A few additions and corrections to the _Great Migration_ vol

[John Brandon]

None of these is terribly earth-shattering, but may be of interest as
RCA doesn't seem inclined to publish any corrections himself.

Please feel free to contribute any additions or corrections you may
have noted.

There are three volumes in the first series (1620-1633) and five
volumes (so far) in the present series (1634-1635). In the interest
of brevity, I've decided to use an abbreviated system of citation. If
you see

1620 (William Alford),

this will indicate the sketch of William Alford in the 1620-1633
series. Of if you see

1634 (Zaccheus Curtis),

this of course indicates the Curtis sketch in the 1634-35 series.

The 1620-1633 series is online, starting with letter "A" ...

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/rese ... sp?print=1

To move through the alphabet, substitute the appropriate letter in the
URL segment beginning "/great_migration/A."

There's no particular order to these corrections (I'm merely finishing
the easiest ones first).

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1620 (William Coddington)

ORIGIN: Boston, Lincolnshire
MIGRATION: 1630

....

MARRIAGE: (1) By 1626 Mary _____; died Boston during the winter of
1630-1, and before 28 March 1631 [Dudley 72].
(2) Terling, Essex, 2 September 1631 Mary Moseley; she was
admitted to Boston church as member #158, which would be before 6
August 1633 (see Anne Newgate, wife of JOHN NEWGATE ); buried Newport
30 September 1647 [RIMM, Deaths 1].
(3) By about 1650 Ann Brinley, born about 1628 (calculated from
age at death); died Newport 9 May 1708, aged 80 [RIMM, Deaths 16]. (On
19 February 1673/4 Francis Brinley of Newport sold to William Mays
land which was in part "bounded on the north by land of my sister Ann
Coddington, on the west by land given to my cousin William
Coddington" [RILE 226-27].)


Further detail is available on two of the wives of William1
Coddington. The parents of the second wife, Mary Moseley, were
Richard and Lettice (Clarke) Moseley of Tunstall, Staffordshire, as
shown by the 1634 London Visitation.

http://books.google.com/books?id=10IEAA ... %22+boston

The third marriage can be more closely dated to Jan. 1649/50, as
indicated by the following English marriage license:

http://books.google.com/books?id=DyoEAA ... e+licenses

* * * * * * *

1634 (John Cogswell)

MARRIAGE: Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, 10 September 1615 Elizabeth
Thompson, daughter of Rev. William Thompson of Westbury (in his
nuncupative will of 10 July 1623, "William Thompson clerk" named,
among others, wife Elizabeth, sons William and Samuel, and "each of
his five daughters," and appointed John Cogswell as one of his
executors [PCC 26 Byrde]; on 26 May 1677, William Thompson, aged about
twenty-eight years, deposed that "I lived with my uncle and aunt, Mr.
John Cogswell Senior of Ipswich, and Mrs. Cogswell, about 16 years, &
I did frequently see a Turkey-work carpet which they had, ... and
being this last winter in Old England, I heard my father, Doctor
Samuel Thompson, say he did well remember that my uncle & aunt had a
Turkey-work carpet" [Cogswell Gen 12 (John and Elizabeth Cogswell
would have been great-uncle and great-aunt to this William
Thompson)]. ...

This last statement is incorrect, as John and Elizabeth (Thompson)
Cogswell were indeed merely aunt and uncle, not great-uncle and great-
aunt, to the William Thompson in question.

* * * * * * *

1634 (Robert Driver)

MARRIAGE: By about 1634 (assuming she was the mother of all his
children) Phebe ____. She died at Lynn [blank] February 1682/3.

I suggest this couple could be the Robert Driver and Phebe Maplisden
married 4 April 1624 at Saint Gregory by Saint Paul, London, per
extracted IGI.

[wjhonson]

On Dec 26, 8:26 am, John Brandon <[email protected]> wrote:

1620 (William Coddington)
ORIGIN:   Boston, Lincolnshire
MIGRATION: 1630
MARRIAGE:   (1) By 1626 Mary _____; died Boston during the winter of
1630-1, and before 28 March 1631 [Dudley 72].
      (2) Terling, Essex, 2 September 1631 Mary Moseley; she was
admitted to Boston church as member #158, which would be before 6
August 1633 (see Anne Newgate, wife of JOHN NEWGATE ); buried Newport
30 September 1647 [RIMM, Deaths 1].
      (3) By about 1650 Ann Brinley, born about 1628 (calculated from
age at death); died Newport 9 May 1708, aged 80 [RIMM, Deaths 16]. (On
19 February 1673/4 Francis Brinley of Newport sold to William Mays
land which was in part "bounded on the north by land of my sister Ann
Coddington, on the west by land given to my cousin William
Coddington" [RILE 226-27].)

Further detail is available on two of the wives of William1
Coddington.  The parents of the second wife, Mary Moseley, were
Richard and Lettice (Clarke) Moseley of Tunstall, Staffordshire, as
shown by the 1634 London Visitation.

http://books.google.com/books?id=10IEAA ... william+...

The third marriage can be more closely dated to Jan. 1649/50, as
indicated by the following English marriage license:

http://books.google.com/books?id=DyoEAA ... illiam+c...

A tiny morsel about the Moseley/Clarke family. The Moseley part can
be found in more detail in Burke's Commoners here
http://books.google.com/books?id=KikAAA ... #PPA594,M1

where in particular to help add a chronological framework to that part
of the Vis London, they add that Lettice (Clarke) Moseley died "14 Oct
1619 aged forty-five"

After her death, Richard married that Abigail (Heveningham) Pettus who
was mother to Thomas Pettus Esq who married Anne Walpole bap 21 Nov
1596 youngest daughter of Calebut Walpole by Elizabeth Bacon

Will Johnson

[John Brandon]

A tiny morsel about the Moseley/Clarke family. The Moseley part can
be found in more detail in Burke's Commoners herehttp://books.google.com/books?id=Ki ... eley+of+...

where in particular to help add a chronological framework to that part
of the Vis London, they add that Lettice (Clarke) Moseley died "14 Oct
1619 aged forty-five"

After her death, Richard married that Abigail (Heveningham) Pettus who
was mother to Thomas Pettus Esq who married Anne Walpole bap 21 Nov
1596 youngest daughter of Calebut Walpole by Elizabeth Bacon

Will Johnson

Thanks for those additional details young William.

