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A history of the Hinmans, containing also an abbreviated record of the Kindred families, showing their relation to the Hinmans : collected from state, colony, town and Church records; also from old Bibles and aged people. "
Privately published in 1907, this book centers around Emma Shaw the sister of Marcus Shaw and her husband Abner Hinman II and their genealogy. (see pages 31-66 for our lines) Many of the lines found on this site are published in this book as well, including both of our connections to the Mayflower. | Family: F02712
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Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey Vol22 | Family: F03151
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Early Connecticut Marriages
Early Connecticut Marriages: Third Book
Colchester
New Haven Second Church
page 102 | Family: F03005
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marriage performed by Squire Eggelston MG | Family: F00284
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Marriage was performed by V. M. Goodrich, "Minister of the Gospel". Witnessed and permission given by Mrs. Eliza Ann Shaw and Mrs. Laura May Bailey. Mark Smith submitted a certified copy of their marriage license. From this document we learn the full name of Orin's mother Laura. | Family: F00208
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Mills Co. marriage records list Cordely Whiting as the wife of Marcus Shaw | Family: F00283
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At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Family: F00287
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Their marriage is listed in the Cape May County Records, Book A, "William Dumphrey and Elizabeth Johnson, Jan. 1 1797" | Family: F02969
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Witnessed by Alonzo Stuart and Richard Elliot | Family: F02547
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(Research):Ancestral File has Elizabeth White, b abt 1645 , of Nassau, NY, as wife of Richard Waring. That is the na me of son John's wife.
Ackerly? ; : JacobusNYGB: Lydia may have been her first nam e, or else Lydia Akerly was wife of Richard Jr., one or oth er conveyed property "with wife Lydia" in 1710 to John Wari ng in Cold Spring. | Lydia Ackley
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FROM: Rich Houghton, Genforum
Robert Akerly, the immigrant ancestor, is said to have been born around 1610 in England, perhaps in Yorkshire. Exactly where, and the identity of his parents, are presently unknown. He might have been the Robert Akerly baptized on 26 May 1602 in Colne, Lancashire, the son of George Akerly. This George Akerly may be the George Akerly baptized on 1 December 1577 in Keighby, Yorkshire, just ten miles from Colne.
Although it is unclear exactly when he came to New England, he was established in Southold, Suffolk County (Long Island), New York by late 1651. It is said that he was a member of a group of thirteen who left England in 1638 and settled first in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, and then removed to Southold after 1640. The location of his homelot was recorded in the town records in January 1653.
He took little or no part in town affairs, and on 4 March 1657 he and Isabella sold there land to Thomas Cooper and removed to Brookhaven, Suffolk County. He owned a lot on both sides of the road which was on the east side of the stream which, after being dammed later, became Setauket Mill Pond. He had the southern-most lot, next to George Wood.
His name appears frequently in the town records, mostly in regards to land transactions. In 1661, his name appears as "No. 14" on a list of holders of six acre lots in the old field. In the Second Land Division, land in the old field was divided into four- and three-acre lots and Robert received one of three acres. In the 1664 distribution of lots in the old purchase -- also called South Fireplace -- Robert drew lot number twenty-four. In the division of lots in "Newtown" in 1667 he drew lot number thirty-three. In 1668, a list of the town inhabitants showed Robert with "1 lott." On 26 July 1672, his son-in-law Richard Waring took (records are unclear as to whether this meant rented or bought) Robert's lot for three years. On 17 August 1675, he sold a six-acre lot to his son-in-law. Finally, in the same year, in a drawing of meadow lots in the new purchase Robert was number forty-four.
Little else is known about him. He was made a freeman of Connecticut on 12 May 1664. In 1666, he was the defendant in a lawsuit:
"Zakery Hawkens, plaintive, Robart Akerly, defendant, in a acktion of trespas, for his hoggs destroying my pese, to the value of eaight bushells pr pece, for which the plaintive desiers the judgment of the courte, with cost of suete. The judgment of the court is, that wee fine for the plaintive fower bushells of pece, with increase of court charges, but the defendant desire a Reyou the court the next tiyme being sett, the defendant lett fall the Reyou, and willing to pay the court vardit."
His wife died sometime before 1670, at which time he began to dispose of his lands. On 20 November of that year, he made an agreement with his son Samuel conveying one-half of his homelot to him. On 10 April 1675, he gave Samuel a five acre lot in Newtown, provided "said Samuell doth forgive the sayd Robard his father all debts dues & demands from the begining of the world to this day and date and not to Require any other porsion without his father being willing to leave him anything and to surrender up the cattell and tacklen wch he had of his father." On 24 May that same year, he sold another part of his homelot to "his son-in-law Jacob Longbothm."
On 25 November of that same year, he sold land to his son-in-law Richard Waring provided the latter "doth ingage to keep the said Robert Akerly with meat drink and Cloathing washing and Lodging Sufficiently and what Cloathing the Said Robert have of his own he is not to dispose of it to others." He was illiterate and signed with his mark.
The last available record of Robert appears to be a 4 July 1676 sale of his commanage to Robert Kellum of Southampton. Nothing more is known of him. He died in Brookhaven before 26 April 1681, when he is referred to by Thomas Biggs in a land deed as being deceased. | Robert Akerly
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Katherine survived Gregory and died in the spring of 1680. Her will dated September 3, 1679 proved July 20, 1680 gives to son Joseph a cow, " if he molest not my son Moses in his present dwelling and possessions", to son John a cow and a horse; to daughters Elizabeth Gilbert and Mary Marsh some household effects; " to son Moses ( who hath all his life carried himself so dutifully to myself and his father) the great bible and the whole house and land he now possess, which I declare his father gave him" Son Moses and son-in-law Alexander Marsh as Executors.
Elizabeth C. METZ, 1502 Brentwood Way, Simpsonville, SC 29680 USA in gedcom file @ KindredKonnection.com list Katherine's surname as "BUCKLEY", however marriage records of The Church of England for Mancetter, Warwickshire, England confirm her name as being ALCOCKE. There is an established relationship between Katherine's family, the Awcottes, and the BICKLEY family of Warwickshire, via the marriage of Katherine's brother, William, to Margaret Bickley, and it may be that someone at sometime having knowledge of the relationship between the Awcottes and Bickleys mistakenly recorded Katherine as a "Buckley", in regards to a belief she was a Bickley. Notice also, the date and location of their marriage is mistaken, 1627, and " Manchester" instead of Mancetter.
HER WILL IS LISTED 1680 MENTIONING LAST 4 CHILDREN: THE GENEALOGY DICTIONARY OF FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND DOES NOT STATE HER SURNAME:
her will dated 3 sep 1679 and proven 20 july 1680, gives to son Josiah a cow, "if he molest not my son Moses in his present dwelling and possessions"; to son John a cow and a horse; to daughters Elizabeth Gilbert and Mary Marsh and Grandaughter Mary marsh, some household effects; to son Moses (who hath all his life carried himself so dutifully to myself and his father) the great bible and the whole house and land he now posesses which I declare his father gave him." Son Moses Belcher and Alexander Marsh executors: On 9 July 1680 Josiah Belcher entered a caveat against the probate of any will said to be made by his late mother Catherine Belcher of Braintree, widow, deceased until he be present.(suffolk co. Probate) It does not appear that the contest was made over the estate.
FROM: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/1325/page147.html
Katherine survived Gregory and died in the spring of 1680. Her will dated September 3, 1679 proved July 20, 1680 gives to son Joseph a cow, " if he molest not my son Moses in his present dwelling and possessions", to son John a cow and a horse; to daughters Elizabeth Gilbert and Mary Marsh some household effects; " to son Moses ( who hath all his life carried himself so dutifully to myself and his father) the great bible and the whole house and land he now possess, which I declare his father gave him" Son Moses and son-in-law Alexander Marsh as Executors. | Catherine Allcock
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! (1) "The Great Migration Begins - Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," by Robert Charle s Anderson (NEHGS, Boston, MA, 1995) 3:1978. Cites: (a) "NEHGS Register," 55:24.
! Marriage to Robert WHITE: (1)[adgedge2.ged]
! (1) "The Great Migration Begins - Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," by Robert Charle s Anderson (NEHGS, Boston, MA, 1995) 3:1978. Cites: (a) "NEHGS Register," 55:24.
! Marriage to Robert WHITE: (1) | Bridget Allgar
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William Backus, English immigrant was a cutler. He settled in Saybrook, Conn, as a widower with grown children, by 1659. He was on the list of the original 35 settlers who paid Uncas, the Mohegan chief, 70 pounds, for the nine square mile parcel of ground to become Norwich, Connecticut.
Born: "Probably about 1606" (NEHGR 142:254, 1988), Note that 18 years before youngest child's birth would be 1610.
Immigrated: By 1659, ship unknown (The William Backhouse immigrant of 1637 either died soon after arrival, or if that immigrant was William, returned to England soon after. The 1637 immigrant was likely a different man. There is no record in America after 1637 of a William Backus until the reference to our William Backus in Saybrook in 1659 (Bingham genealogy say 1657.). The later kids of our William Backus were born in England after 1637.) Arrived as a widower, kids in 1659 would have been 19-31 years of age.
FROM: http://pages.ivillage.com/bk2myroots/will.html
"This may Certifie whom it may concerne That I William Backus Senior being now alive and in memory Doe ordain this my last will and testament wherein my mynd is Declared concerninge the ordaining and Disposing of my estate whereunto I Doe hereby constiture and appoynt my trustid and welbeloved sonn Steevin Backus Heier, Executor and Administrator of my whole estate to Dispose thereof according to the order of my will.
And first of all for my wife who hath beene both loving unto me and carefull of me it is my will to provide as comfortabel for her as I can, that after my Decease she might be supplied as may be needful and convenient for her which I conceive might be best attained by her abydeing with my sonn Steeven in the house and soe to partake with him of the estate soe far as shall be needful and convenient for her according to what shall arise both from the grounde and stock, but if Steeven and she shall part and the occasion thereof Doe arise from Steeven or then (?) by reason of his undutifull cariage towardes her or any other way of Discouragement proceeding from him which may occasion her departing from him, Then my will is that Steeven shall provide for her Twenty bushells of corne a yeere that is Twelve bushells of Indian adn eight of wheate as also a Third part of the milke of the cattle and a sixt part of garden stuff as squashes and pumpkins turnips and the like During the tyme of her life if she change not her condition, but if my wife shall volluntarily part from Steeven without any just occasion from him my will is notwithstanding that Steeven should provoide for her fowre bushells of wheats and sixe bushells of Indian a yeere Dureing the timeof her life as aforesaid if she change not her condition. The which if she shall Doe my will is that Steeven shall be cleere of all these ingagements Also my will is that my wife should have the bed and bedclothes (except one pillo for Steeven soe long as she lives although she stay not in the house provides she stay in the Towne, and at her Decease all shall returne to Steeven except her wearing clothers and one pillo; And concerning my sonn William it is my will that he should have all the tooles belonging to the trade of a smith and cutler and what Ivory there is with the bellowes, And concerning all the rest of my children as John Renalds and his wife, and Benjamin Crane and his wife and John Bayly and his wife with all there children which are now liveing and also Thomas Bingham XXX XXX XXX (three words crossed out, probably 'and his wife') my will is that they should all have three bushells of Indian corne a peece and this corne to be paid wthin the space of five yeers by the Heire and executor. Last of all my will is that my loveing freinds Thomas Leffingwell and John Birchard should see this my will performed according to the true intent thereof. witness my hand this 12th of June Anno Dom. 1661
witness. Thomas Tracy The marke W of
John Poast William B Backus
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| Luana Hart Beebe
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Luana H. Beebe died at the home of her son Oren P. Rockwell, on Cherry Creek, West Tintic, about noon on Saturday, the 6th inst. Undertaker A.N. Wallace faced the blizzard on Sunday, the 7th being called upon to care for the body. He made his way to West Tintic, a distance of 40 miles, through drifting snow, arriving sometime in the night more like a huge moving snowball than a human undertaker. He and the mare looked all alike - no man could tell where the undertaker began and the mare began. The deceased lady had been the wife of Porter Rockwell, famous in his time as a trailer of horse thieves, by whom she had two sons and three daughters. In later years she married Wheeler Baldwin, and came to Utah about five years ago (1892) from the state of Minnesota. making her home with one of her daughters in a placed called Grouse Creek in the Northwest corner of Utah. From there she moved last spring to her son’s home on Cherry Creek (Oren Dewitt Porter Rockwell). She was born in the state of New York Oct 3, 1814, making her 82 years, 6 months and 3 days old. The remains were taken to rest by the side of her father’s family, the Beebes of that City (Provo).
Deseret News Monday, March 15, 1897 Obituaries Death of an Aged Lady Eurika, Utah March 13, 1897
| Luana Hart Beebe
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FROM: Dorchester Reporter, 2002
It Happened in Dorchester
Roads, "Rough Trade," and Revelry
Bits and Pieces of Dorchester's Past
January 31, 2002
By Peter F. Stevens
A roadways project that comes in on time and on budget? In the land of the Big Dig? That's exactly what happened when Nicholas Clap, of Dorchester, with Moses Paine and Gregory Belcher, both of Braintree, designed and built a road from latter-day Quincy to Dorchester and Roxbury in 1655.
After taking measurements and scouting their route, the trio went to work. They recorded their project in Dorchester's Town Records:
"First, that the way shall be four Rodd Wide from Brantre [sic] bounds to roxbury bounds: secondly beginning near Henry Crane's house, the Way to Lye on the Sowtheast [sic] side of it in the old Beaten roede waye [sic]: and so to a Low White oake [sic] marked on the same side of the waye and so by the marked trees to the brooke [sic]: so from the Brooke the way being Lade [sic] in the Winter we agreed to take about a rod wide into Anthony Golliford's lot where the fence interrupts the waye: and so to a marked post towards John Gill's howse [sic]: from thence to a stake in Elder Kingsley's yard and from thence to the mill in the old beaten roade waye..."
The route ended in Roxbury, and while today's contractors and crews might chuckle at the quaint 17th-century "road gang's" reliance upon marked trees and posts, taxpayers now footing the cost overruns might long for the bottom-line efficiency of 1655 Dorchester road-builder Nicholas Clap and his associates: they finished their project on time and met their budget. Who says that change is always for the better?
Of that Colonial thoroughfare, in the late 19th Century William Dana Orcutt notes: "As nearly as can be estimated, this must have been the road which now runs over Milton Hill, from Quincy, to the Lower Mills, and then over Washington Street, in Dorchester, to Roxbury." No mean engineering feat in 1655.
Worried about the sort of miscreants who might wander into Dorchester via that engineering feat, Dorchester's Town Meeting enacted a number of laws designed to keep "rough trade" moving along that road and quickly out of town, and, as Dorchester's Colonial records show, the laws were applied.
Orcutt writes: "Many of the old laws...seem utterly absurd and unreasonable to us of this later date. For instance, an attempt to enforce such a law as that passed in 1659, concerning 'strangers,' would be apt to call forth at least the accusation of inhospitality. This law began by defining what strangers should reside within the jurisdiction [Dorchester], and how they should be licensed, and then went on to state that if any of the townspeople should entertain any sojourner or inmate in his house more than one week without first obtaining a license from the selectmen, he would be liable to a fine." If visitors had not worn out their welcome, a scramble by their hosts to the Town Meeting selectmen was a necessity.
A pair of "strangers," John Brown and John Hoppin, received the proverbial heave-ho in 1677 for "having no settled place of abode." In the following year, visitor Robert Stiles learned that newcomers who did not yet own their own home or property and "tarried too long" in Dorchester were, in the opinion of the Town Meeting, suspect. He was ordered to report to local leaders to explain his lengthy stay and to provide them an account of the "manner in which he spent his time."
In 1677, Robert Spur broke the town's "guest laws" and was called in front of the meetinghouse congregation. His offence? "Giving entertainment in his house to loose and vain persons." A fine, as well, perhaps, of a lecture on the perils of vanity, made him think twice about throwing future get-togethers in his home.
At about the same time when Spur was charged with having too much fun, Samuel Rigby, neither a vagrant nor a visitor just passing through Dorchester, upset his neighbors by "cutting up" around town. Rigby's actions &emdash; "the sin of cursing, excessive drinking, and the neglect of attendance upon the public ordinances" &emdash; led to an uncomfortable session in which he "had to answer" in church to his pastor and neighbors. Apparently, he reformed his ways or else imbibed and cursed afterwards in private.
As in the case of Samuel Rigby, 17th-century Dorchester resident John Merrifield also had a taste for spirits. To make matters worse in his neighbors' collective eyes, Merrifield, while under the influence, ranted and railed against the "spirit" that most townspeople embraced: when he was hauled in front of the gathered community at the meetinghouse, he was charged with "drunkenness, and also for contempt and slighting the power of Christ in his Church." Merrifield, like his fellow miscreants, left the meetinghouse with his a stern reprimand, a warning against future misdeeds, and a lighter purse.
In 17th-century Dorchester, the wages of many sins literally had a pricetag, as many who rode or walked into town on Nicholas Clap's road soon learned. Had there been a road sign leading into the settlement, it could have read, "Welcome to Dorchester &emdash; But Behave or Be Gone."
(Peter F. Stevens's newest book, The Voyage of the Catalpa &emdash; A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Flight to Freedom, Carroll & Graf, will be published on March 1, 2002.)
