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Alice Mabel Cole ancestry

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Albert M. Cole

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Ada Jane Fish

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Shell

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GEORGE FAIRBANKS (1722-1795)

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PHEBE HEWES (say 1621-1678/9)

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JERUSHA TWITCHEL (c. 1725-1796)

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THOMAS FULLER (1739-1803)

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COMFORT METCALF (1742-1769)

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ELIZABETH MORSE (1605/6-1643)

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AMOS FULLER (1701-1771)

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ANTHONY FISHER (1558/9-1640)

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MARY FISKE (c.1563-liv.1640)

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ESTHER KINGSBURY (1711-1801)

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JONATHAN METCALF (1729-1799)

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ELIZABETH PAINE (1620-1675/6)

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BATHSHEBA POND (1734-1807)

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Family Accounts

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(15g) William Fairbank

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TAG 37(1961):65-66

William Fairbanke was born say 1455, d. 1518. He was of Sowerby, Yorkshire in 1492, and was of record in 1498, 1503, and 1514. Child:

  • John, b. say 1480, d. 1551

(14g) John Fairbank

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TAG 37(1961):66

John, the son of William Fairbanke, was born say 1480 and died in 1551. "1504, 19th Henry VII. Edmund Fairbanke surrendered one rood of land with the buildings thereon, lately taken from the waste, in Soureby, to the use of John Fairebanke son of William Fairbanke, and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten." Also named in 1506 and 1524.

(13g) Gilbert Fairbank

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TAG 37(1961):66-67

Gilbert, son of John Fairebanke, was born say 1505, and died 3 March 1577/8, m. Jennett ______, bur. 16 Jan 1578/9, named in his will. "1526, 19th Henry VIII, John Fairbanke surrendered 'Brigbotham' &c to the use of Gilbert Fairebanke, son of the aforesaid John Fairebank and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, rendering therfor yearly 48s. 9d." He is also of record in 1550 and 1569. His will was made the day he died, 4 March 1577/8, and he was buried the same day. The will was proved 16 April 1578. Jennet's will was dated 13 Jan 1578/9 and proved 3 May 1582. While the material here comes from Torrey's article, cited above, there is difficulty in that the oldest given child, George, and youngest child, Edward, were married 31 years apart, and their birth estimates are about that far apart. If Jennett was 20 when her first child was born, then her birth year would be about 1508. This would make her about 51 years old when her last child was born, which is not reasonable. Conclusion: the George who married Sibyl Wade in 1551 does not appear to the same George named in the wills of Gilbert and Jennett Fairbanke. Children:

  • George, m. (1) Sibyl WADE; (2) Jenet (MAWD) Broadley
  • William, b. say 1538, prob. m. 28 June 1562 Isabella HORTON
  • Johanna, bapt. 19 Jan 1544, prob. d. young
  • John, bapt. 3 May 1547, m. 28 Jan 1565/6 Jane BANESTER
  • Michael, bapt. 3 July 1549, bur. 14 Sep 1549
  • Hugh, bapt. 16 Aug 1550, m. 28 March 1578 Jane MITCHELL
  • Dorothy, bapt. 25 March 1553, bur. 18 Dec 1554
  • Agnes, b. say 1554, m. 14 Dec 1573 George HARRISON
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1557, m. 1577 or 1578 _______ BRATHWET, BREITWAITE...
  • Edward, b. say 1559, m. 5 Nov 1582 Mary MITCHELL

(12g) George Fairbank

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NEHGR 166(2012):176-7,180-2; TAG 37(1961):67-69

George Fairbank of Sowerby, Yorkshire, England, son of Gilbert and Jennett Fairbank, b. say 1528, bur. Halifax 29 March 1610, m. (1) Halifax, Yorkshire 10 May 1551 Sybil WADE, bur. Halifax 21 May 1573. He m. (2) Halifax 15 Feb 1573/4 Jenet/Johanna (MAWD) Broadley, widow of John Broadley who she had married in Halifax 30 May 1552, and who was bur. there 8 March 1571/2. Children with first wife, all baptisms in Halifax:

  • Genet, bapt. 26 April 1552, d. young
  • John, b. say 1554, m. (1) by 1583 (when a child was baptized) _______ _______; (2) Isabella STAINCLIFFE; (3) Ellen Parker.
  • Genet, bapt. 28 July 1556, m. 25 July 1575 Matthew BROADLEY, son of John Broadley and Jenet Wade.
  • Maria/Mary, bapt. 18 May 1558, m. 15 Jan 1580 Richard SALTONSTALL.
  • Dorothy, b. c. 1560, bur. 24 May 1562
  • George, bapt. 2 Aug 1562, bur. Halifax 21 March 1619/20, m. (1) Halifax 29 July 1582 Isabel BANNISTER, daughter of Henry Bannister; (2) lic. 1599 Susan BENTLEY, bur. Halifax 14 Aug 1606; (3) Halifax 18 June 1607 Hester Denton. His will was dated 14 March 1619/20 and proved 8 Feb 1620/1. George had four children with his first wife, baptized Halifax from 1589 to 1595, but none of whom was mentioned in his will. He had five children with second wife baptized at Halifax from 1600 to 1605/6, and he had five children with his third wife baptized at Halifax from 1608 to 1615.
  • Robert, bapt. 8 Dec 1566, no further record
  • Susan, bapt. 5 June 1569, m. 7 Feb 1590 William WADE.
  • child, b. May 1573, bur 21 May 1573.

Child with second wife, baptism in Halifax:

  • Abram, bapt. 22 Jan 1576/6, bur. 23 April 1576

(11g) John Fairbank

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NEHGR 166(2012):177-9; TAG 37(1961):69-70

John, the son of George Fairbank and Sybil Wade, was born say 1556, presumably at Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, and was buried in Thornton in Craven, Yorkshire 7 Aug 1625. He m. (1) say 1582 a wife whose name was not included in the baptismal records of his children. It is possible that he is the John Fairbank who m. Halifax 28 April 1578 Margaret SYMMES. He, as a resident of Skircote, Yorkshire m. (2) Halifax 6 Aug 1593 Isabella STAINCLIFFE, bur. Halifax 9 July 1597 as "wife of John Fairbank of Skircote." He m. (3) Burnley, Lancashire 28 Aug 1598, by license, Ellen PARKER, bur. Colne, Lancashire 18 Oct 1643, probably daughter of George Parker. In 1599 John Fairbanke and Elena his wife, and his father George Fairbanke and wife Johanna sold property in Skircote, supporting the identification of John as the son of George. After living in Halifax, he moved to Carleton, and then to Thornton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, where he died. John was called of Thaighe when he left a will dated 4 Aug 1625 and proved 3 Nov 1625. Some members of his family moved to Colne, Lancashire. Children with first wife, name uncertain:

  • Mary, bapt. Halifax 22 Sep 1583, living 1625, m. _______ DEANE.
  • John, bapt. Halifax 7 Aug 1586, named in a 1617 Wakefield court roll as son and heir of his father John.
  • George, bapt. Halifax 24 Nov 1588, d. 1650, m. Halifax 25 May 1615 Joyce DENTON of Northowram (in Halifax), living 1634 and likely dead by 1650 when not mentioned in husband's will. George was a clothier of Sowerby, whose will was dated 28 May 1650 and probated 3 July 1650. In 1616 George was involved in selling land in Thornton and Haigh. George had a wife Joyce in 1634 as shown in a Wakefield court roll.
  • Joseph, bapt. Halifax 2 Aug 1590, bur. there 6 Sep 1591.

Child of John, possibly with first wife, but more likely with second wife Isabella:

  • Jonathan, b. c. 1592 (if of first wife) or c. 1593 or 1594 (if of second wife), m. Grace SMITH (see below).

Child of John with second wife, Isabella:

  • Susan, bapt. Halifax 18 May 1595, bur. Halifax 18 Nov 1605.

Children of John with third wife, Ellen:

  • Helen, bapt. Halifax 29 May 1599, bur. there 3 June 1599
  • Joseph, bapt. Halifax 29 June 1600, bur. there 12 July 1600
  • Anna, bapt. Halifax 31 May 1601, d. by 1625, m. James CROOK. Her father's will provided for her daughter Sara Crook.
  • Michael, bapt. Halifax 25 Oct 1603, living 1650, m. Burnley, Lancashire 17 May 1629 a wife whose name was left out of the marriage record. He was named in the 1650 will of his brother George.
  • Mary, b. c. 1605, m. Thornton in Craven 2 Dec 1625 Ellis NUTTER. They were left a bequest in the will of her brother George Fairbank.
  • Jeremy, bapt. Carleton in Craven, Yorkshire 23 Oct 1608, bur. Colne, Lancashire 29 Aug 1637. Jeremy was licensed to marry Margaret Beecroft in 1629, but either the marriage did not take place, or the bride died soon after marriage, because Jeremy m. Whalley, Lancashire 29 June 1631 Agnes STEVENSON. Jeremy's widow and her children were left bequests in the 1650 will of his brother George Fairbank.
  • Susanna, bapt. Carleton in Craven 5 Jan 1611/2, prob. d. by 1650, m. Colne 9 Nov 1631 John OXENHARD. She is not mentioned in the 1650 will of her brother George Fairbank, but her husband is mentioned.
  • Abigail, b. c. 1614, d. by 1650, m. Colne 1 May 1635 Henry BLAKEY. The 1650 will of her brother George leaves bequests to the children of "Henerie Blackley he had by my sister."

(10g) Jonathan Fairbanks

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Fairbanks Gen [40]; NEHGR 166(2012):165-87; TAG 37(1961):65-72

Jonathan, almost certainly the son of John Fairbank of Thornton in Craven, Yorkshire, England, with second wife Isabelle Staincliffe, was b. c. 1593, d. Dedham, Mass. 5 Dec 1668, and m. Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England 20 May 1617 Grace SMITH, b. c. 1597, d. 28:10mo:1673 (28 Dec 1673). Jonathan is first of record in New England on 23 March 1636/7 when he subscribed to the covenant of the newly-established town of Dedham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, indicating that his arrival in New England was in 1636. He remained in Dedham for the rest of his life. Jonathan's will was dated 1 June 1668, Children, first four baptized Halifax:

  • John, bapt. 8 Feb 1617/8, d. 13 Nov 1684, m. 16:1mo:1641 (16 March 1641) Sarah FISKE, d. 26:9mo:1683 (26 Nov 1683). His will was dated 10 Nov 1684 and proved 19 Feb 1684/5. They had nine children born from 1642 to 1661.
  • George, bapt. 28 Nov 1619, m. Mary ADAMS (below).
  • Mary, bapt. Feb 1621/2, m. (1) 2:2mo:1644 (2 April 1644) Michael METCALF, b. England 29 Aug 1620, d. 25:1mo:1654 (25 March 1654); m. (2) 2:6mo:1654 (2 Aug 1654) Christopher SMITH. Mary had five children with her first husband, born 1644 to 1653.
  • Jonas, bapt. 6 March 1624/5, killed 10 Feb 1676[5/6?], m. 28 May 1658 Lydia PRESCOTT, b. Watertown, Mass. 15 Aug 1641, daughter of John Prescott who also came from Halifax, England. Jonas and his son Joshua were both killed during a raid on their settlement of Lancaster during King Philip's War. Following his death, his widow m. Elias Barron. Jonas and Lydia had seven children born from 1659 to 1673.
  • Susan, prob. the child bapt. Thornton in Craven, Yorkshire 10 Dec 1627, d. 8 July 1659, m. 12:8mo:1647 (12 Oct 1647) Ralph DAY, a mason, d. 28 Nov 1677. He m. (2) 15 Nov 1659 Abigail (CRAFT) Ruggles, daughter of Griffith Craft of Roxbury and widow of John Ruggles.
  • Jonathan, b. say 1629, d. 28 Jan 1711/2, m. c. 1653 Deborah SHEPARD, b. c. 1633, d. 7 Sep 1705?, daughter of Edward Shepard and Violet Charnold of Cambridge, Mass. He was admitted a townsman in Dedham on 1:11mo:1654 (1 Jan 1654/5). Jonathan's will was dated 8 Dec 1708 and probated 14 Feb 1711/2. They had 13 children born from 1645 to c. 1677.

(9g) George Fairbanks I

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Fairbanks Gen: 37-49

George, the son of Jonathan and Grace Fairbanks, was baptized Halifax, Yorkshire, England 28 Nov 1619, d. 10 Jan 1682/3 (drowned), and m. 26:8mo:1646 (26 Oct 1646) Mary ADAMS, b. c. 1626, d. Mendon, Mass. 11 Aug 1711. George moved with his wife and five children from Dedham to the southern part of Sherborn (later Medway, then Millis) about 1657. Children: [41]

  • Mary, b. 10:9mo:1647 (10 Nov 1647), d. 6:9mo:1682 (6 Nov 1682), m. 16:11mo:1665 (16 Jan 1665/6) Joseph DANIELLS, d. 23 June 1715, son of Robert and Elizabeth Daniels.
  • George, b. 26:3mo:1650 (26 May 1650), m. (1) Rachel ADAMS; m. (2) Susanna (DEAN?)
  • Samuel, b. 28:8mo:1652 (28 Oct 1652), d. 20 Nov 1676.
  • Eleazar/Eliesur, b. 8:4mo:1655 (8 June 1655), m. Martha _______; they settled in Sherborn, Mass. They had six children born from 1678 to 1690.
  • Jonas, b. 23:12mo:1656 (23 Feb 1656/7), d. 28 Nov 1676.
  • Jonathan, b. Medway 1 May 1662, d. 18 Dec 1719, m. (1) Sarah _______, d. 9 July 1713; m. (2) Annie _______. They lived in the part of Sherborn, Mass. that became Medway. He had six children with his first wife born from 1685 to 1697, and one child with second wife born in 1715.
  • Margaret, b. Medway 27 June 1664, m. William HOLBROOK of Mendon. His will was proved Suffolk Co., Mass 16 Dec 1714. They had three known children born from 1684 to 1693.

(8g) George Fairbanks II

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Fairbanks Gen: 45-7

George, the son of George Fairbanks and Mary Adams, was born Medfield, Mass. 26 May 1650, died [5 May?] 1737, and m. (1) 1671 Rachel ADAMS, b. 1651, d. 12 May 1678, daughter of Peter and Rachel Adams, and granddaughter of Henry Adams and Edith squire who settled in Braintree, Mass.; m. (2) c. 1679 Susanna _______, and m. (3) c. 1687 Sarah _______. While George had children with all three wives, the Fairbanks Genealogy misallocates them. According to the Medfield vital record, all of his children were with second wife Susanna, except for the first two and the last one, as indicated below. Note, however, that the Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, part 3 (a manuscript, perhaps only available at the New Hist. Gen. Soc.) says Susanna died in 1750, telling us that there was no third wife, which makes sense, because I've seen no evidence of a third wife--SWA). Children with first wife, Rachel: [42]

  • Rachel, b. 29 Sep 1672, m. Jonathan FISHER. They had six children born from 1693/4 to 1704
  • Mary/Marie, b. 5 Jan 1675[/6?], m. (1) 16 April 1696 Benjamin ALLEN. They moved to Ashford, CT where he died. She m. (2) Nathaniel GARY. She had five children with her first husband, born 1697 to 1705, and five children with her second husband, born 1713 to 1723, so she was 47 or 48 when her last child was born.

Children with second wife, Susanna:

  • Susanna, b. 24 March 1680, d. young
  • Susanna, b. 17 March 1682, m. c. 1701 Jonathan WHITNEY of Sherborn.
  • Dorothy, b. 6 Nov 1683, m. Ebenezer THOMPSON
  • Margaret, b. 5 Jan 1685, d. 31 Oct 1787, aged 102y 9m 26d, m. 14 Dec 1704 Jonathan WIGHT, b. 11 Sep 1682, d. 19 Feb 1779. They had nine children born from 1705 to 1729.
  • Jonas, b. 15 Feb 1687/8, d. 10 Nov 1690
  • Sarah, b. 16 Nov 1690, d. 1690
  • George, b. 2 Oct 1694, m. Sarah HARDING
  • John, b. 9 Oct 1697, not in father's will.
  • Hannah, b. c. 1700, m. Joseph CURTIS. (No birth record for Hannah has been found; she may have been born earlier)

(7g) George Fairbanks III

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Fairbanks Gen: 61-62

George, the son of George and Sarah Fairbanks of Dedham, Medfield, and Medway, Mass., was born in Medfield 2 Oct 1694, d. Medway 29 April 1754, and married Medfield 9 Feb 1714/5 Sarah HARDING, b. Medfield 22 Feb 1695/6, d. Medway 26 Jan 1748, the daughter of Abraham Harding and Sarah Merrifield. Children, all born Medway: [43]

  • John, b. c. 1714, d. Medway 14 Dec 1714, most likely an infant, but the record does not say.
  • Phebe, b. 16 May 1716; m. Medway 23 Aug 1759 Abraham COZENS, b. c. 1710, son of Abraham Cozens and Abigail Wilkinson of Holliston, Mass.
  • John, b. 5 or 19 Feb 1718/9, d. 3 May 1719
  • Jonas, b. 20 Oct 1720, m. Medway 25 Sep 1745 Experience LELAND, b. Sherborn, Mass. 21 June 1725, the daughter of Hopestill Leland and Mary Bullard of Sherborn. Experience was living in 1771, likely when mentioned in the estate of her father. Jonas and Experience had eight children with births recorded in Medway 1746 to 1761, but nothing of their lives after that is known to this writer.
  • George, b. 12 Dec 1722, m. Jerusha TWITCHELL (see below).
  • Bathsheba, b. 7 Oct 1724, d. Medway 25 Nov 1774, m. Medway 20 May 1752 Asa DANIELS, b. Medway 10 Dec 1726, d. Medway 18 Oct 1815, the son of Joseph Daniels Jr. and Elizabeth Groce. Following Bathsheba's death, Asa m. (2) (int. Medway 14 July 1775) Lydia Daniels, b. Medway 8 Jan 1742, d. 31 Dec 1828, daughter of Ezra Daniels and Martha. Bathsheba had three children, born from 1753 to 1760. Asa and both wives all have grave stones in the Prospect Hill Cemetery in Millis, Mass. (which had formerly been East Medway). [44]
  • Silence, b. 26 Feb 1727, d. Sherborn, Mass. 14 Nov 1804, m. Medfield, Mass. 10 July 1751 (int. Medway 8 June 1751) Elisha BARBER, b. Medfiield 23 Nov 1722, d. Sherborn 7 July 1803, son of Zachariah Barber and Deborah Partridge. They had seven children, born 1752 to 1765. They both have grave markers in the South Sherborn Cemetery. [45]
  • Elijah, b. 29 April 1729, d. Medway 1 Oct 1746 in his 18th year
  • David, b. 10 July 1731, d. 8 Oct 1746 in his 16th year
  • John, b. 27 Oct 1733, non compos mentis
  • Joseph, b. 8 Dec 1736, m. Sherborn, Mass. 25 June 1761 Abigail COOLIDGE, b. Sherborn 3 July 1735, daughter of James Coolidge and Freelove Monk. Abigail was called the wife of Joseph Fairbanks in the 1761 will of her father. They had no children, and nothing more has been learned of their lives.
  • Sarah, b. 4 April 1738, d. Medway 13 Oct 1746 in her 9th year
  • Elizabeth, b. 29 Dec 1740, d. 20 Aug 1744 "aged 3y 1m 20d" as per vital record, but it appears she was aged 3y 7m and 22 d.

(6g) George Fairbanks IV

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George Fairbanks, son of George Fairbanks III and Sarah Harding, was b. Medway, MA 12 Dec 1722, d. Medway 29 Sep 1795, and m. (intention Medway 27 July 1745) Jerusha TWITCHEL, b. c. 1724, d. Medway 9 Jan 1796. George is very likely the one of his name who was on a 13 April 1778 list of Medway men who rendered service at various times subsequent to 19 April 1775, in the American Revolutionary War effort. The Medway records indicate he gave five pounds worth of assistance. Children, all b. Medway: [46] [47]

  • Abijah, b. 21 Jan 1745/6, d. Winthrop, Kenebec, Maine 13 Aug 1830, m. Medway 4 Jan 1769 Mary CLARK, b. Medway 24 Feb 1748, d. Winthrop 4 June 1823, daughter of Timothy Clark and Margaret Whiting. Abijah was a soldier of the Rev. War, and served as a corporal in Capt Joshua Partridge's (1st Medway) company, Col John Smith's regiment, marching on the alarm of 19 April 1775 with 9 days service. He and his wife are buried in the Metcalf Cemetery, Winthrop, ME. There is also a veteran's grave marker for an Abijah Fairbanks in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Millis, Mass., but I'm not convinced it is for him. [48] [49] [50]
  • Joel, b. 26 Jan 1747/8, (d. 1781), m. c.1771 Mary GALE, b. c. 1751, the daughter of Abijah Gale and Mary Gregory. Joel was a Rev. War soldier, and may be the one of his name serving from Wrentham as a private in Capt John Boyd's company of Minute-men in Col Greaton's regiment that marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775 with 8 days service. He was a private in Capt Amos Ellis' company, Col Benjamin Hawe's regiment, enlisting on 25 Sep 1777 until 31 Oct 1777, 1 month 7 days, at Little Compton, RI. Later he was a private from Medway in Capt John Gay's company, Col Ebenezer Francis' regiment and also in Capt Jacob Haskins' company, Col John Jacob's regiment, enlisting 2 July 1778 for 6 months 1 day. Joel and Mary had six children, born 1772-1781, several of whose births are recorded in the Medway vital record. [51]
  • Elizabeth, b. 11 Aug 1749, m. Medway 10 Nov 1774 Asa NORCROSS, who was called of Dublin, NH in his marriage record. An Asa Norcross appears on the 1810 and 1820 censuses for Franklin, Mass. An Asa Norcross died in Medway 30 May 1823. An Asa Norcross, son of Asa and Elizabeth, was baptized in Lancaster, Mass in 1765.
  • George, called Dr. George in several records, b. 12 July 1751, d. Wrentham, Mass. 23 Oct 1829, m. Medway 12 Nov 1778 Calley BOYDEN, b. Medway 20 May 1757, d. Wrentham 1 April 1829, daughter of James Boyden and Thankful Harding. George served in the Rev. War as a private from Medway in Capt Joshua Partridge's (1st Medway) company, Col John Smith's regiment that marched on the alarm of 19 April 1775, with 9 days service. His brother Abijah was a corporal in that company. Because he was called "Dr.", he may be the one of his name who served from Medfield as a Surgeon's Mate in Col Wheelock's regiment that marched from Medfield and Wrentham to Warwick, RI on the alarm of 8 Dec 1776, under the command of Maj James Metcalf, with service for 23 days. Also subsequent service in the same capacity. George and Calley are likely buried in the Wrentham Centre Cemetery where their daughter, Olive, is buried. [52]
  • Silas, b. 29 Sep 1753, d. Medway 11 June 1823, m. Walpole, Mass. 9 July 1784 Mary DAY, b. Walpole 31 Mar 1766, d. Medway 21 June 1827, the daughter of John and Mary Day. They are buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Millis, Mass. Silas was a Rev. War soldier, serving from Medway as a private in Capt Jacob Miller's company, Col Ephraim Doolittle's (24th) regiment, enlisting 15 July 1775 with service for 17 days. He had additional service in Capt Josiah Fuller's company, Col Wheelock's regiment; his company marched from Medway to Warwick, RI on the alarm of 8 Dec 1776; service for 3 days. [53]
  • Jotham, b. 6 April 1757, d. E. Medway 24 May 1834, m. Medway 6 May 1778 Beulah DANIELS, b. Medway 7 May 1761, d. Medway 30 May 1853, daughter of Joseph Daniels and Deborah Keith. Jotham was a Rev. War soldier with an extensive service record beginning with the Lexington alarm of 19 April 1775. He was later a pensioner, as was his widow, and his available pension file has 65 pages of documents. Only two children are known, both sons: Jotham and Leonard. [54] [55]
  • Levi, b. 27 Sep 1759, m. Molly FULLER. [56] [57]
  • Asahel, b. 2 June 1761, d. Mendon, Mass. 27 April 1835, m. intention Medway 10 Jan 1801, Lydia PARTRIDGE, b. 31 Mar 1776, d. Mendon 23 March 1835, daughter of Stephen Partridge and Jemima Taft. Asahel was a Rev. War soldier, serving as a private in Capt Moses Adam's company, Col Elezer Brooke's regiment of guards, serving from 3 Nov 1777 to 3 April 1778, 5 months, with company stationed at Cambridge. He was also a private in Capt Samuel Fisher's company, discharge 12 Sep 1779 after serving 1 month and 2 days. This company was detached from the militia and ordered to four-week duty in RI in Col. Benjamin Hawe's regiment. Asahel and Lydia are buried in the Old Cemetery in Mendon. [58]
  • Adam, b. 1 Dec 1763, d. Hopkinton, Mass. 23 Oct 1831, and married three times in a short period, with all marriages recorded in the Hopkinton vital records. He m. (1) 28 Nov 1782 Sarah WALKER, b. say 1763, d. c. 1787; (2) 1787 (per vital record or 3 Jan. 1788 per unspecified source) Marina FULLER, b. Westborough, MA 19 Aug 1767, d. Medway 29 Oct 1788, daughter of Thomas Fuller and Comfort Metcalf; and (3) (intention 31 March 1789) Mary FRAIL, b. 1760, d. Hopkinton 15 Sep 1843, aged 83, daughter of Joseph Frail and Sarah Haven. Adam apparently had no children with his first wife, one daughter with his second wife (buried by him), and seven children (births recorded in Hopkinton) with his third wife. Adam appears to have been a Revolutionary War soldier, with very limited service. He enlisted on 6 Aug 1780 as a private in Capt John Ellis' company (4th Suffolk Co.), Maj Seth Bullard's regiment, but was discharged the following day. He apparently came on as a reinforcement, as the company had marched to Tiverton, RI on the alarm of 29 July 1780. He was also credited with four travel days. His older brother, Abijah, was in the same company. Adam and Mary are buried in the East Hopkinton Cemetery. [59]
  • John, mentioned in his father's will (probated 1798).

(5g) Levi Fairbanks

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Levi, the son of George Fairbanks and Jerusha Twitchell of Medway, Mass., was b. Medway 29 Sep 1759 and d. Wrentham, MA 8 May 1798. He was married in Medway on 15 January 1784 to Molly FULLER, b. Westorough, Mass. 2 July 1765, d. Franklin, Mass. 23 March 1843, the daughter of Thomas Fuller and Comfort Metcalf of Westborough and Attleboro, Mass. Unlike with all of his brothers, no record has been found of Levi serving during the American Revolutionary War. Levi died just three months after the birth of their sixth child, and Molly was left to raise her six minor children. She appears as the head of household on the 1800 census for Wrentham, Mass, with one male under 10, two females under 10, a female 10-15, and (herself) a female 26-44. Molly has a marker in the Union Street Cemetery in Franklin, Mass, and Levi is probably there as well, but with no grave marker. Children, first five born Medway Mass., last child b. Wrentham, Mass.: [60]

  • Otis, b. 16 May 1785, m. Sylvia FULLER. Otis and Sylvia are buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. [61]
  • Sarah "Sally", b. 18 Jan 1787, m. Medway, MA 3 Feb 1805 Robert SMITH, b. Bellingham, Mass. 30 May 1782, d. Bellingham 29 Jan 1855, the son of Robert Smith and Levina Cook of Bellingham. Sarah and Robert had eight known children together. They are buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Bellingham. [62]
  • Lucy, b. 19 July 1789, d. Franklin, Mass. 1 July 1878, and m. May 1808 a man 20 years her senior, James ADAMS, b. Wrentham, Mass. 6 May 1769, d. Franklin, Mass. 16 April 1830, the son of Peter Adams and Esther Ward. James was married first on 25 September 1795 to Sarah Bacon, the daughter of Seth Bacon and Abigail Whiting. Lucy and James had three children together. They are buried in the Union Street Cemetery, Franklin, Mass. [63]
  • Harvey, b. Franklin, Mass. 23 Aug 1792, d. Louisville, KY 21 Aug 1837, m. Mary ELLIS, b. Plymouth, Mass. 9 July 1790, d. Louisville, KY 5 March 1871, the daughter of Thomas Ellis and Eunice Reed. Harvey and Mary are buried in the Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, KY. [64]
  • Mary "Molly", b. Medway, Mass. 18 Sep 1794, d. 11 Aug 1876, unmarried. In 1850 and 1860 she lived alone in Franklin, but in 1870 she was living in Medway with her widowed brother Otis, and his daughter Abbie Cobb. [65]
  • Elizabeth, b. Wrentham, Mass. 24 Feb 1798, d. Franklin, Mass. 1 Jan 1859. Her father died when she was three months old, and her mother was left to raise six minor children. Eliza became a missionary to the Choctaws in Mississippi. It was likely there that she was married on 28 March 1828 to Rev. William HOOPER, also a missionary. Her husband died within six months of their marriage, on 8 September 1828. Elizabeth returned home to Franklin, MA in 1850, and soon married a man older than she by about 25 years, Asa PARTRIDGE, b. Wrentham, Mass. 19 April 1773, d. Franklin, MA 26 April 1858, the son of Eleazer Partridge and Lois Rockwood. Eliza and Asa appear on the 1850 census for Franklin, Mass., and are buried in the Union Street Cemetery in Franklin. [66]

(4g) Otis Fairbanks

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Otis, the oldest of six children born to Levi Fairbanks & Molly Fuller of Medway, Franklin, and Wrentham, Mass., was born in Medway 16 May 1785, d. there 23 Sep 1879, aged 94, and married Sylvia FULLER, b. Medway 9 Oct 1791, d. there 4 July 1835, aged 43, daughter of Asa Fuller and Meletiah Metcalf of Medway. Otis was given the title of Captain in a note written by his daughter Abbie in 1903. In 1870 he was enumerated on the federal census in Medway living with his widowed daughter, Abbie Cobb, and his unmarried sister, Mary Fairbanks. Otis and Sylvia share a tall monument with five of their children and some other descendants in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. Children, b. Medway, Mass.: [67]

  • George Otis, b. 14 February 1815, d. Fall River, Mass. 11 March 1884, aged 69, m. (1) Lowell, Mass. 5 Oct 1841 Abby LANGLEY, b. 10 Jan 1812, d. Fall River 22 Feb 1849, aged 37 and (2) Fall River 18 Sep 1851 Esther Amanda (HART) Langley, b. Rhode Island 12 June 1825, d. Fall River 27 April 1880, aged 54, the daughter of Stephen and Mary Hart and widow of Thomas Langley. Otis was a school teacher, and later in life became a dentist. He was a very public spirited individual, and held many positions in the Fall River town government, including that of mayor. His final job was to oversee the poor. He had one child with his first wife, and three with his second. Otis and both wives are buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, Mass. [68]
  • Meletiah Metcalf "Milly", b. 14 Nov 1816, d. W. Medway, Mass. 28 Feb 1875, aged 58, m. Asa COLE (see). They are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. [69]
  • Catherine Sylvia, b. 1 October 1818, d. Shrewsbury, Mass. 17 Feb 1883, aged 64, m. Medway 8 April 1845, as his second wife, Albert Galatin COBB, b. Westmoreland, NH 5 July 1810, d. Shrewsbury, Mass. 24 Feb 1883, aged 72, the son of General Simeon Cobb and Eunice Goodenow of Westmoreland, New Hampshire. He had married first Susan Wesson, b. 26 Nov 1817, d. 11 Dec 1843. Albert was a farmer, and was enumerated on the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 censuses for Shrewsbury, Mass. with his wife Catherine and five of their six children. He died within a few days of his wife's death, both dying of typhoid fever. Albert shares a monument with both of his wives and four children in the Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Mass. [70]
  • Harriet, b. 19 June 1821, d. Medway 9 Nov 1839, unmarried. Harriet shares a tall monument with her parents, siblings, and other relatives in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. [71]
  • Eliza, b. 29 July 1823, d. Medfield, Mass. 5 July 1894, aged 70, m. Medway 8 April 1845 Charles F. TURNER, b. Medway 22 July 1817, d. Medfield 20 Dec 1910, aged 93, son of Obed Turner and Irene Richardson. Charles was a baker, and the family lived in Mendon in 1850, Wetborough in 1860, and Medfield in 1870. Eliza and Charles share a gravestone with several of their children in the Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield. [72]
  • Mary Ann, b. 8 July 1826, d. Medway 7 Oct 1857, aged 31, unmarried. She shares a tall monument with her parents, siblings, and other relatives in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. [73]
  • Hepzibah Blake, b. 24 Jan 1829, d. Medway 16 Nov 1846, aged 17, unmarried. She shares a tall monument with her parents, siblings, and other relatives in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. [74]
  • Abigail Maria "Abbie", b. 13 Aug 1831, d. Medfield 28 April 1914, aged 82, and m. (1) Medway 24 Jan 1853 Hollis W. COBB, b. 1827, son of Simeon and Eunice Cobb. Hollis died within nine months of their marriage, after which Abbie lived as a widow for three decades. She was married a second time in Medway on 28 June 1884 to John H. LACKEY, aged 61, the son of Nathaniel and Lorrina Lackey. John was born in Upton, MA on 28 Aug 1822, and died in Medway 6 Mar 1898, though he was buried in Milford, Mass. Following her husband's death, Abbie lived in Medfield. On 10 June 1903 Abbie signed an agreement as the only living child of Capt Otis Fairbanks, authorizing her nephew, Albert M. Cole, to use the vacant graves in her father's burial plot at Evergreen Cemetery for his family burial place for a sum of ten dollars. Abbie was living on Plain Street in Medfield when she died. The informant on her death certificate was Mrs. Richard Cole. Abbie had no known children. She shares a tall monument with her parents, siblings, and other relatives in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. [75]
  • Eleanor Minerva, b. 25 April 1833, d. 16 Nov 1852, aged 19, unmarried. She shares a tall monument with her parents, siblings, and other relatives in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. [76]

(10g) John Harding

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TAG 34(1958):199-211; GMB 2:855-8 (Robert Harding); GMB 1:268-9 (Richard Bugby); GM 1:517-522 (Thomas Buttolph); GM 3:217-8 (Elizabeth Harding, later wife of Henry Bridgham); WikiTree website, which has the parish records from Little Baddow, Essex

John Harding of Boreham, Essex, England, possibly the son of Abraham and Elizabeth Harding, was born say 1575, bur. Boreham 22 Nov 1631, m. (1) Little Baddow, Essex, England 26 June 1600 Mary GREENE, b. say 1585, d. c. 1628, daughter of John Greene and Alice Blois; m. (2) c. 1629 Anne/Agnes _______, living 1640. After his death, his widow m. _______ Green of Tarling/Terling, Essex. John's will was dated 1 Sep 1631 and probated 17 Jan 1631/2 at the Archdeaconry of Essex. Children with first wife, Mary, all baptisms except last two at Little Baddow, Essex:

  • John, bapt. 2 Feb 1600/1, bur. LIttle Baddow 18 Feb 1600/1
  • Marie/Mary, bapt. 2 Feb 1601/2, m. bef. 1 Sep 1631 Richard BUGBY. If Richard is the one who settled in Roxbury, Mass., then Mary died shortly after their arrival in New England, because Richard was married to Judith ______ in the 1630s, then died, because Judith was married by about 1635 (child b. 1636) to Robert Parker. Mary most likely was the mother of Elizabeth Bugby who m. at Boston, Mass 29 Sep 1653 Andrew Cload, wine-cooper.
  • Martha, b. c. 1603, bur. Little Baddow 6 Mary 1604
  • John, bapt. 19 May 1605, bur. Boreham 1 April 1625, unmarried.
  • Robert, bapt. 2 Aug 1607, d. in England by 1657/8, and m. (1) say 1635 Philip (______) Hammond; (2) Hartford, CT 17 Oct 1645 Esther WYLLYS, d. by 1647, daughter of Gov. George Wyllys; (3) by 1649, probably in England, a third wife, name unknown. Robert likely sailed to New England with the Winthrop Fleet, as he was a Mass. Bay freeman on 18 May 1631, and admitted as member #11 to the Boston Church. He was a mercer, trader, and sea captain, owner of at least one ship, and did extensive trade along the East Coast as well as across the Atlantic. He was entrusted by others to pursue trade with other colonies and with England. Like most early members of the Boston church, he was involved in the events of the Antinomian Controversy, which is likely why he was found in Portsmouth and Newport Rhode Island in the late 1630's. His wife was censured in 1639 for continuing to defend and support Anne Hutchinson. He never seems to have left Boston, however, unlike most of the other exiles from the controversy. By the 1650s he had returned to England permanently. Only one possible child of Robert has been identified--a son, Philip, b. say 1636, m. Boston 23 Aug 1659 Susanna (_______) Haviland, widow of Edward.
  • Ann/Hannah, b. c. 1609 (aged 24 in May 1635), d. Boston 10 Oct 1680, m. c. 1634 Thomas BUTTOLPH, b. c. 1603, d. Boston 1667. On 4 May 1635 Tho. Buttolph, aged 32, and Ann Buttolph, aged 24, were enrolled at London for passsage to New England on the Abigail. Thomas was a glover. The will of Thomas Buttolph was dated 25 May 1667 and probated 18 June 1667. Ann's will was dated 17 Sep and probated 10 Nov 1680. Ann has/had an extant gravestone at the Granary Burying Ground in Boston, giving her age as 8, likely in error for 68. They had seven children with births recorded in Boston from 1637 to 1651.
  • prob. Thomas, bapt. 8 July 1611, likely d.y. (not in father's will)
  • prob. Philippa, bapt. 30 Nov 1612, likely d.y. (not in father's will)
  • Jonathan, bapt. 12 April 1617, bur. Little Braddow 13 April 1617.
  • Abraham, bapt. 20 April 1619, minor in 1631 and of age 1640, m. Elizabeth _______.
  • Elizabeth, bapt. Boreham 18 March 1622/3, d. 1672, m. c. 1644 Henry BREDGHAM, bapt. Thelnetham, Suffolk, England 9 May 1613, d. Boston, Mass. c. 1671, son of Henry Bridgham and Ursula Brett. On 4 May 1635, Eliz Harding, aged 12, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the Abigail. This was the same ship carrying her sister and brother-in-law, Ann and Thomas Buttolph, though she is not included with them on the passenger list. She was admitted to the Boston church on 17 Feb 1643/4, and it is likely soon thereafter that she was married. Elizabeth's will was dated 2 Aug 1672 and probated 5 Nov 1672. She and Henry had nine children, all sons, born from 1645 to 1664.

Child with second wife, Ann/Agnes:

  • John, bapt. Boreham 6 June 1630, bur. there 8 Aug 1630.

(9g) Abraham Harding, Sr.

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TAG 34(1958):208-210

Abraham, son of John Harding and Mary Greene, was bapt. Little Baddow, Essex, England 20 April 1619, d. Medfield, Mass. 22 March 1654/5, and m. c. 1643 Elizabeth _______, b. say 1623, d. c. 1678. She m. (2) Medfield 25 Dec 1656 John Frary who d. Medfield 28 March 1670. Elizabeth m. (3) Dea. Thomas Dyer of Weymouth. Abraham was in New England by 1640, per Anderson's Great Migration Directory (2015). Abraham's imperfect nuncupative will was written on the margin of the inventory of his estate dated 6 April 1655. Administration was granted 24 April 1655 to the widow Elizabeth Harding. The will of Elizabeth was dated 20 Nov 1670 and probated 31 Jan 1678/9. Children of Abraham and Elizabeth Harding:

  • John, b. c. 1644 (aged 21 in 1665), d. Medfield 4 March 1719/20, m. (1) Watertown, Mass. (rec. at Medfield) 28 Nov 1665 Hannah WOOD, d. Medfield 1 Feb 1667/8, daughter of Nicholas Wood of Natick; m. (2) Medfield 16 De 1668 Elizabeth ADAMS, d. Medfield 1 Aug 1727. John had two children with first wife, b. Medfield 1666/7 and 1667/8, and nine children born there with second wife from 1669 to 1691.
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1647, d. Medfield 1 Oct 1708, m. there 20 Nov 1667 Eleazar ADAMS, d. Medfield 14 April 1710. She had two known children born in Medfield in 1672 and 1674/5.
  • Mary, b. Medfield May 1653, d. 11 Jan 1730/1, m. Medfield 22 Dec 1670 Samuel BARBER, d. 29 Dec 1736. They had six children born from 1675/6 to 1693.
  • Abraham, b. (posthumously) Medfield Aug 1655, m. (1) Mary MASON; (2) Sarah MERRIFIELD.

Children of Elizabeth with her second husband, John Frary, all b. Medfield, Mass.:

  • Theophilus, b. 25 Jan 1657/8, d. by 1670
  • Hannah, b. 22 Feb 1659/60, m. Joseph DYER, b. 6 Nov 1653, d. 13 Oct 1704.
  • Prudence, b. 20 Aug 1662, d. Medfield 29 Dec 1750, m. Medfield 19 Dec 1679 Ens. Henry ADAMS, b. Medfield 19 Nov 1657, d. 29 Sep 1733, son of Henry Adams and Elizabeth Payne.

(8g) Abraham Harding, Jr.

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TAG 37(1961):210; We Relate website, citing numerous vital records, plus Abraham's probate records

Abraham, the son of Abraham and Elizabeth Harding of Medfield, Mass., was born there Aug 1655, after the death of his father. He d. Medway, Mass. 11 June 1734, and m. (1) Medfield 26 April 1677 Mary MASON, b. Medfield 8 Feb 1657/8, d. Medfield c. 1693/4, daughter of Thomas Mason and Margaret Partridge; m. (2) c. 1695 Sarah MERRIFIELD, b. Dorchester, Mass. 14 May 1669, d. c. 1742, daughter of John Merrifield and Sarah Goard. A website gives her death date as 22 Jan 1742, which is realistic, but the record is not in the published vital record of Medway, Mass. Abraham's will, dated 19 Dec 1718, was proved more than 15 years later on 19 Nov 1734, naming children from both wives, and widow Sarah to be co-executor, which she declined. His inventory, dated 17 Dec 1734, revealed a large property valued at 1923 pounds. All of the children with his first wife were named in his will. The only children with second wife Sarah named in his will were Samuel, to be co-executor, and Sarah, to be excluded from any of the estate distributed to her full siblings by their mother. Widow Sarah, of Medway, left a will dated 29 May 1741 and proved 13 April 1742, naming all four of her surviving children, and her son-in-law Ephraim Partridge as executor. Children with first wife, Mary:

  • Mehitable, b. Medfield 17 Oct 1684, named Mehitable Harding in father's 1718 will.
  • Mary, b. Medfield 25 Aug 1687, d. Medway 20 Jan 1724/5, m. Medfield 31 Oct 1707 Ebenezer DANIEL, b. Medfield 24 April 1677, d. Medway 29 Jan 1767, the son of Joseph Daniel and Mary Fairbanks. Ebenezer had m. (1) Medfield 22 Dec 1701 Elizabeth Partridge, and following Mary's death, he m. (3) Medway 8 Nov 1726 Hannah Adams. Mary and Ebenezer had five known children born from 1709 to 1724/5.
  • Elizabeth, b. Medfield 1 Jan 1689/90, d. Medfield 15 April 1708, unmarried.
  • Abraham, b. Medfield 5 April 1691, d. Medway 22 Feb 1768, m. (1) Medfield 2 Dec 1715 Ruth WIGHT, b. Medfield 20 July 1688, d. Medway 5 Nov 1747, daughter of Ephraim Wight and Lydia Morse; m. (2) Medway 19 July 1763 Elizabeth ________
  • Thomas, b. Medfield 15 Dec 1692, named in his father's 1718 will.
  • John, b. Medfield 6 April 1694, named in his father's 1718 will.

Children with second wife, Sarah:

  • Sarah, b. Medfield 22 Feb 1695/6, d. 1748, named in mother's 1741 will, m. George FAIRBANKS (see).
  • Samuel, b. Medfield 15 May 1698, d. Medway 7 Feb 1780, m. Boston, Mass. 24 Oct 1722 Mary CUTLER, b. Medfield 18 Feb 1700/1, d. Medway 13 Oct 1778, daughter of Nathaniel Cutler and Elizabeth Underwood. They had six known children born from 1723 to 1738. Samuel was named in his mother's 1741 will, and was titled Ensign in his death record.
  • Hannah, b. Medfield 18 Jan 1699/1700, d. Medway 11 Sep 1723, unmarried.
  • Lydia, b. Medfield 14 Dec 1701, m. Medway 22 March 1727/8 Ephraim PARTRIDGE. Lydia was given bequests in her mother's 1741 will, and Ephraim was made sole executor of that will.
  • Bathsheba, b. Medfield 12 Feb 1703/4, d. Medway 18 Jan 1721/2
  • Isaac, b. Medfield 16 Feb 1705/6, d. Medway 5 Oct 1779, m. Medway 27 March 1728 Rachel HILL, b. Medfield 12 Dec 1703, d. Medway 16 March 1786, daughter of Dea. Samuel Hill and Hannah Twitchell. They had five known children born from 1731 to 1743. Isaac was named in his mother's 1741 will.
  • Elizabeth, b. Medfield 25 July 1708, d. Medway 18 April 1729, m. Medway 27 Aug 1728 Timothy CLARK. Elizabeth died in her 21st year and was buried in Medway GR1 [Evergreen?]
  • Joseph, b. Medfield 22 March 1710/1, d. Medway 31 Dec 1727.

(10g) Henry Merrifield

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Savage: 3:201 (under Merryfield); Merrifield Gen

Henry Merrifield, b. say 1618, d. Dorchester, Mass. 14 April 1687, m. say 1643 Margaret _______, b. say 1623, d. Dorchester 16 July 1688. Henry, perhaps from Devon, where the name is common, was supposedly in Dorchester by 1641 (most Dorchester settlers came from the west country [Devon, Dorset, and Somerset]). He isn't of record in New England until 1649, when three of his children were baptized at the Dorchester church. "He served as fence viewer in 1659, 1662, 1667, and 1669/70, and took an oath of allegiance in Dorchester, Massachusetts on Nov. 11, 1678. He died there April 14, 1687 and she passed away July 16, 1688." (Excerpt from The Merrifield family in America, p. 7).

  • John, b. c. 1644, bapt. Dorchester with two siblings 15 April 1649, m. Sarah GOARD (below).
  • Elizabeth, b. c. 1646, bapt. Dorchester with two siblings 15 April 1649
  • Ruth, b. c. 1648, bapt. Dorchester with two siblings 15 April 1649
  • Hannah, bapt. Dorchester 7 April 1650
  • Mary, bapt. Dorchester 18 April 1652
  • Abigail, bapt. Dorchester 3 Aug 1656
  • Benjamin, bapt. Dorchester 12 Dec 1658
  • Martha, bapt. Dorchester 28 April 1661
  • Henry, bapt. Dorchester 31 July 1664

(9g) John Merrifield

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Savage 3:201; We Relate website; Dorchester vital records (from website); Probate records (from Family Search).