* * * * * * *

1634 (Philemon Pormort)

ORIGIN: Alford, Lincolnshire

....

BIRTH: By about 1602 (based on date of first marriage), son of Thomas
Pormort [A. R. Maddison, ed., Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Volume III,
Publications of the Harleian Society 52:789-91].

The extracted IGI shows the baptism, 19 November 1598, at St. James,
Grimsby, Lincolnshire, of a Philemon Pormort, son of Thomas.

* * * * * * *

1634 (John Graves)

ORIGIN: Nazeing, Essex

....

BIRTH: By about 1599 (based on estimated date of marriage).

....

MARRIAGE: (1) By 1624 Sarah Finch, daughter of Thomas Finch (in his
will of 18 November 1626, "Thomas Finch of All Saynts in Hertf[ord] in
the County Hertf[ord], yeoman," included bequests to John Grave son of
my daughter Sarahe ten shillings" and to "Sarahe her daughter twenty
pounds to be employed in a stock for her bringing her up at the
discretion of mine executors" [Archdeaconry of Huntingdon, Hitchin
Division 40 HW 54] ..."

Noting that the IGI contains an extracted marriage record, 4 October
1615 at Sawbridgeworth, Herts., of Thomas Finch to Grace Harwood, and
realizing that the locations of Sawbridgeworth, Hertford, and Cheshunt
form a small triangle in the county of Hertford (all only about 4 or 5
miles distant), I believe we can state that the immigrant's first
marriage was actually...

Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
--John Graves to Sara Harwood, 15 October 1620

(In other words, the "daughter Sarahe" of Thomas Finch of Hertford was
really his step-daughter.)

[John Brandon]

1620 (Jeremy Adams)

and

1634 (Samuel Greenhill)

The sketch of Jeremy Adams gives --

MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1637 Rebecca (Baseden) Greenhill, widow of
Samuel Greenhill [Adams Gen 34].

while the bio. of Samuel Greenhill says:

MARRIAGE: Cranbrook, Kent, 24 June 1628 Rebecca (Taylor) Baseden
[Adams Gen 34; Shepard Fam 2:2]. She married (2) by about 1637 JEREMY
ADAMS {1633, Cambridge} [GMB 1:6-11].

So, was Rebecca a (Baseden) (Greenhill) Adams, or a (Taylor) (Baseden)
(Greenhill) Adams?


* * * * * * *

1620 (William Pynchon)

ORIGIN: Essex
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
REMOVES: Springfield 1636

....

BIRTH: Springfield, Essex, about 27 December 1590, son of John and
Frances (Brett) Pynchon [Hale, House 723; NEHGR 87:224].

....

MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1618 Anne Andrew [Hale, House 724 (no
evidence provided)]; she died during the winter of 1630-1 [Dudley
72].

The evidence for his first marriage can now be provided, from the 1619
Warwickshire Visitation, p. 50, his first wife being a daughter of
William and Bridget (Risley) Andrew:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN1 ... by+watford

[John Brandon]

1634 (Edmund Hawes)

MARRIAGE: By about 1636 ____ _____.

Edmond Hawes Gen 130 says, "The Yarmouth records mention the death of
the wife of Edmond Hawes on July 19, 1689, but do not give her name."

* * * * * * *

1634 (Richard Graves)

CHILDREN:
i RUTH GRAVES, b. say 1636, bp. Salem 14 March 1640/1 [SChR 18]; m.
Boston 7 August 1656 Henry Heskeyes [BVR 58].

The following vital records show that the name of Ruth Graves' husband
was Keskeyes or Kiskeyes, not Heskeyes:

_A Report of the Record Commissioners Containing Boston Births,
Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699_ (Boston: Rockwell and
Churchill, 1883).

p. 55

Henry of Henry & Ruth Keskeyes born 3rd May [1656 ?].

p. 58

Henry Keskeyes & Ruth Graves daughter of Richard Graves were married
7th -- 6th month [1656].

p. 64

Dinisha dau. of Henry & Ruth Kiskees born 31st Oct [1658].

p. 96

Elizabeth of Henry & Ruth Kiskeyes born May 3 [1665].

For discussion of a probable line of descent from Dinisha Kiskees
(also known as "Dinah Chiske") see Janet Delorey's article in NEXUS:

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/educ ... _90339.asp

[John Brandon]

1634 (William Brown)

CHILDREN:

With second wife

....

vi BENJAMIN, b. by 1648 (witnessed a 1662 deed [ELR 3:8]; m. by an
unknown date ____ ____ (in his will of 8 November 1708 he referred to
"my dear late wife" [NEHGR 63:361-62]). (Secondary sources claim that
Benjamin married at Charlestown in 1686 Mary Hicks, but no record of
such a marriage can be found in Charlestown, nor is there a Hicks
family there.)

I can explain the basis for the claimed marriage to Mary Hicks, and
think it probable. The sources for this claim are two statements by
bookseller and writer John Dunton. In his _Letters Written from New-
England, A.D. 1686_, Dunton wrote:

In the same ship with Mr. [Charles] Morton came over one Mrs. Hicks,
with the valuable Venture of her own fair Person, which went off at an
Extraordinary Rate, having married a Gentleman worth L40,000, as is
reported [John Dunton, _Letters Written from New-England, A.D. 1686_,
ed. W. H. Whitmore (Boston: Prince Society, 1867), pp. 297-298].