FROM: Peter Follansbee and John D. Alexander Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition
Gregory Belcher (1606-1674) Gregory Belcher was a carpenter. He was born in County Warwick in 1606 and received a land grant in Braintree in 1639. His inventory listed a few tools, furniture??3 chests, 2 boxes, 2 hanging cupboards, 3 tables 6 stools six chairs 6 cushions??and a ?servant? Henry, who was probably an apprentice. Belcher?s earlier servant was ?Andrew Rounsimon, . . . a Scotish man dyed 8th 31 1657.? Belcher?s widow Katherine died in 1680. Presumably, much of the furniture listed in her inventory was her husband?s: ?the cupboard with the lock and some small things 5s,? ?6 cushions 10s another cupboard 4s,? ?a great press 20s, 2 chests 2 boxes 20s,? and ?a press and chairs 45s 6 tables 2 stooles.? (Sources: Bates, ed., Records of Braintree, p. 636; SCRP, no. 720; SCRP Misc. Docket; Sprague, Genealogies of the Families of Braintree.)
FROM: Thayer and Burton Ancestry , 1894
GREGORY BELCHER came from England to this country in 1634, and first settled at Boston, Mass. He soon after removed to Braintree, where, about 1640, he assisted in founding the first church. He afterwards owned the land where the first iron foundry was located in America in 1640. His wife, who probably came from England with him, was Catherine ((???)). He died at Braintree, November 25, 1674. She died in 1680, or soon after.
FROM: Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Massachusetts Vol 2
Gregory was an early settler and an original member of the First Chuch of Quincy. The relationship existing between the members of the foregoing families is unknown to the Compiler. Gregory Belcher was the ancestor of the Farmington family, and must have been a man of some prominence in Boston, as he was one of the founders of the Old South Church.
FROM: Rich Houghton
Gregory Belcher, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1606. He is most likely the Gregory Belcher baptized on 30 March of that year in Aston Parish, Warwickshire, the son of Thomas-A Belcher of the hamlet of Wardend, Aston. This Thomas-A appears to have been the son of Gregory-B Belcher, yeoman, of Berkswell, Warwickshire; Berkswell is about nine miles southeast of Aston. Gregory-B and his wife Joane had at least one child:
i Thomas b. m. ------ ------
Gregory's will was dated 20 March 1620. Thomas-A lived in Aston, where the births of three children were recorded:
i John bpt. 24 August 1604 m. ------ ------
ii Gregory bpt. 30 March 1606 m. Catherine ------
iii Margery bpt. 9 July 1615 m. ------ ------
Although both Thomas and Margery married in Aston, there is no further record in the parish of Gregory, supporting the conclusion that he and the immigrant were the same.
He married CATHERINE ------ , probably in England; it is unknown who her parents were. They had the following children (not necessarily in order):
i Elizabeth b.c. 1629 m. Thomas Gilbert
ii Josiah b.c. 1631 m. Ranis Rainsford
iii John b.c. 1633 m. Sarah ------
iv Moses b.c. 1635 m. Mary Nash
v Samuel b. 24 August 1637 m. Mary Billings
vi Mary b. 8 July 1639 m. Alexander Marsh
vii Joseph b. 25 December 1641 m. Rebecca Gill
Although Savage states that they came to Boston in 1634, it is more probable that they came to New England in 1637. He settled in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, where his name first appears in the records on 19 February 1637/8. He was made a freeman there on 13 May 1640, and a Selectman in 1646 ? an office in which he served until June 1665.
He was one of the founders of the town's church. On 16 September 1639, he and seven others drafted and signed the covenant of the First Church of Braintree:
" We poor unworthy creatures, who have sometime lived without Christ and without God in the world, and so have deserved rather fellowship with the devil and his angels, than with God and his saints, being called of God out of this world to the fellowship of Christ by the Ministry of the Gospel, and our hearts made willing to join together in Church Fellowship, so by the help and strength of Christ, renounce the devil, the wicked world, a sinful flesh with all the remnants of Anti-Christian pollution, wherein sometimes we have walked, and all our former evil ways, and do give up ourselves, first to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and offer up our proferred subjection to our Lord Jesus Christ as the only Preist, Prophet and King of his Church, beseeching him in his rich grace and free mercy to accept us for his people in the blood of his Covenant, and we give up ourselves also one to another by the will of God, promising in the name and power of our Lord Jesus Christ, who worketh in us both to will and to do according to his good pleasure, to worship the Lord in Spirit and Truth and to walk in brotherly love and the duties thereof according to the will of the Gospel, to the edification of the body and of each member therein, and to be guided in all things according to God's revealed will, seeking to advance the Glory of Jesus Christ, our head, both in Church and Brotherly Communion, thro' the assistance of his Holy Spirit which he hath promised to his Church, and we do manifest our joint consent herein this day in presence of this assembly, by this our present public profesion and by giveing to one another the right hand of fellowship."
On 30 December 1639, he was granted a fifty-two acre lot in the Mount Wollaston area of Braintree for which he paid three shillings per acre. On 6 January 1657/8, he obtained a lease of the Salter farm in Braintree from the estate of William Tyng. On 14 July 1664, he bought nine acres of land in nearby Milton from John Smith, which he later gave to his son Joseph for a marriage portion. On 15 January 1666/7, Gregory and some others bought the Salter Farm for £1,900; he had a one-eighth interest. Finally, he bought forty more acres of land on the Braintree plain from Henry Crane on 18 May 1671.
On 26 March 1670, he and his son-in-law Alexander Marsh bought the town iron works and 200 acres of land. The iron works -- the first established in the United States -- had gone bankrupt in 1653, and its assets were tied up in litigation until acquired by Thomas Wiggin, who in turn conveyed it to Gregory and Alexander.
Gregory died in Braintree on 25 November 1674. His widow presented an inventory of his estate on 29 January 1674/5, signed a bond to administer her late husband's estate on 30 January 1674/5, and another along with her son Josiah on 6 March 1678/9. The inventory listed the following items:
"A Inventory of the Goods & Chattels of Gregory Belcher Deceased 25th November 1674
Imp. wearing apparell 7.05.00
money 3.07.00
1 feather Bed Bolster Bedsted & furniture 10.00.00
2 Bed such furniture 8.00.00
10 pr sheets & table linnen & new Cloath 11.00.00
a Carpit a Coverlid 3 pillows 2.15.00
2 Blankitts a pere [?] & 2 remnants of Cloath 3.02.00
pewter 4.00.00
3 Brass Kettles & warming pan, 3 Iron pots & botle skellit friing pan 3.12.00
2 tramels a paire Cob Irons tongs firepan pot hooks 2.10.00
3 Chest 2 Boxes 2 hanging Coubbord 1.00.00
3 tables 6 Hooks six [knives?] 2.00.00
Bible & other books 2.04.00
6 Cushins 2 spits 3 axes & Bolte rings 1.05.00
halfe the dwelling house & halfe the Barne 2.00.00
10 acres upland at 50 4 acres salt marsh at salter [?] 40 50.00.00
24 acres in Knight neck 90.00.00
106 acres of upland of the [?] ground 70.00.00
land in the woods swamp 50 acres 200.00.00
a servant Henry [Bai?ler] 5.00.00
2 oxen 7: 6 cowes at 15: 2 bulls 3: 2 heiff 2: calfe 28.00.00
old horse old maier 2 young maires & two calfes 6.00.00
30 sheep 7 swine & 6 pigs 8.12.00
2 fat swine 3.00.00
Barly Pese & oates 16.06.00
Cart wheals harrow cart pines & yoake 3.10.00
a plow share fork & shovel 0.15.00
log Chaines 7 load hay 5.00.00
meat Cart Rophooks & Sickles 2.10.00
Lumber 0.12.00
debts due to the estate 11.00.00
debts to be payd out of the estate 102.00.00"
The total value of the estate was £629.05.00.
Catherine died in Braintree in the Spring of 1680. Her will, dated 3 September 1679 and proved 20 July 1680, provided a cow for her son Josiah "if he molest not my son Moses in his present dwelling and possessions;" to son John a cow and a horse; to daughters Elizabeth Gilbert and Mary Marsh some household effects; and to her son Moses "who hath carried himsef so dutifully to myself and his father the Great Bible and the whole house and land he now possesses which I declare his father gave him." On 9 July 1680, Josiah entered a caveat against the probate of his mother's estate "until he be present." It does not appear, though, that any contest was made to the will.
FROM: http://www.angelfire.com/la2/gen/reasons.html
JOHN WINTHROP, THE WINTHROP SOCIETY :
The following document was found among the papers of governor JOHN WINTHROP:
notes by the elder WINTHROP, dated 1629. written by son JOHN WINTHROP.
Excerpt of this document ...Reasons for coming to America, notice the mention of the Braintree, Belcher Family:
....."all other churches of europe are brought to desolation, and our sins, for which the lord begins already to frown upon us and to cut us short, do threaten evil times to be coming upon us, and who knows, but that god hath provided this place to be a refuge for many whom he means to save out of the general calamity, and seeing the church hath no place left to fly into but the wilderness, what better work can there be, than to go and provide tabernacles and food for her when she be restored"john winthrop."unquote.
.....it began to burn within the hearts of men, as they looked across the seemingly boundless ocean, the call of the new world drove them. it compelled them to seek out a fruitful and untamed land. just as moses had led the israelites into canaan land.
John winthrop wrote in 1629
"for god hath given to the sons of men a double right to the earth --- there is a natural right and a civil right. the first right was natural when men held the earth in common, every man sowing and feeding where he pleased. then as men and their cattle increased, they appropriated certain parcels of ground by enclosing and peculiar cultivation, and this in time got them a civil right."
he felt it was man's duty to bring christianity and european civilization to this new world called america.
.....John Winthrop insisted that God expected man to spread over the earth and subdue it. "the whole earth is the lord's garden, and he hath given it to mankind with a general commission (gen. 1:28) to increase and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it, which was again renewed to noah. the end is double and natural, that mankind might enjoy the fruits of the earth, and god might have his due glory from his creatures." why then should one strive here for places of habitation, at such a cost as would obtain better land in another country, and at the same time suffer a whole continent as fruitful and convenient for the use of man to lie waste without any improvement?
.....but it wasn't just for land that they came, it was for a new rebirth in christ's church that they longed for. "if any such as are known to be godly and live in all wealth and prosperity here, and shall forsake all this to join themselves with this church and to run a hazard with them of a hard and mean condition, it will be an example of great use both for removing the scandal of worldly and sinister respects which is cast upon the adventurer, to give more life to the faith of god's people in their prayers for the plantation, and to encourage others to join the more willingly in it."
.....the whole town was the church and to say anyone was not connected to the early churches would be useless. Belchers were connected to the early churches as deacons, pastors , or listed as a freeman: an upstanding man of the community...male church-member, and must have experienced a transforming spiritual experience by god's grace, as attested by himself and confirmed by church leaders. therefore, a small percentage of the population: became a freeman.
FROM: Belcher Families in New England by: Joseph Gardner Bartlett Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society 1906
GREGORY, Braintree, came to Boston 1634, was freem. 13 May 1640, bef. wh. he had assist. in found. of the ch. at Br. had Samuel, b. 24 Aug. 1637; Mary. 8 July 1639; Joseph, 25 Dec. 1641; Gregory, and two other s. earlier or later, and d. 21 June 1659 [sic]. His wid. Catharine, in her will of 1680, names three s. Josiah, Moses, John, and d. Elizabeth Gilbert, whose h. I cannot guess, if she were m. nor her f. if not; beside Mary Marsh, prob. w. of Alexander, m. 19 Dec. 1655. [ref 20]
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BELCHER, Gregory, farmer, Braintree, 1637, propr.; frm. May 13, 1640. He deposed in June, 1665, ae. about 60 years. With wife Katherine sold land land in Br. 6 (4) 1667. Admin of his est. gr. 30 Jan. 1674, to widow Katharine, with whom the son Josiah was afterward joined. [ref 37:43]
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Gregory Belcher, immigrant ancestor, was born about 1606, according to his own deposition. He was in New England as early as 1637, when he was a famer in Braintree, Massachusetts, and a proprietor of the town. On December 30, 1639, he was granted a lot of fifty-two acres on Mount Wollaston (Braintree) where he settled. He was admitted a freeman, May 13, 1640, and served as selectman in 1646. In 1664 he purchased land in Milton which he gave to his son John at his marriage. In 1657-58 he leased the Salter farm in Braintree from the estate of William Tyng, of Boston, and with others in 1666-67 he bought the place, his interest being one-eighth. With his son-in-law, Alexander Marsh, he bought the iron works with two hundred acres of land in Braintree. He died November 25, 1674. He married Katherine ___, who survived him and died in the spring of 1680. Her will, dated September 3, 1670, was proved July 20, 1680. Children: Elizabeth, married Thomas Gilbert; Josiah; John, born about 1633; Samuel, August 24, 1637; Mary, July 8, 1639, married December 19, 1655 Alexander Marsh; Joseph, December 25, 1641. [ref 61:1455]
FROM:
Several places show Gregory as Thomas's son:
Others Henry Thomas's son:
In Joseph Bartletts " Belcher Families in New England" 1906:
The will of Gregory Belcher, yeoman of Berkeswell County, Warwickshire, dated March 20 1620 mentions wife Joane, son Thomas H. Belcher: sons-in-law John Bonney and William cook: daus Elizabeth Cook, Isabel Bonney and Alice Pemberton(Putmans Historical Magazine vol 4 page 182)
It seems likely that Thomas H. Belcher , son of Gregory of this will, was the Thomas Belcher who lived int he hamlet of Wardend, Parish of Aston, County Warwickshire where he had three children recorded,at that time
John Belcher, bap 24 Aug 1604, gregory Bap March 30 1606, and Margery 9 July 1615:
Aston is about 9 miles from Berkeswell:
in the early Genealogy lines of England this Gregory Belcher family (1620)is listed in the line of Edmund Belcher:
II....GREGORY BELCHER B 1606 ENGLAND CAME TO AMERICA ON THE WINTHROP FLEET
TO THE MASS BAY COLONY: FARMER: CAME TO BOSTON 1634: WAS A FREEMAN BY 13 MAY 1640:
LEASED THE LAND"BLUE HILLS" OF BOSTON: APRIL 1, 1658
ESTATE ADMINISTERED 30 JAN 1674 TO WIDOW KATHERINE
KATHERINES WILL DATED 3 SEPT 1680 BEQ TO SONS JOSIAH, JOHN, AND MOSES B.
DAUGHTERS ELIZABETH GILBERT AND MARY, WIFE OF ALEXANDER MARSH, AND GR DAU,
MARY MARSH.
HE ASSISTED IN FOUNDING OF THE CHURCH OF BRAINTREE.
MARRIED: CATHERINE? HER WILL IS LISTED 1680 MENTIONING LAST 4 CHILDREN:
KATHERINE SOLD LAND IN BRAINTREE APRIL 6, 1667:
THE GENEALOGY DICTIONARY OF FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND DOES NOT STATE HER SURNAME:
SEVERAL PLACES HAVE THIS GREGORY LISTED AS MARRIED TO: CATHERINE ALLCOCK
NOTE: THIS LINE OF GENEALOGY EXTENDS TO DOUGLAS MACARTHUR:
AND BY A DISTANT ROUTE TO JOHN ALDEN:THORUGH THE BASS FAMILY
AND WINSTON CHURCHILL:
AND FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT THROUGH THE DELANO AND CHURCH FAMILIES | Gregory Belcher
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FROM: Rich Houghton, Genforum
Joseph Belcher (Gregory-1) was born on 25 December 1641, most probably in Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Gregory Belcher and his wife Catherine ------.
Around 1664, he married REBECCA-2 GILL (No. 84:3:1045). Rebecca was the daughter of John Gill and Anne [Billings?], and was baptized in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 7 July 1650.
On the occasion of his marriage his father gave him nine acres of land in Milton, Norfolk County, where the newlyweds settled. These were combined with large tracts that Rebecca, as her father's heir, owned in Dorchester and Milton.
Joseph and Rebecca's life together was not without its problems. The two grew estranged, and temporarily separated. This was a situation that Puritan morality of the time could not tolerate and the couple was summoned before the General Court. By the efforts of friends, however, the two evidently reconciled and remained together.
Sometime around 1674, they moved to Braintree, Norfolk County; Rebecca was dismissed to the Braintree Church on 6 September 1674.
Soon after moving to Braintree, the war with the Indians known as King Philip's War began. Joseph served as quartermaster in the cavalry troop of Capt. Thomas Prentice in the first expedition against them at Mount Hope. In a subsequent engagement against the Indians during King Phillip's War on 28 June 1675, at Swansea, Bristol County, he distinguished himself by great bravery; he was badly wounded in the knee and had his horse shot out from underneath him.
Joseph died in Braintree in late December 1678 or early January 1679. His brief will provided:
" The Will of Joseph Belchar. That Capt. Brackitt & Mr Quinsey shall have the over Seeinge of his estate & his wife to have the estate to bringe up his children & his children to have the estate equally devided & to have there portion at ye day of marrig or when they come of Age & if any or either of them shall dye before ye day of marrig or before they shall be of Age then there portion or portions shall bee devided & given unto those children that shall then bee alive."