John, the son of Henry and Margaret Merrifield, was born c. 1644 and baptized with two of his siblings at Dorchester, Mass. 16 April 1649, d. there 9 Dec 1678, and m. c. 1665 Sarah GOARD, bapt. Roxbury, Mass. 25 March 1649, died within weeks or days after her husband, daughter of Richard Goard and Phoebe Hawes. Sarah was alive the day her husband died on 9 Dec 1687, because she was called his widow, but she was dead by 16 Jan 1678/9 when administration of her husband's estate was granted to her brother. I have seen no record showing that John's wife was actually named Sarah, but she was definitely one of the daughters of Richard Goard, as shown by John Merrifield's probate settlement, which is dated 16 Jan 1678[/9] and reads: "Power of Adm.con. of all and singular. The goods Estate and Credits of John Merrifeild late of Dorchester Dece'st intestate is granted unto John Goad of Roxbury (Brother to the Widdow of sd Merrifeild now also dece'd) in behalf of the Children left by them, R[__]giving Security to Administer the sd. Estate according to law and bringing in an Inventory thereof upon Oath. J[__] Addington Clerk" However, John Goard, the administrator, was soon dead, so a new one was appointed as follows: "At a County Court held at Boston 29 April:1679. Whereas Adm.con of the Estate of John Merrifeild of Dorchester Dece'd intestate was comitted unto John Goad of Roxbury (in behalfe of the Children left by sd. Merrifeild) who is since dec'd Adm.con is therefore granted unto Peter Killey of Roxbury upon the sd. Estate Rec_giving bond to administer the same according to law & bringing in an Inventory thereof upon oath." Two inventories were made, with the second one dated 22 May 1679, and totaling 34 pounds, the bulk of which was the house with 3.5 acres of land.

Children, born in Dorchester:

  • John, b. 10 Feb 1665/6
  • Mary, b. 26 March 1667
  • Sarah, b. 14 May 1669, m. Abraham HARDING, Jr.
  • Hannah, b. 6 Dec 1670
  • Thomas, b. 1 Jan 1672/3
  • Joseph, b. 6 Aug 1675

(10g) Richard Goard

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GM 3:78-81

Richard Goard, b. c. 1618 (aged 17 in 1635), d. Roxbury, Mass. 27 Sep 1683 (per inventory), or buried there 20 Sep 1683 (per church record), and m. there 30 Nov 1639 Phebe HEWES, b. say 1619, d. Roxbury 28 Feb 1678/9 "of the pox," daughter of John Hewes and Mary Foote, and the sister of Joshua Hewes and of Elizabeth (Hewes) Hemingway, both also of Roxbury. On 29 April and again on 6 May 1635 Richard Goard, aged 17, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England aboard the Elizabeth and Ann. He settled in Roxbury, Mass., and never left. He was admitted to the Roxbury church in 1643 (and had his two children baptized), held no known offices in the town or colony, and owned a modest amount of real estate. His will was dated 18 Sep and proved 31 Oct 1683, naming only daughter Phebe, wife of Thomas Andrews, daughter Lydia, wife of Joseph Twitchell, and "my well beloved and dutiful son Joseph Gorde whom I do hereby make and constitute my sole executor." His inventory was dated 25 Oct 1683, totaling 132 pounds, mostly real estate. Children, all baptized in Roxbury (note: while birth records exist for many of these children, only baptisms are given because of the conflicting character of the birth records):

  • Hannah, b. c. 1640, bapt. 1 July 1643, not named in father's 1683 will, but see entry for sister Sarah below.
  • John, b. c. 1642, bapt. 1 July 1643, d. Roxbury 18 Feb 1678/9, "a young man, died of the pox." On 16 Jan 1678/9, John was named administrator of the estate of his brother-in-law, John Merrifield. He died a month later, after which administration was given to Peter Killey.
  • Mary, bapt. 23 Jun 1644; not named in father's will, but see entry for sister Sarah below.
  • Phebe, bapt. 14 March 1645/6, m. Dorchester, Mass 31 Dec 1667 Thomas ANDREWS, Jr.
  • Joseph, bapt. 19 Sep 1647, d. Roxbury 30 May 1648 of "windy convulsions."
  • Sarah, bapt. 25 March 1649, not named in father's 1683 will. She is, according to most sources, the sister of John "Goad" who married John MERRIFIELD. However, Sarah would have been 17 years old when her first child was born, which is not too outrageous, but it is a bit of a stretch beyond the 20 or 21 years of age at which most women have their first child. If the wife of John Merrifield cannot be shown definitively to be Sarah, then it would seem that Merrifield would have more likely married an older sister of John "Goad", namely Mary or Hannah.
  • Joseph, bapt. 13 April 1651, m. Roxbury 23 March 1680/1 Ann CHAPLIN, daughter of William Chaplin.
  • Lydia, bapt. 27 Feb 1652/3, m. Joseph TWITCHELL.
  • Benjamin, bapt. 3 Dec 1654 "died within a short space after."
  • Benjamin, bapt. 7 Sep 1656, executed on 2 April 1674 "for his committing that abhorred sin of bestiality on a mare in the road, between Milton and Roxbury fully evident and by him since fully confessed that he lived in that sin this 12 months."

(11g) John Hewes

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TAG 53(1977):206; GMB 2:921-4 (Joshua Hewes); 2:908-10 (Ralph Hemingway); GM 3:78-81 (Richard Goard)

John Hewes, chandler of Royston, Cambridgeshire, England, was b. say 1580, d. summer 1621, and m. c. 1605 Mary FOOTE, b. say 1585, daughter of Robert Foote and Joan Brooke. His will was dated 20 Jun and probated 21 Aug 1621. Children, all named in their father's 1621 will except Phebe, who may have been born after his death:

  • Jonathan, b. say 1606
  • Mary, b. say 1608
  • Joshua, b. c. 1610 (aged 59 in 1670), d. Boston, Mass. 25 Jan 1675/6, aged 66, and m. (1) Roxbury 8 Oct 1634 Mary GOLDSTONE, b. say 1614, d. Boston 23 Aug 1655, daughter of Henry Goldstone of Watertown; m. (2) Boston 11 Feb 1656/7 Alice (_______) Crabtree, living 1676, widow of John Crabtree. Joshua was a merchant and ironmonger who held the title of Lieutenant. He was in Roxbury, Mass. by 1633, Boston in 1650, Wickford (RI) in 1663, and back to Boston by 1669. He was #94 on Eliot's list of Roxbury church members, and had come to New England a single man "about the 7th month [September] of the year 1633." He held some important town offices, including Deputy to the (Mass. Bay) General Court in 1641. Administration of his estate was granted 25 April 1676 to his widow Alice Hewes. Joshua had three known children with his first wife, born at Roxbury from 1639 to 1644, and one child with his second wife born at Boston in 1657.
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1612, d. Roxbury 2 Jan 1684/5, and m. there 5 July 1634 Ralph HEMINGWAY, b. c. 1609, d. Roxbury June 1678. Elizabeth was likely the ____ Hues, a maid servant, admitted to the Roxbury church as member #102 in late 1633 or early 1634. Ralph's will was dated 4 May 1677 and proved 11 July 1678, and his inventory taken 15 June 1678 totaled 170 pounds. They had seven children born in Roxbury from 1635 to 1647.
  • Sarah, b. say 1613
  • Hester, b. say 1615
  • Liddia, b. say 1617
  • Anne, say 1619, may have been the wife of Lewis JONES.
  • Phebe, b. say 1621, m. Roxbury 30 Nov 1639 Richard GOARD (see). Because she is the only child not named in her father's will, she was likely born after her father died.

(13g) John Foote

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TAG 53(1977):194-5,201; 54(1978):99-101; 72(1997):54

John Foote, b. say 1525, d. 1558 m. Helen/Ellen WARREN, b. say 1530, daughter of Richard Warren alias Waller and Alice (Jeneway?) of Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. Helen remarried when on 19 Jan 1558/9 at St. Peter Cornhill in London "John Haull, trumpetor and Ellen Foote, Widow" were married. The will of John Foote of Roystone (Cambridgeshire), tallow chandler, was undated, but probated on 18 July 1558, naming wife Helen, sons Robert and John, and daughters Aves/Avis and Elizabeth. Children, order uncertain:

  • Robert, b. say 1552, d. 1608, m. say 1579 Joan BROOKE, and lived at Shalford, Essex (see below).
  • John, b. at Royston say 1554, d. 1616, m. 11 April 1581 at St. Mary Woolnoth, (London?) Margaret BROOKE, daughter of John Brooke and Elizabeth Whetman. John's will was dated 17 Nov and probated 4 Dec 1616
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1556, m. ______ SMITH, d. by 1616.
  • Avis, b. say 1558, m. _______ SAWLE.

(12g) Robert Foote

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TAG 53(1977):201-6; 54(1978):100-1; 71(1996):149-50 (Elizabeth Foote Jennings); 72(1997):55 (Daniel Foote); 55(1979):203 (Brooke family)

Robert, the son of John Foote and Helen Warren, was likely born in Royston, Cambridgeshire say 1552, d. London, and bur. Shalford, Essex 16 Feb 1608/9. He m. say 1579 Joan BROOKE, bapt. St. Leonard's in Eastcheap, London 11 May 1555, living in 1608/9, daughter of John Brooke and Elizabeth Whetman. Robert was a Citizen and Fishmonger of St. Mary Boettals in Thames Street, London, then later of Wethersfield, Essex, and finally of Shalford, Essex where he wrote his will. His will was dated 27 Jan and probated 15 Feb 1608/9. Children:

  • Robert, eldest son, b. say 1580, above 24 in 1608, d. 1646, and m. (1) the mother of all his known children, name unknown; (2) Elizabeth (CHILD) Miles, daughter of Ephraim Child and widow of Benjamin Miles with whom she had two children. Robert's will was dated 4 Feb 1645/6 and probated 4 Sep 1646.
  • James, b. say 1582, prob. above 24 in 1608
  • Joseph, b. say 1584, bur. Shalford, Essex Sep 1639, m. c. 1608 Anne _______, bur. Shalford 26 Jan 1644/5. They had nine children baptized from 1609 to 1627. Three of them, Leonard Foote, Mary, wife of William Cornell/Cornewell, and Elizabeth Lyon, were named in the will of their aunt, Elizabeth Jennings.
  • Mary, b. say 1586, m. say 1605 John HEWES (see). They had nine children born from say 1606 to say 1621.
  • Daniel, b. say 1590, living 1648, prob. d. by 1658, m. (1) St. Clement's, Cambridge 3 Feb 1619/20 Margaret TOMSON, bur. St. Clement's 4 March 1621/2; m. (2) c. 1624 Frances _______, bur. St. Clement's Sep 1636; m. (3) St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex 17 Dec 1646 Anne (WEST) Lee, bur. St. Michael Bassishaw 7 April 1648. Daniel served an apprenticeship with his uncle John Foote, Grocer of London from 1610 to 1619, and then moved to Cambridge. He was called grocer of White Chapel in his 1646 marriage record. Daniel had vied known children, all with his second wife, baptized from 1625 to 1635. His son, Daniel, received his BA (1649/50) and MA (1653) from Trinity College Cambridge, was minister at Little Swaffham, Cambridgeshire, and died in 1700 as "Phisician from Hart Street in North" in London.
  • Nathaniel, b. 1592 (aged 16 in 1608), d. Wethersfield, CT 1644, m. (1) c. 1616 Elizabeth _______, d. 28 July 1683, who m. (2) Thomas Welles, later governor of Connecticut. The family lived at Shalford, Essex, where the first two children were baptized. They were in New England by 1634, when Nathaniel was admitted a freeman of the colony, living in Watertown. They moved to Wethersfield, CT the following year. Nathaniel and Elizabeth had seven children, born from 1617/8 to c. 1634.
  • Joshua, b. say 1595, m. Elizabeth ________, who survived him. He came to Roxbury in 1653, and soon went to Providence where he d. 1655. His will was dated 2 Oct 1655, and administration of his estate was given to Joshua Hewes in Boston on 31 Oct 1655. His known children largely remained in England: Samuel of London, merchant; Joshua of London, ironmonger; Caleb of Boston, Mass. in 1648 but of London in 1647; and Elizabeth, wife of William Sheldon of London, draper. Two other children, Mary and Hannah, are mentioned in the will of their aunt, Elizabeth Jennings.
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1597, d. 1660, m. St. James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England 17 July 1617 Thomas JENNINGS, b. say 1592, d. 1658. The will of Elizabeth, of Hatfeild Broadoake, Essex, was dated 26 June 1658 and proved 28 March 1660. The will of Thomas, of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, gent., was dated 26 Dec 1657 and proved in London 12 May 1658. There were no children of record.
  • Francis, possibly the one of Castle Hedingham whose damaged will, dated __ Oct ____ and proved 15 Dec 1624, names wife (Lydia?) and two underage daughters, Lydia and Mary, and brother-in-law Edmund Brewer, Clearke.

(14g) Robert Brooke

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TAG 55(1979):193-8

Robert Brooke, b. say 1495, d. early summer 1551, m. say 1524 Katherine _______, d. March 1565/6. Robert was a citizen and merchant tailor of London when he made his will on 26 Jun 1551, proved less than a month later on 21 July. Following Robert's death, Katherine m. (2) 22 Sep 1554 John BEEREMAN/BERYMAN, d. c. 1565/6, citizen and ironmonger of London. Katherine's will was dated 14 March and proved 24 March 1565/6. Children of Robert and Katherine:

  • Margaret, b. say 1525, m. William HARTINGE who was called yeoman of St. Leonard in Shoreditch, Middlesex in her mother's will.
  • Frances, b. say 1527, m. 20 Nov 1547 John CLERKE/CLARKE of Writtle, Essex when married, but a yeoman of London in 1565.
  • Isabel, b. say 1531, bur. St. Andrew Hubbard 23 May 1586, m. (1) St. Leonard Eastcheap 1 June 1551 John WILSON, bur. St. Andrew Hubbard 17 April 1573, a citizen and draper of London, later of St. Andrew Hubbard. She m. (2) St. Andrew Hubbard 5 Nov 1573 Christopher HOLMES, bur. St. Andrew Hubbard 29 Oct 1589, also a draper and formerly an apprentice of the first husband. Katherine had eleven children, all baptized at St. Andrew Hubbard, ten with her first husband from 1551/2 to 1566/7, and one with second husband in 1574.
  • John, b. say 1534
  • prob. Humfrey, b. say 1536, bur. 19 May 1549, father not identified
  • Andrew, bapt. (St. Andrew Hubbard?) Dec 1538, bur. (there?) 25 April 1549.

(13g) John Brooke

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TAG 55(1979):198-

John, the son of Robert and Katheryn Brooke, was born say 1525, d. 1584, and m. 8 May 1554 Elizabeth WHETMAN, bur. St. Leonard's 30 June 1599. John completed his apprenticeship as a leatherseller about 1546 or 1547, giving an indication of his age. His will, date lost, was probated on 8 July 1584. Elizabeth's will was dated 18 June 1599 and probated 28 July 1599. Children, all baptisms in St. Leonard's in Eastcheap:

  • Johan/Joan, bapt. 11 May 1555, living 1609, m. St. Leonard's in Eastcheap 18 June 1576 Robert FOOTE.
  • William, bapt. 9 Oct 1556, bur. St. Leonard's 17 Dec 1592. He may have married Elizabeth _______ who m. (2) St. Leonard's 1598 Robert Forrest.
  • John, bapt. 4 March 1557/8, probably died young.
  • Susan, bapt. 6 March 1559/60, m. St. Leonard's 3 June 1577 John BONNER, prob. the one bapt. 28 Sep 1549, son of John Bonner, grocer. They had a least three children.
  • Margaret, bapt. 8 March 1560/1, m. St. Mary's Woolnoth, London, 11 May 1581 John FOOTE, d. 1616. John's will was dated 17 Nov and proved 14 Dec 1616. Margaret's will was dated 13 Sep and proved 10 Oct, but the cited article fails to include the year. They had seven known children.
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 20 July 1562, bur. St. Leonard's 25 Aug 1592, m. Thomas BERRIE.
  • John, bapt. 22 Oct 1563, bur. 23 Feb 1578/9.
  • Mary, bapt. 26 Nov 1564, bur. Bletchingley, Surrey 16 Dec 1565.
  • Robert, bapt. 4 April 1566, m. Mary ______ who was named in his mother's 1599 will.
  • Katherine, bapt. 13 July 1567, m. (1) 5 Dec 1586 Thomas BETHEAM/BETHONIE, bur. 21 Oct 1587; (2) John NORTHCOTT, bur. 27 Aug 1592; (3) 8 June 1596 Richard FLUDD. She had one child with her first husband, bapt. 1587; four children with second husband, bapt. 1590 to 1592/3; and one child with third husband.
  • Thomas, bapt. 6 Jan 1568/9, d. 1625, m. c. 1600 Joan _______. They had eleven children baptized from 1601 to 1620.
  • Sarah, bapt. 1 Oct 1570, living 1625 as a widow, m. _______ STORY.

(11g) Richard Twytchell

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Randy West: "A Fresh Look at Immigrant Joseph Twitchell of Dorchester, Massachusetts" in NEHGR v.178 No.2 (Spring 2024), 206-209; WikiTree website

Richard Twitchell was born say 1556, bur. Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England 6 April 1619, and m. Chesham 14 Nov 1581 Cicely WALLER, b. say 1561 and living in 1599 when her youngest known child was baptized, the daughter of "widow Byrche". The will of Richard Twitchell of Chesham, yeoman, was dated 18 Dec 1617 and proved 23 April 1619. Children, all bapt. Chesham:

  • Joseph, bapt. 27 May 1582, m. Elizabeth LOVETT (see below).
  • Mary, bapt. 2 Aug 1584, not mentioned in her father's 1617 will.
  • Martha, bapt 29 Jan 1586/7, named in father's 1617 will, perh. m. Amersham, Bucks. 28 Sep 1618 Thomas Buckingham.
  • Anne/Hannah, bapt. 5 Oct 1589, named in father's 1617 will, m. Chesham 12 May 1614 William TYLER.
  • Sarah, bapt. 23 Jan 1591/2, living in 1617, perh. m. Amersham 22 Jan 1623 George Laurance.
  • Lazarus, bapt. 1 April 1594, prob. bur. Barking, Essex 15 March 1656/7. On 29 April 1611 he was apprenticed for eight years to a master of the Clothworkers' Company of London.
  • Miriam, bapt. 10 Oct 1596, liv. 1617, prob. m. Chesham 10 May 1621 Nehemiah Spriggins.
  • Benjamin, bapt. 10 June 1599, bur. St. Botolph Aldgate, London 27 July 1635 as "Benjamyn Twitchell Cittizen and browne baker of London"; m. by 1628 Prudence _______ (bapt. of oldest known child). See article for apprenticeship. On 24 July 1635, adm. of his estate (called of St. Botolph Aldgate) ws granted to Prudence, his relict.

(10g) Joseph Twitchell

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NEHGR (Spring 2024)178:209-210; GMB 3:1855-6; Torrey 3d Supplement, citing Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, v. 3; WikiTree website

Joseph Twitchell, son of Richard Twitchell and Cecily Waller, was baptized Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England 27 May 1582, d. Dorchester, Mass. 13 Sep 1657, and m. Chesham 12 May 1614 Elizabeth Lovett, bapt. Chesham 27 April 1589, daughter of James and Joan Lovett. Joseph was likely in New England by 1633, and was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 14 May 1634 as Joseph Twitchwell, implying that he was a member of the first Dorchester church at the time. He was admitted to the second Dorchester church in 1644. Only a few real estate transactions have been found concerning Joseph. His inventory was taken 8 Oct 1657, and amounted to 43 pounds of which only 3 pounds was in real estate. Likely children:

  • Joseph, bapt. Chesham 12 March 1614/5, bur. Isleworth, Middlesex 29 Sep 1625.
  • Benjamin, bapt. Heston, Middlesex 22 Feb 1617/8, m. say 1650 Mary RiGGS.
  • dau., bapt. Isleworth 24 April 1620; either she or her sister Mary poss. m. Timothy Wales, son of Nathaniel Wales of Dorchester and Boston, Mass.
  • Mary, bapt. Isleworth 13 Oct 1622; no further record, unless she m. Timothy Wales (see above).

(9g) Benjamin Twitchell I

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NEHGR (Spring 2024)178:209; We Relate website, citing numerous compiled and vital sources; The Genealogist 23(2009):136-8

Benjamin, son of Joseph Twitchell and Elizabeth Lovett, was bapt. Heston, Middlesex, England 22 Feb 1617/8, d. Sherborn, Mass. 17 Dec 1681, and m. say 1650 Mary RIGGS, bapt. Nazeing, Essex, England 1 July 1632, d. Dedham, Mass. 30 Oct 1694, daughter of Edward Riggs and Elizabeth Holmes. Mary Twitchell and her children were mentioned in her father's will of 2 Sep 1670. The inventory of Benjamin, of Sherborn, was taken 23 Dec 1681, and administration of his estate was given on 29 Dec 1681 to eldest son, Joseph Twitchell. Mary is likely the one who m. (2) in Dedham or Medfield, Mass. 3 Feb 1684/5 Samuel Mills, a widower who had just lost his wife, Francis Pimbrook in Dedham. Mary d. in Dedham shortly before Samuel. Children:

  • Elizabeth, b. say 1651, d. Medway, Mass. 28 Nov 1717, m. Medfield, Mass. 15 Feb 1668/9 William ALLEN/ALLIN, b. say 1644, d. Medway 26 June 1738; he m. (2) prob. Abiel Barber. William Allin of Medway, husbandman, made his will 2 Nov 1733, proved 4 July 1738. They had six known children born from c. 1669 to 1684.
  • Joseph, eldest son, b. say 1653, prob. at Dorchester, d. Sherborn 24 Oct 1710, and m. (1) c. 1673 wife, name unknown; (2) c. 1678 Lydia GOARD, b. Roxbury 20 Feb 1652/3, d. Sherborn 27 April 1725, daughter of Richard Goard and Phebe Hewes. On 29 April 1679 Joseph and Lydia were sentenced to pay a fine for fornication before marriage with wife Lydia. Joseph's will was dated 22 Dec 1690, but not probated until two decades later, on 4 Dec 1710. Joseph had a child with first wife, born about 1674, and seven children with wife Lydia, born 1678 to 1695.
  • Benjamin, b. c. 1656, m. Mary WHITE (below).
  • Mary, b. Dorchester 8 March 1658/9, d. Medfield 15 Sep [1699], m. Medfield 9 May 1677 Josiah ROCKET/ROCKWOOD, b. Medfield c. 1653, eldest son of Nicholas Rocket/Rockwood and Jane Adams. They had six children.
  • Hannah, b. Dorchester 8 Oct 1660, m. Medfield 4 Nov 1679 Dea. Samuel HILL, b. c. 1554, d. Medway 24 March 1723, son of John and Hannah Hill. They had ten children born from 1680 to 1703.
  • Abiel (female), b. Medfield 1 Nov 1663, d. Woodstock, CT 15/16 April 1744, in 82nd year, had a child by 1682, m. (1) c. 1692 Robert CORBETT, b. Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, England 21 Feb 1640, d. Woodstock, CT 18 Sep 1695, who had m. earlier Medfield 26 Feb 1682/3 Priscilla Rockwood; Abiel m. (2) Woodstock, CT 10 July 1696 John BUGBEE, Jr., b. Roxbury c. 1666, d. Woodstock, CT 5 or 6 Oct 1744, in 79th year, son of John and Joanna Woodstock. Abiel had a son, Benoni, out of wedlock, who was possibly the son of William Allen, the husband of Abiel's older sister Elizabeth. She had a son, Daniel, with her first husband, born 1693, and then five children with her second husband, born 1696 to 1710.
  • John, b. say 1669, is probably the one who m. Derby, CT 26 Jan 1698/9 Sarah PIERSON, d. Derby 14 Mar 1738/9. John and Sarah had seven children.
  • Bethia, b. say 1671, d. Medfield 1 Jan 1706/7, m. Medfield 19 July 1688 Rev. John ROCKET, b. Medfield 12 Feb 1662/3, d. Medway 16 Dec 1746, son of Nicholas Rocket/Rockwood and Margaret Holbrook. Bethia had eight children with her husband, born from 1689 to 1706, after which she apparently died, and he m. (2) Medfield 14 May 1708 Rebecca Craft, then m. (3) Medfield 20 June 1710 Sarah Adams.

(8g) Benjamin Twitchell II

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We Relate website, citing many compiled and vital records; The Genealogist 23(2009):136.

Benjamin, son of Benjamin Twitchell and Mary Riggs, was b. c. 1656, d. Sherborn, Mass. 29 June 1730, and m. Medfield, Mass. 5 April 1683 Mary WHITE, b. Charlestown, Mass. c. 1663, daughter of John White and Elizabeth Gobel. Benjamin appears in the first town records of Sherborn in 1675, and in 1679 signed with his mark the resolution of the new town, as did his brother Joseph, whose land was adjacent to his. Benjamin and Mary had the following known children:

  • Benjamin, b. Sherborn 15 Sep 1684, m. 28 May 1712 Mary WALLIS (below).
  • John, b. Sherborn 4 Jan 1688/9, d. Holliston, Mass. 4 Dec 1770, m. (1) Sherborn 2 Feb 1720/1 Esther SANGER, daughter of Richard Sanger and Elizabeth Morse; m. (2) Sherborn 10 March 1728/9 Hannah Perry. John had two sons with his first wife, born 1721/2 and 1723/4, and two daughters with his second wife, born 1730 and 1733/4.
  • Ebenezer, b. Sherborn 10 Dec 1691
  • Mary, b. Sherborn 28 Aug 1694, m. Sudbury 19 July 1717 John WALLIS, b. Salem 13 May 1678, son of John Wallis and Bridget Shepard.
  • Abigail, b. Sherborn 5 June 1699, m. c. 1723 Nathaniel WALLIS, b. Salem 6 Oct 1689, son of John Wallis and Bridget Shepard.

(7g) Benjamin Twitchell III

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Benjamin, the son of Benjamin Twitchell and Mary White, was b. Sherborn, Mass. 15 Sep 1684, d. c. 1725, and m. there 28 May 1712 Mary WALLIS, b. Salem, Mass. 18 Dec 1693, d. c. 1725, the daughter of John Wallis and Bridget Shepard. Benjamin was in the militia during the Indian wars, and appears on a muster roll, dated April to November 1722 in a company comanded by Major Samuel Moodey. The administration of his estate was dated 1725, with Middlesex County file number 23113, but the documents have not yet been found online. It was his father who died in 1730, leaving a will. Children, b. Sherborn: [77]

  • Daniel, b. 22 Feb 1714/5, d. Walpole, Mass. 1754, m. Uxbridge, Mass. 12 July 1742 Keziah HOLBROOK, b. Mendon, Mass. 27 Sep 1724, the daughter of Samuel Holbrook and Hannah Albee. They had four children, born 1742 to 1753, with the births of the first two recorded in Uxbridge. They likely moved to Walpole about 1745, and that is likely where the other two children were born, but there are no vital records for this family in Walpole. In Feb 1753, Daniel, his brother Benjamin, and 21 others signed a petition to the governor of New Hampshire for a grant of land at Upper Ashuelot. The following year he was killed by Indians near his home in Walpole.
  • Benjamin, b. 2 Dec 1716, d. c. 1754, and m. at Medway, Mass. 25 Nov 1740 Lydia FISK, b. Sherborn 4 Aug 1720, the daughter of John Fisk and Lydia Adams. Benjamin and Lydia lived in Sherborn for a while, where the births of three children are recorded, but soon moved to Walpole, Mass. They had four children altogether, born 1741 to 1748. Benjamin was one of the original grantees of Keene, NH, and was elected highway surveyor at the first town meeting on 5 March 1754. In June 1754 he was captured by Indians and taken to Canada. He died after his release while returning home. The fate of his widow has not been learned.
  • Jonas, b. 15 May 1719, died by 1763, m. Watertown, Mass. 13 March 1744 Lydia SAWIN, b. Watertown 13 May 1722, the daughter of John Sawin and Elizabeth Coolidge, a not-too-distant relative of President Calvin Coolidge. They lived in Sherborn for a short while, where their first two children were born, but about 1749 moved to Westborough, Mass., where the births of the remaining four children are recorded. They likely had six children, though official record of the first has not been found: (1) Lois, b. 1746, per Twitchell gen.; (2) Jonas, b. 31 March 1748; (3) Lydia, b. 23 Sep 1750; (4) Samuel, b. 12 Feb 1753; (5) Abijah, b. 1 April 1755; (6) Daniel, b. 10 April 1757. Following the death of Jonas, his widow married either a Bullard or a Taylor.
  • Abigail, b. 24 March 1721/2, m. Medfield, Mass. 12 Dec 1753 Thomas HARDING. He may be the Thomas Harding b. Medway, Mass. 13 May 1722, son of Thomas-3 (Abraham-2-1) Harding and Hannah. No children have been identified.
  • Jerusha, b. c. 1724, d. 1796, m. George FAIRBANKS IV [78]. I've seen no hard evidence that Jerusha belongs in this family, but I've also seen nothing to preclude her from being included here. Time and location seem to make this a suitable arrangement.

(12g) John Lovett

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NEHGR 177(3)(summer 2023):258-261

John Lovett of Hundridge, parish of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England was born say 1535, bur. Chesham 28 Jne 1579, and m. Chesham 22 July 1560 Joan Byrch, b. say 1540. Joan m. (2) Chesham 23 Dec 1583 William Mortimer, a servant of Mr. Thomas Ashfield. Children, all baptized in Chesham:

  • John, bur. 1 Nov 1562
  • Mary, bapt. 25 Oct 1563, bur. Chesham 24 Jan 1563/4
  • James, bapt. 18 Nov 1565; m. (1) Joan _______; m. (2) Mary _______
  • Agnes, bur. 27 May 1568
  • Helenor, bapt, 24 March 1571/2
  • John, bapt. 7 May 1575, poss. bur. Chesham 2 Aug 1598 as a servant of William Carter.
  • Stephen, bapt. 22 Feb 1578/9; m. by 16 Feb 1616/7 Rhoda _______, when their son John was baptized in Chesham.

(11g) James Lovett

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NEHGR 177(3)(summer 2023):258-261

James, the son of John Lovett and Joan Byrch, was bapt. Chesham, Bucks., England 18 Nov 1565, bur. there 27 Feb 1633/4, and m. (1) Abt. 1588 Joan _______, b. c. 1568, bur. Chesham 24 March 1590/1; m. (2) by 1592 Mary _______, b. say 1570, living in Dorchester, Mass. in 1636, she having witnessed the will of her son George in 1631. James was a churchwarden in Chesham in 1613. He "executed his will" on 11 Feb 1633/4, and it was proved 22 March 1633/4. Children with first wife, Joan, baptized in Chesham:

  • Elizabeth, bapt. 27 April 1589, m. Chesham 12 May 1614 Joseph Twitchell. They went to Dorchester, Mass. in 1633.
  • John, bapt. 23 Dec 1590, was ment. in the 1631 will of his brother George, and was presumably the John Lovett of "Charley" Wood ment. in his father's 1633/4 will.

Children with second wife, Mary, all baptized in Chesham:

  • James, bapt. 6 Jan 1592/3, bur. Chesham 5 Jan 1619/20.
  • Thomas, bapt. 7 April 1596, named in the 1631 will of his brother George, but not named in the 1633/4 will of his father.
  • Stephen (twin) bapt. 23 June 1602, named in 1631 will of brother George and 1633/4 will of his father.
  • George, bapt. 23 June 1602, bur. Chesham 24 July 1631. "George Lovatt of Chesham Teyler" made nuncupative will before witnesses on 16 Aug 1631, proved 4 Sep 1631. Either will date or burial date is incorrect. His will names parents (witnesses) and siblings, but no wife or children.
  • Daniel, bapt. 5 June 1608. He was in Braintree, Mass. by 1639, and m. c. 1644, possibly as second wife, Joanna Blott.

(11g) Richard Riggs

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WikiTree website

Richard, the son of Miles and Agnes Riggs, was b. say 1550, d. aft. 1603, and m. Roydon, Essex, England 5 Sep 1575 Elizabeth CHAMBERLYN, b. say 1555, bur. Roydon 25 March 1603 as "wife" of Richard (and not "widow"). Children, baptized at Roydon:

  • Mary, bapt. 30 July 1576
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 22 Oct 1578
  • Richard, bapt. 24 Sep 1581
  • Francis, bapt. 17 April 1583
  • Miles, b. c. 1584/5, bur. Roydon 8 Nov 1586
  • son [this would be Edward], bapt. 30 March 1589, m. (1) Elizabeth HOLMES; m. (2) Elizabeth ROOSA

(10g) Edward Riggs

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GMB 3:1583-5; NEHGR 164(2010):97; TAG 82(2007):123-4; The Genealogist 23(2009):131-173.

Edward Riggs, son of Richard Riggs and Elizabeth Chamberlyn, was very likely the unnamed son of Richard Riggs bapt. at Roydon, Essex, England 30 March 1589, bur. Roxbury, Mass. 5 March 1671/2, and m. (1) Nazeing, Essex, England 16 Sep 1618 Elizabeth HOLMES, bapt. Nazeing 13 Dec 1590, bur. Roxbury Oct 1634 [the written record states Oct 1635, which has been deemed by many experts to be incorrect]. He m. (2) Roxbury 5 April 1635 Elizabeth ROOSA, d. Roxbury 2 Sep 1669. Richard was likely the son of Miles and Agnes Riggs, bur. Roydon 7 Sep 1583 and 26 March 1579 respectively. DNA evidence strongly suggests that the family originated in Lancashire (now Cumbria) around the parish of Hawkshead, and there is almost certain kinship between the subject Edward Riggs and Thomas Rigg of Gloucester, Mass., who originated in Hawkshead. Edward was in New England by 1633, as he was member #100 in the Roxbury church (on Eliot's list), putting him near the end of those who arrived in 1633. He was made a Massachusetts Bay Colony freeman on 14 May 1634. His will was dated 2 Sep 1670 and proved 6 March 1671/2, making bequests to his son's wife and four children, suggesting his son was deceased, but this was not stated, and there may be other reasons for his son not to be mentioned. However, his (only surviving) son was not named executor of the will, again suggesting the son was deceased when the will was made. Children, baptisms all in Nazeing, Essex:

  • Edward, bapt. 17 Oct 1619, d. Newark, NJ aft. 1 Jan 1669/70 when ment. in the Newark town records, but. bef. 25/26 Jan 1669/70 when "Widow Elizabeth Riggs" was first ment., m. say 1641 Elizabeth _______, and had four children by 1670, including Samuel, b. say 1642 and Edward, b. say 1652. Edward was in Milford and Derby, CT for several years before becoming a "planter" of Newark, NJ on 24 June 1667. His will was dated 2 Sep 1670, referring to the wife and children of son Edward. Elizabeth m. (2) c. 1672 Caleb Carwithie.
  • Lydia, bapt. 15 Sep 1622, bur. Roxbury, Mass. Aug 1633
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 30 Dec 1627, bur. Roxbury May 1634
  • John, bapt. 17 Jan 1629[/30], bur. Roxbury Oct 1634
  • Mary, bapt. 1 July 1632, m. say 1649 Benjamin TWITCHELL.

(11g) George Holmes

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WikiTree website

George Holmes, b. say 1564, liv. c. 1601, m. c. 1589 Elizabeth ________, b. say 1569, liv. 1601. Probable children, all baptized Nazeing, Essex, England:

  • Elizabeth, bapt. 13 Dec 1590, m. Edward RIGGS
  • George, bapt. 5 Nov 1592, prob. d. young
  • George, bapt. 21 July 1594, d. Roxbury, Mass. c. 1651/2 (will proved 30 Jan 1651/2)
  • Samuel, bapt. 13 Dec 1598
  • John, bapt. 29 March 1601

(10g) Thomas White

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Cutter: New England Families 1:400; GM 7:530 (Richard Woodward family); Middlesex County Mass. Probate Records (downloaded from Ancestry.com)

Thomas White was born in England c. 1595, d. Charlestown, Mass. 6 May 1664, m. (1) say 1625 Margaret _______, b. say 1605, d. Sudbury, Mass. 17 Nov 1649; (2) Susanna Miller, b. c. 1597, d. 6 March 1686/7, aged 89. Thomas was in New England by 1639, living in the town of Sudbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He may also be the one of his name who lived in Cambridge for a while. He was a Sudbury proprietor in 1640 where he appears to have stayed for a while, but was in Charlestown by 1658, and a constable there the following year. He was called of Charlestown in his will, dated 22.(6) 1663 (22 Aug 1663), and proved 29 March 1667, which he signed with a mark. The handwriting of the will is difficult, and many key words are unintelligible. Another instrument which might be a later will, or a codicil or amendment, appears to be dated 25 May 1664, with handwriting worse than the first. Unlike the earlier instrument, this one names wife Suzana and daughter Sarah [surname illegible, but may be White]. Children:

  • Thomas, b. say 1626, d. 1693, received the bulk of his father's estate in his 1663 will.
  • John, b. c. 1628 (aged 40 in 1668), m. Elizabeth GOBLE.
  • Mary, b. say 1630, d. Sudbury 8 July 1654, m. c. 1649 John WOODWARD, b. England c. 1621, d. Watertown, Mass. 17 Feb 1695/6, son of Richard and Rose Woodward. John m. (2) c. 1656 Abigail (BENJAMIN) Stubbs, daughter of John Benjamin and widow of Joshua Stubbs. Mary had a child born in 1650 that died young. John had at least three more children with his second wife, born say 1657 to 1661. Note: Anderson, in GM referenced above, does not give Mary a maiden name, but Cutter says she was Mary White.
  • Sarah, b. say 1632, named in the 1664 will of her father.

(9g) John White

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We Relate Website, citing White Gen. (1905) and Twitchell Gen (1929).

John, the son of Thomas and Susanna White, was born c. 1628, d. Sudbury, Mass. 1676, and m. c. 1652 Elizabeth GOBLE, b. c. 1633, daughter of Thomas and Alice Goble. Elizabeth m. (2) Sudbury 7 June 1682 Thomas Carter. John lived in Sudbury and Charlestown, Mass, but was in Cambridge at the time of his father's 1664 will. On 26 March 1675, John was one of five heirs involved in the disposition of the estate of his father-in-law, Thomas Goble. Administration of John's estate was filed 3 Oct 1676. Children:

  • John, b. Sudbury 8 Aug 1653, received a legacy in the 1664 will of his grandfather, Thomas White.
  • Thomas, b. Sudbury 9 Sep 1655, received a legacy in the 1664 will of his grandfather, Thomas White. On 6 June 1693 a bond of administration was given to "Lodwick" Dowse and Benjamin Twitchell for the estate of Thomas White of Charlestown. While this may have concerned the uncle of this Thomas, it is more likely that these two men were dealing with the estate of their brother-in-law. Inventory of the estate dated 19 April 1695 amounted to 35 pounds, consisting of two parcels of land, and debts of a little over three pounds. HOWEVER, the debt page of the inventory mentions six grandchildren, so it seems possible that all this paperwork could concern the estate of the immigrant Thomas White, who had seven grandchildren through son John, of whom six may have been living.
  • Elizabeth, b. Sudbury 10 June 1658, m. Sudbury 9 Jan 1676 Lodowick DOWSE. Lodowick was a co-administrator of the estate of Thomas White in 1693.
  • Mary, b. perhaps at Charlestown, Mass. c. 1663, m. Medfield, Mass. 5 April 1683 Benjamin TWITCHELL. Benjamin was co-administrator of the estate of Thomas White in 1693.
  • Daniel, b. likely at Charlestown c. 1667 (aged 8 in 1676 and 28 in 1696), d. 14 March 1738/9, m. (1) c. 1694 Mary WINTER, b. say 1674, d. 20 Jan 1722/3; m. (2) Weston, Mass. after 13 June 1727 Hannah Morse. Daniel settled in Cambridge Farms, now Lexington, Mass., and was a taxpayer there in 1696, and constable in 1713 and 1714. Daniel and Mary had nine children born from 1695 to 1714.
  • Hannah, b. Sudbury 13 Feb 1668/9
  • Abigail, b. c. 1671, m. c. 1690 Peter THORP.

(10g) Thomas Goble

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GM 3:81-3

Thomas Goble (sometimes Gobel) was born say 1604, d. probably in December 1657, and m. c. 1628 Alice _______. Thomas was in New England by 1634, and with his wife Alice was admitted to the Charlestown church on 30 Aug 1634, and made a freeman of the colony a few days later on 3 Sep. He was at least somewhat literate, as he signed his will, but he is not known to have held any public offices. In his will, dated 30 Nov 1657, and proved a month later on 29 Dec, he was called of Concord, so likely moved there late in life. His inventory, taken 11 Dec 1657, totaled 245 pounds. A distribution of his estate took place on 26 March 1675 among his five living heirs. Children, first three likely born in England, last three baptized in Charlestown:

  • John, b. c. 1629 (aged about 25 in 1654), was residing in England in 1657 when named in his father's will, and apparently dead by 1675 when he was not included in the distribution of his father's land.
  • Thomas, b. c. 1631 (aged about 20 in 1654, but aged 37 in 1668), m. Mary _______. He participated i the disposing of his father's estate in 1675.
  • Elizabeth, b. c. 1633, m. (1) c. 1652 John WHITE (see); m. (2) Sudbury, Mass. 7 June 1682 Thomas CARTER.
  • Mary, bapt. 27 Feb 1635/6, m. Daniel DEANE. Daniel participated in the disposal of the estate of Mary's father in 1675.
  • Sarah, bapt. 20 May 1638, m. c. 1660 John SHEPARD. On 26 March 1675 John participated in the disposal of the estate of Sarah's father.
  • Daniel, bapt. 18 July 1641, m. Sudbury 25 Feb 1663/4 Hannah BREWER.

(9g) Nathaniel Wallis

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GDMNH: 716 (Nathl Wallis); 556 (Saml Pike)

Nathaniel Wallis, b. Cornwall, England c. 1631 (aged about 52 in July 1683), d. Beverly, Mass. 18 Oct 1709, aged about 77, m. say 1654 Margaret _______, b. c. 1627, d. Beverly 14 May 1711, aged about 84. Nathaniel was a shoreman at Falmouth and North Yarmouth (now in Maine) as early as 1657. He was a constable in 1658, and on several juries from 1658 to 1671. In 1669 he was on a committee to lay out a Scarborough highway. The GDMNH says of him "in both wars he retreated to Beverly and d. there." What wars one would have to dig out of the preface. He had a will, leaving Maine lands to sons and grandsons. Children:

  • John, b. c. 1655, m. Bridget SHEPARD.
  • Bartholomew, b. c. 1656/7, d. Beverly 17 Jan 1676, aged 19.
  • Mary, b. say 1658, living in Salem in 1718, m. say 1676 Ens. Samuel PIKE, b. c. 1654, d. 1694, son of Richard and Elizabeth Pike. They had four known children born from c. 1677 to say 1686.
  • Caleb, b. say 1662, m. 12 Dec 1687 Sarah STONE. They had nine children whose births were recorded in Beverly.
  • Joshua, b. say 1666, m. Beverly 1 June 1691 Abial CONANT. He was a cordwainer of New Sherborn in 1734.
  • Nathaniel, b. say 1670, m. (int Beverly 21 March 1698) Anna RICH.

(8g) John Wallis

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John, the son of Nathaniel and Margaret Wallis of Falmouth and N. Yarmouth (Maine), was b. c. 1655 (aged 22 in 1678), and m. c. 1674 Bridget SHEPARD, b. say 1655, daughter of Thomas Shepard. John and Bridget were fined in 1674 (fornication?), the record stating that he was blind. A 1678 record says he was not blind. Children, all births recorded in Salem, Mass.:

  • Sarah, b. 12 Oct 1675, m. Salem 18 July 1699 Daniel STONE, b. Andover, Mass. 28 April 1677, d. Salem 16 Nov 1720, son of Hugh Stone and Hannah Foster.
  • John, b. 13 May 1678, m. Sudbury, Mass. 19 July 1717 Mary TWITCHELL, b. Sherborn, Mass. 28 Aug 1694, daughter of Benjamin Twitchell and Mary White. They had six children born from 1717 to 1734.
  • Margaret, b. 22 Aug 1681
  • Bartholomew, b. 1684
  • Elizabeth, b. 2 Dec 1686
  • Nathaniel, b. 6 Oct 1689, m. c. 1723 Abigail TWITCHELL, b. Sherborn, Mass. 5 June 1699, daughter of Benjamin Twitchell and Mary White. They had five known children born from 1724 to 1732.
  • Benjamin, b. 1691
  • Mary, b. 18 Dec 1693, m. Sherborn, Mass. 28 May 1712 Benjamin TWITCHELL III (see).

(9g) Thomas Shepard

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GDMNH:628

Thomas Shepard, b. say 1615, m. Ann _______, d. by 171-, who later m. Benjamin Stevens. Thomas was of North Yarmouth (now Maine), and was in New England by 1638. He had "given three yrs. service at Richmond Isl. in 1640" (GDMNH), and was still there in 1642. Known children:

  • Bridget, b. say 1655, m. John WALLIS (see).
  • John, b. say 1657, was granted a four-acre marsh on 7 June 1686. John had Lot 76 in N. Yarmouth. He died without issue, and perhaps unmarried.
  • Margery, b. say 1659, m. Amos STEVENS, possibly a son of Benjamin Stevens (Margery's step-father) with his first wife. She must have inherited Lot 76 from her brother, because she sold it in 1728.