In a later publication, Dunton repeated this statement almost
verbatim, but noted that the husband was a merchant, not gentleman,
and was worth 30,000 pounds (not 40,000):

John Dunton, _The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London_
(London, 1818; reprint, New York: Burt Franklin, 1969), vol. 1, p.
124:

In the same ship with Mr. [Charles] Morton came over one Mrs. Hicks,
with the valuable Venture of her beautiful person, which went off at
an extraordinary rate; she marrying a Merchant in Salem worth thirty
thousand pounds [John Dunton, _The Life and Errors of John Dunton,
Citizen of London_ (London, 1818; reprint, New York: Burt Franklin,
1969), 1:124].

An article on the very prominent Brown family of Salem in _The Essex
Antiquarian_ states that Benjamin Brown died "Dec. 7, 1708, leaving an
estate of thirty thousand pounds."

http://books.google.com/books?id=cG4uxP ... alem+hicks

With such a fortune, Benjamin Brown must have been one of the richest
New England merchants (if not *the* richest) of his day. John Dunton,
who had returned to England shortly after 1686, probably kept up a
correspondance with some of his New England friends, and at any rate
would have had no trouble discovering the precise value of Benjamin
Brown's estate after his death in 1708; hence the redacted text in his
second description of the beautiful "Mrs. Hicks."

[John Brandon]

Oops, sent that before I was ready, but I think people will catch my
basic drift ...

Here are two other links I meant to incorporate:

http://books.google.com/books?id=bLe8nP ... e%22+hicks

http://books.google.com/books?id=lW8aAA ... e%22+hicks

1634 (William Brown)

CHILDREN:

With second wife

...

vi BENJAMIN, b. by 1648 (witnessed a 1662 deed [ELR 3:8]; m. by an
unknown date ____ ____ (in his will of 8 November 1708 he referred to
"my dear late wife" [NEHGR 63:361-62]). (Secondary sources claim that
Benjamin married at Charlestown in 1686 Mary Hicks, but no record of
such a marriage can be found in Charlestown, nor is there a Hicks
family there.)

I can explain the basis for the claimed marriage to Mary Hicks, and
think it probable. The sources for this claim are two statements by
bookseller and writer John Dunton. In his _Letters Written from New-
England, A.D. 1686_, Dunton wrote:

In the same ship with Mr. [Charles] Morton came over one Mrs. Hicks,
with the valuable Venture of her own fair Person, which went off at an
Extraordinary Rate, having married a Gentleman worth L40,000, as is
reported [John Dunton, _Letters Written from New-England, A.D. 1686_,
ed. W. H. Whitmore (Boston: Prince Society, 1867), pp. 297-298].

In a later publication, Dunton repeated this statement almost
verbatim, but noted that the husband was a merchant, not gentleman,
and was worth 30,000 pounds (not 40,000):

John Dunton, _The Life and Errors of John Dunton, Citizen of London_
(London, 1818; reprint, New York: Burt Franklin, 1969), vol. 1, p.
124:

In the same ship with Mr. [Charles] Morton came over one Mrs. Hicks,
with the valuable Venture of her beautiful person, which went off at
an extraordinary rate; she marrying a Merchant in Salem worth thirty
thousand pounds [John Dunton, _The Life and Errors of John Dunton,
Citizen of London_ (London, 1818; reprint, New York: Burt Franklin,
1969), 1:124].

An article on the very prominent Brown family of Salem in _The Essex
Antiquarian_ states that Benjamin Brown died "Dec. 7, 1708, leaving an
estate of thirty thousand pounds."

http://books.google.com/books?id=cG4uxP ... jamin+br...

With such a fortune, Benjamin Brown must have been one of the richest
New England merchants (if not *the* richest) of his day. John Dunton,
who had returned to England shortly after 1686, probably kept up a
correspondance with some of his New England friends, and at any rate
would have had no trouble discovering the precise value of Benjamin
Brown's estate after his death in 1708; hence the redacted text in his
second description of the beautiful "Mrs. Hicks."

[John Brandon]

Savage's _Genealogical Dictionary_ says Mary Hicks was daughter of an
ejected minister, Rev. John Hicks, who may be this person ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=FvkGAA ... cks%22&lr=

http://books.google.com/books?id=QTkBAA ... r=#PPA2,M1

[John Brandon]

http://books.google.com/books?id=lvw7AA ... kshire&lr=

[John Brandon]

Do these letters help establish the origin of the Brown/ Browne family
of Salem?

http://books.google.com/books?id=raOjT4 ... uffolk&lr=

[John Brandon]

1634 (Richard Bellingham)

MARRIAGE: (1) By 1622 Elizabeth Backhouse, daughter of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Borlace) Backhouse of London [NEHGR 36:382, 385-86, citing
Close Rolls of Charles I]. She died by 1641.

....

CHILDREN:
With first wife

i SAMUEL, by say 1622; Harvard College 1642 [Sibley 1:63-64];
called "Doctor" in New England records [SCC 1:271], possibly
University of Leiden, M.D. [Sibley 1:63; Morison 143]; m. (1) by 1650
Lucy ____ (deed dated 23 July 1650 by Samuel Bellingham of Boston,
gent., and wife Lucy [EQC 2:399] ...) ...

Slightly better proof concerning Bellingham's first marriage to
Elizabeth Backhouse is found in the 1628 and 1648 wills of Elizabeth
Backhouse of Swallowfield and her son Sir John Backhouse, which
mention, respectively, their grandson and nephew Samuel Bellingham
[Lady Russell, _Swallowfield and Its Owners_ (London, 1901), 107,
119.]

http://books.google.com/books?id=G6cLAA ... #PPA107,M1

http://books.google.com/books?id=G6cLAA ... %22+lennox

[John Brandon]

1634 (Ruth Bushell)

On 2 July 1635, "Ruth Bushell," aged 23, was enrolled at London as a
passenger for New England on the _Abigail_, with a certificate of
conformity from the minister of Shoreditch, Stepney, Middlesex.