The inventory of his estate was presented on 7 February 1678/9:
" An Inventory of the goods & Chattle of the late Joseph Belcher of Milton decd taken 7th Feb 1678 by us subscribed:
Imp. A dwelling house wth a little house that Stephen
Langley dwells in wth 66 Acres of upland
8 Acres of Salt Marsh and 4 Acres of fresh meadow 400.00.00
Wearing Apparell both woolen Linnen with cap hats Bootes & Shoes 7.05.00
The Womans Apparrell & Linnen improved for the benefit of his children 0.00.00
2 pr pistols with holsters and Brest-plates 2.17.00
one Saddle and bridle male pillion & pillion Cloth 0.18.06
one Bed with bedding & Bedsteed curtains & vallents as it stands 3.10.00
Two old Beds fild wth feathers and flocks & 8 blankets with two old Bolsters 3.10.00
3 brass pans & a morter and pestle 1.00.00
3 or 4 old little brass kettles a warming pan & other old brass with one Seive 0.12.00
2 Iron pots and one Iron kettle 1.02.00
a frying pan 2 tramels 1 pr tongs 1 peele 0.13.06
A dripping pan Smoothing Iron & an old Iron pan 0.04.00
7 pewter dishes 2 pots 1 porringer 1 bason sucking bottle and one Chamber pot 1.10.00
Tin Ware 2 pans one funnell one pepar box 1 Lanthorn 0.04.06
4 Augurs 2 Saws one pr Andirons 1.01.00
3 Axes & 2 old Axes one ho 0.08.00
old [Shakes?] and other old Iron 1 Spade 1 Shovell 2 forkes 0.14.00
2 Seiffswith rings and necks 0.05.00
a cupboard 1 table & Spinning Wheele and small tubbs pailes churns trays wth other Lumber 1.00.00
a Cutlash 0.01.00
one Cart & Wheeles 3.10.00
3 Cleveses 1 chain 3 pr hayers 1 yoke 2 plows with Irons 1.16.00
one mare [illeg.]
4 Cows one Calfe 11.00.00
one Sow and 10 piggs 3.10.00
In hay Corn and some other small things 24.11.03
We whose names are hereunder written have prized the Corn belonging to the Estate of Joseph Belcher English & Indian at £9.10.00. Milton 28th 2d 1679."
The total value of the estate was £472.04.19
The date of Rebecca's death is presently unknown, although it was sometime after 11 December 1677 since she was mentioned in her husband's will on that date
FROM: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/philip/1-10/ch3pt1.html
Capt. Prentice was appointed captain of the special Troop, June 24, 1675, and sent out with Capt. Henchman, as has been related. On arriving at Swansey, at Miles's garrison, the Indians began firing from the bushes across the river at our guards, and twelve of the troopers volunteered to go over the bridge and drive them off. These were commanded by Quartermaster Joseph Belcher and Corporal John Gill. Mr. Church went along with them, and also a stranger, and William Hammond acted as pilot. As they advanced across the bridge the Indians fired upon them and wounded Mr. Belcher in the knee, killed his horse, and shot Gill in the breast, but his buff coat and several thicknesses of paper saved him from injury. They killed the pilot outright, and the troopers were forced to retreat, bringing off Hammond and his horse. On the renewal of the attack by the Indians next morning, the troop, supported by Mosely's volunteers, charged across the bridge and drove the Indians from the "Neck" and across to Pocasset. June 30th was spent by the army traversing Mount Hope neck, and at evening Capt. Prentice with his troop rode to Rehoboth and quartered over night.
FROM: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:350036&id=I159 07573
On his marriage he was given by his father 9 acres of land in Milton, where he settled. His wife, Rebecca, was sole heiress to large tracts of land in Dorchester and Milton, from the estate of her father. However, incompatibility made their domestic life unhappy, causing a temporary separation & a summons before the General Court. However, a reconciliation was finally effected. On the outbreak of the King Philip's War, Joseph served as a Quartermaster in the Cavalry Troop of Capt. Prenyce in the First Expedition against King Philip at Mt. Hope. In a skirmish with the Indians at Swansea, 28 Jun 1675, he distinguished himself by great bravery, being badly wounded in the knee and having his horse shot out from under him. The inventory of his estate amounted to 472 pounds, 4 shillings, and 9 pence was presented, 7 Feb 1678/79.
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John Henry Bingleman was a carpenter. He built the house that he and Lydia lived in and raised their eight children. He died at the age of 85, but the last five years were spent in bed with a broken hip, caused from a fall from a ladder.
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Last Will and Testament of John Black, Merchant
State of South Carolina
Laurens District
On the name of God amen - - - - -
I John Black merchant being of sound and disposing mind and memory and in common health do make ordain and constitute this my last will and in the form following viz - - - First I leave to my beloved wife Sarah Conway Black during her natural life one third of my esttate and at her death to return to my children or their heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten - - she to have the privilege of choosing such of the property as she may choose either real or personal at the appraisment price and to extend as far as the shares of my three youngest children, Oscar, Trenmore, and Harriett whose Guardian or Trustee I hereby appoint her and to have and enjoy the use of their shares free of Interest on condition she Keeps them with her and gives them the balance of their eduction, clothing, etc. - - - Secondly I give to my daughter Agatha the three Negro Women, Maryann, Augusta and Milly, she having a deed for them before her marriage - - - I also give her a debt which she owes to the firm of John and William Black amt to $185.42 and give her a debt which she owes me on her first husband's estate of $97.53 and also furniture sent home valued at $100 making in all the sum of seventeen hundred and eighty three dollars to be deducted out of her share of my estate. Thirdly, I leave to my son William Ewell Black during his natural life and then to his heirs of his body lawfully begotten forever my two Negro boys Edmond and Isham at the value of fourteen hundred dollars, one Gray horse at Eighty dollars having bought a piece of land in Spartanburg of Anthony Foster Suit, for four hundred and fifty dollars to which I am security and as security have paid the first payment of one hundred dollars for him, now if I have to pay the balance of said land or if it suits Ewell to leave Spartanburg and he makes the title to my estate he has choice to do so if not that amount with above negroes and horse will be a discount against him for his full share of my estate on general division of same - - - Fifthly, I leave to my son John B. Black to my son R. Oscar Black, to my son Trenmore F. Black on their marrying to the satisfaction of their mother on coming of age two negro fellows each or women as maybe agreed on to be valued at the same price of fourteen hundred dollars for the two if fellows and five for the women if such are chosen to be deducted from their shares of my estate on general division of same - - - I give to my son John my gold watch and trinkets on condition he gives his silver watch to his brother Oscar - - I give him the gray horse he swapt away at $75 the watch $100 to be duducted out of his share of my estate onn general division - - - Sixthly, I leave to my daughter Harriett Malvina Black fourteen hundred dollars worth of negroes to be paid to her by her mother or the Executrix or Administratrix if she be dead, on her marriage to her and the heirs of her body lawfully begotten exclusive of the Negro woman Rhoda deeded to her by Miss H. Burnsides - - - Seventhly - - - I hereby will and ordain that if my wife should die before my three young children finish their education that my executors and administrators do find funds sufficient to finish their education in any branch or profession they may choose to follow, exclusive of their full share of my estate it being my meaning and intention that all my children maybe put as near an equality as possible to which the younger branches could not be if obliged to pay for finishing their own education it being no apology by the others saying their education was limited and so on, each and all of them have had as much as they choosed to take, and they shall have the same privilege - - - Eightly - - - I hereby order and will it that all the balance of estate at the death of my wife both real and personal be set up at the highest bidder and sold on a credit at the direction of my administrator or heirs and the same be equally divided among my children or the heirs of their bodies share and share alike after deducting from each legatee whatever advances is hereby made or may be hereafter made by my wife always excepted the Tuition and Board of my younger children which they have in addition to their share - - - Ninthly - - - I hereby appoint and nominate my wife Sarah C. Black my sole executrix to this my last will and testament and Trustee and Guardian as mentioned in clause 1st of this will for my younger children with full power to sell and dispose of any part of my real estate and make good titles for same and in case of her death my oldest son and two sons in Law to act in her room and stead and with same Powers. Witness my hand and seal this 29 December 1834."
"John Black" (Seal)
"James J. Bailey"
"James Caldwell"
"William Miligan"
The will of John Black is filed in Laurens County, South Carolina, Probate Office, Box 80, Package 9, June 1835.
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THE LADIES' WORLD magazine from September, 1895, published by SH MOORE & CO, NY, in very good condition, complete, with spine in tact. Includes writing by Mrs. Clark Waring
Wrote such books as 'The Lion's Share', 'That Sandhiller', 'Old Reb' and other various serials.
FROM: http://lib.limestone.edu/pdffiles/Chapter_6.pdf
In those days before the War there was much social life in Columbia for young and old. This "Limestone Girl of the Sixties"recalled delightful parties and dances and picnics of her youth,including May festivals and flower pageants in the spring. Sheremembered vividly one May Day when she had the honor ofcrowning the stately and queenly maiden, Mallie Black (later Mrs.Clark Waring), and could still quote the lines from the poetic pageantthat she spoke as she advanced with the royal diadem to adorn the head of the lovely queen. She recalled also the little verse that the pupils of the Misses Reynolds' school recited in concert .
FROM: From Mrs. Clark Waring, A Confederate Girl's Diary, quoted in Smythe, Poppenheim and Taylor, South Carolina Women in the Confederacy, State Committee Daughters of the Confederacy, Columbia, SC, 1903, p. 279.
Malvina Black Gist married Clark Waring in 1867 and lived for the remainder of her life in Columbia, South Carolina. She produced numerous short stories and volumes of poetry, and three novels. At her death in 1930 at the age of 88, she was survived by three children. (This biographical information was obtained from Katharine M. Jones, Editor, Heroines of Dixie: The Winter of Desperation, Ballantine Books, New York, 1955, p. 194.)
Malvina Black Gist Waring was a central figure in the organization of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the state of South Carolina. She served as the Organizing Regent for the Columbia Chapter, which is the first chapter in the state. She later served as the second State Regent for South Carolina and then Vice President General from South Carolina. The portrait of Mrs. Waring at left is provided by the Columbia Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, from a 1994 edition of the National D. A. R. magazine commemorating the centennial of the Columbia Chapter's organization under Mrs. Waring's leadership.
Malvina's first husband, William M. Gist, was Major and later Lieutenant Colonel, commanding, of the 15th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. Son of Gov. William H. Gist (see the Gist home, Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site, Union, SC), he died in action near Knoxville in November 1863, about 11 months after he and Malvina Black were wed. (This biographical note was provided by Kirk Johnston, Andrew Jackson State Park, Lancaster, SC.)
TITLE: Malvina Black Gist: Civil Worker in Civil War
By Patricia B. Mitchell
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In early 1865, Malvina Black Gist, a young war widow, employed by the Confederate Note Department in Columbia, South Carolina, left that state capital to move with her government department to the ?safety? of Richmond, Virginia.
As Malvina and other war refugees crowded into Richmond, food shortages became more severe. On March 8, 1865, Malvina wrote in her journal:
March 8. ? Wish I had been taught to cook instead of how to play on the piano. A practical knowledge of the preparation of food products would stand me in better stead at this juncture than any amount of information regarding the scientific principles of music. I adore music, but I can't live without eating ? and I'm hungry! I want some chicken salad, and some charlotte russe, and some oxpalate, and corn muffins! These are the things I want; but I'll eat anything I can get. Honestly, our cuisine has become a burning question. *
Nowadays we are not in the difficult straits Malvina found, but it is helpful to know how (and why) to cook.
FROM: Favorite DIshes, A Columbian Autograph Cookery Book, Compiled by Carrie V. Shuman, 1893
Two recipes submitted by Malvina ("Mrs. Clark Waring")
GEORGIE'S CAKE.
From MRS. CLARK WARING, of South Carolina, Alternate Lady Manager.Three teaspoonfuls of soda; one cup butter; one cup molasses; two cups brown sugar; two cups sour milk; four eggs; four and one-half cups flour; one tablespoonful mixed spices; two pounds dates, weeded and chopped fine; rub the butter and sugar to a cream, add the molasses, then the sour milk, break one egg in at a time and beat well; sift the soda in the flour and add, saving a little to dust the dates; add the spices and last of all add the dates; bake slowly like a fruit cake.
PRUNE ROLL
From MRS. CLARK WARING, of South Carolina, Alternate Lady Manager. Soak two pounds of prunes in cold water over night; drain through a colander and seed them. Make your puff paste; roll it out; place your prunes on the paste, sprinkling with a little sugar on top; then roll
smoothly. Bake in a steady heat and serve hot with hard butter sauce, or very rich wine sauce.
FROM: http://www.geocities.com/columbiadar/chapterhistory.html
Our Chapter History
The Columbia Chapter, DAR, is the oldest chapter in South Carolina. Organized by Mrs. Clark Waring in February 1892, the chapter received its charter May 10, 1893. It is the first patriotic organization of women established in South Carolina and is also the first hostess to a state conference.
FROM: The General Federation of Women's Clubs, GFWC-SC History 1898-2004
GFWC-SC was founded through the work of Mrs. J. H. Adams of the Once-A-Week Club of Seneca. With the help of Mrs. M. W. Coleman, club president, a call was sent out to other women?s clubs for an organizational meeting to form a federation. This meeting was held on June 15-16, 1898 in Seneca. Representatives from nineteen literary or reading clubs or organizations attended the meeting.
Mrs. Clark Waring of Columbia was chosen as chairman for the meeting. Mrs. J. H. Adams served as secretary. The meeting resulted in the creation of the South Carolina Federation of Women?s Clubs. A constitution was adopted, noting that the object of the Federation ?shall be to bring together the several women?s clubs of the State for mutual benefit.
FROM: Mothers of Invention Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust, Copyright (c) 1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved.
Excerpt from Chapter Four: We Must Go to Work, Too Us Poor Treasury Girls
Malvina Gist, who at age twenty lost her husband to war, seemed quickly to forget her grief amidst the excitement of her new Treasury job. As the speed of her signature increased, her employer assured her she was "a treasury girl worth having." But Gist seemed more interested in her activities outside the department. When Sherman threatened Columbia, Gist prayed the note bureau would not be returned to the comparative safety of Richmond. "It is high time," she asserted, "I was having some experiences out of the ordinary?. I want to stay. I want to have a taste of danger." In fact the move to Richmond proved highly satisfactory. The secretary invited all "us poor Treasury girls" for a dinner and somehow managed to produce, even in the last weeks of the war, a "varied menu, elegantly prepared and daintily served." With her dead husband apparently forgotten, Gist was most thrilled by the Confederate capital's "surging, intoxicating stream" of men in uniform. Gist's and Stuart's independence was just what clucking matrons like Mary Chesnut regarded as most dangerous about women's new public roles.
FROM: www.thestate.com, Posted on Mon, Mar. 22, 2004
?Treasury girls? left print on historic plant, Many signed bills for Confederacy during war, kept diaries recounting their experiences, By DAWN HINSHAW, Staff Writer
Eleven months after her wedding, Malvina Black Gist of Columbia found herself a widow to the Civil War.
And like scores of women in similar straits, Gist took a job at the Confederate Treasury on Gervais Street, where she signed her name thousands of times a day on new $50, $10 and $5 bills.
?Mr. Tellifiere says I am a treasury girl worth having, and that I did a big day?s work, and a good day?s work,? Gist wrote proudly in her diary, excerpted in a display at Columbia?s Confederate Relic Room and Museum.
In 1864, Columbia was at the center of the South?s monetary system. And because so many of the area?s men were off to battle, or dead, jobs at the Confederate Printing Plant drew women from across the South, genteel white ladies uprooted by the ravages of war.
Some, like Gist, kept diaries detailing their experiences. Others wrote wistful letters home, describing their surroundings.
Their observations provide a glimpse into a time when women, just like the fictitious ?Rosie the Riveter? in World War II, entered the work force, only to be drawn back home once the war had ended.
Illuminating stories about the people and events connected with the Confederate Printing Plant are the reason the building has been designated a historic landmark.
The plain brick structure, at Gervais and Huger streets downtown, is in the public eye today, being rebuilt as a grocery store.
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE
Historians speculate that the sight of young, upper-class women working for wages was a source of gossip around Columbia.
A treasury girl? worked from 8 in the morning until 2 or 3 in the afternoon in a noisy print shop, signing her name over and over on the bottom right-hand corner of each bill a sign of authenticity of the South?s legal tender.
When she made a mistake by blotting ink on the paper currency, money was deducted from her salary of $40 a month.
A woman named Amanda Sims wrote that the job required signing her name 3,200 times a day.
It reminds me very much of school days, Sims noted in a passage dated June 22, 1864. There are about two hundred ladies employed, each has her own desk, and I know Babel itself was not much more confusion.
Added Mary Darby de Treville: I first had to take the Oath of Allegiance to the Confederate States? then had given me pens, pen holder, clamp with sponge, writing pad, etc. ... Next I was given a bundle of treasury notes; thus I became a government employee, a treasury note signer. ... The notes were caught together in one corner; you signed your name eight times on each sheet, turning it over and taking up the next.
The ?strange spectacle of women working for pay drew sightseers to the printing plant on at least one occasion, Columbia historian John Hammond Moore wrote in Southern Homefront, his 1998 book.