Child of Ann with Benjamin Stevens:

  • Benjamin, b. say 1663, adult in 1687

(10g) Robert Fuller

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Bowen Gen:20-24; Fuller Gen:3-6[79]

Robert Fuller was born say 1615, d. Rehoboth 10 May 1706, m. (1) c. 1643, probably at Salem, Sarah BOWEN, b. c. 1622, d. Rehoboth (Plymouth Colony) 14 Oct 1676, daughter of Richard Bowen with his unknown first wife. He m. (2) c. 1677 Margaret (FELTON) Waller, d. Rehoboth 30 Jan 1699/1700, widow of Christopher Waller of Salem; and m. (3) Elizabeth _______, d. Rehoboth 28 Sep 1701 (or 1704). Robert, whose origins are unknown, was in New England by 1639, where on 18 Nov 1639 he requested five acres in Salem, Mass. He was a brick-layer of Salem and was made a colonial freeman in 1641, and granted 20 acres there in 1643. Soon thereafter he began drawing lots in Rehoboth, and was likely residing there by Jan 1644/5 when he would have had to forfeit his lot if not living on it. On a 1658 list of Rehoboth freeman, his name does not appear, but the name of his 14-year old son does--likely in error for his name. He was an overseer of the estate of his brother-in-law Thomas Bowen on 11 April 1663. His name appears frequently in the records of the Plymouth Colony. Robert lost heavily during King Philip's War, losing his wife, two sons, and his only son-in-law. He returned to Salem following the devastation of the war, and was re-admitted an inhabitant there on 7 Jan 1676/7. His sons Jonathan and Benjamin remained in Rehoboth. He was last of record at Salem in 1691, and was back in Rehoboth permanently by 1700 when his second wife died. In addition to his residences, he also owned land in Allteboro, Seekonk, and along the Pawtucket River. The family genealogy calls him the first brick-layer in New England. Children, all with first wife, likely all born at Rehoboth:

  • Jonathan, b. c. 1644, m. 14 Dec 1664 Elizabeth WILMARTH.
  • Samuel, b. c. 1646, d. 15 Aug 1676 during King Philip's War, m. 12 Dec 1673 Mary IDE; they had a son, Samuel, b. 1675, raised by Robert. Mary m. (2) 27 Dec 1677 John Redway.
  • John, b. c. 1648, d. 23 Aug 1676 during King Philip's War, m. 25 April 1673 Abigail TITUS. They had two children, b. 1674 and 1676 (posthumous).
  • Elizabeth, b. c. 1652, m. (1) 4 Aug 1672 Nehemiah SABIN, d. 1676; m. (2) 17 April 1678 Eleazer WHEELOCK. Elizabeth had two children with her first husband, and several more with her second husband. Her grandson, Rev. Eleazer Wheelock, DD, was the founder and first president of Dartmouth College.
  • Benjamin, b. c 1657, d. Rehoboth 11 Jan 1711, m. (1) 1685 Mary _______; m. (2) 23 Jan 1698 Judith SMITH. Of his six sons, five settled in Lebanon, CT.

(9g) Jonathan Fuller

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Bowen Gen:140-77; Fuller Gen:5 [80]

Jonathan, son of Robert Fuller and Sarah Bowen, was b. probably at Rehoboth c. 1644, d. Attleboro, Mass. 10 Feb 1708/9, and m. Rehoboth 14 Dec 1664 Elizabeth WILMARTH, b. Braintree, Mass. 4 April 1647, living 1709, daughter of Thomas Wilmarth and Elizabeth Bliss. Jonathan drew lots for land in Rehoboth's North Purchase in 1668, this being set off as the town of Attleboro in 1694. He advanced funds to the town of Rehoboth in 1675 for prosecution of King Philip's War, but unlike his father, he remained there during the war. Jonathan died intestate, and his son Noah was appointed administrator of his estate, and on 3 May 1710 Noah requested more time to settle the estate. Elizabeth survived her husband, as she is called widow in an undated agreement among heirs. She had been named as the wife of Jonathan Fuller in the division of her father's estate 4 June 1694. Three of their sons settled in Connecticut. Children, all born in Rehoboth:

  • Jonathan, b. 23 Dec 1665, d. Attleboro 15 Oct 1716, m. (1) Rehoboth 15 Feb 1687 Mary SHOVE, probably the daughter of Rev. George Shove and Hopestill Newman. Jonathan m. (2) by 1696 Mary STEVENS, b. Rehoboth 15 July 1667, living 1731, daughter of Francis Stevens. Jonathan was not named in the settlement of his father's estate c. 1710. He was a resident of Attleboro. Widow Mary was living on 17 June 1731 when named in the will of her brother, Francis Stevens, Jr. Jonathan had one child with his first wife, buried in 1692, and seven children with his second wife born from 1692 to say 1710.
  • David, b. 11 Sep 1667, d. Coventry, CT 12 April 1750 "in 87th year", m. (1) Rehoboth 15 July 1691 Mary ORMSBEE, b. Rehoboth 21 Nov 1672, d. say 1718, daughter of Jacob Ormsbee and Mary Perrin. He m. (2) say 1719 Constance _______, d. Coventry 18 Jan 1759. David was named in the division of his father's estate in 1710. David was a deacon of the Attleboro church. He sold several properties in Attleboro from 1713 to 1716, and it was during this period that he likely moved with his family to Coventry, CT, and he was called of that place in an 8 April 1717 deed. He avoided probate by disbursing most of his property before his death. David had eleven children with his first wife, born from 1692 to 1713, and six more children with second wife, born from 1720 to 1728.
  • Daniel, b. 6 Aug 1669, d. Ashford, CT by 1740, m. Mary _______. Daniel was named in his father's estate in 1710. About 1701 he moved to the part of Windham, CT that became the town of Scotland, and then in 1712 moved to nearby Ashford. He was an Ashford constable, 1722-3, and a selectman there in 1726. He was called "tailor" in a deed. In a 1737 deed he called himself "formerly of Ashford, now of Mansfield" but no death record or probate has been found for him. He and Mary had nine children born from 1689/90 to 1708.
  • Robert (twin), born and died 28 June 1671.
  • Thomas (twin), b. 28 June 1671, m. (1) 8 Jun 1693 Elizabeth COLBY; (2) Ann WOODCOCK; (3) 15 Nov 1722 Mary White.
  • Robert, b. 2 March 1673, m. (1) 4 Jan 1699 Elizabeth SHEPARDSON; m. (2) Mary Titus.
  • Nathaniel, b. 1 March 1675, m. 1697 Ann BUTTERWORTH
  • Elizabeth, b. 12 Mary 1678, m. 9 April 1694 John SHEPARDSON
  • Sarah, b. 23 April 1680, m. (1) John FOLLETT; (2) 29 June 1720 John FULLER.
  • Mary, b. 1 Oct 1682, m. 30 Nov 1703 Stephen CROSS
  • Noah, b. 12 Feb 1684, m. 23 Feb 1711 Rachel PIDGE.

(8g) Thomas Fuller I

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Bowen Gen:157-9

Thomas, son of Jonathan Fuller and Elizabeth Wilmarth, was b. Attleboro 28 June 1671, d. Rehoboth 23 Oct 1742, and m. (1) Rehoboth 8 June 1693 Elizabeth COBLEY, b. Swansea 7 Sep 1673/4, d. c. 1701, daughter of John Cobley and Mary Bosworth; (2) c. 1702 Ann WOODCOCK, b. 1672, d. 1709, daughter of William and Mary Woodcock; (3) c. 1709 Mary _______; and m. (4) Rehoboth 15 Oct 1722 Mary White. Thomas was of Attleboro when named in the 1710 division of his father's estate. Second wife Anne was the "Ame" Fuller named in the 1703 will of her father. On 17 Feb 1708[/9?] Thomas and Anne, and several of her siblings were involved in a real estate transaction, likely dealing with her father's estate. Thomas maintained the ferry across the Seekonk River from Rehoboth to Providence, and in 1711 Thomas was conveyed seven acres of land at the ferry landing. Thomas appears to have moved back and forth between Rehoboth and Connecticut, and he kept a tavern at Windham (later part of Mansfield). After his death at Rehoboth in 1742, his widow was licensed to continue the operation of the inn. Children with second wife, Ann, born Rehoboth (note, that if these birth dates are accurate, the second and third children were born only 9.5 months apart, and then Thomas had children with two different wives born only 13 months apart):

  • Ann, b. 5 March 1704/5, had a son David Fuller "born before her marriage" at Mansfield, CT 22 Feb 1730/1 and baptized there 12 Sep 1731. No father was named in either the birth or baptismal record.
  • Thomas, b. Rehoboth 28 March 1707/8, m. Rebecca KENDALL (below).
  • Merriam, b. 14 Jan 1708/9, m. Attleboro 16 Feb 1739/40 Josiah DUNHAM. They had five children born at Attleboro from 1740 to 1750.

Children with third wife, Mary, b. Rehoboth:

  • Isaac, b. 20 Feb 1709/10, d. Rehoboth Dec 1730.
  • William, b. 24 Sep 1711, m. (1) Mansfield 3 Jan 1739/40 Mehitable WOOD, d. Mansfield 7 Sep 1752; m. (2) Mansfield 19 April 1753 Jane HALL, daughter of James Hall. William had six children with his second wife, born at Mansfield from 1754 to 1765.

Child with fourth wife, Mary White:

  • Jonathan, b. Mansfield 29 Nov 1726, m. Abigail PERRY.

(7g) Thomas Fuller II (Attleboro)

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Bowen Gen:159

Thomas Fuller, b. Rehoboth, Mass. 28 March 1707/8, was the son of Thomas Fuller and Ann Woodcock. He married in Attleboro, Mass. 11 Nov 1736 Rebecca KENDALL, b. c. 1712. Because they had only two known children, then disappeared, they may have both died at an early age. Children:

  • Asa, b. Attleboro 6 April 17[37?]. Nothing more has been found. He is not the Asa Fuller who d. Montague, Mass. in 1813, and is not the one who d. in Windham, VT in 1813.
  • Thomas, b. Attleboro, Mass. 27 Jan 1738/9, m. (1) Comfort METCALF; m. (2) Hopestill LETHBRIDGE; m. (3) Deborah CHAMBERLAIN (see below).

(6g) Thomas Fuller III (Wrentham)

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Thomas Fuller, the son of Thomas Fuller and Rebecca Kendall, was b. Attleboro, Mass. 27 Jan 1738/9, d. Wrentham, Mass 19 Sep 1803, and m. (1) Holliston, Mass. 5 Nov 1761 Comfort METCALF, b. Medway 12 March 1742, d. Wrentham May 1769, the daughter of John Metcalf and Tamar Daniels. He m. (2) Wrentham 9 Nov 1769 Hopestill LETHBRIDGE who d. Wrentham 20 Dec 1790, probably the daughter of Samuel and Hepsibah Lethbridge. He m. (3) Wrentham 22 Nov 1792 Deborah CHAMBERLAIN, daughter of Joseph Chamberlain and Susanna Pratt. Most of the children of Thomas either died young, or moved to Vermont. This appears to be a reason that his oldest daughter, Molly, was the executrix of his estate, when usually a son or widow fulfills this role (daughter Molly was likely older than third wife Deborah). He lived in Westborough, Mass. with his first wife, and all of their children were born there, then he moved to Wrentham, Mass., where his first wife died, and where he remarried and had a large number of children with his second wife. Children with first wife, b. Westboro, Mass., though the birth and death of son John is not found in the Westboro records: [81]

  • Bartholomew, b. 22 Sep 1762, d. Grafton, VT 11 July 1837, m. Keene, NH 14 Oct 1784 Silence SMITH, b. Keene 1764, d. Grafton, VT 21 Sep 1824. Bartholomew has an extensive Rev. War service record, and was a pensioner. They are buried in the Middletown Cem., Grafton, VT. [82]
  • John, b. 16 Mar 1764, d. 17 March 1765
  • Molly, b. 2 July 1765, d. 23 Mar 1843, m. Medway 15 Jan 1784 Levi FAIRBANKS, son of George Fairbanks IV and Jerusha Twitchell. Molly was the executrix to the will of her father in 1803. She has a marker in the Union Street Cemetery in Franklin, Mass. [83]
  • Marina, b. 19 Aug 1767, d. Medway 29 Oct 1788, m. 3 Jan 1788 (recorded in Hopkinton vital record as "1787") Adam FAIRBANKS, son of George Fairbanks IV and Jerusha Twitchell, as his second of three wives. [84]

Children with second wife, Hopestill, b. Wrentham:

  • Comfort, b. 20 Aug 1770, d. Attleboro 6 Mar 1852, m. Wrentham 1 Dec 1791 Royal RICHARDSON, b. Attleboro 2 March 1771, d. Attleboro 24 Nov 1797, son of John Richardson and Ruth Woodcock. Comfort is buried in the South Burying Ground, Plainville, Mass. (originally a part of Wrentham), and Royal is buried in the Woodcock Cemetery, Attleboro (also originally a part of Wrentham). [85] [86]
  • Augustine (also called Augustus), b. 8 Mar 1772, d. Wrentham 9 Sep 1849, m. Foxboro, Mass. 7 July 1796 (Wrentham VR) Rachel CLARK, b. Sharon, Mass. 4 Aug 1772, d. c. 1845, daughter of Sylvanus Clark and Rachel Stearns of Sharon. One account gives names of two children, born in 1797 and 1811. In 1800, Augustine was enumerated on the federal census in Franklin, Mass. (created from Wrentham) aged 26-44 with 1 male under 10, 1 female under 10, and 1 female 26-44. Unfortunately, vital records for Franklin have not been compiled, so there is no public record of children. In 1840 Augustine was enumerated in Wrentham, aged 70-79 with one female, also 70-79. These ages slightly overstate the known ages for this couple. [87]
  • Mahala, b. 15 April 1774, likely living in 1830, m. Grafton, VT 19 Aug 1802 Daniel WISE, b. Hartford, CT 18 Feb 1779, living in 1830, the son of Daniel and Mary (Wise) Wise of Grafton. Daniel is almost certainly the one of his name enumerated on the 1810 and 1820 censuses for Grafton, VT. In 1830 he was living in Rockingham (Windham Co.), VT as a male aged 50-59, with many females, including one aged 50-59 and one aged 70-79. This suggests that living with him are possible daughters and granddaughters, as well as his wife Mahala, and his mother. His parents both have extant grave markers in the Middletown Cemetery in Grafton, and his daughter, Mahala (b. 1815) also has a marker there. [88]
  • Martin, b. 14 Dec 1776
  • Thirza, b. 4 Oct 1781, d. Grafton, VT 3 March 1823, m. Grafton 18 June 1801 William BURGESS, b. Wareham, Mass. 24 Sep 1774 (calc from tombstone), d. Grafton 28 July 1864, aged 89y 10m 4d, son of Ebenezer Burgess and Hannah Gibbs. In 1850 William, aged 76, was enumerated on the federal census with Lucretia Burgess, 53. In 1860 he was still in Grafton, aged 86, with Lucretia Burgess, 63 and Naham Hunter, 57. Was Lucretia a second wife, or daughter? Since she is five years older than William's oldest known child, I suspect she was a much-younger second wife. Thirza and William are buried in the Burgess Cemetery in Grafton, with grave markers. [89]
  • Sally, b. 13 July 1783, d. Wallingford, VT 17 Sep 1865, m. Boston, Mass. 18 May 1806 Capt Ezra TOWER, b. Dorchester, Mass. 25 April 1782, d. Wallingford, VT 20 May 1867, son of Jonathan Tower and Basmeth Wheeler. They are buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Wallingford, VT. [90]
  • Nancy, b. 29 March 1787
  • Aaron and Moses (twins), both b. 18 March 1789 and both d. Wrentham 19 March 1789
  • Emily, b. 21 Oct 1790, d. 1829, m. Wrentham 4 April 1813 Jeremiah HARRADEN/HARADON, b. c. 1785, living in 1840. Jeremiah in one account was born in Mansfield, Mass., and he fits in well as a child in the household of Isaac Haradon of neighboring Norton, Mass., but hard evidence of kinship is lacking. Also noteworthy, however, is a Jeremiah Haridon, son of William and Esther, born in Sprague, CT 2 Dec 1791. Emily and Jeremiah had seven children, born 1813 to 1829, by one account. Following Emily's death, Jeremiah m. (2) Wrentham 6 April 1830 Nancy Clark. Jeremiah appears on the 1830 census in Wrentham, aged 40-49, with male aged 5-9, 1 female under 5, 2 females 10-14, 1 female 15-19, and 1 female 40-49. In 1840 he was living in Sharon, Mass., aged 50-59, with 1 male 15-19 and 1 female 50-59. Vital records are almost totally lacking for this family. [91]

(11g) Richard Bowen

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(10g) Thomas Wilmarth

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The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, compiled & published by N. Grier Parke II; edited by Donald Line Jacobus, pp 116-17; Savage 4:581; compilation pulled from Ancestry; source data not given (see images)

Thomas Wilmarth was born c. 1615, bur. Rehoboth 13 May 1694, and m. (1) say 1640, Elizabeth BLISS, b. bapt. Daventry, Northampton, England 19 Sep 1615, bur. Rehoboth Feb 1676/7, daughter of Thomas Bliss and Dorothy Wheatley; m. (2) Rehoboth 27 June 1678 Rachel (_______) Read, d. 12 Nov 1710. Thomas was a petitioner in 1645 for a grant of land at Braintree, but was at Rehoboth in October 1649 when he and others were found guilty of making a false charge against Obadiah Hulme. He was sworn in as a freeman of the Plymouth Colony in 1658. On 5 June 1678, Sgt. "Willmoch" was placed on the council of war by the Plymouth court, and later documents give him the title of Ensign. His will was dated 10 Dec 1678, naming wife Rachel, sons Thomas, John, and Jonathan, and daughters Elizabeth and Mary. The will wasn't proved until 28 May 1694, with inventory dated 26 May and sworn to 28 May 1694, he being called Ensign Thomas Willmath of Rehoboth therein. Children:

  • Thomas, eldest son, b. say 1643, bur. Rehoboth 4 Oct 1690, m. Rehoboth 7 June 1674 Mary ROBINSON, b. Rehoboth 30 May 1652, d. there 19 May 1694, daughter of George Robinson and Joanna Ingraham. They had eight children born from 1675 to c. 1690.
  • John, b. say 1645, d. Rehoboth Sep 1719, m. (1) Rehoboth 6 Feb 1671/2 Ruth KENDRICK, b. Rehoboth 16 Feb 1649/50, d. there 19 Feb 1705/6, daughter of George Kendrick and Ruth Bowen. He m. (2) 4 Oct 1708 Hannah TYLER, b. Mendon, Mass. 1692, d. Rehoboth 1781, daughter of Samuel and Hannah Tyler. John and Ruth had nine children born at Rehoboth from 1673 to 1692.
  • Elizabeth, eldest daughter, b. Braintree 4 April 1647, m. 14 Dec 1664 Jonathan FULLER
  • Timothy, b. say 1652, d. young.
  • Jonathan, b. say 1656, d. presumably in Rehoboth after 1733, m. Rehoboth 29 Dec 1680 Esther PECK, b. Rehoboth 7 Jan 1658/9, daughter of John Peck and Elizabeth Hunting. They had ten children born in Rehoboth from 1681 to 1706.
  • Nathaniel, b. c. 1658, bur. Rehoboth 12 Nov 1676.
  • Mary, b. say 1660, d. aft. 1723, m. (1) Medfield, Mass. [or Rehoboth] 5 Jan 1680/1 Joseph ROCKETT, b. 1659, d. Swansea, Mass. 27 July 1683, son of Nicholas Rockett and Margaret Holbrook. She m. (2) Taunton, Mass. 28 Oct 1686 Giles GILBERT, b. bef. 1626, d. Rehoboth 8 Jan 1717/8; m. (3) 12 June 1723 Jeremiah WHEATON.
  • Daniel, b. say 1662, bur. Rehoboth 23 Nov 1676.

(13g) William Blysse

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The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, compiled & published by N. Grier Parke II; edited by Donald Line Jacobus (1960); WikiTree website, citing parish records from the early Bliss genealogy by Hoppin (1913) and other records

William Blysse, b. say 1525, bur. Daventry, Northampton, England 20 July 1574, m. (1) say 1552 _______ _______; m. (2) Daventry 20 Sep 1561 Elizabeth _______, b. say 1540, bur. Daventry 4 Sep 1596. William's will, dated 19 July 1574, was proved 5 Feb 1574/5. Children, all named in father's 1574 will; with first wife, sons in correct order, but placement of daughter Joan uncertain:

  • George, eldest son, b. say 1553
  • Nicholas, second son, b. say 1555
  • William, third son, b. say 1557
  • Joan, b. say 1559

Children with second wife, Elizabeth:

  • John, bapt. Daventry 2 Feb 1562/3, to be apprecnticed to his brother Nicholas until 21, m. (1) _____ _____; m. (2) Alice Smith
  • Agnes, bapt. Daventry 25 March 1564, bur. there 20 May 1592
  • Joyce, b. say 1570, bur. Daventry 17 Aug 1574
  • Anne, bapt. Daventry 19 July 1573

(12g) John Bliss

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The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, compiled & published by N. Grier Parke II; edited by Donald Line Jacobus (1960); WikiTree website

John Bliss, son of William and Elizabeth Blysse, was bapt. Daventry, Northampton, England 2 Feb 1562/3, bur. Presta Parva, Northampton 8 Sep 1617. The structure of John's family is uncertain, based on whether or not to accept all of the records below as belonging to his family. It appears, however, that he must have been married three times. In his will he names his children in what appears to be correct birth order. Based on the marriage records available, it appears that son Thomas married in 1614, and the other three married children married from 1629 to 1635. With no other children filling in the gap, and Thomas half a generation older than the other children, there must have been a total of three wives, with Thomas being of the first wife, and George, Agnes, Joanne, Constance, and Elizabeth being of the second wife. A John Bliss married in Stowe, Northampton, England on 26 Jan 1581[/2?] to Agnes OLD. This would make John just under 19 at marriage, which is an uncomfortable arrangement, unless either a pregnancy was involved, or else unless the year was 1587 instead of 1581. Assuming that, despite its marginal desireability, that this is a valid marriage for the subject John Bliss, then Agnes would likely be the mother of Thomas. As to the remaining children, they all appear to have been born much later, and the younger children born too late to have been born to Agnes. They are therefore assumed to be children of an unknown second wife: John m. (2) say 1604 _________ _______, b. say 1580, d. c. 1613. Finally, we have a marriage record for his third marriage: m. (3) Preston Parva 1 Aug 1614 Alice Smith, b. say 1580, bur. 26 Mar 1625, sister of Peter Smith. John's will, dated 8 Sep 1617 and proved 11 Oct 1617, names wife Alice and children Thomas, George, Agnes, Joanne, Constance, Elizabeth, and John. Child with first wife (Agnes?):

  • Thomas, b. say 1590, m. (1) Daventry 1614 Dorothy Wheatley; m. (2) 1632/3 Abigail Southam; m. (3) ______ (______) Ide

Children with second wife, her name unknown:

  • George, b. say 1605, perhaps the one who m. Preston Capes 30 May 1635 Ann Shaw
  • Agnes, b. say 1607, perhaps the one who m. Preston Capes 12 July 1629 John Hardinge
  • Joanne, b. say 1609, perhaps the one who m. Preston Capes 11 Feb 1632 John Payne
  • Constance, b. say 1611
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1613

Child with third wife, Alice:

  • John, bapt. 17 March 1615/6

(11g) Thomas Bliss

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Mayflower Descendant 8:85-6 (will of Thomas); TAG 59(1983):25-7 (son Jonathan); some Bliss family compilation pulled from Ancestry that appears to be somewhat authoratative; The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, compiled & published by N. Grier Parke II; edited by Donald Line Jacobus (1960); WikiTree website

Thomas Bliss, son of John Bliss with unknown first wife, was born say 1590, d. Rehoboth (Plymouth Colony) Oct 1647, and married (1) Daventry, Northampton, England 22 Nov 1614 Dorothy WHEATLEY, b. say 1594, bur. Daventry 16 Mar 1631, daughter of John Wheatley. He m. (2) Daventry Feb 1632/3 Abigail SOUTHAM, and m. (3) Bef. 1647 _____ _____, the widow of Nicholas Ide Sr. Like his father and grandfather, he was a blacksmith. He was granted 36 acres at Mount Wollaston (renamed Braintree in 1640) on 24 Feb 1639/40, and admitted a freeman on 18 May 1642 while living in Weymouth. On 24 Oct 1643 he and others met at Weymouth to draw lots at the new plantation of "Seacunk", which was renamed Rehoboth in 1645 by the Rev. Samuel Newman. He moved there soon, and remained there. His will was dated 7:8mo:1647 (7 Oct 1647), and his inventory taken 21:8mo:1647 (21 Oct 1647). It wasn't proved until 8 June 1649, at New Plymouth in the Plymouth Colony. Children, with first wife, Dorothy, all bapt. Daventry:

  • Elizabeth, eldest daughter, bapt. 19 Sep 1615, m. say 1640 Thomas WILMARTH (called Willmore in will of her father)
  • Mary, bapt. 16 March 1616/7, m. say 1640 Nathaniel HARMON of Braintree. Ten children, five of whom born at Braintree from 1652 to 1660 but a child of Nathaniel born there 8:12mo:1640 (8 Feb 1640/1).
  • Jane, bapt. 13 Jan 1618/9, bur. 16 Sep 1621
  • John, bapt. 12 Nov 1620
  • Martha (not Nathaniel!), bapt. 8 Dec 1622, m. say 1645 Nicholas IDE, her step-brother
  • Thomas, bapt. 19 Sep 1624, bur. 4 Oct 1628
  • Jonathan, bapt. 2 April 1626, bur. Rehoboth June 1687 or else d. there 6 Sep 1688, m. c. 1648 Rachel PUFFER, b. c. 1628, daughter of George Puffer, but the Ackley Ancestry says he m. Miriam HARMON, though this info (1960) has likely been superseded by the TAG article (1983). They had ten children born in Rehoboth from 1649 to 1671. He was a blacksmith.

Children with second wife, Abigail, bapt. and bur. Daventry:

  • Amitie, bapt. 1 Dec 1633, bur. 4 Nov 1637
  • Thomas, bapt. 6 Jan 1635/6, bur. 22 Feb 1636/7

(9g) William Woodcock

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History of Hingham, online version

William Woodcock, b. say 1623, d. Attleboro, Mass. 27 Oct 1703, m. (1) Oct 1648 Sarah COOPER, b. say 1628, d. 27 Nov 1652, daughter of Anthony Cooper; and m. (2) 10 Dec 1663 Mary _______, b. say 1643. William was a resident of Hingham, in the Plymouth Colony, and a selectman in 1677. He was a member of Capt. Johnson's company in December 1675, during King Philip's War. Many accounts give his birth year as being about 1610, but this seems ludicrous for someone serving in the military at the age of 65, and siring many children in his late 60s and early 70s. He was certainly born later than 1610. He was assessed a rate in Hingham in 1681, but moved shortly thereafter. Children, all with second wife, born in Hingham:

  • Mary, b. 17 Aug 1664
  • daughter, b. 29 July 1666
  • Sarah, b. 2 Aug 1667
  • Alice, b. 25 Nov 1669
  • Ann, b. 31 March 1672, m. c. 1702 Thomas FULLER as his second of four wives, the son of Jonathan Fuller and Elizabeth Wilmarth.
  • Elizabeth, b. 25 July 1674, d. 18 Jan 1683[/4?]
  • Miriam, b. 14 Aug 1677
  • William, b. 19 June 1681

(11g) Michael Metcalf

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see below, after Kingsbury and Judson

(10g) John Metcalf

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NEHGR 6(1852):173; WR Website, citing distribution of estate (Suffolk Co. probate case 1837); TAG 17(1940)70-1 (Chickering); Cutter: New Eng. Fams. 4:2195-6.

John, the son of Michael and Sarah Metcalfe, was born Norwich?, Norfolk, England 5 Sep 1622, d. Medfield, Mass. 8 Oct 1690, m. Dedham, Mass. 23 March 1646/7 Mary CHICKERING, b. say 1626, d. Medfield 15 March 1697/8. The 1852 Metcalf genealogy in the NEHGR calls Mary the daughter of Francis Chickering, but this cannot be so, because Mary, the daughter of Francis Chickering, wasn't born until 1648, after Mary had already married John Metcalf. Before her marriage, in 1646, Mary turned over her interest in some land in Suffolk County, England to her "Cosin" John Chickering, the son of Henry Chickering of Dedham. She is therefore, likely closely related to Henry and Francis Chickering of Dedham, but the exact relationship has not been learned. John Metcalf and his family moved from Dedham to Medfield in the late 1650s. There he served as selectman for six years and was a commissioner in 1682. Distribution of John's estate was made 2 Dec 1697. Children:

  • John, b. Dedham 21 March 1647/8, d. Medfield 26 Sep 1738, m. (1) Medfield 21 Dec 1676 Mary BOWERS, d. Medfield 26 Oct 1707; m. (2) Medfield 30 Dec 1708 Sarah (TURNER) Plympton, b. Medfield 18 Nov 1663, d. there 12 Jan 1738/9, daughter of John Turner and Deborah Williams, and widow of John Plympton. John had three known children with his first wife, born from 1679/80 to 1684, all of whom were dead by 1707.
  • Michael, b. Dedham 20 Aug 1650, m. Elizabeth BOWERS (below).
  • Mary, b. Dedham 9 Oct 1652, prob. d. young
  • Elizabeth, b. Dedham say 1656, d. Medfield 27 Nov 1735, m. by 1697 Joseph ELLIS, b. Medfield 24 Oct 1662, d. there 31 Aug 1726, son of John and Joan Ellis. Joseph had m. (1) Medfield 23 Nov 1688 Lydia Lovell. Elizabeth was named in the distribution of her father's estate between Michael and Joseph, thus her placement here. She had two known children born in 1697 and 1699, perhaps while in her early 40s. Elizabeth was called "now Wife of Joseph Ellice" in her father's estate division, suggesting that she had an earlier husband.
  • Joseph, b. Medfield 22 Nov 1658, d. there 18 Dec 1741, m. (1) Medfield 21 Jan 1685/6 Sarah BOWERS, b. Medfield 29 Sep 1663, d. there 21 Aug 1727, daughter of John and Mary Bowers; m. (2) Medfield 12 March 1729/30 Hannah (ADAMS) Fisher, b. Medfield 16 Jan 1655/6, d. there 1 Nov 1746, daughter of Peter and Rachel Adams, and widow of John Fisher. At least two children with first wife, born 1686 and 1694.
  • Experience, b. Medfield 16 Oct 1661, d. there 18 Feb 1730/1, m. c. 1683 Isaac WHEELER, b. Dedham, Mass. 4 May 1661, d. Medfield 8 Feb 1730/1, son of Richard Wheeler and Sarah Prescott. They had eight children born from 1684 to 1700.
  • Hannah, b. Medfield 13 Oct 1664, d. there 20 Dec 1719, m. Medfield 31 May 1683 Elisha BULLEN, b. Medfield 26 Dec 1657, d. there 19 Feb 1735/6, son of Dea. Samuel Bullen and Mary Morse.
  • Mary, b. Medfield 2 June 1668, d. there 18 Feb 1726/7, m. there 26 Oct 1687 Eleazer ELLIS, b. Medfield 24 April 1664, d. there 21 Jan 1731/2, son of John and Joan Ellis. Four known children 1691 to 1702.

(9g) Michael Metcalf Sr.

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Cutter: New Eng. Fams. 4:2195-6.

Michael, the son of John Metcalf and Mary Chickering, was b. Dedham, Mass. 20 Aug 1650, d. Medfield, Mass. 9 Dec 1691, and m. Medfield 21 Dec 1676 Elizabeth BOWERS, b. Medfield 26 May 1654, d. there 2 Sep 1724, daughter of John and Mary Bowers. He bought the Rockwood homestead on Bridge Street. Children:

  • Michael, b. Medfield 10 Oct 1680, m. Lydia WHITE (below).
  • Sarah, b. Medfield 22 April 1683
  • Samuel, b. Medfield 20 Jan 1684/5, d. Medway 4 March 1739/40, and m. Medfield 17 Nov 1710 Mehitable THURSTON, b. Wrentham 1 Aug 1686, d. Medway 19 Aug 1769, daughter of Thomas Thurston and Mehitabel Mason. Samuel's will was dated 28 Feb 1739/40 and proved three months later on 23 May 1740. Samuel and Mehitable are buried in Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield. Samuel and Mehitable had five known children born from 1711 to 1724.
  • Elizabeth, b. Medfield 31 July 1686
  • Jonathan, b. Medfield 13 Aug 1690

(8g) Michael Metcalf Jr.

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Thayer, Elisha, Genealogy of Fourteen Families of the Early Settlers of New England (1835) transcribed at We Relate website [92]; Medway vital records at same website; Cutter: New Eng. Fams. 4:2195-6.

Michael, the son of Michael Metcalf and Elizabeth Bowers, was born Medfield 10 Oct 1680, d. Keene, NH 1761, aged 81, and m. 21 March 1705 Lydia WHITE, b. Mendon, Mass. 10 May 1686, daughter of Joseph White and Lydia Copeland. By 1750 he and two sons had settled at Upper Ashuelot, later called Keene, NH. Children:

  • Joseph, b. Medway 16 Nov 1704
  • Michael, b. Medfield 12 Aug 1706, m. (1) Medway 2 July 1728 Milatia HAMMOND. They had six children born at Medway from 1729 to 1741; He m. (2) Keene, NH Hannah _______ and had three more children born from 1757 to 1760. He held the title of Captain in the Keene records.
  • John, b. Medway 23 Aug 1709, m. Tamar DANIELS (below).
  • Jonathan, b. Medway 16 Jan 1715, m. Medway 19 Oct 1742 Mary ADAMS, b. Medway 7 Oct 1722, daughter of Eleazer and Margaret Adams. They had seven children born from c. 1747 to 1759.
  • Elizabeth, b. Medway 9 Nov 1718
  • Lydia, b. Medway 27 May 1721

(7g) John Metcalf

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John, the son of Michael Metcalf and Lydia White, was b. Medfield, Mass. 23 Aug 1709, and m. Medway 14 Dec 1733 Tamar DANIELS, b. Medway 7 March 17__ (probably 1714/5), the daughter of Joseph Daniels and Bethia Breck. This John was not the one of his name who died in 1791 and is buried in Evergreen Cem. in Medway; that John was the son of John-4 (Jonathan-3, Michael-2-1) Metcalf. This John moved with family from Medway to Holliston, Mass. about 1745, and the last family record in that town was 1761 when daughter Comfort was married there. However, the family also had an association with the town of Westborough, Mass., as the births of two children of daughter Molly are recorded there, and the births of three children of daughter Comfort are recorded there. Children:

  • John, b. Medway 9 Aug 1734
  • Molly, b. Medway 9 Sep 1736, d. c. 1763, m. Providence, RI 11 Aug 1757 Benjamin-5 HILLS, b. Wrentham 16 March 1732, d. Grafton, MA c. 1765, son of Jabez-4 Hills (Samuel-3, Joseph-2-1) and Martha Metcalf. Following Molly's death, Benjamin m. c. 1764 Elizabeth Stevens, who later married Natan Morse. Molly and Benjamin had two children: Molly, b. Wrentham 1758 and Benjamin, b. perhaps Westboro, 1760. The births of both of these children are found in the Westboro vital records, but the dates of both of their births are given as 1761, and only 3 1/2 months apart, which is obviously in error.
  • Peletiah, b. Medway 12 April 1739. A Capt Peletiah Metcalf died in Royalston, Mass. 19 Oct 1807, but a contemporary man of the name was b. Wrentham 13 Jun 1744 of Peletiah and Hepsibah Metcalf.
  • Comfort, b. Medway 12 March 1742, d. 1769, m. Holliston, MA 5 Nov 1761 Thomas FULLER.
  • Ezra, b. Holliston 15 March 1747, m. Abigail _______. They lived in Keene, New Hampshire, where they had four children born 1773 to 1779. Ezra appears on a New Hampshire roster of Revolutionary War soldiers in Nichol's regiment, dated 22 July 1777. A web source says he died in Canandaigua, NY in 1821, and she died there in 1836. The same source says she was the daughter of Abraham Drake, but in his will, Abraham names his daughter Abigail Taylor.
  • Eli, b. Holliston 19 March 1749/50, is likely the one of his name who d. Keene, NH 2 Aug 1835, aged 85, and m. Swanzey, NH 15 Jan 1777 Elizabeth DENISON, b. 1755, d. Keene 13 Feb 1842, aged 86. No record of children has been found. Eli and Elizabeth are buried in Woodland Cemetery, Keene. [93]

(11g) _______ Chickering

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TAG 17(1940):70-1 (Francis);

Note: Francis is not known to be a brother of Mary (Chickering) Metcalf, but he is likely a close relative.

  • Francis, b. say 1610, d. Dedham 10 Oct 1658, m. (1) say 1634 Anne FISKE, bapt. South Elmham, Suffolk, England 1 April 1610, d. Dedham, Mass. 5 Dec 1649, daughter of John Fiske and Anne Lawter. He m. (2) 11 June 1650 Sarah (______) Sibble/Sibley, bur. Roxbury, Mass. 4 Sep 1686, widow of John Sibley of Charlestown, Mass. Sarah later m. (3) John Bowles of Roxbury. Her will was dated 21 June 1681, in which she called Joseph How "brother" and Daniel Smith, Samuel Newman, Thomas Metcalf, and William Symmes "sons", though they were actually sons-in-law of her Chickering husband. Francis had six children with his first wife, the first probably born in England about 1635, and the other five born at Dedham, Mass. from 1638 to 1648.

(10g) John Bowers

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Hist. of Medfield, p 320; Medfield Vital Records: 21,119,195

John Bowers, born say 1620, killed at Medfield 21 Feb 1675/6 during King Philip's War, m. say 1647 Mary/Marie ______, b. say 1627, d. Medfield 17 June 1694. Of John Bowers, Savage simply states "Medfield 1649." The History of Medfield says he came with the Braintree and Weymouth men (to Medfield) about 1652. His house lot was near the "great bridge", but his house was burned during King Philip's War in 1676, and he and his son John were both slain there the same day. All three of John and Mary's known daughters married brothers, who were all sons of John Metcalf and Mary Chickering of Dedham and Medfield. Children:

  • John, b. say 1649, killed Medfield 21 Feb 1675/6 during King Philip's War, m. Medfield 7 Jan 1673/4 Sarah CLARK, b. say 1654. Following his death, his widow m. Medfield 22 Feb 1676/7 Samuel Smith, whose first wife was also killed by Indians. John had one son, John III, b. Medfield 22 Jan 1675/6, d. there, titled Ensign, 13 July 1729, m. Medfield 30 Nov 1702 Hannah Partridge.
  • Mary, b. say 1651, d. Medfield 26 Oct 1707, m. Medfield 21 Dec 1676 John METCALF, b. Dedham 21 March 1647/8, d. Medfield 26 Sep 1738, son of John Metcalf and Mary Chickering. Following Mary's death, John m. (2) Medfield 30 Dec 1708 Sarah (TURNER) Plympton. Mary had three known children with John, born from 1679/80 to 1684, all of whom were dead by 1707.
  • Elizabeth, b. Medfield 26 May 1654, m. Medfield 21 Dec 1676 Michael METCALF, b. Dedham 20 Aug 1650, son of John Metcalf and Mary Chickering (see, above).
  • Sarah, b. Medfield 29 Sep 1663, d. there 21 Aug 1727, m. Medfield 21 Jan 1685/6 Joseph METCALF, b. Medfield 22 Nov 1658, d. there 18 Dec 1641, son of John Metcalf and Mary Chickering. Following Sarah's death, Joseph m. (2) Medfield 12 March 1729/30 Hannah (ADAMS) Fisher. Sarah had at least two children, born in 1686 and 1694.

(11g) Thomas White

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GM 7:339-42

Thomas White was born c. 1599 (aged about 60 in Oct 1659), d. summer 1679, and m. by say 1635 a woman whose name has not been found, and who was not named in her husband's 1679 will. Thomas was a carpenter, and lived exclusively in the town of Weymouth while in New England. He had arrived there by 1635, as he was admitted a freeman on 3 March 1635/6. He was a Weymouth deputy in 1637, and then not again until 1657, and once more in 1670. His will was dated 5 July 1679 and proved 28 Aug 1679, with inventory dated 26 August, totaling 126 pounds. Children:

  • Joseph, b. c. 1636, m. Weymouth 19 Sep 1660 Lydia ROGERS, daughter of John Rogers.
  • Hannah, b. say 1639, m. Braintree 24 Nov 1659 John BAXTER, b. Roxbury, Mass. 1 Dec 1639, son of Gregory Baxter.
  • Samuel, b. c. 1642, d. Weymouth 19 Aug 1699, aged 57, m. Mary DYER, daughter of Thomas Dyer.
  • Thomas, b. say 1645, m. c. 1669 Mary _______.
  • Ebenezer, b. c. 1649, d. Weymouth 24 July (or Aug) 1703, in 55th year, m. c. 1671 Hannah PHILLIPS, daughter of Nicholas Phillips.

(10g) Joseph White

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We Relate Website, citing primarily Kempton Anc (1996), but also original sources; NEHGR 152(1998):184-5 (John white)

Joseph White, son of Thomas White, b. c. 1636, d. Mendon, Mass. 23 march 1706[/7?], m. Weymouth, Mass. 19 Sep 1660 Lydia ROGERS, b. Weymouth 27 March 1642, living 1704, daughter of Dea. John and Judith Rogers of Weymouth. Children:

  • Joseph, b. Weymouth 5 July 1661, d. young.
  • Joseph (twin), b. Weymouth 17 Dec 1662, m. Lydia COPELAND (see below).
  • Lydia (twin), b. 17 Dec 1662, living in 1701, m. Medfield, Mass. 27 April 1681 Samuel COOK, b. c. 1659, d. Mendon c. 1752, son of Walter Cooke and Catherine Brenton. They had six known children born from 1682 to 1701.
  • Thomas, b. Mendon 1 April 1665, d. c. 1748, m. (1) Boston, Mass. 5 Dec 1687 Mehitable THORNTON, b. c. 1666, d. Mendon 27 Sep 1704, daughter of Robert Thornton and Mary Dowling; m. (2) c. 1707 Mary _______, not named in Thomas's will dated 18 Feb 1744/5. Thomas had seven children with first wife Mehitable, born from 1688/9 to 1703/4, and two children with second wife Mary, b. 1708 and 1711.
  • Samuel, b. Mendon 14 Feb 1666/7, m. Milton, Mass. 6 Dec 1687 Anna BINGLEY, b. c. 1669, d. Braintree, Mass. 13 Feb 1737/8, daughter of Thomas and Susanna Bingley. They had eight children born from 1689 to 1710. Hannah is buried in the Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.
  • John, b. Mendon 3 Dec 1668, d. by 1718, and m. c. 1699 Sarah _______, living in 1725, who m. (2) Mendon 4 June 1718 Joseph Chilson. John and Sarah had six known children born at Mendon from 1700 to 1711.
  • Ebenezer, b. Mendon 4 Dec 1670, d. there 27 Aug 1726, prob. did not marry.
  • Mary, b. c. 1672, m. (1) c. 1691 Ebenezer HILL, b. c. 1656, d. 1734, son of John and Hannah Hill; m. (2) Mendon 8 Nov 1742 Capt Seth CHAPIN
  • Ann, b. c. 1676, d. by 1743, m. c. 1696 William TRASK, b. Salem 7 Sep 1674, d. by 1746, son of William Trask and Ann Putnam. William m. (2) 3 Nov 1743 _____ ______.
  • Experience, b. Mendon 5 Dec 1680, m. there 10 Feb 1701/2 Ephraim MILLERD, b. Rehoboth 1676 son of Robert Millerd and Elizabeth Sabin.
  • Hannah, b. Mendon 29 Nov 1681, d. Roxbury 13 Jan 1762, m. Mendon 22 July 1701 Samuel WARFIELD, b. c. 1673, d. Upton, Mass. 13 March 1756, son of John Warfield and Hannah Randall. They had at least five children, born from 1703 to 1713.

(9g) Joseph White Jr.

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We Relate website, citing TAG 77:68; Kempton Anc 1:512; Mendon vital records; Worcester Co. probate case 64203

Joseph, the son of Joseph White and Lydia Rogers, was b. Weymouth, Mass. 17 Dec 1662, d. 1757, and m. c. 1682 Lydia COPELAND, b. Braintree, Mass. 31 May 1661, d. Mendon, Mass. 8 May 1727, daughter of Lawrence Copeland and Lydia Townsend. Children, b. Mendon:

  • Joseph, b. 19 Oct 1683, d. c. 1737, m. Medfield, Mass. 24 May 1711 Prudence SMITH, b. Medfield 19 July 1691, d. Mendon 20 Dec 1784, daughter of Samuel Smith and Sarah Clark. Joseph was titled Captain, and of Uxbridge in his inventory of 15 July 1737. Joseph and Prudence had nine children born from 1712 to 1732.
  • Lydia, b. 10 May 1686, m. 21 March 1705 Michael METCALF, Jr. (see).
  • Thomas, b. 26 Nov 1688
  • Hannah, b. 9 Dec 1691
  • Mary, b. c. 1692
  • Abigail, b. 10 Nov 1693
  • Rachel, b. c. 1695
  • William, b. 1696/7
  • Benjamin, b. 28 May 1701, d. c. 1740, m. (1) Mendon 23 May 1720 Mary THAYER, b. Mendon 11 Feb 1700/1, d. c. 1734, daughter of Samuel Thayer and Mary Butterworth; m. (2) Uxbridge, Mass. 23 Jan 1734/5 Eunice TAFT, b. Mendon 20 Feb 1708/9, d. by 1787, daughter of Robert Taft and Eliabeth Woodward. Benjamin was called late of Uxbridge, husbandman, in his inventory, dated 16 July 1740. Division of his estate took place 5 Dec 1744. Benjamin had four children with his first wife, born from 1722/3 to c. 1732, and three more children with second wife, b. 1735 to 1738.

(11g) John Rogers

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We Relate website, citing Kempton Anc and vital records

John Rogers, was b. say 1610, d. Weymouth 11 Feb 1660/1, m. say 1637 Judith _______, b. say 1617. Rogers was a linen weaver, a deacon, and a resident of Weymouth, Mass. His inventory was taken 20:12mo:1660 (20 Feb 1660/1), amounting to 275 pounds. Children:

  • John, b. c. 1638, d. Weymouth 28 Feb 1709/10, m. (1) Weymouth 8 Jan 1662/3 Mary BATES, b. c. 1642, d. by 1683, daughter of Edward and Susannah Bates; m. (2) Dedham, Mass. 3 July 1690 Judith Sterns, living in May 1710 when she handled the inventory of her husband, John Rogers.
  • Mary, b. c. 1640, living 1684, m. Weymouth 24 Nov 1659 John RANES, b. say 1634, d. c. 1679.
  • Lydia, b. Weymouth 27 March 1642, m. there 19 Sep 1660 Joseph WHITE (see).
  • Hannah, b. Weymouth c. 1644, d. there 29 May 1721, aged 77 (Weymouth Epitaphs, nehgr 23:120), m. (1) Weymouth 19 Sep 1660 Samuel PRATT, bapt. Aston Clinton, Bucks., England 22 Jan 1636/7, d. 1679, son of Macute Pratt and Elizabeth Kingman; m. (2) Weymouth c. 1686 Thomas BAILEY, b. c. 1636, d. 1690, son of Thomas Bayley. Hannah has/had a surviving gravestone in the old North Weymouth graveyard (NEHGR 59:328).
  • Sarah, b. Weymouth c. 1647, living in Feb 1660/1 when named in her father's will, unmarried.