COMMENTS: She married by 1637 EDWARD MITCHELSON of Cambridge.

A little further information could have been provided about Ruth
Bushell. In his autobiography, Rev. Thomas Shepard mentioned that
Ruth Bushell had been present in the household of Richard Darley at
Buttercrambe, Yorkshire, during his stay there in the early 1630s:
"Yet the Lord did not leave me comfortless; for though the lady
[Darley's wife] was churlish, yet Sir Richard was ingenious, and I
found in the house three servants, (viz. Thomas Fugill, Mrs. Margaret
Touteville, the knight's kinswoman, that was afterward my wife, and
Ruth Bushell, who married to Edward Michelson,) very careful of me;
which somewhat refreshed me" [Young's First Planters, 525-26].

http://books.google.com/books?id=9HEFAA ... #PPA525,M1

With the knowledge that Ruth Bushell originated in Yorkshire, it might
be worthwhile to investigate whether she could be the "Ruthe
[Bushell], wife of Will'm Boyse [?sic] in Virginia [?sic]" mentioned
in the pedigree of "Bushell of Whitby" in Sir William Dugdale's 1665
_Visitation of the County of Yorke ..._ (Surtees Society, vol. 36), p.
82.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/te ... 1&view=toc

* * * * * * * * * *

1634 (Arthur Mackworth)

Omitted. This error is mentioned by Nat Taylor in his review of the
most recent Great Migration volume in the new TAG (82: 155-56), where
he mentions that Mackworth "was in Maine well before 30 March, 11
Charles I (1635), when he was granted a tract of land on the
Pesumpscot River 'which now and for many yeares is and hath bin in the
possession of the said Arthur Mackworth' (H. W. Richardson, ed., _York
Deeds_, 18 vols. [Portland, Maine, 1887-1910], 1 pt. 2: folios 1-2)."
Indeed, checking the _Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New
Hampshire_, I note the statement there that Mackworth "prob. came over
in 1630 with Vines or in 1631 with Lewis" (p. 451); so, possibly, he
should have been included in the 1620-1633 Great Migration Begins
series.

As a descendant of several people in Mackworth's "orbit" (Michael
Mitton, Joan Price Cleeves, and Mackworth's wife Jane [by her first
husband]), I would have been very interested in this biography as well.

[wjhonson]

On Jan 4, 1:01 pm, John Brandon <[email protected]> wrote:

Do these letters help establish the origin of the Brown/ Browne family
of Salem?

http://books.google.com/books?id=raOjT4 ... francis+...

--------------
Thanks John, in searching for more details on Simon Browne, we find a
W.A.R. update on the ancestry of John Kerry.

Towit a specific birthdate and deathdate for his ancestress Elizabeth
Lynde

http://books.google.com/books?id=xL-S1E ... 239-IA3,M2

This book shows the Browne Pedigree and another for the Lynde family.


Will Johnson

[John Brandon]

1620 (Rice Cole)

CHILDREN:

v JAMES, b. say 1625; m. by 28 August 1655 Ruth ____; she m.
(2) by 16 December 1661 Henry Mudd of Stepney, England. (Apparently
Arrald Cole [wife of Rice] in her widowhood wrote letters to her
daughters and daughters-in-law living in London in the 1650s; these
documents, which are the source for the remarriage of Ruth (___) Cole
to Henry Mudd, are said to be in Middlesex Court Files and "quoted by
Wyman in his Abstracts" [Mary E.N. Backus, ed., The New England
Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus (Salem 1949), p. 71; see also Snow-
Estes 1:270].)

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/rese ... sp?print=1

Some recently extracted records in the International Genealogical
Index provide an update to this information:

Stepney, co. Middlesex
-- James Coles to Ruth Cotterell, 29 April 1655
-- Henry Mudd to Ruth Cole, 4 May 1657

* * * * * * * *

1620 (Francis Higginson)

CHILDREN:

i JOHN (twin), bp. Claybrooke, Leicestershire, 31 August 1616;
m. (1) by 1646 Sarah Whitfield, daughter of Rev. Henry and Dorothy
(Sheafe) Whitfield; m. (2) after 1676 Mary (Blakeman) Atwater,
daughter of Rev. Adam and Jane (_____) Blakeman and widow of Joshua
Atwater [Higginson Gen 6].

ii THEOPHILUS (twin), bp. Claybrooke 31 August 1616; m. by 1647
Elizabeth _____ (on 10 March 1646/7 "Mrs. Higginson" had a pew in the
New Haven meeting house [NHCR 1:304]; in his will of 10 February 1654
Mark Pierce of London referred to "[t]en pounds in money in the hands
of Elizabeth Higginson, widow, which I lent to her deceased husband
Theophilus Higginson in New England" [Waters 1080]).

iii FRANCIS, bp. Claybrooke 16 August 1618; bur. Kirkby
Stephen, Westmoreland, 20 May 1673 "in his fifty-fifth
year" [Whitfield Anc 228; Magnalia 364-65]; unm.

iv TIMOTHY, bp. Claybrooke 5 November 1620; m. by 1653 Sarah
_____, who survived him (on 2 October 1653 administration was granted
to "Sara Higginson the relict of Timothy Higginson, late master of the
Culpepper in the state service at sea, deceased" [PCC Admon Act Book
1653-54, 1:30]).