By August 1864 their ranks had swelled to over one hundred and fifty,? Moore wrote, ?and these young ladies undoubtedly were the subject of ... comment, not all of it complimentary.
In an interview, he added that women working was viewed as strange. ?Not that they didn?t work,? Moore added, ?but outside the home, separate from the family.
EXCITEMENT AND CONFUSION
Marcia Synnott, who teaches the history of American women at the University of South Carolina, said other jobs that would have attracted women in the Confederacy during the Civil War included nursing ? a job description that called for those ?over 30 and not too attractive? ? and the making of gun cartridges.
Women did do wartime work, Synnott said. Not in huge numbers, though.
After the Civil War, with little opportunities for the education preparing them for work, some women would be forced to return to their roles as wives and mothers.
Still others would willingly lay down the burden of work, Synnott said.
Gist, the Civil War widow who seemed to revel in the praise her printing plant work attracted, would marry again, have five children and make a name for herself as a pianist and author. She lived her life out in Columbia.
While still in her early 20s, she made an entry in her diary dated Feb. 14, 1865, that Sherman?s Army was approaching and the printing plant was shutting down.
Very little work was done at the Treasury Department in the midst of such excitement and confusion, Gist wrote. We are to remove at once to Richmond.
On Feb. 17, the city?s entire commercial district, and many homes, were burned.
The charred shell of the Confederate Printing Plant was rebuilt at the turn of the century. And, by this summer, the building should be restored to new life yet again.
Reach Hinshaw at (803) 771-8641 or dhinshaw@thestate.com.
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The Times headline for Clark Blackburn read: Clark Waring Blackburn, 94; Enhanced Family counseling. I had gotten to know Clark Blackburn when he retired to Northampton in the 1970s and headed up the local Children?s Aid and Family Services organization. Little did I realize at the time the distinguished nature of his background, as general director of the Family Service Association of American, an organization of more than 200 family counseling agencies. He was also the author of a best-selling book. Clark, a courtly gentleman who was born in South Carolina, was too modest to toot his own horn.
Like most people who we mostly know only on the surface, Virginia Leland, Bob Boucher, Angus Cameron, and Clark Blackburn enriched our own lives without us ever having realized it at the time. | Clark Waring Blackburn
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"Malvina Sarah Black ca 1860. William Blackburn's maternal grandmother more than anyone recognized young William's strength of character and intellectual promise and sent him through college at Furman University."
- Elizabeth Waring
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FROM Fishers & More database, www.rootsweb.com
Became a famous teacher of creative writing at Duke Among his students were, William Stryon, Mac Hyman, Reynolds Price Ann Tyler. The William Blackburn Visiting Professorship in Literature was established in his name at Duke in 1995. BA, MA Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), PhD English,Yale University
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SOURCE:http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=moseley1 &id=I922
A merchant who was a member of the gentle family of Blackmore, whose pedigree appears in the Visitation of Cheshire for 1615. WILL: 1 May 1632 and proved 30 Apr. 1633. Blackmore or Blackmaer. | Arthur Blackmore
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SOURCE:http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=moseley1 &id=I813
Corky" went to VA in 1649 accompanied by her step-father William Moseley. REF: (cf. Va Mag Hist Biog 58: 242-244 Apr 1950 "Corker-Robinson-Moseley..." and New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Register, Vol. 47, p. 66) Married soon after her arrival in VA, 1649 or early in 1650, Susanna married Capt. William Corker.
Alias Moseley since she is sometimes listed as Susana Moseley child of her step father Wm #119.
SOURCES: conflict about death date: we had bef 1663 and that fits in with the 4 children Gayle Blankenship, page 300 lists, but unfortunately Gayle says died before 1653 (misprint or misreading possibly)?; Walter Charts for Moseley Family of Lower Norfolk, Princess Anne & Henrico Counties, VA
Marriage documention: See p. 6, Va. Genealogist vol.9 page 3-8: "Corker of Virginia" by Lundie W. Barlow. Children: Susanna her child, Judith presumed from years bef. Corker remarried. | Susannah Blackmore
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1708-9 Processioning Records, St. Paul's Parish Vestry Book
Precinct 1: The lands of James Blackwell, Sr., John Mask, James Blackwell, Jr., Reese Hughes, John Ussery, Josias Simmons, Robert Harmon, Richard Ussery, Thomas Francis, John Glenn, Charles Wilford, George Merideth and Samuel Merideth, lying and adjacent to each other being made one precinct which the said James Blackwell, Sr. and John Mask were required by an order of vestry to see processioned and make return according to law. These may certificate that we the subscribers have according to an order of vestry dated ye 24th of September, Anno Domini 1708, for processioning of lands, have in obedience to that order, fulfilled it, and have peaceably and quietly processioned each man's land in our precinct the last day of November...and for Robert Harmon, by his order, John Mask, Jr., John Blackwell, these we testified to have seen done as witnesss our hands. Subscribed, James Blackwell and John Mask. Precinct 20: The lands of Samuel Waddy, John Pease, George Marr, and John Guntin lying adjacent to each other being made one precinct. Overseers, Samuel Waddy and John Guntin.
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An original proprietor of Sandwich, Massachusetts
FROM: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2910411&id=I56 25
Robert was first in Lynn, MA where he became a Freeman on 5 May 1635. He is then found as a juryman in Salem, MA in 1636-7, but not in 1638. In January of 1938/9 he applied to become a Freeman of the Plymouth Colony. The next record is on 16 Apr 1640, when he was a member of the Committee for dividing the Sandwich meadow lands and he received five acres.
He was surveyor of Highways in 1641, a selectman in 1643 and '44, when he was also a juryman. He was a juryman again in 1650. Also in 1650 he was a member of a committee to decide upon the housing situation for the minister, Mr. Leveridge. | Robert Botfish
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Elizabeth Bouton Waring is buried in the Old Rowayton Cemetery, founded in 1724, Darien, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. (west side of Rowayton Avenue, on north side of Butler's Brook) Transcript made by Malcolm P. Hunt in 1957.
Elizabeth Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Elizabeth Waring Wife to Mr. Edmond Waring, who Died Novbr. 7th 1760 in ye 80th Year of Her Age.
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From "Early New York History:
The name Bouton is of French origin, and from 1350 for two centures, thecourt records of Frnce abound with the name. Nicholas Bouton, who borethe title of County Chanilly, Baron Montague de Nation, was born about1580, and was the father of Harrod and John, twins, and Noel, all of whomwer Huguenots and refugees during the persecutions of the Protestants bythe Catholics. Noel afterwards returned to France, where hedistinguished himself, and was subseuently made Marshall of all France.
JOHN BOUTON, IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR, SAILED FROM GRAVESEND, ENGLAND JULY,1635, AND LANDED IN BOSTON, MA. IN DECEMBER OF THAT YEAR. He was thenaged twenty. He lived first in Boston, then in Watertown, and early inthe settlement of Hartford, CT, removed there. 1651 he removed again to Norwalk, CT, wshere he became an influential citizen. In 1671, and forseveral yers after, he was a representative in the general court of CTand held other offices in Norwalk. He married Alice_____who survived him(???) and married (second) the daughter of Matthew Marvin as his secondwife. Her will was dated December 1, 1680, and mentioned her son, JohnBourton; daughters, Bridget Kellogg, Abigail Bouton, Rachel Smith, andgrandchildren Ruth and Rachel Bouton, and Sarah Brinsmead. Among theirchildren were: John, born about 1639, died in Norwalk, June 27, 1665,married Ruth ______; Bridget, born about 1642, maried, in 1660 DanielKellogg. lived in Stockbridge, MA (There seems to be discrepancy aboutthe "johns". need more research before I finish typing in thie accountfrom the New York History account -- Rubye)
Bouton-Boughton Family
GENEALOGY.
1. JOHN BOUTON, son of the Count Nicholas Bouton, was a Huguenot andduring the existence of the great persecution fled to England, where theGovernment were offering to send emigrants to America, on condition theywould swear allegiance to the Crown of England. A registry of suchemigrants was kept at London, a copy of which has been examined by thecompiler of this work, and as only one person by the Bouton name is foundon that registry, embracing a period of 100 years, from 1600 to 1700, itis supposed that said person was the John Bouton of whom this account istraced, and that all the families of Boutons or Boughtons in this countryprior to 1700, were descended from said John Bouton, who embarked fromGravesend, England, in the barque Assurance, July, 1635, and landed atBoston, Massachusetts, in December, 1635, aged 20 years; whether marriedor not at the time is not known.
He married 1st, Joan Turney, and lived in Boston and Watertown, Mass.,and early in the settlement of Hartford, Conn., moved to that place, andagain in 1651, soon after the commencement of the settlement of Norwalk,he removed to that place, where his wife Joan soon died, and where hebecame an influential citizen, and in 1671, and for several yearssubsequent, he was a representative in the general court of the co ony ofCounecticut, and served his townsmen in many official capacities inNorwalk. He m. 2d, at Norwalk, Ct., Jan. 1, 1656, Abigail Marvin (dau. ofMatthew Marvin, who came from London, Eng.) She was born at Hartfordabout 1640, and died at Norwalk about 1672. He married 3d, at Norwalkabout 1673, Mrs. Mary Stevenson, widow of Jonathan Stevenson, who waskilled in a swamp fight with the Indians near Norwalk.
He gave land to his sons John and Matthew, as appears on the Norwalk townrecords, and at his death, which occurred at Danbury, Ct., 1704-5, heleft an estate at Norwalk, a part of which has remained in possession ofhis
Emigrated in 1635 in Boston from Gravesend, England on "Assurance". French. A descendent of Count Nicholas, Huguenot. Source: J. R. McGraw. Surname given as Bouton and Boughton.
From: "Evelyn Beran"
Old-To:
Subject: Re: [CTFAIRFI-L] Gregory, Burt and Marvin
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:00:38 -0500
Whether Matthew Marvin's second wife, Alice, was a KELLOGG is also open to question. If anyone can supply proof of her identity, it would be most welcome. The most reliable sources do not give Alice's maiden name. They agree that she married (1) before 1636 John Bouton, and married (2) about 1645 Matthew Marvin as his second wife.
There was considerable early confusion over Alice's identity. The Genealogy of the Marvin Family published in NEHGR 16:250 said Matthew Marvin married (2) in Norwalk "Mrs. Alice Kellogg" and the Memorial History of Hartford County, Conn on p. 251 repeated this error. Early genealogies confused the John Bouton who married Alice with the their son John Bouton who married Matthew Marvin's daughter Abigail. Some called Alice the daughter of John Bowton rather than his widow. The fact that she was John's widow is proved by her own will, as well as that of her second husband. These were published by William Marvin in NEHGR 51:330-334, correcting the earlier errors.
Willis Boughton, in his sequel to the error-filled genealogy by James Boughton, says that Alice PRATT married John Bouton in England and came to Boston with him on the ship Assurance in 1635. Later he writes that Alice may have been Alice Kellogg, however. The Pratt Directory" by Jayne Pratt Lovelace calls her "Alice Pratt."
Some sources call her Alice KELLOGG. In TAG 11:114-118 Part 1, William Jones notes that there are errors in James Bouton's Bouton-Boughton genealogy, and mentions an excellent account in C. A. Hoppin's "Washington Ancestry" 3:489-514. In Part 2 of the same article, Donald L. Jacobus says the most serious mistakes in James Bouton's genealogy regarding the first two John Boutons were corrected in an article by William Marvin in NEHGR 51 (1897), and cites as "substantially correct" his own account in "Families of of Old Fairfield", and the Hoppin "Washington Ancestry" (1932) likewise, with the exception of the wives of John3 and John4 Bouton, which Jacobus then corrects. In summary, Jacobus lists the four John Bouton's and their wives, calling the wife of John1 Bouton "Alice __", but noting "according to the statements of some of the earlier compilers, she was a Mrs. Alice Kellogg; that supposition has been disproved, and according to the "Washington Ancestry" she was born a Kellogg. While that is possible, no evidence for her maiden name has been seen by the present writer."
Charles Nelson Hickok in his Hickok Genealogy, says that John Bouton, age 20, came on the Assurance from Gravesend to Boston late in 1635. "He appears as a single man, left Boston at once for Newtown, later renamed Hartford, on the Connecticut River. He was too young to be an important man in this migration to Hartford and as he died there in less than nine years after arriving he did not take a prominent part in anything of a public nature. He was serviced to another, doubtless associated at Hartford with Nathaniel Kellogg. It is fairly claimed John Bowton married Alice Kellogg in 1636/7, she was his only wife and he her first husband. (cites Kelloggs in Old World and New, p. 31.)
... "When she married (1) about 1636, John Bowton, she was about 26 years old. Doubtless she came to New England 1635/6 with Nathaniel Kellogg, but it is not clear whether she was his sister, niece, cousin, or granddaughter of William and Alice Kellogg of Saffron Walden, Essex."
Evelyn Sanford Beran
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Article concerning Rachel Bouton and her husband Matthias St. John
FROM: Those Four Early Children of Matthias3 St. John: A Solution and a Challenge
Introduction
Matthias3 St. John was the first person bearing that name to have been born in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, say about 1667.[1] His grandfather, Matthias1, had been born in England, and lived at Dorchester, Massachusetts and Windsor, Connecticut before moving to Norwalk about 1654, where he died early in 1670. His father, Matthias2 St. John, who was baptized New Windsor, Berkshire, England, on 30 November 1628,[2] died at Norwalk in December 1728. Matthias3 St. John died at Wilton, Connecticut (still the Wilton parish of Norwalk until 1802) on 17 August 1748.[3]
The standard 1907 genealogy of the St. John family lists ten children for the marriage of Matthias3 St. John and his wife Rachel Bouton, namely: Ebenezer, John, Matthew, Samuel, Nathan, Matthias, Benjamin, Rachel, Hannah, and Elizabeth, and gives estimated birth dates and spouses names for each.[4] However, four these children are stated to have been born before Matthias3 married Rachel. Earlier, the Rev. Charles M. Selleck had given his own list of only five children for this marriage, namely: Matthew, John, Benjamin, Rachel and Matthias.[5] Still earlier, the Rev. Edwin Hall had published a list of four sons of Matthias3 St. John as being John, Benjamin, Matthias and Samuel. He cited as his source an aged descendant living in Wilton in 1847, and did not mention any daughters at all.[6] All authors were handicapped by the complete absence of any birth records for these St. John families in the surviving Norwalk vital or church records.
This article re-examines the available evidence and presents the solution to the riddle of the four early children. It then challenges you to verify the proposed listing of the children of Matthias3 and Rachel (Bouton) St. John of Norwalk.[top]
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FROM: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bucknum/Pa16.html
John was in Norwalk, 1655, and was one of the earliest proprietors, though his name does not appear in the Ludlow agreement. His lot of four acres was opposite Matthew Marvin, Jr.'s, a little further west, on the corner of the Stamford road, with the minister's and John Ruscoe's on the east. Thomas Lupton was on the south, who sold to Platt in 1665, and in 1674 Bouton purchased of Platt. In 1675 his estate of "commonage" was oe339;100, and in 1687, oe339;184., 15. He was chosen "survaior" in 1670; was selectman in 1671, '74, '79, '83, '84, '85 and '89, and represented Norwalk in the General Court in 1671, '73, '74, '75, and again some years later, until 1685. In 1678 he was on a "comite chosen to oversee the work about the meting-house," and one of those to entertain the gentlemen called to settle the differences about moving that building. In 1686 he was on the committees to seat the new meeting-house, and to "settle the differences about the head-lynes," and 16 Jan'y, 1695, to obtain a minister. He was "serjeant" of the Norwalk train-band. John "of Norwalk" mentions in his will, then wife Mary; sons Matthew, Joseph, Thomas and Richard; daughters Rachel Sension, Abigail Smith, Hannah Betts, Elizabeth Warrin and Mary Bouton; grandchild John Bouton, of Danbury; it was witnessed by William Haines and John Gregory. Joseph his son, and Mary his widow, approved it when presented, but "Matthew Sension, Edman Warrin and James Betts, sons-in-law to the deceased John Bouton, agrieved, appealed." Joseph approved the inventory 18 Feb., 1707. The will as allowed was recorded 7 Feb., 1709.
John Bouton was among the first settlers of Norwalk. He was a French Protestant, and it is said there are many of the same name still living in France and Germany, and that a great similarity exists between the families there and here. He had five children after his marriage as here recorded, viz. John, Matthew, Rachel, Abigail, and Mary.
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Somehow daughter Elizabeth Bouton b.1681 is overlooked. Birth, death & burial data for Elizabeth Bouton from Jacobus(1), p. 4. Birthplace from LDS 8726104/23, which says born in 1673. Marriage date could be Oct. 16, 1698.
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Sergt. John Bouton 2d (John1) was born in 1636. He married (1) Abigail Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin and Elizabeth Gregory, on 1 January 1656/57 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT. He married Mary after November 1689 (Mary was the widow of (1) Thomas Allen and (2) Jonathan Stevenson). He died after 27 January 1706/7 and before 25 December 1709 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT.