(10g) Lawrence Copeland

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NEHGR 9:154; 37:286; Copeland Gen (1937) 10-14; Cutter(?), p 83

Lawrence Copeland was born say 1610 d. Braintree, Mass. 30 Dec 1699 and m. Braintree 12 Dec 1651 Lydia TOWNSEND, b. say 1630, d. 8 Jan 1687/8. His no-longer-extant gravestone gave his age as 100, and another family "record" claimed that he was 110 upon death. These should be considered exagerations, and his actual age was likely a decade or more less than that claimed in the Braintree records. He was certainly in New England by 1637, as he signed a Wheelwright deed in Exeter (claimed by Mass., but later in New Hampshire) in 1638. He was likely earlier of Boston, then came to Exeter with Wheelwright when the latter was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views in 1637. He was soon thereafter of Braintree, Mass. when he was fined on 6 Dec 1643. Records for Copeland are few, and he is next of record in Braintree, Mass. when he was married in 1651. Because there is such a long time between his appearance in Exeter, and his marriage in Braintree, Anderson, in his Great Migration Directory (2015), only mentions the immigrant as being early of Exeter, and without using words, suggests that the Braintree man may be different from the Exeter man. His will was dated at Braintree 20 June 1698, and his inventory was taken 17 Jan 1699/1700. Besides his living children, he named trusted friends Joseph Arnold and Joseph Allen as overseers in his 1698 will. His inventory totaled 162 pounds. Lawrence at one time had a gravestone in the Hancock Cemetery, now in Quincy, Mass., but the stone was gone by 1904. Children, born at Braintree:

  • Thomas, b. 3 Oct 1652, d. 4 Nov 1652
  • Thomas, b. 12 Aug 1654, was a soldier during King Philip's War, and in his father's 1698 will received his father's house with land, and was name executor.
  • William, b. 15 Nov 1656, d. Braintree 30 Oct 1716, m. 13 April 1694 Mary (BASS) Webb, b. 11 Dec 1669, living in 1716, widow of Christopher Webb, Jr., who died March 1690 of small pox. She was the daughter of John Bass and Ruth Alden, and granddaughter of Mayflower immigrants John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. William was given land and property in his father's 1698 will. Administration of his estate was given to widow Mary on 31 Dec 1716. William and Mary had nine children born at Braintree from 1695 to 1713.
  • John, b. 10 Feb 1658/9, d. 1714, m. c. 1682 Ruth NEWCOMB, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Newcomb. John received money in his father's 1698 will; he was a blacksmith.
  • Lydia, b. 31 May 1661, m. Joseph WHITE, Jr. (see). She was named Lidia White and given money in her father's 1698 will.
  • Ephraim, b. 17 Jan 1665/6, died of small pox as he prepared for Phipps's Expedition to Canada in 1690. The account of his death was thus recorded: "Upon the 9th day of August, there went out afloat, soldiers to Canada, in the year 1690 and the small pox was aboard, and there died six of it, four were thrown overboard at Cape Ann, Corporal John Palmer, Isaac Thayer, Ephraim Copeland; Ebenezer Owen, [and] Samuel Bass and John Cheney were thrown overboard at Nantasket." (Gen, p 10) In his father's 1698 will, the 20 acres he had formerly given Ephraim, deceased, was to be divided among Ephraim's brothers.
  • Hannah, b. 25 Feb 1668/9, called Hannah without a surname in her father's 1698 will, and given money, a bed, and other household items; she was likely not married and without children at that time.
  • Richard, b. 11 July 1672, d. same day
  • Abigail, b. 1674, m. 23 Nov 1715 _______ _______. She was called Abigail with no surname in her father's 1698 will, and given money and household items, suggesting she was not married, and without children. It appears she married late in life.

(10g) Robert Daniel

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Cutter: New England Fams:3:1154-5; NEHGR 49(1894):341-2; 55(1900):226; 88(1934):383-6; American Ancestors 19(4)(2019):49

Robert Daniel was b. England c. 1592 (aged 60 and upwards on 26 June 1652), d. Cambridge, Mass. 6 June 1655, and m. (1) c. 1630 Elizabeth MORSE, bapt. Redgrave, Suffolk, England 6 March 1605/6, d. Cambridge 2 Oct 1643, daughter of Samuel Morse and Elizabeth Jasper; m. (2) Cambridge 2 May 1654 Reana (______) (James) Andrew, living 1672, widow of William Andrews. Following his death, his widow Rena m. by 1669 Edmund Frost. Upon arriving in New England, Robert first settled in Watertown about 1637, and took the freeman's oath on 14 March 1638/9. He soon thereafter moved to Cambridge where his youngest daughter was born in 1642. Robert was an educated man. His will was dated 3 July and proved 2 Oct 1655. His inventory totaled 359 pounds. Children:

  • Samuel, b. c. 1631, d. prob. at Medfield c. 1683, m. Watertown 10 May 1671 Mary GRANT [her name was Mary BECKWITH, per 2019 Am Ancestors article]. He was admitted a freeman in 1652, and was still of Watertown in 1656, but was later of Medfield. He had six children, three at Watertown 1672 to 1676/7 and three at Medfield 1679 to 1683.
  • Elizabeth, b. c. 1633, d. Watertown 22 Jan 1722/3 in 92nd year, m. Watertown 17 May 1655 Thomas FANNING, d. Watertown Aug 1685. She had four children born at Watertown from 1656 to 1665
  • Thomas, b. c. 1635, bur. Watertown 6 Nov 1644
  • Sarah, b. c. 1638, m. William CHENEY
  • Joseph, b. c. 1640 (aged 31 on 25 April 1672)
  • Mary, b. Cambridge 2 Sep 1642, d. 1704, m. Medfield 14 June 1660 (VR) Sampson FRARY, d. Deerfield, Mass. 29 Feb 1704, son of John and Prudence Frary. In about 1666 the family moved from Medfield to Hadley, Mass. Sampson was killed during the Indian raid on Deerfield, and Mary was apparently taken hostage, but was killed on the road to Canada. They had five children born from 1662 to 1675, the oldest two at Medfield and the others at Hadley.

(9g) Joseph Daniels

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Cutter: New England Fams:3:1154-5; NEHGR 88(1934):385-6; 89(1935):154

Joseph, the son of Robert Daniel and Elizabeth Morse, was b. c. 1640 (aged 31 on 25 April 1672), d. 23 June 1715, and m. (1) Medfield 16 Nov 1665 (VR) Mary FAIRBANKS, b. Dedham, Mass. 10 Nov 1647, d. Medfield 9 June 1682 (VR), daughter of George Fairbanks and Mary Adams; m. (2) 1683 Rachel Sheffield, b. Braintree 24 March 1660, d. Medfield 3 ___ 1687 [recorded after 2 May 1687--VR], daughter of William and Mary Sheffield; m. (3) 1697 Lydia (ADAMS) Allen, d. 26 Dec 1731, daughter of Edward and Lydia Adams, and widow of James Allen. Joseph moved from Cambridge to Medfield where he had several land grants. His home was burned during King Philip's War. He was a Medfield selectman for three years, and taught school in the west district in 1700. Children with first wife, Mary, all born in Medfield:

  • Joseph, b. 23 Sep 1666 (VR)
  • Mary, b. 4 July 1669 (VR doesn't give the day)
  • Samuel, b. 20 Oct 1671 (VR)
  • Mehitable, b. 10 July 1674 (VR), d. Medfield 3 June 1686 (VR).
  • Ebenezer, b. 24 April 1677 (VR), m. (1) Medfield 22 Dec 1701 Elisabeth PARTREDGE, d. Medfield 25 April 1706 (VR); m. (2) Medfield 31 Oct 1707 Mary HARDING.
  • Elizabeth, b. 9 March 1678/9 (VR), m. (1) Joseph MASON; m. (2) Dedham 26 Nov 1730 John DRAPER, b. Dedham 24 June 1659, d. there 5 April 1749, son of immigrants James Draper and Miriam Stansfield.
  • Jeremiah, b. 17 March 1679/80 (VR), d. 16 June 1680
  • Eleazer, b. 9 March 1680/1 (VR)

Children with second wife Rachel, born in Medfield:

  • Jeremiah, b. 3 Nov 1684 (VR), m. Medfield 7 May 1713 (VR) Hannah PARTRIDGE
  • Rachel, b. 17 Oct 1686 (VR says 10? Oct)
  • Zachariah, b. 9 April 1689 (VR), d. Medfield 2 May 1687 (VR--likely in error; probably should read 1689)

(8g) Joseph Daniels, Jr.

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Cutter: New England Fams:3:1154-5

Joseph, the son of Joseph Daniels and Mary Fairbanks, was b. Medfield 23 Sep 1666, d. there 14 Jan 1739[1738/9?], and m. (1) say 1689 Rachel PARTRIDGE, b. 1669, daughter of John Partridge and Magdalen Bullard; m. (2) c. 1692 Bethia BRECK, b. Medfield (or Sherborn) 20 Dec 1673, d. Medway 3 Feb 1754, daughter of Thomas Breck and Mary Hill. Torrey's New England Marriages suggests that Bethia's maiden name could be Partridge. Joseph lived in the part of Medfield that became the town of Millis. Children, first six births recorded at Medfield, last at Medway (it appears that some children are missing):

  • Samuel, b. Medfield 25 Dec 1693 (VR)
  • Joseph, b. Medfield 15 Dec 1695 (VR)
  • David, b. Medfield 21 Feb 1698/9 (VR)
  • Hannah, b. Medfield 30 Sep 1701 (VR)
  • Ezra, b. Medfield 10 March 1703/4 (VR)
  • Sarah, b. Medfield 1 May 1707 (VR)
  • Abigail, 15 March 1715
  • Tamar, b. Medway 7/17 March 17__ (VR; prob 1714/5? Cutter says 1717), m. Medway 14 Dec 1733 John METCALF, son of Michael Metcalf and Lydia White.

(14g) Robert Morse

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NEHGR 83(1929):280-3

Robert Morse, born say 1490, d. c. 1552, and m. say 1517 Agnes ______, b. c. 1498, bur. Stoke-by-Nayland 17 Jan 1578/9, aged 80. Robert was taxed at Stoke-by-Nayland in 1524-25, and again in subsidies dated from 1543 to 1545/6. Robert's will was dated 5 Oct 1551 and proved 15 Sep 1552. Children, named in Robert's will:

  • Thomas, b. say 1518, called "eldest son" in his father's will, m. Agnes _______.
  • John, the Elder, b. c. 1520, bur. Stoke-by-Nayland 25 Sep 1577, aged 57, m. Katherine _______, b. c. 1531, bur. Stoke-by-Nayland 26 Aug 1594, aged 63.
  • Alice, b. say 1525, living 13 Jan 1573/4, m. Stoke-by-Nayland 12 Sep 1570 Robert ELSINGE, widower.
  • Joan, b. say 1529
  • Richard, b. say 1531 (under 21 in Oct 1551), bur. Stoke-by-Nayland 8 Aug 1614, m. Stoke-by-Nayland 18 Oct 1562 Margerie WOOD, bur. there 26 Feb 1609/10. They had four children baptized at Stoke-by-Nayland from 1565/6 to 1576.
  • John, the Younger, b. c. 1533, bur. Stoke-by-Nayland 11 May 1621, aged 88, m. _______. He was a husbandman, and had eight known children baptized from 1559/60 to 1573/4.
  • Margaret, b. say 1535, living in 1578/9
  • Katherine, b. say 1537, living in 1551.

(13g) Thomas Morse

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NEHGR 83(1929)281-2

Thomas, son of Robert and Agnes Morse of Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England, was born say 1515, bur. Stoke-by-Nayland 17 Feb 1566/7, and m. say 1543 Agnes _______, b. say 1523, bur. Stoke-by-Nayland 5 April 1574. In his article cited above, Moriarty doesn't suggest that Thomas probably had more than one wife, but the large gap between the first three children, and one to three of the last three strongly suggests this is the case. He may have been the one of his name taxed in the Stoke-by-Nayland subsidy of 1543-44. Children:

  • Richard, b. say 1544, bur. Dedham, Essex 30 June 1603, m. (1) say 1575 ______ ______; m. (2) Dedham 15 Feb 1586/7 Margery SYMSONE. Richard had three children with his first wife, baptized at Boxted, Essex from 1576 to 1582, and three more with second wife, baptized at Dedham from 1587 to 1594. The son Joseph came to New England.
  • Robert, b. say 1546, named in the 1551 will of his grandfather, Robert Morse, and the 1577 will of his uncle, John Morse the Elder.
  • Thomas, b. say 1548, named in the 1551 will of his grandfather, Robert Morse and as Thomas Mosse the Elder in the will of his uncle, John Mosse the Elder in 1577. He is likely the Rev. Thomas Morse, below (see).
  • Lancelot, living in 1578/9 when named in the nuncupative will of his grandmother, Agnes Mosse.
  • Margaret, probably the one, unmarried, named in the 1596 will of her brother Rev. Thomas Morse.
  • Thomas, bapt. (posthumously) Stoke-by-Nayland 14 Sep 1567

(12g) Thomas Morse, Rev.

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NEHGR 83(1929)283-93

Thomas, likely the son of an earlier Thomas Morse with wife Agnes, was b. say 1548, d. around the winter of 1596/7, and m. (1) Boxted, Essex 26 May 1573 Margaret KING, bur. Hinderclay, Suffolk 28 July 1585; m. (2) Boxted 24 Nov 1585 Margery BOGGAS, named in her husbands 1596 will. Rev. Thomas Morse was presented to the vicarage of Boxted in 1573, and resigned in 1578. He likely continued to live in Boxted since his children were baptized there through 1583. On 14 July 1583 he was inducted as rector at Hinderclay in norther Suffolk, and a decade later, in 1594, he was rector of Foxearth, Essex, where he continued until his death. Thomas's will was dated 10 Nov 1596 and proved 28 April 1597, but he was dead by 10 March 1596/7 when his replacement was presented. Children with first wife, baptized Boxted:

  • John, Rev., bapt. 20 Feb 1574/5, bur. Romford, Essex 31 Jan 1647/8, m. (licence 16 April 1610) Dorothy BURNAP, living 1647/8, daughter of Thomas Burnap of Stanstead-Abbots, Herts. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, earning BA in 1594/5, Master of Arts in 1598, and ordained deacon in London 28 June and priest 29 June 1601, aged 26. He was rector of Little Ilford, Essex 1607-1615, rector of Digwell, Herts, 1612-1615, and curate of Romford, Essex 1615-1647/8. Seven children born c. 1611 to 1624.
  • Samuel, bapt. 12 June 1576, m. Elizabeth JASPER; they were the New England immigrants (see below).
  • Sarah, bapt. 11 June 1578, living 10 Nov 1596.
  • Daniel, bapt. 9 June 1580, prob. d. young.
  • Daniel, bapt. 2 May 1583, was of Ipswich, Suffolk

Children with second wife:

  • Joseph, b. c. 1586, d. c. 1648, m. (1) Redgrave 29 Oct 1605 Ann JASPER, bapt. Regrave 28 Sep 1577, living in 1616/7, daughter of Lancelot Jasper; m. (2) Elizabeth _______, living in 1648. Administration on his goods was granted to his relict, Elizabeth in 1648. He had five children born from c. 1617 to 1628, but by which wife is uncertain.
  • Jeremiah, bapt. Hinderclay, Suffolk 11 Aug 1588, bur. Dedham, Essex 14 July 1663, m. Abigail _______.
  • James, bapt. Hinderclay 10 Nov 1590, bur. Barham 5 Sep 1638, unmarried?
  • Nathaniel, bapt. Hinderclay 13 March 1592/3, living in 1638.
  • Philip, bapt. Foxearth, Essex 14 March 1595/6, living in 1638.

(11g) Samuel Morse

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GM 5:170-77; NEHGR 83(1929):285-92

Samuel, most likely the son of Rev. Thomas Morse and Margaret King of Foxearth, Essex, was baptized at Boxted, Essex 12 June 1576, d. Medfield, Mass. 5 Dec 1654, and m. Redgrave, Suffolk 29 June 1602 Elizabeth JASPER, bapt. 30 Jan 1579/80, d. Medfield 20 June 1655, daughter of Lancelot Jasper and Rose Shepard. On 15 April 1635 husbandman Samuell Morse, aged 50; Elizabeth Morse, aged 48, Joseph Morse, aged 20, and Elizabeth Daniell, aged 2, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the Increase. Though the ages of Samuel and Elizabeth differ by up to eight years from their baptismal ages, that Samuel is the son of Rev. Thomas, and not one of the other identified Samuel Morses, is argued fervantly by G. Andrews Moriarty in the above cited article, using primarily onomastic evidence. The family lived first at Watertown, where they were part of the group that formed the new town of Dedham in 1637. They were in Medfield by 1652. Samuel was very involved in the new town of Dedham, and attended every one of the more than 20 meetings used to establish the town and its government. He was the Dedham treasurer in 1636, and a selectman in 1640 and 1641, and also held many other minor offices. Samuel's will was dated 2 Dec 1654 and probated 30 Jan 1654/5, with inventory taken 5 Dec 1654 (the date of his death) totaling 124 pounds. Children:

  • Samuel, bapt. Redgrave, Suffolk 1 May 1603, bur. Burgate, Suffolk 11 May 1626.
  • Elizabeth, bapt. Redgrave 6 March 1605/6, m. Robert DANIEL.
  • John, bapt. Redgrave 28 Feb 1607/8, d. prob. in Boston, Mass. 26 May 1657, m. c. 1636 Annis _______, d. 1691 (NOT Annis Chickering per Moriarty in NEHGR 100:79). It is not certain if John sailed to New England before or after his parents. John moved from Dedham to Boston in 1654, and made his will 18 Dec 1655 as he prepared for a voyage to England. The inventory, dated 9 June 1657, amounted to 385 pounds. They had ten children born from 1637 to 1653.
  • Daniel, b. c. 1610, d. Sherborn, Mass. 5 June 1688, m. c. 1638 Lydia FISHER, b. c. 1620, d. Sherborn 29 Jan 1690/1, aged 70, daughter of Anthony Fisher of Dedham. Daniel came to New England before his parents and settled at Watertown where he was made freeman 6 May 1635. He soon moved to Dedham, was later of Medfield, and finally of Sherborn. His will was dated 9 March 1687/8. They had nine children born from 1639 to 1661, all named in their father's 1687/8 will.
  • Joseph, bapt. Redgrave 2 May 1613, d. c. 1654, m. Dedham, Mass. 1 Sep 1638 Hannah PHILLIPS, possibly a sister of Rev. George Phillips. Following his death, Hannah m. (2) 3 Nov 1658 Thomas Boyden of Watertown. Joseph came to New England with his parents aboard the Increase in 1635. He was first of Watertown, but like his brother Daniel and father, was among the early Dedham settlers. In 1651 he was one of the proprietors of the part of Dedham set off as Medfield. At his death he was of Dorchester, as described in his inventory, dated 20 June 1654, and amounting to 183 pounds. There were eight children born from 1639/40 to c. 1654, the last being posthumously (see near end, after Clarke).
  • Sarah, bapt. Burgate, Suffolk 25 Aug 1616, prob. d. young.
  • Mary, bapt. Burgate 13 Aug 1620, d. Medfield 14 Feb 1691/2, m. Dedham 10 Aug 1641 Samuel BULLEN, d. Medfield 16 Jan 1691/2. Samuel was admitted a Mass. Bay freeman on 2 June 1641 and was given the title of deacon in his death record.

(12g) Lancelot Jasper

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NEHGR 83(1929):293-4

Lancelot Jasper was born say 1550, bur. Redgrave, Suffolk, England [22?] Feb 1616/7,and m. Abt. 1574 Rose SHEPARD, b. say 1554, bur. Redgrave 3 Sep 1625. His will was dated 17 Feb 1616/7 and proved at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk 3 March 1616/7. Children, baptized at Redgrave:

  • William, bapt. 6 Feb 1574/5, living in 1631, m. Frances _______, bur. 3 Nov 1631. They had eight children born from c. 1601 to 1619.
  • Ann, bapt. 28 Sep 1577, living in 1616/7, m. Redgrave 29 Oct 1605 Joseph MORSE.
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 8 Oct 1578, prob. d. young.
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 30 Jan 1579/80, m. Samuel MORSE (see).
  • Henry, bapt. 26 May 1581, living 1616/7, perhaps the one of his name buried at Redgrave 27 Jan 1640/1, married, wife's name not learned. Two known children baptized at Redgrave 1612 and 1618.
  • Rachel, bapt. 5 Aug 1583, not named in father's 1616/7 will.
  • Samuel, bapt. 2 Feb 1685/6, not named in father's 1616/7 will, m. Redgrave 21 Sep 1607 Anne EDWARDS.
  • Jeremiah, bapt. 2 Nov 1588, living in 1616/7
  • Nathaniel, bapt. 24 May 1590, living in 1616/7
  • Daniel, bapt. 23 April 1592, living in 1616/7
  • John, bapt. 2 or 11 Feb 1593/4, living in 1616/7.

(14g) Edmund Shepard

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TAG 62(1987):238-9

Edmund Shepard was born say 1475, d. late winter 1523/4, and m. Agnes/Annes _______, b. say 1480, d. late winter 1539/40. Edmund's will was dated 22 Jan 1523/4 and proved 1 March 1523/4. Agnes's will was dated 16 Feb 1539/40 and probated 16 March 1539/40. Children:

  • John, b. say 1501, d. early summer 1529, m. Elizabeth _______. He was named in the will of his father. He was named in the 1523/4 will of his father. His own will was dated 19 June 1529, and proved 5 July 1529. He had two children named in his will.
  • Thomas, b. say 1503, m. Alice _______. He was named in the 1523/4 will of his father, and both he and Alice were named in the 1539/40 will of his mother.
  • Robert, b. say 1505, named in the wills of both parents.
  • Margaret, b. say 1507, m. Edmund GRYGGES. She was named in the wills of both parents, and Edmund was named in the will of her mother. They had four daughters named in her mother's 1539/40 will.
  • Ellen, b. say 1509, named in the wills of both parents, likely m. John FISHER.
  • Annes/Agnes, b. say 1511, likely m. ______ SAYRE and had a son John. She was named in the wills of both parents, and her son John was named in her mother's 1539/40 will.
  • Mary, b. say 1513, likely m. ______ STEGELL. She was named in the 1523/4 will of her father, but not in the 1539/40 will of her mother.

(13g) Robert Shepard

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TAG 62(1987):239-40

Robert, the son of Edmund and Agnes Shepard, was born say 1505, d. c. 1560, m. say 1533 Agnes ______, b. say 1515, living in 1560, who was apparently the mother of all 15 of his children because she was the mother of Thomas, the oldest living son at the time of Robert's will, and she was named in the will. Robert was living when his son Henry was baptized in March 1560, but dead when his will was proved 3 Feb 1560/1. The children of Robert and Agnes are known from baptismal records, Robert's will, and the will of Robert's mother. These three sources necessitate something close to the following order. For a woman to have so many children, either some of the births were in periods of less (or much less) than the usual two years, or else there may have been some multiple births. The approximate dates given below allow for no multiple births, reasonable intervals, and allow for Agnes to be married at the age of 18, have her first child at 19, and her last child at age 47.

  • John, b. say 1534, named in 1539/40 will of his grandmother, but not his father's 1559/60 will.
  • Thomas, b. say 1535, bur. Redgrave, Suffolk 18 March 1589[/90?], m. (1) _______ and had a son George bapt. Redgrave 20 Sep 1571; m. (2) Wortham, Suffolk 1572 Amy ERLE, bur. Redgrave 2 Feb 1600/1. They had five children together, baptized from 1573 to 1584/5.
  • Robert, b. say 1537, named in the wills of his grandmother and father.
  • Margaret, b. say 1538, named in the wills of grandmother and father.
  • Anne, b. say 1540, anmed in the wills of grandmother and father.
  • Edumund, bapt. Redgrave Oct 1541, prob. d. young.
  • Richard, bapt. 25 Nov 1542, not mentioned in 1559/60 will of father.
  • Catherine, b. say 1545, named in father's 1559/60 will.
  • Edmund, bapt. Redgrave 10 May 1547, prob. d. young.
  • Rose, bapt. Redgrave 9 Aug 1549, m. Lancelot JASPER (see).
  • Edmund, bapt. Redgrave 23 July 1551, named as under 20 in father's 1559/60 will.
  • "Puer" (Latin for "boy") bapt. Redgrave 23 Sep 1553, not in father's will.
  • Olyffe (Olive?), b. say 1555, named in 1559/60 will of father.
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1557, named in 1559/60 will of father.
  • Henry, bapt. Redgrave 31 March 1560, m. Redgrave 26 Sep 1588 Anne KNIGHT, bur. Redgrave 25 July 1598. They had two children baptized at Redgrave 1594 and 1597.

(10g) George Fairbanks I

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see above

(10g) John Breck

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Allen H. Bent: "The Sherborn and Gardner, Massachusetts Brecks (1902), pp 4-5; NEHGR 51(1897):71; WikiTree website

John Breck, b. say 1605, d. Medfield, Mass. 3 Jan 1660[/1?], and m. say 1630 _______ _______, b. say 1610. The first record of Breck was in 1656 when John Breck's daughter, Elinor, married. The identity of his children comes from a 1727 deed. Children:

  • John, b. say 1631, d. 20 Aug 1690, unmarried. His estate was administered by his brother Thomas.
  • Thomas, b. say 1633, d. Sherborn 23 April 1703, and m. Dorchester, Mass. 12 Feb 1657 Mary HILL, b. abt. 1636, d. Sherborn 15 Aug 1726, aged about 90, daughter of John Hill and Frances (______) Austin.
  • Elinor, b. c. 1636, d. Stow, Mass. c. 8 July 1717, aged about 81, and m. Medfield 12 Sep 1656 Benjamin CRANE, b. c. 1636, d. aft. 1694

(9g) Thomas Breck

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Allen H. Bent: "The Sherborn and Gardner, Massachusetts Brecks (1902), pp 4-5; NEHGR 51(1897):71; WikiTree website

Thomas, son of John Breck with unknown wife, was b. say 1633, d. Sherborn, Mass. 23 April 1703, and m. Dorchester, Mass. 12 Feb 1657 Mary HILL, b. abt. 1636, d. Sherborn 15 Aug 1726, aged about 90, daughter of John Hill and Frances (______) Austin. Children, all b. Sherborn except for first:

  • Mary, b. and d. Dorchester, Mass. Dec 1657
  • Mary, b. c. 1659, living unmarried in Sherborn in 1727
  • Sarah, b. c. 1661, d. 6 July 1699, and m. c. 1687 her cousin Eleazer HILL; five children; Eleazer m. (2) Rebeca (Clark) Richardson
  • Susanna, b. 10 Sep 1663, d. 25 Aug 1664
  • Susanna, b. 10 May 1667, d. 28 May 1744, aged about 77, m. c. 1695 widower John ADAMS of Medfield; eight children.
  • John, b. 4 March 1671, d. 3 Jan 1760, aged 88
  • Bethiah, b. 20 Dec 1673, d. 3 Feb 1754, aged 80, m. widower Joseph DANIEL of Medfield, a miller
  • Hannah, b. c. 1676, living in Framingham in 1739
  • Esther, b. c. 1679, d. 17 Aug 1774, aged about 95, m. John RICHARDSON Jr., son of John Richardson and Rebecca (Clark) Richardson Breck
  • Nathaniel (twin), b. 1 March 1682, d. before his father (bef. 1703)
  • Samuel (twin), b. 1 March 1682, d. Sherborn 1711/12, aged 29, unmarried. His will dated 15 April 1706 was admitted to probate 24 Jan 1711/2, and gave his estate to his mother and five stisters

(10g) John Hill

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J. Gardner Bartlett, "John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., and his Descendants" (NEHGR 58(1904):157-168; WikiTree website

John Hill, b. say 1605, d. Dorchester, Mass. 31 May 1664, m. c. 1631 Frances _______, b. say 1610, d. Dorchester 18 Nov 1676. Following John's death, Frances m. Taunton (Plymouth Colony?) 14 Dec 1667 Jonas Austin, bapt. Staplehurst, Kent, England 3 Dec 1598, d. Taunton 30 July 1683, son of Jarvis Austen and Mary Bassock. Jonas had m. as his first wife, Tenterden, Kent, Eng. 22 Jan 1626/7 Constance (Unknown) Robinson, widow of William Robinson, who had died at Taunton 22 April 1667. On 28 June 1674 "Francis Hill that was, but now Francis Asten, was dismissed [from the church at Dorchester] to join the church at Tanton". John is first of record in Dorchester on 6 Jan 1633/4, and had come from the Plymouth Colony with three other men, based on a letter from Gov. William Bradford on 6 Feb 1631/2, written to the Massachusetts authorities. His English origins are unknown, but Bartlett suggested that he might have come from Chard in Somerset. He had some land transactions in Dorchester, but does not appear to have been a member of the church, and therefore was not a freeman, and there is no record of his having held public office. He lived in the part of Dorchester called Uncaty, later set off as Milton. John's will was dated 11 April 1660, and proved 30 June 1664, with inventory dated 9 June 1664, amounting to 281 pounds. Children of John and Frances Hill:

  • John, b. say 1632
  • Rebecca, b. c. 1634, d. 13 May 1676, m. 25 Feb 1667/8 Joseph GRAY of Taunton, who survived her. She was admitted to the Dorchester church 12 Feb 1664/5, and dismissed to the Taunton church 18 Feb 1671/2.
  • Mary, b. c. 1636, d. Sherborn, Mass. 15 Aug 1726, m. Dorchester 12 Feb 1656/7 Thomas BRECK.
  • Samuel, b. and bapt. c. 1638
  • Jonathan, bapt. 12 July 1640
  • Hannah, bapt. Dec 1641
  • Mercy, bapt. 8 Jan 1642/3
  • Ruth, b. Aug 1644, d. Sudbury, Mass. 1 Sep 1736, m. 19 July 1664 Roger WILLIS
  • Ebenezer, b. say 1645
  • Israel, b. say 1647
  • Martha, bapt. 20 Aug 1648
  • Mehitable, bapt. 18 Feb 1650/1, d. 5 March 1679, unmarried

(12g) John Fuller

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Gen Hist Maine: 16-17; NEHGR 55:413-15 (parish register entries and will).

John Fuller, born say 1500, bur. Redenhall cum Hartleston and Wortwell, Norfolk, England (as John Fuller, the elder) 3 May 1559, married a woman whose name has not been learned. He lived in the parish of Redenhall with Harleston which shares a church with the parish of Wortwell, these places being in Norfolk, England. His will was dated 4 Feb 1558/9 and proved 12 May 1559. Children, named in will:

  • John, b. say 1530, m. Ann _______; he was executor of his father's will (see below).
  • Alice, named "Ales" in her father's 1558/9 will.
  • Robert, b. say 1545, bur. Redenhall 23 May 1614, m. say 1572 Frances _______, b. say 1552. A Francis Fuller, widow, was bur. Redenhall 28 March 1632. Robert was a yeoman and butcher living in Redenhall. His will was dated 19 May 1614 and proved 31 May 1614. They had ten children born from 1573 to 1588, six of whom were named in Robert's will, and two of whom, Edward and Samuel, came to New England in the Mayflower.

(11g) John Fuller

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Gen Hist Maine:16-17; Fuller-King Fam, p 507; NEHGR 55:194 (Roger Fuller); NEHGR 55:410-11 (parish register entries) and 55:415 (will).

John, the son of an earlier John Fuller, was born say 1530, bur. Redenhall 15 May 1599, and m. say 1553 Ann (COLLINGE?), b. say 1533, d. aft. 1599. In his will, John gave to his wife "The little house and garden which mother Collinge some time dwelt in". Following John's death, Ann m. (2) Redenhall 30 Dec 1599 Giles Chalker, "widdower". John's will was dated 28 Jan 1598/9 and proved 8 May 1599, mentioning two sons named Thomas and two sons named William and other children. Children, with baptisms appearing in the register of the Parish of Redenhall cum Harleston and Wortwell (it appears that the children of two different John Fullers are included in the register; a 1579 baptism refers to the other John as John ffuller, the younger):

  • William the elder, b. say 1554, died before his father, m. Elizabeth _______.
  • William the younger, b. say 1556, d. 1611, m. 25 Nov 1581 Alice LINGE
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 1 Feb 1559[/60?]
  • Ann, bapt. 8 Sep 1560
  • Garthred, bapt. "30" Feb 1562[/3?]
  • "Jone", bapt. 30 May 1565
  • Ralph, bapt. 4 Nov 1565
  • Thomas, bapt. 18 Dec 1565. A Thomas Fuller, son of John, was bur. Redenhall 31 May 1601.
  • Thomas the younger, b. say 1570
  • Roger, bapt. 19 Oct 1572, d. 30 April 1644, m. Redenhall, Norfolk 24 April 1600 Jane GOWEN, d. 1647. Roger's will was proved in the Archdeaconry of Norwich Aug 1644, and named wife Jane, sons Roger, Richard, and William, and daughters Jane Fuller, Elizabeth Fuller (my daughter wife of John Fuller), Susanna Thurston, wife of Thomas Thurston, and Francis Tyte, wife of Robert Tyte. His son Giles Fuller was not named. His children Susanna Thurston and Giles Fuller settled in New England, Giles being of Hampton (NH).

(10g) William Fuller

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William the younger, son of John Fuller, Jr. and Ann (Collinge?), was born say 1556, and m. Redenhall 25 Nov 1581 Alice LINGE, b. say 1561. William the younger has only this one baptism recorded in the parish register of Redenhall cum Harleston and Wortwell, whereas William Fuller (his brother) has several children with baptisms there:

  • Ralph, bapt. 8 Nov 1584, m. Elizabeth ElIOT

(9g) Ralph Fuller

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NEHGR 52:421-2 (wills of Ralph, Robert, and Margaret Fuller); Fuller-King Fam, p 507; NEHGR 55:410-414 (parish register entries).

Ralph, the son of William Fuller the younger and Alice Linge, was bapt. Redenhall cum Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk, England 8 Nov 1584, bur. Redenhall 12 July 1649, and m. Redenhall 3 Nov 1608 Elizabeth ELIOT. He called himself linen weaver of Wortwell, Norfolk in his will dated 23 Oct 1645 and proved 17 Aug 1650, in which he names wife Elizabeth and three grandsons: (1) John Fuller son of son Robert Fuller; (2) John Fuller, son of son Thomas Fuller now in New England; and (3) John Fuller, son of son James Fuller now in Wortwell. Children, all baptisms at Redenhall cum Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk:

  • William, bapt. 15 Aug 1609. William Fuller, "fil of Ralfe," was bur. Redenhall 5 Aug 1625.
  • Thomas, bapt. 13 Oct 1610
  • Robert, b. say 1613, bur. Redenhall 11 Aug 1667, m. Anne CRASHFIELD. Robert was called "from Mendham" in his burial record. Robert's will was dated 12 Nov 1663 and proved in 1667, naming wife Anne as executrix; father and mother Ralph and Elizabeth Fuller, late of Wortwell, Norfolk, deceased; three sons, Thomas, Stephen, and Ralph; Anne's brothers: Stephen Crashfield of Denton, Norfolk, and Thomas Crashfield of Mendham, Suffolk.
  • James, b. say 1615. A James Fuller m. Redenhall 5 Oct 1643 Martha LARDING
  • John, bapt. 6 April 1617
  • Thomas, bapt. 20 Jan 1619[/20], m. Hannah FLOWER.
  • child, bur. Redenhall 7 Jan 1621[/2], unbaptized, so likely infant or stillborn.
  • Roger, bapt. 12 June 1624, bur. Redenhall 16 Feb 1625[/6]

(8g) Thomas Fuller Sr.

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Fuller Gen 1-8 [94]; NEHGR 11:40 (will of Margaret Kingsbury); GM 4:186 (account of John and Margaret Kingsbury)

Thomas Fuller, bapt. Redenhall, Norfolk, England 20 Jan 1619[/20], d. Dedham 28 Sep 1690, m. Dedham 22 Nov 1643 Hannah FLOWER, b. say 1623, d. 1701, the niece of Margaret Kingsbury, wife of John. This John Kingsbury was an early settler of Watertown and Dedham, Mass., and the brother of Joseph Kingsbury, below. Thomas received a personal letter, dated in 1677, from Robert Allin in Alburgh, Norfolk, England, from which we can infer that Thomas was from that area. Hannah is likely the Hannah [no surname given], kinswoman of our br:Kingsbury, who was received into the Dedham church on 11 March 1641[/2?]. Thomas is first of record in New England when "admitted to the purchase of Martin Phillips's lot" in Dedham, Mass. on 25 Nov 1642 (Gen:1). In her will of 9 Jan 1660/1, Margaret Kingsbury, widow of John, bequeathed to "Thomas Fuller of Dedham aforesaid my kinsman" 20 pounds, and the residue of her estate to "Thomas Fuller & Hannah his wife my near kinswoman", with Thomas Fuller named as sole executor. Thomas became very prominent in town affairs, serving on numerous committees, serving many years as selectman, and serving as deputy to the General Court on multiple occasions. His will was dated 24 Sep 1690. Hannah was living 25 Aug 1701 when taxed in Dedham, but dead by 17 Nov 1701 when her property was taxed to the heirs of Thomas Fuller and Margaret Kingsbury. Children:

  • John, b. Dedham 1:9mo:1644 (1 Nov 1644), d. Dedham 21:12mo:1644 (21 Feb 1644/5)
  • John, b. Dedham 28:10mo:1645 (28 Dec 1645), d. 15 Jan 1719[/20?], m. 8 Feb 1672[/3?] Judith GAY, b. 23 April 1649, d. 19 Nov 1718, daughter of John and Joanna Gay. John served as Town Clerk and as a Dedham selectman. He was a soldier during King Philip's War wounded at the Narragansett Fight 19 Dec 1675. John and Judith are buried in the Old Dedham Cemetery, and her stone was standing when the family genealogy was written. They had six children born from 1673 to 1687.
  • Elizabeth, b. 1 Feb 1648[/9?], d. 24 Oct 1732, m. (1) 29 Nov 1666 John KINGSBURY, b. Dedahm 15 Aug 1643, d. there 30 May 1669, son of Joseph and Millicent Kingsbury (see below); m. (2) 17 Sep 1672 Michael METCALF, b. Dedham 21 Jan 1644/5, d. there 1 Sep 1693. Elizabeth had one daughter with her first husband, born in 1668, and had seven children with her second husband, born from 1674 to 1691.
  • Hannah, b. 9 Nov 1650, d. Dedham 11 April 1672
  • Thomas, b. 6 Feb 1652[/3?], d. 26 June 1662
  • Mary, b. 26 March 1655, d. 19 March 1726[/7?], m. 19 Jan 1674[/5?] Daniel FISHER, b. 26 Feb 1649[/50?], d. 17 Nov 1713, son of Capt. Daniel Fisher and Abigail Mariott. They were both buried in Dedham's old burying ground, and his tombstone was still standing when the Fuller genealogy was written. They had seven children born from 1676 to 1694.
  • Samuel, bapt. 10 April 1657, d. 17 March 1678/9
  • Sarah, b. 7 May 1659, d. 31 March 1736, m. (1) 6 Dec 1682 Ralph DAY, bapt. 11 Feb 1657[/8?], d. 21 Oct 1694, son of Ralph Day and Susan Fairbanks; m. (2) 17 May 1704 John CARPENTER; m. (3) 27 July 1721 Samuel WARE of Wrentham. She had six children, all with her first husband, born from 1683 to 1695 (posthumously).
  • Thomas, b. 23 June 1662, m. Esther FISHER (see below).