v SAMUEL, bp. Claybrooke 15 December 1622; probably the Samuel
Higginson who m. Bull Lane Independent Church, Stepney, Middlesex, 5
August 1658 Sarah Graves (on 17 January 1664/5 administration was
granted to "Sara Higgenson widow relict of Samuel Higgenson late of
the parish of Stepney, Middlesex" [PCC Admon Act Book 1665, folio 5]).

vi MARY, bp. Claybrooke 27 December 1624; d. at sea 19 May 1629
[Higginson 66].

vii ANNE, bp. St. Mary's, Leicester 28 January 1626[/7] [NEHGR
66:87]; m. by about 1649 Thomas Chatfield (eldest child b. about 1649
[NEHGR 70:136]).

viii CHARLES, b. say 1628; m. Mary _____ (on 10 January 1677/8
administration was granted to "Mary Higginson relict of Charles
Higginson late of the parish of Stepney in Middlesex deceased at
sea" [PCC Admon Act Book 1678, folio 3]).

ix NEOPHYTUS, b. say 1630; living at the division of his
mother's estate, 25 February 1639/40; no further record. (Most
secondary sources state that he died at the age of twenty, but no
contemporaneous source for this has been found. The earliest version
of this claim seems to be the memoir of Higginson published in 1852
[NEHGR 6:127].)

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/rese ... sp?print=1

The baptismal date of son Charles is provided by the records of St.
Nicholas, Leicester, currently found in the extracted IGI: 16 Nov.
1628. Baptismal records for all the other children except Neophytus
are also found at St. Nicholas, with a few very minor differences from
the records found at Claybrooke and St. Mary's, Leicester. It might
be interesting to speculate why these Higginson children are recorded
in multiple locations.

[John Brandon]

Thanks for that, Wlil, ... I guess. The print is almost too tiny for
my eyes.

[John Brandon]

1620 (Edward Gibbons)

ESTATE:

...

The inventory of the estate of the late "Mrs. Margarett Gibbons,
relict of Major Generall Edward Gibbons, deceased," was taken
presumably in late 1658 (undated) and totalled £28 10s., and swearing
to its accuracy were Susanna Gibbons and Capt. Samuell Scarlet [SPR
3:231].

...

MARRIAGE: By 1631 Margaret _____; "Margarett Gibbons" was admitted
to Boston church as member #134, which would be in the summer or fall
of 1632 [BChR 14]. She had died by 1658 when her inventory was taken
[SPR 3:231]. (On 5 September 1658 "Mary Gibbons deceased at Captain
Oliver's" in Boston [BVR 66]; "Mary" could be a misreading for an
abbreviated form of Margaret, in which case this would be the death
record for the widow.)

CHILDREN:

i JERUSHA, b. 5 October 1631 [BVR 1]; no further record.

ii JOTHAM, b. Boston 6 October 1633 [BVR 2]; bp. Boston 27
October 1633 [BChR 278]; d. Bermuda or Boston by 16 December 1658 [SPR
3:231]; m. by about 1655 Susanna _____ who deposed regarding his
inventory and that of his mother.

iii EDWARD, bp. 3 January 1635/6 [BChR 280]; d. soon.

iv EDWARD, bp. Boston 26 March 1637 [BChR 281]; no further
record.

v METSATHIELL, bp. Boston 7 October 1638 [BChR 282]; no further
record.

vi JOHN, b. 30 March 1641 [BVR 11]; bp. Boston 18 April 1641
[BChR 286]; no further record.

ASSOCIATIONS: On 8 June 1655 "Dorrathy Blythe" deposed that "she was
in Major Gibons her uncle's house and heard him acknowledge that the
house & land mentioned in this deed he had given to my cousin Mary
Ellis now Skarlet & to her heirs and assignes, I praying him to give
me a little piece of the land he said it is out of my power I have
made my sister rule over all" [SLR 2:173; see also SLR 3:132].
Dorothy (_____) Bly was born about 1619 (deposed aged fifty-five in
1674 [SLR 8:406]) and was wife of Thomas Bly, who had wife Elizabeth
in 1684. The manner in which Edward Gibbons was uncle to Dorothy Bly
is unknown, but Gibbons was frequently associated with members of the
Scarlett family.
Jotham Gibbons's daughter Love married first William Prout [SJC
#1582] and second John Fowle and had a daughter Elizabeth Fowle who
married Thomas Savage of Bermuda. The land given Jotham by the Squaw
Sachem was called Scarlet's farm and Elizabeth (Fowle) Savage sold her
share of her mother's land in 1717 [NEHGR 67:309].
Sir Thomas Temple gave £100 to Love Gibbons, daughter of Jotham
Gibbons, in the hands of Capt. Samuel Scarlett about 1663, and William
Prout, Love's husband, pursued it from Scarlett's executors [SCC
792-94].

COMMENTS:

...

Gibbons travelled frequently, both to England and in other
colonies outside New England. In 1643 he received a letter from Lord
Baltimore and his brother Mr. Calvert who sent "him a commission,
wherein he made tender of land in Maryland to any of ours that would
transport themselves thither" [WJ 2:179-80]. He was as far afield as
Virginia, as evidenced by Thomas Harrison's letter in his hands in
1646 [WP 5:117]. "Ed: Gibons" wrote from "the Dutch" at Manhattan 27
November 1648 praising the Dutch governor [WP 5:283]. Capt. Combs was
bailed out by "Mrs. Gibones" in her husband's absence, 30 October 1640
[Aspinwall 105].
He apparently travelled to England in 1641, for on 19 July 1641
the Strattons of Salem gave Capt. Edward Gibbons of Boston and Robert
Stileman of London, merchant, power to demand an inheritance from the
will of Mrs. Mary Dearhaugh late of Barringham, Suffolk, widow, mother
of Ann Stratton, from John Thurston of Hockston, Suffolk, Dearhaugh's
executor [Lechford 233].

...