The John Bouton who received a home lot in Norwalk seems to have been the son -- widow Alice remarried by 1647 and Norwalk was not settled until 1650. He was one of the first settlers of Norwalk. He was Deputy to the Connecticut Legislature between 1669 and 1685 from Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT, and Sergeant of the Norwalk Trainband. The will of John Bouton Sr. of Norwalk is dated 25 December 1706; probated 27 January 1706/7. He mentions wife Mary, grandchild John Bowton of Danbury, sons Mathew and Joseph Bowton; daughter Rachel Sension, son Thomas Bowton, daughter Elizabeth Warrin, son Richard Bowton, daughter Mary Bowton; three sons: Joseph, Thomas and Richard; Matthew Sension, "Edman Waren," and James Betts, sons-in-law to the deceased. Appealed.
On 16 July 1720, Mary Bouton of Norwalk distributed property to son Thomas Bouton, daughter Mary Morehouse, to "Thomas and Richard," geese to Thomas Bouton, he to give one gander and two geese to John Betts' wife; my three grandchildren Thomas Bouton, Richard Bouton and Mary Morehouse land at "Compow in Fairfield"; my grandchildren Mary Hayes, Ruth Bouton, and Gabriel Morehouse.
FROM: http://www.theellisons.net/ghtout/npr21.htm#rnn3524
On 13 October 1664, he was made a freeman. Once he was enfranchised, he became active in town affairs. John served as a Deputy to the Connecticut Legislature on many occasions. He was elected to that position on October 1669, October 1671, October 1673, May 1674, May 1675, October 1676, May and October 1677, May 1678, October 1679, May 1680, May 1681, May and October 1682, May 1683, May and October 1685. He was chosen Surveyor on 21 February 1670; and Selectman in 1671, 1674, 1679, 1683, 1684, and 1689.
On 2 June 1666, John and several others (including his brother-in-law Daniel Kellogg) were granted all that creek lying between Thomas Seymour's barn and the Barren Marsh, for which they were to procure a highway to Bowton's Island. On 4 December 1668, he drew lot number 26 in the division of the winter wheat field. In 1671, his land was appraised at £100. In 1674, he purchased the lot to the immediate south of his from a Mr. Platt, who had purchased it from Thomas Lupton in 1665. In 1685, a "Cattelog of a division of land agreed to be layd out at three acors to the hundred: with the severall lotts as they were drawn by the inhabitants" listed John as John Bouton 16." On 12 December 1687, town records show the following:
" All common land Over the River, leaving sufficient for highways, to be laid out, to the inhabitants, according to their estates. Three score acors of the same sequestered for the Indians. A division granted of 20 Acres to the hundred. The number of Lotts and the order as they were drawn, of that Division of Land over Norwalk River below the path leading to Meadow field . . . John Bouton, senr., 49."
By 3 January 1687, his land value had risen to £184.15.00.
He also served on a number of committees, many of which revolved around the town meeting house. On 31 January 1678, he was named to a committee "chosen to oversee the work about the meting-house," and to entertain the gentlemen called upon to settle the differences about moving that building. In March 1678/9, it was voted that the Committee "should goe on with the worke Comitted to them, in refference to the meeting house, and to goe on with the worke forthwith according to their best Discression." In 1686, he was on a related committee formed to seat the new meeting house and to "settle the differences about the head-lynes." Finally, on 16 Januray 1694/5, he was on a committee formed to "exercise their best prudence for to look out for, and endeavorr what in them lyeth, in the use of all lawfull meanes, for to obtaine a faithful Minister and dispenser of the word of the Gospel to us in this place; and they are to take care for his entertainment when obtained." He also served as a sergeant in the Norwalk Train Band.
FROM: Will of John Bouton of Norwalk. (spelling as interpreted in the original document)
In the name of God Amen, December the 25th and in the Year of our Lord one thousand seaven hundred and six - I John Boutton Senior of the Towne of Norwalk in the County of Faierfield Being by the hand of God upon me weak and infirme of Body but of perfect mind and memorye thanks be given unto God: Therefore calling unto mind the Mortallyty of my body and Knowing that it is appoynted unto all men once to dye Doe make and ordaine this my Last Will and Testament: Principally and first of all: I give and Recommend my Soale into the hands of God that gave it And my body I Recommend to the earth after Death to be Decently and Christian Like Buried at the Discretion of my friends nothing Doubting but at the Generall Resurrecttion I shall receive the same againe by the mighty power of God; And as touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life; I Give, Demise and Dispose of the same In following maner and forme - after my Just Debts and funerall charges payd and Leagacyes also payd and Discharged;
Imprimis - I Doe give unto mary Boutton my Beloved wife half my homlott and the whole house and half my Barnes that side of the homlott next to John Benedick Senr. and the orchard on sayd Lott and allso my Lott of Land at fruitfull spring and allso my Lott of Land at pine hill and to Dispose of sayd parcells as she shall stand in need for her [?] and in case she shall not stand in need for her nessesity to sellor disspose of them; then she may Dispose of them to my chilldren by her; as she shall see cause and allso I doe give to my sayd wife to cows and all my moveable Estate as shall or may remaine when all Debts and dues payd as abovesayd. Allso: my will is that what moveable Estate I had of herrs at marriage with her shall not be Inventoried as the estate but to remaine to her: all the above Estate I doe give unto her duering her natireall life:
Item. I Doe give to my grandchild John Boutton, of Danbury, the sume of five shillings,
Item. I Doe give unto my son Matthew Boutton: Besides what I have allready given him as portion sum of five shillings.
Item. I Doe give to my son Joseph Boutton and to his Assignes all my Right title and Intrest in Land Lying neere Ebenezar camfields Land over the river in the bounds of norwalk: allso my part in Barren Marsh Creek he paying to my Daughter Abigal smith; the sum of five pounds.
Item. I doe give unto my Daughter Rachell Sension: besides what she hath had as portion allready, the sum of five shillings.
Item. I Doe give unto my Daughter Abigall smith the sum of five pounds to be payd by Joseph Boutton as abovesayd.
Item. I Doe give unto my Daughter Hannah Betts the sum of five pounds to be payd by my two sonns Thomas and Richard Boutton equally Betwene them when they shall attaine to the age of twenty three years.
Item. I Doe give to my sonn Thomas Boutton and his Assignes my cow Lott, Allso half my Meadow Lying on the west of the Cove over the river in the bounds of norwalk. Allso half my swamp in the comon field. Allso one half of my Land Lying Betwene the parts of Norwalk River neer the [staddles?] Being in quantity eighteene Acres and half of Land: Allso seaven Acres of Land at crambery playne in the Bounds of Norwalk; Allso two Acres of Land in the Indian field, Allso half my Meadow above sillver mine so called.
Item; I Doe give unto my Daughter Elizabeth Warin to be payd by my two sonnes Thomas and Richard Boutton equally betwene them when she shall attaine to the age of twenty three years the sum of five pounds:
Item; I Doe give to my sonn richard Boutton and his Asignes that Lott Lying in the field behind noone so called neere the swamp called Bouttons Swamp; Allso half my Meadow on the west of the cove; Allso half my Land betwene the parts of the norwalk river; being eighteene Acres and a half; Allso seaven Acres at Crambury playne; Allso half My Meadow above sillver mine so called; Allso half of my swamp and Meadow east of pine hill Lying in the comon field;
Item. I Doe give to my Daughter Mary Boutton the sum of five pounds to be payd by my two sonns Thomas and Richard Boutton when they shall attaine to the Age of twenty three Yeares.
Item. I Doe give to my three sonns Joseph and Thomas and Richard Boutton; my whole Right of Bogge Lying on the Mill Brooke; and all my comonage equally to be Divided between them.
Item. I doe give to my two sons Thomas and Richard Boutton: twenty Acres of Land Lying on the east side of five mile river wqually betwene them; And furthermore. I Doe make and ordaine my Beloved wife: and my sonn Joseph Boutton: Administrator of this my will And that this is my Last will and Testament: Revokeing and making voyd any and all former wills and Testaments that may have beene by me made; In testimonie wherof I: John Boutton Senior have sett to my hand and seale the Day and Yeare Above written;
John Bouton [signature]
Signed and Sealed In presence of us wittneses:
William Hanes
the mark of ----------
Joseph [circular mark] Gregory senior
John Bouton Senior Did on the Day of the Date above; Acknowledge the above written Instrument to be his Last will and his free act Before James Olmsted, Justice of the Peace
A: Inventory of the Estate of Serjnt. John Boutton of Norwalk: Late Deceased: taken this 28th of ffebruary 1706 [1706/7]
Inprimis. Waring Clothes 11 (at top of column: symbol - lbs) - 10 ("s" - shillings) - 00 ("d" - pence)
Item: one old flock bed 00 - 02 - 00
Item: a feather Bolster 00 - 07 - 00
Item: 3 feather Pillowes 00 - 10 - 00
Item: 2 Home made Blanketts 01 - 11 - 00
Item: an old Rugg 00 - 06 - 00
Item: 2 pieces of Blankett, a peice of an old Rugg 00 - 02 - 00
Item: 2 sheetes 01 - 04 - 00
Item: an old sheett 00 - 03 - 00
Item: A pillow Beere(1) 00 - 00 - 06
Item: a table cloath 00 - 04 - 00
Item: one Homemade pillow Beere 00 - 03 - 00
Item: 2 Towells 00 - 01 - 00
Item: one Trundle Bed Stead 00 - 02 - 00
Item: one Bedstead one Cord 00 - 16 - 00
Item: half a Yard of Searge and a piece of Linin 00 - 04 - 00
Item: one white Earthen Pott 00 - 02 - 06
Item: A platter and salt seller 00 - 04 - 00
Item: 8 spoons 00 - 06 - 00
Item: in old peuter 00 - 08 - 06
Item: one old chamber pott 00 - 02 - 00
Item: one quart pott of peuter 00 - 13 - 00
Item: one Iron Pott with Leggs 00 - 18 - 00
Item: one Iron Kettle Leggs 00 - 08 - 00
Item: one old Iron Skillitt with 2 feett 00 - 01 - 06
Item: one frying pann 00 - 04 - 00
Item: one iron spitt 00 - 03 - 06
Item: a small Brass Kettle 00 - 05- 06
Item: old Irone 25 pound weight 00 - 08 - 00
Item: a tinn pan 00 - 02 - 00
Item: Tramell Iron, pot hookes 00 - 13 - 06
Item: fire [paile?] 4s [4 shillings], tongs 4s 00 - 08 - 00
Item: an Iron Hook 1s, sheeps sheares 2s 00 - 03 - 00
Item: 2 Iron Drawing Knives 00 - 03 - 00
Item: 3 Boxes for Cart wheeles 00 - 12 - 00
Item: one share iron(2) 00- 01 - 06
Item: 2 old narrow Axes 00 - 06 - 00
Item: plow Coulter(3) 00 - 05 - 00
Item: one Belle, ring 1s, a Round Share 1s 00 - 02 - 00
Item: one howell(4) 00 - 02 - 00
Item: a piece of horse fetters 00 -03 -00
Item: one old Chayne(5) 00 - 10 - 00
Item: an old share, collar and Bolt 00 - 05 - 00
Item: Cart and wheeles, Iron hoops, Boxes, 8 Extry pinns, one [Linee?] pin, [Clang?], all 01 - 15 - 00
Item: horse geere[s?], and whiple tree chayne(6) 00 - 07 - 00
Item: yoake ring and staple 00 - 03 - 00
Item: one Chest 00 - [12?] - 00
Item: Long wheele, Iron spindle 00 - 07 - 00 Item: one old Hetchell(7) 00 - 15 - 00
Item: a salt box and salt 00 - 01 - 00
Item: one old Chayer 00 - 01 - 06
Item: Leather, tand 00 - 05 - 00
Item: one old gun and sword and Lead 00 - 12 - 00
Item: 2 old sythes 00 - 02 - 00
Item: old wooden Lumber and old cask 00 - 05 - 00
Item: Indian corne ten bushells 01 - 05 - 00
Item: oates 8 bushells 01 - 05 - 00
Item: Tray and dishes 00 - 01 - 06
Item: woolen yarnes 00 - 12 - 00
Item: one water payle and Bayle 00 - 03 - 00
Item: one Tunnell [perhaps Funnell](8) 00 - 01 - 06
Item: [in?] feathers 00 - 04 - 00
Catell: one Browne ox 05 - 05 - 00
Item: one Black ox 04 - 15 - 00
Item: one Red pyed steere 03 - 15 - 00
Item: one Browne steere with a star on her forehead 03 - 05 - 00
Item: one White Cow 03 - 10 - 00
Item: a Red Cow 03 - 07 - 00
Item: a white heifer 03 - 05 - 00
Item: a Brown Cow 03 - 00 - 00
Item: one yerling Red with a star in the face 01 - 00 - 00
Item: one Red yerling 00 - 17 - 00
Item: one swine 05 - 00 - 00
Item: 2 more swine at 15 a piece 01 - 10 - 00
Item: eight sheep 04 - 00 - 00
Land: Item: Cove Lott 3 acres 13 - 10 - 00
Item: Homlott 6 Acres House Barn fences orchard all 75 - 00 - 00
Item: 2 Acres at fruitfull spring 12 - 00 - 00
Item: at pine hill 2 Acres one half 10 - 00 - 00
Item: 2 Acres one half behind noone 10 - 00 - 00
Item: 2 Acres in the Indian field 02 - 00 - 00
Item: fresh meadow east of pine hill 15 - 00 - 00
Item: Salt Marsh Meadow over the river nere the Cove 45 - 00 - 00
Item: Land on flax hill over the river 25 - 00 - 00
Item: Land Betwene the parts of the river 50 - 00 - 00
Item: Land above Cannoe hill 05 - 00 - 00
Item: Land at Crambury Playne 07 - 00 - 00
It: his creek at Barren Marsh 00 - 05 - 00
Item: Bogge up the Mill Brook on the west side 01 - 10 - 00
Land on [Mamachimars?] Island 03 - 00 - 00
Itm: Land neere sillver mine(9) 04 - 00 - 00
Item: Comonage 01 - 10 - 00
Wheat in the House 01 - 10 - 00
Item: Graynes wheat on the Land growing 06 - 00 - 00
Item: Rye on the Land growing 01 - 00 - 00
Itm: one feather Bed and flock
[values hereafter not included in my photocopy of the inventory but will be added] Land over Sacotuck river(10)
Item: flax
(1) pillow case
(2) "share" as in plow share. This word is used elsewhere, but it is not ever written clearly enough to be absolutely certain of the spelling.
(3) a cutting attachment on the beam of a plow separate from the share.
(4) a cooper?s plane.
(5) there is a small possibility that the "n" is an "r," but given its occurrence among other hardware, it was more likely a chain.
(6) the whipple or whiffletree is part of the connection mechanism between cart and harness.
(7) a kind of hook.
(8) whether "T" or "F," either of these words have been used to refer to a funnel-like item.
(9) north of Norwalk village, between that and/or in what is now New Canaan.
(10) Saugatuck River. | Sergt. John Bouton
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Biographical Sketch of James H. Bowen, Lafayette County, Missouri
From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
James H. Bowen, merchant, P. O. Higginsville. Was born at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, January 24, 1846. Is the only son of William H. Bowenand Julia Amelia Culp, both natives of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, wherethey were married in 1844. In 1859 the family moved to Missouri and settled at Lexington, this county, where James prepared himself for college, which he entered at Gettysburg, in 1861, the family returning with him. He remained at college until the spring of 1862. On his return to Missouri he joined the U. S. Telegraph Corps as operator, under Captain P. C. Clowry. Was sworn into the service in the spring of 1863, for three years, or the war. Was mustered out of service on December 5, 1865, at Sedalia. After the close of the war, he returned to Lexington, where he remained until his marriage, which occurred on the 4th of July, 1874. He married Miss Susan J. Pool, by whom he has three children: Farris Wade, Philip and Pleasant Henry. Mrs. Bowen is the daughter of Pleasant C. Pool, who is now living on his farm near Mayview. Mr. Bowen was engaged in farming until April, 1881, when he moved to Higginsville, where he is now engaged in the mercantile business, liberally patronized by the people of the town and surrounding country. | James Henry Culp Bowen
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Mary Brocket was born at Brocket Hall. Today Brocket Hall is an upscale country club in Herefordshire, England. See: http://www.brockethall.co.uk/brocket_intro.asp | Mary Brocket
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JOHN BROKETT LATE OF WHETHAMSTEAD IN
YE HERE LYETH INTERREDY BODY OF
COVNTY OF HERT ESQ & DAUGHTER OF GEORGE BANISTER LATE OF DRAYTON IN Ye COUNTY OF MIDDX GEN & HAD ISSVE BY HIM 6 SONNES & 2 DAUGHTERS VIZ GEORGE THOMAS MARY JOHN WILLIAM ELIZABETH BANISTER & HENRY. SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE DAY
OF ANNO DOMINI 1669
AGED 77 YEARS.