(7g) Thomas Fuller, Jr. (Dedham)

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Fuller Gen:8-17

Thomas, the son of Thomas Fuller and Hannah Flower of Dedham, Mass., was b. there 23 June 1662, d. there 23 April 1734, and m. Milton, MA 25 April 1688 Esther FISHER, b. Dedham 5 Aug 1667, d. there 3 April 1747, the daughter of Daniel Fisher and Abigail Mariott. Thomas was chosen as selectman of Dedham in 1702, and held the position for five years, and was a representative to the General Court from 1723 to 1724. In a letter dated 28 Oct 1847, Stephen Palmer Fuller wrote that the "graves of Thomas and his wife Esther are near the centre of Dedham burying ground, with stones in good preservation." When Francis H. Fuller published a genealogy on the family in 1895, he said the stones were no longer to be found. Children, born Dedham with dates from Fuller Gen.: [95]

  • Thomas, b. 28 Feb 1689, d. Willington, CT 17 Oct 1754, m. March 1719 Mehitable HERRING, b. Dedham 18 Oct 1697, daughter of Thomas and Mehitable Herring. The marriage date is recorded in Boston as 26 March 1719, but is recorded in Dedham as 6 March 1719. Since the couple was from Dedham, for their marriage to appear in the Boston records suggests they were married there. Using that assumption, the date of 26 March will be accepted as the most accurate. They had eight known children, born 1720 to 1736, the first six born in Needham and the last two born in Willington, CT. [96]
  • Esther, b. 30 Dec 1694, d. Dedham 23 January 169[_]. In the original book, the last digit of the death year is illegible, and it is possible it has the "double date", e.g. 1696/7. [97]
  • Jeremiah, b. 2 Nov 1696, d. Sharon, Mass. 13 May 1772, m. Needham, Mass. 16 July 1724 Hannah NEWELL, b. Dedham 30 May 1703, d. Sharon, Mass. 11 July 1745, daughter of Josiah Newell and Hannah Fisher. Following Hannah's death, Jeremiah m. (2) 27 May 1746 Deborah (DAMON) Withington, b. Dorchester, Mass 3 Aug 1708, the widow of James Withington, and the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Damon. After Jeremiah's death, Deborah m. (3) 6 Oct 1772 Joseph _______. Jeremiah and Hannah have extant grave markers in the Chestnut Tree Cem., Sharon, Mass. They had 13 children, born c. 1725 to 1747. [98]
  • Daniel, b. 20 April 1699, d. Willington, CT 6 Dec 1758, m. (1) 7 Aug 1723 Lucy GOODRICH, b. Wethersfield, CT 9 Sep 1699, d. Willington, CT 21 July 1739, the daughter of Jonathan Goodrich and Abigail Crafts. He m. (2) 26 Oct 1742 Mary EDGERTON, b. 1712, d. 22 Feb 1784, aged 71. Daniel graduated from Yale in 1721. He preached at Windsor and Wethersfield, CT, then spent the last 30 years of his life as the pastor at Willington, CT. He had 6 children with his first wife, born 1724 to 1738, and had four more children with his second wife, born 1744 to 1751. Daniel and second wife Mary have extant grave markers in the Old Willington Hill Cemetery. [99]
  • Amos, b. Dedham 11 May 1701, m. Esther KINGSBURY. [100]
  • David, b. 26 March 1704, d. 23 June 1777, m. Dedham 18 March 1730 Elizabeth EVERETT, b. Dedham 3 Sep 1709, d. there 1 Feb 1800, daughter of William Everett and Rachel Newcomb. David was a Dedham Selectman for several years, and a soldier in the Louisburg expedition, as well as the French and Indian War. He was titled Captain in 1765 when serving on a committee to build a powder house in Dedham, and he likely did most of the building, as 2/3 of the funding went to him for "labor, material and board of the workman." The powder house still stands (2016) and is a Dedham historic landmark. David lived in Needham where he was taxed in 1730 and 1732, but about 1733 he exchanged properties with his brother Amos, and moved to his father's estate in Dedham. The estate, which had originally belonged to his grandfather, was later passed on to his son, Eliphalet. David and Elizabeth had six known children, born 1731 to 1749. [101] [102]

(6g) Amos Fuller

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Amos Fuller, the son of Thomas Fuller and Esther Fisher, was b. Dedham, Mass. 11 May 1701, d. Needham, Mass. 12 Nov 1771, and m. Needham 4 Feb 1729/30 Esther KINGSBURY, b. Dedham 16 Sep 1711, d. Needham 6 Nov 1801, daughter of Eleazer and Rebecca Kingsbury. Esther was born in the part of Dedham that became the town of Needham later in the year that she was born. They lived in Dedham until about 1733, likely on his father's estate, which had earlier belonged to his grandfather. It appears that in 1733 he exchanged this property for property in Needham with his brother David, and then moved to Needham, where the family remained. Amos was a Selectman in Needham for eleven years and a representative to the General Court for five years. Amos has an existing tombstone in Needham, but his wife's marker has not survived. Children, first recorded Dedham, remainder Needham: [103] [104]

  • Amos, b. 9 March 1731/2, d. Needham 7 May 1810, aged 79, m. Needham 5 Sep 1754 Sarah KINGSBURY, b. Needham (Dedham) 20 Feb 1730/1, d. Needham 21 May 1810, daughter of Capt Timothy Kingsbury and Jemima Ware. He was a soldier in the Rev. War and served in Capt Robert Smith's company, Col. William Heath's regiment of Minute Men at Lexington in 1775, and also at Dorchester Heights in March 1776. Amos was a merchant and fairly wealthy; his acounts book survived at least until the end of the 19th century. He was a Neeham selectman for three years, and a town treasurer for 21 years. He was an avid member of the First Church of Needham, and was said to have been the "right hand man" of Rev. Stephen Palmer. In 1754 he built the Newell house on Nehoiden Street in Needham, and lived there until his death. Amos and Sarah had four known surviving children, born 1755 to 1773. Amos and Sarah are buried in the Needham Cemetery. [105] [106]
  • Ebenezer, b. 15 Nov 1734, d. Needham 1 May 1777, m. Needham 29 Nov 1759 Meribah (_______) Smith, b. 1737, d. Weston 19 April 1816, aged 79. Ebenezer was a Needham selectman for several years and a member of the Committee of Correspondence during the American Revolutionary War. Ebenezer is buried in the Needham Cemetery, and his epitaph appears in the Dedham Historical Register (2:23). Ebenezer and Meribah had six children born 1761 to 1777. [107] [108]
  • Samuel, b. 16 Sep 1737, d. Schenectady, NY 20 Feb 1773, m. Schenectady 7 Dec 1763 Annatje "Nancy" Hall, daughter of William Hall and Ann Cooper. He moved from Needham to Schenectady just prior to his marriage, and worked as an achitect and builder. He designed and built Johnson Hall at Johnstown, NY. The New England Hist Gen Society has a letter written by Nancy to her brother-in-law, Amos Fuller, announcing the death of her husband, and giving some other family particulars. A transcription of the letter is found in Francis H. Fuller's 1895 genealogy of the family. Samuel and Nancy had two known children, born in 1763 and 1771.
  • Josiah, b. 7 March 1739/40, d. Rutland, VT c. 1810, m. Wrentham, Mass. 15 Oct 1761 Abigail WHITING, b. Wrentham 24 April 1740, d. Rutland, VT 1809, daughter of Eliphalet Whiting and Abigail Mann. Josiah lived with family in Medway, Mass. until 1777, when he sold the homestead and moved to Rutland, Vermont. He was an officer during the American Revolutionary War, and a Major of a regement of minute men in April 1775, and later Captain of a company that marched to Warwick, RI in 1778. A nephew left a record that Josiah died aged 70 years. Abigail's obituary appeared in the Columbian Centinel on 20 Sep 1809, calling her the wife of Josiah, indicating that he was still living. Josiah and Abigail had four children born in Medway, Mass. 1762 to 1769. [109]
  • Jeremiah, b. 2 Oct 1743, d. Needham 13 Sep 1766. He has an existing grave marker in the Needham Cemetery. [110]
  • Eleazer, b. 3 May 1746, d. Needham 8 March 1828, aged 82, m. Dedham 27 Aug 1772 Mary RICHARDS, b. 2 Dec 1752, d. Needham 20 Feb 1821, daughter of Ebenezer Richards and Thankful Stratton. Eleazer served in the Rev War as a sergeant in Capt Robert Smith's company, Col William Heath's regiment at Lexington, and at later times also. He was also on the committee to hire soldiers during the war. He was a Neeham selectman for five years, and treasurer of the First Parish church there for eleven years. He and his wife had four known children, born 1776 to 1786. Eleazer and Mary are buried in the Needham Cemetery. [111] [112]
  • Solomon, b. 23 Oct 1749, d. Needham 11 April 1806, aged 58, m. Needham 10 June 1773 Mary COLBURN, b. 1747, d. Needham 31 Oct 1811, aged 64. Solomon was a Rev. War soldier and served as a private in Capt Robert Smith's company, Col Heath's regiment at Lexington in 1775, and also at Dorchester Heights in March 1776. Solomon and Mary have existing tombstones in the Needham Cemetery. [113]
  • Asa, b. 20 Sep 1752, m. Meletiah METCALF. [114]

(5g) Asa Fuller

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Asa, b. Needham, Mass. 20 Sep 1752, d. Medway, Mass. 11 Aug 1836, was the son of Amos Fuller and Esther Kingsbury of Needham, Mass. He was married in Franklin, MA on 1 June 1780 to Meletiah METCALF, b. Wrentham, Mass. 18 Aug 1756 (and baptized 12 Dec 1756), d. Medway, MA 13 Feb 1837, the daughter of Jonathan Metcalf Jr. and Bathsheba Pond. According to an SAR application, Asa marched at the Lexington Alarm of 19 Apr 1775 as a private in the West Medway Company under Lt Moses Adams, Major Fuller, and in Col. John Smith's regiment. He also marched from Medway to Warwick, RI on 8 Dec 1776 under Josiah Fuller, Col Wheelock's regiment. He is found in the DAR Patriot Index. Meletiah was called of Franklin in her marriage record, found in the Medway Vital Records. She was called Meletiah Fuller in her mother's 1801 will. Asa appears with family in Medway in the 1790 census, and then only with wife in 1800 and 1830 in Medway. He may be the Asa Fuller living only with wife (both aged 45+) in Walpole, Mass. in 1810, but is not found in 1820. A death announcement for Asa appeared in the Columbian Centinel of 15 Oct 1836, calling him a rev. soldier, and dying in Medway on 11 October, aged 84. Asa and Meletiah had six known children: [115]

  • Asa, b. Bellingham, MA 26 Dec 1781, d. Medway, MA 2 Mar 1872, and m. Franklin, MA 4 Apr 1811 Hepzibah BLAKE, b. 16 Jun 1788, d. 19 Nov 1878, the dau of Philip Blake and Sarah Allen (d. 1795). He and Hepzibah appear together on the 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses of Franklin, MA, with their son George in 1850 and 1860. Asa and Hepzibah share a grave marker with his parents in the Evergreen Cem., W. Medway, MA. [116]
  • Abner, b. Medway 30 Aug 1784, d. Medway 3 Aug 1866 (death also recorded in Worcester, MA), m. (int Medway 30 Dec 1808; Greenwich, 26 Dec 1808) Lydia ROGERS, b. Greenwich, MA 1789, d. Medway 9 Jan 1863, dau of Stephen Rogers of Greenwich. Abner is found on the 1810, 1830, and 1840 federal censuses in Franklin, Mass., and on the 1820 in Medway, Mass., with wife and what may be as many as five children. He is not found in 1850, but in 1855 and 1860 he and his wife were called paupers, and living on a farm (poor farm) in Medway. After his wife died, Abner is found on the 1865 Mass. census once again as a pauper on a farm in Medway. Abner and his wife are almost certainly buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in W. Medway, Mass., where his parents and most of his siblings are buried. [117]
  • Meletiah, b. Medway 20 Nov 1785, d. Medway 1 Feb 1796, aged 10, bur. in old part of Evergreen Cem. [118]
  • Elihu, b. Medway 19 Apr 1788, , d. Medway 17 Sep 1852, and m. Medway 8 Jun 1815 Rhoda DANIELS, b. Medway 16 Jan 1792, d. Medway 10 Nov 1881, dau of Israel Daniels (1763-1822) and Anna Parker (b 1766). In 1820 Elihus is found on the federal census in Medway (10010-01011), and is also on the 1830 and 1840 censuses, but the name is transcribed as Eliha in 1830 and as Elahuc in 1840. The family is not found in 1850, but in 1855 and 1860 Rhoda is a widow living with son Israel Fuller and family in Medway. In 1870 Rhoda is a widow living in Medway with son Elihu, aged 45, and his family. She is not found in 1865, 1875, or 1880. Her death record says she is buried in Medway, and is without little doubt buried in the Evergreen Cemetery where her husband's parents and many siblings are buried. Elihu and Rhoda had four known children. [119]
  • Sylvia, b. 9 Oct 1791, m. Otis FAIRBANKS. [120]
  • Newell, b. Franklin, MA 19 Feb 1795, d. Harvard, MA 18 Apr 1863 of Typhoid, m. Harvard 13 Apr 1841 Jane DAVIS, b. Harvard 29 Apr 1807, d. Harvard 27 Jan 1894, dau of William Davis (1761-1833) and Rebecca Tuttle (1771-1823). They lived their married lives in Harvard, and are enumerated on the 1850 and 1860 censuses for Harvard, with son Alfred N. Fuller. Following his death, Jane appears in the 1870 census of Harvard, aged 72, and is called a nurse. She was in some kind of home with other non-related people, it appears. They are buried in Harvard. [121]

(13g) John Fisher

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NEHGR 151(1997):171-4

John Fisher, b. say 1465, d. 1523, m. say 1490 Christian _______, b. say 1470, living in 1514 when named in a court action, but not named in husband's 1523 will. John was a resident of Wingfield, Suffolk, England. In his will dated 27 Feb 1522/3 and proved 15 April 1523, he requested to be buried in the churchyard of Wingfield. Only known children, named in his will:

  • William, b. say 1490, inherited Chickering Hall in Wingfield by the 1522/3 will of his father. He is the only Fisher listed in the 1524 Subsidy of Wingfield. William had two sons, John and Robert.
  • Robert, b. say 1495

(12g) Robert Fisher

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NEHGR 151:174-5

Robert, the son of John and Christian Fisher of Wingfield, Suffolk, England, was born say 1495, and lived in Syleham cum Essham, where his name appears in the 1524 Subsidy of Suffolk. In Jan 1547/8 he was witness to the will of Thomas Fulcher of the neighboring parish of Fressingfield. A deed dated 15 Jan 1563/4 shows that his son was William Fysher. Known and possible children:

  • (poss) Margaret, b. say 1521, m. Wingfield 16 Jan 1542 William LAWES.
  • (poss) Robert, b. say 1523, had children baptized at Wingfield in 1550 and 1554.
  • Anne (or Amy), b. say 1525, m. Wingfield 8 July 1546 John FORDER. She was named in the 1591 will of her brother William.
  • William, b. say 1527, m. Margerie BERT.

(11g) William Fisher

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NEHGR 151:175-8

William, the son of Robert Fisher of Syleham, Suffolk, England, was born say 1527, likely at Syleham, d. 1591, and m. Stradbroke, Suffolk 15 Oct 1551 Margerie BERT, daughter of William Bert. William owned properties in Cransford and Swefling, but eventually settled in the parish of St. James South Elmham, where he wrote his will 14 June 1591, probated 9 Aug 1591. His wife Margerie and son William were named as executors. Children:

  • Johanna, bapt. Stradbroke 15 Sep 1553, m. George BUGGE of Creeting, Suffolk who d. c. 1638 (will proved). Seven children were named in George's 1625 will.
  • William, bapt. Syleham 20 July 1556, d. c. 1619, m. Fressingfield 9 Oct 1587 Alice ALDOUS, daughter of Thomas Aldous and Gillian Fiske. William's will was dated 9 June 1618 and proved 8 April 1619, indicating he was living in Swefling and naming three children.
  • Anthony (twin), bapt. Stradbroke 1 Feb 1558/9, m. Marie FISKE.
  • Agnes (twin), bapt. Stradbroke 1 Feb 1558/9, bur. there 4 Jan 1562/3.
  • Jane, bapt. Stradbroke 15 Dec 1560, bur. Fressingfield 15 Oct 1625, and m. there 21 April 1585 Francis WOLNAUGH, son of James Wolnaugh. Her will was dated Aug 1625 and proved Jan 1625/6. They had six children baptized at Fressingfield, two of whom were named and three of whom were mentioned without name in her will.

(10g) Anthony Fisher I

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Fisher Gen: 1-6; NEHGR 151:178-82

Anthony Fisher, son of William Fisher and Margerie Bert, was baptized at Stradbroke, Suffolk, England 1 Feb 1558/9, bur. Syleham, Suffolk, England 11 April 1640, and m. Fressingfield, Suffolk 16 Oct 1586 Mary/Marie FISKE, b. c. 1563, living in 1640, daughter of Nicholas Fiske and Johan Crispe of Laxfield and Dennington. On 19 April 1640 widow Mary Fisher was appointed administratrix of Anthony's estate. Children, baptized at Syleham:

  • Joshua, bapt (as Joseph) Fressingfield 24 March 1587/8, d. Medfield, Mass. 18 Oct 1674, m. (1) Elizabeth _______, bur. Redenhall with Harleston, Norfolk 11 Sep 1638; m. (2) Syleham, Suffolk 7 Feb 1638/9 Anne ORFOR (Orford?), d. Medfield 27 Jan 1676/7, possibly a daughter of Rachel (Fiske) Orfor. In 1621 or 1622 Joshua moved with his family from Syleham, Suffolk across the Waveney River to Harleston, Norfolk, perhaps three miles away. Joshua was in New England by 1639, settling in Dedham, Mass., where his son Joshua was already settled with his brother Anthony who had emigrated about 1637. The subject Joshua was first of record in Dedham on 23 March 1639/40, but in 1651 settled in Medfield, created from a part of Dedham. He was the first deacon in the Medfield church, and a selectman in 1653 and 1655. His will was dated 2 May and probated 19 Nov 1674. Anne's will was dated 8 April 1675 and proved 1 Feb 1676/7. Joshua had two children baptized in Syleham in 1619 and 1621, and seven more children baptized at Redenhall from 1622/3 to 1635, all with his first wife.
  • Mary/Marie, bapt. Syleham 28 Nov 1589, m. Dennington 25 April 1626 Roger BRIGGS. She was named in the 1636 will of her brother John and the 1638 will of her brother Cornelius.
  • Anthony, bapt. Syleham 23 April 1591, m. (1) Alice _______; m. (2) Isabel (______) (Rigby) Breck.
  • Amos, bapt. Fressingfield 26 April 1594, m. (1) Syleham 24 Sep 1633 Ann (MAURICE) Locke, widow of Daniel Locke; m. (2) Christian (______) Edwards. His will was dated 8 Feb 1659/60 and proved 23 Aug 1660, giving his residence as Weeley, Essex. Four children named in will.
  • Martha, bapt. Fressingfield 25 Jan 1595/6, bur. Syleham 31 March 1659, and m. John BUCKINGHAM/BOKENHAM of Syleham.
  • John, bapt. Syleham 15 Sep 1597, bur. there 4 Sep 1636, a clothier. His will, dated 28 March and proved 30 Oct 1636, mentions no wife or children, but makes bequests to his siblings and parents.
  • Cornelius, bapt. Syleham 19 Aug 1599, d. 1641, m. Elizabeth _______. Elizabeth m. (2) Rev. George Smith. He received his M.A. from Cambridge in 1625 and became a school teacher at East Bergholt, Suffolk. His will was dated 23 May 1638 and admitted to probate in London Dec 1641. In it he named his three brothers Joshua, Anthony, and Amos, and his two sisters Marie Brigge and Martha Bucingham, and alluded to his father and mother as if they were both living.
  • (prob.) Hester, b. say 1601, bur. Syleham 6 Feb 1607/8. Because her assumed brother, Joshua, above, named a daughter Hester, it is reasonable that this Hester belongs in this family.

(9g) Anthony Fisher II

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Fisher Gen: 6-10, 18-23; NEHGR 151:182-3

Anthony, son of Anthony Fisher and Mary Fiske of Syleham, Suffolk, England, was bapt. there 23 April 1591, d. Dorchester, Mass. 18 April 1671 in his 80th year, m. (1) say 1615 Alice _______, b. say 1595, d. Dedham 12 Jan 1662/3 as "Ellice Fisher"; m. (2) 14 Nov 1663 Isabell (_______) Breck, d. Dorchester 22 June 1673, the widow of Edward Breck of Dorchester (who d. 2 Nov 1662), and formerly widow of John Rigby. He was in New England by 1637 when on 18 July of that year he subscribed to the Dedham Covenant. His wife was received into the Dedham Church 27 March 1642, but he was not "comfortably received into ye church" until 14 March 1645 "on account of his proud and haughty spirit." He served as county commissioner in 1646, 1647 and 1660, and Deputy to the General Court in 1649. Children, all with first wife, first five baptized at Syleham, Suffolk; last two baptized at Denton, Norfolk:

  • John, bapt. 16 June 1616, d. Dedham, Mass. 15 July 1637.
  • Daniel, bapt. 4 June 1618 (about 43 in Jan 1661/2; aged 51 in 1669), m. 16 Nov 1641 Abigail MARRETT/MARRIOTT (below).
  • Lydia, bapt. 4 March 1620/1, d. Sherborn, Mass. 29 Jan 1690/1, aged 70, m. c. 1638 Daniel MORSE, b. c. 1610, d. Sherborn, Mass. 5 June 1688, son of Samuel Morse and Elizabeth Jasper. Daniel came to New England before his parents and settled at Watertown where he was made freeman 6 May 1635. He soon moved to Dedham, was later of Medfield, and finally of Sherborn. His will was dated 9 March 1687/8. They had nine children born from 1639 to 1661, all named in their father's 1687/8 will.
  • Leah, bapt. 27 Jan 1621/2, prob. d. young.
  • Anthony, bapt. 7 Aug 1623, d. 13 Feb 1669/70, prob. at Dorchester, m. Dedham 7 Sep 1647 Joanna FAXON.
  • Nathaniel, bapt. 22 Oct 1626, d. Dedham 23 May 1676, m. Dedham 26 Dec 1649 Esther HUNTING, d. 30 Jan 1691, daughter of John Hunting and Esther Seaborn of Dedham, Mass. In his 1660 will, he mentions his wife and unborn child, but no other children. He lived many years thereafter. They had only one known child, Nathaniel, born and died in 1660.
  • Cornelius, bapt 16 Aug 1629, d. Dedham 23 May 1676, m. (1) Dedham 22 Feb 1652/3 Leah EATON/HEATON, b. say 1633, d. Wrentham 12 Jan 1664, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Heaton of Dedham; (2) Dedham 25 July 1665 Sarah EVERETT, b. Dedham 12 April 1644, d. Wrentham 28 Feb 1675, daughter of Richard Everett and Mary Winch. He joined the Dedham church 6 Feb 1648 and was made freeman 2 May 1649. He had six children with his first wife born from 1654 to 1663, and three more with his second wife, born from 1667 to 1671.

(8g) Daniel Fisher

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Fisher Gen: 23-27, 36-41

Daniel, the son of Anthony Fisher and Mary Fiske, was baptized Syleham, Suffolk, England 4 June 1618 (about 43 in Jan 1661/2; aged 51 in 1669), d. Dedham, Mass. 8 Oct 1683, and m. Dedham 17 Nov 1641 Abigail MARRETT/MARRIOTT, bapt. St. Stephen, Ipswich, Suffolk, England 11 May 1623, d. 11 Oct 1683, the daughter of Thomas Marrett and Susanna. Daniel arrived in New England with his parents in 1637, and in 1639 was admitted to the Dedham church. He held the title of Sergeant in 1639, made a freeman in 1640, and joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company the same year. He served the town of Dedham for 32 years, as surveyor, selectman, representative to the General Court, Speaker of the House of Deputies, and Assistant. He held the title of Ensign and then Captain later in life, and in 1673 was chosen to be the Captain of the Dedham Military Company. Children:

  • Abigail, b. 2 Aug 1646, d. 13 Jan 1723[/4?], m. 17 Dec 1668 Lt John BAKER.
  • Daniel, b. Dedham 26 Feb 1650[/1?], d. 17 Nov 1713, m. Dedham 19 Jan 1675[/6?] Mary FULLER, b. Dedham 26 March 1655, d. 19 March 1726, daughter of Thomas Fuller and Hannah Flower. Daniel served during King Philip's War, and received pay for services in 1676. He was titled sergeant in 1696 and captain in 1700. He served multiple years as selectman of Dedham. Daniel's will was dated 15 Sep 1713. He is buried in the Dedham parish burial ground. Daniel and Mary had seven children born in Dedham from 1676 to 1694.
  • Lydia, b. 14 July 1652, d. 17 July 1737, m. 3/13 Dec 1674 as his second wife, Nathaniel CHICKERING, b. England 1647, d. Dedham 27 Oct 1694, son of Simeon and Prudence Chickering. She had two known children born 1677 and 1689.
  • Amos, b. Dedham 8 Nov 1654, d. 1736, m. (1) 12 March 1680 Mary ELLIS, b. 3 Feb 1655, d. 28 April 1691, daughter of Richard Ellis and Elizabeth French; m. (2) Boston 22 Dec 1691 Ruth Adams, d. Needham 26 Nov 1745. Amos was a tailor and made freeman in 1690. Amos had three children with his first wife, born 1682 to 1691, and two with his second wife, born 1693 and 1699.
  • John, b. Dedham 20 July 1656, d. Needham 25 Jan 1736, m. Dedham 15 June 1681 Rebecca ELLIS, b. there 30 April 1661, d. Needham 26 Oct 1740, daughter of Richard Ellis and Elizabeth French. He served during King Philip's War in 1676 and was woulded at Bloody Brook. He moved from Dedham to Needham about 1681. Capt. John Fisher of Needham "commanded the cavalry at the taking to the Fort of Sir Edmund Andros, on the morning of the 18th of April, 1689, when the tyrant had to surrender and committed to prison." (Gen., p 40) Four known children born from 1684 to 1701.
  • Jeremiah, b. 12 Dec 1658, d. 19 Sep 1676. He was a soldier in Capt John Jacobs' company during King Philip's War in June 1676.
  • Esher, b. 5 Aug 1661, m. Thomas FULLER (see).

(13g) Robert Bert

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NEHGR 151(1997):184-6

Robert Bert was born say 1465, d. c. May 1519, and m. (1) say 1490 _______ ______, b. say 1470, d. bef. 1495; m. (2) say 1495 Margaret (RICHMAN?), b. say 1475. He lived in Stradbroke in northern Suffolk, England. His will was dated 20 April 1519 and proved 7 June 1519, naming wife Margaret and two children, apparently born several years apart, and likely of two different mothers. His child with first wife:

  • Christian, b. say 1491, married and was named in her father's 1519 will with a son Robert and unnamed daughters.

Child with second wife:

  • William, b. say 1496, was unmarried in his father's 1519 will.

(12g) William Bert

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NEHGR 151(1997):186-91

William, the son of Robert and Margaret Bert, was born say 1496, probably at Stradbroke, Suffolk, England, d. 1556, and m. (1) say 1521 Johan GODBOLD, b. say 1500, d. by 1541, daughter of Roger and Margery Godbold; m. (2) Stradbroke 25 June 1541 Agnes BORRETT, b. say 1520, bur. Stradbroke 13 March 1566/7, daughter of Henry Borrett and Alice Cowper. William's will was dated 2 March 1555/6 and probated 6 Nov 1556. Children with first wife, likely all born at Stradbroke:

  • Roger, b. say 1522, m. Stradbroke 1 Sep 1550 Johanna MAYEWE.
  • Henry(Harry), b. say 1524, d. c. 1592/3, m. Agnes GREENLING, daughter of Richard Greeneling of Stradbroke. They had eleven children born/baptized from 1559 to 1576.
  • Robert, b. say 1526, m. (1) Stradbroke 7 Aug 1557 Christina _______, bur. Stradbroke 5 Dec 1569; m. (2) Stradbroke 22 Nov 1575 Johanna (______) Allen. Robert had three known children with his first wife baptized at Stradbroke from 1564 to 1571, and one child with second wife baptized there in 1576.
  • William, b. say 1528, bur. Stradbroke 26 April 1558, probably unmarried. His will was dated 19 April and proved 22 June 1558, naming brothers and sisters and their children.
  • Margery, b. say 1530, m. Stradbroke 15 Oct 1551 William FISHER. She was named in her father's 1556 will, brother William's 1558 will, grandmother Margery Godbold's 1542 will, and uncle Thomas Godbold's 1557 will.
  • Johanna, b. say 1532, bur. 13 March 1541/2.

Children with second wife, baptized at Stradbroke:

  • Jane, bapt. 18 March 1541/2, likely d. young.
  • Johanna/Johan, bapt. 14 April 1543, living in 1560 when named in mother's will.
  • Thomas, bapt. 2 July 1544, bur. 11 March 1548/9.
  • Anne (twin), bapt. 24 March 1546/7, living in 1560 when named in mother's will.
  • Marye (twin), bapt. 24 March 1546/7, living in 1560 when named in mother's will.

(15g) William Godbold

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NEHGR 151(1997):300-

William Godbold was born say 1425, d. c. 1507, and m. say 1450 Elizabeth _______, b. say 1430, liv. 1507. He was a resident of Dennington, Suffolk, England, and in his will, proved 14 Dec 1507, he named his wife Elizabeth as executrix. He is likely the one of his name who was churchwarden in Dennington in 1491. His will named one child:

  • Thomas, b. say 1450, married, possibly twice

(14g) Thomas Godbold

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NEHGR 151(1997):301-2

Thomas, the son of William and Elizabeth Godbold of Dennington, Suffolk, was born say 1450, and living in 1504 when named in his father's will, and bequeathed the tenement Jaffreys. He had likely died by 1524, as it is likely his son Thomas who appears in the Subsidy of Dinnington that year. Manorial records for Dennington during his lifetime have not survived, and little is therefore known of him. He had children, fairly spread out in age, and thus possibly of two different wives:

  • Roger, b. say 1473
  • Thomas, b. say 1478, bur. Badingham, Suffolk 21 Dec 1540
  • (daughter), b. say 1483, m. _______ FISKE. Her son John Fiske was named in the will of Anne Crispe in 1554 as "John Fyske my nephye".
  • William, b. say 1488, assumed to be in this family, and one of two of the named in the 1524 Subsidy of Dennington, the other likely the son of Roger, above.
  • Anne, b. say 1495, m. William CRISPE (below).

(13g) Roger Godbold

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NEHGR 151(1997):302-7

Roger, the son of Thomas Godbold, was born say 1473, probably at Dennington, Suffolk, England, d. 1536, and m. say 1496 Margery _______, b. say 1476, d. 1542. He is found on the 1524 Subsidy at Dennington, and was of that place when his will was drafted on 12 Jan 1535/6, proved 31 Oct 1536. Margery's will was dated 15 Nov 1542 and probated a month later on 14 Dec. Children, probably all born at Dennington:

  • Henry, b. say 1497, BA 1515-16. His will was dated 1540, but he was living in 1542 when mentioned in the will of his mother.
  • Johan, b. say 1500, m. William BERT (see).
  • Isabell, b. say 1503, d. c. 1584, m. (1) c. 1525 Thomas CONWOLDE; m. (2) Thomas LISTER. Her will was proved 12 Jan 1584/5. She had eight children with her first husband, all named in her mother's 1542 will.
  • William, b. say 1505, d. c. 1552/3, m. c. 1530 Margery _______, b. say 1510, living c. 1586. His will, proved 9 Feb 1552/3, named nine children. Margery m. (2) Thomas Bradlaw alias Jacob whose will was proved 22 May 1563.
  • Margaret, b. say 1507, d. by 1557, m. c. 1526 William HULLOCK. They had seven known children, named in the wills of her parents.
  • Nicholas, b. say 1509, d. c. 1586, m. (1) Alice _______, bur. Badingham, Suffolk 21 July 1562; m. (2) Gisleham 19 April 1582 Margaret ROBSON. He had a known son with first wife, and a daughter with second wife.
  • Thomas, b. say 1511, will proved 7 March 1559/60, unmarried.
  • Roger, b. say 1513, will proved 21 Feb 1570/1, unmarried.
  • Margery, b. say 1515, bur. Dennington 2 April 1585, m. (1) after 1542 _______ JERVYS; m. (2) bef. Nov 1557 John CHAMBER. She had a daughter with first husband.

(15g) Simon Fiske

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NEHGR 87(1933):367-370; 92(1938):287-8

Simon Fiske, son of Hugh Fiske (b. say 1370, who was possibly the grandson of Hugh Fisqs, a Laxfield landholder in 1345-46), was born say 1400, d. 1463/4, and m. (1?) say 1423 _______; m. (2) say 1431 Katherine (CRISPE?), who may not have been his first wife; and m. (3) Joan _______. Children, first four possibly of unknown first wife and remainder of Katherine:

  • William, b. say 1424, m. Joan _______, and was a legatee in his father's 1463 will.
  • Geoffrey, b. say 1426, d. May 1504, m. Margaret _______, likely predeceased her husband. He lived in Laxfield, Suffolk, and was a legatee in his father's 1463 will. His will was dated 3 May and proved 13 May 1504, and the will of Margaret was proved the same day as his. There were six known children.
  • John, the Elder, b. say 1428, m. Elizabeth _______. living in 1488
  • Edmund, b. say 1430, named in father's 1463 will. He was of Eye, Suffolk, England in 1471.
  • Margaret, b. c. 1432, m. by 1463 ------- DEUSING, and she was named in her father's 1463 will.
  • daughter, living unmarried in 1463; "to each of my three daughters..."
  • daughter, living unmarried in 1463
  • daughter, living unmarried in 1463
  • John, the Younger, b. say 1440, d. winter 1512/3, married a woman who was not named in his will. He lived in Laxfield, Suffolk, and was the residuary legatee and executor of his father's 1463 will. His own will was dated 18 Jan and 5 Feb 1512/3. He had three known children, named in his will.
  • Simon, possibly the son of William Fiske, above, was of Diss, Norfolk in 1478

(brother of 14g) William Fiske

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NEHGR 87(1933):368-74

William, the son of Simon Fiske of Laxfield, Suffolk, England, was born say 1425, d. by 1504, and m. Joan _______, d. by Feb 1504/5. William's will was proved by his widow Joan on 15 July 1504, and Joan's will was proved "the last of February 1504/5." Children:

  • Margery, b. c. 1450, living 15 July 1504 when named in her mother's will.
  • Margaret, b. c. 1452, living 15 July 1504 when named in mother's will.
  • Sir John, priest, b. c. 1454, named in mother's will. He may have been the Sir John Fyske of Laxfield whose will was dated 2 Oct 1535 and proved in 1536.
  • Austin, b. c. 1456, d. 1508, and m. Joan ______, living in 1508. He wrote his will 15 March 1507/8, proved 11 April 1508; widow Joan renounced executorship, and his brother's Simon and Thomas were named to do so. They had two sons, William and Thomas.
  • son, b. c. 1458, m. Christian _______, who was a legatee in the will of her mother-in-law, Joan Fyske, on 15 July 1504.
  • Simon, b. c. 1460, was one of the executors of his mother's will, Feb 1504/5.
  • son, b. c. 1462, m. Elizabeth _______ who was a legatee in the will of her mother-in-law, Joan Fyske, 15 July 1504.
  • Thomas, b. c. 1467, d. autumn 1525, m. Annes/Agnes _______, living in 1525 was not named in his mother's 1504 will, but was one of the executors of the 1507/8 will of his brother Austin. His own will was dated 27 Oct and proved 10 Dec 1525 He had four known children.

(cousin of 13g) Simon Fiske

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NEHGR 87(1933):370-2

Simon, the son of William Fiske of Laxfield, was born c. 1460, and m. Margery _______; and (2) _______, who was not mentioned in his will. He was the residuary legatee and executor of his mother's will dated 15 July 1504, and named a co-executor of the will of his brother Austin in 1507/8 (though he renounced execution). His own will was dated 10 July 1536 and proved 15 July 1538. Children with first wife:

  • William, b. c. 1495, m. by 1536 Elizabeth _______.
  • Simon, b. c. 1497, prob. the one who d. late autumn 1549, and m. Elizabeth _______. He is likely the Simon of Heckingham, Norfolk, whose will was dated 8 Nov 1549 and proved 8 Dec 1549. Five children were named in his will.
  • Joan, b. c. 1498, was a legatee in her father's 1536 will.
  • Jerelon/Gelyon, b. c. 1500, was a legatee in her father's 1536 will.
  • Olive, b. c. 1502, m. by 1536 _______ WARNE. She was a legatee in her father's 1536 will.
  • John, b. c. 1504, of Laxfield in 1568 and prob. also in 1585; not in father's 1536 will, but named in the 1535 will of Sir John Fiske, priest.
  • Robert, b. c. 1506, d. c. 1551, m. Alice ______, named in his will. He was of Laxfield, Suffolk, and was given his father's dwelling house with lands, etc. in his father's 1536 will. His own will was dated 6 March 1549/50 and proved 5 April 1551. He named three children in his will.
  • Agnes, b. c. 1508, prob. dead by 1536, and she is not mentioned in her father's will. An "Agnes the Younger" is a later sibling.

Children with second wife:

  • Margery, b. c. 1512, was a legatee in her father's 1536 will.
  • Jaffery/Geofrey, b. c. 1514, was a legatee in his father's 1536 will.
  • Joan, the Younger, b. c. 1516, was a legatee in her father's 1536 will.
  • Agnes, the Younger, b. c. 1518, was a legatee in her father's 1536 will.

(14g) Geoffrey Fiske

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NEHGR 92(1938):287-8; 87(1933):370

Geoffrey, the son of Simon Fiske of Laxfield, Suffolk, England, was born say 1442, d. May 1504, and m. say 1464 Margaret _______, b. say 1444, d. c. 1504, but likely dead when her husband made his will. He was a legatee in his father's 1463 will, and appears in Laxfield in 1472, 1477, 1496, and 1499. His will was dated 3 May and proved 13 May 1504. Margaret's will was proved the same day as his. Children:

  • Master John, b. say 1465, living 1505, was a priest. He was the residuary legatee and an executor of the wills of both his father and mother. He may be the one whose will was dated 2 Oct 1535.
  • Geoffrey, b. say 1467 (below)
  • Johane, b. c. 1469, was a legatee in her father's 1504 will.
  • Maryon, b. say 1471, was a legatee in her father's 1504 will. She may have m. Thomas THROWER.
  • Margaret, b. say 1473, prob. m. Geoffrey CRYSPE

(13g) Geoffrey Fiske

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NEHGR 92(1938):287-8; 87(1933):370

Geoffrey, the son of an earlier Geoffrey Fiske and his wife Margaret, was born say 1467, living in 1536, and married a wife whose name is unknown. He may have been of Shalbrook, Suffolk, but was of Laxfield in 1524 and 1535. He was a legatee in the 1504 will's of his mother and father. He was living in 1536 when he and his son John proved the will of Sir John Fyske of Laxfield, priest. Children:

  • (prob.) Richard, b. say 1490 (see NEHGR 92:288 for reason for his inclusion here)
  • John, b. say 1492, living in 1536

(12g) Richard Fiske

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NEHGR 88(1934):142-6, 265-7; 92(1938):177+, 287-8

Richard, likely the son of Geoffrey Fiske, Jr. (see 88:287-8), was born say 1490. The details of his life are unknown, other than having the following children:

  • John, b. say 1514, m. _______, was of Tittishall/Tittleshall/Tivetshall, Norfolk. Five children born say 1545 to 1555.
  • George, b. say 1516, was taxed at Laxfield in the 1542-44 subsidy, and appears on the muster roll there in 1543. Details of his wife are unknown. He had a son, Geoffrey.
  • Nicholas, b. say 1517, d. late summer 1569, m. Johane CRISPE.
  • Geoffrey/Jeffery, b. say 1519, bur. Laxfield 29 April 1591, married. He had two daughters born in the 1550 timeframe.
  • Robert, b. say 1521, d. c. 1602, and m. (1) Sibilla (GOLD) Barbor; (2) Joan _______, bur. St. James, South Elmham 3 Aug 1587. His will was dated 10 April 1590 but not proved until 28 July 1602. He had six children with his first wife, born roughly 1550 to 1560.
  • Jeremie, b. say 1523
  • William, b. say 1525, d. Jan 1578/9, married. William's will was dated 10 Oct 1575 with codicil added 2 Jan 1578/9, and proved 30 Jan 1578/9, naming no wife. "He fled for religion in the dayes of Q Mary." He named four daughters in his will.
  • Richard, b. say 1527, 1572, m. Agnes CRISPE, bur. Laxfield 16 Jan 1597/8, daughter of Edmund Crispe. His will was dated 7 Sep and proved 5 Nov 1572. He had eight children, five of whom were named in his will, the others just called "sons."

(11g) Nicholas Fiske

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NEHGR 88(1934):143-4; 92(1938):287-8; 151(1997):291-2, 297-8

Nicholas, the son of Richard Fiske of Laxfield, Suffolk, England, was b. say 1517, d. late summer 1569, and m. c. 1548 Johane CRISPE, b. c. 1527, probably at Laxfield, d. aft. 1569, daughter of William Crispe. Nicholas appears on the Laxfield muster roll in 1543 and taxed there at the same time. He was taxed in 1567-68 on lands at both Laxfield and Denington, Suffolk. Nicholas visited his brother-in-law, John Noyes, at the Guildhall in Norwich where he was being held prisoner shortly before his execution for heresy in 1557. Nicholas's will, dated 20 Aug and proved 28 Sep 1569, names his wife Johane, father-in-law William Crispe of Laxfield, his four daughters Rachel, Ester, Mary, and Martha, and his sons William and Amos. Children:

  • William, b. c. 1549, d. 1580, m. Dennington 27 Sep 1574 Helen PAYNE who survived him. His will was dated 13 Aug and proved 22 Nov 1580. William is the only son of Nicholas Fiske mentioned in the will of his grandmother, Anne Crispe, in 1553/4, and therefore likely the oldest son. William's will mentions his father Nicholas Fiske, deceased, wife Helen, borther Amos Fiske, and four children.
  • Amos, b. c. 1551, bur. Dennington 31 May 1612, m. Dennington 17 Oct 1574 Mary GIRLING, bur. Dennington 31 May 1612 (same day as husband and son William). Amos's will was dated 28 May and proved 7 June 1612. They had six children baptized from 1575 to c. 1593.
  • Rachel, b. c. 1554, likely died by 20 March 1578/9 when not mentioned in the will of her sister Esther.
  • Esther, , b. c. 1556, d. Framlingham, Suffolk probably 20 March 1578/9, unmarried, as "Easter Fiske of Framlingham ad Castrum", single woman, declared her nuncupative will which was proved the next day by her brother Amos, executor.
  • Mary, b. c. 1563, m. Fressingfield, Suffolk 16 Oct 1586 Anthony FISHER (see).
  • Martha, b. c. 1565, m. Syleham, Suffolk 2 Nov 1609 Robert GOLDING. She was a legatee in the 20 March 1578/9 will of her sister Esther.

(12g) William Crispe

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NEHGR 151(1997):292-7

William Crispe was born c. 1491, probably at Laxfield, Suffolk, England, d. 1552, and m. say 1518 Anne GODBOLD, b. say 1495, d. 1553/4, daughter of Thomas Godbold. William was a turner by profession. His will was dated 20 Nov 1552 and proved 19 Jan 1552/3, and Anne's will was dated 23 Jan and proved 17 March 1553/4, she being called of Laxfield. Children:

  • (presumed daughter), b. c. 1519, d. by 1552, m. _______ MAYHEW and had two children named in wills of William and Anne.
  • Anne, b. c. 1521, m. by 1552 John NOYSE, shoemaker, burned at the stake at Laxfield for heresy on 22 Sep 1557. They had three known children in 1553/4.
  • Margery, b. c. 1523, m. c. 1548 William WADE, apparently the son of widow Margery Wade of Earl Soham, Suffolk. They had three daughters mentioned in the will of their grandmother Anne Crispe in 1553/4.
  • Margaret, b. 1525, m. by 1552 ______ FISKE, perhaps John Fiske, the brother of Nicholas Fiske, below.
  • Johan, b. c. 1527, m. Nicholas FISKE.

(13g) Thomas Godbold

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see (14g) Thomas Godbold, above, after Bert family

(9g) Thomas Marrett/Marriot

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GM 5:18-23; TAG 81(2006?):99-104

Thomas Marrett (often Marriot) was born c. 1589 (in 75th year in Oct 1663), d. Cambridge, Mass. 30 June 1664, and m. Little Whelnetham, Suffolk 30 April 1622 Susan WOLFENDEN, bapt. there 11 Aug 1594, d. Cambridge 23 Feb 1664/5, daughter of James Wolfenden. The provenance of Thomas is unknown, but in the burial record of his son James, he was called Thomas Jr., so his father may or may not have been an earlier Thomas Marrett. Thomas had come from Ipswich, Suffolk, and was in New England with his family by 1635, based on his admission to freemanship on 3 March 1635/6. The family lived in Cambridge in the Mass. Bay Colony. Thomas was a cordwainer (shoemaker), and was literate, as he signed his will and had several books in his inventory. He held several minor offices in the Cambridge government. His will was dated 15 Oct 1663 and proved 4 Oct 1664, with inventory taken 12 July 1664 totaling 276 pounds. Children, all baptisms at St. Stephen, Ipswich, Suffolk, England:

  • Abigail, bapt. 11 May 1623, m. Dedham 17 Nov 1641 Daniel FISHER (see above).
  • Susan, bapt. 9 July 1626, m. c. 1648 George BARSTOW. She was not named in her father's 1663 will, but "the Children of my Sonne George Baisto deceased" received bequests. They had a son and a daughter.
  • John, bapt. 6 [Nov?] 1628, m. Cambridge 20 June 1654 Abigail RICHARDSON.
  • James, bapt. 9 Nov 1629, bur. St. Stephens, Ipswich 15 Feb 1634/5, as son of Thomas Marrett Jr.
  • Thomas, bapt. 21 Aug 1633, living 1663 (father's will), but no other record. It seems unlikely that he is the one of the name living in New London, CT in 1666 and later.
  • Hannah, b. say 1635, d. Cambridge 9 Dec 1668, unmarried. Administration of her estate was given to her brother John on 7 April 1669.

(10g) Rev. James Wolfenden

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TAG 81(2006):101-4

James Wolfenden was born c. 1563, d. 1624, m. c. 1588 Susanna (CHAPLIN?), b. say 1568, d. c. 1639. He probably originated in the Rochdale district of Lancashire or possibly neighboring Yorkshire where the surname appears to originate. Susanna's sister, Katherine, was also a sister of Abraham Chaplyn, based on her estate settlement, suggesting that Chaplin was the maiden name of both sisters. If so, they were likely daughters of John Chaplin of Boyton Hall in Monks Eleigh. James, under the name "Wolfendale" matriculated pensioner at St. John's College, Cambridge during Lent 1577-78, B.A. 1580-1, and M.A. 1584. He was ordained priest at Norwich 16 May 1583 and admitted rector of Little Whelnetham, a very small community, on 29 Feb 1587/8, where he stayed the remainder of his life. After his death, the parish register was not maintained by his successor, so his burial was not recorded. His will was dated 21 April 1624 and proved 5 Nov of the same year. Children, all baptisms, marriages, and burials at Little Whelnetham, Suffolk, unless otherwise indicated:

  • Robert, bapt. 12 Jan 1588/9, living in 1624
  • Abigail, bapt. 30 Aug 1590, m. 2 May 1613 Daniel SNOWE
  • John, bapt. 20 Aug 1592, bur. 14 Jan 1592/3
  • Susan, bapt. 11 Aug 1594, m. Thomas MARRETT (see above).
  • James, bapt. 29 Sep 1596, living in 1631 (aunt's will).
  • Mary, bapt. 29 Aug 1955, living in 1624 (father's will).
  • Margaret, bapt. 12 July 1601, m. St. Stephen, Ipswich 8 April 1632 Richard CROMWELL/CRANWELL.
  • Sara, bapt. 2 Oct 1603, living in 1631 (aunt's will)
  • Ann, bapt. 11 March 1605/6, living in 1631 (aunt's will).
  • John, bapt. 14 July 1608, bur. 2 Dec 1608.

(10g) James Kingsbury (?)

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Kingsbury Gen (1905):22-28, 32-34; 79; GM 4:187 (John Kingsbury); GMB 2:1131-3 (Henry Kingsbury)

It is possible that James and Anna Kingsbury of Boxford, Suffolk, England, are the parents of the brothers John and Joseph Kingsbury of Dedham, Mass. (and possibly the parents of Henry Kingsbury of Boston as well), and the grandparents of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich, Mass. In their genealogy of the Kingsbury family published in 1905, Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott present many English records from western Suffolk, and strongly suggest that the New England settlers of this name spring from the said couple. The chart on page 44 of their book gives the outline of the family, with details provided from their section on English records.

James, apparently the son of an earlier James and Agnes Kingsbury, was baptized Boxford, Suffolk, England 6 Sep 1562, bur. there 26 April 1622, and m. Boxford 22 Oct 1584 Anne FRANCIS, born say 1564. They lived in Boxford, Suffolk. Children:

  • James, b. say 1585, d. 1655, m. Boxford, Suffolk 8 Feb 1614[/5] Joan HOAG
  • Thomas, b. say 1587, of Assington; engaged to come to New England but never came; perhaps the father of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. who was born c. 1615 based on a deposition.
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1590
  • Henry, b. say 1593, m. Assington, Suffolk, England 18 May 1621 Margaret Alabaster, probably the Margaret (BLYTH) Alabaster who was widow of Thomas Alabaster who had died in 1620. They came to New England in 1630, he apparently a servant/steward of Gov. John Winthrop, Sr. They had two children, but it appears that all four may have died within a few years after their arrival in Boston, as there is no record of any of them after 1636.
  • John, bapt. Boxford, Suffolk 25 May 1595, m. Margaret WHISSON; they were of Assington, Suffolk. If he is the same as the New England immigrant, then he d. Dedham, Mass. 12 Sep 1660, and Margaret d. c. 1662. They were in New England by 1635, and John was made a freeman of the colony on 3 March 1635/6, implying that he had already become a member of the Watertown church. On 20 Oct 1639 John and Margaret were dismissed from the Watertown church to the church at Dedham. John held many offices in Dedham including commissioner, selectman, and Deputy to the General Court. John Kingsbury left a will dated 2 Dec 1659 and proved 16 Oct 1660. Margaret's will was dated 9 Jan 1660/1 and proved 20 May 1662. They had no known children.
  • Sarah, bapt. Boxford 10 May 1597, m. Jonathan FRENCH
  • Alice, b. say 1600
  • Joseph (assumed son of James), b. say 1603, m. Millicent _______ (below).
  • Anne, bapt. Boxford 21 Oct 1605.

(9g) Joseph Kingsbury

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Kingsbury Gen (1962):13-18; NEHGR 16(1862):338

Joseph Kingsbury was born say 1603, perhaps at Boxford, Suffolk, England, d. Dedham, Mass. c. 1676, and m. say 1631 Millicent _______, b. say 1611, d. aft. 1675. Joseph was a housewright, and first of record in New England on 1 Nov 1637 when he was mentioned in the Dedham town records in regards to the fabrication of a meeting house. Also, the birth of his daughter Mary in September was recorded in Dedham. Of interest is that Joseph Kingsbury was granted the land in Dedham that had belonged to Ezekiel Holliman. The Dedham records state that "Ezekiel Holliman removed to Rhode Island founding the first Baptist church in Providence, and there baptized Roger Williams." Joseph Kingsbury and Nicholas Phillips had given land for the establishment of Dedham's first burial ground, and Joseph also gave an acre of land for the public meeting house. In exchange for this land, he was given some bottom land. Joseph was not involved the early church of Dedham, and was considered too much "of the world." The church minutes record difficulties with his humility. His wife Millicent, on the other hand, "appeared to ye church a tender harted soul full of feares and tempations, but truly breathing after Christ." She was admitted to the chuch 24 April 1639. Joseph was eventually admitted on 9 April 1641, then became a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 2 June 1641, and freemanship in the colony required church membership. Joseph's will was dated 22 May 1675 and proved a year later on 1 June 1676. He gave to wife "Melecent", eldest sons Joseph and John, daughter Sarah Crossman, son-in-law Thomas Cooper, son Eleazer "till [he] shall dispose of himself in marriage", son Nathaniel, granddaughter Elizabeth Brewer, and son-in-law Nathaniel Brewer. Children:

  • Sarah, b. say 1632, d. Taunton (now Mass.) c. 1686, m. Dedham 25 May 1652 Robert CROSSMAN, b. say 1625, d. Taunton 1692, son of Joseph Crossman. Following Sarah's death, Robert m. (2) Martha (Billington) Eaton, widow of Samuel Eaton and daughter of Francis Billington. Robert was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. He was a housewright, apparently learning his trade from his father-in-law. After the family moved to Taunton, Robert was involved in building the iron works there, and was also involved in drum-making. They had twelve children born from c. 1653 to 1672.
  • Mary, b. Dedham 1:7mo:1637 (1 Sep 1637), d. 6 Aug 1678, m. Thomas COOPER of Rehoboth. Mary had at least one child.
  • Elizabeth, b. Dedham 14:7mo:1638 (14 Sep 1638), bur. Roxbury, Mass. 25 June 1661, m. c. 1660 Nathaniel BREWER, b. Roxbury 1 May 1635, d. there 26 Feb 1692/3, son of Daniel and Joanna Brewer. Following Elizabeth's death, Nathaniel m. (2) Roxbury 6 Dec 1661 Elizabeth Rand, bapt. Charlestown, Mass. Dec 1639, living in 1692, daughter of Robert and Alice Rand. Elizabeth and Nathaniel had one daughter born in 1661, after which Nathaniel had three more children, born from 1662/3 to 1670, with his second wife.
  • Joseph, b. Dedham 17 Feb 1640/1, m. (1) by 1665 Mary _______, d. July 1680; m. (2) 7 Sep 1681 Mary Donier. This family lived in Roxbury and Wrentham. Joseph's inventory was made 20 Sep 1689, and perhaps taken again in 1690, he being called of Wrentham. Eight children with his first wife, born from 1665 to 1680, are of record.
  • John, b. Dedham 15 Aug 1643, d. there 30 May 1669, m. there 29 Nov 1666 Elizabeth FULLER, b. Dedham 1 April 1648 (another record says bapt 9 Feb 1648), d. there 24 Oct 1732, daughter of Ens. Thomas Fuller and Hannah Flower. Following John's death, Elizabeth m. (2) 19 Sep 1672 Michael Metcalf, b. Dedham 21 Jan 1644/5, d. there 1 Sep 1693, son of Michael Metcalf and Mary Fairbanks. John's inventory was made 24 Aug 1669. He had one daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1668, who married Joseph Damon and had three children.
  • Eleazer, b. Dedham 17 May 1645, m. Esther JUDSON.
  • Nathaniel, b. Dedham 26 March 1650, d. there 14 Oct 1694, m. Dedham 14 Oct 1673 Mary BACON, b. Dedham c. 1653, daughter of John Bacon and Rebecca Hall. Nathaniel was called a weaver in his inventory, presented on 6 April 1696. Nathaniel and Mary had six children born from 1674 to 1693.