Edward Gibbons became embroiled in the dispute between LaTour and
d'Aulnay, coming down on the side of LaTour. His involvement in this
affair ruined him financially. On 30 June 1643 "Mounseir Latour knight
of the orders of the king Leftennant Gennerall of New Fran[ce]" hired
the manned ships of Capt. Edward Gibbons and Thomas Hawkins, merchant,
and part owners of the Seabridge, Phillip & Mary, Increase, and
Greyhound, to go to face the forces at St. Johns in a two month voyage
[SLR 1:7]. On 8 July 1643 Edward Gibbons made a bond with Charles de
La Tour regarding this [SLR 1:8].
On 13 May 1645 Edward Gibbons received a mortgage from Charles de
La Tour of "his fort called Fort La Toure & plantation within the
norther part of America wherein the said mounsieur together with his
family hath of late made his residence ... near ... St. Johns
River ... together with all the ammunition and weapons of war ... and
rights granted unto him [La Tour] by the Grand Company of Cannida,
merchants" [SLR 1:10]. The considerable losses involved in these
dealings were taken up in the case of Maj. Edward Gibbons vs. "the
French" 7 May 1651 before the Admiralty Court [NEHGR 88:387].
Emmanuel Downing wrote to John Winthrop regarding d'Aulnay's
attack in which La Tour lost considerable property and the ability to
discharge a debt of £2,500 to "Major Edward Gibbons who by this loss
was now quite undone." Norris objected to the bloodshed and suggested
that it should "intimate God's displeasure for it against Major
Gibbons and Captain Haukins in their several losses" [WP 5:78]. (See
also WJ 2:128, 153, 334.)

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/rese ... sp?print=1

More accurate information about the death of Mrs. Margaret Gibbons has
been in print for many years (NEHGR 38:426):

Letters of Administration on the estate of MARGARET GIBBONS, late of
New England, but at her death of Plymouth in County Devon, issued 28
February, 1656, to Jerusha Rea, now the wife of Capt. Thomas Rea,
natural and lawful daughter of the deceased. Admon Act Book P.C.C.,
1657.

http://books.google.com/books?id=y8QMAA ... #PPA426,M1

In addition, this provides a marriage for daughter Jerusha. Pope's
_Pioneers of Massachusetts_, in its sketch of Samuel Scarlett, states
that Scarlett's will mentions both Love Prout and Jerusha Rea; so
perhaps Scarlett's will should be checked for clues to the fates of
the other heirs of Edward and Margaret Gibbons.
Sir Thomas Temple's debt to the Gibbons heirs was reckoned to be
even greater than d'Aulnays -- £3,379 to be exact, which was to be
repaid at the rate of £200 per annum (see _Calendar of State Papers,
Colonial Series, 1574-1660_, p. 471, for mention of "Capt. Rea's 200l.
per annum," which Capt. Thomas Breedon, Temple's agent, was to discuss
with him; Temple gave orders in December 1659 to "buy out Mr. Rea with
500l." [p. 478]). The _Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series_
should be consulted for a better understanding of the complex
interactions of Temple, Breedon, and the Gibbons heirs.

[John Brandon]

Sir Thomas Temple's debt to the Gibbons heirs was reckoned to be
even greater than d'Aulnays -- £3,379 to be exact, which was to be
repaid at the rate of £200 per annum (see _Calendar of State Papers,

For d'Aulnay substitute La Tour ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=MWJuJj ... ns%22+debt

[John Brandon]

In addition, this provides a marriage for daughter Jerusha. Pope's
_Pioneers of Massachusetts_, in its sketch of Samuel Scarlett, states
that Scarlett's will mentions both Love Prout and Jerusha Rea; so
perhaps Scarlett's will should be checked for clues to the fates of
the other heirs of Edward and Margaret Gibbons.

Charles Henry Pope, _The Pioneers of Massachusetts_ (Boston, 1900), p.
403:

[SCARLET] Samuel, Boston, mariner, a witness in 1645 to James Smith's
sale; deposed July 30, 1663, ae. about 43 years. His wife Mary
(Ellis) Scarlet had house in Boston from her uncle, Maj. Gen. Edward
Gibbons, in 1645. [Suff. De. II, 172.]
His will dated April 22, prob. 16 May, 1675, beq. his very large
property to his wife; to ffreegrace Bendall; Love Proute and her
heirs; Jerusha Rae and her heirs; to Hopefor and Ephraim Bendall;
Mary, Thomasine, Betty and Jane Scarlett; to his brother's 3
daughters; to John Feake, Jr.; to the second church in Boston; to
Harvard College; and to the poor of the town of Kersy in Suffolk in
old England, the place of his nativity. Final division made by the
trustees 30 Jan. 1679.

[John Brandon]

1620 (William Brenton)

and

1620 (William Coddington)

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/rese ... sp?print=1

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/rese ... sp?print=1

There was some sort of cousin relationship, not mentioned in either
man's biography, between Brenton and Coddington (the Brenton sketch
does refer to a certain controversy between the men). In a letter
dated about 1640, Coddington mentioned "my Cozen Brenton the Deputy
Go[veno]r" (Ezra Stiles, _Extracts from the Itineraries and Other
Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL.D., 1755-1794_, ed. Franklin
Bowditch Dexter [Yale University Press, 1916], p. 372).

http://books.google.com/books?id=_TwOAA ... #PPA372,M1


* * * * * * * * * *

1620 (Benjamin Hubbard)

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/rese ... sp?print=1

Benjamin Hubbard of Charlestown, who later returned to England, was
clearly a brother of the Saturday Sabbatarian Samuel Hubbard of Rhode
Island, as proved by Ezra Stiles's extracts from several contemporary
Hubbard letters (Ezra Stiles, _Extracts from the Itineraries and Other
Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL.D., 1755-1794_, ed. Franklin
Bowditch Dexter [Yale University Press, 1916], p. 377):

http://books.google.com/books?id=_TwOAA ... #PPA377,M1

[John Brandon]

1620 (Ralph Fogg)

MARRIAGE: By 1636 Susanna ___; "Susana Fogge" is in the list of
Salem church members compiled late in 1636, with the later annotation
"removed" [SChR 6]; she was living at Plymouth, England, 21 March
1673/4 [ELR 4:79].