| Sir Knight John Brocket
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Source: Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus. | Alice Budd
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WILLIAM BURLEY, M.P., J.P., of Broncroft, Salop., Acted as a mainpernor at the Exchequer for the Abbot of Wigmore, May 1413. On 1 March 1415 he was rewarded with £10 for going with Thomas, 5th Earl of Arundel to Calais to pay the garrison. Made a trustee of the will of Thomas, 5th Earl of Arundel, 10 Aug. 1415. On many & various commissions from Feb. 1416 to Dec. 1457. J.P. for Salop, 10 Feb. 1416 to march 1419, 29 Dec. 1420 to July 1453, & from 7 Dec. 1453 till death. Escheator of Salop, 8 Dec. 1416 to 30 Nov. 1417, 5 Nov. 1432 to 1433 & from 7 Nov. 1435 to 23 Nov. 1436. Sheriff of Salop, 15 Jan. to 12 Dec. 1426. M.P., for Salop, 1417, 1419, 1420, 1421, 1422, 1425, 1427, 1429, 1431, 1432, 1433, 1435, 1437, 1439, 1442, 1445, 1449, 1450 & 1455. Deputy Justiciar of Chester & North Wales, 20 Feb. 1428 to June 1430 & from 4 Nov. 1438 to March 1441. Speaker of the House of Commons, 19 to 27 March 1437 & 1445. He was an extremely capable lawyer & experienced parliamentarian. M 1st Ellen, d. of John Grendon, of Gayton. M 2nd Margaret, d. of Thomas Parys, of Ludlow, Salop. Died 10 Aug. 1458. He had issue by his 1st wife:
HoP 1386-1421, II, pp 432-5
Roskell, pp 216-7 & 225-9
Burke?s P 1904, p 349
MCS II, p 133 | William Burley
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Known as "Teddy" | William L. Chapman
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FROM: American Genealogist, April, 1938, Donald Jacobson
"Sarah Charles, daughter of John, was born October 1637 and baptized Oct. 1640 according to the records of the First Church, New Haven. (New Haven Gen. Mag. Vol. II p. 391) In a number of printed sources she is attrubuted as wife to the first William Backus (before his mariage to Anne Bingham) and she is thus made the mother of the William Backus who married Elizabeth Pratt. This error has gained wide currency because it appeared in Calukin's History of Norwich, published in 1866. It must me noted however that Sarah Charles was only four years older than Elizabeth Pratt so she could hardly have been the mother of Elizabeth's husband. Furthermore, the records of John Charles' estate cited above refers in 1673 to the children (evidently minor children) which William (then living) had by his deceased wife, Sarah Charles. The first William Backus died in 1664 nine years before this record, so the reference could hardly apply to him. The second William was then an adult with a number of children and he is the only one to whom the record could apply. The fact is that the second William Backus married first, Sarah Charles, and she was the mother of his first three chidlren. The other children were by his second wife, Elizabeth Pratt. This solution harmonizes all the facts stated above and is positively proved by the will of Willam Backus himself. (New London Probate Records, File #228, original will: recorded Book B. p. 404): The will of Willilam Backus of Norwich dated Feb. 8, 1693-4 ------ proved April 17, 1721---- wife Elizabeth, sons Joseph and Nathaniel; son John and grandson, Willliam; daughters Sarah, Elizabeth, Hannah and Mary; son William had by deed of gift. With regard to his sons William and John and daughter Sarah, he wrote, "What I have given them formerly with that which I doe (sp.) give them in this my will shall be the whole of their portions of my estate, anything that I received of their Grandfather Charles his estate notwithstanding." | Sarah Charles
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FROM: Giorgi, Valerie Dyer (1984), Colver-Culver Family Genealogy: As Descended from Edward Colver of Groton, Connecticut to the Thirteen Generations in America, Santa Maria, California: privately published, 692 p. [below is taken from page 46]
EDWARD COLVER. Born about 1653-4, New London, Connecticut, died 7 April 1732, Litchfield, Connecticut; married 15 January 1682, Norwich, Connecticut, Sarah Backus, daughter of William and Sarah (Charles) Backus, born 14 June 1663, Norwich, Connecticut. Edward served as a volunteer in King Philip's War 1675-1676 and received for his service one of the ?Cedar Swamp? lots in the distribution of 1706. He was on the board of ?listers? of Norwich in 1685. In 1698 Edward moved to Lebanon, Connecticut, being one of the fifty-one proprietors of the ?five mile square? that was originally purchased from Oaneco, Sachem of the Mohegans. Edward was admitted into the membership of the First Church of Lebanon in 1701 and his wife in 1703. Edward performed the duties of surveyor and was prominent in the local church and civil affairs from the beginning. As already stated, he received in 1706, an allotment of land for military service rendered in King Philip's War. This was part of the ?Volunteers Land,? lying in Windham County. In 1712 Edward was lieutenant in command of the Connecticut scouts ranging from Woodstock to Enfield during the Indian alarms of that period. In May 1719, the new settlement of Litchfield was estab- lished and among the names of the first proprietors of the town are Edward Colver and his sons, Daniel, Hezekiah and Edward. Edward and Hezekiah Colver were original grantees in 1719 under a proviso that they must settle prior to 31 May 1721. Daniel and Samuel were settlers between 1719 and 1722. Apparently Lieutenant Edward Colver did not take up his right directly, but passed it to one or more of his sons. That he did actually settle in Litchfield, however, at a later date cannot be questioned. There are numerous records at Litchfield of the transfer of land between him and his sons and other persons between 1725 and 1732.
Edward lived in Norwich until about 1696, then in Lebanon. Late in life he moved to Litchfield, Connecticut. A lot in Litchfield was granted to Edward Colver, 7 May 1720. Edward of Litchfield conveyed 14 August 1727 to his son Ephraim Colver of Lebanon, who gave bond to maintain Edward and his wife for life. Edward conveyed 5 December 1728 to Hezekiah Colver of Woodbury; the deed is headed by the recorder, Hezekiah from ?his father.? On 5 December 1728, Edward Colver of Litchfield conveyed for £140, to Samuel Colver, Daniel Colver, John Gay, John Baldwin, and James Beebe, all of Litchfield, and Hezekiah Colver of Woodbury; the heading reads, ?to several of his children? (Litchfie1d Deeds, 1:14 reversed, 356,392, 424).
On 3 June 1679, Edward was fined five pounds for drawing away the affection [of a girl] under the care of parents without their consent (New London County Court Record, 3:130). | Edward Colver
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FROM: http://www.mystic.com/dcd/collver/doc/gen1.html
Colver Culver Collver Chapter 1, Generations I thru IV
Generation I
Edward Culver (Colliver/Colver) born 1600-1610, probably in the vicinity of Middlesex England near London. He came to America with John Winthrop Jr., son of John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts, in 1635, after Winthop Jr. had obtained the land grants for Connecticut from King Charles I. He may have came across on the Mary and John in 1635. Edward was a member of Massachusetts Bay Colony and was a signer of the "Covenant" on 20 Sep. 1636, a group that was formed to settle Dedham, ten miles up the Charles River. The town of Dedham was setup that you had to apply to move there and get approval from the council. They were very selective and ensured that the signers were of like religious views. According to "Colver-Culver Family Genealogy, Valerie Dyer Giorgi" he was a millwright and wheel wright by trade. He served in several of the earliest Indian wars of New England.
New England was populated by many Indian tribes, the main one's were the Wampanoag, Pequots, Narragansett, Mohegans and Nipmuc . The mighty Iroquois nation was to their west in New York (this included the Mohawks) and the Mohawks kept the New England tribes from uniting by playing the tribes off against each other. Thus there was a lot of border squabbles between the tribes and mutual distrust. The dominant New England tribe in the 1630's was the Pequots. The English would trade "barter" land from the local tribes, but wouldn't always immediately occupy it. The Indians would see that the land was not being used, so they would continue to grow crops and hunt the land. This led to a series of misunderstandings and the Pequots, who felt that the whites were arrogant and a threat to the existence of Indians in general, thus attacked the villages of Saybrook (in which Edward had just helped to build a fort there) and Weathersford Connecticut, causing the colonists to lock themselves in their newly created fort. Negotiations failed (apparently the English Settlers were rather arrogant in their dealings with the natives) and skirmishes occurred and emissaries attacked. This caused an uproar and the Pequot campaign was formed.
In a book called "The Pequot War", the reproductions of documents describing the events in John Masons hand are available. Major John Mason was appointed command of the expeditionary force as he had experience at war in Europe. Mason gathered 90 men and some Indians mostly of Mohegan and Narragansett lineage and took the force up a river (Mystic River?)in the general area of present day New London Connecticut. The march inland as described by Mason brings an almost comical vision to mind, as they were ill dressed and supplied for this mission and of course were unseasoned and largely untrained soldiers. Most of the men were new to America and didn't have much in the way of wood craft and they feared to venture far from their boats. But they happened on the main Pequot stronghold and burned it to the ground with many Men, Women and Children inside, forcing the Pequots to sue for peace.
Apparently Edward was noted as an Indian scout and was to supposedly had good relations with the Indians. According to Valerie Dyer Giorgi, he was sent by Major Mason to enlist the aid of warriors from Chief Uncas of the Mohicans ( I think he was chief of the Mohegans actually). He must have been successful as Uncas provided about 150 men.
He Married Ann Ellis (Elles) on Sept. 19, 1638 by the Rev. John Allyn. His Father-in-law John Elles was also a signer of the Covenant. In 1645, they moved to Roxbury Mass. and in 1650, he constructed a Grist Mill for Governor Winthrop (jr.). In 1653 they moved again, this time to Pequot (present day New London, Conn.), where he again built another Grist Mill. I believe the reason he moved, was because he received land grants in 1652 and 1654 in the upper Mystic River, for his earlier service in the Pequot War. He traded this lands for other land in the general area, closer to the town of Pequot. In about 1654 Edward built a water power grist mill at the head of the cove of New London which was in daily use until 1897, or perhaps later. Records also show that he was embroiled in some land disputes with the Winthrops over property boundaries which affected the ownership of one of the Grist Mills.
The Connecticut Colony was still under Winthrop's control under the Massachusetts Bay charter. In 1662, Hooker successfully received a Crown Colony charter for Connecticut, thus severing control from Massachusetts. John Winthrop Jr. was asked to move to Connecticut with encouragement from his father and was elected governor. The colonies were basically on their own for a number of years due to the Civil War in England. Charles I was overthrown by Cromwell thus ending self rule (Charles I had dissolved parliament). The colony wisely remained neutral during this time and arrested people causing problems from either faction. Thus they retained power when Charles II ascended the throne.
The New England Colonies now consisted of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and Rhode Island with Massachusetts being the dominate one. They were bordered to the south and west by the New York Colony with whom they had poor relations with due to the ambitions of its governor. The areas to the northwest were still dominated by the mighty Iroquois, chiefly the Mohawk tribes.
Many of the Indians in the region were chaffing under the imposed rule of the colonists. The colonists tried to convert many of the Indians to Christianity and place them in tightly controlled towns. They also imposed English laws upon them, and of course the Indians didn't understand most of them. The summer of 1675 Philip an Indian Sachem (Chief) was called upon to answer to authorities over a series of grievances and most notably the murder of a Christian Indian leader. Rather than face the stern arm of English law, he openly rebelled and attacked several villages South East of Plymouth. Other Tribes who had been facing similar circumstances also took the chance to attack.
To the English this was a rebellion of the Indians (whom they believed were subject to the crown and English law) over land rights issues, but to the Indians it was a matter of sovereignty and divine rights, thus they were fighting for a way of life.
The Indians gained the initiative and was destroying village after village and farm after farm. The whites would board themselves up in a stockade until help would arrive. Many times this came to late as the Indians would burn them out. The Indians had a habit (acquired long before the whites came) of cutting of the heads and hands of the enemy and putting them on poles outside the destroyed village as a warning. The Colonies quickly formed regiments to deal with this crisis but were quite ineffective as they tried to use European techniques of warfare, basically marching in columns and trying to bring volley fire on an elusive enemy. The accounts of the battles seem small in comparison to modern warfare, but the population of New England at this time was somewhere around 50,000. They did outnumber the Indians by almost two to one though, and of course they were much more organized.
Edward and his four sons, Edward Jr., Ephraim, Joseph and Samuel where listed as being soldiers during the King Philip Wars and the Great Swamp Fight. Records showed that either Edward or Edward jr. had been commissioned as a lieutenant.
The first big break came for the colonists on Dec 16, 1675 during the great swamp fight, near Triverton Rhode Island. A joint colonial expedition was setup in the late fall and put under the control of General Winthrop of the Plymouth Colony. They gathered on the shores of Rhode Island in what turned into the first big snow storm of the season. Supply was difficult and they were running short fast, so they decided to attempt to engage the Indians directly with over a 1000 men, before their supplies exhausted. With a captured Indian to lead them to the main fort of the Indians they struggled through the forests and bogs. The fort they found was massive and the colonists were surprise that the Indians were capable of building such a structure. Luckily the swamp was frozen and the soldiers could attack at an exposed corner of the fort. The battle raged for hours with many casualties on both sides. The commander decided that enough was enough and ordered the torching of the city. Many innocent women and children died with the warriors in this fire, but such was the nature of the war with the Indians, as they hadn' t show much mercy on white families until much later in the war when they were starting to lose.
The accounts of this battle and the subsequent lose of life of the wounded on the march back due to injuries and the bitter cold was tremendous. I find that if Edward Culver really fought in this battle, he would have had to been one rather tough old buzzard as he would have been somewhere between 65 and 75 years of age. But the population of that region was rather scarce and every able bodied man who could be spared was sent, plus his experience in the Pequot War probably ensured his participation in the war. But this battle was grim and treacherous, especially for someone of his age.
The ineffectiveness of the colonial governments due to infighting, finally turned around with experience and sheer magnitude of their dire situation. The war went for two years, meaning little farming was occurring and commerce ceased to exist. Families joined into fortified homes for protection and impressment of soldiers was occurring to raise an army. The Indians suffered as well, as they couldn't build any permanent villages, grow crops or hunt and fish in their usual places. The English in retaliation to the destruction of their farms would look for the food caches of the Indians, further worsening the situation. After sickness and famine took its toll, the Indians surrendered in droves. The prisoners were mostly sold into slavery by the Massachusetts and Plymouth Colonies, while Connecticut and Rhode Island imposed an indentured servitude for 10 years on their captives, to help rebuild the damage they caused. But the proud Indians of that area didn't make good slaves and would tend to run off for Northern and Western destinations.
One of the factors that lead to the defeat of the Indians was that the colonist finally found the right formula for battling the Indians. The famous Indian fighter Benjamin Church formed up a select company of troops that also consisted of captured Indians who swore allegiance to him. This group was responsible for the capture of many chiefs and even the wife and son of King Philip himself (they were both sold into slavery). He was the one who finally ambushed King Philip's party resulting in the chiefs death. It is interesting that the best Indian fighters happened to have the best relations with the Indians and treated them with great respect. At wars end, there was scarcely a family in New England that was not touched in some way by the war. As payment to many of the soldiers of this war, they were given land grants, as many men didn't wish to return to their burned towns and homes (of which there was many). Over 2000 colonists died in this war, which doesn't sound like a lot, but considering that of a population of 50,000, that would be around 4% died, not accounting for the wounded and maimed. The government set up a pension for those that were disabled from the war, mostly in the form of jobs (tax collectors in which they would receive a percentage) and patents.
It appears that in his old age he became a bit cantankerous and maybe a little senile. He was given a license to sell bread and beer. He died 1685 at Mystic River, New London CN. Ann died in 1682, also at Mystic. A monument was erected in honor of Edward and Ann in 1982 by descendants at the Wightman Burying Ground near Groton Connecticut. The original tombstones are there, but they are nothing more than large stones with the initials E.C. and A.C. engraved on them, church records verify the plots as theirs.
Colver homestead at Ledyard, CN. Edward Colver and his wife Ann lived here on the farm called Cepadas (Intersection of trails), about 1664-1678. Edward may have spent his last days here and we are told that it is the oldest continually lived in house in Connecticut, occupied by Colvers, Culvers and Lambs for generations.
FROM: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/River/7560/culver.html
Edward Culver, the immigrant ancestor of this family, who came to America from England with the Winthrop Fleet of 1635. Edward Culver was one of the first settlers of Dedham, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and "of an enterprising and energetic spirit", as Valerie Dyer Giorgi describes him in her Colver-Culver Family Genealogy.
In 1653, eighteen years after Edward Culver arrived in New England, he moved his family to the Pequot Country (what is now New London) in the colony of Connecticut. According to Frederick Lathrop Colver[1], Edward Colver "early took part in the Indian wars, fighting against the Pequot Indians in 1637, and from that time on was noted as an Indian scout, being on terms of friendship with some of the tribes, who accompanied him on his scouting expeditions."[2] Frederick Colver asserts that King Uncas of the Mohicans "held Edward Colver in great esteem, and named his son after Colver's second son, Joshua."[3]
In the first Pequot War, which took place in 1637, Edward Colver "was sent by Colonel John Mason, who commanded the little band of ninety whites, to enlist the help of the Mohicans, with the result that Uncas brought one hundred and fifty of his warriors to take part in the battle. At daybreak on June 4, 1637, they surprised the Pequots in their stronghold and utterly exterminated them, with the exception of a few who escaped and fled to the Six Nations in New York Province." [4]
For his services to the British crown, Edward Colver was given two grants of land, "one of two hundred acres in 1652-3, and another in 1654, of four hundred acres. These grants were situated about four hundred miles north of the scene of the battle, the two hundred lot being near the head of the Mystic river and the other about two miles further to the northwest. This was called by the Indians "Chepadas," and remained in the family for generations?"[5]
According to Valerie Dyer Giorgi, Groton historians agree that the old Wightman Burying Ground, where many Colver-Culver family members are interred, lies within the land that was granted by the King to Edward Colver for his efforts in the Indian Wars.[6]
In 1678, Edward and his wife, Ann, deeded the Chepadas (Intersection of Trails) farm to their sons, Joseph and Ephraim. This farm remained in the hands of a line of three Joseph Culvers until the death of Joseph Culver III (Mary Culver's father), after which the land was divided amongst his heirs, including Mary Culver and her husband, William Heath.
