halse."
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC1 ... aret+halse
A biography of governor Sir William Phipps (p. 312) shows Phipps'
sister Margaret as wife of Mr. Halsey ...
http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0 ... #PPA312,M1
Thus, presumably, the second wife of James Andrews was a sister of the
governor (I suppose this is all well-known).
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Nathaniel Taylor
Re: Michael Mitton, gent.
In article <1173814060.742470.170540@64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>,
"John Brandon" <starbuck95@hotmail.com> wrote:
Elizabeth Marshall's Mitton ancestors are in the 1623 Visitation of
Shropshire, though they seem to have been rooted equally in
Staffordshire. Next to them in the printed ed. is another, larger
Shrewsbury Mitton family (similar arms, but no explicit stated
relationship). In neither one does any Michael appear, but you never
know. I would be surprised if Walter Goodwin Davis hadn't tried to
track him down.
Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net
"John Brandon" <starbuck95@hotmail.com> wrote:
I've posted a few times about Michael Mitton of Maine. The following
website has a good blurb concerning him:
Referred to as Michael Mitton, Gent. in Maine records, he arrived in
Maine in 1637, accompanying his future father-in-law, George Cleeve on
one of the latter's several trips to and from England, and shortly
thereafter married his daughter, Elizabeth Cleeve. He was said to be
an "excellent fowler and a teller of tall tales", often providing
geese, wild ducks, etc. for the Trelawney colony. A clue as to his
origins may come from his father-in-law's association with Maine
immigrant Thomas Lewis. Both appear, taxed together as vintners in the
1616/17 Shrewsbury tax roll, and were probably, at least initially,
friends in Maine. Thomas Lewis' wife, Elizabeth Marshall was the
daughter of Roger Marshall and Katherine Mitton, she of the Mittons
and Harpesfields of Weston, Shropshire, England. So, it is compelling
to consider that Michael Mitton was likely a member of Katherine
Mitton's extended family.
http://www.geneajourney.com/mitton.html
I think Elizabeth Marshall's royal line was through the Harpesfield
alias Mittons.
Elizabeth Marshall's Mitton ancestors are in the 1623 Visitation of
Shropshire, though they seem to have been rooted equally in
Staffordshire. Next to them in the printed ed. is another, larger
Shrewsbury Mitton family (similar arms, but no explicit stated
relationship). In neither one does any Michael appear, but you never
know. I would be surprised if Walter Goodwin Davis hadn't tried to
track him down.
Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net
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John Brandon
Re: Michael Mitton, gent.
Elizabeth Marshall's Mitton ancestors are in the 1623 Visitation of
Shropshire, though they seem to have been rooted equally in
Staffordshire. Next to them in the printed ed. is another, larger
Shrewsbury Mitton family (similar arms, but no explicit stated
relationship). In neither one does any Michael appear, but you never
know. I would be surprised if Walter Goodwin Davis hadn't tried to
track him down.
Nat Taylorhttp://www.nltaylor.net
See
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC6 ... #PPA360,M1
Arthur Mackworth was in this same "orbit" with Lewis-Cleeves-Mitton-
and-Andrews (having an old Shropshire surname and having married the
mother of James Andrews). I wouldn't be surprised if both Mitton and
Mackworth had _some_ royal line.
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Gjest
Re: Michael Mitton, gent.
Arthur Mackworth was in this same "orbit" with Lewis-Cleeves-Mitton-
and-Andrews (having an old Shropshire surname and having married the
mother of James Andrews). I wouldn't be surprised if both Mitton and
Mackworth had _some_ royal line.
Another colonist from the same region who apparently had gentry
ancestry was John Grosvenor of Roxbury, Mass.
He had some descent from the Crooke alias Blount family. See NEHGR 72
(1918), 131-141.
Leslie
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John Brandon
Re: Michael Mitton, gent.
A biography of governor Sir William Phipps (p. 312) shows Phipps'
sister Margaret as wife of Mr. Halsey ...
Nat Taylor might be interested in looking into John G. Reid's
biography, _The New England Knight: Enrichment, Advancement and the
Life of Sir William Phips, 1651-95_, which has interesting information
(though perhaps not convincing, ultimately ?) on William Phips'
ancestry, noting an obscure contemporary statement (by Sir Henry
Ashurst) that William was a "cozen" in some degree of Constantine
Phips from a prominent family in England. I don't know whether or not
this would involve an entitlement to arms.
(p. 5)
http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0 ... oQ#PPA5,M1
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John Brandon
Re: Michael Mitton, gent.
I just noticed and smiled at JWC's comments on Mr. Mitton: "that
notorious gentleman 'in the strict social sense of the time at least,'
Michael Mytton."
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.gene ... urce&hl=en
Is that your wording, James, or a quote?
notorious gentleman 'in the strict social sense of the time at least,'
Michael Mytton."
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.gene ... urce&hl=en
Is that your wording, James, or a quote?
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John Brandon
Re: Michael Mitton, gent.
Underscoring James' point ...
http://books.google.com/books?vid=0xmMH ... %22&pgis=1
http://books.google.com/books?vid=0xmMH ... %22&pgis=1
I just noticed and smiled at JWC's comments on Mr. Mitton: "that
notorious gentleman 'in the strict social sense of the time at least,'
Michael Mytton."
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.gene ... 11e2ebd1...
Is that your wording, James, or a quote?