CHILDREN:

i JOHN, b. by about 1628 (sold land at Salem 20 February 1648/9
[ELR 1:7, 8]; one parcel sold "with the consent of his mother," but no
consent mentioned in sale of another parcel the same day); m. by 1
August 1665 Grace ___ (living at Barnstable, England at the time) [ELR
1:118]; living at Barnstable, England, 2 January 1674/5 [ELR 4:123].

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/rese ... sp?print=1

The identity of Ralph Fogg's wife as Susan Draper, daughter of Edward
and Susan (Banks) Draper, is proved by the 1630 will of John Banks,
citizen and mercer of London, which bequeaths to "the children of my
sister Susan Draper ...; [To] Susan ffoge the wife of Raffe ffoge, the
daughter of my sister Susan Draper, the sum of fifty pounds and also
to John ffoge her son fifty pounds more" [NEHGR, 47:108-10]. In
another place, the same will mentions "[m]y sister Susan Draper the
wife of Edward Draper, girdler, and her two daughters Susan ffoge and
Mary Draper." Aspinwall's notebook has a 1649 record of Ralph Fogg
attempting to collect on "a legacie given to the sd John ffogg [his
son] by John Bancks mercer deceased" [Aspinwall 270].

http://books.google.com/books?id=Fgg8AA ... #PPA270,M1

* * * * * * * * *

1634 (Thomas Coleman)

ORIGIN: Marlborough, Wiltshire
MIGRATION: 1635 of the James of London
FIRST RESIDENCE: Newbury
REMOVES: Hampton 1652, Nantucket 1663

....

CHILDREN:

viii JOHN, b. say 1644; m. by 1667 Joanna Folger (eldest known
child b. Nantucket 2 August 1667; she is stated confidently by all
secondary sources to be daughter of Peter Folger, but the evidence for
this has not been found.)

As a descendant of this marriage, I have to stick up for its
correctness. See _The Papers of Benjamin Franklin_, 3:179, a letter
from Benjamin Franklin (whose mother was the daughter of Peter Folger)
which mentions that "[h]ere are cousins Coleman, and two Folgers, all
well." See also _Papers of Benjamin Franklin_, 10:398, a genealogical
narrative of 1763, apparently written by Franklin's cousin Keziah
Folger Coffin, mentioning that Peter Folger had "[s]even Daughters
namely Johanna married a Coleman Darcas married a Pratt Barsheba
married a Pope," and so forth.

* * * * * * * * *

1634 (Thomas Loring)

MARRIAGE: By about 1625, Jane Newton (see COMMENTS below). She died
on 25 August 1672 [NEHGR 121:192].

....

COMMENTS:

....

The identity of the wife of Thomas Loring supposedly derives from
the journal of Israel Loring, "in which he states that Thomas Loring
married Jane Newton" [Granberry 304], but this statement does not
appear in the journal as published. In his will of 3 April 1646,
"John Newton of Colliton, Devon, chirurgeon," included bequests to
"Anthony, my said son, and Joane, my said daughter, which are now in
New England" [Waters 1040-41], and this daughter Joan is supposed to
have been the wife of Thomas Loring.

As I pointed out previously on the newsgroup, this same Joan or Jane
Newton was claimed as the wife of Benedict Alvord of Connecticut in a
1990's TAG article by Edwin Witter [? exact citation].



I suppose that's probably enough corrections and additions for now!

[Gjest]

John Brandon wrote:

None of these is terribly earth-shattering, but may be of interest as
RCA doesn't seem inclined to publish any corrections himself.

Please feel free to contribute any additions or corrections you may
have noted.

There are three volumes in the first series (1620-1633) and five
volumes (so far) in the present series (1634-1635).

GMB vol. ii says of William Jennison, he returned to England & died
there.
Pope's Pioneers of Maine & Mass. states that Jennison returned to
Colchester, Essex, apparently based on Watertown church records.

The will of William Jenyson of Colchester gent proved in 1667, gave
his
house to Samuel son of brother Robert J - without saying they were in
New England.
Wife Elizabeth was executrix. No other relatives were named.

The will of Elizabeth Jennison of Colchester widow was proved 1684/5.
The first bequest was to her ancient friend Mr John Knowles, late of
Watertown, New England, now of Wapping Mdx.
An image of the will can be found on the Essex Record Office website.

Leslie

[John Brandon]

GMB vol. ii says of William Jennison, he returned to England & died
there.
Pope's Pioneers of Maine & Mass. states that Jennison returned to
Colchester, Essex, apparently based on Watertown church records.

The will of William Jenyson of Colchester gent proved in 1667, gave
his
house to Samuel son of brother Robert J - without saying they were in
New England.
Wife Elizabeth was executrix. No other relatives were named.

The will of Elizabeth Jennison of Colchester widow was proved 1684/5.
The first bequest was to her ancient friend Mr John Knowles, late of
Watertown, New England, now of Wapping Mdx.
An image of the will can be found on the Essex Record Office website.

Thanks for that one, Leslie. I was sure others had noted a few things
over the years.

There are a few trivial errors, such as John Brooks Threlfall called
"John Brooks" in the Allen Perley sketch in the 1634 series; and a few
problems with the page headings in G-H volume of the 1634 series (see,
for instance, the sketch of John Herbert, which is tagged at the top
of the page as "Nathaniel Heaton."