FROM: Giorgi, Valerie Dyer (1984), Colver-Culver Family Genealogy: As Descended from Edward Colver of Groton, Connecticut to the Thirteen Generations in America, Santa Maria, California: privately published, 692 p. [below is taken from pages 5-10]
Edaward Colver
1610-1685
EDWARD COLVER. ?The Puritan,? founder of the Colver-Culver family in America, was born about 1600 (Colver-Culver Genealogy by Frederic Lathrop Colver) or in 1610 (Tercentary History of Maryland by Francis Barnum Culver), County Suffolk or County Middlesex, England. Probably 1610 is the more accurate date of birth as he would have been twenty-five years old when he came to America without his parents. Edward immigrated to America in a party brought over to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the autumn of 1635, supposedly in the same ship with John Winthrop, the younger, later governor of Connecticut. He landed in Boston, which had been founded about five years before that time, fifteen years after the Pilgrim Fathers came in the Mayflower. Cora Grunwald of Ledyard, Connecticut, thinks Edward could have arrived as early as 1633 on the Speedwell. This has not been proven.
Edward Colver was a millwright and wheelwright at the time of his arrival and continued his trade in America even though he took up farming as well.
Edward Colver was a member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Boston in 1635 and was evidently of an energetic and enterprising spirit. We find him very soon after his arrival taking part in a meeting, at the court house in Boston, which was called for the purpose of forming a company of colonists willing to push further out into the wilderness and start a new settlement. Later, land was given to each of the members, with the right to subdivide or sell as he wanted. The settlement proposed was situated up the Charles River and was first known as Contentment and later as the town of Dedham. Edward helped in the founding of the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1636, his name being sixty-eighth on the list of one hundred and twenty four who signed the covenant. Dedham is located about ten miles southwest of Boston. Ten miles must have seemed a long way by ox team over the rough roads and through wilderness frequented by Indians and wild animals.
The Dedham Covenant not only shows that the first settlers wished to provide homes for themselves which they could own and where they would be free from obnoxious religious and political restrictions but also that they desired to build up and protect exclusively their own particular form of religious and political establishment, ?barring all others and everybody and everything discordant with their own notions.? The Dedham covenant, as recorded in the Dedham Towne Book, ?for the Entering, and Recording, of all such Orders as or shall be for the Couernment there of as followeth,? was, in part:
1 We whose names ar here vnto subscribed, doe, in the feare and Reuerence of our Allmightie God, Mutually; and seuerally pmse amongst our selues and each to other to pffesse and practice one trueth according to that most pfect rule. the foundacion where of is Euerlasting Loue.
2 That we shall by all meanes Laboure to Keepe of from vs all such as ar contrarye minded. And receaue onely such vnto vs as be such as may be pbably of one harte, with vs as that we either knowe or may well and truely be informaed to walke in a peacable conuersation with all meekenes of spirit for the edification of each other in the knowledge and faith of the Lord Jesus: And the mutuall encouragmt vnto all Temporall comforts in all things: seekeing the good of each other out of all which may be deriued true Peace.
From the historians of Dedham, Massachusetts, a good idea can be obtained of the early days in New England and of some of the conditions under which Edward Colver lived. When he went to Dedham, he found the earliest settlers, who held the grant of the lands, denying admission to newcomers until it could be ascertained what provision could be made for them; and he, along with others, had to wait for a new survey of lands.
After a time, on 28 November 1637, according to the records in the Dedham Towne Book, it was ?ordered that Edward Colver (written also Ed. Coluer) wheelwright shall haue twoe Acres layd out for ye present implyment in his trade & after to haue an addicion els wher as hal be found needfull. In the meane tyme to haue free liberty of taking Time for his trade very mans ppriety Reserved.?
The next grant of land was made to him 19 July 1639, and a third on 6 February 1642 of three acres. A fourth grant of woodland was made 4 February 1644, and a fifth on 3 February 1645 of a small parcel of land. Some of this land Edward sold to Joseph Kent on 26 February 1643, and the balance of his Dedham holdings he sold to Daniel Fisher and Joseph Kent in 1651. He is mentioned in the minutes of the town meetings at Dedham 1 January 1643 and 1 January 1644 and was listed in many affairs in the town he helped to found.
Edward took part early in the Indian wars, fighting against the Pequot Indians in 1637, and from that time on was noted as an Indian scout, being on good terms of friendship with some of the tribes who accompanied him on his scouting expeditions. In the first Pequot War in 1637, he was sent by Colonel John Mason, who commanded the little band of ninety whites, to enlist the help of the Mohicans, with the result that Uncas brought one hundred and fifty of his warriors to take part in the battle. At daybreak on 4 June 1637, they surprised the Pequots in their strong-hold and utterly exterminated them, with the exception of a few who escaped and fled to the Six Nations in New York Province. King Uncas held Edward Colver in great esteem and named his son after Colver's second son, Joshua. For this service Edward Colver received two grants of land, one of two hundred acres in 1652/3 and another in 1654 of four hundred acres. These grants were situated about four miles north of the scene of the battle. The two hundred acre lot was near the head of the Mystic River and the other about two miles further to the northwest (Land Records of Groton, Connecticut).
On 19 September 1638, Edward Colver married at Dedham, Massachusetts, Ann Ellis, daughter of John Ellis. Their marriage is the second entered in the records of the First Church of Dedham (The Town of Dedham by Don Gleason -1881, which probably at that time consisted of a little congregation meeting in one of the houses of the settlers. The Rev. John Allyn was the pastor, having been ordained shortly before he performed the marriage between Edward Colver and Ann Ellis. Ann Ellis Colver was admitted to membership in the First Church at Dedham 17 September 1641, and her first child, John, was baptized two days later.
Edward Colver assisted the Winthrops in building a fort at Saybrook, Connecticut, at the mouth of the Connecticut River. He owned land in Dedham, but in 1645 removed to Roxbury, Massachusetts.
There is a record of an allotment of twelve and one-half acres of land to Edward Colver about 1648. In 1650 and 1651 he built a grist mill for Governor Winthrop. About 1653 the family moved again to Pequot (now New London) and purchased a lot from Robert Burrows. Edward was granted land 20 November 1653 of that year as ?Goodman Colver.?
In 1654 Edward Colver was granted land at Mystic near that of William Wellman. He exchanged it for other land belonging to Robert Park, Robert Burrows, and Hugh Roberts. He built a house with accommodations for travelers and a water power grist mill. In 1668 his son Joshua built a house north of Edward's. John Winthrop, Esq., was granted twenty rods of land on both sides of the Mystic River to bring down ?tymber? from Lantern Hill. In 1674 Winthrop's two sons had a mill built at the head of Mystic River. John Lamb was to run it. The Winthrops decided they needed the land on which Joshua Colver's house stood for a mill house. In 1681 Governor Winthrop's son, Major John Winthrop, sued and lost the case, but sued again and again until John Winthrop won the case. Many of the people around testified--some for the Winthrops --some for the Colvers.
Thirty-five year old John Gallup, cousin of the Winthrops, said that Joshua Colver's house stood about eight rods from the brook of the Mystic River and affirmed it was above the high water mark. John Bennet testified that he paced the distance with Gallup and could testify to the truth of his statements.
For the Colvers, the testimony was quite different. It indicated that not only the house, but also the mill was below the high water mark and that the land did not belong to the Winthrops.
William Hough worked on the mill. He said he had been unable to do the lower work because of the tides. Joseph Colver testified that the tide had flowed up to the mill, many times even to the ditch of the mill wheel. John Packer said that John Lamb and John Bennet told him the wheel did wade in the back wash and that he himself had seen the wheel wade in the back wash.
John Burrows said the tide often hindered him from riding over at the usual place near the ditch. William Billings claimed that he got his feet wet by the height of the water even though he held them up. John Denison said the water ?wetted His baggs at the riding place? and that the water was often higher than the trash that they lay along it. Aaron Stark said he commonly went ?over Mistic River on a tree near the mill? and that the place was commonly called Paucatuck path to New London. James Avery said he remembered such a path.
James Morgan testified that he and Obadiah Bruen marked a black oak tree on Hugh Robert's land and the path was south of this. John Fish and William Billings: tendered oath that they judged there was ?not a foot fall in a foote space.?
The Winthrops later admitted that the mill was in the wrong place. In 1699 Peter Cary was placed in charge of repairing and rebuilding the mill. He said he asked nothing for his ?Diet? nor for that of his son but wanted £7-04-00 for three months of hard ?labour.?
George Wheeler framed the mill. Samuel Adams was the millwright. He and his men worked 34 weeks at ?4s? a week. James Cornish, Henry Williams, Samuel Coy, Ephraim Colver, James Springer, James Fanning, and Benjamin Burrows all worked on the mill. William Williams, William Stark, Peter Crary, Jr., and Samuel Fish carted timber, with Fish having his oxen on the job four ?Dayes.? Fergus MacDowell furnished the nails. James Dean made the rest of the iron work.
The mill has long since gone back to dust. In the 1920's Ray Culver, a descendant of Edward, found Indian arrowheads and a stone pipe on this land that had once belonged to John Winthrop, Esq.
In 1675 when King Philip made war against the New England colonies, Edward Colver, then an old man of sixty-five, went out with his four sons, Edward Junior, Ephraim, Joseph, and Samuel, to fight against the noted Indian chief. They took part in the ?Swamp fight? which occurred near Tiverton, Rhode Island, 19 December 1675, when the tribes again met with defeat and heavy loss. Edward Colver was the only soldier engaged in the ?Swamp fight? who had participated in the previous Pequot War, and as the tactics of the battle were the same as on that occasion, it is thought that the old soldier may have aided Captain Dennison, who commanded the Connecticut men at the ?Swamp,? to plan that attack. The colonial records of Connecticut mention the services of Edward Colver as scout as follows: ?The Councill ordered John Stedman and Edward Colver with some of the Indians to goe forth upon the scout betwixt this and Springfield to make what discovery they could upon the enemie to the eastward of the river? (Public Records of Connecticut, 1665-1677, Vol. 2, p. 408). And again under date of 16 March 1675: ?An answer to a letter from Mr. Fitch was returned with an advice to him to encourage the volunteers and to improve Uncas and Ninecraft to draw off as many of the enemie as may be, they delivering up their arms and ammunition, & c., as also on advice to send home the garrison soldiers at Norwich; that Edward Colver with about 20 Mogeags and Pequots come up to Hartford forthwith, & c., as pr the letter on file will more at large appear? (Public Records of Connecticut, 1665-1677, Vol. 2, page 417).
Frederic Lathrop Colver cited the above information about Edward Colver. Francis Barnum Colver also says Edward fought in King Philip's War, in particular in the ?Swamp fight? in 1675; but Donald L. Jacobus in his article in the American Genealogist, Volume 31, No.3, pages 130-1, thinks the soldier here was more likely Edward, Jr., since Edward, Sr., would have been upward of sixty and it would seem more likely that the scout was his son Edward, who later as lieutenant was engaged in scouting (Colonial Records of Connecticut 2:408).
Edward Colver and wife Ann sold land in New London, 10 February 1661/2, both signing by mark. In 1664 Edward Colver deeded the homestead at Pequot to his son John. Edward moved to the farm of four hundred acres called ?Chepadas,? where he continued to live until after the close of King Philip's War.
Edward and Ann Colver sold property to ?our eldest son,? John Colver, 25 November 1667; the witnesses were John Fish, Joshua Culver, and Joseph Culver.
Edward Colver, ?Sr,? of New London, wheelwright, ?in consideration of my own age and weakness of memory and understanding,? gave land to his wife, Ann, 28 July 1682, signing by a mark (New London Deeds, 3:10, 29, 63). On 5 May 1662, Edward Colver was allowed to brew beer and make bread and was allowed on 9 January 1664/5 to sell liquors.
In 1678 Edward and his wife Ann deeded the ?Chepadas? farm to their sons Joseph and Ephraim and moved to a house in the village of Mystic built by their son Joshua in 1668. The last years of Edward Colver was spent in this house on the Groton side of the Mystic River.
Edward Colver died in 1685 in the village of Mystic, Town of Groton, New London, in the colony of Connecticut. A small headstone bearing upon one face the roughly cut initials, ?E. C.? and another small headstone bearing upon one face the roughly cut initials ?A. C.? represent the original stones of Edward Colver and his wife, Ann Colver, in Wightman Cemetery. The inventory of Edward Colver's estate was exhibited and administration was granted to John Culver 2 June 1685 (New London County Court Records 5:108). | Edward Colver
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He, with his father and brothers, removed to Litchfield, CT when that place was opened for settlement, about 1722-3, they were all original proprietors. He became a member of the First Church of Lebanon and participated in the public affairs of the town. From an early date he was prominent in the military, civic, and religious life of the community and was designated as a member of the committee to look after the interests of the local schools, such as the hiring of the schoolmaster and the "School dames". Assisted in building the town forts: in 1725 he was the town surveyor; a school trustee in 1731; then a selectman, and in 1744 a Sergeant. He was a large landholder. In 1741 he was a member of the General Court at Litchfield. About the years 1743-45 he deeded much of his land to his sons, Benjamin, Zebulon, Samuel, Joshua, and Ebanezer; and in 1752 he made deeds to the two youngest sons, Nathaniel and Jonathan. | Samuel Colver
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[lharmon.ged]
Long Island Genealogy Surname Information
www.longislandgenealogy.com/ludlam/fam01550.htm
There was a Sarah Ludlam in this family with a birth date o f Feb 1659. I have deleted since the mother, Sarah Cooke w ould have been 10 years old. Perhaps the date is wrong o r she belongs in another family.
Seversmith, Herbert Furman, Colonial Families of Long Islan d, New York and Connecticut: Being the Ancestry & Kindred o f Herbert Furman Seversmith (Washington: H.F. Seversmith, 1 939-1958.), 4:1898, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 S4987. | Sarah Cooke
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"The surname Crocker, or CROCKER Croker, as it is usually written in England, is very ancient. An old proverbial distich records that : " Crueker, Crewye and Copplestone When the Conqueror came, were at borne." The Crocker family in England originally was seated at Crocker's Hale and Crokern and at Lineham, Devonshire. The genealogy of the Crokers of Lineham is accurately recorded and exhibits a descent of eleven John Crokers in almost uninterrupted succession. Members of the family removed to Cornwall, Waterford and other places.
(I) Deacon William Crocker, immigrant ancestor, born in England, came to this country with Rev. Mr. Lothrop and his church October 21, 1639, and his brother John, came the following spring. They were first at Roxbury, Massachusetts, but soon settled in Barnstable. John, elder brother, left no family; William's posterity is very numerous, and a large majority of all of this name in the United States and Canada trace their descent to him. The farm of John Crocker, now or lately owned by descendants of Deacon William, Joseph and Prince Crocker, is at the northeast corner of the West Parish of Barnstable. John Crocker was admitted a freeman June 4, 1650: juror 1647, 1650, 1654; surveyor of highways 1668; kept an ordinary 1649 and later; died 1669, leaving wife Jane; bequeathing his estate to the sons of his brother.
Deacon William Crocker joined Mr. Lothrop's church in Scituate, December 25, 1636; came to Barnstable October 21, 1639, among the first settlers. He built a frame house in Scituate in 1636, the forty-fourth in that town. He was proposed for freeman June 5, 1644; was constable 1644; grand juror 1654-55-57-61-67 and 75; selectman 1668; deputy to general court at Plymouth 1670-71- 74; surveyor of highways 1673. He was on the jury in 1675, when the murderers of John Sassamon, secretary of King Philip, were condemned. He was one of the leading citizens of his day, often employed in the business of the town and in settling estates. He probably settled first in the easterly part of the town, and removed to West Barnstable about 1643. It is thought that his first house was on the lot next west of that of Henry Bourne. He acquired a large landed estate and for many years was the richest man in town. His sons also were all wealthy. In .1655 Deacon William Crocker owned one hundred and twenty-six acres of upland and twenty-two acres of meadow at West Barnstable, and forty acres of meadow at Indian Ponds. The West Barnstable farm was bounded easterly by the farm of John Smith, now known as the Otis farm, and by the farm of Samuel Hincklcy, now owned by Levi L. Goodspeed ; southerly it extended into the woods. The southerly part of the farm in 1654 was bounded on the west by the commons, and the northerly part by lands then owned by Governor Bodfish and afterwards by Lieutenant John Howland. He afterwards added largely to his West Barnstable farm, and to the farm at Indian pond, the latter containing one hundred acres at his death. The West Barnstable farm was two miles in length from north to south, extending from the salt meadows on the Barnstable harbor to the vicinity of the meeting house. The lands he first occupied were the southeasterly part of the farm, the old stone house, which according to tradition was his first residence, was about a fourth of a mile easterly from the West Barnstable meeting house. This house was taken down many years ago. This part of the farm was owned later by his son Josiah. There was another stone house on the southwesterly part of the farm owned by the descendants of Eleazer; this was taken down in 1815. It was called the old Stone Fort, and stood on the site of the Captain Josiah Fish house.
