Michael Mitton, gent.

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John Brandon

Michael Mitton, gent.

Legg inn av John Brandon » 13 mar 2007 20:27:40

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.

John Brandon

Re: Michael Mitton, gent.

Legg inn av John Brandon » 13 mar 2007 21:30:31

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).

Nathaniel Taylor

Re: Michael Mitton, gent.

Legg inn av Nathaniel Taylor » 13 mar 2007 21:30:37

In article <1173814060.742470.170540@64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>,
"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

John Brandon

Re: Michael Mitton, gent.

Legg inn av John Brandon » 13 mar 2007 21:55:57

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.


Gjest

Re: Michael Mitton, gent.

Legg inn av Gjest » 18 mar 2007 05:58:52

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

John Brandon

Re: Michael Mitton, gent.

Legg inn av John Brandon » 23 mar 2007 20:36:50

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


John Brandon

Re: Michael Mitton, gent.

Legg inn av John Brandon » 03 apr 2007 16:48:37

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?

John Brandon

Re: Michael Mitton, gent.

Legg inn av John Brandon » 16 apr 2007 16:03:22

Underscoring James' point ...

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?

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