(8g) Eleazer Kingsbury, Sr.

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Kingsbury Gen (1962):17-21

Eleazer, the son of Joseph and Millicent Kingsbury, was b. Dedham, Mass. 17 May 1645, d. 1723, and m. Dedham 30 Oct 1676 Esther JUDSON, b. Dedham 10 June 1654, d. Dedham 6 May 1717, daughter of Samuel Judson and Mary (______) Aldridge. Eleazer's will was dated 2 Dec 1720 and proved 1 March 1722[/3?], mentions his four sons, but only youngest son Noah by name, and mentions his wife, but not by name. Children, all born in Dedham:

  • Josiah, b. 26 Dec 1677, d. Needham, Mass. 20 April 1739, m. (1) 16 Jan 1705[/6?] Susannah MOREY, b. 27 April 1685, d. Needham 28 Feb 1731[/2?], daughter of Thomas Morey and Susannah Newell; m. (2) Hannah _______, d. 29 Jan 1748. Josiah was a petitioner for the incorporation of the town of Needham in 1710. He served there as selectman, representative to the General Court and treasurer for many years. He had eight children, all with his first wife, born from 1705 to 1726/7.
  • Mary, b. 2 April 1680, d. Dedham 6 June 1717, unmarried.
  • Eleazer, b. 10 May 1683, m. Rebecca _____ (below).
  • Samuel, b. 4 Nov 1690, d. Walpole, Mass. 1 June 1744, m. 12 May 1715 Joanna GUILD, b. 4 Nov 1687. Samuel was town clerk of Walpole, selectman, and a deacon of the first church there. They had seven children 1716 to 1730.
  • Noah, b. 16 Sep 1693, d. Dedham 18 Oct 1740, m. Roxbury 3 Sep 1718 Mehetable MOREY, daughter of Thomas Morey and Susanna Newell, and sister of Susannah Morey who married Noah's oldest brother, Josiah. He had the title of Ensign on his gravestone in the First Parish Church Cemetery. They had five children born from 1720 1732.

(7g) Eleazer Kingsbury, Jr.

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Kingsbury Gen (1962):19-20, 28-9

Eleazer, the son of Eleazer Kingsbury and Esther Judson of Dedham, Mass., was b. Dedham "10-3-83 of Eleazer and Hester Kingsbury" (10 May 1683), d. Needham, Mass. 27 Jan 1767, and m. (1) c. 1710 Rebecca _______, b. 1687, d. Needham 15 Feb 1756. He m. (2) Newton, Mass. (by Rev. John Cotton) 3 March 1757 Mary WARD, b. Newton 6 Nov 1704, d. there 26 Feb 1776, the daughter of Joseph Ward and Esther Kendrick. Eleazer was one of the petitioners for the incorporation of the town of Needham in 1710, and a selectman there for 14 years. He was a deacon in the First Church there in 1730, but dismissed on 9 Jan 1747: "Eleazar Kingsbury who wants to go over to ye Antibaptists." Eleazer's will, dated 6 Dec 1763, was proved 20 Feb 1767, naming his three living children, and mentioning a prenuptial agreement with his wife. Eleazer and Rebecca have extant grave markers in the Needham Cemetery, while second wife Mary has a marker in the East Parish Burial Ground in Newton. Children, all with first wife, Rebecca (they are all buried in the Needham Cemetery, several with surviving grave markers): [122]

  • Esther, b. 16 Sep 1711, d. Needham 6 Nov 1801, m. Amos FULLER (see).
  • Enoch (twin), b. 2 Oct 1713, d. 12 Oct 1713
  • Seth (twin), b. 2 Oct 1713, d. 22 Oct 1713 (OR died 10 days of age)
  • Rebecca, b. Needham 4 Oct 1715, d. Needham 15 April 1716, buried in Needham Cem.
  • Lydia, b. Needham 11 March 1717, d. Needham May 1789, and m. Needham 21 Nov 1739 Timothy NEWELL, b. Needham 2 Feb 1715, d. there 2 Oct 1788, the son of Josiah Newell and Hannah Fisher. Lydia and Timothy both have surviving grave markers in the Needham Cemetery. They had eight children, born 1740 to 1758. [123]
  • Eleazer, b. Dedham 11 June 1724, d. Needham 25 or 27 Nov 1785, m. (1) Needham 4 Dec 1744 Abigail FISHER, b. Needham 10 or 30 June 1725, d. there 13 March 1744/5, the daughter of John Fisher and Elizabeth Hunting. He m. (2) Roxbury, Mass. 22 Oct 1747 Elizabeth GEORGE, b. Boston 21 May 1725, d. Needham 6 May 1784, daughter of Nicholas George and Mary Keyzer. Eleazer was selectman of Needham for many years, town treasurer, and a delegate to the First Provincial Congress at Concord in October 1774 and to the Second Congress at Cambridge in 1775. His will was proved 18 Dec 1785. Eleazer and his first wife both have extant grave markers in the Needham Cemetery, and his second wife is likely buried there as well. He had one daughter with his first wife, Rebecca, born and died in 1745, and five children with his second wife born from 1749 to 1763. [124]

(9g) Samuel Judson

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Savage 2:576; GMB 2:899 (John Hayward); Pope:223 (John Hayward); Pope:13 (Henry Aldridge)

Samuel Judson was born say 1615, d. Dedham, Mass. 11 July 1657, and m. (1) Dedham 2 April 1644 Bridget WARNE, b. say 1624, d. 28 March 1646; m. (2) 6 Oct 1646 Mary (_______) Aldridge/Aldrich, b. c. 1615, d. Dedham 23 or 24 April 1684, aged 68, the widow of Henry Aldridge who d. 23 Feb 1645/6. Following Samuel's death, his widow Mary m. (3) John Hayward, b. c. 1593, d. Charlestown, Mass 29 Dec 1672. Savage writes that Samuel's father, Michael, of Horton, in Bradford Dale, Yorkshire, sent Samuel's brother, John, as an apprentice for seven years. No other mention of John has been found. Note that Horton is now a neighborhood in southwestern Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is not the same as Horton in Ribblesdale, which is about 30 miles to the west, and also in Yorkshire. Samuel's will was dated 7 June 1657 and proved 30 July 1657, naming wife Mary (sole executrix) and three (minor) daughters Mary, Sarah and Esther, and making bequests to his wife's unnamed sons with Henry Aldridge. In his will dated 31 July 1672 and proved 19 Feb 1672/3, John "Haward...aged 79 years" made bequests to four of his wife's children: Thomas Aldredge, Samuell Aldredge, Sarah Judson, and Ester Judson, five pounds to each. In her will dated 5 Sep 1683 and proved 29 May 1684, Mary Hayward made bequests to her four living children. Mary has an extant gravestone in the Old Village Cemetery in Dedham. [125]

Following are Samuel's step-children, children of Mary with her first husband, Henry Aldridge (the birth dates for Mary and Samuel are from the published Dedham vital records, but if accurate it is coincidental that they are on the same date, and very unusual that they are only a year apart):

  • Thomas, eldest son, b. say 1641, is given a baptismal date of 17:7mo:1643 (17 Sep 1643) by Pope in his Pioneers of Massachusetts (p 13), which cannot be close to the birth date, because it would be a biological impossibility for three children to be born within a period of 365 days without a multiple birth. He is likely the Thomas Aldridge who d. Dedham 23 Oct 1694 and m. (1) 4 May 1675 Elizabeth PRENTICE, b. 1650, d. 5 Feb 1675/6, daughter of Capt. Thomas Prentice; and m. (2) Dedham 16 Jan 1677/8 Hannah COLBURN, b. 1653, d. 1728, daughter of Nathaniel Colburn and Priscilla Clark. He had four known children with his second wife: Hannah, b. 1679, John, b. 1681, Mary, b. 1683, and Thomas, b. 1685. His daughter Mary was named in his mother's 1683 will.
  • Mary, b. Dedham 10:1mo:1643 (10 March 1642/3), probably d. young.
  • Samuel, b. Dedham 10:1mo:1644 (10 March 1643/4), was named in the 1672 will of his step-father, John Hayward, and in the 1683 will of his mother.

Following are Samuel's children with Mary, births recorded in Dedham:

  • Mary, b. 20:8mo:1647 (20 Oct 1647); named in her father's 1656 will, but not named in the 1672 will of her step-father, John Hayward, as were her two siblings and two half-siblings, and not named in the 1683 will of her mother.
  • Sarah, b. 24:5mo:1651 (24 July 1651), d. Dedham 18 March 1718, m. (1) c. 1670 George WESTBROOK/WESTBROKE, d. c. 1681; m. (2) Dedham 5 Nov 1682 John WOODCOCK, b. Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony c. 1649, d. Dedham 10 July 1718 aged 69, son of John Woodcock and Sarah Curtis. Sarah had a daughter, Sarah, with her first husband, b. 1671/2. Sarah and John Woodcock both have extant gravestones in the Old Village Cemetery, Dedham, Mass. [126]
  • Esther, b. 10:4mo:1654 (10 June 1654), m. Eleazer KINGSBURY (above).

(11g) Rev. Leonard Metcalf

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NEHGR 80(1926):312-13; 166(2012):37

Rev. Michael Metcalf, possibly the son of Richard Metcalf, was born at Apperside, North Riding of Yorkshire, England c. 1541 (aged 73 in 1614), d. c. 1616, and perhaps m. Amy _______, bur. Tatterford, Norfolk 22 Dec 1602. He became rector of the parish at Tatterford, Norfolk, England in 1574. When his estate was administered in 1616 he was called of West Barsham, Norfolk, where he was the vicar, as well as at Tatterford. Children:

  • Richard, b. say 1581
  • John, b 1583
  • Leonard, bapt 3 Sep 1586
  • Nicholas, bapt 8 July 1587
  • Michael, b. c. 1590
  • Matthew, bapt. 18 Dec 1594
  • Nynian, b 1596
  • Marie, bapt 28 Aug 1601

(10g) Michael Metcalf, Sr.

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NEHGR 6(1852):171-3; 16(1862):279-84 (the letter Michael wrote); 78(1924):263-5 (parish records); 80(1926):312-13; TAG 41(1965):207 (daughter Jane);

Michael Metcalf was born Tatterford, Norfolk, England c. 1590, d. Dedham, Mass. 27 Dec 1664, and m. (1) Waynham, Norfolk 13 Oct 1616 Sarah ELWYN, b. Heigham, Norfolk 17 June 1593, d. Dedham, Mass. 30 Nov 1644, daughter of Thomas Elwyn and Elizabeth Benslye; m. (2) 13 Aug 1645 the widow Mary Pidge. Michael was a Dornix weaver (weaver of curtains and carpets) in the city of Norwich where he was made a freeman on 21 June 1618. A snapshot of Michael's life in England was captured in a rather remarkable letter that he wrote on 13 Jan 1636[/7] to his fellow parishioners in Norwich: "I was persecuted in the land of my father's sepulchres, for not bowing at the name of Jesus, and observing other ceremonies in religion, forced upon me, at the instance of Bishop Wren of Norwich and his chancellor Dr. Corbet, whose violent measures troubled me in the Bishop's Court, and returned me into the High Commissioners' Court. Suffering many times for the cause of religion, I was forced, for the sake of the liberty of my conscience, to flee from my wife and children, to go into New England; taking ship for the voyage at London the 17th of Sept 1636; being by tempests tossed up and down the seas till the Christmas following; then veering about to Plymouth in Old England; in which time I met with many sore afflictions. Leaving the ship, I went down to Yarmouth, in Norfolk county, whence I shipped myself and family, to come to New England; sailed 15th April 1637, and arrived three days before midsummer, with my wife, nine children, and a servant." In the postscript he remarked, "my enemies conspired against me to take away my life, and, sometimes, to avoid their hands, my wife did hide me in the roof of the house, covering me over with straw." Michael was admitted a townsman at Dedham, Mass. on 14 July 1637, joined the church in 1639, and was a selectman in 1641. One of the principal clay pits for brick-making was on Metcalf's land on Dedham Island. Michael's will was dated 15 Nov 1664, proved 1 Feb 1664/5, and his inventory dated 26 April 1664 amounted to 364 pounds. Children:

  • Michael, b. 13 Nov, bapt St. Benedict, Norwich 30 Nov 1617, bur. St. Benedict 20 Jan 1617/8.
  • Mary, b. 14 Feb 1618/9, m. 24 Nov 1642 Henry WILSON
  • Michael, b. 29 Aug 1620, m. Mary FAIRBANKS (below).
  • John, b. 5 Sep 1622, m. 22 March 1647[/8?] Mary CHICKERING (see above, after Fairbanks).
  • Sarah, b. 10 sep 1624, bapt. St. Benedict 10 March 1624/5, m. Robert ONION of Dedham, Mass.
  • Elizabeth, b. 4 Oct 1626, m. 15 Sep 1648 Thomas BANCROFT of REading, Mass.
  • Martha, bapt. St. Benedict 27 March 1628, m. (1) William BRIGNALL; m. (2) 2 Aug 1654 Christopher SMITH.
  • Thomas, b. 27 Dec 1629, bapt. St. Edmund, Norwich 11 Jan 1629/30, d. 16 Nov 1702, m. (1) 12 Sep 1655 or 1656 Sarah PAIGE; m. (2) 2 Dec 1679 Anne Paine. He was a deacon in the Dedham church.
  • Anne, b. 1 March, bapt. St. Edmund 4 March 1631/2, d. young
  • Jane, b. 24 March, bapt. St. Edmund 29 March 1633, d. 24 Oct 1701, and m. (1) c. 1654 Philip WALKER, bur. Rehoboth (now Mass.) 21 Aug 1679; m. (2) 2 June 1684, as his fourth wife, John POLLEY, b. c. 1617, d. Roxbury, Mass. 2 April 1689, aged 71
  • Rebeka, b. 5 April, bapt. St. Edmund 12 April 1635, m. 5 April 1659 John MacKINTOSH of Dedham.

(9g) Michael Metcalf, Jr.

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NEHGR 6(1852):173; WikiTree website

Michael, the son of Michael Fairbanks and Sarah Elwyn, was bapt. Norwich, Norfolk, England 29 Aug 1620, d. Dedham, Mass. 25 March 1654, and m. Dedham 2 April 1644 Mary FAIRBANKS, bapt. Halifax, Yorkshire, England 3 Feb 1621/2, d. Dedham 4 June 1684, daughter of Jonathan Fairbanks and Grace Smith. Following Michael's death, Mary m. (2) Dedham 2 Aug 1654 Christopher Smith, b. c. 1620, d. Dedham 7 Nov 1676. On 1 June 1668, Mary was bequeathed 16 pounds when called "Mary the wife of Christopher Smith" in the will of her father, Jonathan Fairbanks. Her own will, dated 30 May 1684 and naming her children with both husbands, was proved 3 July 1684, with inventory dated 11 July 1684, and amounting to 112 pounds. Children of Michael and Mary:

  • Michael, b. 21 Jan 1644/5, d. 1 or 2 Sep 1693, m. 17 Sep 1672 Elizabeth KINGSBURY, d. 24 Oct 1732, daughter of John Kingsbury per the 1852 article, or m. Elizabeth (Fuller) Kingsvury per WikiTree. They had seven children.
  • Mary, b. 15 Aug 1646, m. 10 Dec 1668 John WARE. They had eleven children
  • Sarah, b. 7 Dec 1648, m. 4 June 1677 Robert WARE.
  • Jonathan, b. 21 Sep 1650, d. 27 May 1727, m. 10 April 1674 Hannah, d. 23 Dec 1731, daughter of John KENRIC.
  • Eleazer, b. 20 March 1653, m. Meletiah FISHER.

Child of Mary with second husband, Christopher Smith:

  • John Smith, b. Dedham 19 Nov 1655, d. Needham, Mass. 7 Oct 1727, m. Dedham 21 Oct 1677 Abigail Day, b. Dedham 22 April 1661, d. Needham 15 June 1725, daughter of Ralph Day and Abigail Crafts.

(8g) Eleazer Metcalf

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We Relate website, citing primarily Wrentham vital records

Eleazer, the son of Michael Metcalf and Mary Fairbanks, was born in Dedham, Mass. 2 March 1652/3, d. Wrentham, Mass. 14 May 1704, and m. Wrentham 9 April 1684 Melatiah FISHER, b. Dedham 1 May 1667, d. Wrentham 23 Sep 1719, the daughter of Samuel Fisher and Melatiah Snow. Eleazer and Melatiah both have crudely inscribed stones in the Wrentham Center Cemetery. Children, b. Wrentham: [127]

  • Eleazer, b. 30 May 1685
  • Michael, b. 21 May 1687, d. Wrentham 9 Jan 1754, m. Wrentham 23 Dec 1712 Abiell COLBURN, b. Dedham 27 Sep 1694, daughter of Samuel and Marcy Colburn.
  • Samuel, b. 15 Jan 1688/9, d. Wrentham 10 Feb 1737/8, m. Wrentham 20 May 1725 Judith GEORGE, b. Wrentham 4 April 1704, daughter of John and Judith George.
  • Ebenezer, b. 8 Jan 1690/1, d. Rutland, Mass. 9 June 1751, m. Wrentham 11 July 1732 Margaret ROCKWOOD, b. Wrentham 4 Sep 1699, daughter of Nathaniel and Joanna Rockwood/Rocket.
  • Jonathan, b. 9 April 1693, m. Hannah CLARK (below).
  • Melatiah, b. 21 April 1695
  • Timothy, b. 2 July 1697, d. Wrentham 17 Sep 1767, m. Wrentham 5 Dec 1721 Mary CASNO.
  • Martha (twin), b. 27 Aug 1699
  • Mary (twin), b. 27 Aug 1699

(7g) Jonathan Metcalf, Sr.

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Jonathan, the son of Eleazer Metcalf and Meletiah Fisher of Wrentham, Mass., was born there 9 April 1693, d. Medway, Mass. 10 Jan 1775, and m. Medway 17 March 1724/5 Hannah CLARK, b. Medfield, Mass. 28 July 1704, d. Medway 23 Oct 1792 in her 89th year, the daughter of Edward Clark and Hannah Adams. Johnathan and Hannah both have surviving grave markers in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway. Children, b. Wrentham: [128]

  • Hannah, b. 1 Jan 1725/6, m. Medway (int. 19 March 1748) Samuel HAYWARD, b. 1724, d. 1 Feb 1775/6 in his 52nd year. Hannah is very likely the "Mrs. Hayward" who died in Medway 8 May 1817, "very aged." Samuel is very likely the son of Samuel and Hannah Hayward who was born in Mendon, Mass. 1 March 1723[/4?]. Samuel and Hannah had seven children with births recorded in Medway from 1749/50 to 1770. Samuel has a surviving grave marker in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. [129]
  • Dinah, b. 23 May 1727, d. 23 March 1812, m. (1) Medway 21 Nov 1745 John POND, b. Wrentham 20 Feb 1723, d. Medway 10 April 1777, the son of John Pond and Rachel Clark. She m. (2) 17 Dec 1788 Hezekiah FISHER, b. Wrentham 16 May 1726, d. Franklin, Mass. 27 June 1809, son of Eleazer and Rachel Fisher. Hezekiah had married as his first wife Abigail Daniels. Dinah had five children with her first husband, born in Wrentham from 1746 to 1756 (named in the Pond genealogy). Dinah and first husband John Pond both have extant grave markers in the Evergreen Cemetery, Medway; Hezekiah Fisher is buried in the City Mills Cemetery in Franklin. [130]
  • Jonathan, b. Wrentham 3 April 1729, d. 1799, m. Bathsheba POND
  • Lois, b. 16 Jan 1730/1, d. Medway 17 March 1787, m. Medway 4 Aug 1763 Daniel POND, b. Wrentham 13 May 1724, the son of John Pond and Rachel Clark. Daniel graduated from Harvard College in 1745 and became a minister at Templeton. He was ordained in 1755, but terminated at Templeton in 1759, thence moving to West Medway. Here he helped prepare boys for college, and returned to the ministry. He was living in 1791, when he sold his Medway properties. Tradition says he died in Otter Creek, Pennsylvania. Lois and Daniel had two daughters born 1765 and 1767, the former dying in infancy. Lois is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, W. Medway. [131]
  • Abigail, b. 9 Dec 1733, d. Warwick, Mass. 5 Sep 1821, m. Medway, Mass. 28 Nov 1754 John GOLDSBURY, b. 1728, d. Warwick 26 July 1802, aged 74, the son of John Goldsbury and Eunice Pond of Wrentham. Abigail and John had five known children, with baptisms recorded in Medway from 1757 to 1766. It is not certain when the family moved to Warwick, Mass., but John is enumerated on the 1790 census there in a family with six members. In 1800 his name once again appears in the federal census in Warwick, with wife and younger female aged 16-26. According to his death notice in the Columbian Centinel, John had been a member of the General Assembly, but neither the town nor dates of his service are given. Abigail and John are buried in the town cemetery, Warwick, Mass. [132]
  • Jerusha, b. 3 Aug 1735, d. Medway 7 May 1813, m. William WHITE (sometimes WIGHT), b. Mendon 22 Nov 1732, d. Medway 8 April 1800, the son of William White and Elizabeth Thayer. Jerusha and William had six known children, all baptized in Medway from 1760 to 1774. They both have extant grave markers in the Evergreen Cemetery, W. Medway. [133]
  • Sarah, b. 12 Sep 1739, d. Wrentham 6 May 1773, m. there 23 Sep 1762 Nathan ALDIS, bapt. Dedham 17 Aug 1735, d. Boston 25 May 1775, the son of John Aldis and Mehitable Hawes. Sarah and Nathan had four children, born Wrentham 1764 to 1770, but only the youngest, Asa, b. 14 April 1770, survived childhood, though he became orphaned at the age of five. A fair amount has been written about Nathan Aldis, and his possible Tory leanings. After his death his estate was confiscated, even though the Revolutionary War would not begin for another year. His estate was eventually returned to the rightful heir, his son Asa, who eventually became a judge and prominent citizen. [134] [135] [136]
  • Melatiah, b. 12 Aug 1742, d. Wrentham 20 May 1746.

(6g) Jonathan Metcalf, Jr.

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Jonathan, the son of Jonathan Metcalf and Hannah Clark, was b. Wrentham, Mass. 3 April 1729, and m. Medway 25 April 1753 Bathsheba POND, b. Wrentham 9 Aug 1734, d. 1807, daughter of Samuel Pond and Mary Thurston. Though Jonathan's death year on the family tombstone in West Medway reads 1799, he may be the Jonathan Metcalf, Jr. who died 20 April 1800, with death recorded in the Medway vital record (this could also be a son of his son, Jonathan, but if so, there is no birth record for such a person). Probate documents for Jonathan are dated 1800 in Franklin, Mass. Bathsheba'a death year on the family tombstone is 1807, but I have found no vital record with the complete date. Her Find-a-grave memorial says she died 1 Oct 1807 in Franklin, and this appears to be reasonable, as her will was proved 3 Nov 1807 in Norfolk Co., Mass. The DAR Patriot Index shows Jonathan as having served during the Rev. War, but a look at the records does not confirm this. The Jonathan they claim served (husband of Bathsheba) was from Dedham, and this does not fit this Jonathan. More research needed here. Jonathan and family apparently lived in the western part of Wrentham, which, in 1778, became Franklin, and this is where he and his wife likely died. The names of Jonathan and Bathsheba were originally on the Adams/Metcalf family tomb in Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, but the tomb was dismantled in 1881, and their names now appear on a more modern tall monument in the same cemetery. Children. b. Wrentham unless otherwise noted: [137] [138]

  • Bathsheba, b. 4 May 1754, d. Wrentham 20 Sep 1756. She has a grave marker in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway. [139]
  • Meletiah, b. 19 Aug 1756, d. Medway 13 Feb 1837, m. Medway/Franklin 1 June 1780 Asa FULLER. They are buried in the Evergreen Cem., W. Medway. [140]
  • Bathsheba, b. 15 June 1758, d. Medway 24 Aug 1800, m. Medway 27 Nov 1777 Eliakim ADAMS, b. Holliston, Mass. 13 June 1756, d. Medway 30 Nov 1807, son of Eleazer Adams and Bathsheba. Their tombstone in the Evergreen Cemetery, W. Medway, gives Elikim the title of General, but I cannot find a shred of evidence that he ever served in the military in any capacity. [141]
  • Eliel, b. 30 April 1760, d. Franklin, Mass 4 Oct 1792, m. Medway (int 24 Nov 1784) Silence CUTLER, b. Medway 12 Sep 1762, d. Medway 14 March 1818, daughter of Simon Cutler and Silence Clark. They are buried in Evergreen Cem., W. Medway. [142]
  • Jonathan, b. 20 April 1763, d. Medway 4 May 1845, m. Medway 3 Nov 1790 Mary ADAMS, b. Medway 26 April 1767, d. Medway 29 Oct 1829, daughter of Moses Adams and Rachel Leland. They are buried in Evergreen Cem., W. Medway. [143]
  • Martha, b. 16 Mar 1764, m. Medway 22 Aug 1785 Asa ADAMS, said to be the one of that name born in Holliston, Mass. on 20 Nov 1755 to Asa Adams and Ruth Parker, but he had several contemporaries of the same name, and I cannot confirm this. The Medway, Franklin, and Natick vital records give a variety of years for the marriage: 1775, 1783, and 1785, but the last seems the most reasonable. The only record I've found of this couple is the 1790 census, when they appear in Natick in a household with two males 16 and over, one male under 16, and one female. In 1800 an Asa Adams, Jr. lived with a family of eight in Holliston, but it hasn't been ascertained if this is the correct person. One account is that the family went from Natick to Wolfeboro, Carroll Co., New Hampshire, but I have found no record of their being there. They had one known child, Asa Adams, b. Natick 10 Jan 1788, d. Taunton, Mass. 25 Oct 1852. This Asa never married, and was a doctor who lived in Cumberland, RI when licensed to practice medicine in 1818, moved to Norton, Mass. in 1819, then to Easton (Mass.?) in 1841, and finally to Taunton where he died.
  • Hannah, b. 26 Sep 1767, d. Belchertown, Mass. 22 Jan 1798, m. Medway 9 Feb 1792 Elihu SANFORD, b. 28 Jan 1766, d. Oxford, Mass. 15 Jan 1839, son of Rev. David Sanford and Bathsheba Ingersoll. Following Hannah's death, Elihu m. (2) Belchertown 15 April 1799 Betsey Fisher, who died in Oxford 18 Jan 1853, aged 74. Hannah is buried in the South Cemetery in Belchertown, while Elihu and his second wife are buried in the South Cemetery, Oxford. [144] [145]
  • Samuel, b. 3 March 1773, d. Medway 13 March 1844, m. Paxton, Mass. 1798 Mary CLARK, b. Medway 6 July 1775, d. of consumption at Medway 17 March 1860, daughter of Simeon Clark and Mary Newman. Samuel, Mary, and nine of their children share the tall family monument in Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. [146]
  • Jerusha (?), bp Medway 14 Sep 1775. I find nothing definitive on such a person, and cannot confirm any association with Jonathan and Bathsheba. A Jerusha Metcalf was married in Piermont, NH on 4 June 1807 to John Pickford.

(15g) ?John Elwyn

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NEHGR 166(2012):37

John Elwyn, b. say 1450, d. c. 1520, m. Bef. 1480 Katherine BULWER, b. say 1455, d. c. 1525.

(14g) ?Peter Elwyn

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NEHGR 166(2012):37

Peter, the son of John Elwyn and Katherine Bulwer, was born say 1480, d. 1557, and m. Bef. 1510 Lucy _______, b. say 1485, dead by 1557.

(13g) William Elwyn, Sr.

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NEHGR 166(2012):37; NEHGR 169(2015):51-56 [Clifford Stott: The Elwyn Family Revisited]

William, possibly the son of Peter and Lucy Elwyn, but Stott indicates uncertainty, was born say 1510, dead by 1569, and married bef. 1540 a woman whose name has not been found.

(12g) William Elwyn, Jr.

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NEHGR 166(2012):37; NEHGR 169(2015):51-56 [Clifford Stott: The Elwyn Family Revisited]

William, the son of an earlier William Elwyn, was born say 1540, bur. Heigham, Norfolk, Eng. 3 Feb 1610/1, and m. say 1565 Alice _______, b. say 1542, bur. Heigham 13 Feb 1602/3.

(11g) Thomas Elwyn

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NEHGR 166(2012):37-8

Thomas, the son of William and Alice Elwyn, was bapt. Heigham, Norfolk, England 1 May 1566, bur. there 2 Dec 1648, m. Heigham 24 Sep 1591 Elizabeth BENSLEY, bapt. Caistor, Norfolk 12 Nov 1570, bur. Heigham 12 Jan 1605/6, daughter of Simon Bensley and Alice Parker. Children, bapt. Heigham:

  • Sarah, bapt. 13 June 1593, m. Michael METCALF
  • William, bapt. 16 Feb 1594/5
  • Thomas, bapt. 18 Jan 1596/7, bur. Heigham 7 Oct 1603
  • Drue, b. say 1599, bur. Heigham 10 Nov 1603
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 5 July 1601
  • Margery, bapt. 12 May 1603
  • Drue, bapt. 22 Sep 1605

(12g) Simon Bensley

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NEHGR 166(2012):38-9

Simon, the grandson of Thomas Bensley, and likely son of Thomas Bensley, Jr., was born say 1543, in or near East Carlton, Norfolk, bur. Ranworth, Norfolk 11 Feb 1595/6, and m. Mulbarton, Norfolk 22 Sep 1566 Alice PARKER, b. say 1545, bur. Ranworth 20 July 1622, assumed daughter of John and Elizabeth Parker. Simon was named as a grandchild in the 1555 will of Thomas Bensley, yeoman of Dunston, Norfolk. Children:

  • Elizabeth, bapt. Caistor, Norfolk 7 Sep 1567, bur. there 21 Sep 1567.
  • Alice, bapt. Caistor 3 March 1568/9, bur. Ranworth, Norfolk 29 Sep 1616, m. St. Lawrence's Church, South Walsham, Norfolk 2 March 1589/90 Barnaby FIDDELL, b. say 1557, bur. Ranworth 5 Feb 1628/9, son of Robert and Agnes Fiddell. Six children have been identified.
  • Elizabeth, bapt. Caistor 12 Nov 1570, bur. Heigham, Norfolk 12 Jan 1605/6, m. Heigham 24 Sep 1591 Thomas ELWYN, bapt. Heigham 1 May 1566, bur. there 2 Dec 1648, son of William and Alice Elwyn (see).
  • (prob.) Joane, bur. Caistor 12 Aug 1572
  • Thomas, bapt. Stoke, Norfolk 23 Sep 1573, bur. Ranworth 26 Nov 1573.
  • Thomas, bapt. Ranworth 21 Feb 1574/5, bur. there 29 July 1598
  • John, bapt. Ranworth 20 March 1576/7, bur. there 13 March 1599/1600.
  • Robert, bapt. Ranworth 30 Jan 1579/80, named in the 1607 will of his uncle Thomas Parker but not in his mother's 1622 will.
  • Joane, bapt. Ranworth 18 May 1581, not named in 1607 will of her uncle Thomas Parker.
  • Edward, bapt. Ranworth 16 Jan 1585/6, named along with his daughter Alice in his mother's 1622 will.
  • Simon, bapt. Ranworth 21 April 1588, may be the one of the name bur. Ranworth 8 April 1614, or may have been the one named in his mother's 1622 will.
  • Henry, bapt. Ranworth 13 Jun 1591, bur. there 22 Sep 1600.

(10g) Jonathan Fairbanks

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see above

(10g) Thomas Fisher

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GM 2:528-32; TAG 67(1992):29

Thomas Fisher was born say 1604, d. Dedham, Mass. 10 Aug 1638, and m. Saxlingham-juxta-Mare, Norfolk, England 21 Sep 1629 Elizabeth ALLEN, b. say 1609, d. Dedham 31 Jan 1651[/2?], sister of Rev. John Allen of Dedham. Thomas was a carpenter, and first of record in New England when he was granted five acres in Cambridge, Mass. on 4 Aug 1634. He was admitted as Massachusetts Bay freeman on 4 March 1634/5, and by 1637 had settled in Dedham. On 21 Aug 1640, Elizabeth Fisher, widow, was received into the Dedham church. On 13 May 1640, Widow Fisher of Dedham was given administration of her husband's estate, nearly two years after his death. Children:

  • John, bapt. Saxlingham 10 June 1632; no other record
  • Samuel, b. c. 1634, probably in Cambridge, Mass., m. Meletiah SNOW (below).
  • Thomas, b. c. 1636, probably in Cambridge, d. 12 March 1707, m. Dedham 11 Dec 1666 Rebecca WOODWARD. They had six children born from 1667 to 1683.

(9g) Samuel Fisher

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Holman:Scott Gen(1919):198-9; Dedham Hist Reg, v 1-2, p 57; We Relate website, citing Dedham and Wrentham vital records

Samuel, the son of Thomas Fisher and Elizabeth Allen, was born c. 1634, probably in Cambridge, Mass., d. Wrentham, Mass. 5 Jan 1702/3, and m. Boston by Gov. Endicott 22 March 1658/9 Meletiah SNOW, b. Boston 30 Sep 1638, d. Wrentham 15 March 1709/10, daughter of Thomas Snow and Milcah Kelway. Samuel was received into the Dedham church on 31:11mo:1663 (31 Jan 1663/4). Samuel settled in Wrentham before the town was created, and was deacon of the church there for many years. His will was dated 22 May 1702. Samuel has an extant gravestone in the Wrenthem Center Cemetery. Children, first five b. Dedham; last two b. Wrentham:

  • Samuel, b. 21 Aug 1660, d. c. 1723, m. 9 April 1684 Abigail HEATH. His will was proved 2 Jan 1723[/4?]
  • Elizabeth, b. 12 Oct 1662, d. Wrentham 14 Sep 1724, m. Dedham 10 March 1686/7 John ELLIS.
  • Hannah, b. 19 Feb 1664/5, d. young.
  • Meletiah, b. 1 May 1667, m. Eleazer METCALF (see above).
  • Ebenezer, b. 20 Feb 1670/1 (Holman; 15 Aug 1669 per Dedham Reg.), d. Wrentham 28 Dec 1726, m. 7 Feb 1694/5, Abigail ELLIS, b. Dedham 5 July 1669, daughter of Richard Ellis and Elizabeth French. Nine children.
  • Hannah, b. 25 Oct 1672, m. Thomas GEORGE.
  • Abigail, b. 16 Feb 1674[/5?], d. Wrentham 18 Nov 1717, m. Wrentham 5 Oct 1691 Daniel FARRINGTON, d. Wrentham 7 April 1718.

(11g) _______ Allen/Allin

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NEHGR 41(1887):68-9; TAG 67(1992):29

The names of the parents of two New England immigrants have not been learned, but the family lived in or near Saxlingham-juxta-Mare in Norfolk, England. The two children who immigrated to New England were:

  • Rev. John Allin, b. 1596, d. Dedham, Mass. 26 Aug 1671, m. (1) Wrentham, Suffolk 10 Oct 1622 Margaret MORSE, b. say 1602, d. c. 1652; m. (2) Dedham 8 Nov 1653 Katharine (DEIGHTON) (Hackburne) Dudley, bapt. St. Nicholas, Gloucester, England 16 Jan 1614/5, d. Dedham, Mass. 29 Aug 1671, daughter of John Deighton and Jane Bassett, and widow of Samuel Hackburne and of Gov. Thomas Dudley. Their son, John Allin, Jr. was born at Wrentham 13 Oct 1623, and baptized at Denton, Norfolk on 24 Oct 1623. Rev. Allin was the minister at Saxlingham juxta Mare from 1625 to 1637, and then became the minister of the church in Dedham, Mass. upon his arrival in New England. His will was dated 23 Aug 1670, making bequests to the two sons of his sister Elizabeth, among others. Besides the one son with his first wife, he had at least three children with his second wife, born 1654 to 1658.
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1607, m. Saxlingham-juxta-Mare, Norfolk 21 Sep 1629 Thomas FISHER (see above).

(10g) Thomas Snow

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GM 6:413-17

Thomas Snow was born c. 1613, d. c. 1668/9, and m. c. 1637 Milcah KELWAY, b. say 1615, d. c. 1677, daughter of Walter Kelway of Chelmsford, Essex, England. She m. (2) c. 1671 William Wright. Thomas was a barber and an innkeeper, and was in New England by 1635, having received a grant of land in Boston late that year. He was called a barber when admitted to the Boston church in 1641, and his wife Milcah was admitted in 1643. From 1665 to 1668 Thomas was licensed to draw beer and keep a house of public entertainment, and after his death, his widow was given such a license on 26 April 1669. His will was dated 10 Nov 1668 and proved 28 April 1669, with his inventory dated 13 March 1668/9 totaling 239 pounds, against which were debts of 121 pounds. Administration on the estate of Milcah Wright, formerly Milcah Snow, was given to Samuel Fisher and Benjamin Thurston. It is uncertain how Milcah came to New England--either as a servant, or with relatives, or with her husband. Two of her sisters also came to New England, so she may have come with one of them with husband. Children, all born or baptized in Boston:

  • Melatiah, b. 30 Sep 1638, bapt. 12 Sep 1641 aged about three, m. Boston 22 March 1658/9 Samuel FISHER (see above).
  • Hannah, b. April 1644, bapt. 21 April 1644 "about 5 days old"; no further record.
  • Samuel, bapt. 6 May 1649, m. c. 1673 Sarah _______.
  • Abigail, bapt.14 May 1651/2, m. c. 1670 William WRIGHT.
  • Mehitable, b. 8 [sic] Feb 1654/5, bapt. 4 Feb 1654/5, d. c. 1678. On 28 Jan 1678/9 administration on the estate of "Mehitable Snow late of Boston singlewoman deceased" was given to her brother Samuel Snow. Her estate was to be equally divided among her three living siblings.

(11g) Walter Kelway

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NEHGR 47(1893):414 (will); GDMNH:486 (Griffin Montague); NeHGR 27(1873):176 (Wm Lane);

Walter Kelway was born say 1585, d. 1650/1, and m. (1) say 1611 _______ _______, b. say 1591; m. (2) Bef. 1650 Joanna _______. All we know about him comes from his will. He is called of Chelmsford, Essex, England in his will, dated 1 Oct 1650 and proved 28 Feb 1650[/1]. He makes bequests to wife Joanna, "the movable goods which she brought with her to me..." and his three daughters in New England: Margaret Mountague, Melcas Snow, and Mary Lane. Also named are grandchildren Elizabeth Kelway and John Roper, and two daughter Ruth Caunte and Mary Lane of Boston in New England to receive houses in Rayleigh, Essex. Granddaughter Elizabeth Kelway is daughter of son John Kelway, deceased. Wife named executrix. Sarah Kellum is a witness. The mechanism by which Walter's three daughters came to New England is not understood, but it appears that Mary was quite young when she made the trip. It is possible that the oldest daughter, Margaret, married Griffin Montague in England, then sailed with him and her two sisters to New England around 1635. The motivation for the two sisters to leave England might have been that their mother died and their father remarried, and the situation may have motivated the girls to move. Children of Walter, order roughly based on his will, but highly uncertain:

  • Margaret, b. say 1612, living 1671, m. Griffin MOUNTAGUE who was at Muddy River as early as 1635, Exeter in 1639, and Cape Porpus prob. in 1643 but certainly 1647, his home being on a point known as Montague's Neck. He was active as a jurist and constable from 1647 to 1666, and frequently in the courts. His will was dated 7 July 1671, and proved 1 April 1672, giving all to wife Margaret, and directing to be buried by his son John, who witnessed his father's deed in 1659, and was given 20 shillings from the Oct 1659 will of his grandmother Mrs. Ann Looman of Weymouth.
  • Milcah, b. say 1615, m. c. 1637 (first child b. Sep 1638) Thomas SNOW (above).
  • John, b. say 1620, d. by 1650, but his daughter Elizabeth was living then
  • daughter, b. say 1623, m. ______ ROPER
  • Ruth, b. say 1626, m. _______ CAUNTE
  • Mary, b. say 1630, d. Boston, Mass. 2 May 1656, m. c. 1651 William LANE, b. say 1625. Following Mary's death, William m. (2) Boston 21 Aug 1656 Mary BREWER, daughter of Thomas Brewer of Roxbury. William appears to have had three children with Mary Kelway, born from 1651/2 to 1656, and four more children with Mary Brewer, born from 1657 to 1666/7. However, in the 1873 NEHGR article, Mary's death date is given as 2 May 1656, and the birth of William's third child, Mary, is given as 15 May 1656. So, either one of these dates is incorrect, or else William had a child with his second wife only two weeks after his first wife died.

(13g) Robert Clarke

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NEHGR 152(1998):6-8

Robert, the son of John Clarke, was b. say 1490, d. Banham, Norfolk, England 1550, and m. say 1518 Alice _______, b. say 1498, d. 1554. His will was dated 24 Sep 1548 and proved 15 Jan 1550/1. Widow Alice left a will dated 31 Aug 1554 and proved 6 Nov 1554. Children, from both wills:

  • Johanne , b. say 1519, living 1582, m. by 1540 probably to Richard HUNTING of Great Ellingham, will date 20 April 1581, proved 31 July 1582. They had four children named in the will of her father.
  • Margaret. b. say 1522, m. Thomas ROUSE and had four known children born/baptized from c. 1542 to 1549/50.
  • Thomas, m. Martha MICKLEWOODE, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Micklewoode of Banham. Thomas's will was dated 30 Oct 1559 and proved 19 Jan 1559/60.
  • Rowland, b. say 1530, m. Margaret MICKLEWOOD
  • Katherine, named in the 1548 will of her father, and to receive a bequest on the day of her marriage.

(12g) Rowland Clarke

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NEHGR 152(1998):8-13

Rowland, the son of Robert and Alice Clarke, was born say 1530, bur. Banham, Norfolk, England 5 March 1579/80, and m. say 1555 Margaret MICKLEWOOD, b. say 1535, bur. Banham 25 Jan 1593/4, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Micklewood. Rowland's name appears on a 1574 muster roll with other men from Banham. His will was dated 1 March 1579/80, and proved 10 April 1580. Margaret's will was dated 23 Jan 1593[/4?] and proved 10 April 1594. Children:

  • Margaret, b. say 1556, prob. m. Banham 7 March 1580/1 Robert JAMES, d. c. 1602. Robert's will, dated 6 March 1601/2, was proved 21 Jan 1602/3 names no wife.
  • Clement, b. say 1558, d. spring 1593, m. Banham 26 Sep 1585 Joane SECKAR, bapt. Banahm 17 Feb 1565/6, d. 1638, daughter of John Seckar. He may be the Clement Clarke who resided in Scarning (Norfolk?). His will was dated at Banham 7 April 1593 and proved at Norwich 3 May 1593. Three children baptized at Banham from 1589 to 1592/3.
  • Alice, bapt. (Banham?) 29 Sep 1560, m. Banham 4 Oct 1587, as his second wife, Thomas POPE, bur. Banham April 1599. His will was dated 20 April 1599 and proved 16 May 1599, naming wife Alice and three living children, and any children wife might be pregnant with. They had four children born bapt. from say 1588 to 1599, the last one posthumous.
  • Elizabeth, b. c. 1563, bur. Banham 17 Feb 1593/4, m. there 5 Oct 1589 Francis AYER, bur. Banham 12 June 1617. They had two children baptized at Banham in 1591 and 1593.
  • William, bapt. (Banham?) 2 Sep 1565, bur. Banham 5 De 1630, apparently did not marry. He may be the William Clarke listed by Venn with a BA in 1593/4 and MA in 1597 (where?), and of Winfarthing in 1604 and ordained priest 22 May 1608. His will was dated 23 Nov 1630 and proved 20 Jan 1630[/1], making bequests primarily to the children of his brother Thomas Clarke.
  • Thomas, bapt. Banham 7 March 1567/8, m. Mary CANNE (Plowman alias Canne?) (below).
  • Anne, bapt. (Banham?) 4 June 1570, m. Robert ROPER
  • Edward, b. say 1572, m. Banham 19 Oct 1595 Prudence MARTYN. They had six children baptized at Banham from 1599 to 1610, including a set of twins.