There were just a couple of further items that came to mind (which I'm
basically too lazy to write up properly):

1. Isabel, wife of Thomas Chesholm (1634 series), was probably a
daughter of widow Isabel Wilkinson of Cambridge, and sister of
Margaret Wilkinson, wife of Edward Goffe. See a certain volume (from
the 1940s or 50s) of _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_
which shows that Thomas Chesholm sent a printed sermon to "his sister
Margaret Witchfield" in Connecticut (Margaret [Wilkinson] Goffe had
remarried to John Witchfield of Connecticut).

2. I suspect that the Nathaniel "Barnard" who married Mary Lugg in
Boston ca. 1656 and died the next year was the son Nathaniel of
Musachiell Bernard of the 1634 series. Musachiell's son Nathaniel was
born ca. 1634, so was of the right age to marry in 1656. Also, as a
grandson of Rev. Richard Bernard, and nephew of the famed Roger
Williams, he was of the proper social status to marry into the
Deighton-Negus-Lugg family. For many years, I had wondered if it
could be the marriage of my ancestor Nathaniel Barnard of Haverhill
and Nantucket, but had to conclude, reluctantly, that he was not of
the proper status to marry Mary Lugg.

[John Brandon]

2. I suspect that the Nathaniel "Barnard" who married Mary Lugg in
Boston ca. 1656 and died the next year was the son Nathaniel of
Musachiell Bernard of the 1634 series. Musachiell's son Nathaniel was
born ca. 1634, so was of the right age to marry in 1656. Also, as a
grandson of Rev. Richard Bernard, and nephew of the famed Roger
Williams, he was of the proper social status to marry into the
Deighton-Negus-Lugg family. For many years, I had wondered if it
could be the marriage of my ancestor Nathaniel Barnard of Haverhill
and Nantucket, but had to conclude, reluctantly, that he was not of
the proper status to marry Mary Lugg.

http://books.google.com/books?id=HvoMAA ... 2+lugg&lr=

http://books.google.com/books?id=GMMMAA ... boston&lr=

[John Brandon]

I suppose it might be worthwhile to have further details on the
suspicious death of Martha Rainsborough (Coytmore) (Winthrop)
Cogan ...

1620 (John Coggan)

MARRIAGE:

....

(4) Boston 10 March 1651/2 "Mrs. Martha Winthrop" [BVR 34]; she
was Martha Rainsborough, widow successively of Thomas Coytmore and
JOHN WINTHROP [TAG 32:15-16]; she died about 24 October 1660 under
"circumstances ... not without suspicion of poison" [NEHGR 111:15].

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/rese ... sp?print=1

Mrs. Margaret Sheafe stated incidentally in a 1662 petition to the
General Court that Martha Coggan, having been exposed "to Sathan's
temptations, which was too strong for her, made away with herself."

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... #PPA213,M1

Rev. John Davenport's account was that she was "discontented that she
had no suitors, and that she encouraged her farmer, a mean man, to
make a motion to her for marriage, which accordingly he propounded,
prosecuted, and proceeded in it so far that afterwards, when she
reflected upon what she had done, and what a change of her outward
condition she was bringing herself into, she was discontented,
despaired, and took a great quantity of ratsbane, and so died. _Fides
sit penes auctorem_."

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC0 ... #PPA337,M1

A real seventeenth-century Madame Bovary ...

[Gjest]

On Jan 13, 4:11 pm, John Brandon <[email protected]> wrote:

2. I suspect that the Nathaniel "Barnard" who married Mary Lugg in
Boston ca. 1656 and died the next year was the son Nathaniel of
Musachiell Bernard of the 1634 series. Musachiell's son Nathaniel was
born ca. 1634, so was of the right age to marry in 1656. Also, as a
grandson of Rev. Richard Bernard, and nephew of the famed Roger
Williams, he was of the proper social status to marry into the
Deighton-Negus-Lugg family. For many years, I had wondered if it
could be the marriage of my ancestor Nathaniel Barnard of Haverhill
and Nantucket, but had to conclude, reluctantly, that he was not of
the proper status to marry Mary Lugg.

I dont know if youve seen the original article (by Moriarty) which
connected the wife of Roger Williams to the family of Rev. Richard
Bernard.
His reasoning was like this:
A family living in Hatfield Broadoak, Essex was familiar with the
Barnard family living in Lincolnshire. Therefore, he concluded that
Roger's wife was from that same Barnard family.
As far as I can tell, Moriarty provided NO REAL EVIDENCE that the wife
of Roger Williams was from that family.
He presented a 'plausible scenario' and in the next paragraph, stated
that it was a fact.
The surname Barnard is fairly common in Essex, and its just as likely
that Mary Barnard, wife of Roger Williams, came from another family.
You'll have to review his presentation, and make your own conclusions.

Leslie

[Gjest]

On Jan 13, 4:11 pm, John Brandon <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks for that one, Leslie. I was sure others had noted a few things
over the years.

Anthony Colby of Ipswich, Salisbury & Amesbury, Mass. is
believed to be the son of Thomas Colby of Horbling, Lincolnshire,
based on association with Rev. Simon Bradstreet.

This same Anthony Colby was apprenticed in the
Merchantaylors Company of London in 1626 (the record gives his
father's
name & residence). I have not found any further record of Anthony in
the records of that company.
Its always possible that a record in London could disprove the
accepted ancestry.


Another line proposed by Threlfall is
the ancestry of John Spofford of Rowley, Mass.,
supposedly from Bedfordshire in England.

This is probably WRONG.

John Spofford first appeared in Rowley, Mass. about 1643.
The community was settled by people from Yorkshire, followers of Rev.
Ezekiel Rogers. Spofford is also a locality name in Yorkshire.

Further discussion can be found at:
http://users.aol.com/gamelbar/curstat.htm

Leslie