Deacon Crocker married, in 1636, Alice who was living in 1683, but died soon afterward. He married second. Patience, widow of Robert Parker and daughter of Elder Henry Cobb. Crocker died in the fall of 1692, aged about eighty. His will is dated September 6, 1692. giving his son Job his brother John's old farm. The present road running north from the West Barnstable meeting house to the Cape Cod Railroad depot divides the old Crocker estate in halves. On the east side of this road Josiah had the south part, excepting a portion given to John; Joseph had the north part. On the west side John had the south part, including a strip running north to the meadows and a strip on the east adjoining Josiah's land where Nathaniel Crocker afterward lived and Eleazer had the northwesterly part. Swift says: "Deacon Crocker died in good old age. For many years he was deacon of the Barnstable church, and living an exemplary and pious life. He has a clean record. Nothing dishonest or dishonorable was ever laid to his charge. Men who acquire great wealth often make enemies of the envious; but Deacon Crocker appears to have been beloved and respected by all. He was industrious, economical and a good manager. His boys were as industrious and as prudent as the father and that was the whole secret of their becoming wealthy.”
- Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County. William Richard Cutter, 1908
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The last will and testament of Deacon William Crocker
of Barnstable, in New England.
The 6th day of September Anno Dom. 1692 I, William Crocker of Barnstable, being sick and weak in body but through ye mercy of God of disposing mind and memory, and knowing ye uncertainty of this life on earth, and being desirous to settle things in order, do make this my last will and testament in manner and for me following, viz:
first and principally, I give and committ my soul to God in Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer throw whose pretious death and merrits I hope to find ye free pardon and remition of all my sinnes, and everlasting salvation, and my body to ye earth from whence it was taken, to be burried in such decent manner as to my Executor hereafter named, shall seem meet and convenient, and as touching my wordly estate which god hath in mercy lent unto me, my will is to bestow ye same as hereafter is expressed, and I do hereby revoke and make void all wills by me formerly made and declared and appoint this be by my last will and testament.
Imprimus my will is that all those debts and duties which I owe in right or conscience to any person or persons whatsoever, shall be will and truly contented and paid when convenient by my Executor.
Itt. I give and bequeath unto Patience my loving wift besides ye liberty to dispose of all ye estate which she brought with her or had at ye time of our intermarriage, and besides ye forty pounds I then promised to give her. incase she should survive me, I give unto her my gest bedd and bedstead with all ye furniture thereto belonging.
Itt. I give and bequeath to my eldest son John Crocker, my now dwelling house and lands both upland and fresh meadows adjoyning and belonging thereunto now and of late under my occupation and improvement to have and to hold to him his heirs and assignes forever he or they paying to ye s'd Patience my wife twenty pounds of ye fores'd forty pounds she is to receive, and I do also hereby confirm to him my son John his heirs and assignes forever all those parcels of land I heretofore gave unto him and are well known to have been in his quiet possession for sundry years; I further also give and bequeath to him my son John my two oxen which he hath had in his posession some years.
Itt. I give and bequeath unto my son Job Crocker besides ye land I heretofore gave him and know to be in his possession, twenty acres of that fifty acres at ye ponds which I purchased of John Coggin to have and to hold to him my son Job his heirs and assignes forever and that he chuse it on which side of s'd land he please.
Itt. I will and bequeath to my sons Josiah and Eliazer Crocker besides those lands I heretofore gave to each of them and are in their particular knowne possession, all my upland at the marsh together with all ye marsh adjoining thereunto, (except such particular parcel or parcels thereof as I have heretofore given and is possest of late by any other or is in these presents hereafter mentioned) to be equally divided between them ye s's Josiah and Eliazer to have and to hold to them their heirs and assignes forever: Each of them ye s'd Josiah and Eliazer paying seven pounds and ten shillings apiece to ye s'd Patience in paying of ye forty pounds above mentioned. And I further will and bequeath to my sons Josiah and Eliazer to each one cow.
Itt. I will and bequeath unto my son Joseph Crocker (besides ye two parcels of upland and one parcel of marsh which I heretofore gave him and is know to be in his possession ye house and land which he hired of me and now lives on) that is to say, so much of my s'd land as he hath now fenced in; together with that parcel of marsh which he hath from year to year of late hired of me; to have and to hold to him ye s'd Joseph his heir and assignes forever: he or they paying five pounds to ye s'd Patience to make up ye full of s'd forty pounds I promised to her as above s'd.
Itt. I vie and bequeath all ye rest of my lands att ye ponds to my grandsons, viz: to Nathaniel, ye son of John Crocker, Samuel, ye son of Job Crocker, and Thomas, ye son of Josiah Crocker to be equally divided between them and to their and each of their heirs and assignes forever.
Itt. my will is and I do hereby constitute and appoint my trusty and will beloved son Job Crocker to be my sole executor to see this my last will and testament to be performed, with whom I leave all ye residue of my estate in whatsoever it be, to be equally distributed amongst all my children unless I shall signifie my minde to have such part or parts thereof to be disposed to any in particular.
In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal.
On my further consideration I signifie my mind before ye ensealing hereof and it is my will that Mr. Russell shall have my tow steers which are att Isaac Howlands and that Mr Thomas Hinckly shall have my nagro boy if he please he paying fourteen pounds to my Executor for him.
WILLIAM CROCKER ___[SEAL.]
Signed Sealed and declared
In presence of
SAMUEL CHIPMAN
MERCY CHIPMAN
Samuel Chipman and Mercy Chipman whose hands are sett as witnesses to this will made oath in Court October ye 19: 1692, that they did see the above said William Crocker now deceased sign seal and declare this above written to be his last will and testament.
JOSEPH LOTHROP: cl.
Examined and duly compared with ye original will and entered October ye 22, 1692.
Attest: JOSEPH LOTHROP. Recorder.
The family was origionally seated at Crocker's Hale, Devonshire England. John Crocker, with his brother William emigrated to the new world around 1634/5 reportably on the "Griffin" with preacher Lathrop's church.
FROM THE BOOK: Our American ancestry, by Frederick T. Gates
He was a large land owner, the "wealthiest" man in Barnstable, constable in 1644, on the grand jury many times, selectman in 1688, representative three times, and surveyor of highways. He died in 1692, aged about eighty. The Crockers were a vigorous and long lived family.
FROM THE BOOK: "A History of Cape Cod "by Kittredge..pp 60/1
""what manner of men were these who started civilization on the Cape ? They were first of all me to whom democracy, as a theory of govt,as a way of life, was unherd of. No royal parent ever scanned the eligibility of the sutors for the hand of his daughter with greater care than the plymouth govt scanned the applicants for admission to its towns. Before any man might own land or build a house in these new settlements, he must pass inspection by the general court or its local representitives. This law was no dead letter in the statue book- it was vigoriously and unceremoniously inforced. Every town appointed a coupple of substantial citizens to the unpleasant duty of ejecting undesireables. If a newcomer, wetherthrough ignorance, arrogance or mere thoughlessness failed to
consult these officials and began to build his house unsantuioned, he was promptly "warned oput of town" regardless of his desireability and was obliged to leave his housed unfinnished untill he had complied with the law..................two early gardians of barnstables exclusiveness--William Crocker and Thomas Hutchins--found themselves called upon to perform the same ruthless duty.......
William was repeatedly elected as a justice of the peace, and was elected 3 times to the General Court (govt).By just being prosperous in that society he would have been unlikely to achieve this.
Remember, the Pilgrims left southern England, stopped in Plymouth, and the merchants who financed the enterprise would have been known to the upper classes. Relitives of a local dynasty would have been aware of the economic possibilities in the Mass Bay Colony.Those with the heritage of a famous family name would have class position , especially in the new world. Sons of such
families could in the new world reclaim the wealth of their ancestors useing their status in society to open doors for them.This presents a great motive for William and John to emigrate to the new world.
Genealogical Notes of BARNSTABLE Families by Otis R929.37449 O88G 1979
p.205 Capt. Josiah Fish's house now stand on what used to be the "Old Stone Fort", a house on the farm of William Crocker.
FROM: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2910411&id=I56 17
The genealogy of the Crokers has been preserved and include "no fewer than eleven John Crokers in almost uninterrupted succession." Thomas Croker, of Trevillas, in Cornwall which border Devonshire, "the second son of the 8th John Croker, of Lineham, obtained, about the year 1600, the estate of
Ballyanker, co. Waterford; and while his son remained at Trevillas, his younger sons, to the number of three or four migrated to Ireland. They were all probably soldiers; two of them, at least were so, and distinguishedthemselves by the extraordinary and almost romantic capture of the city of Waterford in 1650 . . ." (Ibid)
William and his brother, John, are first found in Roxbury, MA in 1634 (Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families by Amos Otis) According to the notes of Rev. John Lothrop, the William was already in Scituate when he arrived there on 27 Sep 1634. On his arrival, Lothrop made a list of all those living in Scituate. Number 44 on the list is "Brother Crockers junior." Also, in Lothrop's own handwriting is "Goodman Crocker" joining the church. According to Amos Otis, the reference is to William, not his brother, John.
Of John, Otis says: "he was illiterate, kept a public house where it was customary . . .for a certain class of people, found in all communities to assemble to drink, and indulge in low and vicious conversaton. Such company and such associations never improve the temper or moral character of a man, or add anything to his respectable standing in society." Otis goes into more detail about John's character and then says " . . . `he was a man In whose veins the milk ofhuman kindness does not flow.' That he belonged to Mr. Lothrop's Church, does not appear . . ." Otis further states that others have said John and William came over in 1634, either in the same ship with Rev, Lothrop or in another that sailed about the same time and that they stopped in Roxbury before going to Scituate.
William built a frame house in Scituate in 1636. In 1639 he moved to Barnstable where the baptismal record of his daughter in December indicates he was one of the town's first settlers. He became a Freeman on 5 Jun 1644. In that year he was also elected a constable. He was a selectman in 1668, 1670, 1671 and 1674; surveyor of highways in 1673 and a member of the grand jury in 1654, '55, '57, '61, '67, and '75. In 1675 he was one of the jurymen who condemned the murderers of John Sassamon, a verdict that is said to have coused King Phillip's War. (History of King Philip's War, I:148-151; and
Massachusetts Court Records.)
William, in 1655, owned one hundred twenty-six acres of upland and twenty-two acres of meadow at West Barnstable. He had forty acres of upland at the Indian ponds.
In 1672, William deposed to the will of Dolor Davis at which time his age was, said to be 65. At his death, his age is given as "80 or thereabout." If he was 65 in 1672, then in 1692 he would have been 85. The phrase "80 or thereabout is probably given by a friend or relative, where his age in 1672 would have been his own testimony. His birthyear is therefore given as 1608.
Alice Hathaway Lee (first wife of Teddy Roosevelt) and Joseph Smith (founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints) are descendants of William and Alice.
IMMIGRANT, ABT 1634
REPRESENTATIVE
DEACON OF BARNSTABLE CHURCH, 1670
"William Crocker and his brother John arrived about 1634 and were first at Scituate. There Rev. John Lothrop records: "39. Goodman Crocker and 40. Goody Foster joyned Decemb. 25, 1636." [NEHGR 9:281]
By wife Alice he had John b. 3 May, bapt. 11 June 1637 at Scituate. They removed to Barnstable 11 October 1639 with Rev. John Lothrop, and had there Elizabeth b. 22 September, bapt. 22 December 1639, d. at 18 years; Samuel b 3 July 1642; Job b. 9 March 1645; Josiah b. 19 September 1647; Eleazer b. 21 July 1650; Joseph b. 1654.
In 1661 William Crocker and Thomas Huckins were given power at Barnstable to 'take notice of such as intrude themselves into the town without the town's consent, and prevent their residing here.' On 14 April 1670 Mr. William Crocker was invested as deacon at the Barnstable church. He was Representative in 1670, 1671, and 1674." --Evelyn Beran
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Obituary forwarded to me by John Hulse: "Rev. Ephraim Crocker was ordained to preach in 1802. He was called to Rensselaerville, New York to the Baptist Church, where he continured to preach and farm, until 1834."
More information:
Ephraim and Polly's son Ansel Crocker, states that both of his parents were born in Connecticut on the 1880 United States Federal Census for Berne, Albany Co., New York.
On the 1850 Federal census for Ephraim he is listed as Ehhraim Creker (hard to read) . He is a living without his wife Polly, Ephraim was next door to his daughter, the widow Polly Winegar. John Cogswell was living in his house.
The Last Will and Testament of Ephraim Crocker
Proved and recorded August 28, 1854, as a will relating to both real and personal estate.
Know all men by these presents that I Ephraim Crocker of the town of Rensselaerville County of Albany and State of New York being of a sound and disposing mind and memory do make and publish this my last will and testament.
First. I give to the four surviving children of Sibyl Warring deceased as follows to
Teressa wife of Wm Stebbins ten dollars
to Lorain Warring ten dollars
to Electra Warring ten dollars
to Clark Warring jun ten dollars.
Second. I give to the two surviving sons of BalXXX Cogswell my daughter deceased ten dollars each when they arrive of majority.
Third. I give to my daughter Emma, wife of Benjamin Youmans ten dollars and my large family Bible.
Fourth. I give to my son Martin Crocker fifty dollars.
Fifth. I give to my son Joel C. Crocker fifty dollars to be undersed on my obligation which I now hold against him.
Sixth. I give to my son Ansel Crocker fifty dollars together with my Bible dictionary and concord and dgueruotype likeness of myself.
And the remainder of my property when the same is converted into money shall be divided shall be divided into seven equal shares
Will finish shortly.....
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FROM: Swift Gen, pg 12; Gen Notes of Barns Fam - Otis, I, pg 221
Moved to Colchester, Connecticut abt 1724, and built a house near the Colchester and East Haddam turnpike which, till 1860, was occupied by his descendents. He and his wife were members of the church in the parish of Westchester. They were married for over sixty-one years. | James Crocker
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FROM: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2910411&id=I56 07
John moved with his father to Barnstable in 1639. He inherited from his father the southwestern portion of the farm as well as the family home which was a "large two story frame house on Meeting House way." (Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Otis.) John had previously inherited from in uncle John Crocker, in 1669, a farm, later known as the Bodfish farm which also had a house on it. By the time William died, John, his son, was a large land owner in his own right. | John Crocker
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Jonathan Crocker is buried at the West Barnstable Cemetery with many other Crockers and Howlands. A photo of his headstone can be viewed here:
http://www.capecodgravestones.com/barnpixweb/crockerwb.html
The gravestone reads:
In Memory of
Mr JONATHAN
CROCKER who
died August 24 1746
in the 84 Year
of his Age
The gravestone displays a winged head carved in the style of Nathaniel Fuller and his contemporaries in the Plymouth area.
FROM THE BOOK: Our American ancestry, by Frederick T. Gates
He had lived in Barnstable all of his life and lies buried in the West Barnstable graveyard. He was a substantial farmer with a large estate.
FROM: MAYFLOWER INCREASINGS by Susan Roser
The following is from the Genealogical Notes of Barnstable by Amos Otis, 1888.
Jonathan Crocker, son of John, owned the land now known as the Bodfish Farm at West Barnstable. He was a substantial farmer, owned a large estate; and, as his father and grand-father had done, he conveyed by deeds a large part of it to his children, reserving only a sufficiency for his comfortable support in his old age. His residence on the Bodfish Fram, probably built by his father, was a two story single house, with a leantoo, or salt box as they were sometimes called, on the side. This he sold in 1713 to his son-in-law, Robert Bodfish. It was taken down in 1819, and the old Bodfish mansion house stands on the same spot. His will, which is in the hand writing of the Rev. Jonathan Russel, is dated June 1737, and the codicil thereto June 1742, four years after his death. He provides for the support of his wife Thankful, giving her the household goods she brought with her, and some bedding she had made since. He gave his son Isaac L30 and his great chair, names his son James, and James' oldest son, to whom he gave his gun. To the Rev. Jonathan Russell he devised 20 shillings; to the church 20 shillings; and to Mary Dexter then living with him L5. All the rest of his estate, real and personal, to the children of his three daughters, Lydia, Hannah and Reliance. In the codicil to his will he gives the estate which has fallen to him by the death of his brother Nataniel, equally, in five shares, to his sons Isaac and James, to the children and heirs of his daughter Lydia Bodfish, deceased, to the children and heirs of his daughter Hannah Fuller, and to the children and heirs of his daughter Reliance Smith, deceased. At the time he made his will all his children, excepting Isaac and James, were dead, and they all resided in Connecticut.
Jonathan Crocker married for his first wife, 20th May, 1686, Hannah, daughter of Lieut.John Howland. She was the mother of all his children.
After her death he married Feb. 1710-11, Thankful, widow of Mr. John Hinckley, Jr. and a daughter of Thomas Troot of Dorchester. He died Aug. 24, 1746, aged 84, and is buried in the West Barnstable grave yard. No monuments are erected to the memory of either of his wives. | Jonathan Crocker
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Name: Jonathan Crocker
Rank: Private
County: Albany Co.
Annual Allowance: 96 00
Sums received: 87 96
Description of service: Massachusetts line
When placed on the pension roll: July 8, 1819
Commencement of pension: April 5, 1819 | Jonathan Crocker
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