(11g) Thomas Clarke

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NEHGR 152(1998):14-22

Thomas, the son of Rowland Clarke and Margaret Micklewood, was baptized at Banham, Norfolk, England 7 March 1567/8, bur. there 10 May 1638, and m. there 17 Oct 1602 Mary CANNE, perhaps the Mary bapt. Old Buckenham (Norfolk?) in 1580, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Plowman alias Canne. The will of Thomas Clarke was dated 11 July 1637 and proved 20 June 1638. It is quite possible that Thomas's widow is the "Mary Clarke widdow" of Dedham, Mass. who was received into the church there on 1:2mo:1642 (1 April 1642), and who died there 22:3mo:1642 (22 May 1642) as "our sister Clarke widdow being taken with strange fits of ye Collicke..." It is reasonable that she would have gone to New England after her husband's death, as several, if not most, of her children went and settled in Dedham, Mass. Children, baptized at Banham:

  • Thomas, bapt. 1 April 1604, m. Elizabeth _______. Two sons have been identified, Joseph and Thomas, baptized 1637/8 and 1640 respectively.
  • Rowland, bapt. 1 March 1606/7 is probably the one of the name who d. Dedham, Mass. 2:12mo:1638 (2 Feb 1638/9). He is first found in the Dedham records in 1637.
  • Rebecca, bapt. 26 Aug 1610, d. Medfield, Mass. 1 Jan 1680/1, m. Wramplingham, Norfolk 17 May 1630 Ralph WHEELOCK, b. c. 1605, d. Medfield 11 Jan 1683/4, with will proved 1 May 1684. They had nine children baptized/born from 1631 in Banham to 1654 at Medfield.
  • Joseph, bapt. 11 April 1613, m. Alice FENN (below).
  • Mary, bapt. 12 March 1614/5, likely the one of the name who m. Dedham, Mass. 10 Aug 1641 Benjamin SMITH, b. c. 1612, living in 1662. One child, Benjamin, b. 1646.
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 23 July 1620, d. Medfield, Mass. 22 Dec 1683, m. Dedham, Mass. 24 Nov 1642 George BARBER, b. c. 1617, d. Medfield 13 April 1685. After Elizabeth's death, George m. (2) Joan (Faxon) Fisher, widow of Anthony Fisher. They had eight children born from 1643 to 1659.

(10g) Joseph Clarke

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NEHGR 152(1998):18-19; We Relate website, citing Dedham and Medfield town and vital records and other published sources

Joseph, the son of Thomas Clarke and Mary Canne, was bapt. Banham, Norfolk, England 11 April 1613, d. Medfield, Mass. 6 Jan 1683/4, and m. Banham 15 April 1640 Alice FENN, b. say 1620, d. Medfield 17 March 1710/11. The provenance of Alice has not been learned. Joseph and Alice arrived in New England by late summer 1640 when Joseph was granted an acre of land in Dedham, Mass. on 28 Sep of that year. They lived in the part of Dedham that was set off as Medfield in 1650. Joseph's will was dated 24 June 1682 and proved 4 July 1684. Children, first six births recorded at Dedham, remainder at Medfield:

  • Joseph, b. 27 July 1642, d. Medfield 4 Sep 1702, m. Medfield 25 June 1663 Mary ALLEN, b. Dedham 11 Dec 1641, daughter of James Allen and Ann Guild. They had ten children born from 1664 to 1680.
  • Benjamin, b. 9 Feb 1643/4, m. Dorcas MORSE (below).
  • Ephraim, b. 4 Feb 1645/6, d. 1699, m. Medfield 6 March 1668/9 Mary BULLEN, b. Dedham 20 July 1642, d. Medfield 31 Dec 1726, daughter of Samuel Bullen and Mary Morse. (see Bullen Gen, p 4)
  • Daniel, b. 29 Sep 1647, d. Medfield 7 April 1676 "mortally wounded by Indians" during King Philip's War.
  • Mary, b. 12:1mo:1649 (12 March 1648/9), living in 1690, m. Medfield 26 Sep 1673 Jonathan BOYDEN, b. Boston, Mass. 20 Feb 1651/2, d. Medfield 30 May 1732, son of Thomas and Frances Boyden. Following Mary's death, Jonathan m. (2) Anne ______, who survived him. Mary had seven known children born from 1674 to 1687.
  • Sarah, b. 20 Feb 1650/1, d. Medfield 20 May 1704, m. (1) 7 Jan 1673/4 John BOWERS, b. say 1649, killed by Indians at Medfield 21 Feb 1675/6; m. (2) Medfield 22 Feb 1676/7 Samuel SMITH, b. Dedham 13 Oct 1641, d. Medfield 25 Oct 1691, son of Henry and Elizabeth Smith. Sarah had three known children with her second husband, born from 1680 to 1688.
  • John, b. 28 Oct 1652, d. Medway Dec 1720, m. Medfield 9 Jan 1679/80 Mary SHEFFIELD, b. say 1658, probably at Braintree, Mass., daughter of William Sheffield and Mary Webb
  • Nathaniel, b. 6 Oct 1658, d. Medfield 11 July 1733, m. Medfield 1704 Experience HINSDALE, b. Hatfield, Mass. July 1679, d. Medfield 3 Feb 1754, daughter of Ephraim Hinsdale and Mehitable Plympton. They had eight children born from 1705 to 1714.
  • Rebecca, b. 16 Aug 1660, d. Sherborn, Mass. 17 Feb 1738/9, m. (1) Medfield 1 May 1679 John RICHARDSON, b. c. 1650, of Wells (now Maine), d. 29 May 1697; m. (2) Medfield 20 March 1702/3 Eleazer HILL, b. Medfield 29 June 1664, d. Sherborn d. 1725 (settlement of estate), son of John and Hannah Hill. Eleazer had married first, c. 1688, Sarah Brick. Rebecca had four known children with her first husband born from 1679 to 1696/7.

(9g) Benjamin Clark

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We Relate website, citing Medfield vital records, Mason Gen, History of Medfield:347-8, Historic Homes in Worcester Co.:248, Early Records of Dedham, Mass., 1:2; Suffolk Co. Probate records, 23:454

Benjamin, the son of Joseph Clarke and Alice Fenn, was b. Dedham, Mass. 9 Feb 1643/4, d. Medfield, Mass. 1 Dec 1724, and m. Medfield 19 Nov 1665 Dorcas MORSE, b. Dedham 24 Aug 1645, d. Medfield 14 July 1725, daughter of Joseph Morse and Hannah Phillips. Benjamin is credited with first building the Peak House in Medfield, destroyed in King Philip's War, and rebuilt, now standing as a National Historic Site. Benjamin was a Medfield selectman for 17 years, a town treasurer, and representative to the General Assembly for two years. In his will, dated 118 March 1721 and proved 28 Dec 1724, he was called a wheelwright. On 25 Dec 1724 his widow, Dorcas, turned down executorship of the will, and administration was granted to Edward Clark of Medway. Children, b. Medfield:

  • Hannah, b. 22 Oct 1666, d. Medfield 4 Nov 1757, and m. there 25 April 1691 Ebenezer MASON, b. Medfield 12 Sep 1669, d. there 18 March 1754, son of Thomas Mason and Margaret Partridge.
  • Benjamin, b. 20 Nov 1668
  • Theophilus, b. 25 Sep 1670, d. Ashford, CT 7 Oct 1737, m. (1) c. 1691 Rachel PARTRIDGE, b. Medfield 12 Jan 1669, d. Medway, Mass. 1 Dec 1717, daughter of John Partridge and Magdalene Bullard; m. (2) Reading, Mass. 24 Feb 1718/9 Elizabeth (UNDERWOOD) Cutler, living 1739, widow of Nathaniel Cutler and daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Underwood. He sold his Massachusetts property and moved to Ashford, CT in June 1737, a few months before his death. His will was dated 5 Oct 1737, two days before his death, naming wife Elizabeth, four sons, and six daughters.
  • Tabitha, b. 10 Dec 1672, m. Medfield 13 June 1710 as his second wife, Dea. Thomas SANFORD, b. Boston, Mass. 7 April 1673, d. Medway 15 March 1764, son of Robert Sanford and Elizabeth Skelton. Thomas has an extant gravestone in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass.
  • Timothy, b. 19 Dec 1674, d. Medfield 6 [torn] 1676.
  • Timothy, b. 12 May 1677, d. Medway 10 Aug 1725, m. Roxbury, Mass. 22 Nov 1705 Sarah METCALF, b. Medfield 3 Dec 1686, d. Medway 20 April 1762, daughter of Joseph Metcalf and Sarah Bowers. They had eight children born from 1706 to 1725.
  • Edward, b. 11 Nov 1679, m. Hannah ADAMS (below).
  • Ebenezer, b. 12 May 1682
  • Seth, b. 1 May 1687, d. Medfield 16 March 1756, and m. there 3 Dec 1713 Abigail METCALF, b. Medfield 27 July 1694, daughter of Joseph Metcalf and Sarah Bowers. Seth's will was dated 24 April 1754 and proved 30 April 1756, calling him a husbandman. His inventory of 2 July 1756 amounted to 653 pounds. They had nine children born from 1714 to 1735.

(8g) Edward Clark

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We Relate website, citing Medfield and Medway vital records and History of Medway, Mass, p 463

Edward, the son of Benjamin Clark and Dorcas Morse, was b. Medfield, Mass. 11 Nov 1679, d. Medway, Mass. 3 July 1746, and m. Medfield 9 June 1703 Hannah ADAMS, b. Medfield 14 Oct 1685, d. Medway 28 Oct 1775, daughter of Henry Adams and Prudence Frary. Children, first five b. Medfield, remainder b. Medway:

  • Hannah, b. 28 July 1704, m. Jonathan METCALF (see above)
  • Edward, b. 18 Aug 1707, d. Medfield 17 May 1708.
  • Prudence, b. 15 March 1708/9
  • Patience, b. 3 May 1710
  • Edward, b. 27 Nov 1712
  • David, b. 23 April 1714
  • Benjamin, b. 6 Jan 1716/7
  • Nathaniel, b. 16 March 1717/8
  • Rebecca, b. 21 Jan 1719/20
  • Elizabeth, b. 16 Oct 1721
  • Sarah, b. 2 Aug 1723
  • John, b. 12 Feb 1724/5
  • Elijah, b. 9 Sep 1727, d. Medway 7 Oct 1801, m. Medway 5 April 1751 Bathsheba HARDING, b. Medway 29 Nov 1731, d. there 14 Sep 1819, daughter of Isaac Harding and Rachel Hill.
  • Henry, b. 2 Sep 1729

(11g) Samuel Morse

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see (11g) Samuel Morse above

(10g) Joseph Morse

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GM 5:170-77; NEHGR 83(1929):291; We Relate website, citing vital records and published sources

Joseph, the son of Samuel Morse and Elizabeth Jasper, was bapt. Redgrave, Suffolk, England 2 May 1613, d. c. 1654, and m. Dedham, Mass. 1 Sep 1638 Hannah PHILLIPS, b. say 1618, d. Medfield, Mass. 3 Oct 1676, possibly a sister of Rev. George Phillips. Following his death, Hannah m. (2) Boston, Mass. 3 Nov 1658 Thomas Boyden of Watertown. Joseph came to New England with his parents aboard the Increase in 1635. He was first of Watertown, but like his brother Daniel and father, was among the early Dedham settlers. In 1651 he was one of the proprietors of the part of Dedham set off as Medfield. At his death he was of Dorchester, as described in his inventory, dated 20 June 1654, and amounting to 183 pounds. The will of Hannah Boyden, wife of Thomas Boyden of Medfield, was dated 3 Oct and proved 25 Oct 1676, naming children by deceased husband Joseph Morse. Children, b. Dedham:

  • Samuel, b. 10 Jan 1639/40, d. Medfield 28 Feb 1717/8, m. (1) 16 Feb 1664/5 Elizabeth WOOD; m. (2) Medfield 29 April 1684 Sarah THURSTON, b. Medfield 16 Sep 1662, d. there 29 April 1688, daughter of Capt. Thomas Thurston and Sarah Thaxter. Samuel had seven children with his first wife, born from 1665/6 to 1682, and one known child with second wife, born 1686.
  • Hannah, b. 8 Aug 1641
  • Sarah, b. 16 Sep 1643, d. by 1695, m. Sudbury 13 March 1660/1 Nathaniel LAWRENCE, b. Watertown, Mass. 15 Oct 1639, d. Stoneham, Mass. 1724, son of John and Elizabeth Lawrence. Nathaniel m. (2) by 31 Oct 1695 Sarah _______, and m. (3) after 10 Dec 1717 Sarah (Smith) Phillips. All three marriages of Nathaniel are documented in TAG 19:67,71. The subject Sarah had five known children born from 1664 to 1683.
  • Dorcas, b. 24 Aug 1645, m. Benjamin CLARK (see above).
  • Elizabeth, b. 1 Sep 1647, d. Medfield 12 June 1715, m. Medfield 22 Dec 1668 Peleg LAWRENCE, b. Watertown 10 Jan 1646/7, d. Groton, Mass. 14 Feb 1691/2, son of John and Elizabeth Lawrence. They had six children born from 1761 to 1688.
  • Joseph, b. 26 Sep 1649, d. Sherborn, Mass 19 Feb 1717/8, m. (1) Medfield 17 Oct 1671 Mehitable WOOD, b. Medfield 22 July 1655, d. Sherborn 12 Nov 1681, daughter of Nicholas Wood and Mary Pidge; m. (2) Medfield 11 April 1683 Hannah Badcock, b. Sherborn 8 Feb 1664, d. there 9 Nov 1711; m. (3) 17 May 1713 Hannah (BAXTER) Dyer, b. Braintree 6 May 1660, d. Sherborn 4 Sep 1727, daughter of John Baxter and Hannah White, and widow of Joseph Dyer. Joseph had three children with first wife born from 1673 to 1678/9 and seven more with his second wife, born from 1686 to 1703.
  • Jeremiah, b. 10 June 1651
  • child, b. c. 1654

(12g) John Adams

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Bartlet's Adams Gen:38-46

John, presumably the son of Henry and grandson of an earlier John Adams, was born say 1550, presumably in Barton St. David, Somersetshire, bur. there 22 March 1603/4, and m. c. 1576 Agnes _______ (possibly STONE), b. say 1556, bur. Barton St. David 15 Jan 1615/6. John lived his entire life in Barton St. David as a husbandman. On 27 May 1597 he was a bondsman for Agnes, widow of John Stone of Barton David, who was executrix of the will of her husband, and from this the possibility arrises that his wife Agnes was a daughter of this couple. His will was dated 19 March 1603/4, but it was not signed nor witnessed, suggesting he might have died before these acts could be performed. It was five years before the will was brought before the probate court, and the will is preserved in the probate registry at Wells, Somerset. In it he made bequests to Roger Warfield and Judith Warfield, the son and daughter of Roger Warfield of Charleston Mackrell, Somerset; to John French, Stephen French, and Mary French, children of Richard French of Misterton, Somerset; to Katheren Adames, daughter of John Adams of Misterton; to my sonn John Adames; John and Katheren, children of son John Adams; residuary legatees wife Agnes Adames and sonn Henry Adames who are named sole executors. The will was exhibitied 26 June 1609 by Roger Warfield of Charlton Adam to whom were granted letters of guardianship of the persons and property of John and Katherine Adams and of Roger and Judith Warfield, and of John, Stephen and Mary French. Inventory valued at 62 pounds. A mutilated bond of administration of the estate by the widow Agnes was dated 7 Aug 1605. Children, all likely born in Barton St. David:

  • John, b. say 1577, d. 1609. He appears to have been estranged from his father, and moved to Misterton where he was living when his father died. After this time he moved to Compton Dundon, about three miles west of Barton David. On 9 May 1609 his mother, Agnes Adams, and his brother, Henry Adams, were named as executors of the will of John Adams, late of Compton Dundon, deceased, and were cited to apper before the Ecclesiastical Court in regards to the interest of the legatees: John, Richard, Mary, and Katherine Adams, children of John, deceased, and Roger Warfield was appointed guardian of the goods of the children. There were five children, one dying young, born from say 1600 to say 1608.
  • daughter, b. say 1579, m. c. 1598 Roger WARFIELD, who was church warden of Charlton Adam in 1607. Two known children were Judith and Roger, born say 1599 and 1601 respectively.
  • daughter, b. say 1581, m. c. 1599 Richard FRENCH of Misterton. Three children born say 1599 to 1603
  • Henry, b. say 1583, m. Edith SQUIRE (below).

(11g) Henry Adams I

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TAG 53(1958?):19; NEHGR 153(1999):213-4 (purporting the Streeter Bible record to be a forgery); Bartlet's Adams Gen:46,59-93 ; We Relate website, citing the 1897 family genealogy, and Braintree vital records

Henry, son of John and Agnes Adams, was born in the parish of Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England c. 1583 (date of 21 Jan 1583 from Streeter Bible which is likely a forgery), d. Braintree (now Quincy), Mass. 6 Oct 1646, and m. Charlton Mackrell, Somerset 19 Oct 1609 Edith SQUIRE, bapt. there 29 May 1587, d. Medfield, Mass. 21 Jan 1672/3, daughter of Henry Squire. Following Henry's death, Edith m. (2) 1651 John Fussell. Henry and Edith are ancestors of the Adams presidents through their son Joseph. Records for Henry in England are few. He was a joint residuary legatee and executor of his father's will in 1604 and executor of the will of his brother John in 1609. While parish records and bishop's transcipts are mostly missing for the places and timeframe that Henry lived in England, one of his children was baptized at Barton St. David in 1612, and two other baptisms are found at nearby Kingweston in 1622 and 1629. He is first of record in New England on 24 Feb 1639/40 when granted a lot in Boston, but had likely arrived by 1638 when his son John gave knowledge of a certain field in Cambridge as early as 1638. He soon settled with his family at Mount Wollaston, which on 13 May 1640 was incorporated as the town of Braintree. He lived in the part of that town that became Quincy, Mass. in 1792. Henry is buried in the Old Hancock Cemetery (now in Quincy), and his famous descendant, President John Adams, affixed a plaque to his grave. Children: [147]

  • Henry, b. 1610, m. Elizabeth PAINE (see below).
  • Thomas, bapt. Barton David 25 March 1612, d. Chelmsford, Mass. 20 July 1688, aged 76, m. Mass. c. 1642 Mary _______, b. c. 1612, d. Charlestown, Mass. 23 March 1694/5, aged 82. He came to New England with his parents about 1638, but is first of record as a Mass. Bay freeman on 10 may 1643. He petitioned with others for land in Braintree in 1645, was in Concord, Mass. in 1646, then became a founder of Chelmsford, Mass. in 1655 where he served in several positions, including deputy to the General Court i 1673. He was appointed ensign in 1678 and lieutenant of the Chelmsford militia in 1682. They had nine children born from 1643 to 1660.
  • Jonathan, b. c. 1614, d. Medfield, Mass. 28 July 1690, m. (1) Baltonsborough, Somerset 7 Feb 1638/9 Joane CLOSE; m. (2) in Mass. c. 1665 Elizabeth HOLMAN, b. Cambridge, Mass. 19 May 1644, daughter of William and Winnifred Holman. Jonathan remained in England in 1638 when the rest of his family sailed to New England, and lived on a farm in Baltonsborough owned by his grandfather Henry Squire. His brother John came back to England to settle some affairs in 1650, returning in 1651, and this is likely when Jonathan went with his family to Massachusetts. He settled in Medfield where his mother and three brothers were living. He had at least three children with his first wife, born in Baltonsborough from 1641 to 1647, and six more with his second wife, born in Medfield from 1665/6 to 1673/4.
  • Samuel, b. c. 1616, d. Charlestown, Mass. 24 Jan 1688/9, aged 72, m. (1) c. 1646 Mary EGLESFIELD, d. 1650, daughter of Emanuel Eglesfield and Susanna Gray of London, England; m. (2) 1651 Rebecca GRAVES, b. c. 1631, d. Chelmsford 8 Sep 1664, daughter of Capt. Thomas Graves and Katherine Gray of Charlestown; m. (3) Chelmsford 7 May 1668 Esther SPARHAWK, b. 1636. Samuel came to New England with his parents in 1638, but was first of record there on 10 May 1643 when admitted as a Mass. Bay freeman. He petitioned for land in Braintree in 1645, then soon thereafter lived in Charlestown and Concord, Mass., and later erected mills in Chelmsford. He had one child, Samuel, with his first wife, born 1647 and d. young; eight children with second wife, born from 1652 to 1664, and four children with third wife, born from 1669 to 1679. He has an extent gravestone in Charlestown.
  • Ursula, b. c. 1619, m. (1) c. 1640 Stephen STREETER; m. (2) 13 Oct 1657 Samuel HOSIER; m. (3) c. 1666 William ROBINSON; m. (4) 15 July 1673 Griffin CRAFT. She had seven children with her first husband born from 1641 to 1653.
  • Peter, b. c. 1621, d. Medfield 1690, aged 68, and m. c. 1650 Rachel _______, b. c. 1630. He came to New England with his parents in 1638, and was likely one of the Braintree petitioners for land in 1645, but his name was erroneously written as Christopher Adams. He was made Mass. Bay freeman 22 May 1650, and in 1651 joined his brother Henry at Medfield. His inventory is dated 23 Oct 1690, with division of his estate taking place 1 April 1691. They had ten children born at Medfield from 1651 to 1673/4.
  • John, bapt. Kingweston 4 Dec 1622, d. 1706, m. c. 1650 Anne _______, b. say 1630, living in 1714. He sailed with his parents to New England in 1638, and was immediately apprenticed to John Fownell, a millwright in Cambridge, Mass. It is a deposition that he made in 1656 (when aged about 35) where he says he knew of a certain property since 1638, thus establishing that as the year that the family was in New England. When his apprenticeship was over, he went to Braintree to live with his parents, and was one of the 32 signers of the 1645 petition there. In 1646 he went to Concord, and later to Chelmsford. In 1650 he went to England on some family business and returned in 1651, likely with his older brother Jonathan. He was of Cambridge, Mass. as early as March 1656/7. His will was dated 1 June 1705 and proved 7 Oct 1706. John and Anne had seven known children born from c. 1651 to 1662.
  • Joseph, b. Kingweston, Somerset 1626, d. Braintree, Mass. 6 Dec 1694, aged 68, m. Braintree 2 Nov 1650 Abigail BAXTER, b. Roxbury, Mass. Sep 1634, d. Braintree 27 Aug 1692, daughter of Gregory Baxter and Margaret Paddy. He came to New England with his parents in 1638. They had 12 children born from 1652 to 1678.
  • Edward, bapt. Kingweston 19 April 1629, d. Medfield 12 Nov 1716, m. (1) c. 1652 Lydia PENNIMAN, bapt. Boston, Mass. 22 Feb 1634/5, d. Medfield 3 March 1675/6, daughter of James Penniman and Lydia Eliot; m. (2) Dedham, Mass. 7 Dec 1678 Abigail (CRAFT) (Ruggles) Day, b. Roxbury, Mass. 28 March 1634, d. Medfield 19 Jan 1706/7, daughter of Lt. Griffin and Alice Craft and widow of John Ruggles of Roxbury and Ralph Day of Dedham; m. (3) Medfield 6 Jan 1709/10 Sarah Taylor. Edward had 14 children with his first wife, born from 1653 to 1675/6.

(10g) Henry Adams II

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Bartlet's Adams Gen:72-3; We Relate website [148], citing vital records

Lt. Henry, son of Henry Adams and Edith Squire, was b. 1610, probably at Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England, d. Medfield, Mass. 21 Feb 1675/6, and m. Braintree, Mass. 17 Nov 1643 Elizabeth PAINE, bapt. Tenterden, Kent, England 23 July 1620, d. Medfield 22 Feb 1675/6, daughter of Moses Paine and Elizabeth Sheafe. Henry was the clerk of writs at Braintree in 1646. He moved with his family to Medfield about 1650 and became prominent in town affairs. He was Lieutenant of the local militia in Jan 1673/4, and served as deputy to the General Court in 1659, 1665, 1674 and 1675. He was killed in his doorway during an Indian attack on Medfield during King Philip's War. His wife Elizabeth was ill at this time, and being cared for at the house of Rev. John Wilson, who was also a physician. During the Indian attack, a gun was accidently discharged from the floor below, and the ball passed through her. She died the next day. Henry is memorialized with others on a monument in the Sherborn Cemetery. Children, first three b. Branitree, and remainder born in Medfield:

  • Eleazer, b. 5 Aug 1644
  • Jasper, b. 23 June 1647
  • Elizabeth, b. 11 Nov 1649, d. Medfield 1 Aug 1727, m. there 16 Dec 1668, as his second wife, John HARDING, b. c. 1644, d. Medfield 4 March 1719/20, son of Abraham and Elizabeth Harding. John had m. (1) Watertown 28 Nov 1665 Hannah Wood, who d. Medfield 1 Feb 1667/8, daughter of Nicholas Wood and Mary Pidge. John had had two children with his first wife, and had nine more children with Elizabeth, born from 1669 to 1691.
  • Henry (twin), b. 14 July 1652, d. Medfield 10 July 1653
  • John (twin), b. 14 July 1652
  • Moses, b. 26 Oct 1654, m. (1) Medfield, Mass. 14 May 1680 Mary FAIRBANKS, b. Lancaster, Mass. 20 June 1659, d. Sherborn, Mass. 15 Nov 1681, daughter of Jonas Fairbanks and Lydia Prescott; m. (2) Sherborn 15 April 1684 Lydia WHITNEY, b. Watertown, Mass. 3 July 1657, d. Sherborn 1719, daughter of Jonathan Whitney and Lydia Jones. Moses had a son, Benoni, b. 1681, with his first wife, and three children born 1684/5 to 1693 with his second wife.
  • Henry, b. 15 Nov 1657, m. Prudence FRARY.
  • Samuel, b. 2 Dec 1661

(9g) Henry Adams III

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TAG 34(1958):209; We Relate website, citing Medfield vital records and History of Medway, p 444; other records from Ancestry

Henry, the son of Henry Adams and Elizabeth Paine, was b. Medfield, Mass. 19 Nov 1657, d. there 29 Sep 1733, and m. there 19 Dec 1679 Prudence FRARY, b. Medfield 20 Aug 1662, d. there 29 Dec 1750 "a woman of cherished memory", daughter of John and Eliabeth Frary. Henry's father was killed during King Phillip's War, and his mother died soon thereafter, after which young Henry chose Moses Paine of Boston to be his guardian. Henry was active in civic affairs, and was a Representative to the General Court in 1706, 1709, 1711, 1719, 1721, 1724, and 1728. Children, b. Medfield:

  • Prudence, b. 10 April 1683
  • Hannah, b. 14 Oct 1685, m. Edward CLARK (see above).
  • Thomas, b. 21 May 1688
  • Jeremiah, b. 14 Jan 1691/2, d. Medway, Mass. 8 Oct 1772, m. Medfield 22 Dec 1715 Rebecca WHEELOCK, b. Mendon, Mass 2 Nov 1692, d. Medway 20 Feb 1774, daughter of Eleazer Wheelock and Mary Chenery.
  • Elizabeth, b. 8 Jan 1693/4, d. Medfield 2 Jan 1756, and m. there (1) 7 Oct 1740, as his second wife, Solomon CLARK, b. Medfield 8 July 1678, d. there 23 June 1748, son of Joseph Clark and Mary Allen. Solomon had m. (1) Mary White, with whom he had a son Solomon. Elizabeth m. (2) Medfield 2 Jan 1756 Joseph RICHARDSON.
  • Sarah, b. 13 Dec 1697
  • Henry, b. 26 March 1701/2

(13g) William Squire

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Bartlett's Adams Gen:52

Rev. William Squire was born say 1515, d. c. 1567. He was the rector of Charlton Mackrell by 1545, per the will of Rev. George Levermore, vicar of Charlton Adam. He appears to have died by 15 Sep 1567 when John Sprynt was inducted to the rectory of Charlton Mackrell "made vacant by the death of the last incumbent." His probable children were:

  • William, b. say 1551
  • Andrew, b. say 1555
  • Francis, b. say 1559
  • Henry, b. c. 1563

(12g) Henry Squire

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Bartlett's Adams Gen:52-5

Henry, the probable son of Rev. William Squire, was b. c. 1563, d. by 1649, and m. c. 1586 a woman whose name has not been found, b. say 1566, liv. Feb 1598/9. In a deposition in 1580, he is called a husbandman of Moorlinch, aged about 16 years. He was probably an apprentice at the time. However, in the 1613/4 marriage record of his daughter Ann, he is called a "blacksmith of Kingweston." Following his early time in Moorlich, he returned to Charlton Mackrell where his children were baptized, but about 1613 he moved to adjacent Kingweston. His death date is not known, but on 25 Dec 1649 he was called "Henry squire late of Kinweston neere Somerton in Somersetshire." Children, baptized at Charlton Mackrell:

  • Edith, bapt. 29 May 1587, m. (1) Henry ADAMS (see above), with whom she came to New England; m. (2) John FUSSELL.
  • Sarah, bapt. 6 April 1589, m. Charlton Mackrell 1 Nov 1613 Robert BATT.
  • Ann, bapt. 30 Nov 1591, m. (1) Kingweston 28 Jan 1613/4 Aquila PURCHASE with whom she came to New England; m. (2) Thomas OLIVER
  • Margaret, bapt. 25 April 1596, m. John SHEPHERD and came to New England in 1638
  • Frances, bapt. 3 Feb 1598/9

(16g) John Paine

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TAG 21(1944):181-2

John Payn, whose mother was Agnes Payn, was born say 1420, lived at Frittenden, Kent, England, and died there c. 1463. He m. c. 1442 Joane ______, named in his will, dated 12 April 1463. Children:

  • Edmund, b. say 1442, m. Agnes _______, will dated 10 Feb 1499/1500; no children.
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1445, named in father's 1463 will
  • Stephen, b. say 1450, m. prob. _______ WEBB, daughter of John and Johane Webb.

(15g) Stephen Paine

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TAG 21(1944):182-3

Stephen, the son of John and Joane Payn of Frittenden, Kent, England, was born say 1450, d. Frittenden 1505, and m. (1) c. 1478 prob. _______ WEBB, daughter of John and Johane Webb; m. (2) say 1488 Johane _______, living 1505. Stephen's lengthy will was dated 3 May and proved 21 Oct 1505. Children with first wife, probably all born in Frittenden:

  • Johanne, b. say 1480
  • John, b. say 1483 (see below).
  • Edmund, b. say 1485, d. c. 1518, m. 1508 Godleve _______. They had four children born from say 1510 to 1516.

Children with second wife, Johanne:

  • James, b. say 1490, d. Faveraham 1562, m. Elizabeth _______. They had a child born say 1515.
  • Thomas, b. say 1493
  • Stephen, b. say 1495, d. Staplehurst c. 1553, m. 1520 Agnes _______; two known children b. say 1521 and 1524
  • daughter, from will
  • daughter, from will

(14g) John Paine

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TAG 21(1944):183-4

John, son of Stephen Paine and _______ Webb, was born Frittenden say 1483, d. by 1526. No will has been found for John, but his daughter Elizabeth left a will when she was 18, showing the family structure. Children:

  • Elizabeth, b. 1508, d. c. 1527. Her will was dated 23 Sep 1526 and proved at Canterbury 8 Oct 1527.
  • John, b. c. 1510, m. Jane COUCHEMAN.
  • Johane, b. c. 1514, named in 1526 will of her sister Elizabeth as being under age 16.

(13g) John Paine, Jr.

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TAG 21(1944):184-5

John, the son of an earlier John Paine, was born in Frittenden c. 1510, d. c. 1551, m. 1534 Jane COUCHEMAN, living 1551, daughter of Robert Coucheman of Frittenden, clothier. His will was dated 25 Sep 1549 and proved 13 Feb 1551. Children:

  • Robert, b. say 1535, d. c. 1604, of Bouthton Mounchelsea, Kent, m. Dennys _______.
  • Elizabeth, b. say 1537, living 1549, m. John MASCALL; two children.
  • Nicholas, b. say 1539, m. (1) Agnes CROFTON; m. (2) Joyce _______; m. (3) Mary Bezbech.
  • Margaret, b. say 1542, living 1549, m. (1) John MERIAM; m. (2) Richard READER; m. (3) William LAMBARD.
  • Cicely, b. say 1546, living 1549.

(12g) Nicholas Paine

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TAG 21(1944):185-7

Nicholas, the son of John Paine and Jane Coucheman, was born in Frittenden, Kent, England say 1539, bur. there 24 Jan 1617/8, and m. (1) c. 1564 Agnes CROFTON, bur. Frittenden 24 Aug 1591; m. (2) Joyce _______, bur. Frittenden 18 Jan 1610; m. (3) 9 July 1611 Mary Bzbeech, who survived him. His lengthy will was dated 10 May 1617, and probated 21 Jan 1617/8. Children with first wife, bapt. St. Mary's, Frittenden, England:

  • Katherine, bapt. 1 July 1565, d. by 1617 with no heirs.
  • John, bapt. 15 May 1569, d. by 1617
  • Grace (twn), bapt. 9 Jan 1571/2, bur. 10 Jan 1571/2
  • Jane (twin), bapt. 9 Jan bur. 12 Jan 1571/2
  • Thomas, bapt. 24 March 1576/7, bur. 25 March 1576/7
  • William (twin), bapt. 22 June 1578, bur. 22 Aug 1606, unmarried.
  • Elizabeth (twin), bapt. 22 June 1578, bur. 20 July 1578
  • Moses (twin), bapt. 23 April 1581, m. (1) Mary BENISON; (2) Elizabeth (SHEAFE) Collier; (3) Judith (PARES) Quincy. (see below)
  • Tabitha (twin), bapt. 23 April 1581, m. Nathan HUBERT and had four children.

(11g) Moses Paine

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TAG 21(1944):187-9; 22(1945):190-2

Moses, the son of Nicholas Paine and Agnes Crofton, was baptized at Frittenden, Kent, England 23 April 1581, bur. Braintree, Mass. 21 June 1643, and m. (1) at St. Mildred's, Tenterden, Kent 2 Nov 1615 Mary BENISON, bur. Tenterden 6 March 1617/8, daughter of John Benison; m. (2) c. 1619 Elizabeth (SHEAFE) Collier, bapt. Cranbrook, Kent 26 Oct 1589, bur. Tenterden 11 Oct 1632, daughter of Richard Sheafe and Margery Roberts; m. (3) c. 1640 Judith (PARES) Quincy, widow of Edmund Quincy who d. Boston 29 March 1654. Widow Judith m. (3) Robert Hull. Elizabeth had married (1) Cranbrook, Kent 18 June 1610 Timothy Collier. Moses arrived in New England aboard the ship Castle with his three children Elizabeth, Moses, and Stephen. He settled in Braintree, Mass., and bought land there in 1642. He also bought many other properties during his short time in New England, so must have arrived with a fair estate. He was made freeman of the colony in 1641. His will was dated 17 June 1643, but no date of probate has been found. The inventory was made 1 Sep 1643 and recorded on 30 October 1643, amounting to 671 pounds.

Children of Elizabeth (Sheafe) with her first husband Timothy Collier, bapt. Cranbrook, Kent:

  • Timothy, bapt. 16 Jan 1613[/4?]
  • Robert, bapt. 23 Feb 1616[/7?]
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 27 Dec 1618

Child of Moses with first wife, Mary Benison:

  • John, bapt. Tenterden 3 Nov 1616, prob. d. young.

Children of Moses with second wife, Elizabeth, bapt. Tenterden:

  • Elizabeth, bapt. 23 July 1620, m. Lt. Henry ADAMS (see above)
  • Margaret, bapt. 4 Nov 1621, prob. d. young.
  • Moses, bapt. 16 Nov 1623, d. Boston, Mass. 15 Dec 1690, m. c. 1645 Elizabeth COLBURN, daughter of William and Margery Colburn. They had ten children born Braintree 1646 to 1664.
  • Stephen, bapt. 7 May 1626 at St. Mildred's in Tenterden, d. Braintree 29 June 1691, and m. Braintree 15 Nov 1651 Hannah BASS, daughter of Dea. Samuel Bass. They had seven children born from 1652 to 1670.

(15g) Thomas Sheafe

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TAG 22(1945):85-7; 26 Colonists (1993):261-4

Thomas Sheafe was born say 1470, probably in Cranbrook, Kent, England, and died there in 1520. He m. c. 1496 Alice HENDLEY, b. say 1469, daughter of John and Mercy Hendley of Cranbrook., who survived him. Thomas's will was dated 5 April 1520 and proved at Canterbury 11 July 1520. Children, probably all born in Cranbrook:

  • John, b. c. 1498, d. Standford, Kent 1558, married, wife's name not found; two known children.
  • Gervase, b. 1501, aged 18 in Sep 1519, died without issue between 1520 and 1524
  • Dorothy, b. c. 1503, living in 1520
  • Richard, b. 1505, aged 14 in Sep 1519, m. Elizabeth ANDREWS, daughter of Gyles Andrews.
  • Mary, b. c. 1507, living in 1520
  • Child, d. in infancy (per brass of Thomas in Cranbrook church).

(14g) Richard Sheafe

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TAG 22(1945):87-9

Richard, the son of Thomas and Alice Sheafe, was born in Cranbrook, Kent, England in 1505, d. there 1557, and m. c. 1530 Elizabeth ANDREWS bur. Cranbrook 12 Oct 1564, daughter of Gyles Andrews. Richard appears on the subsidy roll in Cranbrook in 1545. The following item is in the church warden's accounts for 1564: "received of Thomas Sheafe four pounds as a bequest for the burial of his father and mother in the church, and for repairs to the church." Richards's will was dated 21 June 1557, and proved 24 Sep 1557. Children, born in Cranbrook:

  • Thomas, b. c. 1532, m. Mary HARMAN (below).
  • Joan, b. c. 1534, m. c. 1554 Richard KNACHBULL, son of John Knachbull and Alice Fowle.
  • Katherine, b. c. 1536, m. c. 1556 _______ LOVE.
  • Margery, b. Autumn 1538 (aged 18 1/2 at Easter 1557), d. 1574, unmarried.
  • Margaret, b. Autumn 1540 (aged 16 1/2 at Easter 1557), m. (1) 1559 John SMERSOLL; m. (2) _______ COURTHOPP, d. bef. 1615
  • Alice, b. Autumn 1541 (aged 15 1/2 at Easter 1557), d. by 1615, m. 1655 Richard HOVENDEN, d. 1598, son of William Havenden.
  • William, b. 1543, d. 21 Dec 1616, m. 25 Oct 1569 Katherine COURTOPP, bur. 24 March 1611/2. A brass plate in St. Dunstan's bears this inscription: "William Sheafe after he had lived godly and christianly the space of 73 years he departed this life the 21 of December 1616 and his body lies here buried." His will was dated 29 Dec 1615 and proved 9 Jan 1616[/7]. He had no children.
  • Mary b. summer 1545 (aged 11 3/4 at Easter 1557), living 1615, m. Cranrook 26 Jan 1569 John COUCHMAN, d. by 1615.
  • Anne, b. spring 1546 (aged 11 at Easter 1557), d. by 1615, m. _______ GIBBON.

(13g) Thomas Sheafe

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TAG 22(1945):89-91

Thomas, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Seheafe, was b. Cranbrook, Kent, England c. 1532, bur. there 6 Sep 1604, and m. c. 1558 Mary HARMON, b. 1536, d. Cranbrook Nov 1609, aged 73. Thomas left a will dated in 1604, and proved 3 Oct 1604. A memorial brass tablet was placed in St. Dunstan's church in Cranbrook by their son Edmund, in memory of his mother: "Mary Sheafe, the wife of Thomas Sheafe, who lived together nere xiv yeares and had issue between them ix sons and vi daughter, she a grave and charitable Matron, dyed lxxiii year of Age, November 1609, impasivit, E.S." Children, bapt. St. Dunstan's, Cranbrook, Kent:

  • Richard, b. c. 1558, m. Margery ROBERTS
  • Edmund, bapt. 17 March 1559/60, bur. Cranbrook 1 Nov 1626, m. (1) 30 May 1586 Elizabeth TAYLOR, bur. Cranbrook 5 March 1598; m. (2) (license 15 Aug 1599) Jane Downe, wodow of Challock, b. by 1612; m. (3) Joane (JORDAN) Kitchell. Five children with first wife, one with second, and five more with third wife.
  • Thomas, Rev., bapt. 10 Oct 1562, d. 12 Dec 1639, m. (1) Maria WILSON, bur. Welford, Berkshire 26 July 1613, daughter of Rev. William Wilson and Elizabeth Woodhall; m. (2) Anna Woodward. He was vicar of Welford, installed 1597 and became Dean of Windsor 29 March 1614-15. He had nine children.
  • Joan, bapt. 19 Dec 1562, m. c. 1580 Dr. Giles FLETCHER, b. c. 1548, d. 1610, son of Rev. Richard Fletcher, vicar of Cranbrook. Dr. Fletcher was Ambassador to Russia in the time of Elizabeth. Five children, b/bapt 1582 to 1591.
  • Katherine, bapt. 13 May 1564, d. 1591, m. John RUCK.
  • John, bapt. 9 Sep 1565, d. by 1609, m. 30 May 1586 Goudhurst (Kent?) Katherine SANDERS. She m. (2) (license 6 Nov 1609) Goudhurst Francis Birch. John had seven children.
  • Alexabner, bapt. 15 Dec 1566, bur. Cranbrook 20 Sep 1601, m. 13 Sep 1591 Phebe HYDEER, daughter of William Hyder. They had five children baptized from 1592 to 1600/1.
  • Mary, bapt. 5 Jan 1567/8, living 1615, m. George ROBERTS of Brenchley, Kent.
  • Harman, bapt. 4 July 1570, m. (lic.6 July 1608) Sarah Gyllebrand, widow of Cranbrook.
  • Anne, bapt. 2 March 1571/2, living 1615, m. Peter COURTHOPP, living in 1615; four children.
  • Samuel, bapt. 21 Feb 1573/4, d. young
  • William, b. 1575, bur. 27 Oct 1575.
  • Benjamin, bapt. 18 Aug 1577, bur. 21 Aug 1577.
  • Elizabeth, b. c. 1579, m. (lic. 13 Nov 1602) Stephen BRETT of New Romney, Kent.

(12g) Richard Sheafe

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TAG 83(2010?):275-6 (Paine fam); 22(1945):91-94 (Sheafe fam); TAG 83(2010):275-7 (Roberts fam)

Richard Sheafe, son of Thomas Sheafe and Mary Harman, was b. say 1558, bur. Cranbrook, Kent, England 14 Sep 1625, and m. there 8 Jan 1580/1 Margery ROBERTS, bapt. Brenchley, Kent 24 April 1564, daughter of John and Margaret Roberts. Richard's extensive will was dated 8 Feb 1621/2, and proved 30 Jan 1636/7. Children, baptized at Cranbrook:

  • Joan, bapt. 13 Jan 1582[/3?], m. Jonas BOTTING, schoolmaster of Cranbrook.
  • Katherine, bapt. 20 Dec 1584, d. 1613, unmarried.
  • Thomas, bapt. 5 June 1587, (mar. lic. 5 Aug 1611) Mary GIBBONS
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 26 Oct 1589, m. (1) Timothy COLLIER, d. c. 1619; m. (2) Moses PAINE (see above).
  • Anna, bapt. 20 Feb 1591[/2?], no further record
  • Mary, bapt. 1 April 1593, m. 19 Nov 1612 Jeremy GILES of Tenterden.
  • Richard, bapt. 12 Oct 1595, m. Sarah NEEDLER of Horley, Surrey.
  • Margaret, bapt. 21 May 1598, d. Greenwich, CT 1672, m. 21 July 1632 Robert KITCHELL, d. Newark, NJ 1672. They arrived at Guilford, CT by 1639, then moved to Newark, NJ in 1666. They had two sons and two daughters.
  • Ellen, bapt. 13 Dec 1601, m. John JACOB of Tenterden
  • Harman, bapt. 12 Oct 1606, m. Elizabeth _______. He wa apprenticed to Richard Onley of the Merchant Taylors Company of London on 28 Jan 1621/2 and admitted freeman of that company on 8 Nov 1630. In his will dated 21 Jun 1680 and proved 28 June 1681, has called citizen and Merchant Tailor of London.

(17g) John Hendley I

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26 Colonists (1993):269-74

John Hendley was born say 1400 at Cranbrook, Kent, England. He was probably the great grandson of Gervase Hendley of Coursehorn in Cranbrook, one of the jurors in the Inquisition Post Mortem of Sir Richard de Haudlo, knight, dated 6 April 1343. Children:

  • Thomas, b. say 1430, d. c. 1495, likely the eldest surviving son, whose will was dated 28 Sep 1495 and proved 11 Feb 1495/6. He was named as a feoffee in the 1455 will of Simon Durham of Cranbrook, thus an adult at the time.
  • Richard, b. say 1435, poss. d. 1505, m. Joan FROMOND, daughter of Robert Fromond (Freeman?). He was living in 1472 when named in the will of his brother John. It is uncertain if he is the Richard Hendley of Retherhithe, Surrey, whose will was dated 28 Dec 1505, proved 10 Jan 1505/6, naming wife Joan but no children.
  • John, b. say 1440, m. Mercy _______
  • Robert, b. say 1443, moved to London where he was a draper, and had two known children. He was named in the 1495 will of his brother Thomas, as were his two children John and Katherine. He and his son were named in the 1504 will of Thomas's widow, Joan Hendley.

(16g) John Hendley II

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26 Colonists (1993):265-7

John Hendley, the son of John Hendley, b. say 1440, d. Nov 1472, and m. say 1466 Mercy _______, b. say 1446, liv. 1472. He was fairly young when he died, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Dunstan's in Cranbrook, Kent, England. In his will, dated 8 Nov 1472 and proved 2 Dec 1472, he named wife Mercy, a son, and two daughters, the children all under age, and likely very young. Children, born at Cranbrook:

  • Thomas, b. say 1467, m. Jane _______, and was living 10 March 1517/8 when he witnessed a will, but dead by 1531.
  • Alice, b. say 1469, almost certainly m. Thomas SHEAFE (see above).
  • Joan, b. say 1471, perhaps m. Richard BIGGE, son of John Bigge and Alice Glover of Cranbrook.

(15g) Thomas Roberts

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TAG 83(2010):268-71

Thomas Roberts was born say 1450 (had four grandchildren in 1509), d. c. 1517, and married three times, his last wife, Agnes, named in his will, dated 11 March 1515/6 and proved 15 April 1517. Her will was dated in 1532 and proved 7 May 1532. Children with unknown wife:

  • Thomas, d. 1509, m. Margaret _______. His will dated 14 March 1508/9 and proved 9 May 1509, names wife Margaret and four children.
  • John, d. c. 1533, m. Agnes ______. His will was dated 26 Aug 1532 and proved 17 Oct 1533, naming wife and children.

Children with last wife, Agnes:

  • George, m. (1) Margery _______; (2) Mildred _______ (see below).
  • (prob.) Joan, m. Thomas NORRIS
  • (prob.) Margaret, m. _______ FRIER.
  • (prob.) Rose, m. _______ REYNOLDS.

(14g) George Roberts

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TAG 83(2010):271-2

George, the son of Thomas and Agnes Roberts, was b. say 1490, bur. Brenchley, Kent, England 26 Dec 1562, and m. (1) say 1520 Margery _______, b. say 1500, d. bef. 1562, his wife in 1532; m. (2) by 1562 Mildred _______. An inscription (apparently at the church in Brenchley) appears to be for him, though the death year differs several years from his burial record: "Here lyeth the body of George Roberts Sonne of Thomas Roberts late of Brenchley in Kent Generos' w'ch said George deceased the xxvth day of December Anno D'ni 1556." George's will was dated 19 Dec 1562 and proved 25 Feb 1562/3. Children of George and Margery:

  • Anne, m. Robert WHITFIELD of Worth, Sussex, who m. (2) Agnes Atwood and became grandparents of Henry Whitfield of Conn. and great grandparents of Edmund Hawes of Yarmouth, Mass.
  • John, b. say 1525, m. Margaret _______ (see below).

(13g) John Roberts

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TAG 83(2010):272-7

John, the son of George and Margery Roberts, was born say 1525, bur. Brenchley, Kent, England 26 July 1593, m. say 1551 Margaret _______, b. say 1531, bur. Brenchley 11 March 1622/3. John's will was dated 16 Sep 1592 and proved 4 March 1593/4. Children, all baptisms at Brenchley:

  • Edmond, b. c. 1552, bur. Cambridge University 8 May 1578, matriculated pensioner St. John's College, Cambridge Michaelmas 1569, BA 1572-3, MA 1576, Fellow 1574.
  • Thomas, bapt. 10 Nov 1560, bur. Brenchley 10 Aug 1568
  • George, bapt. 17 Feb 1562/3, bur. Brenchley 15 Jan 1617/8, m. 7 Feb 1585/6 Mary SHEAFE. His will was dated 10 Feb 1616/7 and proved a year later on 17 Feb 1617/8.
  • Margery, bapt. 24 April 1564, m. Richard SHEAFE (see above).
  • Anne, bapt. 4 Oct 1566, likely dead by 1618 (not in will of brother George), m. 20 Jan 1588/9 John GREENELL/GREENHILL. They had four children, born/bapt. 1589 to 1595, one of whom was Samuel who married the widow Rebecca (Taylor) Baseden, and then came to New England with her in 1634. She later married Jeremy Adams (see their account after Crossett).
  • Margaret, bapt. 13 Feb 1568/9, no further record
  • Sarah, bapt. 30 Sep 1571, m. 12 July 1591 John MAUNDIE.
  • Elizabeth, bapt. 23 Sep 1576, m. Edward WOODWARD of Ashford thelder, Kent, gent. Edward's will was dated 20 1615 and proved 16 July 1616, naming wife Elizabeth and four children. Elizabeth's will of Essheford, Kent, widow, left a will dated 23 Oct 1616 and proved 22 March 1624/5.

(11g) John Frary, Sr.

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Hale/House(1952):543-7; We Relate website, citing c.1981 Frary Gen by Frary and Lepak [149]

John Frary was born c. 1600, probably in Norfolk, England, d. Medfield, Mass. 14 Jun 1675, and m. St. George Colegate, Norwich, Norfolk, England 17 June 1628 Prudence TOWNSEND, bapt. St. Mary Coslany, Norwich, Norfolk 28 June 1601, d. Boston, Mass. 24 Feb 1690/1, daughter of Edmund Townsend. John was admitted a freeman of Norwich on 25 Feb 1627[/8?] following his apprenticeship to cordwainer Richard Gryme. John was in New England by 1637, settling in the newly formed town of Dedham, Mass., where he was named in a record on 28 Nov 1637, and assigned a lot on 20 Feb 1637/8. He became a Mass. Bay freeman on 13 March 1638/9. He continued as a cordwainer by trade and was one of the original thirteen settlers of Medfield in 1650. He served as selectman there in 1653 and 1661. His will was dated June 1675, naming wife Prudence and sons Theophilus, Eleazer, and Samson. Children, first five baptized Norwich, England; last three born Dedham, Mass., and Samson birth place uncertain:

  • Theophilus, bapt. 15 May 1629, d. Boston, Mass. 17 Oct 1700; m. (1) Boston 4 June 1653 Hannah ELIOT, b. Boston 29 Jan 1636/7, daughter of Elder Jacob and Margery Eliot, and niece of Rev. John Eliot; m. (2) Boston 12 June 1690 Mary (ALLEN) Greenwood, daughter of Samuel and Ann Allen of Brantree, and widow of Nathaniel Greenwood. He was a deacon in the Old South Church in Boston. He was commissioned a Lieutenant of the Foot Company on 12 May 1675 and served as Commissary during King Philip's War. He served as Deputy to the General Court in 1689. His will was dated 11 Sep 1697 and proved 31 Oct 1700, naming wife Mary, daughters, and brothers. He had twelve children with his first wife born from 1654 to 1674.
  • Lydia, bapt. 8 Aug 1630, d. young.
  • John, bapt. 18 Dec 1631, m. Medfield 25 Dec 1656 Elizabeth (_______) Harding, widow of Abraham Harding (see below).
  • Lydia, bapt. 18 Nov 1632, d. young.
  • Isaac, bapt. 12 Feb 1635/6, d. young.
  • Samson, b. c. 1637, killed at Deerfield, Mass. by Indians 29 Feb 1703/4, m. Medfield 14 June 1660 Mary DANIEL, b. Watertown, Mass. 2 Sep 1642, slain wile a captive en route to Canada in 1704, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Daniel. They settled in Hatfield and moved in 1673 to Deerfield. Samson's will, dated 2 Feb 1702/3, was proved 10 April 1705 at Hadley. They had five children born from 1662 to 1675.
  • Isaac, b. Dedham 29 Dec 1638, d. Dedham 1652.
  • Eleazer, b. Dedham 14 Feb 1639/40, d. Hatfield, Mass. 19 Dec 1709, m. Hatfield 28 Jan 1665/6 Mary GRAVES, b. Hartford, CT 5 July 1647, living in 1710, d. by 1728, daughter of Isaac Graves and Mary Church. His will was dated 7 Dec 1709, and inventory taken 7 Feb 1709/10. They had seven children born from 1669 to 1689.
  • Samuel, b. Dedham 27 Oct 1641, d. Dedham 1652.

(10g) John Frary, Jr.

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Hale/House(1952):544-5; TAG 34:209 (Harding fam); We Relate website, citing c.1981 Frary Gen. by Frary & Lepak

John, son of John Frary and Prudence Townsend, was bapt. Norwich, Norfolk, England 18 Dec 1631, d. Medfield, Mass. 28 March 1670, and m. Medfield 25 Dec 1656 Elizabeth (______) Harding, b. say 1623, d. Weymouth, Mass. 19 Dec 1678, widow of Abraham Harding, who d. 22 March 1654/5. Following John's death, Elizabeth m. (3) after 1675 Thomas Dyer. John Frary Jr. was a selectman in 1668 and 1669 in Medfield, and was called of that place in his will dated 27 March 1670, with inventory taken 19 April 1670. The will of his widow, Elizabeth Dyer was dated 20 Nov 1678 and probated 31 Jan 1678/9. Elizabeth had four children with her first husband, Abraham Harding, born from c.1644 to 1655 (see Abraham Harding, Sr., above). Children of John and Elizabeth Frary, born at Medfield:

  • Theophilus, b. 25 Jan 1657/8, d. young.
  • Hannah, b. 22 Feb 1659/60, d. Weymouth, Mass. 19 Sep 1726, m. c. 1675 (her step-brother) Dea. Joseph Dyer, b. Weymouth 6 Nov 1653, d. there 12 Oct 1704, son of Dea. Thomas Dyer.
  • Prudence, b. 20 Aug 1662, m. Ens. Henry ADAMS (see above).

(9g) Daniel Pond

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Pond Gen (1876):9-18

Daniel Pond, b. say 1625, d. Dedham 4 Feb 1697/8, m. (1) say 1649 Abigail SHEPARD, b. c. 1630, d. Dedham 5 July 1661, daughter of Edward Shepard and Violet (Wolterton?); m. (2) 18 Sep 1661 Ann Edwards, b. c. 1640, d. 6 June 1732, aged 92. The Shepard Genealogy (NEHGR 32(1878)) makes the case that Daniel was the son of Robert and Mary Pond of Cambridge. After Robert's death, widow Mary Pond married widower Edward Shepard. It makes sense that Edward Shepard's daughter, Abigail, would marry Mary Pond's son, Daniel. Also, Daniel did name a son Robert. Robert supposedly died in 1637 (in New England), but of concern is that the Great Migration Directory (2015) doesn't even mention Robert Pond. Did he even exist? Daniel is first of record in New England in 1652 when on 30 March of that year he purchased two acres of upland in Dedham, Mass. from Nathaniel Fisher. He was received into the Dedham church on 8:11mo:1653 (8 Jan 1653/4), and he was a Dedham selectman in 1660. He purchased land in the southern part of Dedham that in 1673 was officially established as Wrentham. Though he doesn't appear to have lived there, his older sons did. He served as a lieutenant of the militia and took the freeman's oath in 1690. His will was dated two days before his death on 2:12mo:1697/8 (2 Feb 1697/8) and proved a month later on 3 March 1697/8. Children with first wife, Abigail:

  • John, b. say 1650, m. (1) say 1687 Hannah _______, d. 2 June 1691; m. (2) say 1693 Rachel _______; m. (3) say 1698 Judith _______, d. 26 April 1708. The records of his marriages were lost when the Wrentham church records were destroyed, and no probate has been found for him or his wives, nor any vital records. He had two children with his first wife, b. c. 1688 and 1690; two with his second wife, b. 1693/4 and 1695; and five with his third wife, born 1698/9 to 1705/6.
  • Abigail, b. Dedham 5 Nov 1652, m. 22 May 1678 John DAY.
  • Daniel, b. say 1654, d. 4 March 1661/2, may be the son baptized 22 Jan 1653/4.
  • Ephraim, bapt. 6 July 1656, m. Deborah HAWES (see below).
  • Rachel, bapt. 5 Sep 1658, d. by 1698, m. July 1681 _______ STOW/STONE.
  • Hannah, b. 27 Sep 1660 (bapt. 7 Oct), m. John? _______ [John Devotion, per Shepard Gen, NEHGR 32(1878):325)

Children with second wife, Ann:

  • Daniel, b. 17 April 1663 (bapt. 20 or 26 May), d. by 1698, m. Tabitha _______, and had a daughter Susanna b. 1690.
  • Robert, b. 5 Aug 1667 (bapt. 11 Aug), d. 3 July 1750, m. (1) Joanna (LAWRENCE?); m. (2) 16 Jan 1728/9 Abigail Fisher; m. (3) Sarah (_______) Shuttleworth. He had nine children, all with first wife, b. Wrentham from 1689 to c. 1705.
  • William, b. 20 Nov 1669, liv. 1713, prob. the one who d. Dedham 16 Nov 1723.
  • Caleb, b. 13 Feb 1672/3, d. 23 Feb 1705/6, m. Priscilla COLBURN, living 1731, daughter of Nathaniel Colburn. They had five children born from 1695/6 to 1705/6.
  • Joshua, b. 3 Jan 1674/5, d. 24 April 1676
  • Jabez, b. 6 March 1676/7, d. Dedham 6 Nov 1749, m. Dedham 11 Jan 1698/9 Mary GAY, d. 11 June 1731; m. (2) Medfield 22 Nov 1732 Mary Plympton, living 1750. He had six children with his first wife, born from 1700 to 1716.
  • Sarah, b. 10 July 1679, m. 14 June 1698 Eleazer HOLBROOK of Sherborn.

(8g) Ephraim Pond

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Pond Gen (1876):12-13, 21-7

Ephraim, the son of Daniel Pond and Abigail Shepard, was bapt. Dedham, Mass. 6 July 1656, d. 22 Dec 1704, and m. 6 Jan 1685/6 Deborah HAWES, b. 1 Sep 1666, d. c. 1737, daughter of Edward Hawes and Eleony Lumber. Following Ephraim's death, Deborah m. (2) Thomas Bacon. Ephraim was a carpenter, and resident of Wrentham, Mass. where he owned land in 1689, and served the town in 1694. It wasn't until 1710, many years after his death, that his widow was given administration of his estate, and a division was made in 1714. On 13 Nov 1737 the widow's portion was divided among their children Ephraim, Samuel, Jacob, Daniel Thurston, and Eleony, the daughter of Eleony Shepard. Children, b. Wrentham:

  • Ephraim, b. 21 Oct 1686, d. 27 April 1760, m. Boston 1 Nov 1710 Mary COLBURN, d. 25 May 1754. His will was dated 4 June 1754. They had nine children born at Wrentham from 1711 to 1729.
  • Daniel, b. 22 Sep 1689, living in 1709 when granted a small plot of land, but likely dead by 5 Oct 1716 when his brother Samuel "took up four acres...which were formerly his brother Daniel's."
  • Deborah, b. 13 Sep 1693, m. 9 Feb 1719/20 Daniel THURSTON, b. Wrentham 25 Sep 1695, son of Thomas Thurston and Esther Clark (see below).
  • Samuel, b. 29 Dec 1695, m. Mary THURSTON (see below).
  • Joseph, b. 30 Dec 1697, d. an infant
  • Joseph (twin), b. 22 July 1700, d. young
  • Benjamin (twin), b. 22 July 1700, d. young
  • Jacob, b. 22 Nov 1702, d. 8 March 1764, m. Boston 11 May 1726 Abigail HEATH., b. 1704, d. 20 Feb 1803 in 99th year. They had nine children ron from 1726/7 to 1747. They have extant gravestones in the part of Wrentham known as Pondville. [150]
  • Eleony, b. 15 Aug 1704, d. 3 Sep 1727, m. Boston 24 Aug 1726 John SHEPARD of Foxboro.

(7g) Samuel Pond

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Pond Gen (1876):24-26

Samuel, the son of Ephraim Pond and Deborah Hawes, was. b. Wrentham 29 Dec 1695, d. Medway 6 April 1746, and m. 9 Feb 1719/20 Mary THURSTON, b. Wrentham 3 Sep 1702, d. Medway 7 May 1754, the daughter of Thomas Thurston and Esther Clark. Following Samuel's death, Mary married 28 Nov 1751 Deacon John Barber (1693-1754). Samuel's will, dated 25 March 1746, was proved 17 June 1746. Mary's will was proved 7 June 1754. Samuel and Mary both have grave markers in the Prospect Hill Cemetery in Millis (formerly East Medway). Children, first seven born in Wrentham, last two born in Medway: [151] [152]

  • Mary, b. 5 May 1721, d. 2 Nov 1736, buried Prospect Hill Cemetery. [153]
  • Esther, b. 11 Jan 1722/3, d. Medway 15 Feb 1797, m. 29 Feb 1742 Job PLIMPTON, b. Medfield 11 May 1718, d. Medway 18 March 1797. Esther and Job both have surviving stones in the Evergreen Cemetery, W. Medway. [154]
  • Keziah, b. 15 May 1725, d. Medway 16 Aug 1797, m. 9 Jan 1744/5 John HARDING, b. Medway 20 June 1724, d. there 17 Sep 1809, son of John Harding and Thankful Bullard. Keziah and John had six children born 1745 to 1762. They both have markers in the Evergreen Cemetery, W. Medway. [155]
  • Jemima, b. 3 June 1727, d. Medway 19 May 1766, m. 14 March 1745/6 Henry BULLARD, b. Medway 1 Oct 1723, d. there 30 April 1799, the son of John Bullard and Abigail Leland. Following Jemima's death, Henry m. Abigail Morse, b. Medfield 22 July 1736, d. Medway 14 Sep 1824, daughter of Nathaniel Morse and Sarah Coolidge. Jemima and Henry had six children born 1746 to 1766. They are buried Evergreen Cemetery, W. Medway. [156]
  • Samuel, b. 22 June 1729, d. Franklin 24 April 1806, m. Uxbridge, Mass. 10 Jan 1753 Hannah JOHNSON, b. Uxbridge 7 Sep 1733, d. Franklin or Medway 5 Aug 1816, the daughter of William and Huldah Johnson. The family appears on the 1800 census in Franklin with 2 males 16-25, 2 males 45+, and 1 female 45+. They had nine children born in Wrentham 1753 to 1771. [157]
  • Dinah, b. 13 July 1731, d. Medway 5 June 1808, a widow, m. Medway 4 July 1754 Elisha ELLIS, b. Medway 22 April 1729, died by 1808, the son of Joseph Ellis and Thamerson Adams. Dinah and Elisha had five known children born in Medway from 1755 to 1766. The fate of Elisha has not been learned. [158]
  • Bathsheba, b. 9 Aug 1734, d. 1807, m. 4 July 1754 Jonathan Metcalf, Jr. [159]
  • Timothy, b. 13 Aug 1737, d. Franklin 27 Oct 1776, m. Medway 14 Feb 1763 Sarah CUTLER, b. Medway 25 April 1742, d. 23 or 24 March 1816 in her 74th year, the daughter of Nathaniel Cutler and Elizabeth Smith. Timothy was a Revolutionary War soldier. He and Sarah are buried in the Union Cemetery, Franklin with extant grave markers. [160]
  • Mary, b. 6 Feb 1739/40, d. Medway 25 Dec 1806, m. 18 Jan 1759 Elisha CUTLER, b. Medway 11 Oct 1736, d. there 28 March 1806, the son of Nathaniel Cutler and Elizabeth Smith. Mary and Elisha both have markers in the Evergreen Cemetery, W. Medway, Mass. [161]

(10g) Edward Shepard

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NEHGR 32(1878):322-5; TAG 68(1993):170-5

Edward Shepard was born in England say 1595, d. Cambridge, Mass. c. 1680, and m. (1) Erwarton, Suffolk, England 6 Dec 1620 Violet CHARNOULD, bapt. Mistley, Essex 26 Sep 1595, d. (Cambridge?) 9 Jan 1648/9, the daughter of John Charnould; m. (2) c. 1650 Mary, widow of Robert Pond who had d. Dedham 1637. Port books for the period 1628 to 1629 show Edward Shepard as the master of the Samuel of Manningtree. Edward was a mariner, and his name appears on a 1636 ship subsidy list, he being of Lawford, Essex. In 1654, the steward of Harvard College recorded two importations of wheat "from aboard Ed. Shephearde's vessel." The 1878 account of this family gives their arrival year in New England as 1639, but Anderson's 2015 Great Migration Directory excludes him, so his documented arrival year was after 1640, and current accounts give the year as 1642. He was made freeman of the Bay colony on 10 May 1643. His will was dated 1 Oct 1674 and proved June 1680. Children, all with first wife and born in England:

  • Elizabeth, bapt. Mistley, Essex 4 Nov 1621, prob. d. young.
  • John, b. c. 1624, d. 12 June 1707, m. (1) 1 Oct 1649 Rebecca GREENHILL, d. 22 Dec 1689, aged about 55, daughter of Samuel Greenhill; m. (2) (contract 3 Aug 1691) Susannah Goodwin, widow of William Goodwin, Sr. of Hartford who d. 15 Oct 1689. Susannah's will was dated 7 March 1698 and proved 14 April 1698. John m. (3) 8 Sep 1698 Martha Henbury, widow of Arthur Henbury, who survived him. He was a Cambridge freeman in 1650, but of Hartford, CT by 1654. John had eleven children, all with first wife, born from 1650 to c. 1672.
  • Elizabeth, b. c. 1627, was likely married based on the wording in her father's 1674 will, but her married name and husband's name were not stated.
  • Abigail, b. c. 1630, m. Daniel POND (see above).
  • Deborah, b. c. 1633, m. c. 1653 Jonathan FAIRBANKS, b. say 1629, d. 28 Jan 1711/2, son of Jonathan and Grace Fairbanks of Dedham, Mass. Jonathan Jr. was admitted a townsman in Dedham on 1:11mo:1654 (1 Jan 1654/5). Jonathan's will was dated 8 Dec 1708 and probated 14 Feb 1711/2. They had 13 children born from 1655 to c. 1677
  • Sarah, b. c. 1636, d. 15 Jan 1679[/80?], aged 43, and m. 27 April 1656 Samuel TOMSON, d. 18 June 1695, aged 64, son of Rev. William Tomson of Braintree, Mass. Following Sarah's death, Samuel m. Elizabeth Billings who d. 5 Nov 1706. Sarah had ten children born from 1657 to 1679[/80?].

(9g) Edward Hawes

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Edward Hawes address (1895):1-10 (this is vaguely genealogical) [162]

Edward Hawes, b. say 1620, d. (of Dedham in his 1687 will) c. 1689, m. Dedham, Mass. 15 April 1648 Eliony LUMBER (possibly a corruption of Lombard), living in 1687. On 19:11mo:1659 (19 Jan 1659/60), Edward was granted three parcel of land, being in Dedham near the Watertown line, south of Sudbury, and "north of Natick path." Edward's will was dated 4 June 1687, and proved 17 Dec 1689. Children:

  • Lydia, b. 26 Jan 1649[/50?], m. ______ GAY. Named Lydia Gay in father's 1687 will.
  • Mary, b. 4 Nov 1650, only child not named in father's 1687 will, so likely d. young, or at least died without heirs.
  • Daniel, b. 10 Feb 1652[/3?], d. 16 March 1739[/40?] in 88th year, m. 23 Jan 1678[/9?] Abiel GAY. They had seven children. Daniel was called eldest son in 1687 will of his father.
  • Hannah, b. 1 Feb 1655[/6?], m. 5 Jan 1677[/8?] John MASON. She was named Hannah Mason in her father's 1687 will.
  • John, b. 17 Dec 1656, named in his father's 1687 will.
  • Nathaniel, m. 14 Aug 1660, d. 16 Oct 1714; had bequest in father's 1687 will
  • Abigail, b. 2 Oct 1662, m. John FALES. She was named Abigail Vales in her father's 1687 will.
  • Joseph, b. 9 Aug 1664, named youngest son in father's 1687 will.
  • Deborah, b. 1 Sep 1666, m. (1) Ephraim POND; m. (2) ______ BACON. She was named Deborah Pond in her father's 1687 will.

(11g) Thomas Thurston

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TAG 54(1978):176-7

Thomas Thurston was born say 1580, bur. Wrentham, Suffolk, England 1 April 1626, and m. Wrentham 8 Oct 1607 Grace UTTING, b. say 1587, bur. Wrentham 13 Feb 1638/9. Children, baptized Wrentham:

  • Margaret, bapt. 5 Feb 1608/9, bur. Wrentham 3 March 1619/20
  • Thomas, bapt. 13 Jan 1610/1, m. Margaret _______. It appears that he went to New England under the pseudonymn John, and kept his new name once there (see below).
  • Frances, bapt. 23 May 1613, bur. Wrentham 14 Jan 1629/30.
  • Mary, bapt. Sep 1616, bur. Wrentham 12 May 1620.
  • John, bapt. 19 March 1619/20, prob. d. young.
  • Samuel, bapt. 9 March 1622/3.

(10g) John(Thomas) Thurston

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TAG 54(1978):176-7; Thurston Gen (1880):356-60; We Relate website, citing 1892 Thurston Gen and Medfield vital records [163]

John, the son of Thomas Thurston and Grace Utting, was likely the Thomas Thurston who had two children baptized at Wrentham, Suffolk, England in 1632 and 1635. There were many instances of people changing their names when they emigrated, particularly among the Puritan clergy who were trying to escape notice from the authorities. He was likely the Thomas Thurston bapt. Wrentham, 13 Jan 1610/1, d. Medfield, Mass. 1 Nov 1685, and m. Margaret _______, b. c. 1605, d. Medfield 9 May 1662. The couple sailed out of Yarmouth, Norfolk, England in 1637, headed for New England aboard the Mary Ann. The following entry was made in the ship passenger list: "May the 10th 1637. The examinaction of John Thurston of Wrentom in Suff. Carpenter, ageed 30 years and Margrett his wife ageed 32 years, with 2 children, Thomas and John, ar desirous to passe to New England to inhabett." John was a carpenter, and received into the Dedham church 12 Jan 1643[/4?]. His land included property that became part of Medfield in 1651, and his family lived there as well as adjoining Wrentham, except for his son Joseph who went to Long Island. Children:

  • Thomas "ye sonne of Thomas Thurston and Grace his wife", bapt. Wrentham, Suffolk 4 Aug 1632, m. Sarah THAXTER (below).
  • John, (ditto), bapt. Wrentham, England 13 Sep 1635, d. Medfield 3 March 1711/2, m. Medfield 4 Oct 1660 (VR) Mary WOOD, b. Roxbury, Mass. 25 Dec 1642, d. Medfield 23 Nov 1726, daughter of Nicholas Wood and Mary Pidge. John was a deacon, freeman 27 May 1663, rep. to the General Court in 1683, and town clerk 1687. His will was dated 10 Jan 1707[/8?] and proved 25 March 1712. They had seven children born from 1665 to 1680
  • Joseph, b. c. 1638, bapt. Dedham, Mass. 15 Sep 1640, d. Long Island c. 1691, m. Anne _______. His will was dated 9 July 1688 and proved 21 May 1691. Anne's will was dated 28 April 1715 and proved 31 Jan 1721, mentioning all her children with son Samuel as residuary beneficiary. Joseph was a member of the Presbyterian church in Jamaica, L.I. They had eight known children.
  • Benjamin, b. Dedham, Mass. 8 July 1640, bapt. there 15 Sep 1640, d. Boston, Mass. 10 Nov 1678, and m. Boston 12 Dec 1660 Elishua WALKER, b. Boston 14 Feb 1635/6, daughter of Robert and Sarah Walker. He was a freeman 3 May 1665, and a founder of the "Old South" church in Boston in 1669, as was his wife. Five children are of record, born from 1662 to 1669.
  • Mary, b. Dedham 8 March 1643, d. there 4 June 1684, and m. Medfield 27 Dec 1660 Seth SMITH, b. c. 1635, d. Medfield 30 June 1682, son of Henry and Elizabeth Smith.
  • Daniel, b. Dedham 5 July 1645, d. Medfield 23 July 1683, m. (1) c. 1673 Mary STEDMAN, b. 27 April 1645, d. Medfield 21 May 1680, daughter of Robert and Ann Stedman; m. (2) Rehoboth, Mass 6 Dec 1681 Hannah Miller. Daniel had three known children with his first wife, born from 1674 to 1678.
  • Judith, b. Dedham 17 May 1648, d. Framingham, Mass. 12 Oct 1726, m. Medfield 1 March 1665/6 (VR) Jonathan TREADWAY, b. Sudbury, Mass. 11 Nov 1640, d. there 28 May 1710, son of Nathaniel Treadway and Sufferance Haynes.
  • Hannah, b. Dedham 28 April 1650, d. Medfield 29 Dec 1690, m. Medfield 12 March 1667/8 Joseph CHENEY, b. Roxbury, Mass. 6 June 1647, d. Medfield 16 Sep 1704, son of William and Margaret Cheney. Following Hannah's death, Joseph m. (2) Medfield 21 July 1691 Mehitable Plympton.

(9g) Thomas Thurston Sr.

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Medfield vital records; Thurston Gen (1880):357-61

Thomas, son of John (born Thomas) and Margaret Thurston, was bapt. Wrentham, Suffolk, England 4 Aug 1632, d. Medfield, Mass. 20 May 1704 (VR) as Capt. Thomas Thurstun, and m. Medfield 13 Dec 1655 (VR) Sarah THAXTER, b. c. 1635, d. Medfield 1 Sep 1678 (VR), daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Thaxter. Thomas served in a number of public roles in the town of Medfield: town clerk, 1673; sergeant, 1675; lieutenant, 1678; rep. to General Court, 1686. Children:

  • John, b. Medfield 4 March 1655/6 (VR), m. Hannah _______. They had nine children born from c. 1689 to 1704.
  • Thomas, b. Medfield 11 Feb 1657/8 (VR), m. (1) Mehitabel MASON; m. (2) Esther CLARK (see below).
  • Nathaniel, b. Medfield 24 Jan 1660[1659/60?] (VR), d. Medfield 2 June 1661 (VR).
  • Sarah, b. Medfield 16 Sep 1662 (VR), d. there 29 April 1688, m. there 29 April 1684 (VR) as his second wife, Samuel MORSE, b. Dedham 10 Jan 1639/40, d. Medfield 28 Feb 1717/8, son of Joseph Morse and Hannah Phillips. Samuel had m. (1) 1664/5 Elizabeth Wood.
  • Maria, b. 17 March 1665 (from Gen, but I didn't see her in VR)
  • Margaret, b. Medfield 9 Aug 1668 (VR), "mortally wounded" [by Indians during King Philip's War], recorded after 21 Feb 1675/6 (VR).
  • Elizabeth, b. Medfield 19 Sep 1671 (VR)
  • Samuel, b. Medfield 4 Aug 1674 (VR), "mortally woulded by ye Indians" 25? Feb 1675/6 (VR).
  • Margarett, b. Medfield 30 March 1677/8 (VR)

(8g) Thomas Thurston, Jr.

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Thurston Gen (1880):361; We Relate website, citing Medfield and Wrentham vital records

Thomas, son of Thomas Thurston and Sarah Thaxter, was b. Medfield, Mass. 11 Feb 1657/8, d. Wrentham, Mass (or Medfield?) 15 Dec 1704, and m. (1) Medfield 23 July 1685 (VR) Mehitable MASON, b. Medfield 29 Jan 1665/6, d. Wrentham 11 Aug 1692, daughter of Thomas Mason and Margaret Partridge; m. (2) c. 1692 Esther CLARK, b. Medfield 12 March 1669/70, d. Wrentham, Mass. 1 Aug 1713, daughter of Joseph Clark and Mary Allen. Following Thomas's death, Esther m. (2) Medfield 3 Oct 1711 Thomas Bacon, b. Dedham 23 Aug 1667, d. Wrentham 10 April 1749, son of John Bacon and Rebecca Hall. Thomas Bacon had m. (1) Hannah Fales, and after Esther's death he m. (3) Mary Wheelock. Thomas was a lieutenant in the 8th Mass. Regiment, and served at the battle of Louisbourgh (?? I thought that was 1745). Children of Thomas with first wife Mehitable:

  • Mehitable, b. Wrentham 1 Aug 1686, d. Medway, Mass. 19 Aug 1769, m. Medfield 17 Nov 1710 (VR) Samuel METCALF, b. Medfield 20 Jan 1684/5, d. Medway 4 March 1739/40, son of Michael Metcalf and Elizabeth Bowers.
  • Mary, b. Wrentham 16 March 1688, d. there 30 March 1688.
  • Thomas, b. Wrentham 2 Nov 1689, d. Walpole, Mass. c. 1755, m. Boston, Mass. 9 Dec 1718 Dorcas GAY. Administration of Thomas's estate was given to his son Thomas on 6 June 1755.
  • Ichabod, b. Wrentham 9 Aug 1692, d. there 29 Aug 1692.

Children of Thomas with second wife Esther:

  • David, b. Wrentham 20 Nov 1693, married.
  • Daniel, b. Wrentham 25 Sep 1695, m. 9 Feb 1719/20 Deborah POND, b. Medfield 13 Sep 1693, daughter of Ephraim Pond and Deborah Hawes.
  • Luke, b. Wrentham 20 April 1698, m. Elizabeth _______.
  • Esther, b. Wrentham 21 June 1700, m. Sherborn, Mass. 17 May 1721 Joseph LELAND, b. Sherborn 9 May 1698, son of Hopestill Leland and Patience Holbrook.
  • Mary, b. Wrentham 3 Sep 1702, m. (1) Wrentham 9 Feb 1719/20 Samuel POND (see above); m. (2) 28 Nov 1751 Dea. John BARBER, b. Medfield 12 Oct 1693, d. Medway 10 June 1754, son of Zachariah Barber and Abiel Ellis.
  • Paul, bapt. Wrentham 5 Nov 1704

Child of Esther with her second husband, Thomas Bacon:

  • Sarah, b. Wrentham 25 Aug 1712, d. there 9 Jan 1713/4.

(10g) Thomas Thaxter

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Pope:450; Hist Hingham, Mass.:229-31

Thomas Thaxter was b. say 1595, d. 4 Feb 1653/4, and m. say 1624 Elizabeth _______, b. say 1604, d. 17 July 1660 when she "drowned in a well.". He was a linen weaver, and in New England by 1638 when granted a house lot in Hingham, in the Plymouth Colony (now Mass.), and made a colonial freeman in 1642. Pope suggests that he may have been the son of John Thaxter, parson of Bridgham, Norfolk, England, and baptized 1 Feb 1595. Rev. John Thaxter had a brother Daniel, and Thomas gave both the names John and Daniel to his children, lending onomastic evidence to the supposition. Thomas's inventory was dated 20 Feb 1653/4, with an agreement of the heirs dated 20 April 1654. Following his death, his widow m. 29:7mo:1654 (29 Sep 1654) William Ripley, who d. 20 July 1656, and she then m. Dedham, Mass 20 Jan 1657/8 John Dwight. A family monument including Thomas has been erected in the Hingham Cemetery. Children: [ [164]]

  • John, b. c. 1625, d. 14 March 1686/7, aged 61, m. Hingham 4 Dec 1648 Elizabeth JACOB, b. England c. 1632, daughter of Nicholas and Mary Jacob. Elizabeth m. (2) 23 March 1690/1 Daniel Cushing. John was lieutenant in 1664, then captain later, and in 1680 in command of a troop of cavalry. He was a selectman for many years and a representative to the General Court in 1666. He and Mary had 12 children born from 1651 to 1677. He has an extant gravestone in the Hingham Cemetery.
  • Elizabeth, b. c. 1629, named, without surname, in the division of her father's estate, dated 20 April 1654. She was apparently of age, since she did not have a guardian as did her two younger siblings, Sarah and Samuel.
  • Thomas, b. c. 1632, d. 6 Jan 1646[5/6?]
  • Sarah, b. c. 1635, m. Thomas THURSTON (see above). She was not of age when her father's estate was divided on 20 April 1654.
  • Daniel, b. c. 1638, d. 22 April 1663
  • Samuel, b. Hingham 19 May 1641, bapt. 27 March 1642, d. 27 May 1725, m. (1) 19 Dec 1666 Abigail CHURCH, b. 22 June 1647, d. 25 Dec 1677, daughter of Richard Church and Elizabeth Warren; m. (2)13 June 1678 Deborah LINCOLN, b. Hingham 3 Aug 1645, d. 7 Dec 1694, dauther of Thomas Lincoln and Annes Lane. Samuel was a cordwainer and lived on his father's homestead. He had seven children with his first wife, born from 1667 to 1677, and three more with his second wife, born 1679 to 1684/5.

(10g) Joseph Clark

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see above

(9g) Joseph Clark, Jr.

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We Relate website, citing Dedham and Medfield town and vital records and other published sources

Joseph, the son of Joseph Clark and Alice Fenn, was b. Dedham, Mass. 27 July 1642, d. Medfield, Mass. 4 Sep 1702, and m. Medfield 25 June 1663 Mary ALLEN, b. Dedham 11 Dec 1641, daughter of James Allen and Ann Guild. Children, b. Medfield:

  • Joseph, b. 14 June 1664, d. Medfield 13 July 1731, m. (1) Medfield 8 April 1686 Mary WIGHT, b. Medfield 1667, d. there 16 Dec 1705, daughter of Thomas Wight and Mehitable Cheney; m. (2) Boston, Msss. 23 Dec 1706 Abigail (TURNER) Smith, b. Medfield 24 Dec 1667, d. there c. 1756, daughter of John Turner and Deborah Williams and widow of Samuel Smith. Joseph was a cordwainer, and held the title of Captian. He built a grist mill in Medfield, and made malt nearby.
  • John, b. 31 May 1666
  • Jonathan, b. 14 March 1667/8
  • Esther, b. 12 March 1669/70, m. (1) Thomas THURSTON (see above); m. (2) Thomas BACON.
  • Thomas, b. 6 Aug 1672
  • Mary, b. 24 May 1674
  • Lydia (twin) , b. 17 March 1675/6
  • Daniel (twin), b. 17 March 1675/6
  • Solomon, b. 8 July 1678, d. Medfield 23 June 1748, m. (1) c. 1698 Mary WHITE, b. Dorchester, Mass. 3 Aug 1666, d. 1740, daughter of John White and Mary Swift; m. (2) Medfield 7 Oct 1740 Elizabeth ADAMS, b. Medfield 8 Jan 1693/4, daughter of Henry Adams and Prudence Frary (see above). Following Solomon's death, Elizabeth m. (2) Medfield 2 Jan 1756 Joseph Richardson.
  • David, b. 25 Sep 1680

(10g) James Allen

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We Relate website, citing Dedham vital records and Cutter; Allen Gen [165]

James Allen was b. c. 1614, d. Medfield, Mass. 27 Sep 1676, and m. Dedham, Mass. 16 March 1638 Anna GUILD, b. say 1618, d. Medfield 29 March 1673. James was called "cousin" by Rev. John Allin, the first minister of Dedham, Mass. He was in New England by 1637. A monument was erected to James Allen and some descendants in the Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield. Children: [166]

  • John, b. Dedham 4 Dec 1639
  • Martha (twin), b. Dedham 11 Dec 1641, d. Rehoboth, Mass. 11 Jan 1734/5, m. (1) Medfield 22 Dec 1663, as his second wife, William SABIN, (bapt. Titchfield, Hampshire, England 11 Oct 1609?), bur. Rehoboth, Mass. 9 Feb 1686/7; m. (2) Rehoboth 20 Jan 1689/90 Richard BOWEN, b. c. 1631, d. c. 1722/3, son of Richard Bowen. Richard's will was dated 12 April 1718 and probated 25 March 1722/3.
  • Mary (twin), b. Dedham 11 Dec 1641, m. Joseph CLARK, Jr. (see above).
  • William, b. say 1643, m. (1) Edith MOORE; m. (2) Medfield 15 Feb 1667/8 Elizabeth TWITCHEL. He had at least four children.
  • Sarah, b. Dedham 4 May 1644, m. 1666 Domingo WHITE.
  • James, b. Dedham 28 Apri 1646, d. Medfield c. 1691, m. Medfield 12 Dec 1673 Lydia ADAMS, b. Medfield 12 July 1653, d. Medway 26 Dec 1731, daughter of Edward Adams and Lydia Penniman. Following James's death, Lydia m. Joseph Daniel.
  • Nathaniel, b. Dedham 29 Aug 1648, d. Boston 1717/8, m. (1) Rehoboth April 1674 Mary SABIN, b. Rehoboth 23 July 1652, d. Medfield 27 Feb 1674/5, daughter of William Sabin and Mary Wright; m. (2) Medfield 10 April 1677 Mary FRISSELL, b. Roxbury, Mass. 16 Mary 1656, daughter of James Frissell and Sarah Busketh. Nathaniel had one son, Samuel, with his first wife, born 1674/5, and seven children with his second wife, born from 1677/8 to 1701.
  • Joseph, b. Medfield 24 June 1652, d. Medfield 14 Jan 1703/4, m. Rehoboth 10 Nov 1673 Hannah SABIN, b. Rehoboth 22 Dec 1654, d. Medfield 1730, daughter of William Sabin and Mary Wright. Joseph and Hannah had twelve children born from c. 1674 to 1699.
  • Benjamin, b. say 1655, d. c. 1687, married and had at least three children.

(4g) John Fish

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John Fish, born say 1790, d. c. 1840, m. say 1819 Ellen LOVETT, b. c. 1790 (aged 50 in 1841; aged 62 in 1851), living 1851. Ellen appears on the 1841 and 1851 censuses for Darwen, Lancashire, England, and appears to have been widowed by 1841. John must have been living in 1839, assuming he is the father of the daughter born in 1840, but he does not appear in the 1841 census. Two of the sons, John Fish and Fish Fish, immigrated to the United States, and became paper workers in Medway, Mass. Known children from census records: [167]

  • William, b. 1820, d. 1869; in 1841 census (aged 20) with mother and siblings.
  • John, b. 16 April 1822, found work (likely in a paper mill) and moved to Cefn-y-Bedd, Wales, and was married in Wrexham, Wales 29 July 1848 to Jane TAYLOR, shortly after which they emigrated (see below).
  • Sarah, b. 1826, in the 1841 census in Darwen with mother and siblings, aged 15. She may be the Sarah Tomlinson, aged 24, in the 1851 census in Darwen with Ellen Fish and her children.
  • Fish, b. Darwen, England 8 May 1828, d. Medway, Mass. 1 Aug 1905, m. c. 1853 Elizabeth FISH, b. Lancashire, England 25 July 1834, d. Dudley, Mass. 6 March 1908, the daughter of William Fish. Fish Fish appears on the 1841 (aged 13) and 1851 (aged 21) England censuses in Darwen, Lancashire with his mother and siblings. He and Elizabeth had three children, two of whom survived to 1900. Fish and Elizabeth also appear on the 1861 English census with two children. They immigrated to the United States in 1862, and settled in Medway, Mass. where Fish's older brother, John Fish, was living and working. Fish appears with family on the 1865 Mass. census and 1870 federal census in Medway. In 1875 he was in North Providence, RI with wife and sons, but in 1880 and again in 1900 he was back in Medway, with only his wife Elizabeth, being then called a farmer. Fish and Elizabeth share a gravestone in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. Their oldest son, Joseph, is also buried there and shares a stone with his wife. [168]
  • Mary Anne, b. 1831, aged 10 in 1841 census and aged 19 in 1851 census
  • Catherine "Kitty", b. 1840, aged "10 Mo" in 1841 census, and aged 10 in 1851 census.

(3g) John Fish, Jr.

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John, the son of John Fish and Ellen Lovett of Darwen, Lancashire, England, was b. England 16 April 1822, d. West Medway, Mass. 26 Aug 1874, and m. Wrexham, Denbigh, Wales 29 July 1848 Jane TAYLOR, b. c. 1828, daughter of Henry and Mary Taylor. John's death record says his parents were William and Helen, but his marriage record says his father was John, and the latter appears to be correct. In 1841, John, aged 19, was living in Darwen, Lancashire with his mother and siblings. He became a paper worker, and likely went to live in Cefn-y-Bedd (meaning "beyond the grave", referring to an ancient burial mound), Wales to work in the nearby Hope Paper Mill. He was married while there, in 1848. After immigrating with his wife to the United States in 1850, the couple lived for a short while in Norwich, CT where their first child was born. John soon became a paper worker in Medway, Massachusetts, and the family remained there. They appear on the 1860 and 1870 federal censuses for Medway, and the 1865 Mass. state census in the same town. Following John's death, Jane remarried. She is undoubtedly the "Mary (Taylor) Fish," daughter of Henry and Mary Taylor, who as a widow married in Medway 19 Aug 1875 Amos ALLEN, born about 1823, d. Sherborn, Mass. 27 Dec 1884, the son of Seth and Sally Allen. When the state census was taken in 1865, Amos Allen lived three dwellings away from John and Jane Fish. Jane was enumerated in the 1880 census with her second husband and her son Joseph. In 1891 she appeared in a city directory for Milford, Mass. It is possible that she is the Jane Allen, aged 77 (c.1905?), living as a patient in an institution in Westborough, Worcester Co., Mass. Her death date and burial location have not been determined, but her great granddaughter, Adah E. Watson, was told that she lived to be 100 years old. Some of the children of John and Jane Fish are known from the town records, others are known from the family cemetery plot. Neither source is complete, and there is a serious conflict between the birth dates of the first two children, unless perhaps the oldest daughter, Ada Jane, is not a natural child of John and Jane, or unless the first two were twins, with a slight error in the dates. John shares a tall (and decaying) monument with five of his infant children in the Evergreen Cemetery, West Medway, Mass. Children: [169].

  • Ada Jane, b. Norwich, CT 9 Feb 1852, m. Albert Metcalf COLE (see above).
  • William H., b. 15 Feb 1852, d. 15 Aug 1852, bur. Evergreen Cemetery with father. His birth date conflicts with the birth date of his sister Ada Jane Fish (born 9 February 1852), so it is uncertain if they were twins, or if one of their dates is incorrect. Ada appears on the 1860 census with her parents. This child has an inscription on the family monument, but may not have been born or died in Medway, because Ada was born in Norwich, CT. It would make the most sense if his birth year were 1850, and this would be consistent with the 1848 marriage year of his parents. [170]
  • John Taylor, born Medway, Mass. 28 Mar 1854, appears on the 1860, 1865, and 1870 censuses with parents. In 1870 he worked in a boot factory.
  • Lawrence, b. 17 Aug 1856, d. 21 Dec 1856, bur. Evergreen Cemetery, sharing a monument with his father. [171]
  • Alice, b. 20 Oct 1857, d. Medway, Mass. 14 Jan 1861, bur. Evergreen Cemetery, W. Medway, sharing a tall monument with her father. The 1860 census mistakenly names her Harris Fish, a 3-year old male. [172]
  • William Henry, b. 20 April 1859, d. 1 Feb 1863, bur. Evergreen Cemetery, W. Medway, sharing a tall monument with his father and siblings. [173]
  • George Whitaker, b. Medway 30 April 1861, was living in Newton, Mass. in 1882 when he appears in the voter records there on 24 October and 7 November. George was married, at least twice, and likely three or more times. He was married first in Newton, Mass. on 20 April 1885 to Elizabeth Jane Leach, age 24, the daughter of James Leach and Mary Mitchell. He was married a second time in North Adams, Mass on 1 January 1890 to Marion B. Sanderson, born in Holyoke and aged 30, the daughter of Godfrey and Jane Sanderson. In 1900 he was apparently separated from this wife, and was living in a boarding house in Norfolk, Mass. The census says he was still married, and had been married for 10 years, having married in 1890. He is likely the George W. Fish living in Worcester, Mass. in 1910, this time with an entirely new family, whose names the informant was unwilling to give the census taker. Thus, his household consisted of: George W. Fish, aged 50, born Mass., and both parents born in the U.S. [his parents were actually born in England], his wife "Mrs. Fish", aged 40, born Mass., and his three children, Bub Fish (a son aged 8), Sis Fish (a son aged 6), and Baby Fish (a son aged 0/12 [thus born April 1910, since the census was taken on 29 April]). This is the latest record thus found for George. His death date and burial location have not been determined.
  • Lawrence, b. Medway 3 May 1863, d. there 2 May 1864, bur. Evergreen Cemetery, sharing a tall monument with his father and siblings. [174]
  • Susanna, b. Medway 30 March 1865, d. there 20 Sep 1865, bur. Evergreen Cemetery where she shares a tall monument with her father and siblings. [175]
  • Joseph Fish, born Medway, Mass. 21 Feb 1868, appears on the 1870 census with parents, and appears on the 1880 census in Framingham, Mass., aged 12, with his mother and step-father, Amos Allen.
  • William, b. Medway 17 Oct 1874, d. there 31 July 1875, and bur. Evergreen Cemetery, but he is not included on the family monument. He was born after his father died. [176]
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